Make Me Wanna Holler
Marvin came up on shuffle today as I was sitting at my desk after I got sick of the infotainment on NPR.
dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
For we see it you take it
Oh, make you wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
Money, I make it, so that the politicians can tax it to give away to the killers and the cons. ESPECIALLY the faith-based grifters:
"There are some who bristle at the notion that faith has a place in the public square,” Obama said. "But the fact is leaders in both parties have recognized the value of a partnership between the White House and faith-based groups." His remarks followed a visit to a community ministry in Zanesville, Ohio.
Of course both parties have ... they love nothing more than organizations that they can use to launder government money through into patronage-based ballot-box-stuffing systems, and history shows that no con works like the religious con when you want people to do as they are told.
To increase finance
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
Laundering public funds through an organization like a church is little different than laundering death and nation building through mercenaries and oil companies. The cream will ALWAYS be skimmed off the top, and those who need help will be left with a smattering of sour curds.
As Austin Cline put it when discussing earlier attempts by Obama to use “faith” as a political tool:
What we have here, though, is a politician seeking the highest elected office in America who is trying to promote a secular political issue as also being a religious issue. Who does Barack Obama think he is? He’s not a pastor or minister, nor is he running for the office of “Highest American Priest.” He has no business promoting anything as being “genuinely religious” or not; indeed, this is something which Christians should arguably be more annoyed with.
Of course, most American “Christians” are not spiritually Christian. They do little work examining their faith, but rather take a Mad Libs approach to belief, plugging in pleasing words to create something that makes them smile while presenting few actual challenges to the way they live their lives. Their spiritual “leaders” are even worse, wanting only to keep their pews and collection plates full while they run their tax-free businesses. Better still to get some government-minted silver put into their palms.
This plan is another fake “solution” from another fake progressive willing to continue the status quo, speaking only of empty schemes to reinforce what doesn’t work, what divides us, while not dealing with the real problems faced every day by far too many Americans. Meanwhile the wars and theft of material wealth from the have-nots to the have-so-much-alreadys will continue apace.
And throw up both my hands
Yea, it makes me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God know where we’re heading
Oh, make me wanna holler
They don’t understand
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we’re wrong
Who are they to judge us
Simply cause we wear our hair long
They think they can judge us, judge everyone, every woman, child, poor person ... every
brownblackyellowredwhitelivingdeadfetalbornhopefuldespairing
human being because they got god and the guns and the almighty laundered American tax dollar on their side.
Makes me wanna holler.
He’s slithering toward the extreme right trying to court the wingers. Sad that with these poll numbers he feels the need to pander.
Posted by on 07/01 at 08:56 PMI don’t think he’s pandering anymore ... I think it’s who he is/has become/perhaps always was.
Wants that power so bad ... and I’m sure he thinks he’ll do “good” with it.
Posted by on 07/01 at 09:03 PMThis is not pandering, but instead a carefully articulated message: the new center of the american polity is not a secular public place, with secular interactions between citizens but one intimately connected to the religious establishment. The new equilibrium will strip from the state its function as a regulator and ultimate guarantor of fairness, and replace it with a conglomerate of religious service organizations that will be free to recruit and proselytize in there activities. Obama seems very happy with proposing that transition.
I have no doubt that the purpose of this is to obliterate the “public place”: public schools, public libraries, and eventually public parks, hospitals and entertainment facilities.
A very clever move to further along the agenda of an “ownership society”.
Posted by on 07/01 at 09:50 PMGreat point CSTAR.
Posted by on 07/01 at 09:59 PMJust wanted to say thanks for the linkage!
Posted by James Benjamin on 07/01 at 11:47 PM
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Posted by on 07/02 at 06:45 AM
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