Edku: November 1995

Move backwards to October 1995.

1.
Montreal disarray:
Quebec come back, please don't leave!
We were just kidding!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

2.
Bah! Budget, schmudget!
What we really want to know:
"What does Colin think?"

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

3.
Bosnia, Rwanda...
Quebec. Any difference?
Ethnicity kills.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

4.
Bob Denard. Quebec
Extremists. Nuclear testing.
The francophobes gloat.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

5.
Don blows his last note
And strolls off stage with his horn.
Cherry blossoms fall.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

6.
"Must cut deficit."
"Must cut tax on the wealthy."
Newt's bilingualism.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

7.
Rabin lives through war
Then is killed for making peace.
Who did he fight for?

--Susan Lippincott, susan@ole.cdac.com

8.
On desolate sands
Fighting only thing to do.
Prime minister shot.

--Jon Daggar, daggarjon@urvax.urich.edu

9.
Rabin sings of peace
while an angry student waits
to silence his voice.

--Laura Marsee, lam3@nau.edu

10.
Shoot Yitzak Rabin
Kill the P.M. in cold blood
Stop land giveaway

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

11.
Kill Rabin this day
Preserve Eretz Israel
Bible tells him so!?

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

12.
Rabin is gunned down!
Palestinian terrorists?
No, one of his own!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

13.
Rabin's in the ground.
His death stops the peace process?
No, it still goes on!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

14.
Rabin's murder shocks
World leaders all come to mourn
Even Yassir cries

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

15.
Yitzak dead and gone;
But his dream of Mideast peace
Will be carried out.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

16.
The Israelis mourn
Senseless murder of Rabin
Peres carries on

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

17.
Lay Rabin to rest.
His death unites Israelis;
Peres pursues peace.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

18.
Clinton, Gingrich, Dole
Never could share well at play.
Government shutdown!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

19.
Gingrich, Dole, Clinton
Can't get their act together
Taxpayers will pay

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

20.
Clinton will not bend
Stubbornly shuts down gov'ment
Shut him down next year?

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

21.
Gingrich won't back down
Government has to close up
Anger at Newt grows...

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

22.
Dole, Clinton, Gingrich
Nonessential employees?
Without them, might work!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

23.
Feds can't pay their bills
Clinton, Gingrich, Dole get paid
Voters, mark this well!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

24.
ken saro-wiwa
executed because he
spoke truth to power

--darin, burleigh@tcg.anl.gov

25.
budget battle cris-
is, hot air rises, long as
i get mine, it's ok.

--darin, burleigh@tcg.anl.gov

26.
rolando cruz, 12
summers lost, it might as well
have been 12 winters

--darin, burleigh@tcg.anl.gov

27.
mumia abu-
jamal, framed and hyped, better
than being martyrd.

--darin, burleigh@tcg.anl.gov

28.
Right wing patriots?
Armament reduction--NOT!
A nuclear winter.

--Rob Dominguez, domingur@iscclink.is.qms.com

29.
If this is fast food
why are we waiting so long?
Feed me, you bastards.

--Rob Dominguez, domingur@iscclink.is.qms.com

30.
Government shuts down.
A libertarian's dream,
now reality.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

31.
Rabin's blood on ground
Cries out not for justice, but
Whispers prayers of peace.

--mbrunner@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

32.
Pump a gallon of
Exxon; pump a bullet in
Saro-wiwa's heart.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

33.
A new additive
In Nigerian oil: blood
Of Nobel playwright.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

34.
Worthless bureaucrats,
Bah! So they're furloughed. Oops. They
Were your customers.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

35.
So what? A bit less
Welfare. Less armed forces. Less
Law. You sweating yet?

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

36.
Hurray for Bob Dole!
He had his Colin removed,
now feels much better.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@hr.house.gov

37.
Thanksgivin's comin'.
Watch out members o' Congress,
We shootin' turkeys.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@hr.house.gov


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