SAME SEX MARRIAGE

By Mad Plato

Animals. They don’t need to worry about same sex marriages. In fact, they don’t get married at all. Nor do they get divorces.

When Mr. Bear wants to live in a cave with another Mr. Bear, who is there to care? No constitutional amendments will be made for the bonding arrangements between animals. But, generally, animals are quite monogamous. I guess.

Humans. They worry about same sex marriages. Miss so-and-so wants to live with another Miss so-and-so. Then both want to get married. Then the government says NO! Infidels! Going against the grain! Marriage is only between a man and woman. I guess.

Aliens. OK. I won’t go there.

If the shoe fits, then wear it. Different strokes for different folks.

I guess.

DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE OR DENTIST IN THE MOUTH

Caveat emptor... of dentists!
I recently went to Juarez to see if I could find a dentist.
Six months ago a dentist here in El Paso ago told me that my teeth were soon going to fall out from decay and bacteria, etc.
This dentist scared me when he showed all of the tadpole-like bacteria "swimming" across the computer screen.
Those things are inside my mouth? Lord, I'll never osculate again!
Anyway, the price tag here in El Paso was a mere $9,000!
I had my bottom teeth cleaned by the El Paso dentist, but was told that it was not a regular cleaning. It cost $400 and took just twenty minutes.
The next day my porcelain bridge came out because of the cleaning.
The same dentist said he would not charge the full price for gluing it
back in, and I paid $63!
Well, to cut to the chase, the Juarez dentist said that my teeth were fine, except for the missing bridge...and two front teeth that will be replaced for $143.
Never look a gift horse or dentist in the mouth, and go to Juarez
when you want honest and inexpensive service.

LEAVE IRAQ

Let us worry about Americans.
Let us protect our own shores.
The United States has already destroyed Iraq.
It is not being rebuilt. It is unlikely that Iraq will ever be "rebuilt".
The insurgency is now too elusive and strong (Time magazine).
Many former members of the U.S. military (Time magazine) now admit that this
war is not winnable.
Stay and stay stupid, or leave and gain some wisdom.
The U.S. government (i.e. the Bush regime) betrayed America and Iraq.
I feel your pain Mr. Planning Minister Barham Saleh, but your country now
must go it alone.
We are leaving you.
We put you in an icebox by attacking you.
You are in the cold. Get used to it.
The U.S. government made a big mistake. We are sorry. But we have to worry
about our own survival.
Wait...this is just coming in...Israel and Saudi Arabia have just informed me that the U.S.
will not leave or they will fix us with another 9/11.

REBELLION OR DEATH

What you wrote insinuated that I had no faith or that I had my faith in one kind of "church of entertainment".
Church and faith associated with entertainment are mixed metaphors.
A church is not usually associated with entertainment. Well, except for those holy rollers who had their meeting in the same church where I set up chairs and tables for Grandma Pat so that she and her friends could play their cards.
(My mission was to look at the girls. I don't know if Grandma ever realized this).
Anyway, I waited outside the church, listening to the racket of all of those holy rollers, and pictured in my mind their bodies rolling all over the floor. The windows were too high for me to spy a look at their antics.
"Boy", I thought to myself, "this religion sure is a lot different from Catholicism."
My faith---my beliefs---are a synthesis of all that I have ever read or experienced.
I have not always found what I have sought.
I do not (and did not) always seek what I knew I would find.
I have been reading about and “investigating” the Bush administration to learn what it’s doing, what it has done…and what it might plan to do.
I believe that America is in peril.
And I don’t think enough citizens care or know just what is and has been happening; but it appears now that more and more citizens are finding out and are not very happy with their new awareness.
Camus taught me to resist evil and to embrace life, the sun, and flowers.
He taught me about rebellion…or death.
He taught me choose life---to smile in the face of its absurdities.
If I am constantly repeating one theme---bashing the Bush
administration---it is also true that I have been critical of the war president's Iraq attack before he attacked.
I am bashing him because he bashed us.
I do not agree and I do not condone what President George W. Bush has done.
I am outraged.
As Bertolt Brecht wrote:
"I know.
But I do not approve.
And I am not resigned."

I also know.
I also do not approve.
And I also will not be resigned.

