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Tag Archives: Star Wars
International StarWarz Day
May the 4th be with you… That started as an intellectual or at least nerd pun. The underlying fear slowly builds up. As does the deficit, the vast majority of which is subsidizing wars which in turn are a giveaway … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, Personal Notes, Perspective, Policy, Recollections, Semantics, To Dwell on the Obvious, War machine
Tagged 1%, 99%, Accomplices, ALF, America, American, Americana, Americans, artist, Axe, Banana Republic, Boeing, British, BUILDS, Bush, Cheney, Child Soldiers, CIA, Civilization, Clinton, Congress, Corn, Corporate, Corporation, corporations, Costa Rica, Deficit, DIA, Dictator, Dictators, dictatorship, Draft Dodgers, Economic Draft, freedom, General Electric, GM, God, Green Berets, Guatemala, Headlines, Intel, IRA, Killing, Left, Limbaugh, London, Love, Madrid, Media, Mexican, Monsanto, Murder, Native American, Native Americans, Nicaragua, NSA, O'Reilly, Pax Americana, Peace, Pirates, POW, power, Rally, reason, rebellion, Republic, Right Wing, Romney, SDI, soldier, Soviets, Star Wars, StratCom, SUV, SUVs, Tax, Taxes, Technology, terror, Terrorism, The The, Third World, Troy, Trump, Washington, Wealth, Working, Zapatistas
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Can additional troops save the empire?
Posted in Sight-Bites
Tagged Afghanistan, American Empire, Empire, Freedom Fighters, Star Wars, troops
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Pro-US gov defeated in Czech Republic
The current leadership of the Czech Republic has been defeated by opposition parties, but corporate US and UK news outlets aren’t reporting the whole of why it happened. Global Network activist and hunger striker, Jan Tamas writes from Prague: Dear … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Headlines
Tagged Art, Borat, CIA, Communist, Communist Party, Corporate, Cult, Czech, Czech Republic, Democratic Party, Euro, Europe, Fun, Government, Headlines, hunger, hunger strike, IAM, Industry, initiative, Interest, Jan Tamas, leadership, mayor, Military, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Nuclear, nuclear disarmament, Occupied Territories, Prague, Protest, RAW, Republic, Star Wars, Strike, troops, US military, Vote, War
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Staging Homer for Generation Simpson
THE ODYSSEY, A STAGE VERSION- Greek myth would be no more complicated than JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, or GRG Lucas, but I suspect that to impress Homer unto modern audiences might have the disagreeable consequence of educating them. This weekend … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged 1984, Art, children, CIA, Civilization, College, Colorado, Colorado College, Corn, Education, Euro, Europe, God, Harry Potter, heroes, Homer, Imperial, Imperialism, Interest, IRS, Literature, Lord of the Rings, Misogyny, Myth, Odysseus, Odyssey, PLO, plots, Poetry, Simpsons, Star Wars, students, Tolkien, Totalitarian, Totalitarianism, Ulysses, War, Western, Western Civilization
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Toons stencil history of iconic film stills
Can you identify the iconic images collected on these stencils? Larger views of each section are reproduced below. Answers at the bottom. A clue, the stills are in chronological order, going across starting at the lower left. Lune, Vampyres, Buster … Continue reading
Posted in Local News
Tagged Arabia, Art, BIA, Bowie, Crawford, Diet, Edward, Film, Ford, Frankenstein, GM, God, Hannibal, History, Horror, King Kong, Left, Love, Lugo, Mad Max, Money, Psycho, Race, RAW, Rock, Shaft, Shirley Temple, Star Wars, Tax, Temple, Ten Commandments, Toons, Vietnam, Virginia, War, Water
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Thailand and American servicemen
It’s no great secret, but due to the American military presence in SE Asia of the ’60s and ’70s, Thailand today is still the great sex tourism destiny for many, not least of are for the ex-military of all nations, … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged America, American, Asia, burlesque, Germans, GI Joe, Iraq, Military, Pentagon, Richard Pryor, serviceman, sex, Star Wars, Thailand, Torture Victims, tourism, US military, War
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Fish out of water in the park
We spent Labor Day afternoon in the shade of a newly planted tree, upwind from a gargantuan new fountain/sculpture at the center of Confluence Park, rechristened post-9/11 as America the Beautiful Park. Perhaps our city councilmen were thinking that Katharine … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged 9/11, Abram, America, Arson, Art, Axe, Bing, Cars, Carson, children, Christ, City Council, Coal, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Confluence Park, Crack, Crackers, Crow, Downtown, Education, Environment, Exercise, Fire, Fish, Ft Carson, Gentrification, IRS, Jobs, Labor Day, Left, Middle Class, Middle Class America, Money, NFL, nothing, Pikes Peak, PLO, pool, Pot, POW, power, RAW, Sculpture, shots, Star Wars, Swimming, Tax, TB, Thinking, tracking, Trains, Uber, War, Water, White
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Russia, China and the Iran standoff.
