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In Philly, "PETA" is just a bread for sandwiches

I am kicking myself for not guessing the city that would take Michael Vick for its NFL Team. Once something happens, the obviousness of it sometimes stuns. Is there a word for that?

Not New York, with its class, even among its crooks.

Not Boston now they've won a world series, Bostonians are 'classy' now.

Not Detroit, which simply does not want to dig its hole deeper.

Not any city in Texas, which loves dog fighting and wants to keep it that way.

Philly! America is great, and only in America, can you have "Philly."

Barney Moran

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StonedHigh

StonedHigh

Sung to the tune of “HelloGoodbye” by the Beatles

 

You say it’s good, I say it’s bad
You say it’s fun and I say it’s sad, sad, sad

Oh, no
You say you’re high and I say your stoned
Stoned, stoned
I don't know why you say you’re high
I say you’re stoned
Stoned, stoned
I don't know why you say you’re high
I say you’re stoned

You say high, I say stoned
I say why, and you mumble ‘I don't know’
Oh, no
You say you’re high and I say your stoned
Stoned, stoned
I don't know why you say you’re high
I say you’re stoned
Stoned, stoned
I don't know why you say you’re high
I say you’re stoned

Why, why, why, why, why, why
Do you say your high
High, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi

Your all grown up

Got things to do

Still you stay at home

Getting stoned in your

Living room
Oh, no
You say you’re high and I say your stoned
Stoned, stoned
I don't know why you say you’re high
I say you’re stoned
Stoned, stoned
I don't know why you say you’re high
I say you’re stoned

Hi-la, heba helloa
Hi-la, heba helloa

Lyrics © 2009 Barney Moran

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THE NEWSPAPERS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE NEWSGUARD

As Newpapers around the globe go defunct, I can't help but feel at once both wistful and thankful at the changing of the guard.

Nothing will replace the dawn slap of paper and car swerve of my delivery sounding each morning outside my window, and the private time with coffee and hard print instead of a computer to mull the mishagosh as I turn each page to follow one story or another. Whether its about a story in my home town or events around the world.

But another part of me says good riddance to old newsguard in its paper form that missed the evil underpinnings of grotesque capitalism fuming and bubbling all around us for years. Who seldom printed on page 8 about the CEO who made hundreds of millions of dollars while stockholders watched life savings steam away into the air. Worse, papers who played the heartstrings of hate and lies to help lead the industrial military/oil complex's plan for its new, profitable cold war to finance itself for another century.

What replaces these dinosaurs? Will the new NEWSGUARD serve any better? One thing missing from OBAMA's overhaul is cleaning up the new NEWSGUARD. Let's work on that.

Barney Moran

Grateful Word

The Dream of Capitalism

In boom times we forget we live a dream, an imagination. Dollars are real, the dollars paid to us are real and the things we buy with them are real.

 

But Dollars; Currency, are not real. Since pre-historic man used shells to barter for goods, currency has been the mark of humanity. A promise of humans to other humans, to pay. With goods. Or served time. With the advent of religion, we added a curse to those who profit from lending those same shells, (or sheckels). Interest on the dream became a dividing line between our Gods.

 

In our current unfolding unwinding of the economic system we’ve all believed in, like a nightmare but true second life, truths we held as fact are revealing themselves as what they’ve always been: Dreams.

 

When we moved from agrarian to industrial several centuries back, a guys with names like Sinclair or Marx noticed failings in the dream of currency or capitalism. Some, like Marx, offered alternative dreams where all worked to ability yet all were provided for. And as capitalism is failing against the greed of humans now, Communism failed against the competitive nature of humans as the animals we factually are.

 

I’m not going to deny I’m loving the bust. No, I don’t empathize with you or anyone losing their jobs. Mean? Yes, I think it will be considered mean. But you’ve been dreaming, and my or anyone’s attempt to keep you dreaming is more of the same thing that got you here.

Barney Moran
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