This song may not be as bad as "Hillary for You and Me" but it's close.

"I dread the deaths of certain super-celebrities. Not because I care about them, but because of all the s--t I have to endure on television when one of them dies. All those tributes and retrospectives. And the bigger the personality, the worse it is."

George Carlin

When the US went to war in Iraq in 2003, no one in the mainstream media would admit that it was about protecting US interests in Middle Eastern oil. I always felt that it was really the ONLY legitimate reason to go to war there, but our cynical politicians knew they couldn't sell that idea to the American people.

Our economy and way of life is dependant on a steady stream of energy from fossil fuels. Iraq has one of the largest oil fields in the world, but it was controlled by the state of Iraq. Our oil was under their sands! Of course we needed to invade. We can't be assured of continuing our way of life if we're reliant on the whims of a ruthless dictator. So we need to establish control.

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When the movie Saving Private Ryan came out I talked to my late grandfather about it. He had fought as a Marine in the Pacific theater during WWII and I was curious about the reality of the film. He had made landings in Guam on one of Higgins boats featured in the beginning of the film. I asked if he'd seen the movie and he said bluntly "No, I don't want to see that shit again."

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Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as “message force multipliers” or “surrogates” who could be counted on to deliver administration “themes and messages” to millions of Americans “in the form of their own opinions.”

What struck me the most was the implicit assumption that the Pentagon had to do war for the minds of the American people. "We the People" were the target of a psychological operation to support going into a war-of-choice, and we paid for it ourselves!

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Jessica Valenti of Feministing has a great video blasting public perverts, guys who expose themselves to women and girls in public. I had no idea this was an issue until talking about it with some of my female friends. In NYC it's a common occurence. It's not just guys harassing women; it's public masturbation in full view on subways, guys rubbing themselves off on women's bodies in crowds.

A while back my wife suprised me by telling me that she gets harassing comments almost every day she goes to work. I had no idea. She hasn't had anything extreme, but there's no reason she shouldn't be able to walk to work and not have to deal with a-holes making comments about her body and intimidating her.

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I don't understand the fear some in the right wing have of a "Gay Invasion". There's now a DVD that outlines how to keep homosexuals from invading your city hall and... I don't know... help make municiple decisions?

This parody is spot-on:

Rebecca Solnit has written an excellent essay on her experience dealing with men who assume that, since she's a woman, she is an ignorant vessel who must have things explained to her. "Men Explain Things to Me" is probably common knowledge for some women but a revelation for some men.

Being told that, categorically, he knows what he's talking about and she doesn't, however minor a part of any given conversation, perpetuates the ugliness of this world and holds back its light. After my book Wanderlust came out in 2000, I found myself better able to resist being bullied out of my own perceptions and interpretations. On two occasions around that time, I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest -- in a nutshell, female.

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In a really bizzare juxtaposition, we learn that this weekend Hillary Clinton relegated her press corps to filing reports from a men's room, while John McCain housed his press corps in a luxury resort and served delicious BBQ. I don't know which is worse; degrading reporters in unsanitary conditions, or sucking up to them and showering them with massages. But it's not hard to figure out who's gonna get their ass kissed going into the election.

If Hillary Clinton loses the nomination for the Democratic candidate, this is the reason why. She probably didn't authorize this horrendous song, but it could prove her undoing. Way to take important issues about our world and reduce them to trivial rhymes.

Hillay for You and Me

"Make this country proud and free"? Not if this is what it produces.