A lot of my countrymen are channelling Winston these days, but Paul McCartney, and any entertainer for that matter, is a huge surprise. First Blair, then Clare Short, now Macca? Who's next, I wonder?

Regards, Ivan

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be." - Winston Churchill, 1940

This then, my lords and gentlemen, is the message which we send forth today to all states and nations, bound or free, to all the men in all the lands who care for freedom's cause. To our Allies and well-wishers in Europe, to our American friends and helpers drawing ever closer in their might across the ocean, this is the message-lift up your hearts, all will come right. Out of depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind. - Winston Churchill, 1941

"What kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible that they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?" - Winston Churchill, 1941


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Nice to hear this from McCartney. I have to wonder where Lennon would stand if he were here today...?

Nice to hear this from McCartney. I have to wonder where Lennon would stand if he were here today...?

Wherever Yoko told him to stand, I should imagine. Putting a bag over their heads for peace, perhaps. ;) Which we should have encouraged! ;)

Wonder what George Harrison and Ringo are going to say about this.

Regards, Ivan

Shenay O'conner?...yeah right...L~

Wherever Yoko told him to stand, I should imagine.

ROTFL. Thanks for the flag, Ivan. I love him with Wings.

Sir Elton John

More like "Lady" Elton John.

Just my observation.......

John was funny like that. If you went to the right, he would go to the left and vice versa.Those of us that were fortunate enough to grow up in that particular era AND culture learned to accept John's idiosyncrancies...Yes he would be singing GIVE PEACE A CHANCE...

Wherever Yoko told him to stand, I should imagine. Putting a bag over their heads for peace, perhaps. ;) Which we should have encouraged! ;)

BRAVO! I just read that Yoko and Paul still have bitterness over the ballad "Yesterday." Paul wrote the bloody song--but Yoko insists John be given credit on the lable to this very day.

December is not too far around the corner--soon the radio stations will start playing "And So This is Christmas." Then you can hear Yoko howl in the background like a rabid dog: "A BEEERRRRRYYYY MEEERRRYY KWITSMASSSSS, UND A HAAAPPY NEEEEEWW YEEAAARR!!!"

December is not too far around the corner--soon the radio stations will start playing "And So This is Christmas." Then you can hear Yoko howl in the background like a rabid dog: "A BEEERRRRRYYYY MEEERRRYY KWITSMASSSSS, UND A HAAAPPY NEEEEEWW YEEAAARR!!!"

Well to be honest Macca's contribution to Christmas music wasn't much better - remember "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time". Ugh.

Regards, Ivan

The Concert For New York will also feature Mick Jagger, Sir Elton John...

Are we going to be treated to yet another version of Candle in the Wind? Perhaps Candle in the Wind, Rev.15.2b?

Goodbye WTC, you know I never knew you so well...

New York was his adopted home, and had we been fortunate enough to have the benefit of his voice and talent he would have done little different then Paul here has done.

You misunderstand. I merely said that Yoko would have basically kicked him around, which was led to the Beatles breaking up in the first place.

As for understanding pain and suffering, like what? He never had to fight in a war, his home was never attacked, his contribution to world peace was a billboard at Times Square and an impromptu protest at the Amsterdam Hilton. Whoopee.

Regards, Ivan

As for understanding pain and suffering, like what?

I dunno, living with the likes of Yoko would test the mettle of any man. ;>)

"Nice to hear this from McCartney. I have to wonder where Lennon would stand if he were here today...?"

Considering his sentiments ala "Imagine" ... I would guess John would have by now come to a 'realization' that everything was a myth or fantasy and that none of this was even happening. He and Yokko would have donned the black bags again and 'imagined' themselves no longer here, oblivious to the real world, and inviting all to join them in non-entity status.

To credit John, however, I must admit to really enjoying the simple, haunting tune scored for "Imagine".

Well good for Sir Paul. Maybe this has shaken him back to being his real self again, and he will put all that PETA stuff behinbd him now. A liitle reality check helps evry once in a while.

You're only half right. He wouldn't have veered to the right unless
he had a total change of mind.

He had talent and wit and I think George Martin considered him a real genuis
(musically-speaking). (Remember the old story of his blending of Strawberry
Fields from two different
versions recorded at different speeds?)

But charisma and talent do not always make good ideaology.
Obviously they are totally unrelated (for any Clinton lovers out there).

The whole issue about where would Lennon stand today is an
interesting topic. I remember a great line from Bill Buckley Jr.:

If your 20 and not a socialist, then you have no heart.
If your 40 and a socialist, then you have no head.

Nice to hear this from McCartney. I have to wonder where Lennon Lenin would stand if he were here today...?

McCartney hands out concert tickets at NY firehouses

NEW YORK (Reuters) -

Some New York City firefighters got the visit of their lives Friday when Sir Paul McCartney dropped in at downtown Manhattan firehouses to hand out 100 tickets worth $2,000 each for Saturday's Madison Square Concert benefiting victims of the attack on the World Trade Center.

"We found out that some of the guys here didn't have any tickets," said the former Beatle, whose father was a fireman.

"This concert is happening to honor brave guys like these, so when Heather (Mills, McCartney's fiancee) told me they didn't have tickets I thought, 'Well, we've just got to fix that, haven't we."'

Accordingly, McCartney dropped in on ladder company 55 on Broome Street and ladder company six on Canal Street, both of which sit within blocks from the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center where some 5,000 people were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks by hijacked jetliners.

McCartney surprised the firemen, who his publicist Geoff Baker said were "sitting and talking, having coffee," handing out 100 $2,000 tickets to the concert that features Eric Clapton, U2's Bono, Elton John and David Bowie in addition to McCartney. Hollywood stars including Harrison Ford and Susan Sarandon are also slated to appear.

McCartney has written a special song, "Freedom," which he will premiere on Saturday night at the concert.

"It will be an honor to perform for them at the show tomorrow night," McCartney said.

McCartney was in New York when the planes struck.

"I was sitting on a plane at New York airport and watched it unfold through the windows. It will live with me forever," he told Britain's Sun tabloid in its Saturday edition.

He said he hoped the concert would raise morale as well as money. "People have to keep going at this difficult time," said McCartney, who called the event "one of the most daunting gigs I have ever done."

"My kids are half American and I was in New York when it happened, so I feel I am connected," the 59-year-old singer told the Sun.

"Singing is the only way I know how to help the people of New York."