I have one question for Chuck Hagel and John Kerry.
Did either of these fine gentlemen catch yellow-headed bumble bees when they were in grade school?
We did. An acquaintance during my childhood informed us you could catch yellow-headed bumble bees and they would not sting you. We spent many a summer day capturing them with on flowers using a mason jar and then carefully tying a piece of thread around the narrow section between their thorax and abdomen. We would then tie the 3 foot long thread to a belt loop on our person and take the bees for a flight.
I recall a memorable day when in the spring I caught and tied a bee and brought it to school for show and tell. The hallways were cleared by the bee for my passage. You see not everybody knew the bees with yellow heads were harmless. The bees were fairly powerful and I suspect a hundred bees could likely lift a small child off the ground. We did not ever test this hypothesis. Sometimes we did take a couple of bees out for a flight at the same time.
I still see yellow-headed bumble bees to this day, but do you think I would catch and tie one up like I did when I was seven?
Hell, no. I am not stupid!
The art of bumble bee tying has been lost.
And that is not all that has been lost in our country we are all like that tethered bumble bee with our freedoms chipped away one presidential executive order at a time.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
Friday, February 1, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
UPLC: BlogTweet Al-Qaeda Informant Spills Beans
This is bigger than President Obama's ego! Larger than Jay Leno's chin! Greater than the dip in the fourth quarter US GDP!
Al-Qaeda has decided to postpone any attacks on the American heartland until after the congress bans assault rifles!
Spokesperson for Al-Qaeda, Mohamet Al-Jizeer-Current TV, jr: "After consultations with the Ayatollah Komeni and Bashar Assad, we feel it is better to attack Americans who have no hope of defending themselves. Now that congress and the president are openly hostile to the American people and no longer have the people's best interests at heart, the old Arab adage, " the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is in play here."
"There is dancing in the street in Tehran, but it is still forbidden."
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law center
Al-Qaeda has decided to postpone any attacks on the American heartland until after the congress bans assault rifles!
Spokesperson for Al-Qaeda, Mohamet Al-Jizeer-Current TV, jr: "After consultations with the Ayatollah Komeni and Bashar Assad, we feel it is better to attack Americans who have no hope of defending themselves. Now that congress and the president are openly hostile to the American people and no longer have the people's best interests at heart, the old Arab adage, " the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is in play here."
"There is dancing in the street in Tehran, but it is still forbidden."
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law center
Urban Poverty Law Center Interviews Secretary Of State, John Kerry
Here at UPLC our stock has risen. We were granted an interview with newly confirmed US Secretary of State, the honorable John F. Kerry! We sought a phone interview as our travel budget here at UPLC is rather limited and the nice lady at the State Department arranged for a "Tweet da Tweet". They assured us the Secretary of State would be doing the tweeting. Our Tweet follows:
"Secretary Kerry, you have assumed the role formerly filled by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and as such must fill some pretty large shoes..."
Too long! Next Draft follows:
"Mr. Kerry, do you feel intimidated by the job before you with the mess HRC has left in the middle east, most notably Iran, North Korea, and China, and the real threats to Israel?"
Came his Reply:
"From the Office of the Secretary of State, the honorable John Frances Kerry, former member of the US Senate, a decorated veteran of the Viet Nam War, husband to Teresa Heinz, "Yes."
I can see this next four years is shaping up to be worse than the last four years.
I am going back to bed and see if I wake up from this national nightmare.
Did Romney win?
Did the Iranians land a drone on the forehead of the president of the United States which looked amazingly similar to a common house fly?
Is the Arab Spring in phase II in Egypt?
Are the Syrians ready for troubling times?
Can Americans be denied the right to self-defense?
Has President Obama halted the rise of the oceans and the US economy and are the two inextricably linked?
Where did I put my phone charger?
Will there be any room in the nursing homes when I turn 60?
If my doctor asks me if I have a gun do I have to shoot him to keep from being turned in to the folks at DHS?
Do you think I would be detained at the airport if I asked for a copy of my "Naked Scan" to post on face book?
