Year End Riddle: Who Is He?

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He’s stoned high on himself; drunk on raw power
High on his high horse; holed up in high tower

He cedes high road to reign; his reins: ball and chain
Seeds storm clouds with filth, “green” eyes downpour rain

He stows stone beneath sternum; rocks between ears
Boasts high on hog’s life; toasts Fascist pig peers

Brutal Cops, Nazis, Klansmen, are best buds he treasures
Feeding off their vile vibe; he cops pervy pleasures

Depictions / descriptions; depressed regions; war-torn
All human suffering and death; are that sicko’s porn

Triple X starlets role play; become cheating cad’s crushes
Their bejeweled, plastic bods; afford him gold rushes

He shuns “raincoats” and masks, that fend off infections
In both daydreams and nightmares; he plots insurrections

His rallies roll out; all the known nasty “isms”
That fracture society; with too tough to fix schisms

He beds down, best bud bedlam; they cohabit and mate
They hate to make love; yet, love to make hate

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Postcard Op-Ed

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What unwell thoughts lurk in the collective mind of the national
public health agency; a.k.a. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
They actually allowed Delta Air Lines to hijack wise Coronavirus
Protocols; to halve infected workers’ Quarantine Time (from ten
days down to five) thereby prioritizing fiscal over physical health!
Even while Delta & Omicron variants are rampaging planet-wide!
Some apropos wordplay doth come to mind. Were we to slur the
acronym CDC, it sounds like we’re calling out their Seedy Deceit.

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Yawwwnnn… Uh… Excuse Me…

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Since late November, my landline’s answering machine has been working overtime. Nearly lost within the phalanx of telemarketers, robocallers, interest rate slashers and revenuer scammers, has been Sharon, a former classmate, who’s taken on the task of organizing our 50th high school class reunion.

Admittedly, even her mentioning her maiden name had failed to ring a bell. I had to blow off a thick layer of yearbook dust just to stir a vague recollection. Had I actually picked up the handset, that would’ve been our very first conversation, ever.

Well, since then, she’s called two more times; perhaps more, considering all the logged, no-message-left hang-ups. Hmm, might her persistence indicate she’s been encountering other classmates’ yawns, too? I dunno.

So, why my own reluctance to talk to her? Well… let’s just say that not everyone winds up with fuzzy, fond memories of their K thru 12 public school experience.

Unless one has a yen for PAIN, who’d ever yearn for the “good old days” of being subjected to snooty, snotty, yer-not-good-enough-to-be-in-our-clique ‘tudes and, worse yet, getting bullied into prolonged stretches of emotionally devastating, social isolation.

Granted, I don’t believe Sharon to have been an ally of my tormentors; she may have even been oblivious to all that crap. While I am tempted to return her calls to clue her in, truth be told, I’d much rather have her equate my telephone silence to my no-show intentions. Having yet to attend even one class reunion, why would I start now?

For fleeting moments, I’ve even entertained the notion that some of those bullies may have outgrown their odious, immature personae. Yet, why risk facing down further disappointments; indignities? To flesh that out, who’d ever want to hobnob with Mister Mike, who I’m sure still sports his permanently plastered on, I-know-something-you-don’t-and-you’re gonna die, menacing, ear-to-ear sneer.

Transcending all of that psychodrama enters the coronavirus, marching in lockstep with the ever-growing phalanx of deadly, batcrap contagious, cohort variants. Who knows, the “festivities” could all play out as a Zoom Reunion Yawner.

There’s no way in Hell that this 50th reunion will be 2022’s “to die for” event… well… unless Covid-19 crashes the party.

And ya gotta know that bugger WILL be eagerly RSVP’ing its YES!

Soooooo, Sharon, if you, somehow, get to read this, know that I’ll be RSVP’ing my NO!

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What the Hell Happened?

As I start typing this, 8 minutes into the 5 a.m. hour, both NPR stations “within earshot” of my radio are unable to access their network content. Their broadcast towers ARE active, but, they’re only transmitting dead air.

Hmm, were Donald J. Trump still calling all the shots, I’d be deeply concerned. After all, Phase One of any Fascist’s coup d’état is cancel culture; e.g. sever communication, silence the truth, etc.

Hmm, come to think of it, since President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Attorney General Merrick Garland (impotent leaders all) have utterly failed to hold perpetrator / traitor Trump accountable and imprison (or institutionalize) him for his January 6th attack of the U.S. Capitol, that X-prez is still calling all the shots. Ergo…

If not today, Trump and his private army could easily burn down America tomorrow… or maybe just in time for NPR’s All Things Considered non-broadcast to not cover that breaking news, this afternoon.

