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

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"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."

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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."

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"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.


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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.
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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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Walter B. Flatt, Hannah P. Soule Flatt, Spirit Lake, Iowa

http://www.geni.com/people/Lillie-Flatt/6000000009093585733

five foot three, dour is paisley

the contures of billy club
as wielded by dour s. paisley
follow conjecture's pepper-dismay
dispersal on the attorney salt-slacks.

repudiated overmuch,
blank stares load up with vision,
fees propagate, sidewalk observant,
 or not.                 perceived travails,

billowing sales on downtown frowns.
booted most rudely,
stuck in luncheons with frenemies,
such is the lot of satanic clerks in riot zoots

distinguishing, by power twice removed,
every pain and rendered slight
in accordance with their...mores& norms.
guard bless ya!

storied, but based in base deed,
flies make most of penultimate creed.
zealot harlot miscreant& me 

 

N 17, 2011
do unto others the opposite of ms. paisley

grandmother lillie flatt soule delano bloodgood, le bon

DELANO FAMILY. The descendants of the Pilgram ancestor, Philip Delano, of Plymouth, have the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry in the old country for a dozen centuries. They have established the full right to bear the arms of the Delano family, which could be of no better stock and which embraces a host of distinguished men in its numbers.


The name is drived from the town of Lannoy, a few miles from Isla, now Lille, France. Away back in A. D., 863, this town was called Alnetum, later L'Annois and Lannoy. The meaning of the word is unknown. It has been spelled L'Annois, L'Annoe, L'Aulmais, L'Aulnoy, but more often Alnetum. Today Lannoy is a small manugacturing town, seven miles from Lille, with a population at the last census 1,904.

 The first Lord of Lannoy, progenitor of the family, was Hugues de Lannoy, mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096. On the same list was Simon do Alneto. A charte des Chanoines (cannons) de St. Pierre a Lille mentions Gilbert de Lannoy in 1171 and Hugues de Lannoy is mentioned in 1186. It is impossible to present in this place an extended history of the family in its early days in France. That has been done with remarkable care and apparent accuracy in the genealogy, which is authority for all said here about the origin and early history of the family. There seems to be no flaw in the following pedigree in the direct male line of the American emigrant, Philip Delano or Delanoy.

french pages and knight views

page views (knight view)

United States
135
France
93
Poland
28
Ireland
14
Turkey
12
Germany
6
Japan
6
Ukraine
6
United Kingdom
5
Philippines
4

sequestered krill cycle

chutzpah refers the measure,
tape is red, and cannot fathom a bridge
but covers oregon in track
sweats. damned when we do,
dunked when we don't
---a progressive trailblazer
wears loafers,
worn out on marble accelerators
reed college lays the riprap
over the riffraff,
alums
rule,
slide tools denote a classical learning
curve. the ladder i used to scale
the kingmakers lair gathers
dust, measuring baseboard trim
not knowing where to turn,
like a laurel and hardy skit that knocks down
bulls in china shops
guffaws----or laugh tracks,
piped in from the bigger fish
that hover, drones prone to pry
sea, taking in vote-krill
and spitting out
another year's suckers

between a rock and a hard place, gigs long gone

talk about "political hairballs," look at what Oregon is coughing up: all the krill from the Big Blue Whale

"How much does Wiener’s advice cost?

 According to state records, he took in more than $1.5 million in fees for this general election. And that doesn’t include what he may still be owed."
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http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-25179-no_matter_the_election_result_mark_wiener_will_be_.html
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Mark Wiener, the political consultant of choice for Democrats and those who want to raise taxes, has collected big bucks this election cycle to provide strategy to the following people and organizations:

1) Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber;

2) The Democratic Party of Oregon;

3) The Oregon Historical Society, which is asking Multnomah County voters to approve Measure 26-118;

4) The state Senate Democratic Leadership Fund;

5) The Measure 76 campaign to set aside lottery money permanently for state parks;

6) Planned Parenthood;

7) The Measure 26-114 campaign to establish a permanent tax base for the Multnomah County library system;

8 The public employee-funded Defend Oregon;

9) Oregon Climate PAC (funded by patent heir and winery owner Eric Lemelson);

10) The Oregon Education Association;

11) Metro President candidate Bob Stacey;

12) And a batch of Democratic candidates for the Legislature.

