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Just a little ditty I wrote - go(r)d - 09-01-2004

I don't want to beat a dead horse but the coverage of the Republican convention was raising the hair on the back of my neck, with their "compassion" theme and all...so I felt inspired to write this little song. Let me know what you think...even if you think it's silly or cliche.

I have never recorded music into my computer...what's the best way to do it? I don't even have a tape player to record to, and I wasn't going to waste money on one this late in the game...I want to record directly into my computer. Is there one type of microphone that is best?

Anyway...let this be a lesson to the rest of ya...don't piss me off or so help me God, I'll write a song about you! :lol:

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Two More Months

A doctor can’t operate unless qualified
The cops got their rules and orders to follow
They shoot a black man and the country cries foul
They shoot a protestor and it’s so hard to swallow

But a rich oil yuppie got the power to kill
If they’re wearing a turban they’re all fair game
Muhammad is a profanity in a nation of fear
A long black beard is more or less the same

Junior don’t know his right hand from left
If it ain’t what he wants to hear, he don’t want to know
Daddy gave him the keys to the car
And he done wrapped it ’round a telephone pole

Speaking in soundbites comes easy to simple minds
“Come out, come out, or we’ll blow your house down!”
Little piggy sat tight with a gun behind the door
More afraid of fifty stars than the devil he knows in his town
“We got our tanks, we got our missiles
The fearsome Patriots, the dreaded Stingers
Let us in our we’ll put up our dukes!”
And he put up his middle finger

It’s so easy to talk about dots on a map
Ten thousand miles from the humanity your soldiers face
So easy to talk about them being greeted with open arms
But you can pull strings so your kids are never put in their place

Is that the prerogative of the Land Of The Free?
To stamp our brand of freedom on the rest of the globe?
To them it means freedom from the American Empire
But freedom’s been bushwhacked by wolves in sheep’s clothes

They say “I can’t be a killer; look at my daughters
I’m a Christian family man.”
Tell that to the families screaming to Allah
Burying their children in the bloodstained sand

The journalists don’t much care for right or wrong
Life’s easier when you don’t bite the hand that feeds you
They sell their soul for a job on the front lines
Embedded with, in bed with, at the expense of the Truth.
The people can’t see it and the media keep ‘em blind
Sayin’ don’t worry about what the big men have the power to do
How is that not so much more of a crime
Than gettin’ blowjobs in the Oval’s back room?

So now everyone with a mic’s foaming at the mouth
All these backseat drivers with something to say
Hell, even them American Idols
Are wading into the political fray
So who’s a young voter to believe?
We follow and trust our leaders from our inception
Our lives are in their hands, but now
Our country is wrapped up in their deceptions

Gotta give the keys to the car to a sober driver,
The keys to the office to one of sober second thought
Two more months! Two more months!
Til these past four years can be locked away and forgot.

- clearlyentranced - 09-02-2004

I'm a shitty writer..according to Lord Brazle, but I do know good writing when I see it, well done.

- grooveless touque - 09-02-2004

I know this hasn't generated much political discussion (but I did like it!) so I thought you might enjoy this editorial from the Globe and Mail's irascible Desmond Morton...

"Misunderestimating a Leader"

Republicans in New York this week are doing all they can to accentuate the positive on George W. Bush, their inevitable presidential candidate. Bravely nursing their badly twisted arms, the only two Republicans with bipartisan prestige, Senator John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, delivered their carefully designed prose as if they meant it.

Mr. Bush, Americans were told, was "rock-solid" for the war; his Democratic rival, Senator John Kerry, was actually guilty of changing his mind. In rock-simple analogy, George Bush was a war leader comparable to that robust British hero of an earlier generation, Winston S. Churchill.

This might have astonished Canadians. Those of my greying generation were raised on phrases from Churchill's wartime speeches. The White House speech writers have yet to plant a single Dubya thought in our heads.

Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh left a memorable icon of the wartime prime minister, by wrenching the ever-present cigar from Churchill and recording the resulting indignation. Mr. Bush looks pugnacious in photographs, but there's no evidence of his enemies cringing in alarm. Only his friends look nervous.

