Please Vote

Please Vote TODAY.  It's hugely, hugely important.  And if you live in New Jersey, I won't tell you who to vote for, but if you hate what George Bush has done to this country, please vote for the Senator who will vote against him.  It rhymes with Job Penendez.  And maybe, just maybe, I won't wake up tomorrow morning having to sing this song anymore...

I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live.
I don't want to be ashamed to be American.
But opportunity, no it don't exist, it's the opiate of the populace,
We need some harder shit now, the truth is getting around,
And each public school is a halfway house.
Where the huddled masses sober up and up enough?
There's not enough to fatten the cows and feed all of us.
It's just a rationing of luck.
What can't be bought gets raffled off oh god good god shed greed on thee,
Your shining sea turned a dirty green from the industry off the shores of New Jersey

I got a letter from the army so I think that I'll enlist
I'm not brave or proud of nothing I just want to kill something
Too bad that nowadays you just point and click swing low satellite hot white chariot
In the computer's blue glare the bombs burst in the air there was a city once now nothing is there
Our freedom comes at their expense it makes sense does it dollars and cents
They're stretching barbed wire across the picket fence that is surrounding your housing development
In case you lack the confidence oh god my god give strength to thee
These amber waves purple majesty are nothing but backdrops for Disney
Well look up close, it is superimposed on a blank blue screen yeah it's fantasy, fucking magical
The dream floats like a chemical through each snapped synapse our television past that is beautiful no more no more

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Comments

[Bill]

Four polls released today have Claire McCaskill with a fairly significant lead on Senator Jim Talent in Missouri, although 1 poll has her trailing by a point. But if that holds, that gives the Dems 50 seats and the battle for control of the Senate (vs. a 50-50 tie) comes down to Virginia, with Jim Webb maybe holding a slight one or two point lead over George "Macaca" Allen. Everything else has to fall in place as predicted (Montana, Rhode Island, NJ), but to think that control of the senate could hinge on the former potential presidential candidate Allen calling an Indian kid "macaca" and thereby revealing a long history of possible racism is pretty shocking indeed.