Tuesday, May 5, 2026

The Iran "War" is a businessman's racket

 As has so often happened in the recent past, the Iran "War" is not a war at all but a business transaction using the United States military to gain control of Iran's oil.

It is deal-making by force. See the Iraq "War" and the "war" in Afghanistan for confirmation of this.

Until we understand this elephant in the room, we will lose this business transaction, this deal with the devil.

None of these wars was declared by congress, which the constitution demands, but started by businessmen out to make a profit with the ultimate in bullying negotiation tactics.

Real war is too expensive to fight in lives and money.

Iran is a nation of over 90 million. It is laughable that we would be attempting to take it over with 15,000 troops and part of our navy, just as it was laughable to take over the Iraq of 38 million people with 160,000 troops or the Afghanistan of 43 million people with 30,000 troops.

None of these "wars" was declared because none of them would ever be profitable compared to the resources used versus the resources extracted.

These "wars" are disgusting negotiation tactics by big business and the oil companies for future profit. It's no wonders they did not and will not turn out well militarily.

The Iran "War" has failed because businessmen are running it.

The United States military is no longer the greatest in the world because the weakest links in it are Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and the businesses they represent and work for.

You wanted a government run like a business, so now you have it.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

A Fable of the Very Fattest Man

 

A Fable of the Very Fattest Man

Once there was a very strong man who became very fat, the fattest man in the world, by eating others. This man simply did whatever he wanted, consumed whomever he desired, until he became so large he sat on a significant portion of the globe. The problem was, he could not move, since his tremendous size would not let him. Still, he had to eat to maintain his great size, despite the fact he could not longer track his prey, so he simply reached out and grabbed whomever he wished to consume.

“If you do not comply with my desires, I will sit on you and crush you,” he told the world, and they believed him.

Of course, no one wished to be sat upon by this continent-crushing being: they complied. Some simply sighed and allowed themselves to be plucked, chewed and swallowed without objection. Many did, in fact, and he remained fat and happy for a time.

Soon, however, very small and fast though insignificant creatures discovered they could dart in, take a bit of this delicious fattest man who ever lived and that he could do nothing about it, being fat and stolid and stuck in place as he was.

“I am fat and powerful, and I will forever be that way. It is wrong that you should harm me. What have I ever done to you but what I wanted to do, that is, eat you? And now you repay me by your bites? Soon we will see who has the biggest mouth, and you will all be dancing on the fire of my tongue!”

He swatted at the tiny creatures that mocked and bit him, and he never caught one.

The tiny bites continued until nothing was left of the very fattest man who every lived, not even his bones. He had been unable to recognize the dangers of small mouths.

All that is left of him today is a great indentation in the earth that has filled with water.

Small boats sail over its surface peacefully.

Monday, April 13, 2026

Trump should have read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Trump should have read “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” before attacking Iran

In it, he would have learned that ancient Rome invaded Persia many times, with terrible outcomes. 

During one invasion, the Emperor Valerian and his party were separated from the main body of Roman troops, captured and taken prisoner. The Persian Emperor Sapor used Valerian to mount his horse, stepping on his neck and pushing his face into the mud to do so. Valerian was further tortured diabolically, killed and then flayed. The Persians stuffed his skin with straw and put him on display in a museum as an example of what happens to those who invade Persia

The Emperor Aurelian was assassinated by his own leading generals while he was in the Balkans on his way to invade Persia because it was rumored he was about to torture and kill them. His invasion fell apart.

The Emperor Carus had a huge success in his attack of Persia, splitting the country and making it all the way to the great city of Ctesiphon. The oracle warned him not to go further, but he ignored those wise words and continued his march. Carus’ huge imperial tent, supported by new brass and iron beams, was struck by lightning and he was burned to death. So superstitious were the Roman troops that they refused to go further, claiming the enterprise was cursed by the gods and Jupiter had struck down Carus because he ignored the holy oracle. 

The Roman Emperor Julian also had a great initial success in invading Persia but once when he hurried into battle he neglected to put on his armor. He was speared through the liver, slowly bled out and died. His invasion fell apart, as they all seem to. 

Which of these things do you think will happen to Trump in one form or another?

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Over Tehran?

Seeing the lights of Tehran just ahead, the B-52 pilot got on the intercom with the president.

"Mr. President, we are over the target. The nuke is armed. The Bad Boy is ready to fly. Do I have a go from you?"

"Do it! Do it now! Drop that Bad Boy on those crazy bastards! End that civilization! All I wanted was a little respect and their oil. Now they'll see what happens when they cross me! I'm going to see them all burn!"

"Open the bomb bay doors."

The great Stratofortress, dizzingly high over the center of Tehran, opened its belly like a overweight black flying whale about to give birth.

"Bombs away!"

