# GOVT. SHUTDOWN - INSANTY'S FEAST

Whether you acknowledge it or not we have front row seats
to what extreme measures , crafty-savy deviousness
those who crave power will design to grab ultimate control of all the purse strings. We are witnessing end game stratagems by the Tea Party and billionaire
conservative tycoons who feel threaten by the culture change due to the election
of an African-Anerican Man as President.

Mischief is well trained.

SHATTERING STONES

Politics

Has become a disease

Unquarantined ~ Corporatized ~ Fund Riaser-ized

Boiling with the narcissistic high-minded and the gamesmanship of misdirection

And venomous egos like Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Plain and Michelle Bachman

Sermonizing their self-righteous, self-promoting holiness as the torch bearers

of America’s Founding Fathers.

~ Harmony’s Dreams being suffocated by these weeds ~

And Our Children shall always unknowingly play together, smile and laugh

While Mommy and Daddy search through secret corners of homes for hidden coins

Lost Jobs shed no tears; recite no prayers in our struggle

And still the faithful arise each day ~ Their muscles and bones still weary

Yet their vigilance is renewed and rejuvenated by their ordinary commitments

They do not haggle ~ They dismiss most hassles

So they can step forward each day as light embers

~ For a Child ~ For a Sick Family Member

~ For a Distressed Friend

~ For a Customer ~ For a Stranger

The Politics of Today is No New History

Love and Kindness versus Greed’s deception and self-ambition

~ Veritas ~ Summa Bona

Our Highest Good is the Fairness and Prosperity of All

The Healthy, The Struggling and The ILL

Designed with proactive legislative and corporate measures

Which consecrate our hopes of economic, racial and cultural fairness and justice

~ A Corinthian Love ~ Transforming Fortressed Minds and Hearts of Bigotry and Greed ~

This is the social revolution screaming at the Republican Congress

The Cultural mindset of America changing from the obsession of possessing stuff

To a New Frontier for our electric power grid, railways and roads and textile industries rebirth

~ New Fish to populate the pond of employment

Sadly the monster of technology and corporate luxuries has grown to large, to sophisticated to avoid

Seeds sprouting weeds, Weeds disguised as flowers, and flowers finding ways

 to be hybrids of themselves

~ Loop-Holes ~ Tearing apart the fabric of our society’s basic thread of honesty ~

~ The Multitude of Ways to legally be corrupt ~

I am not surprised by those who made this Frankenstein of profit making

And it is ironic that the god to many people praise is the phrase on the back of our currency

The Mansion of Democracy and Our Earth shows signs of crumbling

While political and corporate aristocrats world wide --- dance in palaces of denial…

And the after meal belching of dollar signs…

Peoples Tears should not be a crime…

By Thomas N. Corbett 3^rd

TNC3

October 6, 2013

# 50th ANNIVERSARY MARCH ON WASHINGTON

As a native Washingtonian I cannot clearly remember if at the age of seven

whether my mom took me to the 1963 March. However in honor of my Mom,

My Grandparents and my Uncle George and the great importance of todays

political climate it was more than essential that I be in attendance for this March.

I can clearly remember one of the very few times of seeing my Mom openly cry

was the evening of Martin Luther King Jr’s assignation in 1968.

((( Go See Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER – Get A Reminder of Why )))

It is disheartening to me that I heard from people for not wanting to attend was

their non-support of Rev. Al Sharpton and even more disheartening is peoples

unawareness or non-concern of political measures being enacted at the state level

to block any federal legislation passed or purposed by President Obama. It is clearly

evident in Republican controlled southern states including Ohio and Pennsylvania.

All of that aside with a great honor burning in my heart I arrived at 20^th and Constitution Ave.

The first item of significance was a group of Navy men in yellow t-shirts marching, the many

Unions and NAACP groups from other states moving to the entrance. Tears flooded my heart

witnessing and participating the honor of a peaceful assembly of concerned citizens in homage

of all those who made it possible 50 years ago. In the early morning the most challenging thing

was the horde of mosquitoes from the Tidal basin feeding on us and no one was complaining.

