gravedigger delight

"nature trims the hedge,
hedge funds feel

more human
than grandpa.

paid sick stay
                    staid pick nose

more essential than thou,
i dig a mean grave."


3-31-20

Paid Sick Leave and Medicare for All: Rolling General Strike

"Tuesday's sickout at Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, would be the latest in a wave of worker activism amid the pandemic.

Cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, have been reported at Whole Foods locations in Chicago, New York City and Huntington Beach, Calif."

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/490196-whole-foods-workers-to-strike-tuesday


"Already, as many as 150,000 workers for grocery delivery service Instacart planned a nationwide strike for Monday. 

Also on Monday, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, plan to walk out during lunch."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/whole-foods-amazon-instacart-workers-to-strike-over-safety-concerns/ar-BB11VwT1


"Amazon, which owns Whole Foods, has reportedly had coronavirus spread to at least 17 warehouses in the U.S., according to Reuters. 

The online retailer has 175 fulfillment centers globally and more than 150 fulfillment centers, sortation centers in the U.S., according to Amazon's web site"

__________

"By limiting paid sick leave only to those who have been definitely diagnosed with COVID-19 or who have been placed into quarantine, Whole Foods and Amazon are placing their employees, customers, and the public at large in significant risk of exposure," wrote the AGs from states including California, New York and Washington. 


Those organizing the Whole Foods sick out said the grocery chain, which Amazon acquired in June 2017 for $13.7 billion, has temporarily relaxed its strict attendance policy, "which means that team members can participate in this act of protest without reprisal," said the event's promotional flier."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/whole-foods-amazon-instacart-workers-to-strike-over-safety-concerns/ar-BB11VwT1

unnamed state-owned company

“Sechin gets Rosneft shares and Putin gets the chance to trade with Trump,” said Konstantin Simonov, head of the National Energy Security Fund in Moscow.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-30/kremlin-fights-u-s-sanctions-backs-maduro-in-rosneft-deal


"The administration of President Donald Trump has already reached out to Saudi leaders to reconsider their strategy, which has battered producers in the U.S. with low prices. 

Trump said Monday he plans to speak by phone with Putin later in the day to talk about the oil market and may discuss sanctions and Venezuela.

Rosneft late Saturday announced it’s turning over its Venezuelan projects to an unnamed state-owned company in what it called an effort to protect its shareholders’ interests."

_________

"Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontiyev told Reuters the decision to terminate operations in Venezuela was meant to protect the company’s shareholders.


“We defended the interests of our shareholders and did it in an effective way,” Leontiyev said. 

“And to whom the risks go is not an issue for us. The main thing is that the risks are leaving us.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-venezuela/rosneft-sells-venezuelan-assets-to-russia-after-u-s-sanctions-ramp-up-idUSKBN21F0W2

Grackle

Grackle.

Fuck You, Mikhail Leontyev

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/venezuela-maduro-russia-rosneft/2020/03/28/0d38ce4a-7121-11ea-a156-0048b62cdb51_story.html#comments-wrapper

"Rosneft said it was selling its business in Venezuela to a company completely owned by the Russian government,"

"In February, the Trump administration announced sanctions against the trading and marketing arm of Rosneft, but not the parent company, Rosneft Oil. "

_________


"The Russian Federation controls Rosneft with just over 50% of its shares, while BP Plc is the second-largest shareholder with 19.75%, and Qatar’s QH Oil Investments owns 18.93%."


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-28/rosneft-exits-all-venezuela-projects-sells-assets

_________

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/russias-rosneft-oil-company-ceasing-venezuela-operations/

"Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontyev said the company’s decision was aimed at “protecting the interests of our shareholders” and that he expects the U.S. will now waive sanctions against its subsidiaries.

“We really have the right to expect American regulators to fulfill their public promises,” he added in remarks carried by Russia’s Tass news agency."


__________

"The Chinese refiner is going a step further than most of its rivals by avoiding dealings with Russia’s largest oil producer, even though such trades aren’t prohibited. "

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/chinese-oil-refiner-says-no-to-crude-oil-from-russia-s-rosneft

___________

"Rosneft, Reliance, Repsol and Chevron have emerged as the main business partners for PDVSA since the United States imposed the steepest sanctions yet on the state-owned Venezuelan company last year.

