12.13.13

The perfect gift on Friday the 13th — music

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Rock 'n' Roll at 10:56 am by George Smith

Welcome to the US of Penitentiary; we all get there, eventually.
We lock up the poor for all the rich; and we do it right, without no hitch.

Welcome to the United States of Greed; it’s the only country you’ll ever need. If you’re into frauds and useless devices — Uncle Sam, the best of choices!

We do dances, brand new dances, all for the titans of finances…
Predator loans, iPhones and drones! Plus we got lotsa crazy people…

Welcome to the United State of Punishment
Our biggest export is excrement

Now we think freedom’s lame
Because what you need is a life of pain

Welcome to the United States of Security
We’ll inspect you now for purity!

If you have gold and your a– don’t smell
We won’t bomb you straight to Hell.

We do dances, brand new dances, all for the titans of finances…
Predator loans, iPhones and drones! Plus we got lotsa crazy people…

Welcome to the US of Penitentiary
Everyone comes here, eventually!

Yes I know the rent is steep
But the whores and beer are really cheap…

Most appropriate. Do follow the links (they open in a new tab) while listening to the catchy tune!

Rock on and have at it.

And here’s the tip jar.


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5 Comments

  1. Tom Paterson said,

    December 13, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    The yahoos (with slingshots and pea-shooters) fire castor beans at laser defenses.

    The Captain: What do you run on, Rockette Morton? [Aside] Say beans.
    Rockette Morton: I run on beans … I run on laser beans.

  2. Tom Paterson said,

    December 14, 2013 at 2:01 am

    For any who missed Seymour (My Lai) Hersh’s piece in the London Review of Books:

    http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin

    Excerpted:

    *The strikingly precise US total was later reported by the Wall Street Journal to have been based not on an actual body count, but on an extrapolation by CIA analysts, who scanned more than a hundred YouTube videos from Eastern Ghouta into a computer system and looked for images of the dead.*

    More work for the pool-spotting MTurkers perhaps?

  3. George Smith said,

    December 14, 2013 at 11:03 am

    Fascinating bit. Hersh has not been well-covered here. So, the upshot is that after we knocked Iraq into a shambles one of its chemical weapons officers fled to Syria where he may have coached crazy hard line sharia law rebels in how to make sarin.

  4. Tom Paterson said,

    December 15, 2013 at 1:07 am

    Yup, that’s what I read.

    http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/9/seymour_hersh_obama_cherry_picked_intelligence

    The lede take-away:

    *Writing in the London Review of Books, Hersh argues that the Obama administration “cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.” The administration failed to disclose it knew Syrian rebels in the al-Nusra Front had the ability to produce chemical weapons. Evidence obtained in the days after the attack was also allegedly distorted to make it appear it was gathered in real time.*

    And then there follows a transcript of an interview with Hersh.

  5. Tom Paterson said,

    December 15, 2013 at 5:05 am

    The only good thing about seeing my flip remarks on the screen is that I am forced to do more reading.

    Thus my mindless evocation of Parchman Farm led me to this:

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery

    And juvenile (self-suppressed) references to Monowitz or the Mittelwerk led to:

    http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm

    And now I know what all those Citizens United spam e-mails (that AOL would never filter) were about:

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/10/when-corporation-freed-slave