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<TD><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">. I suppose this must be what people felt in the 1930s listening to the news from Germany.<BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">And now we (the citzens and residents of US) are acting just like the Germans did...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">I've been greatly enjoying watching and listening to the music that's been posted to the site lately, especially since I'm still flat on my back most of the time And Weird Al gives me a well needed laugh. However, after Congress' behavior today, the only music running though my head is R.E.M. for some reason:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">Bad Day: <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWdRMQfjdo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWdRMQfjdo</A></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size=3>A public service announcement followed me home the other day.<BR>I paid it nevermind. <BR>Go Away.<BR>Shits so thick you could stir it with a stick-free Teflon whitewashed presidency.<BR>We're sick of being jerked around.<BR>Wear that on your sleeve.<BR><BR>Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,<BR>Count your blesings.<BR>We're sick of being jerked around.<BR>We all fall down.<BR><BR>Have you ever seen the televised St. vitus subcommittee prize<BR>Investigation dance? <BR>Those ants in pants glances.<BR>Well, look behind the eyes.<BR>It's a hallowed hollow anesthetized<BR>"save my own ass, screw these guys"<BR>smoke and mirror lock down.<BR><BR>Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,<BR>Count your blessings.<BR>The Papers wouldn't lie!<BR>I sigh, Not one more.<BR><BR>It's been a bad day.<BR>Please don't take a picture.<BR>It's been a bad day.<BR>Please...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">Welcome to the Occupation:</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #474747; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size=3>...Hang your collar up inside<BR>Hang your freedom higher<BR>Listen to the buyer still<BR>Listen to the congress<BR>Where we propagate confusion<BR>Primitive and wild<BR>Fire on the hemisphere below...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #474747; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">The Final Straw: (R.E.M. used to have this video on their website for free during the Iraq invasion. Someone should tell them it's still going on...)</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif"><FONT size=3>As I raise my head to broadcast my objection<BR>As your latest triumph draws the final straw<BR>Who died and lifted you up to perfection?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size=3>And what silenced me is written into law...<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size=3>...Now I don't believe and I never did<BR>That two wrongs make a right.<BR>If the world were filled with the likes of you<BR>Then I'm putting up a fight. I'm putting up a fight.<BR>Putting up a fight. make it right. make it right...<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P></SPAN>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">It's the End of the World as We Know It: <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhjWB3sqjAo&mode=related&search">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhjWB3sqjAo&mode=related&search</A>=</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #474747; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size=3>...Uh oh, overflow, population,<BR>common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its<BR>own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the<BR>reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright<BR>light, feeling pretty psyched.<BR></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #474747; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size=3>It's the end of the world as we know it.<BR>It's the end of the world as we know it.<BR>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.<BR><BR><BR><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:time w:st="on" Hour="18" Minute="0">Six o'clock</st1:time> - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,<BR>return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,<BR>blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,<BR>light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,<BR>this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,<BR>a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives<BR>and I decline.<BR><BR><BR>It's the end of the world as we know it.<BR>It's the end of the world as we know it.<BR>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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