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"There are things to know, they are lovely and ennobling to know."

Update:  I've just listened to two lectures from the Western Heritage course.  The second one is called, "The Hebrew Legacy."  Really, really good stuff.

This Land Is My Land

Inspired the State of the Union address, I  give you "This Land is My Land," with words by B. Hussein Obama, and music by Woody Guthrie:

This land ain't your land, This land is my land

From California to the New York island;  

From the Keystone pipeline, to the Gulf Stream waters

This land was made for Me, not you.

Though I sent weapons south of the border,

I’ll take your rifles, by executive order:

I like my gun runs, but you can’t have one

The Bill of Rights is for Me, not you.

I let four men die, stranded in Benghazi,

I didn’t miss that party with Jay-Z and Beyonce

I blamed a movie, and was helped by Crowley

This press is soft on Me, not you.

Those who have worked hard, and saved their money

Don’t pay their fair share; like Buffett’s secretary.

If you own a business, you didn’t build that

You must work for Me, not you.

As I went walking I saw a sign there

And on the sign it said "No Hiring."

Why don’t we raise the minimum wage?

Math is good for you, not Me.

Obamacare insured the nation,

Although your health care may now be rationed,

If you like your doctor, you won’t get to keep her

Health care was made for Me, not you.

For those who saw the CBO’s projection,

And may not vote for me with affection,

I’ll just buy more votes, through immigration

Elections are rigged for Me, not you.

Nobody living can ever top me,

As I go racing, that road to serfdom;

Nobody living can ever stop me!

This land was made for Me, not you.

Phony King of America

From Disney's "Robin Hood," and inspired by Obama's interview with Univision, in which he claimed, "I am not a king (yet)," here is my first submission:

Oh the world will sing of an American King

A thousand years from now

And not because he passed some laws

Or had that lofty brow

While bonny Gipper Reagan leads

The great crusade from beyond

We'll all have to slave away

For that good-for-nothin' ‘Bam

Incredible as he is inept

Whenever the history books are kept

They'll call him the wanna-be king of America

A pox on the phony king of D.C.!

He sits alone on a giant throne

Pretendin' he's the king

A little tyke who's rather like

A puppet on a string

And he throws an angry tantrum

if he cannot have his way

And then he calls for Frum while he's suckin' his thumb

You see, he doesn't want to play

Too late to be known as Hussein the First

He's sure to be known as Barry the worst

A pox on that phony king of America!

While he taxes us to pieces

And he robs us of our food

The U.S. Constitution keeps slippin' down

Underneath his pointed shoe

Ah! But while there is a merry man

in Palin's wily pack

We'll find a way to make him pay

And take our money back

The minute before he knows we're there

The Tea Party’ll snatch his underwear

The breezy and uneasy king of D.C.

The snivellin' grovellin'

Measly weasely

Blabberin' jabberin'

Gibberin' jabberin'

Blunderin' plunderin'

Wheelin' dealin'

Prince Barry, that wanna-be king of America

Yeah!

Every Friday, at the American Spectator, a commenter called TLP hosts a contest of sorts, using the comments section of one of the Spectator's articles for people to share analogies, poetry and verse about current events.  I think of it as an Underground Railroad of sorts, where disenfranchised Americans go to exercise their rights to free speech and political incorrectness.

Inspired by TLP and his Merry Men at AmSpec, I have been dabbling in humorous political verse myself.  It's funny that, considering the title of this blog, I have never tried to combine Politics and Poetry before, but I've decided to post my contest entries here for your pleasure.

Note--when I say "poetry," I really mean "parody."  Maybe I should change the name of my blog...

This is Interesting

What Happened at Haymarket?

Unable to answer a simple question, labor historian Timothy Messer-Kruse does a little research, and discovers that textbooks can be misleading.  I find it hard to excuse the academic laziness that preceded his epiphany, but appreciate the fact that he is now bringing the evidence to light.  The true hero of this story is the girl who asked, "“if what it says in our textbook is true, that there was ‘no evidence whatsoever connecting them with the bombing,’ then what did they talk about in the courtroom for six weeks?”