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POLITICS and ENTERTAINMENT: General Zod For President

I've seen some interesting sites for people running for president - or people who want someone to run.

But this site is the best by far! - OlderMusicGeek


When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote.
-- General Zod
Your Future President and Eternal Ruler

Kneel before Zod!
RAPID CITY (AP) -- The ideological and spiritual source of the "Kneel Before Zod" campaign is General Zod, outstanding leader of the national liberation movement of the United States. Reflected in the idea are the love of might and absolute trust in the ruler. General Zod embarked upon the road of revolution with the idea as valuable ideological and spiritual pabulum and mixed himself with the people to find a new road of the revolution. While in the Phantom Zone in 1979, he came to have the idea that one can win a victory only when one is responsible for the revolution in one's country and carries it out in reliance on the strength of one's people.


I do not take orders. I give them. Congress shall no longer have the ability to impeach me or override my decisions, and the Supreme Court shall not meddle in government affairs.

Your freedom will be expanded. You will be even more free to give your money and lives to me, and to be my eternal subjects.

Eliminate the Iraq War. The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in their paperwork? You will stop giving these corporations your wealth. I suggest you put the money into your own schools and health care, so that I may have intelligent, healthy servants. I will indulge your wishes if you all want a Westernized, unpopular regime in Iraq, and I too shall gloat in its troubles, but it will not be done at my expense.

Universal health care. Even a criminal like myself is shocked that millions are not able to get health insurance and cannot pay for basic surgery. Who are these power brokers that allow the pigpen to become wormy and filthy? I demand your very lives, but I am not such an imbecile as to institutionalize suffering and poverty. You have my assurance that this shall change swiftly.

Corporate reform. You people have become disgusting minions to these things you call "corporations". These things take your money and your land, put you into debt, send your jobs overseas, provide you with unsafe foods, and sue you when you say anything bad about them. Yet you people fatten them up at the ballot box. You give them free land, name your stadiums after them, allow them to telemarket you, and even sacrifice your own bankruptcy protections. Quite frankly it astonishes me. I will break this sickly codependency. It is I who shall be your ruler. I shall empower you with wealth to give me as tribute. A corporation cannot bow to me or give me tribute that comes from the heart.

You will buy U.S. made items. Why do you buy Chinese-made items when you know that it sells out the jobs of your family and friends? How will you buy those cheap things when you have no job? You are sending my wealth and tribute to foreign lands. I will not tolerate this.

A link to the General Zod for president home page

ENTERTAINMENT and POLITICS: Record Label Gives Iraq War Vets a Musical Voice

This is from Rolling Stone. I found it through my NetVibes page. I edited down for space. But here's a link to the complete article. - OlderMusicGeek

To The Fallen Records is a unique record label in that it puts out compilations of songs written and recorded by veterans of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – some even recorded in the field. On the occasion of the release of the new compilation To The Fallen Records Presents: Rock Vol. 1, Rolling Stone’s Evan Serpick took a look at the origins of the label. To read the full, in-depth exploration, click here.

In 2005, Army Sgt. First Class John Freeman III's platoon was drawn into a firefight with local insurgents in Iraq's Al-Anbar province, killing twenty-three Iraqis and suffering one casualty. Afterward, Freeman was approached by the platoon's chaplain, who encouraged him to attend church services. "I explained to him that it's kind of hard for me to go to church," says Freeman, 37. "It's hard to forgive myself when, tomorrow, I'm going to go out and do the exact same thing." Instead, Freeman sat down and wrote a song, "Don't Try and Save Me": "It's going to take more than time to wash away the pain," he sings over reverb-heavy electric guitars. "The bloodstains on my soul could never, ever come clean."

The messages range from patriotic anthems to Bush-bashing tirades. In "Sleeping Giant," metal band 10 Fold — fronted by Army Spc. Eric Conley, a Humvee gunner who patrolled the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad — lashes out at the terrorists who invoked American wrath: "Your God can't save you. . . . You'll be gone soon." Backed by the sounds of gunfire, Dirty Boi Vets — Marine Sgts. Tendaji Akil-Milele and Sugarray Henry — question their mission on "Combat Zone": "CO telling us we won't be that long/I still think we killing them for no reason."

