- O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
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- 60,000 plastic bags used every five seconds
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- America! America! God shed his grace on thee and crown
thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
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- America has the largest number of citizens (2.3
million) incarcerated. Besides Wal-Mart the private (for profit) prison
industry is our fastest growing industry.
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- O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern, impassioned
stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness! America!
America! God men thine every flaw, confirm thy good with brotherhood
from sea to shining sea.
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- Ethel, age 89, died (multitudes of others) in
New Orleans's scorching heat: due to the ineptness, incompetence, and
criminal negligence of local-state politicians, the Army Corp of Engineers,
and the federal government. We can reach the most inaccessible rain forests
for oil, dance amongst the stars, photograph the mighty Titanic (that
even God couldn't sink) but we couldn't reach dying, drowning, folks in
New Orleans. I note that the Blackwater's
- private mercenary army had no problem reaching
the homes of the wealthy (unflooded) to guard them and deliver delicacies
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- Hundred of whales and porpoises are beached,
due to the depravity that has sonar military exercises rupturing their
ear canals and brains. Millions of fish are dying inAmerica's rivers (becoming
feminized) due to corporate profits taking precedence over protecting
the environment. Congress and the EPA (influenced by lobbyists)
remain silent.
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- Where have all the children gone off to
war, every one when will we ever learn?
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- O beautiful for halcyon skies, for amber waves of grain,
for purple mountains majesties above the enameled plain! America! America!
God shed his grace on thee till souls wax fair as earth and air and music-hearted
sea!
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- Corporate industry (coal, incineration of waste,
chemical plants) has poisoned the waters of the nation! Where's the 'danger
stranger' alert for nature?
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- In the name of profit the mountains of West Virginia
are being destroyed. EPA has no problem with this and Congress is
per usual, oblivious (as is most of the nation).
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- O beautiful for pilgrims feet, whose stern impassioned
stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.
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- TV was my teacher far into the night it
taught me to buy everything within sight.
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- Till selfish gain no longer strain the banner of the
free.
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- With billions upon billions spent on defense
these past years we are made to believe that 19 men with simple
$1.98 box cutters and a few lessons on antiquated crop dusters gave
us a Pearl Harbor event. Lesson: We have no defense system for citizens.
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- O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife.
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- Once upon a time in a place called Paradise -
Pennsylvania, evil entered in to kill innocence.
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- Undimmed by human tears.
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- O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond
the years.
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- Who more than self thy country loved.
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- War is forever for some men.note that the tragically
wounded are never used in photo-ops or lauded at the State of the Union
Address! They are not pictured on any recruitment posters, announcing
"An Army of One"! Our wounded, as we've read (some of us) are
being treated in facilities with mold covered walls, rats and cockroaches.
They (brain injured limbless) are made to maneuver through a bureaucratic
nightmare of paperwork (taking up to 18 months) before they are RATED
as to disability compensation. How is it that our do nothing legislators
(Executive Judicial) with their obscene pension plans (yearly cost
of living increases) aren't RATED?
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- Millions in the land are homeless and dispossessed
(living in tents- cars-under bridges) due to multitudes of jobs lost to
outsourcing of manufacturing-textile-IT workers to foreign lands. HUD
is a disgrace with billions unaccounted for. Lesson: In times of
crisis you're on your own due to many programs (no safety net) being cut
to pay for the never ending war, costing approx. 2.3 billion per week
(all borrowed) and interest payments on this borrowed money, $41 million
an hour.
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- God shed his grace on thee.
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- Thousands of men were once employed here (Bethlehem,
Steel). Our steel mills today are echoing and rusting. In the event there
would be a catastrophic happening in our nation we would not be able to
supply needed weaponry for defense (it's all outsourced).
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- May God thy gold refine till all success be nobleness
and every gain divine!
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- Hate is pandemic, as different factions rip and tear
at one another. This serves a higher purpose; in that if the people can
be kept divided in their religious extremism, environmental malaise,
hatred of various races, cultures, politics, they will never come to the
realization that this is a class issue with the few robbing the
multitudes/destroying the earth for their insatiable greed and lust for
power. Nowhere do you hear that the failed policies of
- various trade agreements (GATT-NAFTA-FTAA-CAFTA) and
the draconian methods of the World Bank / International Monetary Fund
as being the reasons for the vast exodus of economic refugees. And crown
the good with brotherhood.
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- The Religion of Mammon, counterfeiting as Christianity
today; is a bunch of Elmer Gantry, hucksters fleecing the flock for their
disgustingly obscene lifestyles. So much for emulating the life of the
One born in a manger!
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- Our reservists and National Guard were never meant to
be a standing army. These men are being sent back to Iraq over and over
again until they eventually suffer terrible wounds or die. Besides being
sitting ducks, in a bloodbath, they are exposed (as are the Iraqi citizens)
to tons of radiated depleted uranium (first used in Bosnia, because it
cuts through metal like butter). Result breakdown of immune system
cancers, deformed offspring. Meantime children are given cardboard
cut-outs .
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- As Marine General Smedly Butler ( 34 years most
decorated) stated, "All war is a racket". War is ALWAYS about
the conquest of another's resources/land for gain. The recent hydro
carbon law in Iraq proves this as the once nationalized oil wells
have now been given over to private oil companies. "The first casualty
when war comes is truth". U.S. Senator Hirman Johnson There are
billions of barrels of untapped resources in Iraq - thus the hysteria
of staying the course. And so we have the children of one land sent to
kill the children of another so that satiated corporate hollow men along
with their shills, lap dogs, and compromised drones might live the good
life!
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- And once upon a time, in a land called America, the people
would come in from the farms, their mountain cabins, farms, and mill
towns with their young ones to joy in the closeness of community on warm
sultry summer nights. The American dream was never about grand mansions,
designer wear, exotic vacations, health clubs, silicone implants, Viagra
love affairs, fortress malls, boutiques, forever war, the prison industry,
or slave labor junk stores. It was about a man being able to make a living
for his family. It was about a simple life of small town living, where
people congregated on Main Street for the Fourth of July parade. It was
about swimming holes, country lanes, fields of corn, teachers who challenged
the young to greater heights (not social engineering! ), doctors (not
technocrats), marshland songs, a whippoorwill, splashing streams, and
woodlands with secret paths. It was about rain washed streets; where barefoot
children splashed in puddles, blew magic bubbles, caught fireflies, and
played hide-and-seek long into a muggy summer's night. It was about concerts
in the park, the clink of milk bottles, and visits to Grandma's house;
with her blue hair, flowered dress, and flour dusted apron. It was about
the certainty of love with the slamming of a screen door, a child running
in flowered meadows, and at days end, neighbors gathered on darkened
porches, holding tight the wonderment of the day. It was about Hometown
- U.S.A.
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- "Keep away from people who try to belittle your
ambitions. Small people always do that, the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great". Mark Twain -- JM
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