Stevieslaw: Ryan signals that the E.O.D. to benefit from new health law.

Stevieslaw: Ryan signals that the E.O.D. to benefit from new health law.

Paul Ryan, who once again noted that there are winners and losers in any new legislation, said that while people with pre-existing conditions might be inconvenienced by the new health care law, the E.O.D. would be big winners.

“The rule was first adopted by Kansas Republicans after they killed the Medicaid expansion and consigned 150,000 people to life with no health care,” Ryan said. “Under the plan,” he continued, “the needy who volunteer as Emergency Organ and Body Part Donors would receive first class medical care not only for themselves, but for their immediate families (limited to a spouse and two children) as well. They simply need to be on call should a person of means require an organ or a body part.”

“All insurance is a gamble,” said Ryan, “Be it fire insurance or health care insurance. Perhaps someone with the necessary wealth to pay for a shoulder, hip, kidney or lung will never need one of yours. Perhaps they will. I’m sure many will consider it worth the risk.”

“Philosophically speaking,” continued Ryan, “compassionate Christian conservatives—especially those who owe a debt to Ayn Rand, have been trying to come up with an answer to the question, “Why poor people? Finally, we have found our answer.”

“God provides and Republicans harvest,” concluded Ryan.

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National Poetry Month

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Stevieslaw: Rust Belt

My poem “rust belt,” just appeared in the new verse news. Here is the link.

http://TheNewVerse.News

and here is the poem.

Rust Belt

Sure, we loved the hats and hoopla

the rhythmic chants of lock her up,

but we are not a stupid people.

We know full well this patchy place

between the slag heaps

and the scrub pine–

these crumbling houses perched behind

the padlocked plant once known

for truck tires,

will never be great—

or even good.

 

You say rust belt

and mean the measure

of empty factories

and gutted storefronts.

The jobs bled out.

The eyesores left behind to moulder.

But the rust is mostly in us.

Too many years of children

born to little hope.

Too many years of promises

from windbags in dingy union halls

and air-conditioned buses

painted red, white, and blue.

 

This afternoon, I take my maul

to the wood pile

by the rusted chain link fence.

Crisp and clear,

It is a fine day to bust things up–

And the making

of that splintered shattered kindling

with a body that burns

is as near as I will ever come to joy.

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Stevieslaw: Trump’s Magical wall of wonder

Stevieslaw: Trump’s Magical Wall of Wonder

President Trump assured his fellow Americans that his proposed cuts to medical research at the NIH would not affect their health. “I have your backs,” he tweeted.

“My wall will be a magical wall,” he continued in just 24 characters. “The wall will not only keep out the bad hombres, it will also keep out those bad diseases created by evil foreigners who don’t look like us.”

“Remember Jack and his magical beanstalk? My magical wall will keep cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other bad microbie things from every entering the land of the free and the home of the brave.

“I am cutting the NIH budget simply because that money will no longer be needed. We will stop disease at its source—when the sneaky little buggers first try to sneak in,” he twittered.

Feel better now?

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Stevieslaw: Tom Price sees medicinal leeches in your future

Stevieslaw: Tom Price sees medicinal leeches in your future

The recent announcement by EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt, that Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday repealing Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan has put Health Secretary Tom Price in a tight spot. As we have all been told, canceling Clean Power- a plan which restricts green house gas emissions at coal-fired power plants, will bring back millions of jobs in coal mining and reduce the cost of electricity by 95%.

Now, Tom Price has responded with at least as much verve and daring. Said Spokesperson, Saul Bledmore, “It’s been known since 1600 BC that bleeding by leeches is remedy for many of the maladies that afflict mankind—heart disease, cancer and stubborn warts. Medical professionals and researchers clearly understand the interaction of the four humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm and how the balance of them affects human health. Often, health problems are associated with an excess of blood and the application of leeches is an effective and cost effective remedy.”

Bledmore went on to observe that the once thriving leech industry had been killed by government regulations. “Never again,” declared Bledmore. “We shall repeal the job destroying regulations and create hundreds of thousands of good American jobs in the leech industry—from raising leeches to using leeches.” “What’s more, he continued, “the use of leeches to cure all major diseases will eliminate the need for fancy medicines and reduce the cost of healthcare dramatically.”

“The future of American healthcare is in bloodletting,” conclude Dr. Bledmore.

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Stevieslaw: Republican tax reform to help low and middle income Americans

JUST KIDDING.

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Stevieslaw: Paul Ryan contemplates philosophical hari kari

Stevieslaw: Paul Ryan contemplates Philosophical suicide.

Paul Ryan told our own Smokey Diamond that he was deeply, deeply shamed that his health care law had to be withdrawn before a vote in the House. “There were simply not enough votes,” he said gravely.

When asked to describe his next step, Ryan said, “ I will don a three piece suit, a silk tie, and fine leather shoes and retire to the shrine of Ayn Rand. There, I will prepare my mind and body to perform an act of selflessness,” he said shamefacedly.

Selflessness, as we all know, is to followers of Ayn Rand—the so-called Objectivist Philosophers, much the same as committing Hari Kari was to a medieval Japanese warrior.

“Perhaps I might buy a poor person a sandwich,” said the crestfallen Ryan-clearly now a broken man.

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A Retirement

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Stevieslaw: My poem: A Retirement, just appeared on The Drabble

 

 

A Retirement
MARCH 21, 2017 ~ THE DRABBLE

A Retirement

By stevieslaw

It leafed out absent-mindedly
this year, our junk maple.
A street planting from the fifties,
its branches bald and barren here and there,
though not alarmingly so—
just enough that you would notice,
if you were the kind who’d notice.
It will weather this year, I imagine,
and most likely the next,
but I worry about
our foreseeable future.
On this spot, a twig of a thing,
staked out against the bare breeze,
stands in the unshadowed sun
while from this old house, some
other someone will watch it grow.
Bio: Steve Deutsch’s work has appeared in Eclectica Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, New Verse News, Silver Birch Press, and Misfit Magazine.

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Stevieslaw: Congressional Republicans to readdress health of older Americans

Stevieslaw: Congressional Republicans to readdress health of older Americans

Congressional Republicans today announced plans to modify RyanCareLess to make it more palatable to American seniors. According to a study by the Congressional Budget Office, Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 would be particularly hard hit by the repeal of Obamacare and substitution of the Ryan plan.

“Our own Congressional study,” said spokesperson N.O. Compasn, “Confirmed the findings of the CBO. Republicans are realists, and we realize that with any significant legislative act there will be winners and losers, but an alert staffer pointed out that many of the Americans who voted for us and for Donald Trump were in that age group,” continued Mr. Compass.

“We concluded that it would make it terribly difficult for our compatriots and, for that reason, it should be modified,” he said.

“So, you’ve made a mistake with RyanCAreLess and are correcting it to preserve the well-being of your fellow Americans—in particular, to reward those that voted for you in large numbers,” prompted Smokey Diamond.

“What do fellow Americans have to do with it?” asked Mr. Compasn. “We are worried about our fellow compatriots—Republicans up for reelection in 2018.” “Our study showed that under RyanCareLess a significant portion of pre-Medicare seniors would be dead or simply too sick to vote for us in 2018 and that would put Republican office-holders in jeopardy,” he said.

“We need to keep these people just healthy enough to vote for us,” he concluded.

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