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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:34
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Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line: -- --
"Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes;
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases."
CHORUS
(in which the cook and the baby joined): -- --
"Wow! wow! wow!"
While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words: -- --
"I speak severely to my boy,
I beat him when he sneezes;
For he can thoroughly enjoy
The pepper when he pleases!"
CHORUS
"Wow! wow! wow!"
The people who were caned at my grammar school were the same offenders, time and again. The only lesson it taught them was not to get caught, or to pin the blame on someone else.
The lesson I learned from this was that some people like caning others, some people enjoy abusing their authority, and that beating children is wrong.
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Ted Striker
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United States of America
Jan 1970
time: 21:34
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quote:
Originally posted by Ned
Ted, you don't have a clue.
Kerry would be torn limb from limb if he were to attend a Vietnam Veterans reunion. |
You've got it wrong. You should have hear the ovation re received at his testimony, all of it coming from vets. He was fighting for the vets most of all, plain and simple.
Certianly there are vets that can't stand Kerry. But they don't understand where he is coming from.
YOU just don't like him because he went directly after Nixon.
Here's an excerpt from his testimony:
quote:
But the problem with veterans goes beyond this personal problem, because you think about a poster in this country with a picture of Uncle Sam and the picture says: I WANT YOU. And a young man comes out of high school and says: "That is fine, I am going to serve my country," and he goes to Vietnam and he shoots and he kills and he does his job or maybe he doesn't kill, maybe he just goes and he comes back, and when he gets back to this country he finds that he isn't really wanted because the largest unemployment figure in this country - it varies depending on who you get it from, the V.A. 15 per cent, various other sources 22 per cent - but the largest corps of unemployed in this country are veterans of this war, and of those veterans 33 per cent of the unemployed are black. That means one out of every ten of the nation's unemployed is a veteran of Vietnam.
The hospitals across the country won't or can't meet their demands. It is not a question of not trying; they haven't got the appropriations. A man recently died after he had a tracheotomy in California, not because of the operation but because there weren't enough personnel to clean the mucus out of his tube and he suffocated to death.
Another young man just died in a New York V.A. hospital that other day. A friend of mine was lying in a bed two beds away and tried to help him but couldn't. He rang a bell and there was nobody there to service that man and so he died of convulsions.
Fifty-seven per cent, I understand 57 per cent of all those entering the V.A. hospitals talk about suicide. Some 27 per cent have tried, and they try because they come back to this country and they have to face what they did in Vietnam, and then they come back and find the indifference of a country that doesn't really care. |
Does that sound like a man who turned his back on his friends to you?
http://members.aol.com/bear317p/kerry.htm
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