Friday, October 9, 2009
[1635 - Roger Williams, religious dissident,
banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony]
[1701 - Connecticut colonial legislature charters Collegiate School, Yale precursor]
[1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard awarded patent for the steam calliope]
[1873 - US Naval Institute Founded]
[1909 - Jacques Tati (Tatischeff), actor, Academy Award-winning director, born in Le Pecq, France]
[1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral Dome pierced by Nazi bomb in Battle of Britain]
[1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman
who saved 1,200 Jews from Holocaust,
dies at age 66]
We'd Settle For Sixpence
Sing a song of deficits,
Pockets full of IOUs;
Four and twenty tax cuts
We knew it was a ruse.
When the pie was divided,
The rich began to sing.
There wasn't any left for us
We got hardly anything.
Counting out his money;
Corporate Cronies in the parlor
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out their clothes.
She was just a black bird
And that is how it goes!
But we haven't seen much change.
New rhetoric is most evident,
As the shells are rearranged.
Republicans or Democrats,
It doesn't seem to matter.
The poor they go on suffering,
While the rich just get fatter.
William's Whimsical Words:
Some of us knew this before Katrina and the Wall Street bailouts; now we all know it.
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