Walter B. Flatt, Hannah P. Soule Flatt, Spirit Lake, Iowa

http://www.geni.com/people/Lillie-Flatt/6000000009093585733

five foot three, dour is paisley

the contures of billy club
as wielded by dour s. paisley
follow conjecture's pepper-dismay
dispersal on the attorney salt-slacks.

repudiated overmuch,
blank stares load up with vision,
fees propagate, sidewalk observant,
 or not.                 perceived travails,

billowing sales on downtown frowns.
booted most rudely,
stuck in luncheons with frenemies,
such is the lot of satanic clerks in riot zoots

distinguishing, by power twice removed,
every pain and rendered slight
in accordance with their...mores& norms.
guard bless ya!

storied, but based in base deed,
flies make most of penultimate creed.
zealot harlot miscreant& me 

 

N 17, 2011
do unto others the opposite of ms. paisley

grandmother lillie flatt soule delano bloodgood, le bon

DELANO FAMILY. The descendants of the Pilgram ancestor, Philip Delano, of Plymouth, have the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry in the old country for a dozen centuries. They have established the full right to bear the arms of the Delano family, which could be of no better stock and which embraces a host of distinguished men in its numbers.


The name is drived from the town of Lannoy, a few miles from Isla, now Lille, France. Away back in A. D., 863, this town was called Alnetum, later L'Annois and Lannoy. The meaning of the word is unknown. It has been spelled L'Annois, L'Annoe, L'Aulmais, L'Aulnoy, but more often Alnetum. Today Lannoy is a small manugacturing town, seven miles from Lille, with a population at the last census 1,904.

 The first Lord of Lannoy, progenitor of the family, was Hugues de Lannoy, mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096. On the same list was Simon do Alneto. A charte des Chanoines (cannons) de St. Pierre a Lille mentions Gilbert de Lannoy in 1171 and Hugues de Lannoy is mentioned in 1186. It is impossible to present in this place an extended history of the family in its early days in France. That has been done with remarkable care and apparent accuracy in the genealogy, which is authority for all said here about the origin and early history of the family. There seems to be no flaw in the following pedigree in the direct male line of the American emigrant, Philip Delano or Delanoy.

french pages and knight views

page views (knight view)

United States
135
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93
Poland
28
Ireland
14
Turkey
12
Germany
6
Japan
6
Ukraine
6
United Kingdom
5
Philippines
4

sequestered krill cycle

chutzpah refers the measure,
tape is red, and cannot fathom a bridge
but covers oregon in track
sweats. damned when we do,
dunked when we don't
---a progressive trailblazer
wears loafers,
worn out on marble accelerators
reed college lays the riprap
over the riffraff,
alums
rule,
slide tools denote a classical learning
curve. the ladder i used to scale
the kingmakers lair gathers
dust, measuring baseboard trim
not knowing where to turn,
like a laurel and hardy skit that knocks down
bulls in china shops
guffaws----or laugh tracks,
piped in from the bigger fish
that hover, drones prone to pry
sea, taking in vote-krill
and spitting out
another year's suckers

between a rock and a hard place, gigs long gone

talk about "political hairballs," look at what Oregon is coughing up: all the krill from the Big Blue Whale

"How much does Wiener’s advice cost?

 According to state records, he took in more than $1.5 million in fees for this general election. And that doesn’t include what he may still be owed."
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http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-25179-no_matter_the_election_result_mark_wiener_will_be_.html
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Mark Wiener, the political consultant of choice for Democrats and those who want to raise taxes, has collected big bucks this election cycle to provide strategy to the following people and organizations:

1) Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber;

2) The Democratic Party of Oregon;

3) The Oregon Historical Society, which is asking Multnomah County voters to approve Measure 26-118;

4) The state Senate Democratic Leadership Fund;

5) The Measure 76 campaign to set aside lottery money permanently for state parks;

6) Planned Parenthood;

7) The Measure 26-114 campaign to establish a permanent tax base for the Multnomah County library system;

8 The public employee-funded Defend Oregon;

9) Oregon Climate PAC (funded by patent heir and winery owner Eric Lemelson);

10) The Oregon Education Association;

11) Metro President candidate Bob Stacey;

12) And a batch of Democratic candidates for the Legislature.

                                                                                      

(never got around to painting the trim, and never looked up my client's name, either.)

between a rock and a hard place, a wobbly can only hope to be the grass that cleaves the cement of the status quo.

there will be blood (or oil)

"When Hamm talks, politicians listen. He is, according to the Forbes list, the 35th-richest American, worth an estimated $10 billion—more than William Koch, T. Boone Pickens, and David Rockefeller Sr. combined—"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romneyhttp://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romney

"Battles between ranchers and oilmen might sound like relics of the Wild West—the stuff of films such as There Will Be Blood—but in North Dakota, they're all too current. Continental beat other oil companies to the punch by signing more leases and pumping oil faster and more aggressively than anyone.

But in its rush to cash in, the company has sometimes thwarted environmental laws, endangered workers, and overwhelmed small towns with more people and problems than they can handle."

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There Will Be Blood, based on an Upton Sinclair book, is based on Edward Doheny



"Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M. Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881. He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks. He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp. The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded.

At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate.

He later conducted a ranch in the Mogollones, after which he went into the cattle business near Kingston. He was born in New York state.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html

truth-force

more "gleanings" from Wikipedia on Armstice Day
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Gandhi proposed a series of rules for satyagrahis to follow in a resistance campaign:

harbour no anger

suffer the anger of the opponent

never retaliate to assaults or punishment; but do not submit, out of fear of punishment or assault, to an order given in anger

voluntarily submit to arrest or confiscation of your own property

if you are a trustee of property, defend that property (non-violently) from confiscation with your life

do not curse or swear

do not insult the opponent

neither salute nor insult the flag of your opponent or your opponent’s leaders

if anyone attempts to insult or assault your opponent, defend your opponent (non-violently) with your life

as a prisoner, behave courteously and obey prison regulations (except any that are contrary to self-respect)

as a prisoner, do not ask for special favourable treatment

as a prisoner, do not fast in an attempt to gain conveniences whose deprivation does not involve any injury to your self-respect

joyfully obey the orders of the leaders of the civil disobedience action

do not pick and choose amongst the orders you obey; if you find the action as a whole improper or immoral, sever your connection with the action entirely

do not make your participation conditional on your comrades taking care of your dependents while you are engaging in the campaign or are in prison; do not expect them to provide such support

do not become a cause of communal quarrels

do not take sides in such quarrels, but assist only that party which is demonstrably in the right; in the case of inter-religious conflict, give your life to protect (non-violently) those in danger on either side
avoid occasions that may give rise to communal quarrels

do not take part in processions that would wound the religious sensibilities of any community
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Satyagraha and the civil rights movement in the United States:

Satyagraha theory also influenced many other movements of civil resistance.

