this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
images, lyrics, and Bible verse below the fold
A makeshift tomb at a New Orleans street corner conceals a body that had been lying on the sidewalk for days in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005.
(AP Photo/Dave Martin)
People carry the coffin of Hatim Kathiria, the U.S. soldier of Indian origin, at Dahod, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005. Kathiria, who was assigned to the 703rd Forward Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga, was killed on Aug. 22 in Iraq after an enemy rocket exploded.
(AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Mohammed Ziyad reacts outside a hospital after carrying bodies of his brother Hameed and His father Ziyad Tariq who were killed, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005, in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. Four civilians were killed and 11 injured when three mortar shells fired at a U.S. installation missed the target and landed in a residential area, police said. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)
Roll With The Punches
by Randy Newman
from the album Land Of Dreams
They say that people are livin’ in the street
No food in their belly no shoes on their feet
Six black children livin’ in a burned up room
One bare light bulb swinging
Little black kid come home from school
Put his key in the door
Mr. Rat’s on the stairway Mr. Junkie’s lyin’ in his
own vomit on the floor
You gotta roll with the punches little black boy
That’s what you got to do
You got to roll with the punches
There’s all these boring people, you see ’em on the TV
And they’re making up all these boring stories
About how bad things have come to be
They say “You got to, got to, got to feed the hungry”
“You got to, got to, got to heal the sick”
I say we ain’t gotta do nothin’ for nobody
‘Cause they won’t work a lick, you know
They just gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will
Gonna have to roll with them
They gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will
Gonna have to roll with them
It don’t matter whether you’re white, black or brown
You won’t get nowhere putting down
The old Red, White and Blue
Tap it baby.
Alright. All right!
Look at those little shorts he’s got on, ladies and gentlemen
You can see all the way to Argentina
Get it
So pretty…
Let ’em go to Belgium, let ’em go to France
Let ’em go to Russia
Well at least they ought to have the chance to go there
We have talked about the red, we have talked about the blue
Now we gonna talk about the white
That’s what we’re gonna do
Now we had to roll with the punches, yes we did
We had to roll with ’em
We had to roll with the punches
Yes we did
We had to roll with ’em
I don’t care what you say
You’re livin’ in the greatest country in the world
When you’re livin’ in the USA
Tap it baby, alright
All right
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from the gospel of Matthew 25:34-40
Jesus’ Parable of the Sheep and Goats
Come, you that are blessed by my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
for I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
I was naked and you gave me clothing,
I was sick and you took care of me,
I was in prison and you visited me.
Then the righteous will answer him,
“Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food,
or thirsty and gave you something to drink?
And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you,
or naked and gave you clothing?
And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?”
And the king will answer them,
“Truly I tell you,
just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,
you did it to me.”
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