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franklin-bifocals-60 Thursday, May 1, 2008
Star of David with eternal flame Yom Ha-Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day observed)

Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe/
[1764 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect, born in Yorkshire, England]

Labor Leader Mother Jones
[1830 - Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones, labor leader, born in Cork, Ireland]

Admiral Dewey in Battle of Manila Bay
[1898 - Battle of Manila Bay, Admiral Dewey defeats Spanish in Philippines]

Actor Glenn Ford
[1916 - Glenn Ford (Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford), actor, born in Quebec City, Quebec]

Jack Paar
[1918 - Jack Paar, TV host of Tonight Show, born in Canton, Ohio]

Writer Joseph Heller Heller - Catch 22
[1923 - Joseph Heller, writer, born in Brooklyn, New York]

Empire State Building
[1931 - Empire State Building in NYC opened to public by President Herbert Hoover]

President Bush in a flight suit pretending to be a warrior
[2003 - President Bush stages photo-op on USS Abraham Lincoln]
(Please See Below)


Mission Accomplished
(With Apologies to Dorothy Parker)

Upon my honor, he shocked like Madonna,
When he landed on the Abraham Lincoln.
A flight suit wore Bush to cover his tush.
Honest Abe's eyes are still blinking.
Abraham Lincoln blinks Bush in Flight

The sign told a lie as he fell from the sky
To tell the press that combat was over. Bush with Banner
The troops who since died are so satisfied
To hear this as they push up the clover.

flag-draped coffins

No one could see Saddam's WMD,
When they searched all over Iraq.
The government lied; war is unjustified.
Some brave troops are not coming back.

In vain sought he grace and tried to save face.
As he sent more troops to their death.
A Surge will he make, to compound his mistake.
While someone else's kids draw a last breath.

coffins closeup


William's Whimsical Words:

He must have accomplished the mission, else why would we have renewed his contract?


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