The Mellencamp Grunge sans Politics Post
Better known as the semi monthly, grunge music geekfest, with John Mellencamp thrown in because I can.
And for some much-needed change…the Lens shall endeavor to barely speak a political word.
The latest Soundgarden news is the same as the old Soundgarden news, “it” is still on.
A garden tune
Grunge and geekfests scream Seattle. So screaming of Seattle, Alice in Chains is set to return for two shows at the Paramount. Tickets are probably gone, but go here, read and think about Layne.
A chains tune
John Mellencamp has no known connection to Kim Thayil that I am aware of. An argument for a universal sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, religion and a hometown love affair connection, could be made.
Having spent some years in Mellencamp country, one might wonder where the Vigilant Lens and its fiercely independent to a fault streak, comes from. It comes from music, Indiana, high fructose corn syrup, Michigan, the great Pacific Northwest and several other states that shall remain financially devastated by the Bush Depression, for years to come!
Whoa! Was that political? My bad.
Old schools, humans and a Mellencamp tune.
Y’all have a fine Air Force evening.
“Small Acts…”
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
–Howard Zinn
I think Howard was right. Of course there are not millions of us willing to act on much of anything, unless beer and soft porn is somehow involved.
Today I give you links. Links chock full of information about your Homeland, dots that are never connected and some insight into why those dots are not meant to ever be connected.
Dot connecting by the beer drinking, soft porn searching masses…is not something the Homeland wants to have occur.
So put down your beer, click a few links. You can continue your quest for ‘Lady Gaga in a bikini’ or ‘Palin topless photos’ in about 20 minutes. They’ll still be there, I promise.
It’s Patriot Act renewal time. Go here, read, think, and ask yourself…is anyone telling me that terrorists are poised to attack? Then email your Congresshuman and call it a coward.
Are you, I and that moron next door, all suspects? Potential evil doers in the making? You betcha. Go here, read, think, connect a dot or three.
Ever get the feeling that everything is somehow related? Underwear bombers, your CIA and if the rumors prove correct…Celine Dion? Read more about the underwear bomber and your government, right here. Celine? Okay, I got nothin.
Enjoy your reading, have a cold one for me and for those of you who just don’t get wtf I’m going on about, go here and remember to pay no attention to the men behind the curtain of the Homeland.
Punxsutawney Hamid
Bright and early this morning, Punxsutawney Hamid stuck his head out of his compound in Kabul and saw his shadow.
This translates into 16 more years of American occupation, corporate opportunity and dead kids.
Hey mud hut dwellers! No one said Democracy was easy. So get used to us, we aren’t going anywhere.
Eric Prince of Blackwater, Xe, Paravant, XPG, Greystone, Raven, Constellation, US Training Center, GSD Manufacturing, and Presidential Airlines…could not be tracked down for comment, as he was really, really busy trying to come up with 47 more names to hide Blackwater’s involvement in pretty much everything.
David Lesar, Howard Schultz and several Walton family members, are “rumored” to be intrigued with the Afghan opportunity.
It would be downright unfriendly of us not to be…intrigued.
Give me a squiggly!!
Nixon Quit: A Short History
Richard Milhous Nixon was almost impeached for crimes against freedom, justice and pretend American values.
Instead, Dick quit, got pardoned, got a library and went on to become the model that Fox News would later emulate.
AAaaannnnddddd shit went downhill from there.
William Jefferson Clinton was half impeached for enjoying oval office blow jobs, bad sax playing and for not telling big enough lies for our pretend American values.
Bill finished his terms, got heart disease, got a library, got richer and is now helping George W. Bush speak English.
George Herbert Walker Bush came before Clinton, yet managed to do absolutely nothing worthwhile.
H.W. finished his term, got a library and went home to this and this.
This then happened, followed by 9/11, the new Homeland, endless fake wars, bottomless Pentagon budgets, a defense industry boner of patriotism, followed seconds later by a messy orgasm of freedom.
This led to an unwanted pregnancy (Enron) and a quiet abortion of your Constitution.
George Walker Bush finished out his terms via the Supreme Court, Florida, Ohio and Senator Kerry, and is now attempting to build a library out of gum, cleared brush and the blood of a million dead Iraqi’s and thousands of U.S. troops. The Obama Department of Justice, is tasked with trying to keep W’s mouth shut, while simultaneously carrying out the same Bush doctrine of illegal and immoral activities. Because like, there is a precedent. And stuff.
Which of course brings us to Barack Hussein Obama. He beat out an old liar and her older counterpart, to go on to change everything.
Change is a funny thing.
Change can mean hope for many and huge profits for just a few.
For some, the shade of Obama’s skin is in and of itself, far, far too much change. For most, the campaign rhetoric and a bumper sticker was change enough. For even fewer, skin color means nothing, just like empty rhetoric.
So what are we to infer from this short history lesson? Ronald Reagan, Carter and Ford did not exist? Presidential history is confusing? The tag words Palin Porn and Meagan Fox attracts hundreds of viewers to the Lens? Nothing ever really changes, because Nixon quit and took one for the team?
