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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
Testimony for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service — END DRAFT REGISTRATION
I prepared the below testimony to present at a public meeting in Chicago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, a commission created by Congress to deal with questions of draft registration, most specifically, whether to end … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, and Public Service, Balance, Blessing, Business, Change, Character, Charity, Children, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, Coercion, Community, Compulsion, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Constitution, Constitutional Rights, Control, Cowardice, Creation, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Draft Registration, Education, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Farce, Fear, Female, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Future, Gandhi, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Heart, History, Holy, Honesty, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Ideals, Idolatry, Inspiration, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Media, Mennonite, Mercy, Military, Modern, Moral, Murder, Muslims, National, National Commission on Military, National Security, Nature, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Obedience, Patience, Peacemakers, People of The Book, Perspective, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Present, President, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Radical, Reality, Refugees, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Rhetoric, Risk, Rules, Russia, Sacred, Security, Selective Service System, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Suffering, Supreme Court, Surreal, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, Violence, War, Women, Work, Worship
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IMMIGRATION POEM: In A Parent Idiocy
In a parent idiocy Wee are tolled The right Thing to do Is children For sake In wanting To be a legitimate American Leave your children behind A crashing symbol To not here As freedom wrings A bout effacing the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Children, Compassion, Cowardice, Cruelty, Donald Trump, Family, Fear, Freedom, Generosity, Immigration, Law, Poems, Poetry, Refugees, Republican, Responsibility, Rhetoric, Values, Work, Xenophobia
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Activist POEM: Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office
Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office Empower verses In power What is won to think? Lying in wait Miring our advocacy Swamped with democracy When and how to mete US We go through the drill Lairs of representation … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Democracy, Donald Trump, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, President, Protesters, Rage, Republican, Resistance, Sen. Rob Portman, Silence, Time, Toledo
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Free Political Poster: BULLY TRUMP – Trump Toadies Celebrate Latest Victory – MOST Lunch Money Collected By Any President EVER – Trump and Toadies Spotted Increasingly Out To Lunch
Trump is a bully. Trump’s bullying may be his most signature style — MOST signature style EVER! Trump’s chronic bullying is particularly surreal in the context of alleged peacemaking. Even the notion of Trump being mentioned for a possible Nobel … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Absurdity, Apocalypse, Change, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Heart, History, Iran, Life, Military, Modern, Money, nobel peace prize, North Korea, Ode, Parodies, Political, President, Religion, Resistance, Rich, Satire, Surreal, Violence, War
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Republican Leaders Gather To Deal With Gun Violence by Banning Ritalin, Banning Abortion, And Declaring Another Generation of Silence
In the face of a continuing gun violence epidemic and yet another school shooting, Republican so-called leaders are talking about everything but guns. Perhaps guns don’t kill people, Republicans do. The new president of the NRA, Ollie North, blamed gun … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abortion, Anti-Gun, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, GOP, Guns, Kids, Money, NRA, Political, President, Prevention, Republican, Security, Silence, Violence, Willingness, Women, Worldview
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COMMUNITY FORUM REMARKS: Need to address the main driver of criminal and criminalized behavior, substance abuse, and that the failed law enforcement model needs to be supplanted by a public health model driven by evidence and community benefit
The Community Solidarity Response Network of Toledo (CSRN), our local Black Lives Matter group, and the ACLU hosted a forum on “What Does a Safer Toledo Look Like?” This forum was in response to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ National Public Safety … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Community, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Education, Failure, Health Care, Housing, Illegal, Jeff Sessions, Job, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Mental Health, National, Play, Poor, Poverty, Prevention, Probability, Public Health, Society, Solidarity, Substance Abuse, Toledo, War, Willingness, Work
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: White House gives its boilerplate response – We are NOT responsible. MOST. NOT RESPONSIBLE. EVER.
