Jalapeno Peppers

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gas guzzlers know how high the tax on gas
how many know what tax the State and what the Fed?
thanks to the political machine
now we all know
for the worker, a Fed tax temporaary fix
won’t get us back from grandma’s house
20 miles away…
Will gas release unravel the threads
that lead to the hole
the current political machine is digging?
Stay tuned…
the polls are open
10 hours and counting
back home in Indiana
down south in North Carolina
stay tuned…
who will vote and how and why?

!
“How much of this claptrap are you going to listen to?”
“I don’t know, give me a minute, I want to think about it.”

The ports of Los Angeles is shut down by thousands of dockworkers
and all we can hear on cable news is Reverend Wright is Wrong.

Let’s get this wright!
Reverend Wright tells a reporter that he’s a preacher
and Barack Obama is a politician
and what?
We all know how dirty politicians are?
Joe Scarborough was a politician - Dirty Joe!
Pat Buchanan was a politician - Dirty Pat!

Did any of you’all hear Barack Obama DENOUNCE Reverend wright?
NOT
He denounced his remarks (which he had done repeatedly from the beginning)
This last denouncement was harsh
delivered with great pain and you all saw it.

Reverend Wright did say
politicians say what the voters want to hear
and that is what Obama is doing –
“We need change in this country.”
Does anyone out there think Barack is only saying change
from Republican president to Democratic president?

“Ok, I thought about it.”
“Me too! Let’s go see if Keith Olberman
is still the self same self…”

He said
When a government sells biological weapons to Iraq to use against Iran
and I add, and give small pox infected blankets to Native Americans
this same government is capable of giving AIDS to African Americans
and earlier he had said, also,
We know they gave African Americans syphilis.

Even the greatest American poet
Walt Whitman
gave up his beloved poetry
to attend the suffering and dying soldiers.

Mr. President
Give yourself a legacy
a slot of good for your grandchildren to learn,
“George Bush apologized for slavery.”

When conflicting emotions rule
the urge to kill
becomes a lethal dose
when neither conflicting parties
defuse the bombastic energy
fuse + bomb = get it?

hear punits demanding
“He must denounce him!”
“He” Barack Obama
“Him” Reverend Wright.

pray tell US - Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, et all
which definition do you mean of “denounce”

attack? charge? condemn?
criticize? damn? decry?
discredit? inveigh against?
proscribe? report?

And who among us have not heard Senator Obama
criticize? report?

Who did not hear Wright say
“damn comes from the word condemn?”

What part of the human brain becomes feral
when emotions are held hostage to a lie exposed?

How many martyrs does it take–
how many shows repeated
of man’s inhumanity to man
before we allow
we all have a dark side and our evolution
from the rest of the animal kingdom
was seeking a species that might learn
how to be good neighbors?

As long as America takes
to admit pass aggressions
America will not be Beautiful.

?

She, commentator said, “I want my preacher to be humble.”

Translated means she does not want her preacher to follow Jesus

who spoke truth to the Roman Emperor

Jesus, who’s only recorded anger was

throwing the Money Changers out of the temple.

What did Reverend Wright say?

“We want reconciliation.”

What do the commentators do all day?

They rejected the messenger

accused him of being on a power trip

accused him of wanting to sell books

accused him of being self serving.

Oh, oh, Americans, American voters

we will never get out of the quagmire we are in

until we admit we are in a quagmire.

Anybody out there who doesn’t want change

or does not want any more

bombastic political divisiveness?

.
Attack the messenger!
Demand Barack Obama DENOUNCE Rev. Wright!
Obama’s gonna lose the “Reagan Democrats”!
Rev. Wright is self-promoting!
(he’s trying to sell his new book)

What we did NOT hear from Foxy News “reporters”:
Any thing that Reverend Wright said that was Wrong
The only place with room for the attack dogs
was his motives(.)

Why?
Reverend Wright has already received death threats.
Why was Jesus killed?
He had his Judas too.
Jesus had false witnesses also.

Who will smash the clear mirror reflecting
truth to power?

First: Juan Phillips
Second: Bill Hammer

Next?

if you bring the popcorn i’ll bring my teeth
how many bubbas does it take
to get Irene home?
i’ll be the horse if you’ll bring the honey
all four leaf clovers lookin’ over
all men are born equal or no one is
why do they want to teach “Intelligent Design”
while considering “intelligent presidents”
un-electable?
hmmm
how many separate neighborhoods do we need
even here in the U S of A?
Only Catholics here!
Only Evangelicals there!
Muslims here!
Jews there!
Pagans? No here or there for them!
Blacks here!
Whites there!
Where does Mr. Rogers live?
Irene got home and still wants to know
how many bubbas did it take
and how did that popcorn get on the floor,
Fred?

