[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [progressive] Rockin' the Right: The 50 greatest conservative rock songs of all time

There is no loyalty on the right. How could they overlook Janet Greene, who served their cause so well in the 60s, with wonderful right wing songs like Commie Lies, Termites, Comrade's Lament, Poor Left Winger, Run and The Hunter And The Bear.

Check out http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/01/janet_greene_th.html, and see what real right wing music sounds like, not the weak stuff these bisexuals, vegetarians, animal rights activists and drug-ingesting libertines that the National Review prefers
 

LYRICS/TRANSCRIPTION:
Poor Left-Winger: Janet Greene [1966]

I'm just a poor left-winger
Befuddled, bewildered, forlorn
Duped by a bearded singer
Peddling his Communist corn
In the Café Expresso
Sounds of guitars could be heard
Twanging a plaintive folk song
Spreading the Communist word
Hair hung around his shoulders
And sandals were on his feet
His shirttail was ragged and dirty
Making the picture complete

I followed him off to college
The man that I came to adore
Where student demonstrations
Blocked every classroom door
We led the march on the White House
And forced the cops to come in
We claimed each one was brutal
As we kicked him in the shin
It was all so intellectual
What glorious tales I was told
Of history's certain progress
Into the Communist fold

I fell for those empty falsehoods
But now I know full well
Those little words on the posters
Were all that he could spell
Those dialectic phrases
Made a marvelous spiel
But hidden behind that beard
Beat the heart of a frustrated heel
Now all my illusions are shattered
About the man I admired
I'm just a poor left-winger
Befuddled, bewildered and tired!

Stevo <blue_meanie_9@yahoo.com> wrote:

Rockin' the Right
The 50 greatest conservative rock songs.     What makes a great conservative rock song? The lyrics must convey a conservative idea or sentiment, such as skepticism of government or support for traditional values. And, to be sure, it must be a great rock song. We're biased in favor of songs that are already popular, but have tossed in a few little-known gems. In several cases, the musicians are outspoken liberals. Others are notorious libertines. For the purposes of this list, however, we don't hold any of this against them. Finally, it would have been easy to include half a dozen songs by both the Kinks and Rush, but we've made an effort to cast a wide net. Who ever said diversity isn't a conservative principle? 

