[Vision2020] Joe Bageant (was obama election/gun purchases)

[French]

The book Debbie refers to is written by a man who lived for a while in our neck of the woods and reported for the Daily News.

Dianne

>From his web site (www.joebageant.com):
Born 1946 in Winchester VA, USA. US Navy Vietnam era veteran.

After stint in Navy became anti-war hippie, ran off to the West Coast ... lived in communes, hippie school buses... started writing about holy men, countercultural figures, rock stars and the American scene in 1971 ... lived in Boulder Colorado until mid 1980s ... 14 years in all ... became a Marxist and a half-assed Buddhist ... Traveled to Central America to write about third World issues...

Moved to the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, built a cabin, lived without electricity, farmed with horses for seven years ... tended reservation bar (The Bald Eagle Bar), wrote for regional newspapers... generally festered on life in America ... Moved to Moscow, Idaho, worked on third rate newspaper there ... Then moved to Eugene Oregon, worked for an international magazine corporation pushing insecticides and pesticides to farmers worldwide.

Then back to hometown of Winchester VA to settle some scores with the bigoted, murderous redneck town I grew up in. I love'em but they need a good ass kicking.

Died in 2000 when George Bush got elected ... died along with 275 million other Americans ... Plan to rise again from the dead when he is tossed out ...maybe reincarnate as a Commie terrorist on Wall Street ... maybe as a sex worker in Amsterdam ... can't decide ... both have their advantages.

Joe Bageant


Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:37:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Debbie Gray <graylex at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] obama election / gun purchases
To: vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
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I'm totally perplexed by the people rushing out to buy guns after the election. As if on Jan 20 obama will totally ban gun ownership? Did I miss something in the 2 years of presidential campaigning? And then all the other lemmings rushing over the cliff, too. What next? Stockpiling Bibles and confederate flags? 

And speaking of guns and bibles, i just finished an amazing book: Deerhunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War / Joe Bageant. Here's an amazon link if you want to read more lucid reviews than i can compose (am so not a morning person!) 
http://tiny.cc/MXDux

debbie gray

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