If you've a mistake
once you've clicked
you're licked...
'Smart pencils'
have erasers
Does the U.S. Constitution speak of marriage at all
Does it restrict giving birth to the Spring or the Fall…
The Bill of Rights reserves many matters to the states
When federal courts interfere, what a mess they create
We hold these truths to be self evident that all humans are not created equal,
Some have been created with more
while some have been created with less
Some are rewarded in life while some are barred from success,
We hold these truths to be self evident that all lives matter although some matter less.
We are all entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
Unless it is determined by majority decision that you are not,
The pursuit of happiness is for all
until the powers that be decide that rules do not apply to everyone,
Yet those rules will apply to everyone in accordance to how they react to the sun.
Life is only fair if you are fair
In all fairness you will fair less if you lack fairness,
So great is the sin to lack fairness of skin
That all rules must be laid by
By show of darkness
You must be prepared to accept less
So be it known that only some were created in the image of God.
And you know who you are
after all why would God create your defective bod?
We hold these truths to be self evident
In God we trust.
If you're now ever suspected by our present day government
of being a terrorist or sympathizing enemy combatant,
you can now be detained indefinitely,
under our president's authority.
No more rights securing our papers and property
from any government sponsored search and seize.
A warrant our government no longer needs.
Forces can now break down our doors anytime freely
and search and seize our property
and then at their discretion, detain us indefinitely.
No rights to prevention of enhanced interrogation,
otherwise known as cruel and unusual punishment.
No rights to a trial, no rights to an attorney,
no rights to information as to your locality
need be given to you or any of your friends and family,
and if you should get lucky and one day be released
because you were innocent and not guilty,
your accusers will have absolutely no accountability.
In the year of 2011 on the day of December 15th,
the National Defense Authorization Act was passed with a vote of 86 - 13.
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SillyBilly, theKidster
Politically Educated Contest
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That’s not my elephant, this here’s Ella my wife
She claims the extra pounds came with her change of life
She now takes ballet, but watching her dance in tights
Sends chills down my spine and gives second graders frights
Her plate’s piled high with lasagna and spaghetti
Chowing down on our drive to the Serengeti
I think every husband should have a bill of rights
“Euthanasia,” I’ll plead, when they read her last rites
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