X-mas toys you’ll want for your kids

Now that x-mas is on the way it's time to think of the kids. Yes they deserve good toys to teach them about living in today's world. Here are some of my favorite toy songs:

"Uncle Bernie's Farm"

Mothers (Frank Zappa)

I'm dreaming . . . (Oh no-o-o!)
There's a bomb to blow yo mommy up
A bomb for your daddy too (ouch.)
A baby doll that burps & pees
A case of airplane glueA hungry plastic trollTo scarf yo buddy's arm
A box of ugly plastic things marked:Uncle Bernie's Farm!

There's a little plastic congress
There's a nation you can buy (I'll take two.)
There's a doll that looks like mommyShe'll do anything but cry (I seen her.)
There's a doll that looks like daddyHe's a funny little manPush a button & ask for money
There's a dollar in his hand (check his wallet.)
We gotta send Santa Claus back to the Rescue Mission
Christmas don't make it no moreDon't you know that murder & destructionScream the toys in every store (think this'll sell in New York?)
There's a man who runs the country
There's a man who tried to think
And they're all made out of plastic
When they melt they start to stink

There's a book with smiling children
Nearly dead with Christmas joys!
And smiling in his officeI
s the creep who makes the toys . . .

FZ: We got this car: when it hits the wall you see the guy dying . . . got the little plastic puddles of blood . . . by the car
I'M DREAMING . . .
Ray: He has intestines . . . he has plastic intestines you canstuff back into his stomach . . .
FZ: There's this other thing, I've got bombs. I've got rockets, I've got a . . . I've got a stilson wrench & plastic brass knuckles . . .
Ray: And it comes with a tape recorder with sound effects . . .
FZ: We got a '39 Chevy . . .

"Rambozo The Clown"

DEAD KENNEDY'S

Got a deadly toy
To brainwash your boy

An egocentric muscle thug
Kicks butt on screen like a brat outa hell
Bullshitter in the Indochina shop
Pull the string in his back, we win the war

That we never should have started at all

A cabbage patch terrorist to call our own
Who rewrites history with a machine gun
Don't think about it-KILL IT
That's what we teach your child

RAMBOZO
RAMBOZO
RAMBOZO the Clown
To draft age kids
It sure looks like fun-
"Kill 'em all
And let God sort 'em out."
Like video games-no mess
Just fuel for a mass lapse of common sense
You can be Don Quixote
We'll dice you with our windmill blades

Brawn over brain
Means a happy ending
G.I. Joe in the cereal bowl
Grey shrapnel-flavored chewing gum
Mass murder ain't just painless
Now we've made it cute

RAMBOZO
RAMBOZO
RAMBOZO the Clown
War is sexy
War is fun
Iron Ego
Red Dawn
Be a wolverine. You'll rule the hills
Just get some guns and Cheerios
Any kid can conquer Libya
Just steal a fighter plane

Look who came home in a wheelchair
V.A. Hospital, they don't care
"We're the machine
You're just a tool."
Who fell for the myth of Rambozo the Clown

Here are some ideas I think the toy companies should consider:

GI Joe Iraq action figure: comes with Iraqi people with burnable clothes. You can buy new clothes so you can burn Iraqi insurgents and their families over and over again.

Congresopoli: Just like monopoly, except you play with congress people. The object of the game is to make as much money without getting in legal trouble. If you get a Tob DeLay card you go to jail. If you get a Todd Tiahrt Card, you get an all expense paid week in the European country of your choice.

Patriot Act band aids: Children love colored band aids. These have Patriot Act on the box, and constitutional rights on the band aids. When the child throws it away, he or she gets to feel the sense of security in tossing out our constitutional rights.

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Robert Altman Dead

Robert Altman was a legend among film directors. He took on the movies no one else would do.

Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was known mostly for his hit movie M*A*S*H. But he also made some other classics such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller. he directed 1992's The Player, another all time movie great. 3 Women was also a good flick.

Altman died on November 20, 2006 at age 81 at Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. According to his company in New York, Sandcastle 5 Productions, he died of complications from leukemia.

strange

I always liked this song. The lyrics are hard to follow but I never gave a shit.
Maybe I just like it cause its weird. Or I like the vocals. Or I just got board of writing long blogs about my personal philosophy and decided to put this in there instead. If no one reads it, I can just listen to it on my computer.

Yeeee Haaaa!



