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I’ve recently in the last week started a new blog. It is nothing like this one, which has historically functioned as political satire for the most part.

Years ago, when I first started blogging, I was determined to be eclectic, including recipes, crafts, as well as political news. This I did against the sage advice to new bloggers to “keep to a topic”.

This made sense of course, since almost no one on earth shares my particularized grouping of likes and dislikes, interests, hatreds, peckish pet peeves, desires, and passions. You all have limited time, and you can go elsewhere where you get what you expect pretty much day in and day out.

Over the years, I separated out the recipes and religious, and the emotional growth stuff but never entirely. I also found as an election was won or lost that in the interim I had less interest in the day-to-day beltway chatter that motivates some. I don’t eat, sleep and play in the political arena.

I realized that this blog was getting a bit far afield for days on end, and sometimes for even weeks.

I hope to remedy that.

This blog remains what it is supposed to be. Here we discuss politics with all it’s wide-ranging and never ending topics.

The new blog Existential Eccentricities  is something quite different. A number of people on Facebook have said over the last few months, that they enjoy something I did there most mornings. A rather bizarre, (hopefully funny) stream of consciousness about whatever popped into my head at any given second.

It is in a word, uncategorizable. It often pertains to events of the day, as well as personal asides on just about anything. I keep it fairly short, 500 words give or take. There may be as many as five or six topics, each given a sentence or three before something else pops in.

It may provide a bit of levity to your morning coffee. Perhaps you will account it as more a running commentary on a crazy woman.

I enjoy writing it immensely.

I hope you might enjoy reading it. If not, well, there is nothing like talking to yourself.

It is the razor strap to my razor, the place where I hone my craft.

Come by and let your hair down if you dare.

The Decline and Fall of Humanity

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evolution, Internet, life, satire, Social Networking

I don’t mean to scare ya or nothin’. That is not my intent. And I’m not complaining actually either. Hardly. Just a little.

Mostly, I’m just wondering.

I been kicking this around the old brain pan for a few days. You know what I mean. A thought raises an interesting idea, but it doesn’t really seem to connect or go anywhere. So it just lays there, floating around in the hungry sub-conscious, peeking out every so often to inquire if any new facts have come along that it can connect to. You know what I mean.

Actually this blogging is symptomatic of it. It’s that idea that really valuable ideas are generated on the fly, just letting the old fingers fly over the keys, caressing them in synchronicity such that they produce words in an order that makes intelligible sentences if not intelligible thoughts. Blogging is defined by talking out of your ass about any subject that comes to mind with no filter and no grade at the end. It eschews the very notion of editing. What you write today is not even what you believe tomorrow.

But isn’t life becoming that. If you want proof go to The Tale of My Heart, and her post, Proof of the Doomed Society.  We now go nowhere without our smart phones. To have a dead battery stops the world until you are recharged and redownloaded. Google announces it is shutting down its reader and panic ensues. HOW WILL I GET MY NEWS? Newspapers are for wrapping gifts to be avant-garde.

It’s all about the sound bite. It’s all about the photo snapped. A picture is worth a thousand words you know. And we are all photographers now. News agencies depend on us. They depend on us to snap the “I was there at the critical moment when death arrived!” My opinion, written in the semi-formal but oh so official looking template from a free blogging platform is sought by journalists who sit in Starbucks with laptops aglow while sipping the latest de rigueur in designer coffee blends.

We are all so with it with our “clouds” and our insta-messages. No one is disconnected. No one is alone because there is a vast matrix of interconnected “friends” instantly at hand. You aren’t lonely any more are you?

So connected am I that I have to “manage” my social media, and set up filters, because you know, you have your business socials and your college socials, god forbid your high school socials, your hometown socials, your family socials, your kids friends parents socials. Filter!

I live in a city where I as an Anglo, am a minority. So I’m doing my best to learn Spanish, even more urgent since my new housekeeper (meeting her Monday) doesn’t speak any form of the King’s English. So I have a program for that.

A nice virtual “coach” tells me “way to go Sherry” and “now you’re really moving!” at the end of each lesson, although I can call on her at any time for words of encouragement. And boy, do I feel encouraged!

