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07/23/2024

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963
"I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial

07/18/2024

Encapsulate 4 years of misadministration into 16 words or less?
I think I did a fair job. He exploded the debt with tax cuts that will never pay for themselves. Every week was infrastructure week, and we're still waiting for his healthcare plan. And catsup, or ketchup, well, Trump should be wearing a straitjacket and diaper, not a coat and tie. No great literature here, but hopefully this may remind voters how awful and ineffective Trump actually was.

07/14/2024

Yes, we are still a liquor store, though our sign now reads more like a Church notice. Again offered without translation or explanation, except for Galatians 6:7, if you weren't up on your NT.

07/10/2024

Offered without explanation or translation. Sometimes the poetry must speak for itself.

07/06/2024

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This is probably the most famous quote from Bonhoeffer, but he was certainly a prolific writer.

Why can't they see the evil? Trump is evil with every breath, every word, every mannerism. Remember, the Devil wears Red.

But it is not enough just to not be silent.

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And that is why I do what I do, to drive a spoke into the wheels of injustice. I expect, I demand, nothing less from you.

07/01/2024

With fear for our Democracy!

The nation’s long-held principle that no one is above the law was washed away by a ruling that means that in “every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said as she took the rare step of reading her dissent from the bench on Monday in a move that underscored how aggrieved the liberal bloc of the court is. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” she wrote at the end of her 30-page dissent.
(CNN)

06/28/2024

For 187 minutes, Trump sat and watched as our Capitol,the symbol of the American people, the home of our legislature, our laws, and yes, the home of Liberty herself, was attacked. He made no effort to stop it, at least not until the attack had failed in its mission to stop the peaceful transfer of power. There may be no one to stop Trump this time, as he watches the life drain from Lady Liberty. A sad morning in America

06/22/2024

Language, the meaning of words, evolves with time. When I envision something spewing, I think of a volcano expelling large quantities of molten earth. So I ask my phone the meaning of "spews", and its first answer is "vomits". Well, that works for me.
Not only is the double entendre the poet's best friend, but alliteration is his wingman. Demented Don Dare to Debate.
The Trump Campaign made a significant strategic mistake agreeing to the CNN debate, or any debate. They could have
forestalled the appearance of their increasingly mentally unhinged candidate using the excuse that only Fox, or Newsmax, or Sinclair Broadcasting could provide an unbiased debate format. Trump has remained a viable candidate through the primary process only because he has not been forced onto a stage without a script or prompter or a softball tossing interviewer. Will Demented Don really show up for the debate? And if he does, will he spew only lies and hate?

06/14/2024

One of the , if not the most important, purposes of a political campaign is to introduce new ideas into the discussion, to foretell what the candidate might do to better all our lives if given the chance to govern. While Biden was traipsing about the globe, remembering and honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice to save us from authoritarianism and fascism; and solidifying our relationships with the G7 nations; Convict Trump was telling a not so large, but overheated, crowd in Las Vegas "We're going to end the mandate on electric on day one!". Granted that this is a valid point of discussion, given the many issues with electric vehicles and the environmental impact of battery construction. Trump related the tale/fantasy of his conversation with a South Carolina boat manufacturer. Obviously Trump is well qualified to discuss all things electric, because, ‘Let me ask you a question,’ ‘Nobody ever asks this question,’ and it must because of MIT, my relationship to MIT. Very smart.” ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery’s now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’

According to Trump’s telling, the manufacturer was being asked to make only electric boats but that such boats 1) were too heavy to float, 2) had to be slowly driven out to sea, which took hours and 3) then had so little charge left that you could only be out for 10 minutes. The first point is obviously false, given that there are lots of floating electric vessels — including in the U.S. Navy — so there’s no reason to assume that the rest would be true, either.

Trump has a fixation with sharks. Stormy Daniels explained that one of their encounters overlapped with the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” programming. As the two sat in Trump’s hotel room, he volunteered how much he hated sharks and wished they all would die. That his central concern related to a sinking boat would be sharks certainly bolsters the idea that Daniels was telling the truth.

Hopefully this discussion will help you "inform your presidential vote this November."

(Generously paraphrased from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/11/trump-electric-boats-sharks/)

And if you really want to learn about electric boats, please google Silent Yachts, completely solar powered.

06/04/2024

The party of Law and Order, that respects police officers, and judges that follow the letter of the law; not activist judges who create new law to satisfy modern whims. The party that respects the pillars of our republic; that no man is above the law, to be judged only by a jury of his peers. Even though state courts are not beholding to, or controlled by the Federal Dept. of Justice....if their favorite son, their "Chosen One", is convicted in a state court of corporate fraud, of libel , of producing false records to cover up other crimes, and has been adjudicated to have digitally r***d a female against her consent. If a man is convicted because he committed the crimes....but if their man is convicted....well, obviously the justice system must be broken. Do you know what we call this? Sour grapes. They can't get the justice they want, so the justice system must be broken. They can't reach those grapes, so they must be sour.

