bribery becomes the status quo

"It’s just so unfair
that American companies
aren’t allowed to pay bribes
to get business overseas,”

Trump is quoted in the book as saying,
___________

It’s just so unfair
that American citizens
aren’t allowed to hear from witnesses
to get Answers about our elected Leaders

stare decisis, trials have witnesses in the USA

sta·re de·ci·sis /ˌsterē dəˈsīsəs/

noun LAW

the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.  
____________

extortion becomes precedent
selling favors to mobsters and oligarchs becomes precedent
bribery becomes a permissible precedent
immunity from prosecution becomes precedent
intimidation and hate speech becomes precedent.

Sofa Tree

One highlight today
Was hearing Adam Schiff
Use the term

Sophistry

After I'd introduced
That word
In the swamp section at the
Washington Post

The day before. Just as I
Think I was first to
Use the phrase

Quid
Pro quo, just as I've noticed
Stephen Colbert

Borrow my jokes
Whole cloth. It's ok.
I have more and own
It not.

Arguably, the future
Belongs to everything that
Contributes to
Present liberty.

B 52

Damian Lillard is pretty good
At 50 feet out
Dropping them in the hoop
Like a

Trumper Democrats Manchin, Doug Jones, Kyrsten Sinema

"In chairs in the back, reserved for staffers, Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) sat with freshman Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), a moderate not prone to listening to leadership.

 Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), a Democrat always in the mix, first huddled with moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) before moving on to a long one-on-one discussion with Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), another key moderate who had previously been talking with Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)."

____________

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/joe-manchin-doug-jones-gary-peters-impeachment-vote/index.html

"Several key Democrats, including Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama, have left open the possibility that they might acquit Trump on either of the two charges -- abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Moreover,

Democrats are looking closely at Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a freshman from Arizona, who has refused to repeatedly to discuss her thinking during the trial."

__________


Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested that he wouldn't whip his colleagues on the ultimate vote on whether to convict the President 

David Boren and progressive politics in the Bible Oil Belt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boren


"Boren was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Christine (née McKown) and Lyle Hagler Boren. He graduated in 1963 from Yale University, where he majored in American history, graduated in the top one percent of his class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

He was a member of the Yale Conservative Party, elected president of the Yale Political Union and is a member of Skull and Bones."
________

Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), who served with him, publicly stated that Boren should be elected president.[32] Boren's chief of staff was a respected Capitol Hill insider, Charles Ward, a former longtime administrative assistant to Speaker Albert.[citation needed]

Boren served on the Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.[33] He also served as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1987 to 1993.[33] His six years is the longest tenure for a Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, tied with Dianne Feinstein. Boren sponsored the National Security Education Act of 1991, which established the National Security Education Program.[33][a]

Boren was one of only two Democratic senators to vote in favor of the controversial nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, in 1987.[34] Boren also decided in 1991 to vote against the Persian Gulf War.[35]

Boren was one of the President Bill Clinton's top choices to replace Les Aspin as a U.S. Secretary of Defense in 1994. However, Clinton selected William J. Perry instead.[36]

In a controversial public mea culpa in a New York Times Op/Ed piece, Boren expressed regret over his vote to confirm Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

Partly as a result of that statement, The Daily Oklahoman, the largest newspaper in Oklahoma, which had encouraged and endorsed Boren's entire career, began intensely criticizing him.

_________

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Boren was instrumental in building consensus and bipartisan support for the U.S. State Department initiatives to promote democracy abroad which helped lead to the release of Nelson Mandela.

 Boren was praised and received a standing ovation led by Mandela at a special broadcast of ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel, which commemorated Mandela's historic release from prison in South Africa.

Boren is regarded as a mentor to former director of Central Intelligence George Tenet from his days as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.[45] On the morning of September 11, 2001, Boren and Tenet were having breakfast together when Tenet was called away to respond to the terror attacks.[46]

 Boren said that in the weeks before the Iraq War began in March 2003, he warned Tenet that since he was not a member of President George W. Bush’s closest circle of advisers, the White House would make him the scapegoat if things went badly in Iraq. "I told him they had your name circled if anything goes wrong," Boren recalls telling Tenet.

n June 2007, conservative political columnist Robert Novak claimed that Boren had met with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss a possible third-party presidential campaign.

 Bloomberg had recently left the Republican Party, and speculation arose that he discussed the possibility of Boren joining him as a running mate.[48]

 However, on April 18, 2008, Boren endorsed the leading Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
___________

n March 2015, a recording was made public of members of the University of Oklahoma's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racially derogatory song which used the word "nigger" and included reference to lynching and racial segregation.

 As university president, Boren appeared widely in US media and condemned the behavior, expelled two student members of the fraternity, and with the fraternity's national headquarters' help, ordered the OU chapter's closure. He also created a mandatory Diversity Training for the whole campus."

_____________

On February 13, 2019, it was reported that the University of Oklahoma had hired the Jones Day law firm to investigate Boren after allegations of his "serious" misconduct arose at the university. The university and specifically the OU Board of Regents declined to specify whether the investigation was actually of Boren, or to specify its start or projected end date, instead referring to it generally as an ongoing personnel investigation.[58]

The investigation purportedly sought to determine whether Boren sexually harassed male aides during his tenure as president. 

The allegations arose from a Fall 2010 Boren fundraising trip to Houston in a private jet and hotel events afterward"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boren

Joan Finney of Kansas

Joan Finney (February 12, 1925 – July 28, 2001) was an American politician who served as the 42nd Governor of Kansas from 1991 to 1995, the first woman to hold that office. She had previously served four terms as the Kansas State Treasurer from 1975 to 1991, the first woman to hold that office as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Finney

After upsetting former Governor John W. Carlin in the 1990 Democratic primary for governor, Finney defeated incumbent Republican Mike Hayden in the general election becoming the first woman to defeat an incumbent governor in a general election in the United States.

In addition to being the State of Kansas's first female governor, Finney was Kansas' first Roman Catholic governor, and also one of the few pro-life Democratic governors of her time.

Taking office at age 65, she was also Kansas' oldest governor until Laura Kelly was inaugurated at age 68 in 2019.
_____________

700 pounds of silver for Paris

"Not until October 886 did King Charles the Fat, the new ruler of West Francia, send troops to end the nearly year-long siege of Paris. 

The king ultimately paid the Vikings 700 pounds of silver and granted their original request to move freely up the Seine. 

Parisians felt betrayed by their ruler."
__________

The Three Amigos
again
again 
again

Rosneft Sechin Trump evading sanctions and endangering National Security

"Maduro’s representatives have held talks with Russia’s Rosneft PJSC, Repsol SA of Spain and Italy’s Eni SpA. 

The idea is to allow them to take over government-controlled oil properties and restructure some debt of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA in exchange for assets, according to people with knowledge of the matter."


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-27/venezuela-weighs-privatizing-oil-as-it-faces-economic-freefall

__________


Oh, where to begin......

Washington Post, Bryant, Felicia Sonmez: and the problem of Legacies

"An internal revolt is building inside one of the nation’s top newspapers after hundreds of journalists at the Washington Post came out publicly against a decision to suspend a reporter for tweeting an article about Kobe Bryant’s historical rape accusation hours after his death.

More than 300 Washington Post journalists have signed a letter from its union expressing “alarm and dismay” at the newspaper’s decision to suspend its national politics reporter Felicia Sonmez."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/28/washington-post-staff-reject-reporter-suspension-kobe-bryant-felicia-sonmez


After sharing the story, Sonmez faced swift backlash online, including from the US president’s son Donald Trump Jr, who said: “You Washington Post reporters really can’t help yourselves, can you?”
__________

In a since-deleted tweet, Sonmez justified her decision to share the article: 

“To the 10,000 people (literally) who have commented and emailed me with abuse and death threats, please take a moment and read the story – which was written 3+ years ago, and not by me. Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality even if that public figure is beloved and that totality unsettling."

____________

"After actress Heather Lind accused former President George H. W. Bush of sexual harassment, five other women have since come forward with their own experiences with Bush, all of which involving him groping their buttocks during photo shoots."

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-accused-george-h-w-bush-sexual-harassment-2017-11

Meat is Murder

I crack up when I see
Hype like " the best burger"

And it is half a foot tall
Full of pink slime
From a bovines anus

Dripping in pork lard pig jowls
And a free range runny
Dino egg

I'd film that
Critic eating that monstrosity
And track their
Cardiac cancer with endoscopic
Interest

Get off the Frackpipe (2012)

Freak Mountain MoFos

Sticktuitiveness

"You can't go wrong with Peace"

snock at last chance barndance

https://youtu.be/fARMYa_b4Hc


Michael Hurley
David Reisch
Forest Bloodgood

Trout Lake Washington 2009

freaks 1999 love is like a river

https://youtu.be/d5SeBWqicmA


Freak Mountain Ramblers

live on a Sunday

Laurelthirst Pub Portland Oregon 1999

Life in Oregon

HRC, Bean Adams Sondland Portland

Hill Rod Clinton HRC

Terry Bean....
"Bean often hosts fundraising events in his Portland home for Democratic politicians including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore"

Sam Adams

Gordon Sondland

(oregon)
___________



"But the HRC was not giving him or Sanders a pass.