With a gentle shove the bombardier sent the president hurtling out the bomb bay doors and down into the glistening air high over Tehran, his blond toupee still clipped to his head but flapping in the high wind.

The 20 megaton nuke remained clipped into the belly of the beast.

"I'll kill you all with my bare hands!" the president screamed, as he fell through the whipping wind, swinging out at the air with hapless punches and kicks.
He disappeared somewhere into the peaceful city below.

A millions lights from a million kitchens and bedrooms twinkled in a carpet of life beneath the great peaceful bomber high and silent in the night sky.

"Sorry, Iran, but he's your problem now," the pilot said. "Close the bomb bay doors and let's go home."

Sunday, April 5, 2026

Easter Exorcism 2026

 

Easter Exorcism 2026

 

Block your ears to his dark silly songs

Damn his sibylline lies to hell

 

Abandon this bloody blond beast

Convalesce your spirit and find new light

 

Deny his foul works and necromancy

See your heart beat as yours again

 

Curse his foul name and blighted line

Discover integrity, recover the daylight

 

Undo pale witless repression and hell

Find benevolent tranquility and kindness

 

Tear down his works and edifices

Let the sunlight shine in the green forest again

 

Reap from him what he has stolen

Again be prosperous and benevolent and true

 

Drink the antidote to this serpent’s poison

Let your blood run clear and fresh

 

Out! Out! He his cast out!

The demon has fled, never to return

 

Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Blood for Oil (and money) Complex

Russia, Russia, Russia.

Oil, oil, oil.

War, war, war.

Iran, Russia's friend, closes the Straits of Hormuz, shutting off the Middle Eastern oil flow to the west and Europe.

Trump abandons some sanctions on Russia to ease the shortages and allow them to sell some oil to the rest of the world.

Ukraine bombs gas pipelines in southern Russia to prevent this end run by Russia around the sanctions.

Easing sanctions helps Trump and Putin make money but hurts Ukraine.

Trump did this.

His war led to the closing of the Straits of Hormuz and the cutting-off of oil.

Trump and Putin are good friends: Russia can once again sell oil.

One hand washes the other.

Now the two great leaders can continue to share huge profits, unless Ukraine bombs more pipe lines.

Russia, Russia, Russia.

Oil, oil, oil.

War, war, war.

The world slimed by blood for oil once again.

Thank you, Messieurs Presidents.

Thursday, March 5, 2026

The Pineville Press: Trump plans insurrection against Jesus after going nuclear

By Willings Lee  Duped

Pineville Press National Correspondent

Washington, D.C., March 5, 2026 - After admitting he plans a nuclear strike against Iran, United States President Donald J. Trump today confirmed he also plans an insurrection against Jesus in Heaven should the strike fail and he is denied entrance into a life of eternal bliss.

The president made the confirmations as he was preparing to launch nuclear-tipped missiles against Iran at the behest of Jesus "to finish off the infidels once and for all."

"Everybody knows that our war against Iran will be lost if we don't blow the bad people to smithereens," Trump said. "If I ever die, everybody says I won't get to Heaven if I don't kill enough school children. Jesus says it. I've done my best to support him and school shootings here in the United States with our sacred Second Amendment, but now Jesus also requires I kill school children in Iran. I figure I'll just nuke the whole country and get it over with. Jesus can never get enough dead kids, he says."

As of this writing, 187 school girls had been killed in Iran due to Trump's bombings, according to sources.

"It's not enough, Jesus said to me," Trump claimed. "I told him it was more than just 187, but he wouldn't listen. He just scoffed at me. Jesus scoffed at me! The nerve of him."

Trump also claimed he had been in personal communication with Jesus since creation, which Trump assisted, and that the Divine Light then had demanded he murder more youngsters to assure his place in Heaven. It's all part of God's plan, Trump claimed, and it came form Jesus in the form of a threat to the president.

"Jesus loves young girls just as much as I do," the president said. "He told me Epstein has gotten into Heaven. I knew that. I saw him there last time I visited. So if Epstein got into Heaven, why not me? Between us, we sent many young girls to Heaven."

The Pineville Press could not confirm that Jeffrey Epstein had been admitted into Divine Grace, but considering his privileged position with underaged girls on Earth, it seems likely.

"But this is crap," Trump said. "All of them? How am I supposed to kill all the school children in Iran with conventional weapons? I wanted to save our nuclear weapons for other school children all over the Earth, and now Jesus says I have to kill every school child in Iran? I'll listen to Jesus for now, but if He tries to deny me access to Paradise after this, there's going to Hell to pay for Him. We will have another January 6 in Heaven if I die and am sent to the bad place. The Supreme Court has said I can do anything I want in Heaven and on Earth, so Jesus better watch out. We're all a little sick of Jesus telling me what to do by now."

