The recent Madison Square Garden Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert generated a bit of politics from The Boss. This especially potent rendition of his 1995 song The Ghost of Tom Joad.
The song has a bit of history to it. That most famous movie year of 1939 gave us Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in the John Ford film of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Woody Guthrie was commissioned to write a song for the movie, The Ballad of Tom Joad was so well done that Steinbeck commented that Guthrie managed to tell the story of a big book and a long movie all in one little song. Bruce Springsteen studied all three art forms and came up with his version which he claims true to the style of the times. AMPED UP A BIT! This is a rare one with lyrics as good as the music. All made much better by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello
And to keep the politics warm Springsteen brings out Old Tom Fogarty to a bit of ...ain no fortunate child...
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks Goin' someplace there's no goin' back Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge Shelter line stretchin' round the corner Welcome to the new world order Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest No home no job no peace no rest
The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass Got a one-way ticket to the promised land You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock Bathin' in the city aqueduct
The highway is alive tonight But where it's headed everybody knows I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air Look for me Mom I'll be there Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand Or decent job or a helpin' hand Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."
The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad
Lou Dobbs recently told the Telemundo network that he now supports amnesty for illegal immigrants. A 180 degree reverse.
What's with that? Gosh I don't know but I wouldn't trust Dobbs further than I could throw him.
"But on the night of Feb. 2, 1975, I turned on WMMR in Philadelphia and became mesmerized by a concert the radio station was broadcasting. The concert was by a group I’d never heard of — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Thus began a part of my second education." The Other Education, Brooks, NYT, November 26, 2009
This is an issue I have been aware of in my own life being one of those who luckily has "the music in me." I can't play it, but I have found it to be the most substantial emotional area of my life.
I have always found one way or another to get up front at any concert I attend. I learned early on that there is a big difference up their with the higher volume, the better visuals, having eye contact with the artist and the more excitable people around. STAND UP! I say...
I also have come to understand that the emotional rush I experience at these venues is the same experience felt by those who crowd in to see Jimmy Swaggert, Billy Graham, or the caterwauling I hear passing by the Pentecostal Church nearby. It's the same endorphins at work.
Though David Brooks does not spell it out, his experience with Springsteen has helped remove much of that selfish intolerant bigotry so inherent to conservative ideology, so much in fact, that this so called "Rockefeller Republican" is much reviled by the NEW Republican Party as a sellout to the Liberal New York Times where he works. To many of us our present emotional experience with music is much like our ancestors experienced with 19th century poetry. How many Right-wing poets do we remember?
"I gave that Indian maid a slap, then in Walden pond I took a crap."
I do differ with Mr. Brooks on our choices in the music we enjoy most. The Boss is cool and I listen to him and like it - though it's "Pink Cadillac" that I like best - my emotional experience is more about how well the music - like the Tingler - grabs hold of my spine and shakes my booty. Down in the concert pit my brain goes slack and my booty takes over sending me into a almost ecstatic world of my own.
That being the case I find myself very much settled into R & B based music. The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, ACDC and George Thoroughgood are my favorites, all of whom I still go see when they come by. Up front. And sometimes as with ACDC last week, wearing my propeller hat.
The lyrics I hum along to unlike The Boss who so well expresses that universal struggle of working class Americans, but rather the far more important issues to my booty: Sexual SATISFACTION, getting some TUSH, having a BELL send me to HELL and of course being BAD all the way down to my BONE when I DRINK ALONE.
Yes I know... But in my defense I have to say the music trumps the lyrics.
Hey, they're hot as only toys in November can be. They're only eight dollars a piece, have their own habit trails like real gerb9ils, but there's no cage cleaning involved. Where then, is the glitch?
Your greedy neighbor is the only glitch, or grinch this hoiday season. In the spirit of the holiday, and seeing the oncoming trend, they "invested" in the battery- driven rodents. Of course they'll share with you, for many times what they paid! I'm guessing roughly half are being purchased by sadistic and lazy cat owners to "entertain" their cats. ;)
Those in the know, say that this season's stars are the Zhu Zhu pet family. Mr. Squggles is the patriarch of the five hamster family, electronics and technology are growing faster each year are always hot sellers, and an appreciation for cashmere has resurfaced. Perhaps the tried and true finer things are enjoying a revival? Black Friday ninja shopping has become as American as apple pie, and often much more anticipated than many other aspects of the season. Of course, I'm referring to the hardy souls who rise at three AM with ads from every mall within 60 miles. They then mark each special featured there, and the most efficient route to hit all of them. Mobs of special friends and family wouldn't miss it, and the economy hasn't stopped them. It feels like hell on earth to me, I can only assume that I am lacking a vital shopping gene.
