[Newspoetry] Responses to "Amazing, even CBS didn't stop him"

[DL Emerick]

WHAT I FINALLY SAID?

JOB
I guess you send me such irritations for two reasons –
For they are half way right, and half way wrong, too,
And I am well known to be eager to sort out the two,
And all too willing to say which is which, in my view!
The other is that when you have an evasive itch
To scratch, logical or otherwise, I’ll be your bitch,
rake it with my nails until it screams in high pitch
and explodes in ecstasy apropos of Fall’s seasons,
for we live like Adam and Eve, in sinning treasons.

I don’t know about the truth; I really don’t.
What I do believe is that money matters,
More than anything else in politics,
And that everything else is a ruse,
Designed to distract and confuse people.

ECCLESIASTES
The politics of distraction is always a politics of bodies –
In multitudes of words, you hear a fool’s voice (5:3b),
speaking of the many magnitudes of his business (5:3a),
speaking, thus, of the many vanities he bows unto. (5:7)

You see true violence when you see the poor oppressed --
So do not be amazed at perverted judgment and justice.  (5:8)

What possible difference to anyone else could it make,
Whether some woman chooses to have an abortion,
Because any baby would not be right for her life, now?

The argument that aborted souls are a mockery of God
attempts to point the finger away from “sins” of the self:
it says “See, God?  I tried to save the Souls of BABIES”
when, in fact, a blob of tissues sans a brain has no soul,
a fact we soon forget when we act like blobs of tissues.

The political truth of such matters, though, shines thru,
When Bush and the Republican Army veto S-CHIP.
They care nothing for real babies and real children,
Or to care for people who indisputably have souls.

The whole scene is a mockery of the Right to Life:
You have ONLY a right to be born, according to them,
But no right to live free of avoidable evil and suffering –
That sort of misery is your responsibility, so they say,
being half way right, evading their own responsibility,
Which is why they’re half way wrong, as well, in hell.

They’re wrong about the spirit of love, in any event,
Which, when people have souls, is what is in them –
The soulless are those who live without love in them.

Christians know this yet they ignore it, too much.
They do not hear the words God spoke for them,
To think how great His love must be (as ever “I am”),
To propose theologically, “God so loved the World
That He would let Himself, as His only Son, die for it?”
 “Greater love has no Man than that He die for Others?”

PROVERBS
Now, the stuff of a material world is simply denominated,
In fives and tens, twenties and hundreds – it’s all money ---
And materialists make a big deal about drawing a line,
Between my money and yours, between me and you.

This is the line they draw down through dollar signs ($),
To remind us that they don’t love us all that much,
not when there is ever a dollar to be divided by us.

The average man can not seemingly grasp this fact:
Love knows no such boundaries between you and me,
Love does not draw lines between us, but erases them.

Love is total unity, like that of God, Shema, Shema,
even as physical acts make us one without difference,
where lover and beloved delight in loving-being-loved,
and find infinity in God-made-flesh beyond all senses.

PSALMS and SONGs OF SOLOMON
I feel too preachy, preaching to choirs truths known.
What do I know of hate?  What do I know of greed?
I know them when I see no love in the face of need –
When I hear man complaining and excusing himself:

“I’m not in the mood for love, not if I have to pay for it,”
Thus ignoring that God was always already loving him,
And that he has already an impossible tab run up,
A debt he’ll never repay, if he lives forever and aye.

Then, God says, “I just wanted you to love me,
Like you would find yourself, ever being loved,
Where I find no faults and think madly of you,
Knowing that you will forget me and turn away.

That only happens, my Love, when I forgive you
For being you; for being me, yet loving you anyway.
Yes, I have to forget I am God and you are you,
This is why I make all miracles: I am forgiving you.

Yes, I am a mad God, to love a bum like you –
But I hope to hear you say, ‘I love you, too’
And truly mean it, with all your being’s soul,
And stop turning away from me, running away.

When that happens, my love, the Earth shall move;
The Heavens themselves shall tremble, in delight –
There shall no more be this and that, me and you,
But Oneness in a mushy orgy of omni-loving stew.”
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From: A Friend 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:00 AM
To: DL Emerick
Subject: Re: Response to RE: Amazing, even CBS didn't stop him
Ah yes, and this is why I send these to you my friend. I know you will find
the truth!! Thank you. Again
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WHAT I SAID:
Fascism 101:  The Current News From Huey Long-land

“His social-conservative message — teaching “intelligent design” as an
alternative to evolution in public schools, a total ban on abortion,
repealing hate-crimes laws — would have been welcome in these areas.”
IN http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/nationalspecial/21louisiana.html.

