America's Broadway Political Show & ? No Sex Scandal Dog Saves World - Man Destroys It - Where Is the Sex Scandal? Gotcha Politicks - Tsunami - Civil Wars - And We Think We Have Problems Political Sheen-Madness...Who Needs A Sex Scandal?
By
Micheline Birger
Libya's a War Zone
China wants their loan
Japan is a mess
And please don't second guess
That We Are Not The Answer
for the World's rancor.
Political Upheavals
invade like boll weevils.
Enough is enough
of everyone else's huff & puff...
The Prez is locked out
while he was prancing about
The Latin American air.
While we Americans fare
all of this big spending and lending
Hey, our fence needs mending.
Now the Republicans are holding auditions -
such a great American tradition
for who is going to solve
all of our involve........ment
on the planet and outer space.
How can anybody keep pace
with all of this insanity
that only kills humanity?
Nobody has officially thrown their hat...
they're too busy with their media spats -
in the ring of social order -
Hey we can't even guard our own border.
So the Republican Barbie and Ken's
are clucking like a bunch of hens...
Should I or shouldn't I
be the next gal or guy
to get raked through the coals
and come up with some new goals
that America will buy
We promise...we will not lie!
Smaller government...less spending
And read my lips - no more lending.
ObamaCare has got to go
Where are we going to get all of this dough?
We promise we will fix it
and make it a better fit.
A nicer pill for all to swallow
All we ask is to just follow
Our lead...and vote for Us - We -
We beg on bended knee.
Take your pick from our Chorus Line
We have such a fine - fine - fine
group of boy & girl candidates
to better lead America's fate.
So buy your ticket for our show
we promise that all your woe
will disappear overnight
and that there is a light
at the end of that very long tunnel -
America will once again become a funnel
of invention
that defies convention.
We are tallying up our scores
to see who we're going to nominate for
the new leader for the Free World Globe
where Obama will pay for a pre-frontal lobe -
otomy for all...
So heed the call
for restoring America back to it's roots
and not give all of our loot
To fight everyone else's wars
Who just screams - More - More - More!
So take your pick from our Menu
and come to sample our Venue
We'll see who spends the most dough
for America's Broadway Political Show.
XOXO
Micheline
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By
Micheline Birger
There's really not too much to say about this past week in Politicks As Usual...Japan's unfurling nightmare continues...Libya's an international war zone...the U.S. Congress as defunded NPR...every body's still picking on our current Commander-Wimp-In-Chief...and the 2012 Republican Chorus Line for Prez Candidates continues...thank God for animals - specifically dogs...they can teach us what humanity is amidst all of this chaos...(http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/dog-in-japan-stays-by-the-side-of-its-ailing-friend-in-the-rubble)
To begin with, I frankly don't really give a flying horse's petunia on whether NPR gets defunded or not...nothing personal...I really never listened to it anyway...but my feeling is if they were receiving Federal funding then they shouldn't be knocking certain political segments with such vehemence...enough said...it's just a giant divisive spin in the big spin of things anyway...it's just another Talking Head Show as far as I'm concerned...folks enamoured with the sound of their own voice...http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-house-npr-funding-20110318,0,6661745.story
It seems like everybody and their mother loves to knock the current Big-Spender-In-Chief-Barack...Newt Gingrich, the possible-potential candidate for Prez in 2012 claims that Obama has "checked out". "The administration has just sort of checked out...you know the President has this fixation with the Final Four...spent time on ESPN giving his version of what really mattered to him...which is the Final Four." (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/18/obama-is-checked-out-gingrich-says/)
Matt Damon, Barbra Streisand, Glee's Jane Lynch, Director Spike Lee, Robert Redford aren't pleased as punch with Obama's performance either - (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110303/pl_yblog_theticket/matt-damon-joins-the-growing-list-of-celebrities-unhappy-with-president-obamaa) ...and to think I thought that Hollywood and Politicks was one and the same...it is, isn't it?
