You're an ignorant low-class opportunistic man

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Ricky Lee Jones speaking of george bush

"A LOW CLASS HUMAN BEING": "You're an ignorant, low-class, opportunistic man, both personally and politically, who does everything for political gain and nothing for the wellbeing of the people, and you should not be in office, and the kind of fascism you're perpetrating on our country we don't want, and you're out. We're done with you." So says an angry Ricky Lee Jones, who on her new CD, The Evening of My Best Day, "is singing about the ugly man with the ugly father who is blighting her nation, the two senators killed in mystery plane crashes, and the need for Americans to tell the world what is happening in the US'"...

http://homepage.mac.com/steverapport/iblog/C549401732/E1974626583 /

and from the Guardian

She believes the bombing of the Twin Towers has politicised a politically apathetic generation in an alarming way. "I think 9/11 gave this generation an identity, and its identity is potentially fascist. My skin crawls when I think of the first week after 9/11. I was looking out of the window and there were people marching down the street carrying flags. It reminded me of spontaneous, angry Nazis and I thought, 'Oh, man, we are in a lot of trouble'. There's a whole bunch of people who have flags hanging from their cars and who are mistaking fascism for patriotism."

This generation of Americans, she says, has not had to struggle for anything, and the only thing it has fought for is the right to reverse hard-won freedoms - free speech, fair trials, abortion rights. She talks of how language and values have been subverted.

"Now they're using the term 'leftwing' to evoke in people fear and loathing," she says. "And they have no idea what the far left looks like. Actually, the far left is almost the same as the far right. But they accuse just moderate people who disagree. And it is 'accuse'. There's no discussion going on."

Then there's the strange notion of bombing countries into a sense of responsibility. "Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Pound the shit out of them, then bring them democracy because it's for their own good, right?" It's the hypocrisy she finds hardest to cope with. "I would have probably made peace with the idea of this rightwing Republican presidency if at any point after we were bombed - because we were devastated, we were terrified and broken-hearted - if he had said, 'I'm so pissed off, I'm gonna go and blow up the whole fucking Middle East. I hate 'em and I'm blowing 'em up', we would have gone, 'OK, right on', but he didn't. He said, 'We're looking for Bin Laden and we're bringing democracy'. Every single aspect of his response has been evil, thus making us into the evil thing we didn't know we were. Ffffhgggmm." (I'm sure she wouldn't have said 'right on' and made peace with Bush, but I know what she means.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1065419,00.html

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1. Go Ricky Lee!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

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2. dammit! she was on CBS this morning!

n 1979, Rickie Lee Jones burst onto the scene with her self-titled debut album, "Rickie Lee Jones." She won a Grammy for Best New Artist that year, and her catchy, funky song, "Chuck E's in Love" climbed the charts, and has been a staple on the airwaves ever since.

But after hitting the big-time with her first effort, Rickie Lee Jones retreated from the spotlight; refusing to bow to commercial pressure to produce more "Chuck E's in Love" clones, she followed her muse, putting out 10 albums over the next 20 years, playing clubs and theatres around the world to a small but loyal group of fans. Twenty-five years after her first smashing success, Rickie Lee is out with her first album of original songs in seven years, the critically acclaimed "Evening of My Best Day."

He talks with CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan about her first brush with fame, and how she spent the next 25 years coming to terms with the music industry, her fans and growing older in a business that thrives on youth. Today, at age 49, Rickie Lee Jones believes she is old enough, wise enough, to make her best music.

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did anybody see it? did she talk about the creature from 1600?

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3. Wake up America...

:boring:...That link to the Robert Byrd speech in congress...thanks. His closing is eye opening:

I began my remarks with a fairy tale. I shall close my remarks with a horror story, in the form of a quote from the book Nuremberg Diaries, written by G.M. Gilbert, in which the author interviews Hermann Goering.

"We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.

". . . But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

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4. but why won't she tell us how she REALLY feels?

don't hold back, now, girl!

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