Their songs are played at ear bleeding high volume to prisoners there. Many of the artists, who have supported progressive causes throughout their careers, are outraged.

On Tuesday, the artists joined a coalition asking the Obama Administration to close down the terror suspect camp at Guantanamo Bay.

R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle and Billy Bragg announced their support for the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, according to The Associated Press.

Among the songs reportedly played at high volumes near prisoners in the detention camp are death-metal band Deicide’s “F—- Your God,” Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” the Meow Mix cat food jingle, music from “Sesame Street,” Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs,” Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” the “I Love You” song from the children’s show “Barney,” as well as tunes by R.E.M., Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Britney Spears, the Bee Gees, Marilyn Manson, and others.

Oh Yeah, just for reference, the group Drowning Pool has not objected to the use of its music at Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. detention sites.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1624448/20091022/nine_inch_nails.jhtml

The Obama Administration’s new strategy of building a “good” government in Afghanistan, which is suppose to persuade the population to support it, is already showing signs of problems.

The vote counting in their recent election seems to be no more honest than the counting that went on in Florida in 00 and 04.

The tally by the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, which one official called “stunning,” is due to be finalized Friday. It found that President Karzai’s original total of 54.6% of the vote on August 20 has now been whittled to about 47%, causing an outcome that may make a run off election necessary.

This comes on the heels of Maulavi Mustafa Barakzia, one of only two Afghans on the Electoral Complaints Commission, resigning over what he termed “interference of foreigners.”

When will Obama face reality.? He is supposedly well read on the subject of history. Doesn’t he know that these phony puppet elections never work. Remember the Shah, Diem, and Batista?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101502449.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/12/hillary-clinton-taliban-al-qaida

Check this out. LOL!!!

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/10/15/national-review-attacked-martin-luther-king-over-nobel-peace-prize/

These recruits, many of whom from the lower socio economic class, wind up either dead or maimed. Those lucky enough to return are forced to fight a VA bureaucracy for help, not unlike vets in my era of Vietnam had to do.

I am happy to see that these military recruiters are not welcomed in all of our neighborhoods. I see New York City is taking some action.

BTW, one easy solution to the recruiting problem: Washington ought to wage only just and necessary wars. Folks would line up to volunteer. End of problem. 

http://www.indypendent.org/2009/09/17/anti-recruiter-regulations/

Thank You, Mr. President

Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama’s hometown will not be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.

Chicago is a beautiful city that would have made a perfect backdrop for the Olympics. The President was right to fly to Copenhagen to try to land the games, not for the sake of his city, but for the good of his country. The fact President Obama failed makes me respect him more for taking the chance, and the fact many right-wing figures opposed the President’s mission shows just how narrow-minded partisanship makes us all.

For the better part of 20 years, a bitterness has infected our politics that has weakened our country.

We Republicans spent eight years trying to delegitimize Bill Clinton.

Democrats spent the next eight years doing the same to George W. Bush.

Now that a Democrat is in the Oval Office again, it is the GOP who is trying to delegitimize a sitting president.

When I try to talk to Republicans about the need to break this cycle of viciousness, some cite the chapter and verse of every hateful left wing attack against George W. Bush.

Whenever I attempt to have a conversation with some Democrats about the need for us respect our president—whether he be an Obama or a Bush—I am told that Bush deserved whatever he got because he was a lying war criminal who hated the Constitution and loved torturing
people.

Fortunately, there are a growing number of Americans who believe we cannot continue going on this way.

You and I may disagree on how the CIA handled terror suspects. But that does not mean that you are soft on terrorism anymore than it means that I hate the Constitution.

You and I may have a different approach to Afghanistan. But just because you want to stay there another five years doesn’t mean you are an imperialist. And if I believe a decade in that forsaken land is more than enough, that doesn’t mean I’m soft on al Qaeda or the Taliban.

It just means that we view the world differently.

That creative tension—that intense give and take—has been what has kept America strong since Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton fought like hell in George Washington’s White House.

Hamilton wanted a strong centralized government while Jefferson believed that the government that governed least governed best.

Both men were frustrated by the checks and balances that stood in the way of their agendas, but that debate shaped America for years to come.

But something has gone terribly wrong.

Today on Morning Joe, NBC News Legend Tom Brokaw remarked to Pat Buchanan about how the level of partisanship is even more intense today than during the depths of the Watergate crisis. Brokaw was commenting on Congressman Grayson’s comments, but he could have easily
been talking about Joe Wilson or death panels or the bizarre claim that the President “hates all white people.”

Some of the rhetoric is dangerous. But what we saw from some conservative corners regarding the President’s failed Olympics bid was just plain stupid.

I’m happy for Rio and think it is past time that South America got a chance to host the Olympic Games. But put me down as one conservative who is glad my president flew across the ocean to try to bring the 2016 Games to America.

Nice try, President Obama. And thanks for taking time away from your young girls for the sake of your hometown and your country, Michelle. I know that’s never an easy thing to do.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-scarborough/thank-you-mr-president_b_308022.html?view=print

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