For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his autobiography about Gandhi's influence on his developing ideas regarding the civil rights movement in the United States:

"Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. I was particularly moved by his Salt March to the Sea and his numerous fasts.

The whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. ... It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking."

antipathy laid off

no mean reward for labours,
i will have no other
as injury to one is an injury to all,
and work its own reward,
writing being a chore
that employs common language
aimed for streams to catch their flaked
golden worthless grains
of solstice sunlight
in okie silos, pipelined vestibules,
into our bodies and cars
on dates
we dine, and on our scars we brag,
missions never accomplished
until our head
drops in the royal bucket
understanding consultations of war
as a drama with consequence,
subjects being citizens,
otherwise known as bleeding heart
livingpoems
whose comprehension escapes me,
as winter sun flies
toward a slack dismissal of fracking
leaving denton
in a future with no water but bottled antipathy
laid off

golden fleece of enid? wheat. oil...all Ares needs

The following are the chief among the various interpretations of the fleece, with notes on sources and major critical discussions:

It represents royal power.

Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman Farm Management, The Treatises of Cato and Varro, in English, with Notes of Modern Instances[18]
Braund, David (1994), Georgia In Antiquity, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 21–23
Popko, M. (1974) “Kult Swietego runa w hetyckiej Anatolii” [“The Cult of the Golden Fleece in Hittite Anatolia”], Preglad Orientalistyczuy 91, pp. 225–30 [In Russian]
Newman, John Kevin (2001) “The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream” (Theodore Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos (eds.). A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Leiden: Brill (Mnemosyne Supplement 217), 309-40)
Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), “The Golden Fleece: Myth, Euhemeristic Explanation and Archaeology”, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20, pp. 1–38[19]

It represents the flayed skin of Krios (‘Ram’), companion of Phrixus.

Diodorus Siculus 4. 47; cf. scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 2. 1144; 4. 119, citing Dionysus’ Argonautica
It represents a book on alchemy.
Palaephatus (fourth century BC) ‘On the Incredible’ (Festa, N. (ed.) (1902) Mythographi Graeca III, 2, Lipsiae, p. 89
John of Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548)

It represents a technique of writing in gold on parchment.

Haraxes of Pergamum (c. first to sixth century) (Jacoby, F. (1923) Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker I (Berlin), IIA, 490, fr. 37)

It represents a form of placer mining practiced in Georgia, for example.

Strabo (first century BC) Geography I, 2, 39 (Jones, H.L. (ed.) (1969) The Geography of Strabo (in eight volumes) London[20]
Tran, T (1992) "The Hydrometallurgy of Gold Processing", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (UK), 17, pp. 356–365
"Gold During the Classical Period"[21]
Shuker, Karl P. N. (1997), From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings, LLewellyn
Renault, Mary (2004), The Bull from the Sea, Arrow (Rand)
refuted in: Braund, David (1994), op. cit., p. 24 and Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), op. cit.

It represents the forgiveness of God

Müller, Karl Otfried (1844), Orchomenos und die Minyer, Breslau
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), The Voyage of the Argonauts, London: Methuen, p. 64 ff, 163 ff

It represents a rain cloud.

Forchhammer, P. W. (1857) Hellenica Berlin p. 205 ff, 330 ff
refuted in: Janet Ruth Bacon|Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents a land of golden grain.

Faust, Adolf (1898), Einige deutsche und griechische Sagen im Lichte ihrer ursprünglichen Bedeutung. Mulhausen
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the spring-hero.

Schroder, R. (1899), Argonautensage und Verwandtes, Poznań
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the sea reflecting the sun.

Vurthiem, V (1902), “De Argonautarum Vellere aureo”, Mnemosyne, New Series, XXX, pp. 54–67; XXXI, p. 116
Mannhardt, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, VII, p. 241 ff, 281 ff
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the gilded prow of Phrixus’ ship.

Svoronos, M. (1914), in Journal International d’Archéologie Numismatique, XVI, pp. 81–152
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents a breed of sheep in ancient Georgia.

Ninck, M. (1921), “Die Bedeutung des Wassers im Kult und Leben der Alten,” Philologus Suppl 14.2, Leipzig
Ryder, M.L. (1991) "The last word on the Golden Fleece legend?" Oxford Journal of Archaeology 10, pp. 57–60
Smith, G.J. and Smith, A.J. (1992) “Jason's Golden Fleece,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 11, pp. 119–20

It represents the riches imported from the East.

Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.
It represents the wealth or technology of Colchis.
Akaki Urushadze (1984), The Country of the Enchantress Medea, Tbilisi
Colchis[22]
Colchis, Land of the Golden Fleece[23]

It was a covering for a cult image of Zeus in the form of a ram.

Robert Graves (1944/1945), The Golden Fleece/Hercules, My Shipmate, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

It represents a fabric woven from sea silk.

Verrill, A. Hyatt (1950), Shell Collector’s Handbook, New York: Putnam, p. 77
Abbott, R. Tucker (1972), Kingdom of the Seashell, New York: Crown Publishers, p. 184
History of Sea Byssus Cloth[24]
Mussel Byssus Facts
refuted in:
Barber, Elizabeth J. W. (1991), Prehistoric textiles : the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
McKinley, Daniel (1999), “Pinna And Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations,” Ars Textrina 29, pp. 9–29

It is about a voyage from Greece, through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Bailey, James R. (1973), The God Kings and the Titans; The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times, St. Martin's Press

It represents trading fleece dyed murex-purple for Georgian gold.

