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Tag Archives: leadership
POEM: The Raze for Leadership
Is aiding and betting on genocide too reap a political win disqualifying for hire office, when the whole accost is pain by those being ethnically cleansed? What prophet is there in this? The Raze for Leadership They were axed To … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Genocide, leadership, Political, Prison, Prophet, Unity
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POEM: The Child Got Their Shot
A poem that came from know wear… The Child Got Their Shot The child got their shot Not at earnest learning Or playful preoccupation Not at hard work rewarded Or hopes fully fed The child got their shot A bullet … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Dreams, Failure, Future, leadership, Learning, Life, Soul, Temptation, Titanic, Work
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FREE Anti-Trump POSTER: DUMP Trump, TRUMP Dump — It all makes sense when you realize that the “T” is silent
Confused about the daily antics of Donald Trump and his regime of toadies? Perhaps this will clear it up. I give you this FREE Anti-Trump POSTER: DUMP Trump, TRUMP Dump — “It all makes sense when you realize that the “T” … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings, Web Specials
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Army, Business, Children, Citizens, Community, Conflict, Congress, Constitution, Donald Trump, Ethical, Ethics, Family, Female, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Free Speech, government, History, Housing, Job, Justice, Law, leadership, Media, Military, Mock, National, National Security, Police, Political, Poor, Power, President, Protesters, Responsibility, Russia, Security, State, Supreme Court, Time, Transgender, Violence, War, War Crimes, Work
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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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RAMBO JESUS: Taking U.S. To School – Salvation is in Hand – This Time You’ll Pay For Your Own Sins
In surreal fashion, I await for the U.S. followers of The Prince of Peace to provide moral leadership in fighting the unrelenting epidemic of mass shootings carried out with military-style guns. Perhaps U.S. Christians are too busy making plans to … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Cartoon, Children, Christian, Death, Funny, Guns, Hypocrisy, Jesus, leadership, Love, Military, Moral, Parodies, Political, Prevention, Right-Wing, Surreal, Time, Violence
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Republican Leaders Gather To Celebrate Their Tax Scam
The coalition of deplorables known as the Republican leadership are celebrating the careening success of their ill-considered, hypocritical, and mean-spirited tax scam. Now, perhaps the only hope for sane Americans is that GOP leaders will stumble over themselves in their … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Conservative, Donald Trump, Economic, Evil, Failure, Family, free poster, Free Posters, GOP, Hope, Hypocritical, Income, Inequality, Law, leadership, Money, Patience, Political, Republican, Success, taxes, Time, Wall Street, Wealth
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A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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FREE POSTER: Mean wile, on Planet Portman, the “independent” Republican senator quickly draws closer to a final solution to the problem of health care in America
Even after several catastrophic versions of the Senate Republican health care bill died, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) is still courting disaster, considering even worse options, such as a sweeping repeal of Obamacare without any replacement. Why is Sen. Portman even … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action
Tagged America, Democracy, free poster, Free Posters, Health Care, leadership, Parity or Parody, Republican, Sen. Rob Portman
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found
Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found Sow culpable Too due nothing President Trump pulls out What little hand He had in Mother Earth’s Safe guarding His oily and gassy mates Coal for everyone! It’s like Christmas!! And stocks sore … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Business, Change, Children, Christmas, Climate Change, Community, Defense, Denial, Donald Trump, Environmental, Free market, government, Hope, Humanity, Insanity, Kindness, Law, leadership, Love, Market, Meditation, Mother Earth, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propriety, Resistance, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Russia, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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POEM: Reject
They took out a social contract On her In what might as well be Too her Too be As good As dead From their point of you Her response sow questionable If it’s awe the same Too you I’ll strike … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Camus, Character, Courage, Dehumanizing, Evolution, Humanity, Idioms, leadership, Learning, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Prose, Rage, Rebellion, Resistance, Revolution, Rules, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: The Next Best President
Victory lies In the wanton To be a sitting president Existentially unable to take a stand As a wizard behind the bully pulpit Meaning only Curtains for US A commandeered In chief smitten Buy the status qouteth Juggling interest In … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Control, Courage, Dancing, Debt, Democracy, Dreams, Elections, Gandhi, government, Injustice, Justice, Law, leadership, Meaning, Military, Money, Moral, nobel peace prize, Occupy Wall Street, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Questions, Resistance, Respect, State, Status, Status Quo, Stupid, Time, Truth, Violence, Wall Street
