Johnny we hardly knew ye

I came to know this dark 18th century anti-war anthem my Junior year of High School. It shared the melody of the later, glossed up, less antiwar American version "when Johnny comes marching home" but that was the end of the similarities. It was as if the American version intentionally ignored the exquisite expression of pain and loss of the Irish version, by ending each verse with the triumphant;"...and we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.

By contrast, a verse from the elder;

Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went for to carry a gun
To be sure but your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Likewise, someone named John has lost his soul in the war on terror
and his family is trying to find were he has gone.

Feed your head

Remember what the doormouse said?

Is this an entrance to another dream.Or the way back to reality.

Democrats need to re-set their gyroscopes, breath deep ,blow up their TV's, drink in the silence.

The republicans have found many suckers for their political ju jitsu.

'The mean liberal media and godless secular humanists are heaping disrespect on Sarah Palin because she is a Christian and a patriot" is the new republican mantra.

Rx for the tail spin is as follows:

1) Never mention Sarah Palins name (she is a halucination)
2)only mention John McCain and George Bush
3) Remind people that one year ago John McCain called conservative Christians "agents of intollerance"
4)Remind people that John McCain was for the "tax break for the rich" AFTER he was against it (take that existential twist John Kerry!)
5)Remind people that John McCain is secular humanist who is useing Sarah Palin as a fig leaf (yuck) to decieve the good righteous Cristian people of the U.S.A.
6) read this

Fighting Foreign Terrorists since 1492

Being the good readers that you are, you have seen, I'm sure, the poster bearing that caption, along with a picture of 4 Native Americans with rifles.

The Shawnee, Lenape, Susquehannock and Nanticoke were so efectively removed from Pennsylvania that there are no reservations or federally recognized tribes left. But from Wisconsin west, The original inhabitants of this land, speak out on how the "Europeans" are running the place.

http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2008/09/indigenous-view-on-palins-alaska.html

put your mouse ears on

over heard a couple of republicans doing the "was'nt the liberal media mean to sara palin" routine, "Charlie Gibson tried to make her look bad but our girl hung tough!"

This, obviously pissed me off at several levels, the greatest of which was the assumption that Charlie Gibson possessed the arguementitive acumen to give any one a hard time. I felt like screaming "Charlie Gibson could not give a turnip a tough time" but being as Gibson had not risen through the ranks of the anointed in time to interview Reagan, there is no direct proof.

I need not remind you that the only media team to do such a shitty job running a presidential debate, that they were booed by the studio audience on live television, were Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolos.

Here is a five min. proof of why ABC deserves Boycott just as much as Fox


http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/14/this-week-abc-pushes-the-puma-propaganda-with-fiorina-and-mccaskill/

Say you want a revolution?

Obama looked great on the "9/11 Presidential forum"
Get yer ass to a campaign office, get some registration forms and a street list and sign some people up to vote.
Historically, revolutions meant shooting people, violence and all sorts of icky stuff.
We are at the point where we can overthrow these A$$w!p#s with paper and a pen.
So.....what the hell are you waiting for?????????????????????????


Give Crooks and Liars a hit to look at this great image


And while we cry in our beer over our present plight, listen to Gore Vidals description of how citizens of the Soviet Union survived total censorship along with a totalitarian police state and still were better informed than we.

Get off your ass and jam!!!!!

CET

Glimmers of hope

Arm yourselves with factors inconvienient to the Republican/Corporate complex

Veterans:

McCain supported the private contractors who turned Walter Reed Army Hospital in to a hellhole.

McCain turned his back on the Jim Webb GI bill when the corporatists told him it cost too much

There are many others,(check the link) but Disabled American Veterans rated thus:

AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain Republican 20

AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 60

DE U.S. Senate Sr Joseph Biden Democratic 75

IL U.S. Senate Jr Barack Obama Democratic 80

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3483

Also the "white female Palin bounce" is bullshit, what else would you expect from the shallow corporate media?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/poll-madness-mccain-takes_n_125158.html

CET

We have met the enemy and he is us

An outlandish Anti-Obama E-mail arrives.

Who sent it? David Duke, the KKK , Karl Rove?

No.

Its from your Grandmother!

http://rackjite.com/archives/1905-Watermelon-One-The-Prolific-Graphic-Email-Pass-around.html

Fecal Volume

The McCain camp has inked the waters like an octopus with the Palin pick.
The media knows as much about her as we do, so they are giving her wall to wall coverage in order to show how informative they are.

