Memories of 2012 Election Season: "Atlas had better NOT . . . 'Shrug'"

Here is the first in a series of writings of mine from Facebook and other blogs and threads that I'm 'memorializing' here, to look back at a truly historic election season . . . and an unbelievable, blessed, 'effed-up' year that was 2012.

So read, enjoy and reminisce . . .

Atlas had better NOT . . . 'Shrug' . . .!

Written after the first debate I try to address and possibly explain Obama's mannerism's and behavior to the, then panicking, Left . . .

Pandora . . . Remixed (Edited & Updated)

This article has been published elsewhere in an earlier version, with my permission.  In light of feedback and the need for increased clarity I've decided to post an updated version

Nobody wants to hear this but . . . A lot of this gun craze is steeped in racism.

Now before folks think that I'm painting ALL Gun owners with a racist brush . . . let me say clearly: I'm absolutely NOT!

I'm referring to the phenomena of gun and ammunition sales spiking to unheard-of levels ever since Barrack Obama won . . . and I feel that I must offer but one of the reasons, that I think, this is occurring . . . 

When a Dog . . . Eats Chocolate . . .

Why have we been feeding the Dog . . . Chocolate?

Put away the Twix and follow me on this . . .

Folks President Obama may be in trouble with the Public

They blame him for not getting the economy fixed . . . and although they should care about what Romney did, in that his type of capitalism is what has caused the decline of the economy . . . they don't seem to care (Laziness perhaps? Easier to blame One Guy than to parse the records of more than five hundred (500)?)!

Infection

A few weeks ago a mentally-ill man went to the latest Batman premiere and shot and killed twelve (12) people.  Before that, there was the man that almost killed Gabby Giffords and killed six (6) others.

There was wall to wall coverage on the news, both times . . . all sorts of whimsical quandaries about ‘what makes these people do these things?!’; Joe Scarborough even offered, what he thought was, a sympathetic ‘explanation’ . . .

“He might have been autistic . . .”

Didn’t work out to well for him . . . the backlash was swift, because the pain was too near, his ‘calculation’ too well documented.

But I digress . . .

A Rose in Bad Ground . . . is Still A Rose

The Rose in this situation just needs a little protection and TLC to really come into it's own . . .

From the Headlines Today:

“A new trove of emails shows President Barack Obama’s White House agreed to help drug companies block a proposal to bring down medicine prices so they would back Obama’s healthcare plan. 

House Republicans obtained the three-year-old correspondence between the Obama administration and representatives of the drug industry and released more of them to the public on Friday, The New York Times reported.” 

"Dramatis Ars Poetica" (Dramatic Poetry): "Strike The Gong"

This is the Fifth in my Dramatic Poetry Series, where different characters give their 'take' on life and the world they live in.  Now here's the next effort . . .

Strike The Gong . . .

'Serf's . . . Up!"(!?)

This picture above was found by one of my friends to be 'funny'.  It is not in the least . . . it's very scary.

But it didn't have to happen.