Did Ernst Rahm ask banks not to do business with US gun manufacturers?
If this last one is true, we must immediately demand congress pass a new amendment calling for the separation of Bank and State, and while at it call for the separation of Health and State. Dangerous alliances in both cases.
From a basement somewhere in Cedar Grove, Tennessee, I wish you a good day and that I would win the lottery.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
"Secretary Kerry, you have assumed the role formerly filled by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and as such must fill some pretty large shoes..."
Too long! Next Draft follows:
"Mr. Kerry, do you feel intimidated by the job before you with the mess HRC has left in the middle east, most notably Iran, North Korea, and China, and the real threats to Israel?"
Came his Reply:
"From the Office of the Secretary of State, the honorable John Frances Kerry, former member of the US Senate, a decorated veteran of the Viet Nam War, husband to Teresa Heinz, "Yes."
I can see this next four years is shaping up to be worse than the last four years.
I am going back to bed and see if I wake up from this national nightmare.
Did Romney win?
Did the Iranians land a drone on the forehead of the president of the United States which looked amazingly similar to a common house fly?
Is the Arab Spring in phase II in Egypt?
Are the Syrians ready for troubling times?
Can Americans be denied the right to self-defense?
Has President Obama halted the rise of the oceans and the US economy and are the two inextricably linked?
Where did I put my phone charger?
Will there be any room in the nursing homes when I turn 60?
If my doctor asks me if I have a gun do I have to shoot him to keep from being turned in to the folks at DHS?
Do you think I would be detained at the airport if I asked for a copy of my "Naked Scan" to post on face book?
Did Ernst Rahm ask banks not to do business with US gun manufacturers?
If this last one is true, we must immediately demand congress pass a new amendment calling for the separation of Bank and State, and while at it call for the separation of Health and State. Dangerous alliances in both cases.
From a basement somewhere in Cedar Grove, Tennessee, I wish you a good day and that I would win the lottery.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Urban Poverty Law Center: "Mayor Bloomberg, Tear Down This Airport!"
Yes, I did recently travel to Spain. I caught a plane in Nashville which had been delayed enough so I missed my direct flight from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City and had some time to spend at New York City's famous air terminal.
It was only after visiting the airports in Paris, Charles DeGaul, and in Barcelona did I realize our airport facility in New York was by far and away the worst of the three. The bathrooms in New York were filthy, the decor old and dated, and the whole place was creepy.
Hey, Mayor Bloomberg, the 60's wants its airport back. What if your pal in office, Barrack H. Obama, had the Federal Reserve Bank print off a few billions and billions more and you fellas get your union goons to come over to JFK and start a rebuild. That facility is a national disgrace.
And while you are at it how about rebuilding the World Trade Centers, I hear the Chinese are interested in expanding their operation and would probably make a deal to take all the office space.
The airports in Paris and Barcelona were modern, clean, and spacious staffed with pleasant people, contrast New York where the terminals had that Gulag dungeon look going for it, with people who were mostly unpleasant.
I was barked at by a postmenopausal ticket agent when trying to board the plane in New York when I tried unsuccessfully to pass through a SkyMiles Member line to board my flight. The line was unmarked and the place dark and dingy at the midnight hour and I dutifully trudged the 30 ft to the end of the other short line to by-pass the Delta Ticket Nazi so I could fly off to Paris and catch another flight to Barcelona.
Membership has its privilege!
I would not want to think the SkyMiles Members would have to board the plane from the same line as the riffraff! Perhaps it is time to sue these bastards who run the airlines and charge them with wealthism. The willful discrimination of the poor by making them ride in the back of the plane, board from different lines, not allow them access to special waiting rooms, and drink from different water fountains, and not serve them complimentary drinks on the flight, and keep them from using the facilities in the front of the airplane. And the airlines announced on my flight from Paris back to New York, it is a government regulation that economy class passengers cannot cross into the first class cabin. Really, Delta, Really!
HEADLINE: "Man seated in economy class arrested for taking a crap in first class and causing a stink on flight from New York to Paris."
