Nursery Rhyme

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What a mess. Obamacare has everyone turning against him, even the lapdog press, and so, to distract the low information voters, Obama tears up ten years of work by canceling sanctions on Iran just as they were beginning to hurt. What a man. I chanced to overhear a couple of six year old neighbor girls reciting nursery rhymes while playing hopscotch. My favorite was Mary Had A Little Lamb. The girls sang

Barry had a little lamb
Who cried and said goodbye
For everywhere that Barry went
The lamb was sure to die

Funny how even six year olds can see what’s happening. Unfortunately the girls were called in to lunch so I never got to hear what they thought of Hillary.

Euripides

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Henry Chao, the deputy chief information officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was asked by Congressman Cory Gardner, R-Colo, why the Obamacare rollout was such a disaster. Chao replied that it was because much of it had not yet been built. Imagine that. Three years and 600 million dollars later much of the website had not yet been built. Was the waste of time and money because the contract was given to a friend of Michelle Obama? Nah, that couldn’t be it. Could it be because the Canadian outfit they gave the contract to had no experience designing complicated websites? Nah. The Obama administration had given billion dollar contracts out to friends before and it turned out all right. Remember Solyndra, who took their half billion dollars and promptly declared bankruptcy? How much of that do you think wound its way back to the proper hands? And the Chicago battery company that did the same thing? And you wonder where the Democrat National Committee gets the money to steal elections? And these people want to run one sixth of the country’s economy? But it’s all coming apart, isn’t it?

 Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. – Euripides

Just tell me please
Euripides
Why such as these
Still live and get to linger
I’ll not be coy
‘Twould give such joy
Should gods destroy
And give them all the finger

The Magic Lamp

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Saudi Arabia has gotten so disgusted with the incompetent Obama that they recognize they can no longer depend on the United States to protect them, so they have bought nuclear weapons from Pakistan. Sources say the nukes are already built and just waiting for Saudi Arabia to give the word to ship them. This is but the first step in the nuking up of the Middle East in view of Iran’s determination to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel is already nuked up, and the rest will follow, the Gulf States, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey if they haven’t already quietly done so. Thanks to Obama, the non-proliferation treaty is effectively dead, and the most unstable region on the face of the Earth will soon have nuclear tipped missiles aimed at each other. Thanks, Barry.

Pakistan has rubbed the magic lamp
Releasing to the detriment of all
A djinn who is about to put his stamp
On every single fearsome fireball
The Saudis think they’re safe by nuking up
And truth to tell they very well may be
But very soon the runneth over cup
Will glaze the sands from Gulf to the Red Sea
The shoreline of the Med will wither, die
And states that once were there will be no more
The djinn now smiles for he knows by and bye
Are different words but tell just what’s in store

GoodbyeTo All That

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Obama has made a secret deal with Iran, throwing the Israelis out into the snow to fend for themselves. In view of Iran’s oft stated intention to nuke Tel Aviv and destroy the state of Israel as soon as they have nuclear weapons, it is inconceivable that Israel will stand idly by and allow Iran and Obama to kill them all. Israel will strike first and with nuclear weapons, and what happens next is open to conjecture. We live in pre-war times, and, as in previous pre-war times, our leaders vainly seek peace by accommodation and surrender. But accommodation and surrender does not bring peace, it brings war. And the coming nuclear war in the Middle East may not be contained to the region of the Middle East, any more than the attack on Poland in 1939 could be contained to the Baltic or the incident at the Marco Polo bridge contained to China. And if it is not contained, the world may suffer such damage as to revert to the pre-industrial age, and the long climb back may not be so easily accomplished.

And so we sadly say goodbye
And young men once again must march
Beneath the missile streaked blue sky
Parabolas a perfect arch
The flashes of a million suns
Light scenes of darkness and despair
The way of war now not with guns
But unleashed hydrogen stripped bare
In 1914 it began
The march to death of all that was
The power wrought by modern man
Will be the last he ever does
As back the way the species came
Reduced to poverty and strife
And all because we thought the game
Had naught to do with death and life

The Big Lie

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Obamacare has been one big lie from the start. It was never designed to provide quality affordable health care, it was designed to extend the power of the radical left wing Marxist government we now have. And because it was a lie from the start, President Obama is compelled to lie constantly. He said repeatedly that if you liked your current insurance you could keep it. That was a lie. You can’t keep it. You can’t keep your doctor either, even though Obama has repeatedly insisted that you can. Obama believes that if he tells the same lie over and over we will believe it. And maybe he’s right. After all, he was reelected by people who will believe anything.