At 3:30 this morning, there were plenty of shoppers for retail analyst Patty Edwards to question in Seattle. If that isn't disturbing enough, the big news are Zhu Zhu pets, which have been snagged by people who will be happy to re-sell
them to you. This means all of your early morning, fresh air shoppers may well be joining approximately half of shoppers ncluding myself, if you're going to place a winning bid on a battery driven hamster, or even find a reasonable buy on the latest electronic gear, without the sore feet.
I do find it ironic that security has been stepped up at malls this year, to avoid injuries which have escalated in recent years. This is hot on the heels of the two publicity grabbing reality show contestants who waltzed right into a White House state dinner! Perhaps the Secret Service could learn something from the people who guard the mall doors?
Hey, just because they were getting married, didn't mean that they would automatically go to the head of the line. Not in a world where people snatch all of the Zhu Zhu Hamsters for profit! The two, who both have children, camped for two nights to ensure their place of honor..and first access to bargains.
I do wonder. They obviously have computors, and even I know where to get online coupons and promos.
"It was a nice night for a black weddingggg." Apologies to Billy Idol. While many....especially the rarified spoiled swans called "Bridezillas" (comments and more accurate names are welcome) would not consider a discussion of marriage while in the parking lot of a big box store. It's a fairly safe guess that they wouldn't camp in the parking lot...the better to get a good spot in line, for the nuptials.
That is exactly what Edward and Jennifer Burbo did however. They may be the most practical couple I've heard of. The two met online in 2007, and are both admitted "big bargain hunters" The Allen Park, Michigan pair who "Need gifts for
their blended families, "met online in 2007, and planned the unusual wedding two weeks ago. Self admitted "Big Bargain Hunters, they assured the very first spot in line by camping in the parking lot for two days and nights. I suppose it will always be "their special place."
Lou Dobbs said on the radio yesterday that he has people looking into a run for President in 2012. His spokesman - yes Lou has a spokesman now - Cesar Chavez Sanchez... Oops, I got that wrong, Lou Dobbs spokesman Robert Dilenschneider is saying that before that decision is made Dobbs is seriously looking into a run for the Senate in New Jersey in 2010.
Dobbs wants to remove the present NJ Senator Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez.
It is important, very important to understand that the person Dobbs wants to get rid of IS NOT an illegal immigrant, IS NOT a legal immigrant and IS NOT an immigrant of any sort at all, but THE ONLY Hispannic in the Senate.
What I would most hope Lou Dobbs understands is that down here in Texas, we all know and are not afraid to admit that immigration status - whether legal, illegal or non existent -IS NOT the issue, the issue is about color and language. So come on Lou, Remember the Alamo!
Much like Jay Walking on the Leno Show NewLeftMedia made this video
of Sarah Palin fans outside a Borders Book Store in Columbus, Ohio. Not
very far into watching this video you are going to find two factors that cannot be overlooked:
1) AM talk radio, Glenn Beck, Fox News, Sarah Palin and the Tea Baggers are all the same thing.
2) That the Columbus, Ohio Independent School System only goes as high as the 9th grade.
"Drill Baby Drill!" "Well, I watch Fox News, A LOT." "I don't know." "I'm not sure what her foreign policy is." "She's going to be president." "I am a Christian, government and mainstream media taking that away, slippery slope." I don't think Obama is an American citizen." "I don't know." "Compromise is for people who are wrong." "On the spur of the moment I can't answer that." "We need to get Polar Bears off the endangered list so we can drill there." "I don't know about cap and trade." "Cutting taxes and cost efficiencies and entrepreneurial." "Obama's a Marxist and Socialism." "I don't know." "Obama is naturalizing illegal aliens which will mean Palin can't win in 2012." "He is for partial birth abortion." "I don't really pay attention to that issue." "There will be Marshall Law and no election in 2012." "I don't know." "She sticks up for Americans, we are first they are last." "The state she did govern was right across the street from Russia." "She is going to draw crowds like this wherever she goes."
