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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:03 AM
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End of Days? A Political Poem
http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/06/04/mai06107.html

End of Days? A Political Poem

It all began when the election was stolen.
But we didn’t realize the system was broken.

The Towers came down.
The die was cast.
The Bill of Rights became a thing of the past.

Yellowcake uranium, aluminum tubes.
WMDs they said he would use.

The threat was imminent we were told.
We didn’t know the lie was bold.

Mission Accomplished, the sign said.
Tell that to the wounded and dead.

Shattered lives on both sides.
The pictures are kept from our eyes.

Flag draped coffins, in a hangar they’re laid.
But we cannot see the price being paid.

A storm, a flood, a great city in tatters.
They’re poor, they’re black, they really don’t matter.

Pensions gone, jobs offshored.
Millions more for corporate boards.

Quakers and Grannies are labeled as threats.
Not a second thought about the national debt.

Truth, justice and the American way.
Is it just a quaint notion of bygone days?

We used the bomb first.
He may use it again.
Do they really want to bring on the end?

David Faerberg
Potomac, Maryland
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bills Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:08 AM
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1. Islamic toilets.
Jail toilets face away from Mecca
Facilities in a prison are being built so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while sitting on the toilet.
The Home Office said two new toilet blocks are being installed as part of a refurbishment at Brixton jail in south London.

Faith leaders had told prison bosses it was unacceptable for Muslim inmates to face Mecca while using the toilet.

"The refurbishment has been carried out with due consideration for all faiths", a Home Office spokeswoman said

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/4926114.stm
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:00 AM
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2. Nice work David
It has a rap kind of cadence.
Are you going to put a beat to it?
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