Most of them share oilfields with PDVSA in Venezuela, and they also act as intermediaries for sales of Venezuelan oil to markets such as Asia. In 2019, Rosneft was the main receiver of Venezuelan oil, followed by China National Petroleum Corp -"


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-usa-warning/u-s-warns-venezuelas-maduro-not-to-interfere-with-juan-guaidos-return-to-venezuela-idUSKBN1ZZ2KP

attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly a lecherous man.

traction goat
rejuvenesce,
hammer put commisioner
result:   blend monologue
         persipacious ring
     ersatz knock
swarthy bard
    composure....... forgiveness thrall

_________


the state of being in someone's power or having great power over someone,
the state or feeling of being calm and in control of oneself..

having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.

a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program,
a person appointed to a role on or by a commission.

to make or become youthful or restored to vitality.
the action of drawing or pulling something over a surface, especially a road or track.

attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly
a lecherous man.



3-25-20
dada poem
portland Or

CIGARETTE BUTTS SPEAD CORONAVIRUS

Granted, there are plenty of things to consider during the coronavirus pandemic.

I have yet to see discussion of the role of cigarettes, cigars, vaping, tobacco, in

 a. the spread of the virus, and

 b. the compromised health of tobacco users lungs and immunity.
_________

"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. 

This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. "

Center for Disease Control statistics

_________


Consider, then how cigarette butts are certain to spread the virus.

Saliva on the discarded butts travels to the table top, to the counter tops, inside cars and every surface imaginable that smokers touch while handling their cigarette, pipe, or device.

Discarded butts on the street, sidewalk, driveway, or floor-----saliva and the coronavirus gets dispersed by shoes and feet. What was outdoors comes indoors.

Consider, how exhalation of smoke riddled with Virus may linger in the air or confined spaces.

_________

Don't sit around for the CDC, Center for Disease Control, or the FDA, or anyone "Big Tobacco" beholden politician to inform you about the obvious:

TOBACCO USE, DISCARDED AND ACTIVE CIGARETTES, ARE CERTAIN TO SPREAD AND PROLONG THE PANDEMIC.

Human Remains To Be Seen says Goodwill "human resources"

Amid the Pandemic, Portland’s Goodwill Employees Ask: 

Why Are We Still Open?

"The employees say vintage sweaters and antique tchotchkes aren’t “essential” purchases during a pandemic."


https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/03/22/amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-portlands-goodwill-employees-ask-why-are-we-still-open/



"As for what employees can do if they are ill but don't have any more sick leave or vacation time: "That remains to be seen," says Bob Barsocchini, Goodwill's human resources director and general counsel."


_________


Amswer:  Corporate Profits.


_________


"In 2005, Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette (GICW), Goodwill's Portland, Oregon, branch, came under scrutiny due to executive compensation that the Oregon attorney general's office concluded was "unreasonable". 

The President of the Portland branch, Michael Miller, received $838,508 in pay and benefits for fiscal year 2004, which was reportedly out of line in comparison to other charity executives and placed him in the top one percent of American wage earners. 

After being confronted with the state's findings, Miller agreed to a 24% reduction in pay, and GICW formed a new committee and policy for handling matters of employee compensation.

A 2013 article on Watchdog.org reported that Goodwill's tax returns showed that more than 100 Goodwills pay less than minimum wage while simultaneously paying more than $53.7 million in total compensation to top executives.

 Douglas Barr, former CEO of the Goodwill of Southern California, was the highest paid Goodwill executive in the country. He received total compensation worth $1,188,733, including a base salary of $350,200, bonuses worth $87,550, retirement benefits of $71,050, and $637,864 in other reportable compensation.

"In 2011, the Columbia Willamette Goodwill, one of the largest in the country, says it paid $922,444 incommensurate wages to approximately 250 people with developmental disabilities. 

These employees worked 159,584 hours for an average hourly wage of $5.78. The lowest paid worker received just $1.40 per hour."

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

Ice Rink Morgues

Bill Gates — who now leads a global health foundation — rebuked Trump’s approach in an interview: “There really is no middle ground, and it’s very tough to say to people, ’Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts.’”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/24/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-AQSIKOTNEJGS5F62XPFJKI54H4

________________



" Police officers stand in front of Madrid’s ice rink in Spain, which has been turned into a temporary morgue during the coronavirus crisis. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/us-may-become-centre-of-coronavirus-pandemic-who-says

Travesty follows Injustice in Oklahoma

James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953)was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States.

 Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball.

 He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place.

In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals."

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


"Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, and attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time All-American for the school's football team.

 After his Olympic success in 1912, which included a record score in the decathlon, he added a victory in the All-Around Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union. In 1913, Thorpe signed with the New York Giants, and he played six seasons in Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919. Thorpe joined the Canton Bulldogs American football team in 1915, helping them win three professional championships; he later played for six teams in the National Football League (NFL). He played as part of several all-American Indian teams throughout his career, and barnstormed as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians.

From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which became the NFL in 1922. He played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression. He struggled to earn a living after that, working several odd jobs. He suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and poverty. He was married three times and had eight children, before suffering from heart failure and dying in 1953.