I bought a piece of software to organize all my recipes and connect my pantry to my grocery list, to my ingredient list, to my blog, to my brain. I will have the most interactive and clean little piece of recipe joy in a few months after I have painstakingly “captured” all the nearly 300 recipes I’ve published on my web site. And then interfaced them with the pantry inventory that I will spend days painstakingly adding. I will be able, so they tell me, to put in ingredients from my inventory and it will “find” recipes that I can make with nary a foot in the food store.

No more stuffed little 3 x 5 boxes crammed with newspaper recipes and handwritten ones that one day you will sit down and copy to a card. No more of that. And while you’re at it, no more sisters sitting around with kleenex with “mom’s recipe box” going through each and every one, laughing and crying at the memories induced by “Aunt Tilda’s Wild Jello Swirl” and the fun that was at the family reunion back in ’93. No, Mom’s recipe box is online, and prints out professional looking copies, instead of the one that used to be in the box–you know the one–with the chocolate frosting stain on the corner where it fell in the bowl when Alicia grabbed it out of Becky’s hand that time?

No more of that. Let’s hear it for the INTERNETS!

Let’s hear it for technology and connectedness and never having to look someone in the eye who you are calling a jackass.

But hey, I can play games and I can “beat” other people, real or otherwise, and do I really care? I win!

And after all, I did learn how to fold a fitted sheet. That’s something to be proud of.

And I did learn 7,329 more ways to cook chicken.  That’s something too.

And if I want to, I can publish a book, and not have to wait on some snotty editor to tell me I write like shit. I can ignore that. After all, what do they know about this rockin’ civilization at this point?

Gibbons was wrong. Rome didn’t fall. It just re-invented itself.

Don’t we all?

Every week?

It’s all just evolution, can’t you see that?

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Here’s What You Need!

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Okay, so maybe not, but I realized it had been ages upon ages since I’d updated my sidebar. There are blogs that no longer publish, blogs I no longer read, and oodles and oodles of new ones that you might be interested in. So in no particular order as I do this housekeeping, I’ll direct you to some of the new ones I’m paying attention to.

Since I’m eclectic as all get out, there are lots that make no sense given what I talk about here most days, but bear with me!

First, if you’re a foodie, I recommend you sign up to receive Rufus’ Food and Spirits Guide. I’ve made a number of their recipes, and they have all been superb. They publish nearly every day.

Want the left without the nicety? Or in other words, black folks who don’t always see eye-to-eye with the President? Well check out Black Agenda Report. Good writing, no punches pulled.

Nate Silver is still working even if the election is over. So if you want to know what polling is going on on a myriad of subjects then hook up with FiveThirtyEight.

Mediaite is I would say conservative in general, but they bend over backwards in my opinion to state the truth as fairly as can be done given human proclivities. I get a lot of the “stupid” stuff from them.

Go to News Corpse if you want way left and sassy. It’s usually right on.

Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire is a must if you want to keep up with the latest political news. Short snippets, usually quotes, but through it you can get to the original writings. A must for the political junkie.

Don in Massachusetts does little shorts, nice pictures, nice sayings. A bit of everything, takes but a second to take a look. A gem often to be found.

Matt Taibbi is one of the best investigative reporters around. His stuff is simply great.

Republican Dirty Tricks is humorous. Doesn’t publish that often, but always enjoyable. Not so much if you are a Republican. But then you aren’t here then are you?

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes for the Atlantic and writes very well. His work is reasoned, seasoned, and ready for serious thought. A big plus in this haphazard Internet world.

If you want to keep up with science, well, there are several that I’ve been following, The Edge. Lots of in-depth reporting on a myriad of issues. The last was a report on the Prospect’s World Thinkers for 2013. Dawkins topped out but Paul Krugman was 5th. Always interesting.

A new entry for me is this great new  blog called Climate Consensus. It comes from the Guardian in the UK and has a couple of really bright guys writing it. Both are experts in the field.

The NCSE (National Center for Science Education specializes in climate change and evolution. They keep up on what’s happening in the states as well as what’s being published. A great site.

Panda’s Thumb is just one of the best going when it comes to evolution. They don’t publish as often as they used to, but it still keeps you up on the latest research.

If you are religiously inclined, two others that are terrific when it comes to helping to work out the kinks in religion and science. One is Science and the Sacred, which comes from Biologos. The articles are so good here. The other is a new find called God of Evolution and so far has had terrific posts.