No doubt that last one is at least true, Harper Collins will indeed keep her book signing itinerary in cities where public schooling ends in the ninth grade.
I just watched it this video again. Correction.
No doubt that Harper Collins will keep her book signing itinerary in cities where public schooling ends in the sixth grade.
Ode to Sarah Palin stolen from Bob Dylan:
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
"There are certain days that remind me why I ran for this office, then there are days like this when I pardon a turkey and send it to Disneyland" Said President Obama, flanked by Sasha and Malia who encouraged him to follow through with the now traditional pardon.
This is actually a heart warming speech. It's not certain whether Sasha and Malia are somber because of the cold,or because they're thinking of the fate of so many of this turkey's bretheren. Just in case, it might be wise to serve
ham at the White House tomorrow. As a side note, Bush the Second outdid all of the presidents who have performed this ceremony by pardoning Scooter Libby.
We were aware that when the Houghs shared the story of their daughter-in-law who lost her life and her baby due to not having health care, an ugly scene erupted at a tea party meeting. This is a longer version. It doesn't paint a picture of
people who want the best for our country, it shows mean spirited, and ignorant mob mentality.
I found it enlightening when right wing radio host Michael Graham, who frequently refers to the "Obama monster" spreads absolutely false information. They don't question where he gets the propaganda he promotes as truth. The U.S. ranks 37th in the world according to the World Health Organization. Shouldn't we at least take care of our own people? It will not happen as long as people follow losers like Graham and others who are stirring this cauldron of ignorance with hatred, and most disturbing to me, finding ready followers.
Rob Shaper of WREX, complete with microphone and cameraman, was receiving surprising results to his questions of random citizens on the subject of how
dangerous the city really is. All of those questioned were surprisingly
upbeat, and didn't seem to feel the city deserved a high crime rating. It was becoming a rosy picture, until Shaper found out he was standing in just the wrong place for one working woman!
New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks wrote an unusual column this week. Though by no means an advocate of the Health Care Bill, Brooks did at least approach question of free markets versus civilized moral values. The Values Question
The bills before Congress would almost certainly ease the anxiety of the uninsured, those who watch with terror as their child or spouse grows ill, who face bankruptcy and ruin.
Reform would make us a more decent society, but also a less vibrant one. It would ease the anxiety of millions at the cost of future growth. It would heal a wound in the social fabric while piling another expensive and untouchable promise on top of the many such promises we’ve already made. America would be a less youthful, ragged and unforgiving nation, and a more middle-aged, civilized and sedate one.
We all have to decide what we want at this moment in history, vitality
or security. We can debate this or that provision, but where we come
down will depend on that moral preference. Don’t get stupefied by
technical details. This debate is about values.
There is no question that the Republican Party puts the free market - which benefits mostly themselves and the wealthiest Americans. But one would think that such a cold morality would be tempered by religious values, especially those espoused by Jesus Christ.
But no, American Jesus puts the petal to the metal on the free market and actively lobbies against the poor in favor of the wealthy. In fact right now on the Internet, the Schlafly Family with its Conservapedia is working on changing the Bible to better reflect American Ayn Rand Free Market purism, American gungoonery, advocate of war, torture, violence, revenge and of course that wholesale intolerance and bigotry that drives the American brand of Christian crap.
We can go back to 1905 (Teddy), 1935 (FDR), to 1965 (Johnson) and to 1993 (Clintons) and find the exact same rhetoric from these Republicans on not only any form of Universal health care but also on Social Security and Medicare and anything that puts a person above a buck.
The Republicans have jumped on the talking point band wagon that the Health care bill is big and bad, just as big and bad as the American Government is big and bad.
These Republicans in congress are playing the game using over sized ropes to carry it over their shoulders, bringing it to the floor in overflowing wheel barrels, taping it together sheet by sheet to unravel down the Capitol steps. Each making it bigger and badder by having their staff print it out on office printers with increased margins and font sizes, making the point again and again that the health care like the American Government is big and bad.
There there are the facts:
George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind bill was 280,000 words compared to this Health Care which is 320,000 or 11% bigger.
The bill like all bills is printed 14pt double spaced with wide margins for comment.
The bill was entered into the Congressional Record single spaced with standard margins at 290 pages.
