Xan noted the walking papers the democratically-elected government of Iraq are handing out to Blackwater Mercenary Industries.

Naturally, I thought of Paul McCartney…

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Blackwater

Blackwater shooting in the dead of night, take your smoking guns and say goodbye
Wasted lives, you were making money as their blood fell from the sky

Blackwater shooting in the dead of night, occupiers bring the world such misery
Wasted lives, you were making money as their blood fell from the sky

Blackwater sky
Blackwater sky, into a fight where Mohammed cries

Blackwater sky
Blackwater sky, into a fight where Mohammed cries  Read more 

Oh for the love of all that rocks! Powertool Scott Johnson has a sensitive side, where he enjoys pop/rock by a liberal:

It was of course the team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney — as singers, songwriters, and instinctive harmonists — that was the organic entity that made the Beatles. We celebrate Paul McCartney’s birthday; today he turns 64. It is a birthday that resonates with his own work, though somewhat ironically. All of 16 at the time he wrote “When I’m 64,” McCartney envisioned himself asking his prospective wife: “Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64?” The woman who seems to have been the love of his life herself died eight years ago at age 56, long before McCartney’s sixty-fourth birthday.  Read more