Current Events-Carnival Corp.

A second ship in trouble...
cruise lines rethink you craft!
A liner without power
is just a freaking raft.

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Current Events-Bad News

Those who read the paper,

or watch news on tv,

know good reporters submit facts…

not blather carelessly.

Commentators analyze…

their views are but their own.

Too often they will vend as truth

false seeds that are home grown.

Reporters and the analysts

will often get confused.

They drift into the others field

and produce badly bruised.

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Current Events-Big Pockets

Harassment is indeed a crime…

on that we all agree.

But judge please penalize the perp…

don’t toss his cost to me.

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Current Events-Last Debate

I listened to last night’s debate…

listened, absorbed, pondered weighed.

The media now tells us all

those who earned an accolade.

If you did not same thoughts applaud

vote for whom you chose to laud.

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Current Events-Lies

The Supreme Court must now decide

what constitutes a bare-faced lie.

And those, if said, would justify

to in the First Amendment hide.

Seems phony hero claimed his fame

through lies our precious ethos strain.

If that is sin, if profits reap,

our merchants would in jail cells heap.

So honored Judge, we know your plight.

Free speech is dear to us.

Don’t take from us one syllable,

but guard us all from lust.

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Current Events-Russia

Putin would again be boss,
and now says we wish them chaos.
We freely gave them aid to mend
when USSR was at its end.
Best never again put pen to check,
regardless if they plead like heck,
'til leaders cease to double-cross.

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Current Events-My Vote

The G.O.P. soon asks my vote

on whom I would elect.

I’ve little time I can devote

to make my choice correct.

Takes time to ply through all the mud

all candidates have thrown,

and try to sort through all the crud

for which all must atone.

At this point I don’t care

my choice can beat the Prez…

I tell the rest out there

I like what my pick says.

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Current Events-Gallop Polls

They call to ask how I will vote...
I rarely deign respond.
My vote I opt keep secret,
not bare it here and yon.
For polls can tend to prejudice,
and grave decisions taint,
should many people hedge when asked
you deem they're where they ain't.
                                          Jim Cox


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Current Events-Our Ills

Our country has so many ills

our leaders need to solve…

lost jobs and foreign enmity

are two they should resolve.

But, take a look at laws they muse

that they would pass this day…

who can abort, what athletes snort

and marriage by the gays.

Reflect upon our land’s blue laws…

those canons fired demand your pause.

Not obsolete...they merely rest,

and free men feared what brings guffaws.

Jim Cox                                                    

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Current Events-The Constitution

Forefathers were quite careful
to keep brushwood apart.
If one Branch can control us,
fierce fires may then fast start.
The Legislature must earn votes...
Executives likewise.
But they then choose who judges,
and there our problem lies.
The red and blue would have their due,
and balance tilts and sways...
and through it all they will not call
we judge their dossiers.

Current Events-Pro Sports

Would that you could tell me why
we do with local team ally,
when most who do now serve that corps
have little note of customs nigh.
(I still bet on the home team)


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Current Events-My Candidates

I often vote Republican,

their platforms more appeal.

If Mitt and Newt just wear foul mud,

no handshake is ideal.

I’d rather judge where they diverge

and make worse that which ails.

I must decide whose plan best serves

to exacerbate travails.

It matters not who sponsors them

for some threw mud before.

Who wait to see who leads the race

can’t be my troubadour