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Politics, Rude Limericks, Bad Jokes, Questionable Photos and Other things of Questionable Taste. Anybody who would like to send in something for this space, short of treason or the like I will put it up. First off, Merry Christmas, and a bit of Christmas poetry: Rio Grande Yule by Bruce Moffitt Deck the halls with boughs of holly Rattlesnakes and spiders jolly Scorpions and not much snow Its Christmas in New Mexico Tequila punch for old Saint Nick Will let him run his rounds right quick Tonight he's usin' Pancho's pickup He lost old Rudolph in a stickup All us vatos goin' to party Eat tamales, drink real hearty Shoot up half the neighborhood And pass out under a cottonwood In the morning comes the crudo We'll drink more beer and eat Menudo Then we'll all sing Ya-te-hay And stow it for another day How about an old friend from many years ago?  This is an old Australian bush poem about the bloke that comes down to Sydney from way out in the outback (the bush) for a spell and tries to mix with the "push" the local criminals that controled the Rocks area and Waterloo, the street scumbags. This is a Parody of Henry Lawson's "Captain of the Push", and probably written by Lawson himself. As night was falling slowly over city town and bush From down in Jones' alley sloped the Leader of the Push; Then his whistle loud and piercing woke the echoes of the "rocks" And a dozen ghouls came slouching round the corners of the blocks. Then the Leader jerked a finger at a stranger on the curb Whom he qualified politely with an adjective and verb, Then he made the introduction --"Here's a bloke in from the bush; Fuck me blind he wants to join us and be a member of the push "Why fuck ya dead ,I'm 'Foreskin Fred' The Bastard from the Bush'. Iv'e been in every two-up school from Wagga to Waterloo Iv'e swung an ax, Iv'e fucked me Blacks, what more could a Bastard do? "Are you game to smash a window?" asked the leader of the push, I'll knock the fuckin house down said the Bastard from the bush "Would you knock a man down and rob him?" said the leader of the push, "I'd knock him down and fuck him," said the Bastard from the bush. "Would you bash a fuckin copper if you caught the cunt alone Would you stoush a swell or chinese cunt, slit his throat with a stone, Would ya have a whore to keep ya, would ya swear off work for good?" Said The Bastard "My Kerlonial Silver Mouthed Fukin Oath I would!" "Would you care to have a cigarette?" said the leader of the push, "I'll take the fuckin packet" said the Bastard from the bush! "Would you take a baby's candy?" said the leader of the push, "I'd take a baby's maiden" said The Bastard from the bush. So the Push-ite's all took council, saying "Fuck me but he's brave, We'll make him our star basher, he'll live up to his name." So they took him to their hide-out, that Bastard from the bush And granted him all privilages appertaining to the push But soon they found his little ways were more than they could stand, So finally their Leader addressed his little band "Now listen here you buggers we've caught a fuckin tarter, At every kind of blugin this bastard is a starter. At poker and at two-up he shook our bloody rolls, He swiped our fuckin' liquor and he's fucked our fuckin molls." So down in Jones' alley all the members of the Push. Laid a dark and dirty ambush for that Bastard from the bush But against the wall of Riley's pub the bastard made a stand, An ugly grin upon his face, a bike chain in his hand They fell upon him in a bunch and one by one they fell, With crunch of bones, unearthly groans, one by one they fell, Till their torn and tattered leader spitting teeth and gouts of blood, Held an ear all torn and bleeding in a hand ingrained with mud, "You low polluted bastard," snarled the leader of the Push, "Get back to where your type belong, that's somewhere in the bush, And may heaps of misfortune soon tumble down on you May some lousy harlot dose you till your balls turn sky blue May the pains of windy spasms throughout your bowels dart, May you shit your fucking trousers every time you try to fart. May you take a swig of gin's piss, mistaking it for beer, May the next Push you impose yourself on, toss you out on your fucking ear! May itching piles torment you, may puss grow out your feet, May crabs as big as spiders attack your balls a treat And when you're down and out and a hopeless bloody wreck May you slip back through your arshole and break your fucking neck. On a bit of a lighter note, remember when?  Then maybe a couple rude limericks: Ode to an Anus What a wonderful thing is an anus, Though of muscles its probably the plainest. But it opens and shuts, Just back of your nuts, And without it your socks would be famous! or maybe: I have a magnificent dick. It is long, it is strong, it is thick. I've taught it to screw, And bid "Howdy Do", And pick up the occasional chick! Or maybe even a bit of political raving? Well, the voters have spoken, and they have displayed just how well lies and political smear ads work if they are lavishly funded. The boys who brought you the melt-down which Bush finished his term with are back and with more power to obstruct any real gains. The populace learned nothing from having their net worth savaged and the bankers and Wall Street boys take their money and sneer at them. "Too big to fail" is another way of saying "we are more powerful than you are" and the dirty tricks boys just proved it, and the corporate wisdom of the Citizens United decision. We are in for some rough times, but we can't say we didn't ask for it. Moffitt, Dec 2010 The mid-term elections are coming up. Obama has had almost two years in office, and has managed to do quite well in the face of unrelenting right wing obstructionism, corporate self-serving and a congress that is centered on its members personal power and is to a large degree bought and sold by the