melted light
an unmansionably amok stasis
a day run amok in untethered emotional bandages
would be better than this chaotic blackho
facing my own self scorn with glasses glued together
with history excretions
knowing i am the wizened warbling weirdo
or at least i like that string of wordos
and just knead, catlike, the expensive velvet carbuncle
you use as a graduation hat to right now.
i hop on top, away we go
in a solidarity to outclass classification of what
amok means, all holed in for the winter unmansionably
wrongnow
Saturday, December 26, 2020
molly with her privilege binky
down the throat that speaks, using paper bags
thru hell that doesn't bring their own
more PC or politically acumenic siccoin yeah
left whatshisname in the car
just to get a few man
-goes, not quite ripe the cop viewed her
faux pas with corporate aplumb
a dossier embodies
When strangers do the same at Food Front
they tip a dollar and wink
knowing the way the world twerks
SE portland
NW shit poem
goodblood. godblot. blotgood, bloodgod
"The company founded by a man named Henry Ford," Trump said.
"Good blood lines, good blood lines,
if you believe in that stuff, you've got good blood."
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Dorothy Champlin Would've
Grandma Dorothy would spank your bratty asses you bratty assed snots
greed fed ticks
over privileged worms
bottom feeding whitecollar grifters
grandma dorothy would frown and pray you had a case of rashes to parade you in sunday school
for your own good. do yo need to talk? tell Grandma on the fracking doll where you're fracking your cousin
grandma Dorothy would blanch at your bald fraud grown into full fascist infancy under her luminous maiden name Champlin
Monday, December 14, 2020
birds to my violin flit
birds to my violin flit, over attentive to my lull
as i dull reality toll
by overemphasizing music onto a neighborhood of contradictions
programmed on the way by
platitudinous triggers and the gnaw of unwelcome texts
threatening a status quo that already stunk
enough to harken spiders to weave tapestry traps
which warm me
like it or not
12-14-20
se portland
Monday, December 07, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Bloodgood, Flatt, Soule, Delano: sticklers, extremists, precisionists, heretics refugees etc etc
https://www.geni.com/people/Lillie-Flatt/6000000009093585733
January 21, 1894 Grandmother Flatt
Birthplace: Estherville, IA, United States
Death:
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Wallace Marion Flatt and Olive Lorraine Flatt
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https://www.geni.com/people/Wallace-Flatt/6000000008908001425
Great Grandfather,Wallace Marion Flatt
Birthdate: August 30, 1861
Birthplace: Stoughton, WI, United States
Death: December 24, 1922 (61)
Stanley, North Dakota, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Walter B. Flatt and Hannah Priscilla Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/Hannah-Soule/6000000008809282203
Great Great Grandmother, Hannah Priscilla Soule
Birthdate: November 01, 1843
Birthplace: Waterville, ME, United States
Death: August 19, 1911 (67)
Pomona, CA, United States
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Sullivan Soule and Temperance Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/Sullivan-Soule/6000000008881087691
3G Grandfather, Sullivan Soule
Birthdate: January 20, 1819
Birthplace: Dexter, Penobscot, Maine, United States
Death: August 25, 1878 (59)
Rutland, Wisconsin, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Zebedee Soule and Priscilla Soule
Husband of Esther Soule; Temperance Soule and Hannah Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/Zebedee-Soule/6000000003564286791
4G Grandfather, Zebedee Soule
Birthdate: June 12, 1781
Birthplace: Winslow, Kennebec, Maine, United States
Death: April 05, 1867 (85)
Rutland, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
Place of Burial: Stoughton, Riverside Cemetery, Wisconsin, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Jonathan Soule and Honour Soule
Husband of Levinia Soule and Priscilla Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/Jonathan-Soule/6000000006802855924
5G Grandfather, Jonathan Soule
Birthdate: December 21, 1747
Birthplace: Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: January 06, 1832 (84)
Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, United States
Place of Burial: Waterville, Kennebec Co., Maine, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Micah Soule and Mercy Soule
Husband of Honour Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/Micah-Soule/6000000006802800232
6G Grandfather, Micah Soule
Birthdate: April 12, 1711
Birthplace: Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British Colonies in America
Death: November 04, 1778 (67)
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Immediate Family:
Son of Josiah Soule and Lydia Soule (Delano)
Husband of Mercy Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/Lydia-Soule-Delano/6000000003133084489
7G Grandmother, Lydia Soule (Delano)
Birthdate: March 1679
Birthplace: Duxbury, (Present Plymouth County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), (Present USA)
Death: November 23, 1763 (84)
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts, (Present USA)
Place of Burial: Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:
Daughter of John Delano and Mary Delano
Wife of Josiah Soule
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https://www.geni.com/people/John-Delano/6000000003180793211
