surreal spiral

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/surreal-trump-fascism-merriam-webster-2016-word-of-the-year#comment-89786756

surreal, word of the year.

beautiful, dreamlike, unworldly, mystical.

support community radio KBOO

https://soundcloud.com/mister-bonez-1/01-jim-boyer-jim-boyer-band-live-4-7-1995

april 7, 1995---------had been just started playing with Jim Boyer occasionally at the Laurelthirst. 

My wife, baby, and I had our 1976 international bushome at the home upstreet on Glisan, or had just moved the bus to klickitat county. happened right around then.

Boyer

Kennedy

Ritchie

Haley

Acott

Bloodgood

Henry

"this is a song about Jerome, Arizona"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome,_Arizona

National Historic Landmark 1967

60 IWW loaded at gunpoint into cattle cars 1917

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played with Jimmy etc from 1995-2000

at Berbatis, we opened for the Bad Livers who were touring. Danny knew Jimmy's weakness from a mile away and told us so.

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heard about Jimmy dying, and the next day i "lost" a computer tablet full of live music recordings that were never copied or downloaded off the device.

thank you for this recording KBOO----------------------deep geology

moss, an indicator of pollution

PORTLAND, Ore. April 6, 2016. Moss growing on urban trees is a useful bio-indicator of cadmium air pollution in Portland, Oregon, a U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station-led study has found. The work—the first to use moss to generate a rigorous and detailed map of air pollution in a U.S. city—is published online in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

“What’s unique about this stud*y is that we used moss to track down previously unknown pollution sources in a complex urban environment with many possible sources,” said Sarah Jovan, a research lichenologist at the station based in Portland and one of the study’s co-leads.

Moss have been used as bioindicators—living organisms that can help monitor environmental health—by the Forest Service and other agencies for decades. Because moss lack roots, they absorb all of their water and nutrients from the atmosphere, inadvertently taking up and storing whatever compounds happen to be in the air.

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Initially, the science team was concerned with air pollution from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of potent environmental toxins emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and wood. The scientists added in heavy metals because the laboratory analysis was relatively inexpensive. One heavy metal in particular, cadmium, was also a top concern of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) because a 2011 DEQ study found discrepancies between predicted and observed concentrations of the metal at Portland’s one permanent air-quality monitoring site. Cadmium, which is used primarily in nickel-cadmium battery manufacturing, electroplating, and stained-glass production, is linked to health problems such as kidney disease and cancer.
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https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11479099#editor/target=post;postID=1981059571028560346
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"The nickel plume stretches north of Precision Castparts, an industrial manufacturer that has been called one of the country's top polluters. Federal records show the company released 158 pounds of nickel to the air in 2014. 

Jay Khetani, a Precision Castparts spokesman, said almost all of the nickel the company uses is in low-toxicity alloyed forms. He said the company looks forward to reviewing the tree moss data. 

"We do use nickel," he said, "but cannot of course establish a linkage to the tree moss data."

The lead concentration is centered on a residential tract across the road from a string of industrial sites on North Columbia Boulevard.

The health implications aren't clear. The maps only show concentrations of metals found in moss. The state Department of Environmental Quality said testing of soil and air in each neighborhood would be needed to establish the level of health risk for residents, and no such testing has occurred.

Lead is a potent neurotoxin that can cause miscarriages, developmental problems in young children and irreversible brain damage. Nickel can cause asthma and lung cancer.

NOW THE FUNNY PART:

"A Department of Environmental Quality spokeswoman downplayed the maps' significance, saying they don't prove Portlanders nearby are breathing dirty air.

"Just because the moss maps show a hot spot doesn't mean it's that hot or relevant — it's just showing the highest value in the moss dataset," said Jennifer Flynt, an agency spokeswoman."

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/02/new_maps_show_heavy_metal_hot.html

the roar of the moss, 2003

wild guess

Jun 7

North Dakota · 18 delegates(Sanders 14/4
California · 475 delegates(Sanders 300/175
Montana · 21 delegates(Sanders 14/7
New Jersey · 126 delegates(Clinton 70/56
New Mexico · 34 delegates(Sanders 20/14
South Dakota · 20 delegates(Sanders 16/4

Jun 14

Washington, D.C. · 20 delegates(Clinton 13/7

Whangdepootenawah AKA Trump

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n.
In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Should you ask me whence this laughter,
Whence this audible big-smiling,
With its labial extension,
With its maxillar distortion
And its diaphragmic rhythmus
Like the billowing of an ocean,
Like the shaking of a carpet,
I should answer, I should tell you:
From the great deeps of the spirit,
From the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soul this laughter welleth
As the fountain, the gug-guggle,
Like the river from the canon,
To entoken and give warning
That my present mood is sunny.
Should you ask me further question --
Why the great deeps of the spirit,
Why the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soule extrudes this laughter,
This all audible big-smiling,
I should answer, I should tell you
With a white heart, tumpitumpy,
With a true tongue, honest Injun:
Pigboy Limpballs, he has Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!

Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep,
Standing silent in the kneedeep
With his wing-tips crossed behind him
And his neck close-reefed before him,
With his bill, his william, buried
In the down upon his bosom,
With his head retracted inly,
While his shoulders overlook it?
Does the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Shiver grayly in the north wind,
Wishing he had died when little,
As the sparrow, the chipchip, does?
No 'tis not the Shankank standing,
Standing in the gray and dismal
Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep.
No, 'tis peerless Pigboy Limpballs,
Realizing that he's Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!

ambrose bierce

body languish

if my arms are crossed, and i slouch, use your greater eye
to feel my state of disrepair, as i retire
back to a fetal position reserved for grown punching bags.
if i stroke my chin thoughtfully,
there is an ingrown thought curling back home like a willow,
weeping. when i collapse, don't read more into
that form of speech than a dance of chaos untranslated
as yet. my middle finger, and my pointer finger,
and my thumb all hitch rides when taken as significant,
alone. if my tongue's body language is tied,
you are the gordian knot, sweeping over teeth
ground smooth by grains and adding to smile wrinkles.
when my arms are crossed, and i hug myself
apart, it takes nerves missing to not feel you,
and it takes heart to let go. if i were strong,
i'd slouch straight into a lie, and carry earth's message
in countenance clothed in bliss. if i were any more human,
the animal of myself would shed or molt,
spin a cocoon to hide the scaffolding of a work in progress.
if it takes a hand under flowing water
to prime desert flowers once a century, sense blooms.



