Sunday, July 17, 2016

Truth and Consequences


According to Donald Trump “Hillary is a liar.”  According to the fact checkers her campaign statements were true more often than any other candidate this year ( over 50% true), and Donald’s were the farthest from the truth ( less than 10% true).  Only that doesn’t seem to matter.

They scream when Hillary’s not truthful
But for Donald the truth isn’t crucial
There’s no hullabaloo
When his statements aren’t true
And ninety percent are just bull.

The Convention starts tomorrow and this joke isn’t funny anymore.

We’ve gone far enough down Trump Road
We’ve had more than enough of his load
Of ego and slime
It’s long past the time
When he was supposed to implode.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Ship’s Blog Day 3


The Kambosos family raises sheep and goats on a four square mile island with miles of stone walls to keep the sheep in pasture and the goats running freely.  In summer the population swells to ten because the grandchildren are home from school in Patmos.

Levitha is rocky and bare
And forty kilometers from anywhere
But since 1820
The Kambosos family
Have been the only inhabitants there.

The inlet to the harbor is almost invisible, and the harbor is so deep and rocky that it is very difficult to anchor.  The Kambosos’s installed moorings for visiting yachts.   On a small outdoor terrace they serve dinners of fish, lamb or goat.

Miles from their nearest neighbor
With a deep and protected harbor 
They built a small restaurant
For visitors who want
To eat and to venture ashore.

Friday, July 8, 2016

#Bad Move


ServerGate - another Clinton Scandal!

Hilary Clinton, you fool
It’s too bad that you broke the rule,
The FBI branded
You careless and handed
Reckless Donald a campaigning tool.

It proves she’s crooked!  - Even though:

Colin Powell used a private e-mail server when he was Secretary of State.
The White House Staff sent official government e mails on a private server when George W. Bush was President.
Karl Rove ’s office deleted 22 Million e mails that were required by law to be preserved for the Presidential Archives.
Dick Cheney’s office revealed the identity of a covert CIA agent for political purposes.

That was all very different and can’t be compared to Hillary’s heinous crimes, which apparently were careless, but not against the law.

The Republicans will use it to hit her
But in her defense, please consider
Should their candidate win
The White House will begin
To communicate only on Twitter.

Monday, July 4, 2016

Ship's Blog - Day Two


Paying respect to our hosts.

We start with an SPF massage
Pricey cream all over our bods
The sacrifice we make 
For our poor pale skin's sake
To glorious Apollo the sun god.

As Appollo retires behind the hills.

Moored in a cove off the coast
With ouzo we raise a small toast
To the sea God Poseidon
In whose realm we've been ridin' 
And who's been such a welcoming host.

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