Bush Presidency Begins to Unravel...

The coalition of the willing list no longer exists. Senators are publicly announcing that the current administration lies to us on a daily basis about issues large and small. I, personally,cannot think of a single issue on which this administration has not lied.

"Outposts of Tyranny"

"...Stripped of social coloring and modern legal restraints, the arrangement for work in modern America resembles the same terms that functioned during feudalism. But this is more than an echo from distant times. The employment system is the defining structure for maintaining a still dominant hierarchy among citizens, those with stunted rights and those with expansive power over others."


"Where did citizens learn the resignation and cynicism that leads them to withdraw as active citizens? They learned it at the office; they learned it on the shop floor. The real-life education in who has the power and who doesn't creates a formidible barrier to ever establishing an authentic democracy in which Americans are genuinely represented and engaged. The socialization of powerlessness is probably far more damaging to politics than the special-interest campaign money or the emptiness of televison advertising." William Greider from, "The Soul of Capitalism"



Maybe we should tend to our own garden before we attempt to tend to the rest of the world's. What was it that that esteemed Repuplican president, Dwight Eisenhower, warned us against? He warned in his farewell to the nation address,in substance,to
beware the military-industrial complex!

"Gregoire Relaxes Rules on Medicaid"

According to an article in today's,Seattle Times,"Gov. Christine Gregoire yesterday ordered the state to ...ease its Medicaid rules..." in relation to children getting and staying on the state's Medicaid rolls. This will add about twenty thousand children to the rolls and will undo the work of former state senator, Dino Rossi, to keep the poverty stricken children off the rolls.
It will also, as a side effect, add many votes to Gregoire's gubernatorial bid if a revote should become necessary. This is smart politics and more importantly helps children from poor families recieve much needed health care. Republicans are expected to oppose this measure as it does not in any way help big business or Republican cronies.

"...proud 'neath heated brow!" Bob Dylan

There is a person named "Lawrence" who sounds like he's about 17 but claims to have several advanced college degrees and his personal mission seems to be to vanquish Headless Lucy in debate. His absolute obtuseness to anything but the hard core reactionary right- wing view is astounding. If a surgeon chopped his leg off by mistake he'd come out of anesthesia arguing in favor of a 250,000 dollar cap on punitive damages.


"Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rolling high and mighty traps.
Countless fires on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps.
We'll meet on edges soon said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah! but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now!"

Bob Dylan, "Younger Than Yesterday"



I hope I got the words right. I got them by listening to the Byrds version. The Byrds still sound good. They have some of the best Dylan interpretations that have been done.

New Governor for WA State

Christine Gregoire,Dem., will be sworn in 1/12/2005!! It's been a long battle but honesty and integrity finally won out and we will finally have a Dem. Governor with not only ability but backbone as well!

Bush Presidency Still Illegitimite

The Dems. have over 100 pages of hard evidence proving the Reps. stole the Ohio Pres. election. Keep an eye on this. These kinds of stories build over time and slowly gain huge momentum!

"Banned" in Lilliput

A few bloggers who've left many negative comments on my blog have taken the trouble to "ban" me from making any comments on theirs. This self-righteous garbage is what bothers me about these creeps whose facile and totally powderpuff understanding of free- thought is that you're free to agree with them or be "banned" from commenting. Feel free to comment, guys. I believe in giving you all the rope you need.

The Beverly Bedouins

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Abdul
A poor Bedouin barely kep' his family cool.
And then one day he was shootin' at some Jews
And up through the ground came a bubblin' crude.
Oil that is! Black gold! Desert tea!



Add your own verses. It's fun!

hiatus

I am going on a 30 day hiatus to increase my keyboarding skills. See you all in a month.

The Race Issue:The Elephant in the Living Room

My whole life has been colored by the race issue. Is there some way we can all get on the same wavelength an d begin to not be divided over this issue. I remember after the huge riots after the Rodney King incident that people in general sobered on this issue and began to realize that rascism is a potentially explosive issue that could destroy this country. We can no longer afford to let ourselves indulge in this thing.
The first issue that I want to discuss in this vein is the issue of reparations. In a moral sense I can see that keeping people down for hundreds of years and then refusing to repair the damage by offering reparations is wrong, but as a country , how are we to pay for this and in what form?
Leave a comment if you have a serious opinion.