The Donald, aka Donald Trump is still questioning Barack's true roots..."nobody knew Obama as a young child in Hawaii...the reason I have a little doubt, just a little, is because he grew up and nobody knew him." (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/17/trump-says-he-has-doubts-about-obama%e2%80%99s-birth-place/?s-birth-place/) What a conundrum! Reminds me of the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.
The Republicans are still doing their Chorus Line auditions for suitable Prez material...will it be a boy or a girl? Or both? Newt...Mitt...Tim...The Donald...The Sarah...Michelle ...(http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/11/bachmann-increasingly-serious-about-presidential-bid/#more-149910) ...Oh well, we shall see. Who will be the Chosen Ones for the Red Team? Their charismatic leader? Leaders?
In the meantime, we can all just be grateful that we are still in one piece in the U.S. of A. We have shelter, we have food, we have gas. God save Japan and Libya. Perhaps we can learn a trick or two about humanity by watching man's best friend come to the rescue of his own. The dog has shifted people into a new paradigm of thinking...no longer is it a dog eat dog world but a dog help dog world...personally, if Lassie were running for President, I'd vote for Lassie.
Love
Micheline
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By
Micheline Birger
Daresay it has not been a boring week on the international front. Japan's unfolding natural disaster...Libya's unrelenting clash of the Titans...it makes issues here in the U.S.A. almost seem meaningless and minuscule in the grand scope of it all. It puts things in perspective...we think we have problems...our problems pale compared to what Japan is currently enduring...My heart goes out to all involved in this mass catastrophe...I couldn't watch any of the footage...I do not know how to hit the Delete Button in my mind to erase the videos...I am in deep humble gratitude and prayer instead...
Meanwhile, back at the farm, our political pettiness and espionage spreads like wildfire. The poisonous venom is constantly being spewed out between the warring factions on the home front...Red vs. Blue.
I must quote the late comic genius - George Burns - "How come everybody who knows how to run the country is busy driving cabs or cutting hair?" And George, I would love to add an addendum to that - "How come everybody who knows how to run the country has their own Talking Head Show?" Or better yet - "How come everybody who knows how to run the country - isn't???"
Politicks is a business like anything else in this country. Who has the right haircut? Who has the best image consultant? Who has the whitest teeth? Who went to the best and right schools? Who has the best sound bytes? Who has the best rhetoric? Who has the best political consultants? Who can run the best smear campaign? Who knows how to take things out of context the best and make video-clips of them? And so on and so forth...
Yes, while everybody is busy shooting from their six-gun-double-speak-lip, the Academy Awards of shaping American political culture congregated in Washington D.C. this past week-end. The Annual Pollies - The American Association for Political Consultants. Personally, I like Political Follies...it better suits their hilarious, slapstick Marx Brothers agenda/act.
Awards were given for overall best campaign managers; best attack ads...and who does the best Social media stuff like Twitter and Facebook? I guess they are busy networking and strategerizing for the 2012 melee called The Election Process...or Gotcha!(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR2011031204367.html)
Personally, I don't know why anybody wants to be in politicks...to each his own I guess...I guess it's either Hollywood or Politicks if you are a Star for some folks...they both get Oscars and Academy Awards of sorts...the politician's get their award by being elected to office...and there in lies the rub...as soon as folks see how incompetent they are then they have to justify their position to stay in office - by any contrived means possible - it's called Gotcha Politicks.
Gotcha is what happened recently to the Network Executive of PBS - Vivian Schiller who made a not so nice public statement about the Tea Party...Bye - Bye Vivian! What is that saying? Don't bite the hand that feeds you? (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/us/12okeefe.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1300107674-R+oeEco1xA+XgLoTWX7txQ)
So no matter what does or does not occur it is still politicks as usual. The one and only question remains - Who is going to run as the Republican Candidate? And are they strong enough to beat the current Inept-Commander-In-Chief? Will it be The Sarah? Michelle? Mike? Mitt? The Donald? Larry - Moe or Curly Joe? Newsflash - No matter who's up there - people are going to find a way to get them out...doesn't matter what party they are.
