Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Verse-afire The Writings of Walter Erickson ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://verse-afire.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [The Time Has Come](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-time-has-come/) - The passage of unseeing time has brought me to the place I knew was my inevitable destination. I am no longer able to see well enough to continue, and am therefore closing down Verse-afire with this, my last post, my favorite verse, or poem, as you will. You may decide for yourself which it is. - [All The King's Horses](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-the-kings-horses/) - November elections the Republicans will retain the House and gain seats in the Senate. And the following day, after the votes are counted, comes the reckoning. President Trump will give Mueller 48 hours to produce evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election, and that will be the - [Ford's Theater](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fords-theater/) - At this writing it appears that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, despite all the efforts of the Democrats and their willing liar, Christine Blasey Ford, to smear him with a false claim of rape when they were both in high school some thirty-six years ago. - [The Termite Hill](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-termite-hill/) - A recent study of all female termite colonies has shown that life can exist with only one gender, and radical feminism seems determined to bring this about by removing males from the process if not the planet, It is not clear that the sixties radical feminists had a fifty year plan to destroy the concept - [Blue Shadows](https://verse-afire.com/blog/blue-shadows/) - Today’s problems, massive seeming as they are to us, will, in time, be as shadows on the restless, shifting sand. Listening to Susan Wise Bauer’s magisterial three volume history of man from earliest myths to the renaissance, I became aware, not for the first time, that everything in the past is like blue shadows dimly - [The Eternal Beauty](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-eternal-beauty-2/) - Beautiful beyond imagining, from the dimmest galaxies at the farthest red shift edges to the deepest ocean canyon on planet Earth; from the scream of a hawk to the fragile beating of a butterfly’s wings; from a Beethoven sonata to a sad and wistful Gaelic folksong; to the majestic arc of an upper deck home - [Unrequited Love](https://verse-afire.com/blog/unrequited-love/) - A quiet movement has arisen among middle and working class White Americans who have for generations voted Democrat, but who have belatedly recognized that the Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party of their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, but is now the party of Marx, Engels and Hugo Chavez, and they want nothing - [A Pledge Of Allegiance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-pledge-of-allegiance-2/) - In anticipation of a leftist win in 2020, and a return to leftist normality, I have, by a series of clever ruses, come into possession of a top secret Pledge Of Allegiance to be issued by the newly elected Socialist Democrat administration, and which will require, under penalty of law, that every man, woman, child - [Lies, Smears And Stupidity](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lies-smears-and-stupidity-2/) - The Republican majority Senate Judiciary Committee has invited both Judge Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Ford, to an open hearing on September 24 to resolve the validity of her accusation that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her 36 years ago when they were both teenagers. She has no contemporaneous police report and no contemporaneous record of - [All Alone](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-alone-4/) - The astronomers and cosmologists have now assured us that they have solved the puzzle of the nature of the universe. We are told the universe is composed of 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, 4.9% protons, neutrons and electrons, 0.1% neutrinos and anti-neutrinos, and 0.008% photons, a quite reassuring degree of exactitude. We are further - [A Pledge Of Allegiance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-pledge-of-allegiance/) - In anticipation of a leftist win in 2020, and a return to leftist normality, I have, by a series of clever ruses, come into possession of a top secret Pledge Of Allegiance to be issued by the newly elected Socialist Democrat administration, and which will require, under penalty of law, that every man, woman, child - [Lies, Smears And Stupidity](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lies-smears-and-stupidity/) - The Republican majority Senate Judiciary Committee has invited both Judge Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Ford, to an open hearing on September 24 to resolve the validity of her accusation that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her 36 years ago when they were both teenagers. She has no contemporaneous police report and no contemporaneous record of - [All Alone](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-alone-3/) - The astronomers and cosmologists have now assured us that they have solved the puzzle of the nature of the universe. We are told the universe is composed of 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, 4.9% protons, neutrons and electrons, 0.1% neutrinos and anti-neutrinos, and 0.008% photons, a quite reassuring degree of exactitude. We are further - [All Alone](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-alone-2/) - The astronomers and cosmologists have now assured us that they have solved the puzzle of the nature of the universe. We are told the universe is composed of 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, 4.9% protons, neutrons and electrons, 0.1% neutrinos and anti-neutrinos, and 0.008% photons, a quite reassuring degree of exactitude. We are further - [Silversides](https://verse-afire.com/blog/silversides/) - I have been a Navy guy since my mommy bought me a sailor suit when I was five. Now I’m just another old fogey discontented with the present, but I wish the Navy still named its submarines after fish, its cruisers after cities, its carriers after battles or historic ships of fighting sail, and not - [The Firefly](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-firefly/) - Behold the lovely fireflies With blinkers on they’re racing Around the bush as twilight dies The pretty girls they’re chasing With beating heart she picks him out His blinking flashers regnant He sees her and he wants to shout And get her quickly pregnant Alas he never makes the claim Though still she waits and - [The Puppet Master](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-puppet-master/) - It seems obvious, given the evidence, that the failed attempt by the willing puppets in the Obama Justice Department and Intelligence Agencies to prevent Donald Trump winning the election, was planned, orchestrated and directed by President Obama, secure in the belief that a guaranteed Hillary victory would cover all tracks. But Mr. Trump won despite - [So Quiet Fall The Tears](https://verse-afire.com/blog/so-quiet-fall-the-tears/) - A reading of history reveals that freedom, culture and the passage of the centuries are as elusive as slowly moving shadows upon the endless desert. Empires rise, only to disappear into the mist of time, lost to memory, as if its people and glory had never been. Disappearance without a trace is our fate, but - [My Country](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-country-2/) - A nation has history, and culture and art And science and rivers and streams And people who work on the land from the start And reach for impossible dreams A nation has industry, cities and towns And wheat fields uncut by the knife And millions of kids in their caps and their gowns All bursting - [History Lesson](https://verse-afire.com/blog/history-lesson-2/) - I spoke recently to my great-great-grandson, as yet unborn, and I asked what he had learned in school that day. His eyes widened as he told me what he had learned. I love my school, great-great-grandpa He said with great excitement In history our teacher told Of how the great enlightment Came to the country - [I'm In And You're Out](https://verse-afire.com/blog/im-in-and-youre-out/) - The dispossessing of native inhabitants by newcomers is as old as every species, animal or vegetable, and is possible only when the invading species is superior in some way to the native species, if only in numbers. In recent experience the replacement of the native European population by a foreign species, the North African muslim, - [The Lemonade Stand](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lemonade-stand-2/) - I remember well when as a lad I climbed the front yard tree Aware the freedom that I had To see what I could see The vacant lot where I played ball The house where I did live My memories complete recall But now a battered sieve Oh I recall things of the past The - [A Stinking Corpse](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-stinking-corpse/) - The wave of populism sweeping the United States and Western Europe is the result of decades of abuse, disdain and contempt by the left for the people who work, pay their taxes and salute the flag. In the United States the Democratic Party lies writhing in the streets, a rotting, stinking corpse. From the election - [No News Is Good News](https://verse-afire.com/blog/no-news-is-good-news-2/) - It has been said that a newspaper is a living thing, and since all living things die, the passing of the newspaper is a natural event, and to some, even a sad event. But all living things cycle through the stages of birth, adulthood, joint pain, senility and death. The American newspaper is now in - [No News Is Good News](https://verse-afire.com/blog/no-news-is-good-news/) - It has been said that a newspaper is a living thing, and since all living things die, the passing of the newspaper is a natural event, and to some, even a sad event. But all living things cycle through the stages of birth, adulthood, joint pain, senility and death. The American newspaper is now in - [The End Of The World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-end-of-the-world-3/) - Some said that if the world is ending one day It might as well be on a rainy Monday While others said if there’s a get to choose day They’d much prefer it happened on a Tuesday Some shrugged and said it really all depends day As long as it is not an Ifs but - [Regrets](https://verse-afire.com/blog/regrets/) - I do not understand this compulsion of some, particularly those in authority, to constantly apologize, even when apologizing for something they, personally, did not do. Why this sudden effusion of regret? I don’t keep track of my regrets Not even when the tension gets So high that I can’t stand the pain I stay composed, - [Anti-matter And The Stars](https://verse-afire.com/blog/anti-matter-and-the-stars/) - I was okay with the invention of the printing press and telephone, I was cool with the invention of the horseless carriage and the aeroplane, but I wonder if perhaps we have not gone too far with the invention of the smart phone, the drone, the robot and artificial intelligence. What happens when we find - [Just Having Fun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/just-having-fun-2/) - When I did my wash I always included seven short sleeve shirts, and occasionally one or two would come out of the dryer inside out, but last week all seven came out of the dryer inside out. Was this a natural phenomenon or the washer and dryer having fun? An object that’s inanimate That’s made - [The Dancing Unicorns](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dancing-unicorns/) - It has often been said that as Germany goes so goes Europe. It is becoming more and more difficult to believe that despite the difficulties with Muslim immigrants and homegrown environmentalists that Europe will somehow right itself. The delusion of mortal danger from the CO2 we exhale with every breath, and without which every living - [Arithmetic](https://verse-afire.com/blog/arithmetic-2/) - Quantum physics shows that time And space do not exist The real and the illusion are the same But somehow little numbers Shake their heads and do insist That they are real and still can play the game Max Planck discovered Quantum And the world forever changed What once seemed true became just ancient lore - [The Murk](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-murk-2/) - I spoke to Reality the other day, and he said, “I am, like you, an intelligent being, with a body to house myself, a brain to think, pellucid lenses to see, and appendages to push my body through the murk." I agreed that pushing our bodies through the murk was the most we could hope - [The Ashes Of Your Fathers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ashes-of-your-fathers/) - I do not believe for a single moment that Angela Merkel and the EU made a risk/benefit assessment before allowing millions of military age Muslim men into their countries, given the prior violent history of Muslims invited into Europe, going back to early days when Indonesia gained independence as a result of civil war and - [The Number 9 Bus](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-number-9-bus/) - I have reached the age where I am often surrounded in memory with grandparents, parents, younger sisters and aunts, uncles and cousins without number. I even attempt on occasion to return to that time by taking the number 9 bus. The bus rocked gently on the uneven blacktop, stopping every few blocks to let off - [Nothing Changes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/nothing-changes/) - For those of us who grew up when The radio was king The world is now a very different place A place where saying love of country Is the only thing Now brings a sneer and laughter in our face We lived in towns and cities where The doors were never locked And kids were - [The Box](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-box/) - Consider that the universe we see is an illusion, and we are, in fact, in a notional box with a transparent top on which the stars and moving planets wheel in concert, and on whose sides are revealed the images of the world around us. Inside this notional box we are surrounded by family, friends - [The Madness Of Clouds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-madness-of-clouds/) - The Pentagon announced recently that it was storing all its most sensitive data in the cloud. But what is a could but water vapor heated by the sun, its motions determined by the vagaries of the winds, far more substantial than any man-made invisible cloud of electrons. Putting all your most sensitive data in an - [Poet And Peasant](https://verse-afire.com/blog/poet-and-peasant-2/) - The poet knows not of the wild neutrino That travels at the stately speed of light A datum that astounds the campesino Who asks if light’s so fast how come there’s night To sculptors marble marks their lives as lithic The painter lives for pigments and for tints While I who thinks my life has - [The Wager And The Glory](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-wager-and-the-glory/) - The wager has never been, Is there a God? The existence of God has always been a given, whether named Marduk, Zeus or Yahweh. No, the wager has always been, Is God on my side? For if God is on our side, then all is possible, but if God is not on our side then - [The Saga Of Gundar Hafnilsson](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-saga-of-gundar-hafnilsson-2/) - Mad Gundar is my name And thunder is my game I sail the storm-tossed seas of ice and cold I cross the ocean wide Beyond the great divide Once crossed by ancient mariners of old To lands far in the west Where once none would have guessed That skraelings would have danced upon the shore - [Memories Of Youth](https://verse-afire.com/blog/memories-of-youth/) - The older we get the less we think about China and politics and the more we think of our friends of the past, remembering the good times, the laugh times, the girls and women, and most of all, we think about our best buddy, the guy we grew up with, drank beer with, argued with - [The Patriarch](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-patriarch/) - By the middle of the 19th century it was clear that the days of principalities and tribal boundaries were at an end, and it became obvious to all that the nation-state was the final stage in the political development of humanity; Family, Clan, Tribe, City-State and now Nation State. I would argue that the next - [Ice Cubes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ice-cubes-2/) - In Britain recently, refrigerators were exploding due to the substitution of green approved refrigerant gases to replace the non-green approved CFCs (Freon). The monster sits there ill at ease A-humming in its way Knowing that he cannot freeze And gonna blow today The dishwasher just sits and stares The range is hunching low They’re waiting - [Chickamauga](https://verse-afire.com/blog/chickamauga-2/) - The battle of Chickamauga was fought September 18 to 20, 1863, between the Confederate Army of the Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland. Today the site is peaceful, but on those three days Hell had visited Earth. A distant hint of butternut In silence came the host Across the fields to where the - [The Blue Grotto](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-blue-grotto/) - The president of the United States may be the most powerful man in the world, but he is still only a man, conflicted, at times unsure, for life is an inky black pool in a beautiful blue grotto, and sometimes life is bitter cold ice. He swam effortlessly through the deep, sparkling water. Like a - [Rulers Of The World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/rulers-of-the-world/) - With rare exceptions the rulers of the world have been men. But rulers are generally only 12 inches tall, with three rulers equal to a yard, some 3.36 inches short of a meter. Women, on the other hand, are usually a little taller than that. Now take young Alexander The Issus he did cross We’re - [The China Clipper](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-china-clipper/) - Way back before World War 2 Pan American World Airways flew giant flying boats across the Pacific to places like the Philippines and China. A flying boat, for those too young to have ever heard of them, were large four engine airplanes that could take off from and land on water, Great range but slow - [500 Nights](https://verse-afire.com/blog/500-nights/) - Fueled by massive illegal immigrant votes and the mysterious behavior of voting machines in deep red precincts to return large Democrat majorities, a bright blue wave swept the House and Senate. The impeachment and trial of president Trump, filled with fake evidence provided by the FBI and intelligence agencies, lasted two years. The blue tsunami - [The Taming Of The Stars](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-taming-of-the-stars/) - Yes the past is here to stay But the present’s in the way Of that grand and golden future of our dreams Gleaming cities on a hill Old age vanished with a pill No the future never comes or so it seems When man first beheld the stars He did dream that one day cars - [Snake Eyes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/snake-eyes/) - Political writer Don Surber writes that Obama is the first communist president. He uses a lower case ‘c’, denoting a pacific form of communal governance as opposed to the upper case ‘C’ of Stalinist style communism. I believe Mr. Surber is too charitable. Obama and his entire administration, including CIA Director Brennan, were and are - [Ant Hills](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ant-hills/) - Several billion dollars has been stolen from a Malaysian government fund over the past few years and the United States Justice Department has revealed that the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the Clinton Foundation profited from the stolen money. Oh for the days corruption, crime Was done by guys like Harry Lime Who plied their trade - [Julie Baby](https://verse-afire.com/blog/julie-baby/) - It has been said that time is nature’s way of seeing that everything doesn’t happen all at once. But what if everything did happen all at once, and time is just a perception, what if the universe runs on different rules than we, and Julius Caesar is alive and well, at least until the Ides. - [The Sword And The Stone](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sword-and-the-stone/) - Do we say this more in Soros than in anger? No. We say it in anger. The con game is over. The European elites’ vision of perpetual rule by open borders and unlimited third world immigration has collapsed like a pricked soufflé. Using American taxpayers as a piggy bank for seventy plus years is at - [The Tower](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-tower/) - The tower stands upon the hill Surrounded by the serf worked fields Inside the local chieftain’s will Commands by right of force he wields The tower stands against the might Of neighbors who would plunder all And enemies who take delight In planning for the tower’s fall But towers seldom fall by force They fall - [The River Of War](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-river-of-war-2/) - Down the Guadalquivir, the old river of war From Seville to the sea and then west To the sun spattered lands of the Aztecs they bore en of steel, men of Spain, Europe’s best That was then, this is now, golden days are long gone When the ships and the men put to sea And - [The IDF](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-idf/) - The mullahs are quite sincere in their desire and ultimate aim to completely destroy the hated Zionist Entity, Israel, seemingly undeterred by knowledge that Israel has hydrogen bombs and survivable means to deliver them, and any attack on Israel will be met with the full fury of the Israeli Defense Forces that wlll leave Iran - [The Flawed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-flawed-2/) - Flawed first drafts of history are written by flawed writers about flawed subjects and flawed policies, and read and believed or disbelieved by flawed readers. The word flawed rhymes with fraud, especially and particularly in politics. So when a flawed man such as Donald Trump who is not a fraud emerges in full public view, - [The Flawed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-flawed/) - Flawed first drafts of history are written by flawed writers about flawed subjects and flawed policies, and read and believed or disbelieved by flawed readers. The word flawed rhymes with fraud, especially and particularly in politics. So when a flawed man such as Donald Trump who is not a fraud emerges in full public view, - [Reflections At Slack Water](https://verse-afire.com/blog/reflections-at-slack-water/) - A long time ago I spent many hours in a small boat, fishing the back bays of the southern New Jersey coast. On rare occasions, when slack water, dead calm and the sun was at just the right angle, the bay would be like a sheet of glass, and when I looked over the side - [Generation Who?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/generation-who/) - I was born in 1929 so I missed being of the Greatest Generation, and have had to live my life in the shameful knowledge that my generation was not called so much as adequate, and in fact had no name at all. Looking back I can see that my generation were ‘tweeners; between the Greatest - [The Mark](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-mark/) - “I don’t know about you, but I’m used to when people legally certify that they are going to do something, that they do it. But I think this was clearly a mistake in retrospect,” Zuckerberg said. “We need to make sure we don’t make that mistake ever again.” “How dastardly that loathsome shark Could make - [The Night The Wolves Came](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-night-the-wolves-came-2/) - Uneasily the sled dogs slept How quiet was the night As red eyed wolves in silence crept The tethered dogs in sight The sled dogs whimpered in the snow Awake, they waited fate They knew that one of them would go But which, they could but wait The red eyes ran with frosty breath How - [Blade Runner](https://verse-afire.com/blog/blade-runner/) - Science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick has given us a small peek at the future: Asian megacities crowded beyond measurement, and if the future as shown in Blade Runner was not enough, add violent and corrupt local government and security forces, tribal hatred and conflict and simmering, explosive discontent. This is the future of humankind as - [The Plan](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-plan/) - The attempted coup against the newly elected president began with Obama setting The Plan in motion the day after Trump won the election, and would be carried out by the Obama Intelligence agencies and the FBI and Justice Department. We are all aware by now of the nature of The Plan. It seems to me - [Electric Rain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/electric-rain/) - Falling in love is like walking in electric rain. Tingles as the first few drops gently touch your skin, the tingles growing in intensity as the rain increases in volume and velocity, until you are stark raving mad in love. Age is no barrier. Young, old, rich, poor. We have all been there. We have - [Not So Cold](https://verse-afire.com/blog/not-so-cold/) - There is a not so cold civil war going on, and only one side is fighting it. The left has been captured by the Jacobins, who want nothing more than to kill all who disagree so as to rule the promised utopia without hindrance. The problem for the Jacobins is that the guillotines do not - [The Ship](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ship-3/) - The ship of State is under siege by the corrupt leadership of the FBI, Justice Department and the Intelligence Agencies who are determined to overthrow the government of the United States and remove a lawfully elected and innocent president from office. The rolling sea The howling gale The shore alee The stricken sail The crashing - [The Future Revealed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-future-revealed/) - I take issue with the assertion that predicting the future is difficult. My friend Waltradamus has always said that predicting the future was not at all difficult, but that getting it right was problematic, though he did admit he had correctly predicted the election of a long forgotten Finnish prime minister, the attempted assassination of - [Trump Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/trump-time/) - Has the world drifted out of the familiar old groove and into an uncertain new period? It looks like it. But then the only thing about old grooves is that they are old. Old grooves sometimes become old ruts Where all becomes ifs ands and buts Stuck in the once was groovy past In the - [The Rolling Sands](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-rolling-sands/) - The rolling sands stretch into time The beckoning hills in distance wait The sea spray flecks the beach with rime The runner listens to his gait Beyond the hills he knows not what He only knows that he must go He leaves his house, his home, his hut And why it is he does not - [Gorillas In The Mist](https://verse-afire.com/blog/gorillas-in-the-mist/) - Stormy Daniels may be big news, but bigger news happened at the Philadelphia zoo recently. A gorilla was caught on tape walking upright on two legs, hurrying along, arms swinging, as if running to catch the 8:14 to town. This, once upon a time, was us, and in another hundred thousand years or so, with - [A Better Place](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-better-place/) - Many people see a problem with Russian president Vladimir Putin, but I don’t see a problem here. All Putin wants is a better place for his country and its people, just like everyone else. Doesn’t he? A place Where beautiful the cool green grass And sassy is the pretty lass Where summer is the time - [Gazprom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/gazprom/) - If the Steele dossier is accurate, and we know it must be truthful because we know the FBI would never deceive a FISA court in order to advance a political agenda, then the Russian government has promised 20% of Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom to a former Trump campaign hanger-on for unspecified activity. It is - [Mirror, Mirror On The Wall](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-3/) - Reflections of an empty room A curtain moving in the breeze A passing figure briefly seen It cares not all for what it sees The heirloom hanging in the hall Reflects the living, not the dead Who are still there, beneath the new Who will in time have in their stead The newer still, the - [Enough To Make You Wince](https://verse-afire.com/blog/enough-to-make-you-wince/) - Vladimir Putin has announced he now has a missile with a top speed of 3,600 miles per hour, making it impossible for anyone to shoot down, another stealthy missile that runs on nuclear power and therefore has unlimited range, as well as a submersible vehicle so stealthy it can creep up to any coastal city - [A Tinsel Prize](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-tinsel-prize/) - In 1812 Napoleon’s La Grande Armee entered Moscow, believing they had won the war, and shortly thereafter, starving and cold, the Grande Armee set out for home in the dead of winter. Very few made it back to France. The snow so deep, the wind so cold The city far away There’s wealth and food - [Schrodinger's Cat](https://verse-afire.com/blog/schrodingers-cat-2/) - Quantum physics implies that every particle has a twin, a doppelganger. Reminds me of Professor Schrodinger’s now famous thought experiment of the cat in the box, who was either alive or dead, but how could you know without opening the box? Mr. Schrodinger! Where’s my cat? I want to know just where he’s at I - [The Virus](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-virus/) - It has been suggested that the insanity going on in Washington is the result of the entire Democrat Party being infected by an especially virulent virus. I spoke to a virus the other day and she said she was outraged that her kind was being blamed for everything from disease to politics, when in fact - [A Life In Full](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-life-in-full/) - When I was but a child my dreams were never Without a playful laugh, and without care I knew it all would last somehow forever I knew my parents always would be there My youth was filled with plans of life tomorrow It mattered not if dreams were small or great Like most of us - [Those Wonderful Celts](https://verse-afire.com/blog/those-wonderful-celts/) - Proud I am of my Celtic blood As thin as it might be For when the embattled farmers stood They stood for you and me The tapestry the people weave Of deeds of great renown Show Washington one Christmas Eve Cross o’er to Trenton town Yes Irishmen were in those boats And bitter cold that - [Dot Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dot-man/) - The raid on Syria was many things, but what it wasn’t was a message to Assad. It was a message to Kim and Putin, but to Kim in particular before his meeting with Trump in Finland. Let us connect some dots. Obama drew a red line in the sand and then erased it when Assad - [The Darkening Night](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-darkening-night/) - The elected rulers of Western Civilization have, consciously and with purpose, set their people and countries on the path to state suicide, Western Europe by admitting millions of Muslims into the continent who will remove all traces of western thought and culture the moment they achieve political power at the ballot box, and in the - [The Brass Ring](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-brass-ring/) - China’s mercantile economic policy threatens to overtake the United States in world economic leadership. And they may very well get there. The Chinese are going for the brass ring. The Midway smelled of smoke and beer And hot dogs crackerjack and booze The carousel ride hid no fear As couples boarded two by twos Calliopes - [Cornflower Blue](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cornflower-blue-2/) - The mind at times goes drifting back I’m ten and she is too Her hair the shade of sunlit gold And eyes cornflower blue I saw her after years had flown We both now aged and old Her hair still fair but flecked with gray No longer sunlit gold She disappeared into the crowd And - [The Indicted And The Unindicted](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-indicted-and-the-unindicted/) - The Democrat/Mueller witch-hunt against President Trump has indicted a dozen or so Russians for meddling in the 2016 election by organizing rallies against both Hillary and Trump, to which no one came, posting fake news on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which no one read, and other nefarious crimes and misdemeanors, all with the unwitting aid - [Empire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/empire-2/) - The dawning paints the night sky gray And rising with the sun The man takes up the growing day And Empire begun The shining mountains, caps aflame Rise in the morning mist He knows those mountains he must claim ‘Fore entering the list At noon he stands on heights so cold The morning long he - [The Wonders Of Creation](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-wonders-of-creation/) - How wondrous is the stately tree A lake, a glen, a meadowlark A frozen stream, its icy banks Concealing creatures with life’s spark We walk the Earth and stride the stars Imagination’s silver ships Will take us where the distance becks And shower nectar on our lips The universe’s magic glow The beauty of its - [The Dark](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dark/) - The United States is engulfed in a Cold Civil War that will end in darkness, with not even a false dawn to relieve the horror of what is to come. The left has won, at least for now. The Millennials generation, having been told repeatedly by their professors that the United States is evil, believe - [Red Lines](https://verse-afire.com/blog/red-lines/) - At the beginning of March the UN, including Russia, agreed to a 30 day cease fire in Syria to allow civilians to leave the fighting zones. The cease fire failed, and the US gave the Russians notice that when the 30 days have passed without a cease fire they would take action against Syrian forces - [Poison Rain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/poison-rain/) - The purpose of the Obama led campaign to undermine President Trump by poisoning the well of public opinion with the false charge of Russian collusion is to regain power in the midterms of 2018 and regain the White House in 2020. It is in Putin’s interest that this be accomplished because he knows that a - [The N](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-n/) - The Nile existed before time And flowed unvexed to inland sea Through empty lands at once sublime But knowing what would one day be The flowing waters saw the rise Of temple builders on its shores Of Pharaoh kings who ruled the skies And Caesars settling old scores Napoleon would come to grief From Nelson’s - [The Man Upon The Stair](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-man-upon-the-stair-2/) - In the beginning there was nothing Though the nothing wasn’t there So there could be no beginning Without someone on the stair A someone who stepped lightly As he rose with weary tread With his fingers brushed the handrail As he went upstairs to bed Where he dreamed of streaming starlight As the galaxies were - [An Imperceptible Perception](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-imperceptible-perception/) - I was born in the first year of the Herbert Hoover administration, and thus have witnessed the imperceptible slide of my country and its people from the comfort of my easy chair. The perception of the Great Depression by a small boy has no bearing on the reality of the Depression, but by the end - [Tiny Wolves](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tiny-wolves/) - In total dark the dull red eyes Crept up my arm and in my ear They whispered soothing, soft spoke lies Then told me they were never here I lay in bed too scared to move As tiny wolves licked at my toes They smiled and said as if to prove That all was well, - [The Tyrant's Crown](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-tyrants-crown-2/) - The tyrant’s crown so lightly lies Upon smooth brow and smiling eyes It’s gleaming gold in sunlight glows In beauty measured by the rose And yet doth he who wears the crown Record the days that wind him down Until the time of one last breath When gold will not forbid him death - [Guilty Until Proven Innocent](https://verse-afire.com/blog/guilty-until-proven-innocent/) - Emails between FBI agent Peter Strzok, head of counterintelligence, and his Department of Justice girlfriend, Lisa Page, revealed that the two of them were presenting talking points for FBI Director James Comey’s meeting with President Obama to keep him up to date on what the FBI and the Justice Department were doing to rig the - [Illusion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/illusion-3/) - Reality does not exist And neither, friend, does time With both seen through illusion’s mist Reality a mime A thousand years, a blink of eye Is all the same in dreams In deepest night, in darkest sky The stars but flickering gleams We walk through life, our path defined Set in our bidden ways Not - [Nation Building](https://verse-afire.com/blog/nation-building/) - My friend Og sat in front of his cave, sighing that things were just too darned complex. He looked at me and said: It’s just all this complexity Compounded by perplexity And I confess that I don’t have a clue The sun comes up too early And my neighbor’s getting surly And to top it - [Qui Custodiat Ipsos Custodes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/qui-custodiat-ipsos-custodes/) - Senior officials of the Justice Department and the FBI tried to prevent the Republican candidate for president from being elected, and when that failed they tried to overturn the election results and remove him from office. Who will guard the guardians? If this be crime, who doth arrest If treason, who will then attest If - [The Crossbow And The Knight](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-crossbow-and-the-knight/) - Chivalry is dead, the embattled man cried Leaning heavy against his stout horse Dead and buried beneath the sharp incoming tide Dead beneath the foul uncaring gorse! He paused to take breath then resumed his sad tale Edged weapons are things of the past A man is now had for a two penny sale And - [The Winner Deals](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-winner-deals/) - President Trump is trying to protect the castle that is the country by building a wall and closing the southern border, but the Democrats are determined that now that they have raised the portcullis, propped open the gates and lowered the drawbridge, that the gates remain open and undefended against the barbarians. Trump stands guard - [The Land Of Sparkling Wine](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-land-of-sparkling-wine-2/) - The failed European social experiment of being ruled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels is coming to an end. But it was good while it lasted. From the frozen Arctic Circle To the warm winds of the Med From the plains of Eastern Europe To the Channel they were led By the shamans and the grifters - [Grover's Mill](https://verse-afire.com/blog/grovers-mill/) - I was 8, living in South Jersey with my parents and sisters, on the Sunday night in 1938 when Orson Welles spread widespread fear and panic with a radio play adapted from the H. G. Wells novel ‘War of the Worlds’. Well, not exactly. The fictional Grover’s Mill where Martians were landing and killing everyone - [Billionaires](https://verse-afire.com/blog/billionaires/) - To the surprise and chagrin of many on the Left, the very liberal billionaires who attended the recent meeting at Davos cheered the president of the United States, and what is worse, from the Leftist point of view, rejected globalism and embraced Donald Trump’s version of populism. There are billionaires and billionaires And more made - [A Valentine](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-valentine-2/) - In Syria, a Russian force of mercenaries crossed the Euphrates River and attacked an American backed base in defiance of an agreement that they would not operate east of the Euphrates. The group attacked, backed by some old Soviet era tanks and got lit up for their pains, losing over two hundred men Be careful, - [The High School Grad](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-high-school-grad-2/) - Here at last, sweet graduation Time to think of what comes next High school’s done, to much elation Time to choose your college text You must choose ‘twixt art and science Math and English are a must Lit and hist’ry in alliance Without them college is a bust Study hard, don’t dilly dally But take - [Chinese Takeout](https://verse-afire.com/blog/chinese-takeout/) - For hundreds of thousands of years then, me boy We humans ate what lions left And never a one with their food did they toy Because the hyenas were deft At grabbing the carrion right from the hands Of people who tarried until They found themselves fighting off wild dogs in bands Competing for their - [A Lesson From The Past](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-lesson-from-the-past/) - Political pundits continue to caution us of the danger of angering the North Koreans since all of Seoul is within artillery range of the North Korean army, and any attack on North Korea would cost hundreds of thousands of casualties among he populace of the capital city. If the pundits knew a little recent history, - [Just Another Day](https://verse-afire.com/blog/just-another-day/) - The dawn comes first to those who stand On mountain tops and serried steeps Far from the sullied land below Where Gaia in her sorrow weeps The land below first sees the dawn As misty shadows growing gray And shadow-like the groundlings wake To find the dream they seek today Yet by day’s end the - [Soldiers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/soldiers-2/) - We honor all who serve our country, whether Air Force, Navy, Marines or Army, for they are all soldiers. Technology neither causes war nor wins or loses wars. Wars are fought by men, fought for religion, for tin and copper, for trade routes, for survival, for revenge, for every motive conceived by man, and even, - [Interregnum](https://verse-afire.com/blog/interregnum/) - In a previous post, History And The Man, I compared President Donald Trump to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in the sense of both men changing the course of history. The difference between them is the degree to which the change of course lasts. Churchill’s change of the course of history will last forever, because Hitler - [Do Empires Really Die?