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Wishing We Were Wrong
An Adult Movie Rated PG
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
1986 TV Season
Different Sides, Same War
My Funny Census Form
Another Sort of Learning
The Devil Made Him Do It
To the Greater Glory of God
Stranger Than Fiction
Right in Your Own Backyard
Reverence for Referents

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Mad Song

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Whatever Became of Whats-His-Name?
The Mardi Gras Queen
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Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:

PAYBACK
If Pelosi can get enough votes
To shove health-care “reform” down our throats,
You can bet we’ll remember
And cast votes in November
To be “reconciled” with Judas goats.

From the archive:

IN THE DOGHOUSE
“My poor siblings and I are so sad:
He’s the best friend that we ever had,
With a heart of pure gold,
But he has gotten old,
And it’s time that we euthanize Dad.”
(2009)

GOOD GRIEF
“Now, children, please don’t cry.
It’s time to say goodbye.
Today’s the day
We booked in May:
It’s Grandma’s turn to die.”
(2009)

OBAMACARE
“We would never overtly deny
Any care we’re prepared to supply;
If we do have to ration,
With a practiced compassion
We’ll decide who deserves most to die.”
(2009)

Last week’s verse:

RECONCILIATION
“Form a line, single file, if you will;
Remain quiet, attentive, and still;
And spare us the drama
As Dr. Obama
Dispenses this large bitter pill.”

Mass times and readings

Our culture is awash in filth. Do we really want it to become even more depraved? Let’s stop kidding ourselves about the alleged harmlessness of pornography (often masquerading as sex education), its supposed lack of victims. Anyone accosted by it, willingly or not, is victimized. Our fathers, sons, and brothers are coarsened and desensitized by smut; our mothers, daughters, and sisters condemned to live, without love, in a world of rutting apes. How can so many Americans be so persnickety about the healthfulness of the foods they ingest into their bodies, and care not a whit about the toxins fed into their minds? If we are what we eat, how much more so are we what we perceive?

[T]here is precious little evidence that sex education reduces the number of teenage pregnancies. In fact, just the opposite could be the case. For authoritative research has found that the more sex education children receive in schools, the greater their involvement in early sexual activity. – Daily Mail

When will people finally figure out that the “experts” are lying to them? Sex ed isn’t a protective program; it’s a recruitment program, promoted by pornographers, condom and contraceptive manufacturers, and abortionists — and funded by taxpayers, the parents of the victims.

Click on me, everyone!

As he was whipping up hysteria over climate change, Gore cannily invested in “green” firms that stood to profit in the hundreds of millions of dollars (if not more) from increased government regulations and sweetheart deals from connected politicians and bureaucrats. The multimillionaire climate dilettante was given a free pass by reporters, who refused to ask him hard questions about the degree to which he was profiting from the panic he was causing. – Washington Times

The absence of a legally binding global climate deal and a federal emissions trading scheme in the United States are standing in the way of the market in global emissions trading growing to achieve yearly turnover of $2 trillion by 2020. – Reuters

INSIDER TRADING
Do delusions of warming derange
And compel poor Al Gore to act strange?
No, the reason he’s fishin’
For those caps on emission
Is his stock in the carbon exchange.
(F.R. Duplantier, 2007)

A Swedish entrepreneur is trying to market and sell a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world. – NY Times

The solutions to the world’s problems are found by entrepreneurs, not by government bureaucrats and posturing fools like Al Gore and Barack Obama.

Here’s another brilliant solution from the private sector. And another. Sheer genius.

Gore and Obama and the rest of the totalitarian poseurs should shut up and get out of the way.

Maybe the Swede will develop a bag for disposing of toxic politicians.

Click on me, everyone!

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. – Al Gore

It is an enormous relief, you fruitcake! Listen, Al, it’s over. Nobody believes you anymore. You lost again. Please, go away!

LOSING IT
Al Gore screamed on Inaugural Day
As the ambulance took him away:
“I’m the king! I’m the czar!
I’m Simba! Babar!
I’m the sovereign of all I survey!”
(F.R. Duplantier, 2001)

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:

RECONCILIATION
“Form a line, single file, if you will;
Remain quiet, attentive, and still;
And spare us the drama
As Dr. Obama
Dispenses this large bitter pill.”

From the archive:

IN THE DOGHOUSE
“My poor siblings and I are so sad:
He’s the best friend that we ever had,
With a heart of pure gold,
But he has gotten old,
And it’s time that we euthanize Dad.”
(2009)

GOOD GRIEF
“Now, children, please don’t cry.
It’s time to say goodbye.
Today’s the day
We booked in May:
It’s Grandma’s turn to die.”
(2009)

OBAMACARE
“We would never overtly deny
Any care we’re prepared to supply;
If we do have to ration,
With a practiced compassion
We’ll decide who deserves most to die.”
(2009)

Last week’s verse:

WHOOSH!
At the Winter Olympics, aghast,
All the skiers see someone fly past;
They’re left out in the cold
As Obama gets gold:
No one’s ever gone downhill so fast!