As the morning move on with the two minute speeches and some of them arousing the whole

crowd. There where two people I surly thought would have more then two minutes were:

Michael Eric Dyson and Rev. Jesse Jackson. There was no exception as speakers were cutoff

with music when they went over you know my brothers definitely went over. So I wondered

why Rev. Jackson did not have more then two minutes being that he was with King on the

fatal day of his assassination. Never the mind my greater joys were seeing the youth organized

and chanting their concerns. The parents I spoke with who brought their children of all ages

as participates for their later years remembrance. My conversations of politics and sports with

other men since I was wearing my Jim Brown jersey. It was a full day of interaction for me.

Martin Luther King 3^rd speech was not the level of his father however it was inspiring. Now,

Rev. Sharpton gave a no holds, gloves off speech that inspired us all. I dare say he may have

emerged as our Civil Rights Leader for today’s issues.

My Prayer is that he and Rev. King 3^rd are continually fortified and supported for future

actions to grow this movement.

Voters Rights are the center peace of this movement because our rights to vote unencumbered

by new legislation or instead of new legislation is of vital importance. If we do not participate

On matters of womens rights to choose concerning abortion when she is raped or molested by

a family member or stand your ground law abuses or gun control. We will have dishonored

the men and women of the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement who shed blood and died for our rights

today.

THE POETIC VOICE - POLITICAL SOUL POEMS ( Part Two )

This is Magnificence. The Soul of the rumble and tumble of the voice.
The Soul of the cadence of each ~ spoken ~syllable birthing words.
This is Life Song and This is Honored Memory and History as Prayer.
This is Poetry ~ The Art of Heartbeats
emerging as words.

# CHOICE

There are a million Possibilities
In a Moment ~ In a Day ~ In a Lifetime
Each adding or subtracting from Our Authenticity
However - - - There is Only One
Healthy and Positive Opportunity Whispering to Us
Choose the Opportunity
That is when You become A Gift Holder of the Heart's Value.

#THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT ( Part Two )

VAPORS

Dust to Dust

Ashes to Ashes

Quivering Ripples

Heartbeat born tears gathering as Rivers

The George Zimmerman verdict

Is a disgust

Beyond the exclusivity of a Race matter only

Society ~ Our Moral and Ethical Priorities

Are setting on the stove

Over the flame of contorted legal permissions

My Tears witnessed

Folks, Peoples ~ You and I and We

Black, White, Hispanic, Asian,

Native-American, Middle Eastern

Leaves on Our Country’s Tree

Heartbeats rushed to the streets

With sour notes of disbelief upon their faces

Yet

For those who can not realize to understand

Or stubbornly refuse to understand

In these days of Continuing ~ The Wading into the River

Baptismal Tears in memorial of Trayvon Benjamin Martin

Baptismal Tears to fortify the hearts of Trayvon’s Parents

The Bones of Heritage and Soil

An Honored Coming Forth

Black Men, Successful Men

History Burning Tears in Their Hearts ~ The Frustrations

The Dark Alleys of Struggle and Perseverance

The having to double time march through life

With the loads of stereotypes, stigmas

And the tangled bushes of thorny realities on their backs

Ports of successfulness become dry docks

To repair the soul’s ships believed forever healed

Dust to Dust

Ashes to Ashes

The broken chains are affixed to a black man bones

~ It Seems Like ~ ~ ~ Forever ~

The Bugle tones are whispering taps

~ Not to Lay Dead ~

~ But to Arise with Honor ~

There are Perceptions and Laws that must be Changed

By Thomas N. Corbett 3^rd

TNC3

July 20, 2013

THE POETIC VOICE - POLITICAL SOUL POEMS ( Part One )

THERE TIMES ~ MOMENTS ~ MINUTES ~ HEARTBEATS IN SYALLBLES

THIS IS POETRY ~ WORDS SOARING AS LIFE

I INVITE EVERYONE

TO LISTEN TO MY FAVORITE PUBLC SPOKEN POEMS

WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED AND THEIR HEARTS LISTENING

AS THOUGH LISTENING IN A PRAYERFUL MOMENT...

