You know, I got to thinking, one downside to this whole thing about Bush being gone soon... the Ministry records are gonna suck. That is, unless another Republican douche takes over. But traditionally, Ministry is at their best and most pissed off when there's a Bush in office. Sadly some of their worst albums happened during the Clinton era.

A pissed off Ministry is a good Ministry...

This is pretty much what I listen to while skateboarding. It's like a caffeine mainline...

Here's a few examples, complete with George W. soundbytes.

Enjoy. Try not to bash your head into the walls too hard.

http://www.robbrink.com/wp-content/Rio-Grande-Blood.mov

http://www.robbrink.com/wp-content/No-W.mov

Posted by: Brink at June 11, 2007 2:07 AM

PS...

Those links won't work unless you copy/paste them into your browser I think.

Sorry...

:)

Posted by: Brink at June 11, 2007 2:40 AM

Then by all means, let's elect the absolute worst psychopath we can find so Al Jourgensen can be properly inspired.

Posted by: steven at June 11, 2007 9:19 AM

Cool.
When i was in London for my first trip about ten years ago I saw tons of pro Peru Communist graffiti all over the city that was very similar to this stuff
When i came home and was at my local IWW meeting afellow Wobbly saw my photos and then asked:
"Did you see any Anarchist graffiti?"

Nice to know that the right is as finally splintered as the Left is a decade later...

Posted by: Super Amanda at June 11, 2007 12:53 PM

Ya dude, I totally need some good hyper shit to skate to, ya know?

Posted by: Al Brinkenson at June 11, 2007 3:48 PM

Amanda, how many people are at a typical IWW meeting? Wikipedia makes dues-paying members sound as scarce as unicorns.

Posted by: steven at June 11, 2007 6:04 PM

I guess that makes me a svelte Narwhale in a bikini because we exist. Granted I've been inactive for a long time but you join and pay whatyou can monthly and you get a membership booklet which is virtually identical to the ones they gave out in the Big Bill Haywoood days.
Typical role call at the Berkeley chapter circa 1998 was about 7 to 12 Anarpeeps. People's Weekly World BBQ/Yard sale usually runs 20-40.

Posted by: Super Amanda at June 12, 2007 2:21 AM

Bushy is clearly adept at thwarting Albanian Watch-Thieves. The European Tour is a smash hit.

What Superb sleight-of-hand!

What impressive legerdemain!

If only they'd ripped his shirt off in the Albanian melee/orgy, exposing those cornfed, whiskey-wired presidential pecs.

Alas.

(Eh, anyhow, big shout-out to the general Wilsonian Circle-Jerkies. I'll be on vacation until this coming Monday, whence I shall return with more Nietzche-ian existentiallyish angst than even *I* thought possible. Carry on, Morning Glories!)

Posted by: Ian Ransom "Freakish Juju Is Our Business" Department Stores at June 13, 2007 8:28 AM

French Open must be over, Ian has surfaced.

Posted by: steven at June 13, 2007 11:39 AM

Regarding the watch stealing in Albania and Ian's wish for the crowd to strip W of his shirt:

1) ew

2) protracted daydream where W is renamed Sebastian and he's on the Spanish Riviera with his cousin Catherine Holly.

Posted by: steven at June 13, 2007 11:46 AM

Jesus Christ. You could cut the pedantry in some of these posts with a knife. And the fact someone is a having a free-market yard sale to raise money for a communist organization is goddamn PRICELESS. Look up "irony" in the dictionary. While you're at it, look up "retard."

Steven,

"Fuck Bush." How original. How thoughtful. So succinct! What intellect!

Must have been a slow week, huh?

Posted by: Jon Thibault at June 15, 2007 12:23 PM

Eh, nice try troll.

Posted by: steven at June 15, 2007 10:03 PM

Snark fest... clever fest... wit fest...

So easy to talk shit in binary...

I like retards. I happen to think they are of a higher consciousness than most of us "normal" people. They smile a lot. They aren't worried with the trivial bullshit we bog ourselves down with. They might actually be more evolved than the rest of us.

I sort of envy them. I aspire to be retarded these days and Andrew WK is my mentor.

Posted by: Brink at June 16, 2007 10:24 PM

Steven,

That was a very intelligent, witty response. It's not trolling; it's pointing out the obvious.

"Bush is dumb."

"Fuck Bush."

"No blood for oil."

"Bush is a nazi."

And, my favorite: "Bush knew!"

Blah, blah, blah.

