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(And find out why you might want to)
Al Gore's Movie: "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"
It took the academy award for documentaries even though its "facts" were based mainly on
the chief character's imagination. Which says something about the integrity of Hollywood.
It’s a genuine threat to our planet! Let’s prove it!
If there’s any doubt in the world’s mind just remove it
THAT will prove to the world that the world's at its bleak end.
Science says: seas may rise a few feet; which is plenty.
"In defining the Truth," says Al, "I'll be lenient,
for sometimes, let's face it, the Truth's inconvenient."
(I know, opening week-end is now long, long past. But so long as Gore keeps that nutty
message "I pledge to see it on opening week-end" on the net I'll keep this doggerel here.)
RhymeCon
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Barbra Streisand, actress, songstress, and
self-renouned shrink psychoanalysed the President, and what the heck do you think!
The President's compulsion was to outdo his dad
by winning the white house twice and his best launching pad
was ignoring Afghanistan after 9-11. She says invading Iraq was his seventh heaven.
(At least that's the truth based on
Barbra's clock,
who thinks that the Taliban was in Iraq.)
And he “knew” that Iraq had no WMD’s
but he “lied” that they did – (with complete guarantees
that after invading we’d find he was lying
and he’d win in 2004, not even trying
for everyone wants to vote for a liar.)
Believe that? That is Barbra’s fervent desire!
Rhymecon
Hollywood - Where a person so ignorant of the news as to have never heard that we went to war with Afghanistan
after 9-11 can give political speeches, and liberals will listen.
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DO SAY "The gang here at the office can't wait to see you
feeling better and back at work."
DO NOT SAY "We have voted 6 to 3 to wish you a speedy recovery."
"NARAL Pro- Choice"
Whistles in the Dark
Is it still Journalistic Poetry if it's Free Verse? With misgivings I'll try.
NARAL is frantic! Defeat looms chillingly.
Roe vs. Wade. Is it gasping its death throes?
Is their nightmare now happening? Could abortion be outlawed?
so they're whistling in the dark.
“We have a trump card and we’re ready to use it!”
“It would guarantee abortion rights once and for all!”
“We’d never again have to fight for our pro-choice stand.”
What is it? a bill before Congress, Senators Boxer and Nadler.
If it passes, Congress could never rule
on abortion rights again,
so they seem to believe.
It's the Freedom of Choice act, to protect “Constitutional rights,”
but if the Constitution can’t be depended on
an act of Congress can?
Rhymecon
NARAL
originally stood for the "Nat’l Ass’n for Repeal of Abortion Laws," but after those laws were repealed by the 1973
Roe vs. Wade decision they changed it to “Nat’l Abortion Rights Action League.” Now they face the grim prospect
of changing it back again.
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My atheist friend once smirked "It seems odd
to say your God created the universe.
Just explain to
me please, who created God?”
he said smirkily.
His question seems terse
but meaningless
unless he has the answer,
for the fatal cancer
of his logic is
this: The universe exists!
And throughout all
the lists
of its possible
sources
by non-godly forces
like a speck of
matter that banged a Big BANG!!
Who created the
speck? Or perhaps we all sprang
from aliens from
some other dimension.
Whence did they
come? Who began their ascension
to us? How else
to explain it
but by some cosmic
Knowledge? Just no way to feign it!
Knowledge existed!
That's easy to show
for had He not persisted
there'd be no one to Know,
and we Judeo-Christians,
through these many millennia
have prayed to that
Knowledge through joys and through many a
heartache,
found strength
there, and love, while through ages we've trod.
(And we who speak
English have named Him - our God.)
RhymeCon
For anything as down-to-earth as punditry
it's important to keep the grammar up to current usage. I did say "That Knowledge existed is easy to show-" but then changed
the inverted sentence structure to "Knowledge existed! That's easy to show-."
DO SAY "Preacher, the church sure looks beautiful this Easter."
DO NOT SAY "But why do you always decorate with poinsettias or lillies?"
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(and after writing the above I found a fascinating website; www.big-bang-theory.com/ that suggested another idea: ) But before you click the
link you must promise to return here.