~ ( MAYA ANGELOU ~ ON THE PULSE OF THE MORNING )

~ ( A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH ( Orig recited for 50th annv. U.N.))

# THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT

DON'T

 “ WE DON’T NEED YOU TO DO THAT ”

ONE STATEMENT, ONE REQUEST, ONE FINAL INSTRUCTION

“ WE DON’T NEED YOU TO DO THAT ”

TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAR

TO CARRY YOUR GUN WITH YOU

TO FOLLOW THE PERSON OF INTEREST

THAT YOU --- NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT ---

HAS INDENTIFIED AS HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS

“ WE DON’T NEED YOU TO DO THAT ”

TO MAKE A YOUNG MAN --- NERVOUS AND FRIGHTFUL

THAT  HIS  LIFE MAY BE  IN DANGER  FROM YOU

TO CAUSE  WITHIN  HIM  - A  FEAR 

TRANSITIONING HIS CASUAL WALK  FROM  THE STORE

INTO A  THREATENING  STALKING FROM YOU

 “ WE DON’T NEED YOU TO DO THAT ”

TO PUT  YOURSELF AND TRAYVON

IN A  SITUATION OF NO  RECOURSE  OTHER  THAN A VIOLENT  OUTCOME

TO BREAK  THE HEARTS OF A  MOTHER  AND  A  FATHER

WITH  A  SINGLE  SHATTERING  ECHOE

A SORROW IN THE  SOUL, A THUNDER STORM ON A FAMILY’S  LIFE TIME

--- THE RIPPLES  IN THE POND  FOREVER  STILL  ---

“ WE DON’T NEED YOU TO DO THAT ”

TO SLAUGHTER  THE DREAMS  OF A YOUNG MAN

TO SLAUGHTER  THE DREAMS OF TWO PARENTS  HOPE’S

TO ELIMINATE  FROM  EXISTENCE

A  BLOSSUMING  SEED’S  FUTURE  HISTORY

“ WE DON’T NEED YOU TO DO THAT ”

BECAUSE  THE  LAW--- THE  LAW --- THE  LAW

YOUR  FRUSTATED  MIND  FINDING  REFUGE

IN  THE  STAND  YOUR  GROUND --- LAW

OUR  TEARDROPS  PLUMMET  AND  FALL

ON  TRAYVON’S  PARENTS  HEARTS

ON  TRAYVON’S  UNREALIZED DREAMS

ON  TRAYVON’S  LAST  SMILE

ON  TRAYVON’S  LAST BURST OF LAUGHTER

ON  TRAYVON’S   LAST BREATHE

ON  THE  DISASTER  THAT  MORAL  COMMON SENSE

HAS  NO PLATFORM IN  THE  LEGAL  BOUNDARIES

AND PERMISSIONS FOR  REAL  JUSTICE

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN

“ WE - - -  DID NOT - - -  NEED YOU - - - TO DO THAT ”

BY THOMAS N. CORBETT 3RD

TNC3

July 14, 2013

# POLITICS AND CORPORATE POWER

I encourage you to seek and make an opportunity
to view (3) documentaries.
First - ( GASLAND PART 2 - BY JOSH FOX )
---- Presented this week on HBO ---
It is a very revealing documentary on corporpate power's influence
on today's politics regarding the Hydraulic Fracturing process ( Fracking )
to extract natural gas from the Earth. This is an abuse that has/is impacting
not only American's lives but is also effecting household globally.

Second - ( HOME - NARRATED BY GLENN CLOSE )
You my have to buy a copy from Amazon if it is not available on Net Flix
--- I need to get me another copy --
This documentary is the Most Spectacular Aero footage of the landscape
of world with mind opening facts about our denial as custodians
of this precious planet.

