The media has two faces: mayhem and disharmony.
They bring in the highest of ratings.
Harmony and unity are ratings disaster for the media execs.
They couldn't care less about the people.
They get off on Plane crashes and train wrecks.
They are voice boxes for evil.
They love mass shootings, wars, and church arson fires.
Most of all, they adore a high-profile white-on-black crime.
Then they sit back with popcorn in hand.
Enjoying their heavily biased, fueled race riot.
Playing the same clips.24/7/365/ from a one-sided perspective.
Then enter the clowns.
The politicians in their ties and stilettos. Hustling for votes.
Then the activists and reverends slither in.
Stirring the golden pot with bullhorn rhetoric.
Hoping everything turns to rot.
The Soros's anarchists are there to make a quick buck
Get off and leave their greasy wet spot.
I received an exciting soup mail
I’m minted, with wealth off the scale
But I know it’s a fraud
By some bloke from abroad
These fraudster’s should be put in jail
Got a call from a ‘Microsoft’ guy*
His fake story I did not buy
Said he’d turn off my ‘puter
And re-route my router
He told me just lie after lie
These scammers just want a quick buck
They try to find a sitting duck
They’re after our money
It sure isn’t funny
Their unscrupulous actions just suck
We have had several calls from 'Microsoft' saying our computer is at risk and they can help protect us ... I just put the phone down on them. Unfortunately an elderly friend of ours got taken in by their persistence and when it got to the you need to give us your bank account details part he realised it was a scam and wouldn't give his details but he had inadvertently given them access to remote control his PC and they put a password on it so he couldn't get into his files. It took my hubby several hours to sort out, remove the software programme they were using to control the PC and get the computer back to him so he could use it.
7/7/18
The life i live i didnt choose or did I?
Every morning i say a prayer,a chant
Is anyone listening? I lie down thinking
How to escape? I cant? Or i wont?.
As the sun gets ready to hide for the day
The choice gets harder go or stay?
For what seems to be the millionth time
I put on my mask, my glory, my armour
Time to shine.
These men dont care what i risk to get here
All they know is what they want,desire
They dont want to hear im ready to give up
All they know is i make a quick buck
Finger prints on my body not only my face
Wounds on the inside as much as the outside
Do i give up? Is today the day? No! I have to fight
I have to climb, i have to do it for not only me
But for her, my light, my shine, my love, my life
MY DAUGHTER.
Divinely bequeathed a blank-cheque-Jackpot; in your
possession is the golden ticket
Sadly, many fail to decode it's often unglammed seed
Just as one person may look at a pile of stone and
merely see stone, another may look at it and
envision a majestic cathedral
Or one who tosses a priceless heirloom in the attic to gather cobwebs
Or mindlessly pawn it for a quick buck
Unmined to the grave - where lie companies unstarted
Masterpieces unpainted
Architecture unbuilt....in the cemetry there is buried
the greatest treasure mine, fruitless
It’s 8 AM in the morning and my friend got robbed last night.
That’s the result of a person going through hards times and not workin’ but steady workin’ on
how to get the quick buck.
My friend was out of luck.
My friend’s purse was a bad chest hair and he plucked..
and left the area bruised.
Some will argue that this thief is a product of his environment.
He’s an area dude.
When food gets scarce, gotta do what he gotta do.
But i'm here to inform and hope my next sentence takes the world by storm.
Area dudes don’t have to do what area dudes do because even if your a product of your
environment you can still be you.
Are these words true?
what do they really mean?
many shops portray them
are people so very green?
So many are taken in
believing their every word
but it's not always so
when you're hearts stirred
The cheap price is appealing
a bargain we always like
but when the competitions tough
just tell them to get on your bike
It's all economics out for quick buck
to draw us all in just two for one
but that's where we all keep falling down
can't say no when we should just run!
(When visiting Loch Lomond shores shop mall recently, saw the display 'final clearance' made me think of its effect on people. )
I saw a young man in the park
with a bottle wrapped in brown paper
I saw him drain the bottle to the last drop
The bottle shattered as it hit the ground
Shards of glass lay everywhere
like his broken dreams.
I saw a cheap woman on a street corner
in a short red dress, with dyed hair
long painted nails that curled at the ends
I saw a man pick her up in a smart car
I saw the glint in their eyes, for the quick buck
and the entertaining company, respectively.
I saw an old man at the Bakery Store
counting his coins over and over
as if they would multiply in the counting
He eyed the sticky buns, filled with jam longingly
his glasses were misty as he left empty handed.
I saw a young woman with a purple bow in her hair
with a checked shawl wrapped around her waist
gold earrings in her ears that dangled as she walked
there was a child at her side in a blue dress
I saw the smiles that lit up their faces
and I knew there was still hope.
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