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Yesterday, the House voted 251-166 to send the 35 Articles of Impeachment introduced on Monday to the House Judiciary Committee.

Song: All Along the Watchtower
Bonus points for naming the author

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

Artist: Bob Dylan

Artist: Violet Femmes
Song: Yes Oh Yes

I know a woman who can hardly speak.
The feeling is so strong, and the foreman becomes weak.
It took one sentence to finish in a week.
I said "Yes, oh yes."
I said "This is what I've been waiting for."

I know a place where nothing can grow.
The summer will burn and the winter will snow.
And nothing moves but the wind, it blows.
It says "Yes, oh yes."
It says "This is what you've been homesick for."

I want to learn all the languages of man.
And question the wisdom in the maker's plan.
To babble on in our caravan
Where we say, "Yes, oh yes."
We said, "This is why we're not fighting. Oh."

You take me by my hand and say,
That what I owe I can not repay,
But you still love me anyway.
And I said "Yes, oh yes."
I said "This is what I've been dying...Yes, oh yes!
This is what I've been crying for. Yes, oh yes.
This is what I've been waiting for."

I can't believe Oliver North is on TV criticizing Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Oh, please.

The guy who sold weapons to Iran (after they kidnapped Americans) to fund terrorist organizations in Nicaragua is trying to say Wright is a bad person. The guy who was indicted on sixteen felony counts is trying to say a pastor is a bad person.

This guy organized transportation of cocaine and marijuana into the USA to fund these terrorists.

And somehow North is a hero of the right. He's got a show on Fox News. He's a face of the NRA!

Talk about enemies of America! This guy is banned from Costa Rica.

And to pile on the ironies, the ACLU defended him in the 1980s.

Incredible.

Scott McClellan is totally destroying Bill O'Reilly on his own show right now. Scott keeps talking about Saddam's nuclear program and Bill is saying that nuclear weapons aren't WMDs. He said the war wasn't sold on nuclear weapons even though the President's State of the Union talked about yellow cake specifically (three months after he was told not to use that data).

Bill's argument against Scott is that his book is helping "Bush haters." Who cares? It's the truth. If the truth helps Bush haters, what of it? Should we hide the truth because some people might politicize it?

We got to the Glasshouse a little late so we missed most of the first band, Advent, but did catch their last two songs. They were alright, kind of your average metalcore.

The Famine was next and I was looking forward to them for a long time as well. They're made up of ex-members of the original Embodyment lineup. They were brutal, and I loved them.

The only problem of the night was the sound sucked. I don't really like the Glasshouse for that reason. The bass was nowhere, the drums were loud, and the guitars were muffled. The vocals were all over the place. It bugged me.

O, Sleeper played next, and by this time they at least cleared up the guitars in the mix so that was good. They were pretty good, they definitely had a high-energy show. They reminded me and Nicole of Norma Jean though, one song (something about vipers) had a riff straight out of a Norma Jean song.

Living Sacrifice owned the night. They were amazing. Nicole had never seen them so she was loving it a lot. They played really well although I was missing the percussion section. I realized their first album came out in 1989, they've been a band for 20 years. Pretty amazing.

Demon Hunter headlined. I'm really torn on them I really respect the Clark brothers, they were in Focal Point and Training For Utopia, two of my favorite bands of all time. They also basically created the aesthetic for the entire heavy music genre with Asterisk Studio (now Invisible Monster). But Demon Hunter is so contrived and manufactured I can't stand it. It's a big show with no soul. We left after two songs.

"And above all, [National Security], the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. . . . War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it." ~ George W. Bush

Except Il Duce actually said that with Fascism instead of National Security. Nationalism.

For whatever reason it is, every once in a while I listen to Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh. I should really stop this. Today I had Limbaugh on and he epitomizes idiocy. Him, and people like him, have their minds made up on truth and no matter what facts come out, they insist this truth is real and everyone else is a liar. Stephen Colbert called this “truthiness.” It's truth you know in your gut no matter what facts might say.

Now that Scott McClellan has come out saying the Bush administration knowingly and willfully deceived the American people to sell the invasion of Iraq. Rush is now saying Scott was “never any good” and he was a “wussy” and that's why he was fired (after 33 months on the job that's hard to believe). He's accusing the former Press Secretary of being a liberal, or possibly influenced by liberals.

And this is par for the course. When facts come out from a White House insider about how business was conducted, it is a lie made up by liberals. It doesn't matter if it was Richard Clarke, David Kuo, or any of the other several ex-Bush White House members who have publicly criticized the administration's actions.

There are liberals under every rock, in every place always corrupting every conservative. According to Limbaugh they even control our language and calls the conservatives to reclaim language that the liberals use to brainwash America.

This is why it's so hard to listen to this man. This is why I can't take him seriously. He would never once question the President or his administration and anyone who says otherwise is a lying liberal. He believes liberals do nothing but lie. Any time a conservative criticizes his truthiness he automatically writes that person off as a liberal in Republican clothes.

Today he even claimed that there are no conservatives in high public office because the liberals control Washington and if you want to remain in office you have to sell out your own mother to stay there.

It's like the Illuminati conspiracy except the Illuminati aren't reptilian, they're liberals. The way this man talks about them you might think they were reptilian too! They control the media, the government, the minds of 95% of the world, the UN, the enemies of the UN, the Venezuelans, the Colombians, the Californians, the New Yorkers, and everything that isn't Rush, EIB or dittohead. He's an insane, unstable person who can't be trusted.

I was going to attempt to show a liberal talking head who is equally as crazy as Rush, but I can't find anyone who thinks there is a conservative under every rock. They might think conservatives are all inbred idiots, but I can't think of any who actually think there is an abstract truth that cannot be challenged by facts or testimony. I can't find any who don't accept that everyone, no matter how much power they control, are above criticism.

I'm not trying to say liberals are right and conservatives are wrong. No, that's a much too simplified, binary thing to say. What I'm saying is Rush Limbaugh is insane.

Pedro the Lion
When They Really Get To Know You, They Will Run

What makes you think that it won't grow back in a day or two
Husbands in winter, they know the truth
But what can they do?
I don't like girls the way they are
So shave their legs, and make them look like movie stars
Then we can pretend it's natural

Put on whatever makes you attractive
If it's not you, then do it for the sake of fashion
Your friends like a certain you?
That's who you've got to be

Junior high legs; blond hair gone brown from removing it
Waxing since thirteen
Wisdom from a beauty queen
Her tiara digging deep in her head

I'm starting to think that I'm kind of shy
Or at least I'd like to be

Winter legs give me heart attacks
So take it off with lasers, so it never comes back
Then we can pretend it's natural

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion—put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

Wendell Berry
from The Country of Marriage