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Lennon Was All Right, but His Disciples Were Thick and Ordinary
Pajamas Media ^ | October 24, 2010 | Jeff Durstewitz

Posted on 10/24/2010 8:28:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 10/24/2010 8:28:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Drugs, drugs, and more drugs. Delusion - Yoko [Exhibit A, your honor]. Drugs, drugs, Ravi Shankar, Buddah, Hari Krishna hey, hey, hey......finally? More drugs, drugs and drugs......please!


2 posted on 10/24/2010 8:34:57 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: Kaslin

Interesting story.

But EVERY liberal has the same fantasy — that THEY get to control everyone else.

Conservatives want to control their lives and their businesses.

Liberals want to control YOUR life and YOUR business.

Period.

Oh, and liberals love to tax, regulate, and destroy in order to transfer wealth to themselves when they can’t do it on their own.


3 posted on 10/24/2010 8:36:27 AM PDT by whitedog57
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Lennon was also an avid drug addict which could also explain his strange political thinking.

If he were alive today and on FR, he would be IMO on libertarian threads talking about how great legalizing pot would be for America.


4 posted on 10/24/2010 8:37:51 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Rumor has it that John Lennon was at a NFL MNF game in the early 70’s and was tutored on the finer points of the American game by Ronald Reagan.

Apparently both got along quite well.

One wonders if Lennon had a change of heart on his political leaning once he hit his late 30’s.


5 posted on 10/24/2010 8:47:13 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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Lennon was becoming less leftist before his death. His thoughts on how poverty was being dealt with a few month before his death showed he didn't believe liberal ideas to solve it he used to believe in were working.
7 posted on 10/24/2010 8:54:39 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Kaslin

Heh.. I got the “White Album” at Christmastime in 1968. Played it a zillion times and still have it. I always liked the rocking single version of Revolution (which had come out prior to, and wasn’t on the white album) much better than the slow, album version.


8 posted on 10/24/2010 8:56:23 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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“The young, in particular, were on the march, trying to ‘kick out the jams’ as the gritty Detroit band MC5 urged, and to end not only ‘the’ war in Vietnam, but the very idea of war.”

Those who won’t fight for their freedom - including war - will live as slaves. Sadly, a huge number of leftist useful idiots choose the latter.


9 posted on 10/24/2010 8:58:14 AM PDT by piytar (There is evil. There is no such thing as moderate evil. Never forget.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds82Id_GMe8


10 posted on 10/24/2010 9:00:16 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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It’s hard to take seriously someone who sings about having no possessions yet moved into a $10 million dollar penthouse overlooking Central Park to avoid paying taxes in his home country


11 posted on 10/24/2010 9:11:32 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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Exactly. Lennon was a jerk.


12 posted on 10/24/2010 9:17:42 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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Good point!


13 posted on 10/24/2010 9:19:29 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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It’s hard to take seriously someone who sings about having no possessions yet moved into a $10 million dollar penthouse overlooking Central Park to avoid paying taxes in his home country

Commune dormitories for thee, a penthouse for me.

The usual left wing elitist assumption.
14 posted on 10/24/2010 9:34:40 AM PDT by Nepeta
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I may be wrong about this, but I believe it was that blatant hypocrisy that drove Mark David Chapman to hate him so much.

One of the DJs on a New York City classic rock station once noted how he used to see Lennon driving around Manhattan in his $200,000+ Bentley.

15 posted on 10/24/2010 9:38:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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John Lennon never should have been born.


16 posted on 10/24/2010 9:46:56 AM PDT by macquire
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I was never impressed by lennon or his no talent wife.


17 posted on 10/24/2010 9:52:44 AM PDT by Americanexpat
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To: Le Chien Rouge

I’ve heard that Lennon was an admirer of Ronald Reagan. I don’t know if it’s true.

This article is wrong. In an alternate version of Revolution on the same album, Lennon sings “when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out - in”.

Lennon spend the last years of his life doped up in the Dakota.


18 posted on 10/24/2010 9:59:04 AM PDT by ReluctantDragon
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*Bump*


19 posted on 10/24/2010 10:00:16 AM PDT by Yardstick
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20 posted on 10/24/2010 10:55:10 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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