I heard my sisters and their friends and others in my family singing these songs. I even sang them when they came on the radio. I'd heard them so many times. But, I just didn't get it.
I went to Camp Democracy in DC after I became an active participant in rescuing our beloved America from the clutches of the criminal Bush regime. It's never NEVER been this bad. Don't even try it. It hasn't. This country is in trouble. While I was there they had some books for sale and some free posters and I got this one:
Then the boyfriend took me to see U.S. vs John Lennon (had to drive to Sarasota for it, of course) and I sat and cried for all we had lost. And then some. The list is seemingly without end of those taken out because of their drive to give love and peace to this world.
One by one these brave voices for man and humanity and for peace and love are vanquished.
In solidarity with anyone else who has ever imagined ...
True Love I have a need to know and show true love. Between people, nations, animals and people .... anyone -- all of us. .... these folks are a good example. Somehow you knew Johnny was never headed to Jackson .... AND, he entertained the forgotten people jailed at San Quentin. The man in black taught us all how to be a HERO. Where was george? (they died too young like so many others .. hmmm)
This sweet interview. Such a disarmingly, charming woman. A lot like me. Some would know. It's true.
Some people probably don't know that John Davidson who is conducting the interview is now in his 60's and takes a one-man show with a back up band around the country on tour and we saw him at Busch Gardens. A great show.
I'm amazed by people who are cross-generational like this. Johnny loved NIN. NIN rocked with Johnny. I love George Jones, Johnny, Elvis, Conway ... a # of others -- Pam Tillis and Vince Gill and I'm not even a country music fan, per se. My taste definitely leans towards rock and technically, these people are way before my time. That's cool. I'll bring em forward. I'm being outdone by people half my age, already.
Guess what?
The person who dragged me and the rest of us back to watch John Davidson (60ish) is SIXTEEN. He, the teenager, laughed harder than anyone. Made us all watch JD twice. I would have missed that if not for him. And, the show was a stitch. Very talented man. Very smart. Living la vida bueno
It's pretty obvious that Johnny didn't judge people by their surroundings ... and that's why I love him. As well, he didn't really fit the government's idea of what an entertainer should be. They should sell the corporate branding of big media. I admire those who don't and have named them off over and over.
Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson is an ultra progressive - if you read this Nation profile already, you'd know that - but did you know the man has serious verbal takedown skills? Well, Sean Hannity certainly does after being torn apart in a debate they did over the weekend. Here's the link to all the video segments from the debate. The one I posted is Part 2.
Oh and here's Part Three:
And Part Four:
I was just going to post two and four but three was interesting, as well. Most of the others were Sean Hannity spouting erroneous research. Ouch.
Card says - Remember: "We're the Deciders" Impeachment is on the table Investigate and Impeach Cheney and Bush! http://www.davidswanson.org/node/654By David Swanson
Stage set: a dining room at left, an office at right
A woman enters the office where the phone is ringing. She answers it.
NP: Hello? Why do you ask? Yes, I'm sure. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Impeachment is off the table. Now let me tell you about some new legislative proposals that I think you're really going to like. I'll give you what we're going to pass in the first hundred seconds and in the first hundred months. Which one do you want first? Let's start with…
The woman's voice lowers but continues as lights go up in the dining room, where we see a cat jump off the table and wander into the office where the woman is hanging up the phone.
NP: Where were you sweetie? Was I ignoring you? Come here kitty kitty. I didn't mean to ignore you.
The phone rings. The cat leaves.
NP: Hello? Yes, this is Nancy Pelosi. Yes, I know, but an investigation investigates. It doesn't impeach. I've said it before and I'll say it again – Will you excuse me a second?
Nancy gets up and walks to door of dining room, where cat is sprawled on the table.
NP: Impeachment! Get off the table! Now!
The cat flees.
NP: I'm sorry. No. No. It was some, um. There were some stem cells, I mean a doctor about some stem – Dennis Hastert? Why would anyone want to clone Dennis Hastert? I don't follow. Listen, impeachment is off the table. I assure you. Because we've been given a mandate to effect change and…
Nancy's voice lowers and drones on as a bloody corpse enters the dining room and collapses on the table with a groan. Blood drips audibly onto the floor.
