Please Click On This Video
And Listen As You Read
And Listen As You Read
"Empty Garden"
Elton John
John Winston Ono Lennon and his writing partner Sir James Paul McCartney
It's been a trying week for me. I just submitted my first article to Examiner.com and this writing project of mine is anything but stressful right now, in fact it is a joy and a pleasure. The article is one in the series on these pages at Unabashed Left on blogspot(a Google product) entitled "MomCat's Vegan Project." Of course her project is to transition ME to Vegan, not her omnovoracious self. I posted this article one day after the 69th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of the American Naval Base at the then-territory Hawaii, which resulted in the first nuclear war which was won by the US government when it opted to drop two nuclear bombs on primarily civilian and heavily populated targets, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. That day, December 8th 2010 was the 30th anniversary of John Winston Ono Lennon's assassination in Manhattan. My own birthday is tomorrow, December 19th[1956 the year I was born in New Haven]. A week from today is Christmas. 2 days later I will be under general anesthesia for over an hour for 2 medical 'procedures.' December 29th I have a public speaking engagement at a recovery meeting celebrating another sort of anniversary. December 31st is New Years' Eve, followed by New Years' Day, followed by 3 more months of New England winter. I'm gonna try taking it easy for a day or 2 and return for the 2010 home stretch and do it all over again with renewed vigor. This Lennon article attracted more readers than any in Unabashed history. So here it is, just like decent soda pop, coming back atya one more time:
My childhood hero and role model John Winston Ono Lennon(born October 9th 1940) was killed 30 long years ago today with a handgun, and I'm still angry and disappointed that peacenik John's "Empty Garden"[a tribute song written by fellow British subject Elton John] is still empty. Poor Yoko. http://www.yoko-ono.com/ is where to go to read about her tribute to Johnny--the "Lennon Peace Prize."
Dr. Winston O'Boogie(self-proclaimed on his "Rock 'n Roll" solo album)
Mr. Lennon decided to stop being a Beatle and settle down to be a great father and house-husband for Yoko and his darling son Sean. He wrote a great song off the Double Fantasy album that was one of his posthumous hits entitled "Beautiful Boy" about Sean. At one point in their lives both Sean and John looked sorta like this beautiful boy I Imagine:
After founding the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time[The Beatles] and being the greatest songwriter and establishing the songwriting duo Lennon/McCartney, founding a new record label--Apple Records--helping to end war, create gender equality, and all that good stuff, John Lennon rearranged his life priorities to spend a decade or so at home to raise his kid and learned to love the children of the world even more personally--such as the beautiful children of the world depicted in this photo from Michael Jackson's project "We Are The World" at one point co-opted by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Mr. Lennon despised missiles such as this vintage product
taken from the McDonnell-Douglas website:
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The United States has had 3 Generals become President so far
as near as I can remember:
They used to tell me in history class as a kid that everyone wanted
to make super-popular General George Washington not only
President but King, and the humble Washington refused.
They also told us that he was so honest that he chopped down a cherry
tree as a kid, and didn't lie about it to his mom. "Sure Mom, I whacked
that tree" he allegedly said, but in class they were careful to
tell us that this was a myth, but subliminally
I suppose my history teachers tried to implant
George's sincerity, altruism and honesty
by telling us that there was this myth.
The Constitution drafted by General George, a slave-owner himself,
only allowed white-guy property owners(I'm an unabashed
white guy myself, not much of a property owner, though)
didn't let women vote and enslaved bunches of folks
until Prez Honest Abe came along. I imagine most women
and black folks, among others, weren't too keen on
the idea of making King George[Washington] the First
into the replacement King for King George
the Second we had just fought the
Revolutionary War over with
our allies, the French,
to get rid of British colonialism.
We've had 3 Generals become Prez in this nation so far,
as near as I can recollect. General George was the first.
General Grant's terms in office are described by wikipedia.org as such:
"There were 11 scandals directly associated with Grant's two terms as President." Quite a legacy presidency that particular Republican General's wuz, huh?
Then, of course there was General/Prez Ike. His major accomplishment as
General Republican Prez was to warn us about
the "Military Industrial Complex" he played such key roles in
formulating himself as an allied commander during the "big one"
WWII, and as a pol and Prexy.
Fortunately, despite problems with the uniformed brass throughout
our history, and the nerve of 3 of 'em to aggrandize themselves
by running for and winning the Presidency, we haven't had a bloody
coup de-tat yet.