Republican Flat Out Lies:
Republicans cry insistently that it is bigger than War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy! War and Peace is 600,000 words the Health Care bill is 320,000 words. Republicans saying the bill is bigger than War and Peace is a FLAT OUT LIE.
Republicans claim the health care bill weighs more than an average American can even carry. It is 4 reams of #20 weighing in at 20 pounds, which is about the average weight of carry-on luggage. Republicans saying an average American cannot lift 20 pounds is a FLAT OUT LIE.
While I am at this, also keep in mind that Republicans want the 911 terrorists tried and executed in secret, believe a free market trumps Health Care, stands behind the use of torture, thinks we don't have enough guns on the streets and 100% of them in the Senate voted against to even discuss Health Care Reform. What KIND OF PEOPLE are these? One thing is sure, I wouldn't want them around any children...
It's been a long road to the $4.95 special "Going Rogue" that is just in time to brighten any conservative's holiday, or to start a renewed white elephant gift tradition if your family swings that way. According to the unsubstantiated information below, many questions were asked of Sarah Palin, some still linger.
Is it possible, as Sarah Palin says that Tina Fey belongs to the Taliban, or David Letterman is heavily involved in the Opium trade in Eastern Afghanistan?" You be the judge,here is the email from Sarah's Editor, (a big Palin wink to
you), who has only been seen recently on milk cartons.Then again, maybe she was the muse for "Layla" ya think?
(FROM SARAH PALIN'S EDITOR AT HARPER COLLINS):
Dear Sarah,
Thank you for turning in the manuscript so quickly. I thought only Stephen King could crank out 400 pages in four months! Seriously, there's some terrific material here, and all of us at HarperCollins are thrilled to be publishing your life story.
Before we move ahead, the fact-checking department has asked me to pass along a few notes and comments that may require some revisions on your part.
1. Eric Clapton spells his last name with a C. More significantly, his publicists tell us that you were not the inspiration for "Layla," and that he doesn't recall ever having an affair with you. Is it possible you've got him confused with another rock star?
2. The mainland of Russia is indeed visible from parts of western Alaska during favorable weather conditions in the Bering Strait. Considering the ridicule you endured over this issue during the campaign, your desire to set the record straight is understandable. Still, 78 pages is a big chunk of the book. Perhaps it's possible to deal with the I-can-see-Russia controversy a bit more succinctly.
3. Our researchers can find no evidence that Tina Fey belongs to the Taliban. Could you send us the sourcing for that reference?
4. John McCain's campaign staff is vehemently denying the incident you describe in Chapter 13. Perhaps you could provide our legal department with the names of persons who actually witnessed the senator placing the duct tape over
your mouth.
5. Even though you quit with 18 months remaining in your term, your achievements as Alaska's governor will be of great interest to your readers and political supporters. How about expanding that section of the book to a full chapter?
6. On page 107 of the manuscript, you describe a frisky interlude with Todd as taking place on a John Deere Cyclone 340 snowmobile. However, that particular model has been out of production for several years. Is it possible that you two were cavorting on a Sprintfire?
7. Our researchers can find no evidence that Katie Couric is secretly financing the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Could you send us the sourcing for that reference?
8. Although the passage about moose-shooting from helicopters is certainly provocative, perhaps it could be re-polished to focus more on your cooking recipes -- which look very yummy, by the way -- than on the preferred field
techniques for skinning and gutting.
9. Our copy editors are still struggling to sort out the many colorful characters in your manuscript. In one chapter the children are called Bristol, Piper, Track, Willow and Trig, yet only 44 pages later they appear as Caribou, Cessna, Herring, Juniper and Scrod. Maybe you could check with Todd and get back to us on that.
10. "Mexican" is not a language (see manuscript page 188).
11. Our researchers cannot verify that David Letterman is "heavily involved" in the opium trade in eastern Afghanistan. Could you provide the sourcing for that
reference?
12. The details of your high-school basketball career are inspirational, but would it be possible to condense that section from three chapters to one? Just a thought.
13. John McCain's office says that it was the senator, not you, who came up with the "two mavericks" campaign theme. He claims you originally proposed a slogan saying, "One Creaky Elder Statesman, One Hot Young Maverick -- but don't worry, folks, she knows CPR!"
