Our God is Better

Make no mistake, ours is the one and only true god, now and forever

We have the proof right here in holy scripture revealed only to us

He has obviously let Satan deceive you into your shameful idolatry to test us

In exchange for our belief, he has granted us an exalted status as his chosen people

We have his full dispensation to smite all the infidels using any means at hand

Our highest aspiration is to be his accurate instruments upon this earth

We can let there be no doubt, for he has spoken with us, and with us alone

After the great and holy wars we will turn upon our own splintered rival sects

There is but one true path to heaven and it is known to our faith alone

God has revealed what to eat and to wear and how to deal with our women

Your heathen temples must crumble before the onslaught of our true faith

You are condemned eternally while we shall dwell forever in his presence

There is no god but god and we live in the absolute certainty of his will

We accept your god insofar as we see that he is really our god in disguise

Our shrines are totally sacrosanct but we must urinate freely upon yours

We scorn your false beliefs and feel no pity for your loss of eternal salvation

Our god is far more omnipotent, powerful and merciful than you will ever know

We temporarily tolerate your false beliefs as tests of our loyalty and devotion

Despite our wretched ignorant lives, a great and eternal reward awaits us

Our god bids us stop these awful deeds that you base upon the adoration of false idols

We go forward with god in our hearts, secure in his knowledge and wisdom

We co-opt your god’s ceremonies when we buy him out and shut him down

We spend our lives debating minutiae over which to fight gruesome wars

Our god is the most powerful, all-encompassing and correct of all possible fathers

We talk with him quite personally and he grants us holy dispensation

We go forth without fear inside our maze of impenetrable rationalization

We rest secure in warm knowledge that we alone follow the one true way

Within our hearts he has placed the mighty strength of a righteous faith

Our actions spring directly from the Word, the Word that he has revealed only unto us

Our god is, by our definition, the most merciful, loving, just and wise

All of your misfortunes follow from the implacable will of his divine retribution

Our suffering serves to strengthen our faith in the mystery of his ways

God is great and he inures us to lives of ignorance, poverty and squalor

Our god is better and we prove this by serving him without question

Death to all those unwilling to accept his mercy, wisdom and salvation

We will smite the unbelievers to spread his light throughout the world

All glory is God’s and we see beyond the sores upon our children’s feet

He directs that we look past our poverty to build mighty armies in his name

Our faith is a comforting filter through which we view all the world’s events

The misery of these lives is but the briefest prelude to our eternity in paradise

Every event, discovery and natural wonder is evidence of our god’s glory

We strive that all our actions but further his inscrutable plan for the future

We revel in the martyrdom he grants us through your blasphemous actions

His hand shapes the world in mysterious ways which we need not question or understand

Despite virtuous lives those who know not our god can never dwell in heaven

All those who lived before our prophet never even had a chance at redemption

Our god illuminates our path with righteousness all the days of our lives

We teach our children well that they too shall be his instruments on earth

Though his omnipotence has been revealed, we must choose to accept it

In his name do we pursue what unbelievers falsely deem as senseless slaughter

Despite his eternal glory we must hold a spiteful, petty vigil against all defamations

There is a constant struggle with those who would pervert his message

Our faith demands a purity which rejects denominational interpretation

Your false pride cannot penetrate that great shield provided us by our god

It is our god’s will that you suffer plague, pestilence, earthquakes and floods

We seek his wisdom and understanding even as we strive not to hear you

Our god is bigger than your god and will help us to bludgeon you into submission

God is good and he bids us blow ourselves to pieces in your offensive midst

Your misguided faith would be pitiful if it did not offend great god so much

Unfortunately, we need your sins that we may see the way of true belief

God is love and for that love do we invade your lands and torture you freely

He speaks to us alone with the one true voice you sinfully choose to ignore

Our god is better and we come together to reassure ourselves all the time

God grants us strength to survive your persecution with even stronger faith

Our god will return at the end of the world - which we seek to hasten

You reject the one true way willingly in his pre-ordained tests of our faith

Our god is merciful and loving but calls on us to wreak awful vengeance in his jealousy

What Is True Conservatism?

