Good afternoon Sir or Madam! Welcome to the internet tubes home of The Barack Obama / Desmond Dekker All Star Street Crew Union & Blues Revue!
The Barack Obama / Desmond Dekker All Star Street Crew Union & Blues Revue is a loose amalgamation of progressive-minded individuals who possess great potential to do good in the world... but typically squander such potential on booze, babes, fireworks and general rabble-rousery.
We have no official charter or code, but the following is a list of general concepts that we support:
- Progressive-minded intellectualism mixed with random acts of aggression
- The Pogues and The Clash
- Improved government-sponsored health care for the lower classes
- Bourbon
- Comprehensive immigration reform
- Mixed Martial Arts
- Foucault
- The high seas
- "The Economist"
- Drinking tea
- Unruly behaviour
- (Discounting) the future
- Malcolm Gladwell's "New Yorker" articles
- Mearsheimer and Realism
- Charles Wheelan and free markets
- The Chicago Way
- An industrious spirit of volunteerism
- Muddy Waters as a close second to Elmore James
- and Sonny Boy Williamson II (not Sonny Boy Williamson I)
- The Chicago White Sox, the Chicago Fire and the Phoenix Suns' offensive system
- Arturo's Tacos
- Potential Energy
At this point in history we have had three official gatherings:
- D.C. Anti-War protest (1/27/07)
- Chicago Barack Obama presidential announcement and rally (2/11/07)
- The Pogues at the Congress Theater (3/5/07 and 3/6/07 ... i.e. both nights)