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Baghdad 5 Years Later. Seriously WTF Have We Done to Iraq?
For the US administration and its supporters, the war might be going great for all we know. They probably did, and do, have a VERY good reason for going in there. At least from where they sit. None of the misery or failures affect the matters that concern them. It's expensive? The rich don't pay taxes any more. Soldiers are killed? As good as none of those guys have family in the armed forces. Government is bankrupt? Never much cared for it anway. One thing that obviously was important is for the oil to go out onto the "free" market, where anybody _could_ buy it. Sounds egalitarian and fair, but the likeliest big winners are relatively few and they know who they are. The one thing you will never never hear from the government in Bagdad are calls to nationalize the oil resources. This mission really is accomplished, and Bush may actually consider it a success--he has said and may actually believe that history will exonerate him. All we need now are enough police to keep the business running. We're not quite there yet, and from the administration point of view, this may be the only failure. Therefore, the best solution: more cops. Pulling out, at the very least, means just one thing: fewer cops. Police is always the one public service that Republicans really really like--always looking for that government handout to help them hold on to all their stuff.
SO that's why this video rocks. The final remaining stated and moral claim to support the invasion, the freeing of the poor, long-suffering Iraqi people, is as obvious a distraction as all of the other ones were. This video illustrates that fantastically. (I've gotta go out and see the rest.)
This whole business is criminal, but technically legal. We're probably going to have to accept that all these guys are going to get away with it. I suppose if we need vengeance, we could go after them for some distantly related, but ridiculously lesser crime, such as with Al Capone and tax evasion. But this vengeance would just be a pointless and counterproductive distraction from the problem that so desperately needs to be solved: how can we make sure it doesn't happen again? Until then, it will good-as never stop. What laws--even constitutional updates--are needed? What unfortunate human tendencies is our system encouraging in us, that this has been allowed to happen?
You wanna know who is least likely to fix it? The upcoming Democratic Party cross-government majority. They are next in line, and they've been waiting a long long time.
But maybe all of that is just a bit too conspiratorial. It might have been just stupidity and bigotry the whole way through. Muslims bombed New York. Saddam's Iraq was the least popular and easiest to beat up bunch of muslims that had any milk money for us to steal. So everybody gathered round and cheered while the football captain put his boot in. And, oh yeah, they bombed Afghanistan too.
Embarrassingly inappropriate news commentary
'Up In Smoke' - Cheech & Chong pick up the van made of weed
Black Sabbath - 'War Pigs' - Live in Paris 1970
Is it me, or do we hear alternative lyrics after the solo? (Maybe he just forgot the real ones.) Too bad, because I always liked that last verse from the LP:
Now in darkness, world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
All right now!
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
This number always seemed like the most ignored song on "Paranoid" (their second, and IMHO best LP by far). Nevertheless (or maybe even therefore), one of my favorites, and one that would probably have been the best song on any of their later albums.
Thinking of the recent "favorite album covers" thread on the Talk, "Paranoid" needs a nomination for one of the worst covers of all time, or at least the hugest gap between art and music quality.
Everybody shut up and leave me alone
What are your favorite album covers? (Art Talk Post)
Here's a cover that may be largely responsible for a 40-year career (it helps that the music was and has stayed great too):
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/K/king_crimson_court.html
Roger Dean was a great match for the music of Yes--really seemed to complete them. His most elaborate work for the band:
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/Y/yes.html
Led Zeppelin also produced a couple of fun covers, with cutouts and moving bits so you could customize them, kinda. Zeppelin III had cutouts with a rotating inner layer of different pictures that showed through. Physical Graffiti had a bunch of windows cut out, with different scenes for each one on the various inner sleeves of the double album. You can't get that with a CD, and the Internet images I found weren't very helpful either.
There are a couple of CDs with fun covers, though. Tool, also mentioned above, had a 3D cover for Ænima and another kind of 3D booklet and glasses for 10,000 Days; Lateralus featured a booklet printed on clear plastic, so you could peel away the image like in some anatomy books you may have seen. Also Beck's "The Information" was basically blank and came with lots of stickers so you could make your own version.
andy warhol interview
my15minutes
His 3 albums are some of the most valued treasures of my 90s CD collection, so I couldn't help jumping back on the old 900-foot bandwagon by posting another of his videos. Didn't know he used to have long hair!
P.S. Your avatar is the first album I ever owned! (yes, on vinyl)
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cool. just caught another mc900'j tune, from a probie:
http://www.videosift.com/video/MC-900-ft-Jesus-Truth-Is-Out-Of-Style