05/31/2024

Though the seas have been rough, the path long and arduous, the "Stormy" weather is finally behind us. The turbulent waters that Trump has stirred up, shall no more become a flood to destroy all.

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. (Genesis 9:12-17 King James Version )

05/27/2024

As we remember those who fell in service to our nation on this Memorial Day; those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom, our nation, our constitution, our way of life; let us also remember the following words and actions of the man who hopes to again be Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces.

"When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. "(The Atlantic, Jeffery Goldberg, Sept. 2020)

Ten American divisions, over 310,000 men participated in the Aisne -Marne offensive. About 2,300 US soldiers; fathers and sons and brothers and husbands, remain forever there, never to return home.
This battle was in 1918, and obviously the world did not learn from that mistake, WW I, that there are no real winners in any war. We lost another 400,000 US servicemen in WW II fighting fascism. Looks like another lesson unlearned, as we again face fascism, but now on our own shores. Honor those who sacrificed to protect our liberties, today and tomorrow.....by continuing that fight, with your vote and your voice.

05/20/2024

Sometime between Trump's insurrection and Biden's inauguration, a US flag flew upside down over the residence of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. This is not the only recent social and judicial faux pas committed by Alito, having leaked the gist of the early deliberations of the Supremes on overturning Roe v Wade, locking in those Justices who might still be wavering and then authoring that decision, as well as undisclosed gifts and trips.
An inverted U.S. flag has been a sign of dire distress and a symbol of protest. In January 2021, when it flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the upside down flag was largely seen in connection with a specific cause: the false claim by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud. When the inverted flag incident was recently reported by the NY Times, Alito bravely blamed his wife. Alito should recuse himself from all Trump related cases, and if he doesn't, then we should take away his gown, and fly him upside down. (portions paraphrased from ASSOCIATED PRESS
05/18/2024 11:31 AM EDT)

05/13/2024

Sleazy and Easy. Sometimes the cheap shot is your best shot.

05/10/2024

The envelope please....for Best Performance under extreme pressure on the witness stand....

One hour into a repetitive, belabored, tedious and mostly irrelevant cross examination by Trump Attorney Susan Necheles, Stormy was asked "isn't it a fact that you keep posting on social media how you're going to be instrumental in putting President Trump in jail?"
Stormy: "Show me where I said I would be 'instrumental in putting President Trump in jail'." Attorney Necheles then had a series of posts made by Ms. Daniels displayed on the multiple court video screens for all to see; the lawyers, the witnesses , the jury and the spectators. Another person had posted online "Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels a/k/a the human toilet are their star witnesses!" Stormy responded online "Exactly. Making me the best person to flush the orange turd down." Susan Necheles brought the "orange turd" discussion into the court room, and then continued on and on, repeating the phrase many times. Necheles misquoted and mischaracterized Stormy's postings repeatedly. Stormy stood her ground, coming off as competent and quite intelligent. Strange times that we live in; when the p**n star actress/director comes off as honest and wholesome, collected and composed; and the ex-President of these United States as creepy and manipulative.

And the winner is .....Stormy Daniels.
Hmmm...Trump probably will demand a recount.

05/07/2024

The double entendre is the poet's best friend, though few might realize there is a double entendre within.

"The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and D***l. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle.

The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy." (Wiktionary)

The most recent meaning of doodle came to us in 1964 by King Kone of the Bronx, Cheese Doodles. Trump, who often has this same coloration of a cheese doodle, has been frequently lampooned as such. So Orange Fool, or Cheezy Dude. Hopefully whenever you hear the term double entendre again, my poem will have permanently infected your brain, and you will think of Cheez Doodles.

04/29/2024

If you have to explain a joke, then the joke failed. So this one is offered without explanation.

But here is one anyway:

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04/22/2024

Happy Pesach, or Passover, to all that observe that holiday. There is often a kernel of historical or physiographic truth beneath religious mythologies. Perhaps you are already familiar with the volcano that was once Thera (Santorini) that may have been the cause for the 10 related plagues of Moses. The possible explanation for the deaths of the first born male of the Egyptian families has another interesting explanation. The first born male in that society, and many others, held a preferred position. He might have slept on a comfortable bed on the first floor, whereas his younger siblings may have been sleeping on the roof. In Africa they have these very dangerous lakes where the warm waters atop cap off colder water below that have collected toxic gases from underground magmatic events. There is little mixing between the warm and cold waters, but if some event causes a disturbance , the heavier than air gases, the angel of death, escape and sweep across the land and kill everything in its path, that is low to the ground.
Speaking of low to the ground, and noxious gases, and Angel of Death (1.9 million Covid deaths in USA)...it ain't pretty poetry, but it sure beats 10 plagues. Happy Passover. May the Angel of Death pass over your homes, and those of your friends and families, leaving them unscathed, and never return. Amen.

