OOP$EE: FORTUNE$ OF WAR? Like $TINKOnWhatHAPPEN$. MoveOVERgrover: MAKING SEEN--POLITICALLY-UP-CLOSE-&-PERSONAL--STAND-UP-AND-BE-COUNTED?...OR REMAIN $EATED...FOR THE RECORD. PORTFOLIO HYGIENE!

MANIFESTLY TRUMPATHETIC...WHERE DOES IT END?--RACE TO THE BOTTOM--RE: BUSH FAMILY FORTUNE$ OF WAR--and to think the current POTU$ is even MORE Brazenly $elf-Entitled...

 

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"My Brother Kept U$ $afe..." --JEB! --"Please Clap..."

[kickasspleaseclap kickasspleaseclap kickasspleaseclap...}

 

FOREWARNED: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”

fb.me/2llGYmjgf

 

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TRUTH --The Movie /

 

CHICKENHAWK DOWN...Oops/ FLYinHIGH (Truth Is Willing But The Press..Is WEAK bit.ly/1ZIZ9CP #TruthMovie #politics #ChatterClassClown

 

"MANY POWERFUL PEOPLE don't want peace because they live off war"--Pope Francis www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/11/1384007/-Pope-Francis-M...

 

"...And these Powerful People serve their interests in the camouflage of false patriotism..."--Artist General

 

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BARRY CLEVELAND ASSAILS WING NUTS w/ "Warning" Video Starring The Artist General bit.ly/1jEZlBX

 

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DUBYACA-CHING: Tippin' The Plate For An Extra $LURP--Free-Range Chickenhawk Gravy-Drain:

www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/politics/george-w-bush-100k-vetera...

 

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@ PEACE w/ WAR? MARTIAL PLANNERS x DEFAULT:

 

Senator Schumer--

 

Are You RECU$ED?--FOR THE RECORD: YES or NO? Does This Offend You?--Sorry. Trust-But-Verify. Nothing Personal. Just "Minding The Store..."

 

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POLITICAL BRANDING IRONY--HERD INSTINCT?:

 

RECU$AL, YES OR NO--FOR THE RECORD, STAND UP AND BE COUNTED OR REMAIN $EATED

 

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PRO-DIPLOMACY PUSHBACK--PERSONAL CAR IN THE MARTIAL GRAVYTRAIN? (i.e., CONFLICT-PROFIT?) Well of COURSE your position (i.e., #47Traitors) AGAINST 'Any South-Of-PERFECT' Deal w/ Iran has demonstrably*

NOTHING To DO w/ any immediate or eventual personal gane [$ic]

 

*Recu$e yourself? YES or NO...

 

(downscroll for 'Oath Of Martial Office')

 

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"RECU$AL" UNNECESSARY--'I'm Blind-Trusted'..." ?

 

RARE TRUTH FROM A "VETERAN" ALL-IN$ider:

 

“THE BLIND TRUST IS AN AGE-OLD RUSE, if you will--which is to say you can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do. You give a blind trust rules.” --Mitt Romney

 

--“Daily Show” clip unearthed x Jon Stewart from Oct. 18, 1994

 

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BY ROBUST DEFINITION: THE ROTTENE$T APPLES IN THE BARREL...

 

AKA: #47Traitors #47BreakingBad #47RecklessTweakers

 

FROM THE PAPER OF RECORD: A SEARING FRAME, SUITED FOR POSTERITY:

 

"INSTEAD OF TRYING TO BE LEADERS AND STATESMEN, the Republicans in Congress seem to think their role is outside the American government, divorced from constitutional principles, tradition and the security interests of the American people."

 

--NY Times Editorial 3.11.15:

www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/opinion/republican-idiocy-on-i...

 

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ARTIST GENERAL'S WARNING: For TRUE National Security,

 

#NEVERFORGET47Traitors: #NF47T

 

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GOOD JOURNALISM PROOF OF PRINCIPLE: PORTFOLIO HYGIENE--ESPECIALLY--FOR ANTI-DIPLOMACY MILLIONAIRE-SENATE BIBITOADIES

 

(Why NOT? ASK 'EM, FOR THE RECORD, Yes Or No, 1 x 1...&WatchEm$quirm!