Its age, say the scientists, is less than eternity,
just a whole bunch of years, perhaps 14 billion.
How did it start - our celestial pavilion?
Once upon a time - (how else to begin it ?-)
there was nothing but nothing and that seemed infinite,
not a vacuum, not darkness, not space, just plain
Nothin'.
Then all by itself Nothin' changed into Somethin'!
That leaves science dumfounded. It violates the laws
of Thermodynamics. It leaves science in the jaws
of impossible conundrums, for scientists study
the laws of the universe; now all study is muddy
for how does one study what never existed?
But in search of an answer some folks have resisted
the common sense thought - science courses might
ask
if a Cosmic Intelligence might accomplish a
task
which to science is impossible, (though it occurred,)
and a reasonable student might, if he had heard
the facts,
say "Science is stumped! And now that I know it
I'll ask a clergyman or philosopher or even a poet."
RhymeCon
O.K., here are two questionable rhymes. "begin it" rhymes with "infinite" ONLY if you stress
the 2nd syllable of infinite. And "nothin'" just plain doesn't rhyme with "somethin'" but I'm pretending it does, based
on the two words fitting so naturally together.
DO SAY
"I used to look for the perfect Church, and when I found it I joined."
DO NOT SAY
"But then it wasn't perfect anymore."
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| But Why the Santa Clause Cap? |
verse 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(and the grass and herbs and trees,
and the creatures of the seas,
and fowl, that fill the skies,
and beasts - both gals & guys,
and bugs of every detail
and mankind - both male & female)*
verse 31. ........and the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
to which someone has added -
Then He saith "I couldn't use EVOLUTION. Just couldn't!
And even if I could, well I just plain wouldn't.
Couldn't have caused one species or other
to evolve into another
by the forces of NATURE, for NATURE is foreign
to God (that includeth both floren & faunen)
and I couldn't use those natural laws
(I myself have created) to evolve feet from paws
or evolve feathers to furs
or his's to her's.
And if I would do so, then some folks insist
that I would have proven I simply don't exist!"
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Well, Why?
RhymeCon has had nary
a course in biology
or a PhD in paleontology,
but -
I wouldn't ask a scientist to explain absolution,
or a clergyman to teach evolution.
Evolution? Exactly why should I mind it
as long as God was behind it?
RhymeCon
*And if you object that "detail" doesn't rhyme with "female" because
the final unstressed syllables rhyme but are not identical, please click and then press BACK button to return here.
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DO SAY "Due to construction, morning services
will be held in the west end of the church while vespers
will be in the east end."
DO NOT SAY "Children will be baptised at both ends."
The
Christian Right Under Attack
Marriage is an unknown thing, it has no definition.
Two men or two women- or a guy with three wives? (Let's
just be democratic.)
Hollywood says “Yes” to the former;
“Yes” to the latter is TV’s position.
The Christian Right says “No.” Wow! Every fundy's a screaming fanatic!
The liberals blessed us decades ago with the sexual revolution,
till society’s standard, the traditional family, quickly turned regressive.
Now unwed maternity’s become the norm, but society’s retribution
is against the Christian Right, who hates anything progressive.
The ACLU helps the pedophiles. ACLU hates the Boy Scouts.
NOW demands rights from the moment of birth, but not one second before.
Americans United defends religion except the rights of the "outs,"
those despicable fundies; if we'd let them have rights, they'd stomp all your rights through the floor.
RhymeCon
Poetry.Com is a really handy resource and I keep their icon on my desktop - just click on "Need Help
Rhyming?" and then enter a word you're trying to rhyme. It's not too usefull with rhyming words based on a secondary-stressed syllable. It also gives synonyms but isn't too great on that either, in my opinion. You're better
off investing in a copy of Roget's Thesaurus, (infinitely better than the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus).
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ACLU Supports Terrorist Rights
A paraphrase
of their website
Bush
has rolled back every civil right!
The
despised Christian Right has the ear of the white house!
The
courts have now sunk to their murkiest night.
The
ACLU gleams as our only lighthouse.
