Trippy man, trippy.

Ok, the only person who tried my trivia question from the other day is gonna get my CD’s anyway, so lets try again.

What future heavy metal mainstay got his start in Hawkwind?

It’s indisputable that Bush, much aided by laptop bombardiers like Fields, has won the war - if “winning” means “spinning.” However, the crucial thing to bear in mind is that, even if the aftershocks of the invasion were irrefutably beneficial - and they are anything but - they wouldn’t expunge the Original Sin. In Bushite theology, any injustice is pardonable so long as, in retrospect, some good can be attached to it.

And make no mistake, the invasion of Iraq was an injustice.

More from the great Ilana Mercer here.

School to vote on renaming Jefferson Elementary
President’s slave holdings perturb families, teachers
Patrick Hoge, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Parents, students and teachers at Berkeley’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary School will soon vote on whether to rename their school because the nation’s third president was a slave owner.

The question of whether to rename the school has been debated for more than two years — since several teachers, including an African American mother of three former Jefferson students, said Jefferson’s moniker offended them and suggested a name change.

Ok, these people are morons. Do they not realize that without people such as Jefferson, THEY WOULDN’T BE HAVING THIS DEBATE AT ALL? Some folks need to realize that the world doesn’t revolve around their “offended” rear quarters.

The U.S. Dollar’s Days as the World’s Reserve Currency are Numbered
March 22, 2005
Peter Schiff is C.E.O. and Chief Global Strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, Inc.

In the 20th Century, the U.S. dollar became the world’s reserve currency because it was the coin of the world’s leading economy. In the “Bizzaro” 21st Century economy, this causality has reversed. Today, the primary reason the U.S. remains the world’s leading economy is because the dollar still serves as the reserve currency. However, if market fundamentals can ever manage to re-assert themselves, this is a reality that can, and indeed must, change.

Scary stuff.

The Loyal Opposition

by Amer Jubran

03/22/05 “ICH” - - Against all odds, George W. Bush secured a victory in the US presidential elections in November, 2004. Bad news about the US economy, the military situation in Iraq, the greater-than- ever worldwide resentment of America, atrocious human rights abuses in Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo, and the debut of the US as an emerging police state - all of that did not prevent Bush winning his second term in the White House. Bush was not even obliged to put on the usual campaign of deception empty promises to defeat his opponents. He spoke clearly and without reservation about going further to the right of his current agenda of murder for profit.

Cleareyed look at the current state of affairs and the lack of an actual anti-war movement.

New Queens of the Stone Age. Don’t tell anybody, but it’s boring as hell.

If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him
March 22, 2005

Harvey Wasserman

As we enter another Easter Season, it’s become all too obvious that if Christ returns, those who hate in his name will slime him, then kill him.

Such hippie-radical ideals are the “Christian” right wing’s worst nightmare. The GOP would never tolerate an upstart like Jesus gathering a following in the face of their corporate-fundamentalist crusade. These are self-proclaimed Christians who love power but would despise the actual Christ, just as they love a Zionist Israel but believe actual Jews are doomed to Hell.

And no Pepsi, either:

Hindu nationalists torch Pepsi warehouse in protest

AP , AHMADABAD
Monday, Mar 21, 2005,Page 5

Hindu nationalists torched a PepsiCo warehouse and picketed US government offices in western India on Saturday to protest the cancellation of a US visa for the elected head of Gujarat state.

The protesters carried placards reading: “Down with the US,” and “Boycott US goods and the Americans.”

Two sets of numbers recently surfaced, illuminating an interesting notion. First, this story highlights the need for a Iraqi withdrawal, sooner rather than later. The majority of Iraqis- and US citizens- think the US should leave Iraq ASAP.

Secondly, this poll finds that 67% of those polled feel that Congress (that would be the Republican controlled Congress) has inserted themselves into the Schiavio affair for political reasons.

Numbers such as these beg the question. Exactly who are these people representing? Clearly not those who “elected” them.

Or did they?

Paul Kossoff, great guitarist for Free. Trivia question, winner will get a CD of my choice. Above and beyond his great, soulful guitar playing, for what is PK known?