READER COMMENTS ON
"The 'Coordinated Left' in Crawford..."
(8 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Winter Patriot
said on 8/29/2005 @ 11:18 pm PT...
"state-of-the-art "?? You're SO RIGHT!!
Did I ever mention I used to plan in a band? Well I used to play in a bunch of bands. The best of them tried to be, in the words of the absolute genius Robert Fripp, "small mobile intelligent units". And I'm tellin ya, Brad, when we were recording, our studio looked amazingly similar to your photo. Just enough gear to get the job done, with just enough top-notch people at the controls. Not too much, not too little. Not too many, not too few. To use a word that we deliberately over-used at the time, it looks purrr-fect!!
And of course when I say "top-notch" I am talking about the guys I played with. They had to be good, to put up with me!!
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Winter Patriot
said on 8/30/2005 @ 3:37 am PT...
I've been listening to the rebradcast and I have to say it's great to be able to do that ... thanks again to Ben and Otie and everyone else who has been helping Brad ... cheers and best wishes to alaskagyrl ... cheers and best wishes to ALL supporters of Cindy Sheehan for that matter ... and to Cindy herself too .... and to Brad of course ... wow! what a difference you've been making!!
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Blow Me, I'm Irish!
said on 8/30/2005 @ 6:15 am PT...
In the interest of NOT taking everything SO seriously....Let's get a better photo of Alaska Gyrl! Big microphone covering half her face, sitting...geez!!
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Doug Eldritch
said on 8/30/2005 @ 8:02 am PT...
What a great display!!
It's Peter, Paul and Mary!!! Or should I say "Infidel" and Paul plus Mary.
LOL!!!
Paul, I have a wonderful message for you. It is JUST for you and all the other kids who won't simply sign up for this war RIGHT NOW since they believe in it so strongly.
"Upon the listening spirit of God the Father fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause)
"Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits."
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said. "
The War Prayer
As you can see, its called the WAR PRAYER obviously. And the message is very simple, wars are un-neccesary vile things which should only be used as a last resort since they bring destruction and death.
But when that war, or wars are based on lies and illegal acts of agression you aren't smiting down the enemy anymore, Paul, because you have BECOME the enemy. And thus you got exactly what you paid for, thousands of dead, blood, and your friends gone forever perished at the hands of greed.
Mark Twain had a brilliant message, but you only understand what that message was once you've felt the pain. So why don't you go ship off to Bagdhad, which is where they hate everyone for our freedom I take it, and prove you can wave your patriot party in public?
What's the matter? Is the fear of loss too great? War is about loss, and death. You should embrace it...that is unless you really aren't pro-war.
Cathy, I feel for you and it takes tremendous courage to do this too. Thomas is the most brave guy I know to do this, please send his picture and story everywhere you possibly can. Let them know 9/11 is over, that Iraq has no bearing on 9/11 and that the war was a lie and its time for it to end. Lets hope all the chickenhawks wake up before countless others are killed, and lets take that message straight to Washington and beyond and impeach the dictators and end their oil wars.
Doug E.
COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
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czaragorn
said on 8/30/2005 @ 8:27 am PT...
Yo Blow Me! Go to her blog (it's somewhere around here, but I'm trying to finish up with my work now - OK, I just had to be remiss in my duties for a sec to check on things at BradBlog, the finest blog that ever was). Along with a slew of fine photos she took here are a few that she's in! Peace and Love
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
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Emmitt Istvan
said on 8/30/2005 @ 2:21 pm PT...
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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Doug Eldritch
said on 8/30/2005 @ 5:21 pm PT...
{Duplicate comment deleted by WP. Sorry, Doug, but it's getting a bit annoying to see the same comment posted on multiple threads. I've been too busy and/or too sick to say anything about it until now but here's the deal:
"Say something once, Why say it again?"}
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Kraig
said on 9/3/2005 @ 9:04 pm PT...
Impeach the Bushite fascists. Want to know what the REAL "Axis of Evil" is? The imaginary line running between the the neo-con White House and the neo-con Capitol Building.