This Party Will Self Destruct in Five...Four...Three...*

After the last decade, some of the conservatives now feel entitled and want to always have it their way. They've been stirring their narrow-minded hate pot since the election of November 2008. Those redneckersons are literally gunning for us like we were all pregnant brides at the altar.

How can you NOT think of the similarities between these reactions and the fight for civil rights? Just because they aren't wearing a sheet doesn't mean there isn't bigotry and evil lurking inside. I'm way more mellow than I used to be and I really try to understand everybody involved but I can't stop thinking the about small mindedness, racist people who get so angry about change that they want to hurt you or worse and seem so closed off to any reasonable debate.re

Lima, I like what you said about a wasted decade.

* Steven Weber's Terror, Inc., post on HuffPo

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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love

An OC Weekly writer reveals the dark side of the 1960s drug culture by tracking down members and associates of the Orange County counterculture group, who spoke of it for the first time in decades.

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its Quest to Spread Peace, Love and Acid to the World, by OC Weekly's Nick Schou, is the true story of the best-kept secret of the 1960s: the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia," the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest group of acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation, and literally providing the fuel for the psychedelic revolution in the process. Journalist Schou takes us deep inside the Brotherhood, combining exclusive interviews with both the group's surviving members as well as the cops who chased them.

A wide-sweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (and more drugs) that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia. Kirkus Review hails the book as "a fascinating read for any audience and essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of psychedelia."

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OBAMA: I Still Believe We Can Do What's Right

At the heart of this debate is the question of whether we’re going to accept a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people -- (applause) -- because if this vote fails, the insurance industry will continue to run amok. They will continue to deny people coverage. They will continue to deny people care. They will continue to jack up premiums 40 or 50 or 60 percent as they have in the last few weeks without any accountability whatsoever. They know this. And that’s why their lobbyists are stalking the halls of Congress as we speak, and pouring millions of dollars into negative ads. And that’s why they are doing everything they can to kill this bill.

When the naysayers argued that Social Security would lead to socialism, the men and women of Congress stood fast, and created a program that has lifted millions of poverty.

When the cynics warned that Medicare would lead to a government takeover of our entire health care system, and it didn’t have much support in the polls, Democrats and Republicans refused to back down, and made sure that all of us could enter our golden years with some basic peace of mind.

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Never have we needed something in the US so badly. I am one of the working poor who desperately need health care but can't afford it. Simply put: If you don't have to worry about how you're going to pay for your medicine and your doctor visits you can't know how important this is to those of us who do worry about it.

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Living Paintings

Alexa Meade could be the greatest prank artist alive or just the best body painter. What Alexa Meade does is paints on her subjects in the traditional style of the acrylic paintings. So all of her subjects look like escaped characters of old painting. via

She's an original as far as I know. A real mind smash.

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APRIL 15 - STEAL SOMETHING FROM WORK DAY

April 15 is celebrated as Steal Something From Work Day, an awareness day focusing on the ways, means, and causes of workplace theft. As one website associated with the campaign proclaims, "Steal Something From Work Day calls attention to the motivations behind employee theft and the horizons ahead of it. Viewed in terms of individual cases, this phenomenon appears to be a matter of isolated misbehavior; but taken as a whole, it indicates simmering discontent with capitalism itself."

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Al-right!

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