I was humming this in my half awake state this morning. As a wild thing, I just can't help myself. I didn't realize it, but The Troggs only covered this song. It was originally written by "The Wild Ones" in 1965 I listened to a clip of it here and I understand why The Troggs' version was the hit.
Let's not forget about Jimi Hendrix's many covers of the song too! Here is but one:
With the Olympics on TV, I've been seeing a lot of advertisements. There is a set of ads for "clean coal" proclaiming we need to grow our coal industry and create jobs. I am disgusted. They try to pull on your heart strings showing families and soldiers, as if not using coal will fail them, and make America fail. They even show good sources of energy like wind turbines to make you think clean coal is just as good. Are you kidding me!? Sadly, there are a lot of idiots out there who may just fall for such obvious manipulation and propaganda by "America's Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity". (click to here if you want to be manipulated.)
Here is a CBS news segment on the topic of "Clean Coal" power plants:
Investing in any fossil fuels at all is ultimately a waste of time and resources. I am with GreenDaily.com. "I know we can't just switch to solar, wind and geothermal power, but if we want to create jobs, protect the environment, reduce our global emissions, and create a sustainable energy system for future generations, it's counter-productive to put any resources into the outdated and flawed coal industry." – GreenDaily.com (Read the entire article here.)
The evidence is overwhelming that global warming, climate change, or whatever you want to call it ("humans screwing themselves" perhaps?) is real. Clean coal is not going to help. Where is Jimi when we need him to set these douche bags straight?
Lord, there's got to be some changes
Living together's gonna be a lot of re-arranges
You better be ready, lord, my lord
Just hope love comes before the summer
