Without a Country

I got into a heated debate yesterday with a co-worker in regards to the War in Iraq. But before I delve into my stance on it, you should know I hold very little regard for those who bilaterally support President Bush and the Iraq war, which ironically is in itself unilateral. The attitude that usually follows I hold even less regard for. It is the attitude of “better them than us”. Now, to me that is NOT expectable. First and foremost, because there are innocent people dying needlessly and also because of what hasn’t been proven (and never will be) with regards to this war. I need not go into specifics because you know with what I am referring to. I’m taken aback with the remarks made by Bush supporters. Their complete disregard for human life and the truth, the very clear as day truth just exhaust me. The ends have not once been just during this war. You can’t argue against fact. And the sheer contempt I’ve received makes me feel like I’m without a country to love, and to call home. If you want to know what it’s like to defend a country you have to avoid war when ever possible. And if you would have bothered to do the research we would have told our president to go after the real reason 9/11 happened. I’ll bet you never knew that two months after 9/11 The White House web page released a list of countries that held Al-Queda terrorist cells. Guess which country did NOT make the list. You don’t have to think hard do you? If you want to defend and save lives, invest in the truth and start asking the right questions and start demanding the right answers.

I believe human rights falls under a very simple category that spawns wonder, and speaks volumes. And that is, “you are you’re brothers keeper” and you as an American have a duty to seek and demand the truth. It shames and embarrasses me how little people know about this war. How blinded we’ve become when I hear someone seriously say that they believe the hijackers on 9/11 were Iraqi. There needs to be some kind of accountability for this for lack of better words, irresponsible dooping of the American people.

Ed Shultz said it best. “We have to educate the people.” And I couldn’t agree more. The jokes have stopped and seriousness has finally set in.

Dream of something better for me tonight because God knows I’ll be up.

K

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new blog

I'm going to be creating a new blog dedicated to song lyrics as well as some of my poetry. A name has yet to be chosen for this blog but nonetheless it's in the works. Back soon.

K

Picture Problems

I’m having trouble posting pictures on my blog. The picture icon on the post entry page is NOT allowing me to click and activate it. If anyone knows a way around this, your assistants will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

K

re: Civil War Talk

I received a comment on my entry regarding the Civil War today. I should have for the sake of the reader(s) expanded more. I focused on one issue; racism, which, in turn did play a big role in the war. Having said that, truthfully it was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the Jewish man talk his banter the other day. That is why I chose it as the focal point. Furthermore I also do agree with the readers comment about what the confederate flag stands for, or more accurately stood for. And as a matter of my own personal experience, many not some misuse it.

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Another movie to see

The Constant Gardener was phenomenal. Amazing and astounding. I’m changed for the better for having seen it. Good review huh?

K

Civil War Talk

It was only a matter of time.

I ran into a guy in my store today ranting about how great the U.S. would be now if the south had won the Civil War. And to top it all off, he was Jewish.

First, and far from fucking lastly, if the south would have won, the U.S. would have its very own Gaza Strip. Racism would be worse than it already is, and certainly death would be all around us even more so than it is today. I also imagine be it very ironic I say this, if the south would have triumphed, this Jewish man would surely think the other way around after seeing the devastation. He also might have never been born.

I can’t believe someone could be so dangerously naive. The south would have hanged his poor soul during that war. White power is just that; just white. Not black, not Spanish, not Jewish.

Think of having the confederate flag with all it stands for waving sky high. Imagine saluting that ugly, racist, murderous flag. The next time you choose to believe in something as disgusting as that, think of the many many other despicable things that coincide with it!!

K

Crash

I want to invite everyone to see the movie “Crash”.

I never felt this way before while watching a movie. It’s absolutely amazing in every way.

K

inacoma

Matthew Good’s greatest hits “IN A COMA” is out today. Spend wisely and go pick it up. It’s an absolute pleasure for the mind and ears. Also check out this link

http://inacoma.ca/

K

Favor

I’ve had more on my mind lately than ever before. It’s unprecedented. I never thought that the future would move you backwards. But this is life in 2005. And I live everyday with the war in Iraq, Sudan, Poverty, Hurricane Katrina, and the U.S. never off my mind for a second. So, I’m going to do everyone on here a favor...

I’m telling you right now to get off your ass and start giving a shit. Start paying attention to your surroundings. Start caring about something other than what you know. Lend a helping hand to someone who has a different skin color than your own. Read books that you aren’t told about in school. Venture outside your own country (if your blessed enough to do so) and really breathe in the air of that foreign land as if it were your own. Familiarize yourself with other cultures and study their history as well as your own. Turn on the news!! Be it the BBC, ABC, MSNBC (NOT FOXNEWS) etc. Listen and absorb. Start discussing topics that really matter and leave the fucking mall and your ridiculous designer clothes back home where they belong. Stop watching MTV and VH1. They should ultimately be your absolute last guide for advice on anything. If you want advice, seek a stable adult, be it a writer, musician, friend, or relative, who has been around the block a few times. Take school seriously!! Leave the weed, beer and stupid petty click bullshit back at the mall where you found out about it. Go to college far away from home. But don’t forget to visit the stable adult fitting the bill (if your blessed enough to have one in your life) once and a while. And never ever under any circumstance let anyone use you. For anything!! The bigger picture will eventually be seen as long as you take the first step and follow it with another.

My 24th birthday is in two days and I’m just starting to take the second step. Thank God for stable adults.

