In Autumn, I always think of Russia~~(without any rising
connector:
no lever
or wheel
or cog
to replace the central theme.)
**
I believe
there is
in each wind-blown leaf
a small soul,
fiery red,
which having separated itself
**
only seems to the naked eye
a cast-off
of yellowed time;
and, only
in our spirits
defined.
~x~SinfullyAnon./Just Another Guy!
~Abe Lincoln.~
Ahh, Politics! What would Fall be without it? [Can we get anymore
yellow than we've been ~~in a journalistic way, I say!]...Leaf-blown voters, clamoring towards the booth!; E-mails, fluttering, into your in-box like drunken sailors; thoughtful discourse, disguised as being "thoughtful," reels like the day's catch; and fishermen, kings, and Eskimos, give new meaning to "We The People"....Is it Fall yet?
..Or,
is the Rome we see burning, just a thumbnail of History...???**
Here's the latest e-mail to catch my eye!
(We need more Saturday Night Live...we really do!):) :
**
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose-burgers, a quintessential
American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
*Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well- grounded.
* If you spend three years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters,
spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend eight years as a State
Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become
chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee,
spend four years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13
million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign
Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees,
you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, four years on the city council and six years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only
650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the
betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First
Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25, and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely
admirable.
**
OK, much clearer now.!!!!!.....:)
[thank you, Dee-Dee, for sending me this. You're a true smartie!]
~x~Just Another Guy...o9/25/08.
Upcoming: "The Lady In Red" [A Halloween Story...(finally.)] ~x~Just Another Guy.
See you in September!:)