Join us today! Defend the rights of minorities.
Al
Qidists deserve their telephone privacy!
Terrorist rights are our paramount priorities.
When under attack, never tighten security.
No president has done such a thing until now!
(Well,
FDR locked whole families up in their cells
but
only four years, and a mere hundred thou,
besides,
he and his cohorts were civil rights liberals.)
ACLU Supports Child Molesters
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of a pedophile,
who's a MINORITY luring a boy to his den and needs our help when
brought up for trial,
when accused of a crime or when being sued by the NAMBLA-trained-rapist’s victims.
He's innocent when he's viewed under our (and the child molester’s) dictums.
"I do not understand their thinking," expounded one of our lawyers,
but that's O.K. He didn't say they're human society's destroyers.
They're totally within their rights training OTHERS to rape and kill,
(thus if you’d hire someone to kill your wife, then you'd be innocent still.)
RhymeCon
ACLU worked Pro Bono for the NAMBLA pedophiles but in
another case (next below) charged the Boy Scouts (as losers in ACLU's trial against them) $950,000 for court & Attorney
fees.
Crush the Boy Scouts of the U.S.A!
They’ve proved they are naught but religious fanatics.
It’s unconstitutional to say what they say.
We’ll testify they have bats in their attics.
We’d support them if they were child molesters
or denied God’s existence
or were gay rights protesters.
But they’re missing on about half of their pistons.
Do they think Freedom of Speech is for such as THEY
when they refuse to think like the ACLU?
They don’t even repeat what we tell them to say!
So they leave us no choice! We are going to sue.
We’ll shut down their meetings, give their campouts our axes,
stop their charitable gifts, leave them dry as a bone.
They’ll pay fees to THEIR lawyers (OURS are paid by your
taxes)
Scouts, renounce your free speech! Then we’ll leave you
alone.
RhymeCon
The Boy Scouts of
America encourages all religions to honor their scouts
with religious service awards according to whatever requirements that faith chooses to prescribe.
A scout can earn a Unitarian-Universalist, Catholic, Bahai, Jewish, various
Protestant, Zoroastrian, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist award among many others. This, to ACLU, makes Scouts
a religious organization and makes any governmental support for them an act of Governmental Establishment
of an official Religion and makes the Scouts the arch enemy of the ACLU - far worse than child moleters.
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DO SAY "The City of Schenectedy needs an official song."
DO NOT SAY "Yer foot bone schenectedy yer ankle bone-"
We, of the National Org. for Women, wield clout!
Of Judge Roberts
we vowed to fight his appointment
and give the
conservatives a punch in the snout
and be the fly
in the President's ointment.
Almost triumphed
in the Senate, In the last referenda!
Seven votes out
of 100! That proved we were tough!
Then of Miers,
we fought her conservative agenda
till she lost
for not being conservative enough.
Now comes Alito.
We are shaking the fist!
That chauvinist
Bush! He named a WHITE MALE!
He's a racist,
a sexist, 100% cronyist.
Condoleeza and
Bush should both be in jail.
Based on NOW website (MONDAY 1/30/06)
Ha! Ha! They said that there won't be a filibuster.
But we made it happen!
They were all bluster.
Because of us, Senators
Kennedy and Kerry
are blocking the
vote. We're so strong that we're scary!
Based on NOW website (Wednesday 2/1/06)
What the *#^@! Where'd that filibuster go to?
Now
Alito's confirmed. Where'd that quid pro quo flow to?
They promised it to us! They didn't deliver.
We
get no respect. What are we? chopped liver?
NOW once lost
respect. Their derision of women,
(Paula Jones
, Kathleen Harris), made them look like a lemon.
Now their rebirth
of power proves the phantasmagoriam
of the National
Org. Against Women, (in Memoriam).
RhymeCon
(OF COURSE that word's in my daily vocabulary. Besides, what else rhymes with memoriam?)
notes: Providing a link
to the applicable N.O.W. web page gives authenticity. Except for the curse of the links - linking
to somebody else's website means your link might be broken at any time.