Thorpe has received various accolades for his athletic accomplishments. The Associated Press named him the "greatest athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted him as part of its inaugural class in 1963. "

"He was raised as a Sac and Fox, and his native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "path lit by great flash of lightning" or, more simply, "Bright Path"

 As was the custom for Sac and Fox, he was named for something occurring around the time of his birth, in this case the light brightening the path to the cabin where he was born."

" Apart from his career in films, he also worked as a construction worker, a doorman (bouncer), a security guard and a ditchdigger, and briefly joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1945."

___________


"The Jim Thorpe House is in Yale, Oklahoma, located off State Highway 51 at 706 East Boston Street."

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

"In 1917, Jim Thorpe bought a small home in Yale, Oklahoma and lived there until 1923 with his wife, Iva Miller, and children, one of whom, Jim Jr., died at the age of two. The house was bought by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1968 and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The house is maintained by the Jim Thorpe Memorial Foundation as a small museum to Thorpe and contains related memorabilia."

__________

"The Tulsa race massacre (also called the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black Wall Street Massacre) of 1921 took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history."

 The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district – at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street".


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

Food Chain Capitalism, Millionaires feed Billionaires and are fed to Trillionaires

CHAMPLIN REFINING COMPANY.

"The Champlin Refining Company, which for many years held the distinction of being the nation's largest fully integrated oil company under private ownership, was based at Enid, Oklahoma.

 In 1916 Enid banker and entrepreneur Herbert Hiram Champlin (1868–1944) bought a lapsed oil lease on the Beggs farm in the fledgling Garber Field about fifteen miles east of Enid. Champlin was reluctant to enter the new and highly speculative oil business, but at his wife's urging he agreed to invest twenty-five thousand dollars in the venture.

Champlin's first well came in on Christmas Day 1916 as a 250-barrel producer. The banker-turned-oilman drilled more wells on his 160-acre lease and in July 1917 purchased a small refinery on the outskirts of Enid, enlarged it to provide a market for the oil from his wells, and established the Champlin Refining Company.

In order to provide a secure market for the refinery's growing output, He purchased a series of small oil companies that operated service stations. By the mid-1920s Champlin Refining Company was marketing petroleum products in a six-state area centered on Oklahoma. As the organization grew, it drilled more wells, built a large pipeline network, opened additional refineries, and greatly expanded the retail operation, all under the auspices of Champlin's private ownership.

When Herbert H. Champlin died on April 30, 1944, his company employed more than eight hundred people in Enid, operated service stations and wholesale outlets in twenty midwestern states, had a strong drilling and production presence in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico, and continued a major refining operation supported by one of the largest pipeline complexes in Oklahoma.

 The company continued under family ownership until its stock went public in 1953.

 In 1954 the Champlin Refining Company was bought by the Chicago Corporation of Chicago, Illinois. This $55 million deal allowed the company to operate as a subsidiary until the Chicago Corporation changed its name to the Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

 In 1964 the Celanese Corporation bought the company, and at the beginning of 1970 Celanese sold Champlin to the Union Pacific Resources Company, a division of the Union Pacific Corporation. 

They operated the Champlin Refining Company in much the same manner as before. In 1984 they sold the entire retail operation to American Petrofina, closed the Enid refinery, and ended the Champlin Refining Company's lengthy and significant presence in Oklahoma."

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH001

___________________


"1211 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the News Corp. Building) is an International style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building, it was completed in 1973 as part of the Rockefeller Center extension, that started in the late 1950s with the Time-Life Building. The Celanese Corporation would later move to Dallas, Texas.

The building was part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings". Their plans were first drawn in 1963 by the Rockefeller family's architect, Wallace Harrison, "

"The building served as the global headquarters for the original News Corporation, founded by Australian-born businessman Rupert Murdoch in 1980.

It continues to serve as the headquarters for subsequent spin-offs 21st Century Fox (2013–2019), Fox Corporation (2019–present) and the present-day News Corp (2013–present). 

The building is well-known for housing the main Fox News studios, part of the Fox News Group which is currently owned by Fox Corp. Well-known News Corp divisions housed within the building include Dow Jones & Company, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1211_Avenue_of_the_Americas

_______________




"In 1986, its pharmaceutical business was spun off as Celgene, and, in 1987, Celanese Corporation was acquired by Hoechst and merged with its American subsidiary, American Hoechst, to form Hoechst Celanese Corporation.[10]

In 1998, in a $2.7 billion deal, Hoescht Celanese sold its Trevira division to a consortium between Houston-based KoSa, a joint venture of Koch Industries and IMASAB S.A. of Mexico, and Grupo Xtra of Mexico.[11][12][13]

Also in 1998, Hoechst combined most of its industrial chemical operations in a new company, Celanese AG, and, in 1999, Hoechst spun off Celanese AG as a publicly traded, German corporation, traded on both the Frankfurt and New York stock exchanges.

