Seeds--Bruce Springsteen--circa 1980

Well a great black river a man had found
So he put all his money in a hole in the ground
And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down
Man now I live on the streets of Houston town

Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along
And we headed down south with just spit and a song
But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone"

Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks
The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back
Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight
And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight

Parked in the lumberyard freezin' our asses off
My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough
Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife
Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night
Says "Move along man move along"

Well big limousine long shiny and black
You don't look ahead you don't look back
How many times can you get up after you've been hit?
Well I swear if I could spare the spit
I'd lay one on your shiny chrome
And send you on your way back home
So if you're gonna leave your town where the north wind blow
To go on down where that sweet soda river flow
Well you better think twice on it Jack
You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off the rack
You ain't gonna find nothin' down here friend
Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the south wind
Movin' on movin' on it's gone gone it's all gone

An Open Letter to Hillary and Barack

by Deborah Lake

Gentlepersons:

Please stop smearing one another. That’s what Republicans do. Stop acting like Republicans. Start working together as a team now, to defeat the Republicans.

At that point in time, I will believe that you are truly Democrats. No more whisper innuendo campaigns. That’s so Rove-Goebbels.

There is a celery-string’s worth of political differences in your “opposing” views. Hillary says, we will have sort of a one-half of a public healthcare system. So does Barack. Yawn!!! People want affordable, dependable, knowledgeable health care providers. They will pay what they can for that service. That seems fair, doesn’t it? After all, people are never going to stop getting sick. Why let private insurance companies profit from not treating people? Shame on you. That’s welfare for the rich. Is that what you mean by market efficiency? Sounds more like the sucking black vortex to hell to me.

People want to end the war on Iraq and bring their family members home. You want to leave troops there to guard the obscenely expensive new embassy we built there after we invaded and despoiled the country.

People are tired of hearing about your hairsbreadth differences and tired of dirty campaigns. This material on Barack’s pastor is old news. How lame, really. Especially since the Pastor was right, and Barack was wrong.

Barack wrote in his blog: “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies."

George Herbert Walker Bush said in 1988: “I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”

It’s time to differentiate yourselves from your alleged opponents!

Apologize publicly for all the lies and innuendo you have spread about one another. Proclaim a healing of America. Start telling us what you would do as a Democrat instead of arguing within the Republican framework.

We know who pays your bills. Shame on you, Senators, for not changing the laws so that we have publicly financed elections. That explains everything, does it not?

***
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_el_pr/obama_pastor_21;_ylt=AgnDQt36d40NHy6BAMST.Asb.3QA
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

The Mod (erate) Squad (pic) (lol)

Go, Gauchos, Go!!!

I am SOOOOO PROUD of my alma mater!

UCSB Students Against War Disrupts Collaborative Biotechnology Military Research Conference
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2008-02-18 18:55. Nonviolent Resistance
From IndyBay

Today more than five hundred UCSB Students Against War disrupted the military Institute of Collaborative Biotechnology conference to demand an end to UC complicity in illegal weapons research designed to kill Iraqis in an illegal war.

Students and supporters of peace and demilitarization marched directly into the Corwin Center Pavilion where the ICB conference attendees were having lunch between their Army-sponsored research sessions.

Speakers for the march made it clear that students support scientific research but when research is done for military paymasters it makes campus scientists into war accomplices at a time when the U.S. is occupying foreign lands in internationally condemned wars of aggression.

For example, A UCSB researcher worked on technology for a new type of bomb which was dropped on an Afghan wedding, killing 40 Afghanis gathered to celebrate the love between two people and their families. U.S. officials denied responsibility for the bombing until camera footage made it impossible to deny. To the researcher's horror, his teammates working on the bomb expressed no remorse for the innocents killed by their invention. Instead, they celebrated the news because the bomb worked as they intended it to.

Protesters reminded ICB attendees that scientists have moral responsibility for the consequences of their actions and when they work for the military, the consequence is that people die, many of them innocent civilians. One speaker gave numbers on just how much money is being funneled into military research:

"UCSB rakes in 50 million dollars a year for following the Army's orders. We came here to get an education and make valuable contributions to the world, not to help conquer it. This is not a military base, it is a university. It's time to demand an end to UCSB's participation in the war machine."

There was a heavy police presence but protesters were not intimidated and conducted their non-violent direct action against UCSB war profiteering with courage and determination. Police arrested three protesters. Eyewitnesses said there was no justification for the arrests and hundreds of people chanted "Let them go! Let them go!" and laid their bodies on the pavement around police cars as a human shield demanding that the peaceful protesters be released. The arrested protesters urged everyone to return to the ICB conference to finish what they came to do and protesters returned to the Corwin Pavilion peacefully to continue disrupting the ICB.

