You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words or use your own words.

Bright, due, everyone, hue, light, proposes, roses, sun.

Bouquet of Life! by L. Don Oliver

A bouquet of flowers held gently, Gathered at mornings early ___; Placed in a pretty slender vase, Reflecting loves special __;

Flowers caressed so tenderly, By beads of trickling ; Beautiful petals of life, Unfolding shades of ;

Honeybees flitting to and fro, pollinating flowers, each and _, Oblivious to the morning mist, And the rising life giving ___;

Scented flowers of every dream, Leads to what fate __; Life really concerns me not, For I, paused to smell the _;

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Greed! by L. Don Oliver

The labyrinth of my Life, That has ensued thus this far; Gives no reasons for excuse, When I stand before the bar;

Ghostly eerie creatures dancing, Echos from a pretentious past; Gives rise to the truth, Of the shadows that I've cast;

The candle of my being, Is flickering in its flow; There will come that day, When it will cease to glow;

If ever my never comes, Inter history beneath the sod; Shed no tears for yesterday, Render my final fate unto god;

I Heard the Robin Sing! by L. Don Oliver

When I was the innocent one, One morning in early spring; No thought of true reason, I heard the Robin sing;

He sang his sweet song of life, Of hope, faith, and charity; He sang of his everlasting wish, For a world in perfect harmony;

He sang his precious song, For conflict to never start; Then came the makers of hate, And tore all his dreams apart;

Like a forgotten soul, Forlorn in a castle keep; In the darkness of night, I heard the Robin weep;

We did not get there with you,
But, you paved the road with care; One day we will cross the mountain, And find you awaiting there;

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Painting the Silent Night! By L. Don Oliver

The, little falling star, left it's, calling card; Glowing, in the night, bright, bright, my delight; Luminous stars, in their grace, eternally parading, deep in space; A golden moon, sauntering by, pursuing the stars, across the sky; A flock of geese, upon their flow, lit up by, the full moon's glow; Puffy white clouds, upon their way, perhaps they'll visit, on another day; The Milky Way's, spiraling dance, two lovers lost, in deep romance; Paint brush, all dipped in red, wondering where, Mars has fled; Rings of Saturn, spinning around, no lovelier sight, to be found; Coloring a far away, lightening flash, Venus and the moon, about to clash; Between the eyes, of the known, darkened spaces, of the unknown; Palette filled, in shades of blue, colors changing, with every hue; Never a sound, to be heard, save the tune, of a singing bird; Such was, my grandest sight, While Painting, the Silent Night;

You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words or use your own words.

Alive, asleep, by, deep, deep, deep, deep, end, explore, fear, hear, keep, mend, shore, sleep, steep.

Silence of the Deep! By L. Don Oliver

A gentle refreshing sea breeze, Waves splashing upon the __; Seabirds soaring above me; A beautiful new world to __;

In the shadows of my soul, The world above me ___; Slipping slowly beneath the waves, Into the silence of the _;

Serenity of quite solitude Rainbow creatures swimming ; Lovely flowering coral reefs, One is thankful to be ___;

Where there's rhyme and reason No imperative schedule to _; Controlling my own destiny, In the silence of the _;

Sounds from a distant whale, Echoes that I can barely _; Knowing that I am not alone, Deflates any questioning _;

Bubbles from a fissure below, Up through the darkened __; At peace with the world, In the silence of the _;

When life has passed me by, Broken dreams never to _; Things that I once enjoyed, Ever winding down to ;

If to die upon the morrow, From cause for eternal __; I pray thee my final rest, In the silence of the _;

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"Our" Constitution! By L. Don Oliver

It once was a beautiful document, That was gracefully written there; And through all it's many years. It was giving great love and care;

Once it contain words of "Freedom", Words that resonated toward the high, Gathered within its wisdom, was hope, But alas, those days have gone by;

Now we are told to tear it up, Rendering it into a pile of dust; Viewing it as a pathetic relic, Worthy of only their disgust;

The meaning for which it stood, Now archaic with no charm; They are scripting a new one, That will never cause them harm;

The Nationalites versus the Internationalites!

Once upon a time long long ago, came an Army called the Internationalites who invaded a country called the United States of America. This invading army (which included Nationalite Traitors) took complete control of this country and made all of its inhabitants slaves. The ruler(s) of this invading army caused to have made all the laws that the Nationalites were forced to obey. The Nationalites were allowed to practice their religion of "National Pride"; however, they could practice their religion only if they were subservient to and obeyed all the corrupted laws of the Internationalites.

