Will CBS Now Broadcast from Fox Studios? - poem

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

 

Will CBS Now Broadcast from Fox Studios?

 

 

Every morning the editors of the Berlin daily newspapers and the correspondents of those published elsewhere in the Reich gathered at the Propaganda Ministry to be told by Dr. Goebbels or by one of his aides what news to print…

 

-Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 245

 

 

CBS is now as obedient as Fox

Who would have imagined? Who woulda thunk?

Government agitprop on every Orwellian box -

Shoveling deep rund into our funk

Texas Children Die; Texas Authorities Babble - takeaway from a press conference of 5 July 2025

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Texas Children Die; Texas Authorities Babble

 

The governor’s Press Conference

In Which the Press were Shut Down Pretty Quickly

 

I just can’t say enough about our colleagues I just can’t say enough about we are Texans and we come together as one as a family we come together community share quintessential Texas we unite they could have fallen apart double-down relentless when the job is completed 24/ 7 day and night Texans and Americans everyone what I’m going to sign today every asset magnitude process proclamation immediate and ongoing gratitude in advance to President Trump and all his administration his love for Texas I want to thank Governor Abbott absolutely devastating he loves Texas grieving beautiful children all the resources of the federal government walking alongside each other community I’ve visited with the president already he will honor that assets on the ground crisis weather event alerted airframe Coasties Texas assets request customs and border protection skill set resource Department of Homeland Security response flying acronyms entities utilized FEMA standing at an enhanced level plugged in engaged fulfil role amazing you are an example to the nation hearts are with you and walking beside you fixed-wing aircraft airframe helicopters fixed-wing helicopters efforts engaged talking to the president throughout the day families folks number one priority is people process public infrastructure strong you are an example responding helping neighbors hurting grieving God process help prayers are with you President Trump and Melania are praying for you prayer amazing multiple stage agencies partners my thanks to and to and request and thank you for being here an important message I’ve been to a number of disasters impressed with Governor Abbot’s leadership proud grateful for men and women standing behind us here we are all reacquainted rejoined with their family members it’s who your family is we come together as a family as Texas this is who our family is we owe it to them the governor and his team will be relentless family it means a lot we appreciate President Trump and you before I was crazy enough to run for congress ha ha we came down here to blah blah it hits home personally I can’t say enough about extraordinary I can’t say enough I can’t say enough leadership this unfortunate circumstance reached out responding Army corps support and other stuff teamwork collaboration far from finished the job prayerful stuff we’re dealing with finger-pointing and second-guessing and Monday-morning quarterbacking circumstances I understand that parents and media heroic efforts finish the job be with the people pray I’m the only one at this table who lives on the Guadalupe River I barely got home I ushered in a crew fifty-year lawyer I saw first-hand the body bags helicopter ride nobody saw this coming arm in arm hand in hand process time now for recovery toilsome task stay together and we’ll get this done thank you on the behalf of as I look around the room I don’t see differences I see one team working together our community one team those in peril those who are lost sees this day prayer thank God my heart is broken we will not stop Madame Secretary your federal team lifesaving we will our teams FEMA border patrol partners Coast Guard work forward state personnel one last thing most common word prayer prayers are answered in so many ways prayer might be the reason the water stopped rising prayer does work your prayers have made a difference continued prayers pray so much never imagined prayers matter we thank God almighty God has blessed Texas…

 

(A few reporters were then allowed to ask a few questions which were, at best, answered only with vagaries and filler-language.)

Note of 8 July. Stephania Jiminez says it much better than I ever could:

KSAT anchor goes viral for 'speaking the truth' about Texas leaders

But, Hey, No King Here - poem

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

But, Hey, No King

 

The most lawless ruler is a Man of the People

Posturing upon some whited balcony

His pouting lips frozen in a perpetual sneer

While his toadies cheer their bondage, and call it freedom

 

The semi-automatic rifle is their Bible

Barbed wire is their semi-automatic law

The Constitution is but the president’s whims

(Let us now pray

for his bowel movements today)

 

Congress and the Supreme Court with feet of clay

Await in fear, in disgrace, in moral decay

For a Murat to come and brush them away:

 

“Citizens, you are dismissed.”

If My Daughter Had Been Present at the Last Supper - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

If My Daughter Had Been Present at the Last Supper

 

And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body…”

 

-Saint Matthew 26:26-29, Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition via Bible Gateway

 

And my daughter said unto our Lord,

“Excuse me…excuse me, Sir, but is this matzoh fresh?

Did you check the expiration date?

Is it really kosher?  Is it from a fair-trade source?”

 

 

(Judas has left the building.)

A Walk Between Worlds - poem about Alzheimer's

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

A Walk Between Worlds

 

Stage 2 Alzheimer’s

 

She walked into our house for lunch today

The puppy gamboled at her feet in welcome

And was treated to doggie-kisses and doggie-hugs

She loves the dog

She is no longer sure about us

Laundry Day - The Solemnity of All Stains: poem

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Laundry Day - The Solemnity of All Stains

 

The washing machine baptizes our busy days:

A shirt freshly stained with this morning’s coffee

Wrinkledy tees in grimy greens and greys

A child’s blue jeans all sticky with toffee

 

Dish towels we allowed to get old-food smelly

A nice dress sock on which the puppy peed

Blankies from the couch in front of the telly

The terry-cloth that toweled the shaving bleed

 

In the laundry room where all these wreckages convene

There to be made all fresh and bright and clean –

 

Let us give thanks for the washing machine!

 

A Shepherd's Path from the Mountain of La Salette - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

 

A Shepherd’s Path from the Mountain of La Salette

 

For Reverend Ron Foshage, M.S.

Our Lady’s Faithful Missionary

 

 

The old order changeth, yielding place to new

 

-Tennyson, Idylls of the King

 

 

We don’t know if the cart drivers have stopped swearing

Or if the potato crops are doing well this year

Or if the rocks have indeed become wheat

Or if everyone prays an Ave each day

 

We don’t know if the Field of Coin still flourishes

Or if the people of Corps faithfully attend Mass

Or if barefoot boys and girls still herd sheep

Or if they listen, as did Melanie and Maximin

 

But we do know that Our Lady of La Salette

To care for us through our pilgrimage in time

In a land far from that holy mountain

Has blessed us with Her most faithful missionary

 

Through the ordinal cycles of seasons and feasts

He served the Table in the Name of the Lord

He baptized us, taught us, confirmed us, confessed us

Married us, anointed us, and buried our dead

 

Through blessed years and tears and nights and days –

But now to the Will of God

We surrender him with thanks and prayers and praise

 

 

And God fulfils Himself in many ways

 

-Tennyson