Month: March 2017

 

The poem posted yesterday,
Detailing my assumptions on
Where KJ-un’s real goals might lay
He balks at being put upon

Kim is vicious in his place
Killed his generals, one was bad,
Then in Feb, no sense disgrace
He killed half-brother Kim Jong-nam

So, what should be our strategy
Our goals related to Kim’s aims
For years our goal, disastrously,
Was halt his nuke ambition claims

My path proposed is radical
Rejecting State Department norms
I think it’s far more practical
Unprejudiced by concepts worn

Tomorrow, later in the day
I’ll post as COMMENTS to this verse
In  outline what I have to say
And you decide if better / worse

3/19/17

 

Kim Jong-un’s prepared for war
Some doubt his rationality
Each passing year, he’s ready more
His goal reveals his sanity

A uniform peninsula
No North, no South, Korea whole
No foreign force, no DMZ
All under Kim Jong-un’s control

How to achieve this lofty aim?
The Super Powers feed him lies
Gaddafi bought into their game
Removed his nukes, ‘fore long he dies

He must improve technologies
To threaten South and East and West
With increased capabilities
They’ll have to treat him with respect

In walks Sec. Rex Tillerson
Espousing Pres. Obama’s line
We’ll do whatever need be done
If that won’t work, then force is fine

To Kim these are just hollow bluffs
What can they do? More sanctions place?
By now Kim’s heard these threats enough
They drive him to increase his pace

Like fools that rush, no angel’s been
I have suggestions I would might say
That sound less like a hollow tin
But that can wait another day

3/18/17

Continue reading “Credibility”

Poor President
(To the tune of “Poor Judd is Dead”)

Poor President
His resentment he must vent
Since they should be worshiping him at his feet
At his feet
But there’s none will buy his lies
Seems no matter how he tries
Even though he lays it all out in his tweets

Poor Trump, Poor Trump
Even though he lays it all out in his tweets

Trump tweeted that
Pres. Obama had, in fact
Wire tapped the Trump apartment early on
Early on
Now Intelligence Committees
Of the Congress, as their duty
Stated any shred evidence was none

Poor Trump, Poor Trump
Any shred of evidence, they said was none

Sean Spicer’s task
To reply to questions asked
By reporters as they try to write the news
Write the news
Is the hardest to realize
Dancing all around Trump’s lies
I would guess he’s worn out several pairs of shoes

Poor Sean, poor Sean
He will have to buy another pair of shoes

Sean met the test
Proved himself to be the best
When asked about our Congress’s reply
Their reply
He then blamed DCHQ
British Intel; it’s his view
That Obama had them tap Trump’s lines inside

Poor Sean, poor Sean
That Obama had them tap Trump’s lines inside

3/16/17

Sung to the tune of “Sweet Betsy From Pike”

Bonnie and Clyde

Oh don’t you remember young Bonnie and Clyde
Who robbed many banks where a lot of men died
But they were the darlings of those in the news
The people all loved them as heroes they’d choose

Boodle dang fall didido, boodle dang fall dedee

The same’s true of Dillinger, Billy the Kid,
And mobsters and Mafia’s deeds that they did
These outlaws were idolized, did what they would
The people would mimic if only they could

Boodle dang fall didido, boodle dang fall dedee

Now enter Don Trump on the national scene
Who made all his wealth by nefarious means
He’s known for his cheating and telling untruths
And vulgar pronouncements all lacking of couth

Boodle dang fall didido, boodle dang fall dedee

His conflicts of interest, his actual net worth
His five-fifty properties all ’round the Earth
His people all love him; they view him with pride
They see him the way they did Bonnie and Clyde

Boodle dang fall didido boodle dang fall dedee

3/15/17

The Rachel Maddow show, tonight, was all about Trump’s 2005 1040, first 2 pages, which mysteriously showed up in David K Johnson’s mail box.

Tax Return

The news, tonight, was all about Trump’s tax-return release
For year Two thousand, five, ten-ninety form, page one, page two
The pundits all digesting it like lions at a feast
To glean each little insight into businesses askew

‘Though interesting, these tidbits, they treat not my major questions
I would like to know why now and why release this date
The persons sourcing this release, anonymous, I’ll mention
Is this the latest they possess? Why, then, not more of late?

My answer is the source was Trump: reporters to divert
There’s nothing damaging to Trump, the pickings there are rare
But news tonight was not on Russian ties that could subvert
Trump’s office as legitimate. It is Trump’s biggest fear

3/14/17 Pi day

Jared, a follower of the BLOG, suggested a speech by the new UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres (former Portuguese PM) on Holocaust remembrance.  It was the inspiration for this poelitic.