portland, oregon
5-7-16

Oregon for President Sanders, and democratic socialism

https://twitter.com/winning_mark/status/720317172644315137


Oregon's own @JeffMerkley becomes first U.S. Senator to endorse Bernie Sanders. He tells us why: http://nyti.ms/1SMe5t4  #Election2016 JL

ALEC Koch Malheur

Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface.It is vital for all known forms of life.
 On Earth, 96.5% of the planet's crust water is found in seas and oceans, 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, a small fraction in other large water bodies, and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of ice and liquid water suspended in air), and precipitation.
Only 2.5% of this water is freshwater, and 98.8% of that water is in ice (excepting ice in clouds) and groundwater. Less than 0.3% of all freshwater is in rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere, and an even smaller amount of the Earth's freshwater (0.003%) is contained within biological bodies and manufactured products
                      ----wikipedia
Fred Koch had a long history of heart problems. His son David described in 2010 how he received word that his father had died: “Father was on a hunting trip bird-shooting in Utah. He was in a blind with a gun loader next to him. He was having heart palpitations and wasn’t shooting that well. Finally a lone bird came over. He took the shot and hit it square. The duck falls from the air. He turns to the loader and says, ‘Boy, that was a magnificent shot,’ and then keels over dead.”
                    ----wikipedia
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located roughly 30 miles (48 km) south of the city of Burns in Oregon's Harney Basin. Administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge area is roughly T-shaped with the southernmost base at Frenchglen, the northeast section at Malheur Lake and the northwest section at Harney Lake.

The refuge was created in 1908 by order of President Theodore Roosevelt to protect habitat for diverse waterfowl and migratory birds, and grew to encompass 187,757 acres (760 km2; 293 sq mi) of public lands. A popular site for birding, fishing, hunting and hiking, the refuge gained widespread attention in early 2016 after its headquarters complex was occupied by armed anti-government members of rump militias.
                ----wikipedia

The sedges were full of birds, the waters were full of birds: avocets, stilts, willets, killdeers, coots, phalaropes, rails, tule wrens, yellow-headed black birds, black terns, Forster’s terns, Caspian terns, pintail, mallard, cinnamon teal, canvasback, redhead and ruddy ducks. Canada geese, night herons, great blue herons, Farallon cormorants, great white pelicans, great glossy ibises, California gulls, eared grebes, Western grebes—clouds of them, acres of them, square miles—one hundred and forty-three square miles of them!
~ Dallas Lore Sharp - 1914 - Lake Malheur Bird Reservation

Malheur is a unique wetland oasis
surrounded by Great Basin desert.
Distinctive mammalian habitats
include large fresh water marshes
containing extensive stands of
emergent aquatic vegetation, riparian
areas bordering streams and canals;
irrigated meadows; semi-arid
grassland desert areas dominated
by sagebrush and greasewood; and
basaltic rimrocks.

The following birds have been seen five times or less on
the Refuge and are considered accidental:
Snowy OwlPacific LoonRed-necked GrebeTri-colored HeronMute SwanEmperor GooseGreen-winged Teal (European)American Black DuckOldsquawRed-breasted MerganserWhite-tailed KiteBroad-winged HawkBlack RailCommon MoorhenUpland SandpiperRed KnotRed PhalaropeLong-tailed JaegerGlaucous-winged GullSabine’s GullWhite-winged DoveSnowy OwlNorthern Pygmy-OwlBarred OwlBlack SwiftWhite-throated SwiftBroad-tailed HummingbirdRed-headed WoodpeckerWhite-headed WoodpeckerEastern Wood-PeeweeEastern PhoebeTropical KingbirdScissor-tailed FlycatcherHutton’sVireoGray JayWestern Scrub-JayPinyon JayPurple MartinPhainopeplaGolden-winged WarblerHermit WarblerBlack-throated WarblerBlackburnian WarblerYellow-throated WarblerPalm WarblerPrairie WarblerProthonotary WarblerWorm-eating WarblerKentucky WarblerHooded WarblerCanada WarblerSummer TanagerScarlet TantagerIndigo BuntingPainted BuntingDickcisselLark BuntingLapland LongspurCommon GrackleStreak-backed OrioleBaltimore Oriole
Accidentals
The following birds have been seen five times or less on
the Refuge and are considered accidental:
Snowy Owl
©Rick Vetter
Pacific Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Tri-colored Heron
Mute Swan
Emperor Goose
Green-winged Teal (European)
American Black Duck
Oldsquaw
Red-breasted Merganser
White-tailed Kite
Broad-winged Hawk
Black Rail
Common Moorhen
Upland Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Long-tailed Jaeger
Glaucous-winged Gull
Sabine’s Gull
White-winged Dove
Snowy Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Barred Owl
Black Swift
White-throated Swift
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Peewee
Eastern Phoebe
Tropical Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Hutton’s Vireo
Gray Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Pinyon Jay
Purple Martin
Phainopepla
Golden-winged Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Black-throated Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Palm Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Canada Warbler
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tantager
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Lark Bunting
Lapland Longspur
Common Grackle
Streak-backed Oriole
Baltimore Oriole

One of the largest inland marshes in the United States, Malheur and Mud Lakes vary dramatically in size (from 500 to 110,000 acres), but generally fluctuate about 2 feet during the calendar year and on average cover 40,000 acres. Malheur Lake receives water from the Blitzen and Silvies rivers, fills from the center, then flows east and finally to the west, where it connects with Mud Lake. Water supply is predominantly influenced by snowpack on Steens Mountain to the south and intermittently by the Blue Mountains to the north.

The western section of Malheur Lake, including Mud Lake, is a series of natural ponds separated by a network of low dune islands and peninsulas. The center section, the deepest area of the lake, is predominantly open water with some hardstem bulrush stands near the mouth of tributaries. The eastern section tends to be more alkaline and lacks tall emergent vegetation.