The answer? All of the above.
For an easier to comprehend look at history, complete with scratch and sniff pictures and really large font, go to the soon to be completed George W. Bush library.
For more words of wisdom coupled with links of subversiveness…y’all check back in here another time. And as always, for a good time call 867-5309.
Butt Puffery and Profit
Better known as blowing smoke up your ass while charging you for it.
This mornings butt puffery, has us arming up Saudi Arabia and a few other Persian Gulf allies, with jets, missiles and other goodies…to the tune of 25 billion dollars in sales over the last two years.
That’s just good business sense and knowing your market. Because what’s good for Boeing, GE, Raytheon and the CIA, is always good for the rest of the world as well.
In fact it’s worked wonders in the past with Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Korea, Vietnam and Oklahoma.
Why change now?
Saudi Arabia! Today…allies and customers. Tomorrow…the new Taliban, armed with our weapons.
Funny how that keeps happening, no?
In related cash infusions for earth ending weapons news…President Obama is spending $5 billion to spruce up our nuclear arsenal. Sure the arsenal needs a Brazilian wax and a pedicure, but should we not spend a few bucks on re-training those who guard the earth ending WMD’s?
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Call me old-fashioned, but if common sense were a hand grenade, I think we’d choose the most difficult way to pull the pin with our teeth, make a huge profit, and still manage to watch in dazed amazement as our intestines land 20 yards away in a patriotic heap of red, white
and blue.
Happy Sunday!
Same Stupid Different Day
As you may have read here often, stupid is spreading across America. It’s painful, contagious, yet somehow fun to watch…like a Sarah Palin rebuttal, showing her disdain for America and its language.
The stupid goes much deeper than Sarah.
For example, there are still some Americans who think that Colbert is a real fire-breathing conservative…fighting the good fight and taking it to the Democrats. I kid you not. Only 41 percent of the idiots polled in this poll, “new” Colbert was a funny guy, making a living by mocking stupid people.
The current state of America’s stupid, explains many things. Another glaring example, our secret counterterror war. In Palin English, that means America is a terrorist state, inflicting death, terror and fear into the hearts and minds of brown-skinned humans. Yes, Colbert is real…
The pandemic of stupid in America explains a parent getting “Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, removed from the school library shelves in Culpeper, Virginia. Why? Because of this scary passage where Anne ponders her vagina, intercourse and babies. “There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can’t imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!”
BOO!! Yes Virginia, your vagina is where babies used to come from, and where a man came in.
So not only was Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis and Prescott Bush, but she knew more about her body than generations worth of Americans? Speaks volumes about us.
Colbert is real…
Many of us still, still, think Iraq flew some jets into those buildings on 9/11. Evidently so does Tony Blair. (If you’ve never heard of Tony Blair, perhaps you and Sarah Palin would enjoy a permanent move to Culpeper, Virginia.) At the Chilcot Inquiry, Tony mentioned the WMD’s that he knew did not exist, Saddam, 9/11 and warned us that we’d better take out Iran and its WMD’s as well.
Colbert…is…real…
Topping off today’s feast of stupidity, and this is a fantastic example…Osama bin Laden, the dead leader of Al Qaeda, is taking America to task for being, wait for it…stupid.
Osama says we are ignoring the reality of Climate Change, (points for not using the Global Warming pox) we’ve ruined the global economy, reminded us that we did not sign the Kyoto Protocol and dropped a fucking Noam Chomsky quote on us…and called us the Mafia.
A Bin Laden Chomsky quote?
Wow.
Colbert…is…real, America. You leave me no choice, but to question the condition that our condition is in. Man.
Buyout Before You Pullout
Sage advice from Republican ‘johns’ everywhere? Pay before you play? Christian Jihadist Incantation? Vatican approved birth control?
No! It’s kind of what the Taliban are telling their American counterparts. They will not accept our billion dollar offer to lay down their arms and go back to opium farming for the CIA. It’s just not going to happen until they see the foreigners pullout.
As nasty as that sounds, I think I have a solution. The Taliban could just hang out in Kabul and watch the Blackwater-CIA and the AmorGroup mercenary boys go at each other.
There’s bound to be some pullout action going on with those patriots.
There are reasons to pullout; there are reasons to buyout and there are reasons that Representative Norm Dicks has kept his Mujahideen mouth shut.
Karl Eikenberry warned of the corruption and against another surge of stupidity. National Intelligence Estimates were not done, nor were they wanted in Iraq or Afghanistan. This is because NIE’s tend to say embarrassing things like, there are no WMD’s and or that al Qaeda is in Phoenix, not Afghanistan.
Ten years of sending U.S. troops to die for lies; ten years worth of no-bid contracts to kill brown-skinned kids, and their wrong religion practicing parents…just so we can “pullout” and buyout some of the same people Norm Dicks paid off decades ago.
Sure seems like a long, stupid way to go, just to do more nation, military base and American Embassy building.