“We should always be willing to educate individuals who operate from a place of bias,” David said,

“but we should not directly or indirectly validate or celebrate them."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-human-rights-campaign

__________\\

The City Club of Portland


The City Club of Portland is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic organization based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1916, the organization had approximately 1500 members and a paid staff of 4 in 2013. The former Mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, served as Executive Director 2013 to 2015.

The City Club of Portland was closed to women until pressure by lawyer and future City Commissioner Mildred Schwab was successful in opening its meetings.

The club, all-male for roughly six decades, began admitting women to membership in October 1973.

City Club functions include Friday Forums built around speeches by experts in government, the arts, sciences, and education. The forums, which are open to the public, take place between 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. on Fridays at the Sentinel Hotel (ex-Governor Hotel) in downtown Portland. Audio recordings of the forums, updated weekly, are available online as MP3 digital audio files that can be downloaded from the City Club web site. Local radio and television stations broadcast live or taped forums at various times during the week

_________

In the early 1990s, the hotel served as the filming location for several films: Portlander Gus Van Sant filmed a scene of My Own Private Idaho and Madonna filmed several scenes of Body of Evidence inside.

Address 614 SW 11th Avenue
Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Owner Provenance Hotels, Gordon Sondland....EU Ambassador for Trump. a Three Amigo.
___________

Critics have taken HRC to task for its working environment. In the fall of 2014, HRC commissioned outside consultants to conduct a series of focus groups and surveys with the organization's staff.

 In the report, which was obtained by BuzzFeed, staff of the organization described the working environment at HRC as "judgmental", "exclusionary", "sexist", and "homogenous". The report stated that "Leadership culture is experienced as homogenous — gay, white, male."



In 1992, HRC endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, Bill Clinton. In March 1993, HRC began a new project, National Coming Out Day. From January 1995 until January 2004, Elizabeth Birch served as the executive director of the HRC. Under her leadership, the institution more than quadrupled its membership to 500,000 members.[12]


In 1995, the organization dropped the word "Fund" from its name, becoming the Human Rights Campaign


*******So, Wikipedia omits Terry Bean.

Terrence Patrick Bean is an American political fundraiser, a civil rights activist, and a pioneer of the LGBT rights movement. 

He is known for co-founding several national LGBT rights organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Bean


he late 1970s saw a rash of successful anti-gay ballot measures around the country. Realizing that their state-by-state efforts were failing, leaders of the gay and lesbian rights movement decided to focus their efforts on the national level. This led to the founding by Terry Bean and others of the Gay Rights National Lobby (GRNL) and the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), two groups which later merged to become the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).[2][4][5][9][10]

Bean was the primary fundraiser for GRNL,[7] when it was still a new organization, and created the "GRNL 48", a club of top donors who contributed $1,200 or more per year. In its early history, the group found it difficult to find politicians willing to accept campaign contributions from a gay PAC.[11] The GRNL 48 eventually became the HRC's Federal Club.[2][4]

Bean has been on the Human Rights Campaign's Board of Directors since 1980. He is also a member of its Foundation Board and its Public Policy Committee.[12] and takes part in deciding the organization's political endorsements.[10]

HRC headquarters building

In 2000, the HRC launched its Capitol Campaign to raise the funds to purchase a suitable headquarters in the nation's capital. Bean was a co-chair of this campaign. In 2002, the HRC acquired a medium-rise office building in Washington, DC, from B'nai B'rith International to use as its national headquarters. Joe Solmonese, the Executive Director of HRC, has said that Terry Bean was instrumental in acquiring the building.[5] Elizabeth Birch, the Executive Director of the organization during the time when the building was purchased, believes that Bean's background in real estate was crucial in the purchase. "All of us had very healthy skepticism. Generally, nonprofits do not buy buildings... But there was only one guy in the crowd who said, 'We have to do this. This is historic...' And it was the guy who knew most about Real Estate and that was Terry.