1. "Won't Get Fooled Again," by The Who. ; buy CD on Amazon.com The conservative movement is full of disillusioned revolutionaries; this could be their theme song, an oath that swears off naïve idealism once and for all. "There's nothing in the streets / Looks any different to me / And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye. . . . Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss." The instantly recognizable synthesizer intro, Pete Townshend's ringing guitar, Keith Moon's pounding drums, and Roger Daltrey's wailing vocals make this one of the most explosive rock anthems ever recorded — the best number by a big band, and a classic for conservatives. 2. "Taxman," by The Beatles. buy CD on Amazon.com A George Harrison masterpiece with a famous guitar riff (which was actually played by Paul McCartney): "If you drive a car, I'll tax the street / If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat / If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat / If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." The song closes with a humorous jab at death taxes: "Now my advice for those who die / Declare the pennies on your eyes." 3. "Sympathy for the Devil," by The Rolling Stones. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Don't be misled by the title; this song is The Screwtape Letters of rock. The devil is a tempter who leans hard on moral relativism — he will try to make you think that "every cop is a criminal / And all the sinners saints." What's more, he is the sinister inspiration for the cruelties of Bolshevism: "I stuck around St. Petersburg / When I saw it was a time for a change / Killed the czar and his ministers / Anastasia screamed in vain." 4. "Sweet Home Alabama," by Lynyrd Skynyrd. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A tribute to the region of America that liberals love to loathe, taking a shot at Neil Young's Canadian arrogance along the way: "A Southern man don't need him around anyhow." 5. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," by The Beach Boys. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Pro-abstinence and pro-marriage: "Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true / Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do / We could be married / And then we'd be happy." 6. "Gloria," by U2. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Just because a rock song is about faith doesn't mean that it's conservative. But what about a rock song that's about faith and whose chorus is in Latin ? That's beautifully reactionary: "Gloria / In te domine / Gloria / Exultate." 7. "Revolution," by The Beatles. buy CD on Amazon.com "You say you want a revolution / Well you know / We all want to change the world . . . Don't you know you can count me out?" What's more, Communism isn't even cool: "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao / You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow." (Someone tell the Che Guevara crowd.) 8. "Bodies," by The Sex Pistols. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Violent and vulgar, but also a searing anti-abortion anthem by the quintessential punk band: "It's not an animal / It's an abortion." 9. "Don't Tread on Me," by Metallica. buy CD on Amazon.com A head-banging tribute to the doctrine of peace through strength, written in response to the first Gulf War: "So be it / Threaten no more / To secure peace is to prepare for war." 10. "20th Century Man," by The Kinks. ; buy CD on Amazon.com "You keep all your smart modern writers / Give me William Shakespeare / You keep all your smart modern painters / I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, da Vinci, and Gainsborough. . . . I was born in a welfare state / Ruled by bureaucracy / Controlled by civil servants / And people dressed in grey / Got no privacy got no liberty / 'Cause the 20th-century people / Took it all away from me." 11. "The Trees," by Rush. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Before there was Rush Limbaugh, there was Rush, a Canadian band whose lyrics are often libertarian. What happens in a forest when equal rights become equal outcomes? "The trees are all kept equal / By hatchet, axe, and saw." 12. "Neighborhood Bully," by Bob Dylan. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A pro-Israel song released in 1983, two years after the bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, this ironic number could be a theme song for the Bush Doctrine: "He destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad / The bombs were meant for him / He was supposed to feel bad / He's the neighborhood bully." 13. "My City Was Gone," by The Pretenders. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Virtually every conservative knows the bass line, which supplies the theme music for Limbaugh's radio show. But the lyrics also display a Jane Jacobs sensibility against central planning and a conservative's dissatisfaction with rapid change: "I went back to Ohio / But my pretty countryside / Had been paved down the middle / By a government that had no pride." 14. "Right Here, Right Now," by Jesus Jones. buy CD on Amazon.com The words are vague, but they're also about the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War: "I was alive and I waited for this. . . . Watching the world wake up from history." 15. "I Fought the Law," by The Crickets. ; buy CD on Amazon.com The original law-and-order classic, made famous in 1965 by The Bobby Fuller Four and covered by just about everyone since then. 16. "Get Over It," by The Eagles. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Against the culture of grievance: "The big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing." There's also this nice line: "I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass." 17. "Stay Together for the Kids," by Blink 182. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A eulogy for family values by an alt-rock band whose members were raised in a generation without enough of them: "So here's your holiday / Hope you enjoy it this time / You gave it all away. . . . It's not right." 18. "Cult of Personality," by Living Colour. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A hard-rocking critique of state power, whacking Mussolini, Stalin, and even JFK: "I exploit you, still you love me / I tell you one and one makes three / I'm the cult of personality." 19. "Kicks," by Paul Revere and the Raiders. ; buy CD on Amazon.com An anti-drug song that is also anti-utopian: "Well, you think you're gonna find yourself a little piece of paradise / But it ain't happened yet, so girl you better think twice." 20. "Rock the Casbah," by The Clash. ; buy CD on Amazon.com After 9/11, American radio stations were urged not to play this 1982 song, one of the biggest hits by a seminal punk band, because it was seen as too provocative. Meanwhile, British Forces Broadcasting Service (the radio station for British troops serving in Iraq) has said that this is one of its most requested tunes. 21. "Heroes," by David Bowie. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A Cold War love song about a man and a woman divided by the Berlin Wall. No moral equivalence here: "I can remember / Standing / By the wall / And the guns / Shot above our heads / And we kissed / As though nothing could fall / And the shame / Was on the other side / Oh we can beat them / For ever and ever." 22. "Red Barchetta," by Rush. ; buy CD on Amazon.com In a time of "the Motor Law," presumably legislated by green extremists, the singer describes family reunion and the thrill of driving a fast car — an act that is his "weekly crime." 23. "Brick," by Ben Folds Five. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Written from the perspective of a man who takes his young girlfriend to an abortion clinic, this song describes the emotional scars of "reproductive freedom": "Now she's feeling more alone / Than she ever has before. . . . As weeks went by / It showed that she was not fine." 24. "Der Kommissar," by After the Fire. buy CD on Amazon.com On the misery of East German life: "Don't turn around, uh-oh / Der Kommissar's in town, uh-oh / He's got the power / And you're so weak / And your frustration / Will not let you speak." Also a hit song for Falco, who wrote it. 25. "The Battle of Evermore," by Led Zeppelin. ; buy CD on Amazon.com The lyrics are straight out of Robert Plant's Middle Earth period — there are lines about "ring wraiths" and "magic runes" — but for a song released in 1971, it's hard to miss the Cold War metaphor: "The tyrant's face is red." 26. "Capitalism," by Oingo Boingo. ; buy CD on Amazon.com "There's nothing wrong with Capitalism / There's nothing wrong with free enterprise. . . . You're just a middle class, socialist brat / From a suburban family and you never really had to work." 27. "Obvious Song," by Joe Jackson. buy CD on Amazon.com For property rights and economic development, and against liberal hypocrisy: "There was a man in the jungle / Trying to make ends meet / Found himself one day with an axe in his hand / When a voice said 'Buddy can you spare that tree / We gotta save the world — starting with your land' / It was a rock 'n' roll millionaire from the USA / Doing three to the gallon in a big white car / And he sang and he sang 'til he polluted the air / And he blew a lot of smoke from a Cuban cigar." 28. "Janie's Got a Gun," by Aerosmith. ; buy CD on Amazon.com How the right to bear arms can protect women from sexual predators: "What did her daddy do? / It's Janie's last I.O.U. / She had to take him down easy / And put a bullet in his brain / She said 'cause nobody believes me / The man was such a sleaze / He ain't never gonna be the same." 29. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," by Iron Maiden. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A heavy-metal classic inspired by a literary classic. How many other rock songs quote directly from Samuel Taylor Coleridge? 30. "You Can't Be Too Strong," by Graham Parker. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Although it's not explicitly pro-life, this tune describes the horror of abortion with bracing honesty: "Did they tear it out with talons of steel, and give you a shot so that you wouldn't feel?" 31. "Small Town," by John Mellencamp. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A Burkean rocker: "No, I cannot forget where it is that I come from / I cannot forget the people who love me." 32. "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," by The Georgia Satellites. ; buy CD on Amazon.com An outstanding vocal performance, with lyrics that affirm old-time sexual mores: "She said no huggy, no kissy until I get a wedding vow." 33. "You Can't Always Get What You Want," by The Rolling Stones. ; buy CD on Amazon.com You can "[go] down to the demonstration" and vent your frustration, but you must understand that there's no such thing as a perfect society — there are merely decent and free ones. 34. "Godzilla," by Blue öyster Cult. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A 1977 classic about a big green monster — and more: "History shows again and again / How nature points up the folly of men." 35. "Who'll Stop the Rain," by Creedence Clearwater Revival. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Written as an anti–Vietnam War song, this tune nevertheless is pessimistic about activism and takes a dim view of both Communism and liberalism: "Five-year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains . . ." 36. "Government Cheese," by The Rainmakers. buy CD on Amazon.com A protest song against the welfare state by a Kansas City band that deserved more success than it got. The first line: "Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows." 37. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," by The Band. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Despite its sins, the American South always has been about more than racism — this song captures its pride and tradition. 38. "I Can't Drive 55," by Sammy Hagar. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A rocker's objection to the nanny state. (See also Hagar's pro-America song "VOA.") 39. "Property Line," by The Marshall Tucker Band. ; buy CD on Amazon.com The secret to happiness, according to these southern-rock heavyweights, is life, liberty, and property: "Well my idea of a good time / Is walkin' my property line / And knowin' the mud on my boots is mine." 40. "Wake Up Little Susie," by The Everly Brothers. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A smash hit in 1957, back when high-school social pressures were rather different from what they have become: "We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot." 41. "The Icicle Melts," by The Cranberries. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A pro-life tune sung by Irish warbler Dolores O'Riordan: "I don't know what's happening to people today / When a child, he was taken away . . . 'Cause nine months is too long." 42. "Everybody's a Victim," by The Proclaimers. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Best known for their smash hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," this Scottish band also recorded a catchy song about the problem of suspending moral judgment: "It doesn't matter what I do / You have to say it's all right . . . Everybody's a victim / We're becoming like the USA." 43. "Wonderful," by Everclear. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A child's take on divorce: "I don't wanna hear you say / That I will understand someday / No, no, no, no / I don't wanna hear you say / You both have grown in a different way / No, no, no, no / I don't wanna meet your friends / And I don't wanna start over again / I just want my life to be the same / Just like it used to be." 44. "Two Sisters," by The Kinks. buy CD on Amazon.com Why the "drudgery of being wed" is more rewarding than bohemian life. 45. "Taxman, Mr. Thief," by Cheap Trick. ; buy CD on Amazon.com An anti-tax protest song: "You work hard, you went hungry / Now the taxman is out to get you. . . . He hates you, he loves money." 46. "Wind of Change," by The Scorpions. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A German hard-rock group's optimistic power ballad about the end of the Cold War and national reunification: "The world is closing in / Did you ever think / That we could be so close, like brothers / The future's in the air / I can feel it everywhere / Blowing with the wind of change." 47. "One," by Creed. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Against racial preferences: "Society blind by color / Why hold down one to raise another / Discrimination now on both sides / Seeds of hate blossom further." 48. "Why Don't You Get a Job," by The Offspring. ; buy CD on Amazon.com The lyrics aren't exactly Shakespearean, but they're refreshingly blunt and they capture a motive force behind welfare reform. 49. "Abortion," by Kid Rock. buy CD on Amazon.com A plaintive song sung by a man who confronts his unborn child's abortion: "I know your brothers and your sister and your mother too / Man I wish you could see them too." 50. "Stand By Your Man," by Tammy Wynette. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Hillary trashed it — isn't that enough? If you're worried that Wynette's original is too country, then check out the cover version by Motörhead.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [human-ignorance] Re: Sun to Blame for Global Warming