After the Internationalites took over this conquered land, they appointed a Puppet King to rule over the Nationalites!

The Nationalites were taxed, taxed, and then taxed some more and the taxes were launder to the ruler(s) of the Internationalites. The Puppet Nationalite King along with his henchmen called the "left" and the "Right" passed laws that allowed the "Money Changers" (den of thieves) to set up their commercial enterprises in the Nationalite Temple located in the City of Washington! (The Temple that the Nationalite's forefathers had built)

The Nationalite Centralists tiring of the corruption going on in their Temple, decided to throw the "Money Changers" out. They were met by the Pseudo King and his henchmen who through their propaganda machine, the "Biased Media", ridiculed the Centralists and called them trouble makers, ignorant, Un-Patriotic, rebel rousing trailer trash and threatened them with retribution if they didn't go along with the elite "Status Quo".

Fortunately for the Nationalites, no matter all the many attempts by the Internationalites to destroy them, they still have a Constitution that allows them to oust the corrupted from their positions of power by utilizing a place called the "Ballot Box"!

Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!

Question:

What was the Spanish/American War?

Politically Correct Resolution:

At the ending of the nineteenth century the United State's was a sovereign nation that wanted to maintain this status. It was the internationalists that called it an "Isolationist" nation, because it didn't want to get involved in overseas conflicts.

The Spanish/American War. (Global Building)

(Wikipedia used for most of this article)

The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before. By 1897–98 American public opinion grew angrier at reports of Spanish atrocities, magnified by "yellow journalism". After the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine (the Catalyst) in Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the government headed by President William McKinley, a Republican, into a war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting in an ultimatum sent to Madrid, which was not accepted. First Madrid, then Washington, formally declared war.

Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. A series of one-sided American naval and military victories followed on all fronts, owing to their numerical superiority in most of the battles and despite the good performance of some of the Spanish infantry units. The outcome was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which was favorable to the U.S. followed by temporary American control of Cuba and indefinite colonial authority over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The defeat and subsequent end of the Spanish Empire was a profound shock for Spain's national psyche. The victor gained several island possessions spanning the globe and a rancorous new debate over the wisdom of imperialism. Thus, (the United States gained there much wanted warm water ports to extend their World Wide influences).

American interest in Caribbean

In 1823, the Monroe Doctrine stated that further efforts by European governments to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would not be accepted by the U.S., but Spain's colony in Cuba was exempted. In 1890 Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which credits the rise of Britain to world power to the Royal Navy. Mahan’s ideas on projecting strength through a strong navy had a powerful worldwide influence, especially Japan. Theodore Roosevelt, later Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley and an aggressive supporter of a war with Spain over Cuba, was also strongly influenced by Mahan’s conclusions. Americans had long been interested in Cuba (and Hawaii), since several U.S. presidents offered to purchase it from Spain (James Polk, Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant), and others expressed their hopes of future annexation.

Historians debate how much Americans were interested in obtaining an empire, while noting that the European powers had in recent decades dramatically expanded their empires, especially in Africa and Asia. The United States seized this opportunity to become an international empire themselves.

Thus, began the "gradual transformation" of the United States from one of isolationism to one of internationalism.

"UT HISPANICUS CADIT, SIC OMNIS TERRA" (As Spain falls, so falls the whole world)

Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct.

Question:

What was the Gilded Age (The Robber Barons)?

Politically Correct Resolution:

In American history, the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. The name refers to the process of gilding an object with a superficial layer of gold and is meant to make fun of ostentatious display while playing on the term "golden age."

The Gilded Age is most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy. During the 1870s and 1880s, the U.S. economy grew at the fastest rate in its history, with real wages, wealth, GDP, and capital formation all increasing rapidly. A national transportation and communication network was created, the corporation became the dominant form of business organization, and a managerial revolution transformed business operations. By the beginning of the 20th century, per capita income and industrial production in the United States led the world. The businessmen of the Second Industrial Revolution created industrial towns and cities in the Northeast with new factories, and hired an ethnically diverse industrial working class, many of them new immigrants from Europe. The super-rich industrialists and financiers such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Flagler, Henry H. Rogers, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family, and the prominent Astor family were attacked as "robber barons" by critics, who believed they cheated to get their money and lorded it over the common people. Most of the above group met regularly to make decisions on how to proceed with their monopolies!

