[this went a bit long…whoops…but there’re some good beats if you got the time to waggle your seven iron from the woodside trail] Herring, to answer your query, I really REALLY could’ve done without the videographer’s graphics & personal dramatic propagandist bent, really...I mean, Jeeez, but the facts ARE genuinely disturbing…& likely spot on. War, oppression, & the vested exploitation of said, are damnable offences that NEED be addressed soon lest we succumb our greatest hopes & naivetés of America at the hands of incredulous assholes with stacks & stacks & stacks of poisonous power. I can’t seem to put more’n a dime from a dollar’s worth o faith in ANY politician anymore, NOT anymore, although I have listened to Bernie Sanders take meaningful stands alone amongst waspy fuckers with cold apathy in their sharky doll’s eyes. The Prez of the United States is a notorious War Profiteer for how many decades now? Or how many centuries? Weapons profiteering (war proliferation) is the true Original Sin (think about it). Why are there so few trees in Ireland? Banks + Plantations = War & prisons. Native American tribes, Scot, Irish, Welsh, poor Brits out of Van Diemen’s Land, Africans, 3rd World populace, New Contemporary American Depressing Caste, & the Cumulative Prison Populace = Cheap (slave) Labor—the paradigm of our now & event horizons. Hydrocarbons industry (nepotistic private contracting) + Middle East (unstable ownership & dogma) + billions in weapons contracts = WAR. Facts: True. The Obstetrician/Congressman Ron Paul feels the US should avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense? Good idea. He said, "America [should] not interfere militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations." Good idea. He advocates bringing troops home from U.S. military bases in Korea, Japan, Europe, & several others. Good idea…bummer for those troops who can appreciate traveling to & living amongst the locals @ some of the most beautiful duty stations in the world..(I may never’ve experienced Okinawa otherwise) but a moral thing to do with regards to diplomacy. He was overheard saying, "There's nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today... we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours. And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we're acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapons." Solid enough logic I think, yep. Ron Paul was the only 2008 Republican presidential candidate who voted against the Iraq War Resolution, & continues to oppose U.S. presence in Iraq, suggesting the government has used the “War on Terror” to curtail American civil liberties. Sounds reasonable, seasoned, scholarly and genuinely humane, the act of a man who’s played good catcher to how many women delivering babes into this world. He called the 9/11 Commission Report a "charade,” saying spending more money abroad or restricting liberties at home will do nothing to deter terrorists, yet this is exactly what the 9/11 Commission recommends. [He’s got moxie & an individual drumbeat in a business of cronyism gone greed-insane,] BUT he may be dangerous to the big picture; as Anyone who hangs on so tightly to the Repug party has to be questioned for his philosophical cornerstone …or his stones altogether ..or lack thereof or blanket overzealousness of where patriarchal seeds a wavin’ to-&-fro go ya know. Even if he is stuck on some old school notion that the SS GOP (Morose Merrymaker of the Severed Seven Seas) is a wise ol’ caterpillar in stasis awaiting wings that jingle, jangle, jingle. Still dubious, philosophically, because there really is NO SUCH THING as a conservative ..or a liberal, for that matter, one or the other, life is gripped by conservative & liberal decision-making in the day-by-days of a “whole being” staking heads or tails on a system so non- philanthropic & grotesque as to opaque out the truly finer things of life & limb with capable hands on the rototiller of ridiculous rip=off regularity so Independent of creative thought that this which IS the wave of the future for the well-intended fackin’ politicians has become NOTHING more than a buffet line for the my dog’s better than your dog climb: wag your tail, boy! Wag your tail! ..Tail wags the what? Unless evolved Apes take over and we finally abolish politicians altogether. Herring, I think I understand why you’d pass this whack propaganda along. You’re ready & able to sift through the partisan pomp & circumcision with a good fisherman’s’ air of pond side circumspect & moon cycle matriarchic moment of reason and list the facts therein, just the facts, ma’am, said, “Put an educated two-&-two together and come up with fortunate viable notions of a world NOT hampered by the incredulous greed-based use of lives & livelihood!” Bullies who stand a pulpit in a pack of staid & paid for pooh-pooh pontificators there for sake o the growing growing growing growing growing growing magically gone coffers of a select marble hall of malignant machinators can eat the shorts of middle America, not Midwestern America, not middle of the road, not middle-diddle fiddle faddle but the membership of the mighty middle that has been said to have never ever really been tilled by us or anybody but who used to share boat drinks on boat decks at the defunct & representative ghost town once known as the Inlet Boat Club. The most recent gentleman I stood up for & planted my gardeners seed only to find I have no such thing on me as a green thumb has turned a blind eye towards his own memoirs & especially his peops fo sake o the bankers he owes, & yet I still call him Mr. President with some reverence. Are we bamboozled? Or what?

