"And nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the most revolvers."

OMG...Carl Sandberg speaks to us from the grave. We had better seize the day and listen!

Carl Sandberg speaks to us from the grave. Sorry, Carl, we're still too dumb to listen.

Lyrics come to my mind frequently. In this case, even though I am an Atheist, is this:

"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war..."

I know, maybe it's a little out of context, but there seems to be a correlation between gods and guns. Why is that?

The right wing whackos are already trying to insist that this latest Sandburg find is a "fake". Maybe they should read another poem by Sandburg that is absolutely NOT a fake:

I am the People, the Mob

by Carl Sandburg

I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world's food and
     clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me
     and the Lincolns. They die. And then I send forth more Napoleons
     and Lincolns.
I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing.
     Terrible storms pass over me. I forget. The best of me is sucked out
     and wasted. I forget. Everything but Death comes to me and makes
     me work and give up what I have. And I forget.
Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history
     to remember. Then—I forget.
When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the
     lessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year,
     who played me for a fool—then there will be no speaker in all the
     world say the name: "The People," with any fleck of a sneer in his
     voice or any far-off smile of derision.
The mob—the crowd—the mass—will arrive then.

Sorry I can't join in on the Sandburg worship. He got a fellow professor fired just for being gay. So he's no mensch in my book.

When I was a child my father had Sandburg's Lincoln biography in 3 paperbacks. I was too young to read and understand them but I recall the feel of the paper and the smell of the pages. The pages were thin and discolored, possibly from the type of paper used and the books were disintegrating. My father reinforced them with masking tape and continued to read from them. I don't recall what happened to them but later, when we studied Sandburg in school I felt as if I already knew him. I'm sure they're still in print, somewhere, and I think I am old enough now to read and possibly understand them.

5 people were hurt in accidental shootings on "Gun Appreciation Day".

Kind of a misleading headline. These were at gun-shows, not Gun Appreciation Day protests.

God and Guns-idiots believing idiotic ideas

love the poem

MSNBC needs to reconnect with the wit and humor and regular home down grits of we bloggers who've they're completely alientated with their unquestionable exploitationism. MSNBC is now losing ground due to their lack of folks who aren't upper ivory tower elites. Maddow however reinstated herself this past election when she didn't spend the election bashing President Obama. She reset her political clock. She can regain. It's up to MSNBC to choose to be grateful and helpful to us who've they've simply exploited...for years. Maddow set a new paradigm with her personal paradigm to the President, and it's up to her to discontinue the MSNBC policy of ripping off great bloggers. Show gratitude and reward, instead of just exploitation, and we'll come back and play at MSNBC... GO'bama!