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Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.

The inventor of arguably the world's most infamous machine-gun wanted to be a poet in his youth, he has revealed. Russian celebrities and politicians have been paying tribute to Mikhail Kalashnikov, who turned 90 on Tuesday, at a Kremlin reception. Mr Kalashnikov is the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, beloved of guerrillas around the world. At the ceremony, President Dimitry Medvedev handed Mr Kalashnikov the prestigious Hero of Russia award. Accepting the award, he fired off a brief patriotic poem he wrote. 'Bad poet'Mr Kalashnikov is the author of six books, as well being an amateur poet. "I wrote...

Sez I: My Country calls? Well, let it call. I grins perlitely and declines wiv thanks. Go, let 'em plaster every blighted wall, 'Ere's ONE they don't stampede into the ranks. Them politicians with their greasy ways; Them empire-grabbers -- fight for 'em? No fear! I've seen this mess a-comin' from the days Of Algyserious and Aggydear: I've felt me passion rise and swell, But . . . wot the 'ell, Bill? Wot the 'ell? Sez I: My Country? Mine? I likes their cheek. Me mud-bespattered by the cars they drive, Wot makes my measly thirty bob a week, And...

CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished a three-month road trip in which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states. Skold boasts that he set a literary land speed record of 1.66 gpd (graves per day) over...

Psalm 2009 FIRST BOOK OF GOVERNMENT ....PSALM 2009 Obama is the shepherd I did not want. He leadeth me beside the still factories. He restoreth my faith in the Republican party.

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...The hormone fuels sex-drive in both men and women and is associated with competitiveness and dominance.Prior research has shown that high levels of testosterone are also linked to risky behaviour such as gambling or excessive drinking.Scientists in the US measured the amount of testosterone in saliva samples taken from 500 male and female MBA business students at the University of Chicago.Participants in the study were asked to play a computer game that evaluated their attitude towards risk.A series of questions allowed them to choose between a guaranteed monetary reward or a risky lottery with a higher potential pay-out... play safe......

Obama bin Hidin' Obama bin hidin' can't ya see. Let's wake up to this reality. If truth's the thing that sets us free- then what's the need for secrecy? He means well and he's doin his best, but honesty is the real test. Putting it all on the table to share, so good understanding can be put there. God bless our good brother, to shoulder no blame. In his shoes I might do exactly the same.. It's scary - that winning and losing stuff game. It's scary - the risk of losing a name. It's our laziness that created this...

A youthful error? Yes, perhaps. But he's been punished for this lapse-- For decades exiled from LA He knows, as he wakes up each day, He'll miss the movers and the shakers. He'll never get to see the Lakers. For just one old and small mischance, He has to live in Paris, France. He's suffered slurs and other stuff. Has he not suffered quite enough? How can these people get so riled? He only raped a single child. Why make him into some Darth Vader For sodomizing one eighth grader? This man is brilliant, that's for sure-- Authentically, a film...

BHO spoke: "Losing is a disease... as contagious as polio... as contagious as syphilis... as contagious as the bubonic plague... attacking one, but affecting all."

In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of "Good Vibrations," the other the Jazz Age creator of "Rhapsody in Blue," former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937... Todd Gershwin, George's great-nephew and a trustee of the George Gershwin family trusts, said, "George for his time was a visionary. He certainly crossed genres and musical lines, tried things that hadn't been done before and Brian Wilson has done exactly the same thing..." "I'm...

BALTIMORE — It's been a good 200th anniversary year for Edgar Allan Poe. The master of gothic horror has been celebrated at events in several cities to mark the bicentennial of his birth. And on Sunday in Baltimore, he'll get the funeral he never had. Fewer than 10 people attended Poe's funeral when he died in October 1849 at age 40. His cousin, Neilson Poe, never announced the great writer's death publicly. Because of intense interest, Baltimore will host two funerals. Each is expected to draw about 350 people to Westminster Hall, the former church adjacent to Poe's grave. Actors...

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I don't know if this has already been posted. If it has, I missed it. A very sad, but true (and probably funny) parody of the Obama Administration.

Was Fulke Greville really Shakespeare.Solving a Historic mystery between Shakespeare and Fulke Greville with the help of Fulke Grevilles 8th great grandson Christopher Brooke Fulke Greville and his cousin Historian Guy De La Bedoyere.

