According to the meanspeed music conjecture, songs between the tempos of 85-90 beats per minute are often emotive of renewal.
Since the election of President-Elect Obama, a sense of renewal has come over the United States.
As DeToqueville said, Americans will fight in politics tooth and nail, but when the election is over and the winner is chosen, we come together and act as a family, and for a few shining months we are actually bipartisan. More importantly we learned: our democracy works, the Constitution breathes, the United States is not a dying Rome, the United States is not a the fallen English “empire. Let the comparisons go on by people who have never used their hands to construct anything but babble.
Having watched the election returns at the Hyatt two blocks from the Capitol, I took photos of the Washington Mall the morning after Barack H. Obama was declared the president-elect. Having a 1963 dream, still believed to be a pipe dream as recenyly as Nopvember 3, 2008, flower and bloom, that was only fitting that as Dr. King’s speech location was EMPTY.
Sure, on Inauguration Day, everyone will make their way down. My experience walking around an EMPTY mall was fitting in that the president-elect handled that which most adults “never thought they would see in their lifetime,” in referring to the electing an African American after an election, where, Senator/Vice-President-Elect Biden and Senator McCain are both Roman Catholic, NONE OF THE FOUR PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES WERE WHITE ANGLO-SAXON MEN. Until Kennedy was elected, the nation’s president for 184 years was ALWAYS a white Anglo-Saxon protestant male, notwithstanding the Roman Catholic “Alcohol” Al Smith, four time governor of New York, the most densely packed Roman Catholic state by far (40%) who was nominated by a major party in the early 20th century: the Democrats in 1928. Hoover won.
But as for our smooth transition, European snobs have egg in their pants. You non-believers in democracy, you temporarily well-to-do European aristocrats: Your socialism, in which you bathe like kings presently, cannot last. Your pitiful birth rate makes same a mathematical certainty. Moreover, Europeans established black slavery – usually the types of Europeans that parade as Americans acting as Academic Aristocrats in places like Salon.com. The arrogance without backbone hurts so much to read it is addictive. In discourse, it is ten times easier, and not surprisingly ten times more likely, for one to criticize another’s action rather than say anything positive or constructive. Salon.com has these 20/20 hindsight microscopes which are precise, on point – heck, they are even funny – but they all look oh-so-cooly BACKWARDS, where THEY are always right, and you, well, you’re not them, therefore you are stupid. Salon.com has to be fake – even among the anti-Americans amongst Americans, as those who were going to move to Canada if McCain won the election, because, hey, they are better than us. Right. What a joke. No American wants to be a Canadian – and even the Canadians who take the U.S. government and use their right to harshly criticize – Alanis Morissette, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell: they live in California with dual citizenship. Oh – the Northwest territory is calling my name! Michael Mooore compares about us to Canada is and declares how horrible the United States. I love Mike’s idealism – but the obesity and the all criticism, holier-than-thou high school educated rants have run their course. Mike: Run for office or be quiet, please. PLEASE. Listen dude: no one really likes you – they say they do. Why? To GET RID OF YOU! Notice how no one ever appears twice with you, anywhere, including your invisible girlfriends? Michael, you say you want a revolution, well, we’d all love to see the plan. We’re all doing what we can – with THIS constitution, even you and your movies, great. Do the movies and stop whining. News flash Mike – a 2 minute old fetus + 2 minutes can WHINE. Sure a man with as many hats as yourself can do better, if your entire turns out that your entire public persona is a one George Plimpton-esque joke. The point is at this point no one cares anymore. RUN FOR GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN IF YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. HELP THE STATE RECOVER. AND STOP making the Chinese ban on free speech sound kinda rational!
The Canadians, who still bow to England’s so-called “royalty” (apparently the English have not heard that the Americans won the war here, they forgot the French Revolution, and they forgot that India wanted no part of their “rule”) have the most egg everywhere on their bodies. A holier-than-thou group of fake “nice” people can go on with their birth-rate of 1.3 new children for every 2 live citizens.
But I digress – the “pilgrims” (white North Americans pre-U.S.) sought leave of Europe as they did not feel comfortable in Europe in that you were then, and still do, believe in monarchy, bowing, royalty and other such wildly stupid and outdated things. “I bow to thee Prince Hans, Duke of the Red Light District, Emporer of Surrey, King of all England!” (NOT). You bought our products and swept under the rug that while black slavery was out your sight – and you saved a lot of money. Cheap rum, Cheap cigars. COTTON UNDERWEAR. Laugh not! Have you donned wool underwear. Or gone Commando in rough wool slacks?
The Constitutional Crisis of 2001-2008 is over.
The great singer singing her song live!! What more could you …
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKoKpYsTz9c
Meanspeed Music Summary
song title=”Sweet Love”
key of song=A major, with jazzy modulations to G and C major in sections
composer=Anita Baker
performer=Anita Baker
mean speed/average tempo/median velocity=88.4 beats per minute
average beat length=0.679 seconds
emotional concept of song according to meanspeed music theory=renewal
notable rhyme=’world’ and ‘girl’ – “…No stronger love in this world
Oh baby no, you`re my man, I’m your girl…”
all charts by the Meanspeed Music Com
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River Newman
November 11, 2008
revised and extended November 12, 2008
