At LEAST 49% of NF Air Base employees are from Erie County! One guy, a Staff Sgt.(P.B.), who is an American citizen, works at the base and lives in Canada. He has his pay direct deposited into a Canadian bank account + 20%. Sweet Huh?  Head of NF cops, couple a years ago, took time off to go "overseas" with NF Air Base security forces.   He was home here in Niagara County for about a month collecting his pay and G.I. Joe's. He collects them and went to a swap meet while off. Never was shipped anywhere.

Sign twice? Why not five or ten times? They (NMAC) say that they have "more than ten thousand signatures."  If you want to buy a flag, go see one of the heads of the NMAC, he owns the sign and flag company. Need someone buried (hope not), go see the other guy in charge of the NMAC, he's a mortician!

The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Air Force Base that day,
The score stood four to two, with but one hearing more to play.
And then when Delphi died at first, and Walmart did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the employees at the game.

A straggling few got up to go in deep despair.
The rest clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast.
They thought, "if only Reynolds could but get a whack at that.
We'd put up even money now, with Reynolds at the bat."

But Clinton preceded Slaughter, as did also Chuckie Schumer;
and the former was a liberal, while the latter was a boomer.
So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat;
for there seemed but little chance of Reynolds getting to the bat.

But Schumer cried, “Save our Base”, to the wonderment of all.
And Clinton, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball.
And when the dust had lifted, and we saw what had occurred,
there was Schumer safe at second and Hillary a-hugging third.

Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
it rumbled through Niagara County, it echoed in the Capitol:
it sounded through the air base and decided upon it’s fate;
for Reynolds, mighty Reynolds, was advancing to the plate.

Ten thousand votes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt.
Five thousand reservists applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then, while the writhing Rumsfeld ground the ball into his hip,
defiance flashed in Reynold's eye, a sneer curled Reynold's lip.

And now the Pentagon closure came hurtling through the air,
and Reynolds stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy Reynolds the plan unheeded sped --
"That ain't my issue," said Reynolds. "Strike one!"  W said.

From the benches, full of people, there went up a muffled roar,
like the beating of the water of Niagara Fall’s nearby shore.
”Get him! Get the W!" shouted someone from Grand Island,
and it's likely they'd have got him had not Reynolds raised his hand.

With a smile of Christian charity, great Reynold's visage shone,
he stilled the rising tumult, he bade the hearing go on.
He signaled to the Rumsfeld, and once more the rhetoric flew,
but Reynolds still ignored it, and W said, "Strike two!"

"Fraud!" cried Niagara Countians, and echo answered "Fraud!"
But one scornful look from Reynolds and his constituents were awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
and they knew that Reynolds wouldn't let that ball go by again.

The sneer has fled from Reynold's lip, the teeth could crush a tack.
He pounds, with cruel violence, his bat upon the BRAC.
And now Rumsfeld holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
and now the air is shattered by the force of Reynold's blow.

Oh, elsewhere in this favored land we have the religious right.
New York is going nowhere, and somewhere Ted gets tight.
And, somewhere Bush is welcome, and liberal pinkos pout,
but there is no joy in Niagara -
mighty Tommie has struck out.

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Bet a lot of time went into that one! Why not sign your name and take credit? It was pretty good.

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