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I had a wonderful time signing books at the Small Press Festival in Santa Monica on 5/10/08. About 30 poets and authors (including myself) read from their work and most of it was wonderful…not the same old crap you find in Barnes and Nobel. Look for an Independent Book Fair in your area.
Things Younger Than the Combined Ages of John McCain and Ron Paul
.Above- End of Civil War…Lee surrenders to Grant. Lincoln assassinated. Below- Custer’s Last Stand and Roper’s Steam Carriage
. Steam?!!! American Robber Barons can’t make big profits off steam. Let’s switch to OIL!
The McCain/ Paul Combo (Would you like to Supersize that?) is also older than the first:
ABOVE: Toilet paper (1867), typewriter (1867), telephone (1876), light bulb (1880), camera (1888), American movies (1903) and aeroplanes (1903)And, below our favorite: Coca-Cola
.Coca-Cola really was the Pause That Refreshes until 1903 when they were forced to remove COCAINE from their product. Some of us wondered about the origin of the name.
Things Younger Than John McCain
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(Above) The Golden Gate Bridge (early 1937) and the Hindenburg (5/6/37)
(Below) Joe Lewis becones the first Black Heavyweight Champ (6/22/37),
Amelia Earhart disappears (7/18/37) and the earliest TVs…
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We must clear up some false info floating around Cyberspace:
John McCain is older than Batman, But two years younger than Superman! John is also a year younger than Social Security and Unemployment.
But it is true that McCain is older than Bilbo Baggins, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Snoopy, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Wizard of Oz, Casablanca and Gone With the Wind…Flag Day, the CIA, Cheerios, ball point pens, bikinis, Tupperware and Polaroid cameras…
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You read History…McCain is history…
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John was 10 when Jackie Robinson broke the Color Line in baseball, 13 when the first 45 record was pressed…20 when Elvis hit…
…To have played with new Boomer Baby toys like the Hula Hoop, Frizbee and Slinky. When
GI JOE hit the market in 1964 McCain was 28 and bitter…His daddy and grandpa were admirals, but John finished dead last in his class at the Naval Academy. Thus, McCain became GI Joe.
The point? Ronald Reagan holds the record as the oldest elected president.
Ronny demonstrated signs of Alzheimers by the age of 72.
If elected, Grampa John will be 72 in 2009 with his finger on the button!
GI JOE hit the market in 1964 McCain was 28 and bitter…His daddy and grandpa were admirals, but John finished dead last in his class at the Naval Academy. Thus, McCain became GI Joe.
Things Younger Than John McCain
Thanks for the Question, you little jerk!
The point? Ronald Reagan holds the record as the oldest elected president.
Ronny demonstrated signs of Alzheimers by the age of 72.
If elected, Grampa John will be 72 in 2009 with his finger on the button!
8/16/36: Jesse Owens kicks some racist, Aryan butts with 4 Gold Medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics after Hilter claims Negroes are an inferior race.
Okay…Now the 1960s are officially over
From Time Obit4/30/08 (GENEVA)
Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died at the tender age of 102.
The First Trip
The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a repeat of the laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943.
“I had to leave work for home. because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness… Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror,” he said, describing his bicycle ride home. “I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast.”
“What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures,” he told Swiss television network SF DRS for a program marking his 100th birthday two years ago. “It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared.”
The First Bad Trip
Three days later, Hofmann experimented with a larger dose. The result was the world’s first scientifically documented bad trip.“The substance which I wanted to experiment with took over me. I was filled with an overwhelming fear that I would go crazy. I was transported to a different world, a different time,” Hofmann wrote.
A Conversation with Albert Hofmann By Hans Plomp
- Nov 2005 Read entire interview hereQ: What are your feelings on the current developments in science?
Scientists used to be pious people, dedicating their work to the Creation. Today the evil side of this double face dominates so strongly that it scares me.
I foresee a huge catastrophe, a terrible time is coming, I feel it deep inside of me. We have strayed so far from the right path, from nature, from what we are.