On 16 December 2003, the U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group announced a takeover offer for Celanese, after two years of wooing management.[14] Shareholders formally approved the offer from Blackstone on 16 June 2004, and Blackstone completed the acquisition of Celanese AG. The company was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, and Blackstone changed the entity's name to Celanese Corporation. Under Blackstone, a number of streamlining initiatives were undertaken, and several acquisitions were made.

On 21 January 2005, Celanese Corporation conducted an initial public offering and became a publicly traded corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CE".[15]

When Blackstone sold the last of its shares in 2007, it had made five times what it had invested and it, and its co-investors collected a $2.9 billion profit"

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


"As of 2019, the company's total assets under management were approximately US$545 billion dollars. In April 2019, Blackstone disclosed it was converting to a corporation from a publicly traded partnership"

CEO and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman has been criticised for his long-time association with now U.S. President Donald Trump. Recently, he served as chair of his Strategic and Policy Forum until its dissolution and has donated around $850,000 to Trump's inauguration and political action committees since his victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, on top of $5.5 million to Republicans in the preceding election cycle.

In separate cases in 2018 and 2019, the hotel chain Motel 6, which is owned by Blackstone, agreed to settle for a total of $19.6 million for giving guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without a warrant.

In 2019, The Intercept revealed that two firms owned by Blackstone were partially responsible for the burning of the Amazon rainforest."



____________


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

 "In 1916, the Hoechst AG was one of the co-founders of IG Farben, an advocacy group of Germany's chemicals industry to gain industrial power during and after World War I.

 In 1925, IG Farben turned from an advocacy group into the well-known conglomerate."

"Various Hoechst facilities were bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II. 

Its managers in charge were prosecuted along with other IG Farben managers—during the Nuremberg trials—in the IG Farben trial for their role in the exploitation of enslaved laborers and for testing drugs on concentration camp prisoners"
________

"1951 - Hoechst AG was re-founded on December 7 in Frankfurt when IG Farben was split into its founder companies. The original capitalization of the company was 100,000 Deutsche Mark. By 1953 Hoechst had acquired parts of Knapsack-Griesheim, Kalle AG, Behring Werke, Wacker Chemie and Ruhr Chemie, among others.[2]

1969 - Hoechst acquired Cassella.[2]

1987 - Hoechst acquired the American chemical company Celanese and formed a new Hoechst subsidiary in the US, Hoechst Celanese.

1995 - Hoechst merges with Marion Merrell Dow of Kansas City, Missouri forming U.S. subsidiary Hoechst Marion Roussel (HMR).

1997 - Hoechst underwent a realignment wherein its various businesses were transferred to independent companies, including Nutrinova and Clariant.[3]

1999 (December 7) - Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc settle Federal Trade Commission charges that merger would violate U.S. antitrust laws;

1999 - Aventis was formed when Hoechst AG merged with Rhône-Poulenc S.A. The merged company was headquartered in Strasbourg, Eastern France. As part of the merger, the company demerged many of its industrial businesses into Celanese, which became an independent company again (e.g. the engineering polymers business Ticona).


2005 - The company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanofi-Aventis (now called Sanofi)."

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

"Wilhelm Meister (1827–1895) founded the chemical company Teerfarbenfabrik Meister, Lucius & Co. which eventually became Hoechst AG. He was the great-grandfather of William von Meister, one of the founders of Control Video Corporation which later became America Online. 

Pascal Soriot (the now-chief executive of AstraZeneca) held positions with the organisation from 1989 up until 2006 through Aventis."

____________


"For years, one of the targets for campaigners leading the fossil fuel divestment campaign has been the asset management company BlackRock.

Pressure had been building on BlackRock for some time. And you can see why: the company controls some $7 trillion in assets and therefore is hugely influential in the financial sector.

As the New York Times has noted: if BlackRock shifted its stance on climate, it “could reshape how corporate America does business and put pressure on other large money managers to follow suit.”

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/blackrock-announcement-beginning-end-fossil-fuel-system

-----------------------------

"BlackRock, the world’s biggest investor, has lost an estimated $90bn over the last decade by ignoring the serious financial risk of investing in fossil fuel companies, according to economists.

A report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has found that BlackRock has eroded the value of its $6.5tn funds by betting on oil companies that were falling in value and by missing out on growth in clean energy investments.

The report found that BlackRock’s multibillion-dollar investments in the world’s largest oil companies – including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP – were responsible for the bulk of its losses.

