Gas Hike Coup (Poetry for Impeachment)
I wrote this short piece for my poet/artist friend Will Northerner's Earth Invitational on MySpace a couple of weeks ago, after being inspired by my friend Stormchaser's Hulk haiku blog. And since gasoline is over four dollars a gallon here in Elyria, and Senate Republicans have this week blocked Democrats' efforts to enact a windfall profits tax on oil companies, today might be a good time to share my "Gas Hike Coup" here, followed by a few relevant graphics.
Planet Earth gets hot,
Has been bought by Texaco.
Kick Bush in the twat.
Here's an even better one:
Leaders cavortin'
with Halliburton rape us.
Let's fuck oily Bush.
Planet Earth gets hot,
Has been bought by Texaco.
Kick Bush in the twat.
Here's an even better one:
Leaders cavortin'
with Halliburton rape us.
Let's fuck oily Bush.
(with apologies to the intelligent people in Texas, many of whom are my friends)
Is it too late to kick Bush, now in the last year of his presidency, in the tush? Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who recently filed articles of impeachment, doesn't think so. Neither do the folks at www.democrats.com, a site I just discovered this morning.
The price of gas is ridiculous. It's sad that people can't enjoy their summer vacations because of the price of gasoline! I wish we could get Bush out now.
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I agree Mrs. JC, it is hitting folks hard!! At every angle! I really dislike that man, weasel or what ever the heck he is!
The oil hikes are creating a very bad domino effect.
Here is a Bushism found at http://www.yodasworld.org/id31.html
"The recession started upon my arrival. It could have been some say February, some say March, some speculate maybe earlier it started but nevertheless, it happened as we showed up here. The attacks on our country affected our economy. Corporate scandals affected the confidence of people and therefore affected the economy. My decision on Iraq, this kind of march to war, affected the economy." George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004
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Thank you, Mrs JC and Angela!
I wish I had thought of this sooner and put it in the blog - but I'd like to invite everyone to write/share her or his own oil or impeachment poetry. Let's make a movement of it. Poetry for impeachment!
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FOOLEY
http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=880920&sitename=charlax&password=&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry
FOOLEY
Ewe knoe what a fooley is ewe when ewe pick up a sack you thought the lemon was still in it but it rolled out and you grabbed the empty sack and lifted it every time that eye try to lift an oil spot off the tarmac because it winked at me it is a fooley eye thought it was a quarter or a nickel or dime but it was a fooley mee a shiney spot of reflection made of nothing more than old liquid vegetation thinking hard they say the gasoline was once forests made of trees an old heavy sack with nothing much but a broken crock pot is what eye had today it was a fooley eye thought it was some great important treasure because of heavy but it fooled the mee and eye tossed the bag away much wizened in my knoeing what a fooley seems to be
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OLEYS AND THEIR FUNNIES ARE POON SARTED.
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I MEANT TO SAY MOOLEYS AND THEIR FUNNIES ARE POON SARTED. MONEY FEE!! LMAO
What does this have to do with the price of gas I ask? Just take out your wallet at the gas tank and see....
Not an OLE is it? Happy Fri the 13th...
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Thanks, Charlax! And thanks, Elena!
I have to admit, Charles, that the first time I read your poem, I thought it said "an old heavy sack with nothing much but a broken cock," which reminded me of the vice president's first name and made me laugh. Then I re-read it and had to laugh at myself for taking it that way.
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an old broken cock
this made me laugh HAHAHA
its okay to paroday
the most fun is thinking in poetry
you have the gift
its okay to think of him as an old bag full of broken crock pot too HAHAHA
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lol
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My only thought is if we are paying $4.00/gal. plus now how high will it go? And that of course the Europeans are probably paying $7.00/gal. plus but at least they can rely on public transit to get somewhere. We can't.
The USA is ill prepared to deal with a gas crisis whether is high prices or a shortage...
My question is what is being done to support mass transit...?? which is more efficient and can be more reliable.
Even if something is started now it will take years to implement... and as far as I'm aware nothing significant IS being done.
So what do we do?
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I heard Barack Obama talk about this on a video this morning. He claims that Bush never has had an energy policy. His work is cut out if he becomes president. But he does have a lot of ideas on how to deal with the economy, the energy crisis etc. without hurting the consumers like this administration has done so far. But he inherits a whole bag of worms and it will take a lot of time, good judgment and patience to overturn this. Saudi Arabia should just turn back into a desert with women who aren't allowed to drive cars. lol
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I have no perfect answer, Chris. But I think one thing we can do is make sure every senator who voted against taxing windfall oil company profits loses re-election. I guess there is some validity to their point that the tax won't reduce oil prices. But I think it's still a good first step as a punitive measure. Plus there were other parts of the proposed law that would have made price gouging a federal crime - so it was about more than the tax. Secondly we can write our congressmen and pressure them to impeach the president or lose their own re-elections. Sure, Bush will be gone soon anyway - but it's a matter of principle. We could send a clear message: "If you let Exxon-Mobil write your energy policy, and then gas hits 4 dollars a gallon, your ass is going to get impeached, whether or not you let an intern suck you off and then lied about it, or simply lied us into a war in VietSaddam." WTF? Bill Clinton was impeached and George W. Bush was not? It's okay to send 5000+ troops to their deaths for nothing, as long as you do nothing inappropriate with a cigar?
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Bumper Sticker: "When Clinton Lied, No One Died."
