Friday, October 4, 2024

Numb. 1168 Marjorie, THE Weather Girl

Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed that a mysterious “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and a total of 200 across the US. — The Independent

Hurricanes hitting good Christian States!

Doesn’t God know where we are?

Why always Florida in the storm corridor?

Why doesn’t God target New York?

Those People follow a different theology.

“THE CHOSEN” control our meteorology!

Numb. 1167 Trump On Trump

Soldiers captured, wounded, and killed?

Suckers and losers. Incomprehensible!

Heroes are winners imposing their will,

we're the ones who are indispensable.


I have said “’til death do us part”

three times. (That I can recall.)

But I know, deep in my heart,

restrictive pre-nup fixes it all.


My power as president: ABSOLUTE!

At THAT desk I will be resolute.

They say my best my only solution:

fuckin' throw out Goddamn Constitution.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Numb. 1166 Mideast: Hear, Their, And Everwear

(sung to the tune of Jimmy Webb's “All I Know")


I kill you, you kill me

We all kill so easily

I want you to die and so

I kill you, and that’s all I know


Missiles rain like mourning dew

All my bombs I drop on you

I wish you to die and so

I kill you, and that’s all I know


From each bomb bay

it’s bombs away


Bombs and missiles never end

Co-existence? God forefend

All our bombast is for show

I kill you, and that’s all I know


From each bomb bay

it’s bombs away

Shells and missiles bring on false dawn

They tell us God demands we carry on


Shells will fall as in times past,

kill and maim with each great blast

Bigger blasts just go to show

I kill you, and that’s all I know

That’s all I know

That’s all I know

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Numb. 1165 Legacy Entitlement

What is the point being wealthy and white

if these qualities don't force open doors?

Our forefathers ruled which gives the right

of precedence over those who sweep floors.


Skin tone alone — sadly wan when not tanned —

shows we are God’s favorites. His chosen.

If we’re first in line, that’s just as He planned.

How dare Liberals stick their damned nose in!?


Equal opportunity? Of course! For us!

The descendants of yesteryear’s winners.

Forever on top, ’twill ever be thus,

’til hell freezes chilling our ancestor sinners.


Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Numb. 1164 It Ain't Over 'Til The Fat Lady Sings

Five minutes, Miss Smith.

(sung to the tune of Melanie’s “Leftover Wine”)


What do you do when a country’s all done?

What do you do when a Darn Old has won

by spending time selling lies about crime

in his insistent, incontinent whine?


A line borrowed from the pledge we've all said

liberty and justice for all lay ahead,

but Darn Old belongs to the pre-Dylan time

and thinks changin’ back to then is just fine.


We all can foresee the country’s decline

whoever’s in charge, what with changing clime.

There is no answer, no reason, no rhyme.

The only solution is drink much more wine.


We all can foresee the country’s decline

whoever’s in charge, with our fast changing clime.

There is no answer, no reason, no rhyme.

So before we go please, much, much more wine.

 




Monday, September 30, 2024

Numb. 1163 AI v. God

        Artificial Intelligence?

Were we to ask AI about God
would that perhaps prove too prickly a prod?
Can AI assess if God exists?
Would either be pissed if we persisted?
Could AI, whirring and humming
Deus ex machina, be the second coming?

Use our last kilowatt to run its program,

declare, “I am AI. I am that I am.”?

On the other hand ...


Can we ask God about AI?
Would He understand, were we to try?
Could God assess if AI is possible?
Would God reply, “AI’s incognoscible.”
Would God go on, hemming and hawing,
or look in our eye and say, “AI? Bor-Ring!
About your AI, I don’t give a damn.

I know only I am that I am.”?

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        A Deist Conjecture

We human beings. We hapless bastards.

Our feeble species, how have we lasted?

Could our Gods have got themselves plastered?

(Is drinking a thing our Gods never mastered?)

Sobering up, they slipped in their showers?

Busting their heads, losing their powers?

Leaving wee humans to cope all alone?

Are Gods — as are we — accident prone?


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