[Peace-discuss] could it be?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ah, the Firesign Theatre! I should have known...

I played it in days when I was a novice on the radio...

But we're all a bit novice when we begin...


On 7/7/10 7:58 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> It seems like the war machine is quickly losing its resolve and its noive. I
> am expecting a major retraction by the military shortly.
>
> I am not sure that it is all good news. Perhaps not much.
>
> The handwriting may be on the wall regarding the $$$.
>
> *** "How can you be in 2 places at once (when you're not anywhere at all)?"
> included a segment from a hypothetical late late night TV war movie called
> "Babes in Khaki. The singer is announced as "Miss Lily Lamont" and her song
> is "We're bring the War back Home."
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "E.Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag> Cc: "peace discuss"
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] could it be?
>
>
> AfPak is another bubble, like housing? Hmm. Let's let the air out of it.
>
> But maybe all it means is that the arms dealers, rather than the banksters,
> will get rich from this one (like the inscos, from healthcare).
>
> Americans are about to stop Obama from robbing the treasury to make friends
> with the rich people he oh-so-desperately wants to part of - for war, for
> healthcare, for Wall Street - but American politics are so corrupt that the
> alternative is just as bad.
>
> Until we start demanding from whoever is in office - and it really doesn't
> matter - jobs, housing, income support, free healthcare and education, as
> well as immediate cessation of foreign hostilities - we're simply exchanging
> one group of exploiters for another: écrasez l'infâme...
>
> OK, you've got me with another cultural reference: I think Lily Lamont was a
> '30s stripper who appeared in some movies...? --CGE
>
>
> On 7/7/10 5:38 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> Could it be that the War in Afghanistan is developing a big hole and all
>> the air in it is fixing to escape? I thought saw a rather plump Lily
>> Lamont heading for the bull pen with the words for "We're Bringing the War
>> Back Home!" tucked in her bosom. Of course, it might have been something
>> else.