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/do-empires-really-die/) - All empires die. Rome and Carthage are no more, the Pharaohs and the Hittites are no more. But are they really dead? No they are not, for like the outgoing tide, something is always left behind. Phoenicia surely is no more But what if they’d not gone before How would our alphabet be seen Would - [The Spider And The Weevil](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-spider-and-the-weevil/) - T. S. Eliot wondered if the spider, in a wilderness of mirrors, would suspend operations, and would the weevil delay. The spider does not cease its toil Nor weevil doth delay The daily round of endless work That won’t admit of play But weevils have no mirrors and The spider in the grass Sees not - [The Power Of Persuasion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-power-of-persuasion/) - The success of any country’s foreign policy has always been, and will always be, dependent on that country’s economic and military power being greater, in relative terms, than its rivals. Theorists may disagree, but history does not. The soldier often does not see the overarching plan But multiply him by the million score And add - [The Plates Of Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-plates-of-time/) - Is time more precious to a Mayfly who lives for a day than it is to a leatherback turtle who lives for two hundred years? Or are all lifetimes equal in length? Time is not a passing stream Of man and man’s events All measured by our inner clock In order to make sense Tectonic - [The Pendulum](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-pendulum-3/) - The pendulum’s amazing grace Is captured in its steady pace It swings a measured arc in time Steadfastness at its most sublime And yet the pendulum disturbed Can act in many ways perturbed Once set in motion to correct A perceived flaw that leads direct To acts that cause the weight to swing In greater - [History And The Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/history-and-the-man/) - I don’t know what the future holds in detail, but I know that all futures, and therefore all histories, are determined by the actions of the indispensable man. In the Spring of 1940, as the German panzers raced across France, driving the 300,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force onto the beaches at Dunkirk, one - [Mighty Croesus](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mighty-croesus-2/) - The king of Lydia was the richest man in the world, yet he lost it all in a quest for power. The tale has been told of how his wise men told him that if he crossed the Halys River into Persia he would destroy a kingdom. Misunderstanding the warning, he crossed the river, and - [Youthful Days](https://verse-afire.com/blog/youthful-days-2/) - When I think of my youthful days And of the very many ways I diced with danger, laughing at the game I climbed tall trees and billboards too I truly did enjoy the view Up high where eagles soared and called my name I rode my bike at breakneck speed And even when I’d start - [Colossus](https://verse-afire.com/blog/colossus/) - Foreign governments complain that the United States is violating international law by leaving the Paris Accords and renewing trade deals and such, but international law is whatever the big guy says it is. Twentieth and twenty-first century institutions of international law were always a means to constrain Colossus, who was constrained only to the extent - [Wheel Of Fortune](https://verse-afire.com/blog/wheel-of-fortune/) - Is it all just chance? Carthage was at the height of its power at about the time Romulus and Remus began suckling at the teat of the wolf. And so it goes. The laden ships, the Inland Sea Mighty Baal, thy kingdom be Bestride the world, thy ships for hire Adventurers who left old Tyre - [The Rhodes Less Traveled](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-rhodes-less-traveled/) - Ben Rhodes was the principal advisor to President Obama during the negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, the deal that gave Iran everything it wanted up front, including permission to build nuclear weapons as soon as the deal ran out and 150 billion dollars in cash which it promptly used to - [The Old Ways Are Best](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-old-ways-are-best/) - My friend Og sat in front of his cave, chewing on a piece of a large hairy beast slowly burning on the fire. Why not, I said, use forks and knives To help your many kids and wives Consume yon hairy beast with some dispatch? He grunted as he turned to stare Into the flames - [A World That Was](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-world-that-was/) - The American Civil War had its moments of glory, but mostly it had sadness and homesickness. The campfire low, the men in gray Sat in the dark, as still as stone Intent upon the fiddler’s play The mournful notes, the sorrowed tone Beyond the trees, blue pickets lie Enraptured by the haunting tune That said - [A Pre-Christmas Gift](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-pre-christmas-gift/) - Obama gave the Mullahs their Christmas presents early, hoping to receive his presents sometime down the road, but an election intervened and Obama’s future Christmas presents have been lost in transit. And so there he was, in a pre-Christmas mode With presents for Mullahs, with his down the road His reasons far-reaching, his mind crystal - [The Eve](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-eve/) - ‘Tis the season for an Eve of Christmas poem in iambic pentameter as it might have been delivered in elegantly ringing Elizabethan tones from the hallowed boards of the Globe Theater in late 16th century England. On stage, the Companions rise as the King raises his glass and exclaims ‘Tis Christmas Eve and midnight draws - [The Untroubled Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-untroubled-man/) - He softly walks the forest of his mind Each bole the storehouse of his threaded thought The leaves and branches supple, intertwined His life full laid upon what he’d been taught He rests beside the freely flowing brook Each pebble washed to brilliant diamond shine The dancing light to him an open book The air - [The Virtue Scam](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-virtue-scam/) - Global warming/climate change was always a virtue scam, designed to make guys like Al Gore very rich by selling virtue in the form of carbon credits to captains of industry desirous of staying on the right side of the leftist political establishment. It made no difference to the scammers or to the scammed that there - [Hysteria](https://verse-afire.com/blog/hysteria/) - Hysteria grips us and drives us insane No proof is required, the guilt will remain For daring to say that a woman is cute And holding a door is the act of a brute Assault is what anyone wants it to be And feminists cry men must sit down to pee Where maleness is toxic - [Shiloh It Ain't](https://verse-afire.com/blog/shiloh-it-aint/) - The Democrats are giddy with excitement about the results of the recent Alabama special Senate election, won by a Democrat for the first time in 28 years. But before you get your underwear all twisted up, the Alabama special election was not Shiloh or Cold Harbor. Yes, the country is at political war with itself, - [The Road To Brussels Fair](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-road-to-brussels-fair-2/) - The crossroads beckoned up ahead The weary traveler stopped And looked about in fear and dread Which path should he adopt? One road led on to Brussels Fair Bright roses lined the way The other led to who knows where What price be there to pay? He chose the road where roses in Profusion did - [The Wizard](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-wizard-2/) - Against the dark forbidding sky Competing with the distant stars The flickering yellow tower light Aligns with red ascendant Mars The Wizard, lonely and unseen Is hard at work, his spells uncast While in the tower minions toil To craft new versions of the past The Wizard takes no company His life is hard, his - [Human Nature And The Typing Pool](https://verse-afire.com/blog/human-nature-and-the-typing-pool/) - We are in another of our frequent feeding frenzies, this time destroying men who have merely been acting like men have been acting for the entire existence of the human race. Their crime? Patting a woman on the ass. Sexual assault is one thing, patting a woman on the behind is another, and yet the - [Blinkers On, Changing Lanes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/blinkers-on-turning-lanes/) - The car in front of me kept switching lanes, blinkers flashing, first in front of me and next one lane over. We both pulled into a diner and I asked him why all the lane changes since we were the only two cars on the road. He shrugged and said, I’ve been progressive all my - [A Brave New World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-brave-new-world-2/) - In early April 1862, P.G.T Beauregard’s Army of the Mississippi had pushed U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee back to Shiloh Church, threatening to destroy it, when Don Carlos Buell arrived with reinforcements, announcing his arrival with the words, “If stupidity and hard fighting are what you need, here we are.” Contrast this with - [Turning Into The Wind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/turning-into-the-wind/) - At times the thermals drove me high At times I nearly left the sky As downdrafts plunged me close to earth As gulls and petrels screamed in mirth Yet here I am, near journey’s end Just counting down the days I spend In searching for the sea Surrounded by spare arctic birds Who sang of - [Tired](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tired/) - For a year now, beginning with the day after the November 2016 presidential election, the Democrats have tried to blame the loss by Hillary Clinton, whom all good Democrats believe to be the most qualified person on the planet to be president of the United States, to a vulgar New York hillbilly outsider named Donald - [Homo naledi](https://verse-afire.com/blog/homo-naledi/) - The bones of the hominin Homo naledi were discovered in a cave in South Africa in 2015, and are said by anthropologists to be a new species of genus Homo. That makes at least five at last count, and we can be certain there are more to be stumbled upon. Anthropologists are now trying to - [Make-believe Kingdom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/make-believe-kingdom/) - News anchors breathlessly tell of the purges in Saudi Arabia, where the Crown Prince has arrested all manner of princelings who, according to the Crown Prince, have committed massive crimes on their way to becoming billionaires. Who cares? If anything, good riddance to fake royalty who believe they have been born to the purple when - [Shadows Of The Mind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/shadows-of-the-mind/) - His name was Viggen Just a puppy I used to watch him dream His little legs moving fast, running Dream growls I dreamed once that I had wakened him from a dream And he didn’t recognize me Why didn’t he recognize me I didn’t know I thought I was me, like always But I must - [Before The Wire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/before-the-wire-2/) - If I could climb to the top of the world And see the past and all that was I’d want to see the western plains Before the wire. The buffalo in their vast herds So many that the dust lay thick In air that would admit no sun Before the wire. Horse tribes wandering the - [The Lilac And The Cat](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lilac-and-the-cat/) - We think that we could never know a flower Or never ever truly know a cat Though once I had a talk with a meower He told me go away and that was that Another time I saw him by the window I offered him a sip of sparkling wine He shook his head but - [Diversity And The Death Lottery](https://verse-afire.com/blog/diversity-and-the-death-lottery/) - The New York City bicycle path murderer from Uzbekistan was here because he won a “diversity lottery”, a death lottery program obviously devised by someone who believed we did not have enough Muslim killers in our midst. What is destroying the West is not Islam, it is diversity. Islam could never defeat the West without - [The Magic Loom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-magic-loom-2/) - Too late he slept, the night had fled As windows turned to gray And wind-borne ghosts circled his bed While wolves began their play They mocked him softly all the while He moved, but did not wake Dark shadows swam with glinting smile Upon the darkened lake Fierce riders thundered with a scream As phantoms - [The Dance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dance-2/) - I was born before the earth was formed In misty shadows in the lee Of giant gods who sheltered me While all about me stormed My mother was a flickered light My father held me in his palm And told me of the sudden calm That came only at night When howling wind that never - [A Roll Of The Dice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-roll-of-the-dice/) - Another mass shooting, this time in a small Texas church, before that the New York City bike path and before that Las Vegas, and so on, back into what seems endless time. Every time there is a mass shooting, Las Vegas or Sandy Hook school, or any other atrocity, the shooter’s friends and neighbors say - [Dusty Rooms](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dusty-rooms-2/) - I wander through the dusty room My mind enclosed by distant past Dark furniture lost in the gloom Ghosts whispering it could not last So bright the glow of golden days When all we wanted seemed so near We counted not the many ways The end would come for things held dear So rich we - [A Conversation With A Cat](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-conversation-with-a-cat-2/) - I sit on sunny window sills and dream of mice and men And how we’re all the same in many ways Outside a bird is warbling every song he knows again That is how he spends his minutes and his days A squirrel is racing up a tree, he seems to have such fun While - [Lonely Nights](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lonely-nights-2/) - He lies abed these sleepless nights And thinks of many things Of all the many wondrous sights That each tomorrow brings The windows turn from dark to gray The birds are now awake To celebrate the newborn day As sunlight paints the lake Now fully light, the woods ablaze With autumn’s brilliant hues He rises - [The Ichor Of The Gods](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ichor-of-the-gods/) - The gods and goddesses of ancient Greece did not have human blood, but a magic fluid called ichor, whose boiling point seemed to be very low since they were always threatening to destroy the Earth and all in it. I think we are at that point again, where our behavior has caused the ichor of - [The Princess And The Crow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-princess-and-the-crow/) - The crow pecked softly on her window pane And called her from her deep and peaceful sleep Entranced, she watched the crow her bedroom gain In darkness deeper than the darkest deep She rose and followed to the tower stair To far above the battlement below She felt the gentle wind upon her hair And - [The Fledgling](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fledgling-2/) - The nest was full, it’s time to go A nudge, a gentle push The fledgling, dazed, upon the ground Sought shelter in a bush Well here I am, the youngster thought But where is mom and dad? I’m safe for now from that tom cat But things are looking bad This branch I’m on is - [Holy Marriage](https://verse-afire.com/blog/holy-marriage/) - We are losing many things that once were sacred, like respect for the flag, the sacredness of life, the knowledge and love of country and our history and, not least, the loss of the unspoken understanding of the sanctity and holiness of marriage. I spoke to a sex doll recently and she said, For wholly - [The Gunsel And The Tweeter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-gunsel-and-the-tweeter/) - President Trump, in words, tweets and action, is well on his way to convincing China that it is in their interest to turn their North Korean hit man into the cops, like Humphrey Bogart convinced Sidney Greenstreet in the movie The Maltese Falcon to turn in his gunsel, Peter Lorre. The scene would have gone - [First Snow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/first-snow-2/) - The sky turned gray by afternoon A hush fell on the Earth And all who waited knew quite soon Would come the winter’s birth So gently fell the tiny flakes So quiet lay the wood A moment seems the time it takes To cover all that stood Between the house and the first line Of - [The Avians And The General](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-avians-and-the-general/) - While the insane frenzy of toppling old statues of even older Confederate generals seems to have abated somewhat, the assault on our history by the left continues with the assault on Christopher Columbus. But make no mistake, the assault on the United States and all it stands for will not cease until leftism is dead. - [Avast, Matey!](https://verse-afire.com/blog/avast-matey/) - The Washington Post recently ran a story telling how some Caribbean pirates, (the author’s anti-Anglo-Saxon characterization, they were actually a British letter-of-marque privateer), prevented the United States from adopting the metric system in 1793, when the French scientist sent to convince Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to abandon the still current system of measurements was - [The Passage Of The Dreams](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-passage-of-the-dreams-2/) - Life is a cyclical event that begins and ends with youth. The grass is cool on moon-dark summer nights The backyard tree is black against the sky The house asleep with but a few dim lights And thoughts and dreams turn back to days gone by To younger days when stars were still in - [Lives Of Fiction](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lives-of-fiction/) - A real life sex fantasy murder at Oxford University in Britain featured a famous professor of microbiology named Wyndam Latham and his male lover, with the victim a 26 year old hairdresser named Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau. At the trial names such as Cubbage and Perthuison surfaced. I have, over these many years, read any number - [The Slashing Sword](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-slashing-sword/) - We know the short term future of Western Europe is Islamization, but what happens after France and Germany and all else in between see Muslim majorities vote in Muslim governments? The only obvious answer is the eventual disappearance of the concept of ‘country’ or ‘nation’, and the emergence of smaller units of governance. The city - [Sunset](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sunset-2/) - Some time ago I stood on a dock, looking across the bay as a slowly setting sun turned the sky a brilliant rose and gold. A frail, elderly man appeared, so silently I hadn’t heard him come up. He said the sunsets seem to come so fast And morning sun just never seems to last - [The Rise Of The Neo-Nazis](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-neo-nazis/) - A Conservative party in Germany, the AfD, the Alternative fur Deutschland, whose platform was anti-Muslim immigration, shocked the German Left by winning enough seats in the Bundestag to force Chancellor Merkel to try to form a coalition government, despite the German Left casting the AfD as Nazis. How convenient for the new Nazis, the European - [The Ties That Unbind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ties-that-unbind/) - The United States has always been a fractious people, with deeply held differences, but always united in one thing; their love of country, exemplified in the past by the instant response to the flag and the national anthem. On national holidays flags adorned every house and every building. When the high school band marched onto - [Innocence](https://verse-afire.com/blog/innocence/) - Children can see things and know things that others can no longer see and no longer know. Are there angels? Are there faeries? Certainly there are. Do children see and speak to those no longer here? Of course they do. For children, truth, beauty and mystery are part of their brightly lit world. Time and - [Lunar Days](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lunar-days/) - Not so long ago it was settled science that insanity was caused by moonbeams, hence the word lunatic, and I’m not so sure they weren’t right. History abounds with examples of entire countries apparently going insane, and I believe the United States is doing so right now. The insanity has been building for some time, - [Intended Or Not](https://verse-afire.com/blog/intended-or-not/) - During a Greek Week fraternity retreat prior to start of classes this past semester at the University of Mississippi, a student at the retreat ate a banana, and finding no trash receptacle close by, put the banana peel in a tree rather than throw it on the ground. Three black students came upon the banana - [On Weaving A Rainbow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/on-weaving-a-rainbow-2/) - Science can explain the facts, but it cannot explain the mystery. Scientists will tell you that rainbows were explained to everyone’s satisfaction by Descarte and Newton, who determined the rainbow is formed by the refraction of light from the surface of a raindrop, the refraction separating the light into its separate wavelengths, thus creating the - [Farewell](https://verse-afire.com/blog/farewell/) - The demolition of American history, so far advanced in academia, has spilled into the streets, with the tearing down of statues of Confederate generals, the leftists charging that slave owners must not be honored, or even remembered. Authorities stand by and allow mobs to deface government property, elected Democrat mayors and governors encourage the destruction - [The Inflationary Universe](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-inflationary-universe/) - Are we living in an inflationary universe? Is the universe we see infinite or finite? We don’t know, and possibly will never know, because the answers are unknowable. That the universe is infinite seems reasonable to believe, but an inflationary universe is far more mysterious and exciting than the infinite sameness and seamlessness of a - [To A Ladybug](https://verse-afire.com/blog/to-a-ladybug-2/) - On a long ago summer day, sitting in the sun, a ladybug chanced to light upon my knee. She rested there, apparently content, and as I watched the sunlight play on her spotted wing covers, I wondered what she was thinking, what her plans were for the rest of the day. So still she sits - [Gopher Town](https://verse-afire.com/blog/gopher-town/) - Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have spread death and chaos across the Gulf, from Texas to Florida, making believers of those who doubt the power of the ancient Egyptian god Set to cause death, destruction and chaos wheresoever he chooses to go. The wine dark sea the leaden sky The petrels flee the storm is nigh - [Disaster Relief](https://verse-afire.com/blog/disaster-relief/) - Benjamin Wallace-Wells, a liberal progressive Democrat writer for the liberal leftist New Yorker magazine, was puzzled by the media attention and glorification of the volunteerism of the Cajun Navy during Hurricane Harvey when there were more important things to talk about, like climate change. Wallace-Wells went on to observe, with some severity, the replacement of - [Beyond My Kitchen Window](https://verse-afire.com/blog/beyond-my-kitchen-window-2/) - Beyond my kitchen window Lives a wondrous world outside With creatures who know not that I exist The squirrel who sits upon my deck And wonders where to hide The acorns so that they will not be missed The blue jay squabbles with the cat Who looks at him askance And longs to sink her - [The Light At The End Of The Tunnel](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/) - In a tunnel, deep in the mountains of North Korea, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake was created. For over thirty years American administrations have been looking for the light at the end of the North Korean tunnel, and it turns out the light at the end of the tunnel is from a hydrogen bomb. Perhaps it - [Shoes And Rice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/shoes-and-rice/) - Feminists demand that white men be removed from society, by non-violent means if possible, by violent means if necessary. Demands are made that white male privilege be removed from all aspects of society, that marriage is rapine slavery and the world would be a far better place without white men. Eventually white men will tire - [The Bloody Claw](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-bloody-claw-2/) - The country is obsessing over phantom Russians while in Europe western civilization is committing suicide. The biggest story in the history of the world is happening right now in Europe, where the people who built the modern world, the people who invented science and medicine and law, have decided to turn the continent over to - [The Bloody Claw](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-bloody-claw/) - The country is obsessing over phantom Russians while in Europe western civilization is committing suicide. The biggest story in the history of the world is happening right now in Europe, where the people who built the modern world, the people who invented science and medicine and law, have decided to turn the continent over to - [For Kristen On Her Birthday](https://verse-afire.com/blog/for-kristen-on-her-birthday/) - The scientists have spoken All life has consciousness Not only us and puppies But plants as well I guess So now we know the reason The flowers love you so You talk to them and love them And loving makes them grow The flowers know you’re with them And talk to you in turn The - [Return Of The Dark](https://verse-afire.com/blog/return-of-the-dark/) - According to the leaders of such countries as Germany, Britain, Canada and most of western Europe, all of whom worship at the shrine of the goddess Diversity, unlimited immigration by people totally different in culture, religion and worldview than your own people, is a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the nobility of the western ethic, at - [Barcelona And The Narrative](https://verse-afire.com/blog/barcelona-and-the-narrative/) - Hamilcar Barca, of the Barca family of Carthage, founded the city of Barcelona, which became a Roman army camp after Hamilcar’s son, Hannibal Barca, annoyed the Romans enough to cause them to permanently erase the city of Carthage. So Barcelona is not unaware of political, military and religious problems. Muslim terrorism has a long history - [Reputations](https://verse-afire.com/blog/reputations/) - The government of communist China has announced a new universal reputation score for every citizen, based on the citizen’s use of the state run social media. Every citizen will be judged on such factors as political compliance, hobbies, shopping, and so forth, and everyone will be judged not only by what her or she says - [Mother's Milk](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mothers-milk/) - The Left has been wildly successful in convincing the American public that left is right and red is blue. The communist wing of the Democratic Party, which embraced Stalin in the 1930s and 1940s, portrayed, with the help of such as the New York Times, Adolf Hitler and fascism in general as right wing, when - [We're Tired Of You](https://verse-afire.com/blog/were-tired-of-you/) - The governing class and their elitist enablers do not realize what is happening. They do not realize that they have overstayed their welcome, and the tumbrels are already lined up in the side streets. Like the Bourbons, they will try desperately to cling to power, but when the ordinary people have come to the conclusion - [Aye, Robot](https://verse-afire.com/blog/aye-robot-2/) - I spoke to a robot the other day, and he was incensed that people thought he had artificial intelligence, vehemently insisting there was nothing artificial about it. In time we’ll rule you all, he said We might wear out, but never dead Our women are all beautiful Subservient and dutiful Your men will take a - [The Gucci Guys](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-gucci-guys/) - Donald Trump, a New York billionaire real estate mogul, hijacked the Republican Party in 2016 and was elected president of the United States, to the dismay, chagrin, anger and eternal enmity of the Washington Republican Establishment, who have zero interest in enacting his agenda, believing, as they do, that in so obstructing him at every - [Where Can I Go?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/where-can-i-go/) - The Congressional Republicans and the Democrats are just two wings of the same Government Ruling Class. I had hoped that the 2010 election that saw a number of Tea Party additions to the Congress would give the Republicans some spine, but their actions and inactions over the past seven months has caused me to see - [Brilliance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-brilliance-of-it-all-2/) - Today it has been reported that Special Counsel Mueller has seated a grand jury to investigate whatever it is he wants to investigate, so broad is the mandate given him by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a man who spent eight years in the Obama, Holder and Lynch Justice Department. Consider: from the day after - [The Entangled Swamp](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-entangled-swamp/) - The entire Washington swamp needs to be drained, Democrat and Republican alike, for they are entangled together in a giant ball of swamp gas. Cut from the same shoddy, they care not a fig for the rest of us except as direct sources of their wealth and privilege. A Chinese team has teleported an entangled - [Message Boards](https://verse-afire.com/blog/message-boards/) - The unconventional eventually becomes the conventional. News was once posted by travelers on message boards at a crossroads; town criers came and went; the printing press led to newspapers that quickly became identity voices for one or the other brand of politics. Then came radio and television, and a very brief period when news was - [A World Gone Mad](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-world-gone-mad/) - OSLO, July 26 (Reuters) - Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet. If you suck all the carbon dioxide out of the air, all plant life will - [The Time Of Our Lies](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-time-of-our-lives/) - Time magazine has published an article stating that in California, on election day, 2016, Republican voters were being prevented from voting, a condition everyone, including the Republicans, attributed to Russian hacking. Should we believe Time magazine? Is there any possible reason to believe this only now emerging story that backs up the Democrat raging illusion - [Tolerating The Intolerable](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tolerating-the-intolerant/) - After another year of rapes and sexual assaults by young muslim men upon Swedish women attending a traditional Swedish summer concert, the Leftist Swedish government has reacted energetically to ongoing and nation-wide muslim rapes and sexual assaults upon Swedish women by canceling next year’s concert. That’ll teach them not to rape and sexually assault Swedish - [Beyond The Kuiper Belt](https://verse-afire.com/blog/beyond-the-kuiper-belt/) - Something huge is lurking just beyond the Kuiper Belt, something unseen by astronomers until 2016 when they noticed perturbations in Kuiper Belt Objects that had not previously been perturbed. What is it and why is it unseen? An invisible planet beyond Pluto? An invisible non-physical force? A giant spaceship? A small spaceship with an unaccountably - [Diversity](https://verse-afire.com/blog/diversity/) - What is destroying the West is not Islam, it is diversity. When the British government released the results for the 2011 census the figures revealed that white Britons were a minority in their own capital city, that Britain’s Muslim population would overtake the native white population in measurable years and that the number of Muslims - [Catharsis](https://verse-afire.com/blog/catharsis/) - Those westerners opposed to killing muslim killers say that not all muslims are killers, and therefore we should not contemplate eradicating them all in order to make certain we get the very substantial minority of muslims who are determined to kill us. But can we solve the problem of muslim beheadings and suicide bombings of - [A Freshly Made Past](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-freshly-made-past/) - It would seem that the freshly made past served up by the Democrats, that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to deny the White House to the rightful owner, has turned into a freshly made pasta. It has emerged that President Obama was aware of Soviet interference into the election, and did nothing but - [The Afghan Folly](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-afghan-folly/) - The Trump administration is now debating whether or not to increase the force level in Afghanistan in an effort to win the longest war in American history. The American policy in Afghanistan has been Kabuled together rather than well thought out and comprehensive. The initial decision by President George W. Bush to send in small - [A Minor Disagreement](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-minor-disagreement/) - At the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, presidents Trump and Putin agreed on a temporary cease fire in the Syrian civil war. Syria has been in the news a lot of late, and it is hard to realize that it was only thirty-three hundred years ago that the great Egyptian-Hittite clash of empires occurred near - [The Conspirators](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-conspirators/) - It began the day after the election. The political establishment united, Democrat and Republican, Deep State Intelligence and Federal Agencies, to remove the upstart Trump from office as quickly as possible, by any means necessary. And those means included then, and include now, a treasonous coup d’état. It began immediately with the false accusation, and - [The Law Of Inevitability](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-law-of-inevitability/) - Thanks to the Democrats and their lapdog media, the country is well on the road to divorce, and it will be very messy, if not bloody. If one half of the country is intent on a given course of action, even though the success of the action is highly unlikely, the law of very large - [When The Fog Horn Blows](https://verse-afire.com/blog/when-the-fog-horn-blows/) - The country is in a perilous state, groping for land in a deep, swirling fog. The HardLeft has initiated armed conflict, and there will be a response. The HardLeft laughingly puts on a play in Central Park in which a caricature of President Trump gets knifed to death every night to wild applause, the audience - [The Dance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dance/) - In an attempt to comfort an old friend who was dying, I spoke of the memories we shared, the laughs we had, the fish we caught, and near the end he said he was ready for the dance. I asked him what he meant, and he said, I was born before the earth was formed - [Coming Home](https://verse-afire.com/blog/coming-home/) - The world is cyclical, but not circular. Spirits cluster like fireflies, seeking the familiar, with which to glow and play eternally. The coil of time and space Moves at a steady pace Returning to the place Where all began Where family awaits Behind the whitewashed gates Unlocked, that indicates That you are home The door - [Cultural Appropriation](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cultural-appropriation/) - In Portland, Oregon two white women were forced by the crazy progressive left to stop making and selling tortillas because they weren’t Mexican. A white woman soccer player was forced by black teammates to remove the braids from her hair, accusing her of cultural appropriation. Kathy Griffin was accused by Isis of cultural appropriation for - [The Mole](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-mole/) - The search goes on for the mole in the White House or in the Intelligence services who is leaking classified documents to the press in order to undermine and destroy President Trump. The mole, of course, is the former president. For eight long years the hidden mole Has ruled the country as a whole Destruction - [The Horror Of CO2](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-horror-of-co2/) - Animal life possesses a DNA in which every cell contains mitochondria capable of converting oxygen into energy and emitting carbon dioxide as a waste product, and plant life possesses a DNA in which every cell contains chloroplasts capable of converting carbon dioxide into energy and emitting oxygen as a waste product. Animal life on Earth - [The Cabby And The Bobbies](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-cabby-and-the-bobbies/) - On Sunday night, June 18, a fed-up man drove a van into a group of muslims, doubtless in retaliation for the attack by muslims using a van to kill civilians crossing the London Bridge a few weeks ago. One of the stories to come out of the London Bridge attack is the courage of the - [The Melting Of The Ice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-melting-of-the-ice/) - The problem is not that there are no answers, it is that half the population does not believe the answer if it is in opposition to their progressive ideology. The idea that human activity drives the planet’s climate is absurd, yet it is believed by those to whom leftist ideology is magic. Inviting into your - [Commanding The Sun And The Wind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/commanding-the-sun-and-the-wind/) - Even kings cannot command the sun to shine or the wind to blow and yet, if the Greens and the fanatical environmental crazies have their way, ordinary people will be placed in the position of commanding the wind and sun or freezing to death. The king cried, “Bring me some fossil Fuel so I can - [Over The Rainbow Part 2](https://verse-afire.com/blog/over-the-rainbow-part-2/) - The cry that only green energy will save us never ends, despite the evidence it does not work. The Greens raise the cry that fossil fuels are running out so we must immediately change to windmills. So very strange it is that every prediction of peak oil has turned out to be wrong. The world - [Over The Rainbow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/over-the-rainbow/) - Democrats and leftist everywhere waited with bated breath to hear the magic words from former FBI Director James Comey that would destroy forever the infantile presidency of the Putin lapdog Donald J. Trump. Fantasies abounded, swirling in the DC air like ticker tape. Ah, to be a Democrat when Comey raises his right hand and - [Trapdoors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/trapdoors/) - The United States is equally divided, but not politically. It is divided tribally, with one tribe engaged in declared warfare against the other tribe that does not yet realize they have been attacked and are in a fight to the death. Part of the problem is that the Left, the attacking tribe, is being aided - [Infanterie Greift An](https://verse-afire.com/blog/infanterie-greift-an/) - The European Union was the child of fear. Fear of German militarism even in the face of a devastated and supine post war Germany. Fear does not often lead to wise choices, and more often than not leads to surrender. The French surrendered the sovereignty of Europe to fear of a possible future revanchist Germany. - [The Illusion Of Empire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/illusion-2/) - Yogi Berra once said that predicting stuff was hard, especially about the future. Remember when the wise men predicted that Brazil would be the next rising star? Remember the think tanks publishing studies that showed the Soviet Union would soon overtake the United States? Can China and Islam co-exist? Does anyone else have a - [The Meaning Of 'Until'](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-meaning-of-until/) - Neither the French nor the South Korean elections mean anything at all. Nothing will change until - well, until the person or persons who have the power to change things decide it’s time. The newly elected president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, may not be a lunatic, but Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea - [Candles, Flowers And Bears](https://verse-afire.com/blog/candles-flowers-and-bears/) - Once more a Muslim kills innocent children and the authorities respond with soothing words and candlelight vigils. It is time to become anti-vigils, and if the political leadership insists on surrendering we must become vigilantes. Scented candles, fresh cut flowers, smiling teddy bears Mark the scenes of carnage but no politician cares They look so - [The Meaning Of The Words](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-meaning-of-the-words/) - The Left has always relied on redefining the meaning of words to advance their agenda. Orwell showed how it worked. The Ministry of Propaganda became the Ministry of Truth. War became Peace and Peace became War. Political Correctness is simply the Left doing what it always does. The radical American Left realizes that to attain - [Rise Now, Men Of The West](https://verse-afire.com/blog/rise-now-men-of-the-west/) - Little girls. At a concert. Blown apart. Hair and skin and body parts. Rejoicing in the mosques. Little girls. A rage so dark it blots the sun A rage so dark it takes a gun To quench the blood lust every one Has for the Muslim scum A bullet dipped in bacon fat Back of - [The Orient Express](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-orient-express/) - North Korea accuses the CIA of trying to assassinate Kim Jung Un. Maybe so, maybe not. It is just a hop and a skip from the Imperial Palace to downtown Pyongyang, a journey the Dear Leader takes every morning in his sumptuous private railway car. The one car Orient Express, sitting on a siding, steam - [The Burning](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-burning/) - Western style Communism is an ideology, a religion, and understandable as such. Asian communism is not an ideology, but a route to power and a means to maintain power, and therefore understandable in terms familiar to all for all of history. There is no point in using the term Communist China, because it does not - [The Cloak Of Myth](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-cloak-of-myth/) - The myth of male oppression, the myth of despotic colonialism and the rape of the third world, the myth of white privilege that accounts for the overwhelming majority of Nobel winners in science being white, the myth of the moral superiority of the Left. All these myths cloak the agenda of the Left, which is - [Thoughts On Growing Old](https://verse-afire.com/blog/thoughts-on-growing-old/) - There is no downside to getting old, but there is no upside to being old. And so, as the end approaches, we have only thoughts of what has been and not of what is to be. We wander the empty rooms of our past contemplating the shadows. Thoughts substantial as the shadows Thoughts as restless - [A Good First Step](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-good-first-step/) - President trump removed a deeply politically compromised Director of the FBI, Jim Comey, and the Left reacted as if Trump had said something derogatory about Josef Stalin. They went bat fecal matter crazy, anointing Comey the latest martyr in Trump’s war against civilization, notwithstanding that the day before the firing the Left considered Comey a - [Telescoping Time And The Infinite Universe](https://verse-afire.com/blog/telescoping-time-and-the-infinite-universe/) - In 1608 a couple of Dutch guys, Jacob Metius and Hans Lippershey, invented the first telescope. Galileo improved it and some sixty years later Isaac Newton, as we might have expected, invented the reflecting telescope. And just recently a group of astronomers built a large array and photographed the black hole at the center of - [An Open Grave](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-open-grave/) - In December of 1876, the Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, was asked if Germany would involve itself in the war then ongoing in the Balkans, and Bismarck replied that the Balkans was not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Today, Syria is not worth the bones of a single American soldier. The - [The Entrails Of A Bird](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-entrails-of-a-bird/) - No one knows anything about how geopolitics works these days because the rules have changed, but the solution is obvious. The Romans never made a critical decision until after the examination of the entrails of a bird to find if the auguries were propitious. I spoke to a bird today and he said he would - [Memory Is All](https://verse-afire.com/blog/memory-is-all/) - Darkness, like death, has no boundaries; it is limitless and unending, without beginning and without end. So too is the darkness of delivered truth, in which there is only one permissible answer, with the stake the reward for heresy. The steady march of the hate-filled religion of progressivism, only briefly and episodically interrupted, continues apace, - [There's Something In The Trees](https://verse-afire.com/blog/theres-something-in-the-trees/) - Fear comes in many guises. There is groundless fear, and then there is the grinding fear that something terrible is hiding in he trees. The unfounded fear that Nork artillery could destroy Seoul and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in the first few hours of war is absurd. An account of the Battle of - [A Day At The Beach](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-day-at-the-beach/) - Books are now being written about the coming war with Russia, brought about by the coming and inevitable Russian invasion of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. And not only are books being written. Blogs and newspapers are writing about the coming conflict, and commentators on cable television are wringing their hands and - [An Apple A Day](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-apple-a-day/) - The third world cellphone revolution is here. No copper wires to string, no utility poles to erect, no massive telecom infrastructure to construct. The Internet at your fingertips. The libraries of the world a click away. But who is teaching third world peasant farmers to read? How much disposable income does a third world peasant - [Le Pen](https://verse-afire.com/blog/le-pen/) - France is poised on the edge of the chasm – in two weeks the country will elect Marine Le Pen, who wants to leave the European Union, end Muslim immigration, restore French sovereignty and the franc, or Emmanuel Macron, who wants closer ties to the EU and continued Muslim immigration. The choice for the French - [The Return Of The Nineteenth Century](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-return-of-the-nineteenth-century/) - Everything changes, but nothing ever changes in quite the same way. The current world order, put in place by the events of the 20th century, is coming to its entirely predictable end. The world will go forward, but as always, it will go forward by going backward, back to what it knows. It will not - [The Snowflake Underground](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-snowflake-underground/) - When we speak of the Underground, we think of the catacombs of ancient Rome and the Christian resistance, the World War 2 European resistance to the Nazi occupation, to the American Weather Underground of the 1970’s, all of them characterized by the desire to remain undetected. The Underground in the United States today is different; - [A Hard Day's Work](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-hard-days-work/) - Donald Trump has built hotels and casinos all over the world, but he has never had workmen like Republican congressmen. Especially when the Foreman, Paul Ryan, didn’t want him to be president in the first place. Trump has put the health-care debacle aside to concentrate on tax revision, and he will be working with the - [The Joads](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-joads/) - John Steinbeck wrote the great novel Grapes Of Wrath, the story of the Joad family who left Oklahoma for California during the dustbowl and the Great Depression. But now the exodus is going the other way. White middle class and working class families are leaving California in droves.The Joad family is going back home. Loading - [The Galley And The SUV](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-galley-and-the-suv/) - In 1453, with cannon built for them by a hired Christian European gunsmith, the Ottoman Turks beat down the walls of Constantinople and slaughtered the inhabitants. Ottoman galleys then turned the eastern Mediterranean into an Ottoman lake, and for the next century raided Christian coastal towns and villages, killing the men and enslaving the women - [Barbarian Virtues](https://verse-afire.com/blog/barbarian-virtues/) - There is much to be said for the barbarian virtues of defending the family, the clan, the tribe, the city state, the nation state against all who would do harm. Of course, these virtues are barbarian only to the Left, who are pleased, in the current political atmosphere, to assign to Vladimir Putin power he - [Tomahawks](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tomahawks/) - Tomahawk missiles strike the Syrian airfield from which the Syrian bombers took off to kill babies and children with nerve gas. The first shoe has dropped, and I believe that if a second shoe needs to be dropped it will be dropped by us. I do not expect any reaction from the Soviets, nor do - [A Senate Rule](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-senate-rule/) - In a few days we will know if the Democrats intend to employ the filibuster against the Supreme Court nominee. Doing so in the face of Republican determination to remove the filibuster permanently from Senate rules is counter-intuitive, given that the next nominee will be even less to their liking. I believe the filibuster threat - [Cabbage Soup](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cabbage-soup-2/) - A spokesman for the Chinese government warned the United States that arming the South Koreans and he Japanese with nukes would mean war. I had lunch today with my friend the Chinese Attaché, and he ordered cabbage soup for both of us. “Cabbage soup,” he said with some enthusiasm. “Shrimp, pork, ginger, cellophane noodles. One - [Headstones](https://verse-afire.com/blog/headstones/) - We are in the midst of a coup to remove President Trump from office. The coup is being planned and carried out in the guise of normal political partisanship. The ringmaster of this coup attempt is Barack Obama, and its headquarters is his mansion in Washington, DC, where red diaper baby Valerie Jarrett, born in - [Oil Be Seeing You](https://verse-afire.com/blog/oil-be-seeing-you/) - In the 1940s there was a popular ballad called I’ll Be Seeing You that went, ‘I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces…’ and so on for 32 saccharine bars. We are now in that I’ll be seeing you phase of our relationship with Saudi Arabia, looking - [A Pair Of Gonads](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-pair-of-gonads/) - When Donald Trump builds a hotel, he turns the design over to an architect, who has training and experience in the design and construction of major buildings. Turning the design of his signature health care reform over to a politician meant that the design would be political, not economic or medical, because that is what - [A Near Perfect Indifference](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-near-perfect-indifference/) - To those of us oldsters who believe that Western civilization is dying, relax; it is already dead. Already dead to virtually everyone under the age of thirty who have been de-educated by the educational system to the point that they know next to nothing of the history of their country, next to nothing of their - [A Poplar Girl](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-poplar-girl/) - Panpsychism is the theory, held by many quantum physicists, that all matter, from electrons and rocks to sequoias, have, like mammals and all other living things, a conscious inner life, though they concede the inner life of an electron is likely to be fairly subtle. To test this theory I spoke to the leafy and - [Birdwatching](https://verse-afire.com/blog/birdwatching/) - The Trumpeter Swan is a magnificent bird, regal, conscious of his beauty and competence. Trumpeter Swans are not looked upon with favor by lesser avians. I talked to one of these lesser avians recently, a writer for the New York Times, and he said, I do not like the way he talks I do not - [The Warnings Of The Fates](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-warnings-of-the-fates/) - The dying West will still be here in fifty years, but demographics don’t lie. What will not be here will be the capability or the will of an aging and minority White population to defend itself against the barbarian. The death of the West will cascade into the death of the megacities of the near - [A Grim Understanding](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-grim-understanding/) - We have to understand that the Left wants us to die, politically if they can do so more or less peacefully, in reality if we resist. Invective is all very well, but the raging, spittle-mouthed screeching of Hitler! and Fascism! directed at President Trump (and us) from the deranged Left has reached insanity levels. Emboldened - [Bjiology Be Damned](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bjiology-be-damned/) - The Left is determined to eradicate the perception that men and women are different, a campaign so successful that a biological male can be a woman just by saying he is, or rather saying she is. The eradication of gender proceeds apace, despite the horrifying consequences apparent to everyone of rational mind. The consequences of - [Auguries](https://verse-afire.com/blog/auguries/) - What if everything we believe today turns out to be junk science? When Paul Dirac was asked, ‘What is a proton?’ he filled a blackboard with mathematical symbols, pointed to a letter in the middle of the equation, and said, ‘That is a proton.’ How is that different from examining the entrails of a bird? - [The Last Magician](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-last-magician/) - Is sudden brilliance revelation or intuition? Most would say the answer clearly is intuition. But what if what we think of as intuition is actually revelation, that the magicians were right and the scientists are wrong? What then? Did Newton, by reason, introduce to the world what we now call modern science or was it - [The Blood Of The Dragon](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-blood-of-the-dragon/) - It has been known for centuries that the body of the dragon is filled with fire and blood, and that when pierced by the tusks of its natural enemy, the elephant, the fire and blood spew out in noisome horror. Today’s dragon is the current version of the radical leftist Democrat Party, in which the - [Sanctuary](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sanctuary/) - Sanctuary – from Sanctum Sanctorum, the Holy of Holies. In the Christian Church the sanctuary is where the altar is. In medieval times any miscreant who gained the sanctuary of the nearest church was safe from the ire of the king. San Francisco, among many other cities, has declared itself a sanctuary for criminal illegal - [#NeverLincoln](https://verse-afire.com/blog/neverlincoln/) - Under threat of assassination by a the Blood Tubs, disguised as a woman and guarded by armed Pinkerton agents, Abraham Lincoln stole into Washington DC in March of 1861 amid chaos and rebellion. One month later, April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard gave the honor of firing the - [Sacrifice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sacrifice/) - In his epic poem on the mighty oak, the great Roman poet Quercus Deciduous, wrote: A giant oak, his branches spread Beholds the scene with quiet pride The young man to be shortly bled That man’s great love be shone The Druid in his cloak of white So loving of the mistletoe Of which the - [What We Need Or What We Want](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-we-need-or-what-we-want/) - The Left knows what we need, The Donald knows what we want. The Senator will pass a bill A man whose organs bleed That takes what’s mine against my will For things I do not need The tax man says here are the forms Pay on the dotted line A portion goes to safe space - [The Harmony Of The Spheres](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-harmony-of-the-spheres/) - In which the Universe resonates with the sound of strings, unheard by all but the very young and the very old. A summer night, a dreaming child The stars alight, the evening mild The song is heard, though not a sound No spoken word, yet all around The velvet strings, the golden chords That tell - [The Weaving Of Reality](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-weaving-of-reality/) - Reality has no purpose; its only function is to be. What we see, what we feel, what we think we understand is but the weaving of supposed reality into the daily fabric of our lives. Every living creature throughout the universe has its own reality, never duplicated, never shared. That is the eternal reality. The - [The Remembered Past](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-remembered-past/) - Time is an illusion, but the past is not, for the calendar doesn’t lie. For me, the remembered past will always be neither better nor worse, but simply the timeless present. As children do, I once beheld the distant stars Aflame on moonless nights like glinting shields Converting the black sky to massed and shining - [Dreadnought](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dreadnought/) - For those who have not already read it, I heartily recommend Dreadnought, by Robert K. Massie. A truly magnificent account of Jackie Fisher and the building of HMS Dreadnought in the face of fierce opposition from most of the higher echelons of the Royal Navy. (The equally magnificent sequel, Castles Of Steel, takes the dreadnoughts - [What Does Progressivism Want?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-does-progressivism-want/) - Sigmund Freud famously said “What does woman want?” Today we must ask What does progressivism want? They will tell you they want peace on earth, equality, prosperity, security and happiness. They will cheerfully agree that La Dolce Vita is the ultimate goal. Do not believe them. Progressivism has one goal Progressivism wants your soul They - [What Does Woman Want?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-does-woman-want/) - A stumped and puzzled Sigmund Freud once cried in exasperation, “What does woman want?” I believe I have the answer. The women’s movement shorn of lust Dawned as the Pill became a must And turned our little daughters into tramps By telling them that sex is fine As long as the man buys the wine - [A Flip Of The Coin](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-flip-of-the-coin/) - Everything has a half-life, and the half-life of socialism is only slightly greater than that of the fruit fly. The pendulum, when it starts to swing, never stops at the vertical, but always continues until it reaches the opposite extreme. The Common Market was a good idea, but not enough for the socialists, and so - [On Weaving A Rainbow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/on-weaving-a-rainbow/) - Science can explain the facts, but it cannot explain the mystery. Scientists will tell you that rainbows were explained to everyone’s satisfaction by Descarte and Newton, who determined the rainbow is formed by the reflection of light from the surface of a raindrop, the reflections separating the light into its separate wavelengths, thus creating the - [The Lifting Of The Veils](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lifting-of-the-veils/) - The great anomaly is that time is an illusion but the calendar doesn’t lie. And so, having attained a certain age, I occasionally wonder where I’ve been and where I’m going, and what, if anything, is the purpose. We are all of us bounded by the twin illusions of space and time, much as a - [Bloody Hell](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bloody-hell/) - The Left reacts violently to the words Clash of Civilizations, but of course it is, and the Left is complicit in the destruction of Western and Christian values and traditions. But values and traditions are hard to kill, as the would-be killers will inevitably discover, to their sorrow. Do Muslims kill Christians for no reason - [And Turn The Left To Dust](https://verse-afire.com/blog/and-turn-the-left-to-dust/) - The Democrats believed that they could attain a permanent governing majority by being the black, Hispanic and women party, blissfully unaware that telling white people that they weren’t included anymore was a losing strategy. White people are still the majority ethnicity in the country, and when it became clear the Democrats were prepared to make - [On Wings Of Fancied Flight](https://verse-afire.com/blog/on-wings-of-fancied-flight/) - My grandkids, in the wisdom of youth, oft times say to me that I should get out more. Little do they know that I have spent a very large part of my life among the stars. In fancied flight I take to wing and dance among the stars And hail a passing comet destination yet - [Stained Glass](https://verse-afire.com/blog/stained-glass/) - A few weeks ago, before Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, the political leadership of the Cathedral of Information and Assassination, the CIA, made public an entirely false hit piece that portrayed then president-elect Trump as a sex maniac and stooge of the Russians, subject to blackmail. The - [Ride A White Swan](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ride-a-white-swan/) - Today is the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The new president will attempt to undo the damage done by the previous president, who has shown, by his every action, that he believed implicitly that the United States was evil, and needed to be weakened in order to protect - [The Blacksnake And The Toad](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-blacksnake-and-the-toad/) - When I was seven I chanced upon a blacksnake and a toad. Jaws agape, the large blacksnake slowly worked his way up behind the still and unblinking toad. The toad, as hypnotized as I, never moved, even as it slowly disappeared into the snake, never made the slightest effort to get away. Many years later - [Great Balls Of Fire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/great-balls-of-fire/) - There are billions upon billions of giant balls of fire flying through space at fantastic speeds, giant balls of fire that burn for billions and billions of years, so far away they appear to us as distant points of light. Many of these giant balls of fire have smaller bodies circling around them in the - [The Hive](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-hive/) - If the hive is the cult, whether of personality or idea, the hive will always be with us, for it is the nature of man to dominate his fellow man, to make him conform to the wishes of the dominator. And when threatened, the hive will defend itself with unbounded fury. We see this in - [Day One](https://verse-afire.com/blog/one/) - The Left has already launched their inevitable vicious attacks on the Trump victory and presidency even before he takes the oath of office. The Democrats hope to delegitimize the president, but President Trump will very quickly complete the destruction of the current version of the Democratic Party, beginning on Day One. Yes they thought that - [The Narrative And The Truth](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-narrative-and-the-truth/) - I spoke to a lefty the other day and he said the Narrative was always true, and furthermore he was happy to explain that, The purpose of the Narrative? Suspend the disbelief! All sentences declarative And told in stark relief To what is the reality That faces us today The bitter, stark totality Of all - [Deep Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/deep-time/) - To most, the present is the only time there is. To most, ancient time is the day before their glorious birth, while for those of us with a longer view, the recent past is the 13th century BC. Deep time predates ancient time, predates the last glaciation, and predates the formation of the present continental - [Dr. Crowley](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dr-crowley/) - I was born in the first year of the Hoover administration, and so have experienced the changes in health care brought about by science, technology and politics. I have a vivid memory of a visit to the doctor in 1935 or 1936. As I write this I can see my very young mother, see the - [The See'r Sees](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-seer-sees/) - I spoke to Waltradamus on New Year’s Eve, a few hours before New York dropped the ball again, and he said he didn’t need a crystal ball to predict the events of 2017. Ticking them off on his chubby fingers, he said: Professors will continue to infantilize the snowflakes to the benefit of the Democrats; - [Magic Or Physics?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/magic-or-physics/) - A recent article in Popular Mechanics states that “Scientists Catch Virtual Particles Hopping In and Out of Existence. The quantum effect known as vacuum birefringence was predicted in the 1930s, but this is the first observational evidence of the phenomenon in action. Quantum electrodynamics (QED) describes the relationships between particles of light, or photons, and - [Relax, Your Dog Will Never Tell](https://verse-afire.com/blog/relax-your-dog-will-never-tell/) - A study by the Comparative Ethology Research Group in Budapest, Hungary, reveals that dogs remember what you do. Luckily, they cannot tell anybody. I spoke about this to Roger, my faithful Lab, and he said, I never would reveal a thing that happened here last night My lips are sealed about the weekend too Although - [Alpha Males](https://verse-afire.com/blog/alpha-males/) - If allowed by the culture, women will happily share an alpha male with other females rather than have a monogamous relationship with a beta male, all in the rational, evolutionary proven belief that an alpha male father gives her children the best chance for survival. Alpha males led the hunter gatherer families and led the - [Christmas 2016](https://verse-afire.com/blog/christmas-2016/) - Christmas is a golden glow Of evergreens and soft white snow Of presents and a tree-well trimmed And Christmas morning church well-hymned Of Christmas dinner after grace With family seated at its place A Christmas ham with bread and wine So crisp you taste the very vine Yes Christmas is a wondrous day Of feasts - [The Red Queen](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-red-queen/) - Barack Obama issued a threat to Russia and Vladimir Putin on the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post, crying that he will attack Russia in some unspecified fashion for interfering, as he put it, in the recent American presidential election in order to elect Donald Trump. Without producing a shred of - [All Very Well](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-very-well/) - There is much talk of reducing the Federal government to Constitutional size by returning to the States the duties and obligations ceded to the States by the Constitution and since usurped by the an ever expanding Federal government assumption of powers not specifically accorded the Federal government by the Constitution. This is all very well, - [The 19th Of December](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-19th-of-december/) - The radical leftist Democrats, led by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros and Black Lives Matter, are determined to rule, and if they cannot rule they will burn the country down by delegitimize the national election, by destroying the Electoral College, and hoping to pin the tag of unelected president on Donald Trump. Today, in - [Is T-Rex a Band Or A Brand?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/is-t-rex-a-band-or-a-brand/) - President-elect Trump has nominated Rex Tillerson, President and CEO of the one of the largest companies in the world, to be his Secretary of State, to the expected howls from those who believe that such an exalted post should go to someone who has consistently failed at some other government task and thus is in - [The Executive Country Club](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-executive-country-club/) - Barack Obama is soon to be an ex-president, spending his days playing golf, just as he did while president. Walking the lush green fairway the other day, a gentle rain brushing my face, I saw, in the distance, a lone figure standing in a bunker, sand wedge in his hands, a small white ball lying - [Master Builders](https://verse-afire.com/blog/master-builders/) - Two Greek architects named Iktinos and Callicrates designed the Parthenon, but by the time of the European Middle Ages there were no architects trained as such and thought of as such. What they had was Master Builders. It was the Master Builder who oversaw the construction of the Gothic cathedrals, the wonder of the world. - [I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/im-gonna-sit-right-down-and-write-myself-a-letter/) - The past has shown that emails are not secure, no matter how secure the experts try to make them. The government is very good at keeping secrets from us, but very poor in keeping secrets from our enemies. Many years ago the great Fats Waller wrote a song that went, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down - [Battleship Row](https://verse-afire.com/blog/battleship-row-7/) - I first posted this on 7 December 2010, and have re-posted it every December 7th since then. I was in 7th grade, and remember lying on the floor the Monday morning, reading the paper, looking at the photographs of the burning and sunken ships. I still see the basket masts of West Virginia, Wee Vee - [A Wooden Stake](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-wooden-stake/) - It was recently reported on local television news that Philadelphia is still counting absentee and military ballots and that the Trump state-wide lead has shrunk from 70,000 votes to below 50,000, or 0.8% of the total votes cast in the State of Pennsylvania. If the Democrats discover more uncounted votes in desk drawers and car - [The Changing Of The Guard](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-changing-of-the-guard/) - The European Union was a unifying force that kept the peace among historically fractious elements. But so was the Hapsburg Empire. And, like the Habsburgs, who, like the Bourbons, knew nothing and forgot nothing, the European Union is equally historically ineffective in keeping the scam going forever. The European Union had a decent run, but - [Fake News](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fake-news/) - There is much fake handwringing about fake news today, but if we didn’t have fake news we wouldn’t have any news at all. Not surprisingly, fake news is not new. Quite possibly the first published fake news occurred more than three thousand years ago when the Pharaoh Ramses II, returning home with the remnant of - [Recount Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/recount-time/) - Jill Stein, Green Party nominee for president, has been joined by the Hillary Clinton campaign in asking for a recount of the vote in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. It is clear Stein is a stalking horse for Clinton and the radicals in the Democratic Party who want to turn the United States into a banana - [Revolution](https://verse-afire.com/blog/revolution/) - Donald Trump heads the revolution against the Washington establishment, but he did not create the revolution, the revolution created him. For there to be a revolution there must first be a movement, and the movement must then find a leader or create one. The anti-establishment Tea Party movement was crushed by the Republican Washington establishment, - [Das Ende Der Welt](https://verse-afire.com/blog/das-ende-der-welt/) - The German magazine Der Spiegel ran a cover story explaining how the election of Donald Trump meant the end of the world. And they were absolutely correct. The election of Donald Trump, along with Brexit, shows that the growing fear, loathing and anger in Europe at the open borders policy of the Leftist elite governing - [And The World Turned Upside Down](https://verse-afire.com/blog/and-the-world-turned-upside-down/) - When Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington, and as the redcoats stacked their muskets after the battle of Yorktown in 1781, tradition has it the British Army band played a ballad called And The World Turned Upside Down. Yesterday, with the Trump victory over the established order, the American political landscape has been turned upside - [The Tony Awards](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-tony-awards/) - Anthony Weiner, a man who has given sexual perversion a bad name, may be the unlikely savior of the Republic. Ironic that the marriage of convenience to Huma may lead to Hillary wearing a permanent orange pantsuit. The revelation that 650,000 Hillary emails resided on Tony Weiner’s laptop, causing FBI Director Jim Comey to send - [My Puppy Died](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-puppy-died/) - College snowflakes are so distraught at the election of Donald Trump that the schools are offering crying spaces and comfort dogs. I walked the neighborhood shortly after Trump was announced the next president of the United States, and encountered a young woman curled up on the curb, unmoving and sobbing quietly. In a tear-choked voice - [My Spittle In Your Face, M'Lord](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-spittle-in-your-face-mlord/) - The reason for Donald Trump’s victory is simple – the slovenly, lazy and stupid peasants of flyover country spat in the face of the media, the pundits and most of all we spit in the faces of the criminal Left who fancied themselves as elites, intellectually and morally superior to the great unwashed clinging to - [The Epic Journey Of Hillary Clinton](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-epic-journey-of-hillary-clinton/) - Bill and Hillary Clinton are two commoners who believe themselves royalty, and thus beyond the law and beyond all consequences. Like all pretenders, it does not have a happy ending. In Arkansas where he was king, and Hillary his queen They ruled with arrogance and unquenched greed The law was for the little folks, and - [As In A Mist](https://verse-afire.com/blog/as-in-a-mist/) - In the weeks and days before the election I wrote, in these pages, that Donald Trump would win the election. But I also believed, and wrote, that the Trumpian epoch would be but a temporary interruption in the inevitable triumph of demographics and the re-gaining of power by the progressives, and the continuation of the - [The Horror We Have Avoided](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-horror-we-have-avoided/) - Outwardly, after a Clinton victory all will seem normal – football games will continue to be played, people will get up and go to work, movie theaters will remain open and all will seem to be business as usual. But beneath the surface half the country will be consumed by sullen, stubborn anger and President - [THE DAY AFTER](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-day-after-2/) - The victory of Donald Trump will not be gracefully accepted by the Left, who do not give up power peacefully. There is no shaking hands after the fight with the Left, there is only bloodshed. And we will see it in volumes never before recorded, as police are targeted by the black radical Left, and - [The Coup Has Already Happened](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-coup-has-already-happened/) - Today is Election Day, but the coup has already happened. Everything has antecedents, and the coup to transform the United States from a representative Constitutional republic to a warmer version of the Soviet Union began in 1968 when George McGovern, a Democrat United States senator, and former campaign manager for the communist Henry Wallace in - [The Land Of Ancient Lore](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-land-of-ancient-lore/) - The 2016 presidential election is not an anomaly, it is part and parcel of the madness now afflicting the country. Not the corruption or the vilification of the enemy, those are normal to politics. The madness is the raging hatred of the left half of the country for their countrymen and their country. A civilization - [Breaching The Dikes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/breaching-the-dikes/) - Huma has apparently inadvertently copied all of Hillary’s emails onto Anthony Weiner’s laptop, a position normally occupied by fifteen years old girls. We do not yet know if this massive 600,000 or so emails contains the 30,000 emails deleted by Clinton by BleachBit, but the FBI surely knows. As the political dikes protecting and enabling - [Homeys](https://verse-afire.com/blog/homeys/) - The Democratic Party has its homeys, Barack Obama has his homeys and Hillary has her homeys. The Obama administration has done what every leftist administration or regime in the history of the planet has done, they have politicized the bureaucracy, and all Federal agencies are now part of and subservient to the Democratic Party, including - [Time Is Short](https://verse-afire.com/blog/time-is-short/) - There was a time when the pace of life was not as frantic as now, but I’m sure it seemed just as frantic to them as today seems to us. I feel fairly certain that when the Admiralty received word that the French fleet had come out the First Lord did not refill his glass - [Today Putin, Yesterday The World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/today-putin-yesterday-the-world/) - In 1936 Hitler, against the advice of his generals, reoccupied the Rhineland, throwing a handful of infantry across the Ludendorff Bridge. Consider the two paragraphs below: ‘But "the bigger question confronting American intelligence officials, though, is whether the Russian president has a grander scheme at work. So far, their conclusion is probably not’ Now read - [The Swirling Winds Of Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-swirling-winds-of-time/) - Today is my birthday. I have seen 87 of them so far, and expect to see many more, I have seen much in my lifetime; the Great Depression, the Hindenburg, World War 2, the atomic bomb, a president assassinated, the landing on the moon, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Hubble and the - [Trick Or Treat](https://verse-afire.com/blog/trick-or-treat/) - I went to buy a Halloween costume for my dog and ran into a liberal who was looking for a costume for her cat. She was furious that the costumes were segregated by gender, costumes for male dogs and cats and costumes for female dogs and cats. So furious she screamed at me when I - [Moral Violence](https://verse-afire.com/blog/moral-violence/) - The morality of the Left is visible in the violence committed by the Left against everything Trump. Cars belonging to Trump supporters are vandalized; Trump supporters are attacked and assaulted by paid thugs at Trump rallies; Trump lawn signs are stolen and destroyed and the homeowner assaulted if he protests. The Leftist terrorist group Black - [The Pitchfork Blues](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-pitchfork-blues/) - If the media were honest the people would be marching on Washington with pitchforks. The Washington elite, mannered and manored, Democrat and Republican, is corrupt to the core, and has no interest in the welfare of the country beyond its benefit to themselves. This is why Trump scares the hell out of the mannered Republican - [Heaven Can Wait](https://verse-afire.com/blog/heaven-can-wait/) - To hear the liberal progressives tell it, a socialist society is as close to heaven as any of us is likely to get. Never mind the dismal failure of every socialist society ever created, the next one will be different. It’s just a matter of trying hard enough and wishing hard enough. Does Venezuela come - [The Whiching Hour](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-whiching-hour/) - Which shall it be? Democracy or tyranny? The approaching election will decide which type of government we will leave to our children and grandchildren; a Constitutional Republic or a Leftist authoritarian kleptocracy. The Obama administration has already politicized and criminalized the Justice Department and the FBI, has already politicized and criminalized the IRS, and a - [Mr. Lucky](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mr-lucky/) - When the Roman Senate selected a Consul, the deciding factor in their decision was the answer to the question, Is he lucky? If they answer was yes, he was confirmed. But can a whole country be lucky? I’m not so sure. Can an entire country of three hundred million be willing to take a risk? - [The Museum Of Leftist History](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-museum-of-leftist-history/) - The museum of leftist history is not a shining alabaster building sitting proudly on a gently sloping swath of brilliant greenery, surrounded by majestic shade trees and brilliantly colored flowers in immaculate beds. No, the leftist museum of history lays like a massive block of rough cut sandstone in the rigid locked minds of the - [October](https://verse-afire.com/blog/october/) - I just want to say a few words about October, the eighth month of the year, at least by Roman reckoning, and the tenth and most beautiful and wonderful by the reckoning of a later age. October foliage setting the woods ablaze, crisp air resounding to the sound of football played with rough abandon, apple - [It's Probably Nothing](https://verse-afire.com/blog/its-probably-nothing/) - Putin orders all Russian children who are abroad to be brought home, cancels a diplomatic trip to Paris, stations nuclear armed missiles in Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast, within range of all of Western Europe, and orders a countrywide nuclear war evacuation test. Meanwhile, US Air Force drops dummy nuke bombs in Nevada desert test - [Geezer Culture](https://verse-afire.com/blog/geezer-culture/) - We are living in final times, witnesses to the final paroxysms of the radical culture of the 60s and the 70s, a culture of drug induced dementia and the willful destruction of the common values we once held dear, all foisted on an unsuspecting populace by Che Guevara loving twenty-something radicals determined to tear everything - [Bed'lam](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bedlam/) - Bethlehem Royal Hospital for the Insane, in London, Bed’lam in cockneyspeak, would never have had the reputation it has earned if they had had Josh Earnest, the press spokesman for the Obama White House, to explain what was going on inside. Josh Earnest might be crazy too It’s just so hard to tell He knows - [Laocoon](https://verse-afire.com/blog/laocoon/) - The Left comes bearing gifts of poverty, disease and death, and the people, refusing to heed the warnings, have wheeled the wooden horse inside the gates. Adam and Eve rejected the Garden of Eden, and the very real paradise of modern Western civilization has been rejected by the people of the West in favor of - [A Rodent's Tale](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-rodents-tale/) - Researchers have developed an anti-aging drug called Rapamicin that in tests has been seen to extend the lives of mice. All well and good for the mice, but wouldn’t outlawing mouse traps be cheaper and just as effective? I spoke to a mouse recently about Rapamicin and he said, I like the whole idea of - [Searching For The Dolphins](https://verse-afire.com/blog/searching-for-the-dolphins/) - One may, on command, leave his corporeal body and take wing, for howsoever a length of time he may desire, and return at the instant of his leaving, for time is elastic and life is malleable. A summer day, a young man, a high rise on the beach. The calm Atlantic Ocean stretches effortlessly to - [How Do I Love Me](https://verse-afire.com/blog/how-do-i-love-me/) - Barack Obama, channeling his inner Elizabeth Barrett Browning, riffs on her love poem to her husband, and composes a paean to the love of his life, himself. How do I love me, let me count the ways I have set the moral standard For these many, many days I have torn apart the races Into - [Birthers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/birthers/) - In Monday’s debate between Trump and Hillary, Lester Holt, of the Democratic Party press, resurrected the question of Barack Obama’s birthplace, as if it had the slightest relevance to the 2016 presidential race. But that is all they have, and so they use it in desperation, believing that the American people care about what Donald - [Broken Arrows](https://verse-afire.com/blog/broken-arrows/) - We all knew that Lester Holt would never ask Hillary about Benghazi, bout obstruction of justice in destroying emails after a subpoena had been issued demanding they be produced, about classified documents left out in the open for all to see, about the Clinton Foundation or about the Pay to Play selling of the United - [Slaves](https://verse-afire.com/blog/slaves/) - The descendants of Negro slaves freed by the deaths of three hundred and twenty thousand young white men fighting under the banner of the United States to destroy the ugly institution of Southern slavery, descendants who are now rich beyond avarice because they are skilled at playing a game, have taken to spitting on the - [Maybe It's All In My Mind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/maybe-its-all-in-my-mind/) - My paranoia is well under control most of the time, but even so it seems it’s getting worse. At the University of California at Berkeley, quite possibly the most radical Leftist Progressive school in the United States, Muslim and other minority students viciously harass and attack Jewish students without consequence from the administration. The NFL - [History Lesson](https://verse-afire.com/blog/history-lesson/) - In the beginning years of the late American Republic, German immigrants settled in the mountains of western North Carolina, and named their settlement Wachovia, and their capitol city Charlotte, after an obscure German princess. The Wachensians, as they called themselves, set about building a prosperous and peaceful life in the new world. Over time the - [J. Edgar Hoover](https://verse-afire.com/blog/j-edgar-hoover/) - For almost a hundred years the FBI has enjoyed an unalloyed reputation for honesty, integrity and a clean separation from politics. The Obama administration and the Obama Justice Department has destroyed that reputation in a few short years, beginning with Attorney General Eric Holder refusing to prosecute Black Panther thugs who threatened white voters with - [Exit Music](https://verse-afire.com/blog/exit-music/) - Everyone picks out the music he wants at his funeral, but my exit this world playlist is so full of terrific songs that when they play it I’ll probably get carried away. The problem with putting your exit music together beforehand is that you just might live another thirty years or so, and nobody at - [Pissing On The Flag](https://verse-afire.com/blog/pissing-on-the-flag/) - Several members of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, following the lead of Colin Kaepernick, pissed on the flag during the playing of the National Anthem on Monday Night Football. I suppose we shouldn’t be too harsh on them, they are not especially well versed in the reality of political life and don’t know that the - [Absolutely Deplorable](https://verse-afire.com/blog/absolutely-deplorable/) - Hillary Clinton has just, perhaps inadvertently, spilled the beans. Her kind of people view my kind of people as degenerate, racist, homophobic right-wing terrorists, intent on smearing honest leftists, who only want what is best for all of us, with lies and worse. I may be a degenerate, probably have been since subscribing to Playboy - [Black And White](https://verse-afire.com/blog/black-and-white/) - The racial healing brought to us by the Obama administration has resulted in militant black organizations like Black Lives Matter and the Black Panthers itching for a fight. The black folks ginning up a race war may well be in for a surprise. Nobody starts a war they expect to lose, and this one is - [Heroes Will Always Be With Us](https://verse-afire.com/blog/heroes-will-always-be-with-us/) - Articles appear from time to time bemoaning or approving the notion that we are in a post-heroic age. The bemoaners bemoan the passing of heroism and love of country, and the approvers are pleased that man has finally abandoned the outdated and ill-worn concept of honor and sacrifice. I’m not convinced the age of heroism - [Coughing It Up](https://verse-afire.com/blog/coughing-it-up/) - Hillary collapsed with pneumonia over the weekend, and her campaign is in crisis. The Dems are preparing for the worst, and are readying a replacement for her on the ballot. But even should she recover and return to the campaign, now they have the perfect excuse to take her off the ballot if she falls - [A Simple Word Like 'He'](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-simple-word-like-he/) - Princeton University has just banned the use of the word ‘man’. Our schools and colleges are now, and have been for some time, re-education camps where the minds of students are reprogrammed to accept as truth the feminist, anti-white and anti-American propaganda they are constantly fed. The American left has succeeded in capturing the public - [October Surprise](https://verse-afire.com/blog/october-surprise/) - There are signs that the October surprise may come early this year, and this time the target will be the Democrat, Hillary Clinton. Whispers of additional hacked emails to come, whispers of FBI investigations into the criminal activities of the Clinton Foundation, all portend a very interesting post Labor Day political season. In addition, questions - [Revenge](https://verse-afire.com/blog/revenge/) - On the fifteenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, there will be those who claim the debt has been paid with the death by Navy Seal of Osama bin Laden. To those people, who desire above all else to avoid inconvenience, who desire above all else to be able to claim a purity and nobility above - [Racial Healing](https://verse-afire.com/blog/racial-healing/) - A black woman went ballistic when a white teacher touched the hair of her young daughter who had asked the teacher to put the hair up under her headband. The mother screamed that no dirty, stinking, white racist cracker could touch her daughter’s sacred black hair. And the mother’s black rage escalated from there. Black - [Mob Boss](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mob-boss/) - The Clinton Foundation is part of a criminal organization based in the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, New York. It was in this house in Chappaqua that the now infamous unsecured and illegal private server was installed in order to prevent any outsiders from seeing the communications between Secretary of State Hillary - [Compassionate Killers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/compassionate-killers/) - Prior to the advent of compassionate liberalism, the Black family was doing all right; not great, but all right. A 1925 study of the Black family showed almost universal two parent homes, no more crime in black neighborhoods than in white, with almost no out of wedlock births. In short, while there was always the - [Black Lives Mattress](https://verse-afire.com/blog/black-lives-mattress/) - Colin Kaepernick has a right to kneel or stay seated during the playing of the national anthem, and I have the right to not watch any football team he might be associated with. I do sympathize with him somewhat though, because he got entangled with an Egyptian Muslim woman who was very highly thought of - [Memoir](https://verse-afire.com/blog/memoir/) - On the afternoon of 20 January 2021, shortly after the swearing in of the country’s first female Muslim president, Huma Abedin, the Clintons left the White House for the last time, in a van filled with furniture, paintings and bathroom fittings. At their home in Chappaqua, New York, a now very reflective Bill Clinton wrote - [Body Bags](https://verse-afire.com/blog/body-bags/) - The summer of 1916 saw the Western allies preparing for the great summer offensive that would end the war. In the British sector, Haig planned the breakthrough along the Somme River, beginning with a weeklong bombardment by 1500 guns designed to kill every German in their trenches just a short walk east of the British - [Apollo's Daughter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/apollos-daughter/) - The country is on the verge of coming apart. Obama has set blacks against whites and whites against blacks and both against Hispanics, to the point where there may not be a coming together as one country ever again. At a busy intersection of a crowded city street, I chanced to glance behind me, and - [The End Of The Constitutional Republic](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-end-of-the-constitutional-republic/) - Get used to it. The country is no longer a Constitutional Republic, it is a popular democracy, where the law is whatever the majority of the people say it is. The last vestige, the Electoral College, under attack for many years, will disappear in favor of the presidential winner being the candidate having the most - [Nothing Changes But The Details](https://verse-afire.com/blog/nothing-changes-but-the-details/) - Everything has antecedents. Consider the world today had Carthage conquered Rome and razed it to the ground, putting its inhabitants to the sword and fire, the city of Rome salted and disappearing forever as did Carthage at the hands of Scipio’s grandson. There would be no such religion as Christianity, the history of Europe would - [A World Of Pregnant Men](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-world-of-pregnant-men/) - A society that degenerates into madness has not long to live; Medical science claims that within five years it will be possible to transplant a uterus in a man that will enable him to get pregnant. So the next time you tell a liberal to go f**k himself, he just might. Barbarians are at the - [White Racism](https://verse-afire.com/blog/white-racism/) - We are all racists now. Every white s-o-b of us. The EEOC has recommended an investigation into the allegation of intolerable racism committed by a white man who wore a cap to work with the iconic Revolutionary War flag flown by the US Navy, a flag depicting a coiled, segmented snake, with the legend, Don’t - [The Miracle Of Chance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-miracle-of-chance/) - On the morning of 16 December 1944, German guns opened up Operation Herbstnebel, Autumn Mist, Hitler’s counter-offensive designed to smash through the lightly held Ardennes, cross the Meuse and take Antwerp, isolating the British Army and fracturing the alliance. It didn’t quite work out that way, but life has a strange way of unfolding. An - [Let Your Laughter Fill The Room](https://verse-afire.com/blog/let-your-laughter-fill-the-room/) - Forty years ago Van Morison recorded a whimsical song, the tag line of which was Let Your Laughter Fill The Room. The line is no longer whimsical. For thirty years now the Left has been slowly taking away, salami slice by salami slice, our constitutional right to free speech. It matters not that you tell - [The Bright Side Of The Road](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-bright-side-of-the-road/) - We have lost our way, and have left the bright side of the road for the shadowed and sinister dark of the progressive mind. Black Lives Matter, a domestic terrorist group that fosters race war by ambushing and killing police officers, is praised by the president of the United States and invited to the White - [Glue](https://verse-afire.com/blog/glue/) - It is being reported that General Motors is now gluing its cars together, apparently because it’s cheaper than welding or maybe because cardboard is cheaper than steel. To be fair to Government Motors, they are probably building the cars out of composite materials now instead of steel, so gluing is the only option, unless they - [Prince Of The Misty Isles](https://verse-afire.com/blog/prince-of-the-misty-isles/) - We are nearing the end of the second term of President Barack Obama, and it is well that we look back on how he got here. Deep in the barren frozen lair, beyond the starry realm Beyond belief, beyond compare, so steady at the helm The ruler of all he surveys, a man of many - [Owning The World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/owning-the-world/) - Lots of guys have owned the world, at various times and in various places, yet that ownership was not only ephemeral, but largely unnoticed by the presumptive subjects of the owner, be it Caesar or, laughably, Putin. Vladimir Putin appears larger than he is because he is fortunate to be compared to pygmies. In my - [Dream Weavers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dream-weavers/) - By definition, half of every population is below average in IQ. This is true in the United States as elsewhere, and in the United States, as elsewhere in the First World, the number of low IQ jobs is far fewer than the number of low IQ people. The problem of government, then, is what to - [No Problems At All](https://verse-afire.com/blog/no-problems-at-all/) - In the 1960s, during the racial tensions of the time, a British observer said that if the United States did not have a Negro problem they would have no problems at all. Race relations steadily deteriorated over time, stoked by the racist anti-white rhetoric of such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for their own - [The Burkini](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-burkini/) - The beaches of France are seeing Muslim women in full body bathing suits, dubbed by the locals The Burkini. The problem arises when non-Muslims are perceived by Muslim men as perverts, lustfully ogling their presumed zaftig women. Fights ensue, and injuries accrue, though so far the lenient French authorities are loathe to accuse Muslims of - [The Last Ride Of Barack Obama](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-last-ride-of-barack-obama/) - In a secluded corner of a dark train shed a high speed eight wheel locomotive waits, steam up, crew aboard, a single passenger car behind the tender. A sleek black limousine stops and a stoop shouldered Barack Obama emerges and quickly boards the train. Without a word the big drivers start to move and the - [The Labyrinth Of The Mind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-labyrinth-of-the-mind/) - Scientists have recently discovered a trove of ancient stone tools used by – monkeys. Scientists have credited chimpanzees with the intelligence of five year old humans, and we all know high government officials with the intelligence level of a five year old, so that bodes well for the chimps, always assuming they tested too few - [The Improbable Accident](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-improbable-accident/) - Every accident is the result of a series of improbable events, and therefore the accident itself can never be avoided. The question is, why is it still thought of as an accident? Yes accidents will happen, said the spider to the fly My web fair glistened with the dew and surely caught your eye I - [An Improbable Show Of force](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-improbable-show-of-force/) - The US Air Force has dispatched B-1B bombers to Guam in response to a Chinese military build-up in the South China Sea. But is this a serious move, or an administration shadow show designed to convince an unbelieving China that Obama is serious about defending the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan. The B-1B is quite a - [My Little Green Car](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-little-green-car/) - Where it came from I don’t know. What happened to it is forever a mystery. But I remember that wonderful day when I took the little girl next door for a ride. I got my car when I was five Pedal operated I took my daily sidewalk drive So laughingly elated I asked the little - [Smashing Down The Walls](https://verse-afire.com/blog/smashing-down-the-walls/) - There are those who claim the Constitution is in shreds and the walls are down, and the leaders of both the Democratic and Republican Party have led the way in smashing them. I dunno, but that’s not the way I see it at all. From my vantage point it is only one political party smashing - [Ransom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ransom/) - Barack Obama has just broken the law again by paying 400 million dollars in ransom to Iran for the release of four American citizens illegally imprisoned. The law against using American money to ransom prisoners or captives is clear, which is why Obama had to send American dollars to Switzerland where they were changed into - [The Boundary](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-boundary/) - The quest for Artificial Intelligence is proceeding apace, despite the warnings from some very eminent scientists of the risks that AI may result in the creating of demons, that there is a boundary that should not be crossed. There was no talk of a possible boundary between the Newtonian world and its successor, because a - [With Every Breath I Take](https://verse-afire.com/blog/with-every-breath-i-take/) - Hillary’s short term strategy is working, due to Trump’s combative nature that believes every blow must be returned with a blow. Witness the trap so cleverly set by the Dems with the Khan family, a trap eagerly stepped into by Trump. Every time Donald Trump tweets some late night tweet, I hold my breath, fearing - [The Mirror'd Past](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-mirrord-past/) - The past is a Mirror that reflects the inner light that guides our actions and our thoughts, that teaches us the nature of ourselves, and reveals to us the wandering path we have traveled and will travel still. The Mirror doth reflect the light That shines so brightly in our soul The light that tells - [The Tranny And The Ladyboy](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-tranny-and-the-ladyboy/) - Who would have imagined that the pressing question of the day is, Who is more representative of American culture, the Tranny or the Ladyboy? To answer this question I spoke to one of each. The Ladyboy was a good looking young man, though I felt a more muted lipstick would better compliment his complexion. The - [The Poetry Of Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-poetry-of-time/) - Time is bitter-sweet, a lingering taste that always takes us back to where we started. The world seems intent on sliding back into the scum filled pond from which we emerged. Of all the wonders of this world we had but one to choose Which would it be, the grandest or the one we never - [Riding The Rainbow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/riding-the-rainbow/) - The Clintons are not like you and I. The law means nothing to them, they ride the rainbow of the privileged, encased in a prism of their own making, surrounded by the brilliant colors of their magnificence. They expect, and get, deference and acquiescence, obeisance and adulation. They do not break the law, they are - [Reality](https://verse-afire.com/blog/reality/) - I spoke to Reality just the other day and she said she was getting tired of having to clean up peoples’ messes all the time. I asked if there was something we could do to ease her labors, and she said, yes, stop listening to people who claim they know what is best. They claim - [A Philadelphia Story](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-philadelphia-story/) - In the midst of the DNC email chaos of the Democratic National Convention, the Philadelphia Police Union protests the list of speakers at the convention. Listed to speak are widows and family members of black guys the cops were forced to shoot in the line of duty, all of whom, according to Democrats, were innocent - [Is God An Architect?