September 18th, 2008
Peace Week Performance
Title: Peace Week Performance
Location: Third Street Park
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-09-28
September 16th, 2008
He’s A Grand Old Guy
HE’S A GRAND OLD GUY
tune: It’s a Grand Old Flag
lyrics: Granny Sue Gracey, Boston 9/15/08
1) If a PRES-i-DENT who shoots STRAIGHT from the hip
Without PAUSing to CHECK with his BRAIN,
Is what you WANT, it’s what you’ll GET
If you’re VOTing for JOH-hn McCAIN!
2) (omit)
1) And to BACK him up should the worst come to pass,
He has CHOsen a GAL – what a COUP!
She can GUT a MOOSE, but if SHE gets LOOSE
God KNOWS what this PIT bull will DO!
2) So, this IS the TEAM that might LE-EED our land
Through whatever we HAVE to go through –
It’s GOOD old John, and his RUNning mate
Who till YESterday was Sarah – WHO?
September 16th, 2008
Another Sarah Palin Song
Sarah Palin’s Campaign Song
Tune: Annie’s Song by John Denver
Lyrics by Nancy Goedert
Tune: Annie’s Song by John Denver
Lyrics by Nancy Goedert
Listen dear voters to a story that’s true
God whispered in my ear so I could tell you
To teach children facts – like – science is fiction
Believe that or else you will go to perdition.
God whispered in my ear so I could tell you
To teach children facts – like – science is fiction
Believe that or else you will go to perdition.
The world’s just 5 thousand, not 5 billion years.
The ice is not melting. Polar bears? Have no fears!
Wolves are for hunting from helicopters fleet -
Makes more sense than being cold on your feet.
The ice is not melting. Polar bears? Have no fears!
Wolves are for hunting from helicopters fleet -
Makes more sense than being cold on your feet.
It’s government’s job to control women’s wombs
But fooling with gun rights will lead to our doom.
God tells me I don’t need to know ‘bout Iraq,
economy, environment – He’ll tend to all that.
But fooling with gun rights will lead to our doom.
God tells me I don’t need to know ‘bout Iraq,
economy, environment – He’ll tend to all that.
But we must make sure to keep the rich wealthy
So trickle down dollars insures we are healthy
And we can keep drilling and filling the air
With oil because God will clean up with care.
So trickle down dollars insures we are healthy
And we can keep drilling and filling the air
With oil because God will clean up with care.
So don’t fret your mind, Dears. Just never-you-mind fears.
Put on a happy face. Let’s hear your cheers
For family and troups and for flag red and white and blue
For motherhood and, as-well, for apple pie, too.
Put on a happy face. Let’s hear your cheers
For family and troups and for flag red and white and blue
For motherhood and, as-well, for apple pie, too.
September 15th, 2008
Sarah Palin song
Tune: On Top of Old Smoky
2067 WHAT WAS HE THINKING?
Oh, what was he thinking?
That old mav’rick McCain…..
Had he been drinking?….
We didn’t even know her name!
He had only met her
Just once before….
What a way t’ pick a VP!….
Hope we won’t be sore!
She says she’s a hockey Mom….
Hey…qualifications galore!
In case she becomes President
Who could ask for more?!!
Imagine her with Hu Jintao….
Putin, Medveydev…or the Queen!
Such a long way from Alaska
And her snow-shoeing scene!
How now Sarah Palin….
(Is that a Monty Python name?)
Hope McCain won’t be ailin’….
Or hist’ry will never be the same!
Fingers crossed for old John Boy….
Stay healthy and hearty….
Your choice may come back t’ bite us
And the Republican Party!
08-31-08
September 11th, 2008
Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin
This came from the granny e-vine
Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008
Eve Ensler, American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for “The Vagina Monologues”, wrote the following about Sarah Palin:
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a
particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it’s their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so
comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don’t like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story – connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming.
The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God’s plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin’s view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered.
Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, “It was a task from God.”
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist’s baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God’s name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans.
It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don’t move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, “Drill Drill Drill.” I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