RETURN TO LUNA

The USA is heading back to the moon.
But not until 2018.
Maybe by then America will be out of Iraq.
New Orleans will have been rebuilt.
But we are still in the dark about what pre-emptive wars George W. Bush (i.e. Dick "Always hiding in his bunker" Cheney and Donald "Duck the question" Rumsfeld) have planned.
North Korea, at least for the time being, has been brought to its senses. (Hunger is a very powerful sense and bargaining chip!)
Syria and Iran are breathing down our necks and aiding the freedom-fighters (I mean terrorists) in Iraq.
On May 25, 1961 John F. Kennedy recommended that the United States land men on the moon before the end of that decade.
If we are to believe our eyes and ears, men did land on the moon in 1969.
Today's technology has had nearly 40 years to advance itself and improve the efficiency of returning to the moon.
Then why is it going to take 13 years to go back to Luna?
Some weirdos are saying that WE NEVER LANDED ON MOON. THAT IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME!
Yes, and water is not wet.
Let's get rolling.

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE

Forget for a moment about the bloody debacle of Dubya's Iraq war and the tragedy produced by Hurricane Katrina.
The Black Plague is on the loose in New Jersey!
That's right...the BUBONIC PLAGUE!
Three (not blind) mice are missing in (or from) a laboratory in the Garden State.
Where is the Pied Piper?
Where in the heck is security at this “bio-terrorism research facility”?
It's no wonder that citizens are getting sicker.
It's no wonder that viruses are becoming more deadly and more drug-resistant.
Some officials said that the mice were either stolen or misplaced, but other scientists and investigators think the missing mice were eaten by other mice in the cages.
Put out the d-CON!

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Wednesday, a federal judge in Sacramento declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional -- a decision that could put the divisive issue on track for another round of Supreme Court arguments.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the pledge's reference to one nation "under God" violates schoolchildren's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God."

I agree.
Make the pledge more inclusive.
There shouldn’t be a coercive requirement to affirm God or anyone else.
Here is my alternative pledge.
I realize that it needs some editing.
I know that I have left out many who need to be included.
Please mail me your suggestions.

“I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under…God, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Zoroaster, George Washington, the Greek gods, Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, all of the Saints…my Grandma… and anyone who pays taxes…indivisible and with Liberty and Justice for all.”

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

Finally.
George W. Bush revealed that he is human.
But one might assert, and the assertion can be made with a nil amount of error, that this revelation is too little, too late.
This president miscalculates (once again) if he thinks that the American public is going to swallow his one little pill of remorse.
No, Mr. President.
We no longer believe you.
We no longer trust your words or your soul.
I thought to myself, "Mr. Bush wanted to show his mother that he was not heartless and remorseless".
But then I thought, "No, he did this because his handlers (Rove? Cheney? Laura?) told George Jr. that he had to be the compassionate conservative that he has never been."
When you saw his face; when you saw him tell us that he took responsibility...did you believe this president?
I did not.
I once again saw the beginning of a slimy smirk as he spoke.
This emperor has already lost his clothes
and he is still standing stark naked.

IMPEACH

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (chuckling slightly) is working very well for them."

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
Barbara Bush


The poor and the dead in Iraq or New Orleans didn't really matter for the mother of George W. Bush.
With a mother who talks like this it is no surprise that her son is also smug, callous and remorseless.
All of those executions in Texas.
All of those dying children and elderly in New Orleans.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civlians..DEAD.
Thousands and thousands of brave American soldiers wounded and...DEAD.
War and needless deaths were preventable.
This president has prevented neither.
Americans now realize that our nation has suffered from the depravity and deception of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and others on the tragic stage of this administration.
Americans are now joining hands and voices.
They want the terror to stop.
They want this administration to be brought to justice for its lies and errors.
The American people are now requesting impeachment of this administration.
Enough is enough.

