McCartneyism

Your Majesty,

I am returning my MBE as a protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against ‘Cold Turkey’ slipping down the charts.

With love. 

John Lennon of Bag

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

But she doesn't have a lot to say

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

But she changes from day to day

I want to tell her that I love her a lot

But I gotta get a bellyful of wine

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeah

Someday I'm going to make her mine

Sir Paul McCartney, MBE 

1969

"And so I let him toss me off."
And that was that. End of story.

"So what harm did it do, then, Pete, for fuck's sake?" John asked rhetorically. 

"No harm at all. The poor fucking bastard, he can't help the way he is."

Paul McCartney later suggested that Lennon agreed to the holiday in order to assert his authority within The Beatles :

"Brian Epstein was going on holiday to Spain at the same time and he invited John along. John was a smart cookie. Brian was gay, and John saw his opportunity to impress upon Mr Epstein who was the boss of the group. I think that's why he went on holiday with Brian. And good luck to him, too - he was that kind of guy; he wanted Brian to know whom he should listen to. That was the relationship. John was very much the leader in that way, although it was never actually said."

Paul McCartney Anthology

(Scholars of myth may note that in the title sequence, McCoy winks the eye that Merlin is said to have sacrificed for wisdom.)

Cornell, Day and Topping,

1995

WOTAN

"DOC-TOR, WHO-IS-REC-QUIRED, BRING-HIM-HERE!"

Scholars of myth may note that in the title sequence, McCoy winks the eye that Merlin is said to have sacrificed for wisdom.

Dr. Sidney Schaefer: 

You know, one thing I learned from my patients... they all hate the phone company. It's interesting; even the stock holders of the phone company hate the phone company!

V.I. Kydor Kropotkin: 

I know. Bedouins hate the phone company. Matter of fact, I've never been in a country where everybody didn't hate the phone company.

V.I. Kydor Kropotkin: 

Are you trying to tell me every phone in the country is tapped?

Don Masters, CEA Agent: 

That's what's in my head.

V.I. Kydor Kropotkin: 

Don, this is America, not Russia!

Old English:

+ wyrm com snican, toslat he nan,

ða genam woden VIIII wuldortanas,

sloh ða þa næddran þæt heo on VIIII tofleah

Þær gaændade æppel and attor

þæt heo næfre ne wolde on hus bugan.

Griffiths translation:

A serpent came crawling (but) it destroyed no one

when Woden took nine twigs of glory,

(and) then struck the adder so that it flew into nine (pieces).

There archived apple and poison

that it never would re-enter the house.

Old Norse:

Ǫnd þau né átto, óð þau né hǫfðo,

lá né læti né lito góða.

Ǫnd gaf Óðinn, óð gaf Hœnir,

lá gaf Lóðurr ok lito góða.

Benjamin Thorpe translation:

Spirit they possessed not, sense they had not,

blood nor motive powers, nor goodly colour.

Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hœnir,

blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.

Henry Adams Bellows translation:

Soul they had not, sense they had not,

Heat nor motion, nor goodly hue;

Soul gave Othin, sense gave Hönir,

Heat gave Lothur and goodly hue.

Fenric - Djinn

Soul he had not, sense he had not,

Heat nor motion, nor goodly hue;

December Surprise: Jesse Jackson and The Staged Syrian Hostage Crisis

December Surprise: Jesse Jackson and The Staged Syrian Hostage Crisis 

from Spike1138 on Vimeo.

Jesse, Farrakahn and the Rev. Jerimiah Wright hold a Press Conference on the front steps of the State Dept. announcing their intention to violate the Logan Act.

Given that this was 1983, this was presumably the same Middle East visit on which "Special Envoy Rumsfeld" was filmed firmly shaking hands with President Saddam Hussain.

When it comes to political theatre, it doesn't get any better than this.

"Upon his arrival in Paris, he met with various French officials, including Talleyrand. 

During these meetings, he identified himself as a private citizen, discussed matters of general interest to the French, and told his audience that anti-French sentiment was prevalent in the United States. 

Logan's conversation with Merlin de Douai, who occupied the highest political office in the French republic, was typical. Logan stated that he did not intend to explain the American government's position, nor to criticize that of France. 

Instead, he suggested ways in which France could improve relations with the United States, to the benefit of both countries. 

He also told Merlin that pro-British propagandists in the United States were portraying the French as corrupt and anxious for war, and were stating that any friend of French principles necessarily was an enemy of the United States. 

Within days of Logan's last meeting, the French took steps to relieve the tensions between the two nations; they lifted the trade embargo then in place, and released American seamen held captive in French jails. 

Even so, it seems that Logan's actions were not the primary cause of the Directory's actions; instead, Logan had merely provided convenient timing for the implementation of a decision that had already been made."

I quote The Enemy:

"In 1984, President Ronald Reagan stated that the activities of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who had traveled to Cuba and Nicaragua that year and had returned with several Cuban political prisoners seeking asylum in the United States, may have violated the Logan Act; but Jackson was never indicted."