If you want to see what truly majestic structure that over $100,000, 000 will buy go to Avocado in Newport Beach and look at the new City Hall under instruction. A thing of beauty of great cost. Our problem may be we have to much sand for our city fathers to stick their heads into to ignore the winds of insolvency howling through the cities of this state.

                     Find the Right Color

The financial chaos and overspending thrust

Has just caused three California cities to bight the dust

Too much pensions, too much salaries with an economy in a long term stall

No wonder that cities across the state have their backs up against the wall

There is also a sign of spending on projects to the max

Even in a time of falling revenue from all sources of tax

This city ran well for many years in buildings nondescript

They somehow worked and kept us out a financial crypt

But if you work in the shadow of luxury mansions and yachts

A more majestic place of government is what most employees sought

Go up Avocado to see workings on a $100,000,000 recreation of our surf

White wave upon white wave on the roof moving on a line up the turf

The crash of the white waves you can almost hear

Close your eyes and you can see the surfers running for their gear

An ocean’s foam and spray you can almost feel

As a design for a city hall this is the real deal

Save for one detail somewhat overlooked

As growing liabilities flow over our city’s books

These waves like Stockton may be pushing us over the brink

As a warning they perhaps should be painted not white but pink

The only silver to be found is that the library is so close

Our city fathers may find a book on fiscal sanity now that we need it most.

© July 13, 2012 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

 

NAACP Plants?

This election is rapidly into the theater of the absurd. As the Obama campaign is committed to the Fog of Distraction, doing every it can to avoid discussing his record on what really matters to most of us--the economy.  From the existence of Swiss Accounts (surprise even the head of the DNC has had them) to being the outsourcer of jobs (look to the head of GE on President Obama's council of economic advisers who has outsourced more jobs than any human being in this country), to the attacking of his wife because she rides and has a horse entered in the Olympics (riding great theraphy for MS victims) to securing his dog on the roof (Obama as a child used to eat them and have you ever seen a dog at his happiest when his head is stuck as far as can be out of the window and into the air). This last flap over his appearance at the NAACP and the boos takes the cake. Enough when do we discuss the economy and the President's record.

                                                   NAACP Plants?

Once again it looks like the Botox Queen must have had an overdose

To allege that Romney schemed for the boos in an election sadly too close

When will Obama and his minions end the shell game

When the economy and jobs remain at best lame

Smoke and mirrors and hope the voters are sidetracked

And do not focus on what Obama lacks

Truman once said and meant to his credit that the buck stops here

In Obama's case it is the trillions are really part of Bush's baggage and gear

Does he really believe his record we will ignore?

As the economy continues to crash through the floor

Palin may not be viewed as the brightest but she hit it on the head

Any focus on the economy fills Obama with fear and major dread 

                                       © Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 7/13/2012

Three's are

San Bernardino, CA has just become the third and largest city in California to file for bankruptcy protection while Scranton, PA cut purblic workers' wages back to minimum wage as it is almost out of cash. Like the Nenana Ice Game in Alaska one wonders which city here or accross the country will be next, victims of bloated pensions and generous wages and benefits. Unlike the federal government, the states and cities must balance their budgets and cannot print money. At least there is some recognition that the costs of pensions, far better than any of us in the private sector would receive, must reduced along with wages and benefits---witness the June elections in San Jose and San Diego. As long as the politicians are corrupted by the donations created by mandatory dues, the only solution will be drastic and in a bankruptcy court.

San Bernardino Makes Three

They say the third time is the charm

Finally the public will raise the alarm.

San Bernardino now becomes the third

A victim of public pensions absurd

Three BKs in such a brief time

How many more cities standing in line?

If I were a public union boss

I would be quaking at the thought of complete loss

Of above market pensions and wages

How could they be so immune to growing taxpayer rages

Sadly we elected leaders needing union funds and without spine

Now it's time to face the music or join the BK line

Cut pensions, cut wages, create an efficiency culture

No more mandatory dues to weaken the public union vulture

Or Newport Beach will join the line even with all its yachts

Those egregious contracts and pensions will be for not.

Not worth the paper printed on

When will realization finally dawn?

(c) July 11, 2012 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Marvin K Holder It Is time for You to Gos

Just when you thought there might be so civility and safe to go back into water and engage in some constructive discourse, the June employment numbers come up and Obama remains in deep trouble. Like World War I soldiers firing smoke to hide their path and somehow reach the trenches before they are mowed. Hereto but the trenches are the election and the soldiers and voters. Anything to distract from his record will do. Holder now takes center stage in that effort.