INVESTIGATE GEORGE W. BUSH

Someone needs to oversee an investigation of George W. Bush.
Someone needs to lead an investigation of President George W. Bush.
He can't lead; it's time to find out why.
He misled the United States of America into a false and shameful war.
He and his colleagues in the State Department, the CIA, FBI, the NSA, the Pentagon and on and on did not pay attention to Al-Queda or to other messages being sent to the White House that clearly indicated some very bad things could happen in New York and Washington, D.C.
Blame is NOT a game.
But, President Bush, you perform and lead like your job is a game.
9-11 and your Pre-emptive war on Iraq are still lingering and unanswered questions.
History will be the final investigative commission of your blameful and shameful administration.
In the meantime (and it is a very sad and mean time) the American people do not trust you, George W. Bush, to lead any investigation.
Step aside.
The American people deserve better.
We want the most independent and objective team of outsiders to find out why you bombed Iraq; why New York was attacked; and why your leadership failed and produced the horrendous tragedy in New Orleans.

BUSH WANTS TO MOVE HEAVEN & EARTH...AGAIN!

“Had I had any inkling whatsoever that people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to protect the country. Just like we’re working to prevent further attacks.”
George W. Bush
April 14, 2004


"Not an hour goes by that we do not spend a lot of time thinking about the people who are actively suffering. The United States, as the president has said, is going to move heaven and earth to rescue, feed, shelter" victims of the storm.

Michael Chertoff
Director of Homeland Security
September 3, 2005



Homeland Security secretary Chertoff is now Bush's ace cheerleader.
Chertoff said that he and Bush & Co ("we") think about the suffering people in New Orleans constantly.
This has the same ring of Bush's refrain: "I think about Iraq every day."
Not only are Bush & Co thinking a lot, but the president, in the words of Chertoff, "is going to move heaven and earth to rescue, feed, shelter" victims of the storm.
This president must have powers from out of this world.
He is a supernatural president.
Too bad he didn't use those powers to respond more swiftly to the tragedy in New Orleans.
Too bad he doesn't use those powers to bring the troops home from his lying war.
I think about Iraq every day, too, Mr. Bush.
I think about you, the Commander-in-Chief, who caused the bloody and blundering quagmire in Iraq.
I do not believe you or Mr. Chertoff.
And leave heaven and earth alone.
You have moved them quite enough, already, thank you!

IT WOULD BE EASIER IF I WAS A DICTATOR

As I lay awake
There came a loud voice
From across the land,
And with great power
It showed me
The Face of Anarchy.

I met Murder on the way-
He had a mask like Dick Cheney-
Very smooth he looked, yet grim-
Seven blood-hounds followed him:

All were fat; and well they might
Be in praiseworthy plight,
Because one by one, and two by two,
He threw them human hearts to chew
Which from his wide suit he drew.

Next came Fraud, and he had on,
Like George W. Bush, a scarlet frown;
His big tears, for he wept well,
Changed to hard stones as they fell.

And the poor, irradiated children who
Round his feet played to and fro,
Thinking every tear a gem,
Had their brains knocked out by them.

Clothed with the Bible, as with light,
And the shadows of the night,
Like Pat Robertson, next, Hypocrisy
On a crocodile slithered by.

And many more Destructions were
In this ghastly masquerade,
All disguised, even to the eyes,
Like terrorists, lawyers, or spies.

Finally, Anarchy arrived:
He rode in a black limousine,
Splashed with blood;
He was pale most in the lips,
Like Death in the Apocalypse.

And he wore a kingly crown,
But in his hands were skull and bones;
From his mouth these words I heard-
I am God and President
And Law…..only
The richest and fittest shall survive!

BUSH IS GIVING THE FINGER AGAIN

I am watching MSNBC right now.
6:13 P.M. (Central time)
People in New Orleans are being ignored.
Where is Bush?
What has he done?
What has he said: "Don't buy gas if you don't need to?"
Duh! Does anyone EVER BUY GAS WHEN THEY DON'T NEED GAS?
What a moron.
Bush grins his grisly grimaces when he speaks about the devastation and tragedy in New Orleans.
Well, what should we expect from this War President.
After all, he gave us Iraq.
His war buddies have embezzled millions...maybe billions...and Iraq still doesn't have water or electricity.
BUT IT HAS TERRORISTS!
Why should we expect WarBush to help his own people.
There are no emergency food and water air-drops for his own people.
Talk about democracy!
This president continues to lead us in infamy.
Poor, New Orleans.
Poor, poor America!