Common emergent species in Malheur and Mud Lakes include hardstem bulrush, cattail, burreed, Baltic rush, and various sedges. The lakes contain extensive areas of open, aquatic bed habitat supporting submergent plants such as sago pondweed, water milfoil, horned pondweed, coontail, small and leafy pondweed, white water buttercup, bladderwort, and widgeon grass.

when clean water becomes a prized "collectible"

clean water on earth is life.

supply and demand: who is ruining the basis for life on earth? not my kind! (we quit years and years ago.
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"But since last summer, those retirees have had to contemplate not only the loss of the Champlin name, but also the company itself.

That's when Union Pacific Resources agreed to a merger that would fold the company into Anadarko Petroleum and move its Fort Worth operation to Houston. The move is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

The Champlin name has joined Humble, Skelly, Magnolia, Sinclair and other extinct giants from the energy past that live on through collectibles and the memories of the people who made them great. …"

https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-66952884.html

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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Anadarko Petroleum said it was reviewing its appellate options in the wake of a $159.9 million penalty tied to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Anadarko held a 25-percent stake in the Macondo well that failed, triggering the cascading series of events that led to the fatal Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans charged the company a penalty of $159.9 million for its part in the consortium behind the spill.


http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2015/12/02/Anadarko-reviewing-penalty-for-Gulf-oil-spill/6391449065057/

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"The name Macondo had been the winning selection in a BP employee contest as part of an internal United Way campaign.

 It comes from the fictitious cursed town in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

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In April 2014, Anadarko settled with the Federal Government to pay over $5 billion to clean up environmental waste sites around the country. It was the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history.

The environmental contamination sites were inherited by Anadarko after it purchased Kerr-McGee in 2005. As background, Kerr-McGee had spun off the company Tronox to offload generations of environmental dumping of toxic waste across 22 states beginning in the 1920s.

According to one report, "Kerr-McGee, rather than pay for the environmental mess it created, decided to shift the liabilities between 2002 and 2006 into Tronox. Kerr-McGee, meanwhile, kept its valuable oil and gas assets."

 Anadarko then purchased the "clean" portion of Kerr-McGee free of its legacy of environmental dumping. In 2009, shareholders of Tronox sued Anadarko (successor to Kerr-McGee) for having misled investors about the large environmental and other debts Tronox would inherit from its parent corporation.

 The environmental pollution included polluting Lake Mead in Nevada with rocket fuel, leaving behind radioactive waste piles throughout the territory of the Navajo Nation and dumping carcinogenic creosote in communities throughout the East, Midwest and South at its wood-treating facilities.
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In April 2014, the federal government reached an over $5 billion settlement with Anadarko in the largest environmental contamination case in American history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Petroleum
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Koch pollutes water but OK will be drinking it in Enid

"Once the project is completed, Koch will be able to process so-called gray water discharged from the city of Enid’s wastewater treatment plant.

That is expected to substantially reduce the facility’s use of Enid drinking water, cutting it by as much as five million gallons per day.

At present, Koch uses about half of the 12 million gallons of drinkable water consumed daily in Enid."


http://www.enidnews.com/news/koch-nitrogen-expansion-to-benefit-company-area/article_62d51636-b4c2-11e4-9a8b-bb00814fd9e4.html

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"Once completed, Koch will be able to process so-called gray water discharged from the city of Enid’s wastewater treatment plant. The change would cut the plant’s water usage by almost five million gallons per day. Currently, the plant uses six million gallons of potable water per day, almost half of what the rest of the community utilizes, Kisling said.


Mayor Bill Shewey told Enid Rotary Club on Monday the plant would cut its water use to 500,000 gallons per day by converting gray water into potable water."

http://www.enidnews.com/news/koch-fertilizer-expansion-still-on-track/article_ccf0520c-1fab-11e5-8fa0-0f44d7825ffe.html

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Meanwhile, in Flint, Michigan....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/15/this-is-how-toxic-flints-water-really-is/

Koch, ALEC, Bundy: fascism

"Grijalva wrote that, “Despite actively pressing state lawmakers on a range of issues, ALEC has failed for decades to register as a lobbying organization in states where it has promoted changes to state laws,” and that ALEC’s work constitutes illegal unregistered lobbying.

 For its part, ALEC has several pieces of model legislation for Republican states to “demand that Congress extinguish title and government jurisdiction over public lands that are held in trust by the US federal government.”

 Several Republican-controlled states have already began doing ALEC and the Koch brothers’ bidding such as in 2012 when Utah Republicans passed a land grab measure, the Transfer of Public Lands Act, that was written for the Koch brothers by ALEC."


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/21/courageous-democrat-stands-calls-investigation-alec.html
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"The father of these famous right-wing billionaires was Fred Koch, who started his fortune with $500,000 received from Stalin for his assistance constructing 15 oil refineries in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

A couple of years later, his company, Winkler-Koch, helped the Nazis complete their third-largest oil refinery. The facility produced hundreds of thousands of gallons of high-octane fuel for the Luftwaffe, until it was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944.

Twenty years after collaborating with the Nazis, Fred Koch lost none of his taste for extremism. In 1958 he was one of the 11 original members of the John Birch Society, an organization which accused scores of prominent Americans, including President Dwight Eisenhower, of communist sympathies."

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the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about, and fascism as defined by FDR as "corporate ownership of government" are embodied in the Koch dynasty.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-candidates-stay-quiet-on-oregon-standoff/2016/01/03/b8b9806c-b239-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html



Politics
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Activists, militiamen occupy Oregon wildlife refuge
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Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Headquarters was occupied Saturday, Jan. 2, by a group of activists protesting the federal prosecution of two ranchers, slated to report to prison Monday on arson charges. (Reuters)
By Katie Zezima and David Weigel January 3  
Republican presidential candidates are staying mum as an armed group has taken over part of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon — even those who supported the father of at least one of the group’s leaders, who had his own standoff with the government in 2014, and have called for limits on federal control over Western land.

Some of the issues involved in the standoff — constitutional rights, allegations of federal government overreach and individual liberties — have come to the fore in the GOP primary race. And as Western states are poised to play a larger role in the contest, so has the issue of property rights in a region where the federal government controls about half of the land.