Would I get the kind of accolades reserved for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King? Will I see Boulevards named for Jackson Delano Maybolt all over the world?
All I can figure is I must have reminded that Delta Ticket Nazi of her third ex-husband, because I was the only one targeted by her wrath. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Maybe she just hates bald people, especially men. Maybe it is the policy at Delta/Air France?
Your Honor, Mayor Bloomberg, take some of your millions and build or remodel your stinking airport!
It is an embarrassment. Foreign travelers first glimpse of America is that crap repository?
What are you thinking? Spend some tax monies on a public project. Put some lipstick on that pig there at JFK. Work a deal with your Union thugs to get them back on that great big old Bloomberg tax teat!
At least New York would get a modern airport out of the deal which is a good deal better than what we got with any of Obama's spending stimuli.
Next trip I will avoid your airport and fly out of Atlanta where the ticket agents are young and beautiful and polite.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center and proud Non-Delta SkyMiles Member for 59 years and counting
It was only after visiting the airports in Paris, Charles DeGaul, and in Barcelona did I realize our airport facility in New York was by far and away the worst of the three. The bathrooms in New York were filthy, the decor old and dated, and the whole place was creepy.
Hey, Mayor Bloomberg, the 60's wants its airport back. What if your pal in office, Barrack H. Obama, had the Federal Reserve Bank print off a few billions and billions more and you fellas get your union goons to come over to JFK and start a rebuild. That facility is a national disgrace.
And while you are at it how about rebuilding the World Trade Centers, I hear the Chinese are interested in expanding their operation and would probably make a deal to take all the office space.
The airports in Paris and Barcelona were modern, clean, and spacious staffed with pleasant people, contrast New York where the terminals had that Gulag dungeon look going for it, with people who were mostly unpleasant.
I was barked at by a postmenopausal ticket agent when trying to board the plane in New York when I tried unsuccessfully to pass through a SkyMiles Member line to board my flight. The line was unmarked and the place dark and dingy at the midnight hour and I dutifully trudged the 30 ft to the end of the other short line to by-pass the Delta Ticket Nazi so I could fly off to Paris and catch another flight to Barcelona.
Membership has its privilege!
I would not want to think the SkyMiles Members would have to board the plane from the same line as the riffraff! Perhaps it is time to sue these bastards who run the airlines and charge them with wealthism. The willful discrimination of the poor by making them ride in the back of the plane, board from different lines, not allow them access to special waiting rooms, and drink from different water fountains, and not serve them complimentary drinks on the flight, and keep them from using the facilities in the front of the airplane. And the airlines announced on my flight from Paris back to New York, it is a government regulation that economy class passengers cannot cross into the first class cabin. Really, Delta, Really!
HEADLINE: "Man seated in economy class arrested for taking a crap in first class and causing a stink on flight from New York to Paris."
Would I get the kind of accolades reserved for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King? Will I see Boulevards named for Jackson Delano Maybolt all over the world?
All I can figure is I must have reminded that Delta Ticket Nazi of her third ex-husband, because I was the only one targeted by her wrath. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Maybe she just hates bald people, especially men. Maybe it is the policy at Delta/Air France?
Your Honor, Mayor Bloomberg, take some of your millions and build or remodel your stinking airport!
It is an embarrassment. Foreign travelers first glimpse of America is that crap repository?
What are you thinking? Spend some tax monies on a public project. Put some lipstick on that pig there at JFK. Work a deal with your Union thugs to get them back on that great big old Bloomberg tax teat!
At least New York would get a modern airport out of the deal which is a good deal better than what we got with any of Obama's spending stimuli.
Next trip I will avoid your airport and fly out of Atlanta where the ticket agents are young and beautiful and polite.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center and proud Non-Delta SkyMiles Member for 59 years and counting
Monday, January 28, 2013
Urban Poverty Law Center: You Wouldn't Strike A Woman With Glasses, Would You?
"What difference does it make!?" Growled a be speckled Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to an impudent query from a senator.
