america its the truth going by the way of Ancient Rome...crumbling from within. 000121 ... Q is what you mean that George the Younger or some other republican might be president? 000121 ... 3s0t3r1c and we change the spelling to amerikkka because life is forgotten here video games credit card television deprogramming function models acquiesce brainwash autoeroticize collaminate and we become the objective consciousness revolution revolution revolution bewildering bellows from the cornerstone prophet these streets take you for a ride if you willing to be subjective 000122 ... marjorie They laid on the couch on Saturday night Under an unzipped sleeping bag Heads opposite the television’s blinking light Watching the X-files and laughing at silent commercials The show made her afraid Reminding her of people she knew Pentecostals, snakes, dancing Sweating, singing, crying out to God When she cringed, he held her. And when she couldn’t watch anymore She told him to tell her if anyone died Or if anything else important happened She turned on her side Burying her face in his shoulder While the screaming and singing continued And he told her a woman had just given birth to snakes Snakes? No. She wouldn’t look. The show ended and he turned the station The Black Adder British comedy for the American teenagers. Laughing beneath an unzipped sleeping bag Forgetting everything else for a while 000310 ... Brad Proud to be an american? hardly. We don't have it bad here at all. Economy is good, standard of living is high... opportunities galore. But proud? America is seen as the bad guy the world over. that's hardly something to be proud of. 000310 ... BoofPixie america is all in the way they look at you when you're not here. 000311 ... god Horse With No Name ( America ) On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la After two days in the desert sun my skin began to turn red After three days in the desert fun I was looking at a river bed And the story it told of a river that flowed Made me sad to think it was dead You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la After nine days I let the horse run free 'cause the desert had turned to sea There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The ocean is a desert with it's life underground And a perfect disguise above Under the cities lies a heart made of ground But the humans will give no love You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la [repeat fade] 010105 ... Quiggz YES!!! AMERICA!!! AWESOME BAND! Saw 'em in concert, before the summer. 'twas great. And their new album is pretty cool, too. (Well, relatively new) "There was a time I knew All that there was to know No one could tel me that I was wrong I wasn't strong enough To see where my weakness lay The world that you hold so tight Can slip away And from Moment to Moment Your life can change There's a storm over the horizon A sea no one can see Somewhere around the bend Right when you least expect Someone can walk away With no regrets Be there an empty space Break in a sacred trust All of your shiny dreams Turn to rust Yes, from Moment to Moment Your life can change There's a storm over the horizon A sea you can not see Yes, from Moment to Moment Promise me you'll never change Promise me you'll stay the same Promise me you'll never chaaaaaaaange Yes, from Moment to Moment Your life can change There's a storm over the horizon A sea you'll never see Yet, from Moment to Moment Your life can change There's light where the sun is rising The day after today Promise me you'll never change Promise me you'll stay the same Promise me you'll never chaaaaaange Every moment is a shining light Every moment is a darkest night Every moment gotta get it right Every single moment" Repeat fade -America, "Moment to Moment" 010105 ... retartedkidnameddamian america once meant something, but it lost itself in pop culture and politics. a forgotten dream. 010325 ... florescent light America is my home and that means something. 010325 ... retartedkidnameddamian its just an object. being "proud" of america is just false hopes nowadays. 010328 ... neomatrix We presently live in a nation where our president's grandfather made the gas chambers that the nazis use. We have a pay-per-vote congress. Corporations own presidential candidates like stocks. Our television consists of idiotic sitcoms and a show were people are awarded thousands of dollars for knowing whether the smirfs are blue. People watch others live lives on television rather than live one themselves. I see a future, I see the future Aldous Huxley saw, the future George Orwell saw, the future Terry Gilliam saw in Brazil, the future Bradbury presented in Fahrenheit 451. Anyday soon we will see the White Clowns marching across the television wall. We will see the books burned. We will watch as we are handed paperwork to leave our homes. Big brother will soon be watching you. American dream? American nightmare. 010330 ... Special K June 02, 2001 - 11:55 am, Northbound train, exiting Tortona ...There's an odd, indeterminate longing one feels on trains. Staring out the windows over hours and hours of landscape... What is it that I want right now? Land? Companionship? Home and a hot meal? Who knows, but there it is within me, that unrefined want. Paul Simon wrote the archetypal travel song when he wrote America. Limited though it may be in geographic perspective, the misty, unsatisfied vagueries of the protagonist's emotions have never once failed me on any of my journeys in life – literal or otherwise. I know they speak to Joseph, too, sometimes (in weak moments) bringing him nearly to the point of tears. Aren't I hearing them even now? "Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping. "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why..." Or maybe it's the more hopeful "...Michigan seems like a dream to me now." Isn't Firenze just a dream at this point? When was I there... last week? I can't recall it, and yet I can't forget. I dreamed I was in Firenze, at Orsanmichele. Or was it Santa Maria Novella? Or Santa Spirito? I awaken and I'm in Cortona, buying a dress, or in Siena, climbing a mountain, or Genova, gazing into a shark tank. Where am I now? A train, passing through Pavia. Soon I shall dream I am back in Venezia, and I'll wake up in Frankfurt, or in Georgia, where I shall kiss his cheeks and it will ALL have been a dream. 