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Maybe it will reverse anthropogenic global warming

‘it’ being the caldera that is the monstrous geo- zit that sits under Yellowstone constantly threatening to blow off a freak of a lot of steam. And other shit.There was a 5.8 earthquake right on or right next to it … Continue reading

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CMA–Hillbilly Nobel Prize

Or maybe not. I mean, Country Music isn’t definitively inferior to Rock or whatever. The vast majority of music doesn’t last one human lifetime, and a lot of what does survive really shouldn’t have. And I don’t hate southerners, or … Continue reading

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The El Paso Police News & other scams

OK I thought at first this was a scam. (it is) Like the El Paso Police News, which was similar.   The target was us. We got, in the mail, a “sweepstakes” entry form. To Support The Police. The U.S. … Continue reading

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Outside Agitators, anybody care to bet?

There’s more to the story than a southern Sheriff saying (I was going to write it in redneck patois, but it didn’t work) “our nigras were perfectly happy with segregation until all these Outside Agitators come down stirring things up.” … Continue reading

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New Mexico State Police treat African American family just like down home

OUT OF CONTROL. New Mexico state police stopped a minivan for speeding and the African American mother at the wheel decided, correctly it turned out, that she and her five children risked who knows what on a rural backroad at … Continue reading

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Can Idle No More First Nations assert their sovereignty for real?

Here’s an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. “Sovereignty” has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to … Continue reading

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How ’bout a nice word for them Southern liberals?

Andy Griffith, the Southern liberal cop! Back growing up we all down in North Texas wanted to watch the fantasy land constructed around this lovely concept. The TV story might have taken place in North Carolina, but we imagined it, … Continue reading

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Sheriff Andy Griffith is not survived by Officer Friendly or Rural Free Delivery

Kindly TV sheriff Andy Griffith lived to see the armoring up of America’s police force, and the vanishing of rural farming communities and their requisite “socialized” postal service (namesake of his TV series Mayberry RFD), the result of corporate food … Continue reading

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Louisiana Lockdown – What is Angola Prison doing on Animal Planet TV?

Good ol’ boys probably think it’s mighty funny parading Angola’s black prisoners across the teevee, at the whim of an all-white Reality TV corrections officer caste. Inmates are portrayed like the channel’s animal kingdom predators, dangerous and unpredictable, but what … Continue reading

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Mega Agro-industry US style has helped destroy Mexico’s countryside and led to ‘Drug War’ battlefield deaths

US style mega- corporate agriculture has been pushed onto Mexico rural area for decades now, and as a result tens of millions upon tens of millions of Mexicans have been left destitute in areas that once flourished with small agricultural … Continue reading

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Better Red than Ted!

The posting of this song to NMT is dedicated by me to all the dumb redneck shitheads I have known in my lifetime. …and also is dedicated to the Mitt Romney campaign 2012! Go, Get Out of my Country, you … Continue reading

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US military created today’s monster terrorist drug trafficking gang alliance

The Zetas, Mexico’s nastiest gang of drug traffickers noted for mutilating bodies and dumping body parts all over the place into cities and rural towns alike, and the Mara Salvatrucha, Central America’s most notorious gang are joining forces together. See … Continue reading

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Mayberry R.F.D.

Some of y’all might not remember what the RFD part means. It’s Rural Free Delivery, an incentive to keep the constitutionally mandated (ratified by congress) postal service available to the people who really need it the most. The “Heartland” the … Continue reading

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Tennessee Firefighters watch house burn down

This is what we can expect when Mayor Lyin’ Hell Rivera and his cronies privatize city services like the thieving bitches are going to tell us at next Monday’s budget announcement. One of the fire-non-fighters said that it’s an example … Continue reading

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US denies holding Iranian scientist Amiri prisoner, yet sought to swap him?

Contradictions are varied and colorful in the feuding accounts of Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri’s brief stay in the US. He says he was abducted and interrogated, American sources hope to mar Amiri’s homecoming by suggesting he was paid five … Continue reading

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A fuel air bomb done “right”

Actually, they miscalculated just how much… Suspected robbers in Germany appear to have miscalculated the quantity of explosives needed to blow their way into a rural bank. The building housing the bank in the northern village of Malliss was largely … Continue reading

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Sen Udall oks metaphorical health care

The only medicine our senators want their constituents to take is the hard-to-swallow metaphorical variety. Senator Mark Udall’s monthly email explains his part in the Senate health care holdup. Two things: Udall and ten fellow freshmen set a roadblock to … Continue reading

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I’m a good old rebel

Excepting that the South fought for slavery and rural feudalism, their nostalgia is libertarian. Is that the enduring emotional charge behind flying the Confederate flag? Hoyt Axton recorded I’m a Good Old Rebel as being a “song of the Civil … Continue reading

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From whence shines that Bat Signal?

It’s a droll cartoon, calling Twitter to the rescue. But I believe MARSDEN got the metropolis wrong. It’s Paris, London or Amsterdam, and French and English diplomats are in an Iranian court today because Tehran suspects the Green Revolutionists are … Continue reading

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High Country Earth First Denver Meeting

High Country Earth First is hosting the EF! ROADSHOW, in DENVER, May 25-26: Monday 2pm in Cheesman Park, and Tuesday 6pm at the Gypsy House.   Four ongoing EF! projects in Colorado: DENVER: Stop I-70 Expansion through North Denver; SAN … Continue reading

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Ya’at’eeh from Tuba City, Arizona!

I’d envisioned myself hiking alone in Sedona for three magical days, vortexed into a frenzied energy, taken by wizened hippies to a hillside lair for impromptu meditation. Instead, in spite of the brazenly gorgeous Sedona landscape, I felt the whole … Continue reading

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Country rodeo clown to retire to big city

The news is in that America’s favorite country rodeo clown will be soon retiring from his rural ranch to the big city, so that his lovely little wife can find work at the college liberry of Southern Methodist University. The … Continue reading

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The Thai Monarchist mob

We have been watching from afar the activities of the Thai Monarchist mob as they have occupied Bangkok’s airport and received the complicit support of the Thai military, which refused to disperse them. This has been no ‘people’s protest’ at … Continue reading

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Republican rout is now in the making- The Republican Swan Song by Conjunto God is Dead

Obama is way out in the lead and pulling away from McCain fast! See RealClearPolitics for summary of multiple polls that show this. Saying this in no way implies that the Republicans will be routed out of the Deep South … Continue reading

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US-Rwandan backed general, Laurent Nkunda, to ‘liberate’ Congo again- Watch out!

Renegade Congolese General Laurent Nkunda has told the BBC he is now fighting to “liberate” the whole of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nkunda and Rwanda, alongside some other players, have caused around 6,000,000 deaths in Congo over less than … Continue reading

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