Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Eleven days into 2016 and still recovering from the hustle and bustle of the preceding year end holidays I was looking for something to get me back to normal and give me a great belly splitting laugh. But that laugh needed to be a laugh caused by something that was funny because of the great truths it held. Today that great belly splitting laugh happened. June 28, 2015 Jeff Landry, an aide to Donald Trump, scratched the back of his right leg with his left shoe, stalling. You have to answer just right , or he goes apeshit . Jeff remembered grimly what a pleasant change he’d thought this job would be, but now he looked back on those six harrowing weeks working for Harvey Weinstein like a long-ago Hanukkah. The question Trump had put to him was “How do we close this?” Jeff played it safe: “I say go big.” Trump lit up. “I can do big,” he said. “This whole thing, which was my idea, incidentally, and a very good idea, really a very gr
A Wry Memorial
ReplyDeleteThe Swarthy Ones took over;
And made weapons of four planes.
The riders had no cover;
They suffered dreadful pains
That ended once their deathtraps
Burst into roaring fires
Turning instantly to mere scraps––
Cinders––made of former flyers.
The burning towers crumpled,
And fell into the street.
New York was more than rumpled;
Briefly, it knew defeat.
The nation drew together;
We felt collective grief.
Anger broke its tether;
To express it gave relief.
But only ten years hence
We're at each other's throats;
We've built ourselves a fence
Over which the Devil gloats.
We've failed to give the orders
To build a proper wall
Sealing off our borders
To the fiends who’d have us fall.
Instead, we've made division––
Went to war against ourselves––
And are mired in derision
Sparked by partisan elves,
Who forget this blessed land
In pursuit of powers lost
In close elections manned
By fraud. So, tempest-tossed
The country is in turmoil.
The enemy's our own.
He says it's all for Big Oil,
And he'll soon usurp the Throne.
The heap of twisted rubble
Raising toxic fumes for weeks
No longer gives us trouble
Because of media leaks
Designed to throw us off the scent
Of whom we need to blame
And encourage ruinous dissent
That hopes to break the frame
That holds us all together
And preserves our liberty,
So many now doubt whether
We really should be free.
And each rabble rousing louse
Should 'neath these words be pinned:
"He who troubleth his own house
Shall inherit–––the wind"
~ FreeThinke
A well written and insightful, yet wry memorial indeed. There lies truth in those words so welled penned.
DeleteAnd as we speak, the extremists are attacking our Embassy in Egypt - again, over free speech. This, I'm afraid, is going to generations long battle.
ReplyDeleteIf you show weakness the enemy will attack, if you display strength they will hide, plot, and wait. They thought Bush was an idiot and so they attacked, boy were they wrong. Obama shows that he is no leader and they continue to attacks us and we apologize for free speech. You want to change things, you have that opportunity in November so take that into account as you pull that lever. More of the same or change or protest, those are the choices. Will it be significant change or enough change, don't know and can't say but it won't be more of the same which at this point is about all we can hope for in November.
ReplyDeleteI remember 9/11 well because on that day I was on the National Airborne Operations Center and on the 5th anniversary I was in Iraq, so I do remember and know what happens when you project weakness.
Obama is not so much the idiot as you think. I fully support the drone policy, and the savage apes who murdered these heroic Americans might full well find a drone looking at them soon. Or so I hope.
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