It’s snowing to beat the band, kids! And expected to go for another 8 hours.
It’s beautiful!
Take pictures.
Been there, done that, moved to where I don’t have to live with so much of it any more...but it is sure pretty when it comes down...enjoy! Take pics! We had about 2 inches of snow a few days ago, but it’s melted off the front yard and half gone from the back. Way my hand feels, more to come.
Our snow has stopped falling around 6:00pm, all the trees are flocked, the sidewalks have been shoveled, and the porch has been swept, it is beautiful out there.
All schools closed at noon.
Imagine Rex Harrison with chewed fingernails and a Scottish accent.
If I could talk to the Taliban, just
imagine it,
Chatting with the chaps
in Pakistan,
I could be rapping with
Al Qaeda,
And all the foreign fighters,
In the Tora Bora, east
Afghanistan.
If I could talk to the Taliban
in Arabic,
Or the dialect of
deepest Kazakhstan,
Try a phrase or two of Farsi,
A word of Gujarati,
I’m sure that I could make
them understand.
We could converse in Ashkun
or Tajiki,
Learn a little of the lingo
of Pashto,
If people ask me: “Can you
speak Turkmenistan?”
I’d say: “Of course I can,
can’t you?”
If I could meet Mullah Omar
in Jalalabad,
Try a little Brown diplomacy
If I could reason with
the Taliban,
Reach out to the Taliban,
Plead and get down on my knees
to the Taliban,
And hope they don’t
behead me!
If I could speak man-to-man to
Sheikh bin Laden,
In the distant mountains of the
Hindu Kush.
Or maybe somewhere nearer,
A live debate on al-Jazeera,
I’d promise that I wouldn’t tell
George Bush.
If I spoke the native tongue of
Pashtun tribesmen,
I could guarantee that I would
end this war.
Give a massive grant
to Helmand,
Well, it always works in Scotland,
I’d even let them have
Sharia Law.
If I consulted with Algerians
and Chechens, In a safe house in east Uzbekistan.
“Where’s Osama?” I could ask,
“Is he up the Khyber Pass?”
They’d say: “No, infidel, he’s
in Londonistan.”
If I could parlay with jihadis
in Pershawi,
And negotiate with
the Yemenis,
If I could talk to the Taliban,
Give asylum to the Taliban,
Mobile phones, council homes,
long-term loans
To the Taliban,
Then they would vote for me!
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