14. Tony Blair was the prime minister of Great Britain. Tony Orlando is an American pop singer (see manuscript page 341). Our legal department has suggested removing any mention of this young man (including those beer-pong
photos) from the manuscript. What do you say?
Finally, on a personal note, I'm sorry you're having so much difficulty reaching the ghostwriter we assigned to this project. After your first meeting, she left me a rather frazzled message saying she "needed to take a break and do some soul searching." We've tracked her to a sweat lodge down in Taos, New Mexico, and I'm pretty confident she'll be back on the "Going Rogue" Express in no time.
Meanwhile, keep up the great writing, Sarah. We can't wait to read the finished book!
The excitement is palpable, or my medication's kicking in. It's only natural for Lou Dobbs to throw his hat into the presidential ring. I hope Carrie Prejean's beau doesn't require visual aides. No one has come to Sen Mary Landrieau's
defense until now - they've found an expert on prostitution! We should be ashamed that her party had to dig one up, public umbrage would flare if anyone made mention of Sarah Palin..for example, with that pejorative term.
Best return to videotape: The two crazy kids have that much in common. Carrie Prejean and St. Louis Ram's back-up quarterback Kyle Boller. Don't back it up, delete the original, that's my advice.
Best area of expertise: David Vitter. The scandal of Sen. Mary Landrieau of LA, a Democrat, having been called a prostitute, not once but going for two days running on Beck and Limbaugh will soon be sorted, we hope - by the man for
the job. Nevermind how, if you've forgotten the perils of David Vitter. The point is, that no one liberal or conservative has stepped forth to defend Ms Landrieau, much less point outwhat would happen if one of the queens of conservatism male or female, were referred to as a prostitute, and in many cases rightly so.
Best Self Delusion, Lou Dobbs. But...it's like Christmas! We've all been waiting, excitement bubbling just below the surface, hoping for just this announcement! It's already starting to be quite the line-up. Lou Dobbs, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich,ummm...er...well, I'm sure there are more who are just being coy. He hasn't announced a V.P. yet, but it's bound to be someone who is as excited by large, barbed wire topped fences as Dobbs.
One thing all three "winners" have in common, be it magical thinking Beck with his golden umbrellas, Bill O'Reilly and his magical thinking, or Carly Fiorina, working the poltics scene in CA.- as if what she just said, doesn't count. All of them have a disconnect, and no longer know what they do believe, just what the party line, and their income requires them to say.
Golden: Glenn Beck: Shhhhh! Glenn knows the end is near, the collapse of the American system is so close you can see it with your magical goggles on! Never you fear! He's sharing a system with us. You know that with the words "God, Gold, and Guns" (it's no coincidence he's "gold" today). with those words in his system, it's a lifesaver that you can trust! So what if his advertisers cheat you on your gold. That still leaves you with your gun and the umbrella that God is holding over your head. You may have to hold it yourself, he's busy ya know. Still, it protects from nuclear fall-out, errant asteroids, and even large hail.
Silver: Bill O'Reilly, Incredible doodyface! Don't mess with Bill! If you do, then when you decide to retire after an esteemed career spanning 38 years on PBS, at the age of 75, then Bill Ugh will take credit for leaning on ya...you know,sending an 'associate' to let you know you'd better get out of the biz. So now you know, Bill Moyers didn't choose to retire at all! Bill O'Reilly sent his go-fer Jesse Watters to take him out! Moyers was hammering Bush and Cheney and making comments about the Factor, obviously he had to be dealt with! Bush, Cheney, and the Factor, man they're close! Watch and see what really happened! You don't mess with Bill - Moyers. We'll miss you Mr. Moyers, and only wish we could miss O'Reilly.
Bronze: Carly Fiorina has everything she needs to be a front-runner in Republican politics. Running for the Cal. senate seat, she's completely reversed her feelings on the stimulus and bailout. Oh well, she can be excused,
after all, when she was all for it, she wasn't running for office, and was the big dog in Hewlett Packard. She has a natural quality often found in politics,
the inability to hold onto any ideal, or to genuinely feel one. Take a focus group and see what they think I should feel, that's the ticket!
Sick Around the World is a Frontline PBS documentary that originally aired in the Spring of 2008, it was recently aired again a few weeks ago.
Journalist T.R. Reid takes us on a trip around the world to see how five other industrialized nations manage to enjoy popular health care systems which cover everyone, drives no one into bankruptcy or debt, enjoys better outcomes at a far lower cost and which the people of these civilized nations would not do without.
