Sunday, October 2, 2005
[1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi, political and spiritual leader, born in Porbandar, India]
[1879 - Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, born in Reading, Pennsylvania]
[1890 - Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx, comedian, TV host, born in New York City]
[1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as
first African-American Supreme Court justice]
Old Mother Hubbard
Our President Bush
Went to the Congress
To throw his rich cronies a bone;
But when we came there
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor people had none.
He took a clean dish
To feed us some tripe;
And when he came back
Some swallowed the hype.
He went over to Baghdad
To buy the troops bread;
But when he came back
Some poor lads were dead.
He went to the undertaker
To buy them some coffins;
But someone got pictures
And no one was laughing.
He went to New Orleans
To bring victims relief;
But when he came back
T'was too late by a week.
Mike Brown made a curtsey,
George Bush made a bow;
Brownie said, "Not my fault."
The dog said, "Bow wow."
William's Whimsical Words:
Total failure of representative government.
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