                                                                                      

(never got around to painting the trim, and never looked up my client's name, either.)

between a rock and a hard place, a wobbly can only hope to be the grass that cleaves the cement of the status quo.

there will be blood (or oil)

"When Hamm talks, politicians listen. He is, according to the Forbes list, the 35th-richest American, worth an estimated $10 billion—more than William Koch, T. Boone Pickens, and David Rockefeller Sr. combined—"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romneyhttp://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romney

"Battles between ranchers and oilmen might sound like relics of the Wild West—the stuff of films such as There Will Be Blood—but in North Dakota, they're all too current. Continental beat other oil companies to the punch by signing more leases and pumping oil faster and more aggressively than anyone.

But in its rush to cash in, the company has sometimes thwarted environmental laws, endangered workers, and overwhelmed small towns with more people and problems than they can handle."

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There Will Be Blood, based on an Upton Sinclair book, is based on Edward Doheny



"Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M. Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881. He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks. He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp. The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded.

At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate.

He later conducted a ranch in the Mogollones, after which he went into the cattle business near Kingston. He was born in New York state.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html

truth-force

more "gleanings" from Wikipedia on Armstice Day
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Gandhi proposed a series of rules for satyagrahis to follow in a resistance campaign:

harbour no anger

suffer the anger of the opponent

never retaliate to assaults or punishment; but do not submit, out of fear of punishment or assault, to an order given in anger

voluntarily submit to arrest or confiscation of your own property

if you are a trustee of property, defend that property (non-violently) from confiscation with your life

do not curse or swear

do not insult the opponent

neither salute nor insult the flag of your opponent or your opponent’s leaders

if anyone attempts to insult or assault your opponent, defend your opponent (non-violently) with your life

as a prisoner, behave courteously and obey prison regulations (except any that are contrary to self-respect)

as a prisoner, do not ask for special favourable treatment

as a prisoner, do not fast in an attempt to gain conveniences whose deprivation does not involve any injury to your self-respect

joyfully obey the orders of the leaders of the civil disobedience action

do not pick and choose amongst the orders you obey; if you find the action as a whole improper or immoral, sever your connection with the action entirely

do not make your participation conditional on your comrades taking care of your dependents while you are engaging in the campaign or are in prison; do not expect them to provide such support

do not become a cause of communal quarrels

do not take sides in such quarrels, but assist only that party which is demonstrably in the right; in the case of inter-religious conflict, give your life to protect (non-violently) those in danger on either side
avoid occasions that may give rise to communal quarrels

do not take part in processions that would wound the religious sensibilities of any community
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Satyagraha and the civil rights movement in the United States:

Satyagraha theory also influenced many other movements of civil resistance.

For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his autobiography about Gandhi's influence on his developing ideas regarding the civil rights movement in the United States:

"Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. I was particularly moved by his Salt March to the Sea and his numerous fasts.

The whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. ... It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking."

antipathy laid off

no mean reward for labours,
i will have no other
as injury to one is an injury to all,
and work its own reward,
writing being a chore
that employs common language
aimed for streams to catch their flaked
golden worthless grains
of solstice sunlight
in okie silos, pipelined vestibules,
into our bodies and cars
on dates
we dine, and on our scars we brag,
missions never accomplished
until our head
drops in the royal bucket
understanding consultations of war
as a drama with consequence,
subjects being citizens,
otherwise known as bleeding heart
livingpoems
whose comprehension escapes me,
as winter sun flies
toward a slack dismissal of fracking
leaving denton
in a future with no water but bottled antipathy
laid off

golden fleece of enid? wheat. oil...all Ares needs

The following are the chief among the various interpretations of the fleece, with notes on sources and major critical discussions:

It represents royal power.

Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman Farm Management, The Treatises of Cato and Varro, in English, with Notes of Modern Instances[18]
Braund, David (1994), Georgia In Antiquity, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 21–23
Popko, M. (1974) “Kult Swietego runa w hetyckiej Anatolii” [“The Cult of the Golden Fleece in Hittite Anatolia”], Preglad Orientalistyczuy 91, pp. 225–30 [In Russian]
Newman, John Kevin (2001) “The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream” (Theodore Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos (eds.). A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Leiden: Brill (Mnemosyne Supplement 217), 309-40)
Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), “The Golden Fleece: Myth, Euhemeristic Explanation and Archaeology”, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20, pp. 1–38[19]

It represents the flayed skin of Krios (‘Ram’), companion of Phrixus.

Diodorus Siculus 4. 47; cf. scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 2. 1144; 4. 119, citing Dionysus’ Argonautica
It represents a book on alchemy.
Palaephatus (fourth century BC) ‘On the Incredible’ (Festa, N. (ed.) (1902) Mythographi Graeca III, 2, Lipsiae, p. 89
John of Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548)

It represents a technique of writing in gold on parchment.

Haraxes of Pergamum (c. first to sixth century) (Jacoby, F. (1923) Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker I (Berlin), IIA, 490, fr. 37)

It represents a form of placer mining practiced in Georgia, for example.

Strabo (first century BC) Geography I, 2, 39 (Jones, H.L. (ed.) (1969) The Geography of Strabo (in eight volumes) London[20]
Tran, T (1992) "The Hydrometallurgy of Gold Processing", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (UK), 17, pp. 356–365
"Gold During the Classical Period"[21]
Shuker, Karl P. N. (1997), From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings, LLewellyn
Renault, Mary (2004), The Bull from the Sea, Arrow (Rand)
refuted in: Braund, David (1994), op. cit., p. 24 and Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), op. cit.

It represents the forgiveness of God

Müller, Karl Otfried (1844), Orchomenos und die Minyer, Breslau
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), The Voyage of the Argonauts, London: Methuen, p. 64 ff, 163 ff

It represents a rain cloud.

Forchhammer, P. W. (1857) Hellenica Berlin p. 205 ff, 330 ff
refuted in: Janet Ruth Bacon|Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents a land of golden grain.

Faust, Adolf (1898), Einige deutsche und griechische Sagen im Lichte ihrer ursprünglichen Bedeutung. Mulhausen
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the spring-hero.

Schroder, R. (1899), Argonautensage und Verwandtes, Poznań
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the sea reflecting the sun.

Vurthiem, V (1902), “De Argonautarum Vellere aureo”, Mnemosyne, New Series, XXX, pp. 54–67; XXXI, p. 116
Mannhardt, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, VII, p. 241 ff, 281 ff
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the gilded prow of Phrixus’ ship.

Svoronos, M. (1914), in Journal International d’Archéologie Numismatique, XVI, pp. 81–152
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents a breed of sheep in ancient Georgia.

Ninck, M. (1921), “Die Bedeutung des Wassers im Kult und Leben der Alten,” Philologus Suppl 14.2, Leipzig
Ryder, M.L. (1991) "The last word on the Golden Fleece legend?" Oxford Journal of Archaeology 10, pp. 57–60
Smith, G.J. and Smith, A.J. (1992) “Jason's Golden Fleece,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 11, pp. 119–20

It represents the riches imported from the East.

Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.
It represents the wealth or technology of Colchis.
Akaki Urushadze (1984), The Country of the Enchantress Medea, Tbilisi
Colchis[22]
Colchis, Land of the Golden Fleece[23]

It was a covering for a cult image of Zeus in the form of a ram.

