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Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Words and Music by Camille Bright-Smith

You’re in good hands with Saxby Chambliss
George Bushs’ bill goes to the King of Beers
Snap, crackle pop, for old Bill Clinton
Diamonds are forever
Just like swift boat smears

Are you raising your children to stand up or accede
To the power of our nations
Love for corporate greed?
Buy a pack of Marlboros
And you better believe
That the choices when you get to vote
Are going to be
About the money

Money, Honey

Please don’t squeeze the Arnold
Is it live or is it Pelosi?
Nothin’ says lovin’ like something from Palin
Here’s a campaign message
Sponsored by the OC

How do you spell relief
When it keeps going and going?
Do you Yahoo or reach out to touch
The real thing?
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz
You are not in control
And might be finger lickin’ good
Or it might just clean your toilet bowl

Money, Honey

This is Al Gore
Sponsored by Greenpeace
This is Darth Vader
Sponsored by Lockheed
Hi, I’m Rob Blagojevich
Trojan’s my brand
Vote for Angelique
Get a free wedding band!

“In all, fifteen Fort Carson GIs have been arrested in connection with a dozen murders over the past five years. And these aren’t the only crimes linked with soldiers in Colorado Springs. Since 2005, the number of military personnel in the El Paso County jail has increased more than 25 percent, outpacing the population growth of soldiers and veterans in the region.

Besides the sheer number, there’s something else striking about the soldiers being arrested…. “For the most part, they were squeaky-clean prom kings. Then they enlist in the military and maybe do multiple combat tours, and they come back and commit violent offenses.”

Click Here To Listen: Ft. Carson Colorado

Ft. Carson Colorado
The proud home of our 4th Infantry
The men that pulled Sadaam
out from his hole
Ft. Carson Colorado
Those brave souls of the 31st Dixie
Named after Kit, its the Army’s heart and soul

Ft. Carson’s Deadly Duty
Was the headline on the Sunday News
Now Ft. Carson’s pride is burdened by
Its finest Iron horses running wild

And the army said “some problems slipped right through the cracks’
I wonder what they meant by that
Did they mean the 9 soldiers
turned by war from men to fiends
Did they mean the 6 now dead and gone
Shot or stabbed and left to bleed alone

Ft. Carson’s Deadly Duty
Was the headline on the Sunday News
Now Ft. Carson’s pride is burdened by
Its finest Iron horses running wild

Its constant fear, adrenaline
Its what they are trained to do
Redeployed and torn up limb from limb
And then told to come on home and settle in
Ft. Carson sends ‘em over there
Prepared for every kind of terror
But Ft. Carson doesn’t comfort them back home

Copyright 2009 all rights reserved Camille Bright-Smith

Here is a blog with some good Colorado references for helping Vets, and national references too:

http://healingveteransptsd.blogspot.com/

If you’re a veteran suffering from PTSD or trauma, you can turn to your local VA hospital or Vet Center for help. Vet Centers offer free counseling to combat veterans and their families. To find out more about the resources and benefits available to you, you can also call the VA Health Benefits Service Center at 1-877-222-VETS.

Click here for a nationwide directory of facilities for veterans, including VA hospitals and Vet Centers, provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Rufus and Martha Home Video Tribute to Kate and Anna McGarrigle

If you aren’t familiar with any of these amazing performers do me a favor….just pick ONE of the names from above and go to youtube and listen. They are all amazing and inspirational. And weird. Like Us!!!

Do you have any suggestions for some musical artists for me? I would love to hear them.

Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Words and Music by Camille Bright-Smith
Smokin’ Piano performed by David Wohl

Lilly was workin’ hard
Hitting the plant floor every day
She learned every single job
It was Goodyear all the way
Everyone in Gadsden Alabama
Knew her very well
The lady Manager
The sweetest gal
The hardest worker

Then one day
She got a letter from a stranger
Exposing that her pay
Was waaaaaay less than what the guys were makin’
Means Lilly spent
Round 20 years
Getting less
Doing the same
Wasn’t there a law about that
Back in the day?