 

(In A Legislative Establi$hment THICK w/ Smugly Self-Entitled GROTESQUELY OVERINDULGED NumberONE-per CENTERS...expected theme: [please...] Don't VERify

 

--Just-[blind]-TRUST-Me--iT's 'COMPlicated'...

 

I.E., LET ME UNDESERVEDLY DIGNIFY Such A "Question" Then, With A Once-&-For-All-ANSWER Here--I-Mean, Let's-Be-CLEAR-Here-And-PUT-This-Nonsense-To-WRE$T [sic]

 

--Any "Appearance" Of Untoward-Personal-"Profit"

[Defense-Industry-Gravy-On-My-'Taters']

Is An UNintended Consequence--

The Hard-Working Definition Of A Happy Accident...

GOT It?)

 

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#MoveOverGrover INTENTION SPAN: BI-PARTISAN

(As Applied: Aggressively Progressive)

WORKING 'MODEL' --THE NORQUIST

"Taxpayer Protection Pledge"

 

TO RELEVANT HOLDERS OF FEDERAL OFFICE:

 

"RECU$E" YOURSELF FROM ANY PERSONAL PROFIT DEMONSTRABLY CONNECTED TO BLOOD$HED?

 

--Maintain Online A Public List Of Each "Yes" Or "No"...

[Including Any "Waffle" or "Dodge" Of The Question!]

 

DOWNSCROLL past relevant articles for full text of poster:

 

'OATH OF MARTIAL OFFICE'

 

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YOWzur! KEATING FIVER FEELING BRAND-SEAR On Hidebound Herd Mentality Of Senate ObamaHate: #47Traitors

 

www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/11/1370132/-McCain-admits-... #Iranletter

 

IF DIPLOMACY FAILS, WAR IS THE CHARI$MATIC OPTION FOR THE #47BreakingBad GOP BOZOS On This Bus--Such Manifest AssClowns Serve Better As A Sudden Example UNDER It Than NeoContinuing ON It.

 

And, OBVIOUSLY: There Is ABSOLUTELY NO ETHICAL "ENTITLEMENT" TO PERSONALLY PROFIT FROM THEIR GROTESQUELY RECKLESS STUNT.

 

THUS: "PORTFOLIO HYGIENE"--A Moral-Pitch-Perfect Proposition For These Anti-Iran-Diplomacy WarphariSees (‪#‎47$hadesOfBetray‬)

 

Oh, Wait. "Personal-Profit-Has-Nothing-To-Do With-My-Position?" Good! Then You'll Agree To This, On Record?--

 

"AN 'OATH' OF MARTIAL OFFICE....

Downscroll For Complete Text From Poster

(After Related Articles...)

 

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DEAR "LOAD OF CRAP" VICE PRECEDENT CHENEY: Just Curious--Do You Have A "Vested Interest" In The NeoContractor Paid $81M To Stain America?

 

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PORTFOLIO HYGIENE--Proof Of Principle. Because "Blind Trust" Is Demonstrably Obsolete. . .

 

VERSION 2.0: EXPAND TO INCLUDE: NSA OVERSIGHT MILLIONAIRES, SENATE & FISA--$ECRECY IS FOR "LOSERS" (That Would Be US, The People) i.e., 'BLIND TRU$T'? REALLY?

 

PUBLIC $elf SERVICE? Portfolio Hygiene: TRAN$PARENCY From Cheney2Feinstein: For The RECORD: YES or NO?

 

A PSA BROUGHT TO YOU x HOSEDOWN--SUCKER'S END

RE: YES, OF COURSE, "OFFEND" THEIR "DIGNITY"

[LET 'EM POUT & WHINE BUT DEMAND THEIR PUBLIC ANSWER--Can't-Stand-The-Heat?--Then-Get-The-F-Outta-The-Kitchen!]

