The Bostonian Drunkard Waxes Poetic Over A Power Pole

[dandi]

Public drunk, brick-catcher, and best-selling pamphleteer Wee Willy Olivepit serves up some rambling prose in honor of U.S. independence.

WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jul-04-11 09:30 AM
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I Pledge Allegiance to the Pole (some thoughts on the Fourth of July)
   


(Photo: Micah Taylor)

I Pledge Allegiance to the Pole
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Monday 04 July 2011

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom…

- Maya Angelou

There is a telephone pole outside my house - seven steps down the front porch, one step across the sidewalk, and there it is - that leans only slightly enough to the right to raise concern. It does it's job tolerably well, as least as well as its sagging brethren that hover along and above my tired old Brighton sidestreet. It offers no complains. It does its duty.

Take a close look, however, and all of a sudden this simple, slightly splintered nondescript thing makes you think. There are at least three hundred nails sticking out of its old hide, and some of those nails look old enough to have held the Son and Savior Himself, in His well-documented agony, had this particular piece of pine been available on Golgotha.

Once upon a time a utility worker planted that pole in that spot, another utility worker strung the wild carnival of electrical wires that are still festooned above my house, and now I get to enjoy electricity and cable television and all the nonsense that goes along with both.

The nails in that pole will get you thinking if you look at them long enough. Hundreds of them, in spirals and straight lines and T-shapes, all over and up and down the thing. Buried deep, rusted to the quick, part of the essential wood now...and each one of them once carried a message. Lost Dog. Lost Cat. Ride Needed. Have You Seen This Girl. Concert Tonight. Strike Tomorrow.

Each message, once upon a time, was important enough to nail up, and each message is remembered now only by the nails left behind. The paper wound up in the river long ago, along with whatever message that was so important at the time, but the nails are still there for the counting in the old skin of the pole.

I feel like posting something up on that pole, you know, for the Fourth.

Something patriotic, straightforward and strong. "Eat The Rich" has been done, and there are children next door, so "F-----g F--k The F-----g F-----s" probably won't do. But the old, hoary history of that pole, all those nails and all those old, lost messages, seem to sing out for another post, another message, a simple shout nailed to the wood, nailed up and out there for all to see, like a blogger speaking his piece before anyone was stupid enough to come up with things like blogging in the first place.

[more]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1411395

Snipped for brevity, a word Mr.Pitt has not even a passing familiarity with. But he goes on to lament the loss of our freedoms and the American Dream and so on and so forth. The usual fare served up in a steaming pile, which is a staple of disaffected moonbats on pretty much every patriotic holiday. This is followed by fawning from his usual following of sycophants, which I won't bother to bring over.

What I found most amusing was this:

WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jul-04-11 04:24 PM
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13. Kick

WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jul-04-11 06:17 PM
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14. Yet another shameless kick
   
I really enjoyed writing this.

WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jul-05-11 09:51 AM
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21. One last kick

Pathetic. 

Zax2me (846 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jul-05-11 05:13 PM
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24. Snooze....
   
Using the 4th to point out how bad this country is - cliche - think I just witnessed another marriage proposal on the big screen at a sporting event.
BORED with it.
Had a GREAT weekend with no pissers.
Sue me!

Best post in the thread, Zax, even though you have a pizza coming soon.

[Boudicca]

WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jul-04-11 06:17 PM
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14. Yet another shameless kick
   
I really enjoyed writing this.


Well, I didn't enjoy reading it, so I skipped everything after your first sentence.

Glad Zax rained on your parade though.  Or should I say  on it.

[GOBUCKS]

Plucketeer  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jul-04-11 08:18 PM
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16. This is really great, Will!
I wrote a piece like this the other day.

Well, now we know who he stole this one from.
Attaboy, Plagiarist Pitt!

