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Two weeks ago, Neil Young released his latest album, “Living with War”. It’s a bold piece of work, proving that he isn’t Burning Out or Fading Away anytime soon. The album is a brilliant throwback to his Ohio days and will surely illustrate to our children a pivotal point in our country’s history. If it’s received well (which it probably won’t be) it has the potential to serve as the cadence for a brave change in our administration and the minds of our passive public body. Check out the 100 voices with him in “Let’s Impeach the President…” Despite Neil’s Canadian roots, he’s more American than most will ever be. I really hope “Living With War” gets some national airtime. Tell me if you hear it on Clearchannel!

Thank You Neil Young.

I heard on the radio yesterday that every American “owes” $28,000 to get us out of the current deficit. (keep pushing refresh to watch it climb!) The money we are borrowing to fund the war and sustain us comes from China and Japan, with high interest rates. Imagine what their economies will be like if/when we pay back the 8 trillion we owe!

This guy also illustrates my feelings more concisely than I could write them right now. ENJOY.

There’s been some ink spilled lately denigrating so called ‘angry liberals,’ that is, people who have allegedly lost their right to be taken seriously because they are ‘angry.’ And they are ‘liberal.’
Well, I hereby declare myself a charter member in the ALC (Angry Liberal Club).

Sure, at first I felt guilty — what right do I have as a patriotic American to be angry? Or liberal? Oh, I tried to repress the ‘angry thing,’ I tried — if I was asked, I claimed I was a ‘peeved moderate.’ Or a ‘mildly upset centrist.’ But after much work through ‘BIT’ (Blog Immersion Therapy), I stopped feeling the shame. I’m coming out of the closet to announce I am an Angry Liberal Guy. And I am pissed.

You might be saying “Man, what are you so angry about, Angry Liberal Guy?”

I’ve compiled a short (and by no means complete) list just so I could see it all in one place:

I’m angry about the shredding of the constitution…illegal wiretaps…falsified intelligence…secret prisons… use of torture as an accepted means of interrogation…Terry Schiavo…the war on science…denial of Global Warming…the fascistic secrecy of our elected officials… presidential signings that declare the President above the law…the breakdown of the wall between church and state…the outing of a clandestine CIA agent for purely partisan political gain…the corrupting influence of K Street… the total sell-out of the legislative process to corporate interests… appointments of unqualified cronies at every level of government…Harriet Miers…Brownie…Abu Ghraib… Scooter …the complete mismanagement of the war in Iraq…the lies about the complete mismanagement of the war in Iraq…the grotesque budget deficits… the pathetic response to Katrina… a civil rights division dedicated to undermining civil rights…an environmental protection agency that refuses to protect the environment… (Take a breath, Angry Liberal Guy.)

And I’m angry about a smug, simple-minded, incompetent, unqualified President, and a press that denies the obvious fact that we have a smug, simple-minded, incompetent unqualified President.

If these things don’t make you angry, I have to ask — what the hell is the matter with you?

And what would it take to make you angry?

– C.B. Shapiro

and if you want to see Bush’s schedule for the next few days, here you go. (pdf format)