Robert Graves (1944/1945), The Golden Fleece/Hercules, My Shipmate, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

It represents a fabric woven from sea silk.

Verrill, A. Hyatt (1950), Shell Collector’s Handbook, New York: Putnam, p. 77
Abbott, R. Tucker (1972), Kingdom of the Seashell, New York: Crown Publishers, p. 184
History of Sea Byssus Cloth[24]
Mussel Byssus Facts
refuted in:
Barber, Elizabeth J. W. (1991), Prehistoric textiles : the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
McKinley, Daniel (1999), “Pinna And Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations,” Ars Textrina 29, pp. 9–29

It is about a voyage from Greece, through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Bailey, James R. (1973), The God Kings and the Titans; The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times, St. Martin's Press

It represents trading fleece dyed murex-purple for Georgian gold.

Silver, Morris (1992), Taking Ancient Mythology Economically, Leiden: Brill[25]

non aliud, pretium laborum non vile: veritas

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mevc/schermer.html

JACOB JANSE SCHERMERHORN, brewer and trader, b. 1622 in Waterland, Holland it is said although in 1654 his father was living in Amsterdam. He came to Beverwyck quite early.

He was arrested in 1648 at Fort Orange by order of Governor Stuyvesant on a charge of selling arms and ammunition to the Indians. His books and papers were seized and he was taken a prisoner to Fort Amsterdam where he was sentenced to banishment for five years together with confiscation of all his property.

By intervention by leading citizens, the first part of his sentence was revoked but his property was totally lost. This action was later a ground for complaint against Stuyvesant to the States General in Amsterdam.

He made his will 5/20/1688 and soon died at Schenectady
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in much greater detail:


http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/schermerhorn/chronicles/1b.html

Jannetie Egmont (Van Voorhout), wife of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, was born in Holland in 1633. Her father made a contract with Patroon Van Rensselaer, August 25, 1643, and in this document he is referred to as Cornelise Segertse Van Egmont. 

He sailed for America in Sept., 1643, by "Het Wapen Van Rensselaerwyck," with his wife, Brechje Jacobsen, 45 years old, and 6 children. 

He was about 44 years of age. His children were Cornelis, 22; Claes, 20; Seger, 14; Lysbeth, 16; Jannetie, 10, and Neeltie, 8. He was engaged as a farmer and was one of the first farmers of consequence in Rensselaerwyck, nearly all of the others at this time being fur traders. 

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The family of Egmont, prominent in Holland in the eleventh century, traced their descent from the Pagan kings. 

Their chateau was on the North Sea, about three miles west of Alkmaar, and from 1423 to 1558, they were at the height of their power. The family was divided into several branches and had in it 9 knights of the Golden Fleece.

Pre-eminent among all of the Egmonts was Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavre, "one of the most brilliant characters in history," as one historian records. He was born in the castle of La Haimaide, in Hainault, Nov. 18, 1522. In 1542, at the death of his brother Karl, he succeeded to the title and estates of the family, which, besides those of Holland, comprised the principality of Gavre, seven or eight baronies and a number of seignories.

In his youth Lamoral was page to the Emperor, Charles V, and when twenty-three years old he married Sabina of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bavaria and Countess Palatine of the Rhine, sister of the elector, Frederick III. Few royal weddings have been more brilliant. The Emperor, his brother Ferdinand, King of the Romans, with the Archduke Maximilian, all the Imperial Electors and a concourse of the principal nobles of the empire, were present on the occasion.

Lamoral participated in various campaigns during the reign of Charles V, who when he was only twenty-six, invested him with the order of the Golden Fleece, and appointed him to several confidential missions, such as sending him to England to seek the hand of Queen Mary for Philip II. 