Efforts by this reporter to contact Jesus for confirmation of his desire to have Iranian school children killed have failed. He was said to be playing golf with Vladimir Putin and could not be disturbed.

"Yeah, I heard that, too," Trump said. "I heard that Jesus was playing golf with Putin a lot. It pisses me off. It means Putin might be getting into Heaven before me for killing all those children in Ukraine. It's not fair to me. I tell you, Jesus better watch out or he'll be next. I love Jesus, but He loves Putin more."

Trump said that the nuclear bombing of Iran would begin within days. The insurrection against Jesus was already in the works, he said.

"I have been a good Christian, especially with all the little girls of the world, and this is what I get?" the president asked. "It's not fair to me. You all know I've been good, better than everybody else, and you all approve of me. I know you do. Everybody does. I'm a good Christian. I'm worried about Jesus being a good Christian, though, He might he a Republican in name only, you know a RINO. Or Jesus could be a bird, too, some sort of hawk or something. He looks like a hawk. Lord, you are asking a lot of me, but I will do my best to deliver the little children unto you in fire and light. I will get into Heaven by killing children, or there will be Hell to pay for Jesus. I'm doing everything He wants."

The Pineville Press attempted to contact God for confirmation of Trump's claims about God's son, but God appears to have absented Himself in these matters.

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Willings Lee Duped, an Alabama native, is The Pineville Press' new national correspondent. He covers Washington politics for this famous newspaper, especially the White House. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where he learned to bake up a mean meat pie. This is his first job in journalism. He is 87 years young.




Wednesday, February 18, 2026

A young bald eagle and a photographer on the hunt.

           


             A bald eagle came into my view that winter morning looking quite foolish.

He was chasing three mergansers through the air over the creek, which was a fool’s errand. The mergansers quickly out-paced him, and he did a U-turn to land on a bare branch on a winter morning.

He looked as though he didn’t quite know what to do.

He was a young adult, not fully feathered in grown-up foliage. He wasn’t simply acting the avian fool with the mergansers, for he perched in a tree just over the paved walking path on the causeway over the creek, exposing himself to an odd menagerie of humans. There were mothers with little children, runners and groups of friends, all of whom were too big to eat. And there was me, a photographer with his camera.



I positioned myself beneath him and snapped some photos of him through thick, obscuring branches. This was not a good situation for him or me, so he flew off to another branch down the creek where he could feel safer and I had a less obscured but more distant view.

As proven by his earlier pursuit of the mergansers, he was hungry. There were ducks and geese below him, but he appeared too disheartened to chase them after his failure to capture a meal during his earlier flight. He was still young, with his tail just beginning to turn white and his head with flecks of adolescent brown in it.



A mother with three toddlers was photographing her children on the rocks opposite where he perched. Suddenly, he jumped off his perch, flew across the creek and made a pass twenty feet over the youngsters’ heads. Nothing good to eat here.

He perched again on a tree opposite to where he had been, near the mother and her kids, and this is where my opportunity came in. He was close, unobscured by the branches and unworried.

I snapped away.


View the video version of this blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk5WXhnABzI




Tuesday, February 17, 2026

When this government falls

 When this government falls, I hope someone has a plan to recover, restore and secure democracy.

If not, chaos or a military dictatorship could ensue.

Congress and the senate should start slowly by impeaching and removing from office the obvious incompetents and criminals, like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth, but nearly everyone at the top has to go.

The Supreme Court could help, but they have no integrity. They will be absent.

The process must be orderly and reasonable. We don't want a French Revolution devolving into chaos and a military dictatorship.

A trustworthy president is essential. Given the situation and the nature of politicians, he or she will be nearly impossible to find.

It's not time to pray. It's time to reason clearly and honestly to get the ship back on course. It will be nearly impossible.

A clear goal to return to democracy is essential.

We can only help ourselves.

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Breaking News: Trump to Resign -- The Pineville Press, February 12, 2026

 Guest Editorial

By Senator I.M. Korni

As one of two senators of the great state of Iowa, I join today with my colleague and fellow senator from Iowa, I.B. Horni, to announce to the American people that Donald J. Trump will resign tomorrow from his office as President of the United States.

It is with great remorse and regret that Senator Horni and I announce the president's decision. This announcement has nothing to do with the fact that I, Senator Korni, and he, Senator Horni, are mentioned in the Epstein files 467 times.

Senator Horni and I convinced the president that there is nothing like a good, old-fashioned sex scandal to bring down a powerful figure, and that this scandal could destroy the Republican Party if not dealt with immediately. President Trump agreed with us, after weeks of negotiation, that the Epstein files are a scandal that he can not recover from, and conceded that it would be best for the country if he no longer holds the office of president.