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we've another lie surprise from the cheney-bush beast - the iraqi death count is higher than claimed. they do a little song and dance and ship a lot of the injured out of iraq to other countries and if they die there, they're not counted as iraqi casualties.
these guys are audacious liars. no fact too small to twist.
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Somehow I'm not surprised.
I wonder if we'll ever know how many Iraqis have died because of this. 100,000 is probably a "conservative" estimate. And that's in addition to the Americans and their allies.
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Love this photo... and all I can say is how sad...
My other thoughts on that are Cheney/Halaburton.... sucking billions of dollars in war profits running the show over in Iraq... does any body care? And hasn't conflict of interest ever been brought up...
Anyway... need to impeach both Bush and Cheney...
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Bush and Dick... no wonder we're all getting fucked.
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All I have to say is...Bush lies..lies..lies..lies..lies..lies..lies..
lies..lies..lies..lies..lies..Bush lies! Impeach him!
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Yes! When Bush tells a lie, people die.
Let's dispense with the lie dispenser....
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I'm so glad you blogged this. I have admired Kucinich ever since my then 16 yo son drug me in front of the TV to see Kucinich speaking on CSPAN.
I followed some links Little Sister Katy bulletined and was able to email my three Congress Persons AND sign the Impeachment Petition.
I don't care if this regime is about to end, Bush/Cheney has committed crimes against this country.
At least let this stand as a warning to other would-be despots, there are checks and balances...and JUSTICE.
We need to keep bulletining the links...I think more people are pissed than they realize.
In my opinion, trying Bush and Co. for Treason is at least a start to cleaning up this filth/sham of an Administration.
We can do this.
People Have the Power~~Patti Smith
Hugs,
Suze
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Right on, sister! If a murderer is done killing, do we say "Awww... well, he's done now, so let's just let it lie and move on"? No way! He must be held accountable. That should be as true for Presidents as it is for peons.
I found this interestig poster on Photobucket:
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I find this interesting....
"Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay.
What struck people at the time was the choice of country. Paraguay, of course, has gained a certain Club Med status among the world's villains and criminal elements as the place to go when the law's on your tail. The country, ruled for six decades by the dictatorial and fascist Colorado Party of Gen. Alfredo Stroesser, an almost cartoon charicature of a Latin American dictator, has no extradition treaty with any nation.
That's why it has long harbored aging Nazis, bank robbers, and a string of ousted or retired Latin American dictators and their assistants over the years."...Dave Lindorff
IMPEACH BUSH!!!
Power to the People..John Lennon
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http://www.yachana.org/reports/paraguay/
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http://wwwCost: $950 from Asunción, Paraguay.
Includes shared room in hotel or dormitory ($200 extra for single room); two meals/day; transportation in-country, to and from all programmed activities; guides and translators; qualified trip leader; all program activities; & reading materials.
NOT INCLUDED: International travel, lunches, visas, airport departure taxes, gratuities & personal expenses.
Travel Dates: Arrive July 19, depart July 27
eye find it comforting that the trip falls somewhere on my birthday no of course eye cant go but WOOD EYE??? hahah
.yachana.org/reports/paraguay/
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Very interesting....
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Here's a better one than the first:
Leaders cavortin'
with Halliburton rape us.
Oil Bush and fuck him.
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I happen to be one of the very few, I'm sure, who does NOT think that $5.00 a gallon is too much to pay for gas. The real cost of gasoline is in the loss of human life, the devastation of the environment and the United States of America, through it's dependence on oil, supporting governments that are guilty of atrocious human rights violations. I was disgusted to see Bush in a lip-lock with a Saudi oil prince when we know that Saudi Oil Dollars financed 9/11. In the 1970's we learned to adjust to the rising price of gas by driving compact cars. Today we are adjusting by searching for other forms of energy to fuel our transportation. I hope that the price of gas in dollars goes so high that we are forced to utilize other forms of energy. Even when gas was ninety-two cents a gallon the real cost was too high. I would still LOVE To see Bush impeached. But if it never happens, he's certain to go down as the worst President in history. Too bad he's too closed-minded to realize that. By the way, I saw Patrick Buchanan speaking out last night against the War. Something in the world is really out of whack when I am agreeing with Pat Buchanan.
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Thanks, Tara!
Maybe if gas hits five dollars a gallon, we'll become more serious about decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels. Then again, who knows? Funny... I was reading my journal from 2004... and in it I expressed amazement that it cost 27 dollars to fill my gas tank. That was horrible to me. Yet now I'm paying 57 dollars.
Pat Buchanan got my attention a couple of months ago when he referred to John McCain as "Bush on steroids." Yet many disgruntled Hillary supporters are threatening to vote for McCain over Obama. I can't help but think they must not really care as much as they claim about Democratic priorities like health care, education and bringing this stupid war to an end if they're willing to do something like that.
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As someone who absolutely adores Hillary and is voting for Obama, I'm going to say that using a vote for spite is not a very wise move!
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You said what I was trying to say a whole lot better than I said it.
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I revised the two Gas Hike Coup in the blog above on 26 June 2008.
Here are the not-as-good versions as they originally appeared on this blog:
Planet Earth gets hot,
Has been bought by Texaco.
Kick Bush in the tush.
and
Leaders cavortin'
with Halliburton rape us.
Oil Bush and fuck him.
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Speaking of Bill Clinton:
It is opined that Bill Clinton committed racist hate crimes, and I am not free to say anything further about it.
Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Y. Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are probably thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. Moreover, there are innumerable copies in very many countries around the world.)
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“If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Off the top of my head—it came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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