“IF”—With Apologies to Rudyard Kipling

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IF you are going to vote for the man who stole funds from a children’s cancer charity

then may your voting fingers be covered with malignant tumors

IF you’re going to vote for a man who pays $130,000 to a porn star to cover up his sexual activities, appetites and proclivities

then may your sexual organs shrink to the size of  peanuts or raisins

IF you’re going to vote for a man who grabbed women by the pussy and sexually assaulted them

then may your daughters be treated with the same lack of respect

If you voted for a man who helped overturn Roe v. Wade

then may your raped teenage daughter get pregnant and be forced to give birth to a newborn with deformities

IF you’re going to vote for a man who committed treason and insurrection against the nation you claim to love

then may your families be sent to live in a dictatorship

IF you’re going to vote for a man who lives to lie

then may your tongue and the tongues of your children and the tongues of your grandchildren remain frozen for all eternity

IF you’re going to vote for a man who dodged the draft and called POW losers

then may your service to this nation be buried in a swamp

IF you’re going to vote for a man who has broken most of G-d’s commandments

then may you family bible burn in your hypocrite hands

IF you’re going to vote for a man who doesn’t give a crap about anyone but himself

then may your friends see the true color of your soul

IF you’re going to vote for a man who invented the con and the grift

then may your assets disappear and may you live in poverty for the rest of you G-d given life

IF you’re going to vote for a man that G-d finds repugnant

then may your soul rest in the hottest corner of hell

Good one. Thanks.—Joel

Thank you.—Judith

Totally agree!!!—Joanne

Let’s hope America has more common sense but when I see the campuses I doubt it.—Elaine

Perry, Thanks for sharing.—Mort

Agreed.—Gerri

I wrote “IF” on the inside of my ’66 FCS Yearbook. One of my favorites.—Sandra

Thumbs up.—Barry

Thumbs up.—Marilyn

Thumbs up.—Linda

Thumbs up.—Neil

Thumbs up.—Rose

Thumbs up.—Laurie

Thumbs up.—Donna

Thumbs up.—Sue

Thumbs up.—Susan

Thumbs up.—Randi

Thumbs up.—Jerry

Thumbs up.—Becky

Thumbs up.—Perry

Thumbs up.—Ginger

Thumbs up.—Lewis

Thumbs up.—Christine

Thumbs up.—Mark

Thumbs up.—Michelle

Thumbs up.—Chris

Thumbs up.—Rosalyn

Thumbs up.—Fay

Thumbs up.—Irving

Thumbs up.—Susan

Thumbs up.—Steve

Thumbs up.—Connie

Thumbs up.—Bella

33.Thumbs up.—Frank

Thumbs up.—Joan

Thumbs up.—John

Thumbs up.—Joel

Thumbs up.—Geoffrey

Thumbs up.—Helene

Thumbs up.—Eileen

Thumbs up.—Madelyn

43. Thumbs up.—Carl

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November 15, 2023

A Raft of Pills (fiction)

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At 2:00 in the morning, Walt Nauta sat in Mar-a-Lago’s den, building a raft of pills.

As his boss crafted his nightly rant on Truth Social, Nauta removed pills from bottles. He couldn’t believe how many pills the boss was taking. He placed them on a polished sterling silver tray. Engraved on the tray were the words, Trump Tower November 30, 1983 and an architectural sketch of the building. He paused to admire the design he had created with the red, white and blue pills.

Nauta thought:

Two Aleve PM gel caplets to relief the arthritis in his back;

One Lisinopril to treat his high blood pressure;

Two Nature Made Multi Gummies;

One Dulcolax to relief his constipation;

One large Glucosamine chondroitin pill to lessen his joint pain;

One Ambien for his insomnia.

The boss was smart enough not to swallow all those pills on an empty stomach. So he took a few bites out of a McDonald’s burger and washed it down with a few sips of Diet Coke.

Nauta remembered that he was required—pursuant to the bosses’ instructions—to place four ice cubes (not one or two or three) in a gold embossed Harrah’s at Trump Plaza glass and fill it to the point where the Diet Coke inundated the ice.

Carrying the burger, the coke and the raft of pills, Nauta walked into the former president’s bedroom. He watched as the 77-year-old former president downed all of the pills, all of the burger and all of the coke.

He felt sorry for the old man.

He feared the Ambien was causing his employer memory loss. The boss was losing his edge, his sharpness and his ability to think on his feet.

He feared the trials were killing him.

He tried to get the boss to watch less TV but his efforts failed.

When the boss watched the news (which was all the time) it drove him crazy.

The old man feared losing his New York properties.

He feared going to jail.

Nauta heard it in his voice and saw it in his reddened eyes.

His mood and demeanor had changed.

His look on life had turned dour; he yelled at all of the folks that surrounded him.