Specific knock downs of the baloney she has been selling will be soon seen here.

I have been searching for a political metaphor to illustrate the good governors volumenous output and the quality thereof.

This may soon be forthcomming being as my pit bull (W/O lipstick) has eaten half a bottle of stool softener

Remember;
Jesus was a community organizer
Pontius Pilot was a governor

CET

Sarahcuda 101

First off, a thousand thanks to Matt, the former producer of the former Lynn Cullen Show for attempting to rescue the last 9 hours of old bigmouth Clair on the radio. It seems the powers that be had the IT guy pull the plug on the podcast page early so that no one (including me) got a chance to download the last 3 days, I met up with Matt who will try to yank the missing programs from the bowels of data central at Mon$ytalk1360. Please pray for his success and read his blog (link down there to the left). Matt Reports Lynn to be "hitting the button" with every station in town that does talk, problem is, that aint so many stations. So those of you with bright ideas about internet radio,LP FM an' that, keep those cards and letters comming!

Also, one of Matt's corespondents, Amy, Lived in the town where Sarahcuda was mayor and has written detailed critique.

It seems that although Palin is stepping into the role of Dick Cheney, to Wasilla, she was George Bush, stirring up trouble, running up deficits. Check it out:

http://mammer12.multiply.com/journal/item/46

And here's anouther clue for you all

Check out Stepheney Millers' impersonation of Sarah Pallin 9AM-Noon WCPT
you will be on the floor.

CET

Instructions on how to survive the blackout of progressive radio

Instructions on how to survive the blackout of progressive radio

Get Winamp (the free one) at http://www.winamp.com/

Once it is installed, open it

Some tabs appear on the left (how fitting)

Click the one that says “SHOUTCAST RADIO”

In the search box put Air America

About 10 stations will come up

Double click on WCPT Chicago or embed this link somewhere : http://sc2.mia.llnw.net:80/stream/wcpt_live

They have a great line up (wcpt has its own website with schedual)

Chicago times are an hour behind (CDT)

Stephanie Miller 9AM-12:00PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Miller

Ed Shultz 12:00PM-3:00PM

Thom Hartman 3:00PM- 6:00PM

Shitty but precise

The recent public displays by those acting under the guise of the republican party

have been shallow, manipulative, symbol filled, devoid of substance Bullshit. But it might just work.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/messiah-and-st-joan-by-digby-yesterday.html

Just Deserts

As Phil ( I got a multi million dollar job with Banc Suisse so F$ck you elitist democrats) Gram said: yinz guys around Pittsburgh are Whiners.

You don’t need WPTT anymore 'cause you have the phallic font of Republican bullshit KdicKA to give you the company line.

First we had that Dumbass they imported from the Carolinas to play the part of Honsbergers missing stomach, going on CNN to defend Michael Savages "90% of Autism is an act" comment as being "taken out of context", now we have the keepers of the "50,000 watt blowtorch" giving platform to John McCains own predictable brand of self immolation.

Yea, you heard right; self immolation, He wants you to have a Vietnam image; McCain as POW in his lonely cell, ( a terrible thing to happen to anyone, John used to think it was a terrible thing to happen at Guantanamo, not no more) McCain has the 'POW line' as a bumper sticker, he keeps a 6 inch stack of them in his back pocket and every time the questions get tough, he whips one out and slaps it on. The origin of this line was the Jay Lenno Show, where john at least had a germane place to stick it (it is after all, roughly defined as a housing question). Hey john, how many houses do you have? "Well with all due respect Jay, for 5 1/2 years, I didn’t have a house...", circumlocutious, but he got to house. Now the line is flopping out as a nonsequitor so often, and so unpredictably that these "POW line" bumper stickers are pileing up on Johns body to such a great extent that he would be considered a fire hazard in many municipalities. He might go poof like that infamous Buddhist monk who doused himself in gasoline then burned himself alive as protest to the savagery of the war, there’s yer Vietnam image, Bud.

If you don’t believe me, check this out http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/29/pownd-you-lose/

this contains a link to a KDicKA interview with McCain in which he slaps on the sticker "because Obama won’t do town hall meetings'. Good thing Obama wears a flag pin now or we would get another sticker. Not that I wish to torture anyone with exposure to this crap, but listen to the disconnect of McCain, its like he has his suit jacket covered in post-it notes of one liners, just rip one off and read it, get called on the incongruity thereof ? "Well with all due respect xxx, for 5 1/2 years, I didn't have a house...".

