Anagramber’s Haiku

Amber was the winner of the Anagram Awareness Day contest, providing the following answers:

 

Ninja Hymn Codices = John Sidney McCain

Smash Our Bike Cabana = Barack Hussein Obama

Thinly Harmonic Dollar = Hillary Rodham Clinton

Emceed Bleak Haiku = Mike Dale Huckabee

 

As a reward, I offered to provide a personalized “haiku” to the winner.  Unfortunately, I have never written a haiku, so I had to study up on what the poem’s composition might be.  According to various websites, a haiku is a seventeen syllable poem, consisting of three 5-7-5 syllable lines, without rhyme (and apparently, without reason). 

 

Wikipedia offered me some very useful examples of good haiku composition; I offer these three fascinating examples to you now:

 

Example Number 1) 古池や蛙飛込む水の音

 

Example Number 2) 富士の風や扇にのせて江戸土産

 

Example Number 3) 初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげ也

 

As you can see from the above three examples, haikus are designed to make no sense because they are written in a non-standard Spanish dialect.  In fact, I don’t even see anything close to seventeen syllables and they certainly don’t contain three lines.  Anyway, in order to hold to the true haiku standards, I propose the following haiku for Amber:

 

Anagramber Nix

Sesquipedalian Wife

Winner of Contest

 

And, as a bonus, I am providing a Lucky Lotto Number (which sounds like it should go with the haiku): 09-23-16-41-49

California: You’ll Have a Gay Ole Time!

Yesterday, the California State Supreme Court decided that it knew better than the people when it overturned two statutes in order to pave the way for homosexuals to marry each other.  I’m trying to think of what we call a form of government – and you, the reader, might be able to help me out here – where the will of the people, having been expressly stated, is overturned by activist judges who feel it is their place to impose their views on matters already decided by the majority.

 

This decision has caused me to lose respect (if ever I had any) for not only the judges in this case, but also for the Governator, who is choosing to side with the court.  The Governator, though he has previously vetoed legislation to allow homosexual marriage, has stated that he will respect the court’s decision and will not support an amendment to the California constitution.  What this means is that, in abiding by the will of the court, he is turning a deaf ear to the will of the people.

 

This DUMB court ruling not only affects California, but it also has the potential to affect the entire nation.  What will happen when homosexual Californians want to move to another state (26 of which already have constitutional amendments banning gay marriage)?  What will happen when homosexuals from other states go to California to receive their mock wedding certificates and return home demanding that their marriage be recognized by their states?  Well, that will bring up legal challenges in those states, just as the activist judges want.  

 

Unfortunately, California tends to set the pace for a lot of things in our country, so it is just a matter of time until we start seeing a lot of these challenges come up in other states.  I certainly hope that other judges in other states will have the testicular fortitude (sorry, that was the only proper descriptor) to listen to the will of the people.