Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,
whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation–oh, pity the people who allow
their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (founder of City Lights Bookstore in SF)
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There just aren’t enough bug-up-the-ass jokes in the world to aptly serve American Chauvinist, are there?
I see MoveOn as the only hope of the Democratic party. By being willing to call crap crap – and to spend the money to get the word out there that crap is crap, MoveOn has focused the debate on the issues, something that the Democrats in Congress have not done.
We got into this Iraq mess – and made it messier and messier by not being willing to talk to others – it’s called diplomacy. We continually compounded the mess by making available tons of money on no bid contracts of incredible amounts of money and without the most minimal surveillance to see that work was done as specified. And then, of course, there is Blackwater. Then we compounded that by firing people who were schooled in the culture and the language of Iraq and the Arab world – because they were incompetent? Hell no! Because they were gay! Truly, it boggles the mind!
Now, we are wandering blindfolded in the wilderness. I watched Senator Biden on CSpan the other day and his presentation was riveting! Like it or not, he has a plan, he calls on his fellow Senators to engage the issue, discuss his plan, offer other plans – in short, debate the issues and move the conversation forward to a resolution – end the stalemate, support our troops by saving their lives.
Dwight, have some restraint. You have your own blog. Keep your comments no longer than my post and ONE per post, please.
As you are concerned about my spelling Iam concerned about the NAZI BUND of the late 1930’s that worshipped Hilter as a peace loving leader of a nation who hated Jews; Today as the Irainian Hitler of the 21st Century speaks at our Universities being given standing ovations by its students and funding to Democratic Candidates being given by MoveOn under the CONDITION of doing what was done at Columbia University by Woman; Jews; Christians who sat motionless while The Hilter of the middle East read from the QUR’AN!
As Imentioned the only ones who has the balls to stand up to the statement that “There are NO gay’s in Iran;” was the Gay Community who had seen ENOUGH!
This Hitler says there was NO Hollicost, he has NO intent on building a BOMB; he wil NOT destroy Israel or attack The United States or its Allies; Yea Sure !
My Concern is the MoveOn Movement run and financed by ONE MAN George Soros NOT born in this Country and has now taken over what is LEFT of the Democratic Party, who is NOT elected by anyone either in The Democratic Party or appointed by its membership has formed a New German BUND (Brown Shirts) that denies everything that IS now playing out before our eyes, and if anyone disagrees with The NEW BUND you are attacked!
My point it as the Poet described his time of the 20th Century surrounded by the values of its time ;does NOT fit in today’s time oif MEDIA FED PROPIGANDA of a small group of people who talk to themselves around a dinner table then go home to the Hamptons devoid of reality!
We as a Nation better WAKE UP to Dictators who speak to uneducated BILLIONS of MUSLIMS who believe what is being spoon fed to them by the Hitler of Iran!
AC,
Have you ever thought about writing your comments in Word and doing a spell check?
The Culture; Language and Values of this Poet of the early and middle 20th century has NOTHING to do with the valueless invasion of people coming to this country for social security and healthcare benefits!
This poet learned how to speak english with-out being told to do so- he joined the Armed Forces-with-out being told to do so and LOVED HIS COUNTRY with-out bringing a flag from Italy and flying an American Flag Upsidedown below it!
To try and equate the buzword “Torture” then with waterboarding enemy combatants picked up off the battlefield AFTER they killed our brave men and women on the battlefield is TREASONIST to ANY NATION let alone ours!
So lets get it right folks as we saw the ONLY GROUP at Columbia University who stood up and confronted the HILTER of IRAN with jeers and BOOS was the GAY COMMUNITY!!???
What does this say for our great learning institutions of which members of this blog PRAISE having learned from Irianian professors!!??