During the Gilded Age, the U.S. grew to world economic leadership. For example, American steel production surpassed the combined total of Britain, Germany, and France, and the U.S. led the world in many areas of technology. Railroad mileage tripled between 1860 and 1880, and tripled again by 1920, opening new areas to commercial farming, creating a truly national marketplace and inspiring a boom in coal mining and steel production. The voracious appetite for capital of the great trunk railroads facilitated the consolidation of the nation's (financial market in Wall Street), creating a monopoly for a handful of financiers. By 1900, the process of economic concentration had extended into most branches of industry and a few large corporations, called "trusts", dominated in railroads, steel, oil, sugar, meatpacking, and the manufacture of agriculture machinery. Other major components of this infrastructure were the new methods for fabricating steel, especially, the Bessemer process.(Wikipedia)

List of supposed Robber Barons:

John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur), Andrew Carnegie (steel), Jay Cooke (finance), Charles Crocker (railroads), Daniel Drew (finance), James B. Duke (tobacco), James Fisk (finance), Henry M. Flagler (railroads/Oil), Henry C. Frick (steel), John W. Gates (barbed wire), Jay Gould (railroads), Edward H. Harriman (railroads/ finance), Mark Hopkins (railroads), Andrew W. Mellon (finance/oil), J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation), Henry B. Plant (railroads), John D. Rockefeller (oil/finance), Charles M. Schwab (steel), John D. Spreckels (sugar), Leland Stanford (railroads), Joseph Seligman (finance), Cornelius Vanderbilt (shipping/ railroads), Charles Tyson Yerkes (railroads/street cars).

Having control of this nation's economy, it was only natural to expand to overseas markets.

With the complete control of this nations economy, these monopolists began to seek ways to control the international markets.

Many descendants of those listed above are continuing what their forefathers started.

"NON TENEAS AURUM TOTUM QUOD SPLENDET UT AURUM" (All that glitters is not gold)

You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words or use your own words.

Apart, been, came, grow, heart, misspent, row, say, share, there, vain, way.

Never the Ever! By L. Don Oliver

Sacrificing, of the __, Flowered gardens, far ; Wilting down, to vacant , There again, to never ; Foolishly, life has _, Hasted time, that was __; Never to, experience the , Of that, which never _; Fertile fields, some will , Never again, to come my ; Memories, none to , When there is, no one _;

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The Ten Morals: By L. Don Oliver

It is morally right to have, Faith for what you Believe; It is morally wrong to worship, What others deceitfully conceive;

It is morally wrong to assail others, Even the words we speak; It is morally right to rest, On one day of each week;

It is morally right to honor parents, Even if there may be strife; It is morally wrong to purposely, Take someone else's life;

It is morally right to be honest, To the one you're committed to; It is morally wrong to take, That which doesn't belong to you;

It is morally wrong to utter untruths, For most it leads to distress; It is morally wrong to be jealous, Of what others may possess;

I've always lived by the "Golden Moral", Of everything that I perceive; "To always do for others, What I wish them to do for me";

Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!

Question:

What is a Fabian Socialist?

Politically Correct Resolution:

A Fabian Socialist is one who deceptively advocates a Marxist society; who seeks to achieve reform gradually, rather than through revolutionary means, by using the capitalistic system to fulfill their ideology of "Greedism"! For the Fabians, exploiting other ideologies is a useful tool!

The Fabian Society was founded on 4 January 1884 in London as an offshoot of a society founded in 1883 called The Fellowship of the New Life. When some members wanted to become politically involved to aid society's "fundamental transformation", it was decided that a separate society, the Fabian Society, also be set up. All members were free to attend both societies. The Fabian Society additionally advocated renewal of Western European Renaissance (Intellectual Awakening) ideas and their promulgation throughout the rest of the world.

The Fabian Society, was named – in honor of the Roman general Fabius Maximus (nicknamed "Cuncutator", meaning "the Delayer"). His Fabian strategy advocated tactics of harassment and attrition rather than head-on battles.

The Fabian strategy is a strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent (the people) through a war of attrition and misdirection. While still avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy (the people) through skirmishes to cause chaos, attrition, disrupted supplies and to affect morale. Employment of this strategy implies that the eventual winners (the powers that are or want to be) believes that time is on their side. It was adopted when no feasible alternative strategy could be devised.

The first Fabian Society advocated tenets of social justice to influence the "Spirit of the times" of Liberal reforms (shifting from a laissez-faire system to a more "Collective" system during the early 1900s). These Fabian proposals were considerably more PROGRESSIVE than those that were enacted in the Liberal reform legislation at the time. It continues to this day.

