Category: blathers

hack homiliers here
among them’alls ad hominems,
don’t drink from that bright colored cup made in China
you’ll die from lead poisoning in 20 years, he said
to a COPD tobacco puffer,
a souvenir from St. Louie Louie,
but when she sat the cup atop her Bugler can
and taps it with her fingernail it chimes
she wanders if
when emptied it will sound different
or will she sound different,
on caffeine how can you tell
who honors one another?
it is in the tenor of the human voice
a musical instrument that needs no cases,
no strings, no plucks or hammers,
it is the ting of the heart strings we hear
when we remove the banana from our ear.

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what is a $2,000 cash back
mean if you sign the line to buy a car?
they flash back cash and did it take
any cash up front to get the $2,000 back?
how much fear is behind the wheel
of the first dent on that shiny new car
full insurance is how much time how many years
and how much will you really be paying
with payments lasting 5 years or more
and that’s for a new car smell that
smell you can buy in a can
but it’s image, protests you?
“those that look like they got the most
get the most”
the most what, we wonder…
most toys? check
most expensive house, no make that mansion. check
who buys children for sexual toys
while buying the most expensive armanent
how many orphans did you make today?
how much suffering does it take to bake
that baked dream of American Apple Pie?
$2,000 is only a flash, a neon sign
open for business come get yet another
slice of the movin’ on-up pie.

Back to Latin Masses
ritual mantras, need not be understood
by the recitees, to gain power

immigration no redemption, your accuser, Mr. Dobbs,
was not using the Christian definition
he was trying to bring a point home to you
re immigration and the TRUE problem: NAFTA and WTO
even as important also,
laws ALREADY on the book are not being enforced
WHAT makes you believe (and others calling for a new law)
that the congress is not just shuffling papers
until attention of the fickle masses turns, again
here’s a suggestion for some redemption Mr. Lou,
check out the “terrorist training camp” flick
we keep seeing over and over…
the “training” we are being shown
has NOTHING to do
with the type of terrorists attacks
that have been made against the US
how long, oh Lou Dobbs, will you continue to be complicit
in feeding us what think tanks feed you?
we are all walking wounded
we all need redemption
(some moreso than others)
today is a good day to come to the aid of your fellow citizens.

it is not in God Stockholders trust
it is in US all mighty Might
to secure the oil that feeds their greed
not greed?
What percent of divorces are devoured
by money fights?
Where is the line between what we will or will not do
for money before we face The Money God?

sucker us all down the drain
70% of us want US to COMPLETELY leave Iraq
our politicians jawing
dis and dat
but not
giving up control over Iraqi oil
Did we get rid of the burkas in Afghanistan
no, what we did
was return the burkas to Iraq

the Lady Representative
asks for a bi-partisan bill
we all can vote for

who deserves to be the next President of US?
“We must have success in Iraq.”
what does That mean, Mister Representative

Rep. John Lewis – “We are only asking
to take the first step – Out!”

)Live Earth Concert

Foxy News Laura Ingles goes thru concert garbage
to report non recycled items and claims
the concert’s making a notable carbon foot print
as if she cares
or as if any Fox News Rupert cares
to do anything besides dig and spatter
those who would save us from ourselves

)The Birth and Death of Corporate America

early 1800’s – Corporate law focused on protecting public interest
closely regulated by the states – investors given equal say in corporate governance
mid 1800’s – voided investors equal say (Rockefeller Standard Oil as “trust”
and Carnegie steel as “limited partnership”)
1980’s – public owned services and enterprises sold to corporations / deregulation reduced public-interest
conglomerates – shareholder control diminished and directors assumed more
2000’s accounting scandals brought down Enron and WorldCom
downsizing, contracting-out, off-shoring, reduced labor cost
Corporations assumed human rights.
now is a good time for these non-humans to experience death throes
which will occur when we the people follow Ralph Nader’s suggestion,
“Gotta hear the rumble of the people”

)Dickens County Texas’ Private Jail

where a prisoner would rather be dead
than live in slop and abuse…
now that Alaska made
every thing Not bigger in Texas
where a president can be assassinated
and send us a Bush
who can’t speak proper English
but would make it our national language
in a country where presidential hopefuls
are dialing for Corporate dollars*
we have prisons for profit
health for profit
and the most blasphemy ever
privation (ergo profit driven) of Water!

*quote from Ralph Nader

British General Henry Clinton:
“it is necessary to gain the hearts and subdue the minds of America.”

how proudly do you stand now oh Yalies?
you graduated from your business school
lame brain Bush who obviously believed
he could win minds by subduing them
with talking points and spinning heads
who’s pointed head is spinning now?
who quacks like a duck in devil speak
hides, then hides, and hides again
Keith Olberman called it right on
on the eve of this 231st celebration
“Be honorable men, Mr. President
and Mr. Vice President, step down,
now.” (Nixon showed you how)
Hey Dick and George whadda ya say?
How many children will you kill today?

no one fears going to hell
hell all they hafta do is Accept JEsus
before their last breath
Hey sus, como esta?
blank as a fire cracker never lit
who’s holdin’ yer feet to the fire?
the Rabbi believes it curious
that anyone can believe in afterlife and final justice
without believing in “God”
OMG there be multiple gods
seein’ the zillions of variations of descriptions
with many multiple opposites all declaring
“Our God is the only God!”
well, dah, JEsus
see how they all run after the farmer’s wife
who dares to speak the truth
gulp! gone!
in a dumbed down world, lame sells
5 million bucks plus buys a ticket on a gated ocean liner

pick up the ashtray and drink the butts
ashes give the alarm NO
if you saw it then you saw
when the world was too much with them
they supported their chin with their hand
too much with them when the subject was Empire and Africa
when the promise is untold riches
the question is not limited by color
black yellow white or red
ultimate power corrupts ultimately
the Queen of England is still in control of foreign policy
ask Diego Garcia
heartstrings sing the sorrow of Holy Empire
what’s in the mind of the man who propelled himself
in front of our very eyes into the Pope’s popemobile?

demented minds only see too much
the Holy minds see ancestral control eternal
the innocents see too much blood

when the Holy becomes mundane
the Mundane becomes more holy
i just gotta have another cigarette

sorry there are no indigenous people here
in our ape likeness we continue to defend “our piece of land”
and expand this “property” as we can
we all have immigrant blood in our veins
will the real humans, of proclaimed evolution,
stop their territorial border fighting
and save the source that sustains us all —
this planet Earth?

(“Sicko” – Michael Moore’s new documentary)

what’ll i do without my politic
for what is partisan but an inclination for
and an impediment to clearly seeing
both sides of any disagreement
when partisan turns to stone
ugly wars happen like
spinning only digs the well deeper

it need not be so hard to accept
one’s own mistaken belief
spinning – like flip-flops like
one is not trustworthy if they change their mind
in the face of a better idea?
it is the face of unfounded fear
that would turn the US Constitution into stone
like a religion that turns their founders into stone

but we can dream
of political debates that addresses our greatest concerns
like requiring candidates to accept only public financing
instead of lip service to this ideal
which would free all candidates from prostituting themselves
i.e. willing to do whatever it takes to be number one
including ceding presidential and congressional powers
to the largest dollar donors