Well, when Ronald Reagan informed me that trees were the major cause
of pollution, it really put my mind at ease. I stopped worrying and
learned to love Weyerhaeuser.

In fact, it inspired me to form a little group, a few Republican
panaceas and myself, and what we do is we go around at night and cut
down trees! We call our group the Humanity Liberation Front (HLF),
and we feel good about doing our part to protect the human race from
the terrorist expansionism of trees.

Now that I am aware of the threat from the sun, I'm going to encourage
the group to expand our operations, shift our focus from earth to
space, and see what we can do to cool down the sun. I remember in the
past some wise scientist proposed shooting the earth's nuclear waste
into the sun - that just might do the trick!

Get with the countdown, shake this square world and blast off for kicksville!

Matt
www.soundclick.com/BloodParadise

On 5/29/06, Geoff <teppich_maus@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Although climate changes and trends are on the whole a process of
> mother nature, this is not to say that humans do not play a part in
> our ecosystem. In the same way that we would conserve water during a
> drought, or conserve food during a famine, we should be taking the
> logical path of responsible behavior during this "global warming"
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> worrying about global warming! Thank you for sharing this and for
> advancing the cause of human ignorance!
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: is it me you looking for?

Hi Katelyn

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[CanYoAssDigIt] RE: Springsteen takes political tone on tour

Dear Tamera Conniff:

I read this quote from you in Reuters:

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"People will sort of endure Bruce's politics because they just love
the music," said Tamara Conniff, executive editor and associate
publisher of Billboard magazine, in a telephone interview before the
concert.
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I really have to disagree with you on this point. People love
Springsteen's politics, and they hate the politics of the people and
institutions he opposes. The president's approval has sunk into the
20s, providing confirmation that Springsteen is on the right track.

I wonder if you might be sort of mentally stuck in the time when your
father's group, the Ray Conniff Singers, offered the musical of bland
comfort food while war was waged on the population of another hapless
country. Ray may have left performing and recording radical tunes
like Guantanamera to firebrands like The Sandpipers, but it's a new
era and everybody's getting political: Springsteen, Neil Young, REM,
Bruce Cockburn, Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow , Radiohead, Dave Matthews
Band.... it goes on and on, and people respond to the polical message
because they are starved for truth... but things have changed; it's a
new era so get with the countdown, shake this square world and blast
off for kicksville!

Matt Love
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[CanYoAssDigIt] RE: [human-ignorance] Sun to Blame for Global Warming

Thank goodness, now I can get that SUV I always wanted, and stop worrying about global warming!  Thank you for sharing this and for advancing the cause of human ignorance!

Matt
www.soundclick.com/BloodParadise
Ignorant music for ignorant humans!

On 5/28/06, Geoff < teppich_maus@yahoo.de > wrote:

Sun to Blame for Global Warming
by John Carlisle

Those looking for the culprit responsible for global warming have
missed the obvious choice - the sun. While it may come as a
newsflash to some, scientific evidence conclusively shows that the
sun plays a far more important role in causing global warming and
global cooling than any other factor, natural or man-made. In fact,
what may very well be the ultimate ironic twist in the global
warming controversy is that the same solar forces that caused 150
years of warming are on the verge of producing a prolonged period of
cooling.

The evidence for future cooling is supported by considerable
scientific research that has only recently begun to come to light.
It wasn't until 1980, with the aid of NASA satellites, that
scientists definitively proved that the sun's brightness - or
radiance - varies in intensity, and that these variations occur in
predictable cyclical patterns. This was a crucial discovery because
the climate models used by greenhouse theory proponents always
assumed that the sun's radiance was constant. With that assumption
in hand, they could ignore solar influences and focus on other
influences, including human.

That turned out to be a reckless assumption. Further investigation
revealed that there is a strong correlation between the variations
in solar irradiance and fluctuations in the Earth's temperature.
When the sun gets dimmer, the Earth gets cooler; when the sun gets
brighter, the Earth gets hotter. So important is the sun in climate
change that half of the 1.5° F temperature increase since 1850 is
directly attributable to changes in the sun. According to NASA
scientists David Lind and Judith Lean, only one-quarter of a degree
can be ascribed to other causes, such as greenhouse gases, through
which human activities can theoretically exert some influence.