The glasses are a good look for Henry Kissinger, but he had the nose to hold them up, I cannot say the same for our darling girl politician, Hillary Clinton. Kissinger looked distinguished in his eyewear, Hillary has the look of that pitiful mentally challenged child you schooled with in the first grade who smelled funny.
I wonder if she and her handlers have thought of an eye patch like the one made infamous to my generation by Moshe Dayan, notable for wearing a black eye patch and being a tough Israeli politico.
Great fellow who many mistakenly believe lost sight in the left eye in battle, but he really lost it when he forgot to remove the spoon from his iced tea before taking a large drink on a particularly hot hot day in Africa in 1941. The sniper fire striking binoculars is a clever story to save his political career. Errant iced tea spoons have blinded millions. It is truly the most underestimated public health menace of a civilized society.
So far no celebrities have come forward to make the people aware of this danger. It is just not as sexy as land mines, whales, or even breast cancer.
Hillary, lose the glasses and use a black eye patch instead. Hell, even I would consider supporting you if you run in 2016 with that look.
Hillary spoke behind the protection of those awful looking spectacles creating an even more awful 5 hr spectacle. The English have a word for almost everything. The question which was like an 800 lb gorilla in the room was never broached, "Who made up the blame the video story line and for what cause?"
"What difference does it make now!?"
When we have 20 dead children gunned down by a maniac who had access to an AR-15 style rifle in the trunk of his car!
While we have over 9,882 citizens gunned down in our country each year, the great majority of these are criminal v criminal a la gang v gang violence. If we stop all gun killings watch for the unintended consequence of an increase in nonlethal violent crime since fewer bad guys will be killed and these fellows do not stop criminal activities to become accountants or lawyers or to play in the NBA or, sorry I was going to say run for public office, but that would be inaccurate.
Perhaps, we should rename Senator Feinstein's bill "The Gangland Criminal Protection Act."
Her bill would only make the streets safer for the criminals and less safe for the rest of us.
Now, I got nothing against postmenopausal women who are intelligent and thoughtful, but in North American Plains Indian culture she would be long ago relegated to breaking camp and hauling all the hides and sticks to the next camp site. Now that is a part of multiculturalism I can agree with. California may get wise someday and send this ageless beauty back to private service where she can do no harm to the greater good.
Finally, does anyone but me wonder where the debate on gun control was before the election? I do not think even Obama could stuff the vote boxes with enough fraud to win against those odds if he had been truthful in his campaign, even against a weak republican opponent such as Mitt Romney.
2014 and those mid term elections cannot come soon enough for America. Anyway to ask for a recall on 2012?
Let us vote now that we know what the parties really believe.
Deception in political campaigns should be considered treasonous, let me be the first patriot to ask for a recall or a reset.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
The glasses are a good look for Henry Kissinger, but he had the nose to hold them up, I cannot say the same for our darling girl politician, Hillary Clinton. Kissinger looked distinguished in his eyewear, Hillary has the look of that pitiful mentally challenged child you schooled with in the first grade who smelled funny.
I wonder if she and her handlers have thought of an eye patch like the one made infamous to my generation by Moshe Dayan, notable for wearing a black eye patch and being a tough Israeli politico.
Great fellow who many mistakenly believe lost sight in the left eye in battle, but he really lost it when he forgot to remove the spoon from his iced tea before taking a large drink on a particularly hot hot day in Africa in 1941. The sniper fire striking binoculars is a clever story to save his political career. Errant iced tea spoons have blinded millions. It is truly the most underestimated public health menace of a civilized society.
So far no celebrities have come forward to make the people aware of this danger. It is just not as sexy as land mines, whales, or even breast cancer.
Hillary, lose the glasses and use a black eye patch instead. Hell, even I would consider supporting you if you run in 2016 with that look.
Hillary spoke behind the protection of those awful looking spectacles creating an even more awful 5 hr spectacle. The English have a word for almost everything. The question which was like an 800 lb gorilla in the room was never broached, "Who made up the blame the video story line and for what cause?"