A link to the complete article in Rolling Stone

POLITICS: When Bush is Right, He's Right

Ultra-liberal, Ernest T Spoon, sent me this. It's from Progressive Daily Beacon. I do think the author gets a little carried away, but he makes some very good points. - OlderMusicGeek

When Bush is Right, He's Right
Silence Dogood, November 2nd, 2007

I don't often agree with George W. Bush but when he's right, he's right. Thursday Mister Bush said that the Democrats were like the people who ignored the rise of Hitler. He then went on to say that "the world paid a terrible price." And, sadly, he is 100 percent right! The Democrats have been entirely too quick to appease Mister Bush and Dick Cheney's fascist agenda.

Oh fine, Bush and Cheney haven't baked six million people in the ovens ... YET ... but you have to admit that the senseless slaughter of some one million Iraqis in an unprovoked war for oil is a pretty good start toward Hitler's mark. One can rest assured that the conflict with Iran will inch the Bush cabal ever closer to Hitler's sickening tally.

I love the corporate-owned media response to someone likening Bush and Cheney to Hitler: "Don't you think though, that they just have America's best interest at heart? Sure, they're obviously a bit misguided, but they're patriotic and really only doing what is best for America, don't you think?"

Sure, and Hitler figured it was in Germany's best interest to round-up Jews and to pitch them into the kiln. Also, one of the main reasons Hitler marched across Europe was to confiscate all the agricultural land and in the doing, to ensure a good and steady supply of food for his German master race. Hitler went to war to steal Poland's wheat, and Bush and Cheney went to war to steal Iraq's oil. Different time. Different resource. Same motivation and same result. And guess what? Many Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, voted in favor of Bush's Iraq blitzkrieg. And know what else? Many Democrats continue to support funding for the Bush-Cheney Iraq oil grab.

As a tasty aside, "shock and awe" was just a cool Neocon way of calling a "blitzkrieg" something other than a blitzkrieg. But ... err ... it was a blitzkrieg.

Yeah, gotta give Bushie credit where credit is due. He's never been more right in all his life! The Democrats are EXACTLY like the people who ignored the rise of Hitler.

Bush actually has a lot in common with Hitler. The German madman LOVED torture and secret prisons (ever hear of Auschwitz?). Of course, Hitler and the Nazi Party had the armed Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS) and Bush, Cheney, and the Republican Party have the North Carolina-based Blackwater. That's a paranoid observation, right? Well, Mister Bush and Cheney have swindled the American taxpayer out of nearly a billion dollars of funding for Blackwater. To put that figure into perspective, in terms of every country on the planet's annual military spending, that would put Blackwater in the top 50 percent. That is one huge taxpayer-subsidized private military. Hitler would have killed to have such a privatized force at his fingertips.

Of course the Democrats continue providing funding for Blackwater. And the Democrats continue to pass Bush-written legislation that guts the Constitution and undermines the peoples' rights and freedoms ... think FISA and domestic spying without warrants. So, oh yeah buddy! Bush is damned straight ... the Democrats are like the people who ignored the rise of Hitler.

Link to the opinion piece

POLITICS: Two Interesting Jokes

I got these from Ernest T Spoon - OlderMusicGeek

A German soldier was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Poland. One of the courses had a professor who was rumored to be an atheist and was known as a Jewish sympathizer.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got down to the last couple of minutes when the soldier got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The soldier went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the soldier and asked, "What is the matter with you? Why did you do that?" The soldier calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting Germany's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid things and act like a fool. So, He sent me."



A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his Chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, "What is the matter with you? Why did you do that?" The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting America 's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid crap and act like an ass. So, He sent me."

HUMOR and POLITICS: A Joke

I was checking the websites at blogger.com and came across this joke from the website,
Marc Perkel Rantz. - OlderMusicGeek

What's the difference between the war in Iraq and the war in Vietnam? George W. Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam.