Dedicated from the heart to GWB, Dead-Eye Dick, Condi (who, oddly enough, fits the profile), Rummy (tough break, daddy-o) and the rest of the crew...
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet, was a response to the American take over of the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War.
Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden-- In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden-- No tawdry rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeper-- The tale of common things. The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread, Go mark them with your living, And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden-- And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard-- The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:-- "Why brought he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden-- Ye dare not stoop to less-- Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloke your weariness; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden-- Have done with childish days-- The lightly proferred laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers!
It is an ungodly mess of
errors, loopholes, and
massive giveaways. When
the American people find
out
what's actually 
;in this bill, they will
revolt. Congress and
President Obama have no
choice but to do better
for health care than...
'Tis the season: Let's
give the polar bear a
home without oil.
« Alaska
Wilderness League
Source: capwiz.com
'Tis the season: Let's
give the polar bear a
home without oil.
BBC News - Missing girl
sailor Laura Dekker found
safe in Antilles
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
A Dutch teenager barred
from sailing solo around
the world because of her
age has been found on a
Caribbean island after
disappearing, police say.
BBC News - Dutch teenage
sailor Laura Dekker
'missing'
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Dutch police say teenage
sailor Laura Dekker - who
seeks to be the youngest
person to sail solo
around the world -has
been missing since
Friday.
All my life, I have
always voted for person,
not party...but if the
Democrats bully through
their partisan health
reform bill, I will be
voting AGAINST any
Democrat running in every
election until Pelosi,
Reed, Obama, & every
person who votes for ...
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Pet Carousel Conducts
Nationwide Recall of Beef
Hoof Products and Pig
Ears Because of
Salmonella Ris
Source: www.fda.gov
Sanger, CA-- Pet Carousel
has initiated a recall of
all Pig Ears and all
varieties of Beef Hoof
pet treats because the
products m...
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at;
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THESE ARE FIGHTING
WORDS--Keith Olbermann on
Perversion of Health Care
Bill
US Politics &
Gov't (tags:&n
bsp;healthcare, obam
a, ethic...
International Animal
Rescue : News: Animal
welfare history is made
as the final curtain
falls on dan
Source:
www.internationalani...
A coalition of
conservation and animal
rescue groups has today
made animal welfare
history by taking the
last danci...
BBC News - Deepest
volcano caught on Pacific
Ocean video
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The pictures show lavas
bursting into the water
at the West Mata
submarine volcano, which
is sited about 200km (125
miles) south-west of the
Samoas.