"What difference does it make now!?"
When we have 20 dead children gunned down by a maniac who had access to an AR-15 style rifle in the trunk of his car!
While we have over 9,882 citizens gunned down in our country each year, the great majority of these are criminal v criminal a la gang v gang violence. If we stop all gun killings watch for the unintended consequence of an increase in nonlethal violent crime since fewer bad guys will be killed and these fellows do not stop criminal activities to become accountants or lawyers or to play in the NBA or, sorry I was going to say run for public office, but that would be inaccurate.
Perhaps, we should rename Senator Feinstein's bill "The Gangland Criminal Protection Act."
Her bill would only make the streets safer for the criminals and less safe for the rest of us.
Now, I got nothing against postmenopausal women who are intelligent and thoughtful, but in North American Plains Indian culture she would be long ago relegated to breaking camp and hauling all the hides and sticks to the next camp site. Now that is a part of multiculturalism I can agree with. California may get wise someday and send this ageless beauty back to private service where she can do no harm to the greater good.
Finally, does anyone but me wonder where the debate on gun control was before the election? I do not think even Obama could stuff the vote boxes with enough fraud to win against those odds if he had been truthful in his campaign, even against a weak republican opponent such as Mitt Romney.
2014 and those mid term elections cannot come soon enough for America. Anyway to ask for a recall on 2012?
Let us vote now that we know what the parties really believe.
Deception in political campaigns should be considered treasonous, let me be the first patriot to ask for a recall or a reset.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
Thursday, January 24, 2013
UPLC : Barcelona Is Not Spain
Barcelona, Spain
Spain is like a whole nother county. Barcelona is wanting to break away from Spain as the people of this Spanish province believe they are sending more to Madrid in taxes than they get back in government services.
I was caught up in a free Catalonia rally in front of the presidential palace two nights ago and at 60 I was one of the younger in attendance. Three hundred rebels singing and chanting loudly what my interpreter said was " Free Catalonia"!
I have never been to Spain, but now I have. The people are fit and happy here. A typical work day is 10am to 2pm, close shop for a 2 hr lunch break, back from 4pm to 8pm, close for the day and head out to eat from 9-11pm. I am already acclimated to Barcelonia ways.
The young workers race about the streets on motos, their term for motorcycles and scooters! They race fearlessly in and around traffic wide open! It is a sight to behold.
And the food is plentiful, fresh and cheap.
Spain has a revenue problem. The people participate in a black underground economy to avoid the high taxation. What else would a thinking man do?
Listen up politicians!
If people avoid taxes, taxes are too high. Ask Vlad Putin how to raise revenues.
It is called a flat tax with a reasonable rate. Thirteen percent in Russia and he has a good sized government and army. He just doesn't have a people with hope enough to reproduce a child or two under his way of life.
Children are put positions on the futures market. Politicians should look hard when birth rates plummet and quickly enact reforms to change the conditions that discourage children.
Sure, people cause problems for politicians, but the politicians create far more problems for the people. More people feel they could get along better with fewer politicians, but the same is not true of politicians. The fuel of politics is people.
Happy people fuel the politics of the modern country state.
Catalonia is not happy. Are you listening, Spain?
Yes, I know Hillary testified in front of congress and the Iranians landed a drone which looked very similar to a common house fly on President Obama's face, and brought it home again.
What next, John Kerry paying his fair share of yacht taxes?
Jackson Delano Maybolt President.Urban Poverty Law Center
Spain is like a whole nother county. Barcelona is wanting to break away from Spain as the people of this Spanish province believe they are sending more to Madrid in taxes than they get back in government services.
I was caught up in a free Catalonia rally in front of the presidential palace two nights ago and at 60 I was one of the younger in attendance. Three hundred rebels singing and chanting loudly what my interpreter said was " Free Catalonia"!
I have never been to Spain, but now I have. The people are fit and happy here. A typical work day is 10am to 2pm, close shop for a 2 hr lunch break, back from 4pm to 8pm, close for the day and head out to eat from 9-11pm. I am already acclimated to Barcelonia ways.
