Poetry by position

Ode to me

I am swift,
and so strong.
So I am very impotent.


Today’s athlete/poet is a three-time Pro Bowl™ Defensive End

Tell me about the wabbit

"I remember landing under sniper fire,"

-Hillary Clinton

The sound is not like any other and the closest version of it in nature is a Bumblebee, but the Bumblebee never even begins to approach speeds of 1000 meters per second, which is pedestrian for rifle fire. It seems as though you can feel it as it passes by and if you are truly close enough, you actually do feel as well as hear it pass you by. Maybe someone in the latter stages of Alzheimer's might forget, but yours truly, who is in the earliest stages of that dreaded disease, I still remember what it felt like on that day.

Those who have had the misfortune of being in a zone where bullets may fly past at any moment have a similar level of recall. It is most likely that they will be dead before they forget the cloud of fear that was hanging over them during those exact moments. I have had the misfortune of experiencing both situations while hunting in my youth. Time seems to stall and stop for you when you find yourself in such a predicament.

I don’t think anyone would describe Hillary Clinton as a woman with dulled senses or intellect. Her supporters however now have the undesirable task of figuring out whether Dementia or Alzheimer's are riddling the mind of their beloved candidate.

If those two diseases do not plague Hillary her supporters then have to ask themselves if she might have scheduled a vacation trip away from sanity. Personally, I think most of her supporters would prefer to consider Hillary as being “touched” if you will, rather than confront the possibility that she would be so deliberately inaccurate in front of rolling cameras..

You see my experience with these situations was well over forty years ago and Hillary’s recent recanting of statements made about sniper fire on that tarmac in Bosnia, was an event which occurred well, way back in 1996. Pardon my math, but I believe that was only twelve years ago.

You know when your Uncle Earl tells a crazy story at Thanksgiving, most people just roll their eyes and say to themselves,

“That’s just Uncle Earl”.

This may be quite true, but your Uncle Earl isn’t running for president.

He just won’t follow the script

I’m sure that most people have encountered this problem before, you know, the one where you have a costume wearing catlike dude, where no matter what you do, they repeatedly refuse to follow the script.

Maybe I would not have had these problems if I had decided to work with a costumed dog, as you know dogs are supposed to be loyal and good at following directions. Not at all unlike most people working on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

I try so hard to work the script, to clean it up where it is as coherent as possible, usually suffering through at least three rewrites, and then this costume clown gets out in front of the camera and completely wings it with his dialogue. He could care less what he’s doing to butcher the narrative, because this cat doesn’t give a damn about telling the story.

He doesn’t care that someone agonized over the script that he has just tossed out the window, nor does he give a damn that somebody has to come along behind him and edit the entire mess. No matter, he just charges off, he just forges ahead, and says what ever he darn well pleases.

Well enough about my problems, I’m sure most of you have problems in your own house with a costumed cat. I am going to take the rest of the week off to finish up the healing process and figure out this whole third person thing that seems to have taken me over completely. Here is the latest video from Lucious:

Stand up America, you are peeing on yourself

What an appropriate title for today’s video selection, as well as the perfect summary for the state of America during an election year. Election years are a wonderful thing if you’re one of those people who gets your jollies from driving by the scene of an accident before the police have a chance to sanitize the scene.

Election years not only prove just how wonderfully gullible and narrow-minded massive chunks of the population are, but also how crassly manipulative and outwardly ruthless our leaders feel that they can safely demonstrate themselves to be in public.

Omnipotent Poobah is fond of saying the people get what they deserve. While I am not exactly in that camp yet, I am leaning close enough to smell the steaks that they are grilling in that camp. They smell pretty good too however this old geezer can no longer eat meat

Here is my loving spoof of citizen stand:



Here is perhaps one of the funniest citizenstand videos:

one-night stand

Here is a completely insane person sending in a video response to citizenstand. Warning, this guy is very likely to be holding an Oscar in his hands soon, as well as very unlikely to be invited to dinner with Dick Cheney ever.

Update on Steve Corbett of WILK in Wilkes Barre

If you have read my previous post on Steve Corbett of WILK in Wilkes Barre, you cannot help but notice the sorry state of affairs with the fourth estate in this country. I talked about this while I was writing Less Idiots, and have no desire to extensively work the subject again, but cannot avoid pointing out the most important message in the entire matter. The status of race relations in this country is a critical subject and should not be ignored, but by far the more serious issue is just how intertwined our government and the media have become.

If you stop for just one second and consider how much money is made by the media off of campaign advertisements, it is entirely obvious that they have an arrangement that is not entirely healthy for the group known formerly as “We the People”. It is almost as if our politicians have to pay mass media a toll charge before than can get access to walking up the backs of the American people.

Then we have the added insult of the same media making political endorsements. When you see clearly these endorsements have less to do with what the media thinks of the candidate’s platform, and more to do with what the media thinks their audience wants to see, you start feeling really queasy.

