>>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/19/ronstadt.reut/
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>>Ms. Ronstadt said according to a local television newsperson she did not like to perform in front of Republicans or the Religious Right. At least the lady speaks her mind.
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>>In these days of Home Land Security and the Patriot Act you have to be careful. We thought Geroge Orwell went too far with 1984 - we have only just begun! :)
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>>I am sure that I would never perform in front of a bunch of gamblers who were drinking. That crowd is one I avoid!
>
>"Hey, comrade, how much did you get?"
>"Eight years."
>"For what?"
>"For nothing."
>"Don't bullshi* me, they give ten years for nothing."
>
>I.e. sounds like a good moment to start discarding the mothballs off those old Soviet-era jokes...

LOL.