After the succession of Philip to the throne, Lamoral gained great distinction in many of the campaigns of that period. He incurred the hatred of the Duke of Alva at the battle of St. Quentin, which would not have been fought except for the violent persuasion of Egmont in opposition to the advice of Alva. It was a brilliant victory, and Lamoral was the principal figure in the affray. In the following year he distinguished himself in the battle of Gravelines, and with this became the idol of the people. As a reward for his services he was made in 1559, by Philip II, Stadtholder of the Provences of Flanders and Artois and a member of the Council of State for the Low Countries. 

At the conclusion of the war, by the treaty of Cateau Cambresis, Egmont was one of the four hostages selected by the French king, as pledges for its execution. The attempt made by Philip to convert the Netherlands into a Spanish dependency and govern it by Spanish ministers, excited the resentment of Egmont and other ministers of the Netherlands aristocracy. Though Egmont was a good Catholic, nevertheless he had no desire to see his native country in the throes of the Spanish Inquisition.

 In January, 1565, he and others went to Spain to make known to the king the state of affairs and protest against the autocratic proceedings of Cardinal Granvella, the all-powerful minister of the regent Margaret of Parma, the latter having been appointed against the will of the Protestant party. He was received by Philip with ostentatious cordiality and flattered by the whole court, but the real object of his mission was evaded and he returned home without having accomplished anything for his people. The treacherous Philip, notwithstanding his fair promises to Egmont, sent instructions to the regent to abate nothing in the persecutions. Immediately after the arrival of the Duke of Alva in 1567, who had been sent as lieutenant-general of the Netherlands, Counts Egmont and Horn were seized and imprisoned in Ghent, afterwards being removed to Brussels, where they were tried by the "Council of Blood."

 Sentence was pronounced on the 4th of June, by Alva himself, in spite of the intercession of the Emperor Charles V, the elector Palatine, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the State of Brabant, and the piteous pleadings of his wife, who, with her eleven children, had by this time been reduced to want and had taken refuge in a convent.

 He was beheaded the next day, June 5, 1568, in company with Count Horn, and in the storm of indignation which arose, they were glorified as martyrs to Flemish freedom. This memorable episode proved to be the prelude of the famous revolt of the Netherlands, which ended in independence.

 In 1865 a monument to Counts Egmont and Horn, by Fraiken, was erected at Brussels. Louis Gallait (1810-1887), a Belgian painter, has among his chief works, "Egmont Preparing for Death," "Alva Looking Upon the Bodies of Egmont and Horn," "The Last Moments of Count Egmont." Goethe made of this historical episode the theme of a tragedy.

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The badge of the Order, in the form of a sheepskin, was suspended from a jewelled collar of firesteels in the shape of the letter B, for Burgundy, linked by flints; with the motto 

"Pretium Laborum Non Vile" ("No Mean Reward for Labours") engraved on the front of the central link, and Philip's motto "Non Aliud" ("I will have no other") on the back (non-royal knights of the Golden Fleece were forbidden to belong to any other order of knighthood).

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

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n Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Aeëtes, Medea, Golden Fleece, fire-breathing bulls Khalkotauroi and the destination of the Argonauts.

Colchis is also thought to be the possible homeland of the Amazons.

According to the Greek mythology, Colchis was a fabulously wealthy land situated on the mysterious periphery of the heroic world. Here in the sacred grove of the war god Ares, King Aeëtes hung the Golden Fleece until it was seized by Jason and the Argonauts.

 Colchis was also the land where the mythological Prometheus was punished by being chained to a mountain while an eagle ate at his liver for revealing to humanity the secret of fire. 

Amazons also were said to be of Scythian origin from Colchis.

precursors

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"The Flushing Remonstrance was signed on December 27, 1657, by a group of English citizens who were affronted by persecution of Quakers and the religious policies of Stuyvesant.