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/is-god-an-architect/) - There was a raging debate, at one time and in some circles, about the nature of God – was He an architect or a clockmaker. The Founders believed God was an architect, a designer who worked with mortal materials that adapted to changing circumstances, rather than a clockmaker who sets the clock in motion and - [Empty Nurseries](https://verse-afire.com/blog/empty-nurseries/) - The nurseries once filled with laughing children are now closed, the shades drawn, the cribs empty, for Western women, having heard the toxic siren song of feminism that unfortunately coincided with the development of the Pill, decided they would no longer submit their lives to the inconvenience of having and raising children. And so, the - [A Man Can Always Dream](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-man-can-always-dream/) - A Bulgarian man named Dinko Valev has annoyed ISIS to the extent of having a fifty thousand dollar bounty offered to anyone who will kill him. Whatever could he have done? It seems he acted in accordance with his Bulgarian heritage. The Bulgars were a Turkic tribe who moved from place to place Who moving - [L'audace](https://verse-afire.com/blog/laudace/) - ISIS has struck again, this time in Nice, when a truck plowed through Bastille Day holiday revelers and killed and wounded over two hundred people. And yet France, despite repeated attacks and a mounting death toll of innocents, has not, with a stroke, eliminated ISIS and all its works. Is it because they have the - [Prewar Whisky](https://verse-afire.com/blog/prewar-whisky/) - Turkey has long been an Islamic country, but now, with the failed coup, the terror is loosed and Erdogan will take the country further down the road to radicalization. The situation in the Middle East is changed, and we do not yet know to what degree. Will Turkey align itself with Iran? It is time - [Turtles](https://verse-afire.com/blog/turtles/) - The tachyon is faster than light, and therefore capable of passing through a black hole, and what is more important, returning across the event horizon. I spoke to a just returned tachyon recently, asking what he found on the other side of a black hole, and he said, “Turtles.” I looked at him blankly, and - [The Supreme Court](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-supreme-court/) - Everyone knows the presidential election of 2016 will set the political course of the United State for the next three generations. A Republican victory is said to be critical to ensure a continuation of the country as a constitutional republic. Yet history tells us the Republicans, even when they hold the White House and the - [Cleveland 2016](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cleveland-2016/) - The Republican Party National Convention will be held this coming Monday in, of all places, Cleveland, a city where a Republican is nary to be found, and where the streets outside the convention hall will be filled with Black Lives Matter protesters and the sweet smell of napalm. The protests grow in rage and size - [And The Winner Is](https://verse-afire.com/blog/and-the-winner-is/) - The rise of the cult of identity grievances and racial politics has taken us, in Dallas, to the first tiny steps in the coming race war, and the leftist war on the white middle class has taken us to the brink of a political revolution that so far is a peaceful one. Are these two - [What The Flowers Know](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-the-flowers-know/) - The murdered Dallas police officers have been laid to rest, with only the flowers to keep them company. The caskets heaped with flowers stand so quietly at ease The smell of roses hanging in the sweet and heavy air The flowers say to those who kneel before them on their knees That everyone encased in - [Stupidity Or Malice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/stupidity-or-malice/) - Deciding whether Obama is acting out of stupidity or out of malice is a close call, but in close calls I believe we should lean toward that which would hurt us more. Stupidity is easier to cope with than malignant design, and therefore I am inclined to credit Obama and his administration with malignant design. - [The Custodial State](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-custodial-state/) - Way back in ancient times, the 1970s, Marshall McLuhan said that the world, because of the reach of radio and television, was now a global village. Britain has now voted to leave the global village, and if we and the world are lucky, this rejection of the EU may result in the collapse and destruction - [The Gentle Sound Of Rain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-gentle-sound-of-rain/) - James Comey, the Director of the FBI, announced that in spite of the mountain of damning evidence against her, Hillary Clinton is cleared of all charges. The Left has won, and we enter the era of lawlessness where the connected and the powerful are above the law. The Left captured the ballot box some time - [A Chance Encounter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-chance-encounter/) - Bill Clinton sat in his private plane on the tarmac in the VIP section of Phoenix airport waiting for the private plane of Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General of the United States, to land. When it did, he left his plane and walked into the AG’s plane where the Attorney General dismissed her staff and - [Yankee Doodle](https://verse-afire.com/blog/yankee-doodle/) - Today is the Fourth of July, a day once universally celebrated in the United States, but a day that today’s public school and college educated kids know nothing about because the Left has erased all memory of America’s past, and if you aren’t told about something it doesn’t exist, at least not for you. The - [Bastardizing The Religion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bastardizing-the-religion/) - Listening to Shepard Smith on Fox Tuesday evening describe the events in Ataturk airport earlier that day, I was distressed to hear him describe the actions of the Muslim killers as “bastardizing this religion”. THERE IS NO BASTARDIZING OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION. THE KILLERS ARE NOT ACTING AGAINST THE PRECEPTS OF ISLAM, THEY ARE FOLLOWING - [Icebergs](https://verse-afire.com/blog/icebergs/) - The Left in Britain and Europe is setting up to deny the British public their Brexit victory by any means possible. It is almost as if British democracy, having hit the iceberg and survived, is now faced with a second iceberg. But icebergs are a shifty lot; they move, slowly to be sure, but they - [It's All Over Now, Baby Blue](https://verse-afire.com/blog/its-all-over-now-baby-blue/) - The British have voted to leave the European Union, and good riddance. The European Union was always a shotgun marriage. We all remember countries that voted No being badgered and threatened into voting again and again until, wearily, they voted Yes, at which point the vote was final. The EU was always a French dream - [The Sweet Goodbye](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sweet-goodbye/) - As Britain exits the EU, the European Union sighs for its lost love, and sings softly to itself of the sad parting, but mindful too, that life goes on, comforting itself in the thought that mindless progressivism will triumph in the end. In its wounded sorrow it sings I think of the love that we - [Agincourt](https://verse-afire.com/blog/agincourt/) - Just when you thought history had come to an end comes the tumultuous upheaval of Britain leaving the European Union. We have not seen the like since Agincourt. I grieve for Englishmen yet unborn, who will not see again such a day as this. The beginning of the end of the Marxist/Leftist model of governance - [Colors Of The Day](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-colors-of-the-day/) - When you love someone, the day is full of brilliantly gorgeous colors, so vivid they would make the rainbows blush and cry with envy. The dawning streaks the night sky palest rose With golden splashes of an amber hue And in a moment dawn will sudden close And tell me that the morning loves you - [The Sweet Used To Be](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sweet-used-to-be/) - From the viewpoint of Islam, the Sweet Used To Be was the glorious days of the Caliphate, the bygone days of beautiful Andalus and the magnificent Alhambra, of the wonders of Baghdad on the Tigris and the tales of Ali Baba. And so it seems, to the thoughtful Muslim, that the days of the Sweet - [Multiculturalism](https://verse-afire.com/blog/multiculturalism/) - We are witnessing the destruction and death of Western European civilization, the cradle of art and science, because of unrestrained and pernicious multi-culturalism. The glue that holds any society together is language and religion. The scourge of multi-culturalism, which has gripped the West for many years now, insists that all peoples are alike, and therefore - [Race Relations](https://verse-afire.com/blog/race-relations/) - Millions voted for Senator Barack Obama under the very much mistaken belief that the election of a Black man to the presidency of the United States would bring an end to the difficult race relations that had grown in size and bitterness over the years. Instead of pouring oil on troubled waters, the elected savior - [A Raven President](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-raven-president/) - In mythology the raven is associated with death and destruction. The country, in its wisdom, has elected a black winged raven as president, and he has brought death. Against the deep dark blue and purple sky Against the cratered moon of palest pale The shadow of the raven May be seen with naked eye But - [Father's Day](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fathers-day/) - I remember my father almost every day, but since today is Father’s Day I thought I would write down some of the things I remember most. The time I was a little kid Seven, I would note The kitchen and a block of wood He built a toy sail boat A kite he made me - [Now](https://verse-afire.com/blog/now/) - As the Muslim gunman walked among the crowd in the Orlando nightclub, killing as he went, a terrified young woman lying on the floor texted her mother. Mommy. Call them. He’s coming. I’m gonna die. Now. Will Orlando change anything? Probably not. Western elites have no problem with Islamic terror attacks on innocent civilians, for - [Philadelphia 2016](https://verse-afire.com/blog/philadelphia-2016/) - Philadelphia will be the site of the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating convention in July, and depending on the FBI, it is unclear who will be the nominee. Hillary cannot shake the FBI and Bernie Sanders has vowed to fight on the convention floor, and with all of that the outcome is in doubt. Will she - [The Black Car](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-black-car/) - God sits outside your house, in a black car, with the motor running. Eternity is but a fraction of the solemn spin Of bundled pinwheels of the distant stars That fill the blackness of the void that God and we are in A blackness matched by countless blackened cars That carry us from birth to - [The Illusion Of Competence](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-illusion-of-competence/) - The Dunning-Kruger Effect is an effect whereby relatively unskilled people believe their abilities to be much higher than they really are. We could also, with good reason, call this the Obama-Progressive Effect. The White House inner circle believes themselves superior to the rest of us simply because their parents belonged to the Communist party and - [Alluha Akbar](https://verse-afire.com/blog/alluha-akbar/) - After a series of smaller killings by Muslims shouting Alluha Akbar, officially written off by the Obama administration as workplace violence, we finally have a terror act that cannot be smoothed away with comforting words about the religion of peace. One can only hope that the insanity of political correctness is coming to a bloody - [Social Justice Warrior](https://verse-afire.com/blog/social-justice-warrior/) - I spoke to a Social Justice Warrior recently, and she grew indignant when I suggested that perhaps she was a bit intemperate in her choice of words. She heatedly denied being intemperate, saying she was only telling the truth and if I didn’t like it I could shove it. I am an SJW My politics - [Stomach Pains](https://verse-afire.com/blog/stomach-pains/) - I am getting stomach pains. I was for Trump from day one, for all the right reasons; a Democrat victory would mean a super-liberal Supreme Court for the next three generations, the continuation of the catastrophe that is Obama and the Progressive/Marxist agenda, the further loss of liberty to unelected federal regulators and so forth. - [The Glistening Prize](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-glistening-prize/) - Some plan their lives from an early age, foreseeing every twist and turn in a chaotic life, more often than not arriving in a place totally unsuited to his or her talents, though perfectly suited to ambition. Such a one is Hillary Clinton, who identified early on the man who would waft her to the - [Vive Le No Difference](https://verse-afire.com/blog/vive-le-no-difference/) - The French have a saying, Vive le difference, but the United States today believes in Vive le no difference. Responding to a survey, an overwhelming majority of American college students said there was no difference between a man and a woman. Perhaps they were thinking in a legal sense, but I think not. The Left’s - [The German Circle](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-german-circle/) - Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has consistently disregarded the outspoken wishes of her countrymen that unlimited Muslim immigration be halted, and has single handedly held open the gates of Germany to the Muslim barbarians, even though she must know that unlimited immigration of a people whose beliefs and way of life are entirely devoted to - [The Song Of Solomon](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-song-of-solomon/) - My beloved is mine, and I am his. - Song of Solomon verse 2:16 The Left has temporarily destroyed the cultural, legal and moral foundations of what was once the United States, and though the destruction is but temporary, when the spasm passes the country will not be as it was before. The country will - [Grade Point Average](https://verse-afire.com/blog/grade-point-average/) - The Intercollegiate Studies Institute grades universities that are not recommended for conservative students with a red or yellow symbol. Most are Ivies, but not all. Nothing wrong with this, it’s always good to be forewarned. What is bad is that it demonstrates the deplorable state to which our one time elite universities have sunk, a - [The Way We Were](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-way-we-were/) - I was born in the opening year of the Hoover administration, on a Sunday Halloween morning, just days after the Black Friday stock market crash. Like any newborn, I had no notion that the stock market crash was a stake in the heart of the country, a stake that would lead to the Great Depression - [The Passage Of The Dreams](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-passage-of-the-dreams/) - Time is an illusion. Life is a cyclical event that begins and ends with youth. The grass is cool on moon-dark summer nights The backyard tree is black against the sky The house asleep with but a few dim lights And thoughts and dreams turn back to days gone by To younger days when stars - [Manacle And Link](https://verse-afire.com/blog/manacle-and-link/) - Slavery was a Southern phenomenon, and Southern slave owners were Democrats. The Republican Party was founded for the express purpose of ending slavery, and it did, at the cost of 320,000 dead young white men. Freed slaves who came north married and raised families, and were, in time, working class people like most of their - [Ottoman Redux](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ottoman-redux/) - History repeats itself, but never in the same way. Events today seem likely to result, ultimately, in one regional power gathering in all the artificial countries cobbled together after WW1 by the British and French, and that regional power will be Iran or Turkey, and since it all was once a part of the Ottoman - [Not Being Venezuela](https://verse-afire.com/blog/not-being-venezuela/) - There is much talk of the current Republican Party being the Whigs of the 21st century, in that they too seem destined to cross the bar into Whigdom and disappear, to be replaced by a new national party. I believe this prognosis is correct, in that whether Donald Trump wins the election or not, the - [The Little Boy And The Wolf](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-little-boy-and-the-wolf/) - The world is full of slavering, red-eyed wolves, and the media, the plantation slaves and the leftist academia has put a little boy in the White House, who sits uncomfortably in the big leather chair in the Oval Office, his tiny feet dangling over the edge. He glances nervously at the red-eyed wolf seated opposite - [The Unlikely Empire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-unlikely-empire/) - How could early 16th century Portugal, a tiny country of less than a million people, sitting on the edge of the civilized world, forge a global empire that rivaled that of England and Spain? The answer is brains, guts, determination, and a beckoning open expanse of restless ocean at its doorstep. Sleek caravels of oak - [The Caravel](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-caravel/) - Time is an illusion. With one stroke of a brush or pen time can be reversed and dreams and journeys renewed. Built I a silver ship with one brush stroke A caravel of olden tales well told Her keel of hardened iron and burnished oak Her parchment sails embossed with gleaming gold At anchor on - [Third World Countries, Third World Minds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/third-world-countries-third-world-minds/) - The collapse of socialist countries like Venezuela, which not so long ago was the richest country in South America with enormous oil wealth, are always explained away by the economists as “The curse of plenty,” in which countries that rely on natural resource exports may tend to neglect education because they see no immediate need - [Music Halls](https://verse-afire.com/blog/music-halls/) - In 1853, in the run-up to the Crimean War, London‘s music halls rang with a rollicking and defiant song, with the crowd standing and roaring the tag line, “The Russians Shall Not Have Constantinople!” It is ludicrous to think of a present day London theater crowd standing and roaring defiance at anything at all. Nor - [A Freshly Ploughed Mind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-freshly-ploughed-mind/) - I spoke to a recent college graduate today, asking about the wisdom of allowing grown men who claim they believe they are a little girl to use the school shower facilities with little girls. Her mind having been freshly ploughed at great cost by a prestigious university, she was astonished that I would find something - [Bathroom Humor](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bathroom-humor/) - The United States Justice Department is threatening the State of North Carolina because of a North Carolina rule that says public bathrooms and school and college restroom and shower facilities are to be used by people whose gender is written on their birth certificates. The Justice Department insists that grown men have a civil right - [The Race At A Glance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-race-at-a-glance/) - With Donald Trump’s smashing victory in Indiana and the suspension of the campaigns of Cruz and Kasich, Trump is now the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, though many in the Republican hierarchy are very unhappy. In the meantime, Hillary Clinton, anointed by the Democrat establishment, cannot put away Bernie Sanders, a 74 year old - [A Hacking Cough](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-hacking-cough/) - Hillary Clinton has been bothered with a hacking cough for some time, and while it seems of little concern to some, it is of much concern to me. It isn’t the cough that bothers me, it’s the hacking. The best thing about computer voting, according to a Democrat friend, is that the votes are there - [Clover Green](https://verse-afire.com/blog/clover-green/) - We have lost something very special, something wonderful. We have lost the American dream. It was not Obama alone who took the dream from us, it was decades of leftist ideology that prepared the way. And yet the dream is only lost, not dead. We shall, out of love for our country, of love for - [Tin Soldiers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tin-soldiers/) - When I was a boy, several millennia ago, I, like most of my compatriots, had a box of lead soldiers, but we all called them tin soldiers. It would seem that the guys in NATO headquarters in Brussels also have tin soldiers, though in a much bigger box, a box on which Putin is about - [Is There Any Fight In That Dog?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/is-there-any-fight-in-that-dog/) - Speaking at a hearing into the Brussels attacks, the Belgian deputy prime minister, Jan Jambon, warned against Europeans “making an enemy of Islam” describing it as “the worst thing we can do”. The participants also heard the warning that Muslims will outnumber Christians in Europe in the very near future, so Europe must prepare for - [A Lovely Dream](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-lovely-dream/) - Wikileaks claims that Soros and USAID, via the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, directly funded the Panama Papers report that claimed to unveil the system in which Putin and his cronies shuffle money and power through a Panamanian corporation shell, along with similar behavior from a vast array of political and economic players, including - [Ahura Mazda](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ahura-mazda/) - The long awaited clash of civilizations may well be upon us. The goal and dream of Islam to conquer the West dates back to the 7th century, and they will not stop until they are either the conquerors or the conquered. If it comes to a fight to the death, I believe we will prevail, - [Mockingbird](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mockingbird/) - In a large, nearby tree, I hear, late of a sleepless night, a lone mockingbird, singing his heart out, for what I do not know. He is occasionally answered by someone whose call he has just run through, though the answerer always seems a bit annoyed at being wakened at such an hour. That Mockingbird - [Brokered Convention](https://verse-afire.com/blog/brokered-convention/) - The difference between a contested convention and a brokered convention is enormous. A contested convention is fair, a brokered convention is not. The conditions for my dystopian prediction of four years ago that Obama would run for a third term have gotten better with the Republican establishment planning for a brokered nominating convention in order - [Better Green Than Mean](https://verse-afire.com/blog/better-green-than-mean/) - Green is the color of Islam. Green is the color of every Islamic flag. Islam has been determined to conquer Christendom since the seventh century AD, when an Arab army first laid siege to Constantinople. Defeated, they returned some years later to be defeated again by Greek Fire. It took them more than seven hundred - [The Standard Model](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-standard-model/) - The standard model of the world, as seen by both American political parties, is false, a fantasy. For both, the standard model of the world shows a gigantic United States surrounded by tiny nation states colored red and blue and orange, surrounded by Terra Incognita. The Democrats believe that by acquiring eternal political power through - [The Low Birthrate Misunderstanding](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-low-birthrate-misunderstanding/) - We hear of the doom of Western civilization because Caucasian women in Western Europe, the United States and elsewhere, have elected not to have babies, driving the birthrates seriously below the replacement level of 2.1 live births per childbearing-age woman. The 2.1 number is the number of births required to maintain the population level. Any - [Au revoir, Auf wiedersehen And Goodbye](https://verse-afire.com/blog/au-revoir-auf-wiedersehen-and-goodbye/) - Au revoir, auf wiedersehen and goodbye. Or, put another way, ave atque vale. French, German, English or Latin, it all means the same – it’s over. The long and mostly illustrious history of the European people who gave the world common law, orchestral music, art and science, medicine and technology, is coming to an inglorious - [The Thirteenth Floor](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-thirteenth-floor/) - There was a time a building would not have a numbered thirteenth floor, but designate the floor directly above the twelfth floor the fourteenth. So it was with an elderly building in Newark, New Jersey, except this building does indeed have a thirteenth floor, accessible only to the national and international establishment political and economic - [White Privilege](https://verse-afire.com/blog/white-privilege/) - The Pentagon is now teaching its recruits the dangers and unfairness of white privilege. This is doubtless on instruction from the White House, and is just one more reason why the whole place should be fumigated when the Obamas leave. Yes I am white and so’s my pop And privileges never stop We profited from - [Trump Disdain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/trump-disdain/) - The disdain for Donald Trump and his supporters among the pundit class is endemic, with some of Fox News Channel regulars among them. The disdain extends beyond Trump himself to his supporters, who are universally described as ignorant, high school dropouts, low income residents of trailer parks. These faux elite pundits do not see that - [Hildabeest](https://verse-afire.com/blog/hildabeest/) - Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic Party nominee. She has, through stupidity, negligence, incompetence or treason, set out the country’s top secrets in an unsecured server for everyone, enemies and allies alike, to effortlessly hack. Every email that crossed that server was read in real time in Moscow, Pyongyang, Teheran and Beijing, to name - [Beemer Dreams](https://verse-afire.com/blog/beemer-dreams/) - I remember my dreams as a ten year old, but what would I dream of today if I were again ten years old? Probably the same things, but the car would be imported. I was a boy of nine or ten In school I was a dreamer I dreamed of being older when I’d drive - [Just You And Me`](https://verse-afire.com/blog/just-you-and-me/) - Sometimes, when it’s quiet, I can remember what my life was like before moving to Cedar Springs. I remember my brothers and sisters, and how traumatic it was being separated from my mother. I remember being picked up and carried outside. It was the first time I had been outside, and the cold and the - [Fire And Glass](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fire-and-glass/) - The country is in the midst of a political revolution. Donald Trump will win the Republican presidential nomination despite the panicky attempts by the Republican Establishment to stop him from taking away their perks and power. Donald Trump will ride the wave of political revolt into the White House, and the current Republican Establishment will - [The Baddest Dudes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-baddest-dudes/) - Brussels is the heart of the European Beast. The attack by ISIS Tuesday morning in Brussels is an attempt to terrify the government and populace into submission to Allah. It has worked so far, for the leftist European establishment lies prostrate at the prospect of Islamic violence and killing, unable to respond effectively to each - [The Color Of Blood](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-color-of-blood/) - We are witnessing the beginning of the long awaited clash of civilizations. Europe is stirring, closing borders against the Muslim invaders. The elites in Brussels still don’t see it, but the common people do, and they are ready for revolution. And when it comes, the revolution will be the color of blood. Civilizations are founded - [Chaos In The Streets](https://verse-afire.com/blog/chaos-in-the-streets/) - The last time we saw organized Communist-led chaos in the streets of a democracy was in the Weimar Republic. We are seeing it now in the United States, as MoveOn organized, orchestrated and funded leftist gangsters block the streets around Trump rally events and prevent access to Trump supporters, in the process harassing and intimidating - [The Feminization Of The West](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-feminization-of-the-west/) - The Europeans are closing their borders to the Muslim invaders, but is it too late? Europe is feminized to a greater degree than is the United States, but both are doomed if the balance between feminism and patriarchy is not re-established. Women are different from men. Women have different goals, different agendas than men. Not - [Eating Goober Peas](https://verse-afire.com/blog/eating-goober-peas/) - Warfare today in the Middle East is not nation state against nation state, it is militia against militia, where militia is defined as an ad hoc group of men who join the fight for the fun of it or even for ideological reasons. ISIS is a militia organization, mostly untrained civilians itching to kill somebody, - [The Sound Of Silent Stones](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sound-of-silent-stones/) - For too long the yeomanry of this country have stood as silent as stones as the country they and their parents had built was taken from them by the politicians of both major political parties and given to someone else. This campaign has awakened the silent stones to a white hot anger against the political - [Free Speech](https://verse-afire.com/blog/free-speech/) - Donald Trump rallies are being disrupted by violent crowds organized and paid for by the communist billionaire George Soros, and carried out by Black Lives Matter and other radical leftist organizations, whose motto is, Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee. Black Lives Matter did not coin this motto, it has been in existence - [The Blue Eyed Blonds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-blue-eyed-blonds/) - The race of blue eyed blonds lived in the cold northern European forests. They sailed their clinker-built ships to all parts of the world, crossing the North Sea to Ireland, the North Atlantic to Greenland and Nova Scotia, across the Baltic and up the great Russian rivers, founding trading posts that became the cities of - [Burning Rain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/burning-rain/) - The International Left regularly flies their private jets into the Swiss town of Davos to plan our lives for us, knowing, as they do, that we are stupid and easily led. The Left seized power in the West and proceeded to implement their economic philosophy which, broadly speaking, said that the government knew better than - [Mother Earth And Father Sky](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mother-earth-and-father-sky/) - We have seen religious wars before, and we are seeing one yet again, this time between Shia and Sunni Muslims, with the rest of us peripheral casualties, with outsiders like Putin on one side and other outsiders on the opposite side. It will end, but only after the intervention of catastrophe. People tend to believe - [The Golden Age Of Stupidity](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-golden-age-of-stupidity/) - We have all seen the many amusing television interviews of college students and recent college graduates, where no one knows who the vice-president of the United States is, or when the American Civil War was fought, or the opening words of the Declaration of Independence. Worse, none of the interviewees seem the least disturbed by - [Republican Treachery](https://verse-afire.com/blog/republican-treachery/) - There are ominous rumblings of treachery in the ranks of the Republican establishment. It is said, that the Koch brothers and other major Republican donors have created a special fund of 100 million dollars to help Rubio, and if he doesn’t win Florida they intend to enter Mitt Romney into the primary contest in an - [The Clockmaker And The Architect](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-clockmaker-and-the-architect/) - Some say that God is a clockmaker, who set the universe in motion and then gave it no further attention, while others say God is an architect, who drew his plans and built his dream to Divine Specifications, specifications we cannot readily comprehend though fragments have come to our attention. And when the architect finished - [Seven Lean Years](https://verse-afire.com/blog/seven-lean-years/) - According to a well-known book, the seven lean years should be followed by seven fat years. We shall see. It all depends on who is elected in November of 2016. The Democrats, whoever the nominee, will be formidable, with their built-in plantation and government employee union vote, plus their unrivaled ability to steal elections, while - [Decision 2016](https://verse-afire.com/blog/decision-2016/) - Barack Obama is driving us and the world at breakneck speed for the yawning chasm of a washed out bridge. The question is, is there time to avoid the calamity, or must we plunge into the abyss. In either case it will take the same kind of man to avoid the catastrophe as we will - [Golden Curls](https://verse-afire.com/blog/golden-curls/) - The gods speak to us in mysterious ways. What purpose could there be, you might ask, of pretty girls dancing barefoot in the moonlight? Golden sunlight, golden girls Golden smiles and golden curls Dancing in the meadow green Flowers slowly swaying To the rhythm of the dance Joining in the sweet romance Of the gently - [You Don't Need Directions To Get Home](https://verse-afire.com/blog/you-dont-need-directions-to-get-home/) - The dreams do not come as often now, it has been far too many years, but I find myself, occasionally, on the bus, coming down the familiar road, past the familiar houses, to the street where I lived with my parents and sisters. I walk to the house that has not changed with time, and - [Mayfly](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mayfly/) - The oldest documented living creature on Earth is a Seychelles tortoise named Jonathan, who is reported to be about 183 years old. I spoke to a Mayfly recently, and remarked upon the unfairness of a tortoise living for 183 years and a Mayfly living only one day. He thought for a moment and then said - [The Reason Why](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-reason-why/) - A man does not truly know why he has been placed on this Earth until he holds his baby girl in his arms and looks deeply into her beautiful, angelic, sleeping face. And then he knows why. A loving daughter is indeed The greatest gift God can bestow The years go by at breakneck speed - [Valentine's Day 2016](https://verse-afire.com/blog/valentines-day-2016/) - Valentine’s Day is Sunday, and so we are posting our valentines today be make sure they are received in time. HILLARY A grateful nation sings your praise In showers likened to the dew That gently on your bosom lays Until the sun may shine on you And see you glow in rainbow hues To dry - [The Lady Is A Skag](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lady-is-a-skag/) - A Skag, or sometimes Scag, is slang for an odious or unattractive woman, and Hillary Clinton is an extreme version of a leftist progressive odious and unattractive feminist Skag of a woman, who knows the FBI will refer an indictment sometime this summer, and also knows Attorney General Loretta Lynch will sit on it until - [Late Night Thoughts](https://verse-afire.com/blog/late-night-thoughts/) - Barack Obama attended a mosque in Baltimore that is under surveillance by the FBI and has been declared a major part of the worldwide Islamic terrorist organization by the State Department, where he again told the attending terrorists in training that Islam is a religion of peace, that Islam was part of the United States - [The Messiah](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-messiah/) - In the last Republican debate, the candidates were asked if Obama was incompetent or malicious. The answer is Barack Obama is malice incarnate. The slide to tyranny started innocently enough. The Great Depression. FDR, the slightly left of center president, alphabet agencies, government programs, all operating at a very low level of intensity, with minimal - [A Five And Dime Rhymer](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-five-and-dime-rhymer/) - I have been accused of being a poet, but I am not. I am a simple five and dime rhymer. I have been asked how I can write rhyming sentences at such breakneck speed, and my answer is, I always could. My mother told me years ago that on the day I was born my - [Super Bowl L](https://verse-afire.com/blog/super-bowl-l/) - The Super Bowl is upon us, and this year the NFL will be using the Arabic number 50 in place of the traditional Roman numeral. But why use Arabic numerals? Is this another example of political correctness? Aren’t we having enough problems with those people? For one thing they are not Arabic numbers. The numbers - [Measured Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/measured-time/) - The actuary can tell you, statistically, when you will be called upon to release your hold on life. But then, the precise date is known only to the mirrors lining the hallways of our lives. They say a man has measured time Upon this blue-green Earth A measured time that will begin At squalling time - [The Touch Of Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-touch-of-time/) - Bill Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire for his wife Hillary, drew a crowd of six people at a political event. Six. How many years ago was it that Bill Clinton was a Superstar who shone so brightly that the law did not apply to him? And yet, a dissolute life, the steady drip of stories - [Winter Wood](https://verse-afire.com/blog/winter-wood/) - The epic snow is over and the woods behind my house is back to normal. Beyond my kitchen window lies a narrow belt of old shade trees, much diminished in extent now, but for hundreds of years, before the tract houses went up, a natural pathway for deer and a natural habitat for smaller forest - [Epic Snow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/epic-snow/) - The blizzard of the century is over, and again, dear friends, we have around the clock newscasts giving us the very latest poop on the very latest epic snow, and especially when that epic snow affects the comfort, lifestyle and work hours of the media purveyors of the fantasy of the epic snow. There is - [Bernie Sanders](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bernie-sanders/) - Bernie Sanders, at the moment, is leading Hillary in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Who’da thunk it? Bernie Sanders proudly proclaims himself a true Socialist, and though no one has ever asked him if he is a Socialist in the likes of Hitler or Stalin, I am sure he is not, though he did, however, - [Scumbag](https://verse-afire.com/blog/scumbag/) - Hillary Clinton, it has now been revealed by the Inspector General for Intelligence, had such highly classified documents on her home computer that were those documents to be in the hands of foreign adversaries the United States would be in danger. And of course those documents ARE now in the hands of our enemies, most - [Yesterday's Girl](https://verse-afire.com/blog/yesterdays-girl/) - Unless indicted, Hillary Clinton will be the nominee for president of the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton is a lying, corrupt, elderly slug of a woman. The entirety of her political life has been filled with corruption and betrayal. She is no more fit to be president of the United States than Barack Obama is fit - [Irrelevance](https://verse-afire.com/blog/irrelevance/) - I spoke to my brother-in-law recently and he wondered why it was that he was beginning to feel irrelevant. I thought for a minute and said, “It’s because you’re eighty-five freakin’ years old!” Irrelevance comes stealing like a cat Tiptoeing oh so lightly without sound The years slide by with silent steps so that We - [This Side Up](https://verse-afire.com/blog/this-side-up/) - The world seems to be in a fragile state these days, but fragility is in the eye of the beholder. Napoleon thought Mother Russia fragile, but underneath she was solid, unyielding ice. Hitler thought Britain was fragile, and she was, with Beaverbrook and others clamoring for a rapprochement with Hitler, but underneath lay the strength - [The Dream Dispenser](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dream-dispenser/) - Barack Hussein Obama offered us an emotional farewell State of the Union address Tuesday night, in which he lamented his failure to secure the entirety of the dream he had for us on entering office eight years before, a dream the particulars of which he did not elaborate upon, but we know what it was. - [It's Just A Game](https://verse-afire.com/blog/its-just-a-game/) - Immigrant Muslim men are sexually assaulting European women with impunity, for both the police and the governments refuse to admit that Muslim men are a problem, for the Left cannot ever admit to making a mistake. I spoke to President Obama today as he relaxed with a Kindle version of the Quran and asked about - [The Right Stuff](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-right-stuff/) - The people of Europe are finally taking it upon themselves to stop the national suicide presided over by the European Left that encourages unlimited Muslim immigration that threatens to destroy two thousand years of European history and culture and the enslavement and destruction of the people themselves. The rise of recent European Saviors on white - [Powerball](https://verse-afire.com/blog/powerball/) - As this is written the Powerball payout is over 700 million dollars, and expected to hit a billion dollars by the time the numbers are drawn. The odds of Barack Hussein Obama getting something right are about the same as hitting the Powerball lottery, yet he presses on, undeterred in his quest to destroy us - [The Nimr Of The Beast](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-nimr-of-the-beast/) - The Mullahs in Teheran are very touchy about insults, perceived or otherwise, and they perceive the Saudi beheading of a Shia cleric named Nimr to be a grievous insult indeed. Not that they are morally against beheadings, but they are morally against someone beheading one of theirs. And so the simmering pot boils and if - [Missing Voters](https://verse-afire.com/blog/missing-voters/) - We have all heard that had the same number of votes cast for McCain in 2008 been cast for Romney in 2012, Romney would have won the 2012 election. This has led many to speculate as to the reason so many Republican voters stayed home, preferring to see Obama continue his destruction of the country - [Marooned](https://verse-afire.com/blog/marooned/) - The United States Congress has passed a bill allowing private companies to mine the asteroids of inner space, a bill that some predict will be the beginning of the exploration and colonization of space. I began reading science fiction in the 1940s when I was fourteen. In the 1950s Arthur C. Clark published The Exploration - [A Portrait Of A Young Woman](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-portrait-of-a-young-woman/) - All young women are beautiful, but some take your breath away. Such a one is my granddaughter, twenty-three now, no longer the pretty teenager but a sophisticated, gloriously beautiful woman of the world The smile will always be the same The little girl on grammom’s lap When all of life for