Jalapeno Peppers

like a miniature Israel bulldozing down
structurally sound housing of the poor
who made New Orleans New Orleans
rent up 70% since Katrina
Louisiana Senators, Reps and city mayor
(some oreo’s in every crowd)
turning their backs to the dirty math
that would destroy 4,534 housing units
and build fewer units with tax payers dollars
that were earmarked for Katrina victims
and the dirt goes […]

the taboo dance
“make someone fall in love with you”?
If Mohammad is the Merciful One
why do some followers in His name
chop off heads and torture?
If Jesus is the Prince of Peace
why do some followers in His name
blow bodies apart with cluster bombs?
If G_d is the creator of all as equal
why do some followers set themselves above […]

our military sang in Vietnam
“I’m dying to get out of here.”
“Every day above ground is a good day.”
our military are singing in Iraq
the major difference being
most of our military in Vietnam did not know
Nuclear Weapons were sitting off-shore
this time they know “all options are on the table”
best we all be singing
“Every day above ground is […]

what, not “combatants or insurgents”?
7 Americans also killed
are they not “militants” too?
OK then
307 militants death toll
added to 3 yrs 10 months of stay the course
my friend says i’m all doom gloom
i say there, it is our very DNA affected
when sperm and ovum reside in residence
their carrier insipidly responding to fear
(another black hawk helicopter down)
How many […]

Israel has said it only deploys cluster bombs in accordance with international law-
but what about American law that governed their sales to Israel?
“Arms Export Control Act, Tittle 22, Sub Chapter 1, Section: 2754:
Defense articles and defense services shall be sold or leased by the United States
Government under this chapter to friendly countries solely for internal […]

Missed your national and/or local peace rally yesterday-
out celebrating Mozart’s birthday perhaps? Not to worry
they shall return in force and full March 17th. And you
will be doing the Irish Jig instead of mourning the beginning
of the 4th year of occupation in Iraq?
The Irish, they say, are scrappers not killers
and you didn’t know which birthday Mozart […]

O Israel we understand your reasons “why”
but your “why” does not forgive your actions
Like a mother to a child i tell you
O Israel you have never been, and will never be,
all right or all wrong (nor will Palestine)
yes your culture has been wronged griveous ly
Your wannabe next Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to a Christian Evangelical
on […]

Judy Judy given a pipeline to Cheney/Bush talking points
WMDs et al “evidence” to march US into Iraq war
gets a little time in jail where is she now?
Not to worry, Bryan York aka Fox News,
enters the echo chamber of yellow cakes
and discrediting Joe Wilson.
Who would not ask why the continued
attacking the messenger when Big Bush himself
has […]

Born into Protestant Work Ethics singing
“Nobody gets a free ride
pull yourself by your own boot straps
if you are not working you are lazy
now billy it isn’t the same. back when
even factory workers were proud of their production
the boss was a friend and gave you job security
it still took Unions to raise the wages, in that
True […]

Hogwash? “Hogwash, what does failure
have to do with credibility?”
Cheney responds to CNN Wolf.
“If we pull out ‘they’ will think
we don’t have a stomach for fighting.”
6 times draft dodger Dick is afraid
wants us to very afraid
not to “stay the course”
like a Custer? well not exactly,
Custer, at most, put his own life
on the battlefield, Cheney himself,
“had other […]

Bush has charisma as a cowboy
but Dick controls his brain
Where are the exploited and missing children?
Answer: in Iraq.
Dick Brain Cheney still pushing lies
but the dots don’t line up to
Hezbollah is al Qaeda
And what were the penguins doing last night?
George inadvertently protruded his tongue 124 times
while speaking but Cheney and Pelosi
could only purse their lips and […]

Here we are at Bush Eve of State of the Union Message
tomorrow when he will tell us “Big things are possible.”
Big what Mr.? Big jobs that take both parents working
to support their family? Or big like oil prices dropping
and he’s ready to feed our oil addiction?
Or big news on CNN on the Eve of Bush […]

Our Media Hero Helen Thomas ’splains
“Our Media went into a coma on 9/11
then Katrina awoke it that
something is terribly wrong
preKatrina the Dems and Reps were afraid
to be called un Patriotic un American
some still are, to some degree
and she ’splains further
“The Bush line is ‘We are there,
forget the past and move forward’.
Forward from what?
Forward from our […]

Benny Morris: “One bright morning, in five or ten years’ time…after Iran’s acquisition of the Bomb…The orders will go out and the Shihab III and IV missiles will take off for Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, and Jerusalem, and probably some military sites, including Israel’s half dozen air and (reported) nuclear missile bases….”
WHY does Israel keep […]

When our Head politicians stated goal is to defend “our” way of life,
and our way of life adds up to “an addiction to oil” and
Jaime Suchlicki of Miami U sounds his trumpet:
“Rising Communist threat in Latin America”,
what is the commonality between
“Communist States” and “Rogue States”?
The answer has 3 letters - O I L.
How many journalists […]

The one truth George Bush is recorded as saying, “We need to get over our oil addiction.”
All anyone who would doubt US addiction to oil need do is consider the symptoms of addiction.
We were very angry in the ’70’s about the long lines at the gas pump. We were again very angry when the price […]

“…we won the Cold War without ever
having to match armies and nuclear arsenals
with the Soviet Union,” say
Henry Allen’s Washington Post.
THAT war was run by proxies
with little or no Russian or American
blood spilled but blood was spilled
proxie Afghan blood
proxie Indonesia blood
THEN what happened?
we could not proxie the Vietnam War!
WHY is America trying again
for proxies in Afghanistan […]

Was it he who also said, “US troops
wearing full protection gear entering Iraq
was proof there were WMD’s there”?
Or are the waters troubled by
55% of US Intelligence $’s going to private firms,
like Booz Allen Hamilton,
who holds Dick C’s hand?
There was a bridge over
Iraqi waters before Cheney-directed-bombs
blew them up.
What water would not be troubled?
Unlike a bridge over […]

when baseball crimes are covered up
by national security
and hordes still participate
in distractions of the Coliseum
choosing sides to feel like winners
when their side wins and when
it loses “wait till next time!”
the handicapped lead the way
out of winner or loser to
all are winners truly
who participate in healthy
sport-like contests like
swimming, running, dancing.
when government crimes are covered up
in the […]

“I would confess I’m no expert on Iraq.”
and, asked about the right balance between American and Iraqi forces,
he said he was “no expert on military matters.”
This, after spending 27 years in the CIA as an intelligence professional,
and nearly nine years at the National Security Council.
What is the job of a US Defense Secretary?
Concerned with the […]