Silver, Morris (1992), Taking Ancient Mythology Economically, Leiden: Brill[25]

non aliud, pretium laborum non vile: veritas

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mevc/schermer.html

JACOB JANSE SCHERMERHORN, brewer and trader, b. 1622 in Waterland, Holland it is said although in 1654 his father was living in Amsterdam. He came to Beverwyck quite early.

He was arrested in 1648 at Fort Orange by order of Governor Stuyvesant on a charge of selling arms and ammunition to the Indians. His books and papers were seized and he was taken a prisoner to Fort Amsterdam where he was sentenced to banishment for five years together with confiscation of all his property.

By intervention by leading citizens, the first part of his sentence was revoked but his property was totally lost. This action was later a ground for complaint against Stuyvesant to the States General in Amsterdam.

He made his will 5/20/1688 and soon died at Schenectady
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in much greater detail:


http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/schermerhorn/chronicles/1b.html

Jannetie Egmont (Van Voorhout), wife of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, was born in Holland in 1633. Her father made a contract with Patroon Van Rensselaer, August 25, 1643, and in this document he is referred to as Cornelise Segertse Van Egmont. 

He sailed for America in Sept., 1643, by "Het Wapen Van Rensselaerwyck," with his wife, Brechje Jacobsen, 45 years old, and 6 children. 

He was about 44 years of age. His children were Cornelis, 22; Claes, 20; Seger, 14; Lysbeth, 16; Jannetie, 10, and Neeltie, 8. He was engaged as a farmer and was one of the first farmers of consequence in Rensselaerwyck, nearly all of the others at this time being fur traders. 

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The family of Egmont, prominent in Holland in the eleventh century, traced their descent from the Pagan kings. 

Their chateau was on the North Sea, about three miles west of Alkmaar, and from 1423 to 1558, they were at the height of their power. The family was divided into several branches and had in it 9 knights of the Golden Fleece.

Pre-eminent among all of the Egmonts was Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavre, "one of the most brilliant characters in history," as one historian records. He was born in the castle of La Haimaide, in Hainault, Nov. 18, 1522. In 1542, at the death of his brother Karl, he succeeded to the title and estates of the family, which, besides those of Holland, comprised the principality of Gavre, seven or eight baronies and a number of seignories.

In his youth Lamoral was page to the Emperor, Charles V, and when twenty-three years old he married Sabina of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bavaria and Countess Palatine of the Rhine, sister of the elector, Frederick III. Few royal weddings have been more brilliant. The Emperor, his brother Ferdinand, King of the Romans, with the Archduke Maximilian, all the Imperial Electors and a concourse of the principal nobles of the empire, were present on the occasion.

Lamoral participated in various campaigns during the reign of Charles V, who when he was only twenty-six, invested him with the order of the Golden Fleece, and appointed him to several confidential missions, such as sending him to England to seek the hand of Queen Mary for Philip II. 

After the succession of Philip to the throne, Lamoral gained great distinction in many of the campaigns of that period. He incurred the hatred of the Duke of Alva at the battle of St. Quentin, which would not have been fought except for the violent persuasion of Egmont in opposition to the advice of Alva. It was a brilliant victory, and Lamoral was the principal figure in the affray. In the following year he distinguished himself in the battle of Gravelines, and with this became the idol of the people. As a reward for his services he was made in 1559, by Philip II, Stadtholder of the Provences of Flanders and Artois and a member of the Council of State for the Low Countries. 

At the conclusion of the war, by the treaty of Cateau Cambresis, Egmont was one of the four hostages selected by the French king, as pledges for its execution. The attempt made by Philip to convert the Netherlands into a Spanish dependency and govern it by Spanish ministers, excited the resentment of Egmont and other ministers of the Netherlands aristocracy. Though Egmont was a good Catholic, nevertheless he had no desire to see his native country in the throes of the Spanish Inquisition.

 In January, 1565, he and others went to Spain to make known to the king the state of affairs and protest against the autocratic proceedings of Cardinal Granvella, the all-powerful minister of the regent Margaret of Parma, the latter having been appointed against the will of the Protestant party. He was received by Philip with ostentatious cordiality and flattered by the whole court, but the real object of his mission was evaded and he returned home without having accomplished anything for his people. The treacherous Philip, notwithstanding his fair promises to Egmont, sent instructions to the regent to abate nothing in the persecutions. Immediately after the arrival of the Duke of Alva in 1567, who had been sent as lieutenant-general of the Netherlands, Counts Egmont and Horn were seized and imprisoned in Ghent, afterwards being removed to Brussels, where they were tried by the "Council of Blood."

 Sentence was pronounced on the 4th of June, by Alva himself, in spite of the intercession of the Emperor Charles V, the elector Palatine, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the State of Brabant, and the piteous pleadings of his wife, who, with her eleven children, had by this time been reduced to want and had taken refuge in a convent.

 He was beheaded the next day, June 5, 1568, in company with Count Horn, and in the storm of indignation which arose, they were glorified as martyrs to Flemish freedom. This memorable episode proved to be the prelude of the famous revolt of the Netherlands, which ended in independence.

 In 1865 a monument to Counts Egmont and Horn, by Fraiken, was erected at Brussels. Louis Gallait (1810-1887), a Belgian painter, has among his chief works, "Egmont Preparing for Death," "Alva Looking Upon the Bodies of Egmont and Horn," "The Last Moments of Count Egmont." Goethe made of this historical episode the theme of a tragedy.

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The badge of the Order, in the form of a sheepskin, was suspended from a jewelled collar of firesteels in the shape of the letter B, for Burgundy, linked by flints; with the motto 

"Pretium Laborum Non Vile" ("No Mean Reward for Labours") engraved on the front of the central link, and Philip's motto "Non Aliud" ("I will have no other") on the back (non-royal knights of the Golden Fleece were forbidden to belong to any other order of knighthood).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Fleece

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n Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Aeëtes, Medea, Golden Fleece, fire-breathing bulls Khalkotauroi and the destination of the Argonauts.

Colchis is also thought to be the possible homeland of the Amazons.

According to the Greek mythology, Colchis was a fabulously wealthy land situated on the mysterious periphery of the heroic world. Here in the sacred grove of the war god Ares, King Aeëtes hung the Golden Fleece until it was seized by Jason and the Argonauts.

 Colchis was also the land where the mythological Prometheus was punished by being chained to a mountain while an eagle ate at his liver for revealing to humanity the secret of fire. 

