Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times: May 2014

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Alan Barron Suspended for Teaching about Jim Crow and Blackface Musicals

Jim Crow and Blackface in Munroe Mean Suspension

The PC wave that engulfs us in all aspects of our lives

Is growing stronger making rational discussion of issues hard to survive

At Munroe Middle School a teacher about as non racist as one could be

Is teaching 8^th grade history about the effects of Jim Crow and is “lynched” from the PC tree.

So a teacher, Alan Barron, shows a video about white singers with faces black

Here's a news flash, Al Jolson performing in blackface is a historical fact

Al Jolson, a Lithuanian Jew, was one of the first to discrimination on Broadway fight

One of the best teachers about to retire now on paid leave, a victim of the "racist" PC bite

You cannot avoid the lessons of history if history somehow must be changed to be PC correct

Monroe Middle School near Detroit needs to chill out and reflect

You cannot the cause of nondiscrimination advance

If history must be ignored or coated in PC rants

If this teacher Barron had taught a class about Shakespeare

Showing that on stage even for Juliet only men could appear

Would he be suspended to a NOW protest prevented?

The PC assault on history in Monroe needs to be relented!

Friday, May 30, 2014

Hard Choices Benghazi Like Jihad Will Not Die

The Benghazi Chapter in Hard Choices by Politico has been released

Not sure whether the contents are to spur sales or to make the attacks on her cease

But with all due respect

Hillary's claims on Benghazi we should reject

Especially when made by a "potential" candidate who to the parents of those dead

Flat out lied, vowing that the US would get the video maker instead

The simple way to avoid a political slug-fest

Is for her and this administration’s efforts to block the truth arrest

If we do not learn what we did wrong in our failure to protect

Our embassies and consulates are sitting ducks for another attack by another Islamic sect

Bin Laden may have be the poster child for Al Qaeda’s terror run wild

But killing him did not kill the ideology and terror by humanity reviled

Look around the world to see Islamic Jihadists multiplying faster than deadly staph

To assume that the Jihadist ideology is now weak or dead should make us laugh

Like Pearl Harbor, Korea, or 911, we were caught with our proverbial pants down

But at least there our leadership did not play the role of the deceiving clowns

Watching our President and Hillary in foreign policy resets and red lines is an exercise in frustration beyond belief

As a child of the 60’s who marched to protest the Vietnam War that caused us such grief

Hillary hopefully remembers why the U.S. despite the cost in lives could not just cut and run

If she becomes our Commander in Chief and does not, our problems will really just have begun

I will not buy the book but to read to the library go

Will be interesting to see how she masks or justifies her attempts to snow

But one thing is certain— you can deceive and lie to your country’s enemies and foes

But to your own citizens, that is not a place where a potential president should ever go.

Shenseki, Carney Resign Holder Should Be Next

Shenseki and Carney Resign--Holder Should Be Next

An honorable man, a patriot, a wounded vet, a general has resigned

Finally after 6 years a glimpse of accountability has entered Obama's mind

Another, a press secretary who seemed as the scandal brewed up,

Resigned as the truth his misstatements and dodging continued to interrupt

The VA scandal was growing each day

Cooking the books while care delayed

A deputy VA secretary on an interim basis has been named

From Obama's perspective problem solved, issue tamed

But the systemic failures in the VA system still remain

Worse, the vast bureaucracy overseeing care still reigns

As interim secretary we wish Sloan Gibson well

As he steps into the bookends of a failed design and bureaucratic hell

A former banker and West Point grad one can only hope

He specialized in healthcare banking as he tries to cope

If heads are going to roll other than being put on paid administrative leave

While vets die and wait for care while they and families grieve

Handcuffed by Reid and Sanders failure to allow into the Senate a three page bill

Making it easier for the VA to fire, which was passed by huge Red and Blue votes on the Hill

A turnaround management team with healthcare experience needs to be immediately involved

Failing that, it may be very difficult for these core systemic problems to be resolved

Waiting for a completed IG report or ad hoc committee reports with recommendations the problems will not fix

At its core of the single server of care, the VA is on life support; it is very sick

If the VA cannot provide care in a timely period of time

Vouchers need to be issued for private care to reduce the number waiting in line.

While the VA under a promoted deputy perhaps flounders in its typical bureaucratic way

When will the most political AG weigh into these potential criminal acts without delay?

Or will this be another example of Holder protecting Obama's back

Especially as the targets of investigation seeing the FBI testify the Administration knew these sordid facts.

But there is an old saying that some believe followed will keep one from harm

In life’s efforts like marriage and preservation of reputation, the third time is the charm

So, Eric Holder, there is an over the line team needing a member to be complete

Time for you to resign and on the beach, bat in hand Shinseki and Carney to meet

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Fortress Wantagh High Skool [sic] Sealing Lockerschool

Fortress Wantagh High School

“Blowing The Skool [sic] up today no joke I’ve had it.”

It looks like grammar and spelling at Wantagh High School has quit

Sadly, our schools from elementary to universities have become potential killing zones

A gun culture layered over a collapse of mental health becoming way too violence prone

Sealing lockers, banning purses, banning backpacks, books in plastic bags

While lurking within or without guns with high capacity mags

If a troubled teen somehow does not have access to a gun

A knife will kill almost as quickly if one cannot away from the threat quickly run

While some pounce on the excuse of white privilege to violence explain

Others quickly condemn the culture of music and film violence distorting reality in a teen's brain.

There was a time almost eons ago when during recess running free

You would hear "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"

But words today can feelings definitely hurt

Planting the revenge seed that may sprout in violence gone berserk

Or not heard or ignored cries for help are omens of violence to waiting to explode

Victims of the social mores against killing and violence continuing to erode

We cannot put an armed deputy with bomb sniffing dogs in every school

Nor can we keep all kids at home isolated to learn online education's tools

An easy answer might be to inculcate in the youth the need for the Golden Rule

Teens shorn of childhood innocence would laugh at us as fools

But we can our mental health system try to restore

To learn the signs of mental illness and no longer ignore

Pilot With Bags of Cocaine in Stomach in Jail

12 O’clock High

Hill's arrest gives a new meaning to the phrase 12 O' Clock High

Stomach loaded with cocaine bags 30,000 feet into the sky

At least he was not in the cockpit but in uniform en route from Columbia to U.S.

One bag bursts and surprise he is under great medical stress

Pilots are not paid even at regional carriers only the minimum wage

Why he would risk death of bursting bags is hard to gauge?

I would liked to have known the carrier's name

If this pilot Hill had a drug problem he could not tame

His carrier's drug testing program needs an overhaul

How high on cocaine does a pilot need to be before he loses control and plane stalls?

This could be a carrier one needs to not fly

If any risk any of the flight crew might be during the flight high.

Another example of how the war on drugs is a war in which we may fail

Risking a career, life for $4,000 of cocaine and facing felonies and 500 grand bail