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To misquote a poem I read on a poetry website:
"If the tax rate goes down, filling some with regret,
but the economy improves, more tax revenue we'll get."
O.K., The original wasn't even about taxes, but I left intact the horribly inverted sentence structure.
I'd suggest a PoeticPundit must use English as it's commonly spoken.
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Do say "A lawyer who handles his own case
has a fool for a client."
Do not say "A sugeon who cuts out his own appendix
has an idiot for a patient ."
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*Except for churches, by decree of Americans
United
for Separation of Church and State
Reverend
Lynn - A Nut Case
The
Reverend Lynn, exalted president* of “Americans United for Separation of Church and State” thinks “If you're a resident
of
Texas, you must
accept decimation
of
the rights of a church, who must open their property
to
political attacks against the decree
of
their own belief,"
for
to be brief,
he
thinks "state law permits politicking
more
than 100 feet from a polling place
although
the owner is kicking!"
But
that hasn't a trace
of
truth. The law only PROHIBITS
politicking within that 100 foot space
and
never inhibits
your
defense of your own place.
Reverend
Lynn - must a labor union hall
permit
anti-union signs if some small
part
of their building is for precinct voting?
and
now lest you're gloating
Must a school with a polling
place
host
a meeting
bent
on defeating
a
school levy? Must the school give them space?
And
would you take it too hard
to
see a Vote Republican sign
in
your own front yard?
In
short, Rev., do you only wish to besmirch
a
CHURCH?
I
Don't wish to be base, Reverend Lynn, but you're a nut case.
Rhymecon
Actual title = Executive Director but what can you
rhyme with that?
notes: About those above quotation marks: It's unlikely a true quotation will fit into your rhyme;
that's why I used the word "thinks" as my link. clicking the link will show that the "quotation" expresses his thoughts though
not his exact words.
"Americans have the clear constitutional right to take a stand on political issues and to try
to pursuade voters to join them" at any location not within 100 feet of a polling place, even without the property owners'
permission.
-Rev. Barry Lynn
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A Dumb Motto - Separation of Church and State
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In preparation
to demand the “Separation of Church and State,”
each atheist shouts with doubled fist “Don't
desecrate
the U.S. Constitution, (which doesn't mention that
Motto
but, with wisdom Confucian
though indelicato*,
says the same thing rhetorically).
"The First Amendment categorically
prohibits Government from influencing a Church
which, quid pro quo, not to besmirch
the Motto, must not influence the Government either,
and thus neither
may cross that wall of separartion,
and thus the nation
may have freedom of speech (except for churches)
and freedom of the press (except for churches)
and freedom to petition Government (except for churches)
and Government by the people (who don't go to churches.)”
THE CHURCH ONCE HELD ITS VOICE
WHILE THE STATE MADE THE CHOICE
OF “SHALL SLAVERY BE DEFENDED?”
But the Church can decide
(with State's input denied)
whether Mary ascended,
and as all dictators have calculated,
Churches are emasculated.
Thus atheists must admit
The First Amendment says one thing
but means exactly
matter-of-factly
the opposite.
Bob4 of RhymeCon
*Don't bother
looking it up. I don't know what it means either.
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To misquote a poem I read on a poetry website:
"If the tax rate goes down, filling some with regret,
but the economy improves, more tax revenue we'll get."
O.K., The original wasn't even about taxes, but I left intact the horribly inverted sentence structure.
I'd suggest a PoeticPundit must use English as it's commonly spoken.
Well, here's how it happened. I was publishing more and more posts on this subject until I
decided the lunatics of Americans United for Separation of Church & State needed a separate website. Click on "Separation"
above and have a look. An I'd appreciate all comments and suggestions.
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It’s
the Fourth of July! I went out for drive
– a few blocks this way or that - for I thrive
on
seeing Old Glory on flagstaffs, or bunting,
in
neighborhood yards, without ever confronting
one who
shows contempt for the Red, White, and Blue,
who
would desecrate our nation’s flag, too,
which doesn’t
belong to George W. Bush
nor
even give Hillary Clinton a push.
