A Corporation is a Person?   Just think about it for a second or two.

I thought we put an end to this 151 years ago.  Thank you Abraham Lincoln.

The Supreme Court didn’t think this one through

Stock ownership should be up for review

If you accept the assertion

A corporation’s a person

Then shareholders are Slave owners too.

Up until now bankruptcy has just been standard business practice.

If the justices had been more alert or

Taken their reasoning further

They’d realize that granting

Personal standing 

Means bankruptcy turns into murder.

A Corporation is a Person, my Friend.

The Supreme Court has ruled (Citizens United) that a corporation has many of the same rights as a human,  "free speech" being one of them, remember Money = Speech.

Though they’re God fearing women and men 

The supreme court defied logic again

In utter defiance

Of religion and science

They created life with the stroke of a pen.

I would like the court to explain

How a corporation can possibly attain

Humanity

With no eyes to see

No heart, no lungs and no brain.

All this comes up because the Court is considering a case in which a company claims its "deeply held religious convictions" should allow it to deny its employees health coverage for contraception.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a brief

Of a company seeking relief

It claims a corporation

- An inanimate creation -

Has a deeply held religious belief.

... to be continued.

 Ignoring the Big News of the Week

It’s snowing.!

The long term demographic trend

Will take power from elderly white men

Ol’ Man Winter is white

But he’s gonna fight

With a blizzard right up to the end.

Leaving aside for the moment the tragic disappearance of an airliner, a mud slide, the ongoing crises in Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, What might be Palestine, Ebola virus outbreaks, starvation, poverty ...... march madness ... you might have missed this important news.

The leadership of the world convenes

To discuss the method and means

To deal with Crimea

The press’s idea

Is to diss Obama’s blue jeans. 

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I castigate these billionaire fellows

And mock the inane things they tell us

So some might surmise

That I criticize

Because I’m a little bit jealous.

Income Inequality - Again

One billionaire groused that the lower 99% shouldn't resent the billionaires and how much they have.

It's one percent versus ninety nine

A billionaire says "You’re doing fine,

You already have more 

Than most of the world’s poor

So suck it up and don’t whine."

A billionaire’s needs must be few

But he still finds some griping to do

All the money and power

Apparently feel sour

He wants love from the downtrodden too.

Tom Perkins, a venture capitalist, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal comparing the persecution of the "one per cent" to Kristallnacht, and later in a talk suggested that people should get one vote per dollar of net worth.

Tom Perkins, capitalist billionaire

Says the one per cent must beware

“They should change laws to suit us

Instead they persecute us

It’s like Nazi Germany out there.”

And went on to moan that the ninety nine per cent are trying to eradicate the one per cent, then the top five percent, and then the top ten per cent.

It’s the big gap that people resent

But eliminate the top one percent?

There will always be some

With the most wealth and income.

It’s a mathematically impossible event.

To My Loyal Readers (Both of You)

Since January I’ve been the host

Of a fitful limerick infused post

If my suspicions are right

My audience might

Be three or four readers at most.

There’s too much on the net to explore

The last thing the web needs is more

“Content” to read

So I’m filling a need 

By writing poems that are safe to ignore.

I can't believe I'm looking forward to Mud Season.

The thermometer read minus one

Today, though March has begun

The low temperature

Makes me unsure

That winter will ever be done.

When the temperature drops below zero

Do we dream of warm places to go?

Do the people of Maine

Ever complain?

Our friends in the South need not know.

What happened to the end of the Cold War, to the Peace Dividend and the world without War?

World War I was the war to end war

World War II; “Big deal, what’s one more?”

From Korea to Ukraine

Is a long bloody chain

Of skirmishes, invasions and gore.