Wake me up when it's over...

"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage."

"America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations"

Current Mood: hopeful

Dance I said!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd9xU8cw1JE
 

Current Mood: jubilant

"The ice and snow that glazed pavement was blamed for numerous traffic accidents from Minnesota to Indiana, where police said a truck overturned and spilled 43,000 pounds of cheese, closing a busy highway ramp during the night in the Gary area."

Current Mood: cold

an excuse for words
strung together carefully
to entertain or?

Current Mood: contemplative

Vikes have until Saturday to sell out; Cards get rid of all tickets

The Vikings have until 4:30 p.m. ET on Saturday to sell the remaining 3,100 tickets to avoid a television blackout in local markets.

Stoopid Packers. 

 ...so here it is, a (very) brief history of Muse...

I wrote Muse around the time I wrote Rebellion and Nevermore Alone for the Jack Fox CD that David and I were working on, sort of a pre-Borderlands piece of work. At the time David was going through a (very) rough patch with his future bride, and he had just written Tape & Glue about it. During that time period, David and I were writing a ton of songs, and I was sitting at home in Heights one day and it occurred to me that we both have our muses (Shannon and Carrie, respectively) that inspire us to write.

So, I penned out Muse in approximately 5 minutes or less, and as my guitar had been tuned to DADGBD for Rebellion I worked on the chord structure there. It turned out to be two chords; C and D, and I was mortified at the thought of showing it to anyone, so I crumpled it up and threw it behind the couch (where another recent song, one that went to the tune of Beep Beep! had recently gone).

David came over to work on the Jack Fox CD and we were chatting and he asked what I'd been up to so I told him I wrote a crappy 2 chord song and it was behind the couch.

At which point he made me go get it. Then he read it. Then he made me play it. Then he said it was going on the CD.

If you know David, you know that's what he's like. It works for him most of the time ;-).

So, the song was written, like so many of my songs, for the muse of my life, Carrie, my good friend David, and the emotional trauma his love life gave me to work with. I think back to how I almost threw it away, and I am incredibly grateful that he saw more than me.

The End.

Muse copyright until 70 years past my death Kurt Griesemer

Swimming by, I go upstream and I catch your eye
I catch your dream, I catch your dream...

Nymph in the water, hiding in the reeds and no one can see you,
No one but me, no one but me...

You are...you are my muse.
You are...you are my muse

In my mind, the words you inspire they burn from my hands
Like fire for you, I'd burn for you

A thought or a touch or a glimpse of your eyes and I'm there beside you
I'm there inside...I'm there inside...

You are...you are my muse.
You are...you are my muse.

Current Mood: sick

It's not like Toyota and Honda are innocents, but at least they have put some money down on green tech. Here's some other thoughts:

Maybe Ford would be doing better if they sold this or this in the US instead of this and this.

Maybe GM would be doing better if they had developed this instead of this in the years 2000-2008.

And Chrysler has been basically hopeless, though they also have a plan for the future.

Oh, and remember these? GM was huge in making sure we wouldn't have them anymore.

When people discuss the bailout for the Big Three, it's good to remember that these companies have a history of stifling innovation, dumbing down their products for the American consumer, and smashing hard-won union rights. Oh, and let's not forget the potential colluding with oil companies in order to continue making a profit on 100 year old technology.

Thanks, and have a _great_ day.

Current Mood: angry

by Woody Guthrie

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

Current Mood: ecstatic

 IT'S OVER!

WE WON!

AMERICA HAS WON!

WELCOME BACK!

John McCain's Bill Ayers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy
 

GO VOTE NOW IT WILL MAKE YOU BIG AND STRONG! 

Current Mood: energetic

Dear Senator Obama:

I apologize for the outrageous behavior that occurred during Senator McCain's rally in Waukesha. The name calling, fear mongering, and hatred are simply palpable. That Senator McCain and Governor Palin tacitly condone these actions is apparent; I however, am ashamed of my fellow Wisconsinites.

In fact, I grew up in Hartland, WI, not far from Waukesha where Senator McCain held his rally. I'd be lying if I said that I was completely shocked at their behavior. When people think of suburbs, in all its glorified xenophobia, you are thinking about Waukesha County and the Dela-Hart area.

There was one black family in my entire high school. If not for that fact that my dad had friends from work in Milwaukee, I might have grown up the same way, completely insulated from people different from me. Later in life I joined the military and learned what 'desegregation' really was as opposed to reading about it and nodding approvingly in class.

I'm not saying that everyone that attended that rally was a racist; rather you face now people that are afraid of the future and have been fed the Rovian lines of partisan hatred for 8 long years. Combine that with unease over racial relations (to put it mildly) and the fact that you are unapologetically to the left, and it is easy to see the catalyst for their reaction.

In the end, this apology will not help. As I write this I read about your campaign signs being vandalized in our small town of Cambridge, of peoples homes being egged; even that great line: "The only good democrat is a dead democrat" is quoted by a neighbor in our local paper.

Please stay safe-since you believe in god, may your god watch over you.

Sincerely,

Kurt

Current Mood: contemplative

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

 

Borderlands has gots bumper stickers that look amazingly like our logo!

( Sales pitch! )

Current Mood: happy

Why are people in this administration so eager to bankrupt the country? What motivates them to throw the future under the bus? I don't know, but it has to end.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/45362953;_ylt=AgCdAB6Rk1xG0TWH0siZEokDW7oF

Current Mood: scared

"We have to draw more attention to the world of nuns, who are often not sufficiently appreciated by society," he wrote, adding that he had hoped his initiative would help boost sagging vocations to religious lie.

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No foolin'

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"The investment tax credit, which covers 30 percent of a CSP facility's cost, will expire at year's end unless renewed by Congress. But bills to renew the ITC have been blocked eight times this year by Senate Republicans."

Why are Republicans allowed to block renewable energy credits? Why are they allowed to tie us to the Middle East, terrorism, and tyrants? Are you a Republican? Are you proud of them? Do you know that solar collectors are a proven technology with zero emissions, overnight storage, and similar footprints in the southwest to coal and gas plants?

I can't stand it. It is so obvious that they are in the pockets of the oil companies that it makes me want to vomit.

Your SUV supports terrorism. Period. Blocking renewable energy credits supports terrorism. Period.

President Bush deserves to be impeached. He is a traitor. He is not patriotic in any meaningful sense of the word. His policies are criminal. His staff is incompetent.

Thanks Republicans-attaboy!

You've done a heckuva job, Georgie.