It’s
equally at home in blue states or red
(or
white states, if any,) for many have bled
and
died to preserve, from a stomp in the mud
our
American Experiment, baptized in blood.
A
few blocks away in a manicured lawn
was
a polished new flagpole whose flag had been drawn
right
up to the top, but the blue field of stars
was
at bottom, in place of those red and white bars!
I'm
not "in-your-face" : left my cap, with its flag,
on
the seat of my truck. No desire to nag,
I
planned only to say without even a frown:
“Did
you know ma’am you got your flag on upside down?"
Nobody
home. Had their near neighbors noticed?
I
asked them "Excuse me, but , by the remotest
of
chances - you've seen that flag mis-use next door?"
And
none of them had, but they looked and they swore
I
was right. Two days later I cheered!
The
flag was right side up! (Wonder who volunteered?)
RhymeCon
Kind of long maybe for
political punditry but a true personal account needs details unneccesary in a news story.
How I longed to walk up to that flagpole and turn Old Glory right-side-up, but that would violate the flag owner's
First Amendment freedoms of expression (and a few other laws.).
Maybe what we need isn’t
an anti-flag desecration amendment to the Constitution but simply a Federal law saying in effect: “Congress shall pass no law making it illegal to take reasonable actions as needed to prevent
the desecration of the flag of the United States.”
Courts would have to decide,
of course, what actions are reasonable and the states might have to follow suit with statutes pertaining to the state
courts but just think what it would mean! Someone PREVENTING the desecration of our flag would be expressing that
one's own opinions, and the First Amendment, rather than being diminished, would be broadened.
RhymeCon
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And with apology I'll copy and paste a graphic from the website of the dispicable
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, whose strategy is to vilify fallen American soldiers at their funerals (not related to
any Baptist church I've ever heard of, but who actually replace a headline "Baghdad road bomb kills 4 U.S. Troops" with "Thank
God for 4 more dead troops. We wish it were 4,000." ) They replace God's message of Love with a message of blind hate.
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| AMINA LAWAL |
Amina Lawal, a Nigerian Woman
(This was several years ago. But amid world-wide outrage
the highest Nigerian court reversed her savage sentence.
Country by country, isn't there cause for optimism that
Islam can be blasted into Century 21 ? “2,000
yrs. past” refers to John 8:7.)
The answer was whispered if only we'd hear, two thousand
years past - so far, yet so near.
The child condemns you ! The child's the incitement
of wild raging rabble that mocks your adultery.
There can be no refuting that savage indictment,
while, lacking for evidence, the father goes free.
The answer was thundered if only we'd hear, two thousand
years past - so far, yet so near.
She swells out your belly - you may live, while supplying
your milk to the child for her flesh and her bones;
Her moment of weaning your dread day of dying,
buried up to your waist in a field full of stones.
The question was shouted if only we'd hear, “Shall
the stoning of this adulteress begin?”
The answer
rings clear: “Let the first stone be cast, of those who condemn her, by one without sin.”
The angry
mob shouts, in accord with the law,
the ghastliest
blasphemy man ever raised,
while ripping
your flesh and while shattering your jaw,
the exult
of each torturer: “Allah be praised!”
Amina, God
lift you on mothering arms.
May you suckle
the milk of forgiveness and peace.
May you open
your eyes to a gentler world,
sweeter than
birdsong, and softer than fleece.
Bob Little
There's a special magic about Mark Little.
He's my son and that makes him special. And he's your Daddy and that certainly makes him special.
But there's a special magic about him that you won't find in all sons or all Daddies, and if I tell you something about him,
maybe we can figure out just what his magic is all about.
He was a quiet and thoughtful little boy. Not the type that would organize a softball game,
but the type that would learn his school lessons with ease.
He was thrilled when he brought home from the first grade a small book his teacher, Mrs. Shaffer,
had made for him and his classmates. It was made of two small sheets of paper stapled together to make eight pages, and she
had DITTO'D (that was an old-fashioned way of making copies) some drawings of a rabbit and a simple little story and the name
of the booklet was "The Rabbit Ran." There were only about a dozen different words in the story.
But the important thing was: Mark could read it all by himself. And he's been reading ever
since.