The Left (in fact, everyone who hates Bush) seems to have run out of simplistic bumper-sticker insults. Can't you guys think of something original to say? If Bill Maher were restricted from talking about how dumb the President is, he wouldn't have any material. It just gets old. Sorry, but it's true.

Incidentally, trolls post only to get a response. I could care less if you respond. Like I said, I'm just pointing out the obvious.

Posted by: Jon Thibault at June 18, 2007 2:11 AM

Jon, okay I'll bite. I'm supposed to take you seriously when the first thing is see on your Myspace page is something along the lines of "what's up my niggas"? Dude, you're white and from New Hampshire. No, just no.

Posted by: steven at June 18, 2007 9:55 AM

I'll ignore your ad hominem attack.

Can't we agree that the platitudinous anti-Bush sloganeering should be stopped, if only because it's become so trite and meaningless? Or do people really think that writing graffiti like "Fuck Bush" is somehow edgy and dangerous?

"Oooooooh, I used the F-word. I'm changing the world, man!"

It's boring and lazy, and I don't hear anyone disagreeing.

Posted by: Jon Thibault at June 18, 2007 12:19 PM

Seriously, you're saying I'm boring, intellectually lazy and perhaps retarded and then you get all shirty when you're called out on your casual racism?

Posted by: steven at June 18, 2007 12:37 PM

Sigh.

No, Steven, I'm calling your June 10th blog (and its subject matter) boring, intellectually lazy, and DEFINITELY retarded.

I feel like a third-grade teacher trying to keep a Ritalin-addicted class on track, and somebody named Steven forgot to take his medication this morning. So, I patiently repeat what I've already written:

Can't we agree that the platitudinous anti-Bush sloganeering should be stopped, if only because it's become so trite and meaningless? Or do people really think that writing graffiti like "Fuck Bush" is somehow edgy and dangerous?

Posted by: at June 18, 2007 1:24 PM

Political commentator and self-described progressive Matt Taibbi tackled the issue of Bush bashing and equating America with Nazi Germany in a piece he wrote recently for Adbusters:

What makes the American left silly? Things that in a vacuum should be logical impossibilities are frighteningly common in lefty political scenes. The word “oppression” escaping, for any reason, the mouths of kids whose parents are paying 20 grand for them to go to private colleges. Academics in Priuses using the word “Amerika.” Ebonics, Fanetiks, and other such insane institutional manifestations of white guilt. Combat berets. Combat berets in conjunction with designer coffees. Combat berets in conjunction with designer coffees consumed at leisure in between conversational comparisons of America to Nazi Germany.

We all know where this stuff comes from. Anyone who’s ever been to a lefty political meeting knows the deal – the problem is the “spirit of inclusiveness” stretched to the limits of absurdity. The post-sixties dogma that everyone’s viewpoint is legitimate, everyone‘s choice about anything (lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, even class) is valid, that’s now so totally ingrained that at every single meeting, every time some yutz gets up and starts rambling about anything, no matter how ridiculous, no one ever tells him to shut the fuck up. Next thing you know, you’ve got guys on stilts wearing mime makeup and Cat-in-the-Hat striped top-hats leading a half-million people at an anti-war rally. Why is that guy there? Because no one told him that war is a matter of life and death and that he should leave his fucking stilts at home.

Then there’s the tone problem. A hell of a lot of what the left does these days is tediously lecture middle America about how wrong it is, loudly snorting at a stubbornly unchanging litany of Republican villains. There’s a weirdly indulgent tone to all of this Bush-bashing that goes on in lefty media, a tone that’s not only annoyingly predictable in its pervasiveness, but a turnoff to people who might have tuned in to that channel in search of something else.

Posted by: Jon Sattler at June 18, 2007 2:40 PM

At least you got the diagnosis right, but I think I function around the level of an eighth grader, which is about the national average reading comprehension-wise.

Is sloganeering trite? Most certainly, but it goes both ways Thibault. The level of discourse in politics has been boiled down to what fits on a bumper sticker or in a thirty second ad.
I'd gladly write 5000 words on the folly of Bush, but who will read it?

I'll defend the "Fuck Bush" post because it was topical and I had the pics laying around. My brief is to treat politics like the Star treats gossip. Bush was in a city where he is not loved and the graffiti is, or at least was all over Rome in 2004. I'm going back to Rome in October and I'll let you know if it's still there. I am often quite juvenile in my humor and I don't have to justify it to anyone, it was indeed a slow news day when I ran it and honestly I needed to fill some space.