Politics are created by sick people. And what politics! Bush is a sick person, a madman. He tells the world lies and makes war based on those lies, and still he is elected. Of course there have been tyrants before, but at least they had some stature.
I am actually very pessimistic. Things are going very fast now. We urgently need a new awareness. But awareness can only come from what is put in. What is the input nowadays?
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Puzzling Evidence:
A Boomer Pop History of Boob Tube, Flicks, Rock & Roll and Politics (1946 to 1976)
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Before AM radio station managers and parents deciphered the hidden, trippy lyrics on several new records, the damage had been done. Dr. Timothy Leary spread the word for years, but Boomers heard the message for the first time: “Tune in, turn on, drop out.”
As might be expected, the US government supplied the largest single contribution in the development of the counterculture. They selected Ken Kesey as one of their $75-a-day human guinea pigs for a “mind control” experiment with LSD at Menlo Park Clinic in late 1959 and early 1960 (before Leary’s research at Harvard). Ken helped himself to some free samples, and soon he and friends back at Perry Lane conducted their own experiments. They deduced that LSD was a mind-expanding, rather than a mind-controlling drug, and thus, felt compelled to spread the good news to the freak community. By 1965, Kesey, Augustus Owsley Stanley III (“The Henry Ford of acid”), a little-known band called the Warlocks (who soon renamed themselves the Grateful Dead) and a group of Ken’s friends presented The Merry Pranksters’ Acid Tests. Kesey explained his mission: “As navigator of this venture, I try, as much as possible to set out in a direction that, in the first place, is practically impossible to achieve, and then along the way mess up the minds of the crew with as many chemicals as we can lay our hands on.” With everyone in the proper frame of mind, the Pranksters proceeded with their mixed media experience: strobe lights, movie projections, taped sound effects, live cosmic raps, black lights, and some stoned-out Rock & Roll from Jerry Garcia and company, in an effort to provide a thought-provoking, mind-expanding experience and a lot of fun. The performers encouraged the audience to join in the fun, as Garcia explained: “We all preferred the constructive anarchy of the Tests in a lot of ways. Every person was a participant and everywhere was the stage. We didn’t have to entertain anybody. We were no more famous than anybody else.”
Wrapped in the Flag.
Me, too. I’ve suffered through hundreds of sermons, but the only ones that I remember are my own. Sunday Sermons From Rev Greg
One More Flew INTO the CooCoo’s Nest…
Is he nuts? Yes!
This week Rev Wright crossed over into the wacky Jerry Falwell/ Pat RobertsonFundamentalist Fungi Twilight Zone…Hate Thy Neighbor as You Would Hate Thyself…
A proud American tradition since the Salem witch hunts of 1692.
Does Rev Wright Love America? Yes.
.Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” Wright gave up his student deferment, left college and joined the United States Marine Corps and became part of the 2nd Marine Division with the rank of private first class. In 1963, after two years of service, Wright then transferred to the United States Navy and entered the Corpsman School at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, where he graduated as valedictorian. Having excelled in corpsman school, Wright was then trained as a cardiopulmonary technician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he graduated as salutatorian. Wright was assigned as part of the medical team charged with care of President Lyndon B. Johnson. From Wikipedia
During his military service to America Wright was paid about $200 per month.
The Olympic Tourch survives a rocky trip around the world only to hit a roadblock in Tiananmen Square
.No one in China will ever see this toon because American search engines have agreed to censor all refs to Tiananmen Square in China.
