Welcome back to the dark age.

[rocktop15]

Alaskan Wildlife Bill passed.
Bankruptcy Bill passed.
Wolfowitz appears to be the World Bank's president.
Iraq gets worse everyday.
Bush is hellbent on social security privitazation.
The US is in its second highest trade deficit ever.

And the public doesn't give a flying fuck.

[Goldeneye]

1. oil prices at an all time high.

at least 106 Iraqi prisoners killed.

Yes, it is getting kind of warm here.

[Goathead]

2. It's Rome all over again

but this time the Barbarians are the ones in power.

[Deja Q]

4. And President 'untamed fire of freedom' Nero* has a big match.

Should he go bonkers or if he even thinks another country is doing the US in via conventional terrorism or even ECONOMIC terrorism (e..g South Korea pulling out their support of the dollar), he might just react with nukes?

Remember, he does want to spread the untamed fire of freedom. Nuclear weapons make big fireballs and are hardly tame.

[me b zola]

13. Shrubya has unleashed ecconomic terrorism against America

Like World Com & Enron, he & his minions are sucking every last $$ out of the treasury before the big-ass shit hits the fan.

He truely is the #1 terrorist. Oh, how I pray for these bastards to do the frog march. The world MUST hold them accountable.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Reality TV Shows is the public's reality.

They don't give a shit about what really goes on in their government.

[opiate69]

5. Dark Ages

Darlings are you ready for the long winter's fall?
Said the lady in her parlor
said the butler in the hall.
Is there time for another?
Cried the drunkard in his sleep.
Not likely
said the little child. What's done
the Lord can keep.
And the vicar stands a-praying.
And the television dies
as the white dot flickers and is gone
and no-one stops to cry.
The big jet rumbles over runway miles
that scar the patchwork green
where slick tycoons and rich buffoons
have opened up the seam
of golden nights and champagne flights
ad-man overkill
and in the haze
consumer crazed
we take the sugar pill.
Jagged fires mark the picket lines
the politicians weep
and mealy-mouthed
through corridors of power on tip-toe creep.
Come and see bureaucracy
make its final heave
and let the new disorder through
while senses take their leave.
Families screaming line the streets
and put the windows through
in corner shops
where keepers kept
the country's life-blood blue.
Take their pick
and try the trick
with loaves and fishes shared
and the vicar shouts
as the lights go out,
and no-one really cares.

Dark Ages
shaking the dead
Closed pages
better not read
Cold rages
burn in your head.

[slay]

6. Wond'ring Again

There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea
and the motorcar magical world has long since ceased to be,
when the eve bitten apple returned to destroy the tree.
Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride,
Spawning new millions throws the world on its side.
Supporting their farflung illusion, the national curse,
And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus.

The excrement bubbles, the century's slime decays,
And the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say
it's under control and we'll soon be on our way
to a grand year for babies and quiz panel games
of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to remain.
The natural resources are dwinding and no one grows old
And those with no homes to go to, please pick yourself holes.

We wandered through quiet lands, felt the first breath of snow,
searched for the last pigeon, slate gray I've been told.
Stumbled on a daffodil which she crushed in the rush,
heard it sigh and left it to die.
At once felt remorse and were touched by the loss of our own,
held its poor broken head in her hands, dropped soft tears in the snow
and it's only the taking that makes you what you are.
Wondering aloud will a son one day be born
to share in our infancy in the child's path we've worn.
In the aging seclusion of this earth that our birth,
did surprise. We'll open his eyes.

--Jethro Tull, 1972

[opiate69]

9. Definitely one of their best

[omega minimo]

10. Terrible Beauty. Who wrote this?

[opiate69]

11. That would be Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull..

off 1979's "Stormwatch" album.

[Colorado Blue]

7. I hope you are wrong about the public. The polls seem to

say that people are not happy at all.

What we can DO about this horrible trend is another matter. But the Social Security thing is getting Bush lower and lower ratings and I'll bet the Alaska oil drilling situation is going to blow up in the Republicans' faces, bigtime. I can't imagine people really want that!

Bankruptcy bill - same thing - can't do anything but hurt the people, it's bound to result in hardship. The war, can't imagine how people aren't affected by that - even the good news is accompanied by such terrible violence. Plus, the deficit - people around here talking DEPRESSION.

Some of the other stuff probably doesn't affect folks day to day, so maybe they don't pay as much attention. But bread and butter issues and the environment are very much people's concern and I'm hoping this administration starts getting some very loud feedback.

Thanks for the post.

[babylonsister]

12. CO Blue, your optimism is great.

This place has a lot of people who have been here awhile, expected the best and got the worst.Today wasn't a good day, but being here, you know that. So enjoy, and I'm glad you're adding to the mix.

[Colorado Blue]

15. Hey - thanks! We need some optimism! Take care:)

[El Fuego]

8. The "Age of Enlightenment" was just a blip in human history

As you said, back to the dark ages.

[Greylyn58]

14. We have definitely gone to hell

in a handbasket. x(

Every day I wonder just how much further down the tubes we will go...and every day the shrub and his crew perpetrate some new obscenity on us.

My head hurts! :mad:

[lies and propaganda]

16. smashing head against wall as we speak... n/t

[pauliedangerously]

17. AAAH,...hey rocktop

How's life in TN? I grew up in VA, but I'm in MN now...thinking of moving back to a Red State...just to piss off the locals. I'm going to bed now, but I'd love to hear from a leftie from south of that notorious Mason-Dixon Line. Too tired to type, gotta go to work in the morning.

Hang in there. The public DOES give a fuck; they're just scared...and uninformed. Society moves slow. "Fight the good fight every moment...make it worth the price you pay!"

Name that tune.

I'll be back.

That wasn't meant to be an Arnold quote. Fuck Arnold. Not the pig, the PIG-dog-fuck-governor-of-California.

WHOA...time to sleep. Later Broh.

[Swamp Rat]

19. Triumph

:D

I used to play it back in my electric guitar days.:)

[rocktop15]

20. Not too bad man.....

I attend UTC so we have that college campus deal going on with a lot of progressive thought. The head of the Poly Sci program is a full blooded Palestinian and, perhaps, one of the smartest men I've ever had a one on one conversation with.

We had a good turn out recently for the moveonPAC meet up. There is quite a bit of Kerry stickers still left on cars taboot.

[Selatius]

18. If the US is Rome, then we're in the days of the Late Republic

In this era, the Republic is torn by corruption and greed. Concerns of the people more and more fall by the wayside in favor of self-interest and ambition instead. Power and control become the end pursuit. Politics becomes more brutal and cutthroat, and bribery and kickbacks become the order of the day.

The era ends when the Senate gives up its power to Augustus and essentially turns over the functions of the state to him. The Republic is dissolved, and a new empire is born.

Does this come a little too close for comfort???