But few candidates seemed willing to wade into any of these issues Sunday as the leaders of the group said they are standing up against government overreach and are prepared to remain there for “as long as it takes.” The group said it is protesting the case of two Oregon ranchers who were convicted of arson in 2012 and are scheduled to report to federal prison Monday. The ranchers were convicted on a broad terrorism charge. Many ranchers and land users in the West lease public land.

The effort is being led by at least one son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who had an armed standoff with the government in 2014 over land rights. Bundy was criticized for making racially charged remarks, leading many politicians to back away from him.

Those willing to comment on the Oregon situation quickly ruled it out of bounds.

Familiar faces among Oregon’s armed occupiers: The notorious Bundy family
View Photos “The war has just begun, “ Ammon Bundy said after his family won their spat with the government over grazing rights in 2014. Now, Ammon and two of his brothers are part of an armed militia that has taken over a building at a wildlife refuge to protest a pair of ranchers’ prison sentences for arson on federal land. Here’s a look at how the 2014 confrontation unfolded.
“I know a good federal compound for Bundy and his gang: a U.S. penitentiary,” tweeted John Weaver, a senior strategist for the campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

But there was relative quiet from some more conservative Republican presidential candidates who had previously called for the government to release more of the land it owns. The issue has become a larger one in the GOP primary contest as states such as Colorado, Idaho and Nevada may play a bigger role in determining a nominee in a large, fractured field.


In June, Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) campaigned across Nevada calling for federal land to be transferred to states in the West.

“I understand the government owns a little bit of your land out here,” Paul said in Reno. “Maybe we can rearrange that so the federal government is out of your hair.”

He also met with Bundy after a campaign stop in Mesquite, Nev., something Paul disputes the details of. Bundy told The Washington Post that he and Paul spoke for 15 to 20 minutes, mostly about land rights. Bundy said members of his family were also present.

“I did get to visit with him for several minutes in private,” Bundy said.

Paul did not address the standoff Sunday.

"Legislators in Western states, in coordination with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, had campaigned unsuccessfully for the federal land to be sold. In his 2015 memoir “A Time for Truth,” Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) described how he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) bonded over the issue before Cruz ran for the Senate.

“There is no reason for the federal government to own huge portions of any state,” Cruz recalled. “Mike pointed out to me that the value of all that federal land was roughly $14 trillion. At the time, the national debt also happened to be $14 trillion.

 That suggested to us an obvious and elegant solution for eliminating the debt and moving as much land as possible — other than national parks — into private hands.”
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Sedition, treason, fraud, terrorism...etc etc etc

invasive species 1890

terrorists.

oracle xmas in austin

http://patch.com/texas/eastaustin/residents-displaced-oracle-corp-move-seek-restitution

"Displaced residents—some 100 low-income families once calling the place home—view that as just the latest, and one of the most extreme, examples of the gentrification wave that’s swept over Austin.

The world’s second-largest software firm with some $40 billion in revenue this weekdisclosed plans to build a 560,000-square-foot corporate campus on 27 acres of land fronting Lady Bird Lake east of the central business district—the place displaced residents called home before being evicted to make room for Oracle Corp.’s imminent expansion."

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"All told, she said, 225 children once living at Lakeview Apartments were affected by the stepped-up evictions, forcing parents to scramble in enrolling them elsewhere. 

“I’m angry,” Teich said. “I’m angry because many students’ lives have been disrupted. It’s very disruptive to their learning.”

Affected students were enrolled at Metz Elementary, Martin Middle School, and Eastside Memorial High. 
Having gotten nowhere with Cypress Real Estate Advisors—who residents say turned a deaf ear to their complaints—they now appeal to Oracle Corp. to help mitigate their inconvenience.

“Where’s the compassion? Wilkes asked. “They need to make it right.”

international interest is interestingly diverse!

Hello, international visitors to this blog!

sporting goods

"Warned they will be sacked if they receive six black marks – or “strikes” (see document below) – over a six-month period for offences including a “period of reported sickness”; “errors”; “excessive/long toilet breaks”; “time wasting”; “excessive chatting”; “horseplay”; and “using a mobile phone in the warehouse”.

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"Temporary workers at Sports Direct, the booming retail chain controlled by the billionaire Mike Ashley, are receiving effective hourly rates of pay below the minimum wage, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.


Warehouse staff at the group, which is controlled by Britain’s 22nd richest man, are required to go through searches at the end of each shift, for which their time is unpaid, while they also suffer harsh deductions from their wage packets for clocking in for a shift just one minute late."

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/09/how-sports-direct-effectively-pays-below-minimum-wage-pay

she hikes up

she has a shoulder white
she has ribs of silver eaten brown
she harbors a hemline verbotten
she raises her ante by the asteroids
she goes further than most far outs
she was brighter in ascendance than story
she keeps keeping that neck also flavored pearl
she wears angles on round fangs
she moons heart and heart pales
she is bone hot on a cold dark
she is what she has
she were sure with a new dance
she had eighteen rooms to roam
she fed red clouds on eye hopes
she slow rounds
she hikes up the mind

things above

throngs emerge to see the bloodmoon
their cars coagulate our street
on mount tabor, the extinct volcano hill
that rises a view to distant glory.

i came up on the belmont fifteen,
as it reached my number
cars were doing scatterbrained ad litems
and the bus clipped a parked car,

another whale beached by minnows
waves and real things.
what seems a crowd is a hemorrhage
in a literary romantic way,

as our telescopes are tampons we carry for bulletwounds
or great mileage scars are worn on our sleeves
turning breath to a frame for sky
or the thing shaped meanly many

there for the show
there on a hill
feeling blood in a moon mostly tainted
by men and the things above.