Third - ( THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA )
--- Presented on the HISTORY CHANNEL )
I was amazed at the contrast of sameness of the power tactics
 John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan rose from obscurity and in the process built modern America. Their names hang on street signs, are etched into buildings and are a part of the fabric of history. These men created the American Dream and were the engine of capitalism as they transformed everything they touched in building the oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobile and finance industries. Their paths crossed repeatedly as they elected presidents, set economic policies and influenced major events of the 50 most formative years this country has ever known. From the Civil War to the Great Depression and World War I, they led the way.( source: Histoty Channel )---- Thus I AM REINSPIRED TO REPOST MY POEM ~ SAY ~
~ SAY ~

WHAT WE SAY

~ WHAT WE DON’T SAY

~ WHAT WE WON’T SAY

~ WHEN WE SAY

~ SUPPOSING ~ OPPOSING ~VERBAL POSING

~ THE REGURGITATING OF ~ WHAT ~ OTHERS SAY

OUR HELLOS AND GOODBYES

~ THE ACKWARDNESS OF THE UNWANTED ~ SURPRISE

~ THE LONLINESS OF HIDDEN TEARFUL CRY’S ~

THE TRUTH ~ THE LIES

~ THE PETRIFIED ~ THE CRIPPLING

~ THE DEVASTATING TRAIN WRECK DERAILING ORDINARY PEOPLES LIVES

~ REALITY ~ REALIZED

~ WHEN TRUTH ~ BECOMES LIES

THE BALTANT IMMORTALIZED

~ AS NEWS ORGANIZATIONS BANQUET ON THEIR RATINGS

~ THE TV ADS

~ THE PANELS SORTING THRU DATA AND VIDEO FOOTAGE

~ THE OPINION POLL GATHERING

AS ALL UNFOLDS

~ THE PRICLESS VALUE OF WE

~ IS TRUMPED BY THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE DOLLAR

PROTESTERS AND BANNERS AND RALLYIES AND SLOGANS

~ THE CRESTING WAVES AND RECEDING SHORE LINES OF WHAT WE BELIEVE

~ A WHIRLPOOL OF CONSCIENCENESS

   ~ A FLUX, A TIDE

   ~ SUNLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT BEAMING FROM HEARTS AND MINDS

   ~ THIS IS OUR RIVER CONSTANTLY TORTURED BY DROUGHT   

   ~ POLITICAL AND CORPORATE ABUSE RIGHTS

WHAT WE SAY

   ~ DON’T SAY

   ~ WON’T SAY

   ~ STRUGGLE TO PRIORITIZE AS SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCES

   ~ THE NUTRIANTS OF THE LAND – ARE THE PEOPLES VOICES

SO WHY

~ DO WE SAY

   ~ ANYTHING OF TRUTH - - - ANYWAY

     ~ WHEN MONEY AND POWER

      ~ WILL MAKE IT ALL

         ~ LIES

IT IS BECAUSE

~ THE CHAMPION OF FAIRNESS AND THE STALLION OF HOPE

   ~ ARE STILL ALIVE AND DEPENDING ON US

SO, LIGHT UP YOUR VOICES

~ ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AMERICA’S CRY

TNC3

THOMAS N. CORBETT 3^RD.

July 7, 2013

#POLITICS AND THE GREAT WHY ( Part One )

Here we go again, start up your engines – get ready - go - around and around the track once again on our political issues.

 It has been a blatant building of a staircase of bitterness

starting with Senator Mitch McConnell’s “ We must make this

a one term President ’’ to a Republican Congress rejecting any 2^nd term

proposed agenda of progress from President Obama. Former Republican

Presidential candidate Herman Cain; now a Fox News commentator said

; Americans were duped by President Obama and that Americans have a serious ignorance problem. Wow! Double Wow!

 Now the Surpreme Court has opened the door for Republican governed states to set in place voter rights hurdles to thus enable the Republican Party an absolute potential to win the White House in the 2016 Presidential election.

Is anyone still blind? Is anyone still not concerned?

Silence is Golden only to the well-off benefactors in a Democracy.

