Mike "the Indian" Burn Rants on the Subversion of America

Venerable retired rock god Mike "The Indian" Burn is remembered fondly for two major music contributions. First, Mike wore the assless fur pants as the bass player for Insane War Tomatoes and also pushed 4 strings for Dangling Units and a number of other projects with me in the 1980s. Mike also would go down in history as the body double for Filipe Rose, "the Indian" in the Village People. His services were needed for a love scene in the original large-screen adaptation of "Dukes of Hazard". The film was shot, but they decided it sucked and it never was distributed, even for TV.

Too bad they don't have such scruples these days. I digress.

When Mike drops me an email (maybe a few times a year) I read it immediately, as it always makes me laugh, think or expell body gases. Here's what he sent yesterday, printed with his permission:

(Dear Schmootzie) -

I’m swell, it’s our country that’s going to hell. Does it ever freak you out that every Dead Kennedy lyric and punk rock prophecy from 20 years ago is coming true? And when does it end? Can they keep getting re-elected as long as they can create more terrorist attacks – which should be simple to do since all they ever do is piss off everyone in the whole fucking world.

First, does it matter which guy is actually president as long as the Fourth Reich is in power? It’s bad enough that the Anti-Christ is our vice president, but we can’t even label the current CEO Faust because he’s too stupid to know that when you sell your soul to Mephistopheles, you’re supposed to get magical powers in return.

Let’s assume that it doesn’t matter, and that President Bush = President Rice = President Rove = President Frist because addition is commutative. As long as there are talking heads that are willing to read off the same cheat sheet in return for being allowed to dip one small finger into the Pie of Ultimate Power™, they can continue to kill brown people and frighten soccer moms in Ohio.

So the question, then, is can they continue to get away with lying and discrediting the truth and acting like bullies and ruining the country in perpetuity, or is enough of the country smart enough to eventually say, “Hey, wait a minute, you guys are constantly lying and using sham tactics and Jedi mind tricks to cover up the fact that you’re all thieves and murderers”?

How many times can you pull the ball away before Charlie Brown finally realizes what time it is?

The Indian
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'Nuff Said.