NP: …so those children will be covered with a low adjustible deductible payment during the first three years without illnesses. Can you excuse me a moment?
Nancy looks into dining room. Unfazed, she returns to phone, just as someone knocks at her office door.
NP: Hello? Yes, I'm going to need to call you back. Yes, off the table. That's a pledge. That's a blood oath, a pledge. Yes.
Nancy opens the door to greet two men with a television camera and a microphone.
Media: Are we on time?
NP: Yes, yes, come on in. Let me just get some notes. Have a seat.
Nancy goes into the dining room and closes the door behind her. She drags the corpse off the table, thumping its head on a chair and the floor, splattering blood everywhere, and shuts the corpse in a closet where we see that there are already several others. Nancy returns to the office.
NP: I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Why don't we go into the other room where there's more room? Let me get my papers. These are just a few of the bills we're going to pass in the first hundred legislative minutes…
Nancy picks up a three-foot-high stack of papers and carries it into the dining room with the camera crew behind her. Nancy lays the papers out on the table, especially where the blood is. She puts some on the chairs and floor where the blood is. The paper soaks up the blood.
Media: May we begin filming?
NP: Yes, of course.
Media: Congresswoman Pelosi, on November 7th your home town of San Francisco was one of the cities where voters approved resolutions calling on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. There are those here in Washington concerned that, being from San Francisco, you might support gay marriage, thereby lowering the supply of unmarried young men in need of drudge work to build their political resumes, which… I mean, let me rephrase that to be more clear. There are concerns that you might be influenced by the people who live in your district who want impeachment.
NP: That's absurd. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Impeachment is off the table. And when I say off the table…
A naked man of Arab descent walks in and climbs onto the table on hands and knees.
NP:…I mean that we will be conducting investigations into a number of issue and policy areas, but an investigation is not an impeachment commission.
Six more naked men follow and they form a pyramid atop the table.
Media: With all due respect, I know that you've stated that position, but given the abundant, I mean the almost unavoidable fact that you are from San Francisco and do have the voting record of a terrorist-loving America-hating liberal radical, can you assure us that you will never ever pusure impeachment, for example around the sort of issues addressed by the Military Commissions Act?
Three men in dark suits, sunglasses, and ear microphones enter the office and begin setting up small cameras, searching through computers and drawers and a purse, planting recording devices on the phones, etc…
NP: I can promise you no articles of impeachment, no investigation into impeachment, and no reprieve for the enemies of freedom.
Media: Yes, but if you have an investigation and if for some reason that investigation is allowed to proceed to the point of, say…
The men in suits come into the dining room where they attach electronic devices to the naked men on the table.
Media: …of, say, questioning the President's authority in time of war to create terrorism surveillance programs that don't comply with a 30-year-old law…
The men in suits administer electric shocks to the naked men who scream in agony. The men in suits leave.
Media: I mean, in a sense, with Secretary Rumsfeld already having resigned isn't it the Democrats' turn to make a concession in the interests of the sort of bipartisan civility and cooperation that the voters showed they wanted last week?
NP: Yes, of course.
The naked men continue to scream and to fall off the table, dead.
Media: For some reason I continue to have the impression that you will not be able to avoid impeachment. Can you assure us that it is off the table?
NP: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Impeachment is off the table.
Cameramen leave. Nancy begins dragging new corpses to the closet.
She has worked very hard to get this up and running and it's a great thing for Florida.
MeowMissy, I sure hope that they have some level of protection in place to filter as waste and pay no mind to these blogs that pretend to be Democratic and WORSE pretend to be Progressive but don't fill out the dance card for either one.
I think most of this can be ascertained by reading someone's blog quickly. Are they mean-spirited? Have nasty commenters which they thrive on? Try to start some kind of personal dispute with REAL progressive, Dem bloggers? You know, that kind of divisive activity.
Just a heads up. MeowMissy, if you have any say --- please make them aware that because someone wears the right tshirt that doesn't mean they have the right heart. AND a big huge thank you from someone who DOES.