The White House has a surreal way of telling the truth. While blaming everything on someone else, they subtly admit that they are not responsible for anything, which is right in line with their amoral sociopathy. Of course, not taking … Continue reading
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel Tortuously Testifies – Of Course Torture Works, I Am Looking at a Huge Job Promotion
Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA Director, slunk partially out of the shadows yesterday to testify before Congress and the American people why a torturer should be promoted to director of CIA. She refused to acknowledge that torture is … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Congress, Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Gina Haspel, Illegal, Immorality, Job, Law, Morality, Political, Republican, Security, State, Success, Torture
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Oliver North – Law-Abiding Felon New President of NRA
Felon Oliver North is the new president of the NRA. Wow, if he were a good guy with a gun, he would be feloniously good! I guess it was inevitable that a gunrunner would become the president of the NRA. … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Guns, Law, leadership, NRA, Political, President, Respect, Surreal, Violence, Worldview
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: US Attorney General Jeff Sessions Putting The Zero In Tolerance
The racist and zero tolerant U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is now gearing up to prosecute, imprison, and separate children from their mothers, any refugee seeking asylum from criminal violence in their own country. Perhaps Mr. Sessions, at home … Continue reading
Free IMMIGRATION POSTER: Militarized US-Mexican Border – Unwelcome To America – The Land of The Free
Prez Donald Trump moves to militarize the US-Mexican border, in a desperate move to appeal to his militarized base, after he has failed over and over to get Congress or the Mexicans to pay for his border wall, aka, ironic … Continue reading
ANTI-TRUMP POSTER: Prez Donald Trump FAKE KNEWS — Fake News on the Brain
In the continuing kerfuffle — or is that, covfefe? — over so-called fake news by Trump and his confederates, I offer this simple anti-Trump poster. Some may see this as too obvious, others as a pun to the head, but … Continue reading
ANTI-TRUMP POSTER: Pornstar Stormy Daniels in Big Payoff and Nondisclosure Agreement for Short Sexual Encounter with Donald Trump
Alleged super deal-maker Donald Trump apparently has to pay for sex and pay for covering up that he paid for sex. A prurient public may be curious whether he pays by the minute or the inch, but whether his payoffs … Continue reading
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel Tortuously Testifies At Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Political apologists for torture and war crimes are lining up to defend CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel, who was involved in black op torture and destruction of evidence about these operations — nothing to see here!? In honor of this surreal … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Defense, Donald Trump, Elite, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Gina Haspel, government, History, Job, Law, Moral, Nazi, Political, President, Republican, Responsibility, State, Surreal, Torture, War, War Crimes
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ANTI-TRUMP POSTER: Coward Tweet from Planet Trump – YOUR FIRED – Welcome to the hurling twittersphere
The Coward-in-Chief Donald Trump fires people with a tweet, never speaking with them or indicating why he fired them. I strongly suspect that any American employee would consider such a boss a coward and pathetic. We deserve better, America! Time … Continue reading
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Trump Calls For Death of Drug Dealers – Pharmaceutical Companies As Corporate Persons?
Prez Donald Trump has called for death to drug dealers. He has been inspired by the war on drugs in the Philippines and China, where drug dealers are executed. I am opposed to the death penalty for anyone, except for … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, anti-Trump, China, Corporate Personhood, Death, Death Penalty, Donald Trump, Drug War, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, History, Hope, Illegal, Political, Public Health, War
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Toledo Democracy Day Testimony: Focus on Racism, White Supremacy
Below is the testimony I delivered today before Toledo City Council, or rather the three council members who showed up. The mayor also showed up for part of the testimony. Democracy Day Testimony March 5, 2018 Hi, my name is … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Community, Criminal Justice System, Danny Brown, Democracy, Drug War, Education, Failure, Housing, Income, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Law, Life, Media, Money, Murder, Nature, Nonviolent, Police, Powers that be, Present, Pride, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Racism, Society, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, War
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FREE Gun Control POSTER: Prez Donald Trump and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions – We will enforce existing gun laws with the same gusto we have to repeal those same gun laws
In keeping with the great American political tradition of hypocrisy, Prez Donald Trump and Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions took a play right out of the NRA playbook in calling for enforcement of existing gun laws, all the wile trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Gun, anti-Trump, Control, Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Guns, Hypocrisy, Jeff Sessions, Law, Murder, NRA, Play, Political, Republican
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Free Anti SCHOOL SHOOTING POSTER: Prez Donald Trump – School as Public Hunting Area – Tweeting “Children are DEER to U.S. Most. DEER. Ever.”
Prez Donald Trump, Congressional Republicans, and assorted NRA buddies, have allowed open season on Americans across this great land for too long. As school children are hunted with assault rifles, the children may have to lead U.S. supposed grownups to … Continue reading
Free Political Poster: PREZ DONALD TRUMP – To address school shootings we will now be teaching “fortress mentality” in all schools
Further militarization of an already over-militarized society is analogous to the infamous sociologist Homer Simpson declaring that alcohol is the cause and solution to all of our problems. We are a country drunk on hyper-masculinity that is toxic to peace … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Gender, Guns, Hypermasculinity, Justice, masculinity, Patriarchy, Political, rape culture, Responsibility, Security, sexual assault, Society, Time, Violence, Women
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