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Posted here for: 12-28-01. It's rare that to start the year, I've Defined targets for which I'll strive. - - - But this year I say - - - I hope and I pray To simply in '02 survive! Posted here for: 12-17-01. Oh, Christmas tidings now are nigh; 'Tis time for Santa, mincemeat pie, For holly wreaths and tinsel tree, For happy laughter, children's glee. The birth of Christ we celebrate, Though often do not consecrate, As we take time with gifts and food To manifest a mellow mood. The season, goodness, it renews, As kindly thoughts and acts we choose. Our hearts are warmed, emotions swell, As Christmas casts its magic spell. Relinquish to the season's charm Your fear, frustration, and alarm. Sweet tidings, friends, I'd like to say, This happy, holy, holiday. Posted here for: 12-10-01. Please note that the folks who are deft At censuring us as bereft - - - Of Moslem concern, - - - When flag passions burn, Are always the folks on the Left. Posted here for: 12-3-01. Osama bin Laden's been hidin'. His time O. bin Laden's been bidin'. - - - His future looks bleak; - - - Short lived, so to speak. In Hades he'll soon be residin'. Posted here for: 11-26-01. Osama's rethinking his plan While huddled in Afghanistan. - - - His moment of fame - - - Has gone up in flame, As has the depraved Taliban! Posted here for: 11-19-01. Each wetland, with pageant and pomp, Is honored so critters can romp. - - - But each is to me, - - - As 'twas pre-PC, A stinky and dirty old swamp! Posted here for: 11-12-01. A multitude of enemies applauds our recent woes, But not because of evils wrought by our sadistic foes. Instead, like magic slight of hand, our gaze is turned away From all the vicious tricks on us that they intend to play. With hijacked planes and anthrax scares, the people are afraid, And far more willing freedom's gifts for safety they will trade. Our enemies are keen and shrewd and calculating, too. Their hate and evil exploits we must never misconstrue. Posted here for: 11-5-01. For eight years the FBI fight Was fierce and was fought with great might. - - - Against such a foe - - - As terrorists? No! Against the conservative Right! Posted here for: 10-29-01. What price for freedom will we pay When evil acts strip it away? What sacrifice will we endure A free republic to ensure? How precious is the liberty That keeps us whole, and noble, free? How sacred is this country's scheme To hatch this fragile freedom dream? The quandary that we now must solve: How deep indeed is our resolve? How long the toil, how much the pain Will we endure for freedom's reign? How brave, how strong, how set are we To stand forthwith for liberty? To shed the blood, to lose the lives To guarantee freedom survives? Posted here for: 10-22-01. The citizens now are embracing Proposals to fight what we're facing: - - - A stronger defense, - - - A keen border sense, All measures the Left's been debasing. Posted here for: 10-15-01. Though Rush Limbaugh's deaf in each ear, His broadcasts won't soon disappear. - - - The people tune in - - - To truth, without spin; They listen, but many don't hear. Posted here for: 10-8-01. Our bombers, we all can assume, Are laden with bin Laden doom. - - - The payload, you know, - - - On impact will go: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, BOOM! Posted here for: 10-1-01. The peaceniks, with pomp and parading, Are greatly our enemies aiding. - - - While casting aspersion - - - On any incursion, Our lives for their bombast they're trading. Posted here for: 9-24-01. I watched in utter disbelief The tumbling towers, terror, grief. The confidence and verve at dawn Were, with the towers, by noon gone. Yet, from the dust and smoke and fire Emerged resolve, intent, desire To stand for freedom and, by gum, To blast the perps to kingdom come! Posted here for: 9-17-01. In tragic times our compass spins When evil over goodness wins. Unanswered questions overwhelm, Disrupting calm and peaceful realm. Confusion and chaos revolve Around a growing new resolve. Awakened from its hideaway: The spirit of the USA! Posted here for: 9-10-01. Now, little Billy's test results created quite a stir. They caused the teachers to consult their books and then confer. It seems that Billy's profile matched and fit right to a T Computer profiles that were hatched for abnormality. But little Billy was a tease, his answers: insincere. But now with teachers to appease, his penalty: severe. First Ritalin