On the good new friends list, we have Joeyfullystated, which is a lady with some really good writing and some great funny stuff to write about. You will enjoy her. Go take a look.

Finally, The World’s Top 10 of Anything and Everything, is just a fun place to stop. It will always bring a smile to your face. I promise.

You should note that I’ve added a few of our friends who have been hanging around for a while. You don’t need me to praise them, you already visit them I’m sure. But finally, I have added them to the blogroll for newcomers who are so in love with me, that they figure anybody I read must be gold too. Or something to that effect.

Happy Sunday.

The World Is Just Plain Weird

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2nd Amendment, blogging, Corptocracy, GOP, gun legislation, Politics

I had gotten, finally to that happy place. The place where I no longer obsessed about how many people were visiting my blog every day. I was content, having found my place.

Yeah, well that good time feeling didn’t last for long. There has been a significant drop in the last two or three months which is startling and inexplicable. It’s dropped by half at least, and that while subscriptions to this blog have steadily increased.

I have no idea what it means. Did I say something offensive? I surely meant to, but gosh, you don’t have to be so harsh. Wait, I’m talking to people who are still reading so that won’t do any good. How do I reach out to all the unknowns who have found a happier place to tuck into the news and explain that I’m only trying to offend nearly everyone and no one singularly?

To top this off, if you have Google reader you were met with the announcement out of the clear blue sky they are not shutting down their reader. Now I live by mine. I do. I mean dang, can’t you leave shit alone? I have enough on my plate most days without now having to do all that transfery stuff of which I am not all that good. Is there no God?

Speaking of which, God chose his earthly successor yesterday in the guise of one Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires. now known as Pope Francis I. Lots of nice things are being said about him, and I’m sure he is a fine fellow. He has lived out the preferential preference for the poor that the liberation theologists have called as the Church’s primary mission, while at the same time decrying the Marxist influence that permeates some of the that same rhetoric. He is a Jesuit, while at the same time decrying their more liberal and progressive leanings. He is a traditionalist when it comes to the Church’s teachings on social issues relating to sexual matters. He is a prayerful humble individual who decries the pomp and ceremony and trappings of office, preferring a small apartment and taking public transportation back and forth to work.

It is of course utterly unclear how all this will play out in the coming months and years. I remain realistic but hopeful that  something new is afoot, and trust that the Holy Spirit, may have rushed in once again to save this wonderful institution from itself. It usually does.

If there was any doubt that the bought-and-paid for jackasses called the GOP in Congress cares not one whit about the public sentiments no matter how overwhelming they are, one need only look at the bill that passed in Congress the other day relating to background checks for gun purchasers.

While a healthy 91% of all citizens across the land, and 76% of all NRA members favor such minimum legislation, the Senate GOP could not manage to screw up the most minimum of guts to vote yes. Not a SINGLE GOP member of the Senate voted yes. I mean even Susan Collins voted no. I mean have you people NO SHAME AT ALL? I really do think we would be better off; if at a minimum, Senate chairs in the chamber were required to carry the logos of those corporate interests who have bought these people and OWN them.

If you are worried that our political system is in danger of being subverted by corporate interests to the point of being the actual POLITICAL POWER in American, now would be the time to decide what you are going to do about it. Time is short I fear before “we the people” is nothing more than a quaint historical blip on the books. Since they already write all the “regulatory laws” that apply to them as it is, and own the SCOTUS by a vote of nearly 5 on most any issue, what the hell left is there for them to grab?

Stay tuned for the inevitable change in the national anthem.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawns early light,

what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming.

Whose bright office buildings, and nifty logos, through the perilous fight,

O’er the fences we watched were so neoned gleaming,

And the stock market’s big bull, profits shot through the roof,

gave proof through the night, that our CEO’s were still there.

Oh say does that mega corporation yet stand,

O’er the land of the poor and the home of the privileged.

 

Get your copy, no doubt you will soon be forced to sing it every morning before the work bell rings. That goes for retirees, because there will be no rest for the weary in the poor house, just a faint, “can I have more please, sir” in the soup line.

Good Morning Amerika!

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blogging, life in the foothills, new blog, New Mexico

Hello folks! Things are in some flux these days. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.