Today being a Government Official whether it is State or Federal for many

people is the secure career path of perks and a self glorified righteous delusion

of serving the people. However this is no new phenomenon to the American

landscape : political mud slinging and covert corporate power manipulation.

Like any hound protecting its meat wouldn’t you bite. We, the American

People have grown extremely tired of the shamelessness and outright deceptions a though a populace of intelligent and perceptive people does not exist.

The flowers of our society have not benefited from the rain of a struggling economy,Due in part to deregulation and corporate greed, much less the repeated tragedies f natural disasters upon communities.

Sidebar: A small local example – a million dollars spent by the Arlington, Virginia

Government on building a single hi-tech bus stop shelter.

Million Dollar Bus Stop: Northern Virginia Super-Stop Has Heated Concrete Floors,

Does Not Protect From Elements : ( Huffington Post )

 

More than $1 million dollars was spent on this Arlington County bus stop, which has sparked public outcry over the price tag. (Jason Spencer/Patch)

The question with the obvious answers: Who took home the bulk of those contract funds.

These examples go on and on and sadly integrity is replaced with lavish abuse.

There are enough government scandals, corporate abuse and Republican/Tea Party;

Their Tug-of-war encumbering leaves you choking with disgust.

Where is Integrity? Where are our concerned geniuses?

Those who are backed with money and technology and political support needed

to move America into an assured future of new thriving.

~ SAY ~

 

WHAT WE SAY

~ WHAT WE DON’T SAY

    ~ WHAT WE WON’T SAY

        ~ WHEN WE SAY

~ SUPPOSING ~ OPPOSING ~VERBAL POSING

    ~ THE REGURGITATING OF ~ WHAT ~ OTHERS SAY

OUR HELLOS AND GOODBYES

 ~ THE ACKWARDNESS OF THE UNWANTED ~ SURPRISE

     ~ THE LONLINESS OF HIDDEN TEARFUL CRY’S ~

THE TRUTH ~ THE LIES

~ THE PETRIFIED ~ THE CRIPPLING

    ~ THE DEVASTATING TRAIN WRECK DERAILING ORDINARY PEOPLES LIVES

        ~ REALITY ~ REALIZED

            ~ WHEN TRUTH ~ BECOMES LIES

THE BALTANT IMMORTALIZED

~ AS NEWS ORGANIZATIONS BANQUET ON THEIR RATINGS

    ~ THE TV ADS

        ~ THE PANELS SORTING THRU DATA AND VIDEO FOOTAGE

            ~ THE OPINION POLL GATHERING

AS ALL UNFOLDS

~ THE PRICLESS VALUE OF WE

    ~ IS TRUMPED BY THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE DOLLAR

PROTESTERS AND BANNERS AND RALLYIES AND SLOGANS

~ THE CRESTING WAVES AND RECEDING SHORE LINES OF WHAT WE BELIEVE

    ~ A WHIRLPOOL OF CONSCIENCENESS

        ~ A FLUX, A TIDE

        ~ SUNLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT BEAMING FROM HEARTS AND MINDS

        ~ THIS IS OUR RIVER CONSTANTLY TORTURED BY DROUGHT   

        ~ THE POLITICAL AND CORPORATE ABUSE RIGHTS

WHAT WE SAY

~ DON’T SAY

    ~ WON’T SAY

        ~ STRUGGLE TO PRIORITIZED AS SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCES

            ~ THE NUTRIANTS OF THE LAND – ARE THE PEOPLES VOICES

SO WHY

~ DO WE SAY

    ~ ANYTHING OF TRUTH - - - ANYWAY

       ~ WHEN MONEY AND POWER

           ~ WILL MAKE IT ALL

               ~ LIES

IT IS BECAUSE

~ THE CHAMPION OF FAIRNESS AND THE STALLION OF HOPE

     ~ ARE STILL ALIVE AND DEPENDING ON US

        

SO, LIGHT UP YOUR VOICES

~ ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AMERICA’S CRY

TNC3

THOMAS N. CORBETT 3^RD.

July 7, 2013