 

NSA: NeverSurrenderAmerica! www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/9555563099/in/

 

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An Idea Whose Time Has Never Gone:

 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial

 

Published on Sunday, November 25, 2007

 

RADICAL ETHICS: NO BUCKS FROM WAR

 

Just less than a year from now, Americans will choose a new president. After years of debilitating public distrust, President Bush could assure a better atmosphere for his successor by adopting a rather singular idea, one that is an odd combination of radical thinking and good old American common sense.

 

President Bush (and, ideally, Vice President Dick Cheney, given his power) ought to promise not to accept any profit from war. In doing so, they would set a new, higher standard of White House ethics that might foster more rational public discourse on issues of war and peace.

 

The radical part of this idea is mainly its origin with Michael Masley, a colorful, bitingly humorous anti-war activist (he calls himself the nation's "artist general") who has been trying to get the media, Congress, anybody to ask Bush to promise never to accept any profits flowing from any military action he authorizes. But this left-wing, left-coast idea actually reaches into the heartland and history of the country. Americans have always had a healthy skepticism about unholy influence by money and power on military and foreign policy decisions. Indeed, great presidents have voiced the same concerns when they have warned about foreign entanglements (Washington), war profiteers (FDR) or the sway of the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower).

 

As much as we opposed the misguided Iraq war, we never much liked the "blood-for-oil" rhetoric. The administration could turn down some of the heat with a lifetime, no-war-profit promise. Bush's most ardent detractors (who actually might think the administration was deluded not just by neocon fantasies about promoting democracy but also by a desire to pump up profits of companies with which they have been connected) might find the chances laughably unrealistic. Perhaps, perhaps not.

 

Bush is said to believe history will look more kindly than contemporaries on the war, an idea that may not be entirely fanciful. Setting a new ethical course for himself and, by example, his successors might help clear the air for re-evaluation.

 

But even if this administration and Congress ignore the idea, the topic ought to draw discussion among 2008 presidential candidates, who have a lot of air time to fill in an overly long campaign. Forswearing profits from war is very little to ask of someone who would be president. More important, anything that can ease the painful levels of distrust among people for this or future administrations is worth consideration.

 

© 2007 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

 

www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/25/5422

 

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EDITOR & PUBLISHER

 

[P-I Editorial Above Featured The Next Day In E & P]

 

[ "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry"

 

From Wikipedia On Editor & Publisher:

 

"...A 2001 survey of 350 newspapers in six states indicated that copy editors and their supervisors were more likely to read E&P than any other magazine in the journalistic trade press, with 80.6% of copy editors and 90.6% of supervisors reporting that they read it either regularly or occasionally."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_%26_Publisher ]

 

'Seattle P-I': Stop Bush, Cheney From Profiting Off Iraq War

posted: 11/26/2007

 

by: E&P Staff:

 

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should pledge not to accept any profits from the war in Iraq when they leave office, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said in an editorial Sunday.

 

"In doing so, they would set a new, higher standard of White House ethics that might foster more rational public discourse on issues of war and peace," the editorial said.

 

The P-I piece took its inspiration from Michael Masley, the perpetually e-mailing anti-war activist who calls himself the "U.S. Artist General." Masley has campaigned to force Bush to promise not to profit from military actions he authorized.

 

"But this left-wing, left-coast idea actually reaches into the heartland and history of the country," the P-I wrote. "Americans have always had a healthy skepticism about unholy influence by money and power on military and foreign policy decisions. Indeed, great presidents have voiced the same concerns when they have warned about foreign entanglements (Washington), war profiteers (FDR) or the sway of the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower)."

 

From the start, the P-I opposed what it called "the misguided Iraq war," but at the same time it said "we never much liked the 'blood-for-oil' rhetoric" of many of the war's critics.

