Poisoning Our Children!: “The Giving Tree”

It has recently come to my attention that the Progressives have planted a time bomb in almost every pre-school across this great land and more importantly this same IED is in our own children’s rooms IN OUR OWN HOMES! Marx had “Das Kapital” and Mao had his “Little red Book” but these were mere play things compared with the insidious AND SECRET poisoning of our precious children’s young and impressionable minds with the book, “The Giving Tree”. *Although you cannot see it in the blogosphere I am pulling out my chalk board to diagram this for you. I want to make this totally FAIR AND BALANCED (TM Fox News) and even though I am an entertainer and not a journalist, I will report… you decide.*

First Published in 1964 (drawing in large numbers on the chalkboard 1-9-6-4) by “Shel” (smirking at his name) Silverstein (drawing on the board in small but insistent letters (them what killed our Lord) a noted cartoon pornographer, well known for his drawings for PLAYBOY (writing PORNO) in frighteningly large letters on black board, Silverstein penned the tome was published by Harper Brothers publishing which was of course formed in 1817 exactly 100 years prior to the time of the Bolscheveik Revolution (writing “Commies” in cursive). The publishing company now owned by genius philanthropist and all around nice guy and former Australian Rupert Murdoch who purchased it likely to keep it from being a mouthpiece for communist ideals.

That the book was published in 1964 is of course… no accident. The book was a direct response to the Glorious announcement of Barry Goldwater that he was going to run for President and was timed to coincide with Socialist Sympathizer Lyndon Baines Johnsons “War on Poverty”. (Writing the word “conspiracy” with big question mark behind it). I say conspiracy because that is not all that happened in 1964. No there was a LOT of things going on in 1964...*starting to write on the board with much agitation*..."Let me list a few of the "coincidences from NINE TEEN SIXTY FOUR!
1. The U.S. Senate votes cloture of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.
2. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
3. The Final Looney Tune, "Señorella and the Glass Huarache", is released before the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack Warner.
4. The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, is published. and most ominously!
5. American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.

So into this very...VERY dark time we are supposed to assume that this pornographer, Shel Silverstein just happens to write this deeply subversive tome? I don't think so.

Life is full of coincidences... for idiots!

The book itself shrouds its message in an apparently innocuous tale of a small boy and a tree. The boy appears as a metaphor for the solid American boys everywhere espousing values of consumerism and adventure (an exceptional American) and the tree, innocently enough appears to give, over and over again (in a thinly veiled tribute to the socialist goals for the American State.) Lets look more closely at the text.

Originally the boy is happy. he loves the tree and the tree loves the boy... but sooner or later the boy wants money. *drawing hastily a tree with dots on it signifying apples...a big bushy tree with branches and huge trunk. The boy wants to be self reliant. The boy wants to learn how to fish. But what does the insidious tree (The centrally planned Obama State of the Progressives do?) it offers it's apples. Sapping the boy of all ingenuity and self reliance it gives him apples like the socialist Obama State gives food stamps.*Taking eraser and dabbing at each dot as he speaks until there is no more apparent fruit on the tree*.

No one can be surprised when this is not enough for the boy. now that he has been weened onto the teat of the socialist State he is...yes...ENTITLED to more.

He comes back...after a LONG time. And not surprisingly he is unhappy. VERY unhappy. he needs more and what does he need? Housing. Sewing the seeds section 8 housing the socialist State tree gives the poor boy it's branches so he can build a house Boy takes branches this is of course a veiled referenced to the for seen Sudanese crisis of gathering firewood but then...he just needed tree subsidized housing and then he would be happy. BUT HE WAS NOT HAPPY! *angrily erasing the branches and leaves off of the tree leaving a fat telephone pole of a naked tree trunk*.

The boy comes back again after a very long time and the socialist State Obama Tree tries to inveigle him with "come and play". The boy of course having been robbed of his self reliance and instincts needs more support. Now he takes the trunk so that he can build a boat. Likely a boat so that he can trade in the one world economy dominated by the United Nations! And the boy takes the trunk... the wood he did not work or sweat for and so could not appreciate and builds a boat to sail away and perhaps do trade deals with the Chinese. Who knows... we are only left to speculate. What is clear is that boy likely took good jobs overseas while letting immigrants take the jobs back here in our country. he might have even fathered an anchor baby. Who knows...who knows indeed? *sadly and slowly erasing the trunk down to a stump*

Finally the boy comes home again. Broken...sad and lonely.
I don't need very much now," said the boy,
"Just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired."
"Well," said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could,
"Well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest."
And the boy did.

And the tree was happy.

And here is the final lie. Even after the tree has totally robbed the boy of everything...the tree is not happy but is satisfied, now that the boy has no life, no dreams and no hope...he can just sit and be a further drain on society and the socialist state tree comforts him and lets the poor "tired" child who has never worked for anything..."rest".

The over arching message is that the progressive Agenda provides everything. Individuals need do nothing but sit and make demands and wait to be provided for. *tearing up*..."I promised myself I would not cry but...*the camera panning out*...I just cannot live with what they have done...through this sick little book...to our children. *Panning in directly on my face as I boil into righteous...teary rage*...

