Politics and holy stains
John F. Kennedy went to Cuba
and learned first hand the US policy was wrong.
He repented the Bay of Pigs.
What corporate news media kept from we the people:
John F. Kennedy was going to end the Vietnam War,
We all saw with our own eyes
what happens to a US President
when he repents and wants to atone:
ASSASSINATED
Is now too late to come to the aid or our country?
when applying for a job
one does not need opinions
of a nominee’s fellow employees
or the tears of his wife
when applying for a promotion
Alito’s fifteen year work record
(i.e. rulings in the court)
is his resume
and the only information that is valid
in seeking consent of the Senate.
He doesn’t give answers to questions
As he locks up Justice from our ears
And you follow ’till your sense of morality
Completely disappears
By the blue steel walls near the Pentagon
There’s a hidden door She leads you to
These days, She says, I feel all life
Just like a bludgeon running through
The year of the dog.
Well, He looks at us so coldy
And His eyes bead like a beast on the brink
She comes in incense and patchouli
But you rape her, to plant seeds of mass deception
The year of the dog.
Well, morning comes and you’re still horney
And the bus and the homeboys are gone
And you’ve thrown away thy soul and lost thy ticker
But you have to go on
So the drum-beats angst of the night remain
In the fester of the new-born day
You know sometime you’re bound to face Her
But for now you’re going to stay
In the year of the dog.
On a morning from a Bad Movie
In a country where they talk in rhyme
You go strolling through the crowd like Julius Caesar
Contemplating power
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don’t bother asking for explanations
She’ll just tell you that your naked
In the year of the dog.
Al Stewart/Peter Wood revisited
Tom Brokaw said it first
“We own Iraq” who cares
if a civil war is waging
and Fallujah residents
are living in a camp in
winter and food rations
are late and short
Americans love their cars
Rusmfield predicted in 1991
Iraq would become a hornet’s nest
what’s a little hornet sting
when American owns
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi
appointed Oil Minister last December
when gas hogs complained of gas
nearing $three per
NASCAR mom’s love Bush
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 7:13 PM
Subject: Sainthood
Subject: Sainthood
President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Methodist church outside Washington, DC as part of his campaign. Bush’s campaign manager made a visit to the Bishop, and said to him, “We’ve been getting a lot of bad publicity among Methodists because of Bush’s position on stem cell research and the like. We’d gladly make a contribution to the church of $100,000 if during your sermon you’d say the President is a saint.”
The Bishop thinks it over for a few moments and finally says, “The Church is in desperate need of funds and I will agree to do it.”
Bush pompously shows up looking especially smug today and as the sermon progresses the Bishop begins his homily: “George Bush is petty, a self-absorbed hypocrite and a nitwit. He is a liar, a cheat, and a low-intelligence weasel. He has lied about his military record and had the gall to put himself in a jet plane landing on a carrier posing before a banner stating ‘Mission Accomplished.’ He invaded a country for oil and money, and is using it to lie to the American people. He is the worst example of a Methodist I’ve ever personally known. But compared to Dick Cheney and the rest of his cabinet, George Bush is a saint.”
then it came to pass
the little people preferred
to listen to The Man Who Cried Wolf
gave up their freedom to calm their fears
but yet they shudder
The Man proclaims with such an authoritarian voice
“We will prevail. We got ’em on the run.
I need dictatorial authority. I need
to spy on US citizens.”
(translated: if’n yer again’ us we will silence you)
poor little people
having been brainwashed to believe
winning is everything
when their favorite sports team wins
little people that support them
believe they, by way of association, are #1 too
doo doo dee doo
winners always lose
in the long haul, in the long run
And Abraham cried to Osama bin Ishmael:
“They’re beating the women!!!”
Then turning to Bush bin Isaac, Abraham continued:
“You are bombing my children and raping their natural resources!!!”
O Abraham, father of monotheism
a mono god who you fear enough to kill your own son
still ringing as mothers and fathers march their children
off to war for
god and country
4,000 years of marching marching
The Man astride his Speedy Greed Steed
how many horsemen does it take to destroy a planet
Who among us will live with the lies when they have sight?
Why have a truce when we can have perpetual war?
Bombs bursting in air? Got more! Gonna get richer!!!
Gotta distract the little people
The Man’s gotta have total control
not only on land as on the sea but also now
outer space, all worldwide communication
eyes in the sky with big ears
with balls to declare this eye
God’s Eye
yeah, the bible told me so,
the Devil, in disguise, can be anyone/anything
even appear as God, even with a godly voice
give us your new poll you with expertise
as America teeters between
half anti-war
one quarter flip-flops
one quarter will follow The Man anywhere
the coin is tossed
will the flip-flops choose war or no?
heaven help us in our sorrow
one step over the line oh lawdy
help us choose wisely
Truce does not equate to losing.