We noted to the president that he has been able to get away with any of his many criminal acts before this to console him, but we explained that the Farmers' Daughters Association of Iowa, a very powerful lobbying group, threatened to skin Senator Horni and I alive if we did not convince him to resign.

What sadness for a life of crime to end in such a manner.

"Even though I agree with you that I have to go, I still don't get it," the president said. "I'm mentioned in the Epstein files 38,000 times, at present count. Is that enough? How can anybody even count that high? I know I can't. I mean, I remember Bill Clinton was impeached for his one affair with Monica Lewinsky, but I did things 38,000 times worse than him, and that's just not enough to remove me, the greatest president ever, from office. It just doesn't seem fair."

The president will resign at noon tomorrow.

President Trump originally agreed to resign at 6 p.m. this evening but after checking his schedule pointed out to us that he has an "oral engagement" at The Petty School for Elementary School Children with the sixth grade class.

That engagement is scheduled for midnight tonight. Although he promised to recount to the public his engagement with the girls on Truth Social, he said he might be too tired afterward to resign beforehand at at 6 p.m. 

We concurred that it made perfect sense for him to delay his resignation until noon tomorrow because he might be tired from his appointment with the little girls after the originally scheduled time for leaving office. After all, he has spent his life committing crimes, he said, and what did it matter if he delayed resigning for one more day after engaging in several more?

"I'd hate to disappoint the girls about their date with the president, me," he said. "I'll explain to them that I'll be too tired after midnight to resign at 6 p.m. of the previous evening. I know they'll cry afterwards, but all those Epstein piggy pigs have been crying for years and I've never done anything about it. They can just grow up and get abortions. They have to learn when it's timely to withdraw. Until now, I never did." 

Senator Horni and I informed the president that it was with great regret that we urged him to take this action. We told him that 2 percent of the American people believed that he had never engaged in any wrongful activity, but they knew Jesus was on his side as he was engaged in his trifling crimes and therefore they were on his side, too, and will look the other way. After all, they were good Christians.

"This big, beautiful Epstein mess could go on for years," the president said. "Imagine what that would do to the county. They wouldn't be able anymore to see me play golf, or fart in public or tell everyone how I was making the country great by accepting bribes and stealing billions. Maybe the girls of Petty elementary can convince them, after I have a go at them, to let me stay. Or maybe they should just keep their mouths shut, except when I'm around."

Attorney General Pam Bondage strenuously disagreed with the president that he should resign, saying she would happily satisfy any need he had while in office and that should be enough to keep him there. She got down on her knees begging him to stay in office for her sake.

"Well, we'll always have Epstein," the president responded. "Pam, you and I can think back and laugh about all the good times we had redacting files and denying the obvious. Don't worry. The American people are so stupid they'll elect me a third time in 2028, and then we can find other elementary schools to visit once we're back in office again, just you and me."

That brightened the mood considerably for us in this grave matter.

Ms. Bondage and the president retired to his office for official business unrelated to his upcoming resignation.

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Editorial Note: The information and opinions expressed in this guest editorial are those of the writer and do not reflect the opinions or facts developed or discovered by The Pineville Press. Remember, Pineville is not a place but an unstable state of mind. Here only opinions matter and facts be damned.


Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The Anti-Racist

 Human intelligence is not located in skin pigmentation but in the mind. Human goodness is not located in skin pigmentation but in the heart. Human worth is not located in skin pigmentation but in the soul.

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Trump to campaign in blackface in midterms: The Pineville Press

By Willings Lee  Duped

Pineville Press National Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 3 -- President Donald J. Trump today announced he will campaign in blackface make-up during the 2026 midterm elections.

"I think campaigning in blackface will show me at my very best for those who still doubt I am the best president ever for minorities who have always stolen elections from me," the president said. "I usually wear orange make-up to show I am the best candidate for places like Florida, but I think if I campaign in blackface people all over the country will recognize me for what I am. I am the most authentic president of all time, and my blackface make-up will prove it. I also plan to dye my hair black and wear an Afro haircut, which will further prove my authenticity."

Asked if he thought real African-Americans might be offended by his new make-up, the president had a ready answer.

"What makes an African-American real?" he said. "Just because they were enslaved for hundreds of years in this country, does that make them real African-Americans? No, I am the most authentic African-American of all time. Once you see me in blackface and an Afro, you will realize that." 

The president also said he had to be free to change the color of his face to fit the circumstances of his presidency.

"For example," Mr. Trump went on, "I might paint my face green once we invade Greenland. All the people in Greenland have green faces. Did you know that? If I go in there with a green face, and all my beautiful Marines going in with me have green faces, we will confuse the Greenlanders and they might be fooled into not shooting us. Greenland people love their green faces, you know. So sometimes I'll be in blackface and sometimes I'll be in greenface. Like Christmas, green goes good with red."

"Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President," this correspondent called out, hoping our multi-colored chameleon of a leader would call on me.

