Haiku Pundit http://haikupundit.wordpress.com The Haiku Pundit: / In seventeen syllables / He explains it all. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:36:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/45568c024924c05c1bc435d5656099f3?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Haiku Pundit http://haikupundit.wordpress.com Ted Kennedy http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:36:32 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=516 ]]>

Ted Kennedy’s dead.
Mary Jo Kopechne’s not
able to comment.

Posted in crime, politics Tagged: Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/feed/ 0 dju316 Single payer healthcare http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/single-payer-healthcare/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/single-payer-healthcare/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:53:38 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=514 ]]>

Single payer means
no payer if the payer
doesn’t want to pay.

Posted in healthcare ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/single-payer-healthcare/feed/ 0 dju316 Lines Composed in Apprehension of O-Day http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/lines-composed-in-apprehension-of-o-day/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/lines-composed-in-apprehension-of-o-day/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:55:50 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=512 ]]>

Make friends in Europe:
confess American crimes
defeating Nazis.

(by The Postliberal)

Posted in foreign policy, politics Tagged: Barack Obama ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/lines-composed-in-apprehension-of-o-day/feed/ 0 dju316 You Be The Judge http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/you-be-the-judge/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/you-be-the-judge/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:30:33 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=509 ]]>

Latina Wanted
Experienced, Empathic
Customer Service

(by The Postliberal)

Posted in judiciary, law, politics Tagged: Sotomayor, Supreme Court ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/you-be-the-judge/feed/ 0 dju316 Torture http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/torture/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/torture/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 23:13:46 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=506 ]]>

What’s waterboarding?
Compulsory exposure
to Barney Frank’s mouth.

by The Postliberal

Posted in politics Tagged: Barney Frank, torture, waterboarding ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/torture/feed/ 1 dju316 Nero Obama http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/nero-obama/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/nero-obama/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:28:20 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=504 ]]>

Like Nero fiddling,
Barack jokes with Jay Leno,
makes basketball picks.

Posted in politics Tagged: Barack Obama, Nero ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/nero-obama/feed/ 0 dju316 Illinois corruption http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/illinois-corruption/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/illinois-corruption/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:20:31 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=502 ]]>

Illinois is to
government what diapers are
to the laundry bag.

(Stolen from Mark Belling)

Posted in crime, government, politics Tagged: corruption, Illinois ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/illinois-corruption/feed/ 0 dju316 Stimulus pork http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/stimulus-pork/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/stimulus-pork/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:28:56 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=500 ]]>

Pigs get fat. Hogs get
a trillion dollars worth of
“stimulus” spending.

Posted in government, politics Tagged: pork barrel spending, porkbarrel spending, stimulus ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/stimulus-pork/feed/ 0 dju316 Reality check http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/reality-check-2/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/reality-check-2/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:35:41 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=498 ]]>

Reality and
campaign rhetoric collide.
What happens? Stay tuned.

Posted in politics ]]> http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/reality-check-2/feed/ 1 dju316 Hope and Change? http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/hope-and-change/ http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/hope-and-change/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:59:29 +0000 dju316 http://haikupundit.wordpress.com/?p=496 ]]>

Daschle and Holder.
Panetta, Clinton, and Gates.
Hope and Change, my ass!

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