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"Imagine no possessions" -- Lennon certainly didn't. He and Miss Ono lived in a very lavish apartment adjacent to Central Park and also owned a large estate on Long Island. I'm unaware of any landholdings Mr Lennon had in the UK or elsewhere, but he was certainly a man with significant material comforts who was able to take several years off to dabble in paint, take nude photos with the hideous Miss Ono and record her "music," and to raise the son he had with her. Most people could never imagine having it so easy. Thankfully, he wrote that insipid ballad to tell us all about it.

So who is dead now and rotting in Hell after taking a bullet in the head fired by a fellow moonbat: John Lenin or Liberty?

Imagine there's no moonbats
It's easy if you try
No Kos, or hippies
No New York Times
Imagine all those people
Showering every day... ya-hi-i-i-i

Imagine there's no liberals
No ACLU
No Michael Moore or Sheehan
And no Kucinich, too
Imagine all those people
Getting real jobs, yoo----hoo-o-o-o-o

You may say that I'm a winger
But I'm not the only one
I hope you don't f**k with us
Cos we've got all the guns

Imagine there's no Hollywood
I wonder if you can
No work for Alec Baldwin
Or Susan Saran-dan
Imagine everyone was normal
Living free and sane... yea-hane

(Anybody wanna help with that? I just threw it together in about ten minutes).

Yeah, take out the foul language; another sign of our once great nations moral/cultural decline.

I haven't been able to figure out why people have such a problem with countries or nations. I see no reason to seek to do away with them. It would be a mighty boring world if everyone were the same. I want France to be France, Britian to be Britain, Australia to be Australia, etc. I don't want to live in a "global community" or do away with national boundaries or whatever. Countries aren't whats wrong with the world, and they are not the only reason people kill or die for no matter what Lennon thought. And what would we replace the nation-state with? It has long been established that the only way economic freedom and prosperity can be ensured is with a nation-state. I certainly am glad that we have countries and nations myself-America is one of them.

V the K,

I think that's a most excellent rendition! Good job.

That should make the rounds on the net.

Yeah, take out the foul language; another sign of our once great nations moral/cultural decline.

I understand your point, but if I took out the words "Kos" "Sheehan" and "Susan Sarandon," I don't see how it could work.

Sounds like a slow news day to me.

Chris, the standard sort of belief among moonbats is that nation-states are always acting to prevent the working class from controlling the means of production. Further to that they seem to think that the nation state creates artificial divisions between people, creating conflict that also prevents the world from becoming peaceful and united, and prevents the prolitariat from growing and transforming in to the perfect race, which was the end-vision of marxism. The Glorious Future.

They seem unable to grasp the fact that the nation state is a uniter of people, that a nation respecting the rule of law and individual property rights, amongst other things, prevents war and provides the stability needed to bring prosperity. Without these uniting entities you'll quickly see a reversion to tribalism on a grand scale. It'll be "my valley" or "white people" or "people with yellow shirts". LA gang warfare writ large across the entire globe. The end result is more conflict, not less... but they don't see that, because they've focused all their effort on destroying what is simply because it doesn't conform to their way of thinking.

The man who sang about "no possessions" was worth over $200 million when he was murdered. He was seriously wacked on dope, including heroin. He was an absent father to his first son, Julian. He was physically abusive to Yoko.
One of the more interesting rumors I've heard about Lennon is that he secretly gave money to the IRA. Has anyone else out there heard that one?
Lennon was a great songwriter and looked cool on the Ed Sullivan show, but he was no more of a prophet than Ringo.

If you’re not familiar with Mike Rosen then I definitely recommend checking out other articles by him in the Rocky Mountain News, columnist section, and his radio show, if you’re ever in Denver. Very good stuff, almost as good as moonbattery.

On the general topic of "No Religion," I humbly suggest that the new Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, warrants a dedicated moonbattery thread for praising her congregants for embracing extinction.

SOLOMON: "Episcopalians aren't interested in replenishing their ranks by having children?"

SCHORI: "No. It's probably the opposite." (New York Times Interview with Deborah Solomon, Nov. 19, 2006)

Episcopalians are too smart and too noble to be bothered with anything as self-serving as mere survival. Episcopalians want to "encourage people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not use more than their portion". That's why she flies a solo plane on her pastoral visits rather drive an SUV like the other Cro-Magnons of Christendom.