Some credit goes to John Shumway for at least bringing up the plight of the middle class, which McCain bats down with "were have you been? At my town hall meetings I have said things about the plight of the middle class.

Say some more things John, it gets us off to know you feel our pain.

This only a test

Joe Bageant wrote me this morning to say that the outage of his website was of innocent origin, a switch in server providers. But this was the first time that one of my bookmarks came up dead (although temporarily) it scared me about the subject of Net Neutrality.

Would the "Your desired site is closed, try these alternatives" message i saw, be the same I would see if access to sites were controlled by corporate or ideological affiliations?

This is all my roundabout "space cadet" way of saying Net neutrality should be discussed. But first a "state of the website.

If you look back thru the archieves have a number of fairly well written messages on a variety of topics. but if you look at Joes website: http://www.joebageant.com/ you will see that the input of the writers is put right up front and of high quality. That sites such as crooks and liars http://www.crooksandliars.com/ and this modern world http://www.thismodernworld.com/ are sustained by contributers and guest writers.

That is what i want for the future of teutonicjihad. More participation from YOU, dont be shy, this is all written now with plenty of time to research and think things out, so dont be shy.

up next; resources for the post WPTT era

clue #1 I am listening to WCPT Chicago which has a great liberal line up, including Thom Hartman, Google it today!

Peace thru Bravery
CET

The dawn of internet censorship?

From about 11:00PM to 11:00AM I was having trouble getting Joe Bageants web site:
http://www.joebageant.com/ did anyone else have this problem. It came back on this morning, but reminded me how fragile the "alternatives" can be.

This is the lifeboat

I sit here, drained from the last show,it was a hell of a ride thanks to you.

Keep an eye on this space for future updates.

Put new flints in your Zippos kids

Its time to give these lyin' sacks of shit a hot seat!

Peace thru Bravery

CET

Holy America

If it seems that Dennis Kucinich is the only democrat with balls it may be because he is. Yes, we have seen Christopher Dodd throw his "body upon the gears" of the machine that was destroying our civil liberties, by putting a "hold" on the latest FISA bill, but at least there are a few thousand ACLU types and libertarians who support him. Kucinich, by contrast, is going to bat for "atheists in foxholes" who, by popular slogan, do not exist. So Kucinich, by forming an organization to combat the fundamentalist christian takeover of the U.S. military will have EVERYONE, save the ghost of madeline murry o'hare, pissed as hell at him. For information of how lonely this must be, I refer you to a poem by the welsh poet Halden Caufield; "the ballad of the breadman" where he uses the words "no man was THAT mans freind" to describe the isolation of Jesus, just before he got capital punishment.


In the same light, a freind sent an e-mail forward of merriments, one of which was read by Jay Lenno (solidarity to the writters strike!) in which Jay said essentually; "with all these floods and wild fires are you sure we should be taking God out of the pleadge of alligience?".


The following screed was a responce to this popular foolishness

As to Jay Leno, theologian, I would be the last to deny the need of divine providence, but his support of such incantations shows the power of flimflam and a lack of history, not withstanding that these positions are very popular they are still wrong.

The pledge to the flag was composed by a person beyond the present American imagination, a Christian socialist who was also a Baptist minister. Long ago, Baptists were among the greatest defenders of religious liberty and the separation of church and state, as they had been abused by the Episcopalians and other majority religions. American Baptists today eat at the same table as the president of the United States, an ample user of religious slogans, with now, Episcopalians and other former majority religions licking at their feet like so many puppies, such principles can fall by the wayside. Anyway, Francis Belamy, the writer of the pledge, did not see fit to include G-d in the pledge. Such inclusion did not come until the Eisenhower administration, when in a moment of national crisis, we set out to differentiate ourselves from our former World War 2 allies; the Russians, by tagging them the "Godless" victors over the" axis of evil" whilst we were the "Godfull" victors over the" axis of evil". Thousands of innocent schoolchildren awkwardly piled "under God" on top of "indivisible" on our behalf, to stamp out Godless communism. To this day, millions of innocent schoolchildren in China express their gratitude for this victory of Christian Capitalism over Godless communism; they express it just after lunch, when they have to leave school to go sweat in the fireworks factory to pay for their books.