De-regulating giant financial entities which are driven only by their overpowering greed

Then stepping in with bailouts to produce inflation along with a recession

or instead, keeping a watchful eye upon those prone to selfish and childlike excesses

drilling unproductive wilderness and coastline for our tragicomic SUVs

          or saving some of that resource for later by buying it from others

as we scramble all available resources to gain a sustainable energy independence

subsidizing mass production to mono-crop our forests and our fields

          or carefully tending to the mystic diversity that we owe to the future

silting up streams and choking off salmon with corporate dams and logging

          or minding that watersheds stay clean and intact for future harvests

encouraging corporations to develop filthy aquaculture mass production

          or preserving our clean water and diversity of species

for the unknown needs of generations that might even yet be born

promoting the impersonal short-term, stock price-based corporate agriculture agenda

          or subsidizing the real stewardship of our precious native soils

with the oft-mouthed, constantly trampled values of Traditional Family Farmers

letting teenagers keep having children because it is a god-given right & abortion is a sin

          or licensing would-be parents via stiff examinations

lecturing fourth generation single mothers on the morality of abstinence

          or providing timely family intervention to break this pathetic cycle

incarcerating without tolerance ever more criminals raised without hope

teaching them real crime in prison and then setting them free upon our streets

             or seeking to identify and correct their problems at very early ages

funding local governments through cutthroat sales tax competition

over cheap, unplanned, unsustainable retail and housing development

or setting thoughtful long-term policy and implementing it through taxation

being forced by threat of being viewed as unpatriotically unelectable

to condone spending ever more billions on the military,

to combat a bogeyman who melts away somewhere into dusty, poverty-filled shadows

or investing at home in our own education, environment, agriculture,

energy needs, jobs, national debt and crumbling infrastructure

insisting that might makes right and that god is on our side

          or listening attentively to those considered opinions of

our European allies, who also happen to descend from our own very forefathers

electing professional, multi-generational politicians

who trade on their names and grow rich from their contacts

or promoting the Jeffersonian ideal of timely and limited service

to one's country as a matter of civic duty

tolerating a putrid mass of strangling tax code spaghetti

created by and for parasite lawyers and bloodsucking accountants

or making taxes lucid, reasonable, understandable and fair

opening up more of our forests for corporate timber and the obese on ATVs

          or diligently looking to preserve what little remains for the future

enriching puppet so-called royal families in their fly-plagued desert homes

          or severing all our relations through alternative energy sources

paying conglomerates to brew biofuel using up more energy than it makes

          or incepting grid-connected solar and wind power on every roof

allowing coal burning plants to increase their mountain-top destroying, mercury-laden,

horizon-obscuring, asthma-inducing, cancer-causing emissions

or subsidizing truly clean coal and fast breeder thorium reactor development

while systematically closing the oldest and dirtiest of the plants

making government smaller and ever more responsive

          or creating the largest bureaucracy ever seen by man

under the sacrosanct euphemism known as Homeland Security

subsidizing corporate agriculture while preaching of free trade

          or publicly calling out the bastards who ruin the land

with their fossil water mining, sewage lagoons, pesticides, fertilizer & antibiotic overuse

as they weave elaborate tax scams to increase their bonuses

allowing nightmare mega-scale domestic animal concentration camps

to pollute the country’s water with their foul fecal runoff

or ensuring that food production does not ruin our dwindling water supply

encouraging our companies to send engineering, research and information technology

positions overseas forever by citing the inevitability of global competition

or realizing that such services are imported straight back here

and that any developed nation must provide them for itself

letting faceless executives whose only goal is short term stock prices

set policy and retire inside locked compounds clutching obscene unearned bonuses

or demanding a wisdom and a vision beyond mere grasping business acumen

smiling as corporate leaders walk away rich, righteous and free

leaving us to adjust to the reality of a global standard of poverty

or holding them responsible for the debts they have placed upon our children

ensuring americans that their greatest patriotic duty is simply to keep shopping

and that hypnotized consumption is a fundamentalist value

or extolling the virtues of thrift and financial independence

while setting an example by keeping government spending within reason

creating the largest government deficit in all of mankind’s history

          or cutting back thoughtfully during difficult and trying times

demanding that foreigners buy our probably safe, genetically-modified corporate seed

