Freddogg Off The Chain

“Jehosaphat the mongrel cat Jumped off the roof today
Some would say he fell but I could tell He did himself away
His eyes weren't bright like they were the night We played checkers on the train
God Bless his soul he was a tootsie roll But he's a dead cat just the same” John Prine

I watched Hard Ball’s Chris Mathews last night- My age from Philly North Catholic—I never heard of him must have been on the debating team-- and John McCain sit on a stage at Iowa State last night wondering why people out that way never seem to have a worry or have acne.

I would have said, ”anyone feel a draft in here?” Followed by “we’re bringing back conscription with no deferments so we can prosecute the conflagration in Iraq with all the diversity that makes Iowa State such a great University that will go on to beat Texas Tech this weekend and they would all cheer except the intellectuals who would mumble “them bitches ain’t drafting my ass!”

Mathews asked the audience how many of them supported the war in Iraq from the beginning and continue to support it. He asked them to stand. Hundreds of students rose and everyone cheered then cheered some more, while some of the sitting guys checked out the butts of coeds because that’s how they roll.

McCain was like “thank you, thank you, I love America” and I’m thinking ‘Thank You John, no really, now just go away because if you stay in this contest you will be the first to lose a presidential race to the Hildabeast, the big Shill a woman who looks like Bugs Bunny or a young man with an African father and Utah mother, Barack Obama, a name that rhymes with Jomomma.
Mathews asked all the students to remain standing who planned to join the military after graduation. They all sat down except for the ROTC people on those fat scholarships that pay for everything, a small social price for wearing a dress uniform every Wednesday on campus.
Pull the poor troops out and young mothers and 45 year old reservists then draft and send Middle American’s college children and that will force this current hang around and wait for shit to blow up policy off center. Shoot send the University of Miami football team to Baghdad and tell them it’s their house and watch them stomp some Sunni butt but don’t mess with no Kurds cause them bitches can fight back, know what I sayin yo?

Let John Prine take us home because it seems we’ve been down this road before
“We are living in the future I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper Fifteen years ago
We're all driving rocket ships And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines”

Freddogg