Youthful Days

Those of us of a certain age look back fondly at the times when we were kids and diced with death and won. It may be the dicing was not quite as devil daring as we now imagine it to have been. I remember, acquiring the ripe old age of 14, going back to the old neighborhood and finding the enormously tall tree I climbed when I was six and finding it somewhat less than I remembered.

 

 

When I think of my youthful days

And of the very many ways

I diced with danger, laughing all the while

Today when I am gray and old

I find that I am less than bold

And pleased that carefulness is now my style

I climbed tall trees and billboards too

I truly did enjoy the view

Up high where eagles soared and called my name

But what at six seemed fearsome height

In retrospect it almost might

Seem not so far from ground and less than tame

 

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Dragon Slaying 101

The primaries are upon us, and the GOP searches for a knight errant to slay the dragon. Sometimes the old ways are not always the best ways. A cautionary tale about a knight who went into battle with a dragon woefully unprepared. Are we talking about a Republican knight setting out to do battle with the fierce Obama? Could be. In limerick form.

 

 

A New Hampshire village, forsooth

Was besieged by a dragon, in truth

Who appeared from the east

When expected the least

And sped off with a maiden uncouth

 

The village, in panicky mode

Called a knight, who lived just up the road

Who quickly agreed

But a retainer he’d need

Before he would leave his abode

 

The weather was crisp, but not cold

The knight neither young nor yet old

He set out with a cry,

“The foul dragon must die!

Or me name is not Romney the Bold!”

 

The enterprise well under way

The knight, with a dragon to slay

On a horse that was keen

Sped right to the scene

And brought that old dragon to bay

 

Now here’s where the story gets weird

From the dragon lair music he heerd,

A waltz, he declared

A weakness he shared

With the dragon, or so it appeared

 

Much alarmed, toward the music he slipped

Into darkness as black as the crypt

But abruptly he heard

Not a note, not a word

While from stalactites ice water dripped

 

In great fear now he tried to back out

When from out of the darkness a shout

With a roaring of flame

The beast cried out his name

And rushed forward to settle the bout

 

The knight drew his sword but too late

The dragon had settled his fate

A swift swing of his paws

And a raking of claws

Made the knight just some more dragon bait

 

Now the moral is clear as the sun

If you fight the foul beast one on one

A sharp sword or a shiv

Is okay, but to live

It is better to come with a gun

 

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The SS Thor Liberty

A British registered but Danish owned ship named the SS Thor Liberty was detained in Finland after authorities there found 69 Patriot missiles in containers marked “Fireworks”. The ship was bound for China but the captain claimed the missiles were for South Korea, and a phone call to the German Defense Ministry confirmed the story. But is it true? Which is the cover story, missiles bound for China or bound for South Korea? Who knows. But the missiles were bound for somebody. Nonetheless it is good to see the old gods are not forgotten in these modern secular times. God knows we could use the old gods, the new ones having failed miserably.

 

 

It’s good to see that ships are still

Named after gods of old

For Thor is with us yet and will

Bestow upon us gold

But gold is found in many forms

In bullion and in cash

Or just perhaps in case of storms

A tidy missile stash

 

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Kicking The Can

We should drill our own oil and get out of the Middle East and let them kill each other. In the meantime, though, Obama and the Dems and the lefty envirowhackos refuse to let us drill, so we are left with the worst of both worlds. In the meantime, the Washington Post urges President Obama to reconsider his policy of withdrawal and lean on Maliki in order to forestall a likely civil war in Iraq. Good luck. The Washington Post, of all people, should know by now that Obama has no intention of defending the interests of the United States.

 

 

Expecting Obieman to act

Is hoping for the dawn

To come before the setting sun

And darkest night is gone

The only work he’s ever known

Was organizing chumps

And making speeches for the Dems

While kissing left wing rumps

He got to be the president

By conning little girls

Into believing he would spend

Time kissing their soft curls

He doesn’t want to do a thing

But golf and be the man

And doing something means to him

Pick road and kick the can

So he will not do anything

To keep Iraq afloat

In fact he favors chaos so

He can make Bush the goat

 

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Kim Jong Un

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling wrote a story about a boy named Kim, who wandered the vast and lovely land of India, observing, through Kipling’s eyes, the wonders of the country. The Kims of North Korea bear no resemblance to the boy of Kipling’s story. The North Korean Kims are a monstrous family, running the country as their private satrapy, enriching themselves in money and power at the expense of their impoverished countrymen. And now the third member of the Kim family has taken over the country on the demise of his father, as his father had taken over on the demise of the founding father, Kim Il Sung.  Kim Jong Un has some rather large murderous shoes to fill, but he seems determined to fill them, though the North Korean military may have something to say about the accession of a soft young boy to the heady throne of a murderous dictatorship.

 

 

Compared to his grandfather

This new Kim is but a stripling

A pudgy, girlish, dovish boy

Who’d have appalled R. Kipling

Yet who’s to say he won’t survive

Committing crimes so graphic

That none will dare to call him swish

Nor dare to call him Sapphic

 

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Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong Il died a few weeks ago, and good riddance. He lived the palatial life of the sybarite, an unending supply of pretty young women, a mountain of exquisite food, a river of top drawer wine and Scotch whiskey, all while the people of North Korea starved to death. He lavished all the country’s money on himself and his military, sold nukes to anyone who would pay, and sent his agents to assassinate his enemies. He was not a nice man, and I will not mourn his passing.

 

 

De mortuis nil nisi bonum

In this case cannot apply

For the imps of Hell now own him

And his death won’t make me cry

 

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The Magician

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 utters, is designed to advance the dream of his parents that the United States be destroyed.