I am still in the process of teeth issues, but they are coming along. The Contrarian is scheduled to have his all pulled a week from Thursday. He’s gonna be denture man! He’s being stoic, at least until he starts to whine.

So things are hectic. We’re rearranged our schedule a bit too. Aren’t you just dying to know how? I knew you would be.

I usually shop on Wednesday. The first Wednesday is “seniors” day. I’m one now, you know. So I get a 10% discount on the grocery bill, which is no small thing actually. But other than the first of the month, I’m moving groceries to Monday, which is the newly designated “going out to eat day”.

Now mind you, this was not my idea, rather it was the Contrarian’s. I’m a lucky woman I tell ya.

So, Diego is now the neighborhood dog. He will not stay home when he sees somebody come out, dog or person. Dogs he approaches more carefully. Everyone seems patient and friendly with him. We are having a fence built around part of the front so he can go into his backyard and around the front to “watch”. We also throw out “fake” newspapers several times a week, because he adores fetching the morning paper. We are nuts.

I’m starting to work for the local animal shelter in a few weeks. Going for my orientation next Tuesday. I have to “learn” how to walk a dog. I’m worried. It sounds pretty hard.

As you may have heard, I got Freshly Pressed a couple of weeks ago. That resulted in over 800 visits and about 20 new followers. Some of them will find out that that post is not indicative of what I write on a regular basis and will fall off. Some will stay. But in visiting some  of these new followers, I thought this is one that you might well want to look at. It’s called Deconstructing Myths and is written by Jeff Nguyen. It’s both well written and provocative. Take a look, and see.

Mostly Bright Ideas is totally different, but is again well-written and seems to deal with the daily issues of family. It’s written by a man, Bronxboy. Think along the lines of Snoring Dog Studio, and run over if that floats you boat. It did mine. Bright people are there to be found!

If your tastes turn more to a having a nice place to just read something or see a photo that makes you smile, then either of these two may be up your alley. The Tale of My Heart, is just lovely. I need these breaks to keep me sane. Or if sublime photos make you happy, try Gunta’s, Movin’ On. She is a great photographer.

Okay, that brings me to me, a subject dear to my heart and no doubt yours too.

I have another blog.

I know, before you say it, “AM I MAD?” or worse am I suffering from an addiction?

Well, I know I have a few, but really they make sense. The first rule of blogging is to keep to A subject, not a few subjects, but A subject. Be honest, not all that many of you cared a twittering moment about my ideas about food and diet. That don’t get an invite to your wheelhouse. A Voice from the Foothills is and always will be the first-born and the one I love most. The food blog, What’s on the Stove? is basically my personal cookbook. I post about twice a week. I don’t have a blogroll there and don’t care if anybody comes to it or not. If somebody finds a recipe they like, great, enjoy. Otherwise it speaks to my needs.

The Walking in the Shadows  blog is about faith. I expected to do more with it, but frankly decided I didn’t want to argue about church doctrine all that much. I post once a week there a reflection on the Sunday readings. It’s also a repository of various links to resource and research material. Some people read it, and I get a few comments. It is fine as it is.

The Extraordinary Words is another that serves only me basically though I have some followers there. I simply do short reviews of books I’ve just finished reading. It’s there to keep track of what I read over time, and frankly the little reviews serve to sometimes jar my memory a couple of years down the road that I actually read a book! I know, that sounds weird, but age has that effect. There are important things and not so important things. I probably post there a couple of times a month.

The new one is called Dancing in the Enchantment. It’s to serve my take on the good life and what constitutes it from my perspective. It involves food, exercise, the mind, the emotional life, the creative life, and the spiritual life. Hopefully, given those who are already following it, it might be great fun, and a chance to share joy in all its parts. I will post when I feel like it and when I have something to say. Stop by if you are so inclined.

Otherwise, I’ll end this boring post and hopefully tomorrow we can get into the red meat of politics once more.

Have I Got a Deal For YOU!

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blogging, Humor

Hey, you like pallin’ around with terrorists? Ya like your socialist agenda? Are you tired of all that flag-wavin’ family values namby-pamby rhetoric?

Do your nether regions get all excited when the name Saul Alinsky or Van Jones is mentioned? Do you practically puddle over George Soros?

