"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow."
-- Woody Guthrie.
-- Woody Guthrie.
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and i'm so glad to read that you are going to the costume party. i can't wait to see you guys again THIS weekend
all these fools saying you hate america if you're against any of our wars (on terror, on afghanistan, on drugs, on iraq) are the absolute least intelligent people in the world.
what a bunch of tripe...
someone with half a fucking brain cell can see that our current administration's actions aren't to the present or future benefit of the american people.
but no, these blindly "patriotic" humps just blather on about supporting the troops and agreeing with the president and love it or leave it and osama and saddam and blah blah blah.
they can't grasp the concept of taking a step back to look at history...
to see how we are being set up to take the fall as an evil war-mongering country to be made an example of, like germany after ww2. (when in fact less than a third of its population ever supported the nazi idealogy)
of course, leading to a greater "consolidation of power and wealth into higher, tighter, and righter hands"- George HW Bush..
more steps (leaps actually) towards the holy grail of all the supposedly 'opposing' political factions that have existed in the open for at least the past hundred years~ one world government. control of the many by the few, again..
the new feudalism.
I have still not met a single person in ten different states (outside of the SG boards that is LOL) that truly believes any of the lies and deceptions that have been spoonfed to them via the major media.
these same war war war people don't even read what is written on the boards. or read anything at all past skimming the headlines of their local corporate news conglomerate's offerings.
they see a few keywords in a post or article, and without comprehending what they mean: jump to conclusions, take the words and ideas as a personal attack on them, then lash out at the messenger...
what they also don't realize is that the opinions they are so rabidly espousing are nothing but the subtle (or not so subtle) results of a three year long barrage of current and easily recognizable propaganda techniques and conditioning recieved via televison... owned and operated by the same companies who control the papers, make the arms deals, and foot the bill for someone like the shrub (or Ahhnold) to steal an election.
all of this comes down to another forbidden subject in America, and that would be $$$.. who has it who doesn't and who is going to make more of it by taking it from those less fortunate... in little increments here and there until BAM! manufactured depression.
all the while news stories chiming away about our 'economic recovery' that somehow happened as almost 3 million jobs sailed overseas for good.
yeah yeah yeah, it's all a bunch of conspiracy theories according to these braniacs. even when the evidence is right under their noses.
i wonder why the white house won't turn over their september eleventh documents? hmmmmm september eleventh~ the root of everything that sucks...it must somehow remain fully uninvestigated.
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ok so thats my rant against the ignorant for today.
on another topic, i've got an 1880's style gramaphone wax cylinder player i found at my grandma's house. now i gotta get my hands on some fine musical offerings from back in the day!
word up.