flushed ice broker

pull yer icesheet over smoundery
star eyes set ablazed
dig a grinch off the resevoir
drop retardants or mres
they bounce, ash motes race
draw lines in the dustance
anthropomorphize  dot
bring the dot in on air farce one
put cubes in the donor tumbler
move villages with executive nods
map out deadzone, name icecream
flavor bluegreenalgae
drink a bottle of reindeer
grab some pickled eggs from communal jar
introduce flush toilets as a gift
g. jettison the paparazzi on the tarmac
swill a song of sisyphus
drink dregs in dirigibles
reward oily incorrigibles
flame rushmore glacier team OKusa
sell out our springs for a bumpee ride
casino terrain, refrain refrain,
rock and roll and roll and rock
secrete sequestration, arctic armed plantation
i'll ask ya alaska again
fetch boober in the basin
clear the logjammy ted stevens
bridge a money built trip,
start up the ice broker

grand old party in the cilantro row

don't stare, it's not p.light
gotta go ya gotta go
did you get disfranchised? enchanted,
i'm sure. that's remorseful.
saw a movie high fallutin on a real air plane
found a wing on a beach
downed swizzle stick it's not b.light
wide you keep looking?
got yer numb ah in my olde skool rolodex
smelly fellers from dallas
sloe gin in a boot cup with nipples from amarillo
it ok to star
in showtown on the oily way
fizzle poll and fish synapse i mean snacks
feeders leave yer cellstems at the door
wide we sign in turnip blood
whale did we get it or what
napkin hat map to success i can rite it off as hazing
my preturpitude has claws and loophos from reno baby
take that geiger down for dune scans
next on the agender: enpoachment
&percentile acumentation index, calibrated
octopi chutney, feces kissed cilantro,
the p.light think to do

the case of our/their children v. children (in general) not owned

"I welcome His Holiness Pope Francis's encyclical, and deeply admire the Pope's decision to make the case - clearly, powerfully, and with the full moral authority of his position - for action on global climate change.

As Pope Francis so eloquently stated this morning, we have a profound responsibility to protect our children, and our children's children, and our children's children's  children's children, and their children, and their/our children's children's children's children's children's children and our children's children children's children's  children's children's children's children's children's children from the damaging impacts of climate change.

Then, we can cash in on their brave air conditioned world. I believe the United States must be a leader in this effort, which is why I am committed to taking bold actions at homes number 8-33,  and abroad to cut carbon pollution, to increase clean energy and energy efficiency, to build resilience in vulnerable communities, and to encourage responsible stewardship of our natural resources. 

We must also protect the world's poor, who have done the least to contribute to this looming crisis and stand to lose the most if we fail to avert it. I really said this thinking you wouldn't laugh.

I look forward to schooling these issues with Pope Francis when he visits the White House in Sequestember. We will be eating Greeks.

And as we prepare for global climate negotiations in Paris this December, it is my hope that all world leaders--and all God's children--will reflect on Pope Francis's call to come together to care for our common home. If you can't reflect, then absorb.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/18/statement-president-pope-francis%E2%80%99s-encyclical

matching jean shorts of the leisure class

bittersweet rainbow

"(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow" compilation
Volume 2
updated version (track 2 has been replaced)

A collection of cover versions of the song "Over The Rainbow", written in 1938 by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and made famous by Judy Garland in "the Wizard of Oz".

Compiled and seeded to Dime by _tunic_ on December 29 2008
Updated version uploaded on January 4 2009


Tracklist:

201. Rainbow, 1980-05-15 Festival Hall, Osaka, JP
202. Bob Schneider and Mitch Watkins 2000-08-05 Cactus Cafe, Austin, TX
203. Shawn Colvin, 2001-08-09 The Mann Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
204. Rufus Wainwright, 2007-11-06 Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, PT
205. Rio Reiser, 1988-06-18 Platz der Republik, Berlin, DE
206. Afghan Whigs, 1999-02-24 Bohager's, Baltimore, MD
207. Buena Vista Social Club, 1999-11-22 Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ
208. Cartoons In Jazz, 2007-12-26 Sala Santa Cecilia, IT
209. Papa John Creach 1978-10-07 My Father's Place Roslyn, NY
210. Leon Russell and Edgar Winter Band, 1986-11-20 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
211. Tori Amos, 2005-06-28 Alte Oper, Frankfurt, DE
212. Moe, 2000-10-31 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA
213. Animal Liberation Orchestra, 2005-06-18 SB Historic Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

214. Michael Hurley and Forest bloggod, 2008-04-09 Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR

215. Jake Shimabukuro, 2007-11-13 Soho Bar & Restaurant, Santa Barbara, CA
216. Keith Jarrett, 1991-07-11 Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
217. Ingrid Michaelson, 2008-11-14 Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO
218. Sun Ra, 1990-07-17 Restaurant Kaudleuten, Zurich, CH
219. Impellitteri, 1988-07-17 Power Station, Tokyo, JP
220. Buckethead, 2006-03-16 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
221. Dave Brubeck Quartet, 2006-09-17 Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA
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http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/SomewhereOverTheRainbowCompilationVolume2.html

revolting in a timely manner

The Lee Resolution, also known as the resolution of independence, was an act of the Second Continental Congress declaring the United Colonies to be independent of the British Empire. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia first proposed it on June 7, 1776,


The Day of the Tiles (French: Journée des Tuiles) is an event that took place in the French town of Grenoble on 7 June 1788. It was among the first of the revolts which preceded the French Revolution, and is credited by a few historians as the start of it.


In an event that would have dramatic repercussions for the people of India, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg.---June 7, 1893

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965),[1] is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut statute that prohibits any person from using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception." ---June 7, 1965

The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim; Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, "The Setback" or حرب ۱۹٦۷, Ḥarb 1967, "War of 1967"), also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria.

Happy birthday Dave Navarro! 6-7-67

boycott of Israeli products to end apartheid

"The writer Naomi Klein has said “that far too many academic and cultural institutions, critics of Israel find themselves on an invisible blacklist”.

Last month, a new website, Canary Mission, was launched to pressure pro-Palestinian students by naming them and threatening their job prospects.

“It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees,” the site warns."

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/05/sheldon-adelson-looks-to-stamp-out-growing-us-movement-to-boycott-israel

_______

"The influential pro-Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) – whose $100m headquarters was paid for by Adelson – is pushing the legislation which effectively forces the EU to recognise the settlements as part of Israel for trade purposes."

_______


End the apartheid in Palestine.

67 told us so

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---67
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Flake (R-AZ)
Franken (D-MN)
Gardner (R-CO)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00201

rapper's delight

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/us/supreme-court-rules-in-anthony-elonis-online-threats-case.html?_r=0



member of the ACLU
member of the IWW
supporter of NOW and the ERA


Disgusting, repugnant, offensive, threatening, WRONG language...protected.