Molly Ivins: Cow Whisperers Against the War Posted on Aug 28, 2006 By Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas—I know it’s bad form to brag, but I am now a graduate of Texas A&M University, and you can’t stop Aggie pride. I became a diplomee of the great institution in College Station after successfully completing the three-day short course in beef cattle this summer. I specialized in forage management and graduated “Quel fromage!,” meaning “avec distinction.” It is also true that I was banned from the campus of Texas A&M many years ago after some students invited me to make a political speech. Also Quel fromage! So you see how far we all have come.
The most amazing part of cow college was meeting the cow whisperer. Think of everything you know about moving cattle from one place to another—for shots, roundup or loading into trucks for market—just physically moving a lot of cattle. GEE, GIT ON, GO DOGIE, whistle, whip crack, move ’em out, chase ’em down. Turns out all these years we’ve been doing it wrong.
What happens when you scare a cow by making a lot of noise and chasing it down and forcing it to move where it doesn’t want to go is the cow responds by relieving itself. And since a cow has three stomachs, it can unload up to 20% of its total weight at one go, the last thing you want just before you take it to market to sell.
So the latest thing in cattle handling is cow whispering (I’m not making this up—this is straight from A&M). Either on foot or horseback, you just kind of sidle around your herd without upsetting them, talk to them gently and suggest they might like to go that way for a while, and then perhaps a tour along the pen line, and then perhaps some consideration of the gate and another little tour of the pen line. But all of this is done without loud noise, sudden movements or eruptions of testosterone. It’s such a revolutionary development of an American macho tradition it’s a little like watching NFL teams come onto the field in tutus. But it also works a lot better on the cows.
I bring this up because I recently attended a women’s peace movement meeting, sponsored by the Code Pink group, founded by Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Diane Wilson. (Ha, now you think you see where I am going.) The women peacemakers also included Cindy Sheehan, writer Anne Lamott and Col. Ann Wright, who served 29 years in the Army and more than 15 years in the Foreign Service, before resigning in protest over Bush’s drive to war in Iraq.
I must say, they were a lot more emphatic than the cow whisperer. In fact, as I left, they were saddling up to ride down to President Bush at his ranch with a people’s posse peace warrant. Lots of whooping about it.
Women peace activists, as rule, have totally solved the gnarly old dilemma: What do you do about hating the haters? If you’re a woman peace activist, this is Step 101—you spill love and calm and reassurance and, well, peace all over them. (Which is why it’s especially funny that George Bush is so afraid of Cindy Sheehan.)
For those of us who have not mastered this advanced technique, a Revolution in Favor of Kindness and Libraries seems like a nice idea. Anne Lamott, one of the funniest people in America, has developed a scenario for a Revolution With Good Manners, in which we are all extremely nice to one another. Good manners never hurt anything. “Our Revolution decrees that we will fight tooth and nail for these things, politely.”
I am still lamentably stuck in the middle—not that I hold with hating the haters ... we can all see where that leads—but I am always tempted to shout them down. “One, Two Three, Four: We Don’t Want Your F-ing War.” Now does that repel more potential supporters or attract more people who really need to sound off?
What I learned from Code Pink is that this is not an either-or question. The peace movement is a matter of And and And and And. You just keep adding more people, from those like Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in the stupid debacle, to the Iraqi Veterans Against the War, easily the strongest, most moving group of young people in America. They have learned in the hardest way what politics is.
War is about rounding up people with Shock and Awe and really loud noises, and about thinking you can herd them by hurting and killing them. Politics is what you do if you’re not so stupid you walk into an unnecessary and unprovoked war. I’m founding Cow Whisperers Against the War.
To find out more about Molly Ivins and see works by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website, www.creators.com.
Oh and I've had over 16000 views of my blog since about three 1/2 months ago. That's over four thousand a month. Thank YOU !!! Now I need to do that EVERY DAY.
Perhaps it's time for some controversy. Just kiddin.
I kept wondering who George Michael was pissing off; he's been arrested for so much stupid stuff, lately. They do this to all the activists but I was blithely unaware that George Michael took this major slam dunk on Tony Blair and George Bush's "friendship." (those people like most I know in tampa don't have friends, they have associates) I posted the comic version first because it's easier to get his intended 'concept'... but the live version is EXCELLENTE' from Rotterdam. George and Tony make a personal appearance .....
