House of Paine

March 31, 2004

 (this will be brief as fuck.)



   remember
a little something called 

“  the protocols of airport security ”

 we’re told 
they all 
  got goosed up after 9/11 
  goosed up like 
hitler goosed up 
germany 
after the Reichstag fire

 well
  I got a question 



Continue reading "air line cop out"

March 29, 2004

“ LESS RANTING MORE RENDING”

 such was a close friend's
admonishment recently 
  
 a clear call for 
  course correction

 and would that I didn’t 
need such




Continue reading "less ranting"

this pop apalogia is most revealing

read and consider 

Managing the World Economy
 By Kenneth Rogoff
 Director of the Research Department
International Monetary Fund

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SOMETIMES
 I spend my nights re-reading 
how Englishman John Maynard Keynes
 and American Harry Dexter White
 calmly traded ideas
 for reshaping 
the international financial system
 even as the second world war 
exploded around them



Continue reading "global tranfers"

March 24, 2004

  hey
git yer
  premium credits
heeyah
  get yeer
  premium creditz
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  some things are so pretty
you just know
you'll
fall in luv wiff em

case in point

if we all
re elect bush and the elephant kongress

we may live to  see korporate amerika
come ride to our rescue on health costs.

yep the plans clear as crystal




Continue reading "health creditz"

March 20, 2004

 Bobby
 for Jonah’s
sake
a nation of over spenders ?

  please 
what's up here ?

whatz this soft shoe 
sand dance

are you into
 an 
 up date 
of Jonahs 
cry 

“ yet forty days
 and Nineveh
  shall be overthrown ”
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 “diet oh ye pigs of amerika
  cut out the rich foreign
 delicacies”

 “ cast off your Prada
     and your Hermes
         your wop gowns
     and  frog scarfs 
put on bib overalls 
made by  non native born
domestic workers ”
   
  “ burn your niptronics
   and nordic cellulars       
        learn to barn dance ”
====================
 again Jonah 

  “ let neither man nor beast 
herd nor flock
 taste anything 

let them not feed 
nor drink water 

but let man and beast be covered 
with sack cloth  ...”




Continue reading "what's wrong wit ya bobby"

March 19, 2004

“ they ‘re a gang of 
 lying crooked ratfinks ”


 yes Kerry
yes yes yes yes

 “ crooked crooked crooked ”

that's exazzzzzzzzzctly what they are 

you’re sellin’ uz 
the true  ticket 
Johnny me boy 

sell more and more and more 
drop the bomb kiddo 

   give them
Bushkateers
the full monte 

give em 
the 
  Dick Tracy 
treatment




Continue reading "give em the dick tracy treatment"

   Xer guys and gals
of the
   best 4 year kollege
 edicated klasses 

  listen up hardons 
cause 

  THIS BUB’s
 FOR YOUZZLE 



Continue reading "advice to Xers part one"

March 09, 2004

“ all the wisdom of our statesmen 
will  end in a great transfer
from one class to another 
in creating an enormous fund
for the reward of peculation “
Ravenstone 1824 

“ every age must pay its own way ”
                          tom jefferson 

 “ it's all the confounded
shifting about  
the whole damnible
 card sharper's game 
so full of better luck this hand
the relentless process
of  shuffle redeal
reshuffle redeal
next time my arse
 my bleedin arse 
 they ride we boobs
    pull   
they  eat  we barf
they  smoke we sweat 
what we’ve produced
they take
 and lend it back to us 
cause we don't live plain enough  

" save mates
and borrow not "

as to the something for nothing 
sorry  blokes 
 them seats occupied 
  so keep  shovelin  my dust  ”
   G.B. SHAW “ The Boys From
                                 East Cheap”





Continue reading "thrift is theft"

 

 MUSICAL QUESTION NUMBER 9 

HOW THE FUCK 
CAN TWO SO FAR APART 
COHORTS 

SO WILDLY DIFFERENTLY
BRAIN WASHED 
 RAW MIND SWARMS 

AS HAN CHINA’S AND
YANKEE DOODLE’S 

 BOTH STAND UP

BOTH  CONFRONT

BOTH  BOLDLY CLAIM 
THEY ‘LL RISK ALL
THROW DOWN ALL 

MAKE  A NEW BEGINNING 
FOR THE WHOLE WORLD 

AND THEN BOTH
TAKE THE INEVITABLE 
INSIDE BASEBALL  
 SHORT SHEET JOB 
 AND 
BOTH 
FIND THEMSELVES 
“ MALGRE THEMSELVES ”
 TAKING 
THIS 
GRACELESS
 NASTY AS FUCKING HELL 
BURGER  SWURVE

AND BOTH END UP 
 IN MID CAREER 
THE BEST AND BLUEST 
CLIMBERS 
ON THE SUNNY SIDE 
OF COMFORT MOUNTAIN 
 
THE ANSWER APPEARS TO BE 

EASY AS SHIT
PASSES
 THRU A GOOSE 



Continue reading "TWO RAW LEFTS COMPARED"

March 04, 2004

  HAITI ZIMBABWE VENEZUELA

THESE ARE  COUNTRIES
NOW TRYING
TO SURVIVE
LIVING UNDER THE YOKE
OF KNIEVEL REGIMES

MUGABE CHAVEZ ARISTIDE

TRYING TO SURVIVE
UNDER
STUNT JUMPERS

TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING

JUMPING THEIR COUNTRIES
BACK AND FORTH
OVER THE IMPERIAL ABYSS




Continue reading "the axis of knievel"

  and there's a cola war angle too


all this jazz about
  the 401 kaying of SSI
has an obvious
big picture story

in a pinch 
 it gets uncle
off the promise promises hook
once and for all

but theres some nice details here too 

for one thing 
the contro route
gets uncle
out of the cost of living adjustment bizness 
without ghoulish  tampering with indexes



Continue reading "cola wars smola wars"

  too much circus
not enough bread?

never never never

typical dem blunder

and watch
Kerry on balance
  will spread the bread


  but that won't get it done

dems
please
don't give us 

" come home america
suppers on the table
and it's
your favorite
liver patties '

not again
not
this time

go for the throat
for once you weenies

give uz 
more circus 

for christ's sake 

MORE CIRCUS


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