He had lost all patience his workers at Mar-a-Lago.

And during his fits of anger and rage, he threw stuff.

Nauta wondered:

Would Xanax reduce his level of anxiety?

Would the boss be willing to take another pill?

Did he even have the balls to recommend Xanax?

In his head, he heard the boss yelling, “When did you become a fucking doctor? Get the hell out of my sight.”

As Nauta walked out of his bosses’ bedroom, he said, “Good night, Mr. President. May you have a good night’s sleep.”

The former president replied, “Good night Walt. Thanks for everything.”

Walt shut the door, bit his tongue and kept repeating his mantra:

This too shall pass.

This too shall pass.

This too shall pass.

Mort – Once again, you have touched upon the moment we have all been waiting for : to be a fly on the wall of the high and mighty and omnipotent ‘tour de farce!’ Keep up the barbs!—Richie 

Perry, Thanks for sharing.—Mort

Thumbs up.—Jason

Thumbs up.—Marilyn

Thumbs up.—Joanne

Thumbs up.—Laurie

Thumbs up.—Sandra

Thumbs up.—Jonathan

Thumbs up.—Sue

Thumbs up.—Elizabeth

Thumbs up.—Jeffrey

Thumbs up.—Bonnie

He should overdose.—Barbara

Thumbs up.—Jim

Thumbs up.—Joel

Thumbs up.—Nancy

Thumbs up.—Devorah

Thumbs up.—Surelle

Thumbs up.—Jasmine

Thumbs up.—Aimee

Thumbs up.—Bobby

Thumbs up.—LT

Thumbs up.—Helene

Thumbs up.—Rebecca

Thumbs up.—Randi

Enjoyed your pills story. —Marianne

Thumbs up.—Sandy

Thumbs up.—Ken

Thumbs up.—Naomi

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November 10, 2023

War is Hell

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“Mordechai, I don’t understand all this talk about a ceasefire,” Moise queried.

“Well historically, it doesn’t make any sense. The Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and killed 2,403 Americans and by the war’s end—August 15, 1945—Americans killed over 337,000 Japanese civilians. During three and a half years of war the United States never considered a ceasefire only a surrender.  The war grinded on and civilians died. But now, one month after the massacre, most of the world wants Israel to stop the war that it never started. And do a ceasefire with Hamas, while the government of Gaza holds onto the hostages. It ain’t logical or fair,” Mordechai replied.

He continued, “On October 7, 2023, Israel lost 1,400 men, women and children to Hamas’ murderers and rapists and some 240 Israelis were taken hostage and Israel is now supposed to negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas. You gotta be kidding me. That smells like a crock of shit and tastes like hypocrisy.

“Moise, you’re an expert on civilians dying during modern wars so tell me how many American civilians died in 9/11attacks?”

“I think it was around 2,977.”

“And after 9/11 how many Iraqi and Afganistani civilians died?”

“I think about 432,000.”

“And how many US soldiers died fighting in VietNam War?”

“About 58,300.”

“And how many Vietnamese civilians died during the war?”

” From what I read, I think it was over a million.”

Then Moise continued, “During WWII, the Brits indiscriminately nighttime bombed German cities. Yup, you guessed it thousands died but no uproar from the rest of the world. And don’t forget U.S. General Curtis LeMay ordered the firebombing of Japanese cities because in his words, ‘The Japs deserved it.’ Curtis didn’t believe in surgical air strikes. He believed in total destruction of whole cities with conventional and atomic weapons. American and British bombs caused the death of over 337,000 Japanese civilians and over 570,000 German civilians.”

Moise paused and Mordechai jumped in, “Well you know what, I don’t have any compassion for those German and Japanese civilians dying. You see, I like paraphrasing U.S. General’s Curtis LeMay’s words, ‘Gazans deserved it.’ They’re militia committed war crimes and atrocities and now they want to parlez. Fuck ’em. The Gazans elected those miscreants and now Gazans must pay for the sins of its government.”

“Mordechai, those were exactly my sentiments. Ya know what we got here? We got a real double standard. It’s okay when the Brits or the Americans to bomb hospitals, schools or places of worship but G-d forbid the Jews do it. Those guys can nuke a whole city and the Jews don’t deserve to play by those rules. The Jews got to fight with one hand tided behind their back. It ain’t fair.

Since the days of before the Biblical sieges food, water and medical supplies weren’t allowed into the enemies camp. And yes, women, children and the elderly died horrible deaths.

But war is hell.

Nobody likes seeing dead babies being pulled out of rubble on their TV sets.

But war is hell.

And when you decapitate Israeli babies and burn old Israel men and women alive and rape Israeli teenagers, you forgo the opportunity to talk ceasefire and you only get to talk about surrender and you learn:

War is hell.”

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November 7, 2023