Time to get our heads right

So much shit. Who do you trust? Which way is up?...Up, down, right, left....

Did we torture? Yes, we did but was it legal?
Fuck you, it WAS against the law!

No, you dirty damn hippie, our lawyers wrote the magic memo! It was legal, kinda.
Besides, we had too! The evil Brown People were coming to make us all Muslim!

The give and take between the right and the left is getting shrill. This is just the torture memos. Health care is on the table now and we have some of our own party blocking single payer insurance. The corporate whores of the for-profit health care industry, the insurance industry, and the pharmaceutical companies are no-holds barred trying to woo Dems away from Obama's original plan.

The battles are on many fronts today. Too many to count and too many to mount much opposition. Our personal windmills are being pushed into the background as the MSM determines what story should be foremost on the news. This means my issues of affordable health care and decriminalized marijuana take a back seat to Miss California's tits.

So, I give you a moment of zen. A musical Valium to wrap your head around the situation and get a new perspective. This video takes us back to a time when the country was in chaos like now. Different time, different war, different players but the shit was just as deep. Then, as now, music was our channel to truth. Or at least the seeds of it.



I will update this post in a few. Work is calling and I have to bring home my meager slice of bacon. Enjoy the trip!

So Mote It Be,
David A,

Spring Fever

Been a little lax in posting lately. Not for want of any topics, there's shit falling from all fronts. My attention has been turned toward getting healthy.

As some of you know, I recently turned 50 and with that came a whole myriad of problems. Turning 50 didn't bring them on, it merely shone the light of attention on them.

So, I've been trying to get ahead of those while working odd hours at the shop. Racking up medical bills in the process. To keep sane, I've been working on a few projects as well as trying to keep up with the web-ring circus.

The cannabis series will continue as will a couple of posts on religion. Hope to have them in the fire by the weekend.

So, just a little blip to let you know I'm still breathing.

On a side note, the company that I work for has come out decidedly anti-union. Even threatening to take its business purchases overseas if we don't keep anti-worker rules from the Bush Administration in place. I really have some opinions on that but have to keep it on the down low. Lots of folks at work know about this little blip in blogtopia (thanks, Skip!). They'd send me to the showers in a heart beat if I gave them a reason. Fuck 'em.

Also, my most recent batch of cranberry pork salami is a big hit. Will make another 10 pounds for the opening day of fishing season April 25. Now there's a party!

So Mote It Be,
David A.

Change you really can believe in

Just in time for the Inauguration...



(via dcist.com)

Say goodbye to Bush, get a new president and free hookers!
But act now, there's an expiration date.

God Bless the USA!

David A.