Amazons also were said to be of Scythian origin from Colchis.

precursors

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"The Flushing Remonstrance was signed on December 27, 1657, by a group of English citizens who were affronted by persecution of Quakers and the religious policies of Stuyvesant.

None of them were Quakers themselves. The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which several citizens requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

 It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

The Remonstrance ends with:
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The law of love, peace and liberty in the states extending to Jews, Turks and Egyptians,
as they are considered sonnes of Adam,
which is the glory of the outward state of Holland,
 soe love, peace and liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus,

 condemns hatred, war and bondage.
 And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but that offences will come,
 but woe unto him by whom they cometh,

 our desire is not to offend one of his little ones,
 in whatsoever form, name or title hee appears in,
 whether Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist
or Quaker,
 but shall be glad to see anything of God in any of them,
 desiring to doe unto all men as we desire all men should doe unto us,
which is the true law both of Church and State;
for our Saviour sayeth this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us,
 we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them,
but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town,
and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences,
for we are bounde by the law of God and man
 to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.

And this is according to the patent and charter of our Towne,
given unto us in the name of the States General,
which we are not willing to infringe, and violate,
but shall houlde to our patent and shall remaine,
your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing."

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"Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries.

 Much of the northern section of Kissena Park, former site of the Parsons nursery, still contains a wide variety of exotic trees. The naming of streets intersecting Kissena Boulevard on its way toward Kissena Park celebrates this fact (Ash Avenue, Beech, Cherry ...Poplar, Quince, Rose).

 Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward project, now known as Central Park in Manhattan."

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"Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (Anglicized to Francis Bloodgood) (c. 1623 - 29 December 1676) was a Netherlander who immigrated to Flushing, Queens, He is the ancestor of the American Bloodgood family.

Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware river in 1659. They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.

Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death. Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.

 On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. He died on 29 December 1676."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet

diminishing moral authority as hardball tool

making it personal, a section on every activist

docs.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/31/us/politics/31lobbyist-docs.html

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wash the days away

like a record needle @269rpms
the notes wash the days away like a sip
of tea or the blink of a squirrel

lawns of yawns surround the library
winds blow thru the brick
turning book pages into dinosaurs

how much time is wasted programming people
when love lasts but a ripple?

picking out a tombstone playing on
a trombone music mosaic myth
grave dirt soft

time is a threat we hold in our throats, sour
milk. why surrender?
why be haiku?


1986
K.U., Lawrence, Ks.

ugly oklahoma inclusion zone

i sit and wait in the university cafeteria
for my coffee to cool. "and what about that
good 'ole boy from midwest city? he was kinda
slow." two overweight businessmen
wear ugly brown ties. ugly
okies and leering foreigners park in the cafeteria
to watch the fatassed coeds carry their heaping
salad platters. the ugly
men have notebooks graphpaper and big calculators
strewn about their tables.
the middle easterners lounge with empty milk cartons and
spilled wild rice. when they go to class
they occupy the front row and
study most dilligently while at home in the dorm.

here in the cafeteria, they watch
american bacteria socialize



1985
OSU, Stillwater, Ok

ghosts playing croquet

ghosts playing croquet drift over wickets
gently knocking the colored balls
which roll as if on glass

a breeze lifts the flow of the ghosts
as they play thru the night
humming nameless tunes,
calculating their shots until the dawn



1986
Lawrence, Kansas

Louise Selover Champlin

genealogy gets interesting

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isis, mesa, surreal bloetgoet
forest bloggod
melanie may blotgodi
dorothy selover champlin may
louise selover
andrew jackson selover (b 9-14-1829)
asher a selover (9-11-1795)
isaac selover (9-30-1759)
lucas selover (3-21-1731) 

daniel selover (1704)  married helena shermerhorn (1704) 

lucas schermerhorn (1648) elisabeth janse damen (b. 1680)
jacob janse schermerhorn (1622) jannetie segerese van egmont(1633)
cornelius segerese van egmont (1599)
cornelius segerese van egmont (1573)
seger van egmont (1550) 

 
lamoraal van egmont (11-18-1522)  sabine von der pfalz-simmern (6-13-1528) 

john II,count palatine of simmern (3-20-1492) beatrice of baden (1-22-1492)
etc
etc
etc
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fighting the Inquisition.

blanket advice from those willing to Chase the ambulance and scoop up what is left...for profit

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/how-not-to-get-arrested/Content?oid=4867838

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Incitement from those who profit off the victims, and endanger those who take their "advice."


But even if you heed Kreuscher's advice?

 You still might get arrested.

Or worse.

"It's not a magic wand," he says.

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Kreusher is right. Having money, a law degree, important connections, the right clothes, and the foresight to watch the melee from the distance of a high rise office, is the "magic wand."


_______


"Kreuscher, working with the National Lawyers Guild, was delivering a brief, energetic lecture called "Know Your Rights"—essentially all about how not to get arrested during a rally and what to do in case you are.

He was invited by the organizers of Occupy Portland, the anti-corporate group planning a noontime rally Thursday at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, followed by a march to Pioneer Courthouse Square. (And then, likely, followed by days of camping out along the Willamette.)"

________



so much for the "camp on the Willamette" idea. City Hall loved having Occupy in front of the cop shop and city hall.

and avoiding arrest? is that how the Civil Rights movement operates?

FILL THE JAILS with political dissidents. the IWW won free speech battles across the nation by exercising their Constitutional rights, and getting arrested by the dozen.


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following the advice of those who stay out of the trenches is a precarious place to put one's self.

"The American Lyceum Association was founded in 1831 by American statesman Daniel Webster and educator Josiah Holbrook. The Latin word “Lyceum” comes from the Greek word “Lykeion” which referred to the school outside Athens where Aristotle taught from 325 to 323 B.C."

My step-grandfather, Harry Byrd Kline, was President of the International Platform Association in 1951. His politics and character were as strange as the list of honored speakers earning the Silver Bowl...

For much of the 20th Century, IPA Silver Bowl awards have recognized a rich, diverse galaxy of political leaders, authors, performers, scientists, journalists, musicians, business leaders and philosophers who have made significant contributions to the intellectual life of America.

