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Hi again Doc Sarvis:

There are plenty of "detestable" regimes in the world -- including the Trumpf junta -- but the US is not attacking them: North Korea, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan.

Saudi Arabia beheaded 356 prisoners last year -- mostly migrants under drug-trafficking charges: drudge.com

What makes Iran so "detestable?"

That they are a police state like Amerikkka or North Korea?

That their theocracy is opposed to the slaughter of defenseless Muslims in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, or Lebanon?

Persia hasn't invaded a country since Xerxes I, hundreds of years before the birth of Christ.

The Iranian theocracy has been on the defensive since 1979, counter-attacking Israel's various aggressions.

The Sabra and Shatila Massacres in Beirut gave birth to Lebanese Hezbollah in 1982.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) -- a uniformed horde of mass murderers -- have slaughtered at least 75,000 Gazans (per the Lancet) and maniac "Settlers" have killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since 7 Oct 2023 -- the beginning of the Likud retribution pogrom -- all funded with our taxpayer dollars.

That is detestable.

I hope nefarious Trumpf junta apparatchiks or Faux News holograms don't start using the nuanced word "detestable" for Cuba, Canada, or Greenland.

Shriekback - This Big Hush (1985)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse]
Is there a fire in the sky?
Is there a moon up there?
Is there anything alive now?
This darkness is what I hear
This is a breathless silence
A moment out of time
I see your face in the shadows
The telltale signs are in your eyes

[Chorus]
More than I can hold in my hands
Running through the gaps like water
Aching with a passion inside
Deep as the river
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you

[Verse]
Is there a flame in the dark?
Is there a bright hard star?
These creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are
We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep wherever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all

[Chorus]
Holding up on animal fear
Soaking up the waves underwater
Turned to music no one can hear
Forever in this half light
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you

...


They don't write lyrics like that anymore...

OK, a most serious song ...

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

[Verse 2]
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

...

[Verse 3]
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
...




@#40

10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk (1987)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
I'd rather hear some truth tonight
Than entertain your lies
...

Camper Van Beethoven - Good Guys and Bad Guys (1986)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Well, there are good guys and there are bad guys
And there are crooks and criminals
There are doctors and there are lawyers
And there are folks like you and me
...

Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss (Tourist Version) (1988)
www.youtube.com

Good stuff ...

How often do you hear yodeling in a rock song ...



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