Now, if that ain't Karma"
Not only that, it was an old flatbed Ford, a real countrified farm type vehicle, circa 1969-71, ancient enough to have been around when the song was first written! It even bore Iowa plates, attesting to its authenticity, with the paint on the hood largely burned off from years of sitting out in blistering sunny summers and harsh winters.
My excitement could not be contained! I immediately called my Son so I could tell him and he would hear the song at the same time as I was passing the truck. He's kind of into Buddhism, so it worked for him.
(Incidentally, the line is so famous it inspired "Standin' On The Corner" Park in downtown Winslow, featuring a statue of a guy on a corner and the image of a girl in a flatbed Ford.)
Why, you may be asking yourself, am I filling space with this tale of a Karmic Encounter of the Third Kind?
I guess that it is just my small way of reminding us all that we've been putting up with some really bad Karma for the past five years now.
Just as Earl Hickey has devised a way to counteract the bad Karma he's laden upon his own essence, we need to find a way to reverse the negative forces
which are rendering our Nation into fragmented shards.
George W. Bush could not have been more full of feces as when he called himself "compassionate" and a "uniter," for the man has proven to be neither.
We are all far too painfully aware of the multiples of tens of thousands killed all over the World for his self-serving ends.
In America we have the tragedies of 9/11/2001 and Hurricane Katrina, just for starters. Some 4, 400 dead and 2,000 missing, with both events being forewarned yet ignored by King George XLIII and his Court.
There are more than 2,300 brave military people, young men and women, far braver than any of the wimp ideologues who sent them under false pretenses to be slaughtered in Iraq. Add another 270 or more dead in Afghanistan. Nearly 34,000 of these young men and women have been seriously wounded fighting a shadow enemy. The reality is, America cannot be certain of any of these figures because we have to rely upon the military to provide them to us.
For good or bad, estimates are some 30,000 Iraqi troops have died these past three years, with 90,000 seriously wounded. The British medical journal The Lancet figures Iraqi civilian casualties at 189,000 dead, 340,000 seriously wounded.
In Afghanistan, deaths include 8,600 troops and 3,500 civilians, with 26,000 and 6,300 wounded, respectively.
The best estimates of figures accumulated to date among Afghani and Iraqi civilians and troops, U.S. troops and civilians, and various coalition civilians and troops within these two theatres of operations are: 234,300 human lives lost; 497,500 people seriously, painfully wounded - a very large percentage undoubtedly maimed for life.
It took Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and King George XLIII a mere three years to accomplish these massive slaughterhouse totals.
Good Lord, they must be proud of themselves! What are they gonna do next? Iran? Syria?
Not only that, it was an old flatbed Ford, a real countrified farm type vehicle, circa 1969-71, ancient enough to have been around when the song was first written! It even bore Iowa plates, attesting to its authenticity, with the paint on the hood largely burned off from years of sitting out in blistering sunny summers and harsh winters.
My excitement could not be contained! I immediately called my Son so I could tell him and he would hear the song at the same time as I was passing the truck. He's kind of into Buddhism, so it worked for him.
(Incidentally, the line is so famous it inspired "Standin' On The Corner" Park in downtown Winslow, featuring a statue of a guy on a corner and the image of a girl in a flatbed Ford.)
I guess that it is just my small way of reminding us all that we've been putting up with some really bad Karma for the past five years now.
Just as Earl Hickey has devised a way to counteract the bad Karma he's laden upon his own essence, we need to find a way to reverse the negative forces
which are rendering our Nation into fragmented shards.
George W. Bush could not have been more full of feces as when he called himself "compassionate" and a "uniter," for the man has proven to be neither.
We are all far too painfully aware of the multiples of tens of thousands killed all over the World for his self-serving ends.
In America we have the tragedies of 9/11/2001 and Hurricane Katrina, just for starters. Some 4, 400 dead and 2,000 missing, with both events being forewarned yet ignored by King George XLIII and his Court.
There are more than 2,300 brave military people, young men and women, far braver than any of the wimp ideologues who sent them under false pretenses to be slaughtered in Iraq. Add another 270 or more dead in Afghanistan. Nearly 34,000 of these young men and women have been seriously wounded fighting a shadow enemy. The reality is, America cannot be certain of any of these figures because we have to rely upon the military to provide them to us.
For good or bad, estimates are some 30,000 Iraqi troops have died these past three years, with 90,000 seriously wounded. The British medical journal The Lancet figures Iraqi civilian casualties at 189,000 dead, 340,000 seriously wounded.
In Afghanistan, deaths include 8,600 troops and 3,500 civilians, with 26,000 and 6,300 wounded, respectively.
The best estimates of figures accumulated to date among Afghani and Iraqi civilians and troops, U.S. troops and civilians, and various coalition civilians and troops within these two theatres of operations are: 234,300 human lives lost; 497,500 people seriously, painfully wounded - a very large percentage undoubtedly maimed for life.
It took Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and King George XLIII a mere three years to accomplish these massive slaughterhouse totals.
Good Lord, they must be proud of themselves! What are they gonna do next? Iran? Syria?
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