Union Leaders Respond With Fury -- Pigs and Pot -- Will Inflation Hit Twinkies? -- More Surprises from Syria -- Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby --

Union leaders responded with fury.

by Howard Blume for the LATimes

Where's the union for the folks

that put up with White House jokes?

Citizens should go on strike

till things are more businesslike.

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As a result of the stench, residents in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, are suing to ban cannabis operations from their neighborhoods.

by Thomas Fuller for the NYT

Pigs and pot both have a stench

that will make your stomach wrench.

Both are money makers, too --

making wealth ain't cordon bleu.

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Hostess Brands Inc., the producer of Twinkies and Ding Dongs, is creating new flavors of premium snack cakes called Bakery Petites “to attract new consumers at higher price points,” Chief Executive Andrew Callahan said on a recent conference call. Bakery Petites cost 47 cents an ounce at a Walmart in Chicago, more than double the price-per-ounce for Twinkies.

by Heather Haddon for the WSJ

Don't you dare to make my Twinks

more expensive, you darn finks!

If consumers you would screw

with some products all brand new,

raising prices through the roof

I won't bark a single woof.

But my Twinks you'd better keep

moist and squishy and dirt cheap!

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The immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces flies in the face of the Syria policy that has been outlined repeatedly by senior U.S. officials over the past several months.   by Missy Ryan for the Washington Post. 

The people who flee to Damascus

say "why do they not ever ask us

if we want them here --

we could make it clear

their presence does woefully task us."

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I always thought that Eartha Kitt

had a really splendid hit

with her 'Santa Baby' song;

with her looks she can't go wrong!

Could Santa bring her home to me?

'Twould sure light up my Christmas tree!