The fund manager was also stung by the collapse of big US fossil fuel companies, including General Electric, and the coal mining company Peabody."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/31/blackrock-lost-90bn-investing-in-fossil-fuel-companies-report-finds

"Its combined funds are larger than the economy of Japan, the third largest economy in the world, making it the single largest investor in the global coal industry and one of the top three investors in most big oil companies."

Deadwood, Hog of the Forsaken, Snock Hurley, Cheyenne Indian Agency

Deadwood Movie


an' The Hog of the Forsaken
got no reason to cry
he got to chew the angels
fallen from on high
he ain't waitin' for no answer
bakin' woeful pie
pie of eyesight, pie blue-black
whoa that pie, the pie of bye-n-bye

an' The Hog of the Forsaken
well, he ain't like you and I
with bones always breakin'
an' no place to go an' lie
he sit in the bog so dark and wet
he got so much time
he ain't even worried yet

The Hog of the Forsaken
he is the pork of crime

----Michael Hurley


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(musician)

Hog of the Forsaken, by Michael Hurley, provides the melody for the theme song of the TV series Deadwood, and is included in its original entirety at the finale of Deadwood, the Movie (2019)

Hurley was paid $10,000 for the song's usage in the pilot episode of the HBO show. The song features in a running plot motif in which the slain of the town are fed to hogs managed by the Chinese citizen leader in the territorial and mostly lawless Deadwood.


"Deadwood: The Movie is a 2019 American television drama film directed by Daniel Minahan and written by David Milch for HBO. It is a continuation of the television series of the same name, which ran for three seasons from 2004 to 2006. The film reunites the majority of the large ensemble cast, including Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Paula Malcomson, John Hawkes, and Gerald McRaney, and premiered on May 31, 2019."





https://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+hog+of+the+forsaken&oq=lyrics+hog+o&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.10104j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood:_The_Movie

_________________


"The idea for the Canton  Asylum began as a simple suggestion by Indian agent Peter Couchman of the Cheyenne River Agency. In 1897, he wrote to the Indian Service about the unpleasant conditions insane Indians faced on reservations.

Anyone suspected of insanity usually ended up in a jail or guardhouse because there were no appropriate facilities on site."

http://cantonasylumforinsaneindians.com/history_blog/tag/cheyenne-river-agency/

___________

"Peter Couchman, married to Mary Bloodgood, Cheyenne River Indian Agent

The end of the nineteenth century brought about the beginning of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians. Indian agent Peter Couchman had suggested a separate facility for Indian patients in 1897, Senator Richard Pettigrew had endorsed the suggestion, and the Indian Bureau had cooperated in forwarding his cause.

The asylum, however, was a relatively minor matter for most of the country’s population, who focused, instead, on the Spanish-American War."

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/102115186/

_________



"Despite the shaky evidence, the court commissioner
bound the three policemen over to the United States
grand jury set to convene at Deadwood, South Dakota, in
February 1895.

 Agent Couchman objected strenuously to
the action, considering the matter long settled.

 In a letter
to the commissioner of Indian affairs, he called the men
involved "the best men I have on the force, [who] always
cheerfully and promptly obey their orders, and are very
careful not to go beyond them or exceed their authority
in any way."-^"'

Miller convened the grand juiy on 5 February 1893, in
Deadwood, South Dakota. John Whitlock of the original
coroner's jury questioned the location of the proceedings,
stating in a letter to Herbert Welsh of the Indian Rights Association
that

 Miller chose Deadwood "only because it
was thought the sentiment there was against the Indian
race."

http://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-27-3/justice-in-transition-the-murder-trial-of-straight-head-and-scares-the-hawk/vol-27-no-3-justice-in-transition.pdf

My Great-Grandfather's sister, my great great great aunt: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/ettie-couchman-24-49zv56y?geo_a=t&geo_s=au&geo_t=us&geo_v=2.0.0&o_iid=41018&o_lid=41018&o_sch=Web+Property





My Great-Grandfather, Freeman Bloodgood:

"Middleburgh, July 28. – 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.

     About four years ago he fell and since then had been in poor health, making his home with his son, Dean Bloodgood. The later was a former student in Middleburgh High school before locating in the west. Surviving are his wife, who was Ophelia A. Shoemaker, oldest daughter of Abram Shoemaker, formerly of Conesville, at that time called Stone Bridge; two sons, Dean Bloodgood of State College and Ellsworth Bloodgood of Kingston, N. M. He was also a brother-in-law of Weidman Shoemaker, eighty-five, of Middleburgh. Dr. Garrison E. Shoemaker of Cobleskill is a nephew. Interment was made in the Masonic cemetery at Las Cruces, N. M."


http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html

"Ellsworth F. Bloodgood, a well-known cattle man living at Kingston, New Mexico, is a native of Schoharie County, New York, born July 11, 1862.  