Once again, my heart goes out to Japan. It is figuratively and literally earth-shattering over there. I wonder what would happen if there were that type of calamity in the U.S. of A? Would everyone put aside their biases and prejudices and be forced to cooperate? No one would be immune...there is not a vaccine for that kind of misfortune upon a nation of people. Would people think Red or Blue Party? Gay or Straight? Black, White, Indian? Christian, Jew or Buddhist? Gotcha Politicks and Political Pollies would be replaced by people actually helping one another for a change...from the heart...not from the lip.
Indeed, we do live in a My Sister Murdered My Parakeet mentality here, don't we?
Love
Micheline
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Micheline Birger
Daresay it has not been a boring week on the international front. Japan's unfolding natural disaster...Libya's unrelenting clash of the Titans...it makes issues here in the U.S.A. almost seem meaningless and minuscule in the grand scope of it all. It puts things in perspective...we think we have problems...our problems pale compared to what Japan is currently enduring...My heart goes out to all involved in this mass catastrophe...I couldn't watch any of the footage...I do not know how to hit the Delete Button in my mind to erase the videos...I am in deep humble gratitude and prayer instead...
Meanwhile, back at the farm, our political pettiness and espionage spreads like wildfire. The poisonous venom is constantly being spewed out between the warring factions on the home front...Red vs. Blue.
I must quote the late comic genius - George Burns - "How come everybody who knows how to run the country is busy driving cabs or cutting hair?" And George, I would love to add an addendum to that - "How come everybody who knows how to run the country has their own Talking Head Show?" Or better yet - "How come everybody who knows how to run the country - isn't???"
Politicks is a business like anything else in this country. Who has the right haircut? Who has the best image consultant? Who has the whitest teeth? Who went to the best and right schools? Who has the best sound bytes? Who has the best rhetoric? Who has the best political consultants? Who can run the best smear campaign? Who knows how to take things out of context the best and make video-clips of them? And so on and so forth...
Yes, while everybody is busy shooting from their six-gun-double-speak-lip, the Academy Awards of shaping American political culture congregated in Washington D.C. this past week-end. The Annual Pollies - The American Association for Political Consultants. Personally, I like Political Follies...it better suits their hilarious, slapstick Marx Brothers agenda/act.
Awards were given for overall best campaign managers; best attack ads...and who does the best Social media stuff like Twitter and Facebook? I guess they are busy networking and strategerizing for the 2012 melee called The Election Process...or Gotcha!(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR2011031204367.html)
Personally, I don't know why anybody wants to be in politicks...to each his own I guess...I guess it's either Hollywood or Politicks if you are a Star for some folks...they both get Oscars and Academy Awards of sorts...the politician's get their award by being elected to office...and there in lies the rub...as soon as folks see how incompetent they are then they have to justify their position to stay in office - by any contrived means possible - it's called Gotcha Politicks.
Gotcha is what happened recently to the Network Executive of PBS - Vivian Schiller who made a not so nice public statement about the Tea Party...Bye - Bye Vivian! What is that saying? Don't bite the hand that feeds you? (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/us/12okeefe.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1300107674-R+oeEco1xA+XgLoTWX7txQ)
So no matter what does or does not occur it is still politicks as usual. The one and only question remains - Who is going to run as the Republican Candidate? And are they strong enough to beat the current Inept-Commander-In-Chief? Will it be The Sarah? Michelle? Mike? Mitt? The Donald? Larry - Moe or Curly Joe? Newsflash - No matter who's up there - people are going to find a way to get them out...doesn't matter what party they are.
