Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Pickens, SAE, and the Politics of misplaced shame
T Boone Pickens is embarrassed of Obama, the first black President, but not publicly embarrassed of his fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
He makes comments about "getting rid of" Obama and even compares the decision to not approve Keystone XL as trying to "understand murder."
What world does Pickens live in? Who dotes on him as a sage? http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/pickens-calgary-im-so-sorry-about-the-keystone-pipeline
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma at OU....the guy who "defended" Tim Mcveigh is set to represent SAE fraternity as they earn an expulsion for racist practices. Jones ran against OU President, David Boren, for US Senate in 1990, and lost.
Why Pickens chooses to apologize on behalf of America, supposedly, to the Canadian people follows other intentional GOP insults in the news with Netanyahu, and a "letter" to Iran...
And Oliver North speaks to the Freedom Rally of "social conservatives" here in Portland.
If it looks a bit totalitarian, no problem.
OK always seems to think it is ALL ok.
Friday, March 13, 2015
rhodes scholars, fraternities, segregationists one and all
Racism on campuses? Look to the foundations of illegitimate elitism, colonialism, and segregation by gender, race, and class.
Who "runs" the world? Those with a leg-up, or a Pistorious as they say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship
Women were not allowed to be Rhodes Scholars until laws changed in 1977.
Bill Clinton, no problem...Hillary? Use the side door.
Look to the history of Cecil Rhodes, a blatant racist and colonialist whose entire philosophy is based on running countries for those "unfit indigenous" peoples around the globe. Obviously, women were unfit as well, to lead politically or in business regards.
Saturday, March 07, 2015
look it up kitten------haiku
soft big eyes explore
hard world inexorable
look it up, kitten
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touch mynose my tail
(i told my body what to do)
clean work starts @ home
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bottom of litter
blues top karma plate potluck
squirm toward free nipple
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runts rule bully law
(who are you calling a runt!
bank and forth tales sweep
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cute fang takes nice mice
home to her children waiting
gastronomical
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whisk sweeps his her story
(the furrier the better)
moon looks down and nods
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underwheel barrow
sheltered brood discovered (oops
sorry, mother cat
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one by one neck haul
children lumber pile safety
confine cat castle
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punctured tin delight
aroma sound saliva
twenty feet running
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i catch my own food
simple rodents. bugs. or tuna.
swipe of stealthy paw
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let me in i plead
not as dog with scratching paw
waiting doorside hours
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independent, yes
allergic to stroking, no
depend on that (logic
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milk bowladulthood
enough only one sitting
otherwise---flies drawn
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i draw with my tail
accomplishment legend map
"where i been is done"
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our pingpong ball chase
(neverending game of life)
thank goat, walls of time
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sister-brother nest
just leave one nostril open
epiphany air
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mother chews the cord
father prowls barndark quiet
these things, are given.
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wrapped in dishtowel love
take out baby burrito
parent practice good
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purr mechanism
runs purel (by seeing you
daughters trifecta!
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catch and release game
sharpen our human smile bark
sunshine yawn nap stretch
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litter conflation
no mess, nor pissy sponge sops
sibling, final friend
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sandpaper tongue bath
six down one to go...oh bother
go to where did they
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my head on your haunch
milky waterbed sister
straw built camel back
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father of the field
(mothered subterranean
night? anarchy rule
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no yarnball catnip
please, pull burrs from my fur.
supply pillow, too.
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crossing the road storm
stuck in treetop innocence
same difference, yep
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symbolic proxy
go where we cannot, freedom
mate with life yourself
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curious prowler
atop grandmas china hutch
cat in a bull shop
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in stow away add
inadvertent cat cargo
going gone round trip
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motions of nine lives
cheating death by pursing life
twitching cat dreamnap
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they fought atop fence
caterwauling "right makes might
roles reversed...it might
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sleeping kneading leg
owner complains of clawhurt
anyway, whose lap?
march 1, 2015
written in the woods of the northwest
Sunday, March 01, 2015
memory twigs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimir_(sculpture)
"Mimir is based on the figure of the same name in Norse mythology, renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, and who is beheaded during the Æsir–Vanir War.