"Yes, you. The one who smells like pine cones. What is your question?"

"Mr. President, I am from the Pineville Press. Sir, you have mentioned we might invade Iceland, too. Or is that a mistake? Did you mean Greenland when you said Iceland?"

"I love the smell of pine cones."

"What color will your face be when we invade Iceland?"

"We already have that color with our troops in Minnesota. It's clear. The troops in Minnesota have ICE faces, if you could see them when they remove their masks. I don't know yet if I will have them wear masks or not when we invade Iceland. Iceland people love clear icy faces, so when we invade them we will have clear, cold, icy faces so that they don't get confused why we're there. We're there for the ice, which I love in my ice tea."

The president went on to explain that when we invaded Venezuela to kidnap their leader Nicolaus Maduro we had our troops slaver themselves with crude oil so the Venezuelans would know why we were there.

"The Venezuelans are very greasy people," the leader of the free world said. "They eat, drink and sleep in oil. As soon as they saw we were greasy, too, they let us take their leader, who was sleeping without his oil on, without a shot being fired. We used a new weapon called the Discombobulater, which spews oil all over everyone to make them submit and not eat tacos. I was covered in oil that night we took Maduro. Even Melania got greasy that night, too. I had never seen her more beautiful."

Informed that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had immediately filed a lawsuit to prevent Mr. Trump from campaigning in blackface, the president grew angry. The NCAA said Mr. Trump wearing blackface was the height of hypocrisy, highly offensive and a civil rights violation.

"The NCAA is the most racist organization in the world, or even the solar system, which has the most terrible racists in the universe," Mr. Trump said, unknowingly glowing red. "I can be whatever color I want. It's called diversity. As you can see, I see now I have turned red, which means I will probably invade the Indian reservations. When I am red, they'll think I'm one of them and won't be offended when I steal what little land they have left for oil exploitation."

This correspondent asked if there was one color he would never become to make sure his desires for election glory, oil, and adolescents are met.

"Yes, I would never become blue," he answered. "Blue is the color of communist socialist fascists, so I would never stoop so low as to paint myself blue. In fact, I have instructed Attorney General Pam "Blondie" Bondi to remove the color blue from all rainbows in this country until that time I decide to invade the rainbows. Rainbows must never show their faces in our beautiful America again if they have any blue in them. America is a place of many colors, and I'll usurp all of them for my face if I need to, except for blue. Blue people are such stupid losers they sometimes tell the truth, and we can't have that in our wonderful country, so I'll paint my face black, just to be sure we never see free and fair and blue again in our elections."

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Willings Lee Duped, an Alabama native, is The Pineville Press' new national correspondent. He covers Washington politics for this famous newspaper, especially the White House. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where he learned to bake up a mean meat pie. This is his first job in journalism. He is 87 years young.


Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Rape of Minneapolis

 

you stole the sacred soul of my city

because you had none

take care what you do with this essence

how you feed it, how you house it

in your wretched castle

i know

it will not stay in any corrupt dwelling

there are cracks in your walls

there are holes in your floors

there are rats in your moat

there are ghosts in your attic

my soul will not tarry

in such a decrepit place

it will fly

you are nothing

i am all

Monday, December 22, 2025

A very MAGA Christmas


On Christmas Eve, just as I was about to doze off on that long winter’s night, I heard the sounds of bottles breaking and loud frustrated swearing coming from the downstairs bathroom. Thinking my home was being broken into, or worse, that rats had infested my sanctuary, I reached for my Glock on the nightstand, deposited my protective red MAGA baseball hat on my head and slipped my tired, aching feet into my too-tight slippers. I was ready for anything.

As I crept down the stairs, the safety on the Glock off, I saw a most surprising sight.

“This is the most joyous night of my life!” I cried out in wonder. “It’s true! It’s true! Santa Claus is real!”

There was no mistaking it. The bathroom door was wide open, the overhead light was on and there was Santa Clause rummaging through my medicine cabinet. Scattered on the floor, some in the patch of light there and some in the shadows, were at least a dozen tiny elves. I shook my head. The elves did look like rats, and there was the foul smell of cheap whiskey in the air, but I clearly recognized the rats as Santa’s elves once my vision cleared. The elves were moaning and oddly had their pants off. Three of them had thrown up and were rolling around in their own vomit.

“Santa!” I cried out. “It’s you, it’s really you! I knew you were real! I’ve believed in you when nobody else did. I’m fifty-eight years old, and I never doubted you for all the years of my life! Santa Claus is real!”

A little tipsy and stumbling, Santa managed to turn around toward me, his great white-bearded head rolling around on his neck. He stared with blood-shot eyes toward me, and sneered.

“Yeah, year, so what? Where’s your Viagra?” he asked.