I am amazed the Supreme Court shows the temerity to defend the Constitution.

Call it "rap" and lots of billionaire's pets get a free pass to misogynistic expression. Break a leg, Elonis.

gumption 67

"Released in the United States on July 6, 1994, Forrest Gump became a commercial success as the top grossing film in North America released in that year, being the first major success for Paramount Pictures since the studio's sale to Viacom, earning over $677 million worldwide during its theatrical run.

Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film's net profits.

 However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him, using Hollywood accounting to posit that the blockbuster film lost money.

Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for the film's gross receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40 million"

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i guess they thought the author was bad at math.

I would have been "forest gump" had I taken my girlfriend's mother's maiden name, which was not one to run away from, as her married name was the leading conspirator in the Silverado savings and loan default orchestrated by Neal Bush.

and why bubba's tombstone in the movie has my birthday on it, i will leave to the experts who interpret such ominous drivel.

clean, progressive: the unmansionables at papa g's vegan organic deli

who's got our back? the future.


"John Thomas Salley (born May 16, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player, actor and talk show host. He was the first player in NBA history to play on three different championship-winning franchises, as well as the first player (and only one of two, the other being Tim Duncan) in the NBA to win a championship in three different decades.

Salley is a vegan and has appeared on PETA's testimonial videos,[9] as well as in promoting alternatives to practices of massive factory farming.

Salley is also noted for speaking at Michigan's Vegfest since 2009 and appearing on VegMichigan's billboard campaign."

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

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another holiday sunk after service and duty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Champlin_%28DD-601%29


Upon graduating from high school, I sent out the typical announcements to family and friends, and got a memorable reply and small gift from my great-uncle Rear Admiral J.S. Champlin:

to paraphrase, "congrats, but when writing someone, make sure you spell their name correctly"

I hope abbreviations count! Hard to rub elbows with people who are All elbow....good to retain some manners on the way to the front of the line.

get off the frackpipe (can a duh

world says NO WAR

union sun

soil as we know it gets in the way
easy to hire a crew to shape our whims
in an economy made to fit their shims, arbitrary.

only grass, driven
by a union sun
could dig
love

67% perfect

Oracle, the CIA, and Oregon

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-made-larry-ellison-a-billionaire-2014-9

"Our very first customer was the CIA" says Larry.

How reassuring for Oregon...just keep poking thru Kitzhaber's trash, too...I warned you, Aisling! Next time one gets an invoice on the back of an ACLU mailer, take note and follow up, respectfully diligent.

get off the frack pipe, Oklahoma!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/us/as-quakes-rattle-oklahoma-fingers-point-to-oil-and-gas-industry.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

one of my dad's paintings, circa 1980

nov. 17, 2011: how not to get arrested (only abused, portland style

Pickens, SAE, and the Politics of misplaced shame

T Boone Pickens is embarrassed of Obama, the first black President, but not publicly embarrassed of his fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

He makes comments about "getting rid of" Obama and even compares the decision to not approve Keystone XL as trying to "understand murder."

What world does Pickens live in? Who dotes on him as a sage? http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/pickens-calgary-im-so-sorry-about-the-keystone-pipeline




Meanwhile, in Oklahoma at OU....the guy who "defended" Tim Mcveigh is set to represent SAE fraternity as they earn an expulsion for racist practices. Jones ran against OU President, David Boren, for US Senate in 1990, and lost.

Why Pickens chooses to apologize on behalf of America, supposedly, to the Canadian people follows other intentional GOP insults in the news with Netanyahu, and a "letter" to Iran...

And Oliver North speaks to the Freedom Rally of "social conservatives" here in Portland.

If it looks a bit totalitarian, no problem.

OK always seems to think it is ALL ok.

rhodes scholars, fraternities, segregationists one and all

Racism on campuses? Look to the foundations of illegitimate elitism, colonialism, and segregation by gender, race, and class.

Who "runs" the world? Those with a leg-up, or a Pistorious as they say.

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


Women were not allowed to be Rhodes Scholars until laws changed in 1977.

Bill Clinton, no problem...Hillary? Use the side door.

Look to the history of Cecil Rhodes, a blatant racist and colonialist whose entire philosophy is based on running countries for those "unfit indigenous" peoples around the globe. Obviously, women were unfit as well, to lead politically or in business regards.

look it up kitten------haiku

soft big eyes explore
hard world inexorable
look it up, kitten
          *
touch mynose my tail
(i told my body what to do)
clean work starts @ home
         *

bottom of litter
blues top karma plate potluck
squirm toward free nipple
          *
runts rule bully law
(who are you calling a runt!
bank and forth tales sweep
          *
 cute fang takes nice mice
home to her children waiting
      gastronomical
        *

whisk sweeps his her story
(the furrier the better)
moon looks down and nods
           *
underwheel barrow
sheltered brood discovered (oops
sorry, mother cat
        *
one by one neck haul
children lumber pile safety
confine cat castle
           *
punctured tin delight
aroma sound saliva
twenty feet running
          *
i catch my own food
simple rodents. bugs. or tuna.
swipe of stealthy paw
          *
let  me in i plead
not as dog with scratching paw
waiting doorside hours
        *
independent, yes
allergic to stroking, no
depend on that (logic
     *
milk bowladulthood
enough only one sitting
otherwise---flies drawn
         *
i draw with my tail
accomplishment legend map
"where i been is done"
          *
our pingpong ball chase
(neverending game of life)
thank goat, walls of time
          *
sister-brother nest
just leave one nostril open
epiphany air
          *
mother chews the cord
father prowls barndark quiet
these things, are given.
          *
wrapped in dishtowel love
take out baby burrito
parent practice good
          *
purr mechanism
runs purel (by seeing you
daughters trifecta!
         *
catch and release game
sharpen our human smile bark
sunshine yawn nap stretch
        *
litter conflation
no mess, nor pissy sponge sops
sibling, final friend
          *
sandpaper tongue bath
six down one to go...oh bother
go to where did they
        *
my head on your haunch
milky waterbed sister
straw built camel back
          *
father of the field
(mothered subterranean
night? anarchy rule
          *
no yarnball catnip
please, pull burrs from my fur.
supply pillow, too.
      *
crossing the road storm
stuck in treetop innocence
same difference, yep
          *
symbolic proxy
go where we cannot, freedom
mate with life yourself
          *
curious prowler
atop grandmas china hutch
cat in a bull shop
          *
in stow away add
inadvertent cat cargo
going gone round trip
          *
motions of nine lives
cheating death by pursing life
twitching cat dreamnap
          *
they fought atop fence
caterwauling "right makes might
roles reversed...it might
          *
sleeping kneading leg
owner complains of clawhurt
anyway, whose lap?
       
