THE PROFITABILTY OF LYING.

 Lying is a very profitable business. Not just for Trump who cons his millions of Clems and Doras to send him money, despite claiming to be a billionaire. But for ordinary citizens who tape commercials for Prevagen claiming miraculous benefits from a product that has proven to be nothing but a placebo, thus encouraging America's gullible consumers to spend over 40 dollars a month on a worthless product. It's pure bunk. Sadly the government no longer bans deceptive advertising, which is why we have so many ads for Golo, tooth-whitening toothpaste, scam like febrize who claim to eliminate odors which they just mask like everyone else. And if companies don't outright lie, they exaggerate like Nature's Bounty who has their own army of liars claiming incredbly renewed energy and health after feeling moderately more energetic. The mendacious Kathie Lee even suggests adding a useless prayer to her promo. All the liars are happily banking their ill-gained payoffs while the corporations who hire them are rolling in huge profits thinking nobody is the wiser.

THE PREMIER POISONER

 It's no surprise that the Bayer company is the leading maker of poisons,  for fleas, weeds, all kinds of unwanted life. After all they were the German company who created the poisons to kill millions: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the handicapped. Which is why I don't buy Bayer aspirin or any of their products. In fact I had to do quite a search today to find St. Joseph low-dose aspirin since all Publix had for sale was Bayer. I don't think most people know about Bayer's shameful history.  I certainly have known more than one Jew who reached for Bayer at the first sign of a headache.  That is until I told them to look up the company's history.

Did Bayer make Zyklon B?

During World War II, Bayer was part of a consortium IG Farben that made the Zyklon B pesticide used in Hitler's gas chambers. Through a series of acquisitions, Bayer has grown into a drug and chemicals behemoth and employs some 100,000 people worldwide.Aug 13, 2018

WORSE THAN ANY KAREN.

 Karen and her male counterpart are pains. Their bigotry and sense of privilege create conflicts all over America, every day. But there's a couple far more dangerous and treacherous than them: Clem and Dora.These are the two brainless boobs you'll see at every Trump rally. They can be young or old. Withered or hearty. Attractive or, more often than not, disfigured by anger. And almost always white.  Clem usually sports a MAGA baseball cap, a misogynist tee-shirt, and pro-Trump buttons or patches. Dora favors the same appalling get-up and often could be confused for Clem if not for her strident voice and garish makeup. Both of these losers are pro-Trump because they are unable to process facts and lack any sense of morality. They have no sense of the world around them and the chaos they are inviting with their stupidity. They are children playing with matches about to burn down their own home. Sadly there are millions of Doras and Clems, few of whom will wake up to their own brainlessness and see Trump for the completely amoral monster he is. Worse yet they are unlikely to realize how much he really despises every Dora and Clem, despite needing them to achieve all his dreams of power.

CAUSE OF DEATH

When I die one of these days, it won't be from poor diet of lack of exercise, or smoking or anything else. It will be caused by a telephone call to Comcast, Citi Bank, Truist Bank or some other phone call to some other incompetent customer service.  All such corporations today have an automatic answering service determined to make you jump through as many hoops as possible, push endless buttons, and do everything possible to make sure you don't make contact with a human being who might solve your problem. Each such phone contact increases your blood pressure, makes you understand serial killers, and wonder how the world got so fucked up and complicated.

IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW

 If you didn't know.

 

If you didn't know how old you were

How old would you be?

If you didn't know you shouldn't

Would you climb a tree?

Would you skip along a street?

Blow bubbles in the air?

And if somebody laughed at you

Would you really care?

 

If you weren't told how grownups act,

How would you behave?

If you weren't told just what to fear,

Would you be more brave?

Would you skateboard down a hill?

Go surfing in the sea?
And if you could feel young again

Would you still love me?

 

Age shouldn't be a reason

For letting life grow cold.

There shouldn't be a season

For being young or old.

Eighty should be just like six.

Fifteen like forty-five.

Every year a cause to cheer,

To be foolish and alive.

 

Wouldn't you get more from life

Without age as a meter?

Without candles on the cake,

Wouldn't each slice be sweeter?
We could share  a tree house

And blow bubbles that would go

Toward the sky before they fell

On sad grownups below.....

If we didn't know how old we are

If we didn't,

Know.

81

 I'm 81 years old. According to Republicans, I should be in my dotage, taking baby steps on my way the bathroom for the fifth time in 20 minutes. I should be incredibly forgetful and, like Trump, incontinent. But unlike Trump, and very like Biden, I am clear-headed and energetic and in excellent health. I have never driven and mostly walk to destinations. I watch the news every day and feel that if anyone is losing it, it's the house Republicans despite their age. I don't feel 81. I don't act 81. I would hate to ever become as fat, as sedentary, as bitter, as self-focused as the super narcissistic Trump with his Max-Factor face and constant malapropisms. I'm 81. I'm still in the game and while I will never be as productive as President Biden, I'm feeling fine, thinking clearly,  writing imaginatively and plan to work hard on my own "Vote Blue" campaign. And while I think the world of Joe Biden, I am also a great admirer of my friend June. She's 90, but thinks just as clearly as if she were 21.

WHERE THE MORONIC MAJORITY RULES.

The future of our country is in the hands of the corrupt Supreme Court.  So don't expect much from this mostly biased bunch of traitors. The news keeps reminding us of their decision to hand the presidency to George Bush.You know where that led. Instead of having a decent, climate-concerned leader like Al Gore, we got two paranoid Republicans who declared war on an innocent country leading to the deaths of thousands of Iraqi men, woman and children. Some smart decision. Since Trump came down that escalator to hell, we have had nothing but chaos, trials, and unnecessary expenses based on this proven criminal's self-centered madness. My guess is the Supreme Court will allow the madness to continue and Clarence Thomas, a major traitor to the United States will rush home to his evil wife and say proudly, "I did what you wanted, dear."

IT'S ABOUT TIME!

I am delighted that the jury found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of manslaughter and responsible in part for the school shooting of her wacko son Ethan. I have seen too many news stories of killings that could have been prevented by more watchful parents, especially those like Jenny who indulged her son with a gun. Let us hope that Daddy Crumbley faces the same fate. Of course there are still dozens of guilty parents out there that didn't face trials and looked the other way while their child built up murderous anger and an arsenal to deal with it. Add to that the careless parents who left guns lying around so their teens, tweens and toddlers could accidentally shoot to death an innocent playmate. Hopefully Jennifer will be the first of many so charged.

I WORK SO MANY JOBS.

 At 81 I am supposed to be retired,  but I have never been so busy working for my doctors, my banks.my computer company. Once you finally get through to your doctor after waiting for 20 minutes you get an appointment weeks away. When the time comes they call you to make sure you'll keep the appointment and if you are not home the message demands that you call them back. Reaching banks is a chore and when you do the recorded voice refuses to let you speak to a human being. In most cases I have to leave the house and go directly the distant bank to solve the problem they created. Comcast is worst of all. They continually screw up my service, pretend it's my fault, then connect me with someone in India for a 20-minute phone call. 

ONE OF MY MANY POEMS NO ONE HAS SEEN

Of all the judgements made on me

What left me most depressed

Were not the words said in spite

But comments made in jest.