You're right to feel some fatigue over the constant attacks on Bush's intelligence etc. it's relentless and there's an industry devoted to mocking him. Mostly it's bandwagon jumpers who were waiting to see which way the wind was blowing before they came out of their fear-induced comas and turned on their boy. I don't suppose you remember the 90's when the knives were out for that gold-plated redneck Clinton? Once he started parsing the meaning of "is" it was all over. So it goes for George, his hubris has led him to a place where he is a figure of ridicule.

In the end, George is a big boy and he can take care of himself, the fact that he was in Rome tells me he could give a rat's ass about what a couple million Leftists, Anarchists and Commies think. The problem is he's equally uncaring about what 60%+ of his own citizens are saying and that's my .02 euros.

(but seriously, as someone who thought it was ironic and edgy to bomb around the South for ten years in a Suburban with a rebel flag on the roof, lose the wiggerisms. There's a point where we have to grow up and turn our backs on childish things and consider how others see us. Narcissism and South Park Libertarianism are what's truly anti-intellectual and boring)

Posted by: steven at June 18, 2007 2:42 PM

"I'd gladly write 5000 words on the folly of Bush, but who will read it?"

I probably would. You shouldn't underestimate your readership.

Regarding your last comment: "Lose the wiggerisms. There's a point where we have to grow up and turn our backs on childish things and consider how others see us."

Thanks, dad.

When I need funny lessons from you, I'll let you know. Like you, I don't have to justify my humor to anyone. If you don't like it, don't go out of your way to read it.

Holla!

Posted by: Jon Thibault at June 18, 2007 3:05 PM

Oh fuck, two Jons.

Okay Sattler the deal is this: The last lefty political meeting I went to was probably in 1977(?) when a bunch of us were bussed from our comfortable Pasadena high school to East LA to poster for the Farm Worker's Initiative. I think I'm like a lot of people, stuck somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum and the extremism on both sides is pretty off-putting. I've got equal scorn for the grim fuckers in grey suits and flag pins as I do for that asshole on the stilts. However and it's a big however, when I hear elected officials and their handlers talking about permanent majorities(and I don't give a fuck which party they belong to) I start scribbling swastikas. Mind you swastikas are just what comes to mind first since the Nazis built such an enduring brand, the Soviets and the Chinese had shit for PR.

I'm enough of a "leftist" that I think people are entitled to their opinions and they should be heard, but I'm also wishing the nuts in either wings of the parties would STFU and form their own parties. Of course, they'd never win an election in the current system, Independents etc. are scarcer than hen's teeth at the Federal level, but wouldn't CSPAN be a lot more interesting if we had coalition Governments forming and dissolving like Italian Parliaments?

Thibault: Ow, Dad. I've avoided procreating and becoming a boring old fuck and it went and happened anyway. Shit.

Posted by: steven at June 18, 2007 4:40 PM

"If Woody had been listening to Andrew W.K., none of this would have happened..."

Posted by: Brink at June 18, 2007 9:39 PM

Independents etc. are scarcer than hen's teeth at the Federal level, but wouldn't CSPAN be a lot more interesting if we had coalition Governments forming and dissolving like Italian Parliaments?

I agree that a new political narrative would be refreshing. So many people are dissatisfied with both the Republicans and the Democrats that someone with a war chest like Michael Bloomberg could break the federal two-party monopoly. Is it a long shot? Not as great as people think. According to the latest Gallop poll, more Americans now identify themselves as Independents than either Republicans or Democrats. If on-again-off-again candidate Ross Perot could receive 19 percent of the vote in ’92 with his pie charts and kooky brand of billionaire populism, imagine how well an efficient pragmatist with a proven track record could do.

We’ll leave the Nazi discussion for another time.

Posted by: Jon Sattler at June 18, 2007 11:08 PM

My only worry about third parties is that they're beholden to the same interests as the main two we have if they want to survive.

Basically the office of President is attainable only to the very wealthy or those with wealthy backers regardless of qualification. I can't remember which Roman Emperor bought the office for 300 million sesterces (odd I can remember the figure), but the parallels are there.

Is the ability to run a multi-billion dollar business the skill set for a President? I'm not convinced. I'm of the opinion that government should run more like a business; budgets, targets, customer and shareholder value, but our present administration was supposed to be all business and we seem to have gotten all the bad parts of business and none of the benefits.

Posted by: steven at June 19, 2007 11:46 AM

Oh and the Nazis? I think it's best to let it lie. The Nazi thing gets tossed around pretty lightly, but it was killing and mayhem on an Industrial scale, truly horrific.

Posted by: steven at June 19, 2007 11:53 AM