The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Prez: "I declare three emergencies: Infrastructure, Family, Fiscal"

    In keeping with the (fantasy) vigorous executive that we have not got, suppose the following:

    At the SOTU, flanked on one side by Gracie Slick ("Tear down the walls") and Michael Vick on the other ("Everyone can use a fresh start") Prez galvanizes his presidency and the country,.

    I am declaring a state of infrastructure emergency.  I will not wait for one more innocent American to die in a bridge collapse, a pipeline explosion, a preventable flood.  Every day the toll of bodies climbs.  Therefor, I am directing FEMA to deputize the highway and public works departments of all fifty states, nationalizing the budgets of those departments and establishing an infrastructure bank to fund the immediate acceleration of any repairs that are pending.  (Bay Bridge, this means you...)

    I am declaring a states' fiscal emergency--not one more bankruptcy will be threatened because state and local governments are being crushed by the weight of an insane drug prohibition policy and its attendant prison cost burden.  Accordingly, I am pardoning all incarcerated drug offenders of whatever stripe.

    Thus will I counter the family emergency seizing our inner cities.  Not one more child will lose a parent to this monstrous prohibition project that only makes richer the Cartelistas and the Taliban--they will be referred to the hiring halls that FEMA is to set up in every urban metropolitan center, where they will be employed in the emergency infrastructure projects.  

    I will do this every morning for the next six years of my terms, so you po-po out there better find some real crime to fight...don't be bringing in any dope slingers so you can run up your paperwork overtime.

    Just to really chap the crazies' grits, I am asking ACORN to establish registration tables outside the prisons so that the newly enfranchized ex offenders may conveniently join the Democratic juggernaut.

    How do you like me now?

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    I like you a lot now.  But don't stop there.  As long as we're fantasizing, go on.  Please.


    I am re-establishing the draft, but it will only take useless pieces of shit who will not be missed.  Starting with the Repugnant members of this august body.  Sergeant at arms!  Seal the doors and collect the bodies.


    You GO, Pirate!  Prez may have to say "non-violent offenders'', but yes to the rest.  And how about: Government takes back all privatized prisons, ends tortuous solitary confinement, places an indefinite moratorium on foreclosures until the MERS-contaminated mortgages are fixed, or bought back by The Big Banks, and pledges to not 'fix' a SS system that is a stand-alone trust fund.  Oh--and some war savings: end the expenditures of a million/month per soldier, and invest in Green Industries.  And can't we have him rewrite trade agreements to Fair Trade agreements? 

    Okay; greedy of me.  But this could be a baby step on pot, at least; we'd rather say F what the states and counties (mine) say:  http://www.talkleft.com/story/2011/1/2/5713/77493

    Oh, you Dreamer, you....


    As always, JR, I love the way you think. 

    While dreaming dreams, maybe the Prez could take a stand for public option or universal healthcare?

    And actually earn his Nobel peace prize by APOLOGIZING to the world for American Imperialism, vowing that, henceforth, we will not pro-actively invade another country, ever again; that legitimate grievances will be sorted at the UN/ the Hague, wherever, whose rulings shall be binding on all parties.

    And maybe a little something for education and the arts?

    OK,OK -- now I'm being greedy. Never mind.


    What, you want to make us "once again free, once again brave? www.myspace.com/185357672/blog/356894192


    Foreclosure moratorium? You tryin' 2 get him shot? If them banksters can't cruise past a pile of furniture on the curb w/2 or 3 crying kids (preferably clutching teddy bears) every other day or so, they break out in hives!!

    Wouldn't poison be the Banksters weapon of choice?  'Shot' might be the result of shutting down the Superbowl or something...  ;oP


    No way-not w/Michelle on the job. She,s got momma Robinson on the white house chef like white on rice.

    "Oh!  I'd kill for Michelle's arms!"   How do you like me now?   Cool

     


    This is GREAT Jolly!!

    Good to see you in top form!


    Thnx,Dick.  Same to you; wuz diggin on the dog deconstruction.


    just out of curiousity, is anyone else out there getting a huge banner add for "The Arbor" Texas' premier drug rehabilitation facility...?

    One or two things to say about that.

    1. 'No, no, no.'

    2. I am insulted that they picked an upscale facility--I am a proud

    <>crankster gangster<>...


    I love this damn song. I really do.

    And of course I am so in love with her. hahahaha

    For all the wrong reasons.

    Some old poker player once said, victory goes to those who do the wrong thing at the right time. hahaahahah


    There is a school of thought that would have it that bad skin is the sign of a high sex drive...


    It really is unnerving the way Google Ads think they know you better than you know yourself, withal.


    No kidding.  I keep getting ads that pop up extolling the virtues of leather fabrics, when I'm really only into piercings and tats.  Bad algorithms on the gooogle code writers part if you ask me. 


    Yeah, & how would you like a big banner touting the healing skills of some outfit in Texas who promise to repair the torn tissue from your too-enthusiastic wielding of your Prince Albert? That could seriously cause you to lose sleep, at the least.

    Not google's fault, but a while back my son and his family visited. One evening I booted up and went to dagblog. My son walked behind me as the home page came up and said, "Looks like a cool sight, Dad. You lookin' for raging homosexuals?"


    Now that DADT is history, & w/marrage equality just round the corner. may we not anticipate that the (righteous) rage will abate?

    At that time I was just wanting the laughter to abate.

    http://dagblog.com/blowing-smoke


    Plus, we don't have that schmuck running the Enterprise anymore....Trifecta....(No, not Kirk. That other schmuck. Honors.)