Thursday, May 1, 2008
Yom Ha-Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day observed)
[1764 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect, born in Yorkshire, England]
[1830 - Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones, labor leader, born in Cork, Ireland]
[1898 - Battle of Manila Bay, Admiral Dewey defeats Spanish in Philippines]
[1916 - Glenn Ford (Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford), actor, born in Quebec City, Quebec]
[1918 - Jack Paar, TV host of Tonight Show, born in Canton, Ohio]
[1923 - Joseph Heller, writer, born in Brooklyn, New York]
[1931 - Empire State Building in NYC opened to public by President Herbert Hoover]
[2003 - President Bush stages photo-op on USS Abraham Lincoln]
(Please See Below)
Mission Accomplished
(With Apologies to Dorothy Parker)
Upon my honor, he shocked like Madonna,
When he landed on the Abraham Lincoln.
A flight suit wore Bush to cover his tush.
Honest Abe's eyes are still blinking.
The sign told a lie as he fell from the sky
To tell the press that combat was over.
The troops who since died are so satisfied
To hear this as they push up the clover.
No one could see Saddam's WMD,
When they searched all over Iraq.
The government lied; war is unjustified.
Some brave troops are not coming back.
In vain sought he grace and tried to save face.
As he sent more troops to their death.
A Surge will he make, to compound his mistake.
While someone else's kids draw a last breath.
William's Whimsical Words:
He must have accomplished the mission, else why would we have renewed his contract?
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