to calm the boy, then training, very strict. Computer tests they did employ, behavior to predict. Well, little Billy, quite a scamp, just wouldn't play the game. At poking fun he was a champ, until policemen came. His tests proved he was dangerous; a threat to one and all. The state must do its duty; thus, they followed protocol. His parents cried when agents came to take poor Bill away. "It's just not fair. It's just a shame," was all that they could say. The taking, like a million more, was hardly justified. Like many who had come before, soon after, Billy died. Posted here for: 9-3-01. The lib'rals all love it, and how. To gods of diverseness they bow. - - - All races and creeds, - - - All colors and breeds (But none on the Right) they allow. Posted here for: 8-27-01. It's not to protect pleasant discourse: Words raising no eyebrows nor ire. "Free Speech" is instead about this course: Protection for brimstone and fire. Thus, slurs and insults and great rudeness Are sanctioned and guarded with care, Revealing our Founders' great shrewdness For freedom and life laissez-faire. Posted here for: 8-20-01. The Blacks, we're told, have been oppressed with slav'ry, prejudice. Indeed, it's true, a charge I think no wise man would dismiss. The question isn't history, but rather here and now. For sins in eons past are we today to them to bow? Atrocities around the world, injustices, are rife, But hardship, woe, and heartbreak are ingredients of life. Should Christians, now, demand their take for Coliseum Rome And spend eternity those lion battles to bemoan? The lib'rals pound their chests in righteous indignation boast: Their preferential treatment demonstrates they care the most. But preferential treatment demonstrates Blacks can't compete; They need a lower bar to jump if standards they must meet. Conservatives have more respect and higher expectation. They see the lib'ral schemes as pure and simple subjugation. The Blacks, the Jews, Hispanics all must meld and overcome Their "woe is me" perspective, and must make "from many one". Posted here for: 8-13-01. The liberal women's lib movement Has def'nitely not made improvement. - - - To be like the men, - - - They dropped standards. Then Were shocked at the men's "disapprovement". Posted here for: 8-6-01. When Constitution guarantees Are shrugged of like a collie's fleas, When lies, deception are the rule; And he who protests is a fool, When smoking or an SUV Is ostracized as un-PC, When eco-maniacs proclaim Raw power, absolute, their game, When certain speech, considered flawed, On campuses is now outlawed, And certain crimes we perpetrate Are worse because they're "filled with hate", When we cannot protect our lives When murderer or crook arrives, For guns, all locked and stored away, Aren't handy when we stand at bay, When government, by law or rule, Declares your faith a useless tool And judges prayer forbidden from The high school auditorium, When justice, equal, which prevailed, Is now contorted and curtailed -- The guilty get a pass in court, The innocent have no resort -- When global tyranny's exposed And global might is unopposed, When sovereignty and nation pride Are silently "desanctified", What then? What then of sacrifice Of millions who have paid the price For freedom, and its blessings sought For centuries, but now for naught? Posted here for: 7-30-01. It's been suggested by the left That we'd be better off bereft Of SUVs and other "toys" That sprinkle life with spicy joys. But if by force we must conserve And follow leftist whim and verve, The cost of saving energy Will be constraints on liberty! Posted here for: 7-23-01. Item: "Klamath Falls, Oregon: A federal court ruled this spring, in a lawsuit by radical environmentalists, that two species of endangered suckerfish have more rights under the Endangered Species Act than local farmers who have been using the Klamath River Basin for over 100 years to irrigate their farmland. Their only water supply was shut off. Without water the farms and the entire community will die. In desperation, the farmers opened the canal gates and let the water flow. Saturday, Federal Marshals moved in to shut off the water again. There is presently a tense, but peaceful standoff at the Klamath Basin." Source: American Policy Center e-mail of 7-16-01. Just trust the fed'ral bureaucrat To serve your every wish. You Can't where Klamath Falls is at, Unless you are a fish! You can believe the government Will kiss with every pucker, That feds