FOUR MORE YEARS, AND FOUR MORE AFTER THAT, I PLEDGE MY UNDYING FEALTY TO OUR FEUDAL LORDS and etc.
addendum: Yes, I know loyalty day has been around for some time now. that wasn’t my point. Though, why complain? Obama just doin as Heads of State do, right? (i.e. THE PROBLEM IS BIGGER THAN HIM)
NYPD Raids Activists’ Homes Before May Day Protests
America’s got this funny style of Fascism going on where so many of the actors (NYPD, FBI) are positively pathetic (in what they choose to focus on, in how they’re unable to see how obviously ridiculous and fucked up they are being), while the underlying ideas and principles (and the slow but certainly steady volume increase on these ideas) are really fucking frightening.
A sign in Brooklyn (via thenewephemera)
Glad someone finally quantified it. Resting easy now.
Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the International Criminal Court, being a typical shitheel for the organization which, as John Glaser points out, has rejected the Palestinian bid to investigate Israel’s repeated and unchallenged war crimes.
And of course the big elephant in the room as far “war crimes” and “impunity” is the biggest, baddest war monster of them all, America:
- “CIA Committed ‘War Crimes’ Bush Official Says
- “But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
Nixon: The only place where you and I disagree … is with regard to the bombing. You’re so goddamned concerned about civilians and I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.
Kissinger: I’m concerned about the civilians because I don’t want the world to be mobilized against you as a butcher.
Nixon wasn’t even indicted before he was pardoned, and that wasn’t even for War Crimes. Kissinger meanwhile still freely walks about, collects money for talking to people about things where his opinion is apparently, somehow valued…
I want to believe that Jose has left actual land mines out and around and it is now up to the lottery winner to contact Jose to find out where they are and disarm them… Also, Yahoo mail, Jose? Really?
Camper Van Beethoven - When I Win the Lottery
via victorfranko
When I win the lottery gonna donate half my money to the city
So they have to name a street or a school or a park after me
When I win the lottery
Never run a flag up a pole
Like mr. red, white, and blue down the road
But I never called myself a hero for killing a known communist
Now I can walk into any old bar
Find a fight without looking too hard
But I never killed someone I don’t know just ‘cause someone told me to
And when I win the lottery
Gonna buy the house next to mr. red, white and blue
And when I win the lottery
Gonna buy post 306 american legion, paint it red with five gold stars
When I win the lottery
When the end comes to this old world
The rights will cry and the rest will curl up
And God won’t take the time to sort your ashes from mine
‘cause we zig and zag between good and bad
Stumble and fall on right and wrong
‘cause the tumbling dice and the luck of the draw just leads us on
And when I win the lottery, gonna buy all the girls on my block
Silver-plated six shooters and a quart of the finest highland scotch
‘cause when I win the lottery, the rights will shake their heads and say that
God is good but surely works in mysterious ways
When I win the lottery
