Another Black Friday has come and gone with only a couple of murders and some pepper spray. All in the name of a few bucks off an Xbox, Wii or some other non-essential electronic gadget. It’s consumerism run amuck. Eventually, Black Friday will steamroll Thanksgiving until the only turkeys left will be those standing in line at Walmart.
Black Friday’s a dark, sordid tale
Of seeking the new holy grail.
For a price you can’t beat
Some shoppers would eat
Their young if they found them on sale.
Time to take a pause from all the trials and tribulations of everyday life and spend some time with family and friends. There is no better way to do this then over a good meal. ‘Breaking bread’ has always been synonymous with sharing, camaraderie and peace. Just make sure to keep the discussions of politics and religion away from the dinner table. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Holidays are time to remind
Of things we forget in the grind
Of everyday living,
So pause for Thanksgiving
And nourish the ties that will bind.
You can’t help but be amazed by the recent success of Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos (disclaimer: I’ve been a Denver fan since I was ‘knee high to a duck’). That doesn’t mean I drank the Tebow kool-aid. Watching the guy play gives me heartburn. Watching him throw a pass makes me cringe! I don’t know how long his winning ways can continue but it has certainly added drama to Broncos football. I’ve bought him a Christmas present below. Hope it helps.
The Broncos and Tebow are winning
And keeping the Denver fans grinning,
But if God has a say
Then Tim better pray
‘Cause his passing just borders on sinning.
The Occupy protest seems to be losing some support especially here on the west coast. Their nebulous demands don’t lend themselves to a quick solution, or for that matter, any solution at all. While they may be a part of the 99%, they can’t claim to represent a group that large and diverse. Regardless, their momentum now will mostly be determined by whether then can weather the weather.
Though I can’t tell which way the winds blowing
The Occupy protest is growing,
But despite what’s been said
There’s trouble ahead
When winter comes and it starts snowing.
I get frustrated with our overt fear of terrorist attacks. All they’ve ever been able to do is sneak up every ten years and blow up a building or two. Now I don’t like to see that happen and the 9/11 attacks were a tragedy, but terrorists will never, I repeat never, threaten the stability or integrity of our country. They’re just small groups of zealots who will always be around and we just have to deal with it. The real threat is China!
They have the capability and desire to do significantly more damage to our country. It’s currently being played out in cyberspace so it’s mostly invisible and the human cost is negligible, but we shouldn’t be lulled into complacency. They know the best way to damage our country is from within. In the future, a Chinese virus might be more deadly than an American bomb.
The source of our countries unease
Is a fear of Islamic draftees,
But a much bigger threat
Sneaks in on the Net
As a hacker who’s speaking Chinese.
The Germans are squirming now! Their banks are the ones who loaned the most money to Greece. So much for German banking prowess. It takes two to make a bad loan, an overstretched borrower and a greedy lender. Greece should abandon the Euro and let the German and French banks eat their losses. Unfortunately, the Government i.e. taxpayers will end up covering the loss for the stupid bankers. This scenario seems to be repeating itself all over the world. Banks need to be strictly regulated as they have proved over and over that they cannot be trusted to act prudently with other peoples money.
The Germans have made a large bet
That Greece would stand up to it’s debt,
But the problem’s not easing
With continual squeezing
In this sovereign game of roulette.
I’ve been trying to watch the new zombie show ‘Walking Dead’ on AMC. It’s pretty realistic as far as zombie movies go but the pace is a little slow (kind of like the zombies themselves). Too much character development. I’m not usually opposed to this but with thirteen episodes this season, it seems to be moving at a glacial pace…made even worse by the incessant commercials. Someone should turn zombies loose on the producers!
With an uncanny knack for survival
Seems Zombies are in a revival,
While they look decomposing
Their show’s presupposing
Success, though they’re ‘dead on arrival’.
Here are some extra limericks for Halloween. This is one of my favorite holidays. No religion, gift giving or flag waving necessary. Everyone just have a good time while pretending to be someone (or something) else!
It’s soon to be all Hallows Eve,
A day for which some still believe
Black magic abounds,
But now it’s just sounds
Of ‘trick or treat!’ some candy please?
I’ve got ghosts and monsters galore
All standing in front of my door
Expecting a treat,
But who’s under that sheet?
I think I’ve seen that one before!
and for adults…
Sexy witch, sexy cat, sexy maid
All assume lot’s of skin is displayed.
While candy is dandy
The trick if you’re randy
Is a treat that unwrapped gets you laid.
