Songs of Protest
29 AprSongs of Protest
Editorial – The Nation
See and hear some of the mentioned protests here.
I especially recommend Pink’s “Dear Mr. President”.
Another voice heard on immigration and the Spanish version of the National Anthem
29 AprO’zog, kenstu sehn, wenn bagin licht dervacht
Click. Go read it. This is worth the time.
Credit to jokermage
Now that you have read about the “Compassionate Conservative”, how about this bit of bigotry
29 AprCNN: Bush: Sing ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ in English
The national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish — President Bush declared Friday, amid growing restlessness over the millions of immigrants here illegally.
“One of the things that’s very important is, when we debate this issue, that we not lose our national soul,” the president exclaimed. “One of the great things about America is that we’ve been able to take people from all walks of life bound as one nation under God. And that’s the challenge ahead of us.”
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Read the entire ugly thing by clicking the title.
Another highly appropriate quote on politics
27 AprThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Sound like anyone we all know (and don’t love)?
Marx on Politics… Not Karl, Groucho
27 AprPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
Somehow this seemed especially appropriate.
An Aging Trans Woman 