________



"On November 19, 2014, Terry Bean was arrested on charges of sodomy and sex abuse in a case involving a 15-year-old boy, in what Bean's lawyer Kristen Winemiller characterized as an extortion attempt by an ex-lover.[29]

 Law enforcement sources said Bean was charged with "two counts of sodomy in the third degree, a felony, and sex abuse in the third degree, a misdemeanor." He was arraigned in Lane County, Oregon, where the crimes allegedly occurred in 2013.[30]

After the case continued for over a year, lawyers for Bean and the youth reached a civil agreement,[31][32] which the judge ultimately rejected.[33] The alleged victim declined to testify, his attorney Lori Deveny stating that "he did not seek out this prosecution and made his unwillingness to testify known at every step of the process".[32] The judge dismissed the case on September 1, 2015 without prejudice.[34][35] In a statement, Bean wrote "I take some measure of comfort that the world now knows what I have always known – that I was falsely accused and completely innocent of every accusation that was made."[35]

  On January 4, 2019, Bean was re-indicted on the same charges"


Oh, theres More.... MSG..... and their Lawyer stole tall THEIR money.
__________


2016 United States presidential endorsement

On January 19, 2016, the Human Rights Campaign's 32-person Board of Directors voted to endorse Hillary Clinton for president.[79] This resulted in considerable controversy,[80][81][82] causing thousands of users on HRC's Facebook page to post comments critical of the decision.[83]

 Many cited HRC's own "congressional scorecard" (which records a 100% rating for her rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, while Clinton herself only scores 89%[84]) as inconsistent with their endorsement.[83]

Additional scrutiny was also placed upon the connections Clinton herself has to the organization when it was revealed that HRC's President, Chad Griffin, had previously been employed by Clinton's husband, former US President Bill Clinton.

______

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Birch

Birch was worldwide director of litigation for Apple Computer and general counsel for its Claris subsidiary until 1995

In 2003, the organization opened its national headquarters building in Washington, D.C. During her tenure, a major problem arose when the HRC endorsed New York Senator Al D'Amato for re-election in 1998 when he was opposed by Chuck Schumer.[6]

Birch was executive director of the HRC until January 2004 when she left to spend more time with her partner, Hilary Rosen, and their children.[7] She joined the Howard Dean presidential campaign as a senior advisor. She then became a professional public speaker.


Under the tenure of Elizabeth Birch, the HRC strongly opposed the inclusion of transgender rights as an HRC policy priority by excluding trans organizations from the decision-making process.[8]

It has been alleged that Elizabeth Birch stated that the HRC would only support inclusion of transgender rights in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act "over her dead body

_____&&

I'll add Glen Greenwald
To the Putin lover
Team

Just for measure.

Great grandpa Pence

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93217542/delilah-potterf

Lavinah Elizabeth Potterf Luderman ( great great grandma

BIRTH 9 Feb 1843
Preble County, Ohio, USA
DEATH 20 Feb 1923 (aged 80)
Defiance County, Ohio, USA

Delilah Pence Potterf ( great great great grandma

BIRTH 11 Nov 1815
Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 28 May 1867 (aged 51)
Jewell, Defiance County, Ohio, USA

Peter Jonas Pence great, great, great, great Grandpa Pence.

BIRTH 11 Oct 1797
Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 27 Aug 1864 (aged 66)
Preble County, Ohio, USA
____________

25th Loony Amendment time

Three Amigos, Eskimo Joe, the Art Department and Stonewall, Stillwater OK

Eskimo Joe's was opened by Steve File (who came up with the name) and Stan Clark (who later purchased File's interest and became sole owner), two graduates of nearby Oklahoma State University (OSU), on July 21, 1975.

 Originally, Eskimo Joe's was only a bar, but when the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 in 1984, the business became a restaurant as well. The name came from the desire to express that Eskimo Joe's had the coldest beer in town.


The Eskimo Joe logo, featuring the smiling cartoon Eskimo Joe and his slobbering canine friend Buffy, was created in 1975 by a freshman art student at OSU, Bill Thompson. Eskimo Joe T-shirts are reported in the mid 80's to be the second most collected T-shirt in the world, trailing only the Hard Rock Cafe.

In 2005, Sports Illustrated's on-line magazine, SI on Campus, named Eskimo Joe's the third best collegiate sports bar in the U.S.

In 1990, during his commencement speech, President George H. W. Bush endorsed Eskimo Joe's cheese fries.

 In 2006, during his commencement speech, President George W. Bush followed his father's footsteps and also mentioned both the restaurant and the cheese fries
__________



Eskimo Joe's is part of a chain of themed restaurants, all owned by Clark, that used to be called the "Three Amigos.

tune in to Democracy or tune out the future

Homeschooling?

