oh happy day

Want to know something really shithot????

Want to know something that could get me dancing in the street come October?

I think John Howard is going down.

And I hope and I pray that Maxine McKew takes his seat from him in the most humiliating way possible.

Because you know, I'm not vindictive or anything but I don't just want him to lose the election. I want him to lose his seat as well. I want him to wish and pray that he had cut for it early so that Peter Costello would be the one to lose the election - not him!

Oh, there will be such joy and rejoicing come that fateful day when the vile stench of John Howard's Liberal party is washed away at last.

Time to Cry

I marched against the Iraq war and then protested in my small Australian town every Thursday till Mission Accomplished. I wrote letters and made web sites.

Recently I read an article from a neo-con supporter who said very bitterly, 'It's alright for everyone to be coming out with 20/20 hindsight now telling us where we were wrong. Where were all the critics before, huh?'

Pardon me? Pardon me!!!

Did not millions of people march around the world begging them not to do this? Did not intellectual after intellectual come out and say, 'We have thought this through carefully and we don't think it will work.' Did not military expert after military expert tell them not to invade a homeland, for a great proportion of them will fight you to the death to avoid occupation whether they agree with your cause or not?

Now the Neo-cons cry foul. They want to blame everyone but themselves for what they have inflicted on the world. They have destroyed the Cradle of Civilisation and traumatised further its people, they have made murderers of yet another generation of American boys and girls, all because they believe that fundamentalist consumerism is a better way to live than fundamentalist Islam. Fundamentalist consumerism has killed far more Westerners than radical Islam could ever hope to.

I have to stop now. It's time to cry.

woody guthrie for president

I AIN'T A GONNA KILL NOBODY
"I took a bath this morning in six war speeches, and a sprinkle of peace. Looks like ever body is declaring war against the forces of force. That's what you get for building up a big war machine. It scares your neighbors into jumping on you, and then of course they them selves have to use force, so you are against their force, and they're aginst yours. Look like the ring has been drawed and the marbles are all in. The millionaires has throwed their silk hats and our last set of drawers in the ring. The fuse is lit and the cannon is set, and somebody is in for a frailin. I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
-from WOODY SEZ, a collection of articles written by Woody for the PEOPLE'S WORLDText Copyright (c) 1975 by Woody Guthrie Publications

woody guthrie for president

I AIN'T A GONNA KILL NOBODY
"I took a bath this morning in six war speeches, and a sprinkle of peace. Looks like ever body is declaring war against the forces of force. That's what you get for building up a big war machine. It scares your neighbors into jumping on you, and then of course they them selves have to use force, so you are against their force, and they're aginst yours. Look like the ring has been drawed and the marbles are all in. The millionaires has throwed their silk hats and our last set of drawers in the ring. The fuse is lit and the cannon is set, and somebody is in for a frailin. I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
-from WOODY SEZ, a collection of articles written by Woody for the PEOPLE'S WORLDText Copyright (c) 1975 by Woody Guthrie Publications

!!!!!! CLANG !!!!!!!

The third anniversary of the first bombs in the second Gulf War has come and gone and we all had a really big wake up call, didn't we? Then we promptly rolled over and went back to sleep. It's time to admit that we just don't give a shit.

!!!!!! CLANG !!!!!!!

In what must be the most public failed sanity test in the history of mankind, George Bush has ... "reasserted the USA's right to wage pre-emptive war".

Huh?

Right wing types really love that whole 'if it aint broke, don't fix it' attitude. And I have to say that is many cases I agree with tme. But for pity's sake! Please! If it IS broke, fix the fucker!

!!!!!! CLANG !!!!!!!

Ah! Morning! The sun is up. The sky is blue. The bombs continue to fall on Baghdad and nobody cares! All is right wing with the world!