Notre Dame & Yellow Vests. Asian Carp.

PARIS—The campaign to rebuild Notre Dame, in eliciting vast donations from France’s richest families, has become a target of the yellow-vest protest movement.

Protesters taking to the streets Saturday for the 23rd consecutive weekend of yellow-vest marches, however, decried the hypocrisy of elites who they said were willing to mobilize large sums to rebuild the cathedral while allowing France’s working class to languish.

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When the poor and needy get a notion to rebel

there is very little that will shrink their tattered swell.

Once the bit's between their teeth they gallop steady on;

elites are left in terror at their peril, come the dawn.

And so a great cathedral needs expensive restoration;

 this adds fuel to demonstrations in the Gallic nation.

restoring ancient beauty now becomes a new crusade,

because the Yellow Jackets think that THEY deserve the aid.

I call them Yellow Jackets cuz they sting how'ere they please;

I wonder if they soon might bring the French unto their knees?

It's like the old Bastille again, and Uncle Sam should heed

how the disenfranchised can make any country bleed.

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Southern states are ramping up efforts to control the problem, but some officials worry they may be too late. For years, Midwestern states and the federal government have spent millions of dollars on research, electric barriers and other methods to keep Asian carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes and hurting its ecology and $7 billion annual fishing industry.

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No one likes the Asian carp; it is a horrid fellow.

Its fangs are long, its gills do smell, its eyes are scary yellow.

It lurks upon the bottom of a river or a stream,

and jumps into your fishing boat to make you weep and scream.

From whence this interloper hails, we do not care to know,

or why it jumps so viciously and wriggles to and fro.

Enough to realize this fiend destroys our native catch

and turns the bottoms of our lakes into a desert patch.

Dissembling to the last degree, the Asian carp pretends

he is an honest immigrant and wants to be just friends.

But if you let him in your pond you'll soon find he produces

nothing but a muddy scum and plenty of excuses!