• Eliminating a woman’s right to choose.... no, that’s not far enough - let’s ban contraception altogether... lets even ban embryonic stem-cell research - Hell - let’s legislate that life begins at conception which would mean...

...I’m not really a capricorn - I must be an Aires... but I digress.

• The only reason the rich have to be against abortion - is that poor people having babies assures them a cheap labor pool.  I mean, I’m sure the overseer was pro life.
• And while we are at it, the ultra rich don’t really give a rat’s rectum about gay marriage either - largely because they don’t give a rat’s rectum about gay people.  A few years back - having a gay son or daughter might have effected some status at the country club - but not so much any more.  In fact, the rich would rather relax marriage laws in general so they can abandon wives willy nilly leaving them with nothing depending on the mood of their mistress.
• Not only that, the rich don’t give a flying firetruck about the right to bear arms. In fact they would rather the poor not have guns.  I mean, without government (which is what they really want) the poor are their only real threat to power. If I were rich I wouldn’t want us armed.
• Nor do they really give a wooden nickel (an oxymoron by-the-way) about illegal immigration - you would think they would be for it because “those people” work cheap - but the truth is they can afford to move their factories to poor countries.  They don’t need the cheap labor to be here.  They just need it to be somewhere.

They don’t even care how much the government spends on the nation’s needy - as long as they aren’t paying anything.  They would rather the poor pay them to live in company housing building munitions that they sell to the government.

• No self respecting billionaire cares about this recent pabulum about “de-separating” church and state.  Sure some churches have money, but not that kind of money - and we all know giving money to the church doesn't make you a good person any more than buying tickets to the game makes you a third-baseman.  What the church offers to the rich is - people.

The only thing in the world the 1% does not have is people - 99% of us to be exact.    In short, as long as there is something resembling a government, they need a large number of people to support them.  So they will say anything to us to stay in power.  The rich don’t NEED to care about any social issues - they don’t LIVE in society.  They have their own police force - their own schools, their own hospitals - soon they will have their own military.  I am not afraid of Iran getting the bomb.  I am afraid of Exxon getting the bomb.

They just support whatever they think the majority of the impotent insolvent will vote for.  This is why they need Tea-Cup Poodles like Rick Santorum who can shift the limp moral compass of the masses so they think they are taking the high road.  

Walk softly and carry a big carrot (which is of course attached to a big stick.)

But my friends, that kind of a high road...
                              ...will lead you off a cliff.

I picture Rick Santorum with that carrot and stick leading the masses like asses up the high road and then dangling it off the edge.   Mitt Romney at the bottom boasting of all the jobs he is creating down at at the mortuary.

I know if I were up led up there by those guys  - and I looked over the edge and my life flashed before my eyes - I would jump - perhaps screaming. “ If we don’t fall we  ...will  ...never ...rise   ...again!”

But personally, I’ll stick to the low roads, because storytelling is the art of telling truth with lies.  

That high road the others claim to be on is simply a lie.  

Down here... I don’t have to worry about falling off a cliff - because like I’ve always said - if you think there is a cutting edge - than you ain’t on it.

Which is why I don’t think this is that “edgy” of a thought...

...if the rich can cross the lines between right and wrong like ghosts walk through walls - maybe it is time they also fell through the floor. Maybe the will go straight to hell - and maybe - just maybe - they will come out on the other side.

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A.N.N.O.U.N.C.M.E.N.T.S.
Things are tooling along at Celtic Art Studio.
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New DVD package I am working on for Anne Feeney coming soon
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I am working on late spring early summer on the west coast:
get your requests in.
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Jen Delyth, Portia Bettis, Shirley Myers,  Barry Syska,  Frank Oliver,  

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March 9-11
Sonora Celtic Faire
http://sonoracelticfaire.com/

March 12
Jack Kerouac's 90th Birthday Party
The Beat Museum
(415) 399-9626
San Francisco, CA

April 8
Hop Monk Tavern
230 Petaluma Ave
Sebastopol, CA 95473
(707) 829-7300
www.hopmonk.com
May 25-27
Seattle WA
Folk Life Festival

Looking for shows
in May WA, OR CA
May 28-June 9

High Sierra Festival (STILL Tentative)
Quncey CA
July 5-8

Oregon Country Faire
Veneta OR
July 13-15


Looking for shows in OR WA CA BC
July 9-30

nothing else on the books in the immediate future but stay tuned for lots of dates in May June July August and Septemeber.

If you are in the bay area and want me to throw down for an event soon - let me know.