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HEADED DOWN TO DAVEY JONES

GLUG! GLUG! GLUG!
GLUG! GLUG!
GLUG!

To Joyful Preparation

May your shopping days be filled with joy and love,

Each one a dance step till the Day of Days

Reveals the Gift Supreme sent from Above

Reaching out to all with songs of praise.

Year’s end arrived. (It never can be stopped!)

Caring, crafting, cooking, caroling time

Heralds Love, whom God from Heaven dropped.

Reason says that nothing so sublime

In all this hurly burly could exist;

Spirit says that Love is all that’s real

The Anxiety we feel shows we have missed

Making hopeful sharing our Ideal.

Angels sing. Your needs you can afford,

So freely give to praise our Infant Lord. 

~ FreeThinke

ALL HAIL

the 
Champion Bastard Beater 

of 

All Time

!!!!!
!!!
!

Viva! Viva!
El Donaldo!
MR. TRUMP GOES to WASHINGTON

The bells rang wildly in the town

To greet The Man of high renown.

As Trump came striding in

The pealing clanging, booming sound 

Filled the air with fearful din

And when the president arrived 

and strode into the room

The clanking from his dangling balls 

resounded through the halls

Sonorous enough to drown 

the dreaded Crack of Doom.

Before the brazen bonging's end 

had finally came to pass

Trump had torched the premises 

with lightning from his ass!

~ FreeThinke

Ha ha ha! Ho ho ho! And a couple of Tra la las!

Julius Caesar

      

Savonarola

Oliver Crowell

Plus ca change, 

plus ca la meme chose

Karl Marx

Sigmund Freud

Adolf Hitler

A good blogging friend of longstanding, much given to quoting perplexing, egocentric, usually atheistic or highly skeptical  philosophers both ancient and modern presented yet-another copious dose of the Marxist, philosopher  Slavoj Zizek, which I admit annoys me –– especially when presented in conjunction with one of our beloved Christian holidays.  So wrote to him:

 Didn’t you "get the message" 
in my THANKSGIVING SONNET 
this year?

So i quoted it again, because I doubt many voter to read verse with either curiosity or comprehension.

________ On Thanksgiving ________

Of all events parading through the year

Not one can to this humble feast compare.

To feel or offer thanks today is rare 

However well our lives remain in gear.

As ease became the norm, we soon forgot 

None of Plymouth’s Pilgrims felt regret. 

Knowing death and cruel privation’s threat

Spoiled not their faith, or made them curse their lot.

Given much yet now we seem to crave

Immeasurable bounty we don’t need 

Voluptuous excess revealing Greed 

Indifference to the noble, fine and brave.

No pilgrim, pioneer or great tycoon

Grew up as a self-indulgent goon.

~ FreeThinke

I believe those thoughts apply very aptly to the observations expressed, complaints issued and the charges made in Zizek's customarily verbose, maddeningly obfuscatory style.

Josef  Stalin

I went on, “Your philsopher friends have it all bassackwards as far as I can see. They continually strive to dsguise the essential meaning of simple, basic home truths in abstruse, recondite, esoteric, pseudo-erudite terminology that works to make simple things SEEM a great deal more complex, mysterious and inaccessible than they really are.

“This, of course, lends the PHILOSOPHER an aura of near-godly superiority to us mere mortals.

Mao tse Dung

“It's virtually the same methodology applied by the Mediaeval Church of Rome where priests read biblical texts in LATIN, which the largely illiterate parishoners were ill-equipped to comprehend. This of course gave spurious credence to the then-prevalent notion that parishioners could not reach God DIRECTLY, but ONLY through the intermediary of the PRIESTHOOD.

“These self-serving methodlogies are ILLEGITIMATE in my never-humble opinion, and have led untold millions for many centuries to live lives intimidated and artificially circumscribed by presumptuous authoritarian forces interested primarily in maintaining a deathgrip on the reins of POWER.

Barack Hussein Obama

Despotism wears many masks, parades under many banners, and appears in many guises –– almost ALWAYS pretending to be the polar OPPOSITE of what it truly is.”

Our Narrow Escape!

"The Squad"

We Know All Too Well What Rough Beasts are Slouching Towards the Corridors of Power and the Oval Office, Don’t We?

Could Anyone Tell Us What the 
Figures Depicted Might 
Have in Common?

On Thanksgiving

Of all events parading through the year

Not one can to this humble feast compare.

To feel or offer thanks today is rare 

However well our lives remain in gear.

As ease became the norm, we soon forgot 

None of Plymouth’s Pilgrims felt regret. 

Knowing death and cruel privation’s threat

Spoiled not their faith, or made them curse their lot.

Given much yet now we seem to crave

Immeasurable bounty we don’t need 

Voluptuous excess revealing Greed 

Indifference to the noble, fine and brave.

No pilgrim, pioneer or great tycoon*

Grew up as a self-indulgent goon.

~ FreeThinke - 11/24/11

The First Thanksgiving - John Leon Jerome Ferris (1863-1930)

________________________

*Tycoon

1. A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.

2. Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.

ETYMOLOGY: 

Japanese taikun, title of a shogun, of Chinese origin

WORD HISTORY:

Claims have been made in today's global economy that some business leaders have more power than heads of states. It is etymologically fitting that such leaders are sometimes called tycoons. Tycoon came into English from Japanese, which had borrowed the title, meaning "great prince," from Chinese. Use of the word was intended to make the shogun, the commander in chief of the Japanese army, more impressive to foreigners (his official title shogun merely meant "general"). It worked with Matthew C. Perry, who opened Japan to the West in 1854; Perry carried out his negotiations with the shogun, thinking him to be the emperor. In fact, the shogun did rule Japan, although he was supposedly acting for the emperor. The shogun's title, taikun, was brought back to the United States after Perry's visit. Abraham Lincoln's cabinet members used tycoon as an affectionate nickname for the President. The word soon came to be used for business and industry leaders at times being applied to figures like J. P. Morgan, who may indeed have wielded more power than many princes and presidents.

~ Merriam Webster, 11th edition. online text