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Title: Dixie Chicks for President
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From The Wilderness
URL Source: http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/
Published: Jun 21, 2006
Author: Mike Ruppert
Post Date: 2006-06-21 09:01:58 by loner
Keywords: None
Views: 129
Comments: 6
Maybe three times in the last eight and half years I have indulged myself to write something just for fun, just to remind myself that getting light is sometimes the best way to respond to a heavy world. The Dixie Chicks may not save the world. The Dixie Chicks may not stop the war. But the Dixie Chicks have certainly saved my spirits and sense of humor. Long before it became fashionable to dislike the Bush Administration, especially for Southerners from Texas, these magnificent ladies stood up and said “Bullshit!” – in so many words. They took their lumps, they stood their ground, they took the long way around and they’re not ready to make nice. Their new CD “Taking The Long Way” has debuted at No. 1, selling 526,000 copies in its first week. Whether they know it or not, their success is a success for all of us who have fought this madness for the last five years. We have taken our own lumps; some hard ones, some nasty ones, and although we haven’t found our own drink of affirming water in the long, arid desert yet, The Dixie Chicks are taking a drink for all of us. I bought the CD myself and, aside from its monumental symbolic value, it just happens to be really good music. I have been privileged to know as friends, meet or interact with great musicians from Benmont Tench (keyboards for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Alanis Morisette, Don Henley and everybody else), to David Lindley (Jackson Browne & more), to David Baerwald (songwriter for Sheryl Crow, composer, singer), to Tom Waits (who bought a case of Truth and Lies of 9/11). Those who know me well, know that two decades ago I had a band and was briefly a working singer in the 1980s. “Taking the Long Way is just brilliant, beautiful, toe-tapping, happy-thigh-slapping, tear jerking, emotionally satisfying music. That may be a biased opinion on my part but – as opposed to so much else in this day and age – emotions and music connect to an important life reality here. The music (certainly not all political) is easier to trust because the Chicks have earned emotional credibility with me and all music is ultimately about human emotion. Because I trust them, I believe their music. I hope these ladies break every record in the book. I hope they outsell the Beatles. If that’s the best Americans can do for a “revolution” now then let it scream from the highest hills that we, probably well more than half of the American people, are sick and tired of lies, death, and the empty-soulness of our nation. Let’s reach out to the rest of the frightened and imperiled people on this planet and show them something. Seeing this CD sell 10 million copies in this country in six months could change the harmonics of the nation and maybe the planet itself. I’m going out to buy five more now. Dixie Chicks for President! Mike Ruppert (yeah, it’s me)
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#1. To: BTPHoldings, Christine, IndieTx, noone222, PeteAtomic, lodwick (#0)
Truthseeker
The American people need to find the fire in the belly the princesses of Country music have. Enough. Enough. Enough. We have had it. Enough. What engineering to Iraq the crime syndicate in power in the United States wants to do to enslave the Iraqi to a government not their own that will rob them of the right to self determination as they see fit to find and express from their own hearts and aspirations be advised O American People, it is nothing less then the model of the harness they see us merely fit to wear to pull their wagon. To give them freedom and wealth at our expense. Remember: The Shot Heard Around the World on April 19, 1775 Take back our country from the evil King George the II who embodies the tyranny and oppression of King George the III. Enough. We have to hear the message deeply embedded in the hearts of the Iraqi rebellion against the government we would impose through puppets and surrogates and honor it enough to seize it and make it our own and rid ourselves of the same scourge of government they loath. We have lived those words, they are or anthem, or national mantra, the embodiment of our hopes and aspirations for a better life and future. Here is the last paragraph and weep. Weep for the sheep we are seen as and many have bought into the oppression of their own very beings, they are from a speech given by an immortal; Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. Link to this speech:http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html Truthseeker
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#2. To: loner (#1)
Chick bump.
#3. To: loner (#0)
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
I'm ready, and have been for many years, are you?
#5. To: Hmmmmm (#0)
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
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