Ed. Jeez. You remain an enigma to me. Compassionate, Contemporary Intellectual, yet what is this bear trap for liberal use on all who do not align entirely with your own notions of value? You don’t like it or get it so it’s definitely SHIT on a shingle. Do you don the proverbial blinkers, brah, & cinch ‘em down tightly, all for mere sake of personal alliances with the Democratic Party? Nahhh! Is it as simple as all that? ..Do you really NOT endorse all meaningful information leading humanity to the full & significant realization of the futility of war profiteering and its obvious propagation in the hands of our highest offices? Even if some Shaky-Jakeys rock the boat a li'l bit? What’ve the Sturdy Gerdys done for 3 decades, babe? Come on, babe, come on, babe, li’l hit, li’l dinger. Raped & pillaged on your dime. Don’t we, the people, need to explore cross-party-no-party horse sense ideas going into a future free from dollar signs on rockets’ red glare & shake up the two party system with a bit o the ol’ Ross Perot time to clean out the barn rhetoric...& eradicate this exemplar of “Made &/or Purveyed in the USA” on those fackin’ ay smart bombs bursting in air? I think SO. But with whom? A real republican or a symbolic one? A real demacrat or a puppet one? I pray that President Obama wakes up at 4 AM with a working-class white man’s conscience, a red man’s ceremonial circle, & a black man’s sense of turnabout is fair play. I hope & I pray & I read EVERYTHING I can find & listen to every song that has heart & eyes, & screen every film that comes from the deepest dark poetic oceans of the true filmmakers’ philosophical incredulousness. But what do I know, ey? Who’s gona stick her or his neck out and shake up the Fed since the advent of the sneaky gunman & the scapegoat spin? A banker’s wet dream? You? Me? To some I’m a boorish-gone-philistine who wouldn’t be seen even comin’ in out of a hailstorm to see a Patti Smith set…not without the promise of a cold beer & a good pair of earplugs. I mean, seriously, I don’t wish the randy lady of filthy-fingered cheek & punk poetess angst any ill will, Uncle Phil, no doubt she’s all heart & soul, Brother Joel, …it’s just I NEVER got her music. Never yet. & yet(!) I’ve pissed away quite a lot o minutes out of my own life listening to her videos that you, brother, have posted (out of genuine respect for your random passion plays…& the fair passage of ideas). So how is that my mistake? & can I ever get any of that time back? Nope. Time well-spent.

WAR Huhhh! What the hell’s it Good For? ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN S@Y it @gain!

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The matter of destruction is the matter of man ~ White banker broke the Indian of red heart & land ~ Not to make a better world wherein we all stand ~ No. Just to say, “I took it, I’m a powerful man!” ~ So we live amidst the dreaded; no recourse to law ~ Because the books are written, all to favor the strong ~ No; Not the strong o spirit but the strong of might & arm ~ It could’ve been much better had we, “Sound the alarm!”

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Attrition ~ Attrition has us on the ropes, hope a dope ~ We thought it may flood gate 3 decades ago ~ Really thought the gates would come open on ~ The revolution there near the…end of Vietnam ~ But the powers that be opened up the tide flow ~ On the toolbox that Reagan began to build ~ Opened up its steely mouth and got it filled ~ With the beginning of the end, my friend ~ Not 'the end' but the end o life as we know it ~ & now here we are near broken, & YOU know IT ~ It’s gonna take controlled rage to overthrow... ~ What we may've known to be a 2nd Gilded Age ~ Of Oligarchic ownership of life & limb ~ Kiss ‘ose salad days goodbye, Adrian ~ Go try'n put another spin on it