8G Grandfather, John Delano
Also Known As: "Jonathan", "Lannoy"
Birthdate: 1644
Birthplace: Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
Death: September 05, 1721 (76-77)
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Philippe Delano and Hester Delano
Husband of Mary Delano
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https://www.geni.com/people/Philippe-Delano/6000000001666670018
9G Grandfather, Philippe Delano (de la Noye)
Also Known As: "Philipp Delano", "Philippe de La Noye Delano", "Philipp DeLannoy", "Philipp de Lannoy", "Philippe de la Noye", "Phillipe De La Noye", "Phillip Delanoy", ""Delano or de Lannoy".", "Philip Delano", "Phillippe De La Noye", "DeLannoy", "De Lannoy"
Birthdate: December 07, 1602
Birthplace: Leiden, Rhynland (present Zuid-Holland), Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden
Death: December 19, 1681 (79)
Bridgewater, (Present Plymouth County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), Colonial America
Place of Burial: Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Jean de de Lanoy and Marie Mahieu
In November 1621 Philip Delano arrived in Plymouth Colony as a single man on the ship Fortune.
While Bangs states that he was 16 years of age when he arrived he was actually closer to 20 though it is speculated he must at this time have been a servant of one of the other passengers, as he was a minor.[1][3].
Approximately 65 passengers embarked on Mayflower in the middle of July 1620 at either Blackwall or Wapping on the River Thames.[10] The ship then proceeded down the Thames into the English Channel and then on to the south coast of England to anchor at Southampton Water.
She waited there for a rendezvous on July 22 with the Speedwell, which was coming from Holland with English separatist Puritans, members of the Leiden congregation who had been living in Holland to escape religious persecution in England, including Delano his uncle Francis Cooke and his cousin John Cooke.
Both ships set sail for America around August 5, but Speedwell sprang a leak shortly after, and the two ships were brought into Dartmouth for repairs. They made a new start after the repairs, and they were more than 200 miles (320 km) beyond Land's End at the southwestern tip of England when Speedwell sprang another leak. It was now early September, and they had no choice but to abandon Speedwell and make a determination on her passengers. This was a dire event, as the ship had wasted vital funds and was considered very important to the future success of their settlement in America.
Both ships returned to Plymouth, where some of Speedwell passengers joined Mayflower and others returned to Holland. Mayflower then continued on her voyage to America, and Speedwell was sold soon afterwards.[11].
It appears Delano did not make the cut so came the next year.
He may have lived first in Plymouth with his uncle, Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke and his son. Philippe's maternal aunt, Hester (Mahieu) was married to Cooke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Delano
*****
Philippe died in Bridgewater Mass. 1681. He was married first in 1634 & 2d 1657 & had five sons & four daughters. He used the names peculiar to this line; Thus Philippe — Jean — ? Gysbert — Jean — Philippe — (1621) — Philip Jr. & John (Jean). He appears on Hotten's List of Emigres to America as: "Philip De La Noye."
He left Leiden to join the ship "Fortune " the first vessel to follow the "Mayflower."
It came from London England bringing the Patent of Government, John Pierce & 35 colonists. They landed at Plymouth Massachusetts on November the eleventh 1621.
It was at this time that the Narragansets sent the famous bundle of arrows tied with a snake skin to Gov. Bradford, who returned it stuffed with powder and bullets.
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https://www.geni.com/people/Jean-de-
etcetc etc Castles and cake
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"The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans
" Originally, Puritan was a pejorative term characterizing certain Protestant groups as extremist.
Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, dates the first use of the word to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and precisian with a sense similar to the modern stickler"
"Puritans should not be confused with more radical Protestant groups of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Quakers, Seekers, and Familists, who believed that individuals could be directly guided by the Holy Spirit and prioritized direct revelation over the Bible.[12]
In current English, puritan often means "against pleasure". In such usage, hedonism and puritanism are antonyms.[13]
Puritans embraced sexuality but placed it in the context of marriage. Peter Gay writes of the Puritans' standard reputation for "dour prudery" as a "misreading that went unquestioned in the nineteenth century", commenting how unpuritanical they were in favour of married sexuality, and in opposition to the Catholic veneration of virginity, citing Edward Taylor and John Cotton.[14]
One Puritan settlement in western Massachusetts banished a husband because he refused to fulfill his sexual duties to his wife"
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"The Pilgrims were the English settlers who came to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the final departure port of Plymouth, Devon.
Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatist Puritans, who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.
They held many of the same Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike most other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations should separate from the English state church, which led to them being labeled Separatists.
After several years living in exile in Holland, they eventually determined to establish a new settlement in the New World and arranged with investors to fund them.
They established Plymouth Colony in 1620. The Pilgrims' story became a central theme in the history and culture of the United States."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)
"The Separatist movement was controversial. Under the Act of Uniformity 1559, it was illegal not to attend official Church of England services, with a fine of one shilling (£0.05; about £19 today)[4] for each missed Sunday and holy day.
The penalties included imprisonment and larger fines for conducting unofficial services. The Seditious Sectaries Act of 1593 was specifically aimed at outlawing the Brownists.
Under this policy, the London Underground Church from 1566, and then Robert Browne and his followers in Norfolk during the 1580s, were repeatedly imprisoned. Henry Barrow, John Greenwood, and John Penry were executed for sedition in 1593. "
"William Brewster found himself involved with religious unrest emerging in Scotland. In 1618, King James had promulgated the Five Articles of Perth which were seen in Scotland as an attempt to encroach on their Presbyterian tradition. Brewster published several pamphlets that were critical of this law, and they were smuggled into Scotland by April 1619.
These pamphlets were traced back to Leiden, and the English authorities unsuccessfully attempted to arrest Brewster. English ambassador Dudley Carleton became aware of the situation and began pressuring the Dutch government to extradite Brewster, and the Dutch responded by arresting Thomas Brewer the financier in September. Brewster's whereabouts remain unknown between then and the colonists' departure, but the Dutch authorities did seize the typesetting materials which he had used to print his pamphlets.
Meanwhile, Brewer was sent to England for questioning, where he stonewalled government officials until well into 1620. He was ultimately convicted in England for his continued religious publication activities and sentenced in 1626 to a 14-year prison term."
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"n the United States, members of the Delano family include U.S. presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, and writer Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Its progenitor is Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681), a Pilgrim of Walloon descent, who arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the early 1620s.
His descendants also include Eustachius De Lannoy (who played an important role in Indian History), Frederic Adrian Delano, Robert Redfield, and Paul Delano.
Delano family forebears include the Pilgrims who chartered the Mayflower, seven of its passengers, and three signers of the Mayflower Compact."
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George Soule (c. 1601 – between 20 September 1677 and 22 January 1679)[1] was a colonist who was one of the indentured servants on the Mayflower and helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620.[1]
He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact."
"It is known that George came on the Mayflower and was credited to the household of Edward Winslow as a manservant or apprentice, along with Elias Story and a little girl Ellen More, who both died in the first winter.[2][self-published source][3][4] George Soule was mentioned in Bradford's recollections of the Winslow group: "Mr. Edward Winslow; Elizabeth, his wife; and *2* men servants, called Georg Sowle and Elias Story; also a little girle was put to him, called Ellen, sister of Richard More".[5] He continues: "Mr. Ed. Winslow his wife dyed the first winter; and he is maried with the widow of Mr. White, and hath *2* children living by her marigable besides sundry that are dead. One of his servants dyed, as also the little girle, soone after the ships arrival. But this man Georg Sowle, is still living and hath *8* children".[6]
Earlier researchers into Soule's origin believed in the London association of Winslow and Soule.[7] Thus, based on this belief, and for five years ending in 2009, noted Mayflower researcher and biographer Caleb Johnson managed a fairly intensive search for Soule's English origins; he examined a number of likely 'George Soules' in various parts of England and subsequently concluded that the most promising candidate of all the 'George Soules' he reviewed was that of Tingrith, Bedfordshire, baptized in February 1594/5.[8]
More recent work in 2017 has identified the parents of George Soule through a high-quality Y-DNA match[clarification needed] of Soule with families in Scotland and Australia.