A new racist trumpet now blows into the air
Voter ID in Texas  as the race card comes out of its lair
This is not in Holder's eyes a way to election fraud guard
No this is a Poll Tax--make it way too difficult, way too hard
Ridiculous, name an act you can do or public place to enter without an ID
From entering a building, boarding a bus, plane train or borrowing a book or pair of skis
Maybe in Texas you have to drive far
How many deterred when a need to enter a bar
With an ID you have freedom to move and the check changer's talon deflect
Walk back home not with pockets of cash gangs steal and  nearby taverns infect.
There are solutions like the book mobiles in the rural past
Can't come to the library, we'll come to you and spark a love of reading to forever last.
If Holder were a private citizen we could dismiss and ignore
But as AG he's the racial 900 pound gorilla pounding on your door
Without doubt he has run the most racial DOJ in all times
No wonder Lady Justice has her eyes covered to avoid seeing the slime
We should have a lottery to detect the next Obama distraction
A 100 more rounds of golf and Air Force One is a fatal attraction
So like Marvin K. Moody it is time for you to go
So we may have time fallow the seeds of diviseness you did sow
(c) July 10, 2012 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Independence Day

The 4th is a special day even if the kegs and barbecues hold sway. If there had been a Vegas in 1776, the odds would have been against the formation of this nation against world's greatest navy and best army. Yet we prevailed and the name an phrase says it all. E Plubris Union and one nation under God. God bless America have a great 4th


The 4th is perhaps one of our most symbolic days of the year
One day before after Washington took command to shed an army of its Lion's fear
We were an embryonic nation in deep divide
Too many trying to pick the winning side
Go with George the III or with Franklin and Payne
With words and reason replaced by musket and canon refrain
Somehow with bravery and sacrifice a union did emerge
We survived and rid us of the Lion's scourge
13 little armies would have been swept by the Lion's paw
To shaking under the nonrepresented English laws
But united we at Yorktown turned the world upside down
Fast forward to a world of Red and Blue Clowns
All fighting over an ever expanding curse
As the feds control more and dig deeper into our purse
The most cherished sense of Independence is clear
It is to on this day at least shed one's partisan jeers
We cannot let the suffering of Valley Forge
Be forgotten as partisanship our democracy gorges

Watergate Again When Will They Ever Learn?

It's Watergate all over; minor crime but coverup leads to Nixon resigning. Why is it that politicians and bureaucrats like Holder believe the truth will never see the light of day at least until after an election or better yet termed out of office. The inference base on the refusal to release and now the las second assertion of executive privelige has only one implication....Holder has lied and hopefully not so given the office, Obama may be involved in the cover up.

It’s Not the Crime but the Coverup 

It was a third rate office burglary of offices used in a campaign

An when the smoke had finally cleared a President went down the drain

Cover up and perjury in a rule of law are major no nos, major mistakes

It was a third rate office burglary of offices used in a campaign -do not be surprised into jail the lies will quickly take

It's Watergate all over except here one of us died

Refusing to release raises no doubt Holder has lied

What secret or process does Holder or Obama have to hide

And why  the rule of law our AG refuses to abide?

Sadly the Blues are silent except our Botox Princess who calls a tit for a tat

Holder's defense of voting roles is why the Reds are taking him to the truthful mat

DOJ is supposed to be without even the hint of bias, scandal, or improper means

If Holder does not resign how from DOJ will the hint of perjury will we ever wean? 

© June 23, 2012 michael p ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Pelosi's Tit for a Tat

Nancy Pelosi has just leveled one of the most insane allegations this poet has seen in a long, long time. From the person who has made thousands upon thousands of dollars according to Throw Them All Out, trading on inside information on companies she regulates, this latest sense of outrage is pure insanity. To claim that the Republicans are attacking Holder's obstruction with respect to Fast and Furious because his politicized DOJ has attacked the states trying prevent illegal aliens from voting is so mind boggling it calls into question the amount of Botox the former speaker must have ingested.  Holder should resign but he will not and like the ferret he looks like will be cunning enough to keep the truth away from the American people until after the election. The thought of Nancy Pelosi as speaker again, should result in all sane voters voting red to prevent that.
At 72, Nancy has had too many injections of Botox that may have pierced into the brain
Her latest rantings verge on loosing it and are almost the raving of the insane
To allege the attack on Holder's Fast and Furious obstructions and lies
In a botched operation clearly not thought out and an agent dies
Is revenge for the Holder's war on the states trying to keep illegals away from stealing our vote
Is a position that will never hold water in no way will it float.
The AG holds a sacred honored trust
In Holder's case justice is covered with political rust
We have in Holder the most political AG--justice is no longer blind
When will his cover up on Fast and Furious finally unwind?
If there was nothing for him or the White House to hide
The documents would have been unleashed in tsunami tide
 Pelosi take your foolish charges to the parents of our agent dead and buried in the ground
Waiting and grieving and wondering if justice, true justice will ever come around.
(c) June 22, 2012 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet