Nostalgia Lane – Janis, etc.

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll!  Crank the volume, folks…   Janis    Jefferson Airplane    Rolling Stones    Barry McGuire  Dylan & Baez   Pink Floyd   Procol Harem   Arthur Brown     Arlo Guthrie   John Lennon

Not too hard to see why our parents were afraid for us.  Ward and June Cleaver only had to deal with Ricky Nelson. 

We saw a different possible world, it didn’t work out that way.  We got old, got our piece of the action.  We stopped believing in a new future.  A new America.  We got lazy.

Now we, and our children are paying the price.  We have a son who’s joined the Marines to serve his country, and may wind up dying in the Middle East to protect Bush’s oil.

It’s not too late, yet.  Vote Obama, the only chance for a second chance.  Not for hippie-shit, not for kumbia, but for a chance to make this a better nation.  Somewhere that the world will once again admire because we’re trying!   A nation of hope and possibilities, where anyone can hope to make a better life.

Not just for the wealthy to draw money from, not a place to drain resources from for profit.  Not a nation owned and controlled by big money.  A country owned by the people!

Maybe Obama can start us on this direction, maybe not.  If not, we can kick him out in four years, no prob.

Our problem is fear.  Fear of change.  Fear of taking a chance.  We keep the old system because we’re afraid of change.

Our founding fathers weren’t afraid.  They risked everything; their comfortable lives and their very lives to take a chance at something better.  They put their names on it.

Can you not even risk a vote?  Take the chance.  Do it.  The entire world awaits your decision.

And if anything can represent patriotism with change, this might be it.  Jimmy Hendricks

Vote!  Either way, vote!  Own your own country!