I don’t get it. When did Bush work? Ya can’t retire without workin’ first, can ya?

Brush clearing doesn’t count!

… A picture is worth a thousand words.

USW Presidential Survey of Members Results

The results are as follows:

Top Choice

John Edwards 37.1%
Hillary Clinton 25.3%
Barack Obama 12.6%
Dennis Kucinich 5.8%
Joe Biden 5.3%
Fred Thompson 4.0%
Rudy Giuliani 2.8%
John McCain 2.2%
Mitt Romney 1.3%
Bill Richardson 1.2%
Ron Paul 1.0%
Mike Huckabee 0.5%
Chris Dodd 0.3%
Mike Gravel 0.2%
Tom Tancredo 0.2%
Sam Brownback 0.2%
Duncan Hunter 0.0%

A good writer can make even a small article speak volumes. Or so I’ve been told. ;)

Eyuh.

Scarecrow @ 50

Transcript?

the transcript is all ready posted – it’s usually not up until a couple of hours after the show – must be because it was pre-recorded. here you go:

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Well, you haven’t have time to be acclimated or acclimated in the worst ways by modern industrial corporate monoculture, for instance, or American consumer society, which the way American consumer society is worked out, it seems to me the suburbs of America are the great American death.

You know, I’d like to read one poem that I just wrote. I really want to get this out.

AMY GOODMAN: Read.

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Especially since Khalil Gibran has been in the news lately, including yesterday or the day before on your program. “Pity the Nation,” after Khalil Gibran.

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.

AMY GOODMAN: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. So what about the state of the world today and our role in it?

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: It’s rushing over the cliff. I think practically all of Congress is totally ignoring the ecological crisis fast ascending on us…

still, nice to listen to him read it… (audio, as well as transcript is at the link)…

Here is the original Khalil Gibran from the Garden of the Prophet http://www.kahlil.org/gardenlp

Second, he wants to spend time at his proposed “Freedom Institute,” where he’ll help teach young conservatives how he spread freedom and democracy around the world,

Does he think that showing how his enmity enabled Ahmadinejad to get the Iranian people to overlook his misrule will prove that? Or how about how his scrapping the ABM treaty let Putin play the Victim Card, and thereby get away with murder?

while strengthening America’s own democratic principles and institutions.

Like how lying about how the “Sanctity of Marriage” required him to call for a Constitutional amendment to prevent the politically incorrect from getting married got many people in key states to vote against their own interests? Or how about how getting the Justice Department to focus on the few, unorganized attempts at voter fraud and ignore the massive attempts at vote suppression made it easier for the voters to express their preferences? If the media was a millionth as “Liberally biased” as the Conservatives whine it it, he would never have been allowed to win on the truckload of technicalities.

For the details, see:
“NYT: Bush Slept as Iraqi Army was Disbanded.”

I fear I’d have ta stand in line, tho.

I’m not boxing myself in.