Much more Photoshop Phun on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,
John McCain, Mike Huckleberry and GOP Saint Ronnie Reagan, Ralph Nader
China Hires American Think Tank to Clean Up the Internet
GORO (the firm of Alberto GOnzales and Karl ROve) is on board to help China clean up their messy Freedom of Speech problem. The Chinese government started a new program to control the flow of information available to and generated by the Chinese public on 9/1/07. A cartoon policeman now appears on Chinese computer screens every 30 minutes.Not only can users click the cartoon characters to report improper use of the electronic media but their appearance is also a reminder to all users that they are being watched. “It is our duty to wipe out information that does public harm and disrupts social order,” the bureau’s deputy chief of Internet surveillance, Zhao Hongzhi, was quoted as saying. Obviously, the desired effect will be suppression of free speech through self-censorship. According to the BBC, the Chinese government has tens of thousands of real security officers monitoring the web and it regularly jails activists who have posted online messages criticizing the government.
KARL ROVE: “Al and I are so happy to be working for REAL world leaders. We tried to get this program rolling in the USA…but, no dice…Congress wimped out! China is way cool…they understand the benefits of BIG BROTHER!”
Please, Dear Lord. No more Alfalfa Male Presidents!
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Check out more Photoshop Phun on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,
John McCain, Mike Huckleberry , GOP Saint Ronnie Reagan, and Ralph Nader
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SUPPORT OUR TROOPS…
As they attempt a Citizens’ Arrest of Bush and Cheney for War Crimes!
.Who was there on 3/19/08?
Veterans For PeaceVietnam Veterans Against the War
Iraq Veterans Against the War
AMERICAN Golden Cow False IDOL
From my great friend and best editor Skip SpiroUnder the heading of: “I thought she looked familiar…
Here’s a link to a marketing presentation I helped create a few years
back for then Carly Hennessey now Carly Smithson (recently eliminated
American Idol contestant…)”
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Oh, dear Lord…why change Carly’s last name from Hennessey to Smithson?
Because the Great White Corporate Shark is always looking to attach a known best seller to an unknown product. First name Carly? Then her last must begin with “S” like Carly Simon!
And we’ll punch it up with a new fad like Jessica Simpson…
Oh, my…Linked with one of great singer/ song writers of our time and a a passing fad kereokie singer with a boob job…
This poor kid may have some talent, but we’ll never know because she didn’t have the nerve to say, “NO! My name is Carly Hennesey!”
Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man
I am sorry. The band below sucks…but, this is the only vid available on You(we are corporate whores)Tube…of one of greatest tunes by the Rolling Stones.
4/23/08…Rush Limpbaugh urges Dittohead fans to incite riots at the Dem Covention in Denver!
.*To the tune of White Christmas.
Diddohead fan asks Rush, Did you mean I’m Dreaming of a White America? God Bless you, Lisa.
Movies I was paid to watch this week:
Expelled, Prom Night, Lakeview Terrace, Zohan, Made of Honor, Hancock and, my favorite:
The LA grand premier of Zombie Strippers!
It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it.
Roy Zimmerman YouTube music
My damn channel
Red State Update
Boing Boing TV
Way Out TV Damon Wayans
Brave New Films- The real McCain
Tom Tomorrow at This Modern World, Candorville, Conrad, Get Your War ON, Matt Wuerker, Mr.Fish, Doonsbury, Non Sequitur, Tom Toles Oliphant, Luckovich, La Cucaracha, Lalo
A scene from one of my favorite movies. I’m not bitter.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Hi sir, it’s Harris from the Post. Can I get you anything sir?
Nixon: How’s the family Harris?
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Oh the family, well that’s bad news. The screwheads finally came and took my daughter away. Let me ask you a question sir, what is this country doing for the doomed? There are two kinds of people in this country, the doomed and the screwheads. Savage tribal thugs who live off their legal incomes, brow deep out there; no respect for human dignity. They don’t know what you and I understand, you know what I mean.
Nixon: You ever play football, Harris?
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Yes sir, thank you sir. I played in college, and they’re gonna get your daughter too sir. I’ve heard their rallies, they like Julie but Tricia… and they really hate you sir. You know that one and a half of the State Senate of Utah are screwheads. You know I was never really frightened by the bopheads and the potheads with their silliness never really frightened me either, but these goddam screwheads, they terrify me. And the poor doomed, the young, and the silly, the honest, the weak, the Italians … they’re doomed, they’re lost, they’re helpless, they’re somebody else’s meal, they’re like pigs in the wilderness.
Nixon: Come here Harris, come here. (Hunter leans in) Fuck the doomed!
From the biopic Where the Buffalo Roam
Hunter S. Thompson on Screwheads and the Doomed
[Thompson, posing as a reporter for The Washington Post, is alone in an airport restroom when the “Candidate” (Richard Nixon) enters and starts using the urinal.]Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Hi sir, it’s Harris from the Post. Can I get you anything sir?
Nixon: How’s the family Harris?
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Oh the family, well that’s bad news. The screwheads finally came and took my daughter away. Let me ask you a question sir, what is this country doing for the doomed? There are two kinds of people in this country, the doomed and the screwheads. Savage tribal thugs who live off their legal incomes, brow deep out there; no respect for human dignity. They don’t know what you and I understand, you know what I mean.
Nixon: You ever play football, Harris?
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Yes sir, thank you sir. I played in college, and they’re gonna get your daughter too sir. I’ve heard their rallies, they like Julie but Tricia… and they really hate you sir. You know that one and a half of the State Senate of Utah are screwheads. You know I was never really frightened by the bopheads and the potheads with their silliness never really frightened me either, but these goddam screwheads, they terrify me. And the poor doomed, the young, and the silly, the honest, the weak, the Italians … they’re doomed, they’re lost, they’re helpless, they’re somebody else’s meal, they’re like pigs in the wilderness.
Nixon: Come here Harris, come here. (Hunter leans in) Fuck the doomed!
From the biopic Where the Buffalo Roam
Condi Rice on Torture
Oh, Dear. The Kissinger “Neocons” (We’re not Nixon) threw another African American under the bus to defend ugly WASP policies.
The vid clip below reminds us of Colin Powell’s pack of lies to the UN that sent America into the Iraq Quagmire. Once the most trusted man in the Bush administration, Powell wrote in his autobiography, “That speech is the greatest regret of my life.”Colin and Condi went down to the crossroads to trade their souls for power, fame and money.
Dear Lord, please do not send them to the ninth level of HELL…the 8th Level will do.
Why did Pope Benedict to skip White House dinner in his honor?
Barack points out the bitter, angry 800-pound gorilla in the room
.DEAR LORD! In every poll this week 81% of Americans say WE ON ON THE WRONG COURSE.
But, we are concerned about the 19% who think everything is okay.
1% are the ultra wealthy…heirs of the robber barrons from 100 years ago.
But, who are the other 18%? The Salt of the Earth or dumb as dirt?
We all know these good-hearted Americans…an uncle, cousin, neighbor…they go to chruch every Sunday, proudly display a WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS decal on their SUV…they own the most powerful car and the biggest hand gun in their neighborhood. Complete BLIND FAITH in their president and preacher…But now, their jobs have been outsourced, their homes are in foreclosure and finally they begin to realize that the FATHER FIGURES they trusted were only looking out for number one.
Dear 18 percenters, we love you, but urge that you return to the REAL AMERICA…the country that was respected by the rest of the world…a country that did not torture or spy on its citizens or invade and occupy harmless third world nations.
Please return to the REAL JESUS…The Prince of Peace loves everyone: Muslims, gays, illegal immigrants and even Jerry Falwell.
Jerry Falwell’s God by Roy Zimmerman
David Petraeus - Mass-Media/ Military/ Industrial Complex Spokesliar
.The great American Military men of our time warned Dubya against an occupation on Iraq.
They told him the surge would fail. Bush forced them all into retirement. The last to go
(March, 2008) was Admiral William Joseph Fallon, Commander of the U.S. Central Command…
pushed out for Blasphemy: “America will not nuke Iran on my watch!”
Dubya scraped the bottom of the barrel for Perky Petraeus.
Two days of lying to Congress this week…Just like Colin Powell’s speech to the UN that got us into the Iraq Quagmire. These two once-proud soldiers sold their souls for power…
So, let us be the first to predict: John McCain’s VP running mate will be Petraeus…or Powell.
Birds of a-feather…
Rev Greg
With every sermon I receive a flood of emails, “Are you really a reverend?”
Ah, yes…I paid $30 online and received my cyber certificate, and thus, I am just as legitimate as Falwell, Robertson, Haggart, Swaggart or Jim Bakker. THE DIFFERENCE: I am not a power-crazed, greedy screwhead and never beg for your welfare check. Click here to become an Ordained Minister for $30.
No, I don’t get a cut of the action.
Olbermann: Why won’t John McCain Support the New GI Bill?
.When I returned from service in Vietnam in 1970 the GI Bill offered me $135 a month (for the 9 mos of classes each year). Tuition at UCLA was $1,100 a year at the time which left me with a surplus of $115.Jackpot! How did I spend this great American benefit? Well…
Books, lab fees, parking were more than a thousand dollars a year and I was on my own for luxuries like food, housing and transportation. Thus I was forced to work full time as a full time student (80 hrs a week) to receive my BA. It wasn’t easy…
For Iraq vets today it is impossible. They receive $650 a month and the tuition at most major universities is now at least $20,000 a year.
A word of warning to teens thinking of signing up: RECRUITERS LIE!
The current GI Bill provides only a drop in the bucket towards your college education.
Teach Peace!
If you are lucky…
Cameron Penny, 4th Grade, MichiganIf you are lucky in this life
A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies
And when soldiers look into the window
They don’t see their enemies
They see themselves as children
And they stop fighting
And go home and go to sleep.
When they wake up, the land is well again.
My mostly-true Twilight Zone short story The Green Mist from the free e-book novel Greetings
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Nearly every American recognizes the photo (above) that helped end the occupation/quagmire in Vietnam.
This skinny little girl put a REAL FACE ON WAR…running for her life with absolute terror and incredible pain that you can not imagine (I can…every day for the last 38 years) as napalm sizzled through her skin, flesh…then burned through the muscles down to the bone.
I was an ER medic in a MASH (1969-70) and witnessed the results of American Friendly Fire nearly every day. I know the evil smell of melting flesh. I helped save a few, but so many died.
3,000,000 (10% of the population) murdered in Vietnam, 155,000 (according to a recent UN study) innocent civilians killed in Iraq because of our two sham invasions, based on LIES-
Gulf of Tonkin 1964 and WMDS 1963.
Have we used napalm in Iraq ? Of course.
This precious little girl put a face on our ugly Vietnam occupation.
…and, her name is Kim.
Kim is real…alive and well, and FORGIVES US for inflicting the ultimate horror on an innocent child. She is a better human than I could ever hope to be. Please click here to read her story
Did You Ever Wonder What 2000 (now double that number) Looks Like?
Military Families Speak Out
Veterans For Peace
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Or, if you feel you must Sign Up For the Draft
America’s Best Christian, Betty Bowers
TECHNOHIPPIE strikes again! Link to Pro Peace Revolution where you will find an amazing collection of antiwar music videos and MP3s.
Kill For Peace Link to Tuli Kupferberg (FUGS) MP3
MORE CELEBUTARD PHUN
Updates at TMZ
Ve Must Blitzkrieg Obama mit Reverend Wright!
CNN Anchor Jack Cafferty Refuses to read Lohan DUI Story!
Jack is CNN’s last REAL REPORTER.
On July 2, 2007 I had a sudden urge to watch ice melt in Alaska and points beyond.
Art by Robbie ConalRapture Ready Index
Above 145: “Fasten your seat belts” (“Satanism is reported to be flourishing in Russia”).
These wacky fanatics are praying for the end of the world. If they’re going to heaven book me elsewhere!