The correlation between major changes in the Earth's temperature and
changes in solar radiance is quite compelling. A perfect example is
the Little Ice Age that lasted from 1650 to 1850. Temperatures in
this era fell to as much as 2° F below today's temperature, causing
the glaciers to advance, the canals in Venice to freeze and major
crop failures. Interestingly, this dramatic cooling happened in a
period when the sun's radiance had fallen to exceptionally low
levels. Between 1645 and 1715, the sun was in a stage that
scientists refer to as the Maunder Minimum. In this minimum, the sun
has few sunspots and low magnetism which automatically indicates a
lower radiance level. When the sun began to emerge from the minimum,
radiance increased and by 1850 the temperature had warmed up enough
for the Little Ice Age to end.

The Maunder Minimum is not an isolated event: it is a cyclical
phenomenon that typically appears for 70 years following 200-300
years of warming. With only a few exceptions, whenever there is a
solar minimum, the Earth gets colder. For example, Europe in the
13th and 15th Centuries experienced significantly lower temperatures
and in both cases the cold spells coincided with a minimum. Similar
correlations were found in the 9th Century and again in the 7th
Century. Since 8700 B.C., there have been at least ten major cold
periods similar to the Little Ice Age. Nine of those ten cold spells
coincided with Maunder Minima.

There is no reason to believe that this 10,000-year-old cycle of
solar-induced warming and cooling will change. Dr. Sallie Baliunas,
an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics and one of the nation's leading experts on global
climate change, believes that we may be nearing the end of a solar
warming cycle. Since the last minimum ended in 1715, Baliunas says
there is a strong possibility that the Earth will start cooling off
in the early part of the 21st Century.

Indeed, it could already be happening. Of the 1.5° F in warming the
planet experienced over the last 150 years, two-thirds of that
increase, or one degree, occurred between 1850 and 1940. In the last
50 years, the planetary temperature increased at a significantly
slower rate of 0.5° F - precisely when dramatically increasing
amounts of man-made carbon dioxide emissions should have been
accelerating warming. Further buttressing the arguments for future
cooling is the evidence from NASA satellites that the global
temperature has actually fallen 0.04° F since 1979.

Of course, it is impossible to precisely predict when solar radiance
will drop and global temperatures will begin falling. But one thing
is certain: There is little evidence that mankind is responsible for
global warming. There is considerable evidence that the sun causes
warming and will most likely stimulate cooling in the not so distant
future.

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John K. Carlisle is the Director of The National Center for Public
Policy Research's Environmental Policy Task Force. Comments may be
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [canadianclassicrock] From the people who brought you Abba and Celine Dioff ...

Hey Renz,

you were so certain they wouldn't win! How I wish I would have put
some money down at those 11 to 1 odds...

I guess you don't know everything there is to know about the music
business after all... oh, sure, everybody loves Kelly Clarkson and
Mariah Carey, but from now on, when it comes to the Majesty of Rock,
and the Pageantry of Roll, Make Mine Lordi!

Prepare for the Arockalypse!

The day of rockoning is at hand!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Whisky Howl <snerkli@yahoo.ca>
Date: May 21, 2006 12:46 AM
Subject: [canadianclassicrock] From the people who brought you Abba
and Celine Dioff ...
To: canadianclassicrock@yahoogroups.com

Finland's Monster Rockers Lordi Sweep to Victory in Eurovision

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Lordi, a Finnish heavy-metal band that performs
in monster masks, won the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, the
first time Finland has won the contest in 40 years of trying.

``Hard Rock Hallelujah'' received 292 points from a telephone vote in
38 countries, beating Russian heart-throb Dima Bilan, who received 248
points. Bosnia-Herzegovina's Hari Mata Hari, a star in the former
Yugoslavia before the country descended into civil war in the early
1990s, was third with 229 points.

Lordi's victory will bring the Eurovision Song Contest to Finland for
the first time. Best known for Nokia phones, Finland had never placed
higher than sixth in the Eurovision Song Contest, the world's
most-watched song contest.

``How weird is this,'' the singer known as ``Mr. Lordi'' said in a
televised news conference after the event. ``We're a rock band and we
just won a pop song contest.''

First held in 1956, the Eurovision contest is best known for launching
the careers of performers such as Abba and Celine Dion. Last year's
final in the Ukraine was watched by more than 100 million viewers in
40 countries, three times the number of viewers who watched the final
of ``American Idol,'' the biggest U.S. television hit.