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Jesus is my cost accountant

Was Jesus rich?
That question has been in several publications are asking, including Time magazine and The Wichita Eagle. Outside of the Christian community, there are those who believe Jesus was fabricated from stories and an ancient zodiac, while others believe he was a preacher that simply got the idea he was God and therefore divine.

Since that time, various religions have sought to make Jesus their excuse or tool for political and economic power. Forget that the Bible said it is as hard for a rich man to get into Heaven as a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, The Wichita Eagle has some examples of preachers who use Jesus to justify wealth:

Christians gather around the world each Christmas to sing about "poor baby Jesus" asleep in the manger with no crib for his bed. But the Rev. Creflo Dollar looks inside that manger, and he doesn't see a poor baby at all.
He sees a baby born into wealth because the kings visiting him gave him gold, frankincense and myrrh.
He sees a messiah with so much money that he needed an accountant to track it.

He sees a savior who wore clothes so expensive that the Roman soldiers who crucified him gambled for them.
Dollar sees a rich Jesus.
"He was rich, he was whole, and I use those words interchangeably," says Dollar, senior pastor of World Changers Church International, a 23,000-member church in College Park, Ga. It broadcasts its services on six continents.
Dollar is part of a growing number of preachers who say that the traditional image of Jesus as a poor, itinerant preacher who "had no place to lay his head" is wrong.
"Did Jesus have money? Well, the Bible was clear: Kings brought him gold," Dollar says.


Of Course in he famous song by Black 47, a fictional anarchist named Sam Hall said:
And the priest he said to meRepent or face eternityKeep your rich man's god from me, so said I, so said IHe never gave a damn for me, so said I

To that I add agreement. If Jesus is a rich man's god, I have even less in common with him than I figured before.

A lot of famous people have seriously questioned the divinity of Jesus. Thomas Jefferson said:
It is in the history of a personage called Jesus. Keep in your eye the opposite pretensions: 1, of those who say he was begotten by God, born of a virgin, suspended and reversed the laws of nature at will and ascended bodily into heaven; and 2, of those who say he was a man of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally fore sedition, by being gibbeted, according to the Roma Law."[1]
He went on to say that it didn't matter if a person found belief in God in order to attain a sense of virtue. I would go one step further and say he was a nice guy with vision of godliness, but that didn't make him god. I can't share my intelligence with a cock roach or an ameba. Why would a supreme being even try something as foolish and taking human form and trying to share the secrets of not only this universe, but if the M theory of science holds out, an infinite number.
More recently, Hunter S. Thompson, while writing on the death of Richard Nixon, went as far as to compare the ex-president to Jesus:
"He (former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) seemed to be saying that History will not have to absolve Nixon, because he has already done it himself in a massive act of will and crazed arrogance that already ranks him supreme, along with other Nietzschean supermen like Hitler, Jesus, Bismarck and the emperor Hirohito.[2]
Of course, I have disowned Jesus as a god-head in an earlier blog. As I said, he may have been a nice guy, but anyone can claim to be god and I don't believe any of them.
And this is just one more reason to reject Christian values, as outdated and of little use to the struggle of the poor and working class people.



1] Jefferson, pp. 399 – 400.

[2] Hunter S. Thompson, Better Than Sex (Gonzo Papers, Vol. 4), (Ballantine Books, New York, August 22, 1995) pp. 242 – 243.

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How I survived the 1980s and early 1990s

Kansas wing-nuts get ass kicked

Last night the religious right wing-nuts took a big loss. While U.S. House - District 2 Jim Ryun was the Republican Party's golden boy, its treasured hero, his loss is not as great as Attorney General Phill Kline. That sleaze bag never had any credentials as an attorney and was elected by wing nut churches for the purpose of harassing abortion providers and anyone else in the wing-nuts way. They also failed to take over the governor's seat, leaving them de-fanged.

For those who are not familiar with Kansas, this is more than politics, it's personal. These wing-nuts have gone out of their way to harass, ridicule and make life as difficult as possible for those who won't accept their crack pot religion. Well now they will have to work a lot harder at it and all I can say is:

Phill Kline – GONE!!!!!
HA HA HA!!!!
HE HE HE HE!!!!!!

HAR HAR HAAAARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

No separation of Church and State here!

Praise the lord and pass the ballot box. This country is once again becoming a theocracy. This is one reason we must counter the Christian right and their whole philosophy of life. This year we have plenty of examples of religion getting involved in politics. It is one of the most effective tools of the Republican Party and recent news accounts show that the Democrats are planning the same thing.