Some of the Silver Bowl winners, both living and departed, have included luminaries such as:

Lowell Thomas
John F. Kennedy
Bob Hope
Henry Kissinger
Victor Borge
Jack Anderson
Glenn T. Seaborg
Winston Churchill
William F. Buckley
John Wayne
Pearl Bailey
Elizabeth Taylor
Tom Brokaw
Edwin Newman
Robert C. Byrd
David Brinkley
Malcolm S. Forbes
Art Linkletter
Erma Bombeck
Barbara Walters
Art Buchwald
Danny Kaye
Ann Landers
Hyman Rickover
Ralph Nader
Ted Turner
George Gallup, Jr.
Arthur Goldberg
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert Dole
John Denver
Dick Cavett
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
William Safire
Harry Reasoner
Justin Dart
Carl Sagan
Drew Pearson
Seymour Hersh
Earl Warren
Isaac Asimov
James D. Feldman
Richard M. Nixon
Claude Pepper
Mario Cuomo
Larry King
Howard Jarvis
Leon Jawarski
Jean Michael Cousteau
Minnie Pearl
Jose Grego
Rod McKuen
C. Everett Koop
Jean Sheppard
F. Lee Bailey
Harry Blackstone, Jr.
Hal Bruno
Lawrence Spivak
Wolf Blitzer
George Plimpton
William Proxmire
Alexander Haig
William E. Simon
J. Peter Grace
Tom Bradley
William H. Webster
James Schlesinger
Warren B. Rudman
Edwin Meese
William French Smith
Penn and Teller
Hal Holbrook
Stephen J. Gould
J.W. Marriott
Pat Boone

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what a gang of misfits!!!

holy tube

sacrifice belongs to the heart organ
struggling to render sense
of what the world makes of congealed peoples,
my own circle included,
as distal moot points jab reminders
we are one
when we see something hurt,
when conscience intrudes on business,
when going about forced
feedings, bleedings, and improvised bedding
on the side of holy
mountains buzzing with news vulture drones
ready to dominate
that which surmounts disbelief
and posits United sanctuaries as targets,
cupid on the rack
with a steady stream of vitriol
inserted down tube you conduit
you condone it
tithe the torture instrument no more
on a day shared
not just by foes, but by the rest of us noncombatants
who avoid even pillow fights
who would rather sing the feasts we find on this spare rib
called Earth, pulled out of a swirl
and primary longing to give
our own
to the other
in order for chaos to illustrate beauty in freedom
that mocks constraints and private prison islands
by a pace maker ticking out pardons
and sorry sorties, atoning for thirty third alignments
in which One divided
bears some burden, in ritual, but allows
blood shed by proxy and calls it brother in the wrong tongue,
so much in the way
that our info tube carves new tunnels in the form of wormholes
trying to find ways out of days
less revered than utilized.

may day portland oregon 2012

November 17, 2011 portland oregon

occupy portland, oregon....october 2011

one party race

Hegemony (UK /hɨˈɡɛməni/, US /hɨˈdʒɛməni/;[1][2][3] Greek: ἡγεμονία hēgemonía, "leadership, rule") is an indirect form of government, and of imperial dominance in which the hegemon (leader state)

http://www.fulcrumpolitical.com/  " with independent tests proving it to be among the most persuasive voter contact in the nation."

 rules geopolitically subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather than by direct military force.

"battle tested. experience, strategy, propaganda."

"MARK WIENER IS A TOTAL ASSFUCKER," says a political insider, who has worked with Oregon's most powerful political consultant in the past.

"Don't cross the man. He's the one person in this business you don't want to cross, because he knows everybody and he knows everyone. There's nobody and nothing that is beyond his reach. He is somebody to keep on your side."

Here's a nicer way of putting it.

"Mark Wiener is the man in the shadows who's elected the majority of city council,

"

 Under hegemony, rebellion (social, political, economic, armed) is eliminated either by

co-optation of the rebels

 or by suppression (police and military), without direct intervention by the hegemon;

...in the theory of cultural hegemony, whereby one social class

can manipulate the system of values and mores of a society,

 in order to create and establish a ruling class Weltanschauung,

 a worldview that justifies the status quo of bourgeois domination of the other social classes of the society."
_______



"In contemporary society, the exemplar hegemonic organisations are churches and the mass communications media that continually transmit data and information to the public.

As such, the ideologic content of the data and information are determined by the vocabulary with which the messages are presented—how the messages are presented; thereby determines the value of the information as "reliable" or "unreliable", as "true" or "false", for the recipient reader, listener, and viewer.

Hence language is essential to the imposition, establishment, and functioning of the cultural hegemony that influences what and how people think about the status quo of their society"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony
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he who carries the water

"Water with a high deuterium content can only form under specific conditions. The environment needs to be very cold, and there needs to be enough energy to power the reaction that binds hydrogen, deuterium and oxygen. Over the past several decades, researchers have come up with two possible — and competing  — explanations of how this heavy water took up residence in our solar system.

The first is that it came from interstellar water ice that formed in the huge cloud of gas that gave birth to our sun and the solar system. Stellar nurseries can be found throughout the universe, and they are rich in both heavy water and regular water (H20), the researchers said."

_______

"For Kitzhaber’s re-election campaign, McCaig has done far more than a typical campaign volunteer.  

She has routinely taken a leading role in strategy sessions with paid campaign consultants, including Mark Wiener and Kevin Looper, both of whom worked on the 2010 campaign for Kitzhaber.

 (The governor has disclosed he is paying Wiener and Looper; both declined to discuss McCaig’s role in the campaign.)"

_____http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23139-working_off_the_books.html___

"That would be Mark Wiener, the Portland political consultant to Leonard, Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Mayor Sam Adams as well as Portland City Council candidates Steve Novick and Mary Nolan.