Could we perhaps stack up enough national introspection to consider that the prevalence of fire, earthquake, wind and pestilence May be a sign that God is a bit pissed with the way things are going and our insistence on dragging his name into it? Being as innocent schoolchildren have emerged as a point of focus; consider those of Iraq, who over the years have viewed the United States as “the evil bastards who sold arms and poison gas to our oppressor Sadam” to “the evil bastards that got rid of Sadam, along with running water, electricity, sewage and civil society. Would the sweltering shit-stink of 100 degree high noon Baghdad be swept clear as a fall mountain breeze by a Blackwater helicopter, festooned with the stars and stripes and blaring Lee Greenwoods “God bless the USA”? Call me a surrender monkey, but I think not. Beyond that I think that the present scheme of national Godly incantation is a constant irritant to the master of the universe and that these natural disasters are Gods form of “cease and desist” orders, which I fear, will grow in proportion to the continued divine insult. So if someday, you hear thundering from the skies (with the sartorial tones of Charlton Hesston, no doubt) “You F#&*$rs keep it up and I’ll put a volcano where Colorado used to be”, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Gratitude

Thanks to all who made the radio show such a blast today, Matt will have the podcast up on the WPTT web site in the next day or two. Thanks to Matt for lots of good, timely comments. Every time the ball was placed he kicked it thru the uprights. cet1360@yahoo.com if you have comments.
a post on the pledge of alliegence comming soon

Sunday Sermon

A family member, smart enough to have employment as a research scientist, once cautioned against my poking around in my computers registry trying to fix things;” its like a great big ball of spaghetti, start cutting strands and it will never go back together right”.

The integrity of this serpentine starch could be held as metaphor of the complex components of our nation’s reputation among the nations of the world, the snippets seem unrelated at first, but none to long, the unraveling starts.

Listening to KXOT, they ran “as it happens” pretty much the Canadian equivalent of “All things considered”. Interview was with the Canadian photographer who shot the infamous photo of a dead US soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu Somalia. He spoke of the Personal responsibility he felt for the pictures effects on US policy; the flight from Somalia and the blind eye turned to Rwanda. He had nightmare filled, mental illness provoking RESPONSIBILITY for what he had done and its EFFECT ON OTHERS. Could we, perhaps inoculate some folks in Washington, with this absent strain of simple humanity.

The other snip is explanation of why we don’t have to give a shit and why God is kicking our ass for it.

Listening to KUHF Houston TexaCUTION, one of the sponcers of NPR programming was a local company specializing in offshore drilling and national defense.

Was there not an American president, viewed both as warrior and humanitarian, who warned of the dangerous power of the “military industrial complex”.

Allowing private industry to get powerful enough to hijack our foreign policy. Allowing an image, no matter how poignant to cause us to turn our backs on the humanitarian interventions necessary in Africa. Both, in my Sunday morning morallism, sins.

Photo/Africa is a sin of simple fear, well practiced as of late; the industrial complex is an outgrowth of greed and pride.

And in this light we have the balls to wonder, why anyone on this planet would be pissed at us.

May God help those who deserve it.

May we work toward being deserving.

Another accidental internet discovery

The Vanity Fair article concerning the BS which the republicans crafted against Al Gore, and how the "liberal media" reported these as "gospel truth" had my antenna up for this trick.

So when this Letter, Written by the then 23 year old Bill Clinton dropped in my lap (thank G-d Gore invented the internets) I just had to check it out.

Before being bespoiled by the truth, what is your (media shaped) memory of this?

I was still doing the talk show at Jeanette, reading the NY Times, wall street journal, Trib and Post every day, I would listen to NPR while delivering pizza and would sample as much Limbaugh as I could stand.

My memory is of a proud and elitist Clinton, proclaiming the military to be a task "beneath him" and stating that HE, PERSONNALLY "LOATHED THE MILITARY"

I never remember ANYONE, not NYT, not NPR, putting this statement in to the context of the letter.

The most charitable treatment I remember hearing, is of an "older wiser Clinton" disowning his "youthful indiscretion"

Here is the letter, read the letter!

The “loathing” “smoking gun” is in the final paragraph

The media treatment of this issue was, as usual; Bullshit!

http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/clinton.htm