Mandrake Gestures Hypnotically!
By Ernest Stewart
"Mandrake gestures hypnotically!" ~~~ Mandrake the Magician
Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl...
Billie Jean ~~~ Michael Jackson
"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
~~~ Ben Jamin' Franklin - Philadelphia, July 3, 1776 ~~~
Some of you may recall reading "Mandrake the Magician" in the funny papers in your youth. Mandrake celebrated its 75 anniversary on June 11th and for those of you who aren't familiar with Mandrake, he was magician who always wore his "stage clothes," top hat, tails, and a long cape. He often added a walking stick to the ensemble. This, apparently, was hip attire for magicians in 1934; strangely, he still wears that same outfit to this very day! Mandrake, in his spare time, rescued damsels in distress and fought for truth, justice, and the... etc. etc.
Mandrake's crew consisted of Lothor, a prince from Africa and the strongest man in the world, and his chef HoJo, who was also the secret chief of Inter Intel. Together they saved the world from the vilest creatures on the planet! While he called on both Lothor and HoJo in every adventure, Mandrake relied on his ability to almost instantly hypnotize anyone at whom he "gestures!" When Mandrake "gestures hypnotically," his subjects see illusions of whatever Mandrakes suggests. Mandrake uses this technique in his "battles with a variety of gangsters, mad scientists, extraterrestrials and 'characters from other dimensions.'" It's this last category I'd like to talk about if I may.
Speaking of "characters from other dimensions," the Changeling burst upon the scene in 2007 and almost overnight had a "cult of personality" forming around him. Every whistle stop began to resemble "Bund Rallies!" Every photo-op shot him from below as one would the Fuhrer or a god! Sure, the time was right for Barry, race card and all. America wanted change; even the Sheeple had finally woken to Smirkey's reality. Obama seized upon that need and rode it and the hatred of Hilary Clinton to the ballot box but that doesn't explain how the Sheeple were fooled again. Anyone who bothered to look at his voting record in the Sin-ate knew that he had already been bought and paid for by the same folks who owned the "Crime Family Bush" so I wasn't surprised by the fact we have same ole, same ole in "Foggy Bottom" no matter all the talk of "CHANGE!" Were you surprised, America?
Obama got all that bailout money for the banks, the money for the states, the money for the "big" three, the money for an expanded war and he's going to get his energy bill, so how is he doing it? My guess is that he has Mandrake's ability to instantly hypnotize the Sheeple (including Con-gress) and give them subconscious illusions every time they see him on their new HD TVs or on their Computers and P.A's. And you thought those little cameras were to make funhouse pictures with or send your version of Jackass to YouTube, huh?
In Other News
America celebrates pedophilia! There's no business, like show business, huh? It's been pretty much Jacko this and Jacko that since America's favorite child molester bit the big one and went to burn for eternity in Hell! Don't you only wish there was such a place for the likes of him? That's right, folks. Although he was able to buy his way out of one trial and lucked his way out of another, the one-time, self-proclaimed king of pop liked sleeping with little boys, no matter what his high priced attorneys say! He had a ranch specifically built to look like "The Land of Play" from Pinocchio and meant to entice and trap little boys so he could expose his multi-colored member to the little ones whose parents were ether too stupid to know what was going down or were trying to make a buck off of it. Folks, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, flies like a duck, looks like a duck and f*cks like a duck, it's a duck, make no mistake! The same goes for pedophiles!
I know my governor, Mark Sanford, is kicking himself in the ass for not waiting another day to come out of the closet as another Republican whore! If he had, it wouldn't have made the 3rd page and it might have gotten swept under the rug, this being South Carolina and all! Timing is everything in life!
Jacko, who started out living the American dream and became a pop super star, succumbed to being ultra rich and powerful and after getting all the money he would ever need, he began to change reality, first by butchering himself and then by reaching out to other people's children to do the same to them. He went from being a handsome young Afro-American man to looking like a bizarre (think freak show) white woman! I have no doubt that we have daddy dearest to thank for this and mommy dearest for going along with it. Both of whom, by-the-way came right out of the gate trying to capitalize off his death. In other words the Jacksons are the all American family!
None of this is news. I said nothing startling or unknown but because of his music and the American media, most all of America is feeling sad for their great loss. Oh please! And America, being America, rushed right off and made Sony and many other corporations billions by buying Jacko's albums and merchandise. Meanwhile, the last few of our rights and the rest of our money are being stolen from us by the Changeling and friends and all we know is Jacko is gone.
Oh, and that "phew" you may be hearing as background noise is the collective sighing of relief from a half a billion little boys around the world!
And Finally
It's that time of the year when we pack a picnic hamper, load the car with family and friends and head off to a park where we can spread a blanket and watch the 4th of July fireworks. When I was a lad, it was often the high point of the summer and everyone in the neighborhood, no matter how poor, would be there to oooo and ahhh with the rest. Several years ago my hometown of Dearborn Michigan turned the city-financed fireworks over to private hands and ever since people have to pay to see them. This year it's $27 a head for an adult and $17.50 per child for fireworks being run by The Henry Ford Museum, which calls itself "The Henry Ford" Their pretentiousness is mind-boggling and so are their prices. Still, celebrating the 4th is now where it should be in the hands of the same people who started and directly benefited from "La Revolution," the Chamber of Commerce!
This is only typical and will only get worse in the days to come. The top five abou-to-fail states are, in alphabet order, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana and Mississippi. Strangely enough, or perhaps not, is the fact that they all have Republican governors. Imagine that!
In California Arnold the Groppenfuhrer states he will not allow taxes to be raised, basically because the financial shortfall doesn't effect any of his billionaire friends. Can you guess who is about to be cut off? If you said the poorest and the weakest of the people, you were right and may stay after class and clean the erasers! Apparently, Arnold can't hear their screams, pleas and moans from the mansion?
There are plans in place for handing out about, $3 billion worth of "IOUs" in July unless a compromise on closing the deficit is quickly reached. The Democrats want to raise a few taxes and close some billionaire loop holes in the tax code to balance the budgets after making cuts across the board while Arnold said f*ck the people, no taxes! These "IOUs" will be sent to college students, welfare recipients, low-income seniors, the disabled and others who depend on delivery of state services. Counties will not be paid for social programs they administer. I wonder if the Alpha Beta will take "IOUs" or the corpo-rat goons who hold your mortgage or your lease will take them? This is a second round of cuts for Arnold in the last year or so and no, the first round didn't cost the upper classes a penny in new taxes either but did take money from schools, hospitals, education and welfare. Funny thing that, huh? I guess old Gray Davis wasn't so bad after all, eh?
That should give you few remaining members of the middle class something to look forward to. All the money in taxes for rainy day funds are long since gone and you can expect squat if you need some help. Our own poor old horn-dog of a governor, Mark Sanford, only lost it after he lost to his own party. When South Carolina's Republican legislature forced him to take Obama's stimulus funds to help pay for those welfare, food stamp, and unemployment benefits in this chronically unemployed disaster area as well as education monies for the worst school system in America, Sanford went south. I'm going to repeat that again for those of you on drugs...
Fortunately, he was overridden by the legislature so, in a fit of pique, he ran off to his mistress in Argentina! Just because poor people and the education system would be alright, he went over the edge!
Wouldn't George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Brady, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Sam Adams, Abigail Adams, Gomez Addams and Ben Jamin' Franklin be proud of what America has become? Can't you hear them all spinning in their graves, right now? So as we're all sitting around Saturday night going oooo and ahhh I'll be thinking about paradise lost in these here United Snakes, what went wrong and how we can fix it!
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