Twas the Night Before Doomsday
AN ODE TO Old Nick
Twas the night before doomsday
When all through the marts
Not a damn thing was stirring
Not even the shopping carts
Mortgages had been bundled by
Theft merchants without care
In hopes that someone else
Would get caught holding scared
There were almost three decades
Of merchants playing in muck
Keeping health care from children
And gasoline in the truck
w kept stem cells
All safe in their sacks
While soldiers were slain
In WMD free Iraq
Taxes were held low
For those in the fast lane
While wages for real workers
Continued to wane
Our philosophy and politics
Were good for seven years
We fought them far away
So we wouldn't fight them here
We kept America for Americans
Or at least rich Americans
The poor will always be with us
So why waste giving a hand
America is for winners
The losers only whine
Let business do what business does
And everything will be fine
But the mortgage bundles failed
The banks went down in flames
Businesses quit hiring workers
All sectors turned up lame
But the free run capitalists
Still making the deregulation call
Heard the ghost of Ronald Reagan yelling
TEAR DOWN THIS MALL
Twas the night before doomsday
When all through the marts
Not a damn thing was stirring
Not even the shopping carts
Mortgages had been bundled by
Theft merchants without care
In hopes that someone else
Would get caught holding scared
There were almost three decades
Of merchants playing in muck
Keeping health care from children
And gasoline in the truck
w kept stem cells
All safe in their sacks
While soldiers were slain
In WMD free Iraq
Taxes were held low
For those in the fast lane
While wages for real workers
Continued to wane
Our philosophy and politics
Were good for seven years
We fought them far away
So we wouldn't fight them here
We kept America for Americans
Or at least rich Americans
The poor will always be with us
So why waste giving a hand
America is for winners
The losers only whine
Let business do what business does
And everything will be fine
But the mortgage bundles failed
The banks went down in flames
Businesses quit hiring workers
All sectors turned up lame
But the free run capitalists
Still making the deregulation call
Heard the ghost of Ronald Reagan yelling
TEAR DOWN THIS MALL
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Thanks, dd! :)
February 17, 2009 8:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good morning.
February 17, 2009 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Buenos Dias!
I'm busy reading a very long thread elsewhere. Also have patients today, a bit later. (I assume you got my message.)
February 17, 2009 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right on Dick Day you make me proud to be a fellow Minnesotan.
February 17, 2009 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Viper. You have a nice Tuesday
February 17, 2009 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Eviction comes knocking,
and all the through the house,
not a squeak ever sounded,
They've repo'd the mouse...
Very funny, dickday. Rec'd.
February 17, 2009 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Pretty good Curt, pretty good.hahahahaha
February 17, 2009 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
TEAR DOWN THIS MALL.
Great one, Dr Dick.
I can hear that dummy shouting it, and feeling all proud of himself. ;-)
February 17, 2009 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. Can't you see him looking around, WHERE AM I? WHERE'S MY NANCY?
February 17, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
DD:
Moved by
".... w kept stem cells
All safe in their sacks
While soldiers were slain
In WMD free Iraq..."
and LMAO at
".... TEAR DOWN THIS MALL."
Well done, Dick.
February 17, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you Belle. Have a good afternoon.
February 17, 2009 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bravo!
February 17, 2009 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Oleeb. For some reason I read and heard TEAR DOWN THIS WALL one too many times this week and snapped.
February 17, 2009 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice way to build the anticipation, Dick. Skip a few more days if you'd like ... always leave them wanting more!
February 17, 2009 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahaha
No, I am more than half way there and when I finish I need to see the reaction. I am really about 15
February 17, 2009 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wonderful, Dick. Are you working on the latest Arthur chapter or have I missed something?
February 17, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Missy. I am skipping a day. I got one of them waking up in a dungeon and I got to figure out how to get him out. Thank you for asking. I had to my shrink today and I did not wish to push it. First day in 22.
February 17, 2009 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nicely done!
February 17, 2009 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Mr. Smith, thanks for dropping by.
February 17, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
a regular Walt Whitman - on the nose, dd...
February 17, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Steve I can have a ball tearing down a mall!!!!
February 17, 2009 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
You may get your chance, buddy! They may be giving them away!
February 17, 2009 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Making merry of a grim situation. Thanks for the comic(?) relief.
February 17, 2009 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
How do you spell relief?
R O L A I D S
Frankly its just baking soda with gels & stuff.
So I stick with baking soda.
Thanks Gregor!!!
February 17, 2009 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
whoa, Mr. Day.
Let us hope against hope that the powers that be will attain some semblance of sense.
I see none. No hope. Nothing. It's a damn shame. About all that keeps me going is my anger and thirst for a little, tiny, bit of justice.
We will see...
February 17, 2009 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bwak, I am just a pajama man.
I need a smile from my chicken!!!
We shall see some justice. We already have. I knew that sob dicky c had papers on w's desk the day before Obama was officially signed in as Prez. I knew it!!! And I knew w would never sign because he will never admit he did anything wrong.
We should do a blog on that.
But we shall see some more justice!!!
February 17, 2009 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope so. My friend I need to see some. There has been too much injustice. Far too much.
Pajamas?
:D
Got Peegalitos slippers?
February 17, 2009 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take all the time you need, dd. Don't tax yourself. Write as the spirit moves you!
February 17, 2009 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know I was just telling my therapist about you!! No kidding. You are a nice person.
February 17, 2009 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well thank you, dd. I am touched. I truly am. TPM is a good place for you. You've got tons of support now. And you're making a name for yourself! So do as you feel moved. Blessings upon you, dd. :-)
February 17, 2009 10:27 PM | Reply | Permalink