Do you like the smell of anarchy in the air, and thrill to the feel of a gas mask strapped over your face? Are you a liberal/socialist/commie/fascist/food-stamp lovin’/do-the-monkey-if-it-turns-you-on sort? Are you a SECULARLIST/atheist/hater of the Jesus as exemplified by the literal words from God Almighty secured in the King James Version of the Bible?

Are ya? Do ya? Do ya wanna be?

Then my friends, this is the bloggy for you! We can put you in a sharp little model of all of the above, with nothin’ down and years to pay.

Just a little test to see if you are really OUR kinda people.

1. Does the name Reince Priebus remind you of a wet hotdog, or worse, a rinsed penis?
2. If you met Newt Gingrich, would you be unable to resist poking his dough belly?
3. Would you grab Sean Hannity’s pointy finger and break it?
4. Does the mere mention of the name Dick Cheney cause you to run for the shower?
5. Would you first question to Mitch McConnell be: “Can I see your turtle shell?”
6. Would your first question to John Boehner be: “Do you really fart Cheetos dust?”
7. Would you like to pull the stick out of Mitt Romney’s butt without or without anesthesia?
8. Is George W. Bush starting to look tame by comparison?
9. Are you sure that Ann Coulter’s gynecologist took one look and said she’d have to find someone else to treat THAT.
10. Which two Republicans would you most like to see face off in a “fight to the death” bout in the Roman Coliseum?

I can’t do this all alone.

I know you think I’m a superhero, but really I’m not.

I get my inspiration from these folks:

1. Juanita Jean’s
2. Pass the Douchey’s
3. Arts and Letters Daily
4. Joe.My.God
5. The Fifth Column
6. The Grio
7. We are respectable negroes
8. Damp Squid
9. Hansi’s Hallucinations
10. OkJimms
11. Republic of Gilead
12. Snoring Dog Studio
13. Woodgate’s View
14. The Commentariat
15. Think Progress

Those are the ones who feed my madness on a daily basis. There are many others. They are all to be found in the blogroll.

I thank them all. I condemn them all for my insanity.

Oh, and Bill Moyers is back on the air with a show called “Moyers and Company”. PBS is carrying him of course, times determined by where the heck you live. Find it. He’s always got people on who have actual answers, or at least know the right questions.

Other shows I find useful: (*WARNING*) Ignore unless you are a political junkie.

• Chris Hay’s and his show UP on MSNBC on Saturday and Sunday mornings for 2 hours. Panel show where they actually spend some time on various issues and have some good guests. And I like Hays who is damn smart.
• Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN on Sunday (mid morning) He also gets great guests and has intelligent conversations about real issues.
• Keith Olbermann on Current TV. Most nights at 8 I think. He’s having his usual contractual issues with the brass, and so his appearance is uneven, but he’s purely fun, and his “Friday’s with Thurber” are wonderful.
• Morning Joe, MSNBC, mostly because I like the people and Mika keeps Joe in line.

What I am learning?

• That even the GOP circus can get boring at times.
• That Catcher in the Rye is not nearly as entertaining as The Great Gatsby was.
• That the WSJ refused a paper signed off on by 164 climate scientists in favor of one by 16 climate deniers.
• That Sheldon Adelson has way too much money, and is willing to spend it on his own political goals. (There is a 2008 exposé on him in the New Yorker Magazine.)
• That we are never going to have government responsive to the people unless we get Citizens United constitutionally prohibited.
• That I really don’t care a bit who wins the Super Bowl, and that means I can really just sit back and enjoy it.

Hey, I’m doin’ the best I can.

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Loving the Sound of Your Own Voice

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blogging, Election 2012, new friends, Poetry, Sports, what's up?

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I began my odyssey of blogging. Before you gasp and run for a knife to slash your wrists, no, I’m not abandoning you. And with that, you see the depth of my illness.

I am thoroughly enamored of my own voice. The statistics would rather dispute that by and large. I have enough visits a day to suggest I’m not talking to the mirror, but on the other hand, I am no Andrew Sullivan. With that knowledge firmly in hand, you would think a bit of humility might follow.

I have some folks who think me rather funny, and perhaps informative, and some who also consider me a friend, and as friends do, support my efforts.

When I started this business of blogging, I set up to offer everything under the sun. You could find a dining room centerpiece link next to one on evolutionary transitional fossil discoveries. You got recipes mixed in with railing at fundamentalists.