 

"The administration could turn down some of the heat with a lifetime, no-war-profit promise," the newspaper said. "Bush's most ardent detractors (who actually might think the administration was deluded not just by neocon fantasies about promoting democracy but also by a desire to pump up profits of companies with which they have been connected) might find the chances laughably unrealistic. Perhaps, perhaps not."

 

Presidential candidates, too, should take the pledge, the paper said.

 

"Forswearing profits from war is very little to ask of someone who would be president," it wrote. "More important, anything that can ease the painful levels of distrust among people for this or future administrations is worth consideration."

 

www.editorandpublisher.com/Article/-Seattle-P-I-Stop-Bush...

 

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN --Trail Mix

--Steven T. Jones

 

Artist General's Warning: Recu$al question could be bad for Bush's political health Michael Masley has a question. It's a question he's been trying to get someone to ask for two years, and time is now running short to ask it. It's a good question, and if there were any justice in the world or democracy left in this orange-alerted country of ours, then Jim Lehrer would ask George W. Bush the question during the presidential debate Sept. 30.

 

The question is this: Will you agree never to accept any personal profits flowing from any military action you authorize or promote? Masley has been harassing journalists all over the country, trying to get them to ask it of Bush and the rest of his war cabinet, as well as John Kerry and anyone else running for an office that lets him or her participate in decisions likely to put foreigners on the receiving end of an American bullet or bomb.

 

For a Berkeley resident who makes his living as a street musician, Masley has a surprisingly long reach, spending up to 40 hours a week online, mining sources of information, and sending out entertaining and incisive e-missives under his "Artist General" nom de plume. The guy turns phrases in ways that cut to the heart of important issues, just as his question does.

 

If the question does get asked, Masley thinks Bush might do his deer-in-headlights impression, or that he'd dodge it or lie in a way that might touch off more media interest in the issue. After all, Vice President Dick Cheney has profited handsomely from actions he took as Poppy Bush's secretary of defense, most notably deciding to outsource many military functions and then becoming CEO of Halliburton, which then got the no-bid contracts to do that work.

 

Who knows, maybe mainstream journalists might even begin questioning why a war cabinet of Texas oilmen lied their way into occupying some of the most oil-rich regions of the world. Or maybe that's asking too much. (Steven T. Jones)

 

www.sfbg.com/38/53/x_trail_mix.html

 

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MICHAEL HAYDEN (Single or DOUBLE, (Or TRIPLE?!) Digit Millionaire, On Snowden:

 

"I think there's an English word that describes selling American secrets to another government, and I do think it's treason"-- huff.to/1k8rUWZ

 

RE: PORTFOLIO HYGIENE--MICHAEL HAYDEN (And Other CronyCapitalOverSeer$, Including ALL Single-And-Double-Digit- (Feinstien Is TRIPLE, BTW) Millionaires Critically "Positioned" To Rock The Tipping Points Of War & "Security"--Is There Anything You'd Be Given To "Hide" From Us, Regarding Your (Doubtless "Complicated") Personal Investment Regimes)? Would You Agree To The Proposition Of 'Portfolio Hygiene'? Is This A Reasonable Request In Our Democracy? If NOT, WHY Not? Would Your "Answer" Be YES or NO? (Or, In An A$$clown Nutshell: 'None-Of-Our-Business'?)

 

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AN 'OATH' OF MARTIAL OFFICE

 

 

WE HOLD ITS MORAL TRUTH TO BE SELF-EVIDENT,

ITS ULTIMATE WORTH IN ASKING

NOT SOLELY TO SECURE AGREEMENT

BUT TO OBLIGATE AND REMIND POWER

OF ALL DUE COMMONWEALTH

 

BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

BY THOSE IN THE WHEELHOUSE OF WAR,

THERE CAN BE NO HONORABLE RECEPTION

OR ACCEPTABLE INHERITANCE

OF PRIVATE TREASURE FROM PUBLIC BLOODSHED

 

THAT THIS QUESTION BE POSED

AND ITS POINT PRESSED AS NEEDED

 

FRAMING A MEASURE OF CHARACTER

IN THE WILLINGNESS OF MARTIAL LEADERSHIP

TO PERSONALLY SHARE IN POSSIBLE SACRIFICE--

 

ALL THE MORE APPROPRIATE IN BEING SO MUCH LESS

THAN LIFE & LIMB LOST BY THOSE SENT TO FIGHT AND DIE

 

THAT THERE CAN BE NO "OTHER PRIORITIE$" ,

NO BLESSING$ TO COUNT OR COURT

IN THE RUTHLESS CURSE OF WAR

AND NO OUTCOME TO MORE OBTAIN

THAN THE SOONEST POSSIBLE PEACE

 

THAT ANY COLLATERAL IMPULSE

TO FREE MARKET OR FAMILY FORTUNE

BE PURGED FROM THE MEANS TO THAT END

AS A VIVIDLY-BINDING MATTER OF PERSONAL HONOR,

COME WHATEVER ELSE MAY:

 

WE THE PEOPLE

DO HENCEFORTH EXPECT

 

OF PUBLIC SERVANTS EXERCISING

FATAL AUTHORITY IN OUR NAME

 

A FORMAL 'DECLARATION OF DISOWNERSHIP',

 

A FOR-THE-RECORD CONCESSION

THAT NO ENTITLEMENT EXISTS

 

TO PRESENT OR FUTURE PERSONAL PROFIT

"DEMONSTRABLY CONNECTED"

TO ANY WAR (OR BLOODSHED) AUTHORIZED, PROMOTED,

ADVANCED OR OTHERWISE

"ENGAGED ON YOUR WATCH"

 

WE THE PEOPLE HOLD OURSELVES

DESERVING OF AN EXPLANATION

 

SHOULD THE ANSWER TO THIS

"RECU$AL-FOR-LIFE" QUESTION BE "NO".

 

IF THE ANSWER IS "YES"--MARTIAL PLANNER AGREES

TO SURRENDER-ON-DEMAND SAID PROFIT

(DELIBERATE OR "UNINTENTIONAL", EXPOSED OR "DISCOVERED")

TO VETERAN BENEFIT GROUPS, COLLEGE FUNDS FOR CHILDREN

OF THE FALLEN, ETC...

 

 

--Artist General Michael Masley

 

 

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JUST-FOR-THE-RECORD----IN FUTURE ELECTIONS:

GOOD QUESTION?--WHAT HARM IN "ASKING" ?

--WHERE YOUR CANDIDATE STAND$: AGREE /

 

"YES" / "NO" / ..."HEDGE" -"DODGE"

On "Planned-For" Or "Inadvertent" [Personal} FORTUNE$ OF WAR...

 

RULE-OF-THUMB ON VOTE FOR ANY MILITARY ACTION"---Did You RECU$E Yourself?"

No? "TRU$T-Me, It's-NOT-About-Personal-Profit?"--

Then Set An Example,

ALL WHOSE VOTE WOULD TAKE US TO WAR--DEMONSTRATE It--RECU$E:

FORGO INVESTMENT ADVANTAGE? STAND UP WITH "YES"

OR STAND OUT WITH "NO"! ---GOT IT?

 

For-The-Record--Posterity Is All-Ears...

 

(Close-Cam Please: President, Presidential Candidate, Nominees FOR And Secretaries OF State, Defense, All High-Level War Cabinet Appointees--

 

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BAWK-Bawkbawk-"FEEL$GOOD!"~CHICKENHAWK--FROM "SAY WHAT?"

Posted 3-22-13 On [Doonesbury.com]:

 

"Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!"

 

—George W. Bush, during a White House videoconference call, April 6, 2004

 

-------"My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness."

 

—Tomas Young --March 2013

 

---Into The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death,

Speaking Truth To Soulless Power, From Majestically-Absolute Moral High Ground:

www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/3/21/exclusive_tomas_young...