Portland, of course, does not fluoridate its municipal water, as other U.S. cities do for dental reasons. Upstream Public Health has made oral health a priority for its group, and it hired Wiener as an adviser to assess the political landscape on fluoride not because the group is planning a large-scale 

campaign....http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandcityhall/2011/09/fluoride_proponents_visit_comm.html

______________


2012-2013 Fluoride Campaign Supporters

American Dental Association

Cambia Foundation          

Capital Dental

CareOregon

DentaQuest                  

Dental Foundation of Oregon

Kaiser Permanente            

Legacy Health Systems

Metropolitan Medical Foundation of Oregon

Northwest Health Foundation  

OHSU

Oregon Community Foundation

Oregon Dental Association    

Oregon Medical Association

Pew Charitable Trust

Providence Health Systems

Willamette Dental Group



 http://www.upstreampublichealth.org/10th-anniversary-sponsors
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Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
American Rights at Work
Tammy Baldwin for State Senate (WI)*
Basic Rights Education Fund
Alan Bates for State Senate (OR)
Shelley Berkley for State Senate (NV)*
Howard Berman for Congress (CA)*
Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor (ID)
Earl Blumenauer for Congress (OR)
Suzanne Bonamici for Congress (OR)
Mary Bono Mack for Congress (CA)*
Kate Brown for Secretary of State (OR)
Sherrod Brown for Senate (OH)*
John Burbank for State Rep (WA)
Darcy Burner for Congress (WA)*
California League of Conservation Voters
Richard Carmona State Senate (AZ)*
Susan Castillo for State Superintendent of Public Instruction (OR)
Children’s Investment Fund
Clean Air Now
Clean Water Action Project
Climate PAC
Jeff Cogen for County Chair (OR)
Communications Workers of America
Tony Corcoran for State Senate (OR)
Peter Courtney for State Senate (OR)
DC Democracy Fund
Ryan Deckert for State Senate (OR)
Peter Defazio for Congress (OR)*
Defend Oregon
Defenders of Wildlife
Richard Devlin for State Senate (OR)
Earth Justice
Easter Seals
Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)
Donna Edwards for Congress (MD)*
Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)
Environment Colorado
Environmental Defense Fund
Jack Evans for DC Council (DC)
Experience Corps
John Foote for Clackamas County District Attorney (OR)
Friends of the Earth
Future PAC
Genocide Intervention
Jim Gerlach for Congress (PA)*
Jennifer Granholm for Governor (MI)*
Vince Gray for DC Council (DC)
Charlie Hales for Portland Mayor (OR)
Colleen Hanabusa for Congress (HI)*
Mark Hass for State Rep (OR)
Hawaii State Teachers Association
Healthy Kids Now
Healthy Legacy
Sue Hecht for State Senate (MD)*
Martin Heinrich for State Senate (NM)*
Carl Hosticka for Metro (OR)
Jon Hulburd for Congress (AZ)
Humane Society of the United States (AZ, CO, MT, ND, NM, NV, VA, WA)
Humane Society Legislative Fund (CA, CT, LA, MD, MI, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, WA, WV)
IBEW
Idaho Conservation League
Idaho Education Association
Christine Jennings for Congress (FL)*
Joyce Johnson for City Council (NY)
Betsy Johnson for State Senate (OR)
Maryanne Jordan for Boise Council (ID)*
Mary Jo Kilroy for Congress (OH)*
Judge Rives Kistler for Supreme Court (OR)
John Kitzhaber for Governor (OR)
Komen Foundation
Frank Kratovil for Congress (MD)*
John Kroger for Attorney General (OR)
Ted Kulongoski for Governor (OR)*
Randy Leonard for Portland City Council (OR)
Robert Liberty for Metro (OR)
Greg Lind for Senate District 50 (MT)
Patricia Madrid for Congress (NM)*
Jerome Mapp for Boise Council (ID)*
Jerry McNerney for Congress (CA)*
Phil Mendelson for Council Chair (DC)
Grace Meng for Congress (NY)*
Jeff Merkley for US Senate (OR)*
Rick Metsger for State Senate (OR)
Michigan League of Conservation Voters
Million Voices for Darfur
Montana Conservation Voters
Jim Moran for Congress (VA)*
John Morse for State Senate (CO)
Chris Murphy for State Senate (CT)*
Hardy Myers for Attorney General (OR)
NARAL Pro-Choice America (NY, OR)
National Education Association
The Nature Conservancy
Nevada Conservation Awareness Project
New York League of Conservation Voters
Northwest Carpenters
Steve Novick for City Council (OR)
Barack Obama for President*
Oregon AFL-CIO
Oregon Education Association
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
Oregon University System
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations
The Patterson Foundation
Ed Perlmutter for Congress (CO)*
Gary Peters for Congress (MI)*
Lynn Peterson fo County Chair (OR)
Kitty Piercy for Eugene Mayor (OR)
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon
Protect Washington
Floyd Prozanski for State Senate (OR)
Nick Rahall for Congress (WV)*
Dave Reichert for Congress (WA)*
Charlie Ringo for State Senate (OR)
Craig Roberts for Sheriff (OR)*
Maria Rojo de Steffey for County Commission (OR)
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
SAFER States
Dan Saltzman for Portland City Council (OR)
Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)
Save Darfur Coalition
Mark Schauer for Congress (MI)*
Martha Schrader for County Commissioner (OR)
Brian Schweitzer for Governor (MT)*
Screen Actors Guild
SEIU, Oregon and Montana
Shaheen for Senate (NH)*
Janice Shamberg for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*
Chris Shays for State Senate (CT)*
Sierra Club (D.C., CO, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, WA, WI)
Sierra Club State Action Fund
Kyrsten Sinema for Congress (AZ)*
Snohomish Conservation Voters*
John Spratt for Congress (SC)*
Stand for Children
Erik Sten for Portland City Council (OR)
Ted Strickland for Governor (OH)*
Student Alliance Project
Betty Sutton for Congress (OH)*
Texas Envirnomental Watch Alliance
John Tierney for Congress (MA)*
Dina Titus for Congress (NV)*
U.S. PIRG
Mark Udall for US Senate (CO)*
Rod Underhill for District Attorney (OR)
United Way
Upstream Public Health
Fred Upton for Congress (MI)*
Doug Van Etten for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*
Joanne Verger for State Senate (OR)
Victory Fund
                                                                                 David Vitter for State Senate (LA)*
Anthony David Weiner for City Council (NY)
Western States Center
The Wilderness Society
Worksafe
Ron Wyden for US Senator (OR)
Wyoming Equality State Policy Center
Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association
*Independent Expenditure

"Mark Wiener has more than thirty years of political experience inside and outside government at the federal, state and local levels. Mark has served in every imaginable campaign role and has become known as a national leader in direct mail and online.