Antisemitism

A Semite is a person who’s descendants spoke Semitic:
Acadian, Phoenician, Arabic and Hebrew too
Derived from Shem, the son of Noah of the Flood horrific
But antisemitism speaks exclusively of Jews

Six thousand years we have survived attempts to wipe us out
We’ve been despised and criticized and blamed for things untrue
Enslaved, dispersed, expelled and hated centuries throughout
When un-suppressed we’ve thrived in fields permitted for the Jews

The holocaust of modern times, six million Jews were slain
And from their ashes Israel then struggled to existence
World Jewry vowed the Holocaust would happen not again
Wherever prejudice arose we’d meet it with resistance

Here in the USA, of late, the Jews are not reviled
In science, arts and business we have ranked among the best
We’re also strong politically on both sides of the isle
But now that Trump is President, ’twill be another test

Supporting Trump are those who view minorities with hate
And Trump’s subdued rejection only gives encouragement
To anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish acts throughout the States
And in the Western World on ethnic purity they’re bent

Steve King, and Bannon, David Duke and Breitbart’s publication
All xenophobic sociopaths who loath diversity
They think to be American is passed through blood relations
Instead it’s love of nation forged by great adversity

‘Though antisemitism’s ancient it”s alive today
It’s vital that we stop its spread, as fueled by trying times
Where Jews have been suppressed the nations end up in decay
We must oppose it actively; our future’s on the line

3/13/17

 

I speak to those, my readership, your family, your friends
Who are true blue Republicans, conservatives of old
Who favor fiscal policies reversing current trends
That deepen more our nation’s debt; don’t buy what you’ve been told

I speak to those who favor smaller governmental size
Departments that are chaired by experts fitting to the part
With officers and bureaucrats efficient, smart and wise
Except Defense, Trump’s Cabinet’s a monolithic farce

Like me, most you are middle class, you’re reasonably set
You’re on, or looking forward to Soc Sec and Medicare
You are, that much, a socialist; you like the safety net
The bill replacing ACA is something to beware

Do you recall before the ACA was brought on board
That Year on year insurance rates increased by digits double
They grew our health-care costs beyond what people could afford
This Trump-care bill will raise our debt and rates; it’s greater trouble

Republicans, like Democrats, respect the Constitution
Which Trump is trampling every day that he’s still in the White House
It’s time to join our energies in common-cause submission
And oust this clear and present danger; just impeach him out

3/12/17

 

We’ve learned one thing from history, great pain can birth great gain:
It took two wars to formulate a stabilized EU
For Israel, the genocide of European Jews
Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered by Japan
Korea, Nam, Cambodia, the blood of millions ran
Now, by and large, prosperity and peace throughout obtain

It doesn’t always work that way, the pain can make things worse
The pain can be a wake-up call that goes unrecognized
Or is ignored by those who see their own goals realized
And, too, the special-interest sources handing out their wealth
In spite of damage to the nation’s fundamental health
While citizens decrying pain don’t act toward its reverse

We’ve had a wake-up call with Trump, to heed or to ignore
He’s trampled on the Constitution with his business deals
He’s trashed our institutions, tweeting tweets that are unreal
He’s populated government with those unfit to serve”
He falls for false conspiracies believing every word
And issues orders cancelling protections from before

There is much more, I’ve said before, the damage Trump has done
From sucking up to Russia to ignoring Intel’s say
Republicans meanwhile appease; by them it’s all okay
As long as Trump will blindly sign their right-wing legislation
No matter how it’s painful to most people of the nation
And forty million people still believe that Trump’s The One

The opportunity is rife to transform pain to gain
To join the march to stymie Trump in all his machinations
To win the House and Senate in the two-eighteen elections
To not sit back and let the others do the heavy lifting
To be involved to where the sands of politics are shifting
To run for office, knock on doors; it’s time to win again

3/11/17

 

First fifty days of Trump’s regime
Portend the rest with no relief
One thing’s consistent it would seem
Trump is prevaricator chief

He lied about the crowds, the rain
He lied about illegal votes
Most recently he lied again
About Obama, I would note

But even more important are
His lies regarding Russian ties
Obeisance to the Russian star
A pawn of Putin in disguise

Trump’s knot of lies unraveling
We’re seeing glimmers of the truth
An uphill fight he’s battling
It’s tightening, the hangman’s noose

In fifty days what will I write?
In fifty days what will Trump be?
Trump, now, is such a sorry sight
Will we, by then, become Trump free?

3/10/17