010606 ... enriquecito GA does that to you, my dear. All that driving washes the beauty gently from life, the memory of those places fades away. Keep renewing those memories of something different, I always say. 010608 ... Dafremen I believe in America. I believe in everything it was meant to stand for. I believe our constitution was a well developed and well thought out document and if not allowed to be usurped would have kept us free indefinitely. It's too bad we forgot all about that. Too bad. 010608 ... enriquecito i live in a beautiful country. too bad about the people, the culture, the history, the media, the politics.... 010614 ... dB Land of the free, home of the brave! In God we trust! Laughable. 17% of the american population though George W Bush was his father. 6% thought they were twins, and 24% will never understand what I just said. America was supposed to be independant. It was supposed to be free, the home of democracy. All that shit. Instead, it has infected the world. Consumerism and capitalism rules above all else. The Beatles may have been bigger than Jesus, but the American marketing people are bigger than the Beatles. You have the right to bear arms, but at the cost of your right to walk the streets at night. I can't believe it's still standing to tell the truth. 010614 ... Casey I'm going to follow Simon and Garfunkel's idea and go look for it. 010614 ... dB Yeah, something about: "America, where are you know Don't you forget your sons and daughters". or something along those line. A pilgrimage. Like in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In search of the American dream. 010614 ... god monster. steppenwolf. 010614 ... Dafremen Actually DB, only .01424% of the population die each year as a result of our being a "gun culture". On the flip side history has shown that 100% of unarmed populations have been tyrannized at one time or another. 100%. The success rate is slightly better with armed populaces. A government tends to think twice about BLATANTLY oppressing citizens who are capable of armed revolt. (If the British had thought the colonists were capable of armed revolt they wouldn't have been so blatantly oppressive in their policies...guaranteed.) All firearm regulations benefit the state. NONE of them benefit you. Firearm registration does not keep criminals from committing violent acts with firearms..this is a FACT. Firearm registration makes the whereabouts of every LAW ABIDING citizen's firearms KNOWN to the state. (see how that works...cool in an insidious "oh sh*T that's sneaky!" sort of way huh?) Let's say you ARE the victim of a violent crime involving a gun. Wait a minute...guess it's too LATE for the legislation to help you huh? It's simple...there hasn't been a piece of gun control legislation put out there that restricts the military, or police authorities access to state of the art firepower. You think they're on your side right? Well they are...until they're told you're NOT on their side. Then they're just doing their jobs. Right? Is that ok? What if what you are doing today is made illegal tomorrow? Suddenly your NOT on their side anymore. Go ahead...name one piece of gun control legislation that has benefitted you DIRECTLY...I wanna hear this. Then I'll simply point to the Japanese elementary school attack, the Tylenol poisonings, the Unibomber, Oklahoma City Bombing, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, the Japanese nerve gas attacks and ask you to explain to me WHAT DO GUNS HAVE TO DO WITH PEOPLE WANTING TO KILL EACH OTHER? A gun? Poison? A knife? A Car? A Bathtub full of water? A brick? A piece of rope? A can of lighter fluid and a match? A railroad spike? A flashlight? A chainsaw? A stick of dynamite? Fuel oil and fertilizer? My BARE hands? You will NEVER succeed in controlling violence by controlling the TOOLS used to commit it. As long as aberrant minds desire to kill...they WILL find a way. America's 2nd Amendment was NOT a barbaric outdated idea. It's just as relevent today as it was then. For as long as it is possible to gain power by force, people will apply force to gain power. Whether you and I like it or not, taking the guns away will only make us what those laws are supposed to protect us from becoming: victims. Some folx will say that it just leads to an escalating arms race where everyone tries to get a bigger gun than the other guy. But remember...the arms race is escalated by those who want to DOMINATE through force. Not by those who are simply trying to deter oppression. If I'm not trying to dominate, why would I need a bigger gun? The minute you buy into the idea that gun control legislation will solve all of the problems in the world, you've completely bought into the propaganda that you've been fed by the mainstream media. Period. P.S. Like I said...only 0.01424% of our population died deaths related to firearms. That includes police shootings, suicides, accidents and crimes. It's a small price to pay to protect some future generation's ability to defend themselves in the event that their government does what so many governments before have done: oppress it's