Turn on the Impeachment "trial" in the Senate, and discuss the Constitution, and our 3 co-equal branches of government, and discuss why it is illegal to solicit or accept foreign election interference.

Don't worry, Impeachment is kid friendly.

Other than Trump soundbites, there is no chance of vulgarity or his typically racist quips.

Above all, be honest and inquisitive.

critterology

Over some years, critters came to vibe.

Soon thereafter, critters came to grift off other critters ability to survive.c

trump fascist nazi pansies"

U O me

shitheads.

O my redress? U don got it?

trumplican problem

nary one speck of life
in the universe that is not of earth

so some say.

nary one Republican can
say they are other than Trumplican.

violent fascists lose

Yo

check reality

stop

i compose while repugnants decompose democracy
flag mediocrity that's status satan quo predictability

America in the grips of Fascism, National Archives

“A placard that proclaims ‘God Hates Trump’ has ‘Trump’ blotted out so that it reads ‘God Hates,’ ” The Post reported.

But “God Hates” was not the message of the protester carrying that sign.

 Another sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word ‘Trump” blurred out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-depressing-that-the-national-archives-is-altering-history/2020/01/18/b1e72374-39f9-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html

_________

Trump's Sharpie also Erases.

______

"Now the Archives has foolishly compromised the public’s sense of its independence, so artfully embedded in its landmark building.

By blurring out details from protest signs in an image of the 2017 Women’s March, including the name of President Trump and references to the female anatomy — a decision the Archives publicly apologized for on Saturday — it has damaged the faith many Americans, particularly women, may have had in its role as an impartial conservator of the nation’s records.

 It has unnecessarily squandered something that cannot easily be regained.

There must be consequences."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-national-archives-used-to-stand-for-independence-that-mission-has-been-compromised/2020/01/18/5b524214-3a0d-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html

Is it isis or surreal?

Giuliani and LNG

Bleyzer also has ties to Giuliani. In 2008, Bleyzer’s company hired Giuliani’s former Houston-based law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, to help it acquire and consolidate cable holdings in 16 Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, according to an announcement at the time. The same year, Bleyzer donated $2,300 to Giuliani’s presidential campaign.

https://apnews.com/6d8ae551fb884371a2a592ed85a74426
__________

" Giuliani's law firm, Bracewell and Giuliani, is making money by lobbying American lawmakers on behalf of Citgo Petroleum Corp. of Houston.

Citgo is the American subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela -- the state-owned Venezuelan oil company.

 Bracewell and Giuliani made as much as $150,000 from the lobbying in 2005-06 and will make up to $100,000 this year, according to the ethics commission."


http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/15/giuliani.chavez/index.html

jetsam flotsam

The world's a thousand tongues long, 
kneedeepthick.

Memory sings a river of history
                   tossing our bubbles
Along the horizon until we balance,

or steam Hits 
the cold autumn encompassing,

Until the newest bestests shirk and shun
The signals creasing evening

Into origami feigning ministers 
and heads of state

We ratify and adhere to the codes of barbarism inscribed
On our ignoble gene troughs

When we deign to dabble 
in esoteric spasms


Of maudlin mod art, glory swine at the fair
As shallow as a ring toss game

As blank and callused 
as the ferris man's lever thumb

Hijack your self 

one liberty every foot a day,
Buddy can you spare a crime?

Mine is mint condition, 
said sabertoothsoothsayer,
Warble on, weary flotsam

blotgodi raven bowl

Down dropped said rainbow black bird 
wind-wand willed corn of the new world 

drooping off limb roost, the mountain lava 
cool beneath 
a kingpost more lonely for the company
surrounding nine daughters

easily scared into a knotnut
self planting wodan planted mind:

 "healing, death, royalty, the gallows, 
  knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, frenzy"

  Goði hrafnblóts, Goði of the Raven-offering"

  ravenous redbloodhaired 
           bloody hoofed steed of freyr
                                       Blóðughadda "  
                                                                               
bloggod his finger fires sent to nine twig-soul drenched 
hunted spiders
                born dust hungry for


felling planets
 on a droll tragic peck,

wavemaiden winds stirring flesh 
filled spy birds 

beyond speech
frothing pitching. bellowing.