And Miss Lilly says
Might don’t make right
Whats good is good
I’m gonna fight, I’m gonna fight
And you can thank her
For your right to equal pay
Miss Lilly Ledbetter
Your Miss American Way!

Shake downs for sex
Back room cigarettes
Lilly never wanted
Any part of this
They backed the wrong gal
Up against a wall
And it took an act of Congress
But the wall came tumblin’ down

Hey Lilly Hey
Ginsberg had her back
Lilly had her faith
Y’all better get right with that
And pay attention
Don’t take one penny less
Might need to mention
Lilly Ledbetter Act

And Miss Lilly says
Might don’t make right
Whats good is good
I’m gonna fight, I’m gonna fight
And you can thank her
For your right to equal pay
Miss Lilly Ledbetter
Your Miss American Way!

Do you need more information on Pay Equity?

http://www.9to5.org/
Change the Workplace, Change the World

Hey friends, we may get a visit from Miss Lilly Ledbetter.  Please, write her a message and thank her for fighting the fight for all of us that want pay equity!

SONOS – I Want You Back

(click the “x” right away to turn off that ad when it comes up…sorry!)

I dedicate this post to Barak Obama.  I Want You Back.  Won’t you please let me back in your heart?  I am a white, mother of twins, bilingual, activist, foodie, urban gardener, boycotter of Wal-Mart, feminist, crazy ass rock and roll, fun, open minded leftie, polyamorous, bisexual, transgender, gay, lesbo, facebook using, twitter freakin’, lonely, asexual, hungry, curvy, chocolaty, Black, Mexican, German, Cuban, Zapatistan, marajuana legalizin’, anti-war, pro-troops, over-it, OBAMA VOTER!!!!  Get it together man.

So what do you think?  First, how cool is this a’capella minor key version of “I Want You Back”?  Second, is there, at this point, anything that Obama can do to recover our faith?  I am going to keep my opinions to myself for a while….

Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
By Camille Bright-Smith

Disaster, is the burden of women
Disaster, perhaps a bit more than men
Disaster, the girls are exposed
Slavery, trafficking
Disaster, always harder for those
Already on the fringe

Disaster, and this child she is fading
Disaster, and this girl still has her life
Disaster, for the father who is trying to free
His wife and his babies
Disaster, he will dig for the boy before he digs for his girls and his wife

Dig a grave for these small bodies
Three handfuls of dirt
Voodoo song of farewell
A holy cross and some alcohol
Gather together
Its time to sleep
Rest your head little baby
On this hot hard street

Burden, it isn’t to judge
But know what the truth is
Burden, the lost and the lonely
Land on women’s backs
Burden, it isn’t to say one bad word
About beautiful men
Burden, but only to see
So easy to fall when your already down in the cracks

Dig a grave for these small bodies
Three handfuls of dirt
Voodoo song of farewell
A holy cross and some alcohol
Gather together
Its time to sleep
Rest your head little baby
On this hot hard street

With gratitude to Emmanuel David of University of Colorado Boulder, Gillian Silverman and Elissa Auther of Feminism and Co. (Select “Feminism & Co. 2009″ from the pull down menu) plus Adam Lerner of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver who introduced me to the study of the Sociology of Disaster.

Please donate. The big international organizations are doing work that is important and necessary. But there are other equally safe and essential ways to give. I have chosen this organization: MADRE

Please read more below or visit their site.

From MADRE’s site: “All Haitians are suffering right now. But, women are often hardest hit when disaster strikes because they were at a deficit even before the catastrophe. In Haiti, and in every country, women are the poorest of the poor and often have no safety net, leaving them most exposed to violence, homelessness and hunger in the wake of disasters. Women are also overwhelmingly responsible for other vulnerable people, including infants, children, the elderly, and people who are ill or disabled.

