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ANOTHER VICTORY BY GEORGE! |
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CONTENTS DEDICATION PROLOGUE 1. DECISION AT STARBUCKS 2. DAD 3. YOUTH (1988) 4. YOU TELL ME 5. ADVICE FOR KIDS 6. GEORGE AND JESUS 7. HALLIE BURTONNE CORPE'S SONG FOR PAUL WELLSTONE AND CINDY SHEEHAN 8. OIL AND ICE 9. POM POMS AND JACKBOOTS 10. A PIRATE PRESIDENT 11. HOT TIP 12. FASCIST FUN 13. BLOOD KIN 14. A SORDID OCTET 15. COOKBOOK 16. DEJA VU 17. ANCHOR AWEIGH 18. SQUATTER 19. HAIL TO THE CHIEF 20. FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN OMNIBUS 21. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT 22. COLLATERAL 23. DREAM DUST by Langston Hughes PRINT THIS BOOK |
PROLOGUE
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DECISION AT STARBUCKS
When you have a faith based
When your neighbors | ||
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DAD My father used a P-51 to fight fascism. | ||
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YOUTH My brother lives in memory He was my older brother then, I am his older brother, now. | ||
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YOU TELL MEWith our usual becoming modesty, First, you get them by the balls. In Iraq, we cut our modest Shock and Awe. Then victory. So what’s the difference? | ||
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ADVICE FOR KIDSYo! If you haven't learned, yet, | ||
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GEORGE AND JESUSHe thinks he’s cool with Jesus, And now that torture’s cool, by He thinks he’s cool with Jesus. He thinks he’s cool with Jesus. And now the deaths of thousands He calls our soldier heroes, He poses as a warrior, He says he’s patriotic. He says he’s cool with Jesus. More bodies are on this guys hands, | ||
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HALLIE BURTONNE CORPE'S
SONG FOR PAUL WELLSTONE AND CINDY SHEEHAN Billy lied about his blow jobs. GO FUCK YOURSELF ! to the Senate floor, What a fine coincidence. What a fine coincidence. | ||
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OIL AND ICEShouting over FIRE ! Instigating a murderous riot.
Shouting over WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ! Instigating a murderous riot. | ||
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POM POMS | ||
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A PIRATE PRESIDENT
His pledge is His pledge Now splintered bones | ||
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HOT TIP Invest in bullets, bombs, and tanks. note: Arabic Inshallah equals |
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FASCIST FUN
With Christian lies Now, is that only | ||
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BLOOD KINSpirit sick rich kids | ||
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A SORDID OCTETEight years. Twice-dubiously installed, Who scorns the mothers Eight years. | ||
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COOKBOOKWhen a United States When a United States When a United States When five United States When a United States | ||
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DEJA VUHe strutted on the Lincoln Yet Death still does Her dance. | ||
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ANCHOR AWEIGHWhen you’re embedded with the general, And so you have reported only You didn’t seem to notice Of the funerals they bombed, As for those honest journalists You must make their killings sound So, as the anchor of democracy | ||
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SQUATTERBetween playing around with war, The question is: Can he flush it | ||
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HAIL TO THE CHIEF
Hey! He took out sixty thousand as if it were a video game, Ain't he great ! Anyway, Thank God Thank God Thank God before George W And you thought | ||
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FALSUS IN UNO, | ||
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTIn the New Testament, the apostle Luke recalls Luke’s account, translated into English: And seeing the multitudes, he went up onto a Blessed are the poor in spirit, | ||
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COLLATERAL A cold crusade is on the world,
Mothers howl,
Across a world a Christian man, | ||
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DREAM DUST
Gather out of star-dust Langston Hughes | ||
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