Afterward, the god Odin carries around Mímir's head, which serves as an oracle and recites secret knowledge and counsel to him.
Jennifer Anderson of the Portland Tribune said the sculpture is a "combination of Norse mythology, gibberish, fish and space creature".
In 2007, Jellum recalled of its origin: "I'm not sure where [the image] came from. It's just at the time I was doing a whole lot of drawings, and it just popped out and sort of appealed to me. It's part fish, part space creature."
Mimir was installed at Northwest 27th Avenue between Northwest Upshur and Thurman Streets in 1980,
after being commissioned by the Portland Development Commission and Tom Walsh of Tom Walsh Construction.
The abstract sculpture measures approximately 24 inches (61 cm) x 15 inches (38 cm) x 13 inches (33 cm), which rests on a concrete and stone base that measures 7 feet (2.1 m) x 30 inches (76 cm) x 30 inches (76 cm).
The Smithsonian Institution described the work as follows: "Decorative obelisk with a mask mounted at the top. The mask has a cone-like nose and tusks. It wears a layered breastplate with shoulder pads."
The base includes a plaque with no legible text."
"You see all these plaques around and they give all this 'important' information.
I thought it was just irrelevant to the piece.
I like the idea of putting something up there that didn't have any information on it."
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"general opinion is that the difference was functional, i.e. the long-branch runes were used for documentation on stone, whereas the short-twig runes were in everyday use for private or official messages on wood."
The long-branch runes are the following rune signs:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚬ ᚱ ᚴ ᚼ ᚾ ᛁ ᛅ ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛘ ᛚ ᛦ
f u þ ą r k h n i a s t b m l ʀ
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"runes appear as simplified variants of the long-branch runes, while the remaining seven have identical shapes:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚭ ᚱ ᚴ ᚽ ᚿ ᛁ ᛆ ᛌ ᛐ ᛓ ᛙ ᛚ ᛧ
f u þ ą r k h n i a s t b m l ʀ "
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Hälsinge runes (staveless runes)
Staveless runes
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"rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the concepts after which they are named (ideographs). Scholars refer to instances of the latter as Begriffsrunen ('concept runes'). The Scandinavian variants are also known as fuþark, or futhark, these names derived from
the first six letters of the script, ⟨ᚠ⟩, ⟨ᚢ⟩, ⟨ᚦ⟩, ⟨ᚨ⟩/⟨ᚬ⟩, ⟨ᚱ⟩, and ⟨ᚲ⟩/⟨ᚴ⟩, corresponding to the Latin letters ⟨f⟩, ⟨u⟩, ⟨þ⟩/⟨th⟩, ⟨a⟩, ⟨r⟩, and ⟨k⟩. The Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc, or fuþorc, due to changes in Old English of the sounds represented by the fourth letter, ⟨ᚨ⟩/⟨ᚩ⟩. "
"Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic philology.
The earliest secure runic inscriptions date from around AD 150, with a potentially earlier inscription dating to AD 50 and Tacitus's potential description of rune use from around AD 98. The Svingerud Runestone dates from between AD 1 and 250.
Runes were generally replaced by the Latin alphabet as the cultures that had used runes underwent Christianisation,
by approximately AD 700 in central Europe and 1100 in northern Europe. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes beyond this period. Up until the early 20th century, runes were still used in rural Sweden for decorative purposes in Dalarna and on runic calendars. "
buffy the bloggod slayer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle
Buffet may be Nebraska's one percent version of "a seer."
I am the Okie version, also a one percenter...the "bottom" one.
Buffet may be Nebraska's one percent version of "a seer."
I am the Okie version, also a one percenter...the "bottom" one.
whoracles in whoregon
hal holbrook, as marky mark felt...starring in a state...nero you.