Following up on research published by Louise Walsh Throop in 2009, the DNA study pointed to Soule's parents as Jan Sol and his wife Mayken Labis, who are identified by their marriage as Protestant refugees in London, England, in 1586 and by the baptisms of their children before 1600 in Haarlem, Holland.[9]
Their eldest known son Johannes Sol is identified by his baptism in 1591, as well as by his permissions in both Haarlem and Leyden to marry in Leyden. Johannes Sol, a printer in Leyden with one known publication, died suddenly, probably while helping William Brewster in the presswork for the Perth Assembly.[9]
His apprentice, Edward Raban, apparently fled to Scotland in 1619 in order to avoid being apprehended by agents of the King of England.
It appears he was accompanied by the pregnant widow of his master and probably took with him the missing press of Brewster, as well as the telltale type and initials from Brewster; Raban also apparently took with him the Sol press and type.
Edward Raban in 1622 published a very veiled version of his master's shocking death, well hidden in a discussion of drunkenness and resultant whoredom.[10]
It would appear all helpers in the press work and distribution of "Perth Assembly" took an oath of silence that was never breached, even after King James I died in 1625.[11]
Some researchers have pointed to circumstantial evidence that George Soule's family may have had Sephardic (Converso) Jewish roots, due to "Sol/Soule" being a common Sephardic name[12] and "Soule" (the version George used in his will) being a Basque province.[13]
Soule's daughter-in-law, Rebecca Simonson, daughter of colonist, Moses Simonson, may have had Jewish ancestry,[14][15] and Soule's printing colleague, Edward "Raban was from a Jewish-descended family in Germany."[16]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews
"The divisions among Sephardim and their descendants today are largely a result of the consequences of the royal edicts of expulsion. Both the Spanish and Portuguese edicts ordered their respective Jewish residents to choose one of three options:
to convert to Catholicism and be allowed to remain within the kingdom,
to remain Jewish and be expelled by the stipulated deadline, or
to stay and be summarily executed as Jews."
It is likely[according to whom?] that George's presumed father Jan Sol, who married as a refugee in 1586 in London, was the grandson of Jan van Sol.[citation needed] This Jan van Sol was a zealous opponent of Anabaptism, which he saw in 1550 as divided into three movements: the Melchiorites (the peaceful Mennonite group), the Davidites, and the Batenburgers.[17]
Jan van Sol was born at Dordrecht, in South Holland, but left the Netherlands in 1530 because of debts (he kept an inn there) and went east to Danzig. There he was known as Johann/Jan Solius (the Latin version of his name). In 1536 he bought the "Robitten" estate near Bardeyn in East Prussia.
He returned in 1550 to Brussels but may have spent his last years, until about 1556, in the territory of Preussisch-Holland. A presumed son born about 1525, and by naming patterns was probably named Georg, would have married about 1555 perhaps in Brussels, and thus would have been the father of Jan Sol of the 1586 marriage record in London. This Jan Sol and wife Maecken had seven children baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church of Haarlem in 1590–99"
".On 9/19 November 1620, after about 2 months at sea, preceded by a month of delays in and around England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on 11/21 November.[19]
On 11 November 1620, Soule and others signed the Mayflower Compact.[1] Soule and three others were under 21 years of age, and one of the three had a baptismal record showing he was just 20 years old at the time of signing.
It appears the signers were members of a church group, where the age of membership was 18. The original compact was lost. It was published, without any signers' names appended, several times after 1620.
It was not until almost 50 years after the signing that the Compact was published with the names of the signers.
Thus the print work crew of Brewster, Winslow, Soule and others was sheltered from exposure to the agents of King James I of England.
When finally published with all names of signers, only Soule was still alive from the print work crew."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soule_(Mayflower_passenger)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Sol%C3%A1-Pirineos_Atl%C3%A1nticos.svg
"The territory is named Xiberoa in Souletin Basque, Zuberoa in standard Basque, Sola in Gascon and Soule in French; all of them derivate from Subola, previous name of the region attested for the first time in the year 635 in the diaries of a Franco-Burgundian expedition led by Duke Arnebert against the Basques.
Subola comes from the name the Romans gave to the Aquitani tribe that inhabited the region by the time of their arrival, the Suburates, also called Sibusates by Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Sybillates by Pliny the Elder"
"Soule has been continuously inhabited since the last glaciation, there are several deposits from the neolithic as well as fifteen protohistoric settlements. The first text written in Soule dates from the 7th century.