The Argentinians really know how to dance! Being the home of the Tango, it must be in their blood. Combine that with the passion of Latin lovers and you get the Argentine version of ‘Dancing With The Stars’. They put us to shame…or is it the other way around? Check out the link above for the whole dance and the video below for the judges reaction. I don’t think ‘nipple slip’ is in their vocabulary.
The Roman themed dance that they chose
Was part steamy and part grandiose,
Especially the ending
That some found offending
As she finished without any clothes!
This is a very interesting article about a machine that can create an invisibility cloak using the same science as found in mirages. While the movies usually refer to mirages when someone is lost in the desert, we see them mostly when driving down a highway on a hot day. They often look like pools of water on the road. The machine is still in its early stages and works best underwater but the potential is there. While walking around with an invisibility cloak may sound fun, there are some problems that would quickly need to be addressed, especially about the undressed.
The chance we could travel unseen
Sounds good but a problem I glean
Is invisible cloaks
For regular folks
Would quickly turn lewd and obscene.
Why isn’t God in Somalia? They’ve been beaten down, impoverished, starved, shot, macheted and now blown up. If any country deserves some help, this is it. Of course it will never happen. God is a perennial no show. Which begs the question, if he’s not going to help Somalia, who will he help?
There once was a God who all seeing
Insisted we worship his being,
But pray as we might
For help with our plight
Did not guarantee our wellbeing.
Which then begs the question as why
To worship this eye in the sky,
If he never prevents
The chain of events
Then he’s neither a friend or ally.
So we’re sliding down life’s slippery slope
With no help from a preacher or Pope
And it seems even Jesus
Just does what he pleases
With no one to throw us a rope.
You can pine, you can whine or bemoan
The answers to questions unknown,
But we still have our brains
And a heart that contains
Enough love so we thrive on our own.
The Tea Partiers have been real quiet lately. Their call to shrink government only seems to surface when it’s something that doesn’t directly affect them. Not a surprise given most of them accept Medicare or Social Security payments. That’s why this movement has no legs. Their hypocrisy and transparency are glaringly evident. I’ve devised a test to see if they’re really serious about living with less government support…
The Tea Party desires to hem
Our Governments’ growth to stem
Their concern over spending,
So we should be sending
All of our cantaloupe to them.
The folks at OnStar have risen to new heights of marketing madness. They track all kinds of data on your car such as performance, location, speed, etc. Problem is, when you unsubscribe to the service, they still track you anyway! Their lame excuse is “we have no plans to sell your info to any third parties, we just need to do a better job of communicating to our customers”. Here’s an idea: don’t track people who unsubscribe and take it out of your Terms and Conditions! Sheeze…do they think we’re really that stupid? The service is way overpriced anyway and anyone who subscribes to it is a chump. We don’t always get what we pay for but often get what we deserve..
OnStar will track where you go
And pretend like it’s just status quo,
But while playing the savior
They’re tracking behavior
To sell it to others for dough.
Bad news in Hollywood relationship land. Kat Von D and Jesse James have broken up again. This one may be final. We’ll know for sure when she covers that tattoo of his name (if we can even tell!). I have to admit, though, I like all those tattoos and that deep sexy voice. She deserves better than that bonehead who cheated on Sandra Bullock. And what’s with the name…it sounds a bit lame…to be calling yourself Jesse James.
Their reunion has again fallin’ flat
And appears to be more than a spat,
If her clothes she won’t doff
With the wedding called off
It would seem that’s the last tit for tat.
UBS is a bank in trouble. After losing billions on bad mortgages, they respond with a dress code that dictates the color of women’s underwear and the shaving habits for men. Talk about missing the point! Now a ‘rogue’ trader takes them to the cleaners for another $2.3 billion. Their CEO has created a culture of arrogance that fosters incompetence but he doesn’t think it’s his fault. Classic case of denying responsibility when things go bad (but we’re sure he’ll take all the credit when things turn around). Short answer…throw the bum out!
UBS is a real work of art
With losses that have at their heart
A focus on looks
Instead of their books
Cause they’re only just dressing the part.
It’s a tough job market out there. So bad that the Presidents Job’s Bill has a provision to prevent discrimination against the unemployed. A rational person might ask what kind of company institutes this type of policy? Answer: a crappy one. If you run up against this then move on. There are better companies out there.
If you think that your paycheck displays
A lack of respect for the days
You worked overtime
For nary a dime,
It’s ’cause keeping your job’s the new raise.