2 recent angry Generals who have given civilian control
of the military fits are the following:
Barhopping-around-Europe when an ash cloud grounds air traffic General
Stanley "Rolling Stoner-I'll just resign in disgrace as a 4 star guy and keep
my mouth shut" McChrystal and
General David "Curveball" Petraeus whose incompetence has us still
in Iraq and Afghanistan almost a decade later.
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Now click on this link please and listen to John and Yoko sing
"Give Peace A Chance"
Which They Recorded During Their Bed-In
Now a brief history of the U.S. Presidency in my lifetime since
Prez General Ike.
JFK(seen with great Atty General and bro Bobby, who was also
murdered with a gun) was assassinated by a sniper at Dealy Plaza in Dallas
11/22/63.
JFK was replaced by TX oil guy LBJ who escalated the Vietnam "undeclared by
Congress" war and wound up so unpopular that he would have
lost the New Hampshire primary and didn't run for
a second full term.
So Bobby got shot, and Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon was found
out to actually be a crook who stole his 1972 re-election landslide
victory(see Bob Woodward's "All the President's Men" or "The White House Transcripts"--expletive deleted toya boys and girls--for not-much-fun winter
reading) and resigned in disgrace, after his hand-picked
VP, Spiro resigned in disgrace for a greedy payola scandal as
MD governor.
After JFK was killed and LBJ botched some things, the constitution had
been amended in case another Prez left office in a hurry
and we needed another emergency VP. So when Nixon quit we got Jerry "I didn't make a deal to become president but pardoned Nixon" Ford, who never
received a vote for anything outside of his Grand Rapids, Michigan
congressional district as Pres now. Above, the Ford of the Jerry variety is seen with Rumsfeld during his first failed attempt as Defense Secretary on the left--the guy on the right is just another irrelevant guy I won't bother naming.
Jerry botched things pretty badly, following Nixon losing N. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, S. Vietnam and bringing us an economy
that required wage and price freezes and controls that when he ran for election
the first time as the only anointed incumbent President he was a shoe-in to lose.
So along comes from out of nowhere in a unique mostly all-primary
election for the first time nomination process Gov. Jimmy "Who" Carter
who almost blew his chances of winning by
talking about being a Christian who is so good that
he only "lusts in his heart" on the pages
of a soft core porn product
called Playboy(Hef actually IS finally
going to produce that braille edition
us guys have been joking about for decades). Pretty impressive cover shot on that particular Hefner hard-copy before hard-copy was a vocabulary phenom; huh guys and gals; shhh! I won't tell if you don't scroll down for a few minutes-- ;)
Jimmy Who botched things badly enough that he lost
to "Bedtime for Bonzo" B acting co-star[the other star
was a Chimpanzee] Ronald Ray-Gun. The Chimp wouldn't
have caused the "Star Wars" inspired
arms race Ray-Gun did.
George H. W. doesn't get a pic because I forgot. George H.W. botched things badly so a Democrat was elected again. So now we had the first
impeached Prez. Bill "It depends on what the definition of is is" and "I never
had sex with that woman" Clinton.
Even though the world was at peace, no one had run 767s into
high rises, the economy was humming, etc. Bubba's sexual
proclivities with young interns caused Dubya's close 2000 election
theft by brother Jeb in Florida-the "hanging chad" governor/brother.
Remember that dubya lost the election, but became
president anyway? Here dubya is seen being educated by his dreamy fantasy trusted friend, Professor and former KGB head Vladimir Putin--who has since launched his own personal wars of aggression against the once-again sovereign(following Soviet absorption for decades as the result of the Churchill/Stalin/Truman carve-up the-world-and-divvy-up-the-map post-nuclear war victory parties) nations of the Caucuses region south of Russia(Georgia
and Kyrgistan, in particular).
Dubya wound up being so bad after his illegal theft of the election,
The Great Recession, 9/11, Katrina, "Freedom Fries,"
waterboarding, torture, illegal wiretaps, two endless wars, etc., etc. that
the American voter went Democrat again and you'd have to
say that this early in his term the jury is still out on
Barack Hussein Obama.
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Harry S[his whole middle name-no period, dot, nothing--I always
have wondered about that] dropped "Fat Man" - the "affectionate" name given
the nuke bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 8/9/45 because the Japanese Emperor refused to give it up after we nuked Hiroshima a couple days earlier. Over 100,000 civilians died instantly on 8/9 because of Truman.
The "affectionate" name given by the uniformed conspirators
for the USA for the Hiroshima nuke dropped on Hiroshima was "Little Boy" and killed 6 figures of civilians as well. Whew. Harry S and his uniformed brass were some pretty busy 'missile/phallic complexed' guys in the day, huh?
