what's that sound?

When I went indoors the other night holding a large-size campaign postcard showing a photograph of the candidate carrying his gun -- (and this was supposed to get my vote) -- I thought,
"man with a gun" --
"man with a gun over there"
Oh! -- what IS that song?...
'z-a man with a gun over there,
something something --
stop children, what's that sou--ound,
everybody look what's goin' down...

WHAT IS THAT SONG?
And thought -- it's "Ohio," the one about Kent State -- No, no, it's the one I always get mixed up with "Ohio" but really know it's a different song....

There's somethin' happenin' here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun, over there
Tellin' me I got to beware

(I think it's time we)
Stop, children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?

There's battle lines bein' drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speakin' their minds
Gettin' so much resistance from behind

(It's time we)
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?

What a field day for the heat
Singin' songs and carryin' signs
Mostly sayin' "hooray for our side"

(It's time we)
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

(We better)
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?
(We better)
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?
(We better)
Stop, now, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?
(We better)
Stop, children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's goin' down?

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"For What It's Worth"
written / Stephen Stills
recorded / Buffalo Springfield
released January 9, 1967
label:  Atco

--And there is common ground between those two songs:  Stephen Stills and Neil Young were on both recordings -- "For What It's Worth" in Buffalo Springfield, and "Ohio" in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- Neil Young wrote "Ohio" and Stills wrote "Worth" so those two songs -- both great, and I shouldn't mix them up in head -- are, one could say, "related."

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Reflecting on the gun guy in my mailbox, wondered -- does the NRA help fund some of that type of advertising? 
A lobbyist who sometimes went to Washington  told me that the three most
Powerful
Lobbying
Influences
in our capital are pharmaceuticals, the NRA, and insurance.

Big Pharma
"big arma"
and
insurance, upon which I won't even get started in what possible way did an industry get built on the concept of sell the customers something and then do everything in your power to never deliver to the customer the things that you sold to them??
Like if your customer bought thin-sliced turkey from you and you got paid by them and then told the customer, well our legal department says there's a clause where jklasud8ornlhsopwio + all the gobbeldy-gook and so we do not have to deliver the product that you purchased, when you need it.  Or ever.

What if you sold newspaper advertising to a client, got paid, and then told the client well our experts tell us that under such-and-such loophole, we don't have to -- indeed we are prohibited from -- putting the ads you paid for into our paper....

what other kind of business gets by with that?  it's like twisted logic from the Planet Ridiculous.  (Or maybe the Planet Rip-Off.)
"You, sir, are a pre-existing condition!  You were alive when you purchased this insurance from us, and we're not paying your hospital bill like we said we would when we wanted your business -- we'd rather KEEP THE MONEY!  Because then we have MORE MONEY and MORE is our FAVORITE KIND of Money!!!!!"

It could be that the days are numbered for this type of gravy-train-of-free-money for the insurance industry, regardless of who wins the presidential election.  Pres. Obama has obviously prioritized health care, and Mitt Romney has already won support for, and put in place, a health care plan in Massachusetts -- my guess would be that Mr. Romney knows the ins. industry's bag o' tricks forwards and backwards, from experience....

The candidate (and, am referring only to the two major-party candidates) that wins the presidency in 2012, should appoint the other candidate to a position in his Administration, and then work on health care, and fair-dealing instead of double-dealing for the American consumer, together.

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