The fashioning of small deceits
Requires only small conceits
And if successful then one tries
To get away with bigger lies
As one succeeds and doing well
Then on to larger lies to tell
Until the liar then believes
And is himself that he deceives
By then of course it’s much too late
The lies by now have sealed our fate
We’re left with but a vacant stare
To celebrate Obamacare

Silent Sound

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Healthy young people will not enroll in ObamaCare nor will the middle class pay for the privilege of subsidizing those who cannot get health insurance, either by being sick and hurt or because they are on welfare. They know the current system allows those who are uninsured to get quality health care simply by going to the nearest hospital emergency room. They also know Obamacare is not about health care, but about power.

The uninsured, the hurt and sick
Will sign up, sure, and sign up quick
The healthy young will turn away
The middle class will just not pay
The union members will be sore
But they were warned what was in store
A hundred million uninsured
As companies clear off the board
All employees who in the past
Had insurance they thought would last
But those who think death spirals end
Had better think again, my friend
The Left will never let this go
Come squalls and earthquakes, rain or snow
The Left cares not for health care costs
They only care that who gets bossed
Obeys commands from Left elites
Who just shrug off the rare defeats
And press ahead despite the hurt
Of common folk ground in the dirt
They care not screams of rage abound
To them a scream is silent sound

How Did It Go So Wrong?

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President Obama tearfully ruminates on the unfailing doctrine of the unintended consequence.

I often wonder why the heck
I put up with this life
Reduced like this, a hopeless wreck
Two children and a wife
Yes being president is nice
That Air Force One is neat
It costs a lot but worth the price
I get to choose my seat
My golf game’s coming right along
I still have great endurance
But somehow ‘Bamacare went wrong
They’ve canceled my insurance

A Tangled Web

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It has emerged that the NSA has been intercepting phone and text messages by the billions, including listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s iPhone. Obama has apologized to Merkel and promised to never do it again, but can he be believed? I think not. He likes the NSA and what they’re doing. Privately he says they’re the only government agency that really listens.

Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to receive
All mail and text from mobile phones
Across the world so that our drones
May climb aloft with good Intel
A thing we can’t get from Ma Bell
The down side is we cross our friends
Who then demand we make amends
Obama calls and quite contrite
Insists he’ll set the matter right
Then with a smile hangs up the phone
And orders up another drone

Who Will Bear The Ring?

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In The Lord Of The Rings, it is asked, Who Will Bear The Ring, and Frodo says he will, though he does not know the way. Well, I’m getting tired of bearing the Ring, tired of crooked politicians, tired of paying taxes so that others may live a life without toil. I’m sick and tired of a lot of things. And I’m not alone. I would gladly bear the Ring if it led the way to smaller government and greater freedom, two things now in short supply. But who will show the way?

I’m getting tired of all of this
So tired of crooks who baby kiss
With unctuous smiles and greedy hands
No public servants but brigands
My thoughts are filled with bleak despair
My country gone, I know not where
How glad I am that I was born
Into this world at dawning morn
Of what my country would achieve
Of heights that no one could believe
Were possible to mortal man
Accomplished in so short a span
A generation reached the stars
Unlocked the gates, released the bars
That held the world without in thrall
Who joined with us in freedom’s call
That day is done, and now the night
Comes down and closes out the light
The government be master now
We tread in fear of master’s scowl
Where is the knight on shining steed
Where is the savior in our need
No shining knight, no savior comes
We bend the knee, accept the crumbs
I’m getting tired of the whole thing
Who knows the way, who’ll bear the Ring?

The Grand Concept

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Obama’s adoring acolytes explain how Obama’s legacy, the destruction of the finest health care system the world has ever seen, was allowed to hit the ground like a rotten tomato. They explain that Obama, he of the soaring intellect, is concerned with Grand Concepts and not the mundane everyday task of making things work. Thus, he outlined the plan and sat back, waiting for it to be born, while he concentrated his enormous talents on other things, like getting the economy going and removing Assad from office in Syria.

Where does the big Grand Concept go?
Why in the Grand Receptacle
With all the other trash by O
That fills the Grand Conceptacle
Obamacare has turned to laughs
We know it’s a Deceptacle
With thanks to all the White House staffs
A wrong from start Preceptacle