His education was acquired in Kansas and in 1879, when a youth of seventeen years, he went to Colorado with an emigrant train. He has since been identified with business interests upon the plains and the frontier. 

 He came to New Mexico in 1881, settling first at White Oaks, and in 1882 removed to Kentucky, where he became identified with freighting..

 He hauled the first load of ore out of the camp and continued in the freighting business from 1882 until 1884, when, believing that the cattle industry would prove more profitable, he established a ranch on the Gila River, making his home, however, in Kingston, as he was prevented from moving to the ranch because of the warlike attitude of the Indians, who were continually committing atrocities and depredations upon the white settlers of the frontier.

Mr. Bloodgood has now for twenty-two years been actively engaged in the cattle business and at the same time has followed mining to a greater or less extent. 

 He has developed the O. K. mine, from which he has taken considerable ore, but he ceased to work this after the demonetization of silver. 

 He now has extensive herds of cattle upon his ranch and his annual sales and shipments are extensive, yielding him a good profit.  

He is thoroughly familiar with the history of development and progress here and his personal experiences in connection with the settlement of the frontier, if written in detail, would prove again the correctness of the old adage that "truth is stranger than fiction."

Mr. Bloodgood was married in Kansas to Miss Cora Longfellow and they have one son. In his fraternal relations he is a Mason, holding membership in Kingston Lodge No. 16, A. F. & A. M."

QUEEN OF THE CREEK

BEACHGLASS FLOWER EARRING, SURREAL'S SILVER SPIRAL

the road to hong kong

flb 2008

sweet oregon orchids

WaPo and Normal Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/in-a-pandemic-we-must-still-have-room-to-breathe/2020/03/20/6821276c-6ae1-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html#comments-wrapper

A complete ‘lockdown’ is hardly what the U.S. needs at this moment


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"THE GOVERNORS of California and New York, both Democrats, have called for more restrictive social distancing to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

 They emphasize the need for people to act voluntarily in the interest of the common good. That is the right approach. Government should not strangle the society it is trying to save."
_________

Asked about a nationwide shelter-in-place order, President Trump reassuringly said on Friday, 

“I don’t think we’ll ever find that necessary.”
__________

 "If the restrictions are draconian, they could boomerang. People may panic or be tempted to disobey. "

"The word “lockdown” suggests jail. 

The concept is hardly what the United States needs at this juncture. We need careful, clear public health decisions to guide us back to normal as soon as possible."

the sign is gone, surreal is back

glacier virus

once upon a bard never had this polodium.
___________

(hold breath
under glaciers
sweat, beowulf disagrees the same story the same
teeth now impregnable dentures
on easter island sue veneers

wadn't itz

Trump says itz in his genius genes
tho he also says his dad was born in Germany
but he wadn't

sycamore wall street tree

The sycamore tree on wall street is my tree
and it wills that it twere xmas

issuing sap sugary apt on the climbing knees
of traders

fleeing what they fleeced
spiked trunk of nature, and all.

Imagine Surgeons Not Wearing Rubber Gloves

"Joseph Colt Bloodgood (1 November 1867 – 22 October 1935) was a prominent surgeon in the United States based in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

 He was known for insisting on the use of rubber gloves by the entire surgical team, for advances in methods of identifying and treating benign and malignant cancers, particularly breast and bone cancers, and for advocating education of the public so they would seek routine medical examinations, even before any signs of cancer appeared."




"The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians.

 It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. 

The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount significance today.

 These include the principles of medical confidentiality and non-maleficence."


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"The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum), or Hippocratic Collection, is a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings. Even though it is considered as a singular corpus that represents Hippocratic medicine, they vary (sometimes significantly) in content, age, style, methods, and views practiced; therefore, authorship is largely unknown.

Hippocrates began society's development of medicine, through a delicate blending of the art of healing and scientific observations.The Hippocratic Corpus became the foundation for which all future medical systems would be built."

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"Bloodgood was the first surgeon to demand that everyone involved in an operation wear rubber gloves.

He followed Halstead's advice in taking care to control bleeding during surgery so as to avoid the need for excessive haste. The probability of curing the patient was much higher with a careful and systematic approach to removing all cancerous tissue.

Bloodgood became extremely skilled with microscopic examination and diagnosis. Other surgeons often referred slides to Bloodgood when they were uncertain about the pathology.

He noted that "when cancer becomes a microscopic disease, there must be tissue diagnosis in the operating room".