          or working closely together to try and end the world's growing hunger

telling your allies that they are either with you or against you

          or striving for consensus and working together towards a shared future

refusing to sign a global ban on the sick foolishness of chemical warfare

          or leading the world in such a worthwhile crusade

ignoring greenhouse gases and treaties meant to stem their steady growth

          or pioneering profitable methods to deal with this global problem

relaxing pollution standards for the waters of our lakes and streams

          or making them safe to swim in for both the fish and for our kids

deciding that americans are above the laws of any world court

and applying sanctions to others who might be co-operating

or working together on a judicial system which works for the entire planet

refusing to support the international banning of brutal land mines

and continuing their production and export to one and all

or helping farmers and their children to avoid artificial legs and even worse

withholding funding for agencies providing birth control education

          or giving families in overpopulated lands already full of poverty

the ability to choose wisely, just for themselves

turning our national parks over to overpriced corporate property managers

          or keeping profit margins far away from the places

we have been entrusted to pass on to our future generations

interpreting world population growth as a threat to our national security

and determining to respond by increasing our unsustainable numbers

or working to design a rich and sustainable future

for a smaller and far less destructive human footprint

constructing maximally cheap with minimum environmental concern

          or building green with the aim of creating structures actually meant to last

discarding all wrappers, packaging, newspapers, aluminum and glass

since we paid for them and nobody is paying us not to throw them out

or reusing these things to let our children enjoy them as cheaply as we did

spreading the lie that economic growth continues at high rates forever

and burying generations to come beneath the debt of our tax cuts

or crafting a steady-state model that leaves as much as we enjoy today

for those existing beyond the laughably short quarterly horizon we now foresee

being laid off impersonally by some inhumane organization

as a discretionary expense, to be reduced merely to increase stock valuation

just to win a sickeningly large annual bonus for one’s so-called talents

or co-operatively reducing your salary maybe working part-time for a while,

at a place where you might even envision that there could be a future

         

touting free market worship while striving to build totalitarian oligopolies

and labeling any criticisms as socialist, unpatriotic and simply weak

or evolving capitalism to meet the needs of all humanity

aboard this one small blue space capsule that we simply must learn to share

trying to control fast-evolving pests by broadcasting long-lasting poisons

on food crops being raised to sell to your mothers and their children

or finding ways to control these long-term problems

more safely, cheaply and sustainably within the unforgiving laws of nature

encouraging lame urban cowboys to modify their motorcycles and trucks

to leave even more noise in their wasteful and infantile wakes

or enforcing simple common sense when the freedom to make empty noise

clashes with the right to natural peace and sublime quiet

allowing big media to set the body politic agenda via slick repetition

of stocks, entertainment, sports and government propaganda

mixed with 24 minutes per hour of higher volume commercials

and staged combat debates centered upon vital non-issues

or thoughtfully considering personal and national priorities

in reasoned discussion from a thousand different outlets

building the same tacky strip mall packages and

identical cheap convenience store setups at every new intersection

from border to border at the lowest possible costs

or searching for some kind of vision beyond mere stocks and profits

from some wiser group of men than these negligent but rich so-called leaders

whose legacy is greedy scheming behind closed boardroom doors

spinning, staying on message, gaining traction and shoutingly-managing the issues

          or publicly learning from mistakes, incorporating other points of view

and seeking involvement in quietly ongoing, open and non-poisonous debates

permitting contributory corporations to buy up all the media outlets

to serve up the same vapid, franchised media in every town and city

          or nurturing the plurality in our forgotten motto, 'e pluribus unum'

praising the virtues of democratic elections

while buying them with donations to be paid back with favors

or simply admitting that, under our current system, elections are about the money

and evolving our institutions to reinstate the ideals of the past

scornfully belittling science when it conflicts with well-scripted policies

already bought and paid for by corporate payoffs

or adopting the scientific method for rationally and fairly dealing with many

of our most pressing technical issues

invoking the lie of local control to grant outside developers unlimited power

permitting them to rend without foresight, planning or responsibility

or providing coordinated overviews for states, regions and the nation

to ensure a way of life that might even last a thousand years

counseling third world countries to preserve their so precious ecosystems

after having shattered our own and been proven unwilling to restore it

or providing a reality-based example of the benefits of conservation

and then profitably selling related goods and services to the world

touting the benefits of education while marginalizing scientists and

academia quietly through policy and openly in the corporate media

or respecting the educated as our best model for future progress

and our most precious current human capital

searching out the violent and the mindless in pleasure and entertainment

          or seeking enlightenment in the precious little free time we are granted

before we return to cold ashes and thin dust once again

expressing your true inner self via clothes, houses, cars and expensive vacations