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Whew… crisis averted? It’s now thirteen minutes into the 5 a.m. hour and my NPR affiliates… CORRECTION… only one of these stations has restored a connection to NPR’s Morning Edition.

Nonetheless, tyrant Trump is still calling all the shots.

I’m curious as to how widespread this morning’s mysterious NPR outage was, So, if you had the same prob, or have experienced similar issues re accessing other aired and streamed liberal content, post a comment to briefly describe what happened.

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Delta-Delta-Omicron: Quick Limerick

Pox on the Delta Air Lines money junkies
Their airborne Delta and Omicron bunkies
To their ghoulish delight
The foolish rule book rewrite
Authored by C-D-C quacks; their owned flunkies

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“We said we wanted to hear from medical professionals on the best guidance for quarantine, not from corporate America advocating for a shortened period due to staffing shortages. The CDC gave a medical explanation about why the agency has decided to reduce the quarantine requirements from 10 to five days, but the fact that it aligns with the number of days pushed by corporate America is less than reassuring.” [Read More Here]

President Sara Nelson • Association of Flight Attendants-CWA International • 12/28/2021

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in sickness and in health…

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Haiku:

Original Version:

Pandemic Schism
Cynical jeer Clinical
Stalemate’s Pinnacle

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Vice Versa Version:

Pandemic Schism
Clinical jeer Cynical
Stalemate’s Pinnacle

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Optimistic Version:

Pandemic Accord
Clinical coax Cynical
Stalemate Averted

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Six-Word Story Format:

Stalemate’s pinnacle: Cynical vs. Clinical combatants!

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Analogy / Mathematical Terms:

Pandemic : Politics = Clinical : Cynical
(Reads: “Pandemic is to Politics as Clinical is to Cynical.”)

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Addendum:

Try all the above after subbing in “Critical” for “Cynical”.

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Donny’s Donnybrook: Quick Limerick

Let’s Mend Trump’s Torn Up Nation

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Empty suit prez’s mood swings / alternations
Drove him to sow / sew ill-suited alterations
Deeds of that daft, Traitor / “Tailor”
Need to be punished by Jailor
Fitting end to his Jan. 6th altercations

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Vocationally Counseling Santa

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Seeing how Christmas Morn ’21 has arrived; how global toy distributor, Santa Claus, is now calling it a day (or is that a night?), it’s not too soon for him to be seeking gainful employment for the remaining 364 days. After resting up for a couple of weeks, the time will be ripe for him to build upon his good name. By inserting a liberal dose of wordplay (admittedly aided / abetted by poetic license) here are a few new, potential business ventures he should seriously look into.

• Santa Overdraws ~ The savvy bearded one, having kept his toy distribution biz’s books our of the red for eons, he’d be a natch at balancing nations’ and corporations’ budgets; ordinary citizens’ checkbooks. too. (Aside: Are you paying any attention, DJT?)
• Santa Guffaws ~ In a world full of hopelessness (the pandemic, climate change fueled monster storms / resultant homelessness, etc.) he could pop up, when least expected, to counsel the survivors. To be sure, a few of his judiciously sprinkled in, apropos, infectious “Ho – Ho – Hos” could only help matters, right?
• Santa Thaws ~ His jovial demeanor and inborn bent as a master adjudicator (i.e. his adeptness at determining who’s naughty and nice), would prove him the invaluable, consummate diplomat; e.g., one who specializes as a marriage counselor / peace treaty and contract negotiator / settler of labor / management disputes, etc.
• Santa Schnoz ~ This draws on his heretofore unmentioned medical training as a plastic surgeon; specializing in nose jobs; For anyone doubting his abilities, he could refer them to his pièce de résistance, Rudolph, who could offer up a (literally) glowing testimonial to Santa’s talent.
• Santa Claws ~ We already know old St. Nick is a superhero, BUT, few are aware of his primo super power; namely, his fingernails morphing into take no prisoners talons; their emergence triggered wherever / whenever he witnesses fascistic, oppressors of the masses. Credit his superpowers to having flown, since time immemorial, in close proximity to / downwind from reindeer Rudolph’s shiny red, radioactive nose.

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And They Lived Woefully Ever After?

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Uh… Merry Christmas?

