Monday, January 13, 2014

US History with a nod to Teddy

Talk free, stick the Brits--the Revolution

Talk French, not much of a stick--Jeffersonian times

Talk westward, beat ‘em back with a stick--Jackson

Enough talking, I want my own stick--Civil War

Talk far west, beat ‘em more with a stick--Manifest Destiny

Buy the talk, buy the stick--Gilded age

Talk softly, big stick--Teddy

Talk Hun stuff, Rat-a-tat stick--WWI

Talk talk talk, bury the sticks--Wilson

Don’t talk, don’t stick--isolationists

Talk red, stick the poor--Depression 

Fireside talk, factories full of sticks--WWII

Talk big, biggest frigging sticks--Cold War

Global banktalk, robo-drone sticks--today