Song Lyrics: Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London

Lyrics and Chords


I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Going to get a big dish of beef chow mein

/ D6D(v) C6C(iii) GGsus4 G / :

{Refrain}
Ah-ooooo, werewolves of London
Ah-ooooo
Ah-ooooo, werewolves of London
Ah-ooooo

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door
You better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late last night
Werewolves of London again

{Refrain}

He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, jim
Ha, I'd like to meet his tailor

{Refrain}

Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen
Doing the werewolves of London
I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen
Doing the werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's
His hair was perfect

Ah-ooooo, werewolves of London
Ah-ooooo, werewolves of London

Theology (the Prince of the Sciences): Reformation Sunday

The Confession:

Lord God! Eternal and Almighty Father, we acknowledge and confess before your holy majesty, that we are poor sinners, conceived and born in guilt and in corruption, prone to do evil, unable of ourselves to do any good, who, by reason of our depravity, transgress without end your holy commandments. Therefore, we have drawn upon ourselves, by your just sentence, condemnation and death. But, Oh Lord! with heartfelt sorrow we repent and deplore our offenses. We condemn ourselves and our evil ways, with true penitence beseeching that your grace may relieve our distress. Be pleased to have compassion upon us, 0 most gracious God, Father of all mercies, for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord! And in removing our guilt and our pollution, grant us the daily increase of the grace of your Holy Spirit, that acknowledging from our inmost hearts our own unrighteousness, we may be touched with sorrow that shall work true repentance, and that Your Spirit, mortifying all sin within us, may produce the fruits of holiness and of righteousness well pleasing in your sight. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


The reassurance:

What does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." The words, "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness--for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. (Romans 4:3, 23-25)

Q&A on the eternal matter at hand:

Q. How are you right with God?

A. Only by the true faith in Jesus Christ. Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God's commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me. All I need to do is to accept this gift of God with a believing heart.

Song Lyrics: ELO Mister Kingdom

Daylight comes to those who live
But those who die they never see
The sun come shining through their window pane
They pass away.

Silly girl to be a fool
You didn't play the golden rule
'Cos once you're through with one world
Theres another waiting there

Chorus:
{Help me such a lonely soul
In dreams
To leave behind the world.
Mr. Kingdom help me please
To find the rainbows end}

Looking from this empty room
The corridors of endless gloom
Go crawling through the night
To meet the dawn that's on its way.

Oh to sleep, per-chance to dream.
To live again those joyous scenes.
The laughter and the follies
That are locked inside my head.

Chorus:{}

I can dream of flying high
Above the city's cares and never be
afraid of anyone
'Cos there ain't no one there

Chorus: {}--Two Times

The Sin of Entertainment: Explanation or justification.

In the face of unfilled dreams (the death of the vision) and the disintegration of our once proud civilization, one could justify seeking escape. This idea of escape is often sited as the reason many choose drugs, excessive reading, or [any addictive behavior]. I remember society being 'up in arms' about some of us in school playing role playing games like D&D because we were told that it might cause us to confuse reality with fantasy; perhaps the same rationale was used to criticize comic book reading, etc. But I have always contended that reality sucks too bad to ever be confused with fantasy. But in contrast to seeking escape, my motivation might have included some elements of that but I, like most Americans, have sought entertainment because it was fun and we could get away with it.

I think even the most hardworking among us still have a need for recreation. In some ways this is why God gave us the Sabbath (of course the recreation had to be tempered by worship of God first). Americans probably overdo it in the area of recreation, but we do it because of prosperity. As our prosperity disappears, it will be interesting to see if our levels of entertainment and recreation decrease. Of course those in economics straights will not have any choice but to exist in their grinding poverty. So, we must have guilt and criticism for having the temerity to enjoy entertainment. As one of the greatest sinners, I too have committed the sin of entertainment.

The Sin of Entertainment: The second game of Civ4 in 1.5 years.

The lighter areas are my empire and the cities with either green or pink circles in front of their names are my cities.

Social Philosophy: Only one more example of what we have to look forward to.

Even if you don't agree with the so called right, the truth will get suppressed.

I suppose this is nothing new for the countries of the rest of the world, but for an idealistic former patriot of the USA, it still is bothersome.

Social Philosophy: No S#@t category and misc.

Mark Horne makes this excellent point a few days ago: (and for those that don't want to click away here is the text:)

I’m too tired to find links or videos or anything, so you’ll have to do all the relevant googling yourself. A couple of fixed points: First, I don’t approve of illegal activity involving deception in order to vote more than once in an election. Second, I would prefer that Obama not be our next president.

Outside of those two considerations, however, I can’t really get too worked up over all the voter fraud that is taking place. Voter fraud only matters if voters matter. And they don’t. We just had Congress and the Senate decide to make a big geek our economic dictator with $700 billion and virtually zero accountability (along with $150 billion in pork). This was done over the objections of an overwhelming majority of voters begging them not to. Wall Street had already bought all of those lawmakers. When Congress temporarily acted like responsible people, Wall Street used Wall Street’s media to whip Wall Street’s recalcitrant politicians back into line so that they voted for the law.

So why should I get outraged that lower class radical socialists have found their own way to beat the system? (of course, they probably are working for Wall Street too and just don’t know it; but whatever) The rich people buy votes and the poor fabricate them. I don’t see much point in being outraged.

And on another note, the latest dead tree version of National Review had on their cover a picture of Adam Smith, an economist/philosopher that I happen to include in my favorites for a more consistent view of economic reality.

I'll post the picture later.

The reason I mention Adam Smith is that this magazine, NR, I once admired when Buckley was alive, has allowed it's writers to drink the Neo-con corporatist koolaid. I define a corporatist as someone who thinks that large bureaucratic, monopolistic, anti-competition organizations such as the modern mega-corporation is the way to have capitalism and free trade. It is ironic that NR should place a picture of Adam Smith on their cover as their current position is opposed to what he espoused. The modern corporation is used as a tool to stifle competition and create monopolies; this is a violation of true free enterprise and un-regulated markets.

Another great evil perpetrated on the societies of the world are these trans-national organizations' disregard for the lives of their workers and the lives of the people of the countries they operate in. This form of globalism has created barriers to innovation and opportunity by many, and when they can't get the neo-cons to get things their way, they use international socialism and fascist terror. All ultimately ruled by the world bankers and their henchmen (like the insurance companies).

Just don't look behind the curtain, and we'll only let you be left or right instead of free. Just bloody special!!

I'm sure if they knew, people like Adam Smith, von Mises, and the like would be in high spin in their graves.

Social Philosophy: Change is all you will have left in your pocket.

--The US and maybe the world economy?



I've been busy with work, bible study, home chores, etc. (and for the first time in a year and a half, I played a computer game-I busted off a full game of Civilization 2) and have not been able to post.

But I had to comment on our current social scene. I will be so glad when this election season is over because even with my voluntary "news fast" I am compelled to hear and see lie after lie perpetrated on behalf of some criminal who wants to rule our criminal government.

For a little balance, here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.

Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, " Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn't proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that "mistakes were made" and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. (From http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/). The Government noted, "The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner." These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.

Net personal windfall . . . $190 million!

Tim Howard was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, "Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.

Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!

Jim Johnson was a former executive at Lehman Brothers and was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.

Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.


WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor

TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama

JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee

IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS--HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street?