          or searching for meaning through study and contemplation         

never saving and then demanding that government pay for your retirement

          or living within your means and laying out your own golden years far ahead

driving a 300 horsepower 4WD all by yourself an hour to work in a cube every day

          or leaving a smaller footprint on the earth and upon your descendants

issuing signing statements and underfunding enforcement agencies

          or impartially enforcing our laws per constitutional responsibility

paying ever more at toney restaurants until the last trendy seafood species

disappears from every ocean

or having the merest shred of common sense to at least leave

a viable breeding populations intact in the wild

ignoring the anonymous industrial holocaust-style production of your meat

          or consuming with forethought about what goes into your body

and having respect for the sacrifice of these other living beings

eating industrial fast food prepared by low-paid strangers who despise you

          or cooking good food and sharing time at home

with the people who are always there to love and respect you

blindly believing in creationism while harshly scoffing at the infidels

        or structuring your beliefs within a framework of reason and good faith,

sprinkled with a measure of respect for the considered opinions of others

spinning drunkenly from one corporate co-opted fad to another

          or cultivating reasoned and explainable values for living

growing fatter and dumber and being a daily target of ridicule

          or growing older and wiser and providing valued counsel

getting botoxed, dyeing your hair, wearing heavy makeup and too much gold

or trying to come to terms with the end of your, so-far, wasted life

spending every evening flipping channels with your stagnating brain disengaged

          or facing the onrushing void for a moment with an unblinking third eye

Population Metastiszation

There’s twice as many now as 50 years ago and that’s well over twice too many

They say our numbers will stabilize after increasing half again as much

There is more obvious evidence of this vast metastasization, everywhere you look

They say the earth can support us, one and all, without any real problems

But we’ll live a septic and squalid lifestyle, rooting amid the rubble and the trash

We’ll manage token forests after trading wildlife for agribusiness monocrops

We can finish strip-fishing the oceans to meet the growing demand for food

Then our seafood will come from filthy, toxin-rich, germ-infested mudholes, like those in China

But, hey, we’ll still have the dead oceans, spreading deserts and a thawed arctic to enjoy

We can archive old footage and preserve lots of different creature’s DNA

No doubt there will be a huge pool of labor glad to work for next to nothing

We’ll chemically purify other’s wastewater before we drink it down and flush it on

We’ll be ripe for shocking pandemics, crammed as tightly as we can be

Wars will break out often among the lemmings milling towards the precipice

Pestilence will spread quickly through genetically-modified corporate crops

We’ll have great zoos and well-fenced, highly-managed game preserves

Town names will still remind us of the creatures we eliminated long ago

Miraculous and expensive medical advances will help us all live even longer

The fractional percentage at the top will still enjoy rich and wondrous lives

Rugged individualists will still find ways to be distinguished in the crowds

The squalor, crime and emptiness will produce great but twisted works of art

Globalization can help us all achieve a state of Mutually Assured Misery

Debates on climate change and environmental damage will be long forgotten

India and china will provide our wasted world’s natural model going forward

We can all turn inward, away from the writhing masses, like the Japanese do right now

We will be able to escape to a convergence of entertainment and computers

Uncounted untouchables will colonize and mine the rich dump sites worldwide

God told us to forego contraception so we can swarm like filthy rodents

We can adjust to the grimy reality of a greenhouse heated world together

Emissions will decrease nicely once we’ve expended all our fossil fuels

We can get on with human progress when the amphibians and whales are gone

Global corporate capitalism will triumph over fairytale ecosystem sustainability claptrap

The weak will be culled by dirty water, polluted air and contaminated breast milk

Shove aside the charismatic megafauna from the Arctic to the Serengeti

Slash and burn and cut the jungle, the old growth and the boreal forests

Pack us and our wastes ever more tightly into sprawling, unplanned mega-slums

Dam the rivers, kill the fish, cut off the rich silt and poison the waters

Let the global oligopoly rule based solely on stock market considerations

We can all flourish on patented corporate crops and recycled sewage water

Make it so that peace and silence reign only in ever-expanding, newly-barren wastelands

We can school more tightly on the green pills inside our privatizing earbuds

Our children won’t have painful memories of clean lakes and country roads

Generations can progress at last freed from divisive whining by the squishes

The rats, roaches, flies, cats and dogs can raise their numbers right along with us

Natural catastrophes occurring in overcrowded, unsuitable locations will be magnified

No longer able to foul and just move away, we will gaze off from inside our filth

After several generations, children won’t have just their own parents to blame for a reduced world

Opportunities micro-marketing to the very poor will create wealth for a few

The adventurous can pursue their dreams alone upon oceans where only odd life forms flourish

You can take your children on safe strolls thru carefully tended tree farms

The dead were dug up long ago to make way for cropland and development

You could walk for weeks over identical automated farms, if it were allowed

Colonies will return once again to Greenland as Spain becomes a desert

Group suicide bombings will attain an unspeakable global popularity

Politicians and conservatives will always find some form putative progress to trumpet

Those who call for population reduction will be labeled as genocidal elitists

The rational will continue to decline in reproduction, quite unlike the vast, very poor majority

There will be no more ecological debates in the mass struggle to survive

The dirty, hungry hordes of Africa will have consumed every bit of wild meat

Religion will still provide an irrational hope in a calming, faith-based narcotic