her a game Until - [The Illusion Of Reality](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-illusion-of-reality/) - Reality is an illusion, and so is delusion. Reality is not real, in the sense that it is predictable and inevitable. For Napoleon at Waterloo the reality was that he should have won, but actions have consequences, and consequences have actions. The delusion of Marshal Ney that Quatre Bras was strongly held and he was - [Christmas 2015](https://verse-afire.com/blog/christmas-2015/) - The family gathers ‘neath the tree And carols ring so merrily All waiting for the Christmas feast And hoping that at very least Dear Santa would have come last night And left with present bag now light We think of Christmas snow and ice And of the tree that’s trimmed so nice The presents heaped - [Christmas Eve - The Lonely Road](https://verse-afire.com/blog/christmas-eve-the-lonely-road/) - We tend to think of ourselves as freewheeling free spirits, rolling down life’s highway, the route laid out, with the goal always somewhere up ahead. But the truth is, we are all passengers in a wayward bus, travelling down a lonely road that seems to have no end, past cornfields and tract homes, past malls - [Republican Debates](https://verse-afire.com/blog/republican-debates/) - Lindsay Graham, polling at minus zero, has packed it in, leaving only one hundred and forty two candidates standing on the crowded stage, though there is only one headliner, one spotlight, and one curtain call. Do we really need more debates? Oh the RNC says you and me Should see some more debates Where guys - [Along For The Ride](https://verse-afire.com/blog/along-for-the-ride/) - When little Barack Hussein Obama entered into first grade his declared religion was Muslim. But do we know for certain whether that religion was Sunni or Shia? Certainly his loving embrace of Iran would seem to indicate he considers himself a Shi’ite, but then he bowed to the Sunni Saudi king, so his religious and - [The Hitchhiker](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-hitchhiker/) - Barack Obama has set the Middle East aflame and then sat back and watched it burn, his policy of leading from behind bearing bitter fruit. Bu tis the fruit bitter to Barack Hussein Obama? Is he monumentally incompetent or is the destruction of the West and the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate his goal? Adolf - [Accommodation](https://verse-afire.com/blog/accommodation/) - With public prayer being purged from our schools and sporting events, what will happen when all the players named Kareem and Muhammed decide to face east before the game and kneel and touch their foreheads to the court or field. When the Christian clergy are no longer allowed to lead the team in prayer, and - [622 AD](https://verse-afire.com/blog/622-ad/) - In the year 622 AD, or the year 1 in the Islamic calendar, Mohammed fled Mecca for Medina, thus creating the two holiest cities in all Islam. It would be a pity to lose them, but the world would be better off if we turned them into modern American cities. When Allah whispered in his - [1177 BC Redux](https://verse-afire.com/blog/1177-bc-redux/) - Few people, and none of our leaders, are aware that 1177 BC saw the collapse of what was, at the time, the most advanced civilization on the face of the Earth. That collapse brought forth a new civilization headed by Carthage and later Rome, so the collapse of Western civilization will not bring an eternal - [Catastrophe](https://verse-afire.com/blog/catastrophe/) - Demographics is destiny, and demographics says, as clearly as anything can be said, that if present population trends continue, both Western Europe and the United States will have non-European majority populations in about two generations. In Europe the problem is Muslim immigrants and in the United States it is Mexican immigrants. It may be too - [Ichthopogenic Global Warming](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ichthopogenic-global-warming/) - The Global Warming/Climate Change conference in Paris has just broken up, with the nations of the world signing on to promises that will lead to national economic suicide, despite the overwhelming evidence that there is no such thing as anthropogenic global warming. The global warming zealots will not give up, though some are now trying - [Blackbirds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/blackbirds/) - It is amusing to see the Democrat establishment line up and sing in unison, like blackbirds sitting in a tree, tenors, sopranos, contraltos, basses, politicians, press and actors, warbling away like what they sing is meaningful. Let a Muslim shoot up a Christmas party and the cry from the avian chorus is for gun control. - [Mameluke Days](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mameluke-days/) - Obama believes it is immoral to hold prisoners of war in a five star hotel in Guantanamo, so he kills them instead. This is all to the good, though it deprives us of essential intelligence. Nonetheless, one can only applaud the strategy of the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim, and if Loretta Lynch - [A Martyr's Tale](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-martyrs-tale/) - Syed Farook, a devout Muslim, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, also a devout Muslim, were elevated to the glorious state of Islamic martyrdom by slaughtering fourteen innocent and unsuspecting civilians at a Christmas party, leaving their six month old baby girl in the hands of Allah the Merciful. As police bullets crashed into him, Farook - [The Coronation Of Barack The First](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-coronation-of-barack-the-first/) - The world is moving quickly to catastrophe, all as desired by the shrouded figures who put Obama in the White House. Shortly after Obama won re-election in 2012 I began writing, in these pages, that I was convinced that Obama would use an as yet undetermined crisis, whether real or created, to run for a - [Battleship Row](https://verse-afire.com/blog/battleship-row-6/) - Guts and valor are words not usually associated with inanimate objects, but ships are not inanimate objects. Ships are live, living things. Ships, as well as men, can be tough and resilient. Such were the ships of Battleship Row. 0755 SUNDAY, 7 DECEMBER 1941 A quiet, peacetime Sunday morning. Seven battleships swung gently at their - [The Providers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-providers/) - The Liberal/Progressives who now run the country and the culture charge that police are murderers and that the military are baby killers. They believe the fewer police and military the safer everyone is, not understanding that their safety is provided by the Provider culture, the police and firemen and military, whom they detest and despise. - [Mosquerade](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mosquerade/) - Muslim killers attacked a soft target in San Bernadino, California, yesterday, leaving fourteen dead and seventeen wounded. This will not be the last. We have a president who will not call them by name, will no doubt call yesterday’s massacre workplace violence, even though the killers were Muslim, and one of the killers, a woman - [The Stranger In The House](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-stranger-in-the-house/) - Western Europe has invited hundreds of thousands of Muslim strangers into their house, and are now finding the strangers believe the house belongs to them. And viewing with satisfaction the Muslim murders of innocent civilians in Paris, President Barack Hussein Obama is intent on inviting into the United States several hundred thousand Muslim strangers, who - [Ancient Music](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ancient-music/) - Our ancestors looked to the skies, for only the sharply glowing lights told the truth. Yet, even so, the truth, so graciously vouchsafed, fell by the wayside and perished, leaving us with nothing to believe in. Black velvet clothed the darkened sky Pierced by the brilliant light Of diamonds glowing as they lie Upon the - [The Invisible War](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-invisible-war/) - It develops that President Obama, having eagerly surrendered our advantage in Iraq to Iran, and putting thirty thousand men into Afghanistan, a landlocked stone age country of absolutely no importance to the United States, has stealthily begun his own series of low level wars, using drones and small numbers of special forces. How lovely. Everything - [The Belgian Connection](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-belgian-connection/) - Many of the Muslim terrorists who murdered one hundred and thirty people in Paris recently, and wounded hundreds more, were Belgian citizens, most living in Brussels, where the attack was planned and started from. There is a history here. There was no such place as Belgium until 1830. What is now Belgium was part of - [Thanksgiving 2015](https://verse-afire.com/blog/thanksgiving-2015/) - A SALUTE TO A NOBLE TOM TURKEY THANKSGIVING 2015 The man crept near, a hidden axe And gave old Tom a couple whacks Old Tom lay stunned upon the ground His worth a nifty buck a pound Buck naked then into the pan High heat the skin to crinkly tan The family here from near - [Ivan Skavinsky Skavar](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ivan-skavinsky-skavar/) - Today, a few days before Thanksgiving, a Turkish Air Force F-16 shot down a Russian SU-24 that violated Turkish airspace. During the Russo-Turkish war in 1877 a comical song called Abdul Abulbul Amir was heard in the London music halls, relating the battle between the Turkish hero Abdul Abulbul Amir and the Russian hero Ivan - [The Dark End Of The Street](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dark-end-of-the-street/) - Why is it that Islamic terrorists can be in plain sight yet can plan and execute surprise terrorist attacks on innocent civilians? We know they’re there, but we can’t see them because we prefer not to. People who insist that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Islam has nothing to do with the - [As Gentle As The Sea](https://verse-afire.com/blog/as-gentle-as-the-sea/) - The president has stated, on more than one occasion, that ISIS was not a serious threat, and that taking a couple hundred thousand Muslim immigrants from the Middle East into the country will be perfectly safe because he will insist on foolproof vetting, and only peaceful folks truly fleeing death and oppression will be set - [Le Pen And The General](https://verse-afire.com/blog/le-pen-and-the-general/) - France is not a stranger to violent politics, to sudden overturns of the political structure. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks by Muslim killers, French President Hollande sees his principal duty to the nation, and to the political structure to which he belongs, the denial of power to the nationalist leader Marine Le Pen, - [The Immigrant](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-immigrant/) - Obama is determined to import 100,000 Muslim immigrants from Syria and the Middle East every year, despite the overwhelming anger of the American people at the very thought of doing such a dangerous thing. Yet Obama will do it, at least as long as he is president, because it fits his agenda for weakening and - [The Sound Of Broken Glass](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sound-of-broken-glass/) - Small blown glass objects have been discovered in Mesopotamia in five thousand year old strata. Glass making continued to be an art craft for thousands of years until the British invented rolled plate glass in the nineteenth century, and it is this Christian invention of rolled and float plate glass that is used in buildings - [Them Or Us](https://verse-afire.com/blog/them-or-us/) - The dead and wounded in the Paris attacks are not the first Western dead in the war Islam has declared on Western civilization, but they may very well be the deaths that finally convinces the West that it cannot co-exist with militant Islam, that it is now us or them, one or the other. One - [The Last Muzzein Call](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-last-muzzein-call/) - The military style ISIS attacks on Paris Friday evening should, but probably won’t, convince the EU weenies that throwing open the borders to hundreds of thousands of ISIS fighters posing as refugee immigrants is the road to national suicide. The European Left will not change, and things will get progressively worse, with larger and larger - [Boola Boola](https://verse-afire.com/blog/boola-boola/) - To continue the insanity now infecting our college campuses, the flap at Yale is different from the protests at Missouri in that the Yale disgrace was not racially motivated, but driven by elitist white paternalism. The protests started with a Hallowe’en photo showing faculty members dressed in Mexican sombreros, a photo that resulted in a - [Missouri Waltz](https://verse-afire.com/blog/missouri-waltz/) - Continuing our discussion of yesterday, about college campuses and how the sensitivity of one or two people saying they are uncomfortable about a word or look can cause administrators to tremble in their boots, radical activists, mostly black, have taken over the University of Missouri, forcing the president of the university and the chancellor of - [The Ignorance Of Bliss](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ignorance-of-bliss/) - Colleges and Universities have reached the point where every word or thought or action of every person on campus is offensive to someone, and therefore the word or thought or action is to be condemned and the speaker, thinker or actor is to be excommunicated from the race of the anointed people who think only - [The Ruler Of The Forest And The Trees](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ruler-of-the-forest-and-the-trees/) - At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services committee recently, witnesses offered up their strategy on how best to meet the challenges of the next decade. But force structure and strategy is not so much dependent on the nature of the situation, as on the nature of Man. Man is, by nature, acquisitive; always was, - [That Crowley Girl](https://verse-afire.com/blog/that-crowley-girl/) - The rebellion of the downtrodden Republican candidates at the screaming bias of the MSM moderators during the CNBC sponsored debate has made for a one day story, and will not change a thing. No one on that CNBC panel is in the slightest abashed, nor will any paid-up member of the MSM/Democrat punditry change his - [Black Swans](https://verse-afire.com/blog/black-swans/) - A Black Swan is an event so rare as to be unpredictable. Such an event was the election of Barack Obama in 2008, a man so completely unknown as to be someone from another planet, another dimension. I dreamed of black swans the other night, and in my dream there stretched before me the mirrored - [Not Necessarily So](https://verse-afire.com/blog/not-necessarily-so/) - Some things are so and some things are not. We have learned, over the past six years, that what comes out of the White House is not necessarily so, that we must look not at what Obama says but what he does. When he says Iran will never have The Bomb, that is not necessarily - [All As Planned](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-as-planned/) - Events are proceeding according to plan. Biden is out and Hillary is dead woman walking. The MSM feed an unintelligent and undemanding public with Democrat talking points, the Judiciary is in the Democrat bag, the Legislative branch has been neutered, and the Executive is in full control. Once the Left gains power they do not - [A Letter From Camp Middle East](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-letter-from-camp-middle-east/) - A hopeful letter home written by a young boy named Allan Sherman to his parents in Connecticut. Hello Muddah, Intifada Abbas smiling, he says nada Says it’s peaceful as can be here Says the roses are in bloom as you can see here Mr. Assad has a friend now Things are on an upward trend - [A Stark Choice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-stark-choice/) - Conservatives have a stark choice – vote for people you know will betray you or don’t vote at all and turn the country over to the raving, slathering, red-eyed wolves of the Left, who are determined to destroy the country in order to create their tooth, claw and gulag fevered vision of Utopia. In deepest - [The Smooth Glide To The Third World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-smooth-glide-to-the-third-world/) - Political parties are not only composed of people with similar ideology, but also include people who just do not like the people in the other party. Identity politics will prevail, and if Blacks remain the solid base of the Democratic Party, then Hispanics, who will be fighting Blacks for the same slice of pie, will - [Putin On The Ritz](https://verse-afire.com/blog/putin-on-the-ritz/) - Vladimir Putin is strangling Barack Obama in Obama’s own ego. Putin has taken over leadership of the entire Middle East, and Obama has no quarrel with it, even though it reverses seventy years of American policy. Putin slices Ukraine, threatens the Baltic States, allies himself with Iran, a country that constantly threatens death and destruction - [No Sweat](https://verse-afire.com/blog/no-sweat/) - Hillary Clinton recently confessed she did not sweat, not ever. I spoke to a Clinton supporter the other day and she said the thing she liked most about Hillary was she didn’t sweat. Not under hot studio lights, not when being grilled mercilessly by George Stephanopoulos, not schmoozing with a lunch time diner crowd in - [Aware](https://verse-afire.com/blog/aware/) - Barack Obama has carried out his promise to fundamentally change the United States with competence and malice. Has he succeeded in placing Lady Liberty in her coffin? If he does succeed, will she be alive or dead? She lay quiet in her coffin The sharp smell of bronze and silk strong in the tiny space - [The Time Machine](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-time-machine/) - I came upon a time machine the other day when I pulled up some old linoleum from a kitchen floor and found some newspapers from September 1938. Or was it 1983? Hard to tell. Me eyes are going blinky on me. In any event, methinks we have been there before. Consider: The world was in - [The Royal Scots Greys](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-royal-scots-greys/) - With the Prussians but a few miles away and coming hard to Wellington’s aid, and the Battle of Waterloo hanging in the balance, Napoleon threw the dice and sent Count d’Erlon’s Corps against Wellington’s flank, knowing if d’Erlon could break the English position he could turn and deal with the Prussians. Four solid columns of - [The Portrait](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-portrait/) - The portrait seemed familiar, disconcertingly so. In the dim light of the darkened gallery the eyes seemed to follow him. Wherever he stood in the room the eyes looked directly at him, seeming to speak. And then, in a searing flash of recognition, he realized who the man in the portrait was. It was himself. - [Retreat Hell, We Just Got Here](https://verse-afire.com/blog/retreat-hell-we-just-got-here/) - President Obama has led the retreat and surrender of the United States, along with his Democrat colleagues and establishment Republicans who enable them. In didn’t used to be that way, and it is still possible to get back to where we were before the country was saddled with anti-American Progressive Democrats and Barack Obama. In - [The Backward Flow Of Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-backward-flow-of-time/) - It is generally accepted that time flows in a forward direction, an acceptance that is a construct of our perceptions. But for many thousands of years man thought that the sun revolved around the Earth, for that is what it appeared to do. We now accept that the Earth revolves around the sun, even though - [There Will Always Be An England](https://verse-afire.com/blog/there-will-always-be-an-england/) - There will always be an England, so long as they refrain from absorbing Muslim invaders from the Middle East. This differs England from the rest of Europe, who have, out of misplaced humanity, enthusiastically embraced the idea of national suicide. Bearded, military trained young Muslim men are flooding unimpeded into Europe, and once there are - [The Town Cryer](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-town-crier/) - John Boehner tearfully offered his resignation as Speaker of the House of Representatives, effective at the end of October, and most observers believe, that despite vigorous attempts by the Tea Party members to elect a true conservative who will fight Obama, the successor to Boehner will be a Boehner guy, an institutional Republican, who will - [The Nearest God](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-nearest-god/) - It is disturbing to know that after more than six years of Barack Obama there are still those who think of him as God. Fred Kaplan at Slate writes that Obama has brilliantly backed Putin into a corner, and George Stephanopoulos recently badgered Donald Trump relentlessly, demanding to know why Trump did not defend the - [The Night-dark Sky](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-night-dark-sky/) - The history of Man is one of pestilence and war, destruction and death, music and art, beauty and wonder. For every Nero there is a Cicero, for every death there is a birth. The history of Man is a tale of a succession of such wonders that fill the mind and heart with suffocating joy. - [What Is The Sudetenland To Us?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-is-the-sudetenland-to-us/) - We all remember the Sudetenland, don’t we? Of course we don’t. Unless you’re old enough to remember Hitler and Chamberlain and the rest of the Western democracies watching helplessly as Hitler took what he wanted. The same thing is happening now. In 1938 Britain and France gave in and signed the Munich agreement that gave - [The Muslim And The Culture](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-muslim-and-the-culture/) - The longstanding risk that true democratization will lead to takeover by radical Islamists remains real; our ideals do not require us to commit suicide in this manner.-Francis Fukuyama. Well, at least Fukuyama got one thing right. Democracy does not come from above, like manna, nor does it come from outside, either by persuasion or by - [The Russian Winner](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-russian-winner/) - The world looks pretty good right about now to the president. All is working according to plan. And so it goes in the best damn administration and the smartest damn president the country has ever seen. Of course, I speak of President Putin of the Soviet Union, er – Russia. Can we protect the Baltic - [Ad Astra](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ad-astra/) - Ad astra! To the stars! One day, perhaps sooner than we think, man will escape Earth and colonize the inner planets, and after that we shall explore what is beyond the stars. When our ancestors looked at the night sky they saw gods. When Cortez stood upon that peak in Darien and looked at the - [One Big Unhappy Family](https://verse-afire.com/blog/one-big-unhappy-family/) - In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy said that all happy families are happy in the same way, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. Pace Tolstoy, there may very well be individual happy families, and individual unhappy families, but collectively, the human race has always been one big unhappy family, as a cursory glance - [Twilight Zone](https://verse-afire.com/blog/twilight-zone/) - Europe has thrown open its borders to Muslim immigrants, 80% of whom are young men, many of them committed terrorists. Who would invite strangers who want to kill you into his home? Well, it has happened before. The Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire both invited barbarian Goths into their homes and paid - [The 14th Crisis](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-14th-crisis/) - The pundits argue that there are thirteen worldwide crises facing the West in general and the United States in particular, ranging from the Iranian nuclear weapons program to Muslim immigration of Europe to Yemen and Syria and ISIS, world financial meltdown, Russian expansionism, Putin, Chinese expansionism and so on. I will contend that the fourteenth - [The Palace](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-palace/) - The Democrats believe they will inherit the Earth by importing vast numbers of plantation slaves who will vote for them in perpetuity. The Democrats are mistaken. When the plantation provides the majority of votes they will vote, not for Democrats, but for their own, and will build them palaces from which to rule, and fashion - [Careless](https://verse-afire.com/blog/careless/) - Middle Easterners in their millions are banging on the gates of Europe, demanding to be let in, and many in Europe are willing to comply, even knowing that to do so spells doom for their own Western society and culture. But they don’t care about Western culture and society, they believe that a Muslim Europe - [Some Things Are So, Some Things Are Not](https://verse-afire.com/blog/some-things-are-so-some-things-are-not/) - Some things are so and some things are not. We have learned, over the past six years, that what comes out of the White House is not necessarily so, that we must look not at what Obama says but what he does. When he says Iran will never have The Bomb, that is not necessarily - [Hillary](https://verse-afire.com/blog/hillary/) - In her journey from Goldwater girl to First Lady of Arkansas, from Whitewater to the White House, from Senator to Secretary of State to Deity, the country has not seen such drama since Stephen Decatur strode into a White House reception and to the cheers of the assembled guests lay the captured battle flag of - [The Offensive Pronoun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/newspeak-2/) - We have for some time been in the grip of activists who insist we change how we speak because it is offensive to them. The University of Tennessee has agreed to the demands of a gay activist group and has issued instructions that students must no longer use personal pronouns like ‘him’ and ‘her’ and - [The Digital Sea](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-digital-sea/) - Ten billion years ago the oceans were covered with non-living, non-conscious algae, or so some would say. Some are inclined to believe that the algae, through uncounted and uncountable mutations, formed all subsequent life on Earth, while others scoff at the very idea. I spoke to some of those mutations the other day and most - [Good Neighbors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/good-neighbors/) - Robert Frost wrote a poem in which he said that good fences make good neighbors. Several European countries are now building fences to keep the nearly all young male Muslim invaders out of Europe, fearing the worst. European Leftists cannot believe their view of the world is being upset by ragged and poorly educated Muslim - [The Crowded Bus](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-crowded-bus/) - One unintended result of social engineering is the imbuing of absolute certainty in the infallibility of technology to the point where one disregards his experience and training because a computer program has given a different answer than expected. On 18 January 1978 the roof of the newly built Hartford Civic Center collapsed, fortunately with no - [The Turkish Question](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-turkish-question/) - President Obama has made a deal with the Turks. For the privilege of using the Turkish airbase at Incirlik against ISIS, Obama has agreed that the Turks will be allowed to bomb our only ally in the fight, the Kurds. The Ottoman Turks terrorized Christian Europe for centuries, killing and enslaving, burning and pillaging, and - [True To Form](https://verse-afire.com/blog/true-to-form/) - Barack Obama is not entirely responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead and the millions of displaced homeless refugees in the Middle East nightmare, but he shares a lot of the blame by his policy toward Iran, his abrupt removal of US troops from Iraq, and the overthrow of Qaddafi and a subsequent turning - [The Efficacy Of A Whiff Of Grape](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-efficacy-of-a-whiff-of-grape/) - During the French Revolution a young Napoleon was stationed near the palace with some cannon loaded with grapeshot, musket balls enclosed in a can, which when shot from the cannon acted like a giant shotgun. The revolutionary mob advanced upon the soldiers and Napoleon ordered his gunners to give the threatening mob a whiff of grape, - [Borderlands](https://verse-afire.com/blog/borderlands/) - Muslim refugees from the savage killing and fighting in Syria are swarming into Europe, threatening to overturn thousands of years of European history and culture, and the Europeans, locked in Marxist thinking, theory and practice, don’t know what to do about it. These people have no right to invade your house and demand you take - [Beli Tsar](https://verse-afire.com/blog/beli-tsar/) - He was Beli Tsar, White Knight, in the language of his birth, but in a Romanized world he was Belisarius. Is Donald Trump a Belisarius? A Cincinnatus? Byzantium lived because Belisarius lived. Rome lived because Cincinnatus lived. Will the United States live because Donald Trump lived? It is truly said that no one and nothing - [Veni, Vici](https://verse-afire.com/blog/veni-vici/) - Veni, vici: I came, I conquered. There are two kinds of migrants, those who want to leave and those who don’t. The United States is flooded with migrants who want to leave their ancestral homes, and Europe is flooded with migrants who reluctantly leave their ancestral homes by forces beyond their control. Mankind has always - [Playing The Game](https://verse-afire.com/blog/playing-the-game/) - Hillary looks to be in trouble, Joe Biden looks to be getting ready, Obama looks to be moving the pieces around on the big chessboard of his erratic mind. The Obama/Holder/Lynch Justice Department, including the FBI, would not be looking into Hillary’s emails any more than they were interested in Lois Lerner’s IRS emails, so - [Running Up The Score](https://verse-afire.com/blog/running-up-the-score/) - Donald Trump is getting so much air time on the major cable and broadcast networks that none of the other Republican candidates can breathe, so much air is The Donald sucking out of the building, never mind the room. Huge, cheering crowds, huge television audiences, all to hear him say, in an entertaining way, what - [The Universe Next Door](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-universe-next-door/) - I have written at length of alternate universes and the infinity of infinite universes, but the closest of these are the universes next door, where ancient people who have shared the same stars and sun as we, have lived their lives, spoken their languages and practiced their religions, then disappeared, leaving only vague rumors and - [Counterfactual](https://verse-afire.com/blog/counterfactual/) - Our leaders and betters believe that what they think and what they do reflects the actual world, when in fact there are worlds where their actions would be completely wrong and thus counterfactual. I spoke to a man from a counterfactual world recently and asked what he thought about the war in the Middle East. - [Election 2016](https://verse-afire.com/blog/election-2016/) - Possibly the most important election since 1860 is upon us, and what seems crystal clear to many, that it matters how you vote, is not at all clear to others. Four or eight more years of radical Leftist Obama policies, in the form of a Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden administration, will mean the death - [The Otherworld](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-otherworld/) - He laughed in delight. How absolutely beautiful, he thought, how absolutely wonderful! He turned and headed for the bottom, the sparkling bubble stream following him, passing through giant ferns, startling the tiny creatures that lived there. He reached for one of the tiny creatures and held it in his hand, examining it intently. He wished - [Trump Card](https://verse-afire.com/blog/trump-card/) - We may never know if the actions of the Obama administration are the result of incompetence or malice. We will not recover from the unmitigated disaster that is Barack Obama by electing an institutional Republican, all of whom have proved over the years to be Democrat Lite, and sometimes not so Lite. Therefore we need - [The Raven](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-raven/) - The larger world is darkness intensified, from Muslims beheading captives to Christians dismembering babies and selling their parts. I think about these things during the daylight hours, but in the stillness of the deepest dark, I often listen to the soft four footed tread of others who cannot sleep as they walk stealthily through the - [Summer Evanescent](https://verse-afire.com/blog/summer-evanescent/) - Why does summer seem to slide by so effortlessly, almost without notice? You wake up one morning and it’s Memorial Day, and the next morning it’s Labor Day. Where did it go? Winter isn’t like that. Winter is a cold, miserable slog lasting not weeks or months but eons, eras. There is no interval between - [Fair Dinkum](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fair-dinkum/) - Fair Dinkum is Australian for “Good, genuine, for real”. Thus all the bad news you hear on your telly is not fair dinkum, for most television news is neither good, genuine or for real. What we are told as being really bad news is not as bad as you may think. Really bad news is - [Nibiru](https://verse-afire.com/blog/nibiru/) - Six thousand years ago Babylonian astronomers announced there was a large planet named Nibiru lurking unseen behind the sun. Modern astronomers have said there is no such planet, that the motions of the sun are unperturbed by any unseen body. I’m not so sure. The Babylonians were hardly ever wrong in these matters, and Nibiru - [Clean As A Whistle](https://verse-afire.com/blog/clean-as-a-whistle/) - People say Hillary made a mistake by scrubbing her server, but she was around during the Nixon years and heard the moans of the Nixon loyalists that Nixon should have destroyed the tapes, and she realizes that if he had he would still be president today. Acting upon the Nixon experience, Hillary very cleverly destroyed - [Into The Sun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/into-the-sun/) - The science and technology of war has leaped beyond the boundaries of the possible into the world of the fantastic. Stealthy missiles, invisible bombers, pilotless fighter planes superior to anything with a human pilot, guided by a pilot sitting a thousand miles away in a darkened room, gazing into a computer screen. There are those - [The Movie](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-movie/) - Bismarck once famously said that if war comes it will be because of some damn fool thing in the Balkans. War came in 1914, and we are now re-running the movie, this time because of some damn fool thing in the Middle East. Only the damn fool thing in the Middle East was done by - [Pirouette Or Perotette](https://verse-afire.com/blog/pirouette-or-perotette/) - Donald Trump has a commanding lead, though it is early yet, in the polls among Republican primary voters, particularly in the critical swing states of Ohio and Florida, despite his raving rants against Fox News and Megyn Kelly. Trump, a long-time registered Democrat, a man who espouses every article of the Progressive agenda, supports Obamacare, - [The Waiting Game](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-waiting-game/) - She lay in her coffin, unmoving and unseeing, the smell of bronze and silk strong in the closed, tiny space, the sounds of the receding drums growing dimmer, until finally she could hear them no more. In their stead, she heard a bird, calling to someone, instantly answered, heard the sound of everyday traffic on - [The View From The Rio Grande](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-view-from-the-rio-grande/) - People are wondering how the presidential election will turn out, wondering how the Hispanics will vote, and wondering if the Dems will bus massive numbers of illegal alien non-citizens to the polls like they always do. I spoke to an illegal alien just arrived from Mexico the other day and asked how he was going - [Venezuela, Si!](https://verse-afire.com/blog/venezuela-si/) - Venezuela, one of the ten most oil rich countries in the world, is about to implode. The disastrous Socialist and virulent anti-American policies imposed by Hugo Chavez and continued by President Maduro has resulted in hyper-inflation, hyper-unemployment, starvation and bankruptcy. Venezuela’s currency, the Bolivar, is now worth next to nothing, and growing more worthless by - [The Chessmaster](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-chessmaster/) - We are privileged to live in the time of Barack Obama, the greatest Chessmaster of all time, a man who looks so many moves ahead he is already playing the end game while his opponents are considering the move king’s pawn to king 4. From Karpov to Capablanca From Teheran to Casablanca There’s a Sunni - [23 Weeks](https://verse-afire.com/blog/23-weeks/) - Planned Parenthood removes viable, living babies from their mothers’ wombs, dismembers them and sells their body parts. Leftist power always leads to Leftist tyranny and barbarism, and barbarism always leads to decay and destruction. At 23 weeks She knew her mother’s voice She woke and slept In rhythm with the constancy And comfort Of her - [The Spider And The Fly](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-spider-and-the-fly/) - President Obama’s lovable friend, Dr. Zeke (Mengele) Emmanuel, the leading proponent of death panels for Obamacare, says he has voluntarily decided to die at age 75, and proposes that everyone else also die at 75 so as not to become a burden on the family and the health care system. He does not say if - [The Dream](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dream-will-never-die/) - The radical left wing of the Democratic Party has labored for seventy years to attain their dream of a socialist utopia in the United States, and seem on the verge of accomplishing it. To dream is but to live, to live is but to dream and it matters not the dream be unfulfilled, it matters - [The Great Game](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-great-game-2/) - I am weary unto death of the Turks, the Middle East, and Obama, and prefer to turn my attention to loftier matters, namely the Great Game. The Great Game is not politics, nor business, nor is it the struggle between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia and the riches of the Orient. No, - [Lepidoptera](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lepidoptera/) - Now that Obama has given Iran permission to build nuclear weapons and has given them 100 billion dollars to immediately buy any conventional weapons they choose from whoever they choose to buy them from, there will be a boom in arms sales to Iran, and then there will be a Boom. Obama has his own - [My Kitchen Window](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-kitchen-window/) - I sit at night long into dark, listening to the night sounds that says all is not quiet in the woods behind the house. There’s a hooty owl nearby, and tom cats roaming free. An occasional screech disturbs my reading, and from time to time a dog barks, but mostly all is as it always - [Shovel Ready](https://verse-afire.com/blog/shovel-ready/) - President Obama, upon taking office in 2009, spent a trillion dollars on what he called shovel ready jobs. Now, over six years later, the country is shovel ready, and the liberal Democrat designers of the approaching catastrophe lay in bed, wide awake, hearing noises they were taking some pains to identify; workplace violence, lone wolves, - [The White Male](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-white-male/) - It is all very well to look beyond the present and predict some future collapse of liberalism, but that future collapse will occur in the midst of violence. Already we see signs of white males getting pissed, and when white males stop genuflecting before the feminists and race hustlers and grab their guns, it will - [The Smartest Man In All The World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-smartest-man-in-the-room/) - Obama is not only the smartest man in the room, especially when he’s the only one in the room, he is the smartest man in the whole wide world. I spoke to a wise Latina recently and she confirmed that smart does not begin to describe Barack Obama. She said when the Chinese hacked the - [Musical Chairs](https://verse-afire.com/blog/musical-chairs/) - Life is basically a game of musical chairs. When the music stops, and you find yourself without a chair, then you are out. One of the eternal verities is that when the music stops them what has the money will get yours as well, as demonstrated by the Greek banks preparing to take over their - [The Parabola ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-parabola/) - Every society, every culture, every nation, begins and ends, its life a parabola, birth to death. Some parabolas are briefer than others, some arcs are shallower than others, but all ultimately end as they began. The parabolas of the lifespans of Carthage and Rome and the Venetian Republic can be plotted on a graph, and - [The Past Rewound](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-past-rewound/) - The Phoenicians built the first ships capable of sailing the open water of the Mediterranean, and purpose built warships were not far behind. Carthage and Rome contested for dominance of the western Mediterranean, and a thousand years later Venice controlled the trade routes to the Eastern world through naval dominance of the Adriatic. Control of - [A Redbird Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-redbird-man/) - My avatar here is a Cardinal, and that is what I secretly long to be. Not a red hat Bishop of Rome Cardinal, not a left handed power hitting St Louis Cardinal, but a real life Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis. Transgender is old hat, trans-species is the way to go. Oppressed I am because I’m - [The Road From Brussels Fair](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-road-from-brussels-fair/) - The Greek people have voted overwhelming to reject the European Union offer of a debt bailout based on Greek austerity. The leftist Greeks, having lived off someone else’s money for so long, saw no reason why they should give up their lavish pensions and no-work bureaucratic jobs and retirement at age 50 at full pay - [Fourth Of July](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fourth-of-july/) - It saddens me to know that I am a minority in my own country, that I am of the remaining few who know what it is we celebrate on the Fourth of July. The Left has succeeded in erasing the history of the United States by the simple process of gaining control of the educational - [Gay Marriage And The Islamic State](https://verse-afire.com/blog/gay-marriage-and-the-islamic-state/) - A New York Times writer, ecstatic at the Supreme Court ruling ordering all 50 states to permit gay marriage, claims that the US now has the moral high ground, and that gay marriage will defeat ISIS because gay marriage shows them how superior we are to them. Such is the fantasy world we live in. - [Only The Lonely](https://verse-afire.com/blog/only-the-lonely/) - Lonely Western women are being seduced on social media by smooth talking ISIS operatives to join the Jihad, with some success. To avoid this enticement some are urging lonely women to gather a circle of friends and to visit a favorite website. This has resulted in my receiving the following message on my blog from - [The Melissae](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-melissae/) - Liberal writer Matthew Yglesias has written that President Obama was right in comparing ISIS to bees, because the president is smarter than everyone else and Republicans are too dumb to understand him. As everyone who has gotten past fifth grade knows, the Melissae were the three nymphs Daphnis, Melaina and Kleodora, the goddesses of the - [The Fledgling](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fledgling/) - Springtime in these parts signals birth, and the wood sounded with the calls of birds and the occasional sighing of a youngster wobbling about on the ground, looking rather uncertain, as if rudely deposited onto a strange and alien world, as indeed he had been. In our courtyard, hidden under a leafy bush, a baby - [Neptune's Daughter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/neptunes-daughter/) - The Rand Corporation published a preview of the war in the strategic waters of the western Pacific between the Chinese Navy and the US and Japanese navies. Interesting, in that it isn’t clear that the Americans will fight, but the Japanese will either fight or become a vassal of China, dependent on China for its - [The Hegemon Saloon](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sheriff-2/) - For sixty years and more after World War 2, the United States was the world’s sheriff, keeping the peace, using force where necessary, all to prevent the world from collapsing into anarchy. Every aspiring writer is advised to shoot the sheriff in the first paragraph, in order to immediately engage the reader. It took a - [Nil To Nil](https://verse-afire.com/blog/nil-to-nil/) - It has been revealed that the top leadership of FIFA, the governing body of the world soccer association, has been selling the World Cup soccer games, with countries paying tens of millions of dollars to the members of FIFA for the privilege of hosting the games. Russia bought the 2018 games and Qatar bought the - [Trade Winds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/trade-winds/) - Barack Obama is trying to get an international trade agreement that will give him more power than he already has, and the institutional Congressional Republicans seem to want to give it to him. Why? Trade does not need secret agreements, trade does not need bureaucrats shuffling paper, trade needs only two partners who agree on - [My Hometown](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-hometown/) - It has been said that democracy is like a train, and we’ll get out when we arrive at the station we want. The station the Democrats want is a minority white country in which they have permanent power. When I look back on it I wonder how we let it happen. How did we allow - [Burgers And Horses](https://verse-afire.com/blog/burgers-and-horses/) - Robots are now capable of doing things that humans can do, and do them better. In China, plans are afoot to replace millions of human workers in labor intensive factories with robots. China is determined to march into the mercantile future, but what happens to the displaced millions of workers? Way back in the early - [A Thoughtful Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-thoughtful-man/) - I sometimes think the world would be a better place if thoughtful men replaced the ambitious, the driven. It will never happen, but it would be nice if our leaders took the time occasionally to consider that thought should precede action. He softly walks the forest of his mind Each bole the storehouse of his - [The Greeks Had A Word For It](https://verse-afire.com/blog/barbarians-2/) - The Greeks referred to anyone who spoke a language other than Greek as a barbarian, whether Egyptian, Phoenician, Persian or whoever. The word comes from the Greek word barbaros, meaning babbler, someone who cannot be understood, and was, and was meant to be, derogatory. We still have barbarians among us, and likely always will. Today’s - [Lonely Nights](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lonely-nights/) - Massed armies deciding the fates of nation states may be a thing of the past, but a man killed in a small war is just as dead as a man killed on Omaha Beach seventy-one years ago. In both cases a wife, a mother, a girlfriend, had to go on living, and as year follows - [The Mind Reels](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-mind-reels/) - The world is coming apart, the Middle East is in savage chaos, we have a president determined to destroy the country, and the most important news event of the century is the transformation of Bruce Jenner into Caitlin Jenner. There are those who want to take his Olympic medals away because he was a woman, - [Granite Walls](https://verse-afire.com/blog/granite-walls/) - The Founders built an impenetrable and impervious granite wall around the new Republic, keeping it safe from outside forces that might wish to destroy it, but they could not build a wall that looked inward, to the enemy within. Historians will note, some with regret, some with satisfaction, that the grand experiment, the American Republic, - [Dark And Gloomy](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dark-and-gloomy/) - There are those who believe the world today is a dark and gloomy place, that Western civilization is in decline and soon to die. I don’t think things are this dark. Throughout history every society has produced a man who rises up to save the day. Cincinnatus, Themistocles, Washington, Lincoln, come instantly to mind. Of - [Pygmalion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/pygmalion/) - Richard Fernandez, the creator and writer of the essential conservative blog The Belmont Club, asks how can ISIS receive so many blows and not only survive those blows but thrive. He answers his own question by saying ISIS is resistant to whatever we throw at it because it is not a nation state. Westphalian nation - [Castrati Voices](https://verse-afire.com/blog/castrati-voices/) - President Obama’s overriding goal is the re-creation of the Ottoman Empire, with the destruction of the United States a by-product of that ambition. What will Obama gain by realizing this ambition? He will gain the place in history he has dreamed of since his birth to his virgin mother as he accepts the Sword of - [Tiny Flags - Memorial Day 2015](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tiny-flags-memorial-day-2015/) - Memorial Day was created to honor the dead of the Civil War, and has since come to mean honoring the dead of all the country’s wars. That is the idea. The reality is that Memorial Day is a beach or lake or picnic holiday, surrounded by Memorial Day car sales, all observed by vast numbers - [Tet](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tet/) - ISIS has captured the important city of Ramadi in western Anbar province, the largest province in Iraq, and American pundits are already wondering if this is another Tet, the offensive by the North Vietnamese in 1968 that was defeated in every battle, with the North Vietnamese suffering great losses, yet was a victory because it - [Compassion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/compassion/) - Europe, and particularly Italy, is being inundated by waves of Muslim refugees fleeing the Sunni/Shia civil war, so many that European countries are abandoning the policy of compassion and are now denying the refugees entrance by destroying the boats and ships before they can be loaded. Mercy and compassion are private things, not to be - [One Man, One Vote, One Time ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/one-man-one-vote-one-time/) - The only difference between Zimbabwe and the current United States is the name of the dominant political party. Both claim to be small d democrats, but the reality is that both rule by destroying the democratic process, Robert Mugabe by allowing one vote, one time, then declaring himself president for life. The Democratic Party took - [The Land Survives](https://verse-afire.com/blog/syria-2/) - The pundits at the New York Times and elsewhere have now voiced the considered opinion that the Assad regime is finished, and they are concerned about the uncertain future of Syria, believing the county itself might not survive the current civil war. Assad may not survive, and probably won’t, but the country will. Syria is - [An Preachan (The Crow)](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-preachan-the-crow/) - A very old Irish Gaelic fable tells the story of a Prince turned into a black crow who convinces a beautiful princess to marry him. Fast forward to the present, and consider that Barack Obama is the crow, and the United States the beautiful princess. Did not the black crow convince the beautiful princess to - [The Islamic Choudary And Marching Society](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-islamic-choudary-and-marching-society/) - A fistfight over whose imaginary god was least imaginary broke out between Sunni and Shia Muslims during a march in London organized by Imam Anjem Choudary. It is not known if there were any casualties, but it has been reported several of the rioters had their feelings hurt. When tempers boil on foreign soil Like - [The Long Journey](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-long-journey/) - At age 10 my grandfather was a mule boy on the old Pennsylvania canal. At age 14 my father graduated from the eighth grade and went to work on a construction project, doing a man’s work. My son has spent his adult life in front of a computer screen designing new methods of doing things - [Strawberry Blonds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/and-the-band-played-on-2/) - Oh what tangoed webs we weave, when first we practice to…well, you know. Barack Hussein Obama has tippy-toed through the tulips for six years, leaving behind him a sobbing gaggle of would-be strawberry blonds, every one of whom believed him to be the Waltz King, the bringer of light to a dimming world, only to - [They're Back!](https://verse-afire.com/blog/theyre-back/) - There are those who believe the gods died thousands of years ago, but they are wrong. The gods have not died, they have bided their time, immortal, knowing they would be called upon again. And so they have been. The end of socialism is not communism, is not anarchy, nor is it necessarily death and - [Ice And Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ice-and-time/) - In the fourth millennium BC, somewhere around 3600 BC, there occurred a catastrophe that destroyed a significant part of European life, causing death and dislocation on a massive scale. The glaciers had been melting for thousands of years, and in the middle of the North American continent, ice blocked passages through the mountains caused a - [The Golden Age Of Greece](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-golden-age-of-greece/) - Greece again has reached the bottom of the empty money barrel, and again it looks like the end. The death of Greece, and perhaps of the European Union, has been a long time coming. Will the Germans again pump life blood into failing Greek banks, delaying the burial of the corpse for a few more - [The Hell-Borne Crescent](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-hell-borne-crescent/) - “We tell America that what is coming will be even bigger and more bitter, and that you will see the soldiers of the Islamic State do terrible things.” - The Islamic State’s official radio station, al Bayan, claiming responsibility for the attack on the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. The Muslims do not seem - [A Look Into The Future ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-look-into-the-future/) - They say everything starts in California, and if San Francisco is our future, then I long for the past. A recently published photo shows Chief Heather Fong, the first lesbian Chief of Police and Theresa Sparks, a former male, who is president of the San Francisco Police Commission, and CEO of a multimillion-dollar sex toy - [The Discontiguous](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-discontiguous/) - After the reorganization of Yugoslavia, a three square mile tract of mountainous land containing a single shack was inadvertently overlooked by the map makers, and was bought by a young man who named it Liberland, and advertised for immigrants. Two hundred and fifty thousand people from discontiguous parts of North Africa and the Middle East - [Blockade](https://verse-afire.com/blog/blockade/) - The Saudi Arabian navy has established a blockade of the Yemen port of Aden to prevent the Iranians from resupplying the Houthi rebels attacking the city. Blockade. The very word conjures up images of square rigged ships beating up the channel in a blow lest the Frogs cross their yards and come out. Of the - [Basking In The Sunset](https://verse-afire.com/blog/basking-in-the-sunset/) - Demography is destiny, and every single country in Western Europe has a below replacement birth rate, meaning that when the last native while European dies the land will belong to someone else, no doubt North African and Turkish Muslims. The world has seen many cultures and civilizations wax and wane, but few disappear entirely. And - [Looney Tunes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/looney-tunes/) - The Middle East is ablaze, bodies piled in heaps, and the Iranians have just stopped an American flagged ship and taken it and crew into port, the crew never to see freedom again. All is collapsing around the most incompetent or malicious president this country has ever had. The President of the United States of - [The Wine Dark Sea](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-wine-dark-sea/) - A rickety ship filled with illegal immigrant men, women and children bound for Italy, has capsized and sunk in the Mediterranean after leaving Libya, with over eight hundred dead, most locked below deck, to drown like rats. Thanks to Obama and his all-female red diaper baby harpies, the once stable mini-tyranny of Libya is now - [The Stars Within My Reach](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-stars-within-my-reach/) - Emily Dickinson says she never saw a moor, never saw the sea. I have seen the sea, and walked its boundary, late at night, counting the infinite stars. The mathematician believes the universe is organized around, controlled by, and can be described by, numbers, and that understanding the universe is only a matter of discovering - [The Triple Goddess](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-triple-goddess/) - Known by many names, to many people in many places, the Triple Goddess was the uniting divinity of Greece before being supplanted by her son, Zeus. She assumed many forms, but ruled as Hera, the Earth Mother. She was also Aphrodite and Athena, Hecate and others, but never, until now, insofar as I know, was - [The Game Of Thrones](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-game-of-thrones/) - Updated, and set in the United States of Obama, the time the past, the present and the future. Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan Communist, bequeaths to his son, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., the knowledge of right and wrong, as perceived by those of the Muslim Communist faith. In pursuit of this faith, the younger - [Some Damn Fool Thing In The Balkans](https://verse-afire.com/blog/some-damn-fool-thing-in-the-balkans/) - Kaiser Wilhelm once presciently offered the observation that if and when the next war came it would come because of some damn fool thing in the Balkans. In the summer of 1914 the ordinary people of Europe had little inkling of what was to come. Yes, they had heard some Austrian and his wife had - [It Ain't Necessarily So](https://verse-afire.com/blog/it-aint-necessarily-so/) - Some things are so and some things are not. We have learned, over the past six years, that what comes out of the White House is not necessarily so, that we must look not at what Obama says but what he does. When he says you can keep your doctor, that is not necessarily so. - [Truth And Consequences](https://verse-afire.com/blog/truth-and-consequences/) - Many, including former vice-president Cheney, have raised the question of whether the actions of President Obama show incompetence or malice. Have we considered the possibility that Obama is simply destined by the gods to destroy us, as Carthage was destined by the gods to be destroyed? In the Aeneid, Virgil tells us that the Trojan - [Eternal Sleep](https://verse-afire.com/blog/eternal-sleep/) - Some wonder why young Muslim men join ISIS or al Qaeda, and do the terrible things they do. Well, some do it for the fun, some out of a sense of duty and some out of religious fervor. But basically they do it because war is part of the human condition. War is built into - [The Confidence Of Rivers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-confidence-of-rivers/) - The Issus is a river in Persia, where Alexander met and defeated a numerically superior Persian army. So confident of victory was the Persian King Darius that he took his pregnant wife to watch the fun. The Manassas was the Indian name for what later came to called Bull Run, and so confident of victory - [Sweet Memories Remain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sweet-memories-remain-2/) - It takes a lot to ruin a country, and Obama has two more years to finish the job he set out to do. Yet nothing is ever truly completely erased from memory. The United States that we have known and grown up with may cease to exist, thanks to Barack Obama, but sweet memories will - [The Night That We Both Dreamed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-night-that-we-both-dreamed/) - President Obama, just days after boasting of the nuclear agreement with Iran, was dismayed at the dismissive words of Iranian President Rouhani, who contradicted Obama on every point, especially since Obama thought he and Rouhani had a special relationship that transcended politics and matters of State. Alone in the Oval Office, President Obama stared out - [Credentials](https://verse-afire.com/blog/credentials/) - We see almost every day a story about a doctor, a lawyer, whatever, who is discovered to have never entered medical school, law school or any other post graduate school, and yet were accepted as being who they claimed to be because they produced fake credentials. It used to be you used to have to - [The Illusionist](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-illusionist/) - The Iranians have rejected out of hand the nuke deal that Obama said he had persuaded them, against great odds, to agree to, a deal he praised as a major part of his magnificent legacy. The Iranians have shown Obama to be what many have always known, but is the illusionist disillusioned? Apparently not. I - [The Night We Dreamed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-night-we-dreamed/) - A Country music lyric. Sure wish I could write music. Anyone know a Country singer or band who needs a lyricist? We saw each other quite by chance And something held me fast I smiled and asked her for a dance And knew that now, at last I’d found the one I’d searched so long - [An Historic Deal](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-historic-deal/) - A framework deal has been announced between the murderous mullahs of Iran and the United States of Obama, allowing the Iranians to proceed apace with the ordained destruction of Israel. The president proudly says that if Iran cheats and gets the bomb the world will know it. Of course it will, especially those downwind of - [Red Diaper Baby](https://verse-afire.com/blog/red-diaper-baby/) - The median IQ is 100, which means that one half the population is below the median, and it was this lower half of the food chain that elected and re-elected a Muslim Communist to be president of the United States. The following song, Red Diaper Baby, is sung to the tune of that old time - [The Brilliance Of It All](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-brilliance-of-it-all/) - The Yemeni army refused to fight the advancing Shi’ite rebels, and the Iraqi army refused to fight the advancing Sunni ISIS. Both sides are now armed with half a trillion dollars of US equipment, and are now engaged in all out religious civil war. I spoke to an Obama advisor and she almost fainted with - [Menendez Delenda Est](https://verse-afire.com/blog/menendez-delenda-est/) - United States Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), has been indicted for corruption by the Justice Department, the allegations being that he used his office to the benefit of a friend and campaign contributor, something not unknown to every other Senator and Congressman who ever lived. A friend, now retired, was the bodyguard and muscleman for the - [The Hidden Path](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-hidden-path/) - Secretary of State John Kerry, busily negotiating the surrender of the United States of Obama to Iran, says he can see the three paths under negotiation that are designed to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons, but is worried that the fourth path, the hidden path, the path Iran will undoubtedly take, will lead to - [The End Of The Habsburgs](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-end-of-the-habsburgs/) - We have all heard the story of William Tell, how the Habsburgs of Austria, who ruled Switzerland, placed a man named Gessler in charge of the province where Tell and his family lived. Gessler erected a pole in the town square and placed his hat on it, announcing that all who passed must bow to - [Letters Of Marque](https://verse-afire.com/blog/letters-of-marque/) - A letter of marque is written authorization given by a State to private citizens to attack and take ships of the enemy. Hacked emails to and from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State reveal that she was running a private government out of her house with a private and secret staff, dealing with - [Love Letters](https://verse-afire.com/blog/love-letters/) - Despite virulent opposition the United States of Barack Obama is about to sign an agreement with Iran that will allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, an eventuality that will inevitably lead to nuclear war and hundreds of millions of deaths. Barack Obama has written a letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran, expressing his love - [A Thousand Years Or So](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-thousand-years-or-so/) - Another Country song needing some notes and minor chords. A THOUSAND YEARS OR SO We knew the moment that we met That we had loved before We smiled with eyes so sudden wet In love again once more Once more to love each other so To share our love and tears A love we knew - [Phones](https://verse-afire.com/blog/phones/) - Everyone has a multiplicity of phones; iPhones, Androids and various devices of similar description, all capable of receiving email and text messages and connection to the internet as well as the ancient and fast disappearing cultural rite of actually speaking to another human being. How many phones does a man need? I have been a - [Just A Dream](https://verse-afire.com/blog/just-a-dream/) - In light of Hillary’s typically Clintonian behavior re the emails and the foreign money coming in while she was SecState, behavior that reveals to all her conviction that the Clintons do not need to obey the law, the New York Times writes, rather sadly, that despite her problems the Democrats see no choice but Hillary - [Amoeba Nation](https://verse-afire.com/blog/amoeba-nation/) - I have posited in these pages on more than one occasion that the United States is dividing, amoeba like, into two separate and distinct moral, cultural and ideological nations, the Southern half retaining most if not all of the founding principles of the United States and California, the Northwest and the Northern half becoming increasingly - [The Kenyan](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-kenyan/) - The world has never seen a leader like the Kenyan, Barack Obama, whose actions and inactions have transformed the world to a degree to which he could only have fitfully dreamed. In eight short years he will have accomplished much; the near destruction of the culture and history of the United States, and the murderous - [The Lie Still Lives](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lie-still-lives/) - The Western world has long accepted the web of lies that is Muslim propaganda regarding the nature of the Crusades. President Obama, at a Christian prayer breakfast, excused the Muslim atrocities of beheading and burning captives alive by proclaiming that Christians did even worse things a thousand years ago during the Crusades. Everyone, including Obama, - [A Man To Be Feared](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-man-to-be-feared/) - The voting is over in the Israeli elections, and exit polls indicate that Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, will be defeated, a prospect so greatly desired by the Israel and Netanyahu hating Obama that he sent money and Democrat Party election fixers to Israel to defeat a sitting leader of along time faithful - [An Engineering Marvel](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-engineering-marvel/) - The orb spider’s web is a marvel of structural engineering and design. The silken strands are equal in tensile strength to steel. After securing the load bearing anchor cables she spins the connecting webbing, securing each secondary cable to an anchor cable, until the web is symmetrical, beautiful, deadly and complete. In the angle formed - [Cornflower Blue](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cornflower-blue/) - Due to popular demand, I am temporarily switching from political verse to Country music lyrics, with herein my first effort. Would send it to Waylon, but he is, well…..you know. Anyone with some spare notes and minor chords is welcome to put some music to it. CORNFLOWER BLUE The mind drifts back, the time retold - [A Mother's Advice](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-mothers-advice/) - On the eve of his ascension to the crown of Hauterania, the Queen Mother instructs young Prince Barack, in iambic pentameter no less, how to conduct himself in a manner worthy of his noble ancestors. In a quiet, sincere and whispery voice she says, To be the King of all that one surveys And rule - [A King Like You](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-king-like-you/) - The Left calls us bigots, we who object to the turning of our country over to people who had no part in building it. The Left calls us bigots because we say “Enough of your diversity!” The Left knows full well why we have these objections. They know full well we object to the invited - [Thoughts And Deeds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/thoughts-and-deeds/) - There are those who say that the Koran is a map, a list of murderous actions for the adherents of the religion of peace to follow, as it was said of Mein Kampf that it was a road map that Adolf Hitler intended to follow. Neither is true. Neither Mein Kampf nor the Koran is - [Pustules](https://verse-afire.com/blog/pustules/) - Entropy is another way of saying ‘winding down’, and what we are seeing is the winding down of the brief life of a pustule called ISIS, a violent and stinking eruption of a murderously savage cult determined to commit suicide by cop. They will get their wish, but the longer the cops take to get - [Historical Perspective](https://verse-afire.com/blog/historical-perspective/) - The principal difficulty with historical perspective is that we don’t live in history, we live in the present, and our lives and affairs so ephemeral, historically speaking, as to be over and done in the space of a single breath. The history of our times as ultimately recorded is entirely dependent on externalities beyond our - [What It Means](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-it-means/) - I grow weary, at times, of the world around me. I tire of the Clinton criminal enterprise. I tire of the fascist Obama administration that destroys those who disagree with it or do not knuckle under to extortion. I tire of missing emails and appointments of unabashed Communist enemies of my country to important posts. - [Serving At His Pleasure](https://verse-afire.com/blog/serving-at-his-pleasure/) - On Friday President Obama announced the appointment of Robert Malley as ”Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region.” It may or may not come as a surprise to know that Robert Malley is an Egyptian, the founder of the Egyptian Communist Party, or that - [The Anointed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-anointed/) - The entrails indicate that the white smoke issuing from Bill’s pants proclaims the new leader of the Free World will be Hillary Clinton, or at least the leader of the disloyal Democratic Party. Her incompetence as Secretary of State is the stuff of legend. Her lies about what happened in Benghazi the night four American, - [Wired](https://verse-afire.com/blog/wired/) - Barack Obama, having taken over the country’ health care system and automobile industry, has now taken over the Internet, forcing it to conform to a law written in 1934 to control the activities of Ma Bell, then the provider of telephone service for millions of people. The Internet, of course, is enjoyed by billions of - [Charismatics](https://verse-afire.com/blog/charismatics/) - My reading of history is that the charismatic political/military leader always leads to disaster, while the charismatic religious leader sometimes leads to disaster and sometimes not. Of the former, Hannibal Barca, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, and many lesser lights have brought disaster upon themselves and their countries. Of the religious charismatics only Gautama’s teachings did - [A New Don Juan](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-new-don-juan/) - Throughout history militia forces have not been able to stand up to regulars. Bladensburg comes to mind. ISIS is not of Western regular army quality, but it seems to be as good as an Arab army gets. Therefore it will take the Fourth Infantry Division to beat them. What is needed is a present day - [Stocking Up](https://verse-afire.com/blog/stocking-up/) - We are in a pre-war time, just like the 1930s. The principal difference between today and the 1930s is that there doesn’t appear to be a Churchill waiting in the wings. Then it took only one bridge, the Rhineland Bridge, to be crossed to set things in motion, while today so many bridges have already - [Reality And The Mirror](https://verse-afire.com/blog/reality-and-the-mirror/) - It is claimed that the next step in technology is upon us, technology that will not only mirror our thoughts, but talk back to us. The new technology will be more than just a passive mirror, it will be a mirror that talks back to reality, in close touch with Spiritus Mundi, the spirit of - [The Essence Of Sweet Purity](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-essence-of-sweet-purity/) - Obama wants to take the task of gathering Intelligence from the National Security Agency and give it to the unionized Department of Homeland Security, who yearly receive praise and bonuses for being only slightly less honest and competent than the IRS. So competent has Homeland been in its treatment of passengers at the nation’s airports, - [The Actors And The Acted Upon](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-actors-and-the-acted-upon/) - The steady, almost inch by inch advance by Russia westwards into the sovereign country of Ukraine continues despite wringing of hands by Western leaders. There are two kinds of people – those, like Putin, who do what they want to do when they want to do it, and those who are always surprised the Putins - [Kicking The Tires](https://verse-afire.com/blog/kicking-the-tires/) - Rudy Giuliani has fired a well-aimed shot in the nomination war by saying what John McCain and Mitt Romney were afraid to say, for fear of being called racist, that Barack Hussein Obama does not love the United States, that on the contrary he is determined to destroy it. He is kicking tires and finding - [Setting The Record Straight](https://verse-afire.com/blog/setting-the-record-straight/) - It has been reported that President Obama told a White House conference on Countering Violent Extremism on Wednesday that ‘Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding,’ something he has said in the past. There are those who roll their eyes and scoff at this as the delusional words of - [The Faux Elite](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-faux-elite/) - Some weeks ago the leftist elites of the civilized world gathered in Davos, Switzerland for a conference on global warming. There are far greater problems in this world than the doings of the faux elites of Davos and their global warming scam. Nevertheless, they invite mockery just for being who they are and who they - [Destiny](https://verse-afire.com/blog/destiny/) - In a free society Destiny is what you make it. In an unfree society Destiny is what someone makes for you. We are perilously close to becoming a relatively unfree society, in the sense that we are no longer completely free of government interference in the lives of ordinary Americans. Culture is learned, and is - [The Deep Sleep](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-deep-sleep/) - There are those who will tell you, with deep satisfaction, that God is dead and man is thereby released from the bonds of superstition. But God is always dying. The gods of the cold northern forests are gone, yet they are not truly dead, but merely asleep beneath the snow. The gods of Assyria lay - [The Art Of The Deal](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-art-of-the-deal/) - Secretary of State John Kerry said that the U.S. expects to achieve a deal on reining in Iran’s nuclear program within three or four months, and suggested that an agreement could be possible months sooner than previously anticipated. There is nothing wrong with making a deal, so long as the deal is between equals and - [A Valentine For Little Jen](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-valentine-for-little-jen/) - The Obama administration is not only female-centric, but high school female centric, as witness spokespeople like Jen Psaki, who is daily charged with telling lies for the State Department and the Obama administration. We all know how plain looking high school girls dread Valentine’s Day, in fear they won’t get any. Ever kind, I send - [Sweet Memories Remain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sweet-memories-remain/) - Valentine’s Day 2015 We pledged to each the day we met That never we would part The love we shared we’d not forget Two loves but just one heart The days fled by, some pain the while But somehow we got through With just three words said with a smile A simple I love you - [A Small Boy](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-little-boy/) - Susan Rice, one of Obama’s Marxist witches, delivered a speech in which she told us just how brilliant was the Obama strategy of Strategic Patience, a new name for leading from behind and doing nothing. When I was a small boy, doing the things small boys do, I relied on the strategic patience of my - [The War Elephant](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-war-elephant/) - I have, over the past few years, occasionally posited the idea of the elephant getting tired of the ants biting his ankles and finally stomping on them. The problem for the ants is they don’t know when to stop. Enough mass murder, enough beheadings, enough kidnappings of girls for sale into slavery and enough slaughter - [The Ankle Biters](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ankle-biters/) - The Muslim ants are biting the ankles of the Western elephant. In the sixteenth century the European countries bordering the Mediterranean were in abject fear of the Ottoman Muslims, who raided their coastal cities and sold the inhabitants into slavery. But one man changed all that in one afternoon. Don Juan of Austria disobeyed his - [A Whiff Of Grape](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-whiff-of-grape/) - A group of guys who could not pour a concrete patio without outside help, a seventh century suicide cult, is allowed to run wild, beheading and burning people alive, all without any serious attempt to stop them by powerful and civilized neighbors. If they kept the beheadings and burnings among themselves no one would care, - [Heroes To Their Staffs](https://verse-afire.com/blog/heroes-to-their-staffs/) - Everyone has a little Walter Mitty in them, but most of us don’t have a national microphone with which to inflate our egos. There is something going on inside people like Brian Williams and Hillary Clinton who tell us, with a charming aw shucks it was nothing attitude, how brave they were in an imaginary - [As The World Turns](https://verse-afire.com/blog/as-the-world-turns-2/) - I spoke to Phileas Fogg today, and he was definitely out of sorts, not at all the upbeat, optimistic man he was just eighty days ago when he set out in a hot air balloon to circle the Earth. He said things were not going well within the magic kingdom; the number of working elves - [Deadwood](https://verse-afire.com/blog/deadwood/) - Someone suggested recently that a Deadwood Institute be built to commemorate the immense sums of money spent on government failures. I spoke to a man from Deadwood, home for a time to Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok, and he was outraged that someone would equate him and his fellow townsmen with failure. He said: - [Guns And Huns](https://verse-afire.com/blog/guns-and-huns/) - Western Europe, under the benevolent European Union, is a strict gun control entity. In light of the Muslim attack on Charlie Hebdo that killed eleven people and a simultaneous Muslim attack on a Jewish delicatessen in a Jewish neighborhood, killing four, a prominent Jewish Rabbi asked if the EU would permit Jews to carry weapons - [General Piketty](https://verse-afire.com/blog/general-piketty/) - French economist and bestselling author Thomas Picketty proposes that the wealth of the Western world be redistributed to the Third World through a progressive global tax on wealth. General Piketty looked steadily across the field, studying the silent mass of blue atop the hill, flags limp in the summer heat, his fine regiment of Virginians - [The Golden Apples Of The Sun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-golden-apples-of-the-sun/) - I grew up reading science fiction which led me to science non-fiction which led me to Arthur C. Clarke and his early 50s examinations of the nature of the coming exploration of space. Has anyone been to the Oort Cloud? The Kuiper Belt? Alpha Centauri? I have, many times, for imagination is the sleekest, fastest, - [The Fault Of The Jews](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fault-of-the-jews/) - Jimmy Carter has never wavered from his opinion that all the problems in the world can be traced back to the Jews. French President Hollande stormed out of the ceremony in Paris honoring the dead in the Muslim attacks on Charlie Hebdo when Netanyahu began to speak. Obama openly favors the Palestinians and excoriates Israel - [Democracy](https://verse-afire.com/blog/democracy/) - In a democracy the two party system is a two-edged sword, or maybe a two handed game, where the contestants, the two political parties, are easily identified and the players, the voters, are fundamentally divided by their IQs, a selection process dictated by nature, for by definition one half the populace has an IQ below - [A Bubbly Life](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-bubbly-life/) - A recent survey of young Japanese men and women showed an astoundingly high percentage are uninterested in sex or marriage. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki you can’t blame the Japanese for shying away from nuclear families. And there is much to be said for a soft, warm, always smiling, no backtalk blow-up doll, although I understand - [To My Valentine](https://verse-afire.com/blog/to-my-valentine/) - It’s the end of January, Valentine’s Day just around the corner, and just about this time in 1998 the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinski sex scandal broke upon us, the titillating details keeping everyone amused for months. Monica Lewinsky has recently resurfaced, now forty-one years old, and blames Drudge for ruining her life, evidently believing her actions - [Predictions 2015](https://verse-afire.com/blog/pedictions-2015/) - It is almost February, time for 2015 predictions, and I asked my late friend Waltradamus which of the many predictions for the coming year will come true, and he said none of them. Ever enigmatic, he ticked them off: Student loan crisis: The student looks beyond the sky Beyond the moonlit bay To where her - [The Brightest And The Best](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-brightest-and-the-best/) - I spoke to President Obama the other day, one of America’s best and brightest, and even while stoned and hung over he remained one of the best and brightest. I got him upright from time to time, and during his more lucid moments he explained how he got to be one of the best and - [The Nerd](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-nerd/) - I had given the lecture many times without incident, but today a feminist was in the audience and took umbrage at something I said and called me a loathsome nerd, then reported me to the Dean, telling him I had used hate speech so vile she had fainted. There is only so much a man - [The Collective](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-collective/) - The United States, once a collection of individuals, is now an individual collective, thanks to eighty years of creeping and now metastasized socialism, for which all of us, whether we voted for socialism or not, are collectively guilty and thus are collectively punished. I work with my collective friends We earn collective pay No time - [Perspective](https://verse-afire.com/blog/perspective/) - We live in a time when deadly peril is described as debt crisis, plummeting oil prices and various other temporary and historically almost meaningless random motions of the financial and political systems. Consider the year end outlook of the people of the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century. Muslim corsairs and Ottoman fleets sailed their galleys - [La Forza Del Destino](https://verse-afire.com/blog/la-forza-del-destino/) - There are those who believe in the force of destiny, that what is to be will be, that what is shown in destiny’s mirror is inevitable. And so it may be. The mirror of destiny shows a darkness blotting the sun, coming nearer and darker with each passing day, and no one, not God nor - [The Presidential Outhouse](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-presidential-outhouse/) - It has been suggested that we drop movies over North Korea to show the average North Korean what the West really looks like. It is believed that doing so may make the people of North Korea rise up and depose the Kims. My choice for movie dropped into North Korea would be Dr. Strangelove. Not - [A Big Texas Howdy](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-big-texas-howdy/) - Governor Cuomo, Democrat, New York, has ruled that New York State will not permit drilling for oil on State lands, despite all the evidence that fracking is not harmful to the environment and creates jobs and wealth. A Leftist knows what he is for and what he is against, and so Governor Cuomo has decided - [Spindletop](https://verse-afire.com/blog/spindletop/) - There are always those, like the New York Times, who lament the genius of American capitalism to improve the lives of people throughout the world by making things cheaper, better and more plentiful. They worry that fracking and cheaper oil will cause pain to those autocratic regimes who depend on high oil prices to stay - [Fighting Back ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fighting-back/) - The recent Muslim killings of French police and civilians has galvanized the West to take action to combat the threat of Muslim violence. They will not take action against the Muslims of course, that would be an overreaction and possibly dangerous. They are going to shut down the Internet and arrest all those who point - [A Tasty Dish](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-tasty-dish/) - Muslim killers are always hailed as heroes in the Muslim world, and the greater the atrocity the more women there are ululating in the streets. We don’t understand how cold blooded killers can be idolized, feted and treated as heroes, and blessed by martyrdom. We forget how Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger were admired - [A One Act Play](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-one-act-play/) - The world is coming apart. In the socialist paradise of Venezuela the stores are out of soap and the gas stations out of gas. In France, Muslim killers set Paris aflame, and in Africa Muslim killers burned Christian villages and killed over two thousand men, women and children. The world is in crisis and Obama - [Burn](https://verse-afire.com/blog/burn/) - The French people have reacted to the Muslim killings of cartoonists and policemen in typical Western fashion: they have held candlelight vigils. I have been waiting for the news of burning mosques throughout France, but sadly saw only candlelight vigils. Lighting candles only deepens the Islamic contempt for the feckless West. What is needed is - [The Setting Of The Sun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-setting-of-the-sun/) - Muslim gunmen put a gun to the head of a young woman staff member of a French satirical magazine and said they would kill her and her baby if she didn’t give them the code to the locked door. She gave them the code and the gunmen invaded the Paris office of the magazine where - [The Ashes Of Their Fathers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ashes-of-their-fathers/) - Another murderous attack on some European cartoonists, this time in France, for disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, an attack that left twelve dead and fifteen wounded. For several years now I have maintained that the common people of Europe will not stand idly by and allow their countries to be taken from - [Jail Time](https://verse-afire.com/blog/jail-time/) - The country is no longer in the hands of the people, or even the elected government, but in the hands of the unelected bureaucracy, the regulators who write the rules by which we all must live, thousands upon thousands of leftist rules by leftist regulators, rules that harm the country but advance the leftist agenda, - [The Graph](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-graph/) - Fifty years ago I posited that a graph of the exponential growth of technology would have the growth line sharply rising to almost vertical. Since then we have witnessed an explosion in technology that makes the rise from chipped flint technology to 1970s technology look like a flat line. What will happen when the line - [New Year 2015](https://verse-afire.com/blog/new-year-2015/) - A happy and prosperous New Year to all, and may God grant us His protection against all afflictions and infirmities. The New Year bursts upon the scene With all the stars aligned We know not yet what that might mean But hope the gods be kind We hold the future in our hands With fingers - [Salt](https://verse-afire.com/blog/salt/) - And God said to Obama, “I will beat your shields into ploughshares and your spears into pruning hooks!” And Obama said, “That’s cool. What’s a ploughshare?” And it came to pass that Obama stripped all the tanks and artillery and choppers and machine guns from the military and equipped them with ploughshares and pruning hooks, - [Cuba Libre](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cuba-libre/) - Cuba Libre, Free Cuba, has a fine ring to it, and Obama has just freed the Castro brothers from sanctions that were on the verge of toppling the murderous pair, thereby making certain there would be no Cuba Libre to disturb the sleep of his pals Raoul and Fidel. Or maybe Obama just likes his - [Comfort Girls](https://verse-afire.com/blog/comfort-girls/) - I believe the North Korean attack on Sony has deeper roots than a perceived insult to Dear Leader. Sony is a Japanese company, and the Koreans, north and south, fiercely hate the Japanese and everything Japanese. And with good reason. Remember that Japan ruled the Korean peninsula for a good many years, and not gently - [Christmas 2014](https://verse-afire.com/blog/christmas-2014/) - Christmas Day arrives with all the shopping done, the tree trimmed and presents gaily wrapped. There is dinner and wine and laughter and good talk. But we must not forget just whose Day this is. The days crept by, as well the nights And now the day is here The Christmas tree bedecked with lights - [An Inner Life](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-inner-life/) - There are those who live in the world as it is, in the world as they find it, and there are those who live in the world as they would wish it to be. Often, those who live in the world of the mind do so not by choice but by circumstance. There are those - [The Fire Of The Sun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fire-of-the-sun/) - Murderous Muslims have stormed a school in Pakistan and killed over one hundred and sixty people, most of them children between the ages of eight and twelve. Just another example of the murderous mentality of Islam. Fourteen hundred years is a long time to be at war with a religion that is determined to kill - [I, Uni Verse](https://verse-afire.com/blog/i-uni-verse/) - Many physicists today believe there is more than one universe, that in fact we should not think of it as the universe but as the multiverse. The multiverse does not exist. We are one infinitely tiny part of the infinitiverse. There are, in our own universe, billions of galaxies, each with a black hole at - [Baby It's Cold Outside](https://verse-afire.com/blog/baby-its-cold-outside/) - Maybe one day rural Siberia will look like Beverly Hills. – Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club, in an essay on the probability of our current world turning upside down. I spoke to a young lady the other day and asked why it was so cold in Beverly Hills. She thought for a moment and then - [Soothing Salve](https://verse-afire.com/blog/soothing-salve/) - Those in Washington who think nuking up Australia and Japan will solve all the problems in the Western Pacific are delusional. In WW2 Japanese destroyers had names like Phosphorescent Foam and Mist Of Flowers. If they do build a Boomer they’ll probably call it Soothing Whispers or something. As for Australia, the Aussies proved themselves - [Shale We Dance?