NO NO NO (that's right)

The Republics seem to be the party that is, as a general knee-jerk response, against things, except for war and standardized testing.  No taxes, no social security, no universal health care, no gays, no immigrants, no functional levies, no safe bridges, no dissent, no ideas, no nothin'.  For the youth, just say no to everything.  Abstain.  No information.  No, no, no, including no to original thought, because that would be unpatriotic.  No free speech either.   No Habeas Corpus. No creativity in the teaching profession.  Even Bush's signature federal program has the word "NO" in it:  "NO Child Left Behind".  NO.  NO.  NO.  They are the party of finger-wagging, scolding, nay-sayers.  LET'S VOTE 'EM OUT; YES!!!

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Ain't She Somethin'?

Toot Your Own Horn

A Ritual To Read To Each Other

by William Stafford

If you don't know the kind of person I am

and I don't know the kind of person you are

a pattern that others made may prevail in the world

and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,

a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break

sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood

storming out to play through the broken dike.

And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail,

but if one wanders the circus won't find the park,

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty

to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, 

a remote important region in all who talk:

though we could fool each other, we should consider--

lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,

or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;

the signals we give--yes or no, or maybe--

should be clear; the darkness around us is deep.