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We want your Soul x5
Show us Your Habits, Your Facts, Your Fears
Give us your address, your shoe size, your years
your digits, your plans, your number, your eyes
your skedule, your desktop, your details, your life.
Show us your children, your photos, your home.
Here, take credit, take insurance, take a loan.
Get a job, get a pension, get a haircut, get a suit.
Play the lottery, play football, play the field, sports to boot
We want your Soul x5
(in background...Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life)
Here's programmes, here's matters, here's Britney, here's Cola
Here's pizza, here's TV, here's some rock and some rolla
Watch commercials, more commercials, watch Jerry, not Oprah
Buy a better life from the comfort of your sofa
Here's popcorn, here's magazines, here's milkshake, here's blue jeans
here's padded bras, here's long cars, here's football shirts, here's baseball caps
here's live talk shows, here's video games, here's cola lite, here's Timberlake
here's fingertips, here's colegen, here's all night bars, here's plastic
We want your soul X5
(In the background...Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life)
(Break)
Your cellphone, your wallet, your time, your ideas
No barcode, no party, no iodine, no beers
your bankcard, your license, your thoughts, your fears
no simcard, no disco, no photo, not here
your blood, your sweat, your passions, your regrets
your office, your timeoff, your fashions, your sex
your tits, your pass, your face, your ass.
There's a difference?
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
- John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
- According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
- His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
- McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
- The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
- He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
- Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7
- McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
- McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9
- He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10
- Sources:
1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&refer=us"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2007"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&refer=home7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=42102519. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/
Shake, rattle and roll
It appears to have been 2 quakes to hit china Monday afternoon. Xinhua and the State Seismological Bureau, reports. The first being 7.8 just 50 miles northwest of Chengdu. [Chengdu has a population of 10 million] This being felt through-out South-east Asia. Ten minutes later a smaller 3.9 centered in Beijing's east side Tongzhou District. The death toll is has reached to more than 8,500. Revised to 20,000. with predictions as high 50,000 and even surpass '76 :(
Picture linked to networkforgood.org charity
The same area was hit by a quakes before measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale in 1933, which claimed more than 9,000 lives and in the northwest of Sichuan Province were hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 back in 1976
note, Wen Jiabao has already arrived to oversee relief efforts. It took a more than a week for Bush to make it to New Orleans.
source: CRI, & yahoo
TRY HERE : http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/05/wenchuan-earthquake-in-pictures/
Across Your Lip
"The things we do for our bikes" Says darkclarity.
The dark one also points out a good set of guys at Leroy-Thompson Choppers
And a tip of the hat to these craftsmen.
PHOTO BY ZX-11 is Home
So, it worked like this. Darkclarity drove out to Springfield, Massachusetts., without a hitch. The dark one picked up a temp tag for Rockelles replacement.
Things in Massachusetts are way over priced, food, hotels etc. maybe 50% or so. The road system makes little sense there. Here's the thing, it was worth it.
Darkclarity mounted the tag, geared up after noting what TLC was need. This bike screams to twist the throttle.
Off to Vermont to meet a friend. The rest area on US 91 looked like a barn from the outside and there were moose warnings. Yes, moose warnings. After a little mis-direction Darkclarity had a wonderful lunch at a wonderful diner with good friends. The conversation brought up a great road. Vermont SR 9 would take one into Albany and shave time off. It is one of those perfect roads to putt on the bike on. The zen of riding. Here is a one view:
This is very beautilful country, no doubt about it. Many pockets of snow on north faces and the temp up around 60f. Of course the need to stop in a small town for a soft drink proved friendly and satisfying. After crossing the New York line the terrain mellowed out and traffic thicker as one approaches the Albany skyline.
Darkclarity embarked on to the NY throughway where average speed seems to be 75-80 except for SUVs than drove 90mph. Darkclarity now assumes the gas prices are not really all that high to some people. It is like a regressive tax. The poor pay more while the rich just write it off as a price to do business. We digress.
Darkclarity had taken note of the squared off rear tire which gave that squirrely feeling at higher speeds and progressively got worse over the 600 mile trip. At the journeys end it looked like this:
Holy cow batman!
That warm air began to disappear after the sun went don and evaporate into the cloudless full moon night sky. This force more frequent stops along with the fact that this bike is not the GPz. Let's put it this way, The seat is a rock and make for good birth control, while the short wind screen blast the rider into submission. Without a throttle lock, it felt like a stroke took out my right hand. The 8 hour trip became 12.
Mods to make; Taller Wind screen, Throttle lock and new rubber.