[Kimberly]

I scanned that piece of drivel and didn't see one mention of the guy who's been president for the past two years or the party that had control of congress for four years. But he managed to work this in:

Never mind eight years of idiot rule by an idiot "president" empowered by an idiot "mainstream" news media. Never mind the two wars and two tax-cuts-for-rich-people that are basically every reason we are down in this ditch...but shhh....shhh...we don't talk about that.

When's the expiration date for "It's Bush's fault?"

[thelaughingman]

Pitt actually believes in Christ and the Bible?  And he is not a pariah at the DUmp?  Astounding!

[GOBUCKS]

Pitt actually believes in Christ and the Bible?  And he is not a pariah at the DUmp?  Astounding!

Nope, William Pitt, the hopeless, unemployable drunkard and DUmmy Raven's lifelong dissappointment, mocks people who believe in Christ.
 
He is a pariah among many at the DUmp, though, since he humiliated them with his Fitzmas hoax. Prior to that he was a DUmp god.

There was also a brief time when he questioned the Andyscam, but he sort of rehabilitated himself from that,
after the freepers killed Andy, by threatening franksolich's life.

Incidentally, in mid-April, DUmmy Raven was suddenly and mysteriously replaced as Planning Director in Rindge, NH. Her assistant is now "Acting Planning Director".

You have to wonder if she was fired by her town's elected officers after her vicious attacks on them in a couple of DUmp posts just prior a March special election in the town. In that election, her bosses promoted ballot initiatives to reduce municipal spending, which DUmmy Raven vehemently opposed. She characterized her fellow Rindgeonians, or whatever they are, as ignorant "tea partiers and free staters". The proposals passed easily.

We can only hope that no one ratted her DUmp identity and DUmp posts to her bosses. That would bring the wrath of the Bostonian Drunkard down upon the guilty party, as the homeless DUmmy learned last year. Maybe she abruptly left her job due to a better opportunity, or to spend more time with her family. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Ballygrl]

DUFU:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2744360/posts
 

deaniac21   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-05-11 08:02 PM
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26. I would post a sign that says simply, "Indict Rove!"

WilliamPitt   (1000+ posts)             Tue Jul-05-11 09:20 PM
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27. Thanks for the kick.
   
You always come through.

[Karin]

That was snipped for brevity?  Wow.  I never read his stuff because it sets my teeth on edge. 

Self-kicking one's own posts is the most pathetic, laughable thing ever.  It's such a loser thing to do.  If you write a piece of crap that quickly falls to page 2, so be it.  It just means it's an unmarketable POS that can't pass muster in the free market of ideas. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

When's the expiration date for "It's Bush's fault?"

Never.  We'll be hearing it for the rest of our lives.

[Wineslob]

- Maya Angelou

Nuff said.   

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

He seems awfully familiar with that pole.

I wonder how many times he's run into it coming home from the bar.

[GOBUCKS]

Within a few months, that pole will have at least a half-dozen "Ron Paul for President" signs, like most utility poles in slums or near campuses.

[jukin]

He seems awfully familiar with that pole.

I wonder how many times he's run into it coming home from the bar.

Or climbing up it to look into little girls bedrooms?

[Splashdown]

You know, Pitt should just post here. He gets way more attention from us than his fellow idiots.
 

[DumbAss Tanker]

I read the Cliff's Notes version on DUFU this morning.  For the love of God, what a complete and utter tool the man is.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

You know, Pitt should just post here. He gets way more attention from us than his fellow idiots.
 

Kind of like how the Elephant Man got more attention from strangers than from his own mother.

[Boudicca]

I've been fighting the urge to add a raunchy comment about the OP's topic sentence.  I have lost.

OK, so when dandi posted, the title of this thread should have omitted ONE word.
I will leave it to you choirboys and girls to figure out which word I mean.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I've been fighting the urge to add a raunchy comment about the OP's topic sentence.  I have lost.

OK, so when dandi posted, the title of this thread should have omitted ONE word.
I will leave it to you choirboys and girls to figure out which word I mean.

The?

[Boudicca]

The?

Yes, that's exactly the word I meant!