Green Day. Back in my "youth" I was all about them. I stopped that about 9 years ago. I thought I had outgrown them and in some respects I guess I have. However a friend of mine let me rip the Bullet In A Bible live album. It's groovy. These guys says some stuff I can definitely get on board with. I mean the few words I can understand, I agree with. For all I know they are talking about booty sex in between intelligible lyrics. Which of course I am not down with one little bit.
They are not breaking new ground with their music but they are using their art form to get out a message they feel strongly about. I say
weeeeeeeeeeeee to that. Of course If they were saying something about how cool
Jesusocricy is then I would feel totally different. I'm a complex creature. Leave me be.
In other news, I finally saw An
Inconvenient Truth. I've been hearing
a lot of gruff lately about how it is mostly lies. How it's just some liberal propaganda to garner votes.
I have two thoughts on that: #1 I love it when the conservative bitches that feed us all this bullshit we accept as "news" and "facts" starts screaming their heads off about how the "liberal media bias" is just using propaganda in order to get votes.
Hmmmm, can anyone say "Jesus" or "family values" or "tax cuts" or I don't know, how about:
"I strongly believe he was trying to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program."
or
"We recently found two mobile biological weapons facilities which were capable of producing biological agents."
or
"Here's what -- we've discovered a weapons system, biological labs, that Iraq denied she had, and labs that were prohibited under the U.N. resolutions."
or
"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
or
"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 -- and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men -- the shock troops of a hateful ideology -- gave America and the civilized world a glimpse of their ambitions. They imagined, in the words of one terrorist, that September the 11
th would be the 'beginning of the end of America.' By seeking to turn our cities into killing fields, terrorists and their allies believed that they could destroy this nation's resolve, and force our retreat from the world. They have failed."
or
"The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of
al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more."
or
"The regime . . . has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of
al Qaeda. The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, nuclear weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country, or any other."
or
"He has trained and financed
al Qaeda-type organizations before,
al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations."
or
"One of the greatest dangers we face is that weapons of mass destruction might be passed to terrorists who would not hesitate to use those weapons. Saddam Hussein has longstanding, direct and continuing ties to terrorist networks. Senior members of Iraq intelligence and
al Qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with
al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided
al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. And an
al Qaeda operative was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in
aquiring poisons and gases. We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior
al Qaeda terrorist planner."
or
"And the United States, along with a growing coalition of nations, is resolved to take whatever action is necessary to defend ourselves and disarm the Iraqi regime. September the 11
th, 2001, the American people saw what terrorists could do by turning four airplanes into weapons. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons."
or
"And the United States, along with a growing coalition of nations, is resolved to take whatever action is necessary to defend ourselves and disarm the Iraqi regime. September the 11
th, 2001, the American people saw what terrorists could do by turning four airplanes into weapons. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons."
or................................
Seriously there are like hundreds of these I could go on all week.
#2 Let's say for arguments sake that it is just liberal crap to get votes. What exactly would be so wrong with trying to treat the earth better? Why would that be such a negative thing?
I've heard
a lot of people saying how he lied. But in the articles I've read, they've basically only been able to say that he is probably
exaggerating. I mean they say "the science is still out on this" but to me that sounds a lot like saying "the science is still out on evolution". They offer no credible sources. They offer sources all right, just usually articles written and
sponsored by the oil companies and/or the Bush administration.
OK. I didn't intend to sneak a slam on conservatives and Jesusonians into a simple easy going blog about Green Day. However, it's happened. Deal with it.
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