The young workers race about the streets on motos, their term for motorcycles and scooters! They race fearlessly in and around traffic wide open! It is a sight to behold.
And the food is plentiful, fresh and cheap.
Spain has a revenue problem. The people participate in a black underground economy to avoid the high taxation. What else would a thinking man do?
Listen up politicians!
If people avoid taxes, taxes are too high. Ask Vlad Putin how to raise revenues.
It is called a flat tax with a reasonable rate. Thirteen percent in Russia and he has a good sized government and army. He just doesn't have a people with hope enough to reproduce a child or two under his way of life.
Children are put positions on the futures market. Politicians should look hard when birth rates plummet and quickly enact reforms to change the conditions that discourage children.
Sure, people cause problems for politicians, but the politicians create far more problems for the people. More people feel they could get along better with fewer politicians, but the same is not true of politicians. The fuel of politics is people.
Happy people fuel the politics of the modern country state.
Catalonia is not happy. Are you listening, Spain?
Yes, I know Hillary testified in front of congress and the Iranians landed a drone which looked very similar to a common house fly on President Obama's face, and brought it home again.
What next, John Kerry paying his fair share of yacht taxes?
Jackson Delano Maybolt President.Urban Poverty Law Center
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Urban Poverty Law Center Wishes President Obama A Happy Inauguration Day
I look back over the past four years and even with the inflation, joblessness, high energy costs, and reckless government spending, illegal gun sales to Mexico, global warming, drought, and seriously I do not have that much to complain about.
I have not had a serious flare up of hemorrhoids in over four years. My chickens have gotten too old to lay eggs, but that is my fault for not buying younger hens. The bull died from a foot infection back last summer during the heat wave and drought, but we got another one yesterday who looks to be ready for the challenge. We were able to put enough hay up to feed all the cows for the winter and our cold weather has been sparing and only one ice storm as yet this winter. My crops all turned profits even with the drought.
All in all, President Obama has done pretty well. His gun control directives seem as well thought out as one would expect from this bunch of former lefty high school student council members. Americans will survive this latest assault and come back stronger.
Al Gore,Jr has given up on global warming in his corpulent lifetime and sold out to the Jihadists. Hillary Clinton has looked at geezerdom and decided to slow down these next four years and reset.
Bill Clinton's latest love interest is a young blond bombshell who is known to be a human Pez dispenser of Viagra. Some fellas have all the luck!
Anyway, I could not let the occasion of President Obama's second inauguration date go unsaluted.
I salute you and honor you on your achievements, Mr. President.
Sir,I will drink a shot of metamucil in your honor today and hope and pray that the next four years under your direction pass as smoothly for our country as the fiber in my colon.
God Bless America and keep her safe.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
I have not had a serious flare up of hemorrhoids in over four years. My chickens have gotten too old to lay eggs, but that is my fault for not buying younger hens. The bull died from a foot infection back last summer during the heat wave and drought, but we got another one yesterday who looks to be ready for the challenge. We were able to put enough hay up to feed all the cows for the winter and our cold weather has been sparing and only one ice storm as yet this winter. My crops all turned profits even with the drought.
All in all, President Obama has done pretty well. His gun control directives seem as well thought out as one would expect from this bunch of former lefty high school student council members. Americans will survive this latest assault and come back stronger.
Al Gore,Jr has given up on global warming in his corpulent lifetime and sold out to the Jihadists. Hillary Clinton has looked at geezerdom and decided to slow down these next four years and reset.
Bill Clinton's latest love interest is a young blond bombshell who is known to be a human Pez dispenser of Viagra. Some fellas have all the luck!
Anyway, I could not let the occasion of President Obama's second inauguration date go unsaluted.
I salute you and honor you on your achievements, Mr. President.
Sir,I will drink a shot of metamucil in your honor today and hope and pray that the next four years under your direction pass as smoothly for our country as the fiber in my colon.
God Bless America and keep her safe.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
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