TORRANCE TRIBUNE November 8, 2012 Page 5 Political Penguin One Man’s Opinion By Duane Plank point, he is either reveling in a new job as By Gerry Chong to $6,000 so they could rely on government Typing out the column in the gloaming of Romney’s second banana or returning to the The date is November 7, 2012. A lone figure largesse. Wasn’t that good enough? a Halloween eve noche, sitting on the patio cheese heads in Wisconsin. To serve as one walks in the early dawn hours in Washington, “I left the Middle East in chaos with furniture at the mansion, listening to the faraway of their Congressmen. Ryan was quickly D.C., his body hunched against the cold and rebellion everywhere and our defense capability strains of a local cover band tap out some of shunted aside when Romney started to surge darkness to which he seems oblivious. He reduced. During my administration, small the same songs that I may have heard once after kicking the POTUS’ backside in the first finds an empty park bench and sits, staring at business start-ups hit an all-time low. Oil and or twice. Or 10 times. Just heard a Beatles debate, which may have turned out to be the his hands, when another figure appears. The gas exploration on federal lands also hit an tune. Really? game-changer. second figure, the last OWS’er in the country, all-time low. I denied the Canadians ability The local Halloween frolic is taking place Unless the destruction of the super storm stares at the forlorn figure and says, “Barack, to transport their oil into the U.S. I subverted a few streets to the east, but decided not to Sandy was the game-changer. Barack, my man, how did it happen? Last night the Congress and Constitution by issuing 923 venture down to Main Street this year. Middle So, will tell you that I did vote for Prop. was worse than the 2010 mid-term election. executive orders and I did it all in the name of the week--no longer have a Kid in the 30, which allegedly will give more money to If you were shellacked then, what would you of courageous leadership. Halloween game. Column due...early wake-up education and somehow mitigate the extortionary call to make it to the day job on time. rates that state schools are charging their own In just one term, I created $16 trillion in debt. Or maybe I am finally succumbing to old tax-paying residents to attend college. Have I fathered 23 million unemployed, 46 million age? Questions abound. Hopefully cogent I mentioned that the Kid has matriculated to answers shall materialize. UCSB and they continue to not nickel and in poverty and 47 million on food stamps. Anyway, it is two days after the general dime, but hundreds and hundreds us to death? election and there is really no way for a Yup, guess 30 will raise taxes, but if that tax call last night? I would call it a crucifixion, “My consolation is that I stood by my columnist with an early deadline to write some money goes to defray my cost of education for but I know religion ain’t your thing.” principles and did it my way.” As Barack learned wrap-up of what occurred on Tuesday. the best and the brightest, so be it. And if it “I dunno, I dunno, man,” said Barack. “I slowly walks into the mist, the orchestra cues But if the POTUS and his tireless campaigners didn’t pass, guess that the higher education folks followed all my mentors’ directions and got up Frank Sinatra’s hit: and strategists blew the nearly insurmountable will institute some mid-course correction, which swamped. I reviewed my religious convictions And now, the end is near home-ice advantage of the incumbency and will raise the Kid’s tuition fees…Carumba! with Reverend Wright. I reviewed my objectives And so I face that final curtain wasted tons and tons of money in the process, Wonder how much the UCSB President with Columbia’s Cloward and Priven. I My friends, I face the end then I will have been one shocked hombre on pulls down a year? With this allowance, that patterned my tactics around Saul Alinsky’s Of which I’m certain…… Tuesday night. allowance, this perk? How much some of the Rules for Radicals. I returned to Chicago and Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again too Still wavering, at press time, which was six job-for-life profs are pulling down for the class met with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn of few to mention…. days before some of you voted, which way I a week that they allegedly instruct? Have no the Weather Underground. I caucused with I did what I had to do, and saw it through was going to pull the lever. Punch the ballot. clue--just wondering… the New Black Panthers. I did it all and still without exception…. Was going to pull the lever for the community Good to see that the fossil Senator Dianne I lost. Where did I go wrong? I planned each chartered course, each careful organizer four years ago. Actually thought Feinstein somehow garnered reelection status. “In just one term, I created $16 trillion step along the byway that he might be the better choice, though I And that her lovely locks seem to get darker in debt. I fathered 23 million unemployed, And more, much more than this, I did it my way respected the Elephant Party candidate John by the year. Seems the nearly 80 Ms. Feinstein 46 million in poverty and 47 million on Yes there were times, I’m sure you knew McCain. Then went into the desolate voting has the same incredible hair color deal as the food stamps. I seized ownership of a great when I bit off more than I could chew…. precinct and…wavered again and then finally ex-actor and Cali Governor, the hero of the American company, GM, and I nationalized I’ve had my fill, my share of losing…… cast my vote for…private affair, right? right-wingers, Ronald Reagan. one-sixth of the economy, dooming private Let the records show, I took the blows and By the way, whatever happened to Republican Tune back next week for some riveting health insurance companies. I drove the net did it My Way. pit-bull VEEP candidate Paul Ryan? At this post-election analysis…or something similar. • worth of Black and Hispanic families down Fade to black… • “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” ~ William Shakespeare MAKE A DIFFERENCE Mortgage rates are Mortgage rates are Earn extra money caringfor an adult with a Act nowstill historically low developmental disability Act now in your home. 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