[MrClose]

What Does "Body Of Comment Mean"?

[TChris]

Excuse me, sir? Umm... Do you have a point?

[Cindy]

Golly that's sad.
Now go to bed.
Get a good night's rest.
You'll perk up in the morning, I trust.

[Larry Lucido]

The old days were never as rosy as we want to remember them. Which "newsmen" did you trust? Cronkite? Steffens? Which government folks did you trust? Johnson? Truman? Roosevelt? Wilson? There were fewer corrupt cops in the 30's than now?

[Allegra]

I remember the moon before it split into pieces
I remember the old RCA color console TV
My heart lies bleeding on the pavement
The tanks are rolling
The tongue piercings are so bright
Oh! The poetry and prose are so malevolent

[martin_fierro]

The Feeling-Sorry-For-Yourself Gothic Poem Generator

[ThreePuttinDude]

This reminds me of a "Blue Collar Comedy" end of the show routine.

"I believe........"

[dirtboy]

And in the whines that pass through these aged pines
We hear the moaning of the departed Democrats
And if all the ballots would have been counted
Bush never would have won
But alas, though we cried and cried
Voter intent could never be seen or counted
I curse SCOTUS in the depths of the forest
But sporkweasels snarl back at me
All is foresaken now
My facts therefore must be few
I can now whine no more
(or at least until the next time I post on DU).

[9999lakes]

What Mr. Close writes -- I agree with.

The only real hopes I have now..
[1] That the conservative movement has not lost as much steam as I think it has {and that I have};

[2] That heaven is real.

[MotleyGirl70]

How depressing. Lighten up, it's the weekend.

Turn off your t.v., listen to some of your favorite music while doing chores around the house and then go for a long walk while enjoying an ice cream cone. It's nothing that's going to change the world, but that's one of my plans today.

[the invisib1e hand]

...But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period--I am addressing myself to the School--surely from this period of ten months, this is the lesson:

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated...

it's "V" for victory -- it's not a "peace sign."

"Give up" is the doctrine of the devil. You choose.

[Dumpster Baby]

[tioga]

Trust but verify. Ronald Reagan

[yankeedame]

"Let us agree that in every generation of man's history,
and almost everywhere, we find superstition, hypocrisy,
corruption, cruelty, crime, and war: in the balance against these
we place the long roster of poets, composers, artists,scientists,
philosophers, and saints. That same species which
poor Swift revenged the frustrations of his flesh
wrote the plays of Shakespeare, the music of Bach and
Handel, the odes of Keats, the Republic of Plato,
the Principia of Newton, and the Ethics of Spinoza; it
built the Parthenon, and painted the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel; it conceived and cherished, even if it
crucified, Christ. Man did all this; let him never despair."

--Will Durant, historian, circa 1937.

[grey_whiskers]

I remember a time when I wrote
Many poems but no-one took note
Oh! First I didst weep
...then learned I could FReep
where my limericks get churned out by rote!

Full Disclosure-- take that!

[A knight without armor]

I remember a time when McDonald's had supersized meals.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"God help all of us"

Yes. People have botched it all, real well...

[MrEdd]

Oh! the Humanity!