Body of Work

I am slowly developing a body of work that I hope will some day remind people of a large boil on the hairy back of a fat Italian man on Jones' Beach in the mid 1950's-- with no shirt on and wearing cheap rumpled slacks rolled up to the knee and black rayon sox.

Gangster of Love

was frank james and jesse james really gettin' all the best?
them was two bad cats way out in the west.
those cats coulda' dug me and my gangster ways
'til i hung up my guns--dug 'em to their graves-
'cause i'm a gangster-
a gangster of love.
girls in bars from near and far say i'm a gangster-
a gangster of love.

now lookee here--

jumped in my father's cadillac and rode across the state line
found fifty girls and kissed 'em all at the same time
took twenty-five or thirty and put 'em all on a freight
with a warrant out for my arrest in each and every state
i can't help it
'cause i'm a gangster--
a gangster of love.

sherriff clarence brown comes up behind me and says
headless{guitar}lucy is that you?
and i said yessir brotha' sherriff
and that's your wife on the back of my horse.
i can't help it
i'm a gangster of love

Words and Music by: Johnny "Guitar" Watson

abusive conservatives

Have you ever noticed that the rhetoric of conservatives is invariably abusive toward those they disagree with but if you give it back to them they whine like girls with bad cramps?
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh! You hurt me! You critisized me and attacked my sacred beliefs! Wah! Wah! Wah!" Then they unleash another load of viscious, twisted, unreasoning blatherings that make no sense to anyone but themselves.
But there is hope. They are invariably so lead-witted when it comes to satirizing them that it will be right in front of their noses-- right in their face-- and they won't see it. So, those of you with a liberal bent who are considering leaving the country,please, before you go try cleverly but gently mocking a conservative right to their face and observe their confusion or outright total misunderstanding of what you are really getting at. You will gradually come to understand that you can make the utmost mockery of them to their face and you'll watch with utter astonishment as they unsuccessfully try to cope with your superior wit.
I must here leave an important exception to this rule. IF YOU ARE A POLITICALLY CORRECT MALE OR FEMALE DO NOT ATTEMPT THE ABOVE!!!!! You are operating on the same wavelength as the conservative and your hamhanded efforts will result in only more acrimony. Best to leave it to those of us whose adoring friends and relatives prefer our company to even the best of Seinfeld re-runs. We've got the chops to get the job done cleanly and with no broken conservative hearts.

God's true name

The Old Testament God appeared to me in a vision and told me that His one true name was, SANTOR! He wants to be referred to only as, SANTOR, and nothing else. He gets homicidally angry if you use any name but ,SANTOR! So do us all a favor and call him that. It makes Him happy and He told me all this personally so don't be doubtful about His Word. If you think I'm fooling, just ask the Pharoah. He'll back me up. Don't mess with Him or His messenger.

giving thanks

I sure hope to Jesus it's a good day today and that George Bush and all the neo-cons are happy and blessed by Jesus{who is the only true God}. Remember: Don't say bad things about God and Jesus or you can forget all about that forgiveness stuff. I swear to God this is all true. I spoke to God Himself and he told me these things. I hope he tells George the same thing! He can be a little unpredictable about that!

gay Republicans

I heard on the new Liberal AM radio that the new head of the GOP is a closeted gay. And while we're on that subject, don't the gay Republicans realize that calling themselves "log cabin" Republicans only reaffirms their own party's stereotypes?

boastful

I am very boastful. I have boasted all my life. Can you forgive me? When I boast I feel like toast.

voter fraud

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Check it out. The smoking gun is here. Watch W get Watergated.

vote fraud evidence

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vexing question/vexing answer

Question: What is the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

Answer: Bush had an exit plan for Vietnam.