Ancient Soule
The territory was already inhabited in the Middle Paleolithic; Neanderthal prehistoric settlements have been found in the caves of Xaxixiloaga in Aussurucq and Etxeberri. At the end of the Neolithic the population had extended and assimilated knowledge from other peoples.
There are protohistoric settlements that show a simple material life and a lifestyle dominated by migration. Rests of coins and other monetary artifacts have been found, proving the existence of an exchange economy in Soule, which very likely worked as an access point between Aquitaine—Novempopulania—in the north and the southern side of the Pyrenees.
At the time of the Roman arrival in the 1st century, Soule was inhabited by an Aquitani tribe named Suburates, who spoke the Aquitanian language (a form of Proto-Basque).
As with other peoples in "Aquitaine, the Romans had a somewhat important influence in the territory, although Soule kept its language and culture and was relatively unimportant during the times of the Roman Empire, due to its isolation. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soule
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Perth Assembly was a controversial book published by the Pilgrims in Leiden in 1619 the year before they departed in the Mayflower for Massachusetts; the book was smuggled into Scotland in wine vats.
[1] King James I was offended by the book which was critical of the Five Articles of Perth which had been ratified by the General Assembly in Perth in 1618 and forced the episcopacy form of church governance on Scotland.[2]
The printer was Johannes Sol ("Soule") and the primary publishers were Thomas Brewer and William Brewster who went into hiding in 1619 before surreptitiously departing for Plymouth to escape threat of arrest.
Other Pilgrims, such as George Soule (presumably the brother of the printer Johannes Sol), were also believed to have been involved in the printing of the book, and the controversy caused them to flee on the Mayflower and disguise their origins.[3]
Johannes Sol's apprentice, Edward Raban, fled to Scotland in 1620 with Sol's pregnant widow after his death in a printing ink accident"
Saturday, November 21, 2020
bloggod triptych
Beans Beer And Brawn but lonely for broccoli
_________
today, 45 degrees
_________
evening wear for the Pacific Northwest
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
fir ever
it's such the beautiful night
I'm glad you're here with me
to witness the silouette trees
and their stark bends
against city lights below
where a traffic hum
a mile distant washes this hammock
in a solitude we share
now fir ever
Better Move Around At Night
"If you're ever in Oklahoma
You better move around at night
'Cause they don't like no transportation
Slipping by in-and-out of sight
And they don't care about Dallas, Texas
And they don't care about Wichita
If you're ever in Oklahoma
You better move around the law
They got fines and they got plenty
They'll hold you up for days on end
Threaten your life and take your money
Make you think you're there to stay"
-------------JJ Cale
https://vimeo.com/laurelthirst?fbclid=IwAR0Bu4GjU4YiE54CXqBAbGerLMuQ2qdtdygo_KwGcHoTxmlmsPT9T9xDOOI
you ain't a peer
either underdressed or overdressed or too vexed over the weather gossip
peddled on robot view as life pours ice down the nape
in sunny clear skies, sick of clever posts from dimbots on farcebook
sick of slander untruths omissions and human garbage
like the cretin who lurks around panhandling with a pathetic crapboard
which is normal procedure for streetfolk but this jerk
tries to run the competition off with threats harassment and soul stink
and i ain't competing, i'm here with a fiddle
making grannie and the toddlers dance,
fucker.
11-17-2020
se portland
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Fuck You Centrist Colluding Democrats
"An angry dispute erupted among House Democrats on Thursday, with centrist members criticizing their liberal colleagues during a private conference call for pushing far-left views that cost the party seats in Tuesday’s election that they had worked hard to win two years ago.
The bitter exchange, which lasted more than three hours as members sniped back and forth over tactics and ideology, reflected the extent to which the 2020 campaign exposed simmering tensions in the party even as its presidential nominee, Joe Biden, stands on the brink of achieving their biggest goal of the year — unseating President Trump.
Party leaders had expressed certainty that Trump’s divisiveness and mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic would help them expand their majority with wins in GOP-held districts — and yet they lost at least a half-dozen seats and failed to retake the Senate.
The explanation laid out by centrists, according to multiple people who were on the call and spoke on the condition of anonymity, is that Republicans were easily able to paint them all as socialists and radical leftists who endorse far-left positions such as defunding the police."
