April 30, 2006

• SUNDAY GOOD NEWS

  Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young is 60 now, a transplanted
  Canadian who’s been paying American taxes for 40 years and bringing us
  his own brand of folk-rock and hard rock with guitar and song since the
  Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the ‘60’s
  and ‘70’s. Just one year ago he suffered a brain aneurysm and was
  treated successfully.  Seems it didn’t hold him back.  In
  September 2005 he released Prairie Wind.  In 2006 the film Neil
  Young:  Heart of Gold premiered at the Sundance Festival. 
  And just this past Friday, this patriotic American/Canadian brought us a brand
  new album for FREE  called Living with War.  You can listen
  to the entire album here until its release on
  May 8 in stores.  It’s already hit #3 on Amazon.com in pre-orders
  as of yesterday.  Asked this week if he was afraid about a
  backlash to his CD, he said, “I’m not in the least bit concerned. I
  expect it. I respect other people’s opinions. That`s part of what makes
  the United States and Canada and all free countries great, is the fact
  that you can differ with your friend and you can still sit down at the
  same table and break bread with your friend.”  This summer he will
  head out on a “Freedom of Speech” tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash &
  Young starting July 6 in, where else, Philadelphia, traveling the
  country, and winding up back in Pittsburgh on Sept. 10.   For
  more about Neil Young, click here.
  Some day maybe we’ll have politicians who care to speak out for us like
  he does.  Meanwhile, here are the lyrics for one of the songs on
  the album:

  Let’s impeach the president for lying
  And leading our country into war
  Abusing all the power that we gave him
  And shipping all our money out the door
  He’s the man who hired all the criminals
  The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
  And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
  Of why we have to send our men to war

  Let’s impeach the president for spying
  On citizens inside their own homes
  Breaking every law in the country
  By tapping our computers and telephones
  What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
  Would New Orleans have been safer that way
  Sheltered by our government’s protection
  Or was someone just not home that day?

  Let’s impeach the president
  For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
  Dividing our country into colors
  And still leaving black people neglected
  Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
  Since he sold his old baseball team
  There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
  But of course the president is clean
  Thank God
  

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  Deep Thought:  “I think the most beautiful sunset I ever saw was on page 4 and 5 of The Book of Sunsets.”
  Today I am grateful for:  Individuality
  Guess the Movie:  “I am
  leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe
  grown smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group,
  anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all,
  or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom,
  except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this, when
  they made laws to govern themselves, and hired policemen to enforce
  them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We
  have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets, and for
  the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher
  authority, is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our
  policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the
  planets in space-ships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters
  of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us … this power
  cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act
  automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their
  action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace;
  without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from
  aggression and war. Free to pursue more profitable enterprises. Now, we
  do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system,
  and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of
  ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your
  violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.
  Your choice is simple … join us and live in peace, or pursue your
  present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your
  answer … the decision rests with you.”  Answer:  The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951.  Winner:  HomerTheBrave
  300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest
  
  by Desmond Butler
  Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through
  Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
  just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in
  Baghdad – the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this
  month.  (Rest of article here.)

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