Second let me tell you about two things I know are coming up next week. My Monday Blog at Parallel Oonahverse features a very special poet! And I will have a Horror Story for you every day at my Facebook Page and a rather longer than usual story at Bewildering Stories. Do send them a story!
Thirdly I hope some of you will buy a PRINT copy of The Linnet's Wings Autumn Issue out NOW. It really is a great issue!
Pet peeves? Well -- I HATE that we are being punished by the EU for being too well off. Anybody feeling that well off. btw???
I love supermarket wars, don't you? But I hate Loyalty Cards which are specifically designed to stop you from shopping around. And I hate the government's idea about loaded plastic for people who receive benefits so they have little or no choice about what to buy. -- HEY YOU! You'r poor! How dare you have a beer? Do you really need that skirt? Sweets? Dessert? Xmas presents? Sorry it's not allowed with this card! And I hate that pharmaceutical firms are more interested in MONEY than in health or research. Did you know that most of them pay researchers only find what they want found and that as a result a lot of PURE research is underfunded or ignored? And of course they do not provide drugs for "third world" diseases. Hence the pickle we are now in over Ebola which should have been dealt with years ago! And so because these topics have a short shelf life, I offer you my trilogy of pet peeves.
shop Shop SHOP
We launched our brand new loyalty card today
along with the promise -- You will never pay
more here than in a cheapest retail store
because we believe in customer power.
We will refund the difference between
what we thought last week and what our profits have seen
is going to happen next month if you don’t shop here.
Shop here and we will give you points. Yes points.
That’s right. Shiny big starry plastic points
you can only spend here.
So pointed and plastic you can almost smell the fear.
Doctor W H O?
We launched our brand new medical ship today
Along with the promise – you may not have to pay
what the pharmaceutical companies demand in terms of wealth.
Because we believe in world wide health
and we will pay for the difference between
years of indifference and this easily foreseen
totally predictable pandemic, endemic
to the third world. But the western world could disintegrate
in panic.
That’s right. Big black spiky riots of manic
justified anger -- well beyond our power to control.
You can smell the collective political sweat as heads of
state roll.
right Right RIGHT
We launched card credits for the poor today.
We didn’t mean anything we said yesterday
about people power or freedom. We’ve developed a vaccine you
see
to protect the people who really matter So don’t flatter yourselves.
Because we believe in the trickle down effect and we don’t need
half of you, workers, old people, invalids and general
shirkers.
We need to get on with the business of government greed;
save money on services. Make money on investments and
expenses.
That’s right Far right. Operation can you credit it should run smooth as silk
When we makes sure the farmer gets nothing for milk
and the commonality of animals get exploited.