big money boys. He has managed to defuse the global financial crisis that was caused before his time by the virulent greed of the banks and insurance folk and was poised to bring total chaos to the world's financial structure. He has managed to take a strong step forward to take the healthcare system out of the hands of the big companies that were milking it for profits and return some control of it to the people. He has begun to wind down the war in Iraq that he was left, so far without the total collapse of the country and its government. The book on Afganistan is still even more open, but at least we are now paying attention to it. The disastrous BP deepwater oil spill has been capped, and although the government response left much to be desired, it was not as bad as the response to Katrina, and BP is still on the financial hook. The response to all of this has been interesting. As to the economy, many are mad because Obama has not been able to bring the economy up to its past performance in only two years. This is a long term structural problem all over the world, and is not going away quickly no matter what Obama or anyone else does. Many are mad that we are not completely out of Iraq and Afganistan, but again these are problems that were created several years ago, and are not going away easily. After years of financial mis-dealings based on greed in the housing sector it will be a long recovery, but many seem to expect immediate recovery and back to the "bubble". Even at this moment, new allegations of ongoing fraud and mis-management by the big banks and mortgage folk are surfacing. This should bring outrage from the population, and a strong backlash against the politicians aligned with these people, but it hasn't seemed to so far. Maybe by election time. As we go into this election, there are some very disturbing trends. There seems to be no backlash when politicians blatantly lie. These lies include claiming military decorations that were never received, untrue claims to have worked undercover for various law enforcement agencies, lies resembling the Swift Boat ads about another politician's accomplishments, lies about the effects of policies such as gun control, and lies about scientific matters. As an illustration of the latter variety of lie, many politicians, at the behest of their energy boy owners, have claimed that there is no consensus among main-stream scientists that global climate change is real, poses a serious threat and is anthropogenic. If you have any question as to whether these claims are lies, I urge you to read this letter from the AAAS to members of Congress that I tried to have published in the paper here. The ignorance being displayed is also disheartening. Palin is blatantly ignorant, yet there are people that actually take her seriously. A fair percentage of the population believes that Sadam Hussien had significant WMD's, or that he had something to do with the 9/11 attacks. A member of the Albuquerque Public School Board recently said to the Press that the AIDS virus could pass through the latex of a condom, and that he had read that on an "abstinence only" website. He should have been summarily dismissed from the Board for his ignorance, but he wasn't. People like Limbaugh and Beck have based their careers on the dissemination of false information, mostly of a right wing orientation, and many people believe what these radio show people say without question. There are significant numbers of our citizens that believe that Obama is not a US citizen, or that he is a Muslim. There are still even people that think that the universe was created 6000 years ago, and that fossils are the "Debble's own workin's"! Ignorance on this scale bodes ill for our country. Another recent development is a disastrous Supreme Court decision that equates corporations to citizens and allows corporate interests to fund political ads through hidden "committees and groups" that can run these ads for corporate agendas and corporate shills in the Congress. It takes a bit of attention, but try to discriminate between the ads of your local politicians and ads run for the party by entities that may be funded by Big Oil, Coal People, Insurance Folk, Big Banks and all them folk that are happy to be with no regulation and a free rein to lie to you, then rip you off. As history goes, don't forget the Saving and Loan scam, and the Keating Five that included McCain. Beware of anything that might have a tie to people like Karl Rove and his obscene crew. There are some truly evil creatures around and about. Beware. When you go to the polls, think. Don't just vote because that is the way your daddy voted, it is a different world out there now. Don't just vote your personal self-interest, also try to think about what might be best for your country. Try not to vote your prejudices, be they toward blacks, whites, Latinos, gays or whatever. Think about what you are doing, try to spot the lies you have been told. Use your education and experience. Don't go for instant fixes, these are long term problems we face, and long term problems take long term solutions. Above all, do vote, and do think carefully about how you vote. I don't want to sound like I am preaching, but if I am preaching, I hope I am preaching to the choir. We live in perilous times and the trajectory of our future is in our hands. I wish us all luck. Moffitt, October, 2010 We have major problems in this country that transend partisan politics. The president of our country is an ignorant man, a carpetbagger and a recently proclaimed convert to fundamentalist Christianity. He has cultivated as his support base the most ignorant major sector of the population, the fundamentalist Christians. He allows this intrusion of religion into the politics of our nation to affect decisions at the highest level. This president has lied to the American people to get them into a war that was intrinsically