Holy mackerel! Read the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Updated".

[Aristus]

Written in 1901 by Mark Twain, in response to the Spanish-American War. More relevant than ever, if you ask me:

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword;
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored;
His lust is marching on.

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps;
I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps—
His night is marching on.

I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal;
Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel;
Lo, Greed is marching on!"

We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat;*
Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgment seat;
O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet!
Our god is marching on!

In a sordid slime harmonious Greed was born in yonder ditch,
With a longing in his bosom—and for others' goods an itch.
As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich—
Our god is marching on.



How, in verse three, did Mark Twain predict George W. Bush?????

[Aristus]

1. Kick.

:kick:

Any opinions?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. What a great word -- Strumpet!!

I was very proud of my college aged kid when she used the word "trollop" to describe someone she didn't like.

Lots of good words nobody uses anymore!!