Battlefields: Iraq and Same-sex Marriage * * * * Torture: School of the Americas

Today’s Breaking News:
Top Marine: Troops under too much strain
Same-sex divorce: new questions for states

Gobble Gobble

CNN Quick Vote question of the Day
Which do you prefer for Thanksgiving:
When the family arrives or when the family leaves?
The public responds half and half
not unlike our country divided.
One half has a wonderful day,
the other half has to pretend.

Old News:
When the father is booed for his son…
“I think that’s weird, it’s nuts, to think
that all we are is after money and power.”

School of the Americas Watch
(the REAL Counter-terrorists)
((SOAW.org))

“A better world is under construction”

When the soldier divorces killing instead of his wife
and refuse to do what they were trained to do not:
“Do not cause pain or shame (re to Iraqis nudity
and bodily fluids are a source of shame).”

When the churches do their duty giving sanction
to those who refuse to go to war (or to return).

Where prisoners refused to make cages
for immigrant children and where they
no longer fear helicopters overhead
or fear poisoned waters.

Where elected leaders refuse to follow the reign of Hitler,
but instead, follow the reign of God
(or howinwhatsoever the form of one’s personal deity).

the screams of torture

of tasered Mostafa Tabatabainejad
blasted thru white picket fences
across states red blue and purple
how many times tasered
when once was not enough?
enough to knock Mostafa to the floor
but not enough for humans turned bestial
tell me how does it feel
Barbie and George
to be on your own
to be all alone in the middle of the night
do you still fear bravehearts
that demand badge numbers
identification of the perpetrators
of torture?
tell me how does it feel
on the hot seat of Nuremberg?
“Yes or no,
does the US sanction secret torture?”
answer:
“We do not torture. Interrogation techniques
are top secret. Trust me.”

Truth does not ask for trust.

The Day Franklin Roosevelt Died

April 12, 1945

oh my poor Rectillium
how you suffered their insanity
expected to move a two ton bat
in and/or out a one ton ball
without rest or relaxation
the more rejected the more desired
foreboding fruit of Anuillium

counting up to 62 years
Nuclear Imperialism re Globalization
policy: Rule world by dividing world
oops it happened the Truman bomb
was not contained via Treaty
Proliferation was exponential
Schultz & Pinochet

inflation depression globally
half a world in poverty and growing
what’s for dinner dear Franklin
turkey or eagle pie or crow
those who have want more
those who have not starve
those who have love share

Nancy Pelosi – “We’re not out for revenge.”

Yes Pelosi, it was never about revenge,
it is all about high crimes and treason,
and in a country of law – justice thus
is in order for our future.

From the past: Iran/Contra
Robert M. Gates et al
deaths and dollars wasted
Nicaragua still has Ortega
by their people’s choice.

“Torture secrets” is still torture
No, revenge is not
what we the people want –
it is the US secret government
out of the spin cycle and hung
in the sunshine of our lives.

Seven Come Eleven, 2006

did we do it in a booth
did we do it in a shoe
o father
o mother
o child

can we lie our way to heaven
will we curse our way to hell
deceiver
master
manipulator

did we all become hohokas
talking backwards from our walk
oh spinners
oh talking points
echoing

who will vote the status quo
who will remember
the flip that floped
stay the course
the uniter

Never about staying the course?
“Hell no! It was about
Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon,
Haiti, Sudan
and beyond!”

hear it echo from the mountain
top again
the ancient
primal
scream for power?

did we do it in a booth
did we do it in a shoe
o father
o mother
o child

What cha doin’ MaƄana?

Chenny goin’ hunting, 1st time
since his hunting accident.

Who will forget Bush got
Saddam but not Osama?

Who’s talking politics
like Their hair was on fire?

Make three wishes bend over
touch the ground
(as we did before we evolved
into homo sapiens; a touching
of roots so to say)
stand tall and spread your arms
hands open to the heavens
reclaim the link between the worlds
of Earth and Sky

then Vote

Corseting Lady Liberty

“All politics are local”
from
“All politics are personal”

Seducing voters to vote
their pocketbook or their soul

Pocketbook being the pork,
elected leaders bring, to their “local”

All is fair in love and politics?

Lady Liberty is GASPING!
who amongst us
will do the necessary CPR?

2 days and counting…

“civilians on the battlefield were a nuisance, not the center of gravity” (and only COLLATERAL DAMAGE)

Ted is Haggard: The president of the N.A.E.
(National Association of Evangelicals)
resigned after denying accusation
of male prostitute that the pastor paid for sex
for over three years.

Elsewhere in the news:
The letters — about 300 in all,
sent to a New Jersey minister —
ended up dumped in the ocean,
most of them unopened.

Sample letter:
“I’m still praying to hit the lottery twice:
first the $50,000,” one man wrote.
“Than after some changes have taken place
let me hit the millionaire.”

they are still beating their women,
Hagar and Sarah,
fucking women AND men
not their wives or maybe their wives too
that’s how angry testosterone gets
in the process
of replacing Goddess with God
polytheism with monotheism
Look Dick!
See how they turned
fuck into a dirty word.
Poor Jane!
Poor Dick and Jane,
in their hearts understand heavy.
Will someone send them a car?
They only have 4 days
to reach the election booth.

One on the Flying Trapeze

there i was un expecting
standing alone
with holy stains and politics
on the line with 5 days to go
balance pole
pulling left, then right,
i held my breath and waited for the out
blow
blow
out dirt
out corruption
out with deadly treating our neighbors
got God?
THEN BE KIND TO YOUR NEIGHBORS
as It is Written in Your holy Book
got Allah?
THEN BE KIND TO YOUR NEIGHBORS
as It is Written in Your holy Book
Got Jehovah?
THEN BE KIND TO YOUR NEIGHBORS
as It is Written in Your holy Book

it is the way of peace
and peace is in us all
comes from facing fears
and recognizing our own demon(s)
that drives our anger
thus balancing our way
to the common dream of all humans:
PERSONAL PEACE AND WORLD PEACE

J. F. Kerry appologize?

Kerry bashes Bush : Bush bashes Troops

“Oh no! Kerry is talking about the troops, not me,
when he says I, Bush, am ignorant,
and stuck in Iraq!”

Kerry would apologize for foot in mouth
if Bush would apoligize for boots in Iraq.

Stuck in Voting booth:
“Shall I vote for Peace or War,
for my pocketbook or for the poor?”

six days and counting