you citizens and your big damned mouths!

all these americans speaking out and trying to change things. buncha busybodies. why can’t they just stay home and watch the daily show? or something.

do we REALLY have to stand out in the cold tonight in front of the manhattan mormon church to let them know how we feel about them pushing proposition 8? even worse, the meddling citizens of utah have the nerve to call the mormon’s bluff about their newfound support for gay rights. i mean, how rude can you get? can’t they tell when someone is just being polite and really doesn’t mean what they say and are just saying it to make you go away? but no, they had to make a big deal out of it and now even the congress has gotten involved. what a fuss! then melissa etheridge goes and sets a TERRIBLE example to her fellow citizens by not only refusing to pay her state taxes, but shouting the news from the ROOFTOPS for heaven’s sake.

has discretion died, unnoticed and unmourned, entirely?

and those uncivilized bloggers over at dailykos annoyed poor (well, not poor, we just handed them another $150 billion tax dollars, but whatever) AIG enough for them to not only respond to kos’ loudmouth complaints about their latest exec retreat, but to promise publicly to answer any further questions those meddlers may have. trying to shut them up, i guess. but it backfired: dailykos is now offering to include YOUR questions for AIG, if you’ve got any.

thousands more loudmouths, incapable of simply minding their own business, are signing the plugin car petition and adding their environmental rants to the comments, and even worse, then trying to get their friends to do the same thing. busybodies!

their punishment will be to stand out in the cold (well, it might not be cold where they are) on november 14th and 15th for the national day of action against coal.

and an onslaught, a veritable loudmouth army, the ultimate in can’t-keep-your-trap-shut failures to MYOB, is coming on january 21st (god, that sounds like a movie trailer), when GWB loses his seat, setting an army of government whistleblowers free to tell their stories of his evil and of laws he has broken that we don’t know about yet. no love for dubya? no loyalty, no sense of shame? NO. who knows, maybe there will be a movie. well, at least poor george will be memorialized somehow then, since all the cold-hearted publishers are rudely declining to publish his memoirs.

okay, end sarcasm (or </snark>, as the software engineers at my dayjob might put it). people are using their voices and forcing positive change.

use your voice. the country — and the government — is all ears at the moment. carpe diem.

People Have the Power
Patti Smith

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it’s decreed / the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry

Refrain

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

Refrain

The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it’s decreed the people rule
it’s decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth’s revolution
we have the power
People have the power …