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the FOX News’ focus will be
Reverend Wright quotation,
“I speak as a religious. When Barack Obama speaks
he speaks as a politician.”
imagine that!
Foxy News considers that an insult
ignoring the good old days when parents told their boys
“You can grow up to be president.”
and now women are so hungry to be able to say to their girls
“You can grow up to be president.”
And will these same women tell their little girls what it took
for the would be president, first time woman, to
even get the nomination?…in case…
if only Foxes had an working balanced brain
they would know in the heart
Reverend Wright used the word “politician”
as a compliment(.)

heavens to harshness Pennsylvania!
it’s bad enough there are enough Republicans
who deny Iran/Contra/Reagan!
how do baby boomer elders not remember?
why do baby boomer elder woman not know
the issue of the first woman president
has no comparison with the need to change American foreign policy
and did your beer drinkers, Pennsylvania get “charged”
hearing Hillary say she was ready to bomb Iraq?
and was it the same charge beer drinkers get
watching a cat fight?
no other species on earth EVER
has females fighting over a male
how did we get to their, sisters?
Hillary tells us a bald face lie about “receiving fire”
and you forgive her…oh sisters…
how will you feel when she lies to us about wars and rumors of wars
as our FIRST female president?
now is a good time for females to come to their senses
and history…and education…and…
why are our children so angry?

.
red bird black bird oh so high

chinks in the walls
chinks in the walls
high ho the dairy air
there’s chinks in the walls

why did you let my baby die

the farmer’s in the well
the cat’s in a squall
high ho the dairy air
the best is yet of all

ain’t no choice upon the tor

sleep my baby don’t you cry
mother’s heart heals bye and bye
down is only looking up
da, ta da, ta da, ta da

hold on my child here comes the sun.

.
no new messages
i feel the lesser for it
pink paint turns orange before my eyes
end of another day
Minuet in G
arti fact walks out my door
did you tell me “it’s ok”
and/or “yeah, hon, i remember you”
i’m still walkin’ but not yet ready
to come home
i guess you saw my bull
chasing innocents out of Paradise
as if it was land i owned
another test another bad
and piano man says
“too much mercy
is an injustice too”
good night son,
where ever you are.

..

Under water grottos, caverns

Filled with apes

That eat figs.

Stepping on the figs

That the apes

Eat, they crunch.

The apes howl, bare

Their fangs, dance,

Tumble in the

Rushing water,

Musty, wet pelts

Glistening in the blue.

arguing elephant and donkey
while a criminal president keeps on killing
hope is not a euphoric
euphoric is an optimism
depression is a pessimist
god what
is goddess doing now
she speaks of healing
he speaks of war
when all the boys wear dresses
and all the girls wear pants
it was no better then
it is no better now
why is Peace more scary than Arma gedd eon?
who thinks the Divine will bring it on
when we destroy ourselves by destroying others
when we destroy the source of food that sustains us
all is hell when war is the answer
to all conflict
ask any couple when one wants out before the other
how much shame remains or feelings of not worthy
of love oh lost oh Paradise
and what if they tell you America
it will take perpetual war to sustain your life style
what limits our compassion to only the needy before our eyes
or not at all?
how did we Americans end up being fooled all the time
end up divided - elephant or donkey?
where hope?
hope lives
inside these hands that soothe one another
even in the candle burning low
even as our moon is hanging low
somewhere a little heart is crying
somewhere a big heart is dying
see ya Martin, see ya John
our time will come
what might we to till then?

Will it be John Edwards endorsing Hillary Clinton?

Another “terrorist” threat or a “terrorist” plot uncovered?

That would help McCain AND Clinton, seein’ as how
in many ways they’ve become a couple?

Their Rev. Wright scare helped tilt the scales once
and Republicans hope to revive it if Obama wins the nomination
3 a.m. red phone messages didn’t work
cackle and girly and tears worked, but only once
McCain has stated his campaign will not be dirty
but oh don’t we know how dirty surrogates can be…
even putting out smudges of who they support
so their “who” gets air time to defend themselves
even making adds they don’t run but the news media does…

Yesterday Pat Buchanan came out with “his” wisdom
that Bush may have no choice but to Bomb Iran before he leaves office
yeah, we know - plant an idea in the public’s mind first
and if that doesn’t anger the 75% who are angry
about the condition Iraq is in condition of…
maybe leaving Bombing to McCain if he wins?
and McCain will announce the Iran war…
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran…then smile.

The variables of dirt and fear are endless.

“Vote carefully this year…the bells are not always audible!”

