You Want Your Country Back? Sure, here, take the fucking thing.....

[Doktor Howl]

What band is that?  I must listen to them.

The Clash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL0CCphgmZ8

Whoa.  I thought I'd heard all of their shit.  (Can't listen right now.  Later tonight.)

[LMNO]

It's the first track on the Combat Rock album.

[Adios]

I like the lyrics.

[Adios]

I get the feeling it's all sleight of hand designed to keep us looking in one direction while the real objective is elsewhere.

[Doktor Howl]

I get the feeling it's all sleight of hand designed to keep us looking in one direction while the real objective is elsewhere.

HELLO?  BUELLER?

[Adios]

I had that coming.

[Doktor Howl]

I had that coming.

The difference between a stage magician and a policitician is the type of stage used.

Only this, and nothing more.

[Cain]

Well, it misdirects us from noticing the same 50 or so major politicians and (more importantly) their monetary backers run the show, are always running the show and will continue to run the show no matter who you actually vote for, and that most changes in policy are in fact changes in rhetoric.

CHANGE!  GROWTH!  ICE CREAM!  FREEDOM!  PUPPIES!

[LMNO]

Well, it misdirects us from noticing the same 50 or so major politicians and (more importantly) their monetary backers run the show, are always running the show and will continue to run the show no matter who you actually vote for, and that most changes in policy are in fact changes in rhetoric.

CHANGE!  GROWTH!  ICE CREAM!  FREEDOM!  PUPPIES!

If this is true, then why aren't things at least staying the same? Why are things getting steadily worse?

[Cain]

"Getting steadily worse" is the status quo, yes?

[LMNO]

oh.






oh, shit.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I don't know how you two managed to achieve perfect comedic timing on an internet forum, but you did it.


I just wish the subject matter was something to laugh about.

[Adios]

Well, it misdirects us from noticing the same 50 or so major politicians and (more importantly) their monetary backers run the show, are always running the show and will continue to run the show no matter who you actually vote for, and that most changes in policy are in fact changes in rhetoric.

CHANGE!  GROWTH!  ICE CREAM!  FREEDOM!  PUPPIES!

Has it ever really been any different?

[Doktor Howl]

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave
states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the
Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You
get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of
America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We
get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay
their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be
pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens
back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your
evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to
their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show
pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you
success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not
willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal
Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to
cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected
health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100
percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all
televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the
University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent
say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was
involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you
are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed
they grow in Mexico

Peace out,
Tusconora.

[Juana]

I smell the mass exodus of fundies from my area...I totally support this.