Friday, August 16, 2019

№ 662.2: EXTRA! It's Not Easy Being Greenland

Danish politicians dismiss US president’s apparent interest in island as ‘hopefully a joke’

THE GREAT WHITE NORTH (August 16)


When I buy Greenland, we'll have Canada cornered,
surrounded by us and the ice,
which someone told me's supposed to melting.
A Maple Leaf state would be nice.
(It'd be just one state. I hafta inform ya
they have fewer people than California.)
With Arctic Ocean now fit for sailing,
think of the shipping. Think of the whaling.
I see my flag proudly unfurled. 
Canada, Greenland. TOMORROW THE WORLD.
I'll be showered with praise, inundated with thanks.
I'll borrow the money from Deutsche Bank.


№ 662.1: EXTRA! You've Seen One Coyote. . .

The poison-filled traps are used by the federal government to kill coyotes, foxes and other animals for farmers and ranchers

TRUMPWORLD (August 16)



I don't know about you but I'm horrified
by this waste of perfectly good cyanide,
which caused a fuss about animal slaughter.
Why not use it instead on the Mexican border?

№ 662: A Penile Pollution

Republican Steve King: if not for incest and rape ‘would there be any population left?' 

FLYOVER (August 15)

Steve King represents
the people of Iowa —
part of the country we 
dismiss as flyover.
He condemns abortion
and says for his portion
without incest and rape
we'd be in bad shape.
Even insisting
we'd cease existing.

Who could get at
a downside at that?
THAT, Goddammit,
'ud be good for the planet.
A healthy environment
requires our retirement.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

№ 661.2: EXTRA! Undesirable Number 1, Undesirable Number 2

Todd Starnes of Fox Nation also called migrants a ‘rampaging horde of illegal aliens’ less than two weeks after El Paso attack

ALIENS IN FOX HOLES (August 15)

Who's undesirable alien one?
Fact check suggests Murdoch and Sons.
First to the U.K. then to the U.S.
these Aussie bastards corrupt free press
and the airwaves and go on a spree
criticizing any diversity
allowing accents beyond Australian,
which many consider horribly alien.

And, so, who is undesirable two?
If you guessed the Murdochs, well good for you.

№ 661.1: EXTRA! GE Willikers

GE Is New Target of Madoff Whistleblower

Harry Markopolos releases report on GE’s accounting, claiming its cash situation is far worse than disclosed and GE needs to boost insurance reserves. Company says claims are false, misleading.

The group’s research indicates that GE is short on working capital—a key measure of liquidity—and that its cash situation is far worse than disclosed in its regulatory filings.

THE SWAMP WHERE WE LIVE (August 15)

Will GE come to DC
hat-in-hand beggin'?
Their hired-gun spokesman
was once Ronald Reagan,
another fraud, fatally flawed,
who somehow Republicans still hold in awe.

Not that I wish to be seem a smarty,
but weren't Dems once the dumb racist party
of colluders and crooks
cooking the books
and treating voters
as gullible shnooks?

Everything changes, 
still everything stays.
Like Archie and Edith sang,
“those were the days”.

№ 661: Short-term Thinking (a speculation)

UNTIED STATES OF DONNIE (August 14)

Would it sound bitter
if I said that Twitter
by forcing short message length
encourages nonsense
and, therefore, in consequence
stupidity's mistaken for strength?

If it weren't for Twitter
Donnie could not have glittered.
Without Twitter he'd not have prevailed.
If forced to think
with pen and ink,
he'd be just another junk male.

A Page Six tyrant,
Murdoch compliant,
sexist, rich, arrogant prat,
whose dirty nose
left him exposed,
got him indicted.
That would've been that.

Will there be a sequel
to “created equal”?
(Providing there's still an environment.)
The way that it looks
we just might close the books
as notion and nation take early “retirement”.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

№ 660: Another Late Night Musing Over Big Macs And Fries

THE VERY WHITE HOUSE (August 13)

Should I ask Ivanka, “Would be okay
if I give a pardon to my pal O. J.,
tell Rudy attitude-y, ‘Hey there, Rudolf,
bring me THE JUICE’, whup his black ass at golf.”?

His problem. . .O. J. got too big for his britches.
Nobody told him you don't kill ex-bitches.
First (maybe) no-necks, “Hey, lady, lay off!
Then you send Cohen to pay them off.

I always thought O. J. was nice. . .
cudda got off. . .with my advice.
Bribery, okay, maybe not my best plan.
But murder's a worse one.
Whatever,
you don't EVER 
do it in person!

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

№ 659.1: EXTRA! Colorazul

It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains 

Rainwater samples collected across Colorado and analyzed under a microscope contained a rainbow of plastic fibers, as well as beads and shards.

IN THE CHOKING MOUNTAIN AIR (August 13)

(with apologies to John Denver)

. . .the Colorado Rocky Mountains cry
Now it's rainin' plastic from the sky
if we follow Donnie's plan we're gonna see the eagle die
Rocky Mountains cry
As the Colorado Rocky Mountains die
with oil pipelines and plastic in the sky
Donnie's friends make all things end, profit is the reason why
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry


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№ 659: The Way We're Knot

TCCN EXCLUSIVE!

Ancient Writing Revealed
BY TUSKER SNARLSON, Special Corresrodent

NEANDERLAND (August 12)

Theatrical Cement Company News (TCCN), the parent company of The Daily Doggerel, has been given exclusive access to an ancient sample of writing discovered in a Neanderland cave known to have been inhabited exclusively by Neanderthals prior to the Homo Sapien invasion.

Dr. Damon Browridge of National Neanderthal University in Neander City, Neanderland who led the discovery team told TCCN exclusively, “This changes everything. It proves the so-called, self-styled ‘people’ of ‘Europe’ have no right to be here.”

What follows is a translation from the ancient Neanderthal text discovered on two woolly mammoth tusks in the cave.

TUSK1:
Neander is Neanderthal land.
Sapiens go back to Africa.
Where you come from is where you belong.
Both you and we will be happier.
Abandon your plan to claim our land and replace us
by sending young males (and all that entails)
to breed with our girls and debase us.

TUSK 2:
If you must roam, leaving your home,
you should leave us alone, maybe head east
and seek to replace Denisovans,
who, though they be our cousins,
THEY breed by the dozens
and at family gatherings disgrace us.
Therefore, perhaps, you Homo Saps.,
being good chaps,
could take them on and you both collapse
leaving all things, both great and small
as God intended, Neanderthal.

Monday, August 12, 2019

№ 658: Albion Seeing You


Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy is imperilling centuries of common purpose. It can’t be allowed to succeed 

DAMNALOT (August 11)

There will always be an England
though it might be rather smal.
An England that may not extend
an inch beyond The Mall.
At one end, THE PALACE
with its Victoria Memorial.
At the other, Charles I
(whose end was rather gorier),
sitting on a horse beneath
Nelson's tow'ring column.
An effect, that when viewed,
leaves one feeling solemn.
Also nearby can be seen
Uganda's High Commission.
Imposing on our English “green”.
Who gave them permission?
Feeling peckish? If one does,
one can get a snack.
Pret A Manger is located
behind Admiralty's back.

This other Eden, demi-heaven
daily gets less English.
We must take our England back,
all foreignness extinguish.
This is our land, our England,
we Englishmen proclaim,
1066. Shakespeare. THE QUEEN!
Plus things we needn't name.
There still will be an England
when the E.U. is long dead.
There will always be an England.

[In dead King Charlie's head!]