There is one certain individual,
who has repeatedly …
USED
POOR GRAMMAR…
OVER AND OVER AGAIN
and his name is Donald J. Trump…
[ He uses the word "bad" when he really means "poor"
100% of the time!]
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Friday, August 12, 2016
No Meager 'Passion Play'
No Meager 'Passion Play'
This dance of 'political circumstance',
Deadly as nightshade, bristly as thorns;
Worn as the annals of sorrow and shame
Darkened by avarice, chastened by scorn.
Wooed by the rapture
of raison d'être,
One
clammy handshake undoes it all;
Carrying the burden of
haphazard chance
Only the lonely still spar
at the hall.
Yet, clear of forged rhetoric, drained of
pale lies,
I
have not bent down to scorch at the earth;
Nor
have I drunk from the commonplace wells
Seasoned
with venomous, poisonous mirth.
We'll see very soon who wins
and who 'wars';
No
matter how 'trite' or absurd the teams lean;
Behold
autumn's forces on key judgment day
The
master-at-large drafts a dank, somber scene.
Poem written by L.P.-G. / c. August
2016
Post-script:
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
A THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT
A THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT-- so very déjà vu…
The
current summer heat evokes a piquant wave of familiarity, one tending a lovely August
interval experienced several years prior; 1988 was also an election year, a
fact which clearly adds to the air of déjà
vu that swoons down and swirls its way past my sanctified senses
stunned by such knowledge.
My room looked much like this one…
Monday through Friday, I rode a bus down 16th
Avenue to AFIP.
Rock creek park and the Washington
D.C. Zoo were close by…
Of course,
there are tons of things to do and see in our nation's GREAT capital… I so
fondly recall the orchids at the botanical gardens…
Classmates I
met drove me to Philly on some weekends… my parents lived in Ardmore, PA BACK THEN.
EVERYONE AT THAT TIME WAS RAVING ABOUT THE MOVIE
CAPTIONED BELOW…YET TO THIS DAY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT!
Relevant data opines that the
heat wave of 1988
was worse than what we're experiencing currently; nonetheless, the sense of déjà
vu continues to be enormous!!!
"It was during the summer of 1988 that a heat-wave struck the Plains and Eastern states of
the U.S.; temperatures that could only be described as 'brutal' persisted for
days on end".
Finally
found this pic from my time on Glen Road in beautiful Ardmore, PA... Oh 1988, I
miss you!
Monday, August 8, 2016
A FRIEND WOULDN'T LET A FRIEND…
A FRIEND
WOULDN'T
LET
A FRIEND…
[VOTE
FOR DONALD TRUMP]
EVER!!!!!
whether in the Motor City, or elsewhere !
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
I ALWAYS TAKE MY COFFEE BLACK…
YES, I ALWAYS TAKE MY COFFEE BLACK…
BUT A 'SOUL' IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MATTER
The evil that is in the world almost always
comes out of ignorance; yet, "good intentions" may result in
as much harm as malevolence … if those intentions lack proper understanding.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could
have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the
silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it
possible for EVIL to triumph.
WORDS - so
innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for
good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Government is an 'evil'; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men
that make it a "necessary evil". When ALL men are good and wise,
government will (of itself) decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are times
when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never
thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil.
We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge
it. Then we can
change it.
Philip Zimbardo
In times such as
these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and
knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to
persevere even in the darkest of times.
Michael Burgess
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
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