As time went forth, and so far time does seem to progress in a straight line (although one can argue quite successfully that it slows with increases in speed), it became apparent that it was just too much junk in one place. So we winnowed out most of the crafty stuff and the recipes for the most part, and we settled into politics and religion with a smattering of science as I was moved.

Little by little, the religion has faded, not so much by design, as by, well, a recognition that the more technical aspects have an increasingly smaller and smaller audience. And so Walking in the Shadows filled that void for me, and I didn’t care much that it has a rather miniscule following, since it’s really where I like to reflect on my faith as I see it.

I dabbled with a “humor” site but really never got it much off the ground and I’ve since incorporated the posts here, though I think about three are still in draft, having not yet been posted.

Perhaps because our move got adjourned until spring, and having time on my hands, I pondered how to make sense out of my burgeoning collection of recipes which I was always losing or misplacing, and causing me increasing consternation. So I decided to start a blog just to record my recipes which is What’s on the Stove? At about the same time, I saw a link for a great chocolate cake, and that led me to JustaPinch and with that, my recipe stuff took on a life of its own. WotS has garnered quite a following and I enjoy it immensely.

You’d think that would be enough.

I took time off from my book reviewing, mostly because I didn’t want books lost in transit. Since then, I’ve requested a couple, and realized that I did want to move off religion and into politics and such. And I realized that this site was a lousy place to deal with books in general. And then there are all these other ideas that pop into my mind and don’t fit this format here.

Which is all to say, I have another. Another? Blog, blog, I have another blog. It’s going to deal with my reading and writing and thinking. And I don’t expect to write daily there by any means. I want to do more than simply record a paragraph about the last book I read. And I have a goal of sorts: to read more classics, especially Americans, whom I have woefully ignored most of my life.

I’m also trying to read as many as I can online. And this site will give links to lots of great free book sites, as well as direct links to specific books I read, and well, my thoughts, which are way important to me, and may not be at all to you, but that’s the nature of the beast.

So, anyway, now you know what Extraordinary Words is all about, or I think it will be all about.

¶

Which is way more time than I wanted to waste saying, but as I said, I’m in love with my own voice.

Meanwhile, Jon Huntsman is dropping out, and the GOP loses it’s best chance, in my humble opinion, to beat Barack Obama. That is a good thing.

And Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It is a day meant for service to others. Do the best you can, but at least remember that the most powerful tool in changing our world, is peaceful resistance.

I came upon a blog that you should take a look at. It’s called Woodgate’s View. I think you might like it. He seems to think correctly. HA!

Got this from Juanita’s. She got it from somebody else: NEW WORD:

NEWTSPAH

 Definition: (noun) To be so, so over the top you are a super dooper dooper hypocrite. So far, it’s unclear if anyone can top Newt and be accused of Newtspah except him.

I confess: We watched the Golden Globes. I make no apologies. Johnny Depp was the first presenter (BONUS) and I adore Ricky Gervais. So sue me.

This poem seemed cute, and funny:

So we’re two GOP primaries down

 But don’t worry, don’t pout, snarl or frown

 The fun won’t end soon

 Still so much to lampoon

South Carolina, the circus’ in town!

Mitt,  Newt, Ron,  Rick one and Rick two

For today we bid Huntsman adieu

 Who does God love more?

 Well clearly no one who’s poor

 At least that’s the creed of this crew

If God’s summoned each one to this calling

 Did he just want to laugh at their brawling?

 I may doubt that he’s real

But this atheist can feel

 That if not, he’d find these guys appalling

Which one is the worst hypocrite?

 Is it wetback-hiring Mitt?

 Or thrice married Newt

 Who really should have stayed mute

 When Bill Clinton’s infidelity hit

I confess that I do miss Herman Cain

 That was sure just a wacky campaign

But I don’t need to fret

 Now it’s Mitt’s turn to sweat

 As he tries to back pedal from Bain

So South Carolina as you go into vote

 And decide on which of these fools to dote

 Just remember this thought

 Your vote’s really for naught

 “Big Money”, that’s all she wrote!

by Sarah Firisen, through 3quarksdaily.

And on a final down-side, up-side:

The Green Bay Packers lost to the New York Giants (definite down-side)

The world was still here this morning (arguable up-side)

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