Clinton - Trump Live Debate Monday Sept. 26 Th.
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[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Dear Antiwar Liberals,[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your 8 year vacation. However, a few things have changed since you last gave a shit:[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The jihadis we put in charge of Libya have destabilized West Africa.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We now train, arm and supply head-chopping jihadis in Syria.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The Navy is helping the Saudis exterminate Yemenis.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-NATO troops now prop up the neo-Nazi we put in charge of Ukraine.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The Nobel Prize winner is really, really good at killing people now.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-It's hard to blame Bush since people don't remember him anymore. [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Other things are just like you remember them:[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We're still in Afghanistan with no exit in sight.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We're back in Iraq, almost like we never left. [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We're still bombing weddings and funerals all over the Middle East.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The Saudis are chopping of more heads than ever.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-Nothing has gotten better for the Palestinians. [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]So, back to work, good luck, and remember:[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-It's all the Republicans' fault.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The last 8 years never happened.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We can end all this if we can just get a Democrat in the White House.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Sincerely, [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your 8 year vacation. However, a few things have changed since you last gave a shit:[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The jihadis we put in charge of Libya have destabilized West Africa.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We now train, arm and supply head-chopping jihadis in Syria.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The Navy is helping the Saudis exterminate Yemenis.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-NATO troops now prop up the neo-Nazi we put in charge of Ukraine.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The Nobel Prize winner is really, really good at killing people now.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-It's hard to blame Bush since people don't remember him anymore. [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Other things are just like you remember them:[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We're still in Afghanistan with no exit in sight.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We're back in Iraq, almost like we never left. [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We're still bombing weddings and funerals all over the Middle East.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The Saudis are chopping of more heads than ever.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-Nothing has gotten better for the Palestinians. [/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]So, back to work, good luck, and remember:[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-It's all the Republicans' fault.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-The last 8 years never happened.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]-We can end all this if we can just get a Democrat in the White House.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]Sincerely, [/background]
expatgigi
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Of History and Hope
BY MILLER WILLIAMS
We have memorized America,
how it was born and who we have been and where.
In ceremonies and silence we say the words,
telling the stories, singing the old songs.
We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.
The great and all the anonymous dead are there.
We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.
The rich taste of it is on our tongues.
But where are we going to be, and why, and who?
The disenfranchised dead want to know.
We mean to be the people we meant to be,
to keep on going where we meant to go.
But how do we fashion the future? Who can say how
except in the minds of those who will call it Now?
The children. The children. And how does our garden grow?
With waving hands—oh, rarely in a row—
and flowering faces. And brambles, that we can no longer allow.
Who were many people coming together
cannot become one people falling apart.
Who dreamed for every child an even chance
cannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not.
Whose law was never so much of the hand as the head
cannot let chaos make its way to the heart.
Who have seen learning struggle from teacher to child
cannot let ignorance spread itself like rot.
We know what we have done and what we have said,
and how we have grown, degree by slow degree,
believing ourselves toward all we have tried to become—
just and compassionate, equal, able, and free.
All this in the hands of children, eyes already set
on a land we never can visit—it isn’t there yet—
but looking through their eyes, we can see
what our long gift to them may come to be.
If we can truly remember, they will not forget.
Miller Williams, “Of History and Hope” from Some Jazz A While: Collected Poems.
BY MILLER WILLIAMS
We have memorized America,
how it was born and who we have been and where.
In ceremonies and silence we say the words,
telling the stories, singing the old songs.
We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.
The great and all the anonymous dead are there.
We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.
The rich taste of it is on our tongues.
But where are we going to be, and why, and who?
The disenfranchised dead want to know.
We mean to be the people we meant to be,
to keep on going where we meant to go.
But how do we fashion the future? Who can say how
except in the minds of those who will call it Now?
The children. The children. And how does our garden grow?
With waving hands—oh, rarely in a row—
and flowering faces. And brambles, that we can no longer allow.
Who were many people coming together
cannot become one people falling apart.
Who dreamed for every child an even chance
cannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not.
Whose law was never so much of the hand as the head
cannot let chaos make its way to the heart.
Who have seen learning struggle from teacher to child
cannot let ignorance spread itself like rot.
We know what we have done and what we have said,
and how we have grown, degree by slow degree,
believing ourselves toward all we have tried to become—
just and compassionate, equal, able, and free.
All this in the hands of children, eyes already set
on a land we never can visit—it isn’t there yet—
but looking through their eyes, we can see
what our long gift to them may come to be.
If we can truly remember, they will not forget.
Miller Williams, “Of History and Hope” from Some Jazz A While: Collected Poems.
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DONALD YOU LUCKY BASTARD!!!
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Ries
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not sure what a "lib" is.
I dont belong to any such party.
but everybody I know, both in the US and Argentina, who is left of center, is certainly not silent.
I have been getting emails and messages of sympathy from argentine friends, humorously hoping they will see me more, and every one I know in the US is talking about this non-stop.
