HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?
By Robert Wadsworth Lowry
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HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING? Today my life goes on in song, Above earth's lamentation. I hear the real though far-off hymn, That hails a new creation. No storm can shake my inmost calm, While to that rock I'm clinging, Since love is lord of heaven and earth, How can I keep from singing? Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear its music ringing, It sounds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing? While though the tempest loudly roars, I hear the truth, it liveth. And thought the darkness round me close, Songs in the night it giveth. When tyrants tremble, sick with fear, And hear their death knell ringing, When friends rejoice, both far and near, How can I keep from singing? No storm can shake my inmost calm, While to that rock I'm clinging, Since love is lord of heaven and earth, How can I keep from singing? "How can I keep from singing?"
By Robert Wadsworth Lowry
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Love is a Physics experiment gone crazy. "Equal and Opposite Reactions" by Patti Liszkay http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa THE DONALD MADE ME DO IT Were these people really thinking that they could go to Washington one day, riot, smash into the Capitol, break into the Senate, zip-tie members of Congress, hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, overthrow the United States government, then go home and go to work the next day? The above question was pondered by my son-in-law Miguel, ...in the days after the Washington D.C. riots as the FBI began showing up at the doors of rioters and making arrests, much to the surprise and distress of said rioters. But if the insurgents were so unaware that there would be consequences for the damage, destruction, violence and terror they wreaked and the injuries they caused when they stormed the Capitol building, ...then what in the world were they thinking? Apparently this was a terrorism day trip. A democracy-overthrow outing. A attempted assassination afternoon. The rioters posted selfies, tweets, instagrams, photos, videos, slathered themselves all over social media while committing acts of violence and Federal felonies. Then when Federal agents were waiting for them as they stepped off their planes or came to their houses days later, the FBI having gleaned their identities from tips from friends, family, and by all the social and news media postings, ...they were caught like deer in the headlights. However after these people were arrested, charged, and able to avail themselves of the counsel of lawyers, clarity finally emerged and they came to the realization of why they had thought and behaved as they did: Donald Trump made them think it. Donald Trump made them do it. They acted, so they claimed, not of their own volition, but were following the command of their beloved President, who told them to "march down Pennsylvania Avenue" to the Capitol and to "fight like hell." ...which they subsequently did. And took plenty of pictures of themselves doing it. And now: ― Jenna Ryan, a Texas realtor who was arrested for taking part in the siege said she was answering the call of her President and that now, "I just want people to know I'm a normal person, that I listen to my President who told me to go to the Capitol." This self-described "normal person" is now pleading for a Presidential pardon from Donald Trump. ― The lawyer for the man who invaded the Capitol wearing horns, fur, and face paint said that President Trump was culpable for his client's actions. “Does our President bear responsibility?” said the man's laywer. “Hell, yes, he does.” The horned warrior, now in prison, is also begging Donald Trump for a pardon. ― A retired firefighter charged with injuring Capitol Police officers with a fire extinguisher said he went to the Capitol following “the President’s instructions.” ― A New Mexico county official and founder of Cowboys for Trump who was charged with with breaking into the Capitol pled that he merely became "caught up in the crowd." Et cetera. And so, if the hundreds of rioters who are now facing punishment for their crimes and the hundreds or thousands more who will be brought to justice knew not what they were thinking at the time, now they do. They're thinking that it wasn't their fault. That their President made them do it. And that, sometime before noon tomorrow, they want a Presidential pardon. Good luck to them in getting one. References:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/nyregion/protesters-blaming-trump-pardon.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-told-them-123643116.html "Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888 Buy them on Amazon. 21,000 IF BY LAND, BUT WHAT IF BY AIR? If everybody in America is as anxious as I am tonight then we are one anxious country. Our nation's intelligence sources predict that this weekend and likely for days - possibly weeks - to follow there will be armed and likely violent pro-Trump agitators converging upon every state capitol building in the country in protest of the outcome of the Presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden. It does not help my jitters that I happen to live in one of the cities, Columbus, Ohio, wherein is located one of the soon-to-be-besieged state capitols. The Ohio State Capitol True, our Governor, Mike Dewine, has ordered so far several hundred national guard troops to assist the Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers and Columbus police officers in warding off the thousands of marauders who may descend upon the city, which would not have calmed me half so much had Governor Dewine not assured us at his press conference yesterday that he will round up more troops to protect the Capitol building and the city if need be. Therefore I do not begrudge the 1,000 Ohio guardsmen and women our Governor has dispatched to Washington to assist the other guard troops, 21,000 strong, who will be protecting the United States Capitol. No, I'm glad for every boot that will be on the ground.
