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- A Lie Repeated...- I've often stated, and I firmly believe, as I seem to be proven correct, that a lie repeated, may be accepted as fact, but the truth repeated, becomes self evident. So what are we waiting for?? As the "Drill here! Drill now!" crowd repeat their pro oil meme daily in the MSM, and the pundits go all bobbly-headed in support of their misleading and insane ideas... as seen in this nauseating video...
- The Hippie White House-
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If it is true that our earliest experiences are the most influential (child is father to the man and all that) then the sixties are the dominant years for our current leaders. It has since become a cliché that the era never really ended and continues to fundamentally shape our discourse, but I only agree to a point. After all, every generation is shaped by the events of its time and those events exert an ongoing influence. On the other hand, the turbulence then does make it more influential than other periods. Starting with the Kennedy assassination and ending with Watergate there was an unpopular draft, the Vietnam war, additional traumatic political murders and other momentous events that have cast a very long shadow. And of course the generation formed in this cauldron was also part of a huge population spike, which imprinted the swirl of controversy even more firmly on the national psyche. But even without the demographic component it was destined to be much-discussed because it was marked by contentiousness that has not been matched until perhaps recently. (Side note to today's young people: Hope you like those arguments you're having! You can look forward to another forty years of them.)
- Peace Sign, Pot Leaf, Darwin Fish, Upside Down Flag- A Brief Compendium of Dirty Fucking Hippy© Values This is just a short look at my values and what issues I find important. This election season finds America bitterly divided, and I don't just mean rightwingers versus the Left. I mean that even the Democratic party, as much as MOST of it wants "unity" in the quest for electoral dominance in November and beyond, has some rather deep rifts.
