Hot, Humid, and Horny
Ninety-five at midnight, You’re as fickle as the weather, There's a trembling in the trees, You’re a forecast gone astray, You’re lying there beside me Every time I think we’re getting there Like a humid summer breeze. The storm clouds blow away. You say, “Honey, don’t you hurry,” I can hear the distant rumbling, While the thunder rolls outside— Feel the electricity— There’s a storm front coming and my woman, But “scattered storms by ten o’clock” They’re both taking their sweet time. Means nothing now to me. Hot, humid and horny, Don’t give me partly cloudy, Waiting for the rain, Don’t give me thirty percent, You keep building up the pressure, Don’t tell me conditions are favorable Then you make me wait again. For a earth-shaking event. Hot, humid and horny, I’ve had enough of forecasts, Thunder rattling the pane— I’ve had enough suspense— Baby, when you finally let go, I want thunder, rain and lightning, Let it come down like rain. And a measurable event! The weather app says “any minute.” Then not long after midnight You say, “Baby, almost there.” The whole damn atmosphere gives way, I’ve learned to trust those two predictions You cry out like the heavens With exactly equal care. And the sky does just the same. There’s lightning on the horizon, Rain is pounding on the rooftop, There’s a tremor in your thighs, Cool air rushes through the room— But the clouds drift off toward Jersey Two stubborn fronts have finally broken, And you smile and close your eyes. And sweet relief comes rolling through. Hot, humid and horny, Hot, humid and horny, Waiting for the rain, Then finally came the rain, You keep building up the pressure, The sky let go, like you did for me Then you make me wait again. And washed away the strain. Hot, humid and horny, Hot, humid and happy, Thunder rattling the pane— Cool breeze through the window pane. Baby, when you finally let go, Nothing beats a lover and a storm Let it come down like summer rain. When they both come down like summer rain.
Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"
Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
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We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The Endless War Blues (different version)
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
The Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.