Tom Lehrer- WW III
Praise the Lord…Jim Bakker is back on TV
And, for donation of a mere $200 you can buy THE SWORD OF THE APOCALYPSE Link to Jim Bakker’s Gift ShopJerry Falwell’s God from Roy Zimmerman
or download the MP3
Words and music by Roy Zimmerman
© 2004 (From “Homeland”)
Meet the royal Bush kids…your future presidents/ and/or kings and/or queens!
Mike Luckovich on Dubya today:
Movement to Impeach the Idiot Boy-King …much more at John Conyers
ACLU Sues Pentagon for Documents on Peace Groups (6/14/2006)
Poster from If You’re Not a Terrorist…Then Stop Asking Questions by Micah Wright
“There’s a new sheriff in town.
If you’re not with us, you’re against us.
Bring ‘em on!” (Ex-Yale Cheerleader) GW Bush
“Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them where they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann Goering, Reich-Marshall for Hitler, at the Nuremburg Trials after WWII
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Dr Samuel Johnson
Billionaires For Bush have a vision for a stronger America:
Billionocracy: Our Vision for the Future
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New Free Bumperstickers. Right-click on image, save to file (ie My Documents), open and print out. Most office suppy stores have make-your-own-bumperstickers kits for $10. Or, just print them out on glossy paper and tape them to the inside of your rear car windows, telephone poles and mail boxes in your neighborhood or the watercooler at work. Become a Constructive Anarchist and tell us about your peaceful action to save America. E-mail Magic Sam
Bumpersticker idea from the other David Hicks
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Greetings A reluctant Vietnam draftee’s story
Puzzling Evidence
A Boomer Pop History of Boob Tube, Flics, Rock & Roll and Politics (1946 to 1976). Read online, save, print out and share with friends…all other rights reserved by authors. Have fun.
The Clonemasters Songbook -Tabs and lyrics
These CloneMasters songs played on the Dr Demento Show 25 years ago
“AWAKE” (2:02) Awake? Who wants that?
“FRESH HERRING LOVE” (4:10)
Common Interests = Strong Relationships…however weird they may be.
“MY TV (6:32)” (4:25) Virtual reality vs reality. At one point in your life Fate will demand you choose. This may be the greatest CloneMasters song ever, but sexy FRESH HERRING LOVE gets all the hits.
Okay you caught me…I added Ann and Condi as the wicked witches in the photo above.
Several more exclusive photos
All photos by Greg Giacona. If you use these on your blog, please credit him and us: constructiveanarchy.com/blog
Why an ABBIE Award of the Week?
TESTIMONY OF ABBIE HOFFMAN AT THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN
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MR. WEINGLASS: Will you please identify yourself for the record?
THE WITNESS: My name is Abbie. I am an orphan of America… Read more
Veterans For Peace
Veterans For PeaceDo you have something to say? Contact Dwight
A great book of poetry from one our brothers, and the official Poet Laureate of Constructive Anarchy (not that we’re bias). Link to Buy it here
Sample poems
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Do you have something to say? Contact Dwight
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Do you have something to say? Contact Dwight
Great songs from honored vet and real American, Tom Chelston.
Tom is a powerful songwriter and has been a great friend to this site from Day One. Tomsongs
Links to more music videos by Tom Chelston - Veteran and Never Forget
Tom Chelston at TomSongs
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. -Jon Stewart
I love Thanksgiving turkey. It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain
The Real Origin of Thanksgiving
The Puritan fathers believed they were the Chosen People of an Infinite God and that this justified anything they did. They were Calvinists who believed that the vast majority of humanity was predestined to damnation.The Puritans embraced a line from Psalms 2:8, “Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heather for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of he earth for thy possession.”
Contrary to popular mythology the Pilgrims were no friends to the local Indigenous People (“Indians”). A company of Pilgrims led by Miles Standish actively sought the head of a local chief. Standish eventually got his bloody prize. He beheaded an Indian named Wituwamat and brought the head to Plymouth where it was displayed on a wooden spike for many years.
