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  • One of my favorites is Stephen Foster’s Hard Times, Come Again No More (1873):

    ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

    Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

    Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

    While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay

    There are frail forms fainting at the door:

    Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say –

    Oh! Hard times, come again no more.

    Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears

    While we all sup sorrow with the poor:

    There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears;

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

    ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

    Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

    Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

    There’s a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away

    With a worn heart whose better days are o’er:

    Though her voice would be merry, ’tis sighing all the day –

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

    ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

    Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

    Many days have lingered around my cab in door;

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

    ‘Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,

    ‘ Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore,

    ‘ Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave, –

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

    ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

    Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

    Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;

    Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.



  • They have already awarded a $250 million contract to build a 30,000 bed facility in Guantanamo.

    For context Guantanamo currently houses up to about 250 people. The average maximum security prison hold 800-1200. The largest prison, in Angola, LA, holds about 8300. So the new prison in Guantanamo will hold almost 4 times as many as the largest prison, which is already several times larger than average.

    This facility will be on foreign soil (Cuba!), far away from the prying eyes of the media, the courts, lawyers, protesters, family, etc. If they were illegals, they’d be deporting them, so who are they planning on keeping here, and why?

    Also, I’ve been tracking this development since he first signed the executive order for it several months ago, but I’ve never heard a single journalist in any media mention it, or ask any member of the administration about it. Most Americans aren’t aware of this in the slightest, and the media is helping keep it that way.