I saw George Michael live once --- had to be dragged to it and GIVEN the ticket. BUT !!! I left a fan. He's awesome. Puts on a SHOW. Very involved with the audience. Very intriguing presentation. But THIS: Well, I am renewed in my commitment as a fan of George Michael. You GO, George !!!
Okay, I know it makes the posts long but you HAVE to know these lyrics:
GTi, Hot Shot, He parks it there,just to piss me off. Bullyboy, gonna show ya who’s tough, I’m gonna shoo the dog, I’m gonna shoot the dog
It’s party time, everyday I spent Saturday night on Novocaine Called the pigs, but nobody cameI’m gonna shoot the dog, I’m gonna shoot the dog (come on ladies)
Nine nine nine gettin’ jiggy People did you see that fire in the City? It’s like we’re fresh out of democratic, Gotta get yourself a little something semi-automatic yeahh
That’s why I’m always gettin’ stoned yeah That’s why I’m out there havin’ fun again Good puppy, good puppy Rolling on over
Mustapha Mazeltov, The Gaza Boys, All that holy stuff. I got the feelin’ when it al goes off, They’re gonna shoot the dog, they’re gonna shoot the dog So, Cherie my dear, Could you leave the way clear for sex tonight? Tell him “Tony Tony Tony, I know that your horny, but there’s somethin bout that Bush ain’t right” Nine nine nine gettin’ jiggy People did you see that fire in the City? It’s like we’re fresh out of democratic, Gotta get yourself a little something semi-automatic yeahh That’s why I’m always gettin’ stoned yeah That’s why I’m out there havin’ fun again Good puppy, good puppy Rolling on over for The Man...
The Ayatollah’s gettin’ bombed yeah, See Seargeat Bilko havin fun again, Good puppy, good puppy Rollin on over for The Man...
I believe, I believe what the old man said Tough I know that there’s no lord above I belive in me, I believe in you And you know I believe in love I believe in truth though I lie a lot I fell the pain from the push and shove No matter what you put me through I’ll still believe in love And I say
Cherie Baby, Spliff up I wanna kick back mama And whatch the world cup whith ya baby Yeah, that’s right! We’re gettin freeky tonight Stay whith me tonight Let’s have some fun while Tony’s stateside It’s gonna be alright It’s gonna be alright See Tony dancing whith Dubya Don’t you wanna know why?
When I watch you, wanna do you, right where you're standing…yeah. Right on the foyer, on this dark day, right in plain view…oh, yeah…. Of the whole ghetto, the boot-stomped meadows, but we ignore that, yeah. You're lovely baby, this war is crazy, I won't let you down…oh, no no….
No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no… Oh, no…I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no… No, oh no, no, no….
And when our city vast and shitty falls to the Axis, yeah… They'll search the buildings, collect gold fillings, wallets, and rings…oh, yeah. But Miss Black Eyeliner, you'd look finer with each day in hiding, oh yeah… Beneath the wormwood, ooooo, love me so good… They won't hear us screw away the day. I'll make you say:
“Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight…” “Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight…”
(No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no… Whoa, no…I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no…)
Our Treblinka is alive with the glory of love…. Treblinka, alive with the glory of love! Yeah!
(Ok, speed it up….Go!)
Should they catch us and dispatch us to those separate WORK camps. I'll dream about you, I will not doubt you with the passing of time….Oh, yeah. Should they kill me, your love will fill me as warm as the bullets, yeah. I'll know my purpose: this war was worth this. I won't let you down…
No, I won’t…. No, I won’t…. No, I won’t….
(Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight…) Hell no, no…Whoa, no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you….Hell, no, no. No! No!
It's interesting to me (i heard these lyrics sung aloud and stopped and asked the guy what he was listening to which led to a long conversation, visit to Borders, coffee and etc.........) This band is kinda extraordinary. Suffice to say: I never explain myself but before I posted this I had a read about them on Wikipedia and discovered that the lead singer (max bemis) is bipolar, deals with mental health issues, is jewish and often references his religion in his songs.
Ergo --- because I believe that we are in the middle of an 'invisible invasion' which can only be called a holocaust as it appears to be a cleansing that could not really be defined as ethnic but more as a cleansing of 'decency'. Get rid of all the decent folks .... This bolsters my idea. This guy sees it, too.