cooling
an arm of ygdrassil rent sullen
with nerves,  oil stripped
jotuun woodpeckers 

no spring sprite
nor four stag defenses may temper 
if huggin or muinnin don't fetch

rainbow root bridge
                      a canal for stars to meander 
under navels of spring-cradles 

hidden if flowers 
yet dragon guarded
filled in feathered snakes 

of rills rushing uphill
                                                       silvered blue

trunk twigs trash woden chips feeding sun 
fire song under spells raven eyed close
haunting thickets 

each former strength
bearlike attended

heart of hammer mallet sound wind lightning spear
veins ripped farms burnt wells poisoned 
spoils dehumanized

seeds vaulted over bloodhooved boars
                      or cossacks with falcons
battle seeking shadow sinister

 eight legged ministers

wodan crushes village grave fury 
spilling human wine over oceans fierce

ancient gravity hurls godan along
                     dog god good blood fort forests
skald rib lungs riven 

drug over hideous 
razor rocked silence

unmasked in lacerated paint 
burnt wood oils flower dregs soil riches
elk fed well slept guarded by hounds

lions nine dragonmaids three chambers
good gold god bold blood bloomed 
quartered spring warriors

phlox or aster or ladylace or dartknee or falling giant

stone burrows fed
 naked in rain 
eleven ghost charms element chained

trance blotgodi priestess 
gallow cleansing nine arrows
                                         hurt sent

to track deemed demons
 donning broken tooth false hornet hate
ear pinched eye punched gut 

blasted ankle shattered
 lung twisted throat split
past opened 
                from greed hovels raven managed
 feasting on republics horrors
                   giant mounds
 godan odin wodan wooden
 eagles scratched time 
over night waters

 pegged tied in green leather
from feral stallions zeus drove once

before valleys of cohorts
before granite or feldspar or coal dripped
in olive oil merchant perfume

whale parts
 our doorframes
 planets cousins company 

pulling leviathons onto marble yet liquid 
in a storm birthing circle
*                           *                          *
a circle punctuated by the eye
                   of white willow's
sweeping charm

eight hundred miles wide drinking oceans flattening mountains

for meal is ground of bone beneath our thoughts,
a field of sky raised horses
 placid there in the hold of ships

rearing over waves mirrored 
in helm's raven watch

summoned of owl scat crushings star-sent 
wind was wand willed 
                       that no blot blood spilled





5-23-17 portland

once rites blots tossed seers

the sisters-bloody took the stallion's pride to toss it midst
a grove if not hang it o'er sap hot doors
were smell not a factor in decent dancehalla root riven
cobblestone floor hauled bluestones great grandmother
was born on bloody proud to have no thing but milk
and honey from breasts dis tipped in wisdom
woven or undone as trails take off tails or make ails
all one fallow knows feeling woe woden the bloody sisters
his daughters mocking the flower of flocks great rising
he cast  where deserves rest in bogs to feed dull snails
keepers of doors only bloody eyed minds born of know
and hung about the skeletal tree just strings
wind pulled or drew tomorrow with
in vicious tender dances fire shown to sif her sisters
eyes shared nine tree times seeds under that many stars
explaining cracks sound antler bone 
illustrations running fish to inlets 
cherub harvested in their bloody rank loincloths 
of wolve furs earned entrail-fast buttoned in gold
from asteroid gifts of thor sif fashioned them threadlike
to amend man a carnival rent in lights bedroom softened
under sheets bird patterned sweet with
a tree root bloomed bee sallied busy the loom
ocean working wodan dockside tallies in cuts on oak
masts with an oar hard as night lost
in the veins of the flower in ice 
the snow of once 




2017
Portland, Or

snow dragon oklahoma 1976

Mine all Mine.

stark street sleet

here comes ice, silver-sealing sky ceiling
sprinkle blast clean, stark street kneeling,
   under the awning, yvonne in her box;
   streets now white, stark school of knocks

rap tap napping --------her cardboard door,
ice gets his beak wet in the neck of the poor
   burger bag litter, all soggy with sleet
   silvered sky ceiling, sideways indiscrete

blowing fine ice dust from two miles above
yvonne's eyelids fluttered their doves
   butterfly kissing the cold that could bill
   there on white stark street, intractable 

a sojourn to cheek hill, the ice near belabored
transfigured our landscape around old mount tabor

2017

jesus glut (1987)

i seen jesus yesterday in an
unemployment line in rural oklahoma. says i,
"hey o golden one, how swings yer staff
of life?" he replied "not so well.
the job applications all ask
for my parent's address. they tell me i'm
overqualified. things do not go well
in this time of oil-glut oklahoma."