The text below I wrote this morning, and sent to a person who sent me the
piece appended, at the end, below.

And, yet, they suffer because hate is easier than reason.

So, I tell my friends they are too easily distracted, like this.


http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/andyrooneycommentary.htm

Apparently, truth is the 1st casualty in the opinion-slinging culture wars.

The common practice:
write some over-the-top Fascist literature,
attribute it to some allegedly sympathetic, but respectable source,
and spam it out to the world.

Once a big lie starts rolling, it becomes an internet avalanche,
cascading despite occasional denials and reasoned refutations.

Now, I have no doubt that many people wish to hate other people.

What they wish to find is someone authoritative to voice their hatred for
them.

Then all they have to do is say “amen” and “Sieg Heil”, and tongue lash and
fist bash anyone who disagrees with their nationalistic ideas, calling any
opponent anti-German or unAmerican.

The Germans found Hitler that way.

Hitler had a big mouth, almost as large as Rush Limbaugh’s, and certainly as
full or venomous sound-bites at alleged cultural “enemies of the people”.

But, to be fair, even when those who spew hatred are not, and even though
they have no intention of being fair, because they are sick and tired of
being fair, even though they never were fair, but simply biting their
tongues all the time, and crossing their fingers, too, perhaps, let us
address the merits of the implied issue: is life being fair to them?

Well, usually, when you look at the lives of the average man, you are
almost, by definition, going to find out that life treats them, on average,
fairly – they have an average income, an average house and average family,
an average education, and so on.

It couldn’t be otherwise, unless we junk the meaning of words.

So, then, why is the average man incited to riot against reason,
To rage about people who are often less fortunate than he is?

It’s called the politics of distraction, this scape-goating and despising of
minorities.

While you are distracted by hate, you pay no attention to who is running the
show.

You pay no attention to such ominous facts as these:
the incredible income gap between the working man and the rich ruler –
CEO salaries have no limit and zoomed out of sight in the last 30 years,
while the average man earns less than he did a decade ago, in real dollars;
our jobs are traded off to other countries, while the trade deficit soars,
they finance American indebtedness by borrowing back dollars spent and sent
abroad;
ordinary credit card interest rates climb from the low single digits, to the
teens, and then twenties, all because usury laws were struck down as an
impediment to high finance thefts of wealth;
the price of gas and oil has nearly trebled under the Bush regime;
we fight a pointless Iraqi war for a trillion dollars, but haven’t got 30
billion to fund health care for needy children,
and so on it goes.

So, who is to blame for the fact that the average man, today, on average, is
worse off than he once was?

Stop letting yourself be distracted by racism and other kinds of hatred
against minorities!  Put the blame where it belongs!  Or, else, you can go
on being a fool, fooling yourself most of all, as to why your life falls so
short of your dreams.
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From: A Friend 
Subject: FW: Amazing, even CBS didn't stop him


Surprised CBS let him get away with this even though he's right!!!
AMEN ANDY R OONEY! 
Right on, Andy Rooney! 
Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back: 
I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except
numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are
things like  the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, 
Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. 
Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine,
White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what
happens... 
Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door. 
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can
kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you
from driving to the ball game. 
I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there
are no girls allowed. 
Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! 
ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE? 
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is
an opinion. 
I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different,
weird, or tick me off. 
When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of
the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of
Probability. 
I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a
newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of
fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak
English! 
My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries
you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. 
I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you
threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word
"freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines. 
I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are
qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or
tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or
any other business. 
We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in
wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over
here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their
interpretations. 
I don't hate the rich.  I don't pity the poor. 
I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't
stop you from watching them. 
I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every pen ny he made and continue
to make more. 
If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's
better, and put your name on the building. 
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a
parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds
when necessary, and say "NO!" 
I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't
pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that
new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as
you serve me French fries! 
I am sick of "Political Correctness." 
I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in
Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? 
Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a
European-American because my great, great, great, great, great,
great grandfather was from Europe .. 
I am proud to be from America and nowhere else. And if you don't like my
point o f view, tough... 
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE
REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD , INDIVISIBLE, 
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! 
I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I don't. 
It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. 
Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem
in having "In God We Trust" 
on our money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. 
Why don't we just tell the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET !!! 
If you agree, pass this on, if not delete.