Lordi, rated 11/1 to win the final by bookmakers William Hill on
Friday, beat the favorites, Sweden's Carola and Greece's Anna Vissi,
the host country's entrant. Malta's Fabrizio Faniello avoided the
dreaded ``null'' points when it received one point from Albania,
placing last.

Twenty-four countries competed in the final, including first-timer
Armenia, which finished eighth with 129 points.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] News...

I have put a page up of wimps songs at:

www.soundclick.com/wimps

and created a myspace page at

www.myspace.com/wimpsoly ("wimp" "wimps" "thewimps" were already taken).

Myspace is where everybody goes, but soundclick allows you to upload
many songs more than myspace's total of 4, so I created pages at both
places. There are about a dozen songs at soundclick - eventually there
will be 27, several of them duplicates. as best I can remember, we had
about 18 songs at our peak - 2 of the last ones written were never
recorded as far as we know, and are lost and forgotten, so enjoy what
remains. Ron Arant provided me the mp3 files, which I appreciate a
good deal.

Mike Shaughnessy infomred me that he's on this list - I previously
said he wasn't, my mistake. Hi Mike

Thanks to Tobi for providing the link to her current band's MySpace page

http://www.myspace.com/spiderandthewebs

One song, and over 12,500 plays - between them all, the 4 wimps songs
have enjoyed an anemic 98 plays total. So indulge your nostalgia,
download some wimps, and boost those numbers.

If any of you have myspace (or other) pages for new or defunct bands,
please post the URL to the list.

Bryan, have you connected with James? I know some people were trying
to help you hook up. If it didn't work out, let me know, and I'll try
again.

Tonight I saw the future of rock and roll:

http://buttersprites.com/

and it looks (and sounds) a lot like the past. Kind of a cross
between Beat Happening and Wimps, with some B-52s and Shonin Knife
liberally mixed in. A lot of fun.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [ProgressiveTalk] DATA MINING AND SPYING ON AMERICANS

"And now ChoicePoint and George Bush want your blood. Forget your
phone bill. ChoicePoint, a sickened executive of the company told us
in confidence, "hope[s] to build a database of DNA samples from
every person in the United States ...linked to all the other
information held by CP [ChoicePoint]" from medical to voting
records."

And I thought that this was my one line of wild sci fi exaggeration
when I updated California Uber Alles in 2004:

Now it is 1984
Two decades late but at your door
We're here for you, resistance futile
We have your DNA on file

A couple of lines of my song "Christmas Bush" are weirdly precient, too.

Listen to them (and my other protest song "Golden Age of Beer") while
it's still legal, at:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=104664