We are in the septic tank America, and the latch has been closed and locked behind us.

Don’t light a match.

Cover your ass with WILK and Steve Corbett

Steve Corbett of WILK in Wilkes Barre was a big help in getting my Duncan Hunter video off the ground and I can never thank him enough for that assistance. However, anyone who has followed me long enough knows that nobody is a sacred cow, nobody gets a free pass, and that includes Steve.

If you were to listen to Corbett's program lately you will hear him railing about Barack Obama smoking. You might think this was because sadly, Steve lost two parents to smoking. However I overheard a call on his show where the caller warned about all of the white supremacists that were in our military. The caller said he had nothing against Obama, but “was afraid of what would happen with these white supremacists should Obama be elected president”.

Steve said nothing to respond to this caller. He should have pointed out how little the caller thought about our own young men and women who defend this country. Steve should have stood up for them and reminded the caller that many of our troops cannot stand George Bush, but still loyally serve their country, even die for it. Steve just laughed and said nothing further.

A man calls in and accuses our own military of having elements that would be ready to execute a coup, just like we were some banana republic, in the event Obama won, and Steve says nothing. What a grotesque insult to the people who defend our country, and Steve says nothing. Steve is a well known staunch defender of American veterans.

Maybe it would not be surprising to you that Steve Corbett openly backs Hillary Clinton, but it should be. Hillary stands a better chance at winning Megamillions lotto than she does winning her party’s nomination. Why so much energy for Hillary and so much heat for Obama from a man who professes to loathe George W. Bush? Steve Corbett is an obviously intelligent guy, why would he let such large objects fall through the cracks?

That is because Steve Corbett is little different than Rush Limbaugh who makes his living pandering to an on-air audience. An audience where the majority would not vote for a black man if you held a gun to their heads, but an audience that is mostly white and democrat. Why in the world would all of this occur you ask?

John McCain has pledged to continue the war in Iraq for as long as one hundred years if he feels it’s required. John McCain has staunchly defended Bush’s tax breaks for the wealthy and pledged to continue them if he is elected. Even with the economy going in the toilet and government debt going through the ceiling. The only thing McCain has not promised to continue from George Bush’s regime is allowing the Evangelicals to continue to terrorize the American people on gay marriage and abortion.

Bully for that, but John McCain sounds like the absolute last person a loyal democrat would vote for, that is of course unless that democrat is blindly racist against blacks, you know, sorta like Geraldine Anne Ferraro. Truth be told, I think she is deliberately playing up white fear and working it just like Corbett for Hillary, but that is just wishful thinking, just me hoping that both Ferraro and Corbett don't actually believe the junk they are feeding out.

So if you are a loyal democrat who realizes that they cannot vote for Obama in the next election because of deeply riddling prejudices, you have to find some way to justify voting for McCain. In doing so, you will latch onto any reason you can, so you don’t look bad to your friends. As a result, Obama is “not old enough”, “not experienced enough”, “he’s a smoker”, “he has a crazy preacher”, “white people with guns in the army will revolt”, “he gives great speeches but what can he actually do”, and even more silly-ass considerations.

You will not see these loyal democrats asking what Obama says he will do and looking at his voting record to see what he has actually done in the past. That is because if you focused on those things, Obama looks like a great candidate. Obama however is black and we still have huge problems with black and white prejudice in this country. Even in the DNC we have a massive problem with race, it’s not just a republican problem.

Steve Corbett knows his audience well, and he knows exactly where they are going. This is why he is backing the dead horse that is Hillary and attacking Obama for smoking cigarettes. Steve Corbett’s audience has opinions that many fearful white people have all over this country, and Steve knows them well. Steve Corbett is already ready to justify to his audience why they should vote for John McCain, because he knows that is where they will be after the convention.

Steve Corbett has decided he would like to keep his job. Cannot blame him for that, can you? I probably would agree if I were not one of the last real journalists, and we take the heat for telling the truth. Sorry Steve, I am not a real reverend with my own church. In our last conversation you were seeking a moral view from a preacher, but instead you just got one from a journalist.

Steve, if you wind up backing Obama I will publicly apologize to you. I will be thrilled to be proven wrong on this.

Lurid, vile, disgusting and tasteless.

Coming tonight at the space right below this post, the most deliberately offensive video possible will be brought to you by Reverend Gisher. Hide the children and send the politically correct crowd out for dinner and a show. Tell them to stop off and have a few drinks after the show. Don’t let them get anywhere near the Internet till this horrendous video rolls off the page. You have been warned.




Special News Update:

President Bush noted today that the Iraq war was “longer and more costly than anticipated," but stated that things were going better than the last time he said things were going better, which of course was better than the time before that, when things were going better than they were way back when he first said things were going better, which was not too long after he had told the country that “the mission was accomplished” in Iraq.

The White House did not apologize for the grotesque length of the highly successful and lengthy war, but did feel it necessary to apologize for the length of the previous run-on sentence by stating, "We do tend to stretch things out a bit”.