According to The Wichita Eagle, last Saturday:

“When it comes to politics and elections, places of worship -- as with any other tax-exempt organization -- walk a fine line.
While their leaders can speak out on issues or promote specific values as much as they want, they are prohibited from participating in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
While the law is unambiguous, local pastors and other religious leaders walk the line in different ways.
Some choose to be vocal about their political preferences. Others provide guidance about a campaign, without promoting candidates. And still others stick to issues and avoid the political thicket altogether.
Mark Holick of Spirit One Christian Center in south Wichita takes an in-your-face approach.
For the past several weeks, his church's marquee has addressed the abortion issue and made reference to two candidates, Kansas Attorney General candidate Paul Morrison and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
On one side, the sign reads: "Morrison accepts blood money from abortionist Tiller. How many babies??" The other side reads: "Abortionist Tiller has given $300,000 to Sebelius. Price of 1,000 babies!"
Holick sees no conflict with posting or making such statements and doesn't think they're violating laws about political endorsements.
"Obviously, we can't endorse anyone," he said. "But we can identify the positions of those running for political office on the issues."
"As Christians, we have a responsibility to elect godly and righteous men and women."

Let’s face facts. These people are endorsing candidates, so to deny it is a lie. They focus on one emotional issue and that issue only. They claim to want “righteous men and women” and yet There choices are often unqualified people who abuse the office for their own personal wealth. That’s righteous?
Many of the churches the Eagle talked to don’t go that far, but they do provide “voters guiedes” which are often inaccurate and clearly aimed at certain candidates. Perhaps the worst example is the Catholic Church. Again the Eagle said:
“To educate its 406,000 members, the three Catholic dioceses and one archdiocese in Kansas have gone a step further to help Catholic voters across the state.
In August, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, Bishop Ronald Gilmore of the Dodge City Diocese, Bishop Paul Coakley of the Salina Diocese, and Bishop Michael Jackels of the Wichita Diocese issued a set of guidelines titled "Moral Principles for Catholic Voters." It's available online at the Wichita Diocese's Web site, www.cdowk.org.
It was sent by the Kansas Catholic Conference to all priests, who were asked to provide copies to their parishioners.
"We are not telling people what candidates to vote for," said Mike Farmer, executive director of the conference.
But "the church, I think, not only has a right, but an obligation" to provide voters assistance on what it believes, he said.
The guidelines address a variety of issues and connect specific Catholic moral teaching with the act of voting.
Under the heading, "Judgments concerning moral evils," the guidelines state: "A correct conscience recognizes that there are some choices that always involve doing evil and which can never be done even as a means to a good end.
"These choices include elective abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, the destruction of embryonic human beings in stem cell research, human cloning, and same-sex 'marriage.' "
In closing, the guidelines remind Catholics that "Voting is a moral act."


"As Bishops, we are not telling Catholics which candidate they should vote for. Rather, we simply want to teach how we should form our consciences and consider the issues in light of these fundamental moral principles."


Once again, the church is telling its voters how to vote. By making certain issues a “moral certainty” they are, in effect, choosing who their followers can and can’t vote for. Once again, a handful of issues override whether the candidate has credentials for the job or whether the person is honest and will work for the people rather than just take large contributions from corporations. These offices easily corrupted even the most dedicated person, because the perks and the huge contributions of money are way of the scale. Few people can turn down so much luxury no matter what they believe.
These examples show that our politics and some religions are intertwined. They can’t be separated. We can’t just look at politics, we have to look at religions that are set on creating a theocracy, which they will control.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, in all the stores and on the TV. We still haven’t had Turkey Day yet, were we hang out with ALL our relatives and eat greesy meet and other fixin’s till we want to puke. But there’s big money in Christmas so the shopping Christmas season has begun.

I don’t know many people who have put up a tree or Christmas decorations, but step into your local food store or mega mart and you’ll find all kinds of Christmas decorations, gift ideas and holiday food items. They haven’t started on the Christmas music yet. That comes the day after Thanksgiving. By the time Dec. 25 rolls around, most of us will be so sick of traditional Christmas carrolls, we’ll start throwing shoes at our TV specials and choacking any relative that even hums “Let It Snow” (reguardless of which billionth version they hum).

We don’t really celebrate the Birth of Jesus on Dec. 25. We celebrate a multi-$billion industry that we support with what little money we have, so a few corporate fat cats get rich.

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