Donald Lame Duck (this blog has been updated) by Hank Silverberg "This Land is your land, this land is my land, From California, to the New York island.... From the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me!" That song, which most of us learned in elementary school, is considered a patriotic look at the beauty of America, its' priceless resources and its' promise of democracy. (Woody Guthrie) But when Woody Guthrie wrote it in 1940, he considered it a counter to the patriotic pre-war fervor of "God Bless America." Guthrie, an unapologetic leftist, looked at it as a way of protesting the lopsided distribution of wealth--criticism of the 1% who then owned much of America as it came out of the Great Depression. And they still do. Many people have added verses to that song over the years, and there is one I hav