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/shale-we-dance/) - The United States is now the world’s largest producer of oil and gas, no thanks to Obama and the whacko environmentalists who tried to stop it. Nevertheless, fracking shale has turned the world upside down, with Russia and Saudi Arabia wondering what happened to them on their way to destroying the United States by bankrupting - [Death By Asteroid](https://verse-afire.com/blog/death-by-asteroid/) - The talk now is about mining the asteroid belt, with the mineral value of even a small asteroid calculated in the billions of dollars. The plan is to capture an asteroid, move it out of its orbit, and steer it toward Earth, where it will somehow be safely landed or maybe mined in low Earth - [To A Border Collie](https://verse-afire.com/blog/to-a-border-collie/) - Yes, yes, the NSA has some sophisticated gizmos that can capture my emails without my being any the wiser, but no software and no hardware, no matter how sophisticated, no matter how magical seeming, will ever equal the intelligence of a Border collie. I got my first Irish setter pup for my thirteenth birthday, and - [A Fight To The Death](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-fight-to-the-death/) - In the high grass, in the gathering dark, the president of the United States hears footsteps slowly draw near. The footprints stop and a voice says, “So we meet at last.” “Putin?” “So it is,” Putin smiles, “and I understand it is to the death.” “Pistols, swords, bare knuckles? What are - [The Hipster Legionnaires](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-hipster-legionnaires/) - The 60s hipsters all dressed alike, talked alike, thought alike and smelled alike, all in the belief that by dressing alike and acting alike they exhibited their contempt for conformity. You still see 60s hipsters in the malls, gray ponytails below the shoulders, all dressed in the hipster uniform, still believing they are marching together - [Laurel Wreaths](https://verse-afire.com/blog/laurel-wreaths/) - Most of us have never been awarded a laurel wreath. We fantasize, at times, of the life we never led, a life of daring, of honors and accomplishment. For the great majority of us the honors are never bestowed, the laurel wreaths never worn. And yet, we often forget that true honor comes from just - [The Chosin Reservoir](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-chosin-reservoir/) - A friend of many years was a First Lieutenant, Dog Company, Composite Battalion, Seventh Marines. When they were forced to pull out of their positions at Chosin Reservoir, the Company commander held a hill with part of the company, giving command of the rest of the company to my friend. The Company commander and his - [First Snow](https://verse-afire.com/blog/first-snow/) - Winter is upon us, with the anticipation of the first big snow. Summer is gone, and in its place winter brings a time of rest and recuperation, a quiet time in preparation for the coming again of the soft scent of buds and blossoms and the sweet, lyrical sound of birdsong. The sky turned gray - [A One Punch Fighter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-one-punch-fighter/) - A recent analysis of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 claimed the invasion was doomed to failure from the start because only 10% of the German panzers would have mechanically survived the trip to Moscow over the horrific Soviet roadnet. This argument is facile at best. Reminds me of the first Desert - [Thanksgiving, 2014](https://verse-afire.com/blog/thanksgiving-2014/) - There is much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day. First and foremost, if you are reading this you are alive, and just being alive is cause for celebration. Behold the beauty of the storm The sunlight glint on crystal snow The friends and kin that keep you warm A late night fire’s dimming glow - [The New Flagellants](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-new-flagellants/) - Up ahead a small group of people walked slowly on the shoulder of the road, heading south for God knows where. Penitents they called themselves, convinced the plague was a punishment from God, and determined to atone for all past sins, real and imagined. Dressed in ankle length roughcloth robes and hand-made sandals, they wandered - [Did Tom Marry Alice?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/did-tom-marry-alice/) - I was once part of a conversation where the topic was What would have happened to the United States had there been no slavery. Most argued that nothing much would have changed, but I maintained that the United States would have been a different country with a different history had there been no slavery, - [Brother Can Youse Paradigm](https://verse-afire.com/blog/brother-can-youse-paradigm/) - A paradigm is a model, a mold, a template, and in political terms a paradigm can be considered to be the dominant ideology, the dominant form of government. At the moment the dominant form of government in the United States is state based socialism, which, if recent elections are any indication, is on its way - [The Circles Of The Moon](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-circles-of-the-moon/) - Back in the 1920s RAF pilots flying over the North African desert saw large circular outlines like wheels beneath the sand. Almost a hundred years later, despite great advances in technology and understanding of ancient peoples, Professor David Kennedy of the University of Western Australia can still say, “For now the meaning of the wheels - [Universal Soldiers, Universal Gods](https://verse-afire.com/blog/universal-soldiers-universal-gods/) - The universal soldier fights on either side of a conflict for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods, even if they are the wrong gods. – Richard Fernandez, the Belmont Club. But they are never the wrong gods. When a Persian soldier lowered his spear and walked steadily toward a distant - [Blue Bayou](https://verse-afire.com/blog/blue-bayou/) - Mary Landrieu, Democrat senator from Louisiana, the woman who cast the 60th and deciding vote for Obamacare, facing certain defeat in a runoff election against her Republican opponent on 6 December and the loss of a senate seat she believes is hers by divine right, tried to resuscitate her dead political life by calling for - [Undying Trust](https://verse-afire.com/blog/undying-trust/) - Trust is a fragile commodity. Once it is lost, it is lost, not to be regained. Barack Hussein Obama, visiting a local kindergarten class, tells the kiddies who he is. Come, children, sit upon my knee And I shall tell thy destiny A life of change, a life of hope And you will even buy - [Three Portraits](https://verse-afire.com/blog/three-portraits/) - Every president ultimately has an official portrait. Obama will need three. OBAMA AS HE SEES HIMSELF A canvas larger than each precious moment Reflected in the polished sun lit pool A president who didn’t know what no meant The face, the smile, the eyes, the teeth, so cool A canvas splashed with pigment for the - [The Man He Used To Be](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-man-he-used-to-be/) - With his poll numbers falling to below freezing, Barack Hussein Obama, the last black president of the United States, laments his fallen state in a late night tearfest with Vice-president Joe Biden. How sad the polls now are, Joe Compared to good times past I didn’t think that this low Could come about so fast - [The Wonder And Beauty Of Socialism](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-wonder-and-beauty-of-socialism/) - Venezuela, swimming in oil, is bankrupt. If you say Caracas real fast it sounds like carcass. The grand socialist experiment, the sclerotic European Union, is on life support, and the French have just begged the Brits for a billion pounds. And so it goes with socialism, and so it will go with us as the - [Sunset](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sunset/) - It has been said that getting old beats the alternative, and for some getting old is simply a time for resting and watching the sunsets after a busy life. Some time ago I stood on a dock, looking across the bay as a slowly setting sun turned the sky a brilliant rose and gold. A - [Lesser Men, Lesser Lights](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lesser-men-lesser-lights/) - This past Sunday a great gala love fest was held in Berlin to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. In all the press releases, all the television talking head chatter, all the speeches, the names Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul were never heard. It’s as if - [The Doggie In The Manger](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-doggie-in-the-manger/) - A manger is a sort of structure where one stores feed or fodder for livestock. President Obama, on learning that the American people have thoroughly rejected the progressive Marxist policies of his administration, has risen in fury, demanding that the winners immediately place on his desk an immigration bill acceptable to him. Obama is like - [Jihadi Girls](https://verse-afire.com/blog/jihadi-girls/) - There are those who try to explain why teenage girls in the United States and Western Europe are joining ISIS by claiming it’s because they want the same things that teenage boys who join ISIS want, a strong sense of meaning and purpose. It is always possible these people are wrong, or perhaps they misread - [Silver Bullets, Wooden Stakes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/silver-bullets-wooden-stakes/) - The election is over, and the Republicans swept the field, winning seven Senate seats to take the majority, with another two up for grabs, along with a sizeable number of new governors and representatives. In all it was a stinging refusal of the American voting public to have any more of the Marxist government of - [Culture Trumps Politics](https://verse-afire.com/blog/culture-trumps-politics/) - The outcome of today's midterm elections has little bearing on the current course of national politics and policy, for the culture is now quite possibly irredeemably and unchangeably Left. Conservatives can be elected, but they cannot govern conservatively in defiance of the culture. People want their checks, they want their government programs. To change the - [The Senate At The Mid-terms](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-senate-at-the-mid-terms/) - What was that about reality supplanting the MSM news agenda? What were those Pew Research numbers? Fifteen percent following election news very closely? Twenty-five percent not paying any attention to the election at all? What are the other sixty percent doing? Have they already made up their minds, or do their minds enter into who - [Beyond My Kitchen Window](https://verse-afire.com/blog/beyond-my-kitchen-window/) - Today, Hallowe’en, in the year of grace 2014, I have reached the curmudgeonly age of 85. I have no regrets, no wistful longings for the good old days. My life is filled with a wonderful wife and equally wonderful children and grandchildren. I worry about my country, and worry what kind of world my grandchildren - [Fusion And The Skunk Works](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fusion-and-the-skunk-works/) - The famous Skunk Works at Lockheed, the inventors of stealth technology, the SR-71 Blackbird and many other black projects, has announced a breakthrough in fusion technology, and is now looking for financing. The breakthrough seems to be centered around the shape of the tokomak within which the nuclear process of fusion remain captive. We have - [The Sofa](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sofa/) - There are people who consider Obama the Devil, and I confess that on occasion I was one of them. No more. Not after what happened. I was sitting on my sofa when I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye, and to my astonishment found a cool, handsome, familiar looking black man - [The Coming Republican Majority](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-coming-permanent-republican-majority/) - Obama has ordered green cards and other documents be prepared to welcome as many as thirty-four million illegal immigrants into the country. What happens when the newly elected Republican majorities in the Senate and House agree that thirty-four million third world immigrants is a good thing? What happens if the Republicans convince themselves that they - [The History Of Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-history-of-man/) - The history of man is one of unending, unbending conflict. Us against the Other, us against ourselves. Man has fought for country, for city state, for city, for tribe, for clan, for family and for himself. The evidence of our senses is that man fights because he likes to. Maybe the anthropologists are right and - [Making Believe](https://verse-afire.com/blog/making-believe/) - In an unscheduled interview, President Obama unburdened himself of his doubts and fears, admitting tearfully that all was a sham, that his handlers convinced the populace of a mighty country that he was someone he was not, that it was all make believe. With tears coursing down his powdered cheeks, he sobbed: Just making believe - [Firefly](https://verse-afire.com/blog/firefly/) - We are, thankfully, nearing the end of the most disastrous presidential reign in the history of the United States. There have been incompetents, Carter comes to mind, there have been the corrupt, Harding, there have been the traitorous, Buchanan, but not until Obama have we had a president who was all three. And yet it - [It Ain't Necessarily So](https://verse-afire.com/blog/it-aint-necessarily-so-2/) - A social paradigm is the framework within which laws, thought and way of life is contained. People thought differently about a great many things a hundred years ago than do the people of today. A hundred years ago no one believed the government had a duty to care for the individual from cradle to the - [Cruisin' Down The River](https://verse-afire.com/blog/cruisin-down-the-river/) - A woman who had contact with Mr. Duncan, the Liberian Ebola victim who chose to die in Dallas rather than Monrovia, was discovered to be a passenger on a Carnival cruise line ship. The ship has been denied docking rights, and may be doomed to sail the seas forever, like the Flying Dutchman, very much - [Lemmings](https://verse-afire.com/blog/lemmings/) - It turns out lemmings do not voluntarily go over the cliff. It has been revealed that the Disney documentary of years ago that showed the lemmings leaping off a cliff to their deaths was staged. The lemmings were brought to the cliff and placed on a turntable that flung them unwillingly off the cliff. A - [Tar Baby](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tar-baby/) - Muslim violence and terror is not confined to Iraq and Syria, nor is the threat confined to the United States and other western countries. The Muslim terror stretches across Africa from Mali and Nigeria, to Algeria and Libya to Egypt and Gaza, to Yemen and Somalia, to Pakistan and Afghanistan and northern China. This is - [The Fragility Of Life](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fragility-of-life/) - Life is fragile, and exits on its own timetable. The beauty of the rose is ephemeral, yet is reborn every Spring. The Mayfly dances for an hour and is gone, yet to the Mayfly the dance lasts a lifetime. The dinosaurs wandered the Earth for hundreds of millions of years, yet are gone, while Man - [The Invisible Tree](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-invisible-tree/) - The newest thing in the insane world of modern art is the invisible painting. A blank canvas by a celebrity fetches big money. Artists are getting their invisible paintings hung in galleries, and insist that just because there is nothing on the canvas doesn’t mean they haven’t put a lot of thought and work into - [The Letter W](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-letter-w/) - We all remember the Obama people moving into the White House on 20 January 2009 and removing the letter W from all the White House typewriters and keyboards, so filled with insane hatred for the previous president were they. I have no hatred for Obama and his people. Disgust and loathing yes, but not hatred. - [The Turk](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-turk/) - Sometime late in the eighteenth century a mechanical chessman was devised that could beat all comers. The mechanical Chess Master was called The Turk, and it wasn’t until almost a hundred years later that the secret of the Turk was revealed. The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed the Turk, a human - [A Simple Woman](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-simple-woman/) - A Spanish assistant nurse at Madrid’s La-Paz Carlos III hospital has died of Ebola contracted while caring for two Catholic medical missionary priests, members of the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios, who had been repatriated to Spain after contracting Ebola in West Africa. We do not yet know her age or her name, - [The Man Behind The Curtain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-man-behind-the-curtain/) - A careful examination of the policies of the Obama administration since 20 January 2009 reveals an uncanny similarity of purpose, and that purpose is the debasement, disarmament and ultimate destruction of the United States in its current form, and replacing it with a blue model third world socialist state. To that end the Ebola outbreak - [The Stronger Horse](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-stronger-horse/) - A Liberian man who had been exposed to Ebola boarded a plane in Nigeria and flew to Dallas, where he got violently sick and went to a hospital where he was treated and mistakenly sent home. Over 100 people in Dallas, including his family and acquaintances he may have been in contact with, are now - [The New Cathars](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-new-cathars/) - On 22 July 1209, during the Albigensian Crusade, the little French town of Beziers was reported to have given sanctuary to Cathar heretics. A Catholic army attacked the town and slaughtered the populace. When asked how to distinguish between the heretic Cathars and loyal Catholics, it is reported that the reply was, “Kill them all - [A Pinprick War](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-pinprick-war/) - On orders from President Obama, the United States military launched the first raid on ISIS by Tomahawk missiles launched from destroyers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. The wire story carrying the details of the raid said the destroyers launched planes, the story obviously written by a twenty-something who knew nothing of destroyers or - [Pathogens](https://verse-afire.com/blog/pathogens/) - Virulent Islam is a pathogen, an infectious agent that brings disease upon everything it touches. We should have no mercy on a religion that demands of its adherents that they kill the infidel wherever and whenever they find him. We should have no mercy on those who saw the heads off bound and helpless live - [The Holder File](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-holder-file/) - Attorney General Eric Holder announced his retirement yesterday. Every Attorney General is a friend and colleague of the president who appoints him, a friend and colleague the president can rely on to promote the president’s agenda, so we can hardly blame Holder for inciting race riots and selling guns to Mexican drug runners. Nor should - [A Mysterious Death](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-mysterious-death/) - The president announced today that there was a new player in the terrorist business, an outfit called the Khorasan, which supposedly posed an imminent threat to the United States and the West. I found a tinfoil hat in the parking lot the other day, and when I put it on I was immediately convince that - [How Valhalla Came To Close Its Doors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/how-valhalla-came-to-close-its-doors/) - The once all-powerful West, the ruler of the world and inventor of science and technology, has elected to commit suicide by the simple process of not having babies. The fecund Muslims, invited into Europe by the native Europeans, will soon outnumber the native Europeans, and when the Muslims are the majority they will do what - [Secession Fears](https://verse-afire.com/blog/secession-fears/) - The results of the Scottish election are in and the Scots voted to stay in the United Kingdom, not surprising given that a bit less than fifty percent of all Scottish households are dependent on welfare checks from London. The Scots realized they were better off sucking on the teat, so the threat of secession - [Storm Clouds](https://verse-afire.com/blog/storm-clouds/) - The president is reluctant to use force against all enemies but Republicans. Putin spits in his face and he smiles and insists it’s rain. China claims the entire South China Sea, and Obama smiles and says that’s why it’s called the South China Sea. He bows to Muslim kings and says it’s the Christian thing - [The Dream Will Never Die](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dream-will-never-diel/) - The Left cares not for results, it cares only for power. What does it care that everywhere they govern, everything it touches, produces idleness and despair, poverty instead of wealth. Wealth is not the end product. Power and control is the end product. The Obama administration, having taken the country far down the socialist road, - [Unjustified Faith](https://verse-afire.com/blog/unjustified-faith/) - A mouth breathing liberal named Peter Beinart, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, defends the light of his life, the giver of all that is holy and wise, Barack Hussein Obama, from the critics who claim his policies are failing. Beinart and his liberal friends in the press insist that Obama is in complete charge, that - [The Coalition Of The Unwilling And The Unable](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-coalition-of-the-unwilling-and-the-unable/) - Major partners in the Obama coalition against ISIS, Turkey, Germany and Britain have said thanks but no. Among the Arab states only Saudi Arabia has said it will join up, and we all know just how much help to expect from that quarter. Will the USAF have the use of Saudi airbases? The use of - [My Neander Valley Friend](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-neander-valley-friend/) - I am convinced a friend of many years has Neanderthal genes in his ancestral tree house, principally because of the physical resemblance to the drawings of Neanderthal man one sees in the popular press. I asked him why his ancestors disappeared, and he said they didn’t actually disappear, they were just hiding from white people - [Reasonable Fellows](https://verse-afire.com/blog/reasonable-fellows/) - President Obama said on Wednesday, 10 September, one day before the anniversary of the attack that killed 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, that he has ordered air attacks on ISIS in order to destroy them. Previous to that he said he would degrade ISIS to the point where they can be managed. Has he - [Who's A Fraud Of The Big, Bad Wolf](https://verse-afire.com/blog/whos-a-fraud-of-the-big-bad-wolf/) - Vladimir Putin, the big, bad wolf, gobbles up Ukraine and Barack Obama, the fraudster in chief, says he doesn’t really see any problem, and besides he’s meeting with NATO in a bit and they’ll decide what, if anything, to do. Our Hussein admits to a passion It’s fighting that gets his teeth gnashin’ When those - [The Tinsel Kingdom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-tinsel-kingdom/) - Speaking to the world assembly of Islamic scholars in Jeddah, Saud bin Faisal al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, told his listeners that the Middle-East needs peace and co-existence more than ever and Saudi Arabia is ready to make sacrifices in peace negations with Israel. He said that Hamas was solely responsible for the - [The Land Of The Free](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-land-of-the-free/) - The Muslim terror group ISIS has created a well-equipped and dangerous army that has already defeated the Iraqi army and is in the process of defeating the Syrian army, in the process establishing a caliphate in Syria and Northern Iraq, boasting they will attack Europe and United States very soon The Joint Chiefs of Staff - [The Densest Pack](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-densest-pack/) - Back in the days of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the US devised a strategy called ‘Dense Pack” to ensure the survival of missiles in event of a surprise Soviet first strike. The dense pack consisted of a string of nuclear missile silos spaced very close together, the theory being that as Soviet - [As Ye Sow ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/as-ye-sow/) - The Federal Government is now monstrously immense, capable of moving entire groups of people in any direction they wish. And they have, out of misplaced compassion and fairness for the perceived underdog, persuaded an entire group of people that they were oppressed and ground under the heels of the white majority, to the extent that - [The Union Forever](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-union-forever/) - What was once a necessity has become a gigantic locust. Where once little girls toiled for starvation wages making artificial flowers, now the overweight and overpaid Government Employee union workers spend artificial hours doing artificial work. But government unions are part of government, and if the government is turned out then so can the government - [Honor First](https://verse-afire.com/blog/honor-first/) - On Thursday, 28 August 2014, Syrian al Qaeda soldiers drove up to a UN peacekeeping outpost on the Golan Heights manned by a handful of Fijian soldiers and demanded their surrender. The Fijians turned over their weapons and surrendered and were driven away, probably to a freshly dug slit trench where they now lay. The - [Desert Making 101](https://verse-afire.com/blog/desert-making-101/) - It was said of the Romans that they made a desert and called it peace. And so it was, for nothing is quite so peaceful as a sere and terminally quiet desert. Ask the next Carthaginian you see if making a desert of your enemy’s homeland is an effective measure or not. The modern West - [The Future Is Clear](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-future-is-clear/) - The Democrats have created the current Hispanic invasion of the United States in the belief that they are thereby creating Democrat voters who will ensure the Democrats have a permanent governing majority. They are wrong about this. The future is clear. The two party system will be realigned due to the realignment of the Affinity - [Discovering Fire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/discovering-fire/) - One day, when we have mastered quantum computing, discovered the secret of cold fusion and found the principles of Warp Drive, we’ll be able to put these products on the market without unnecessary interference from the attorneys. Then, as Richard Fernandez at the Belmont Club blog has so elegantly said, “for the second time in - [A Pleasant Lunch](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-pleasant-lunch/) - Hillary Clinton, arguably the worst Secretary of State the country has had up until John Kerry, and indisputably the worst politician in history, recently bit the hand that fed her and said Barack Obama did some very stupid stuff in general and the Benghazi affair in particular. Obama probably never noticed, but his acolytes were - [We Be ISIS](https://verse-afire.com/blog/we-be-isis-2/) - A new bunch of murderous Muslim fanatics has arisen who call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. These guys are determined to create a new Muslim Caliphate, and they make al Qaeda look like a group of community organizers. So murderous is ISIS that al Qaeda has disowned them. ISIS uses - [When Time Was Short And Life Was Cheap](https://verse-afire.com/blog/when-time-was-short-and-life-was-cheap/) - Scientists claim that life extension medical technology is right around the corner, and children alive today will live for 150 years, with further advances extending the human life span to undreamed of lengths. But what happens when the United States, the science and medical and technology innovator for the world, becomes an ossified gerontocracy and - [The Eternal Beauty](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-eternal-beauty/) - Western civilization is crumbling all around us, and the fearful cry it may soon be extinguished by the barbarians. If it be our fate to join the dodo and the passenger pigeon I propose we take the time to see and appreciate the incredible beauty of the universe before the barbarians close it down to - [A Wicked Place](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-wicked-place/) - The world is a wicked place, the cynic would say, with corruption and debauchery at every turn. But there has always been corruption and debauchery, and always will be. The problem with being cynical is that the cynic never looks in the right places, for if he did he would find that corruption and debauchery - [My Country](https://verse-afire.com/blog/my-country/) - The terrorist outfit ISIS has conquered parts of Iraq and declares itself a nation, the new Caliphate. You do not become a nation just by saying you are. You do not become a nation until you’ve won. Prussia was a city state, first among equals of the string of German city states along the Baltic, - [The Fire Of The Gods](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fire-of-the-gods/) - Ring around a rosey Pocket full of posey All fall down A deadly strain of Ebola is ravaging West Africa. People don’t trust hospitals, don’t trust the European doctors who risk their lives to care for them, and throw the bodies in the street where they infect others. The UN has responded to the crisis - [Master Of The Game](https://verse-afire.com/blog/master-of-the-game/) - The troubles in Gaza continue apace, despite the occasional cease fire, cease fires Barack Obama claims are the result of his super smooth diplomacy. Barack Hussein Obama believes he is Master of the Game, and that, as Master, the world spins clockwise or counterclockwise as he desires. Barack Hussein Obama is indeed Master of the - [We've Come To Help](https://verse-afire.com/blog/weve-come-to-help/) - The Yezhidi, an ancient Christian sect, are trapped in their tens of thousands on a mountain in Kurdistan, and every man, woman and child will die as soon as the murderous Muslim ISIS reaches them. I have long wondered where and when the tipping point would arrive, the point where the elephant tires of the - [Afternoon Tea](https://verse-afire.com/blog/afternoon-tea/) - Sherlock Holmes, standing at the window of 221B, looks down at the intense activity along Baker Street, trying to identify the factor that connects all the many Obama catastrophes. “Patience, dear Watson,” Holmes says, “now and then the world is a quite complex place, where only the very least clever of men can see what - [The Desert Horsemen](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-desert-horsemen/) - The sadness of the Middle East is that it has come down to a fight to the knife between the Israelis, who want only to live in peace, and the Arabs, who want only to die killing Jews. There can be no peace settlement when one side has no interest in peace. And so it - [Tranquility](https://verse-afire.com/blog/tranquility/) - Barack Obama has boasted that he has put the world on the path to tranquility. Of course he speaks of the tranquility of the grave. The house is white, but the people inside are red and green, Leninists and fanatic fascist environmentalists, and both have the same agenda - to destroy the current version of - [The End Of Summer](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-end-of-summer/) - Muslim ferocity is coming to a head. In the Middle East the guns and the beheadings and the screams of the murdered children are never silent. We smile indulgently at the notion that a seventh century religion is again set upon conquering the world, and yet they believe their time has come, that Allah is - [Let The Earth Be Salted ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/let-the-earth-be-salted/) - The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that the Dutch state is liable for the deaths of Bosnian Muslims killed by Serbs in the Srebrenica massacre in a claim brought by relatives of three Muslim men who were in a group of 300 Muslims expelled by Dutch soldiers from a United Nations compound during the Balkans conflict, - [The Drifting Sleep](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-drifting-sleep/) - The Left argues that to kill the Muslims who kill our children to terrorize us only makes us the same as them, and the moment we kill them, they win. This is absurd Leftist nonsense. The only way to defeat the murderous Muslim jihadists is to cleanse the world of their presence. The Left says - [The Nuanced Man](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-nuanced-man/) - The foreign policy of the Obama administration has been described by his lapdog press admirers as ‘nuanced’, somehow missing the obvious, that it is not so much nuanced as it is an utter and complete catastrophe. It isn’t his policy that’s nuanced, it is Barack Obama who is nuanced, so nuanced it is difficult to - [The President's Advisors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-presidents-advisors/) - The president has three advisors. No, not Wynken, Blynken and Nod, as policy might suggest, but Samantha, Valerie and Susan, who, contrary to rumor, sit around a conference table and not a bubbling cauldron. The principal item on the agenda is how to resolve the Middle East conflagration that Obama has gotten the world into. - [Ripples In A Pond](https://verse-afire.com/blog/ripples-in-a-pond/) - The question of reparations for slavery has again risen its ugly head. Do we owe reparations to people who owe their very existence to the existence of slavery? Shouldn’t they be thankful they’re alive? Every time a Republican president addresses a hostile black audience, I long to hear him say, “Slavery was a terrible thing, - [Vlad The Inhalor](https://verse-afire.com/blog/vlad-the-inhalor/) - Vladimir Putin has visions of being Peter the Great, or maybe Stalin. His attempt to recreate the Soviet Union by inhaling nearby former mostly unwilling partners in that unholy, murderous union, will ultimately fail. The Russian bear of Vladimir Putin raises its head, sniffs the air, and tries mightily to make us believe he is - [The Lemonade Stand](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lemonade-stand/) - There are those who lament that the history of the country is being forgotten. They are correct, it is being forgotten, but the forgetting of the past will be resolved in the fullness of time when, as the scientists are happy to tell us, Western children already born will live to the ripe old age - [Their Fathers' Dreams](https://verse-afire.com/blog/their-father-dreams/) - “If what used to be called ‘America’ is replaced by affinity groups based around races, beliefs or sexual orientations, the Left will inherit nothing but a broken, Balkanized world, not the shiny New International Order they were counting on.” – Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club. Two or three times over the last dozen or so - [The End Of The World, Part 2](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-end-of-the-world-2/) - Events in the Middle East. Alarums and portents. As soon as they all get nuked up we’ll have Twelfth Imams popping up out of wells all over the place. I asked friends and family which day they would prefer the world to end, and there was no agreement. Some said that if the world is - [Implosion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/implosion/) - Thousands of unattended children from Central America are crossing our southern border and are being given asylum, food and medical treatment, joining the millions of Mexicans crossing our border unimpeded. Hundreds of thousands of North African Muslim boat people are coming ashore in Italy. Western civilization is imploding before our astonished eyes. The Third World - [The Twenty Percent](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-twenty-percent/) - The country once believed in real life heroes who stormed machine gun nests and took them. But no more. Oh, the country still has heroes who will storm machine gun nests, but they are not revered among the Leftists now running the country, any more than working men and women are held in much esteem - [Vampyre](https://verse-afire.com/blog/vampyre/) - The nation has elected a vampyre to the highest office in the land, a man who lives by magic and drinks the blood of our forefathers, intent only on draining the lifeblood from the country and throwing away the husk. Mozart had his magic flute And Jason had his fleece Obama has his magic suit - [The Ghost Of Awesome Heights](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-ghost-of-awesome-heights/) - Obama sits alone in the darkened Oval Office, contemplating his failures, wondering what will happen if he loses the Senate, loses the Middle East, loses the legacy he climbed so many mountains to attain. Obama’s watermelons are Reduced to size of grapes Whatever Hussein touches turns to dust Alone in Oval Office in The - [The Words That Showed The Way](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-words-that-showed-the-way/) - Philadelphia, Chestnut Street A hot mid-summer day A crier read in July heat The words that showed the way That men should hold till end of time Their honor and their lives In debt to freedom so sublime That freedom’s gift survives Travails and horror yet to fall Upon this land so blest And free - [The Hearse](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-hearse/) - Barack Hussein Obama’s actions over these past five years can be attributed to either of only two causes-incompetence or treason. We don’t know the answer to that question, not yet, but either way we lose, and so do the Muslims, who, if Barack Obama hands them the keys to the big black hearse, will - [Little Johnny Kerry](https://verse-afire.com/blog/little-johnny-kerry-2/) - John Kerry is now begging the Kurds to solve the Iraqi problem Barack Obama set in motion when he threw away the victory won by our troops before he was elected. John Kerry is the perfect fit for an Obama Secretary of State. He is intellectually challenged, but certain of his place in society, having - [Hobby Lobby](https://verse-afire.com/blog/hobby-lobby/) - The Supreme Court today ruled that the arts and crafts company named Hobby Lobby did not have to provide contraceptives to its employees as mandated by Obamacare. I believe Hobby Lobby was wrongly decided. I believe Sandra Fluke and all other women who swoon over and voted for Barack Obama should be FORCED to take - [The Edge Of The Earth](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-edge-of-the-earth/) - Months have passed with no word of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, the Boeing 777 that took off from Kuala Lumpur on 27 March 2014 with hundreds of passengers aboard and disappeared, presumably into the vastness of the Indian Ocean. Intensive searches have failed to reveal the slightest trace of the plane and its passengers, yet - [Isis Or Osiris?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/4298/) - Muslim terrorists who go by the acronym ISIS have captured much of northern Iraq and beheaded every Shiite they come across. But why have they pledged allegiance to a distant Egyptian goddess? One would think if they were going to go that route they would have picked someone a bit more dangerous and deceptive. Osiris - [Saddam Out, al Qaeda In](https://verse-afire.com/blog/saddam-out-al-qaeda-in/) - George Bush made mistakes, but taking out Saddam Hussein and attempting to build a solid military base of operations in the very center of gravity of the Middle East was not one of them. Barack Obama threw it all away and put our soldiers in Afghanistan, a landlocked country where they might not be able - [Comedy Teams](https://verse-afire.com/blog/comedy-teams/) - There can be no sects as looney As the Shi’ia and the Sunni Their hatred for their bro under the skin Is intensified by fighting Over whose inerrant writing States correctly dancing Imams on a pin These two brands of Islam folly Never smile are never jolly Except when chopping heads from infidels Refugees from - [Bleak House](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bleak-house/) - The Republican Party seems destined to a Dickensian existence, a Party of Oliver Twists who, in a quavering voice and with tear dimmed eyes, forever beg the Democrats for more gruel. The Democrats, the Party of Fagin, continue to steal our liberty and to endanger the country, with the Artful Dodger played by Barack Obama. - [The Light That Failed](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-light-that-failed/) - Tyrants often come to a bad end, as witness Mussolini and Ceausescu, both of whom enjoyed haranguing the crowd from a balcony, never seeing the end coming. The tyrant, even a so called democratic one like Obama, cannot see beyond his own self-glittering, all-absorbing persona. Dazzled by his own brilliance, Obama sees no danger to - [The Black Creped Bell](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-black-creped-bell/) - Incompetence is the default position of the human race. From the very beginning of this country, indeed from the beginning of history, the story of incompetence in high places is a story often told, with competence in eternally short supply. Alcibiades comes to mind, and Athens survived. General Pope comes to mind and the Union - [Footsteps](https://verse-afire.com/blog/footsteps/) - An open letter to Barack Hussein Obama: Mr. President: In a recent speech describing the surrendering, or as you put it, closing down the war in Afghanistan as you closed down the war in Iraq, you said you are walking in the footsteps of Washington and Lincoln. If you are, you will need bigger shoes - [Dyspeptic](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dyspeptic/) - Bowe Bergdahl, who deserted his post in a war zone and went over to the enemy, a crime that had gotten not a few guys a short length of rope and a handy tree, has been exchanged for five very dangerous Muslim jihad commanders, who will no doubt quickly resume their interrupted careers of killing - [The Deserter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-deserter/) - Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is a turncoat, a deserter, returned by Obama to the United States as a hero, an al Qaeda agent blending into American society, waiting for the word to complete his given task. Obama’s White House, staffed with Leftist traitors Beginning with the cool guy at the top From very first been law - [The East India Company](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-east-india-company/) - It has been suggested that the military be allowed to win the wars but that the nation building should be turned over to civilian contractors, much like the British East India Company in the 19th century. An intriguing suggestion, but the British East India Company was dealing with rich old Maharajahs and not with a - [Just Having Fun](https://verse-afire.com/blog/just-having-fun/) - I had a strange though trivial occurrence a few weeks ago. I had been doing my wash every week for some forty years, and always included seven short sleeve sport shirts. From time to time one of the shirts would come out of the dryer inside out, and much less frequently two would be inside - [Red Eyed Wolves](https://verse-afire.com/blog/red-eyed-wolves/) - Barack Obama, by incompetence or design, has loosed the dogs of war upon a United States military he has, by sinister or ideological design, defanged in the face of danger. Only these are not dogs, they are wolves. And one night the red eyed wolves will come. They always do. We stir uneasily in sleep - [Arithmetic](https://verse-afire.com/blog/arithmetic/) - The VA scandal in which veterans had to wait months before seeing a doctor, even when in critical condition, was finally, after many years, brought to the public consciousness by whistleblowers telling of veterans dying because of cooked books. How did the books stay cooked all these years? They stayed cooked because the arithmetic always - [What's A ittle Treason Among Friends?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/whats-a-ittle-treason-among-friends/) - I hope the Bergdahl fiasco hasn’t dimmed our outrage at these guys who put on the uniform and then betray us. Have we forgotten about Bradley Manning? Pfc Bradley Manning was convicted by a military court of stealing sensitive and secret United States government documents and giving them to Wikileaks, and thus to our enemies. - [The Darkness Of The Grave](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-darkness-of-the-grave/) - Today is the seventy-second anniversary of the Battle of Midway. June 4, 1942, the Glorious Fourth of June. The Battle of Midway has lessons in it for the Obama administration in its treatment of the Battle of Benghazi, in which four Americans were killed defending American territory, the consulate in Benghazi, Libya. In a recent - [Isiah 11:6](https://verse-afire.com/blog/isiah-116/) - President Obama gave the commencement speech at West Point the other day, and in a speech praising himself he told the cadets that thanks to him the world was a more peaceful place than it was when he took office, that al Qaeda has been decimated, the war in Iraq ended and the long war - [The Long Road Home](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-long-road-home/) - Obama plans on having 10,000 troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2015. If memory serves, wasn’t that the number of soldiers Xenophon wrote about? But then the Anabasis was a trip upcountry, into the interior, and getting our guys out of Afghanistan will be a trip down country to the coast, a Katabasis and - [Earthquake?