indeed are heaven sent; You can if you're a sucker! Posted here for: 7-16-01. If Democrats were animals, just what kind would they be? Pit bulls, perhaps, or viper snakes with poison pedigree, Or possibly piranha with their vicious snapping jaws, Or massive killer sharks with rows of teeth as sharp as saws. More apt might be a virus -- anthrax or bubonic plague. Their deeds are so destructive and their honor ever vague. But no, they're more like lions, roaring, as if they're possessed. They growl, they scratch, they snarl; indeed, at lyin' they're the best! Posted here for: 7-9-01. By teaching in school just one lesson, That absolutes do not exist, The government now has a mess on Its hands, that will surely persist. No absolutes mean that no student Is right in his thinking or wrong. All actions, then, good/bad, are prudent. The soul is thus dead, the head strong. Posted here for: 6-25-01. Each eco-nut: a misanthrope, With vain disdain and little hope For man; but nature: only praise -- So ardent is their eco-craze. Posted here for: 6-18-01. The weather is tricky, its science, complex. So forecasters constantly stick out their necks. Is rain gonna greet us, or sunshine, or snow A week from next Tuesday? They simply don't know. The path of a hurricane? Anyone's guess. Predictions with certainty they don't possess. Computers, technology, satellites, too, All fail to dramatically extend their view. But now come environment agents who say The decades ahead they can see right today. The globe, it is warming, they give us their word. Their sinister warning the whole world has heard. Now this is the bunch who just scant years ago Declared Global Cooling the scenario. So here's a prediction for these eco folks: Your warning and scare tactics are but a hoax! Posted here for: 6-11-01. For Chelsea the press did refrain From criticism and disdain. - - - But, now with a Bush, - - - The media push On Jenna a scandal campaign. Posted here for: 6-4-01. With pokes to the eyes of the voters, And stabs to the hearts of his friends, He carefully revved Judas motors To reach egotistical ends. Posted here for: 5-24-01. A tax cut, they now say, is due us, Returning a mere pittance to us. - - - The cut, it appears, - - - Will take six long years. Again, they have managed to screw us! Posted here for: 5-14-01. For peacekeeping, proudly they're there. Their influence is everywhere. - - - But when the Chinese, - - - Decided to seize Our plane, well it's then laissez faire. Posted here for: 5-7-01. When black "leaders" slander the Right, They cripple the cause of their fight. - - - Their purpose, not "Black", - - - Is merely attack, On ev'ry conservative White. Posted here for: 4-30-01. The leftists teach their lesson well To blacks, their chosen clientele: Blacks' fearsome fate, their pitied plights Are all devised by racist whites. The leftists think it's worth the price To offer up as sacrifice Black pride and hope, which pride promotes. They curry hate to carry votes. Posted here for: 4-16-01. There are some folks (they're liberals) who view our freedoms thus: There are no limits or constraints the Founders placed on us. Within, of course, the bounds of law, the limits of the state. But I protest and I object. Let me elaborate. While we are free to speak our mind and utter what we please, We are obliged to prudence, good relations to appease. The liberals, however, seem to think that freedom's lost Unless, like Howard Stern, each smutty bridge is quickly crossed. The liberals demand for their expression to be free The filthiest of art and drama for a legacy. And then to validate their vile products they insist The government must foot the bill, like a philanthropist. My view, instead, is there are bounds constraining freedom's reach: Good taste and common decency to counter vernal breach. Responsibility is key for freedom to survive, And if embraced wholeheartedly our freedoms then will thrive. Posted here for: 4-9-01. In Russia B. Yeltsin knew well Of Monica, Bill's Jezebel. - - - What blackmail ensued - - - We can not conclude, As no one is willing to tell. Posted here for: 4-2-01. She doesn't know facts of Whitewater, Nor records, Rose billing, she 'oughter". - - - For someone so smart - - - She's dumb as a tart; As "dumb" as her hubby who taught her. Posted here for: 3-26-01. The bright, speckled wart bug rests easy, Although, for an insect, it's sleazy. - - - "Endangered," it's safe -- - - - Each orphan and waif -- While human unborn