Men's Hearts

What if you woke up one day to discover that telling the truth got you one thousand+ days in a cell and nobody could habeus your corpus anywhere. Then what? Would your name be Bradley Manning, or a different one?

John Kiriakou got 30 months in prison for talking about the torture. The people who actually committed the bush/obama sanctioned crime of torture get a free pass.

This is the kind of government we really have.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/30/ex_cia_agent_whistleblower_john_kiriakou

I bet Dick Cheney could have outed a CIA agent such as Valerie Plame, or even shot somebody in the face, and absolutely nothing would have been done about it. Isn't the hypocrisy of double standards beautiful this winter as it refracts off the evil in men's hearts?

Gun Violence and Greed

Gabrielle Gifford's handwritten testimony at the Senate
Judiciary Committee on gun violence

The NRA's enemy list:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022282291
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How successful have the do less than nothing republicans in Congress been at making big government smaller?

What a coincidence that your question comes on a day when republicans in Congress are doing less than nothing. They have had occasional and temporary success at shrinking government down to minute sizes to fit on probes and on examination tables and in the middle of relationships. They have failed at the education, health,
job, and shelter portions of reality.

To what do you attribute their complete lack of success?

To selfish greed, but mostly stupidity.
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"Tea Party Winter Is Coming" by Joel Bleifuss
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2859774701.html

Squalling Paulies

After more than a decade of malicious self-vandalism, the formerly grand but now just old (g)OP is first in need of an extreme vitamin regime, then a heart transplant, and finally one continuous lifelong psycho therapy session to learn and practice progress in a co-operative society of responsible humans.

Come watch Sportabris! See men on steroids slice off body parts. See it over and over again for the sake of our squalling Paulies.

French Mali Folly (Francais Mali Folie)

Horses' patooties emoted some hearings
Expended the wrong tone and wrong-headed jeerings
Losers unqualified to lead
Still strident in their screed
Waiting for Spring to resume their mass leerings.
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Polly, Molly, and Holly
Took a sidetrip to Bali
They dreamt of Salvatore Dali, by golly
After discussing the French Mali folly.

Losers may never win unless they cheat
Even with all the bribe money from k street
Honest advice
Was put on ice
So fill up with mutated corn, soy and wheat

Sticky Puns

Pick up chuck
Chases the buck
Upside down
With a frown
Settles for a lame duck.

Get a f_ck
With some luck
Be a hound
Under world renowned
End up in the muck.

Bribe the puck
Hiding in each tuck
Penny's not sound
How about a pound?
Makes for a snarly yuck.
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First you take a creative disaster class, Hubris 101. Then you create an environment that percolates with planned failures. Hand pick one. Attach it to your bleeder board and remove all life force in a most painful way. Siphon the spoils off into gold-lined barf bags and the most classiest spitoons. Look over your shoulder while saying "Who? Me?" And then go skinny-dipping in the Gulf of Mexico, with a lunch afterwards at some place like the Marriott. Haven't you been banned from the St. Regis? Put some vaseline on your teeth. You need a break before doing it all again.
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Jesus and Guns
Flamethrowers and Nuns
P B and J
U B O K
Serve up some sticky Puns

All Of The Time

Did you know that one of their attorneys says the very wealthiest heirs are too powerful to have equality? It is why they cheat all of the time. Did you know that google is a big repressive jerk, especially when the subject matter is the newest scapegoat of modern society called organized labor? It is why it cheats all of the time.

Martin Luther King

Suppressed Truth

War materiel for the totally uncouth
Many are the accidents in the gun show booth
Militia policing the slaves
Phony home of the braves
Carrying the weight of lies and suppressed truth

Too Big Fuzz

Eliminating the preposition from your vocabulary demonstrates a graduated willingness to change a silk purse into a pig's ear. Bravo!
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A piece of platinum that never was
Pseudo reality is the continual buzz
All this crazy talk
Launders the perp walk
Where'd we store the too big fuzz?

Good Health Habits

Cerberus is a multi-headed watchdog of Hades whose mother is half woman half snake and dad is a fire-breathing giant. Brother dear is a hellhound. Cerberus is the new owner of the Jewel food stores in Illinois. Good times ahead for both employees and customers.
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This year's flu shot is 62% effective. Even with the vaccine, 4 out of 10 people will get sick anyway. That is not good enough. Are your odds any better if you do the following?

Too Big For That?

AIG's Mr G

Baits & switches, takes a flea

Worth a try

At least a 2-ply lie

Where is his gold for free?
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Carmen Ortiz has already reached the level of her incompetence. That's makes her a perfect candidate for advancement in the (g)OP. Way to go, Carmen!

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SOPA SOPA
Deals and dopa
Over-reaching gropa
Who can copa
With Enlightened hopa
Government mopa
Caught in her own ropa
SOPA SOPA
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If the government says a crook is too big to fail, but if the crook is persona non grata with We the People because making money by actively working against Us is not decent or lawful, is the crook also too big to have his US properties auctioned off and then be deported, maybe to where all the crook's factories are? Too big for that?

It's Own Petard

Old is new team neotard
Donned its decrepit leotard,
Got cracked by a door,
After hitting the floor.
Another team hoisted on its own petard.

In Common

What do DiNozzo senior, the Fonz, and the guy who sells bath tubs that lock sitting seniors in dirty water until it drains before being allowed to exit, what do those three have in common?

Do Hyenas Really Laugh?

Dear Cardinal G, You are looking more and more like the pope. That is not natural, or at least not as natural as heterosexual divorce or seminarian on seminarian love or your organization using money to cover up sexual abuse of every kind. That is the non-fiction our world deals with. Try to think from within the positive of power of love, G, rather than from the smelly place of your old and stinky rules.
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"Nothing cooking on food trucks" in Chicago, and thank goodness certain big restaurants have bribe money to give out to pols who eagerly accept.
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What is disaster capitalism all about if it is not about the new bored board of the sinking hole, which includes a money-laundering robber baron for the stealing and life draining, a toy rodent maker to break the legs of workers with food aspirations, and some f_x without thank you ma'ams to downgrade the news into divisive lies? Do hyenas really laugh?

"I am a Witness to History"

"I am a Witness to History" by Kitty Werthmann, News Vine, 

http://deborazahn.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16286100-i-am-a-witness-to-history-by-kitty-werthmann

"After America, there is no place to go."