The tables are turning
Surveillance is backfiring
Rome is hot burning
The elected are learning
The public is discerning
Leadership it is yearning
Believe living in a democracy
Realizing it is a kleptocracy
Combined with vile autocracy
Deluded no longer, beginning to see
A way to be governed a fallacy
Feeling not at all a normalcy
Perhaps opting for meritocracy
Blending with reasoned technocracy
Steering clear of any theocracy
Eliminating ruse sea to shining sea
Realze our insignificance in the galaxy
Is there any real need for a presidency
If we really value true righteousness
As an awareness of our consciousness
Sacrificing power with no recompense
Enamored by money w/no consequence
Knowing this, none of it makes sense
Greed, shortsightedness must be hence
Must shift in to a new reality
Shake off this crazy insanity
Before it goes on in perpetuity
Can handle only so much depravity
Holding one thought in a world of duality
Breath, focus on center of gravity
For now, it gives me something to rhyme
Till one can dwell in a new paradigm
My mind goes there all of the time
Traverse the cosmos to find the sublime
Paradise for my family a collective design
Find an aeon respite for the soul of mine
Excerpts from
“Graffiti Man” by John Trudell
Grafitti man’s got something to say
Message in a scrawl message on the wall
Something’s wrong
Not our fault
We gotta be cool
Our time will come
Put on blinders
Dull the senses
Who’s worth more
Than money they spend?
Down with bosses
No more bosses
Something’s gotta change
Something’s gotta change
What I believe it would take for a peaceful and good world, I am not served by it, in and of itself, as it would require much more work and effort on my part.
Almost Entirely
Tongue in cheek
Merely Hyperbole
About Waterboarding
I’m just a schmuck
Putin a puzzle together
Recuse the rhetoric
Solemnly swear
Not advocating
Donald Trump’s answer on torture is really out there — even for Trump
By Chris Cillizza February 8, 2016
Donald Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
On Sunday, Donald Trump appeared on “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos in advance of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
This exchange — on Trump’s view of torture — is remarkable.
STEPHANOPOULOS: As president, you would authorize torture?
TRUMP: I would absolutely authorize something beyond waterboarding. And believe me, it will be effective. If we need information, //
Hmmm?
Today’s Russia hearing — without many answers — was still bad for Trump
“After today’s hearing, we’re left with more questions than answers about POTUS’ conduct.”
Updated by Alex Ward on June 7, 2017 4:10 pm vox.com
Top intelligence and law enforcement officials refused to confirm reports that President Donald Trump had tried to shut down an ongoing FBI probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia.
It was a bad day for the White House all the same.
That’s because the officials also declined to definitively say that Trump hadn’t asked them to do so.
Put another way, none of the high-level government officials were willing to testify, under oath, that former FBI Director James Comey was wrong to allege that Trump told him to shut down the Flynn probe, a move that could amount to obstruction of justice.
The optics would have been bad enough if Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing — which featured, among others, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers — had occurred in isolation.
But they’re particularly bad given that the hearing comes just a day before Comey himself is set to testify under oath that Trump asked him to stop the Flynn investigation.
Well, if we need information. Hmmm?
TRUMP: I would absolutely authorize something beyond waterboarding. And believe me, it will be effective. If we need information, //
Hmmm? Since you suggest it is effective.
I wonder if this presidential precedent can apply to all criminal cases?
Prosecutor : You’ve been caught red handed, will you please explain?
Defendant : That would be really inappropriate for me to answer that.
Prosecutor : Okay, thank you for your testimony. Try not to do what thought we caught you guilty of.
Lala lala.
Or as Steve Martin suggested (in the 70’s)
“I Forgot!”
How many times do we let ourselves get into terrible situations because we don’t say “I forgot”?
Let’s say you’re on trial for armed robbery. You say to the judge, “I forgot armed robbery was illegal.”
Let’s suppose he says back to you, “You have committed a foul crime. you have stolen hundreds and thousands of dollars from people at random, and you say, ‘I forgot’?”