In related news, results from a poll conducted this week have confirmed precisely how many Americans are serious abusers of narcotics. According to the poll, 68% of registered Republicans feel George Bush is doing a great job.

Boycotting the Chinese Olympics and one weenie cart

So you do not like what China is doing in Tibet right now? You truly believe that the international Olympic Committee was corrupted and bribed into allowing the Chinese to host the Olympics. You really want to do something about this, but are not sure what to do. Let me help you out.

There is a web site, a blog, called Less People Less Idiots, and on this web site is evidence of one man, (actually just two people, but who knows where in the hell Patrick is now?) shaking down advertisers, and pulling them away from Youtube. Youtube is a broadcaster by the way, just like an old fashioned one, and in the financial model they were using before Google bought them, Youtube totally survived by income derived from advertising.

The Olympics totally survive through the broadcasting of their festivities by networks, good old-fashioned networks like NBC who will be hosting the Olympics for the Chinese this year. NBC is broadcasting the Olympics in this country, and each country will have their own network that receives a feed from the central Chinese host. Each one of these networks, just like NBC, survives from the money they make from commercial advertisements. No commercials, no programming, no commercials, no Olympics. No bullshit bathe-in-glory-festival for the ruthless dictators that rule China with an iron fist.

It’s that simple. You go after the advertisers, they leave the networks, and China is left to sit there with a cable feed that nobody wants.

Look people, the system we are living in has become so totally corrupted, so corporatized and monitized, that you can no longer affect change as one person, at least using the methods that originally built this government and made America into the giant it truly was. It is no different with regard to the Chinese hosting the Olympics this year. You have to work within the system that exists now, not waste your time flailing away using methods that long ago, lost their power.

Sure you can write the IOC and complain, and you should do so, but as in the case with the elections in the United States this year, to effect any real change, you’ve got to do more than just sending an e-mail, or making a phone call, or even voting. You have to go after the money.

You pull advertisers away from the networks that broadcast the Olympics, you shut down the money flow, and thereby shut down the information flow out of China. It’s that simple. It just requires the dedicated effort of a tiny few.

What do you want, do you want to succeed or fail? Go after the money if you want to succeed.



Editor’s note: I posted this column solely because my beloved Mary Matalin Gisher is gearing up to go after the IOC for making the truly criminal selection of China as a host site for the 2008 Olympics. I am fully behind her effort, but as an activist, I AM SO COMPLETELY RETIRED, so much so, that this post is all the support even Mary Matalin is going to squeeze out of me. I did more than enough for every damn cause out there with Less Idiots than anyone else ever will, that is if any of them ever wake up and realize it.

P.S. For all of you suit and tie clowns out there that still think financially intertwining with China will force them to behave I have two words for you:

Neville Chamberlin

P.S.S. for all my friends out there hoping the democrats will change things, good luck with that. Further, if one street weenie vendor gets blown up in NYC, McCain will have no trouble taking down an already deeply divided party. One weenie cart will take you guys down. ONE. LOSERS!

P.S.S.S. I should be back to full movie making strength within another week, thanks for being so patient. I am going to go lie back on the couch and rest while I grumble now.

T not on the front

T, when not used on the front of a word is a lovely letter normally found in many wholesome words like Spitzer and cunt.

T not on the front.

Everyone seems to be loading up on this digital trickery stuff, but this guy, he has the timing of the Gods.

God takes a huge dump on Mike Huckabee

(CNN) --St. Peter, a top spokesangel for God, flatly denied that God had ever aided former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in his bid for the Republican presidential race. “That little pious inbred punk never got a single vote resulting from anything God ever did” St. Peter stated firmly in his press conference this morning.

St. Peter asserted, “We know he continuously shot his mouth off about miracle results at the polls during earlier victories in the primaries, but as in the case with most evangelicals, Huckabee has apparently not adequately read his bible; God does not come down and plow your fields for you, even though God now owns a TiVo. God could care less about politics, as he already has enough trouble with politics within the Catholic Church. Frankly, God would like to see his followers more concerned with his kingdom, than they now are with hucksters who take their votes, and then never visit the trailer park again.”

When asked by reporters if God had ever backed a candidate for president, St. Peter referenced William Jennings Bryan, but noted God did not back him, nor was he fond of Bryan’s stance on evolution by saying, “God did not give you a brain so you could put it in idle mode and wait for the cerebral tow truck to come along and drag you through life.” St. Peter added, “When you look at Bryan’s platform though, it made sense for God’s children, this stuff they are backing now is entirely favorable only to the country club/ silver spoon set. Other than the Lutherans, we cannot figure how the Republicans ever got a single vote from any of God’s children. You’ll have to ask Lucifer about that one.”


Editors note: Reverend Gisher is recovering from pneumonia so this piece is about all you will get for a few days at least. You can forget about new films for probably another week.