Of course, George Bush has never been a Canadian favourite. In 2000, the year of his presidential victory, opinion polls north of the U.S. border put his rival, Al Gore, well ahead, even in Alberta, a province that otherwise might seem like a happy hunting ground for a Republican. Last June, nothing defeated Stephen Harper faster than his premature claim that he and his Republican Party of Canada might win a majority.

Americans are different.

Historians hesitate to pass judgment until all or most of the facts are in. What we know now is the highly imperfect evidence of presidential flatterers, critics and the media. Election rhetoric has no truth-in-advertising sticker. However, in September, 2004, it is hard to find evidence that George Bush has been a great success as a war leader.

The United States is bogged down in Iraq, with a deep deficit and a job-losing economy. The diversion of troops from Afghanistan means that a plausible war on terrorism is stalled and even in retreat.

Anger at the U.S. feeds the fanaticism that breeds terrorists. Having declared war on terrorism as a means to rally patriotic fervour and to secure greater presidential powers, President Bush now confesses that his war cannot be won — hardly a Churchillian strategy.

These days, President Bush now justifies his assault on Saddam Hussein with human-rights arguments. A year ago, such arguments vanished under fear of promoting "nation building." The world was invited to believe in an imaginary arsenal of Iraqi nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and in an improbable linkage between Baath secularists and the Islamic fundamentalists of al-Qaeda.

All the arguments that restrained George Bush Sr. from seizing Baghdad a decade earlier are being borne out. Running Iraq has been a problem for anyone who ever tried, from the Turks to the British to Iraq's own civil and military governments. How do you create democracy when you really don't want the majority of the population, the Shiites, to be in charge? How do you satisfy the Kurds without enraging Turkey and Iran? How do you impose peace when coalition forces capable of "shock and awe" were far too few to avoid weeks of anarchy or to prevent floods of arms and explosives vanishing into the hands of anyone who wanted some?

These problems were not invisible; they were publicized by U.S. generals and diplomats as soon as they discovered what the right-wing ideologues who manage George W. Bush had in their pre-stressed concrete minds. Even competent war leaders must have at least enough brains and backbone to argue with their advisers.

Winston Churchill was, indeed, such a war leader. He both symbolized and inspired the stubborn resistance of a country that by all the rules was defeated in 1940 but refused to give up. The bulldog pose grew out of a long personal experience of war, from the North-West Frontier of India to commanding infantry in the trenches of the First World War. The matchless prose flowed from Churchill's intellectual mastery of English.

Starting with the memoirs of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, senior staff officer of Britain's army through much of the war, we learned that Churchill bedevilled his advisers with an endless series of proposals and notions, and argued fiercely with them. Some of his ideas were absurdly wrong — such as that Italy and Yugoslavia constituted "a soft under-belly of Europe," or that refrigeration techniques could create a floating airport iceberg called Habakkuk. Yet he also got things right: As Richard Wright points out in a marvellous book, Tank , that symbol of 20th-century warfare owed its early development to a first lord of the Admiralty named Winston Churchill.

As war leaders, both George Bush and Winston Churchill have been utterly wrong-headed and exasperating to their advisers. Churchill suffered a humiliating electoral defeat at the end of his war. Good friends of the United States may hope that George W. Bush shares that fate. Lacking the ultimate evidence that historians properly demand, the parallels stop there. To paraphrase a famous American saying: George, you are no Winston Churchill!

- CanuckCourage - 09-02-2004

I like it alot go®d, great observations on society and the willingness of ignorance. Listening to alot of the little soundbites from the Democrat convention the last few days is disturbing, offensive and outright scary. Scary to see thousands buy into a line of rhetoric and just plain BS, leaves you dumbfounded. It's like wake the F*** UP !! Akin to experiencing a silent scream in a nightmare, yelling but no one hears.

- The Darkest Canuck - 09-02-2004

good song, now you need to work on getting Tom Morello & company to record it with you Wink.