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JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-04-14 07:40 AM


we used to be told
as young heads full of mush
you can be anything
president even
look to the sky
upward and onward
nothing is impossible
all ya gotta do is dig in
and work for it

oops
there's that "work" word
we don't teach our children
the world is an oyster
we just need to shuck it
no
nowadays we
fill 'em full of b.s.
about how much the government
owes them

the old ways
are passé
we are on a downhill run
to mediocrity
we have "rights"
to computers, television,
cars, houses
blah, blah, blah
without working a day for them

most of the brain trust
in America
are imported from India
Japan, people who still
have work ethics
cause we sure as hell don't
this once great nation
like another great nation
Rome
are imploding

~ At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war. ~

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2011-04-14 08:15 AM


Go Jerry! Tell it like it is...rant away my friend!
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2011-04-14 08:17 AM


Hi Lori. Every so often I just really get disgusted with the mindset of the American public and have to let off steam.

~ At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war. ~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
3 posted 2011-04-14 09:30 AM


Have a close friend just like you...I agree with both of you.

j.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
4 posted 2011-04-14 10:22 AM


Well, that is good news to hear, j., that means we are gaining in numbers. Haha At least I hope so.

~ At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war. ~

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