04/17/2024

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
William Shakespeare

Trump had a golden game board of life handed to him as a child, but sadly only had a mind worthy of plastic checkers. Still, he managed to control the game, his game, for umpteen years. Now he finds himself playing on someone else's field of play, game board, that of Judge Merchan. When you go bankrupt playing Monopoly, you are out of the game. Bankruptcy obviously has never stopped the Donald in the past, so let us be patient. Let the wheels of justice, slow that they may be, complete this trip around the game board, and we'll see if Trump has a get out of jail card stashed in his diaper. Let us see who laughs last....laughs longest.

04/10/2024

“I’m a guy that grew up in New York, my father built the skyline of New York." I wasn't in NYC at that time, so I am no adequate arbiter of the veracity of Eric Trump's words. I attended college in Baltimore, and I was there for the planning and building of the Francis Scott Key bridge, which took over a decade to complete. Beset by cost overruns and delays, that bridge project originated as a tunnel project. Given my raucous and licentious lifestyle at that time, all should be surprised that I am still standing, while the FSK bridge has been swallowed by the Patapsco River.

Maybe Donald Trump did build the NYC skyline, but no one sold as many famous NYC properties, several times each, as the great George C Parker. His salesmanship led to the coinage of a great American phrase to describe one who might buy into any con; a rube, a mark, a magat. "If you believe that, then I've got a bridge to sell you!' George C Parker did indeed sell a famous bridge, several times; as well as the Statue of LIberty and the Metropolitan museum. Some of Parker's marks only discovered their folly when they were arrested for setting up toll booths on the Brooklyn Bridge. So Donald J Trump is not the first, nor the greatest conman in NYC history, but hopefully he will come to the same happy ending as did George C Parker. Parker spent the last 8 years of his life, well cared for courtesy of the state of New York. Parker was sentenced to a mandatory life term, and spent his last eight years at Sing Sing prison. As the first US President to go on criminal trial next week, may he fare as well as did George C. Parker.

03/16/2024

Judge a man by the company he keeps. Steve Bannon, Tom Barrack, Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, George Nader, George Papadapoulos, Roger Stone, Allen Weiselberg, Rudy Giuliani, Ken Kurson, Cory Lewandowski, Brad Parscale, Imaad Zuberi, Lev Parnas , Igor Fruman, Chris Collins, Duncan Hunter, Sam Patten. This is just a partial list of the Trump associates indicted and/or arrested. Had Trump not pardoned many of them, there would be a whole Trump wing at Club Fed. There was a record turnover of appointees in the Trump administration, several occupying their offices for the shortest tenure in the history of those offices.

Trump justified the instability, saying: "We have acting people. The reason they are acting is because I'm seeing how I like them, and I'm liking a lot of them very, very much. There are people who have done a bad job, and I let them go. If you call that turmoil, I don't call that turmoil. I say that is being smart. That's what we do."

Admittedly Joe Biden is no longer at his sharpest, but still, he has surrounded himself with competent people, making competent decisions for the benefit of these United States; not the corrupt, self-serving kleptocrats favored by Trump. But Trump did hire one young lady, with the experience, the "boner"fides (sorry, I couldn't resist) to perform her job. Thank you for your service, Stormy.

03/04/2024

U.S. Central Command and the Royal Jordanian Air Force conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza on March 2, 2024, between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. (Gaza time) to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict.The combined operation included U.S. Air Force and RJAF C-130 aircraft and respective Army Soldiers specialized in aerial delivery of supplies, built bundles and ensured the safe drop of food aid.U.S. C-130s dropped over 38,000 meals along the coastline of Gaza allowing for civilian access to the critical aid.
(Centcom)

Wow! 38,000 meals! The Gaza strip has a population of about 2.2 million. At least these were pork free, not like the pork meals US soldiers threw to starving Afghanis at Kabul airport. However this humanitarian debacle began, under the less than watchful eye of Netanyahu's administration, war is the only thing sustaining Netanyahu in public office. We can't look to the Netanyahu government to help or support Biden's efforts because Bibi would prefer Trump, though Trump does vacillate on his feelings toward Bibi. And how do Israeli's feel about Bibi?

In all polls, such as Israel's Channel 13 in December or any others who ask the question, over 70 percent of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign – between one-quarter and 30 percent want him to go right now, even during the war.

So there you have it. A simple solution. Drop Netanyahu on Gaza, with or without a parachute.