unwinnable from the start, and has so mismanaged the war as to turn it into a disaster. As a result of this war, the entire political structure of the Middle East has been destabilized. The international prestige of the United States has never been at such a low ebb. The assistant to the Vice President has been found guilty of lying to the FBI and a grand jury regarding matters that pertain to lies told by the president in the runup to the Iraq war. His bosses seem content to let him take the fall. Rumor has it the President may even try to pardon him, if he thinks he can get away with it. Our national debt has grown to huge proportions under this regime, our balance of trade is a disaster to be visited upon coming generations, and our economy is at the mercy of other countries. When the Chinese stock market hiccuped, ours dropped by over 400 points. The oil people have us by the soft parts. When the US needed an energy policy, the administration called in the oil boys, and then would not even cop to it! They refuse to acknowledge the serious threat posed by anthropogenic climate change, saying a response might be bad for the economy, and leaving future administrations to deal with it. Our manufacturing base is eroding, driven overseas by the specter of short range corporate profits. Exorbitant CEO and managerial compensation schemes exacerbate this problem considerably. This administration has also dumbed down the scientific advisory capabilities of the government, appointing members to scientific advisory panels for their political and religious beliefs and not for their scientific expertise. Their religious beliefs have affected broad swaths of the US and the world, including access to family planning on an international scale, access to abortion and contaceptives, and they have even interfered with the FDA process of making drugs available to the American people. I don't know the answers to most of these problems. Some, like the Iraq war don't appear to have solutions, short of getting out any way possible and letting chaos decend. Energy problems and global climate change can be affected by strong action, but this administration doesn't have the balls to do anything that might annoy the corporate purse-holders. I deeply hope that a statesman arises before the coming elections, regardless of the party he or she may belong to. Between ending the war, rationalizing the position of the US in relation to the rest of the world, setting some manner of realistic energy policy, removing the power of the religious fundamentalists in our government and trying to manage the usual problems, the next president will have a heaping plate of woe left on his desk by this rogue cabal. I don't mean to rant and rail, but this weighs on my mind. I hope it is not as bleak as I see it, but I suspect we be in real deep shit. June 2008 Sad to say, at the moment it is about as bleak as I thought it might be. The present administration is paralyzed, Congress cannot get its act together in any meaningful way, and all concerned say that they need a few hundred billion to go to the Wall Street folk to get them, and us, out of this mess they have gotten us into. The emphasis on free markets and no regulation that the present cabal has pushed has done nothing but let the greedy ones game the system to thier own benefit, and in doing so have pushed both our markets and those of much of the world into chaos. I hope that the thinking people among us will recognize the present regime for what it is, and vote to return Bush, Rove, Cheney, Libby and the rest of the present power structure to the dark place they crawled out of. October 2008 Wow- It worked. Hello Obama. If this country had elected those neo-con guys again, we were into some real grief. I was hoping above hope that the country could not do a hyper-stupid like 2004, but having seen our country do something that stupid once, worry, worry, worry. Obama is young and intelligent, great change; a decent orator, again a great change; and has gathered together not only a world class campaign organization, but has also gathered world class scientific and economic teams to advise him. What a great change from the present administration that seems to revel in ignorance and small, politically and religiously biased advisatory teams. There are valid charges of treason and malfeasance in office that should be leveled against this last administration, but the Congress has not had the balls to call them to account, and as a last, cynical gesture of contempt for the American people, I expect Bush to proactively pardon Cheny, Rumsfield, Gonzales and the rest of the crew, and as a last final insult, he will probably pardon himself as well. Give Obama your full support. We are in deep shit, I wish him luck. There was, however, a dark thing that happened in this last election. How did the people of California let the old, cold religious folk and the Mormons who, to their shame, put up a bunch of money, get Prop. 8 to pass? I assume none of our people supported this vile deed, but there were enough of the Californios that voted for it to let it pass. A foul vote. I find it embarrasing that an enlightened state like California could do this. If anyone who reads this voted for this poor-ass thing, feel shame. For fun, check out Alaska. The old oil boy favorite, Ted Stevens, has been found guilty of several felonies, relating to malfeasiance in office, and he is possibly going to be elected again to the Senate. Nothing like voting for an honest politician! I met him back in the 60's. Saw him lay a bald-faced lie on the AAAS, and watched the oil boys snicker. I would love to get up in the morning, cook myself pancakes and eggs, and think of him in a small cold cell eating green balogna and white bread for breakfast. Twenty years too late, but better late than never. Nov. 10, 08
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