 

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THE MOST CHICKEN-HAWKED WARPATH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: TENTH ANNIVERSARY "COMMEMORATION" bit.ly/1y7Fcu7

 

Short Measures Of Poetic Justice For The Red-Handedest Playa$ oF Our Time

 

[--CYA GROUPTHINK--PNAC Gallery+Skull-'n-Boners+Bohemian-Grovers=CRONYPALOO$A

--All-For-One, One-For-All--]

 

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'RICHWITE WAR PHARISEES, Game-Skin Free':

 

"WARNING" MUSIC VIDEO / BARRY CLEVELAND w/ THE ARTIST GENERAL

 

FROM THE LATTER DAZE OF THE CHENEY-BUSH REGIME:

MUSIC VIDEO ON NEO-CONNED CHICKENHAWKED WARPATH:

BARRY CLEVELAND & THE ARTIST GENERAL: "WARNING"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPuuPf4gkDg&feature=player_em..

 

"WARNING" Music Vid Review: bit.ly/1s3Ez1Y

 

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THE RED BANDWAGON

(apologies to William Carlos Williams / The Red Wheel Barrow)

 

Too Much Depend$ Upon

The Red Bandwagon

Glazed With Bloodshed

Beside The Gray Chickenhawks.

 

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Injust WAR-

(apologies to e.e. cummings / In just-)

 

(They Have A: DREAM) [you better believe it!]

 

In just-

WAR

when the world is crud-lu$ious

the little lame duhbloonman

 

"whistle$" far and "wee"

and jerryandscooter come unrecu$ed

from hedgefunds and piracie$

 

to the wide-open arms of "More"

 

when the WAR is win'-fall WONderful

 

the queer ole duhbloonman "whistle$"

far and "wee"

 

and condiandkarl come $ideways

from stoploss and waterboard

 

it's WAR

and the red-footed

duhbloonman

"whistle$" far and "weeeeeee"

 

 

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WE ARE THE CHICKENHAWK$

(apologies to T. S. Elliot / We Are The Hollow Men)

 

We Are The ChickenHawk$,

We Are The Neocon$,

VisionThing Filled With Gall,

ALA$, Our Tried Choices, When Taken Altogether,

Are Ghastly And Treasonous

--BIGtime--

"Through-The-Looking-Glass"...

 

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THE SECOND SUCCUMBING

(Apologies to W.B. Yeats / The Second Coming}

 

Turning and Spinning in the Widening Mire

The Congress cannot hear the Precedent;

Things fall apart; the Party cannot hold;

Sheer Conarchy is loosed upon Democracy,

 

The freedom-gouging tide is loosed, and everywhere

The Standing of America is downed;

The best convictions are too polite, while the worst

Are full of obtuse intensity;

Surely some Reason is at hand.

 

Yet there instead, the Patriot “Act”!

The “Patriot” Act!

 

Hardly are those words out

When an Orwelled image out of Posse Comitatus

Troubles my sight:

 

Somewhere in the martial curfews of this seminal Treachery

A shape with Oz-lion body and the head of a borne-again fool:

An ‘Aye’ blank and clueless as the GOP itself

Is moving its leaky Trojan Agenda, but who knew?

While overhearing guffaws & careless cheering

from the belly of the beast, that all about it now should

gather threats of patriotic fillibuster, lighting & passing torchfire.

 

…Wounded cowardice drops again; but indignant courage

finds unexpected stride, in the edifying irony

that a Sitting President was on his Game after all,

as if afloat, fishing! entirely untorn,

glued from National Nightmare to “My Pet Goat.”

 

And what Hellbent Vision Thing,

its Truthless Power come round at last,

$louches towards Liberty to be Borne?

 

--Artist General / C2007 Michael Masley

 

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9-11--NEVER FORGET: ON WHOSE (FOREWARNED!) "WATCH" bit.ly/Yonbpe

 

BenGHAZI?!---STFU!---DRY-DRUNK HISTORY. BARREL'S BOTTOM: Your Moment Of WEN: bit.ly/13Yebv0

 

MORE DOUG MINKLER ART: dminkler.com

 

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