Two simple words: Excuuuuuse me!!”
Does auntie matter to uncle wave, particularly when it comes to quarks?
Your neutral input, will add a positive charge to the gravity of the situation.
In light of the frequency that this occurs, although rarely detectable if you are not there to observe it.
Guess we could ask Gamma ray, after she finishes that primordial soup she made from scratch
Then maybe we can have those licorice donuts that on the whole are very black
We offered some to the principal. Uncertain he would eat them, suggested we bring them to the Sr. class making posters to help elect Ron.
Or take them to the drama department working on Snow White, give them to the star dwarfs.
Perhaps the orchestra leader wants one. I hear she is a super conductor as long as you don’t collide with her.
If you are not to particular about the time we could gather some worms and go to the fission hole.
I asked Jean, yes or no about going as well. Couldn’t decide as she was actively listening to the radio and playing with her cat Schroeder in a box. I so hoped she would go before it was too late.
Neil was bored, so he’s going. Ann stained her blouse, which she discovered after lunch, with Harmony and will converge with the others after changing.
I wish I knew where this $@!+ comes from, so I could get it edited before I hit publish.
The
Halls of government
Have been replaced
By the
Malls of consumption
Leaving behind the bones and
Skull of the constitution
Causing the
Fall of our evolution
Making most
All of the institutions
A means to
Dull your sensations
Time to
Call your relations
And make
Tall your expectations
A habit of
Y’all realization
Best we
Maul the distractions
So we don’t
Lull next generation
Slowing the
Crawl to stagnation
Having them
Bawl from frustration
When they could
Stall the manipulation
From one or
All of the population
Having the
Gall for cessation
Tearing down the
Wall of separation
Trying to
Null the degradation
On this big blue green
Ball of salvation
Striving for the long
Haul of civilization
Or we better call
Saul for reparation
Not even sure why I care, my life has never changed from one administration to the next. This one just seems to be more entropicaly entertaining then all the others.
Wonder if I could get Eminem to rap that?
Living for a death wish
Dying for a life wish
Salivating for a sandwich
Perhaps eating from the tree of knowledge was our fall from grace.
Still did not hamper our ability to eat dessert from the Aspen of Awareness that we might reach a sanctity satiety into the whole wholeness of our being.
Forward to, if even for just a moment beyond good and evil, and be all that is.
Knowing in your soul, that although you are experiencing life subjectively, you are the encompassing infinite, infinitely encompassing.
Inspired in part by
“The Voice of Knowledge”
Don Miguel Ruiz
And “knowing” that,
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
Bill Hicks
Here’s Tom, with the weather.
“If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.”
George Carlin
Hearing too much of the following lately.
Can’t discuss this in an open setting.
Why not ? Hmmm?
Of course we know why this is acceptable. Because we do it ourselves in our own lives. Must be the ego that likes to get all puffed up with pride. Thinking that allegedly elected representatives will come to an actual conclusion behind closed doors.
In some suspenseful big reveal that amounts to nothing but duplicating distractions. Anything getting done, moving forward and making sure it doesn’t happen again is highly unlikely.
Remember Dick and George were able to give their hand-held testimony together without any transcription made of any kind? Yet the public accepts this under the guise of “NATIONAL SECURITY”
Unfortunately when that shoe is on your own foot, it is done under the guise of personal security.
Wanton whispers
Surreptitious suggestions
Unspoken utterances
Hushed harangues
Reticent rumors
Ilicit innuendos
Malignant mumbles
Benign bemusements
Deceptive directives
Phantom phrases
Covert cleverness
Darkish dialogue
Vile verbiage
Dismal diatribes
Stifled sentences
Concealed conversations
Why not lay all the cards on the table? It’s not a stacked deck, if everything is laid out for all to see. F the closed sessions. Of course only if people are willing to do it in their personal lives, will we ever achieve the desired outcome.