I should mention that I don't believe in the 'bipolar' diagnosis. Some of the most brilliant people I have had lucky occasion to know were diagnosed bipolar. I think it's because their thoughts are so forward and wide-ranging that the world can't keep up with them. Same reason many of them smoke. They are trying to slow themselves down to allow the rest of the world to catch up. Trying to keep themselves and their hands busy. That way when all the psychobabble people (not dissing a good psychologist or anyone's reason to see one) fail to help this brilliant, different soul --- if they happen to complete suicide it can be said that 'most bipolars end in suicide.' Seems like a simple answer but it was born from a long observation of these troubling 'trends'.
Anyway .... a simple thing to point out is that EVERYONE knows that the Bush's are connected to Hitler's Nazi Germany by BLOOD. Why would it come as such a shock to everyone that he is furthering those goals, now? Through the municipalities rather than rounding up people and sending them to camps? It's so obvious to me. And to others. And it sure explains a lot. I am so convinced of this that I did some research of the firelads' role in Nazi Germany and was disappointed and surprised to find they were heroes or supoosedly were heroes. Certainly the profession has been bastardized since Sept. 11, 2001 and since I never paid any attention to it prior to when they started messing with me and mine -- maybe this is all new. I DID HOPE to make direct ties between the firefighters in Nazi Germany and those today. I'm not done looking yet. Maybe no one caught on. The only reason I was so clear on it is the guy came from Station 15 and got right next to my car and sat there with the siren really loud on several occasions. Just sat next to me. Finally someone said, 'that's weird' and I started paying attention. This was quite awhile back. If anyone knows anything about the role of firefighters in Nazi Germany I would appreciate having that knowledge. It seems to me they weren't very heroic considering that people were trapped in barbed-wire cages in the Hitler created ghettos and then the ghettos were burnt down when Hitler felt it was necessary. I think I will eventually find the connection. I've already connected them to the Masons and to voting 'irregularities (read fraud)' and that will be published soon enough.
Anyway this guy and his band are cool -- high-school mates for the most part -- enjoy.
Okay, tell me if this sounds mercenary. I'm leaving out names and identities for now, and even some words to protect those who frankly don't deserve protection but having never been a RAT (like some) I just don't feel good about spilling people's filthy sides of their lives onto the WWW...
However -- (you knew this was coming, right??) -- I'm willing to disclose same for a fee. In fact, I'm going to disclose some of this in a book which will definitely be for sale very soon but if you'd like to know if your name or some similar aspect that identifies your smarmy and illegal acts towards me and my family have been mentioned I'd be happy to negotiate a fee with you. For the record, save your pennies if I've known you longer than thirty years. Out of respect for you and your family I'll leave your names out. Out of respect for you and your family I have remained silent. Apparently this same respect was not inbred in you. That's a pity but you and yours are safe with me. The ones who took it upon themselves to do your bidding against an innocent family are wide open just like they've left MY family wide open. Herewith I refer to my extended family and network many of whom are currently suffering at your hands. Be on notice.
..... risk something, take back what's yours say something that you know they might attack you for cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before .... ... Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like, "what did he say?"
Fight the Good Fight
" .... courage is humankind's cardinal virtue, because ''it makes all other virtues possible." Reverend William Sloane Coffin
......" And I dare you to ask for a lot, I dare you to hold fast to your ideals and to expound them as publicly and as fearlessly as Martin Luther King and Bill Coffin and Betty Friedan and those dozens of grandmothers arrested a few weeks ago for protesting the war in Iraq."
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."Frederick Douglass, 1857
Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
~David Borenstein
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It’s like having a war on jealousy.
I was born a citizen of the world and have remained such but along with that: I'm a long time Tampa resident. Mixed bag at that as I've seen life here from nearly all angles and while somewhere in there I became slightly indoctrinated, I'm not too proud of the way people have taken over this city and run it with an iron fist for all but some. This city is working hard on creating just two classes. Thems and them dont's and they are working hard to shove some families down into the gutter for reasons known only to them. Some might be as petty as jealousy, some might be politically motivated, some might just be stupid and all are wrong. I want to believe we can get better but that would entail some stuff that I have no control over. I only can control myself and my reactions to what occurs.
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