Meaningless elections and ‘free’ markets will vie against cults of personality

No longer will displaced subsistence farmers fear raids by hungry elephants

We will choke the estuaries with filthy aquaculture pens and kill all the mangroves

Dye the farmed salmon pink and genetically infect all their wild brethren

They will flood us with images of things we cannot afford in places we will never see

We shall ignore natural cycles and say “Fuck insects, bring on the weeds and loose the goats”

For we live beyond the checks and balances of nature in the images of our one true gods

Why do they hate us

Why do they hate us, we all ask, quite aghast

Not because we will not join in banning the blind crippling of land mines

But why do they hate us, we must ask again

We will not join their foolish and costly greenhouse reduction folly

Tell us clearly then and get to the point, why do they hate us

Our citizens alone must remain above the laws of any world court

Why do they hate us, we ponder driving alone in our obese gas hogs

we won’t sign their treaties for the rights of women or children

One more time, name the thing that they hate that lurks here within us

we subsidize farming but preach free trade to a world that is starving

Even so, show me the one thing that makes them hate us all

we let a million die in Rwanda but intervene over Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil

Look, in plain language just spell it out - why do they hate us

over 2 million die of AIDS in Africa without our concern every year

but we trumpet that the greatest tragedy of them all happened on 9-11

Seriously, though, do they really hate us all

we will not sign their treaty to put an end to chemical warfare

You simply must give the reason that they target us with hatred

we hasten the cutting of the 2% old growth that is left on our land

while counseling them to save all of the forests that they still have

But, really then, that could not be why they would hate us

we give them our worst jobs and make slaves of their peoples,

poison their waters and ravage their lands to satisfy our consumer whims

Certainly that is not why they would hate us

we are illiterate, cultural imperialists

waterboarding their minds with our vapid Hollywood entertainment

That just sounds like nonsense, what's the real reason they hate us

We just yell at them louder in a language that we ourselves cannot even read or write

Give it a break and tell me why do they hate us

we generously support criminal regimes that repress and torture them

and let them rob their countries blind with a wink and a nod

Surely you jest, now tell the truth, why do they hate us

we trade them all off, one against another

while we try and take them for everything, that they still have

Why do they hate us, why do they hate us, we must ask again

Because God is on our exceptionist side

and they must be either with or against us for United We Stand

In reality, you have not outlined any real reason for their hatred

Well, we are an outlaw, cowboy nation run by fundamentalists

Possessed of lots of nasty weapons, pointed in all directions

Sing it loudly, now brother, and say it really ain’t that they hate us

We have proudly, noisily and foolishly descended

From the land of the free and the home of the brave

To the land of the ignorant and the home of the half-cocked

You mumble half truths relying on junk science, speak up, why do they hate us

Six percent of world population but, 35 percent of all its emissions

And eleven percent of us cannot even find our own country on a globe

Enough of spineless, liberal claptrap: where is their hatred against us?

We spout off about universal opportunity and equality

While generations right here live in poverty, hopelessness and ignorance

These unrelated and twisted facts are not enough, why would they hate us

We side with the jews who enclose the arabs in a sandy ghetto

And vote with the Israelis when it counts and give them lots of money

That is all just so many smelly road apples - now, why do they direct hatred our way

Our poorest abusers waste more every day on drugs

Than those without drinking water, electricity or gas earn in a month

Why would they hate us, is it not just simple jealousy?

We spend more on defense than the rest of them combined

We invade and torture and then lecture them on freedom and morality

Why do they hate us

We sneer and laugh at them like they were ignorant, bumbling idiots

So unswervingly certain of our god-given place at the head of the table

Greed Shall Overcome

Greed is love, Greed is mercy

Greed shall light my way, all the days of my life

Greed is pure, Greed is honest

Let greed be my real and true life’s purpose

Greed is patriotic, Greed is forthcoming

Greed is my weapon in the struggle for survival

Greed is godlike, Greed shall overcome

Help my greed to grow greater the more that I succeed

Greed is jealous, Greed is vengeful

Greed barks not even one other true passion

Greed is hope, Greed is righteous

Let all see the greed that shines from within me

Greed is a fountain, Greed is all-consuming

Greed provides the framework supporting my life

Greed is forgiving, Greed is always within me

Greed guides the blind hand of the omnipotent free market

Greed is my true passion, Greed lights my path

Greed is never satisfied by any past

Greed is truth, Greed is salvation

Greed help me to assume man’s highest form

Greed is good, Greed is great

Thank you dear god for all this greed, amen