At the core of the Fabian Society were Sidney and Beatrice Webb (Both, socialist reformers and co founders of the London School of Economics and Political Social Sciences-LSE). Together, they wrote numerous studies of industrial Britain, including alternative co-operative economics that applied to ownership of capital as well as land. Beatrice coined the term "Collective Bargaining"!

When the Twentieth Century began, the "Progressives" adopted the "Keynesian" Theory of Economics which continued until the end of the 1970's. In the "Reagan Era" the "Friedman" Theory of Economics was adopted. Beginning with the first Bush Presidential Administration, this nation's economic system returned to the "Keynesian" Theory, with another war of attrition.

In the period between the two World Wars and after the end of the Second World War, the "Second Generation" Fabians became a major influence on social-democratic thought. It was at this time that many of the future leaders of the World were exposed to Fabian thought, which made it much easier to implement an international central banking system in every country of the World. (You know, that International thing called "Globalization")

Successful business people who have studied at London School of Economics and Political Social Sciences include Delphine Arnault, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Spiros Latsis, David Rockefeller, Maurice Saatchi, George Soros and Michael S. Jeffries. All Billionaires.

Archaic word for today: "Brain dead"

Politically Correct Definition:

Anyone who isn't a Marxist Socialist!

'MALUM QUO COMMUNIUS EO PEIUS" (The more common an evil is, the worse it becomes)

Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!

The cast of American voters!

In the last month on my blog sites, I've tried to explain the options that are open for the American voter. (Conservatism, Liberalism, and Moderatism). The current voting system only allows for Conservatism and Liberalism. Each individual must decide for themselves which category fits within their ideology!

I myself, have been a registered Democrat since January 196l. Today, I consider myself to be in the Moderate category. In the 1992 and the 1996 elections, I didn't vote for anyone for president. In the 2000 election, having no one I considered to be worthy of my vote, I wrote in the name "Howdy Doody". In the 2004 election I wrote in the name "Charlie McCarthy". In the last election I wrote in the name "Mortimer Snerd". I opined that they couldn't be any worse than the other "Dummies" (ones seeming to act alone but are really acting for others) who were running for President.

I vowed many years ago not to vote for the lesser of the two evils. By doing so, I would still be voting for evil! To those who say I'm throwing away my vote. Am I really, look at the growing independents who no longer can be propagandized (brainwashed) by the left or the right through their controlled media! The American voters are awakening to the real TRUTH that they are being used!

"FACTA NON VERBA" (Actions speak louder than words)

Ask the Politically Correct!

Question:

What is the definition of "Moderatism"?

Politically Correct Resolution:

A moderate is an individual who is neither extreme, partisan or radical.

Moderate political realism holds that it is fundamentally the nature of man that pushes states and individuals to act in a way that places national interests over International ideologies and not the other way around.

Moderatism is the ideal or the practice of promoting policies that lie different to the standard political left and political right. It is directly opposite from the one dimensional political reality of left/right politics. Moderatism lands in the middle between left-wing (Liberalism) politics and right-wing (Conservatism) politics.

Voters who describe themselves as independents often mean that they are moderate in their political views, advocating neither extreme left-wing politics or right-wing politics. In the US, it is estimated that (70%) of the electorate occupy this position and the other 30% being either left or right. Meaning, that 70% of the electorate are being dictated to by the 30% who claim to be either left or right. Voters may identify with moderatism for a number of reasons: pragmatic, ideological or otherwise.

Moderatism is more often associated with political pragmatism, in that the position is not aligned to left/right political ideology. However; The political ideology "Without Labels" is described as moderatism under this definition.

In a two party left and right political system there is no room for Moderatism! Although, both the left and the right attempt to con the Moderates to vote for them.

Those who have determined themselves to be moderates are no longer falling for the Democrats and Republicans "Intended Consequences" of dividing the middle!

Those of you who have lost your jobs, homes, and everything else you thought you owned, and in some cases even your family. By all means, keep on spouting both Democratic and Republican Party lines. Of course, the Government will always "Take Care" of you!

"MODUS OMNIBUS IN REBUS" (Everything in Moderation)

New Politically Correct Term: "Intended Consequences"!

Exploiting a nations inherent complexity, perverse reality, human stupidity, and cognitive or emotional biases to divide and rule through the use of political deception!

"POLITICS IS NOTHING MORE THAN AN ENDLESS CHESS TOURNAMENT BETWEEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT USING THE MIDDLE AS PAWNS! EACH MATCH USUALLY ENDS IN A STALEMATE!"