Verses from Today's Washington Post. ** University says a professor’s views are racist, sexist and homophobic — but it can’t fire him. ** Senate passes short-term spending bill, sending legislation to Trump hours ahead of shutdown deadline. ** Secret Service spent quarter of a million dollars at Trump’s properties in first five months of his term, records show.

@TheArtist_MBS

Tenure for professors is an academic right;

one for which great scholars have put up a goodly fight.

I'm not saying it is something that we ought to dump;

I just thank God it can't be applied to Donald Trump!

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@ericawerner

Unlike organizing ants,

Congress flies by seat of pants.

They can't pass a budget bill

bigger than a baby krill.

Even when their brains are clear,

they can't find their derriere. 

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@partlowj  @OConnellPostbiz  @Fahrenthold

Take, oh take, the presidency,

and go shake the money tree.

When you charge the going rate,

to visit Donald's real estate,

and rack up all those charges sweet

on Secret Service balance sheet,

even if he's kicked out now

he has milked the big cash cow.