{"id":754,"date":"2011-03-29T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2011-09-17T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:42:12","slug":"country-joe-and-the-fish-at-woodstock-fixin-to-die-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock: &#8220;Fixin&#8217; to Die Rag&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fixin&#8217; to Die Rag&#8221; is one of the best anti-war songs of\u00c2\u00a0the period. It&#8217;s sad, but we seem to have forgotten all the lessons of the Viet Nam War, and we&#8217;re right back where we started&#8211;doing it again in Iraq\u00c2\u00a0and Afghanistan and Libya and places we don&#8217;t even know about because the &#8220;national security state&#8221; doesn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0tell us. Our job is just to pay for\u00c2\u00a0covert action, not ask questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"756\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?attachment_id=756\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?fit=480%2C360\" data-orig-size=\"480,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"countryjoe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?fit=480%2C360\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-756 alignright\" title=\"countryjoe\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>History could be so valuable if we would only learn from it, but we never do.\u00c2\u00a0Like Country Joe says, Give me an &#8220;F&#8230;., etc&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Like Joe, that&#8217;s about all I can say to sum up these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fixin&#8217; to Die Rag&#8221; is one of the best anti-war songs of\u00c2\u00a0the period. It&#8217;s sad, but we seem to have forgotten all the lessons of the Viet Nam War, and we&#8217;re right back where we started&#8211;doing it again in Iraq\u00c2\u00a0and Afghanistan and Libya and places we don&#8217;t even know about because the &#8220;national security state&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[135,137],"tags":[189,190,191],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6313,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6313","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":0},"title":"Dick Gregory&#8217;s Uncanny Foresight","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"August 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"by Shawn Hamilton Also see Interview with Joe Holsinger, Chief of Staff to slain US Congressman Leo Ryan Dick Gregory \u201cThere's a whole lot of people who could stand up here and be honest with you today, but they won't because they understand your reaction. 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