 As the founder of Winning Mark and co-founder of Fulcrum, Mark’s work has won numerous awards, with independent tests proving it to be among

the most persuasive
 voter contact
 in the nation."

http://www.fulcrumpolitical.com/
________

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-old-water-on-earth-20140923-story.html

"In a study published Thursday in Science, researchers say the distinct chemical signature of the water on Earth and throughout the solar system could occur only if some of that water formed before the swirling disk of dust and gas gave birth to the planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

This primordial water makes up 30% to 50% of the water on Earth, the researchers estimate."

blackwater

"The two types of boast are the ȝielp (pronounced 'yelp') and the beot (pronounced 'bayawt', but as one syllable). The former is a boast of one's own worthiness, such as one's accomplishments, ancestry, etc. The latter is a boast of an action one plans to undertake."
_____

and THEN i am going to yelp,
writing my own previews,

a real nowhere man
with a hole in my levy

ready to fix
(redlines not gentrified with sitcom dynamite)

spots
just like i fixed iraq

as if "state department"
were a command

i.e.---"where are you FROM?"
born of black water,

primordial ooze
shows up to clean the mess precipitated

not by hurricane storm surges,
but by doing a FEMA

"heck of a slob" mop up job,
covering up deeds best buried.

seed eye saw

a kitten named odin
used my hand
for a sparring partner,
lacking sisters& brothers
but having found his
right hand man
(the sacrificial priest donated one limb
injured healer etc etc
to climb sky to earth along nerves,
play fighting the realms,
putting faces on each finger
as if the litter of foes
came not of one mother one father
as if clouding names
helps blood stay secret
as if the act were a farce as skin peels its curtain
to a crowned crowd
related by tales that castle-keep
us young,
frenzied, sharpening claws on
self-bark nine layers deep
_______

when grandmother selover
passed i was high on a plain
in still water, many eyed,
hit by my own waves
thirteen generations placed
from implacable origins
(nine teen thirteen ash street,
eleven nine nineteen ninety three
the placenta nourishes the hathor
the milky way
sucking my hug
holding on to the lone tree while i hold my thing,
alone never in mystery.
_____

tracing back,
be leaf,
okie oak,

missile toes for trance-formers,
host of birth games,

nut job. look at the kitten,
odin, go. made

of sticks
& circles my name
b l o o d g o o d rolls the hoop down the stairs,
up into a canopy of multitudes

if i lift my cup
splashing thoughts,
call it divination to read the blots of my bragging

binary code zero ones,
no thing but soil singing,
attacking itself immunized against staged fear:

face the hand,
inside is seed
i saw.

black maria

(order

prevails in paralytic charm)

we each get a turn to mein nothing,

noodling message-fish-embankments,

mainly meandering manforms

dressed in garbled garb

of tarped autonomy

here i hear our dissonance departing....

it is called a beat,

gumshoes, or gaul lashes 

fertile riotry.

even order is confused

when non-charmed volks

drive paddy wagons

10-18-11 Occupy Portland

(Black Maria, a slang term for a police van used to transport prisoners)

wading on the devil's bar

 "In Goethe's Faust, a chorus of Lemurs who serve Mephistopheles dig Faustus' grave. Lemures may represent the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living: they are not attested by tomb or votive inscriptions. Ovid interprets them as vagrant, unsatiated and potentially vengeful di manes or di parentes, ancestral gods or spirits of the underworld."




usually best to roll them into the canyon,
divergent roads using vehicles
as writing nibs
made of iridium, the hardest material
on earth, entering the
police blotter
by high angle rope team extraction
several hundred feet
an old town needle in a haystack writing seminar
no coincidence
i rub my eyes and head to feel the scar
from a devil's pointed shove
down in the 2 am street
bounced down
i sprang up, otherwise a sitting duck
for midnight hunters run amok
returning to the scene for answers
two weaks later
i reborn from my own caesarian extraction,
producing a knife when cornered
to avoid injury
the bouncer told me i could not enter
"to swerve could cause
more dead"
two bucks were the admission charge
two bucks paid to protect
gangster does as want travels thru the dark
i did my own intrepid research,
at the KKclub, told by a slinky doe
the frank owner found them
by finding a cellphone
exhausted breath turnsignaled red
as if the pimp of dozens has more access
to pings
or knows where habeas corpus
pawns the kings of access, exquisite corpses
in failing lingerie,
as the wilderness listens thru a voodoo donuthole
that took out the middle
men, and inserted questions large in the belly,
pregnant with arrows
much like masked stage directions for portlandia
in which mansions saved by longshoremen
share the stage with benson bubblers
giving free hard thinking to all
having heart attacks on the way down
the same weak as mlk
the same tweakers that sent me to emergence rooms
in which surrendered blades
allow catscans that purr under a hood
owned by frank finders of faustian loopholes
wading on the bar
to shovel just
ice into the flames

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after William Stafford's "traveling thru the dark"
dante, and goethe: too.

champlin oil, union pacific resources group, anadarko petroleum, deepwater horizon...

Champlin Oil


"In 1916, oil was discovered at Garber Field. Champlin bought the mineral rights from George Beggs, a farmer who resided in the area. Ary Champlin had encouraged him to do so.  

 He purchased a small refinery from Victor Bolene, and built a pipeline between it and Garber Field. In 1920, he purchased the Goodwell Oil Company which consisted of several bulk plants and service stations.

 During his lifetime, the Champlin Oil Company expanded to operate service stations and wholesale outlets in twenty midwestern states and drilling and production operations in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.

 By Mr. Champlin’s death in 1944, the company employed over 800 people in Enid.

Following nine years of continued family ownership, the company went public in 1953. 

It had several owners:

1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

 
1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company. 

1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Resources Company. 

1984: The operation was purchased by American Petrofina, which ultimately closed the refinery" 

.____

May 3, 1987 — The Union Pacific Corporation consolidated two subsidiaries, Champlin Petroleum and the Rocky Mountain Energy Company, into a single operating company called the Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc. 

 It said the change would permit further cost and productivity improvements in the natural resource businesses. (New York Times, May 4, 1987)

In 1995, Union Pacific Corporation combined all of its natural resource operations (Champlin Petroleum and Rocky Mountain Energy) into the Union Pacific Resources Group.  

