Fourth of YoU LiE

On this Fourth of July we are once again reminded of our independence from the king and of bombs bursting in mid air...

I am reminded of 9/11 as the key to much of what is wrong today.

It is wrong that Dick Cheney is still smiling.

It is wrong that Liberal is a four letter word.

It is wrong that soldiers play with real munitions as if playing some kind of virtual game.

It is wrong to look Forward without looking Back.

It is kinda wrong to have drones the size of daffodils looking down on us.

Fascism is corporate wrongness.

Jesus the gun lover is wrong.

This is so wrong,  it's right.

Not much remains of bin Laden's Wrong Place to hang out. 

Wrong to think drone technology will go away.

Showing all the right connections was a Wrong for Mark Lombardy and Gary Webb.

Now everybody knows the Right was Wrong

Wrongspeak is Rightspeak

War from the comfort of your fortified bunker is wrongish.

Very right head gear for a Fourth of July

All war is Wrong

 right summer reading list

Wrong to think our independence is a done deal.

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Happy Julio Quatro

With each observance of the Fourth of July , we echo historical myths in hollow scripted narratives. With each war for independence, truth becomes more obfuscated while folks get a little less agreeable.

One fine example of such fiasco is our nation's first war for some other's independence, the Spanish/American War of 1898. Free of British rule, America was no more than 100 years old when we decided it was time join the league of empires. Our navy was not so much strong as the Spanish were vulnerable to a hostile smack-down. A quick read of that conflict makes it clear that given dilutions of manifest destiny fueled by yellow journalism and the trigger of a false-flag, the conquest grab for foreign riches was totally do-able. The war netted the young U.S.A a treasure of territories: Caribbean's Cuba and Puerto Rico plus jewels of the pacific Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. Not bad for a new player in the imperial game of nation building. That war lasted a poultry 10 months compared to todays "endless" war.

While the "adults" take care of war business, we become ever more dependent on the spoils, complicit in the crimes and complacent with the abdication of humaneness. We cross our hearts and hope to not die.

Enough of ancient history. It's the Fourth 2011 and that means a round of imaginary golf for the victors and war profiteers...

Today, America's might is Ready to GO ! anywhere anytime in grand style of shock and awe, we are the world's cadillac of military power.

Our military budgetary be so bloated that even our civilian economic lips suckle super-glued to the goliath of war industry.

Shame that our national psyche is so very red, white and bruised from 200+ years calloused senseless wars.

The numbers of war are always mind-numbing....

save the 4th, forever Ours with sparklers and rockets.

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STARS and SCARS

Stones Will Roll

Wrapped in the flag of patriotism, our national psyche celebrates its 234th day of independence for British Pompocracy and its tyrannical heavy-handed taxation without representation.




Black Tea Flag Party

The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a smashing success. Some colonists reached a sipping point when the British Parliament placed a heavy tax on basic stuff like caffeinated black tea leaves.
That was the tax that broke the loyalists purses. In classic black-flag style the fellas donned indian costumes and proceeded to trash the harbour.
Three years later, with the help of our french friends we musketed our way to independence.

Todays TEA party also has a short fuse with cries of
"Taxed Enough Already"
I wonder what costume they will wear when attempting to secede.



Alito and Scalia Court Disaster

Two recent supreme court decisions that mar this years 4th of july are:
1. They said its AOK for corporations to give as much money as the want to buy polititians.
2. They said its AOK to for any crazy american to own a gun or two.



Me First

Everybody is in on ramping up the rhetoric.
The Mob is Coming for Our White Women, are you ready?



Progressive Arsenal

Even Big Clinton has lost his mind, he wants to pull out the navy nukes and blast the unstoppable BP oil gusher in the Gulf... good luck w that.




Free Pizza with Every Purchase

We are not the only ones arming to the nines. Look around and you will find model dual citizen Jack Abramoff getting out of jail early for god behavior, landing a job in a pizza parlor and maybe even back to his old uber-lobbying tricks, just not in broad daylight.



Amp Up the Volume

The whole system is insane.
We kill for sport, justice and our way of life.
A heartless few profit from the war machine.



Dump, American Style

We have to keep up the status quo, or else who knows, the gods may switch sides.



Marco Rudio

Vote for him, he's 50% cuban - 50% teabag.



Love It or Bomb It

Have a Bang-a-Bong-Blastic Fourth of July 2010.


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july VI MDCCLXXVI

How America Works.

How does one begin to get inside the head of the lady in the harbor, our very own statue of bigotry?



Whose Got Your Back, Barack?

Is that a junior navy seal green beret training in the background while Oby and grampy enjoyed a frolic in Hawaii?



Super Bro to the Rescue!

Have a nice fourth of july 2009 and go ahead, blow some shit up!




Just don't point it in 'I'm a dinner jacket's direction.

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