Reid asks each nations' leader if anyone has gone into bankruptcy because of health care bills. All replied with some form of indignation that to do so would be immoral. The same moral indignation was expressed when asked if anyone was not covered or excluded for pre existing conditions.
Some nations successful systems do it by single payer government owned health care, others through mandates to buy from private insurers while others use a mix of systems. But what is clear in all systems is that profit has been removed from Health Care. To the outside civilized world, health care is considered a human Right which rises above individual profit. Tell that to a Christian Republican and see what it gets you!
But the story everyone should take note of in this hour long video is the one from Switzerland - a a capitalist system most like our own. That just as we have, they suffered powerful group of corporate wealth holding affordable health care for all hostage to Free Market Purism.
What happened in Switzerland - as has happened in every country which has adopted a system of debt free universal health care for all - is once it sets in there is no going back. In Switzerland passage of the plan was expected to fail but finally passed muster by a few votes. Within a year it was universally accepted by the Swiss people who would never go back to the barbaric system of their past.
Sadly, I have come to understand that the bottom line as to why we do not have - or ever will i in the foreseeable future - have any form of universal coverage in the United States because a strong minority in some regions and a majority in others, will not tolerate their tax money going to those less White than they are. Homogeneous Switzerland does not have that problem.
The Republican National Committee will be meeting in January to vote on including in the GOP platform a list of ten issues in what is called their "Purity List". It becomes immediately clear that this list comes from the Glenn Beck Tea Bagger base as President Obama is being called out by name in the first two on the list. Its short prologue contains the word "Reagan" 7 times. Resolving that if a Republican candidate fails three of the Tea Party purity tests that the RNC must withhold funds to that candidate. Take away the two mentions of Obama and one other of your choice this so called "Purity List" is already the GOP Platform making this all non news.
I found that when I came to the end of the list I had a general feel of the KIND OF PEOPLE they are. Above all they despise paying taxes unless it goes for faraway wars which they want to jack up. They want no restrictions on guns so they can deal better with ALL IMMIGRANTS who they despise almost as much as paying taxes. And they have a viseral overwhelming hatred for the man who turned their White House Black. And of course all that makes them good Christian with a prepaid reservation in Heaven.
(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further
They're serious! Wearing their tri-cornered hats, waiting for Paul Revere...I assume, and treating us all to their "real message." This heroic documentary is released straight to DVD on Thanksgiving, how American! Nothing says "Important Gala World Premier" like tea partiers as you're drifting off post turkey and football, with this important film adding background to the ambient noise.
If you're hoping for an unbiased look at the phenomenon, you are an innocent. Bless ya., but this group is underwritten by Americans for Prosperity, linked to oil and gas, and Freedomworks - which actively runs tea parties, with the involvement of Dick Armey. They actually hope to capture the Republicans who are left behind. If Michael Steele may not be radical enough, we have a very wacky
faction on our hands...rather, the Republican Party has one dividing their party!
This is an issue I have been aware of in my own life being one of those who luckily has "the music in me." I can't play it, but I have found it to be the most substantial emotional area of my life. 
Lou Dobbs said on the radio yesterday that he has people looking into a run for President in 2012. His spokesman - yes Lou has a spokesman now - Cesar Chavez Sanchez... Oops, I got that wrong, Lou Dobbs spokesman Robert Dilenschneider is saying that before that decision is made Dobbs is seriously looking into a run for the Senate in New Jersey in 2010. 
There is no question that the Republican Party puts the free market - which benefits mostly themselves and the wealthiest Americans. But one would think that such a cold morality would be tempered by religious values, especially those espoused by Jesus Christ.
It's been a long road to the $4.95 special "Going Rogue" that is just in time to brighten any conservative's holiday, or to start a renewed white elephant gift tradition if your family swings that way. According to the unsubstantiated information below, many questions were asked of Sarah Palin, some still linger.
Is it possible, as Sarah Palin says that Tina Fey belongs to the Taliban, or David Letterman is heavily involved in the Opium trade in Eastern Afghanistan?" You be the judge,here is the email from Sarah's Editor, (a big Palin wink to
you), who has only been seen recently on milk cartons.Then again, maybe she was the muse for "Layla" ya think?
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