We flipped our finger to the king of england
Stole our country from the indians
With god on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me
The sickest joke I know
[Chorus]
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love
But it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam
The sickest joke I know
[Chorus]
I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of july
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride
Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go
U.S. employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Workers also saw weekly wages fall, suggesting Americans will have little appetite to spend and the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.
Mortgage applications fell last week by the most since February, defying efforts by President Obama's administration to revive the housing market.
The Mortgage Bankers Association's index of applications to purchase a home or refinance a loan dropped 19 percent to 444.8 in the week ended June 26, from 548.2 in the prior week. The group's refinancing gauge declined 30 percent to the lowest in seven months, while the index of purchases fell 4.5 percent.
Investment bankers at Goldman Sachs are about to "earn" the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history!
David Williams, an investment banking analyst at Fox Pitt Kelton, said: "This year is shaping up to be the best year ever for investment banks, or at least those that have emerged relatively unscathed from the credit crisis.
"These banks are intermediaries in the bond markets where governments and companies are raising billions of pounds of new money. There is also a lack of competition that means they can charge huge sums for doing business."
Last week, the firm predicted that President Barack Obama's government could issue $3.25tn of debt before September, almost four times last year's sum. Goldman, a prime broker of US government bonds, is expected to make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from selling and dealing in the bonds.
It has been reported that Israel, in what I think can accurately be described as an act of piracy, has, 23 miles off the coast of Gaza, attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and abducted it's 21 human rights workers from 11 countries. Those kidnapped include Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who, passengers and crew, are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.
"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip," said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate. "President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do. We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey."
"The aid we were carrying is a symbol of hope for the people of Gaza, hope that the sea route would open for them, and they would be able to transport their own materials to begin to reconstruct the schools, hospitals and thousands of homes destroyed during the onslaught of "Cast Lead". Our mission is a gesture to the people of Gaza that we stand by them and that they are not alone" said fellow passenger Mairead Maguire, winner of a Noble Peace Prize for her work in Northern Ireland.
Just before being kidnapped by Israel, Huwaida Arraf, Free Gaza Movement chairperson and delegation co-coordinator on this voyage, stated that: "No one could possibly believe that our small boat constitutes any sort of threat to Israel. We carry medical and reconstruction supplies, and children's toys. Our passengers include a Nobel peace prize laureate and a former U.S. congressperson. Our boat was searched and received a security clearance by Cypriot Port Authorities before we departed, and at no time did we ever approach Israeli waters."
Israeli Navy detained former US congresswoman and Nobel Prize laureate Cynthia McKinney and twenty other human rights activists on board a relief boat outside Israel's territorial waters on Tuesday as they were heading to Gaza on a humanitarian mission.
Tel Aviv claims the boat was trying to break Israel's two-year siege on Gaza.
Ms McKinney -- the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States-- has accused Tel Aviv of violating the international law by seizing an aid vessel in international waters.
KENSINGTON, MD-Local teens James Ripley, 17, and David Ripley, 14, expressed surprise today when their mother, 47-year-old Cynthia Ripley legitimately made them laugh on several occasions within a 24-hour span. "I didn't know Mom could be funny." said James, who described his mother's usual attempts at humor as "not funny." "When she was on the phone with Aunt Linda [Generro], she was making all these hilarious 'I'm crazy' faces, and when Dad dropped the remote she was like 'smooth move, George Clooney.' She was really funny." The matriarch's comedic run will reportedly end during dinner, when she picks up the salad tongs and pretends to play them like a guitar.
If your apology for the ass-raping that is Windows Vista is yet another program where "Digital Signatures" are for "my safety" and you strip me of all control of my system with the use of a "TrustedInstaller" account that is a god over my computer, then go fuck yourself Bill Gates.
This sewer-cam video from Raleigh, North Carolina has been inspiring nausea all over the web. Deep Sea News contacted experts to find out what kind of creature this could be.
They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other.
When North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il gave control of the State Security Department to his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, just a few weeks ago, Korea-watchers more or less unanimously agreed that the succession of leadership in the DPRK had been decided.
This could be very good news, but...
Nobody really has the least idea, because the sort of reporters who would have the sort of contacts to develop a story about the personality of Kim Jong-un no longer exist, and our own "intelligence" apparatus is staffed by clowns in white socks who can barely make contact with a wall, if they lower their pointy little heads and run at it from a distance of three feet.
Like so many other sons and daughters of kings, billionaires, and dictators, Kim Jong-un attended the International School of Berne in Switzerland, which currently accepts children as young as 3 years old and shepherds them through all three stages of the International Baccalaureate.
Next stop, Harvard or Pyongyang.
Dozens of kids will have interacted or roomed with Kim Jong-un at ISBerne, and since gossip is even more popular than polo among the hobbies of the ultra-rich, there's significant and theoretically accessible info embedded somewhere in all those royal brains, but we won't get at it, because the profession of "society reporter" now belongs to ten thousand freaky little bloggers, and none of them knows anybody.
So we're left with incomprehensible sources, like Kenji Fujimoto, an ex-cook in the Kim Jong household...
(Kim Jong-un) has superb physical gifts, is a big drinker and never admits defeat.
This makes him sound like a head-banging soccer-yob from Belfast, or... what? Some kind of muscle-bound meatball, eager to hurl every missile in his father's tiny arsenal at Honolulu, Seoul, and Seattle, until the entire Pacific Rim has been incinerated.
"We're winning! Pass the booze, and let's shoot some hoops!"
A raving loon attempted to pass themselves off as an expert on anonymity and proper cranial protection here yesterday. I cannot in good conscience allow such an offensive and annoying piece of misinformation to stand unopposed. The ridiculous and dangerous suggestions of that poster could result in untold damage!
As you can see in this image, although the upper portion of the cranium is well protected, this serves only to diffuse unwelcome transmissions around the exposed areas of the cranium.
For all of you who uphold the abomination at Guantanamo, or consent to it, or pass over it in silence, an ever-lasting fire is prepared in the darkness of Hell.
FSZ - Free Speech Zone - www.freespeechzoneblog.com
All data and information provided on this site is for informational purposes only. Free Speech Zone makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information on this site and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis by individual diarists, independent journalists, and the views herein are those of the individual authors and do not reflect the views or opinions of the people who run this site. Free Speech Zone is a "common carrier" and the views presented herein
are in no way endorsed, condoned, or representative of
Free Speech Zone, its owners, or management.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
-First Amendment to the United States Constitution
Why, hello there! How are you? What are you doing?