He was born in Deasrborn, Michigan, on July 21, 1961, and we moved to Mansfield, Ohio when
he was five. We lived in a three-bedroom house on Yorkwood Road, but later finished the basement and that's where Mark had
his bedroom.
Mark and his brothers, your Uncle Steve and Uncle Dave, all liked music. For years we bought
season tickets to the Mansfield Symphony concerts at Malabar High School, three blocks from our home.
Mark and Steve took piano lessons. Later, Mark took violin lessons and played in the orchestra
at Appleseed Junior high school and then at Malabar High school, and when he was in college eh taught himself to play the
classical guitar.
Steve quit taking piano lessons because he got bored with the simple little pieces, but later
he taught himself to play the piano, and taught himself very well.In high school he played slide trombone in the marching
band,
Dave took only a few lessons, but taught himself to play the acoustic guitar and electric guitar.
Then he got a good buy on a used keyboard and brought friends out to the house to jam with soft rock music.
All three boys went to Mansfield's Ranchwood Elementary School. It was a nice neighborhood
and a number of the boys' friends were sons of doctors.
Mark always liked poetry. In about the second grade he learned about pollution; that was in
the 'sixties when Americans were just beginning to talk a lot about the environment. His class was assigned to write about
pollution, so Mark wrotehis very first poem:
"Polution is bad. Pollution we have had.
Now we have too much, and soon we can't do
such a thing as living."
They built a new shopping mall, Richlan Mall, west of Mansfield, and it had a sunken lounge
with benches for resting. Next to the lounge was a pet store, and the boys always insisted on stopping there to look at the
pets. One day as we rested in the lounge Mark and Steve (Dave was too young) borrowed some pencils and used the blank side
of some adverising papers andbegan drawing pictures of rabbits. They told us there was a prize for the best drawing.
Then we looked at Doktor's Pet Store. It was nearly Easter, and in the window was a sign "DRAWING
FOR A FREE RABBIT."
I about the second grade Mark learned about the Americn Indians, He really got interested,
and began making Indian drums and peace pipes. I told him about flint arrowheads, and that people are still finding them today.
Later that day I found him digging a hole in the back yard. He was confident he was going to find some arrowheads,
All three of the boys went through the Cub Scouts (you had to be eight to join) and Boy Scouts
(you had to be eleven). The Cubs were organized as Pack 107 and met at Ranchwood School. For seven years, from the time Marked
jopined the cubs until Dave went up to Scouts, I was the Cubmaster, and for much of that time their mother was a Den Mother.
Cub Scouts age eight and nine were considered too young to go camping in the wilds. Bit the
rules permitted them to have sleepouts in someone's back yard, if there were parents and telephones available. I think those
eight-year-olds were too young, for when the pack had a sleepout in a Den Mother's yard some of them brought their
teddy bears as sleeping partners.
But ten-year-old Cubs were eligible to join a Webelos den to help them get ready for Boy Scouts.
They could go camping in the wilds if they had plenty of adults along. Once our Webelos Den camped out at the Boy Scout camp
- seven boys, all with their fathers. Scott Young's dad was a doctor with a family practice. Brad Banko's dad was a
pediatrician. Greg Auchard's dad was a bone specialist. Alan Lindquist's dad was a pathologist. Keith Kine's dad was a dentist.
Jeff Jolley's dad, and Mark's dad, were the only two that were not in the medical field. We joked about having plenty of medical
help in case of an accident.
When Mark joined Boy Scouts he was small for his age. That alway bothered him a lot, and having
the last name of "Little" didn't help matters, either.
Some of the older scouts were making plans to go backpacking at Philmont Scout Ranch in New
Mexico. Bruce Drushel, who had hiked Philmont the year before, was giving a talk to the troop, and told them "If you're in
good shape it will be easy, but if you're not in good shape it will be pretty tought. And if you're like Markey Little, well,
I don't think you should go to Philmont at all." There was laughter. For years Mark resented that cut-down. He made up his
mind that, when he'd hike Philmont, he'd be out in front of the whole troop.
Love,
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