Needle in a New Groove [NIANG]: A Non-Poem Raging, Whining, A Good Joke, and a Silver Lining

A Non-Poem: Raging in Gerund

While the U.S. is undergoing class warfare, I am

seeing a parallel in China,

becoming aware that our Gateway motherboard was made under

working conditions that, by the blood, sweat and tears of Foxconn laborers.

resulting in a near- epidemic of suicides, and

pinning a Web around Foxconn buildings in a million-people complex,

confounding me while dreaming about how they are living, working, sweating, crying

guilting many, including me (see cover of this month's Wired)

obliging me to writing and obsessing.

gerunding, indeed, torturing my reader(s)

consisting of me and my OCD-ing necessity of writing,

blogging and instructing others, about life before Our Union had unions,

cataloging a history of murdering and beatings so unions collective

bargaining, lobbying and protecting our working classes and ensure their

living a decent life, but now,

While Rethuglicans are and will be lying, possessing, burning books,

loving power and money, willing, killing, and smiling in ugly American,

rethuglicking: union-busting, gerrymandering and guaranteeing

hungering, dying infants, reclaiming women's bodies as wards of their state,

burying our wise elders who won't be

telling our youth how bad things were, are and will be.

Whining

We are still struggling with the network meltdown here at home. It takes a long time without good recovery/partition software to reconstruct a hard disk. We do have multiple backups, but the problem is our carousel-like, revolving drive assignations. Normally, each hard disk would have a C: drive, and a partition for D: for recovery. Every time I turn the computer on, this changes. So I started with C: as F:, even though my hard drive was the Master. Chazz had J. Now, I have C: as my drive, recovery is E:, and the CD/DVD slot became K:. Chazz has D: as his hard disk, the recovery partition is J. The only consistent drive is the first terabyte external drive, which is L.

I do have some posts on my phone, but was reluctant to send it, since the world goes round and round, and we'd have to make up a treasure map to find it, because the wireless isn't working well, either.

A Good Joke:

Subject: A good question !

The commanding officer at the Russian military academy (the equivalent of a 4-star general in the U.S.) gave a lecture on Potential Problems and Military Strategy.

At the end of the lecture, he asked if there were any questions.
An officer stood up and asked, "Will there be a third world war? And will Russia take part in it?"
The general answered both questions in the affirmative.
Another officer asked, "Who will be the enemy?"
The Russian general replied, "All indications point to China."
Everyone in the audience was shocked. A third officer remarked, "General, we are a nation of only 150 million, compared to the 1.5 billion Chinese. Can we win at all, or even survive?"
The general answered, "Just think about this for a moment: In modern warfare, it is not the quantity of soldiers that matters but the quality of an army's capabilities. For example, in the Middle East we have had a few wars recently where 5 million Jews fought against 150 million Arabs, and Israel was always victorious."