This is no time for irony, no time for callousness...... history is about to be made. Haters like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly have cranked up the negative rhetoric but the US voters have spoken and millions will be in Washington tomorrow to bear witness to their own handiwork. Barack Obama is brilliant, full of youthful vigor, insight, and creativity. Our cousins to the south, tired of George Bush and his old school, divisive politics, have overcome centuries of racism to elect an African American and now we wait to see if the promise of greatness will be borne out.
Will there be an economic bailout, will taxes be cut, will there be consensus building, and what of Gitmo, the infamous terrorist detention center that will supposedly be shut down within days.
Hollywood supported Obama all along and now comes news that the TV networks will be tailoring some mid-season replacement shows to be in step with the new zeitgeist.
1st among equals is a new show loosely based on boy terror suspect Omar Khadr, the impressionable Canadian teen with f**ked up parents who has been stranded in Gitmo for years after being accused (wrongly perhaps) of tossing a grenade at a military police officer.
The premise is that he gets released and goes back to high school in the inner city where he is re-introduced to wes
tern ways by his prof, the gruff but benign Mr. Hawkman, played, in a brilliant casting move, by a resurrected Donald Rumsfeld!! (he can act too!!) It's a tough school and discipline is a frequent issue...nothing Mr. Hawkman, his associate Hugo and their trusty waterBoard of Education can't handle.
tern ways by his prof, the gruff but benign Mr. Hawkman, played, in a brilliant casting move, by a resurrected Donald Rumsfeld!! (he can act too!!) It's a tough school and discipline is a frequent issue...nothing Mr. Hawkman, his associate Hugo and their trusty waterBoard of Education can't handle.Here's the theme song:
WELCOME BACK KHADR
Welcome back
Obama's shut Gitmo down
Welcome back
to high school in Brooklyn town
You got used to some difficult obstacles
like electrodes attached to your testicles
You can get an education(get an education)
without sleep deprivation (sleep deprivation)
Yeah, he blew up a cop but the charges were all dropped
welcome back,
welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
4 comments:
Blob,
Of all the thirty-fives in this crazy thirty-fivey world,
you're the thirty-fiviest.
!
Dear Mr. 35,
If you're the Mr.35 from Sarnia then I went to high school with your late uncle, Mr.47! He was a kind and decent man and a model of forty sevenishness right up until the very end. Thanks for rekindling such fond memories and keep on thirty fivin'!!
p.s. Don't go telling me you're the Mr.35 from
Kirkland Lake now :0)
Such dazzling shifts of wit leave me breathless. Blob, you are the fat male Dorothy Parker of the West Island! When are you going to publish that volume of light verse?
Actually, that's not a bad idea! Back in the seventies witty poetry sold copies! Since everything old is new again, maybe you could write a bunch of nonsense rhymes (witty ones) and publish them yourself and make a mint. Think about it!!
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