march 1, 2015
written in the woods of the northwest

columnar basalt in klickitat county, washington state

grandfather bloodgood, testing mettle in apache land

memory twigs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimir_(sculpture) 

"Mimir is based on the figure of the same name in Norse mythology, renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, and who is beheaded during the Æsir–Vanir War.  

Afterward, the god Odin carries around Mímir's head, which serves as an oracle and recites secret knowledge and counsel to him. 

 Jennifer Anderson of the Portland Tribune said the sculpture is a "combination of Norse mythology, gibberish, fish and space creature". 

 

 In 2007, Jellum recalled of its origin: "I'm not sure where [the image] came from. It's just at the time I was doing a whole lot of drawings, and it just popped out and sort of appealed to me. It's part fish, part space creature." 

Mimir was installed at Northwest 27th Avenue between Northwest Upshur and Thurman Streets in 1980,  

 

after being commissioned by the Portland Development Commission and Tom Walsh of Tom Walsh Construction. 

The abstract sculpture measures approximately 24 inches (61 cm) x 15 inches (38 cm) x 13 inches (33 cm), which rests on a concrete and stone base that measures 7 feet (2.1 m) x 30 inches (76 cm) x 30 inches (76 cm). 

 The Smithsonian Institution described the work as follows: "Decorative obelisk with a mask mounted at the top. The mask has a cone-like nose and tusks. It wears a layered breastplate with shoulder pads." 

 The base includes a plaque with no legible text." 

"You see all these plaques around and they give all this 'important' information.  

 I thought it was just irrelevant to the piece.  

I like the idea of putting something up there that didn't have any information on it." 

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"general opinion is that the difference was functional, i.e. the long-branch runes were used for documentation on stone, whereas the short-twig runes were in everyday use for private or official messages on wood." 

The long-branch runes are the following rune signs:

ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚬ ᚱ ᚴ ᚼ ᚾ ᛁ ᛅ ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛘ ᛚ ᛦ 

f u þ ą r k h n i a s t b m l ʀ  

*** 

"runes appear as simplified variants of the long-branch runes, while the remaining seven have identical shapes:

ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚭ ᚱ ᚴ ᚽ ᚿ ᛁ ᛆ ᛌ ᛐ ᛓ ᛙ ᛚ ᛧ

f u þ ą r k h n i a s t b m l ʀ  "

*** 

Hälsinge runes (staveless runes)

Staveless runes 

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"rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the concepts after which they are named (ideographs). Scholars refer to instances of the latter as Begriffsrunen ('concept runes'). The Scandinavian variants are also known as fuþark, or futhark, these names derived from  

the first six letters of the script, ⟨ᚠ⟩, ⟨ᚢ⟩, ⟨ᚦ⟩, ⟨ᚨ⟩/⟨ᚬ⟩, ⟨ᚱ⟩, and ⟨ᚲ⟩/⟨ᚴ⟩, corresponding to the Latin letters ⟨f⟩, ⟨u⟩, ⟨þ⟩/⟨th⟩, ⟨a⟩, ⟨r⟩, and ⟨k⟩. The Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc, or fuþorc, due to changes in Old English of the sounds represented by the fourth letter, ⟨ᚨ⟩/⟨ᚩ⟩. "

"Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic philology.

The earliest secure runic inscriptions date from around AD 150, with a potentially earlier inscription dating to AD 50 and Tacitus's potential description of rune use from around AD 98. The Svingerud Runestone dates from between AD 1 and 250.  

Runes were generally replaced by the Latin alphabet as the cultures that had used runes underwent Christianisation,  

by approximately AD 700 in central Europe and 1100 in northern Europe. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes beyond this period. Up until the early 20th century, runes were still used in rural Sweden for decorative purposes in Dalarna and on runic calendars. "

buffy the bloggod slayer!

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




Buffet may be Nebraska's one percent version of "a seer."



I am the Okie version, also a one percenter...the "bottom" one.

whoracles in whoregon

"trashgate"

hal holbrook, as marky mark felt...starring in a state...nero you.

blurred lines at 177 feet

Of course Kreusher doesn't know who Wiener is....they're neighbors.

Just in case they need to borrow a cup of sugar.

pleas

herd a poem about dropped e
from the katrina sign waved for helly cope
-ters, wishing
booz allen
knowed how to unspell
what we all saw
coming from a vantag
-e only nasadd no

satire knows

my friend attacks my friend!
oh battle picturesque!
then i turn soldier too,
and he turns Satirist!
how martial is this place!
had i a mighty gun
i think i'd shoot the human race
and then to glory run!

emily dickinson, 1859



"The word satire comes from the Latin word satur and the subsequent phrase lanx satura. Satur meant "full" but the juxtaposition with lanx shifted the meaning to "miscellany or medley": the expression lanx satura literally means "a full dish of various kinds of fruits."

____


"Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack."

mlk, thoreau, and gandhi

"As King's career and involvement in a nonviolent struggle went on, his words began to echo Gandhi's own sentiments. For example, in King's discussion of civil disobedience he says, "an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

 Similarly, King says, "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty."

 These statements echo the words of the Mahatma himself, who always taught respect for the law, provided it is consistent with the truth."

http://peacemagazine.org/archive/v17n2p21.htm

all for one, and one for all: earning free speech

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



The IWW engaged in free speech fights during the period from approximately 1907 to 1916. The Wobblies, as the IWW members were called, relied upon free speech, which in the United States is guaranteed by the First Amendment, to enable them to communicate the concept of One Big Union to other workers.