John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets,’ and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs.

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn’t perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.

The farmer’s favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all! John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells -a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

But to Farmer John’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result…The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well. Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.

Vote carefully this year…the bells are not always audible!

I see a star high above,
Shining down upon us all,
It is the star of hope eternal,
Audacious in every way,
It calls to us,
It summons us,
To give our peace the best,
To others in our need,
From others in our own,
I see a star,
Bright and brilliant,
Studded with our common dreams,
To rid our earth of needless war,
Ugly violence,
Blood upon the stones,
For what?

Today,
On this dedication day,
We follow our hearts,
To new awakenings,
We touch that star together,
Our common aims for enduring peace,
Our one humanity,
Blessed by Allah,
Blessed by God,
Blessed by all which is good and great,
That which nourishes our common stream,
Our shared desires for common understanding,
Our planet,
Our home,
Our best and highest dreams,
Made real.

No more needless disease,
No more poverty,
No more tyranny,
And no more wars.

I see that star,
You see it too,
We reach for it together,
And seize it for ourselves,
Our common gifts to each.

Hands of every color,
Grasping one another,
In common understanding,
That peace has come,
A very practical matter.

Not peace tomorrow,
But peace today,
The voice rings out,
To everyone,
Come share the star you see,
The shining on your face,
Bring it down for all to see,
Making common talk,
About common things.

Our mothers, fathers, daughters, sons,
The friends we cherish,
We all have them,
Our extended families,
Now extending them world wide,
Including all,
Excluding none,
The love unspoken,
In every human heart,
The prayers of our vigils,
Heard in every holy and sacred place,
Allah hears and answers,
God hears and answers,
The Great Spirit hears and answers,
And so also must we answer,
Shall we have everlasting peace?
Or just endless eternal wars?
Shall we save our still beautiful earth,
Our very home,
Place of our ancestors,
Place of our dreams.

Shall we have love?
Then only humankind can decree,
The sword will rule nevermore!
Only peace shall rule,
Our loyalties are to the whole world,
Or not at all.

Loyal to peace,
Loyal to a good and healthy life for all,
Loyal to free and open democracy,
Loyal to every child on earth,
That none shall suffer needlessly,
Forevermore.

©Michael Warren Eliseuson Spring 2008
meliseus@hotmail.com

a little bit younger and a little bit verse
a little bit older but still here
“3 o’clock in the morning”
it was a favorite tune way back when
fourteen and dreams were still possible
church was still important enough
to pedal my bike nearly daily
to church and holy things
how blind i was?
how blind was i!
the fear of death upon my eyes
a few years hence
that is how one survives
with fairy tales
sugar and pails and everything nice
and then it was not
and then it was full of gooey stickey stuff
but stick can unstuck
lots of pulling pushing slipping
who cares
laugh a little, cry a little,
then remember a little
“It’s not all about you.”
then play a little
vurk a little
i’m still here
are you?
write me then -
i’m penchant -
and a little helen bach
hahaa
no more teehee
well. yeah, ok
teehee spoken is not the same as teehee laughed
where are you going San-Wild-Flower
“Where are you going missy?”
Saturday night is good
So many Saturday nights alone
of which no one ever really is
now that we’ve seen this Earth
from the view of moon and stars
How do we not now know
the connection of all of us
to one another…
is it any wonder…to remember
- the lesson from Abraham
- the root of the three major religions:

“Love your neighbor as yourself -
treat your neighbor as you yourself
wish to be treated.”

Friends,

It would have to happen on Easter Sunday, wouldn’t it, that the 4,000th American soldier would die in Iraq. Play me that crazy preacher again, will you, about how maybe God, in all his infinite wisdom, may not exactly be blessing America these days. Is anyone surprised?

4,000 dead. Unofficial estimates are that there may be up to 100,000 wounded, injured, or mentally ruined by this war. And there could be up to a million Iraqi dead. We will pay the consequences of this for a long, long time. God will keep blessing America.

And where is Darth Vader in all this? A reporter from ABC News this week told Dick Cheney, in regards to Iraq, “two-thirds of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.” Cheney cut her off with a one word answer: “So?”

“So?” As in, “So what?” As in, “F*** you. I could care less.”

I would like every American to see Cheney flip the virtual bird at the them, the American people. Click here and pass it around. Then ask yourself why we haven’t risen up and thrown him and his puppet out of the White House.

The Democrats have had the power to literally pull the plug on this war for the past 15 months — and they have refused to do so. What are we to do about that? Continue to sink into our despair? Or get creative? Real creative. I know there are many of you reading this who have the chutzpah and ingenuity to confront your local congressperson. Will you? For me?

