Elwood P Dowd
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Sat Feb-24-07 02:08 AM
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Are the corporatist and freeper infiltrators on this board wearing you down? |
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Well don't let 'em! Keep pushing for a REAL Democratic ticket for 2008. Go back and listen to some of the old folk songs. Go back and listen to Seeger, and The Weavers, and Joan Baez, and Woody........and
This land is your land, this land is my land From the Redwood Forest to the New York Island The Canadian mountain to the Gulf Stream waters This land is made for you and me.
As I go walking this ribbon of highway I see above me the endless skyway And all around me the wind keeps saying: This land is made for you and me.
I roam and I ramble and I follow my footsteps Till I come to the sands of her mineral desert The mist is lifting and the voice is saying: This land is made for you and me.
Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling The wheat field waving and the dust a rolling The fog is lifting and the wind is saying: This land is made for you and me.
Nobody living can ever stop me As I go walking my freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land is made for you and me.
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Sat Feb-24-07 02:17 AM
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1. You left out the best part of the song... |
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Many people don't even know about the final verse of that song, but it is the most powerful one. Here are the lyrics in their entirety.
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie
Chorus: This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me
Chorus
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was sounding This land was made for you and me
Chorus
The sun comes shining as I was strolling The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The fog was lifting a voice come chanting This land was made for you and me
Chorus
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there And that sign said - no tress passin' But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me!
Chorus
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office - I see my people And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin' If this land's still made for you and me.
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Sat Feb-24-07 02:42 AM
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4. It was deleted because it wasn't "feel good" and it was a criticism of the power structure. |
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That's my best guess, anyway.
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Sat Feb-24-07 02:18 AM
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2. When my mom bought her first house |
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I got her a sign for the front door. It's wooden, and totally Americana, with red, white, and blue, and a farm scene. It says "This land is your land, this land is my land."
She looks like a total Patriot.
I doubt her FReeper neighbors are aware of all the lyrics to that song. :D
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Elwood P Dowd
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Sat Feb-24-07 02:26 AM
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3. I need to update my files |
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Sat Feb-24-07 02:45 AM
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5. Thanks for the reminder. |
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Edited on Sat Feb-24-07 02:45 AM by Breeze54
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K & R'd
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OneBlueSky
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Sat Feb-24-07 04:33 AM
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6. the real battle in this country is not between liberals and conservatives . . . |
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that's just a forced dichotomy created by the ruling class and their media stooges to keep us occupied and at each others' throats -- and away from the truth . . .
because the truth is that the REAL battle is between them and us -- between the corporations (and those who control them) and the people . . . and no real change is going to occur until we understand this and decide to do something about it (i.e. re-regulate and strictly control corporations, their excesses, and their illegalities) . . .
it is indeed a class struggle . . . and they're winning . . . big time . . .
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ixion
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Sat Feb-24-07 08:35 AM
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7. as an owner of a small business (a.k.a a 'corporation') the blanket charges |
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make me sad.
Not EVERY corporation practices these excesses and illegalities you speak of. On the contrary, I don't spend excessively (because I'd go broke) and I pay a fair amount of money every year to an accountant to make sure that I'm in compliance.
I agree that there are companies out there that are far too powerful. The key lies in the definition of a 'citizen'. The constitution specifically forbade corporations being considered as individuals. What has happened is that through lobbying groups, these corps are effectively being considered citizens.
If you take that one item away, you fix the problem, without creating a slew of regulatory legislation that would cost more to enforce that it would produce, IMO.
Just my two cents.
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Sat Feb-24-07 08:50 AM
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8. Two items; The word corporation has taken on the meaning of large |
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companies that, have no real competition and dominate their areas of influence. It is rather like, as I was reminded recently, the word internet when used by non-professionals (and many of them as well), really refers to the world wide web.
Much that is currently legal, is still wrong.
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ixion
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Sat Feb-24-07 09:28 AM
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my premise still stands: Deny 'corporations' citizenship, which they are currently achieving through power lobbying organizations, and much of the problems we're experiencing today will no longer be problems. That is not to say there everything would be perfect, but we would lose the corporatist influence on government, which would be beneficial, IMO.
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Sat Feb-24-07 08:53 AM
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Sat Feb-24-07 08:59 AM
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10. They don't wear me down. |
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When I read something by a disruptor, it's like drinking ten cups of coffee.
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Sat Feb-24-07 11:19 AM
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like if you find a disruptor alert on them, don't disturb the flow of the board by posting threads about disrupting
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