*

god almighty gets out of bed
at 3 a.m. to use the toilet,
he groans and sighs
as beer belly merges with his bladder,
without his glasses on
he trips over beirut and rips his toe off

as he faints from self-pity
his head squashes nicaraguan nuns
just before contras can get them

as he regains consciousness,
some eternity later, takes an aspirin,
& changes his pee-sodden
bikini atoll briefs only to snooze
until the power lunch
set with satan at the lodge

*

jesus hit .999 his first season
as a royals rookie, he played the outfield and first
thru third bases
all was going great until he was indicted
in the largest cocaine scandal in
major league history. he
sat in the dugout and cried that he was 
a victim so they made him wear
a dunce hat in the corner& write
"i'm high enuff already" six billion
times in front of the pearly gates

*

god caught jesus smoking a pipe
&ditching school so he made him
whitewash the cliffs of dover

jesus got bored so he conned
millions of falwellians into spreading
his holy rouge
"if only ya give me one a yer women
  and a case of yer likker"

*

*jesus went out drinking one night
with his frat buddies he said
"betcha i can piss on that cigarette stub across
the street" and they took him
up on it

he flopped out his vienna sausage and prayed
to dad for a loaner miracle and his
dick became ten cubits long

he cleaned off the sidewalk
and flooded the world, his buddies got on
the ark with him and he passed out the poop scoops
to each and every disciple

*

god took his only son fishing
in a dinky dingy on a lake in lousiana

they put that boat in the water
&fish leapt into the hull
till it was full
then the dynamic duo loaded 'em
into the limo and were driven home
to have servants prepare them

over dinner they cursed 
good-naturedly about
"the one that was atheist"\
&fed the bones
to their cats


*

jesus checked the "direct relative of god"
box on his w-2 form which entitled 
him to the ideological dibs on the souls of the 
next 10 million fetuses born.

the irs called him in for an audit and when they
asked for proper id he pulled out
a stone tablet chiseled in
hebrew with the year zero inscribed

so off to leavenworth to work off a multiple
year sentence for the impersonation of a deity

jesus was ok with the judgement.
"shit, a couple of years ago
they  would have nailed my ass to a cross..."

didn't take long for the old man to
cut him loose though. he put

a lightning bolt in an angel food cake.

*

jesus was a latchkey kid,
nevertheless he was well loved. at bedtime
god would rock jesus to sleep
& tell him nitenite stories.

jesus was never tired. he'd
wait for god to go 
back to watching monday nite 
football or creating new third world miseries,
then he'd get out his gi joe doll

and take off his camo gear and
tie him down with dental
floss and let his play dinosaurs eat his

naked arms


1987 K.U.
LAWRENCE, Ks

cribology (2017)

born of ribs sun-cribbed, moon-fibbed,
manger-nibbed of wood hungry hipped
  four legged one world fellow folk
  beak-pawed two eyed same blood-yolk

same eye on every parcel, same blood only redder
mixed in coals first sun-thought tethers,
   one tailed one spine feather-haired snout,
   pack or herd or flock; gang intrinsic clout

the worm dirt cherish, old man in silage
from under a cabbage patch, his former mortgage
   same heart the hart hath, same raven jaw wrath
   same fox simple hunger and eagle dumb math

   odd tool, nest of wood, the crib birth hallows;
   offering bounty, with lessons, sunrise wallows



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criobolium

"Criobolium is the ritual sacrifice of a ram in the cult of Attis and the Great Mother of the Gods. It seems to have been a special ceremony instituted after the rise, and on the analogy of the taurobolium, which was performed in honor of the Great Mother, for the purpose of giving fuller recognition to Attis in the duality which he formed with the Mother."

eddy wastrel (2017)

four hart in a stream owned by tomorrow
whose factory-sluice death runs cold their marrow
   three eagles gnaw salmon killed off by tycoons,
   ten aeons hence, one mushroom-cloud june,

storm clouds are canned, come popping from nodes
on digital whims and oligarch codes
   nine wolves deep cave resting, prowling nocturnal
   five winds sub-arctic, hell cats primordial

cubicle glacier, our snowshoe of speed
runs factory precision on table spread greed
  a billion tonnes calving but who really counts
  our personal souls droppings: a whopping one ounce

   floating past gods, their form in the doe
  our human waste frozen and nowhere to go

2017

Portland

la musica (1991)

sin city disciples, goddammitt

k street hookers

"Within low doors the boozy boors
Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light."-----herman melville