In the wake of disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti, it is often comforting to see big international agencies taking charge of relief and reconstruction efforts. No doubt international agencies—with their resources, know-how, heavy machinery, and access to government—have a critical role to play. But large-scale relief operations are not always best suited to meet the needs of those who are made most vulnerable by disaster, namely, women and their children.

Because of their role as care-takers and because of the discrimination they face, women have a disproportionate need for assistance. Yet, they are often overlooked in large-scale aid operations. In the chaos that follows disasters, aid too often reaches those who yell the loudest or push their way to the front of the line. When aid is distributed through the “head of household” approach, women-headed families may not be recognized, and women within male-headed families may be marginalized when aid is controlled by male relatives.

It is not enough to ensure that women receive aid. Women in communities must also be integral to designing and carrying out relief efforts. That is MADRE’s model. We know from experience that when relief is distributed by women, it has the best chance of reaching those most in need. That’s not because women are morally superior. Rather, it is because their roles as caretakers in the community means that they know where every family lives, which households have new babies or disabled elders, and how to reach remote communities even in disaster conditions.”

Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
By Camille Bright-Smith

I’m barely holding on
Like everyone here on my block
December 31
Instead of taking shots were all taking stock
Hoping to change things up on my own
Find a way to stay here in my home
Everyday I’m calling on the phone to follow up

Now I am sharper and harder and faster than before
I am smarter and tarter and I’m good at saying no
But I’m ready for the spring
A little sun
For two thousand ten
I ready for a little dose of ditzy American

Remember when we had two cars
On my birthday we ate caviar
Remember when we used to give
Money to beggars on the freeway?
Everyone’s dose is doubled up
And the news keeps reminding us
We are protected by the biggest guns

Now I am sharper and harder and faster than before
I am smarter and tarter and I’m good at saying no
But I’m ready for the spring
A little sun
For two thousand ten
I ready for a little dose of ditzy American

Don’t want to be forever changed
The Americans that had no shame
To the constant hum of reckoning
With the choices that we made
I miss my brainy bimbo days
Lured ‘em in with tits then
Handed them the dossier
Said hey baby hey

Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved
By Camille Bright-Smith
Words by Little Sunbeam, El Destructo and Me.

Thanks for Listening and HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!

Listen To Venom for You

Don’t pity me now
Don’t think you’ve won out
You think your tearin’ me down
You hear that rattlin’ sound?

I got extra Venom for ya
I got extra Venom for ya
Got extra Venom for ya
I got the Venom for you

You got pearly white ankles
You got sandals for shoes
I got my fangs tucked in
My smile is genuine

I got extra Venom for ya
I got extra Venom for ya
I been suckin’ the poison
I been kissin’ the boys and
I’ve got extra Venom
I got the Venom for you

Your playin’ two for the middle
Playin’ the devil’s fiddle
I thought I’d give you a warnin’
Ain’t gonna make it til mornin’

I got extra Venom for ya
I got extra Venom for ya
I been suckin’ the poison
I been kissin’ the boys and
I’ve got extra Venom
The Venom’s for you

Listen To Takin’ It Easy

Well I may not have
A big swimming pool
But I got a back porch
For a Bar-B-Que
Gonna stay up late
Gonna laugh all night
Are my heels too high?
Do I look alright?

Hey hey nobody’s perfect
Hey hey but life can sure be sweet
Hey hey it’s all worth it
When you find the right people
And you find the right beat
And your takin’ it easy….
And your takin’ it easy….

I see ‘em everyday
In the magazines
Done up perfect and wrinkle free
Well I may not have my own fashion team
But I got a little spark
And some nice blue jeans

Hey hey nobody’s perfect
Hey hey but life can sure be sweet
Hey hey it’s all worth it
When you find the right people
And you find the right beat
And your takin’ it easy….
And your takin’ it easy….