Thursday, October 2, 2008
[1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi, political and spiritual leader, born in Porbandar, India]
[1879 - Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, born in Reading, Pennsylvania]
[1890 - Groucho(Julius Henry) Marx, comedian, TV host, born in New York City]
[1896 - (William Alexander) Bud Abbott, comedian, born in Asbury Park, New Jersey]
[1904 - (Henry) Graham Greene, author, born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK]
[1937 - Johnnie Cochran, Jr., attorney, born in Shreveport, Louisiana]
[1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first African-American Supreme Court justice]
Old Mother Stubborn
Our President Bush
Went to the Congress
To throw his rich cronies a bone;
But when we came there
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor people had none.
He took a clean dish
To feed us some tripe;
And when he came back
Some swallowed the hype.
He went over to Baghdad
To buy the troops bread;
But when he came back
Some poor lads were dead.
He went to New Orleans
To bring victims relief;
But when he came back
Twas too late by a week.
Mike Brown made a curtsey,
George Bush made a bow;
Brownie said, "Not my fault."
The dog said, "Bow wow."
He went to the Sudan,
To see Darfur genocide;
But then he came back,
Without turning the tide.
He went to Iraq,
To bring the troops stew.
The people said: End it.
George Bush said: F___ you!
William's Whimsical Words:
Total failure of representative government.
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