The media talk forever about teabaggers when teabaggers are about as relevant as Sponge Bob Square Pants to American politics. In the 1930s the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily news ginned up the America First Party, backed with corporate money that agitated against Roosevelt's New Deal and promoted isolationism. Like the teabaggers they were racist and like the teabaggers they were pointless. It wasn't a movement it was a parade.
How many people have died Iraq and Afghanistan because of war?
How much has the war in Afghanistan cost this year?
"With respect to nuclear weapons, ah, I don't want to speculate, what I know is this, that if we see a nuclear arms race in a region as volatile as the Middle East, everybody will be in danger. And one of my goals is to prevent nuclear proliferation generally, I think that it's important in concert with Russia to lead the way on this." (Barack Obama)
The President doesn't want to speculate on who has nuclear weapons in the Middle East? Let's see, Pakistan does and Afghanistan doesn't, Iraq doesn't. Russia does and all these countries surround Iran. But is there another country that I'm forgetting?
"It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times
But I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here
Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere
in Kansas . . .
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota . . .
Who could imagine . . .
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Washington, D.C.
But it can't happen here
Oh baby, it can't happen here
Oh baby, it can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can't happen here
Everybody's safe and it can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
No freaks for us
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
I'm telling you it can't
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It won't happen here
Bop-bop-ditty-bop
(I'm not worried at all, I'm not worried at all)
Ditty-bop-bop-bop
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
(No no no)
You're safe, baby
(No no no)
You just cook a tv dinner
(No no no)
And you make it
Oh, we're gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
(No no no no no no no!)
Oh, get a tv dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!
(No no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But . . (Frank Zappa)
Yes it can.
869,720 dead, 130 billion dollars for overseas missions, including 65 billion for Afghanistan and 61 billion for Iraq for this year. Plus 700 million for counter insurgency in Pakistan and an additional 1.5 billion to rebuild infrastructure.
In the US 15 million unemployed, estimated 4.5 million home foreclosures. One in ten risk of a child becoming homeless, a 34% growth in homeless living on the streets of New York.
Yes it can happen here, and it has.
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