On 5/13/06, brian305 <brian305@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Times and USA Today have Missed the Bigger Story -- Again
>
> By Greg Palast
>
> 05/12/06 -"ICH" - -I know you're shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that George
> Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant.
> That's nothing. And it's not news.
>
> This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the
> pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration's
> Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond
> the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You
> can call it the privatization of the FBI -- though it is better
> described as the creation of a private KGB.
>
> The leader in the field of what is called "data mining," is a
> company, formed in 1997, called, "ChoicePoint, Inc," which has
> sucked up over a billion dollars in national security contracts.
>
> Worried about Dick Cheney listening in Sunday on your call to Mom?
> That ain't nothing. You should be more concerned that they are
> linking this info to your medical records, your bill purchases and
> your entire personal profile including, not incidentally, your
> voting registration. Five years ago, I discovered that ChoicePoint
> had already gathered 16 billion data files on Americans -- and I
> know they've expanded their ops at an explosive rate.
>
> They are paid to keep an eye on you -- because the FBI can't. For
> the government to collect this stuff is against the law unless
> you're suspected of a crime. (The law in question is the
> Constitution.) But ChoicePoint can collect if for "commercial"
> purchases -- and under the Bush Administration's suspect reading of
> the Patriot Act -- our domestic spying apparatchiks can then BUY the
> info from ChoicePoint.
>
> Who ARE these guys selling George Bush a piece of you?
>
> ChoicePoint's board has more Republicans than a Palm Beach country
> club. It was funded, and its board stocked, by such Republican sugar
> daddies as billionaires Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone -- even after
> Langone was charged by the Securities Exchange Commission with abuse
> of inside information.
>
> I first ran across these guys in 2000 in Florida when our
> Guardian/BBC team discovered the list of 94,000 "felons" that
> Katherine Harris had ordered removed from Florida's voter rolls
> before the election. Virtually every voter purged was innocent of
> any crime except, in most cases, Voting While Black. Who came up
> with this electoral hit list that gave Bush the White House?
> ChoicePoint, Inc.
>
> And worse, they KNEW the racially-tainted list of felons was bogus.
> And when we caught them, they lied about it. While they've since
> apologized to the NAACP, ChoicePoint's ethnic cleansing of voter
> rolls has been amply assuaged by the man the company elected.
>
> And now ChoicePoint and George Bush want your blood. Forget your
> phone bill. ChoicePoint, a sickened executive of the company told us
> in confidence, "hope[s] to build a database of DNA samples from
> every person in the United States ...linked to all the other
> information held by CP [ChoicePoint]" from medical to voting
> records.
>
> And ChoicePoint lied about that too. The company publicly denied
> they gave DNA to the Feds -- but then told our investigator,
> pretending to seek work, that ChoicePoint was "the number one"
> provider of DNA info to the FBI.
>
> "And that scares the hell out of me," said the executive (who has
> since left the company), because ChoicePoint gets it WRONG so often.
> We are not contracting out our Homeland Security to James Bond here.
> It's more like Austin Powers, Inc. Besides the 97% error rate in
> finding Florida "felons," Illinois State Police fired the company
> after discovering ChoicePoint had produced test "results" on rape
> case evidence ... that didn't exist. And ChoicePoint just got hit
> with the largest fine in Federal Trade Commission history for
> letting identity thieves purchase 145,000 credit card records.
>
> But it won't stop, despite Republican senators shedding big
> crocodile tears about "surveillance" of innocent Americans. That's
> because FEAR is a lucrative business -- not just for ChoicePoint,
> but for firms such as Syntech, Sybase and Lockheed-Martin -- each of
> which has provided lucrative posts or profits to connected
> Republicans including former Total Information Awareness chief John
> Poindexter (Syntech), Marvin Bush (Sybase) and Lynn Cheney (Lockheed-
> Martin).
>
> But how can they get Americans to give up our personal files, our
> phone logs, our DNA and our rights? Easy. Fear sells better than
> sex -- and they want you to be afraid. Back to today's New York
> Times, page 28: "Wider Use of DNA Lists is Urged in Fighting Crime."
> And who is providing the technology? It comes, says the Times, from
> the work done on using DNA fragments to identity victims of the
> September 11 attack. And who did that job (for $12 million, no bid)?
> ChoicePoint, Inc. Which is NOT mentioned by the Times.
>
> "Genetic surveillance would thus shift from the individual [the
> alleged criminal] to the family," says the Times -- which will
> require, of course, a national DNA database of NON-criminals.
>
> It doesn't end there. Turn to the same newspaper, page 23, with a
> story about a weird new law passed by the state of Georgia to fight
> illegal immigration. Every single employer and government agency
> will be required to match citizen or worker data against national
> databases to affirm citizenship. It won't stop illegal border
> crossing, but hey, someone's going to make big bucks on selling
> data. And guess what local boy owns the data mine? ChoicePoint,
> Inc., of Alpharetta, Georgia.
>
> The knuckleheads at the Times don't put the three stories together
> because the real players aren't in the press releases their
> reporters re-write.
>
> But that's the Fear Industry for you. You aren't safer from
> terrorists or criminals or "felon" voters. But the national wallet
> is several billion dollars lighter and the Bill of Rights is a
> couple amendments shorter.
>
> And that's their program. They get the data mine -- and we get the
> shaft.
> Greg Palast is author of Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama
> Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's
> Behind Left and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class
> War, out June 6. You can order it now.
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13022.htm
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Britney Spears' Constitutional Sedition

Britney Spears doesn't really appear in this article, I just put her
name in the Subject line because it's way more interesting that way.

impeachable, impeachable, impeachable, yadda yadda yadda.

we don't need at this stinking legal nitpicking.

All we need to do is ask ourselves WWSD - what would superman do?

Would he tap the phone lines of every single American, and catch the
bad guys and leave the good guys alone?

Of course he would.

So lets get back to American Idol and Extreme Home Makeover and stop
worrying about the government like Talking Heads said!

Right on!

May 15, 2006
General Hayden's Constitutional Sedition

Rewriting the Fourth Amendment

By DAVE LINDORFF

Bush's nominee for head of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, at a press
conference, offered an interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution that removes the requirement of "probable cause" from
that important guarantee of freedom.

Asked by Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder about the Fourth Amendment's
standard of "probable cause" for issuance of a warrant for a police
search, Gen. Hayden disputed the standard.

"No, actually -- the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us
against unreasonable search and seizure." Hayden said, trying to
correct Landay.

"But it does say probable" Landay tried to interject.

