Lots of people sit around and say stupid things like, "Wish we could just go back to simpler times". Looks like we may get to do that under the Bush Regime. Government don't give a damn about you and me. Everything is getting colder and more impersonal under the wonderful Republicans who wish for no government and good old times when we pore folks worked for 75 cents per day. Of course, Bush, Cheney et al would be like the Rockefellers of that time. Boy, I know you would love going back there. We are being devided into two camps and factions, the haves and the have-nots. How about a ride to Canada?

Lifted from zmag.org:

War is extremely useful to elites, not only for carving out opportunities for business abroad, but for its internal effects. As Thorstein Veblen explained 99 years ago, war provides "the largest and most promising factor of cultural discipline....It makes for a conservative animus on the part of the populace. During war time, and within the military organization at all times...civil rights are in abeyance; and the more warfare and armament the more abeyance."
And, crucially, war "directs the popular interest to other, nobler, institutionally less hazardous matters than the unequal distribution of wealth or of creature comforts." (The Theory of Business Enterprise [1904], pp. 391-3).

Rightwing business administrations gravitate quickly to war and fear- mongering to help cover over their service to their principals (i.e., making income distribution more unequal): Immediately upon taking office in the early 1980s Reagan mounted a war on terror and on the "evil empire," and his clone George W. Bush has done the same two decades later. They have both pressed for soaring arms budgets to meet inflated or manufactured threats, and both have been given aid and comfort by the Free Press.


 

The cable news channels are not giving us the straight news. Stop getting your news from them or if you do, watch the regular news programs on CBS, NBC or ABC. You will find they are different and nearer the truth. Read the New York Times editorials. We are being lied to.

I wrote this and it has been published by Poets Against The War. You can read it at their website. And here:

A SON'S LAMENT


I do hate him so, ya' know
His sword and swagger.
He tried to kill my dad, ya' know

and if I get your son killed
It is for country and god
it is for good and all.

If yours dies'
and if you care
I'm sorry.

But He will know
and his eye will fill,
I do love him so.

ON THE SQUARE

There in that tallest oak
some time ago
a Man danced on air

and died to the cheers
of honest folk who thought
they were right, by God!

his life mattered not
as much as someone's
outrage.

We sat under that tree
later
and wondered

had we been there
would
we have cheered?

ODE TO TRENT LOTT

I remember sitting on the floor
watching women sew
hoods and robes

remember not seeing
a Negro (except for
Uncle Jim's Snowball

and Scottie) until
my first trip to town.
and then wondering why

they hung their head
and moved off the sidewalk
to accommodate our passing.

Saw Dixie swing her purse
at a "young buck" who
jostled her as he passed.

Why, Mother? Because
she was upset. Why do
they hang their heads?

Because. Just Because.

I will write about that which is interesting to me. I am a 66 year old native of the deep South and live near Montgomery, Alabama. My soul is Southern. I will include politics, current events and my own poetry, plus anything I want to link to that is interesting.