K


“when do you call homeis it underneath the sky, that won't leave you aloneif only it was raining water, and not no educated bombscause of some other man's business, is some other man's wrongsand what do you call a friendhow come the best of them ain't people, by definition dogs insteadlack luster lives of buying shit, that won't cry when you're deadtoo far, too fast, too little, too late, too late they say ain't itthe pink pills are for your sanitywe are buried in the earth because we can’t beat gravityand you are still here and so made to figureyou are an important part of the computerborn of the sea, blinkthe sea is deadfalls out of me these sockets in my headeveryone's a captain baby, ship of foolsdrowning while they're telling you it's been all rightdream the dream of your attritionthe nameless name of your conditionit will be needing you a little while longeryou are an important part of the computerafter this mission it will let you gohelp you to forget everything and everyone you knowin a world of captains baby, ship of foolsdon't you know they're lying when they're telling you it's been all right?”

another beer another bush

This doesn’t surprise me at all.

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050916/APN/509161097

10,000 voices

Check out this link for 10,000 voices at amnesty.


http://www.amnesty.ca/voices/


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Britney S.

Get Britney Spears out of my “top news stories” of the day category!! People are dying out there and they deserve most, if not all the fucking coverage on earth!! When you boil it down, media is only concerned with numbers. The masses are asses. And I’m happy to point the middle finger their way.

K


http://truthout.org

Suicide bombers claim 152 lives in Iraq

Suicide bombers claimed the lives of more than 150 Iraqi civilians today. I’m sure women and children are along the dead.

Let me just say this with brutal honestly. I can’t even imagine what the fuck is going on over there. Those poor people are living day to day wondering if they’re going to come home from the market alive or not. What kind of freedom this that really? All of the naïve war supporters have no idea what’s going on. They say “Iraq is tasting freedom”, but it’s quite the contrary to say the least! I sure as hell would not consider my country “free” if I had to worry on a daily bases if I were going to make it home alive or not. I wouldn’t even consider my country “free” if that kind of destruction were happening in a big city a thousand miles away from were I live in FL.

It’s time to start asking harder and more authoritative questions regarding the war in Iraq. Anything less is a waste of time. Both parties, not just Democrats should grab this administration by the balls not let go until they start resolving the problems they created, and are putting the U.S. and mostly Iraq through every single day.

K

Today again

I really do not want to say much with regards to 9/11. It makes me feel empty.

I’ll let someone else say what I couldn’t.


From: mattewgood.org

“Today is September 11th. I needn’t remind you of what happened on this day four years ago. I suppose I could remind you that the tragedy of that day was used to manipulate the American people into going to war, and has been used since to help sustain public support for it. But to be honest with you, Americans only have themselves to blame for being so malleable and unable to properly hold accountable those that have employed falsehoods to further a reckless foreign policy agenda.
If approximately 3,000 Americans died on this day four years ago because of the actions of a group of murderers, how should we characterize what has happened to the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis that have died since March of 2003? Ultimately, they are victims of September 11th as well, just at the hands of a different group of murderers.
Four years after the fact, September 11th continues to claim lives.”

My thoughts and prayers have been with so many of you as of late. And sadly, 9/11 is only a small piece of the enormous pie.

K

Money for Nothing

Here’s something to think about in great detail.

From matthewgood.org:


“There is no doubt that those most seriously affected by Hurricane Katrina lived below the poverty line and need serious assistance. The images of devastation and tragedy that have been beamed around the world this last week have influenced people from all walks of life in other countries to give what they can. And while I think it encouraging to see, I want to point something out.
The US accounts for half of the world’s total military expenditures, with Americans annually contributing roughly $1400 dollars each towards national defense spending, a figure that dwarfs any other nation. The United States will spend in excess of $400 billion dollars on defense in 2005, not including the $80 billion dollar supplemental that President Bush asked Congress for and got.
Americans need to seriously address this massive imbalance. If social programs, such as education and healthcare, are not considered a greater priority than national defense then the question must be asked - what is ultimately being protected?”


Ready? No Aim. FIRE!

K

Low and Weak

Is there a reason for all of this? I don’t know. I look at the events of the past week and shudder. We simply aren’t doing enough. I hear people talking about it like it happened one hundred years ago. I’m sorry but that’s not acceptable. It’s also heartless. I need to get on with my life to, but, I can’t stop reading what I need to read. I can’t stop listening to what I need to know. The people of New Orleans, poor, corrupt or not, I have to stay in touch. The innocent that number in the thousands deserve it.

What kind of message are we spending from our high and mighty offices if we don’t try harder or show that we give a damn? It’s easy to sit in our air friendly homes and say that the poor didn’t do what they should have done. But it’s also another to sit on our hands despite it. Ask yourself what options they had. Because you sure as hell don’t know how many people tried or pushed with all of their hearts to leave. If you want to be high and mighty you damn well better act it. The American version of “high and mighty” around the globe right now is “low and weak.” And, regardless if this happened for a reason or not, relief efforts should ALWAYS arrive at the same pace. FAST.

K


www.matthewgood.org

Spinning Interview

The media everywhere is putting their spin on Ray Nagin’s radio interview. Last time I checked, the words “DOG” and “GONE” were not considered profane. So once again, here’s the link to listen to that interview.

http://www.matthewgood.org/mblog/?p=253

We NEED to pay attention. WE NEED TO. And, we really NEED to educate people as to what’s really happening. This disaster is the worst in your life time. Think hard about that. There is preventable death taking place in your back yard America.

K

Ray Nagin's Radio Interview

Stop what you’re doing and go hear and listen to Ray Nagins radio interview.

DONATE FOR HURRICANE RELIEF NOW!!!

http://www.matthewgood.org/mblog/?p=253


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Bush not helping

Bush isn’t doing enough. My stomach churns all the more and honestly I’m not surprised.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050902%2F0916390383.htm&photoid=20050901WHSW105&ewp=ewp_news_0905katrina_relief

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