I was not so much shocked by what he said as I was delighted by the red beanie he wore with the letters MAGA across the front.

He was one of us!

“I said, where’s your god-damn Viagra?” Santa asked once more, in a rather hostile tone.

His head rolled around on his neck three times. I took it to be an allusion to the three wise men that had come to visit the baby Jesus with the drugs frankincense and myrrh so many years ago.

“I-I …” the words would not come in the presence of my idol. I was enraptured.

“He said, where is your god-damn Viagra,” one of the more belligerent elves shouted out, jumping to his feet. Unstable, or perhaps tripped up by his pointy shoes, he fell flat on his face. “Ugh. Blug.”

His face was swimming in his own stomach’s noxious eruptions.

Santa stumbled toward me, as uncertain on his feet as his drowning elf. I managed to catch him under his plump armpits as his knees seemed to break beneath him. I held him upright with some difficulty. I never knew Santa Claus could smell like this.

“You’re one of us,” I said in wonder, my eyes directly on the lettering on his beanie. "Cough,cough, cough."

Unfortunately, the Glock went off with a tremendous retort. The bullet immediately shattered the bathroom mirror and ricocheted off into a plump, pimply elf on the floor, killing him instantly.

“What have I done?” I cried out. “I killed a Christmas elf!”

“Oh, don’t worry about that little freak. That’s one of my more MAGA elves, little Lindsey from the Senate. There are plenty more of his kind. Now, where is that Viagra?”

“But I killed him! I killed one of your elves! I can never forgive myself!”

Santa slapped me across the face.

“I told you not to worry about it! He's not worth a ... Time’s a-wastin and I need that Viagra. Me and my elves have slid down the chimneys of millions of homes tonight, and have millions more to slide down. You might not have heard but the President signed an executive order tonight lowering the age of consent to three! Do you know how much more humpin’ and stuffin’ we can do tonight because of it? And what’s better, the Attorney General Pam Bondage has agreed the President’s executive order is legal, and the Supreme Court agreed with her. Epstein, drag that little piece of garbage Lindsey out into the snow where the wolves can eat him.”

“Well, if the president said it, it must be right.”

“Darn tootin’. Say, you have any little girls in the house?”

“Three. One is eight, another is six and the last one, the love of my life, is three. Why do you ask?”

My heart lit up warmly with the thought of them. I loved them so much and now Santa was about to.

“Oh, ah, ah, ah. Just the thought of it,” said Santa, writhing and dancing around in his drawers, flopping around passionately on his feet. “Did you hear that, elves? He has little girls in the house.”

“Yeah! You’re the greatest, MAGA Santa! Little girls! Little girls! Little girls!”

“Now, you, whatever your name is, where is that Viagra? It’s time to Make America Grimace Again.”

A thrill passed through me.

“Well, I keep my Viagra in the second drawer of the vanity. There should be enough for all of you. I know my little girls are dying to see you, MAGA Santa. They love MAGA Santa almost as much as I do. They've been hoping you'd visit tonight.”

I could not believe my good fortune at having this magical creature come to my home on this holiest of  nights and desire my girls. I knew now I was saved.

“Epstein, when you’re done dumping Lindsey out in the snow, you and Vancy grab that Viagra and distribute it to everybody, two to an elf. Save the rest for me. The President’s executive order goes into effect right about now and I want to take full advantage of it.”

“Thank the Lord for you, MAGA Santa,” I said, weeping. "I am so blessed."

“You’re welcome, you senseless twit. Now show me where those little girls are. Pam Bondage invited me over later tonight so I can bestow my special gifts on her little girls, too. I wouldn’t want to disappoint her. Pam Bondage is the best.”

I waited out in the hallway as my daughters squealed with delight with the coming of MAGA Santa Claus on this wondrous Christmas Eve.

You never think such a thing could happen to your daughters, but then MAGA Christmas comes along and it does.

 

Monday, December 15, 2025

our grimy government

 

 our grimy government

 

 our grimy government

 takes all it can steal

 and stuffs one pocket

 denying the thievery is real

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government bleeds

 children in jails

 while taking love

 from prepubescent girls

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government supports

 tyrants with tails

 squashing free men

 whose causes it fails

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government drops

 bombs on blameless boats

 filled with lost fishermen

 they kill twice without hope

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government writes

 checks it can’t cash

 and runs out of town

 fast, fast, fast

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government says

 we are to blame

 then gilds its walls

 without justice or shame

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government flies

 blasphemous airlines

 sky-riding for free

 only the blind can’t see

 

 our grimy government

 

 these vulgar things it does

 without love it fails

 

 our grimy government believes

 things no one sees

 saying falsity is real

 driving truth to its knees

 

 our crime-filled government

 

 these vulgar things he blasts

 millions pray he won’t long last


Monday, September 1, 2025

The common buckeye butterfly

A closeup of a common buckeye butterfly.