None of them were Quakers themselves. The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which several citizens requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

 It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

The Remonstrance ends with:
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The law of love, peace and liberty in the states extending to Jews, Turks and Egyptians,
as they are considered sonnes of Adam,
which is the glory of the outward state of Holland,
 soe love, peace and liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus,

 condemns hatred, war and bondage.
 And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but that offences will come,
 but woe unto him by whom they cometh,

 our desire is not to offend one of his little ones,
 in whatsoever form, name or title hee appears in,
 whether Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist
or Quaker,
 but shall be glad to see anything of God in any of them,
 desiring to doe unto all men as we desire all men should doe unto us,
which is the true law both of Church and State;
for our Saviour sayeth this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us,
 we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them,
but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town,
and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences,
for we are bounde by the law of God and man
 to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.

And this is according to the patent and charter of our Towne,
given unto us in the name of the States General,
which we are not willing to infringe, and violate,
but shall houlde to our patent and shall remaine,
your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing."

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"Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries.

 Much of the northern section of Kissena Park, former site of the Parsons nursery, still contains a wide variety of exotic trees. The naming of streets intersecting Kissena Boulevard on its way toward Kissena Park celebrates this fact (Ash Avenue, Beech, Cherry ...Poplar, Quince, Rose).

 Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward project, now known as Central Park in Manhattan."

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"Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (Anglicized to Francis Bloodgood) (c. 1623 - 29 December 1676) was a Netherlander who immigrated to Flushing, Queens, He is the ancestor of the American Bloodgood family.

Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware river in 1659. They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.

Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death. Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.

 On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. He died on 29 December 1676."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet

diminishing moral authority as hardball tool

making it personal, a section on every activist

docs.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/31/us/politics/31lobbyist-docs.html

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wash the days away

like a record needle @269rpms
the notes wash the days away like a sip
of tea or the blink of a squirrel

lawns of yawns surround the library
winds blow thru the brick
turning book pages into dinosaurs

how much time is wasted programming people
when love lasts but a ripple?

picking out a tombstone playing on
a trombone music mosaic myth
grave dirt soft

time is a threat we hold in our throats, sour
milk. why surrender?
why be haiku?


1986
K.U., Lawrence, Ks.

ugly oklahoma inclusion zone

i sit and wait in the university cafeteria
for my coffee to cool. "and what about that
good 'ole boy from midwest city? he was kinda
slow." two overweight businessmen
wear ugly brown ties. ugly
okies and leering foreigners park in the cafeteria
to watch the fatassed coeds carry their heaping
salad platters. the ugly
men have notebooks graphpaper and big calculators
strewn about their tables.
the middle easterners lounge with empty milk cartons and
spilled wild rice. when they go to class
they occupy the front row and
study most dilligently while at home in the dorm.

here in the cafeteria, they watch
american bacteria socialize



1985
OSU, Stillwater, Ok

ghosts playing croquet

ghosts playing croquet drift over wickets
gently knocking the colored balls
which roll as if on glass

a breeze lifts the flow of the ghosts
as they play thru the night
humming nameless tunes,
calculating their shots until the dawn



1986
Lawrence, Kansas

Louise Selover Champlin

genealogy gets interesting

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isis, mesa, surreal bloetgoet
forest bloggod
melanie may blotgodi
dorothy selover champlin may
louise selover
andrew jackson selover (b 9-14-1829)
asher a selover (9-11-1795)
isaac selover (9-30-1759)
lucas selover (3-21-1731) 

daniel selover (1704)  married helena shermerhorn (1704) 

lucas schermerhorn (1648) elisabeth janse damen (b. 1680)
jacob janse schermerhorn (1622) jannetie segerese van egmont(1633)
cornelius segerese van egmont (1599)
cornelius segerese van egmont (1573)
seger van egmont (1550) 

 
lamoraal van egmont (11-18-1522)  sabine von der pfalz-simmern (6-13-1528) 

john II,count palatine of simmern (3-20-1492) beatrice of baden (1-22-1492)
etc
etc
etc
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fighting the Inquisition.