So go into your house and get that book and BURN IT! Write your school boards and principals and demand that the book be removed...and burned...BURNED like a Koran or Quoran! Burn the book and keep it away from our kids... for their sake...for all our sakes! Do it now...oh....and buy gold."

Tune in tomorrow when we unmask the progressive homosexual agenda of "James And The Giant Peach"! Oh The Humanity.

Election Irritability: What Program Will You Cut and How Much?

Soooo....one week to go. As regular readers (and I do thank all 7 of you) know I have been rather silent lately. Part of the reason has to do with starting a new law practice and traveling a lot like I do not even need to make a living. Trips to Austin, Cancun, Michigan etc... leave little contemplative time and when coupled with trying to work enough to keep body and soul together there is very little time to watch and observe food, travel, music, life and of course politics. Which brings us to the real reason I have not written...politics.

We are just coming off the long dark tea time of the NPR pledge drive where I listen to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Jamie Allman... the angry cynical chick on talk radio around lunch... and the whole sick experiment has left me even more tired then ususal and more hopeless then I have felt since the start of W's second term. Never has the discourse been so vile, low, stupid and without hope and all of this in the greatest country in the world.

Roy Blount and June Carnahan... What programs are you going to cut and how much? And don't tell me healthcare... it has not brought us here.

I feel for the arguments that are supposed to be at the core of the tea party. Smaller government. Living within our means and self reliance are all great traditional American values. Not religious values but really, REALLY good things. But seriously, where were you fucking people when Ronald Reagan, Bush the Elder and the born again moderate Bill Clinton and then Dubya were ramping up spending at a monstrous level and even Saint Reagan increasing governments size and budget deficit (with the exception of a few Clinton years every year? And every year we elect the same people who say "I am going to cut waste and fraud". That is bullshit. The political class makes it's bones every day on waste and fraud. THEY NEVER CUT WASTE AND FRAUD! But we are going to elect Christine O'Donnell and re-elect Michelle Bachman and elect that crazy chick running in Arizona because these people are serious? These are the ones who will do it?

Ed Martin and Russ Carnahan, what programs are you going to cut and how much? Ed, I don't care that you were a politcal fixer for a governor who was smart enough to quit before his secrets made him a target and Russ... well Russ, i do not care about you at all.

I want to believe it. I am a bleeding heart liberal. My religion causes me to think that Jesus would want all people to have health care (even illegal aliens) but I know the government cannot afford it, anymore then it can afford wars of choice in the middle east. I like health care more then war with a couple of trillion but it is not affordable and sustainable BUT if we can send a few thousand American boys off to be killed and in the process destabelize a region so hundreds of thousands of their people can be killed and they can legitimately blame us for it while paying trillions to do it... I will take health care (even for illegal aliens).

And now we have this silly, silly election. In my life they have always said the same thing about election cycles. In every non presidential election 40% of the country dictates their displeasure and in the next election cycle 60% decide they did not like what the 40%. Well we are in a 40% year. I will vote but many of the crazies who voted for Obama will not come out and cheer for their local congressman and Senators. I do not blame them. they are an uninspiring bunch. the only thing less inspiring is their Republican dopplegangers who are there to rescind, remand, undo, unfund and stop Obama Care. Reinstitute tax breaks for everyone and shut down government. That will work well. The minute someone's mom misses a social security check... heads will roll.

And therein lies the lie of the tea party. They want to cut government but not the government that serves them. they decry socialism but take social security, unemployment, medicare and every tax break they are entitled to and they ARE entitled to their breaks. But the others...the LAZY ones who "take advantage" of the system.... their support needs to be cut. If smaller government is the goal (and it is an honorable goal) there is only only question EVERY candidate should be asked. Which programs will you cut and by how much? The follow up being if you are going to cut taxes what dollar for dollar cuts will you make in programs to justify those cuts. But forget the follow up. Ask you candidate, which programs will you cut and how much? Which programs will you cut and how much? Which programs will you cut and how much? (Repetition is a rhetorical device). If they cannot answer and if they answer with bullshit platitudes like they are going to stop earmarks and cut waste and fraud... then they are the frauds. Call them out. Republicans, Democrats, a pox on both their houses. I will vote Democrat again and hold my nose because their politics seem slightly less stupid, slightly less selfish in concept and frankly slightly less mean.

20 years of Republicans enlarging of government (the last 20) but it takes a black President to unite the anger over big government and the self righteous bullshit about selling out our kids futures. Now the Tea Party wants us to believe that their politicians have gotten religion. Being co-opted by the Republican party illegitimizes their goals. I get the anger, I am angry too, but until our culture changes, the institutions cannot change. Changes at the top are pure laziness. If you cannot pull our country together by it's core values of inclusion, hard work, charity, self reliance and compassion then we will keep electing leaders who reflect our broken sense of values.

Change youself and become a better person. train your kids to be better persons, discuss being a better person with your friends and what you (and they) can do to make a better Country. Then our leadership can make a meaningful change. In the interim...ask these hypocritical son's of bitches...which program would you cut and how much? Then wait for a real answer.