remain queasy. Posted here for: 3-19-01. His scandals, corruption, and sleaze Endure and enrage and . . . oh, please! - - - When clear blame exists - - - And outrage persists, He's off on a trip overseas. Posted here for: 3-12-01. As sunshine for flowers, and seas for the fish, As yearnings and cravings take flight on a wish, As moons need a sun to reflect a bright glow, And summers their rainstorms and winters their snow, The spirit of man, if to soar, must be free, Unshackled, unchained, unrestrained, totally. The struggle of man, since he stepped on this Earth, Is fighting for freedom for all that he's worth. Posted here for: 3-5-01. The Democrats loudly now bray, "Bill Clinton did wrong," they all say. But why did it take for this lout Eight years just to figure this out? Posted here for: 2-26-01. The pattern: familiar. The MO: now clear. The scandals: quite rampant, obscene, cavalier. But what is most scary -- it chills to the bone -- Is: how many scandals remain yet unknown? Posted here for: 2-19-01. First Lady Hillary: coiffured and grand. Senator Hillary: Plain Jane and bland. Stark is the contrast; so what is the deal? Far more important: is either one real? Posted here for: 2-12-01. Bill Clinton won't say that he's sorry For actions quite confiscatory. - - - It's his White House loot. - - - Says he, "No dispute!" But folks don't believe his first story. Posted here for: 2-5-01. There once was a minister: Jackson, Whose seed in nine months caused contraction. - - - A love child was born. - - - Poor Jesse would mourn: He couldn't drop bombs for distraction. Posted here for: 1-29-01. "Bipartisanship" was the liberal line: We all work together -- we get along fine. But deeds followed rhetoric, whereby we found, Coop'rative spirit was nowhere around, At Ashcroft all manner of missiles was thrown. Bipartisanship was a concept unknown. Its meaning to lib'rals is clear then, to wit: Support their agenda or they'll have a fit! Posted here for: 1-22-01. As DC donned its gaiety With mounds of "canape-ity" And champagne bubbles, foam, and spray To toast inauguration day, There's Mr. Clinton on the scene To scratch the shine and dull the sheen, With rain to toss on each parade By "poop-in-punch-bowl" cavalcade. Posted here for: 1-15-01. Be gone with your hypocrisy that tarnishes democracy. Be gone with your virility for rampant uncivility. And with corrupt, deceitful ways and moral, ethical malaise Be gone! For your mendacity contaminates veracity. Be gone with your complicity in masterful duplicity. Be gone with your seductive schemes which dim our country’s freedom dreams. Be gone with crooks whom you defend and culprits whom you call your friend. Be gone with you! For this I yearn: your silence and your non-return. Posted here for: 1-8-01. For liberals it’s fairness; that is what they’re all about. The rich are much too rich they say; the poor too poor they shout. To right all wrongs there is for them a single remedy: It’s ever bigger government and federal decree. Conservatives, however, have a diff’rent point of view. Their focus is equality; it's what they ballyhoo. It's equal opportunity and justice they discern, For equal outcomes, instituted, that is what they spurn. The trickery of "fairness" is a masterful deceit, For who defines it but the lib'ral government elite. So leftists spin their web of what is fair and what is not, While "rightists" want each citizen to have an equal shot. The liberals feel free to break a law they deem unfair. Why, that is simply tyranny, conservatives declare. Thus lib'rals wish, for "fairness" sake, an aristocracy. Instead, concerned conservatives prefer the people free! Posted here for: 1-1-01. The centuries come and the centuries go. The tornadoes twist and the hurricanes blow. Some glaciers advance, while some others recede. To quell nature's fury you can't intercede. Volcanos erupt, belching lava and fire, While earthquakes to shatter and shake do conspire. Tsunami, El Nino -- the earth has been stormed! Life's patterns are changing, the landscape's transformed. Some species are massacred, others are spared, But life on this planet goes on unimpaired. The balance of nature is strong and robust; From pummeling punches it can readjust. "We must save all species!" This plea we've all heard, But saving each pest in each pond is absurd. The eco insistence is merely a means Of yielding control and our future to Greens.  Poems from Year 1993. Poems from Year 2000. The way back home. |