02/22/2024

Alecto, Tisiphone , and Megaera ; the Roman Goddesses of Vengeance. aka....the Furies. Now that was great literature. And my poem? We still have 3 Goddesses of Vengeance; E Jean, Stormy, and Letitia James, but it's not great literature, not even quality poetry, though I should deserve some brownie points for combining the results of 3 trials into 16 words or less. Hopefully Defendant Trump will get to meet the original furies in their current residence, in the underworld, where they torture sinners. "So let it be written, so let it be done." (Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments")

02/13/2024

Lest you think me oh too clever, let me show you where I stole this from. I think that I improved upon it, but the original thought was not mine. The following was in response to Trump's inquiry/snide implication of the whereabouts of Nikki Haley's "missing" husband who is actually serving in Africa with the SC Nat'l Guard.

Nikki Haley fired back at Trump’s comments later Saturday, saying, “If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone being president of the United States.”

“Donald, if you have something to say, don’t say it behind my back; get on a debate stage and say it to my face,” she told a crowd in Gilbert, South Carolina.

In a rare move, Michael Haley fired back at the former president, posting a meme on Twitter reading, “The difference between humans and animals? Animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack,” while mentioning Trump’s account in the caption.

02/02/2024

Republican Congresspersons all across America are taking credit for monies brought back to their districts for infrastructure projects, funds that they voted against. In case you can't get through the Herald paywall, the following is taken from Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald , Jan 30, 2024.

On many occasions — in press releases, letters to constituents, and public appearances — Salazar has misrepresented her no-votes on millions of dollars of key government funding, taking credit for bringing to the largely Hispanic district millions in Biden-issued federal funds. The truth: Those projects were funded by bipartisan votes — despite the efforts by Salazar and other Trump Republicans to torpedo Biden’s attempts to wrestle with the economy and rebuild after the COVID pandemic.

Salazar staged an event at Florida International University, where she was photographed holding a fake giant check for $650,000, signed by her, to fund FIU’s Small Business Development Center. She lavishly praised the tech hub she voted against saying it would allow Miami to continue “leading in innovation and technological advancement, while creating new jobs, growing our economy, and promoting national security.” And the $84.9 million in funding for the airport upgrades Salazar said would build “impressive facilities” at Miami International Airport actually didn’t get her vote. They’re here thanks to the Democrats passing the Biden infrastructure bill.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article284854271.html =cpy

01/16/2024

If they can recycle old candidates, then I can recycle old poems!

01/08/2024

Tomorrow, Tuesday Jan. 9, the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals will hear arguments over Trump's efforts to dismiss his federal election interference case based on his claim of presidential immunity. Trump is seeking the dismissal of the federal election interference case on the grounds that he has "absolute immunity" from prosecution for actions taken while serving in the nation's highest office. (abcNEWS) If a President has absolute immunity, then he has free rein and is free to reign in perpetuity. He would be immune to any criminal charges based on his actions while in office, "And not just any actions: alleged acts to perpetuate himself in power by frustrating the constitutionally prescribed process for certifying the lawful winner of an election." (Smith's petition to the Supreme Court to expedite the appeals process. )
Big day in court tomorrow. Hear Liberty's bell ring....and our forefathers sing..."We have no King."

01/01/2024

Citizens of this still free nation, the Hallmark Holidays are over, and we are back in the thick of the battle. Once again, I will not apologize for my poetry, but I will offer some tempering to assuage your possible disgust with my picking on an old, infirm man. Trump has publicly taunted the disabled, wounded vets, women, muslims, and anyone and everyone that has ever disagreed with him. He has frequently cast Biden as barely able to walk or stay awake, well, at least Biden can hold his s**t together. I wanted to go with something simple like "lost his s**t" , but I also wished to make the allusion between Trump, his damned smell, and that of the Devil and the damned. If you are unfamiliar with the sulfurous smell of brimstone, then our sermon for the New Year comes from Revelation 21:8
8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
All the above descriptors seem to fit Trump to a "T", and thus, my poetree.

12/20/2023

'Tis the season to be jolly. and yes, 'tis a bit difficult these days to be jolly in our tumultuous nation and treacherous world. I was hoping that it would be Jack, carrying the sack, filled with the gifts of justice and freedom, but Santa has come early. Maybe because he didn't have to travel so far, not all the way from the North Pole, but from the Eastern Face of those Great Rocky Mountains, Denver, Colorado. Now we really have a grandiose reason to celebrate, as do the other Republican candidates currently running for the silver medal. And if you listen very closely, shhh, quiet. You can hear Cindy Lou, and the rest of the Who's, singing "Thank you Colorado, and Merry Christmas to all."

09/08/2022

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Sometimes the poetry can speak for itself. Just need to point out that it was Marco Rubio who called Trump's theft of this nation's highest security classified documents merely "a storage issue," and it was Trump attorney Jim Trusty, who in court, likened Trump's latest crimes to a spat over "an overdue library book."

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