Once again, my heart goes out to Japan. It is figuratively and literally earth-shattering over there. I wonder what would happen if there were that type of calamity in the U.S. of A? Would everyone put aside their biases and prejudices and be forced to cooperate? No one would be immune...there is not a vaccine for that kind of misfortune upon a nation of people. Would people think Red or Blue Party? Gay or Straight? Black, White, Indian? Christian, Jew or Buddhist? Gotcha Politicks and Political Pollies would be replaced by people actually helping one another for a change...from the heart...not from the lip.
Indeed, we do live in a My Sister Murdered My Parakeet mentality here, don't we?
Love
Micheline
Check out my books on Amazon and Amazon Kindle. Click link below.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A154606011%2Ck%3Amicheline%20birger&page=1
By
Micheline Birger
What an incredible society we have! All of this toxic-spillage allowed on the airwaves 24/7 by the media-o-cracy...and we wonder why we have sporadic shooting rampages??? Seems like the U.S. is backbiting and slinging mud like it is the number one sport...whether it be organized labor; Hollywood; politicks...everybody and their mother knows how to run the country and shoot from the lip.
Gadhafi keeps marching and killing...right and left (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/06/libya.conflict/index.html?hpt=T1) - Wisconsin union members aren't happy campers (http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/04/wisconsin.budget/index.html?iref=allsearch) - Nurses in Washington D.C. staged a mini-strike walk-out on Friday March 4th...they'll be knuckle rapped by the administration who says that they can't come back until I believe Wednesday this week (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/05/AR2011030500063.html)
Meanwhile, back at the farm, and I ask once again - why oh why does all of this turmoil abroad keep costing me at the pump? $$$CaChing$$$ At the grocery store? $$$CaChing$$$. Hey, it's the wild, wild west of gouging 'em while ye can...take advantage of the opportunity to get more out of the masses...them a__es....hey, it's a free-for-all...I might as well get my two cents in...but seriously folks...what is happening?
Take a moment and breathe...get calm and centered...is not politicks the best, I mean best reality show on the planet??? They always have some kind of cockamamie, convoluted game plan going on...they want to see if us - we morons can figure them out...and if you can figure it out...then trust me...they will change it...again.
Rush Limbaugh says that the Democratic Party Operatives are out with their camera phones trying to catch Republicans in any wrongdoing...Hilary Clinton wants U. S. cable companies to pick up Al Jazeera, the Arab news network...according to Hilary, the World at Large thinks that the U.S. of A. is nothing but "bikini-clad women and pro wrestling"..."we are in an information war and we are losing that war"...apparently the State Department is busy Twittering away (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/02/AR2011030205975.html). Rebels in Libya are calling for Bush Prez Number I...does the world see us as a joke? Ya' think?
So it is a battle of the air wave Stars...who has the most Twitter hits??? Who is the U.S.'s best bad boy? Everyone knows that it's Charlie Sheen of course...he is now a verb...sheened and sheening connote partying, questionable decision-making and public humiliation. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/fashion/06NOTICED.html) ...Gosh Charlie, what a legacy! I do believe that you are a by-product of our star-struck society. You are simply acting-out all of our current angst...hey Charlie - have fun...are you really over the edge or are you just acting as if you are over the edge???
Anyway, it's back to the same politicks as usual brouhaha - song and dance...it just rumbles on like an upset stomach...zzzzzzzzzzz...bottom-line still remains...who in the Republican Party is going to throw their hat in the ring for Prez in 2012? The Republican Chorus Line auditions are still singing and dancing...everyone looking at their scorecards...who is the viable alternative to the Current Big-Spender-In-Chief-Barack?
Hollywood - Politicks - it's all one and the insane...and The Donald (R) shaves his hair off for a Comedy Central roast...well at least they can't make fun of his hair style...or lack thereof.(http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2011/03/04/sbt.trump.shaves.head.hln?hpt=C2)
Trust me, this is as good as it gets...John Lennon was right..."It's all Show Biz." No wonder my book on Kindle - "My Sister Murdered My Parakeet" sold copies on Valentine's Day 2011.
Love
Micheline
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