Take a quick gander pleeze at this map of North America. What do you see to the East and to the West of the United States of America mainland. IC two oceans. To our west is the Pacific, and to the East is the Atlantic.
In military affairs circles everyone knows that those oceans
are our main defense. Anyone trying to occupy us has
to get here by boat or plane, except Canada or Mexico.
Simple.
So is military strategy. They just try to complicate it
those Uniforms, DOD chiefs and PhD's like Kissinger and Brzezinski and Condoleeeeeza (not exactly a San Francisco treat--that bowl of Rice) Rice. Only the USA, Russia and China have InterCONTINENTal nukes deployed(we and Russia still have land based missile ICBMs, Submarine worldwide-commuter missiles, AND aging rust-bucket B-52s and migs that can wing it to any world capital and nuke 'em 2 within minutes forya)
If Russia(or the old USSR) wants to get us, they have to send boats and
planes[or missiles--what fun] to get their conventional or nuclear weapons to us. If they want to get Europe or Asia, they can walk to those wars. Same with China. They could walk, drive or hop a train or trolley to any war with any major world power except the USA. And WE have 2 oceans between us and any real threat to takeover militarily by anyone at all. WE have the best interCONTINENTal nukes on earth and WE don't even NEED them for DEFENSE at all, only for intimidation and offensive(attack) purposes. And we are the only nation--with an unstable Presidency like we have--OMG--lets get this START Treaty passed somehow someway, pleeeeze liberals--to have started a nuclear war-and won one.
PhD genius Henry A.(Professor Kissinger obviously being lectured--and lending global legitimacy to--by the self-proclaimed "Great Leader And Teacher" himself, atheist and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, with Premier Chou En-Lai looking on as a witness) snuck off to China in the 70s to talk to Mao. Now Mao has a carbon footprint to end all carbon footprints, his godless communist successors own our national debt via our own Treasury bills, and they own all of our manufacturing jobs, now. Henry decided to be Defense Sec AND State Sec in all but name and-- using conventional weapons--lost S. Vietnam(we were defending our Dictator-of-Choice Nguyen Van Thieu against Ho Chi Minh in the North), N. Vietnam AND his illegal secret wars in Laos AND Cambodia[along the way stupidly and accidentally providing the Khmer people and the world with dictator Pol "Killing Fields" Pot]. Kissinger. What an idiot. A PhD can be a dangerous thing. Ivy league credentials can be a problem for Republicans. Our earlier non-Congressionally declared war under Republican Ike in the 50s was Korea. We stalemated there, after ramming a Security Council resolution through when the Soviets stormed out during the debate and we pushed thru a vote when they were out of the room and couldn't issue their veto. So we stalemated that one with the full resources of the US DOD AND the United Nations. OMG. American Presidential leadership of the world. Nuclear war. The first one already happened and WE DID IT!!! After Nam, Carter's people botched rescuing the 52 hostages in Tehran(where our preferred dictator--the Shah of Iran-Reza Pahlavi--had to wing it out quick to asylum with oodles of cash in order to avoid being strung up by the toes and caused the Islamic revolution that wound up distorting the Koran and resulting in the Sunni Bin Laden and his Jihaddist nonsense and ultimately his "lucky day with 19 plastic box cutters" and four 767s on 9/11/01). And since 9/11 our Trillion dollar a year conventional forces haven't even come close to winning in 10 years against people who don't even have an armed boat or plane-no navy, air force, marines, nothing. Just ragtag bands with old rifles, shotguns, etc.
Former Defense Secretary(two-time failure) Rumsfeld!
Former Defense Secretary Cheney!
Current Defense Secretary Gates!
These three are the nuts who have lost totally unnecessary illegal and undeclared wars for years since 9/11, with the biggest defense budgets in world history. All the kings horses and all the kings men have been granted them and they still lost! Trillions, thousands dead, millions wounded, homeless and scarred for life. And we're still in trouble.