 

 

Borne by mist, ethereal

The drifting figure grins

By inner light the eyes see all to see

Transfigured, permanent, in place

As all about him spins

He knows just what he is, and what he’ll be

Cocooned in Marxist rhetoric

By parents in whose care

He grows into the child in whom they place

Their hopes for the destruction of

The State beyond repair

Their fortunes wrapped up in his handsome face

He had no great distinction

No accomplishment to date

When he became the darling of the Left

And women swooned to touch him

Though with much to indicate

That he was not accomplished, merely deft

On stage he was so brilliant

So accomplished, oh so cool

That no one saw the handlers in the wings

The lighting and the staging

Were enough to make a fool

Of all who would not see the puppet strings

And so he gained the mountain

Stood atop the world to find

That what his parents loathed lay at his feet

And dutiful a son he was

Attentive, warm and kind

So saying, our destruction’s near complete

The magi dons his makeup

Dons his tux and snaps his cuff

Top hat a rakish angle on his head

He enters from stage left and hopes

The mist is thick enough

To hide the fact the rabbit is now dead

Will the Pressmen ride to save him

Keep the show from going dark

Will the Occupys and Acorns save the day?

Or will hist’ry show November 2012

Will be the mark

That finally closed for good the Lefty play

 

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Train Wreck

The party’s over. The eighty year progressive/socialist era that began with FDR has run its course, and is now in the process of imploding as mounting and unsustainable debt runs Europe off the track, with the United States right behind. There is a violent train wreck just ahead, with economic reality and socialist dreams on the same track and traveling in opposite directions. Reminds me of the old story of the man, the trains and a little red wagon.

 

Standing at the crossing, a man saw two trains racing toward each other on the same track. Seeing a small boy in a little red wagon, the man raced down the street, grabbed the boy and the bright red wagon and raced back to the railroad crossing. “Sit here, son,” the man said breathlessly, “and in a minute there’s gonna be the gol-darndest train wreck you’ll ever see.”

 

 

A big eight wheeler running down the track

Coal smoke pouring out its fuming stack

The welfare system carried on its back

And time is running out

Pensioners are gonna tighten belts

Runs on banks before the money melts

Angry out-of-workers raising welts

On those who caused the rout

Times are changing for the statist crowd

Used up all the time they were allowed

All those things of which they were so proud

And now it’s down in flame

Back to drawing boards for welfare states

Time to clear the decks and wash the slates

Time to take the stuff from those ingrates

Who now say we’re to blame

 

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Bobby And Jack

President Obama has so far shown a pronounced reluctance to fight, to stand up for American interests, and soon will face the most deadly crisis of all, a nuclear armed Iran. What will he do? Will he be John Kennedy, and act forcefully, or will he back down and grovel? Imagine the conversation between Jack and Bobby as they view the current occupant of the White House.

 

 

BOBBY: I think Iran is shaping up

To hit us good and hard

The problem is Obama has

Let down the country’s guard

 

JACK: It’s like the missiles, Bobby, when

I made that Khruschev blink

Eyeball to eyeball we went and

I told the Navy sink

The ships that carried missiles to

That island in the sun

They turned around and went back home

Would not stare down the gun

 

BOBBY: But that was then and this is now

Obama’s now in charge

I fear he’ll just equivocate

And tell the world at large

That we no longer have the will

To stand up for a fight

I greatly fear that he’ll back down

And not do what is right

 

JACK: It saddens me to think of what

Our party has become

Where once we had a Truman now

Obama sticks his thumb

Right up his ass and makes believe

He’s just as tough as nails

Yet when the merde hits the fan

The navy never sails

 

BOBBY: How did the country ever think

A man like that could lead

We see the future, Jack, and know

A coward can’t succeed

 

JACK: There’s still a chance, the future’s not

A record set in stone

The country has good men on call

And they are not alone

We will survive, we always have

We muddle through somehow

Survived some lousy presidents

Come on, let’s get some chow

 

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Slit My Wrists

The evening news is very depressing. A super secret drone goes down in Iran and the president of the United States won’t allow the military to destroy it before the Iranians get to it and share its secrets with our enemies. The Pakis have closed the supply line to Afghanistan and say they’ll shoot down our planes and drones if we attack anyone inside Pakistan, the State Department won’t cut off aid to Pakistan despite them declaring us an enemy, and Chinese hackers steal our military secrets and we do nothing about it. If I had a box cutter I’d slit my wrists.

 

 

Events are such to make me weep

When I think what that little creep

Who sits now in that White House in DC

Has done to us and to our kids

He’s put the country on the skids

And begs for our lost drone on bended knee

From drones he won’t let be destroyed

To sending troops to be deployed

In Afghan mountains with no supply line

He says he’ll do as he will choose

His fleet of JU-52s

Will keep them well equipped and they’ll be fine

The Pakis say they’ll down our planes

And burn our tanker supply trains

And shoot our guys to bring on Allah’s ends

The State Department doesn’t care

They say to doubt them is unfair

We need to give them money ‘cause they’re friends

Hackers strike and Obie blinks

We know the hacking’s done by Chinks

They steal stuff and don’t care if we know how

They know that stealing has no risk

They smile when Obie whispers tsk

And laugh from Yinchuan to far Guangzhou

The tide is running ‘gainst us strong

It can’t go on, no not for long

It’s time we got some spine and balled our fists

Some more bad stuff like this today

And I can only hope and pray

That I won’t just go out and slit my wrists

 

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