Granted, the following discussion is not aesthetically agreeable with such a holiday. However, considering the looming societal upheaval, once the deplorable conditions do get trotted out and take root, who’ll ever, again, be in a festive mood? This doth distill down to a matter of now or never. How you choose to react, of course, is totally up to you. But, should you opt-in to never, it could very well be last time you do have the freedom of choice.

So much for the intro. For those who are still with me. let’s soldier onward…

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While it’s to be expected that our world’s malefactors would attempt to deny Americans our freedom, what’s utterly astounding is how it’s now The Latest Rage for such threats to be of domestic origin.

My gawd, how can anyone, who has ever (presumably) enjoyed living an unfettered life, wake up one sunshiny morn and yearn for the dank, dark storm clouds of oppression? To do everything in their power to install a smothering, asphyxiating, fascistic régime?

And speak of the devil…

Folks, we’re now a scant dozen days out from the one year anniversary of smothering, asphyxiating, fascistic, narcissistic Donald J. Trump’s attempted (fortunately stopped dead in its tracks) coup d’état.

The only things worse than that, are both he and his cultists are [1] not receiving the maximum punishment they are due and, as such, [2] are not done with us yet; continue to plot the toppling of America’s precious, nearly two-and-one-half-century-young democracy.

My gawd, consider all the past, vast numbers of Americans, who so valiantly and selflessly charged onto the battlefields; made the ultimate sacrifice. These sobering death toll stats say it all…

• 25,000 (Revolutionary War)
• 625,000 (Civil War)
• 116,516 (World War I)
• 405,319 (World War II)
• 1,171,835 (Total Fatalities)

Their will to preserve, protect and defend the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness had been programmed deep within them; right down to their very DNA.

To truly honor them, we MUST NEVER cave in / allow ourselves to be assimilated into the Trumpian collective.

OK… OK… I DO get it…

Anti-American loser Donny and his Anti-American, loser supporters absolutely abhor liberty; the mere thought of it makes ‘em want to puke; maybe even crap their pants… BUT…

Must they drag down the rest of society with ‘em? Just so they can cop that subjugator / subjugatee buzz? Can’t these fascist junkies dope up privately… domestically… really domestically; oh… say… settle for wedding and bedding an abusive partner? Why don’t they simply set up a bridal registry (list their desired torturing paraphernalia), exchange vows and live together, woefully ever after, till death do they part?

Now, while that’d likely be fine and dandy for them…

Damn it, I CANNOT and ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT live my life like that! Hell, that’s not living at all!

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3 to 7 “Shopping Days” Left Till What?

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20% of Stateside Republicans still believe that Donald J. Trump will be reinstated / reinstalled in the Oval Office by year’s end; in spite of the fact that there’s nary a syllable, within the entire U.S. Constitution, to make such a POTUS switcheroo a doable deed / done deal.

That this salient, legal point has yet to dissuade them could mean they’ve…

a. Failed to read/comprehend the Constitution
b. Flipped off every law that gets in their way
c. Fallen head-over-heels in lust with Donny
d. All of the above

Regardless of how we “a-b-c-d” assess these asses, it means, as of my blog posting time, they’ve got a scant 7 days prior to their year end deadline; well, actually only 3 if they intend ot party hearty on Christmas Eve / Day and New Year’s Eve / Day.

Yep, 3 to 7 days to… to… to… to do what?

Well, it’s that “what” aspect that’s the truly scary part.

With No Constitutional Mechanism to crowbar Trump’s considerable ass back into the Oval Office chair, that’d mean these MAGA Maniacs would be left to their own devious devices. And, this past January 6th amply demonstrated just how far they’d go to muscle in minority rules.

Were they to prevail by year’s end, they’d be mucking up freedom; the very freedom that America’s valiant, selfless troops had fought its Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the two World Wars to preserve, protect and defend.

Putting a philosophical / psychological spin on this…

I do try to remind myself that, under NORMAL circumstances, most of what we humans worry about never actually happens.

Yet, what does a word, such as NORMAL, even mean anymore; in view of [1] the looming, perhaps irreversible climate change disaster, [2] the crawling with multiple viral variants, seemingly endless, global pandemic, [3] more to the point, the totally ABNORMAL, January 6, 2021 first Insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol, AND [4] its primary perpetrator, Traitor Trump, still unpunished / still at large / still determined to retake / take out the White House (come January 20, 2025; if not sooner?).

Well, at least with only 3 to 7 days left for these Anti-Americans to “shop around” for another attempted coup, it won’t take long for We the Champions of Freedom, to discover if these Trumpian Enemies of America conquer or cower.

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