 Common buckeye butterflies love the sunshine. Their range covers most of North America where they spend much of their time sunbathing in open fields, along trails, on grassy dunes, disturbed areas and on the ground. The fall migrations of this stunning butterfly on the Atlantic Coast can often be spectacular in numbers. They are a few inches across when they open their wings. They sip on many types of flowers and when they open their wings, they display wonderful eyespots, or buckeyes because the spots look like the spots on buckeye nuts. These eyespots can scare away predators, who think they’re being sized up for a meal. Their front legs are hairy and smaller than usual, so they are known as brush-footed butterflies. Males are feisty and will scare off others. After the males mate with the females they leave their eggs on plaintain, a common lawn plant, and snapdragon plants. Their caterpillars are loners and not aggressive, even with other caterpillars. Adults like the nectars of mints, aster and goldenrods. See them in the heat and sunshine of summer. Stare into those beautiful eyespots and think of how lucky you are.

Watch on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB87mkm8Vvg

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Comparing Trump to Hitler

 Yes, Trump can be compared to Hitler, since history shows both used the same methods, means and rhetoric to achieve their ends.

Aside from reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, I've read numerous other books and publications about the Nazis, including all of Albert Spier's books. Spier was his architect and then a minister in charge of production in Hitler's government.

So to begin documenting the similarities, let's start with Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in the early 1920s when he led his private militia in an armed attempted take-over of Munich's government, which failed when the Army fired on the insurrection. Hitler was up front with a pistol, unlike Trump, who watched his January 6 insurrection on television like the man of action he is. Trump let his private militia, the Proud Boys, attack the Capitol with his attendance, but they were armed and it was violent. If only the Capitol Police had fired on the Trump supporters we might not be in this current dilemma. Hitler went to prison for his insurrection: Trump is charged and due to the rule of law we abide by, might never be imprisoned, since the rule to law is being horribly manipulated by Trump.

After Hitler was released from prison, he went mainstream. He wrote Mein Kampf, his outline for what he would do, while in prison, while Trump had the members of his first administration write Project 2025, which details his repressive plans for a second term, God forbid. Hitler manipulated the levers of power in German to become part of the government and many Nazis, but not a majority, were elected to the Reichstag, just as many conservative Republicans and election deniers have seized government posts. In an election with an unclear majority for Nazis, Social Democrats and communists, Paul von Hindenburg, Germany's president and venerated general from World War I, chose Hitler to be Premier, to his everlasting damnation. He and the other top leaders of Germany's government believed they could control Hitler and the Nazis: they were proven wrong. Hitler never won more than 33 percent of the vote, but ruled as a ruthless dictator from Day One, just as Trump has promised to do.

Once in power, Hitler made good on his pledge to rid Germany of the Jewish population, just as Trump has promised to rid the United States of immigrants, after blaming them for problems that don't exist, just as Hitler blamed the Jews for the imaginary problems he instilled in his followers minds. Hitler started his mass deportations of Jews, which turned out to be deportations to death in concentration camps. After all, the cost of deporting millions is astronomical. He decided gassing and burning in ovens was much more cost-effective and what he wanted to do in the first place. Why has no one asked Trump what it will cost to deport 11 million people and how he plans to do it? As a businessman, he will most certainly take the cheaper alternative.

Hitler, as Trump plans to do, also "took care" of his political enemies once in power. One of the great heroes, in my eyes, of the 20th Century, was German Jewish lawyer Hans Litten. Litten believed greatly in the German legal system and after a demonstration in which Hitler's thugs, like the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, killed members of the opposition party, he put Hitler on the stand and so badly grilled him that Hitler was shaken for months afterward and never forgot it.

Hitler devised the Reichstag fire and blamed the communists for it, which gave him the excuse to declare emergency powers, which he used to arrest and round up his opponents. Han Litten was one of those arrested. Litten was never charged but spent over two years in concentration camps, where he was brutally tortured and starved, until he committed suicide. His example should always be remember as what happens when political opponents are arrested without cause or without having broken any law.

And we say ho-hum when Trump says he wants to be a dictator on day one?

We must say, "Never again!"

I could go on and on about why Hitler and Trump must be seen as one and the same, for the similarities are too great not to. Hitler was thought of as a clown, taken lightly, just as Trump is described as all talk and rhetoric. Talk and rhetoric turn to repression and tyranny, as will happen with Trump if he is elected, and as did happen with Hitler.

Once you learn the history and see the similarities between the two, you can not help but shudder about what might happen to the United States should Trump be elected.

Monday, September 16, 2024

The Pineville Press - September 16, 2024

 The Pineville Press

Pineville is not a place, but an unstable state of mine

Trump opts in for more assassinations

Citing the successes of the recent assassination attempts against him, former president Donald J. Trump has called for more attempts on his life.