___________


the k street limo, there stripped to the rims
afire with treason and glorious hymns 
   sloshing with rubles, tipping in shit-coin,
   gropes the flagpole, salutes his own groin

dragging the nation behind republic balls
every sensible human recoils, appalled 
   lobbyist borscht in caviar vases
   coors lite gals to handle the cases

panty hose bandits their paws on the triggers
fraud festive faces gloat on their sniggers
   sabot their high heeled, indiscriminate ways
   hooking in cowboots, branding the strays

   demoniac bubbles arise their champagne
   gleeful that greed has an American name




2017

winter feathered sketch

today a sketch,  a balk to the park;
get oxygen moving, give muscle some spark,
   towering trees ice tipped and holy,
  fog overflowing horizon a bowl we

sup slowly, no hurry bestirring
that work past word's lark, demurring
   to leave a limb so warm clung
   to sing rare hollers, never'fore sung

flying most prescient, tail feather serves
over the tennis court, winter unnerved
   squirrel eats fir skin, there high by the sun
   warming a paunch and nuts by the ton

planting ice needle drip heat feeds the mosses,
stellar jays hunting, what frost heave tosses
 


Mt Tabor
12-28-17

Powder blue, Celeste, Periwinkle, Baby

Powder blue, Celeste, Periwinkle, Baby;
the tones of the sky, winds of a lady
   fierce; Teal and Viridian, crossing lights eyes
  Indigo watched, their verdure her prize

as mother Zafire her Indigo embraced
giving horizon a  long Steel pause; Cyan his face
   etched empty promise, Cornflower-lies,
   skin of soul's ceiling, Palatinate demise

devolving Royal Duke Dodger, their cards in the trash
by Ultramarine's ocean stairs stares Iris, smashed;
   plural the blue in varied display,
   Byzantine mirror of peace portrayed

  action describing, the morph and her flavor
  his tongue yon mountain, a glacial savor




2017 Portland Or

be be see

another four a.m. rendevous with the infinite
making my face creased from turning the cheek
and getting pillow slapped by my own mind
about whether or not whether or not, whether
or not. radio from across the pond
at least has the soothing tone of invincible stamina
where people still believe
in the knots of the round table, and not in
better planers.tweety birds are still
frozen to their limbs,
lucky as eyelids made of sand and yolk.
it doesn't matter what time
it isn't.

Another good riddance

NRA a Foreign Asset for Russia running Ads on the Washington Post

NRA ad on the Washington Post, 1-6-20

"Biden wants 9mm Handgun Ban."

Why is the Jeff Bezos's Washington Post taking NRA money and publishing DISHONEST, UNTRUE, PROPAGANDA "ads" from the NRA?

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Retired U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North will step down as president of the National Rifle Association, North said on Saturday, adding he was being forced out due to his allegations that NRA leaders engaged in financial improprieties.

North, a conservative commentator best known for his central role in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, said he had hoped to run for re-election when his term ends on Monday.


“I am now informed that will not happen,” North said in the letter."

"North, long a hero to some on the political right, was convicted in 1989 of three felonies related to the Iran-Contra affair, but his convictions were overturned on appeal in 1990."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-nra/oliver-north-steps-down-as-nra-president-amid-dispute-over-damaging-information-idUSKCN1S30EQ
_____________

"WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association acted as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election, and NRA insiders provided access to the American political system to advance personal business interests, a Democratic senator charged Friday in a new report.

The report by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, also said NRA leaders may have violated tax laws that prohibit use of organization resources for personal benefit. The committee oversees tax laws that apply to the NRA as a non-profit organization.

“During the 2016 election, Russian nationals effectively used the promise of lucrative personal business opportunities to capture the NRA and gain access to the American political system,” Wyden said in a statement. “The totality of evidence uncovered during my investigation, as well as the mounting evidence of rampant self-dealing, indicate the NRA may have violated (U.S.) tax laws.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nra-acted-as-russian-asset-in-run-up-to-2016-democratic-senator-says

3 amigos 1977

flotsam flotsam. (2005)

flotsam flotsam. (2005)


The world's a thousand tongues long, kneedeepthick 
Memory sings a river of history tossing our bubbles
Along the horizon until we balance or steam
Hits the cold autumn encompassing,
Until the newest bestests shirk and shun
The signals creasing evening
Into origami feigning ministers and heads of state
We ratify and adhere to the codes of barbarism inscribed
On our ignoble gene troughs
When we deign to dabble in esoteric spasms
Of maudlin mod art, glory swine at the fair
As shallow as a ring toss game
As blank and callused as the ferris man's lever thumb
Hijack your self one liberty every foot a day,
Buddy can you spare a crime?
Mine is mint condition, said sabertoothsoothsayer,
Warble on, weary flotsam



2005. The dalles
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