"No, the amendment says unreasonable search and seizure," snapped Hayden.

Now the problem here is that the General, who was running the National
Security Agency as it has been operating a secret program, just
disclosed by USA Today, that monitors the phone calling records of
virtually all phone customers of AT&T, Bell South and Verizon, is
selectively quoting from the Fourth Amendment.

In fact, what the Fourth Amendment says is:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The trick here is that under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA), the NSA is required to obtain a court warrant for any domestic
surveillance. What Bush has done is to authorize secret monitoring of
Americans communications without a warrant. At the same time, once he
was caught in the act, both Bush and Gen. Hayden have claimed that
they are following the same strict guidelines as if they were going to
court for a warrant.

Clearly, however, the standard for a warrant, as laid out by the
Founding Fathers, is "probably cause," not the much looser
"reasonable" that Hayden asserted to Landay at the press conference.

We Americans, and the members of Congress who are being asked to
consider Hayden's fitness to serve as CIA director, need to challenge
this spook's sleight of hand.

Clearly there is no "probable cause" for monitoring all the phone
records of the entire customer base of three of the nation's largest
phone service providers.

That's why Hayden tried so hard to deny that the standard for
monitoring people's communications is "probable cause."

The president and his subordinates have been found out violating the
Constitution in a serious way.

If this is not an impeachable act, I don't know what is.

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the
Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch
columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common
Courage Press. Lindorff's new book, "The Case for Impeachment",
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is due out May 1.

He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com

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[CanYoAssDigIt] takes one to know one...

Mr Bush said his brother Jeb, Florida's governor, would make "a great president"



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zoltan Abraham <zsazle@yahoo.com>
Date: May 12, 2006 8:21 AM
Subject: [progressive] Hillary Praises Bush
To: Progressive List < progressive@yahoogroups.com>

 

Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 by the Guardian / UK

Clinton Turns On Charm to Woo the Right · Ex-first lady praises Bush's 'charm and charisma' · Murdoch shows support as campaign kicks off

by Oliver Burkeman

Hillary Clinton's political shift to the right reached new territory this week as she warmly praised George Bush at a speech in Washington and defended her decision to let Rupert Murdoch sponsor a fundraising event on her behalf. On the day that a New York Times poll found Mr Bush's approval ratings at an all-time low of 31%, the leading contender for the Democratic party's 2008 presidential nomination praised the US president's "charm and charisma". Asked to name a good thing about Mr Bush, Ms Clinton, a New York senator, said she had been "very grateful to him for his support for New York" after the attacks on September 11 2001. Though the two had had "many disagreements" he had been "very willing to talk". She added: "He's been affable." When she asked him for help for New York "he immediately said yes" (though the president has been accused by other politicians of falling far short of his promised $20bn, or £10.7bn, in aid and tax breaks). Ms Clinton's strategic refashioning is fast rendering her unrecognisable from the first lady who, eight years ago, accused a "vast rightwing conspiracy" of plotting against her husband, Bill Clinton. Mr Murdoch's Fox News channel has long been one of her most strident critics, but she said yesterday of the media mogul: "He's my constituent, and I'm very gratified that he thinks I'm doing a good job." The fundraising will ostensibly be for Ms Clinton's senate re-election campaign, but she is so far ahead in that contest as not to need the support of the only Murdoch forum that could make much of a difference, the tabloid New York Post. Her courting of Mr Murdoch is part of a grander strategy, mirrored by statements designed to portray her as no less pugilistic on terrorism than Mr Bush. "This shows her to be a consensus-builder, someone who's not polarising," Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic party consultant, said. "The rightwing take on her has always been that she's polarising. Certainly, there will be people on the left that may not like this relationship [with Mr Murdoch] but the fact that she could forge it speaks well of her ability to build consensus ... To be president, you've got to win the support of white Catholic men in the midwest. They don't tolerate shrieking and they don't tolerate polarisers." But Ms Clinton's efforts risk alienating those who argue that a "Republican-lite" platform cannot draw enough support. "Afraid to offend, she has limited her policy proposals to minor, symbolic issues ... meanwhile, she remains behind the curve or downright incoherent on pressing issues such as the war in Iraq," the blogger Markos Moulitsas wrote in the Washington Post at the weekend. Ms Clinton's most likely Republican challenger, Senator John McCain, is working vigorously, booked to speak at the Christian fundamentalist Liberty University, and the liberal New School in New York. Another possibility was raised yesterday as Mr Bush said his brother Jeb, Florida's governor, would make "a great president". Jeb Bush has said he would not run, but the president said: "I truly don't think he knows." Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

 

 

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