If a picture is worth 1000 words...
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 07/11/2016 - 12:50am
My recent absence from c99 is due to emotional overload due to the ongoing filth of the HRC steamroller. It has taken several days of abstention from the media to allow me once again ability to resume communication on matters political.
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a song may be worth 1,000,000 words. Music is the universal language. It can convey more emotion than words and pictures combined.
Thus, for what it's worth, please accept my offering to assuage any who feel the way I have been recently. The lyrics are quite pointed, and razor sharp starting at minute 4, continuing to the end.
For those of you who enjoy rock and roll, which I very much do, I have three words of advice: PLAY IT LOUD!!!
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Music is always been the best cure for me as well Al
And I totally get having to take the occasional break from it myself, it can be quite overwhelming and daunting when you start dwelling on what we are up against.
Every now and then I need a little Rage music to motivate me and fire me up, and a little Reggae or Ska to mellow me out.
(Warning! Totally not safe for work!
)
This one comes up quite a bit when thinking about the DNC Corporatism suckups.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sihonv0Lg8]
Although, I find myself liking the more comical Richard Cheese cover, because they are so ridiculous it just seems more appropriate and mocking.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7CBcc2rwkM]
Then, despite the irony, I love this cover of the old classic but done to a hard rock beat rather than rap. Particularly relevant lately more than ever.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWzFs3fsN3o]
But when it is time to mellow out, this is a good one and is the first song on the playlist when I take the boat out. It's got a great beat and for some reason leaves me oddly uplifted
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIqecROs5M]
And you can never go wrong with Toots
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjg6flu3zuc]
Hope they give you laughter, relaxation, rage or inspiration, whatever you may need.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
haven't uploaded most of my kayak/caldera photos yet
but this is how I recover some of my sanity.
Just from my phone.
I was listening to Stevie Wonder's Innervision album at this particularly time.
editied: Steve Wonder?? It's Stevie. Multi tasking morning Mom.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
heading to the BWCA in a couple of weeks.
wish i could just paddle out and never paddle back.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Thanks! Was just listening
Thanks! Was just listening through and enjoying the tunes - but forgot that reply here changes pages, lol.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Oh let me add one more! This video I think is a great
bit of resonance in my mind with our movement and fight.
(We are the "cute" creature everyone underestimated. )
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU]
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Not an appropriate video for 4 y/o's.
I saw a replica of a cock-fighting ring somewhere in Great Britain back when it was borderless. lol. That was a haunted place, probably only by the idea, similar haunt sensations are the Slave Market in Charleston, SC, and all of the Civil War battlefield sites.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I could never grasp how anyone could watch cock fighting or dog
fighting and not feel anything but sadness, anger and disgust.
I really don't get a substantial portion of human beings.
It was kinda what I liked about the video I guess, the small and "Powerless" victim that obviously stands no chance toppling the system and walking away triumphant.
Who doesn't love a good "Rocky" story.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I think you mean the apparently powerless
but the beat-the-shit out of another human is the same, blood lust.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
the first time one of my kids explained the
whole concept behind pokemon, i was, as the kids would say, 'just like, "WTF? it's frickin' cock-fighting!"'
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
You've felt that too?
The atmosphere of the battlefields was intolerable to my wife and me, and we had to leave immediately.
Vicksburg is a completely haunted town (surrounded by battlefields, and our hackles were up when we drove in, and didn't go back down until we drove out a couple days later - all the while in the mean time we were saying to each other "what's wrong with this place??!!". (Shudder).
Covello (Round Valley) and Pacheco Pass (both CA), both sites of great ancient native American settlements and/or battles by legend, are both dripping in palpable fear, and we'll never go to/pass through either again.
The spirit of party serves to enfeeble the Public Administration,
agitates with Jealousies and false alarms, and opens the door to corruption,
which finds access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
George Washington
This one did it for me last night.
The guitar work on this piece could not be better.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Natalie and the Maniacs
good stuff!
I think most of us have had to dig deep this season to find
our strength and center. It's nuts out there with what's passing for sanity. Strength to you (and to all of us!)...
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Been very difficult to control the rage!
Very difficult, rage repressed easily becomes depression.
Balance? Indifference? No stable place, yet.
Awakening - the Clintons have no phuquing clue how the world has changed, they're using a completely outdated model. Lies, repeated and repeated are still lies. Hubris. Arrogance. Must be destroyed. Maybe, just maybe, the destruction can best be done by IGNORING? Make them irrelevant.
Of course not voting for them. Leaving, if we haven't already, the Democratic party. Leaving and announcing it publicly. Not succumbing to the fear the Clintons & their sycophants are peddling.
BTW - laughing at Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She is now "concerned" about Trump. HAH! When we were begging her to RETIRE so Obama could appoint replacement, her excuse was "oh, we can trust anyone elected POTUS to nominate." Ah, the EGOS of the Elite. Always Right, until they're WRONG!
And for an actual picture,
I read that the image in this BBC article is burning up social media.
I copied that picture from your link
Thanks for that--an image which may certainly be remembered for a long time, possibly as epitomic as Joe Rosenthal's picture of the Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi (Iwo Jima). There exists no nobler expression of Black Lives Matter than this proud, courageous woman standing up to police-soldiers.
Wow, that really was an amazing shot.
She looks so nonplussed by the robots charging her...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I agree, an amazing shot.
The Tienanmen Square picture for our time. I tear up just thinking about that lovely young woman standing with such poise, as the stormtroopers charge her. I think at the moment of the picture, they're trying to apply the brakes, because they were charging at full speed, expecting her to run.
their hard riot gear and fear contrasts steeply...
...with the thin, gauzy unprotected fabric of her dress and no fear.
Left me speechless
All I could think of is WTF has happened to our country?
It's an amazing image...
Says so much.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Glorious picture
Inspiring
Shows us what COURAGE really is.
That woman deserves all the accolades she is receiving and MORE.
Been taking a week or so off myself
...overload...etc. spent some time on Tumblr looking at pretty pictures. spent some time with the pup. spent some time doing art. basically almost anything but politics and current events. well...not completely true. reposted a few things on FB and Twitter...but mostly, avoidance. I had a five minute max before turning off my iPad in disgust.
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