But here's what worries me: what if the domestic terrorists, along with attacks on the ground, are planning air attacks? Who's to say that a small private plane - or an army of small private planes - couldn't fly over the U.S. Capitol or over state capitol buildings and drop home made bombs or incendiary devices on the buildings or the people protecting the buildings? Who's to say they couldn't fly low and strafe the guard troops and police officers? Who's to even say there might not be some unhinged holy-war-zealots out there who might be planning to fly a plane into a building? What I want to know is, with all the thought and preparation that's gone into defense strategy against land attacks, has anyone planned defense against air attacks? "Oh, I'm sure they've planned for air attacks," said my spouse Tom. "But have they?" I said. "I haven't read or heard of any plans in case of air attacks." "Don't worry, they're ready," said Tom. "I'm going to send an email to the FBI, just in case they haven't thought of an air attack," said I. "Don't send the FBI and email," said Tom. "They might show up at the front door." "Maybe I'd like for them to show up at the front door so I could make sure they've thought about an air attack." Anyway, I ended up not sending an email to the FBI. But I did send one to Governor Dewine the other day warning him to be prepared for a possible air attack by Pro-Trump protesters. The Governor hasn't responded to my email. Which is fine. I just hope he saw it. And then passed it on to the FBI. You know you need something good to read. "Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888 Buy them on Amazon. MIKE PENCE, YOU PUTZ, JUST DO IT! Do it, Mike Pence, JUST DO IT! Four years you've been Donald Trump's Gunga Din, the most loyal of lackies, ...creeping along behind him with your goat skin water bag slung over your your back like a limping lump of brick-dust, then scurrying ahead to sprinkle your water on the fires he set and your fairy dust on his lies and actions that were enough to make your eyebrows crawl. And in return, Mike Pence, he's belted you and flayed you, ...but now, by the livin' Gawd that made you, has come to your chance to show that you're a better man than Trump is, Mike Pence! For you are finally to have your day, Mike Pence (as does every dog), your chance to throw off your water bag and stand tall, to be a man instead of Trump's gummy worm, ...multiple mixed metaphors be hanged! And so do it, Mike Pence, JUST DO IT! Congress is offering you your manhood on a silver platter, the opportunity to lead the country and save us from whatever destructive mischief Donald Trump might be cooking up in the coming days, and you'd get to be President of the United States, to boot. (President only for a few days, but still. You'd finally be The Man. Or at least a man). Listen, Mike Pence, and hear me well: on this very day the United States Congress is voting on a resolution to call on you to invoke the 25th Amendment of our Constitution, which, with a majority of the President's cabinet in agreement, would require the Vice President (that's you, Mike Pence) to take over the duties and powers of the President and, in this case, for the President to be removed immediately. After Congress votes today on the resolution, you will have 24 hours to invoke the 25th Amendment. Do it, Mike Pence, JUST DO IT! And do it now. Get Donald Trump out of the office of President, don't let another sun set on this man still sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Do not follow behind Donald Trump another minute with your water bag, don't follow him down, down, down, lest you end up spending eternity squattin' on the coals givin' drink to poor damn souls. You've been given the opportunity, the chance, the gift to do the right thing for your country and to break free of Donald Trump. So please, Mike Pence, cease being Trump's putz, his Gunga Din, his gummy worm. Do it now, Mike Pence, JUST DO IT! References
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/house-vote-25th-amendment-trump/index.html "Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46783/gunga-din "Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888 Buy them on Amazon. |
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