WE HAVE 2 OCEANS BETWEEN US AND THE REST OF THE WORLD! WE DON'T REQUIRE MUCH TO DEFEND THE UNITED STATES FROM ANY SERIOUS THREAT TO OUR SURVIVAL! ALL WE NEED IS A BIGGER COAST GUARD AND A SMALLER EVERYTHING ELSE MILITARILY, THAT'S IT!!! THE ONLY REASON OTHER COUNTRIES WANT NUKES IS BECAUSE WE UNNECESSARILY ARE POINTING THEM AT ALL THEIR MAJOR CITIES. OUR NUKES MAKE AHMADENIJAD STRONGER AND MORE POPULAR IN TEHRAN AND KEEP THE BUM IN OFFICE. SAME WITH THE FOOL WHO CALLS HIMSELF 'DEAR LEADER' IN PYONGYANG! IT'S PRECISELY WHAT IS MOTIVATING ILLITERATE VULNERABLE PIMPLY TEENS TO SIGN UP FOR SCUMBAG-MOTIVED BIN LADEN'S JIHADDIST IDIOCY!!! GATES HAS TO GO, THE HOLDOVER FROM THE BUSH CIRCUS, AND DEFENSE SPENDING MUST BE SLASHED, AND WE NEED TO RATIFY START AND ELIMINATE OUR OWN NUKE ARSENAL. THEN OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND THAT OF THE WORLD WILL FINALLY BE OK!
Truman was a mis-guided(misguided by his uniforms in DOD) not-so-bright badly informed VP--Roosevelt acknowledged he didn't realize how dumb he was and that he should have kept Harry updated with CIA type briefings and what-not--along the Ford lines--who flummoxed into the presidency uninformed and unexpectedly. He dropped those nukes and killed way more civilians than anyone could have legitimately justified, even if you think having Hirohito's people come to the Utah salt flats and watching a test explosion to prove the Manhattan Project had succeeded wouldn't have ultimately convinced them with proper diplomacy to even give Hirohito up[Harry in his 'unconditional' surrender AFTER slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents allowed Hirohito to remain as emperor and die in office of old age as emperor for umpteen years--your tax dollars at work forya].
That thing you see above is a McDonnell Douglas shot of a "Tomahawk" Cruise Missile. We don't even need the ballistic missiles anymore, what we can do with cruise missiles is scary. The illegal Drone strikes in Pakistan are basically done by cruise missiles the uniforms are giving an affectionate pet-name-- calling them Drones, planes piloted from a couch somewhere in the USA by a uniform with a remote; kinda like you switching from Olbermann to the AC/DC 360 Circus in your living room. OMG!!!
That sure is a pretty visual above, no? That's horrible. I think there really is something sexually perverted about all this nonsense. The military establishments world wide, but especially here in the USA are still primarily males. Males in western civilization have dominated women and children. The constitution was written by white slave-owning "founding-fathers" who suppressed women and minorities and are still attempting to do so. Our Emancipation Proclamation was only a century and a half ago. Slavery was legal under that silly Constitution for nearly 100 years. And for nearly 150 years the Constitution prevented half of all Americans, women, from even having the right to vote! What a lousy document it was! Getting better at a snail's pace, from what I can see. I've studied military affairs for decades now. I AM an expert. Undergrad degrees in Economics, Pol Sci, International Relations and Psychology. Graduate work and Teacher for the Pol Sci dept at Boston University where they paid me as a Teaching Fellow to pursue my PhD in Arms Control and Disarmament. These uniforms and social science PhD's can complicate a wet dream, I'm sorry for the analogy, but I'm angry today[upset about John Lennon, Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards' death, the lack of numbers in Congress now, etc. etc.]. Military strategy is simple. We have two oceans protecting us. The only really major wars we've fought in our country have been the Revolutionary war[we won that one] and our own internal squabble--the Civil War. Thats it. No one can "get" us. Anything else is paranoia. It's us pointing nukes at the rest of the world that is the problem militarily for us and for the world. If we disarm nuclearly, slash the defense dept. budget to a fraction, spend a bit more on "Coast" Guard, invest the savings in infrastructure and jobs....THEN EVERYONE'S A WINNER - ESPECIALLY UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. LEFTISTS, LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS UNITE, PLEEEEEEZE!!! THIS AND WE MATTER AND IT'S OUR JOB AS WORLD CITIZENS TO CAUSE OUR OWN GOVERNMENT'S DISARMAMENT! I PRAY THIS TO MY OWN PERSONAL HIGHER POWER. IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS, WHO--TO ME--IS THE ONE TRUE CHRIST, I PRAY!!! AMEN.
AND I CHERISH MY HUNDREDS AND
HUNDREDS OF ATHEIST AND AGNOSTIC
FRIENDS WHO WORK TIRELESSLY
DAY IN AND DAY
OUT FOR PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING.
I LOVE ALL OF YOU.
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Happy Xmas Yoko.
Happy Xmas Johnny.
Here's a link to a description of Yoko's work on the Lennon Peace Prize:
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