In October 1995, Union Pacific sold a 17 percent stake to the public in an IPO. (New York Times, October 9, 1995)

On October 15, 1996, Union Pacific Corporation spun off its remaining 83 percent stake in Union Pacific Resources Group.  

At the time, Union Pacific Resources owned 

 7.5 million acres of land 

 in the western states that originally came to Union Pacific as mid-19th century land grants. (New York Times, November 17, 1996)
_________

UPC acquired Champlin Petroleum Company ("Champlin") in 1970 to manage the exploitation of its oil and gas operations on the Land Grant.  

The Land Grant consists of land granted by the Federal government to a predecessor of UPC in the mid-1800s which passes through the states of Colorado and Wyoming and into Utah and intersects several highly productive oil and gas basins.

In the Land Grant Area, the Company has fee ownership of the mineral rights under approximately 7.9 million acres constituting the initial Land Grant and controls the mineral rights under approximately 700,000 additional acres. In 1971, UPC combined its own oil and gas operations with those of Champlin.

In 1987, the Champlin name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company ("UPRC") and UPRC also became responsible for managing UPC's hard mineral assets.
__________



In June 1997, Union Pacific Resources was reported as being

the largest domestic driller of oil and gas,

 for the past five years. (New York Times, June 24, 1997)
________


the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 granted large chunks of western land for those attempting to lay railroad tracks across the continent. Union Pacific, the Goliath of railroading west of the Mississippi, was given 7.9 million acres in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.  

It wasn't until a good 50 years later that Union Pacific started to mine this land for oil, gas, and coal in earnest.

After growing the business both organically and through several acquisitions, Union Pacific found itself a major player in the natural resources market. In 1995, the railroad packaged together and spun off to shareholders all of its assets in gas and natural resources as Union Pacific Resources.

After Union Pacific Resources found itself independent of the railroad, it went about looking for acquisitions. Its first major deal, a hostile offer for Pennzoil at more than double today's prices, was derailed at the last moment in 1997. Still hungry for mergers and acquisitions, the company successfully bought Canada-based Norcen for $3.5 billion last year. Late in 1998, Union Pacific Resources decided to sell its midstream gas processing operations to Duke Energy for $1.35 billion to pare down debt and concentrate on upstream gas exploration.

 The company is now one of the largest gas exploration companies on the continent.
________



In April 2000, Union Pacific Resources Group was purchased by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (Dallas Business Journal, April 3, 2000; Anadarko news release dated April 3, 2000)

Sale of Union Pacific Resources -- On July 14, 2000, Anadarko Petroleum announced the closing of its acquisition of Union Pacific Resources Group.  

Union Pacific became a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko.
_______



Transocean and Halliburton have settled some liabilities and the judge said they were shielded by indemnity clauses with BP.

Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which owned a quarter of the well, might have to pay fines under the Clean Water Act, though it has settled other claims with BP.
________

In April 2014, Anadarko settled with the Federal Government to pay over $5 billion to clean up environmental waste sites around the country.

 It was the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history.
________
  

Oligarchy

eyes on director age 11

snipers, tear gas, militarized police in portland oregon nov. 13 2011...eviction of peaceful political protest

"Not only have cops been known to go undercover to infiltrate rallies, but they can also lie and commit some crimes as part of their missions.

 Sometimes, they may even pretend to be your friend, encouraging you to commit a crime.

 Entrapment, Kreuscher says, is a difficult and very specific legal principle to prove—so don't expect to rely on it if you suddenly find out your "friend" is actually the fuzz."

spurious advice in the face of a police state, november 17 2011 occupy portland oregon chase

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/how-not-to-get-arrested/Content?oid=4867838

"You don't have to speak to an officer on the street unless you choose to." The best thing, Kreuscher says, is to be unfailingly polite but say you're busy and then walk away. That's key. If you stay put, you might eventually relent and start chatting.

i'm out of here---pepperspray, batons, riot cops at peaceful protest november 17 2001 portland oregon

militarized police portland oregon november 17 2011, chase bank pepperspray

chief of police mike reese ( not mayor reece) november 17 2011

militarized police november 17 2001 portland oregon usa

chief reese november 17 2011 occupy chase bank portland oregon

pepper spray victim n 17 2011 portland oregon

n 17 2011

hung out to dry

folk tails, nailed to the barn
"sorry" stories that fell by the hundred
to ground zero bin ladens
from leaving while the map erasers
loaded airwaves with hysteria

used to shoo the flies
with those tales
where the shit emerges from the commitee

hard on us, pardon

pardon my mr president
pardon my friends
pardon yer enemies
pardon us, sir
pardon the thugs
pardon the poopheads and  bootlickers
pardon the ceos and the crack whackers
pardon us sir mister bigshot warchief
pardon the religions in their hoily boodle battles
pardon drones pre-preemptive emptying,
pardon our french ticklers from witchita
pardon your bloody rose garden, space of aids, & waiting lines for prostheses
        at the ungoverned VA museum of unforgivable torsos
pardon notions of blemishes vanquished
pardon justices unimpeachable in their salient crimes
pardon the unmansionables in tent cities, car camps, under bridges, in peesmell doorways
pardon the poor if they don't pardon us
when we are part and parcel of policy
&waved wands, signed edicts, and loaves of bread all compete for a clean slate,

pardon the anger
hard (on itself

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folk yer anchor in pub lick forums(safer spazzes

(safer spazzes )

stay put
-in their dick-tattered
foot-n-mouth dis
-ease, solid
-rarity dis
-tract shun the sheeple's
-hit in a herd going with a F
-low toward the bottom

"use your words"
flying off the handle,
grease ignites in
the air,
hate
-red spreads,
unions dis
-solve,

the meek shall get stuck with the earth is more like it,
charred, rehashed, with blame fingers
pointing out the wrongness of the sky,

folk you.
folk us all.

mint shows

http://gorgeguide.com/component/eventlist/venueevents/77-erin-glenn-winery-at-the-mint/archive.html?pop=1&tmpl=component
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alexa wiley, little sue, paul brainard, michael hurley, lincoln crockett, mike danner, forest bloodgood----acts that bloggod brought to the musical desert known as the dalles....

in the mint.

dang was that fun.