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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Be!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us de-escalate and “run again” this good year, by golly!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John C.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 12:31 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Marshall Jones <synergi@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] Today’s Disgusting Display<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">With apologies to Clement Moore (and Santa Claus):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">And sticking his [middle] finger in front of his nose, he entered his 'copter; to heaven he rose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">He was heard to exclaim as he flew out of sight: "I'll be running again; but till then, a good night."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">On Thursday, January 7, 2021, 08:26:42 AM PST, Catherine Welch via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">What a great way to de-escalate from the dismay of yesterday! Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">Catherine Welch, Denver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">John C via OE</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 7, 2021 3:29 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">Order Ecumenical Community</a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:jpc2025@outlook.com" target="_blank">John C</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] Today’s Disgusting Display<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">Thanks, Milan!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">Give Thanks for the New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">John Cock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">On 1/6/21, 8:36 PM, "OE on behalf of Milan Hamilton via OE" <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net on behalf of oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> With (no) apologies to Ogden Nash for the many poems I have written based on his ‘Adventures of Isabelle’—my many ‘Adventures of Obama’ and my first
‘Adventures of Joe Biden’—I could not constrain myself today, watching the disgusting and wrenching display in our nations capital— so here is my response:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> The Adventures of Joe Biden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Joe Biden spoke to an unruly mob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Who shut down the Congress while doing its job<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Of confirming the election of two thousand-twenty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> As Trump’s minions bleated their protests a-plenty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Our make-believe President, Rudy and Don by his side<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Encouraged his minions to stand by his lies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> And march down Pennsylvania, the street not the state<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Where surely their welcome could prove his estate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> As President-for-life and all would end well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> But his fans, or fanatics, continued to swell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Their over-sized hopes for a coup of their foes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Breaking windows they entered and chaos they chose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> But Joe Biden said calmly to them and their hero<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Stand down and respect institutions we cherish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> If we don’t stick together we surely will perish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Your hero’s revealed for the con man he is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> You were promised a future—well here it is!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> I’ll be your President—that’s one thing that’s written<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> It’s called the Constitution and it says I’ll be sittin’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> FOR FOUR MORE YEARS!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Milan Hamilton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> 01 06 21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5340240524msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A"> Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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