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What was the best song ever written in the 60's? Oh damn. We can argue all day. But I am writing this blog so I get to choose. Hahahahahah

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH

Steven Stills behind Bobby Dylan is my favorite writer and songster. The difference of course lies in the fact that Stills could kind of sing. Hahahahah

Okay, Dylan is GOD. But Stills grabbed me somehow. The song I am unfolding here for this little essay is the single most important message I ever received from a rock artist: whatever rock artist means.  Well, let us unfold my idea of a masterpiece:

There's something happening here.

But it just ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

As if their current governor and his predecessor have not done enough damage to Texans' reputation for Constitutional acuity, nearly 1 in 3 Texas voters think that their state has the legal right to secede from the Union, according to a new Rasmussen Poll.

umm, no.  

Alabama Republican House candidate Rick Barber released an ad yesterday wherein he sits at a table with the ghosts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Samuel Adams (note: they may have actually been time traveling - this is unclear) ranting about the IRS and talking about impeaching the president. The ad climaxes with one of the Founders declaring, "Gather your armies."

While Fox Nation dubbed the insipid ad "amazing" yesterday,...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006150032

There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

My goodness, we have oracles on the airwaves:

• Engaging in his usual violent fearmongering about "revolutionaries" wanting to "overthrow our entire system of government," Beck claimed that "the revolution of 1776 was a picnic compared to what the revolutionaries of today would like to do." He added, "usually, millions of people die."
• Once again pushing back on the idea that Beck himself is "fomenting rebellion," Beck told Bill O'Reilly that "trouble is coming...it will be the French Revolution, not the American Revolution."
• Discussing the supposed "soft revolution" led by progressives designed to silence critics like him, Glenn Beck declared that when all else fails, eventually "they just start shooting people."
• While talking about how the "world is on edge," Beck told his viewers that "those who survive" will "stand in the truth" and "listen."
• While discussing the ongoing controversy over Arizona's immigration law, he told his listeners that "we are being pushed" towards civil war and that Obama is "trying to destroy the country."
• During his commencement speech at Liberty University, Beck told graduates that they "have a responsibility" to speak out, or "blood...will be on our hands." His advice for graduates (as well as his daughter) included "shoot to kill."
• After quoting Thomas Jefferson, Beck warned that "there will be rivers of blood if we don't have values and principles."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006150032

Where is the Restoring Honor event located?
The event stage will be located on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Several video screens and sound towers will be placed along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Remember that these monuments are located in a National Park and are open to the public as well as attendees of our event. Safety for all is our primary concern so please follow all rules posted and be respectful of all in attendance.

What are the hours of the Rally?
Official hours are 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2010.

Is the event free of charge?
Yes, the event is free of charge. No tickets or pre-registration required with the exception of buses. All buses traveling to the event will need to register (also free of charge). You can register your bus here.

http://www.glennbeck.com/828/

What a field-day for the heat

A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and they carrying signs

Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

In the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers observed that when government ceases to listen to the will of the people, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, and that when a long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government.

At the hands of successive Congresses dating to Roosevelt's New Deal, Americans have suffered a "long train of abuses and usurpations (designed) to reduce them under absolute despotism," and if it continues, Americans have the right and the duty "to throw off such government," peaceably if possible, but by force if necessary.

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

You step out of line, the man come and take you away

Jon Chait explained, "There's been a lot of wild, loose rhetoric on the right since Obama took office -- wilder and more mainstream than the equivalent on the left under George W. Bush -- but Angle is really taking things dangerously far. The protection of the law is not enough to ensure the survival of a democracy. Democracies rely upon certain social and cultural norms in order to survive. An important one is a basic respect for the democratic process and a refusal to hint about the idea of actual armed rebellion. Angle did not quite advocate armed rebellion, but she did clearly egg it on it in a way that melds prediction with encouragement....The alarming thing is not so much what Angle said but how relatively little a ripple it has made.... It really seems like a dangerous milestone is the darkening mood of the American right."

You better stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, now, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs

ALLER: So it's OK to say "nigger"?

SCHLESSINGER: -- and not enough sense of humor.

CALLER: It's OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It depends how it's said.

CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It's -- it depends how it's said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it's OK.

CALLER: But you're not black. They're not black. My husband is white.

SCHLESSINGER: Oh, I see. So, a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can't do much about that.

CALLER: I can't believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the "nigger" word, and I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: I didn't spew out the "nigger" word.

CALLER: You said, "Nigger, nigger, nigger."

SCHLESSINGER: Right, I said that's what you hear.

CALLER: Everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: Yes, they did.

CALLER: I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: They did, and I'll say it again --

CALLER: So what makes it OK for you to say the word?

SCHLESSINGER: -- nigger, nigger, nigger is what you hear on HB --

CALLER: So what makes it --

SCHLESSINGER: Why don't you let me finish a sentence?

CALLER: OK.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201008130001

Anyway, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH is the single greatest song of the 60's.

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