 He would take many tissue samples during an operation, and would leave an operation while he prepared and examined the frozen sections. He would also temporarily leave one operation to take part in another."

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

germs nonchalance

nonchalance spread his toxic brand
over dilly dallied regulations redacted
in private off the books lunches mostly liquid
as per status quo dictums
adhered to like
germs

elbows up

god gleep

gleeps of death like fountains in rome
squirt from cherub
alabaster hips

from lips mythic our hydra
prevenges sans product placement
el pope coughs into the elbow used for pensive excuses

kiss the ring of dingaling
the first amobea is buttdialing eve-n-atom
do not go gentle into that good gleep

pox blanket donnie, symptom in chief

free and unimpeded the collective will
does not lack speechwriters nor raconteurs
nor horticultural no thumbery

an impulsive society at large is less
period than coma beholden syncophants

thinking da yinyang is a phishing scheme

close range spit and gleeps imprudent
our fear leader loss leading symptom in chief
pox blanket donnie

grave dirt soft his high five spittle strewn crayola
the constitution a play doh
and monopoly as silent as the monocle of a vulture

3-19-20

se Portland

$2.13 Slavery Wage System

 Nunes called on Americans to “go to your local pub” because we don’t want to “hurt the working people in this country that are relying on wages and tips.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-blames-media-freaks-for-distorting-his-call-for-people-to-go-out-to-restaurants-and-pubs?ref=scroll

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 "the federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour

the tipped minimum wage has remained stagnant since 1991 "

germs of thought

aristocratic
double
parameter

rush hour
double negative
stroke

burn
telephone
slip

working
prepaid
envy

toggle
dew
pitman
_______________

it wouldn't make sense
under any circumstances
as it randomly infected
thousandsmillions then billions 
creating senseless room
for more idiots beyond sense,
aristocratic pitmen

_______________

rollicking
world
biodiversity

momentum
silo
turning point

chit 
pulverize
finish

stagnant
go for broke
rocky

____________

it isn't the point to create sense,
sense exists regardless
common sense says so 
doesn't it not?

__________

bad
flow
tenement

cabin fever
sinology
tantalized

Sanders wins California

"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has won the California Democratic presidential primary, according to Edison Media Research. There are 415 delegates at stake in California, the largest trove in the nation overall, and Sanders was ahead by some 50 delegates as votes continued to be counted.

 He won more than 50 counties and had a sizable lead over former vice president Joe Biden in Los Angeles County, the state's most populous. The state's popular mail-in voting program allowed ballots received by March 6, and the state may not have final results for weeks."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/california-democratic-primary-live-results/


Senator Sanders winning California with 49% of the Latino vote and Biden at 22%

Senator Sanders winning California with 29% of the Asian vote and Biden at 17%

SANDERS the favorite by far of California voters under 64 years of age

SANDERS winning the California independent voters 46% to Biden's 15%

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/california-democratic-primary-live-results/

Born on a Ship from Ireland

My nearest Irish descendents:

John  Finley and Thankful (Doak) Finley

John Finley
Birthdate: December 18, 1706
Birthplace: Dublin, County of Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Death: June 06, 1773 (66)
Augusta County, Province of Virginia

Thankful Finley (Doak)

Also Known As: "Elizabeth", "Mary", "Thankful Finley"
Birthdate: March 16, 1707
Birthplace: on ship from, North Ireland

Death: September 20, 1791 (84)
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, United States

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Finley/6000000011221035727

Even As We Wash Our Hands

"One model from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested that between 160 million and 210 million Americans could contract the disease over as long as a year. 

Based on mortality data and current hospital capacity, the number of deaths under the CDC's scenarios ranged from 200,000 to as many as 1.7 million. 

Globally, the numbers are even more staggering. Five researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health estimated that between 20 percent and 60 percent of everyone on earth — or between 1.4 billion and 4.2 billion people — could eventually contract the disease.

If the virus only kills 1 percent of those who contract it, somewhere between 14 million and 42 million people are at risk"


https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/487489-worst-case-coronavirus-models-show-massive-us-toll

waffle topped tree

the wish list included a bird feeder outside that window
i aim at when not ensconced by the false sun
of innernut
but better yet tonight
several crows took refuge atop a scraggly ancient
as the tread wheeled off earth's axis
making quite a
waffle

the sardines sigh

trapped in italy where the coughs shake bricks loose
where the marital thump of bedposts
against wall pillars has been known to
deliver pools of oil
trapped in the virus laden furs of milan
surrounded by st peter's pox hued gates
in a venice canal stewed in bloated
ships of luxury vaccines
that nobody wants or needs trapped
in italy the sardines sigh

Perfidy

"In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith (such as by raising a flag of truce) with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed (such as by coming out of cover to attack the enemy coming to take the "surrendering" prisoners into custody). Perfidy constitutes a breach of the laws of war and so is a war crime, as it degrades the protections and mutual restraints developed in the interest of all parties, combatants and civilians."