Students Against War Santa Barbara declared victory as the ICB conference was disrupted, military scientists were informed about the consequences of their actions and a message was sent to UCSB officials that students will not rest until UC complicity in war ends.

UPDATE: The ICB conference was shut down and did not continue its second day sessions. This constitutes a major victory for UCSB students in the campaign to demilitarize UCSB and the whole UC system.


http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/31135

OBAMA ROBBED IN NY

Why isn't this in the corporate media? Here, it's just the New York Post... Normally, I pay no attention to the Post, being as it is a Rupert rag. However, this article appears to be straightforward reporting.

I have not been an Obama supporter, but I am even less of a Hillary supporter, and it appears that her negatives have caught up with her. Witness the Obama roll.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162008/news/regionalnews/obama_robbed_in_ny_97932.htm Read more at this link, if interested.

By GINGER ADAMS OTIS

February 16, 2008 -- Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly under recorded in several congressional districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said today

Unofficial primary results gave Obama no votes in nearly 80 districts, including Harlem's 94th and other historically black areas - but many of those initial tallies proved to be wildly off the mark, the Board of Elections confirmed.

Truth is, in some districts getting a recount, the senator from Illinois is even close to defeating Hillary Clinton.

Initial results in the 94th District, for example, showed a 141-0 sweep for the New York senator, but Board of Elections spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez said today that the ongoing recount had changed the tally to 261-136.

Ohio Election Theft Kills

This is an important video, titled "More Dead Cause of Ohio" that ties in the theft of the Ohio Election with the many soldiers now dead... because of what has happened in Ohio.  The ripples in this dark pond water are rolling around the world, and the dead are buried. 

 

This Video is based on a Neil Young song, and it includes scenes from the new David Earnhardt movie "UNCOUNTED".  David is a supporter of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign, and we recommend the movie.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdvsJKzmN0

 

 

Accidental Organizing and Determination

by Deborah Lake

Being EXTREMELY bord, I visited the Paltalk chatroom Liberal Destruction of America tonight.

I had just finished explaining that the President of Iran did not say that Iran had no homosexuals, to some poor victim of corporate media. I posted the sentence and the link in the chatroom Liberal Destruction of America. What he really said was: our homosexuals are quiet and yours are loud! Or: Our homosexuals are in the closet and yours aren't!

Lost in Translation

I then received a PM from "D"

Talk about your accidental organizing!

Conversation follows. It's sort of backwards because we are typing to one another rather than talking. Have fun!