If one had to point out a single event as the origin of Thanksgiving: In late November of 1637, a force of colonists (with the help of a bunch of Blackwater-like paid Dutch mercenaries} trapped an entire tribe of seven hundred Pequot Indians celebrating their corn harvest in their long house near the mouth of the Mystic River. English Captain John Mason attacked the Indian camp with “fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk.” These compassionate conservative Christians set the windowless hut on fire and slaughted the Native Americans (unarmed men, women and children) one by one as they fled.
“To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice to the great delight of the Pilgrims, and they gave praise thereof to God.”
Each year thereafter the Pilgrims celebrated the date as a day of thanks.
In the midst of the Holocaust/Genocide of the Red Man and woman, Massachusetts Governor Dudley finally declared in 1704 a “General Thanksgiving” state holiday not to celebrate the brotherhood of man, but for:
[God’s] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors… In defeating and disappointing…. the expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands…
I recently (4/30/07) had the great honor to lecture on “A Brief History of Rock & Roll” from my book, Puzzling Evidence, to a couple of Music Appreciation classes at the University of Oklahoma. Some very bright kids…Go Sooners! The future of America is bright. Below is their reading assignment:
In this class we will cover Roots, First Golden Age of R & R (1954 to 1959), Age of Teen Idols (1960 to 1964), Second Golden Age of R & R (1964 to 1969)
“What is Rock & Roll?”
In 1956 Meredith Wilson, playwright and composer of The Music Man, called Rock “Simpleminded and stale; the music of idiots. It’s dull, amateurish, immature, trite, banal. It glorifies the mediocre, the nasty, the bawdy, the cheap and the tasteless.”
When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards began to write their own songs their manager Andrew Loog Oldham offer this advice: “Drive parents up a bloody wall.”
An old Baby Boomer hippie once wrote, “R & R is fun, excitement…a simple primitive music in a secret language that parents cannot understand. It must include angst and defiance of authority. Power Freaks have no sense of humor, so Rock should include irony and satire and, of course, a raw backbeat with echoes of tribal drums played at maximum volume. (No synthesizers, pitch-benders or echo chambers, please)”.
Please be prepared to share your definition of Rock & Roll. READ MORE
Puzzling Evidence index
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Poster by Micah Wright
Speak Out by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poets Against the War
Jules Feiffer on Nixon- 1973
Harold Pinter
Gore Vidal on President Jonah
Kurt Vonnegut’s Custodians of Chaos
God Save the Queen by John Cleese- Nov 2004
Will Rogers speaks to me thru a Ouija Board
War Prayer by Mark Twain -1904
Cory Doctorow on Copyright by Webmaster Josh
Balance in Media- Josh
Start Your Own Damn Site
Constructive Anarchists encourage every American to start a blog and/or website. Corporations own Congress,the White House and most news outlets, but free speech on the internet is driving them crazy.
Non Sequitur
Or, even better…peaceful, but persistant
Link to Roy Zimmerman
This new tune may be his best…Received a standing ovation the last time we saw him in LA.
Link to Roy’s lyrics and MP3 song samples
DOWNLOAD Jerry Falwell’s God (MP3) Very funny!
Thanks For the Support by Roy Zimmerman
Our regular readers know that Roy is the bard for us vets, active GIs and Constructive Anarchy.This new tune may be his best…Received a standing ovation the last time we saw him in LA.
What If the Beatles Were Irish- Roy Zimmerman
Creation Science 101
How to play Creation Science
Link to Roy’s lyrics and MP3 song samples
DOWNLOAD Jerry Falwell’s God (MP3) Very funny!
CHICKENHAWK
To link up: E-mail Magic Sam
Most Americans are embarrassed by the juvenile behavior of our current leaders. Bush has no respect for our citizens or for the presidency (his first real job), nor Cheney for the vice presidency (“Go F___ yourself!” on the Senate floor) and these clowns deserve no respect in return.
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency he fails in his duty to stand by his country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Family Reunion photos
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