On the edge of the abyss . . .

[REDWAVE]

Joblessness and poverty continue to spread across the land. Mostly white cops intensify their brutal clampdown upon Black and Latino youth, mostly males. The prisons of the nation of jailers bulge at the seams, while concentration camps for political dissidents are being quietly prepared in the background. Yet for it all there is, for the time being, a lull, a respite, a pause on the brink of the abyss . . .

The launching of the attack on Iraq will make all deuces and jokers wild, not to mention one-eyed jacks and suicide kings. The Arab masses will most likely erupt in outrage, and overthrow the puppet rulers which have been imposed upon them by the U.S. Pakistan is of particular concern: Osama with nukes. The price of gasoline at the pump will almost surely soar. Are you ready for $5/gallon gas?

A political and media establishment totally subservient to big business, and totally out of touch with ordinary people, spins in a vacuum out of control, endlessly repeating and re-amplifying the same sterile propaganda. People increasingly turn away from the TV news and read tea leaves to try to forecast events. The soft underbelly of the American empire explodes into chaos, opening a front too many, after the politicians have gone a bridge too far.

At home, the hordes of the ragged, the homeless, the jobless, the dispossessed, the spat upon, the ratted on, the disposable people, the laid off, the pinkslipped-- all rise up in a volcanic wave of desperation and anger, and scream with one voice:

"No more! No more! NO MORE!!!"


-- Submitted for your approval. Welcome to The Twilight Zone.

 

[Problem Child]

And people say you're not the biggest drama queen here...

pish posh.

 

[A Desert Rose]

I could post some jokes here too, if you like.

 

[busybody..]

DeadWave

Eating alot of mushrooms,are we?

 

[Ham Murabi]

On the edge of the abyss,
Redrave paused while kissing his sis,
He thought, "I'd rather date Biff."
So he threw her of the cliff,
And then took a leisurely piss.

 

[A Desert Rose]

is that supposed to be a limerick?






Good try, anyway. ;-)

 

[Ham Murabi]

is that supposed to be a limerick?






Good try, anyway. ;-)

It's doubtful anyone will confuse it for Shakespeare, so it must be a limerick.

 

[phrodeau]

REDWAVE, what do you care about the price of gas?

If it goes up, more people will use alternate means of transportation (carpools, busses & bikes), which will undoubtedly be better for the environment.

There will be less aimless driving, so the streets will be safer. Fewer vehicles on the roads will boost the quality of life.
Neighborhood shops will do better business.
"Rush Hour" will only last an hour.

 

[HeavyStick]

I've read better poems in a plastic shitter.

 

[Ham Murabi]

I've read better poems in a plastic shitter.

Where did you think I got that one?

 

[A Desert Rose]

Among other redeeming qualities you have HS, I really love that french statement in your sig line. It is sooo appropriate.

 

[HeavyStick]

Where did you think I got that one?

red's website?

 

[bknight2602]

And people say you're not the biggest drama queen here...

pish posh.

LOL

 

[Ham Murabi]

red's website?

Actually, I penned the limerick to get Redrave's mind off of stuff that will never happen, as illustrated by his post, and onto stuff he'd really like to happen.
I just haven't figured out which Lit member is actually Biff.

 

[Don K Dyck]

Orwell or Bradbury??

hi Redwave . . . surely you don't think America has an Orwellian future . . . or is that a Bradbury future . . . check out the Clinton and GWB thread . . . this trend may have already started . . .

 

[Guest]

 

[Lost Cause]

The only abyss...

Is the immediate future for communism/socialism in the world to come. People are more educated, prosperous, and not a bunch of knuckle dragging wannabes. You all need to seek help to understand your self loathing at having food to eat, a place to sleep, and a tongue to be able to deride your gifts in life.

Peace through superior firepower.

 

[Lost Cause]

Guess who's hiding the nukes?

Get out your maps class....

U.S. intelligence agencies recently uncovered information indicating Russia's foreign intelligence service is covertly cooperating with Iraq's spy agencies.
The cooperation involves unspecified intelligence sharing between the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, known as the SVR, and Iraq's Mukhabarat.
The discovery has raised alarms in some U.S. spy agencies. There are concerns that intelligence information shared with the United Nations on Iraq will be leaked to Saddam's agents from Russia.
U.S. officials familiar with reports of the Russia-Iraq intelligence ties said the connections appear to be left over from the Soviet period, when Yevgeni Primakov was the Kremlin's top Middle East specialist and later when he was head of the KGB.
Mr. Primakov harbors hard-line anti-American views. He backed Iraq in the early 1990s and unsuccessfully attempted to avert the 1991 Persian Gulf war through last-ditch negotiations in the Middle East.
Russian intelligence remains opposed to the use of force in Iraq. SVR Director Sergei Lebedev told reporters in Moscow last month that any use of military force against Baghdad "could significantly complicate the situation in the region and in the world." He said Moscow supports "political and diplomatic methods" to prevent an escalation of the crisis.
"It is crucially important now to ensure that Iraq on one hand and the U.S. and its allies on the other refrain from taking any steps that would lead to a military catastrophe," Mr. Lebedev said.

Next stop, Moscow!