Cheney spent Wednesday, the 5th anniversary of the war, not mourning the dead he killed, but fishing off the Sultan of Oman’s royal yacht. So? Ask your favorite Republican what they think of that.

The Founding Fathers would never have uttered the presumptuous words, “God Bless America.” That, to them, sounded like a command instead of a request, and one doesn’t command God, even if they are America. In fact, they were worried God would punish America. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington feared that God would react unfavorably against his soldiers for the way they were behaving. John Adams wondered if God might punish America and cause it to lose the war, just to prove His point that America was not worthy. They and the others believed it would be arrogant on their part to assume that God would single out America for a blessing. What a long road we have traveled since then.

I see that Frontline on PBS this week has a documentary called “Bush’s War.” That’s what I’ve been calling it for a long time. It’s not the “Iraq War.” Iraq did nothing. Iraq didn’t plan 9/11. It didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. It DID have movie theaters and bars and women wearing what they wanted and a significant Christian population and one of the few Arab capitals with an open synagogue.

But that’s all gone now. Show a movie and you’ll be shot in the head. Over a hundred women have been randomly executed for not wearing a scarf. I’m happy, as a blessed American, that I had a hand in all this. I just paid my taxes, so that means I helped to pay for this freedom we’ve brought to Baghdad. So? Will God bless me?

God bless all of you in this Easter Week as we begin the 6th year of Bush’s War.

God help America. Please.

today I am a great grandmother of one, expecting another,
my father was born in 1903, and
as language skills are first learned in the home, so
what had been passed to him was passed to me,
i had to learn for myself that “jew” was not a verb
now i understand, even 100 plus years later
just the reminder is still hurtful for some Jews to hear

when Ferraro said of Barack Obama,
“He is very articulate” she did not understand
it could sound degrading to a black person
BECAUSE she had not inherited the pain
of a race that had been treated as less than human,
less intelligent…

Barack Obama also, had no idea his remark,
“typical white folk” would be picked to death as reverse racism
because it is true, it is more likely than not, that many
white folks walking down a street tend to feel uneasy, to say the least,
and a bit of anger in SOME of the white folk
who have worked to help SOME black folk out of poverty

but we are stuck, like Reverend Wright was stuck, happy easter?
ok, some of us are getting unstuck, and some of us are unstuck,
and some of us dream also, of a more perfect union,
like Barack Obama, who’s ancestry is both black and white,
and in the ways of any Honest Abe,
he would jeopardize his ability to become the next president
of these States, on the verge of becoming ununited again,
by speaking truth…

yes, we must sing the praises of the Beautiful America’s long passage
from slave days, to voting days, to…to…
well there was the Hangman’s Noose at the U. of Maryland
and the Jena Six in Jena, Louisiana…in our most recent past…
least we white American’s pat our selves on the back believing
racism towards blacks has been vanquished…
so we are half-blessed, as there are more of us
than “them” who still carry ancestral hate in their hearts

did Barack Obama’s white grandmother who loved him dearly
know he felt shivers when she expressed her fear
of passing a black man on the street? NO!
would she have said it if she knew? NO!
any one who has loved will know this is true(.)

in the beginning and in the end
words can hurt and words can wound
but words can heal and can inspire

as a great grandmother i too can sing,
“Listen to the children, what they say.”
and if i would be a Great grandmother
all children would be my grandchildren

all i am saying is please,
listen to Barack Obama,
he is America’s Great grandchild,
double blessed with white and black parents,
and all us peoplefolk just want to be free…
shall we now overcome
the tyranny of racism
in our walk and talk?

now IS a good time to come to the aid of our country

Poor ol’ Elvira Hill
runs to Evan Byah
i don’t know why
she swallowed the fly
perhaps because she’s losing?

second verse, more worse

they can’t call him Muslim anymore
psst! psst!
his Reverend Wright called it like it was
in nineteen sixty-four
and the grief of losing one more leader
Martin Luther King

but Obama is white and Obama is black
has heard the racist comments of both races
in his heart and in his soul
he carries the burden of this human dark side
and all of his supporters are here to blunt the arrows
slung by those who still carry the fear
yeah, amen,
both black men and white men sell their souls
otherwise known as scruples
to climb even only one more rung
up the political power ladder

oh Daily Kos
thanks for removing from your blog
the posted death threat we know that is out there
least we be reminded
of not only the death of Martin Luther King
but our John Fitzgerald Kennedy too
Not
ours is but to remember why
no fudge, no Byah

“If we don’t change now,
the next election, and the election after that,
we will be fighting the same old battles,
and nothing will get done.” - Barack Hussein Obama