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I Hate Painting With A Broad Brush, But I Think The Birther Thing, At Its Root, Is Racist. The Guy Was Born In Hawaii. A Black Guy Is President. It's Cool. Get Over It. Just Deal With It. There's Nothing You Could Show These Birther People That Would Shut Them Up.

-Henry Rollins

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I Hate Painting With A Broad Brush, But I Think The Birther Thing, At Its Root, Is Racist. The Guy Was Born In Hawaii. A Black Guy Is President. It's Cool. Get Over It. Just Deal With It. There's Nothing You Could Show These Birther People That Would Shut Them Up.

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There's Nothing New About The Government Protecting Corporations And Calling It The Freeing Of The World Or Bringing Democracy To Bereft Nations. Nowadays, The Media Have To Be There For Them, To Keep You From Asking Too Many Questions, From Getting Together With Other People Who Might Want To Do The Jeffersonian Thing And Call Out The Government.

Politics Is A Thing That I Follow Because It Determines What Is Going On In My Country, But I Vote And Deal With Politicians With A Great Degree Of Jaundiced Eye.

What Stands Out To Me In America Was All The Police Vs. Citizens Turmoil. It's Decades Of Bad Policing, Bad Schooling, Racism, Bigotry And Other Factors Finally Spilling Into Mainstream Culture. I Would Like To See America Evolve On How The Laws Are Enforced On The Streets.

Mainstream Culture

I Love To Go On Stage And Sing.

I Feel Like A Visitor That Got Left Behind By His Ride.

I Hate It When Men Go To Strip Bars. It Lowers The Rest Of Us That Know If A Man Has To Pay To See A Woman Naked, He Is A Loser And Probably Should Get Weeded Out.

I Think The Most "passionate" I Get About Actual Humans Are The Ones I Want To Kill.

To Combat The Confusion And Depression That Assault Me When I Come Off The Road In The Middle Of A Tour, I Seek The Most Oblivionated Music Possible. When It's The 'way Out There' That I Seek, I Go Right To My Stash Of Amazing Music From Japan.

I Continually Remind Myself To Live By A Code. It's Very Important To Me. I've Got A Bad Temper.

Change Is Hard, But Change Is Good.

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