(12:36 AM) D: HI
(12:36 AM) D: OK
thephoenix_: hi
(12:38 AM) D: HI
D just sent you a nudge!
thephoenix_: hi D
thephoenix_: how may I help you?
(12:39 AM) D: WHO ARE YOU
thephoenix_: I am thephoenix_, silly
(12:39 AM) D: YOU HELP
(12:39 AM) D: ME NOT
thephoenix_: I help?
(12:39 AM) D: OK SOLIDER
thephoenix_: Cool!
thephoenix_: I am a left wing libertarian
(12:40 AM) D: I FREE OK
(12:40 AM) D: WAR
(12:41 AM) D: AMD LIFE NOT
thephoenix_: I am afraid I don't understand
thephoenix_: oic
(12:41 AM) D: BUT IM WOMN
thephoenix_: war should always be the last resort
thephoenix_: and it was not in Iraq
(12:41 AM) D: wont yall stop
thephoenix_: war is the most toxic human activity
thephoenix_: I do everything I can to get us to stop, but America is owned by corporations
(12:42 AM) D: it is ets and young men
(12:42 AM) D: woman
thephoenix_: I am a woman too
thephoenix_: and most of the politicians are owned by corporations
(12:43 AM) D: why wont men stop the fightighting
thephoenix_: Bill and Hillary Clinton, sponsored by Walmart!
thephoenix_: because men are crazy
(12:43 AM) D: lols
thephoenix_: about 75% of them are out of their minds
(12:43 AM) D: and
(12:44 AM) D: my
(12:44 AM) D: not
thephoenix_: and it makes a LOT of MONEY for rich people to fight wars
(12:44 AM) D: ill say know more
thephoenix_: Iraq has transferred more money into fewer pockets than any war in history
(12:44 AM) D: yes
(12:44 AM) D: my bf
(12:44 AM) D: marine
thephoenix_: oh dear
thephoenix_: I am very sorry to hear that
thephoenix_: he could become a conscientious objector, you know
(12:45 AM) D: my kids his kids
(12:45 AM) D: our gov
thephoenix_: do you want to do something?
thephoenix_: it's perfectly legal
(12:46 AM) D: my god
thephoenix_: write your congressmen and senators
thephoenix_: and get your friends to do it too
(12:46 AM) D: i ok
thephoenix_: and ask them to get their friends to do it
(12:46 AM) D: it hurts
(12:46 AM) D: ok
thephoenix_: they count on you NOT writing!
thephoenix_: If we DROWN them in letters, they will pay attention to us
(12:47 AM) D: yes
(12:47 AM) D: our people
(12:47 AM) D: running for gov
(12:48 AM) D: re
(12:48 AM) D: cant say nne of them
(12:48 AM) D: say they
(12:48 AM) D: can bring our troops home 1 yr
thephoenix_: They are all owned by corporations, except Edwards and Kucinich
thephoenix_: They could start bringing them home tomorrow...unless they sent the people who went to New Orleans to help
(12:49 AM) D: and
(12:50 AM) D: contact me who
(12:50 AM) D: i STAND AND FIGHT
(12:50 AM) D: ok
thephoenix_: got to www.congress.org
thephoenix_: and I think there's a place where you can type in your zip code
(12:50 AM) D: thanks
thephoenix_: It will tell you who your congress and senator is
(12:51 AM) D: thank YOU LADIE
thephoenix_: you pay their salary!
thephoenix_: with the taxes you pay
thephoenix_: you are their boss!
(12:52 AM) D: THANK U
(12:52 AM) D: OK
thephoenix_: always remember that!
(12:53 AM) D: WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY
thephoenix_: I do too
(12:53 AM) D: WE STAND GOT TO FIGHT
thephoenix_: I want it to be great and wonderful again, not like it is now
thephoenix_: we got to fight for sure
thephoenix_: I fight all the time
thephoenix_: that's why I come to chat
(12:55 AM) D: THANKS
(12:55 AM) D: TO YOU
thephoenix_: to help people find out who to talk to!
thephoenix_: write your mayor, too!
thephoenix_: You could have a letter writing party, and all write the letter together, you and your friends
thephoenix_: it would be fun!
(12:56 AM) D: I WILL
(12:56 AM) D: WHAT GOOD WILL IT DO
thephoenix_: you could ask other people for help too
thephoenix_: if enough of us write letters, they will fear for their jobs
thephoenix_: we have to work together as Americans to stop this
(12:57 AM) D: YES
(12:57 AM) D: YES
thephoenix_: I will be back in a minute
(12:57 AM) D: IT WONT HELP
thephoenix_: people never get anywhere with the government unless they work together
thephoenix_: if enough people are mad, they pay attention!
thephoenix_: I show them that I am mad!
(12:58 AM) D: JUST LIKE
(12:58 AM) D: OK
(12:58 AM) D: ILL FIGHT
(12:58 AM) D: OK
thephoenix_: brb
thephoenix_: back
thephoenix_: Bush is immoral!
thephoenix_: He kills innocent people!
(1:02 AM) D: MY\ COUNTRY
thephoenix_: Soldiers are innocent people too.
(1:02 AM) D: IS TRUE
thephoenix_: They did not do anything to start this war!
(1:02 AM) D: OK
thephoenix_: They think they are helping their country, but they are just helping Bush's rich friends
(1:03 AM) D: WE LOSSE OK
(1:03 AM) D: PEOPLE
(1:03 AM) D: OK
(1:03 AM) D: why
thephoenix_: look at the price of oil now. It was like $40 a barrell when Bush invaded Iraq
thephoenix_: now it's $80
(1:04 AM) D: our ok ll say no more
thephoenix_: and the oil companies are making record profits
thephoenix_: and we are paying twice what we paid in 2000
thephoenix_: that's inflation
(1:05 AM) D: I bow my hea agian and PRAY
(1:05 AM) D: HEAD
(1:05 AM) D: AND PRAY
thephoenix_: Indeed, we must pray for America and write letters to congress
thephoenix_: so they know that we are mad
(1:06 AM) D: GOD please no no more
thephoenix_: no more innocents should die
thephoenix_: My granddaughter died last year from cancer
thephoenix_: she was only 12
(1:07 AM) D: troops WE AS GODS CHILD SAY NO MORE
thephoenix_: she never hurt anyone
thephoenix_: she made everyone around her happy
thephoenix_: except her father
(1:08 AM) D: HER
(1:08 AM) D: FATHER WAS GOD
(1:08 AM) D: SHES SORRY
(1:08 AM) D: OUR GOD
thephoenix_: no, her father was a crazy mean man
(1:08 AM) D: TOOK
(1:09 AM) D: HER
thephoenix_: she needed to be here
thephoenix_: she had work to do
(1:09 AM) D: AND YOU WAS YOUR BEST
(1:09 AM) D: AS A MOM
(1:09 AM) D: YES
(1:10 AM) D: I SAY YOUR OK
(1:10 AM) D: I HURT FOR YOU
(1:10 AM) D: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE STRONG
thephoenix_: thank you