 In communities where the authorities saw their interests in avoiding the development of unions, the practice of soapboxing was frequently restricted by ordinance or by police harassment. The IWW employed a variety of creative tactics, including the tactic of flooding the area of a free speech fight with footloose rebels who would challenge the authorities by flouting the ordinance, intentionally getting arrested in great numbers.

 With the jails full and a seemingly endless stream of union activists arriving by boxcar and highway, the local communities frequently rescinded their prohibitions on free speech, or came to some other accommodation.

The Free Speech League, a progressive group which functioned at the same time as (and occasionally together with) the IWW, worked in conjunction with the IWW prior to World War I in many of their free speech fights, which generated a good deal of controversy.

The free speech fights of the IWW were highly publicized, as they were designed to garner attention: they frequently started when local communities interjected to attempt to prevent the IWW from occupying street corners from which they would use provocative language to detail their radical beliefs.

The free speech fights began occurring in 1906 and drew to a close by 1917—over that period of time, at least 26 communities played host to the IWW’s free speech fights, and the years of 1909 to 1913 were particularly active, with at least 21 free speech fights happening.


________

The ideology of the Wobblies who fought for free speech rights across America was deeply indebted to their core beliefs regarding the provenance of the First Amendment rights of the Constitution. In their estimation, they were fighting with the Constitution on their side while those who opposed them, such as city officials, were disregarding the fundamental laws of the country.

The Wobblies frequently used phrases such as “Have you ever read the Constitution?” and “What is this, Czarist Russia, or Free America?”

The Wobblies held that the free speech rights granted by the First Amendment had been abridged over time, and they felt that it nowhere more evident than it was in the case of the laborers for whom they worked tirelessly—capitalism had conspired with the judicial system in the United States to deny agency and the Constitutionally-granted freedom of speech to American laborers.

Not all Wobblies subscribed to such idealistic ideology, though, since some argued the more pessimistic belief that the Constitution had been written by the elites and that free speech was merely an illusion that worked to uphold the power of those same elites.

 By adopting aggressive tactics which flaunted local ordinances against free speech, the Wobblies courted arrest, which they used as a demonstration of how far the abridgement of free speech had come. The official attempts to silence the IWW in the free speech fights, they argued, were totally opposed to the spirit of the First Amendment.

According to the Wobblies, the fact that they even had to fight for free speech rights was evidence of the corrupting effect of capitalism in America and of its legal system. They argued that the Constitution was not being applied to American laborers, just as it had not been applied to slaves in the century prior

. Rather than take their fights to the courts, which they felt were substantially corrupted by capitalist influence, they took their fight to the streets and urged other Americans to do the same.

The publications of the IWW urged people to “Educate, Agitate, Organize!!!” which led their opponents to see the fights for free speech as precursors to more insidious desires such as those for unionization and, especially, for the abolition of capitalism.
_________

Sioux City was considered a very strategic town for workers to stage free speech fights in because it was “a gateway for laborers entering and leaving summer employment in agriculture and construction in the Dakotas.” Since those employment opportunities for the workers were seasonal, many of them returned to spend the winter in Sioux City, where the Wobblies attempted to provide them incentives to join their Free Speech Fight such as by educating them and helping feed them over the tough winter. Over a thousand men were unemployed in Sioux City at the time during the winter of 1915. There had been a real push to get workers to come to Sioux City by business leaders there, but workers who arrived found that there were barely enough jobs for the local laborers. On the 15th of January, after facing even harsher conditions and struggling with unemployment, roughly 150 of the IWW-associated unemployed stormed the Commercial Club where many business leaders listened to them demand work and watched them take food. In response to the direct action of the IWW, Sioux City increased enforcement of vagrancy laws and began arresting more of the IWW members engaged in the Free Speech Fights.

Their goal in doing so was to attempt to drive the IWW out of town, but, unsurprisingly, they achieved the opposite. The IWW demanded free speech rights to be granted in the city. They Wobblies were filling the city’s jails and forced the hand of the city officials to attempt to strike a deal with them. Ultimately, they won the fight and free speech rights were granted to workers in Sioux City.

Other free speech fights of the IWW
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The IWW followed with other free speech fights in Kansas City, Missouri; in Aberdeen, Washington; and in Fresno, California. In San Diego, California, there was a particularly brutal free speech fight between the IWW and its allies, and large groups of vigilantes supported by the authorities. Tar and feathers, beatings, clubbings, and forcible deportations were used in addition to incarceration. The San Diego free speech fight was unique in that the IWW did not have a specific organizing campaign at stake.

The IWW won all of these free speech fights.[2]

In early 1913, IWW members in Denver, Colorado fought a lengthy free speech fight. Denver authorities had refused to allow the Wobblies to speak on street corners, so union members filled the jails for months. The union won the right to speak to workers, and within a year had formed two Denver branches.[11]

Other locations of free speech fights by the IWW included Duluth, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; New Castle, Pennsylvania, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.

under games and amusements of man) unkind

http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html#toc



The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

From the desperate city you go into the desperate country
and have to console yourself
with the bravery of minks and muskrats.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair
is concealed even under what are called
the games and amusements of mankind.

There is no play in them, for this comes after work.

But it is a characteristic of wisdom
not to do desperate things....

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they kick the ball, they run back
the ball, they grunt scream and collide,
watching their portfolios
behind concussions coincidental with overvalues of money.
symbolic hurt,
sponsored by resignation of inches across a map,
a field, oceanic territory, and one's worth
depleted shells of desperation
as american snipers are hailed
journalists jailed
and speech plays the snail, escargone
over freedom sensibility palate
dipped in butter of remorse
the only way to stomach the headlines
permissible in mecca by lash and sword,
and nra cowboys at the box office
where the minks are russian
and the muskrats take confession and give their
two cents while taking nine

uber wobbly halloween

"On Dec. 13, a Saturday, Hales, Novick and three staffers sat down at a dining-room table in the Eastmoreland home of political consultant Mark Wiener.

 Wiener had helped get Hales and Novick elected, and Uber officials turned to him to see if he might broker a deal. Across the table sat Steger, the Uber general manager, and Caitlin O’Neill, a company policy adviser."

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23752-drive.html

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