Showing posts with label War Drum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War Drum. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Reports are that Clinton has accepted the secretary of state job. She'll join Emmanuel and the others, all smiling and nodding and congratulating each other: "Hey, good job! Welcome to the club!" But soon, the talk will turn serious: "Okay, now let's get down to the business of killing children." Naturally, there will first be a solemn prayer led by a man or woman of the cloth, to call down a blessing on the slaughter. The clergy are too genteel to actually say, "Kill the baby infidels!" but we know what they mean.
Hear that noise? It's a war drum. It's been just a faint rumble in the background for many years, so we didn't have to notice, but now it's getting louder and louder. Soon, it will drown out the cries of the children.

MONDAY

Slept okay and got up at 6:30. After my coffee and my morning puzzles, I dressed and, as I've been doing, lay down at 9:00 and took an h...