Mark Steyn comments:

Bishop Kate gave an interview to the New York Times revealing what passes for orthodoxy in this most flexible of faiths. She was asked a simple enough question: "How many members of the Episcopal Church are there?"

"About 2.2 million," replied the presiding bishop. "It used to be larger percentage-wise, but Episcopalians tend to be better educated and tend to reproduce at lower rates than other denominations."

Now, that may or may not be a great idea, but it's nothing to do with Christianity, only for eco-cultists like Al Gore. If Bishop Kate were an Episcogorian, a member of the Alglican Communion, an elder of the Church of Latter-Day Chads, this would be an unremarkable statement. But, even in their vigorous embrace of gay bishoprics and all the rest, I don't recall the Episcopalians formally embracing the strategy that worked out so swell for the Shakers and enshrining a disapproval of reproduction at the heart of their doctrine.

At the church where I attend, even here in the bluer than blue state of Maryland, familes of 4,5, and 6 kids are norm. Which is why I think the future compass of Christianity will point less and less toward Rome and Canterbury and more toward SLC.

Imagine there's no common sense
I wonder if you can
Nothing to protest against
And no Mark David Chapman...

For a site ostensibly in favor of a rejection of what is happening to our society, there sure are many here who are just as guilty of indulging in it. How sad that is. I wonder if there will ever be a truly traditionalist person left.

As for Mr. Lennon, his song could've been beautiful if it didn't contain the Marxist lyrics. Singing for peace is OK-if you sing it for the sake of not fighting instead of a political attack on civilization itself. The bottom line is that we need nations and nations are a good thing and I am happy to be a part of mine.

Achronix, I couldn't agree more. You really spelled it out in plain English why they are necessary. I only disagree that societies with only white people or mostly white people are bad since it is white people who built the West and have the most successful societies. I don't subscribe to diversity or multiculturalism. When non-whites take over the West, there will be no West.

For a site ostensibly in favor of a rejection of what is happening to our society, there sure are many here who are just as guilty of indulging in it.

I think he means me.

I'd have a strongly worded response, but I have to come up with ten captions about tattoing, pederasty, and menages a Hitler before tomorrow morning.

Not really VtheK, there are several here who it seems to me aren't really that sincere, but of course the majority of those are the left wing posters who want to antagonize. I do find many supposed conservatives or traditionalists or whatevers a bit hypocritical and insincere. Lawrence Auster is the one who opened my eyes to that recently on his site http://www.amnation.com/vfr. He is definately a traditionalist like me and he helped me realize that the West is doomed with liberals AND with modern day conservatives who are essentially liberal themselves. An example of this is the immigration issue. Most conservatives decry "illegal" immigration while wholly supporting "legal" immigration from the very same places like Mexico/Africa/Asia who are transforming our society and will make white's a minority in our own country. They do this because they have been brow beaten into believing that "diversity" is America's highest ideal and that it is "racist" to celebrate or assert themselves as a collective group/race. To keep America's historic majority race is also "racist" they have been taught because ostensibly all peoples/groups/cultures can be successfully integrated into our societies. Anyone who demonstrated a desire to come or expresses "respect" for America should be able to regardless. But they never ask just WHY we are not allowed to celebrate our accomplishments and why we are not allowed to maintain our ethnic majority nationhood. America was NEVER intended to welcome anybody and everybody.

Awesome article, and a long- overdue refutation of that mind- numbing hippie/Communist ballad. I consider that one of the worst songs ever, yet uber- peaceniks seem to love it. Entertainment Weekly mentioned that the song recently won a Readers' Choice poll over what was the 'Most Inspiring Political Anthem.' The only people who can justifiably see it as an inspiring political anthem are those who are too baked to realize that it could never happen in real life. If you want a song about envisioning a good future for America, a song with much better and more realistic goals to follow would be 'Simple Man' by the Charlie Daniels Band. Also, a few months ago, an old friend of mine was killed in a botched carjacking (Don't worry, the animal who did that to him is behind bars, and I hope they put him on Death Row without thinking twice about it), and at the memorial, they played that song over a photo montage of him. I thought playing that atheist propaganda song was really inappropriate, since my friend was a Christian, and his mother is a true titan of the faith who helped lead many young people to Jesus, myself included.
Imagine a world where we'd never have to listen to 'Imagine' again. That would be truly bliss.