Just for today… I won’t worry about money and paying bills because there was once a man or woman on their way to work in the Towers with money on their minds. I won’t pester or fight with my husband because on the morning of 9-11, a husban and wife had a fight and he left angry and she is left with a lifetime of regret. I won’t worry about what I’m eating or drinking because I’m alive to eat and drink. I won’t ask God for more stuff because I should be thankful for the breathe in my lungs...

Van Jones, you commie, will you please go now! The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don't care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Van Jones, you commie, will you please go now! You can go on skates. You can go on skis. You can go in a hat. But Please go. Please! I don't care. You can go By bike. You can go On a Zike-Bike If you like. If you like You can go In an old blue shoe. Just go, go, GO!...

I am planning a cartoon called 10 kinds of Democrats. Its in response to a cartoon by a group of marxist students called 10 kinds of republicans. Its in the theme of little mr and liittle ms. I already have four characters sort of penned out. Mr IRS, MR gun grabber, MR wright, MR Tibbits and need six more. I also need some suggestions for poetry and such. Maybe I'll do 12 instead of 10. Thank you.

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Grandma Got Her Plug Pulled By Obama a parody of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer by Elmo & Patsy Grandma got her plug pulled by Obama Socialized health care kills for free You can say freedom's in a coma Crazy eugenicists kill with glee. She'd had to wait for a doctor Her condition was touch and go But she'd gotten bad medication And drifted off this world to parts unknown When they checked her the next mornin' All her vitals had gone flat There was proof that she was braindead And eliminatin' old folks was on track Grandma...

The Biden and the Dissembler Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such a vast and dark Mobland: “If this were only cleared away,” They said, “it would be grand!” “If 10 thousand cops with 10 Thousand mops Swept it for half a year. Do you suppose,” the Biden said, “That they could get it clear?” “I doubt it,” said the Dissembler, And shed a bitter tear. “O Liberals, come and walk with us!” The Biden did beseech. “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along with a beery speech: We cannot do with more than four,...

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Before the Islamic Revolution dimmed the Iranian literary imagination in 1979, and before an expanding Islam swept Iran into its Arab empire in the seventh century, there existed the rich and colorful Iran recounted in Ferdowsi’s “Shahnameh,” or the Book of Kings. Nearly four centuries after the Arab conquest, the “Shahnameh” tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran—when Persian civilization was at its zenith. The epic proceeds through the reign of many monarchs, chronicling the at times legendary, at times mythological, and at times quasihistorical stories of each reign. Then, with the Arab conquest, the chronicle comes to an end. This...

So I was reading this thread "Where have all the loose women gone?" and I came across a few posts that made me laugh and think "Hey, that oughta be a country song!" So I though I'd start a thread so that others could contribute their findings!

As you know Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games for using a female fertility drug. Tonight he hit his first Home Run since coming back. However, the was an awkward moment in the Dodger dugout after the HR. Instead of giving him a high-five they gave him a ____________.

I would welcome fellow Freeper input on an exchange I had with the police last night. First a little background. I've got 20 years in the military, started out my life giving police officers a great deal of respect and knee jerking to their defense. Over the course of years, however, I've lost a lot of respect for the police via watching continual police traffic violations, watching unprofessional behavior and seeing shows of petty tyranny over their fellow citizens. Although I'd still like to be wholeheartedly pro-law and think the way to get respectable enforcement officers is to demand professionalism,...

"The Defenders of Liberty" Fastened upon our ancestors by the despots of far away lands, the Chains of Tyranny were linked by hereditary bondage, undeserved tribute, and indentured servitude. By exhibiting gallant resolve and courage – in some cases against the face of certain death – our Minutemen forefathers gloriously threw off these chains just 233 short years ago. Much has changed since that time. Yet today, we hear again the rattling and clanking of the Chains of Tyranny. The chains we hear are held not by foreign powers. Dreadfully, it is those among us, many of whom are our...

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I went for a swim this evening after a thunderstorm with a perfect rainbow overhead MJ is dead celebrities are recycled like junk plastic and Sanford cries for flesh in Argentina but Iranians believing in freedom are chopped to pieces like firewood WHO CARES? righteous Iranians are flushed down the toilet by useful western idiots global warming and politics and hollywood politicians pushing the hot button issues and screwing the desire for FREEDOM TV ratings = zero liberty all that remains when push comes to shove is a Gun No guns, no voice take heed people your voice is a...