Admitting mistakes does not equate to damnation
but may lead to peaceful conflict resolution,
what God or human would not want that?
Fear not Him or him so much before
we all fall to pieces.
“Dick Chenney White House”
what happened to Dick between Bush I and Bush II?
with II, Dick got to call the shots
why was Tenet’s “hair on fire” for a “slam dunk”?
this is a War between Executive Power and CIA Power
Bush I and Chenney both graduated from the CIA
does the Father control the Son?
Is the Son the prodigal returned or the sacrificed?
James Risen’s State of War
is it truthiness?
How will you know if you refuse to read it?
Or demonize another writer who reports
on a secretive government abusing powers
and crucify another whistle blower?
What in heavens name do we think a whistle blower is?
Who uses a whistle to warn…STOP!!!
Policemen, grade school crossing guards and
any citizen who sees a crime in progress.
No one wants anyone to need an abortion
except maybe those right-to-lifer’s who refuse contraception
education and availability to anyone sexually active
only the inactive sexually would proffer abstinence only
“if you haven’t had it you don’t know what it is”
and “wham bam, thank you ma’am” is not IT.
Ever since the NeoNeo’s invented the color coded fear
when they announced “Orange Alert” they added
“There is an increase in ‘chatter’ and we find this a pattern
just before a ‘terrorist’ attack.”
Real Cowboys know every now and then one of them
who calls himself a ‘cowboy’ will shoot themselves in the foot i.e.
the Orange Alert rationalization, which received international coverage
most likely was where ‘terrorists’ first learned of
electronic surveillance, world wide.
It is we the people that were helped not harmed
to learn first hand, Enchantment Mind Control studies, Sedona, Arizona
IS
if you know what i mean by is and
paranoia is not fear of real facts
we all are being black boxed
in our cars, on our phones, library cards, et al.
You tell me
are we now or will we soon be black boxed in the guts of our TVs?
If James Risen is found in jail we will all be forced to ask that famous question,
“what are we doing out here?”
George Will
will allow constitutional protection for lobbyists
with the right to address grievances to government
“grievances”, George Will
porky greed does not quallify as a grievance
lobbyists is exactly who our goverment gets sold to
those with the most buy the most power
Presidential Powers
the almighty George all powerful
his very own hill top
Matthew 4:8 – Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; 4:9 – and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
A God of fundamentals who is a light, not a lash
by Sydney Harris
All this argument and controversy about the evolution of man, and no thought about the evolution of God. Fundamentalists and modernists disputing the origin of species, and no consideration of how our species has changed its view of God since the earliest times.
In the beginning, in the first book of the Old Testament, we find a vengeful as well as a gracious God, a tribal God extracting duty and devotion by ritual and sacrifice.
Then, as the Bible progresses, we find a strange thing happening. God Himself changes, in the eyes of the Israelites. He becomes less fearsome and more compassionate; He expands from a tribal to a universal deity; as men grew in understanding, God grew in stature.
At first, He rejoiced in the slaying of Israel’s enemies. But by the time of the Babylonian Exile, He was already depicted as a God who wept that the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea after the Israelites had safely crossed over. He cries, “Are the Egyptians not my children too?”
(This may be found in Midrash, the earliest commentary on the Hebrew Scriptures.)
And by the time we reach the great prophets, such as Deutero-Isaiah, man has discovered a God who is far closer to the precepts and parables of Rabbi Jesus than most of us realize. Many of Jesus’ sayings are direct quotations or paraphrases of the Old Testament, for he never considered himself anything but a pious Jew.
The evolution of God continued during his ministry, for He set about to reform and expand and deepen the vision of a loving and redemptive deity, placing the spirit above the laws that had come to cramp and rigidify the Old Guard fundamentalist Jews of his day.
The Ministry of Jesus was a further liberation from the ritual for its own sake. (It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it.”) It was an evolutionary breakthrough in men’s conception of the Creator and His relation to us.
Alas, the church founded in Jesus’ name (which I think would have shocked and scandalized Him) retrogressed, as all establishments do, and became in its own way as repressive and ritualistic and rigid as the synagogue he rebelled against, again placing law above spirit.
God grows, as we grow, for He reflects what we become; and when we grow to the fullest, we will have the fullest God – not a God of the fundamentalists, but a God of fundamentals, a light, not a lash.
first published in the Detroit Free Press
Friday, Dec. 4, 1981, feature page 15B