Friday, June 18, 2021

Today's Timericks: McConnell vows to block voting legislation, spurning Manchin’s compromise offer.

 




Old McConnell had a farm/where he did a lot of harm/blocking legislation aimed/at injustice to be tamed/A Senator who slops the hogs/while we're going to the dogs.



Record-setting heat blasts the West: ‘Your skin is almost sizzling.'

(WaPo)

It's so hot in western states/there's a law against ice skates/Temperatures have gone so high/that the lakes do ossify/Even Mr. Scratch won't stay/but tucks his tail and runs away/This is global warming writ/large enough to make us . . . um, sit up and take notice.


Bitcoin miners exit China, beat a path to the U.S. as crypto climate shifts.

(WaPo)

From their humble little cottage/bitcoin miners use much wattage/They consume entire grids/putting climate on the skids/What that means to you and me/is we won't have much a.c./Rolling brownouts soon will start/showing miners have no heart.



Some states are cutting off emergency food-assistance programs and making it harder to qualify.

(WaPo)

20 million people in the good ol' USA/go hungry on occasion -- not from diets, anyway/State governments are cutting aid to those who need it most/and think they're saving money -- so, at least, is what they boast/Just remember, governors, that starving people vote/maybe at the ballot, or perhaps with creosote. 

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