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/earthquake/) - While we were enjoying our Memorial Day weekend, other parts of the world were voting, and the results have been described as an earthquake. In India, the right wing Hindu religious party BJP won a sweeping victory over the secular Congress Party that has been in power since after World War 2. In Britain, the - [The Eternal Circle](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-eternal-circle/) - Memorial Day celebrates the lives and deaths of our military, but ours are not the only soldiers we should celebrate, for there have been many other soldiers, in many other times, forming the eternal circle. Roman Past green trees newly leaved, new green fields on either side, we marched. Distant white farmhouses, distant dogs barking - [The Murk](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-murk/) - Richard Fernandez, at the Belmont Club, wrote that in the very near future we will converse with (hear and speak) to reality itself. As it happens, I spoke to reality just the other day, and this is what he said: “I am, like you, an intelligent being, with a body to house myself, a brain - [None So Blind](https://verse-afire.com/blog/none-so-blind/) - In the late 1980s I read a book called Generations, in which the authors posited that the US enters a major war when an Aggressive generation is in power, a generation that will respond to a blow with a blow. The authors argued that generations succeed one another every 23 years or so, from Aggressive - [The Potentate Of Mars](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-potentate-of-mars/) - Is it possible we are misreading President Obama, that what is perceived as weakness is strength, and what is perceived as incompetence is prowess, grace and style? Is it possible the president is playing a much deeper and much more clever game than thumb suckers like us can possibly imagine? I see, in some future - [The Dreams Of Youth Are Shattered Yet Again](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-dreams-of-youth-are-shattered-yet-again/) - Today’s youth have been sold a very expensive bill of goods, and find out that what they bought is mostly worthless. Told they must go to college to earn a decent living, they paid ever increasing tuition and fees for pieces of paper that proclaimed them masters of the universe, only to find there was - [An Eleven Letter Word](https://verse-afire.com/blog/an-eleven-letter-word/) - The Obama administration came in with a reasonably secure world to work with, and work it they did, to the extent that the results can only be described as an eleven letter word. One wonders why the White House staff is quite so femalecentric And why both Secs of State are twin third rates And - [A Treasonous Face](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-treasonous-face/) - The Republican House of Representatives has finally stiffened its spine and is about to create a Select Committee to look into the Benghazi fiasco. Angela Merkel, meanwhile, has blown the whistle on the US eavesdropping on her personal phone calls and is blazing mad. The wheels of the gods grind slowly, and now the wheels - [Nothing Changes But The Where And The When](https://verse-afire.com/blog/nothing-changes-but-the-where-and-the-when/) - We all think in terms of what we remember. I have not watched a television series for at least thirty years, preferring to limit my viewing to where they keep score. My thinking is conditioned by my possible misunderstanding of the present and the past, and not liking the present political situation very much. My - [House Of Mirrors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/house-of-mirrors/) - The White House of Obama laughs a lot, especially when they lie and when they are incompetent, which is all the time. But the deeper the country sinks into the black hole brought on by the incompetence and malfeasance and outright fascism of the Obama administration, the White House ceases to be a fun house - [Palaver Or Geese And Thistles](https://verse-afire.com/blog/palaver-or-geese-and-thistles/) - Back in the day, when elementary school was serious education, we learned how the small town of Rome protected itself from its enemies by placing geese and thistles on the hills surrounding the city, all to give the alarm. Barack Obama does not believe in being prepared, he believes in palaver, talking, making agreements that - [The Lust For Power](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lust-for-power-2/) - Many are the pundits who have psychoanalyzed Barack Obama, and the number of conclusions equals the number of pundits voicing their opinions. For me, Obama is relatively easy, after five years, to peg. He lusts for domestic power the way a drunk lusts for whisky. He lusts for domestic power in order to turn the - [Sterling Silver](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sterling-silver/) - A Mr. Adam Silver, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, has decreed that a Mr. Donald Sterling, owner of, among other things, the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, be fined, denied entrance to his own building and denied any influence or direction in the activities of the team he owns, all for using language in - [The Black Hole Of Calcutta](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-black-hole-of-calcutta/) - The news that Christian girls as young as twelve are being kidnapped from their villages in Nigeria by Muslims and being held as captive sex slaves has received scant attention from the western press, and especially the American press, intent as they are on the Republican war on women and the non-existent assault on gay - [A Life On Loan](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-life-on-loan/) - I sometimes wonder why I’m here, besides the obvious one of adding my DNA to the next generation and beyond, and lately I have taken to believe that my life, and all our lives, are not truly ours, but gifts, a loan from God. How that loan is repaid depends entirely on what we do - [Garry Owen They Ain't](https://verse-afire.com/blog/garry-owen-they-aint/) - We have all seen the Western movies where the US Cavalry comes charging over the hill, all bugles and flags, to rescue the wagon train full of women and children from the thousands of hostile Indians attacking it. But before the charge the cavalry is proceeding at a more leisurely pace, not yet aware of - [Betrayal](https://verse-afire.com/blog/betrayal/) - Barack Obama promised to fundamentally remake the United States, and he has done so. He has remade the United States in the image of failed European socialism, a broken, defanged and humiliated ex-superpower, all to the approval of the majority of those who now have the right to vote in a country they had no - [Poet And Peasant](https://verse-afire.com/blog/poet-and-peasant/) - Everybody thinks he’s smarter than the next guy, and sometimes they’re right. The professor thinks he smarter than his students, the students think they’re smarter than their parents, the poet thinks he’s smarter than the campesino, and the campesino thinks he’s smartest of them all. But mostly people are smarter in one thing but not - [A Little Pink Pantsuit](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-little-pink-pantsuit/) - A State Department spokeswoman was asked to name a significant action or initiative by Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State and was forced to admit that she knew of none. Hillary herself, when asked the same question, replied that she had, single handedly, saved the world several times, but could provide no details. Most of - [Through Tear Dimmed Eyes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/through-tear-dimmed-eyes/) - I spoke to my good friend Barack Hussein Obama the other day, and he seemed troubled. He said his love life was in ruins, and I said Michelle? He said no, Vladimir. Our love is gone, it’s hit the skids He said with tear dimmed eye And if it weren’t for the kids I’d kiss - [In God We Trust](https://verse-afire.com/blog/in-god-we-trust-2/) - Vladimir Putin in intent on bringing back the Soviet Union, but fortunately the American voters have elected an irresistible force for good in the magnificent personage of Barack Hussein Obama. How lucky we are to have him protecting us from harmful evildoers. Tyrants like Putin tremble at his merest glance, his smallest gesture of displeasure. - [The Great Pretenders](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-great-pretenders/) - President Obama knows full well that Vladimir Putin is cheating on every arms reduction treaty signed by the Russian government, and yet he refuses to call them on it, or ever to recognize it. He still believes that being nice to Putin will bring him around to Obama’s way of thinking, but it will not. - [The Unproductive](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-unproductive/) - Venezuela, once one of the wealthiest countries in South America, with a thriving middle class and oil and coffee exports, is now dead broke, unable to feed its people, and importing oil and coffee because the Marxist government of Hugo Chavez and his successor has taken over everything and destroyed it with its socialist nonsense. - [The Young And The Old](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-young-and-the-old/) - I tell my grandchildren the world is now a different place than it was when I was their age, but I don’t think they believe me, as I didn’t believe my grandfather when he told me the world was a different place than it was when he was my age. And that’s because it isn’t - [The Naked Ape](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-naked-ape/) - A couple of Finnish guys named Fry and Soderberg, with or without the umlaut, have looked at some rather dodgy data gathered from modern hunter gatherers, (are there still hunter gatherers around?) and conclude that people a hundred thousand years ago were benign pacifists. I spoke to a naked ape just the other day, and - [Shangri-La](https://verse-afire.com/blog/shangri-la/) - James Hilton wrote a best selling novel in the Thirties called The Lost Horizon, in which there was a peaceful, wonderful land called Shangri-la. In the United States today there is also the search for Shangri-la, but today’s Shangri-la has a different meaning for each half of the country. Believers in big government believe Shangri-la - [Le Dance, Et Le Deluge ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/le-dance-et-le-deluge/) - The world’s a stage and Barack Obama dances through history with a light heart and a smile upon his lips, unaware of anything but his own beauty. An entrechat, a pirouette A canvas flat, a stagey set The skin clad tights, the leaps and bounds The flaring lights, the shushing sounds The darkened wings, the - [Boo!](https://verse-afire.com/blog/boo/) - There are those who say Barack Obama is whistling past a graveyard when he smiles and say all is going well with Ukraine, with China, with Syria and Iran, and any number of foreign policy disasters. Barack Obama is not whistling past the graveyard, Barack Obama is IN the graveyard, crouched behind a convenient headstone, - [Time To Trade Him In](https://verse-afire.com/blog/time-to-trade-him-in/) - To those who say they don’t care how often President Obama golfs, it keeps him from getting the country into trouble. To that I say Obama has driven the United States to the edge of the cliff financially, by doubling the debt to untold trillions of dollars, militarily by reducing the military to before WW2 - [Feminist Warriors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/feminist-warriors/) - Fanatical feminists are outraged that a fanatical feminist who assaulted a peaceful student holding a Pro-Life sign was charged by the authorities with assault. And at Berkeley no less, where the Right has heretofore always been wrong. To a feminist the mere suggestion that abortion is wrong is enough to cause rage and nausea and - [They're Just Too Damned Annoying](https://verse-afire.com/blog/theyre-just-too-damned-annoying/) - A homosexual group has just gotten the CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, fired because he didn’t agree with their view on same sex marriage, and another group has demanded three billion dollars from Google so they could establish a city in the woods for people who want to live a life free of care. It - [Fire](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fire/) - Brendan Eich, a pioneer and software genius of Silicon Valley, was removed from his newly acquired post as CEO of Mozilla by the fascist homosexual mafia for the crime of disagreeing with them. Eich gave a thousand dollars six or seven years ago in support of a California ballot proposition that sought to make it - [Dreams Of Yesterday](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dreams-of-yesterday/) - The United State I grew up in is slowly disappearing, and once it’s gone it’s gone, never to return as once it was. Freedom once lost is lost, and will only be recovered with the shedding of blood. Those of us of a certain age look back in sorrow at what has happened and is - [The Man Who Walks Like A Bear](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-man-who-walks-like-a-bear-2/) - The old saying was that Russia was a bear that walks like a man. That has changed. Russia is now Vladimir Putin, a man who walks like a bear. The cold north wind from Russia blows across the eastern lands And sends great chills and shivers as it goes We do not know what Putin - [The Man Who Walks Like A Bear](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-man-who-walks-like-a-bear/) - The old saying was that Russia was a bear that walks like a man. That has changed. Russia is now Vladimir Putin, a man who walks like a bear. The cold north wind from Russia blows across the eastern lands And sends great chills and shivers as it goes We do not know what Putin - [The Limestone Cowgirl](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-limestone-cowgirl/) - The White House is built of beautiful Indiana limestone. Obama’s handlers thought they were building a Rhinestone Cowboy to put into the limestone White House, and instead we got a Limestone Cowgirl in a limestone cave. How deep the cave of limestone walls How dark the stygian gloom With ballroom dancers without balls Infesting every - [The Constitution Maker](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-constitution-maker/) - John Kerry, ex-Senator, now Secretary of State, is in Paris, settling the Ukrainian dispute in Russia’s favor by agreeing with the Russian Foreign Minister that the two of them should write a new constitution for Ukraine, without any inconvenient Ukrainians present. The framework of this agreement, of course, gives Putin everything he wants, and it - [What Putin Wants, Putin Gets](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-putin-wants-putin-gets/) - Putin and Obama are apparently on the same page with regards to the future of the sovereign country of Ukraine. Putin wants to rewrite the Ukrainian constitution, without any Ukrainians present, and Obama has hurriedly sent John Kerry to Paris to iron out the details with the Soviet, excuse me, the Russian foreign minister. Kind - [A Dragon Pulled Chariot](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-dragon-pulled-chariot/) - An American peace activist named Medea Benjamin injected herself into Egyptian politics and was roughed up by the police, whereupon she screamed for the American government to protect her. There might have been a time when being an American was protection enough, but those days are gone, and American busybodies are now nobodies. When did - [The Killer Left](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-killer-left/) - The Left has killed more people in the 20th century than can be accurately counted. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, the Kims, the Shining Path, Castro, and assorted small time leftist tyrants like Ortega et al. What unites them, besides the murder of innocents in the hundreds of millions, is that they are - [The Eagle And The Snail](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-eagle-and-the-snail/) - Robots are increasing in intelligence, and worries abound that one day, when they are as intelligent as the men who created them, they may band together to take over the world. But if they do become that intelligent would they not believe that Man is God? They would not. They would believe that God is - [The Precipice And The Nostrum](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-precipice-and-the-nostrum/) - The country seems to many to be in imminent danger of economic and political collapse, heading for the precipice at breakneck speed, and those in charge apparently unconcerned or unknowing, while those crying for a change in course blame the inaction on the ideology of the president and/or Congress. But one cannot fault a man - [A Conversation With A Mule](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-conversation-with-a-mule/) - Talking to a mule is a pointless undertaking, just as talking to a Democrat is pointless. Democrats have their reasons for everything they do and say, and even if those reasons damage the country it doesn’t matter, so long as those reasons either get them votes or keep them from losing votes, for power is - [Memories](https://verse-afire.com/blog/memories-2/) - FOR OUR DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTHDAY Another winter comes and goes How tired we are of all those snows How pleased we are when Spring is here It signals that your birthday’s near We understand you’d rather not See them at all, they’re best forgot But look upon the brighter side Your youth that was - [The Haystack And The Needle](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-haystack-and-the-needle/) - The search for the Malaysian 777 has expanded to include the whole of the Indian Ocean, meaning the search is now looking for a very small needle in a very large haystack, And of course the plane may not be in the Indian Ocean at all, but in another haystack entirely. The trouble with these - [Is There A Witch Doctor In The House? ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/is-there-a-witch-doctor-in-the-house/) - The Malaysian government, leaving no stone unturned in its search for the missing Boeing 777, engaged a local witch doctor to help, enraging that Muslim country’s Imams who demanded the native witch doctors be suppressed. The Imams may try to get rid of the witch doctors, but the people were promised that if they liked - [A Man Called Murphy](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-man-called-murphy/) - We are all aware who Murphy is. He’s the guy who famously said that whatever can go wrong, will. And so we have living proof of that dictum in the Obama administration, and in particular in the person of Mr. Obama himself. The only question is, does Mr. Obama deliberately have things go wrong as - [The Future And The Past](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-future-and-the-past/) - The Left, George Orwell and our own experience tells us, always rewrites the past when it assumes power, the better to control the present and the future. The Soviet Union was very good at rewriting the past, but so are our homegrown leftists. School children have been taught for decades that the United States stole - [The Zero Option](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-zero-option/) - President Obama has announced all US forces will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. This is called the Zero option. The Obama administration has also announced the United States armed forces will be reduced to a point lower than they stood in 1940. We might also call this the Zero option, because - [Green Achers](https://verse-afire.com/blog/green-achers/) - Everything that isn’t nailed down gets captured by the Left. The environmental movement began in a serious response to polluted rivers and smog filled air, and was quickly captured by the radicals who turned environmentalism into their own private Gestapo to force people to worship the religion of Gaia. We are not permitted to drill - [The Satellite Stars](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-satellite-stars/) - Life is cyclical. We see the past but dimly, and the future not at all. Tyrants come and tyrants go; darkness falls and always lifts, though the dawn may not always be what we had expected or dreamed. Once great tyrannies now lie buried deep beneath the worm-turned soil of planet Earth, and future tyrannies - [Quick Henry, The Flit!](https://verse-afire.com/blog/quick-henry-the-flit/) - Obama is the mad scientist creating a monster, inventing laws and rules that apply only to him and his crazed desire to fundamentally change the best country that ever graced the planet. And he is succeeding, leading some to contemplate inventions of our own, designed to rid the country of his presence. But that invention - [Anabasis](https://verse-afire.com/blog/anabasis/) - President Obama has deliberately or by sheer incompetence placed the American army in a trap, sending them to a landlocked country from which they may well have to fight their way out. In December 2009 President Obama surged the US forces in Afghanistan to 100,000 men, effectively depending on Pakistan to allow supplies to travel - [The Rhineland And The Crimea](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-rhineland-and-the-crimea/) - What is the difference between an infantry column marching across a bridge into the Rhineland in 1936 and attack helicopters flying Spetsnaz troops into the Crimea in 2014? Answer, 78 years. The West did nothing then and the West will do nothing now. History shows the West should have done something about Hitler, but history - [The Bear That Walks Like A Man ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-bear-that-walks-like-a-man/) - In the 1870s the Russia of the Tsars, ever needful of a warm water port, had eyes on Constantinople and the entrance to the Mediterranean. London music halls rang with the song that gave us the term ‘jingoist’. The song went, “We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do, we’ve got the - [Mr. Chamberlain](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mr-chamberlain/) - Events in Ukraine are reaching a tipping point. Russian Special Forces have invaded the Crimea, and Obama has nothing energetic to say. Everyone who has read half a dozen books about the events of the 1930s will be struck by the similarities between Putin, Obama and Neville Chamberlain. The Washington Post calls Putin “Mr. Putin”, - [The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-meek-shall-inherit-the-earth/) - The Bible says the meek shall inherit the earth. Well, if they do it will be because we gave it to them out of a sense of guilt at our success versus their failure. Failure today has its own reward. The failures today have a heightened sense of entitlement, demanding from the successful and the - [Payback's A Bitch](https://verse-afire.com/blog/paybacks-a-bitch/) - In March 2013 a radical Muslim organization called Seleka took over the Central African Republic and began killing Christians. The problem for Seleka was that the CAR is more Christian than Muslim, and the Christians finally reacted by killing Muslims to such an extent that Muslims are fleeing the country by the millions. And of - [Too Much Gloom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/too-much-gloom/) - There is entirely too much gloom these days. We are not Venezuela, we are not Argentina, we are not the Soviet Union. Venezuela did not collapse, the socialist policies collapsed. The people of Venezuela are still there, the oil is still there, the infrastructure is still there. A sharp dose of economic sanity and all - [Your Typical Omananoid](https://verse-afire.com/blog/your-typical-omananoid/) - Obamacare appears to be in its Death Throes, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to the Obamanoids. Obama says the law is what he says it is, no matter what the Constitution says, and has, time after time, extended or waived or brushed aside the written and passed by Congress and signed by the - [Mobility](https://verse-afire.com/blog/mobility/) - There are some who claim that in the past 60 years Americans have become steadily less mobile. Good times and steady paychecks have a way of keeping people at home, as opposed to the enforced mobility of the Depression Thirties where people were on the move trying to find work. This of course was before - [The Road To Serfdom](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-road-to-serfdom/) - Back when LBJ began his war on poverty, critics complained, correctly, that it would be cheaper to give everybody $10,000 every year than to build a giant bureaucracy. Of course, thanks to the inevitable inflation that always comes with fiat money, that $10,000 would now be 100,000 easily printed and increasingly worthless dollars. And still - [Manly Men](https://verse-afire.com/blog/manly-men/) - Hanna Rosin, in the Atlantic Monthly, wrote an article titled The End Of Men, in which she stated, more or less, that American women now favored metrosexual men over manly men, slim men over burly men, hairless men over hairy men, sopranos over basso profundos and weak men over macho men. It may be that - [Reconquista](https://verse-afire.com/blog/reconquista/) - The thorny question of immigration is with us again, as it always is, as it always will be, given the propensity of the Democrats to care more for reelection than for the life or death of the country. The Reconquista is moving apace, regardless of what John Boehner does or does not do, regardless of - [Acolytes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/acolytes/) - The president has announced a billion dollar fund to combat the non-existent threat of non-existent global warming. Maybe we should announce a fund to combat the existent threat of an existent president. Global Warming back in the news It’s acolytes still in the pews Their god the god of fake emails And hockey sticks when - [Circled Suns](https://verse-afire.com/blog/circled-suns-3/) - In a locked, sealed and heavily guarded room deep in the bowels of the White House, newly elected President for Life Barack Obama lays out the future to Co-Vice Presidents for Life Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Hurley. “I love my golf,” Obama laughed, “It’s such a simple game No need for booty or for graft - [Happy Days](https://verse-afire.com/blog/happy-days/) - The nanny state has given birth to a growing number of young people who do not at all mind being unemployed, what with food stamps, eternal unemployment checks, living at home with mom and dad, using their free time to travel and do fun things they would be unable to do were they gainfully employed. - [Time Is An Illusion](https://verse-afire.com/blog/time-is-an-illusion-2/) - Quantum physics says time is an illusion and string theory seems to suggest that nothing can be smaller than the smallest string, meaning that space may be an illusion as well. Electrons and positrons are entangled, meaning they are not two separate particles but one particle with simultaneously opposite polarities. Not quite a trinity but - [A Valentine](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-valentine/) - A valentine, dedicated to all who remember that first intoxicating love. The mind drifts back, the time retold I’m ten and she is too Her hair the glow of sunlit gold And eyes cornflower blue I saw her after years had flown We both now aged and old She seemed so worn, so sad, alone - [Sunset Boulevard](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sunset-boulevard/) - There is an old movie called Sunset Boulevard, and while it had nothing to do with the current military, economic and political condition of the United States, the title is appropriate. The country is now on the street to decay, heading into the sunset of our country’s life span, and the street is named Sunset - [Sarajevo](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sarajevo/) - Mark Twain famously remarked that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Great War, World War 1, we are struck with how similar the times are now to then. A hundred years ago the great powers of Europe were faced, all unknowingly, with an existential threat - [The Sheriff](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-sheriff/) - Uncle Sam was once the world cop, the Sheriff, who kept the peace with a six gun on his hip and a confident smile on his lips. No more. President Obama has announced he is out of the Sheriff business and is turning the town over to the Chinese gang. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and - [Who Is Fairest Of Them All?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/who-is-fairest-of-them-all/) - Richard Fernandez at the Belmont Club, the best blog on the web, says the Internet only serves as a mirror we hold up to ourselves, and we are not even sure the likeness it reflects is the true one. I spoke to the Internet just today and asked, “Who is the fairest of them all?” - [IRISH DEMOCRACY AND THE CELTS](https://verse-afire.com/blog/irish-democracy-and-the-celts/) - Resistance to Obamacare and the Obama administration in general has been characterized as a form of Irish Democracy, defined as simply ignoring the authorities. When the Celts were pushed off the northwest corner of the continent of Asia by my Germanic forebears all those many years ago, they stopped for a spell in the rocky - [Empty Pockets](https://verse-afire.com/blog/empty-pockets/) - A New York lawyer making $323,000 a year has filed for bankruptcy, declaring that after alimony, child support, city, state and Federal taxes, plus normal living expenses, his net income is a negative number. And to think it wasn’t that long ago, geologically speaking, that I was living in a nice upper middle class neighborhood - [Silent Night](https://verse-afire.com/blog/silent-night-2/) - Governments never see the end, no matter how obvious. Especially the Obama administration. Obama has spent the last five years demolishing the US military, something the Dems always do when in power. The Middle East is in turmoil and about to go nuclear, China is rattling sabers and nukes in the Pacific, and Obama’s navy - [The Road To Single Payer](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-road-to-single-payer/) - I’m usually a pretty optimistic guy, and I’ve cheered at the apparent imminent collapse of Obamacare . But the revelation that risk corridors have been written into the Affordable Care Act changes the picture. Obama is at this very moment talking to the insurance companies in the oval office, and there can be only one - [Sister Catherine ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sister-catherine/) - The separation of church and state is no more. The state is the Democratic Party of eternal power and the church is the assembled prelates of the lapdog Democrat media, who consider themselves the purveyors of the Word. I remember first grade religion class, Sister Catherine, and the slim book she said was a catechism. - [Into The River](https://verse-afire.com/blog/into-the-river/) - Nobody learns a damn thing from history. At the turn of the twentieth century Great Britain was top country in the world and first up on the free market tracks In time they found out the bridge was out and those free market tracks led into the river. Britain’s trade policy was to open her - [Sweet Georgia Brown](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sweet-georgia-brown/) - Richard Fernandez at the Belmont Club writes that he believes the institutional Republican leadership in Washington is content to play the Washington Generals to the Democrat’s Harlem Globetrotters, as long as they continue to get the losers share of the pie. I think he might be on to something. We need a new national party, - [The State Of The Union ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-state-of-the-union/) - President Obama addressed the assembled members of Congress Tuesday ight and told them he will rule by diktat, issuing Executive Orders to do the things he wants done, regardless of Congress’s views on the matter. Apart from the fascism it was a rather unremarkable State of the Union address. I stand before you here - [What Difference Does It Make?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-difference-does-it-make/) - Hillary Clinton has thrown her pantsuit into the 2016 race for president, and already is hailed as the unstoppable juggernaut. The question will be, will the Republican candidate actually call her on Benghazi or will he refrain out of deference to a woman to attack her as she will undoubtedly attack him. Ads showing her - [From Everyone On Earth](https://verse-afire.com/blog/from-everyone-on-earth/) - President Obama gave a speech that was intended to clarify his thoughts about the National Security Agency collecting text and emails from everyone on Earth. He said he was opposed to this in principle, but on the other hand there are national security concerns to be considered. He offered a solution to the problem that - [Eniac](https://verse-afire.com/blog/eniac/) - Back in the Fifties, when I was a mere lad, an after work bull session developed the proposition that in the twenty-first century robots would be doing all the work, while a man would earn a year’s pay for a week’s make-work, flying off to somewhere in the world to sit in a room and - [A Young Man's Lament](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-young-mans-lament/) - Stories are now emerging of people who thought they were covered under Obamacare being turned away by the hospital because there was no record of them being insured, and other stories of people discovering that they not only have to pay a higher premium than their previous health care insurance, but they now have a - [The Long View Of The Left](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-long-view-of-the-left/) - It is well understood by the punditry that the purpose of the Democratic Senate killing the filibuster was to allow Obama to place additional liberal judges on the already liberal leaning courts. But what if there’s another purpose, a longer range purpose? Maybe the reason was to see that Obama could be elected to a - [Please Don't Take My Sunstein Away](https://verse-afire.com/blog/please-dont-take-my-sunstein-away/) - Barack Obama has appointed old radical red lefty friend Cass Sunstein to the National Security Agency advisory panel to look into the NSA’s eavesdropping activities. Cass Sunstein is a dangerous man, a dyed in the wool Marxist, like the guy in the White House who just appointed him. Sunstein maintains that freedom cannot exist without - [Perplexity](https://verse-afire.com/blog/perplexity/) - The Obama administration gave a non-bid 700 million dollar contract to create the Obamacare website to a software company that had failed repeatedly in the past to fulfill its contracts. Why would they do this? It will not surprise you to learn the company was run by a lot of Michelle’s old friends. The Obama - [Aught Sixteen](https://verse-afire.com/blog/aught-sixteen/) - I know it’s hard to believe, but the 2016 presidential campaign is upon us. It seems we no longer have any free time between elections. Will Hillary run? Do bears…well, you know. Who will the Republicans nominate? If they nominate another wimpy almost Democrat they will lose again, and the country will be lost to - [Forever And A Day](https://verse-afire.com/blog/forever-and-a-day/) - Democrat scandals and incompetence and lies and frauds and the Constitution of the United States mean nothing to the plantation blacks and Hispanics the Democratic Party has accumulated over the past seventy years. A slave does not yearn for freedom; he yearns for the security of a steady supply of bread. The hardcore lefty progressive - [Duelling Press Conferences](https://verse-afire.com/blog/duelling-press-conferences/) - President Obam and Secretary of State John Kerry joyfully announced a terrific deal with Iran, one that will stop them from getting nuclear weapons. The problem is the deal leaves Iran with its stockpile of enriched uranium intact and all its centrifuges running, enriching more every day. On top of that the deal leaves all - [A Gunpowder Plot](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-gunpowder-plot/) - There are those who say just an ordinary small Little Boy sized atomic bomb in the Tidal Basin would do much to clarify the atmosphere in Washington, but I believe we needn’t go that far, that a Guy Fawkes could do the job, especially since everyone will be together for the State Of The Union - [Venus And Mars](https://verse-afire.com/blog/venus-and-mars/) - Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in November 2008, hailed as the Messiah, the Lightworker, the bringer of the sun to Earth. The world swooned at his feet, and he was shortly thereafter awarded the Nobel Peace Prize simply for being Barack Obama. He believed then that he was Mars and the - [The Lust For Power](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-lust-for-power/) - Many are the pundits who have psychoanalyzed Barack Obama, and the number of conclusions equals the number of pundits voicing their opinions. For me, Obama is relatively easy, after five years, to peg. He is power mad. He lusts for power the way a drunk lusts for whisky. He lusts for power in order to - [We've Come A Long Way, Baby](https://verse-afire.com/blog/weve-come-a-long-way-baby/) - Western medicine began with the Roman physician Galen and slowly grew into a science, a science no other culture or nation or people in the history of the world has ever had. And now, after two thousand years of climbing out of the mud to the point where Western medicine can actually cure most of - [Dr Who](https://verse-afire.com/blog/dr-who/) - In a discussion with my primary care doctor he told me he had persuaded his son not to go to medical school, citing Obamacare as the reason. I have a feeling that conversation went on in a lot of doctors’ homes. In 1992, during the Hillarycare uproar, Charley Rose had Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and - [A Keynesian Economist](https://verse-afire.com/blog/a-keynesian-economist/) - John Maynard Keynes was an English economist who taught that the way to get out of a recession was to stimulate the economy by borrowing money and spending it on public works and so forth. The United States moved from classic economics to Keynesian economics during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and we have - [The Blue Eyed World](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-blue-eyed-world/) - When Barack Hussein Obama was ten years old, he saw the world as a beautiful, golden haired, blue eyed ten year old girl, and thought she would always be his. Alas, that beautiful golden haired world has turned ugly and old, mostly by his doing. Still, he remembers the time he was ten and the blue - [Luck](https://verse-afire.com/blog/luck/) - President Obama was asked if he thought that he was just unlucky in the way things were going horribly wrong for him and the country. He smiled and said he didn’t mind when things went a little wrong, it was only when things went horribly wrong that he felt a little down. My life has - [When Someone Drops A Dime](https://verse-afire.com/blog/when-someone-drops-a-dime/) - It may have been Lord Palmerstone who said the country has no friends, only interests, though it is highly likely it was said, and not for the first time, by someone in Mesopotamia and it got written down in cuneiform. Whatever, the NSA eavesdropping program serves our country’s interests to provide real time intelligence to - [Flattery](https://verse-afire.com/blog/flattery/) - No one likes a flatterer, someone who constantly tells someone how great he is, how funny he is, and so forth. Even kids get tired of being told how beautiful they are or how bright they are, for they know very well they’re not all that beautiful or that bright. I believe that after five - [Incompetence](https://verse-afire.com/blog/incompetence/) - In less than eight months we will witness the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, a war that began with almost complete incompetence on the part of almost every general of every army, who through sheer incompetence threw away the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The first six months of - [The Games Children Play](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-games-children-play/) - If Edward Snowden was a mole, sending National Security Agency secrets to the Russians and the Chinese, why did he come out into the open? Is there a deeper game going on? Remember the old saying, the Russians play chess the Americans play checkers. I believe Snowden did not act alone, and that the Russians - [The Good Ship Obamacare](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-good-ship-obamacare/) - Obamacare is like a storm tossed, dismasted ship in a hurricane, the helmsman blind and the captain drunk. The frothing sea, the howling gale The shore alee, the blown out sail The ship is rent, no mercy gives Nor winds relent, and yet she lives She crests the wave, and then she rolls No chance - [New Year 2014 ](https://verse-afire.com/blog/new-year-2014/) - What can we make of this New Year that has not been made for every New Year from time immemorial? Every culture that ever lived had a turning of the page, a turning that promised a better year than the last, despite all evidence to the contrary. Still, we celebrate the turning of the page - [Disillusioned](https://verse-afire.com/blog/disillusioned/) - Many people, mostly women who elected Barack Obama, are now disillusioned. Women like Peggy Nonan and Camille Paglia cannot believe the god they voted for turned out to have not only feet of clay but a brain of clay as well. I spoke to a young woman today and asked what she thought of Obama - [Buy One, Get Ibe Free](https://verse-afire.com/blog/buy-one-get-ibe-free/) - Hillary Clinton is gearing up for a run at the 2016 Democratic nomination campaign. We must never forget there are two Clintons. When Bill ran in 1992 he assured everyone that if you bought him you got Hillary too. Buy one get one free. How many people would still vote for Bill who would never - [The Next Exciting Episode](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-next-exciting-episode/) - What I liked about radio when I was a kid was the next exciting episode. Lying on the living room floor, listening to the Lone Ranger. And the music! Rossini! Liszt! I didn’t know about them then, but my radio heroes instilled in me a love of classical music. I don’t know if reincarnation is - [Bill Me](https://verse-afire.com/blog/bill-me/) - It turns out that people whose health care is covered under Medicaid, the program for the poorest of us, are required, by the fine print in the contract, to pay back after death whatever healthcare costs they had which were covered by Medicaid. It is possible when Medicaid was enacted that not many poor people - [Proportionality](https://verse-afire.com/blog/proportionality/) - In North Korea, Kim Jong Un has had his uncle killed for not clapping at one of his speeches, while in England a Mr. Trenton Oldfield was arrested for disrupting the boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on grounds it was elitist. Western civilization has reached the point where there is no room for proportionality. - [So Shall You Reap](https://verse-afire.com/blog/so-shall-you-reap/) - Artists, actors and suchlike New Yorkers have long banded together to obtain low cost group health insurance, and now find out that Obamacare has forced them to obtain single coverage using the Obamacare Exchanges, where they find their health insurance premiums will triple. Verse-afire is compelled to not feel sorry for these liberal Manhattan elites - [Christmas 2013](https://verse-afire.com/blog/christmas-2013/) - CHRISTMAS 2013 If there were a beginning to the Universe, then before that there had to be nothing, and if there was nothing then how could there be a beginning? One can imagine the universe we live in as being conceived in the Big Bang, as I believe it was, and growing, step by - [Christmas Greetings To A Doubter](https://verse-afire.com/blog/christmas-greetings-to-a-doubter/) - Do we live in a world where babies smile and birds sing? Where the sun rises on pristine beaches and distant mountain tops are covered with snow? Where children play while grandparents look on lovingly? Yes we do, though there are those who believe a beneficent and bountiful God had nothing to do with it. A - [The Fat Man In Red](https://verse-afire.com/blog/the-fat-man-in-red/) - Around 5 or 6 BC some wise men saw a strange sight in the northern sky, and followed it. What did they see? Was it a supernova? A comet? No one knows. But it must have been very, very unusual, for these wise men were astronomers, used to charting the heavens. I submit what they - [Does God Still Love The United States?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/does-god-still-love-the-united-states/) - Those who wield power have responsibilities, and those who wield great power have great responsibilities. Responsibilities to preserve and defend the country they were elected to lead. Low information voters, people who spend no time at all thinking about politics or history or much of anything else, vote not for what is best for the - [What Strange Universe?](https://verse-afire.com/blog/what-strange-universe/) - J. B. S. Haldane said the universe was stranger than we could ever imagine. I’m not so sure about that. I believe the universe is perfectly understandable, once you realize that today’s science is defined as things we know for certain that replaced earlier science, where earlier science is defined as things the people at - [Thank The Rubes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/thank-the-rubes/) - The Sunday morning talking heads, the six o’clock news, the media types like Chris Matthews, Salon, Newsweek, Time, Mother Jones, and all the rest of the media except for Fox, all tell us we should be thankful to Barack Obama for leading us to the promised land. But for those of us who can’t bring - [One Born Every Minute](https://verse-afire.com/blog/one-born-every-minute/) - P. T. Barnum, who knew a sucker when he saw one, said there’s a sucker born every minute, and he was right. The problem is that in Barnum’s time the suckers only hurt themselves when they bought the ticket to see the fake bearded lady, while today’s suckers hurt the country when they vote for - [Fracking](https://verse-afire.com/blog/fracking/) - The Obama administration is taking credit for the steep rise in US oil production, a rise brought about not by Obama, who tried to stop it, but by private enterprise and the development of fracking. If you’ve ever watched a Sunday morning talking head news show, Meet The Press for example, you will notice that - [Red Marbles](https://verse-afire.com/blog/red-marbles/) - We have a magician in the White House, a mesmerize, a sleight of hand artist. He is in the process of sawing the country in half, and the audience oohs and ahhs. Barack Obama is a ghostly figure, the product of the teachings of his Communist parents, and every move he makes, every word he - [Uncle Thaek And Barack The First](https://verse-afire.com/blog/uncle-thaek-and-barack-the-first/) - Word has been smuggled out of the murderous hermit kingdom of North Korea that the new thug in charge, Kim Jong Un, has just had his uncle Thaek executed for not clapping vigorously enough at one of Kim’s speeches. You will recall he also recently killed his ex girlfriend and her entire family, though what - [Sign Language](https://verse-afire.com/blog/sign-language/) - We are now all aware of the fake sign language interpreter for the deaf who used gestures of his own devising when interpreting President Obama’s eulogy for the still dead Nelson Mandela. Using signs of my own devising, I spoke to the fake interpreter shortly after the president’s speech, and asked him what Obama said. - [He Says He's Not A Magician](https://verse-afire.com/blog/he-says-hes-not-a-magician/) - A little riff on the previous post Daydreams, using essentially the same verse to explain Barack Obama’s foreign policy, or should I say his foreign policy policy. I’m not a cool magician He says with modest grin I work my will with kindness I stroke them and I win I have no awesome powers I - [Daydreams](https://verse-afire.com/blog/daydreams/) - At the end of a long life, one tends to live again the past and create in the unformed universe of the mind the fancied future, the present pushed deep into a dark and drafty corner. We know the past cannot be changed, and the future lies beyond our dreams, but all is possible if - [And The Band Played On](https://verse-afire.com/blog/and-the-band-played-on/) - Obama threatened to attack Syria for gassing its own people, then made a quick about face and struck a secret deal with Iran to remove the sanctions that were crippling Iran, all the while knowing the sarin gas attack on Syrian civilians was done by the rebels and not Assad. Meanwhile, the Iran deal has - [Broccoli](https://verse-afire.com/blog/broccoli/) - Polls are down, Obamacare is going in the dumpster, and so is Obama. Michelle Obama has fiercely instructed American children to eat their vegetables. Little did she realize it was her husband who was the vegetables. Obamacare While not exoccoli Is within a hair Of being broccoli Obama’s poll Down inch by inach It takes - [Alexis](https://verse-afire.com/blog/alexis/) - “Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than - [Battleship Row](https://verse-afire.com/blog/battleship-row-5/) - December 7, 1941. Seventy-two years ago. I was twelve, and vividly remember lying on the living room floor on the following morning, reading the morning paper. I still see the pictures; smoke, basket masts, water lapping at the base of the turrets, small boats tiny among the sunk and burning battleships. There are not many - [Scoff If You Will](https://verse-afire.com/blog/scoff-if-you-will/) - There are those who say President Obama will do nothing about the soon to be produced Iranian nuclear bomb, and will do nothing when the Iranians nuke Israel. I talked to a woman named Valerie at the White House about this, and she said, “Scoff it you will, but stamping your feet is not exactly - [Your Lyin' Eyes](https://verse-afire.com/blog/your-lyin-eyes/) - The Iranian deal our brilliant president signed with Iran, a deal he trumpeted as a good first step toward Iran forsaking nuclear weapons, seems to be dissolving as we speak. Obama has lifted the economic sanctions, raising cheers in the streets of Teheran, while t he Ayatollahs smile and insist they will keep on enriching - [Wide Corridors](https://verse-afire.com/blog/wide-corridors/) - It is now revealed that the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, has a hidden provision called Risk Corridors, where the government, that is the taxpayers, will reimburse the insurance companies for any losses incurred from Obamacare. How nice. Obama cares not for the Constitution or the law, believing the law is what he says it is. - [All Aboard](https://verse-afire.com/blog/all-aboard/) - There have been some great trains in the past, The Broadway Limited, The Orange Blossom Special, The City of New Orleans to name but a few, but the clickety clack rickety rack The Obamacare Special that Obama put on the tracks is not one of them. Obama yelled, “ALL ABOARD!” and everybody got off. 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