You know, the Chimp was anything but subtle when he told the whole world that Nuclear Weapons were on the table in his proposed Bombing Iran Back To The Stone-Age Plan, code named Operation Global Suicide. Problem being, some of … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Afghanistan, America, ARN, Art, Assad, Benefits, Bing, Bombing, Bush, Capital, China, Chinese, CIA, Cold War, Debt, DIA, Earth, Fun, George, GM, Government, Gulf, India, IRA, Iran, Killing, Language, Love, Money, Nuclear, Nuclear weapons, Nukes, Opera, Pakistan, Persia, Piracy, Pirates, PLO, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Star Wars, Trolling, Troy, U.S., United States, War, Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Rose Bowl Impeach Bush Parade
As you can see I’ve been reading and writing a lot. So I was on the pacifism tab. Got to the one about the parade in Manitou. On New Years, somebody at the Tournament of Roses parade was across … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Sight-Bites
Tagged AA, Air Force, ALF, America, Bush, cops, coup, demonstration, demonstrations, DIA, EPA, Fun, Government, Impeach, March, Media, Pacifism, Parade, Peace, Peace March, Politics, Popular Culture, Protest, Rally, Respect, shots, Star Wars, Stealth Bomber, Storm Troopers, Television, Tribute, War, Working, Writing
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A Wii of One’s Own
Video game playing in my household has never been a sedentary activity. I think that my boys, all three of them, came hard-wired with a gene that had lain dormant in human DNA for millions of years, waiting for the … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Absolut, America, Animal, Animals, arks, ARN, Art, Bear, Britain, Buck, children, Colorado, Corn, David, Denver, DNA, Ebay, Film, Fun, Greens, IRA, IRS, Japan, Japanese, Language, Love, Nintendo Wii, nothing, Race, Recall, Reds, Rome, School, Star Wars, Starbucks, Toys, Trading, Truth, USA, Video, War
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Wrestling with Steve Irwin
A young friend reminded me today. “You know, I’m still really sad about the Alligator Guy.” Me too. Steve Irwin’s death is sad, and a great loss, but I also feel we may be dishonoring Irwin to feel sad … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Absolut, America, American, Art, Capital, Catholic, character, CIA, Cult, Culture, Death, Extremists, Film, Fire, George, GIs, Greed, guilt, heroes, Heroism, Identity, Indoctrination, Insurgent, Insurgents, Love, Media, moral compass, Morality, Muslim, Muslims, Odds, pacifists, Popular Culture, Pot, POW, power, Prince, reality, Rove, Sacrifice, Soul, Star Wars, Surge, Walker, War, wife, Wrestling
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Space Symposium protest 2006 part 2
Day 1: Monday On Monday we stood, nearly two dozen of us at the corner of Lake and Lake Circle, we sang our song to an Oscar Meyer melody, we held banners, we blew our whistles and we handed out … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, News
Tagged actions, ALF, America, American, ARN, Arrest, Art, Aurora, bombs, Broadmoor, Buck, Camp Casey, Cars, children, civility, College, Colorado, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Community, complicity, Conference, Contractors, Convention, cops, Corn, CPIS, Crime, CSAction, Cuts, Dave Therault, Defense, Defense Contractors, Democracy, Denver, Department, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower, EPA, EWO, FERA, Film, Flag, Ford, Forward, freedom, Gates, GIs, Golf, Greely, Headlines, Health, helicopter, Henry Ford, Hiroshima, IRA, Iran, IRS, jogging, Killing, KKTV, Left, Masses, Military, Minuteman, Nagasaki, National Security, NSA, Parade, Peace, Peace Sign, Permit, PLO, police, POW, power, prison, Protest, Radio, Rally, Rap, Raytheon, Reparations, Research, Rights, Rove, Sacrifice, School, Security, soldier, Soldiers, solidarity, Space Symposium, Sport, Stand Down, Star Wars, Surge, Surveillance, SUV, SUVs, Technology, testing, The Bomb, Treaties, trial, Union, US war, Vampires, Violence, War, war mongers, Wednesday, welfare, Windows
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Stopping arms in space
It’s called the 2006 Space Symposium, and this year it is seeing a record number of attendees. But the participants are not space explorers, they’re arms manufacturers. Space exploration is for NASA I guess, the symposium is about coordinating the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, News
Tagged ALF, Arrest, Art, Broadmoor, Camp Casey, Cars, civility, Colorado Springs, Convention, cops, Corn, CPIS, Dave Therault, Defense, Department, EPA, Ford, Forward, freedom, GIs, Golf, Henry Ford, IRS, Killing, Masses, Militarization, Military, Minuteman, NASA, Parade, Peace, Peace Sign, Permit, PLO, police, Protest, Radio, Research, Security, soldier, Soldiers, solidarity, Space Symposium, Sport, Star Wars, Technology, terror, War, war mongers, welfare
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