"Every time I get shot at, my poll numbers go up," Mr. Trump said. "I can't really feel I'm having a good day politically if I don't have bullets whizzing around my head. Bullets are more essential to my well-being than sunshine, which I never liked anyway. Sunshine is the worst. Bullets are the best. There has never been anything as good as bullets. So keep the assassination attempts coming."

Asked if he didn't feel his life might be in danger while he is being shot at, Mr. Trump simply laughed,

"Bullets harm me? You've got to be kidding," he said. "I've had Kamala Harris tossing rhetorical word-bombs at me during our debate, and I survived them. Now they were dangerous. The only thing I have to fear is truth itself, which always comes out when she talks about me. I'll never debate her again." 

Both assassination attempts against him have failed to kill him, Mr. Trump noted, and said there was a reason for that.

"God is guiding the hands of my would-be killers, and God is so old his vision is weak and he has weak hands," Mr. Trump claimed. "God needs new glasses and some sessions in the gym. One of my assassins was young and one was old, but the young one wore spectacles but the the old one didn't. Why not? Because they knew God was with me without his spectacles, so it was no use to try to shoot me. God just flicked the bullets aside like they were flies, which he is good at. Flies are good, they say, because they clean up shit and they're always around me. I like flies. God practices on them for swatting bullets away. I like having flies at my assassin attempts."

Mr. Trump also pointed out that his first young assassin was killed, while his second, older assassin drove off when the Secret Service fired at him. He was captured. 

"Why didn't the young one drive away?" Mr. Trump asked. "Because he was on a roof. He knew if he drove his car off the roof, he would hit the ground, so his second assassin lay on the ground to shoot at me and then drove off. The second one learned from the first one. I don't know why God let him drive off, but they got him, and my poll numbers went up, they got both of them. I love it when my poll numbers go up, so keep on firing. Maybe I'll make that my new campaign slogan. KEEP ON FIRING!" 

 When it was pointed out to him that both his assassins were private citizens and a professional hit-man might have better luck in killing him, he scoffed.

"That doesn't matter," he said. "I've had professional hit-men shooting at me since I was born. My parents hired them. Even when I was a baby they were shooting at me. Nobody had any luck, except my mother, who once put a bullet in my brain when I was a toddler of twelve. She said I was babbling, always babbling, and she couldn't stand it any longer, so she shot me in the head, or so I'm told. It didn't hurt a bit. I don't feel a thing in my head, and I never have. So, you see, I'm not afraid." 

Mr. Trump said that at his next campaign event he was going to dress only in a loin-cloth in honor of Native Americans. He said he'll paint colorful targets on both his chest and back.

"I'll let them try to shoot me on both sides, both sides, although I prefer to be shot in the back, so that I don't have to see it," Mr. Trump said. "That'll be me at my next campaign event. I'll wear only a loin-cloth with targets on me, although I will still wear my famous black shoes and socks. I have to wear both because there is so much horse manure at my rallies and I only like flinging it, not stepping in it."

Mr. Trump said he plans on making himself an honorable member of every Native American tribe in the country in the hope that he can garner their votes in the upcoming presidential election.

"I don't much like getting tomahawks thrown at me, so I have to say how much I love red-men all over the world, although I think it's a mistake the colonial people didn't kill them all off, although they tried," he said. "They tried hard but the Indians are still here to throw tomahawks at me because the colonial people were kind to them and didn't kill they all off. I hope the Indians don't throw tomahawks at me, unless that makes more of them vote for me. I guess it would be all all right then."

Mr. Trump went on to say that there were always hordes of weasels nipping at his ankles at his campaign rallies and that was another reason he wore socks and shoes. 

"Weasels are bad," he said. "You never know where a weasel is going to bite you next." 

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NU5M0S In a Circle of Stars

 

 

 

Thursday, August 22, 2024

The hope and joy of Kamala Harris

 

Out of the darkness comes the beauty and light of Kamala Harris.

Never before has such a dark presence settled over the American political landscape as has that of Donald Trump over the past ten years. Now we have a possibility of emerging from that darkness into the light with the nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee

The darkness is deep and thick, ignorant and hurtful, wrong and destructive. Fight on the side of the light, for the darkness is still dangerous and must be reckoned with. 

Hope has sprung up in Kamala's smile and air of joy, but the darkness always seeks to destroy such things with lies and fear and hatred.

Fight on the side of the light. Hope with the light.

The darkness is dreadful, cruel and deep. Do not believe in the darkness.

Defeat it with the brilliance of joy. Learn to laugh in the face of the dreadful again.

Let her smile lead the way out of the abyss.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Tiger lily time

 

Tiger lilies are everywhere this time of year, but they're still worth a long look.