Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversation (High School, 1968)

Prior to my enlistment to the U.S. Army in 1982 this is a song I listened to quite often. It is a tune that appeared on Simon and Ganfunkel's popular album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme." I was just shy of six years old when the album was released in 1966. At the time of its release President Johnson was under pressure by several groups and the American public for the United State's use of chemical weapons in Vietnam against personnel and crops. When I listen to the song it carries me to that era when America was in turmoil as it is today. The song is a bit haunting. "Yes we speak the things that matter with words that must be said. Can analysis be worthwhile?" Such is The Dangling Conversation. Such is this blog.

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Enslaved to Banks: US students drawn to join Occupy movement

Tuition costs for colleges have risen 600 % since 1980. Yes, *six hundred per cent.*
Not everyone that wants a job and is looking for a job can find one, even at McDonald's.

Our national news media is committing the sad crime of editorializing the news instead of reporting what reality is. Who owns the national news media ? Large corporations filled with self-interest, with no care for the truth. In return we end up looking elsewhere to find truth. I am always amazed at how many people I know regurgitate the narrative that national news media outlets dispel. With no thought to doing our own research we give the gift of thinking and analyzation over to them as trusted people. In fact the "journalism" we get is often nothing more than concocted lies. Here we get some background information on what Occupy Wall Street goals are from a foreign news source. How sad that we have to resort to digging for the truth from outside sources. The first two minutes of this video (7 minutes long) is worth seeing. While you watch please note how many U.S. veterans are adding to these protests daily. Free speech is a First Amendment right in this country regardless of whether we agree with it or not.

"Washington knows how to start wars and how to prolong them, but is clueless when it comes to ending them." - Andrew Bacevich, West Point Graduate,Vietnam Veteran, professor of history and international relations at Boston University. The Pentagon - Hard Times, Hard Choices

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