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
OLCC Inspector with Covid-19 in Portland Oregon
So i was enjoying a local pub yesterday when the bartender gets a call from the OLCC to inform them that one of their Inspectors had tested Positive for COVID-19 and had been in the establishment a 7-10 days prior, but couldn't say exactly which day.
WTF
What me worry?
Southeast Portland, Independent Journalism from Bloggod
Nov. 4 2020
Sunday, November 01, 2020
busk sic
In the interwar period, Busk belonged to Kamionka Buska County, Tarnopol Voivodeship, until Soviet invasion of Poland (September 1939). In 1913, the population of Busk was 8,000, including 3,500 Poles, 2,700 Jews and 1,800 Ukrainians.
a dream with gasoline nearly lit
awakens one to rain under the ancient trees as the silence undoes itself in living increments
here ar four am in a sleeping bag of fog
with one's head propped on a bike with an umbrella bungeed.on as makeshift shelter as the city unaware snores
in ignorant zones of nocturnal bliss or one's own dream labyrinth stew
had to dodge a car in my crosswalk yelled at him and he stopped after cutting me off but only long enough to think better of it
then a blur eyed yahoo approaches at the filling station as i put my beer in the duffel by my bike as i unlock it
then a guy wants a dollar hy the fast-food drive thru but i give em 35 cents and a woman in her car offers me a coffee
then the stoic bus driver hauls me up the mtn volcano to one's domicile in the unpeopled park where one's tree has sheltered man for two hundred years
digesting my fries and ale and regrets
at having left the ganja in one's storage
dryly forgotten under lock for another hour and a half if the earth keeps trucking and the unrest
is civil only broken by heavy dew and scattered mind brushes
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
booger squish squab
most cars at the fast grease drive up look like boogers on corn syrup hips
larvae karma in anti grandiose shells
me im not hi
my torso parking on a tree root born out my game
tabor foot hills
10 23 20
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
forest jihad bloodgood, more BS from the folks that branded "isis"
"The term “forest jihad” itself seems to have been popularized by a 2008 article published by a retired Israeli colonel, Jonathan Fighel, on the website of an Israeli counterterrorism research institute.
Fighel’s article stated that, in Israel’s conflicts with Lebanon and Palestinians, fires deliberately set by militants damaged Israeli forests and cropland. Rather than being an inevitable result of irregular warfare and shelling, Fighel suggested, the damage suffered to Israeli agriculture during its wars was part of a deliberate terrorist-led “forest jihad,” with global connotations.
“’Forest Jihad’ (forest arson) is one manifestation of the ‘Economic Jihad’ tactics, a tool in a variety of options to cause economic direct and indirect secondary damages,” Fighel wrote, raising the specter that “forest jihad” is part of a broader set of boutique jihads being waged by terrorists against Western countries."
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/
sleeping crag
the lore exceeds our mental grasp of the oily obvious
days slur in a musical sense of horsehair wood and catgut
a few days sugargliding
a couple weeks wrapped in the ivy blackberry train track inflatable mattress
a week bled weak by motels
two weeks brokeside breathing smoke filled with manmade gunk
two weeks in a tiny tent riddled by trees, tiny rent
blundering the aftermath with a pencil erased brow
kicked out with no coat, left to huddle in won't say where
and within a day had a rat run over my legs in the well lit park
two weeks feeding being fed up
four blows later stitched up finally in a rolodex of miscreant antics
back of the bus mini nap where's my Pegasus beanie
as the pollo floes 'round the sun? more days pour apathy
a pitter patter on leaves
clung to the giant tree over my sleeping crag,
tied to the cliff face of a volcano enticed to stay adoormant,
tent hauled out to the sidewalk
where rent infringed on the unused part of our brain 99%
10-21-10
southeast knowwhere
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
BLM Ribs, Lownsdale Park Health and Food Safety, Portland
8 consecutive days of volunteer work at BLM Ribs, camping within 20 feet of the
off-curb in the street gutter FOOD SERVICE petri dish
"The Plaza Blocks were lively places where orators held forth and citizens assembled. They are characterized in part by several large old elms and gingko trees.
Chapman Square, originally designed for the exclusive use of women and children, features all female gingko trees. Lownsdale Square was to be the "gentlemen's gathering place." Today the Plaza Blocks are still a busy gathering place, although men and women can now safely coexist in either of them.