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Okay, so I wrote this myself in like 2 hours...What do you think? Elegy to a Liberal Our current leadership is very disheartening; Now tripled national debt is undeniably startling. Especially our president, who’s lacking in honesty; He should exhibit a higher degree of maturity. Rather than a dude that spends trillions on stimulus, I’d like to have a president who knows a bunch of calculus. You may think he’s eloquent or perhaps even intelligent, But he’s an unimpressive, teleprompter-reading delinquent. He chuckled and said we ‘clung to religion and guns’. He said ‘let’s fund abortion with some federal funds’....

A "poem" purportedly written by a teenage Bob Dylan and up for auction at Christie's is actually a song written by the late Canadian country singer Hank Snow, the auction house said on Wednesday. Christie's announced on Tuesday the sale of the hand-written poem believed to have been written in 1957 when Dylan was 16 and away at Jewish camp. But Christie's failed to detect that the words, with a few minor variations, matched those of a song previously recorded by Snow, who died in 1999 at age 85.

Papa Possum'sNew World Nursery Rhymes Political Poetry for Traitorous Times Come The Next Cold MorningSenator who? Oh right, him. Once every six years or so     right in the mid of fall people queue in freezing lines     to heed their civic call. Folks here in Connecticut     again see something odd, a name there on the ballot,     long-lost Senator Dodd...

I'll start it off.... Hopie changie dork Married to Aunt Esther clone With boob belt and arms.

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Portrait of Shakespeare unveiled The portrait of Shakespeare has attracted attention A portrait of William Shakespeare thought to be the only picture made of him during his lifetime has been unveiled in Warwickshire. The painting is on show at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, to celebrate the playwright's birthday on 23 April. The trust said it was convinced the artwork, thought to date back to 1610, was an authentic portrait. But some critics have gone on record to say the picture is not of Shakespeare. The painting, known as the Cobbe portrait, was inherited by art restorer Alec Cobbe and...

Papa Possum'sNew World Nursery Rhymes Political Poetry for Traitorous Times Marx The Angry Munchkin Video posted here

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman. Enter a Scotland wracked by treachery and possessed by supernatural forces - a kingdom where loyalty is fatal, ambition is madness, and no motivation is pure. This production features mask work and broadsword-driven stage combat. The cast will be joined by youth actresses from The Viola Project, a Chicago organization offering Shakespeare performance workshops for girls 8-18 (violaproject.com). The show runs about two hours with one intermission. Note: "With" is capitalized in Babes With Blades. La Costa...

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“That whole philosophy of persistence,” he said, “is one that I’m going to be emphasizing again and again in the months and years to come as long as I’m in this office. I’m a big believer in persistence.” Persistence! Persistence! Without our persistence, we’d be as shaky as...as...as a lunatic on the roof. Again we have a piece process. Again negotiate. Again lean on the Israelis, different outcome to await. Persistence! And who must build the bombs, and strap them on his waist, then go blow up a disco, where girls all act unchaste? The Palis! The Palis! Persistence! And...

It's bothering me that I can only get the first lines down. Help me out!

The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has taken his own life, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept. Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at his home in Alaska after battling against depression for some time, his sister Frieda said yesterday. He was 47, unmarried with no children of his own and had until recently been a professor of fisheries and ocean sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr Hughes’s death adds a further tragic chapter to a family history that has been raked over with morbid fascination for two generations He was only...

Nicholas Hughes, the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, has killed himself at the age of 47. The couple's other child, Frieda Hughes, told the Times newspaper that her brother had been battling depression for some time. Hughes had been working as a professor in Alaska. His sister paid tribute to "a loving brother, a loyal friend to those who knew him". Plath took her own life in 1963 when her two children were infants. The writer also had a history of depression and her novel, The Bell Jar, is one of the most acclaimed depictions of the...

Papa Possum'sNew World Nursery Rhymes Political Poetry for Traitorous Times Now In The Center RingIgnore the man behind the curtain... Ladies and Gents, I urge you now,     turn toward the center ring, and trust your eyes when they perceive     a deft and skillful thing....

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

Psalm 2009-2012 The Obama is my shepherd; I shall not want financial freedom. He makes me lay down my green to feed those who vote for him. He leads me besides the quiet factories, closed while waiting for a stimulus. He restores my faith in Ronald Reagan. He guides me to pathway of poverty, for his namesake – Karl Marx. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of inflation, I will fear no evil, for my guns are with me, and I have plenty of ammo. Your eloquence and your teleprompter, they scare me. You prepare a...

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Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn't be afraid. As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn't want her to know that I hadn't been walked today. Sometimes the shelter keepers get too busy and I didn't want her to think poorly of them. As she read my kennel card I hoped that she...