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POEM: Less Than Eternal Question
The Rev. Medley Had risen To the highest position He would ever It was only down from there An awe too common Occupational hazard Of moderate irony And accumulating lessens Just falling short Of making one cross Facing that less … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Buddhist, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Elite, Faith, Fear, God, Irony, Jesus, Joke, leadership, Life, Living Simply, Living Wage, Materialism, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Murder, Nature, Power, Questions, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, Truth, Wealth, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: Owed to XL
Owed to XL Something irresistible Drug from Canada That must be some wick-ed shit! What the “eh” For the land of the free to be Sold to the highest Bitter Everything must go! “It’s going to happen anyway” A juggernaut … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Heart, leadership, Life, Moral, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Prison, Responsibility, State, Tar Sands, Work
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POEM: Getting It Together
I see tragedy in the world Not as the enemy To be retreated from Nor as an accident Captivating my perverse stares Rather a musing These puzzling pieces Of my heart Shuttered into a million pieces In chanting invitations Entranced … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Choices, Evil, God, Healing, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Inane, leadership, Life, Muse, Musings, Nihilism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Reconciliation, State, Tao, Time
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Ancient, Art, Authorities, Authority, Awareness, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, budgets, Capitalism, Change, Character, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Rights, Classism, Common Good, Community, Compassion, Competition, Conscience, Consumerism, Control, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Creativity, Death, Defense, Denial, Domestic Violence, Domination, Dream, Economic, Egalitarian, Enemies, Equality, Evil, Facts, Failure, Faith, Family, Fear, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Future, Gender, Gift, God, government, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Holy, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Idolatry, Image, Immorality, Impersonal, Incarnation, Inequality, Injustice, Intimacy, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Journey, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Labor, Law, leadership, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Market, Materialism, Meaning, Mercy, Militarism, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, Nonviolence, Patience, Patriarchy, Patriotism, Perspective, Philosophy, Piety, Political, Politics, Poor, Possessions, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Prison, Privilege, Prophet, Questioning, Questions, Racism, Radical, Rage, Reality, Reconciliation, Relationships, Religious, Responsibility, Resurrection, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Science, Security, Sexism, Society, Solidarity, Songs, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Stewardship, Success, Suffering, Temptation, Theology, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Unjust Laws, Values, Violence, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worship
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DTE Shareholder Protest
Between 200 and 200,000 protesters gathered outside the DTE Energy headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. This DTE Energy protest was visited upon by two to 2,000 Occupy Toledo protesters. One unidentified protester, with a striking resemblance to Homer Simpson, wearing a … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Economy, Environmental, Events, leadership, Nuclear Power, Occupy Toledo, Protesters, Protests, Security, Shareholder, Toledo, Top Pun
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POLITICAL CARTOON: General Jesus – Blessed Are Those Who Kill People Who Kill People
General Jesus Speaks! Welcome to Gen. Jesus! This is the third installment a new Top Pun series of comics that will run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General Jesus, Comedian Jesus, and who knows … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political Cartoons
Tagged Awe, Bible, Blessed, Cartoon, Comics, Control, Domination, drone, Existential, Fear, Free market, God, Humor, Imperialism, Impersonal, Jesus, Job, Jobs, leadership, Life, Love, Market, Militarism, Mock, Modern, Moral, Nature, Pacifism, Parodies, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Religion, Rich, Solidarity, State, Technology, Top Pun, Trust, Voting, War
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Religious Liberty, Conscience Exemptions for Everything
With the Obama administration’s recent rules requiring organizations owned by religious groups to provide contraceptive coverage as part of their employees’ health insurance, conservative groups and the Roman Catholic Church have gotten all their panties in a bunch, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Balance, Bible, Birth Control, Catholic, Church, Community, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Conservative, Control, Draft Registration, Economic, Existential, Freedom, God, government, Grace, Health Insurance, Illegal, Immigration, Law, Law Enforcement, leadership, Logic, Love, Mennonites, Military, Obama, Pacifism, Parodies, Philosophical, Political, Politics, Power, Quakers, Questions, Reality, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Respect, Rules, State, Status, Supreme Court, taxes, Toledo, Truth, Violence, War, Work
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