In the center of Lownsdale Square stands Soldiers Monument, Douglas Tilden’s 1906 sculpture in memory of the Oregonians killed in the Spanish-American War (1898). The tall granite obelisk is topped with a bronze replica of a soldier in the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry, part of the first large American fighting force ever sent overseas.
At the base of this monument are two howitzers used in the defense of Fort Sumter (misspelled as 'Sumpter' on the plaque) in 1861. They were brought to Portland by Colonel Henry E. Dosch.
Because the cannons were used by both Union and Confederate troops, it was Dosch's idea to face one north and the other south.
"Park Location or Entrance
Lownsdale Square main entrance
SW 4th Avenue and Main Street
Portland, OR 97205
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Open hours
Park hours: 5:00am-midnight
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TELL THAT TO THE PORTLAND PARK RANGER WHO TOLD ME "YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES TO PACK UP" WHILE THE BLM RIBS TENTS ARE ALSO NON COMPLIANT WITH EVERY RULE THAT APPLIES TO THIS PUBLIC SPACE.
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"rain washes the twenty gallons of dish slop
down the gutters along the federal building,
crows have better mush to nibble
in the park where riot ribs
hang out under the molting trees
in a francis bacon meets goya meets basquiat world
forking spuds like gogh in a van quick
here come the pig with eight hanging off the side
going in flashing circles, chasing their tails
we smoke copious pot
billowing around the beers in the park across the jail
court injustice theater, the tricked out blm ride
with a p.a. system taunting the night
kill me now, cowards
***
yesterday, got out of the soggy tent around one
the blm booth had collapsed from ten hours of water and wind
i set things right, swamped out the trash
and heard the elk had been deherded from main street
by proudboys in pickups, shoulda seen it coming.
made bleach water and cleaned the public toilet
which ranks among the worst rank homeless shit magnet
around, bleached the sidewalks, put food out on the table
and greeted passersby, helped put up the new
canopy knowing how they assemble and attached
two by fours to the legs for weight,
got offered a beer, then two by a pretty girl
from the pendleton blanket shop
greeted more people, then came nate and we
shot hoops for three hours by the war memorial
with howitzers from fort sumpter 1861
more spraypaint on it ever day
there's drumsticks on the grill, people are happy
for free hot food, all sorts pass by mostly simpatico
a drunk russian almost causes trouble
but his buddies pull him down the street
and the loons show up, wiggling under the cedar tree,
doing incantations, waving sticks and kooking out
the protest at the jail release a few blocks away
spits out random individuals or groups amidst
cheers jeers and beered unclear
one Native man shares long candles
i attack to a gallon can with no label, he comes back
for lighter fluid he pours into a water bottle
after cops take away his candles
the kooks come in droves and then amber in black
chatty and wants to share the only beer
the last pair of kooks almost have a tussle
around four am, i'm soon home walking thirty feet to the tent
a mini riot still reverberating a few blocks away
fuck it five am
i depart to southeast and my storage and carla won't serve
me coffee so to my storage full of money
and i drink coffee
all i want
fuck you
and back to camp with this and that in tow i hear the
dickboys came thru again and messed with my *new friends*
while i was away and i do again the swamp out
hallelujah"
10-11-20 blm ribs
jp gone, gone for hours, returns full of empty excuses
and lotsa lip and a short fuse sticking out of the petri dish
of unhinged anarchy with a new biz license
no propane for 48 hours plus and no way to cook or kill microbes
no charcoal and a cooler full of half warming meat
human shit dog shit loose trash rain slop runny nose festering wound
haven, the two hours of scrubbing pots
with a greasy sponge buy me a few moments of half gratitude
until the Park nerd boy scouts show up at 10pm TO HASSLE
the houseless and look the other way
covering for the con men taking donations online
and unable to perform basic tasks or figure out how to
organize the operation with volunteers, none of whom know other
and are largely white boys like me
as the main man
plays on his skateboard, or scooter, or megaphone, or takes a girl
off for several hours as the ragged downtown deranged and
disenfranchised settle for a piece of bread and an apple
while cases of canned soup, uncooked pasta, fresh produce
from the Oregon farms----spoils or is sneezed on by the
crazy lawless cars that rush past only a few feet away.
the con men have no literature or propaganda for BLM
nothing but nicer clothes than the sidewalk crew
that lurk across the terrain
without shadows
and without anything to wipe their asses with other than
cedar tree splinters and wax cups from the gutter:
