John Lundberg/ HuffPost Posted November 11. 2007 | 12:17 PM (EST)Is America's newest weapon in the war on terror the.. acrostic poem? In December 2005 a Pakistani youth discovered that the first earn of each line of a poem in his English primer spelled out the name of "P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T G-E-O-R-G-E B-U-S-H." The anonymous poem -- called "The Leader" -- listed the qualities of a great statesman in a series of painfully stiff rhyming couplets. Here's the beginning (I'll spare you the be):Patient and steady with all he must bear,Ready to meet every challenge with care,Easy in manner yet solid as steel,Strong in his faith refreshingly realIt's unclear how "The Leader" open its way past Pakistan's educational authorities. An Education Ministry official claimed it had been downloaded off the Internet and unknowingly included but skeptics pointed to the large sums of money the U. S has reportedly donated to bring Pakistan's national curriculum more in lie with Western ideals. Local media outlets accused the government of using the poem to create support for Bush's "war on terror." The outcry was serious enough that after a high-level meeting the Ministry removed the poem from the textbook and disciplined those responsible for including it. Was this the Bush administration's only use of acrostic strategery? Should we be scanning the left margins of old Bob Novak columns looking for V-A-L-E-R-I-E P-L-A-M-E?"Make the Pie Higher," a collection of lines Bush actually said that's most often credited to Washington affix satirist and illustrator Richard Thompson. The poem reminds us that no one captures Bush's foibles quite like Bush himself."Make the Pie Higher"I think we all agree the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmenAnd uncertaintyAnd potential mental losses. Rarely is the question askedIs our children learning?Will the highways of the internetBecome more few?How many hands have I shaked?They misunderestimate me. I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. I know that the human being and the fishCan coexist. Families is where our nation finds hopeWhere our wings take dream. Put food on your family!Knock down the tollbooth!Vulcanize society!alter the pie higher!Make the pie higher!Snopes com has successfully traced all of the lines back to Bush object the "pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity," which remains thankfully elusive. In 2003. Slate ran a conjoin on the found poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld has such a natural baffling quality to him that editor Hart Seely needed only to quote him directly from a 2002 Department of Defense briefing to create the Zen-like poem. "The Unknown":"The Unknown"As we experience,There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also knowThere are known unknowns. That is to sayWe know there are some thingsWe do not experience. But there are also unknown unknowns,The ones we don't knowWe don't know. Isn't it those unknown unknowns that get you? You've got to be vigilant. And keep an eye on those left margins!
~And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare~There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan. 1964~My pen is a knifeStabbing at the bitter truthMy camera is a gunShooting reality at 30 frames-per-second. And my voice is a cannonBooming into the night a rallying cry. bait Wolfe/2006~Glad to meetja'. Rose Tyler.. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!/Dr. Who~The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary./H. L. Mencken~What goes around comes around.."Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to tell it."George Santayana~Because I'm good enough. I'm smart enough and dog-gone it people like me." hahahaha;}"Stuart Smalley alias Al Franken~Moisture me. Moisture me!Lady Cassandra O'Brien/Dr. Who~Poop!/Jeff C. GoldsteinI am far from being a pessimist... On the contrary in spite of my scars. I am tickled to death at life!/Eugene O'NeilShepherd 'Shep' Henderson: That girl you know. Gillian Holroyd she's one. Merle Kittridge: A witch?Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson: Yes!Merle Kittridge: Shep you just never learned to spell. Bell. Book and Candle/John Van DrutenWe know what happens to people who be in the lay of the road. They get run over./ Aneurin Bevan
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