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

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Also, 

'The agreements Austin scuttled were approved by Susan K. Escallier, a retired one-star Army general and military lawyer whom he selected less than a year ago to oversee the Guantánamo proceedings. 

 The terms stipulated that the three defendants would admit to the murders of 2,976 people in New York, in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon 

 in exchange for the removal of the death penalty 

 as a possible punishment — effectively ending the most high-profile criminal cases stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks" 

(And Testimony about Torture coercion at Gitmo.) 

 

"While the plea deals had been in negotiation for more than two years, Biden administration officials said they were surprised by the announcement and sought to distance themselves from the decision. " 

"said Eugene Fidell, a military justice expert at Yale Law School. Fidell assessed that Austin’s termination of the plea deals after they were approved is “illegal.”

“It was too late,” he said. “The train had left the station because the agreements were finished.” 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/13/lloyd-austin-september-11-guantanamo-cases/

Dickinson 185 for Mike Pence

"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.


Emily Dickinson 

for Mike Pence

Dickinson 67

                 67


Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated - dying -
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear



Emily Dickinson 

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Is it about the elections?

Is it about the virus?

Yes!

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Lily White Iowa?

Jennifer Rubin, opinion writer at the Washington Post, calls Iowa "lily white."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/06/heres-why-you-shouldnt-write-off-biden/

Especially for a candidate whose strength is nonwhite voters, lily-white Iowa is not friendly turf.
___________


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement



"The Lily-White Movement was an anti-African-American movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was a response to the political and socioeconomic gains made by African-Americans following the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which eliminated slavery. During Reconstruction, black leaders in Texas and around the country gained increasing influence in the Republican Party by organizing blacks as an important voting bloc via Union Leagues and the biracial Black-and-tan faction of the Republicans. Conservative whites attempted to eliminate this influence and recover white voters who had defected to the Democratic Party. The term lily-white movement was coined by Texas Republican leader Norris Wright Cuney, who used the term in an 1888 Republican convention to describe efforts by white conservatives to oust blacks from positions of Texas party leadership and incite riots to divide the party.[1] The term came to be used nationally to describe this ongoing movement as it further developed in the early 20th century."

__________

"this was a guy who lived with a black family and had a black roommate in college so it's not like he has lived in lily white isolation"-----Jennifer Rubin, Twitter

https://twitter.com/jrubinblogger/status/1206595636872781826?lang=en

___________

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/sanderss-secret-is-out-he-has-no-movement/#comments-wrapper

Rubin does it again:

"The media took the results of two unrepresentative, lily-white states and the Nevada caucuses (not a primary, which as we saw on Tuesday night leads to wildly different outcomes) as definitive proof of former vice president Joe Biden’s demise"

Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen: forced labor, Uighurs

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-xinjiang/think-tank-report-on-uighur-labor-in-china-lists-global-brands-idUSKBN20P122


“Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labor, Uighurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen,” the think-tank said in the introduction to its report.

The ASPI report said the transfers of labor were part of a state-sponsored program.

It says the workers “lead a harsh, segregated life”, are forbidden to practice religion, and are required to participate in mandarin language classes.

Fascist China

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-internet-ban-criticism-could-suppress-coronavirus-news-2020-3

China has enacted a new law that effectively allows people to post only "positive" content about the country on the internet.

The Provisions on the Governance of the Online Information Content Ecosystem, which was announced December 15, came into effect Sunday amid dissent over the novel coronavirus outbreak. 

The law is designed to "create a positive online ecosystem" and "preserve national security and the public interest," the government document said.


The law splits online content into three groups: "encouraged," "negative," and "illegal," according to an unofficial translation by Jeremy Daum, who runs the China Law Translate project.

According to the new law:

Illegal content includes the "dissemination of rumors," "disrupting economic or social order," "subverting the national regime," and "destroying national unity."
Negative content includes "sensationalizing headlines" and any "other content with a negative impact to the online information ecosystem."
Encouraged content includes "spreading and explaining Party doctrine," "spreading economic and social achievement" and "other positive and wholesome content."

It also bars people from spreading rumors and "insulting, threatening, and doxxing people," according to Abacus News, a tech website run by the South China Morning Post.

Chinese citizens criticized the new law on social media, and a hashtag relating to the law was viewed more than 3 million times on Monday alone, The Guardian reported.

"In the future there will be only good news, and no bad news," one person said, according to the newspaper.