The election countdown has begun. Okay, so maybe, depending on how fanatical you are, you may have been counting weeks ago, but with less than a week remaining until a new Pres is named to take the helm in D.
I would argue that they have very good crumb catchers to make sure you get less and less. And so, I think the good sense falls with the Democrats. Instead of feasting on crumbs, Rollins stay healthy by juicing and eating a lot of soy protein.
They eventually serve the war economy. All these companies eventually did really well, and that's why they keep breeding so much, so you have more to hurl into the next conflict. The biggest fear that Conservatives and Republicans have is that the new regime in Cairo won't buy the amount of ordinance that we sell them every year.
You know, basically getting our cash back on the subsidies that we send them. They don't really. You know, it'll make Israel sleep poorly.
So we arm the world, over and over and over again. It's an investment in future conflict, because eventually, they will fire that stuff at us, so we can say, "Hey, they fired that at us!
That's what we do, and the threat of all of this is that democracy would be spreading across the Middle East. You can't invade a democratic country. You'll have to let them sit at the big table; you can't go in and soften their economies with the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund; you must treat them as equals.
You won't be able to demonize and marginalize Islam; that was a great fundraiser and talking point for the right. And you're seeing the meltdown in America and the right-wing are just freaking out. As all these people stand up it's the end of things for this party. It's an interesting time, to willfully watch these guys sail their Titanic into an iceberg.
They're steering it right towards it and doubling down. They're flooring it. And a lot of Americans It's quite evident but you're not going to see anyone on CNN saying that but it's as plain as the nose on your face. It's fairly undeniable. You have to look a little bit, not even actually that hard, all you need is a Netflix account and you can find some documentaries about the corporate gains in the Middle East, you know, with Halliburton and Titan and those different defense contractors and how much money they made off of the wars in the Middle East.
It's just on the day-to-day. I mean, we sell stuff to countries all the time. It's our economy. We sell more arms to the rest of the world than Russia or China, it might not be that eventually, and this whole world is kind of on that footing. And America, we've been on that footing Like "America, love it or leave it" or "Better dead than red". That's why all of that is so ramped up. As if communism would invade America.
And you don't want Southeast Asia going communist, you know, we lost that one, because you want to be able to sell them stuff. And that's all it is, it's just money, it's not hearts and minds, it's not ideology, it's only the bank. That's it. That's all it's ever been, under any president, Democrat or Republican. And I think the people are starting to figure it out because the street doesn't lie.
And the street and the media are now kind of at odds. It's in the best interests of Rush Limbaugh to call teachers bottom feeders and bloodsuckers as they live on a paltry wage. And it's a basic thing in this country to devalue education. Because if you have an educated populace, they would've said no to the Iraq war.
That would have been grounds for impeachment, I mean, they just would not have said yes to this. They would've fired all their congressmen. It would have been very different.
But, the less you know, the more you'll go along with the rhetoric. The less you'll question, the less you'll feel the need to question. There's no investment for you in that. Well, it makes for better soldiers.
And I'm not saying soldiers are stupid, but it just makes it easier for people to hurl themselves into that world. It also helps the prison industrial complex. Certainly, and a lot of people make money. When Johnny robs the liquor store, people get rich. A lot of people don't understand that because there are companies that sell all the uniforms, the lighting, the sanitation systems and products; even the gardening around a supermax penitentiary.
And as long as those are full of people, again, your tax dollars go towards maintaining someone who takes sixty to a hundred thirty thousand dollars a year to keep alive inside. Someone has to sell that guy cheese sandwiches.
I think Jeb Bush was in on a lot of that, I forget which company. They supply a lot of catering to GOP events, they also do a lot of the prisons. I think Jeb Bush was a big guy in that, making money when you don't educate. So these guys are gamers, and the game is basically, it's like Vegas, the house is gonna win. You're a sucker, you walk in there, roll the dice, so let a few people win, that's the honey that attracts the fly.
That's the grift. And the suckers come from all over the world to dump their money on it. One of the worst things about the devaluing of education in this country is the long-term effects. But you're seeing it now though. This has been in the works I think Reagan killed that one and Bush 1 killed the other one.
Because you know, health, education, and welfare: no, no, and no. National education and planning? No, stop it. My mom's whole life was that of frustration. She was trying to understand why Johnny can't read. She'd fly all over the world, analyzing other educational systems, bringing back the info to America, trying to fix American delivery systems of education.
You know, why aren't these kids learning? And all Bush can come up with is, "Well, learn to the test! I sat on our kitchen counter one afternoon and told my mother that I was no longer eating anything with animals or their milks in it and that I was going to get rid of all my animal-derived stuff: wool, down, leather, etc… This was Buffalo, NY, then a hot bed of ultra-high-calorie working-class cuisine served in portions far larger than the national average.
Vegetarians were hippies and wussies and worse; vegans were unheard of. My choice to stop consuming animal-based products was vaguely tied to my fascination with Rastafarianism I soon grew dreadlocks, but smoked zero weed and denounced all religion and to hardcore straightedge philosophies this was before McKaye formed Fugazi.
More importantly, though, I loved animals, especially our family cat, Pippin, and all cats everywhere. Mine was an unusually deep cat-love, the kind that leads one to conclude that felines are a far superior species than our own, a notion to which I still mostly subscribe. I had taken an Admirable Ethical Stance. In hindsight, however, I can see that my veganism was a desperate attempt to gain control over my body and my life.
Due to some tweaky experiences during my adolescence, I—like so many teenagers before and after me—felt out of control. Everything about my veganism smacked of an eating disorder, and it would likely have been flagged as such today. But in Buffalo in it was easy for me to shroud that disorder in an Admirable Ethical Stance—so easy, in fact, that my high school English teacher made my veganism the focal point of his college recommendation letter. Weirdo colleges like Hampshire and Reed gobbled it up and recruited me hard a totally unexpected reward of being vegan , but no one, including me, saw the eating disorder.
My complexion was ashen, my bowels irritable, my fatigue levels troubling. They said they were going to sue us and have us arrested for damages. There was so much hype about that.
The New York Post reported half a million dollars worth of damages. It was nothing. It was a plastic clip that got broken. It was a very interesting experience and I realized how completely unnatural it is for a band to be on a television show - particularly a punk band - that kind of has a momentum to suddenly be expected to immediately jump into a song in that type of setting.
It was very weird. Largely unpleasant. Made me realize that's not something I'm interested in doing. Gita said:. It's like a runaway train to crazyville. I am a Ghost said:. The trains in your neck of the woods are pretty crazy, Gita. It's certain that he's a rather insensitive, possibly stupid person. If that makes you like him, hate him, laugh at him, find him stupid or feel indifferent is another issue.
What makes me wonder, is why he "sings" songs about police violence etc. But I don't know him, so maybe he has moved on or regrets what he did.
I hope so, otherwise he's a prick. If he doesn't like Morrissey or England, then that's simply just his loss. I respect some of Black Flag's work, but I don't like him as a person. Mozza Surmontil Scarlet Ibis said:. I hate Henry Rollins. This video isn't even the reason I hate Henry Rollins, though it does add to it. I know this has been seen before, but it's been archived and it's time we renewed the hatred. Last edited by a moderator: May 15, Uh oh Sorry, Scarlet.
This I did not know. It does look like maybe he's changed on animals. Do you think maybe Henry's secret crush on Morrissey turned him vegetarian?
They both live in LA, are vegetarian, writers, into fitness, music Wouldn't that be a cute couple? Jump at the chance, we would. For example, in the middle of nowhere on a USO tour.
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