Make the Deal

Rabbi Arthur Schneier meets this month with Alan Gross, right, at the Cuban jail where Gross is being held. (Photo/forward.com)

Alan Gross, a man who worked for USAID,

Still sits in a Cuban jail (the Castros say that he

Tried to build a private network; therefore, he's a spy)

Five years later he's still there; we have to help the guy.

There are rumors Cuba wants to try and make a trade;

Swap him for the Cuban 5.  I hope the deal gets made.

True the Cuban 5 were spies, but I am pretty sure

Gross's actions inside Cuba weren't completely pure.

5 are down to 3 men who've served 16 years in jail.

Send them back and rescue Gross, who's looking very frail.

Whether he's a spy or not is not important now...

Only thing that matters is we bring him home somehow.

JFK Conspiracy Solved... It Was Us.

50 years ago today John Kennedy was shot.

Many still believe in an assassination plot:

L.B.J., the CIA, or Castro, or the mob.

Presidents could not be killed by one pathetic slob.

Looking back we all remember it as Camelot;

Dreaming of our glory days, but maybe we forgot

We were simply not a most congenial spot back then.

My mom is a Northerner who lived down South and when

She was at the Commissary they announced the news;

People started cheering and expressing racist views.

Toxic atmospheres build up and then some loser acts.

Let's not try to kid ourselves; we have to face the facts...

No one fled the grassy knoll; Lee Oswald was alone.

He was not the patsy here.  He acted on his own.

But the ugly politics and scandals of the day

Also had a passive, but important, part to play.

Maybe we should think about that as we're looking back

From our current, constant state of partisan attack.

This new generation of Americans must change...

Who knows which new lunatic is at the target range.