Saturday, July 12, 2025
Michael Hurley---guitar, vocals Forest Bloodgood---violin
November 24, 2017
The Mint, the Dalles, Oregon May 1, 2009: Michael Hurley w/forest bloodgood
Michael Hurley---guitar, vocals
Forest Bloodgood---violin
5-1-2009
The Mint, the Dalles, Oregon
1. Have I Told You Lately How Much I Love You? (Scotty Wiseman)
2. Moon Song ( Mildred Plew Meigs)
3. I Wanna Go Steady (Hurley?)
4. She Got the Money Too (the Corklickers)
5. The Ways of Man Are Passing Strange (Gordon Bok)
6. Gonna Work for Peace (Hurley)
7. Rattlesnake Song (traditional, Almeda Riddle 8-21-59)
8. Dusty Skies (Cindy Walker)
9. No Can Do (Hurley)
10. Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole)
11. Oh My Stars (Hurley)
12. Otto Wood The Bandit (Doc Watson)
13. Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)
14. If I had a Perot (Hurley)
world war sheep (2009)
we pull the wool over our eyes, W. W.
the wool pulls our eyes over our ayes, W. W.
W.W. spools the school over our sighs, aye aye.
W.W. schools the wool. i eye.
2009
Herman Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
(21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer.
He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire."
Does he look anything whatsoever
Like Herman Melville?
No.
intermission
Glance our guardian rag, stuffed wad
In mouth, capitalism fascism juvenile fluff
Escapism millions stories shunned
Gotta sell shit
Even lemmings need heaps
Red cap death visor
Tariff turmoil
It rained and no one was there to mop
Status quo capitalism
You sent mop to sudan or cowering
A hundred million anne franks with no
Books on the shelf hide behind
Just empty screens
Fullashit
*
How'm be transcendent
Get right back on dat fun
"As Tejas cleans up..."
Friday, July 11, 2025
Juniper retaining walls, 2015 SE PDX
"prior to the fun of making the Juniper 6 by 6 inch beam wall with 20,000 lbs of wood
carried one by one from the street,
was the DEMO of the preexisting stacked reclaimed concrete slab wall, which I wheelbarrowed to the many dumpsters laboriously....
about 40 yards of concrete, dirt, sod, removed from the site, at 2-3,000 lbs or so per yard......"
"dirt gravel thrower" typically refers to a stone slinger truck, also known as a rock slinger truck or material slinger.
These vehicles use a conveyor system to accurately distribute
(Shoot it thru the air)
materials like gravel, topsoil, sand, and mulch
over distances up to 100-130 feet. "
(As seen, dirt from street is launched to backyard, filling in retaining wall)
"the largest Juniper beam wall you'll see. gravel foundation, rebar stakes, buried one course deep
. should last at least 75 years, probably 100.
there are 15-20 yards of river rock, gravel, concrete block behind the wall of wood.....for drainage"
stochastic
Bike had a flat or did not
Raining or not found or not ten dimes
Caught or missed bus found seat or stood
On spilled or boxed mousetrap game parts
Or tidy spaghetti or a tuba
Scared/not of elephant/not rode free or paid
Wore earmuffs or van gogh costume
Or both or cyclist gear seriously or not
Picked ear wax with hex or not
Rode bus or pachyderm to doc or quack
Startled or not placid crushed kinda mousetrap game parts not or fully contrived
With boob frost or bob road taken only so far or not a jug of slime fix or not
A week old smoothie costume
Marks spot or not damned or not
Out bike window a not cloud
A full empty sky shuffled can can not
Wisp form or not eye hear not monkey do
Or will not connect dot to dot
Fare/not
Fate/not
Was/not
Round/flat
Umbrella/gutter
Fender/founder
Slowly or otherwise brain assembled
Probably not a semblance poem
Joy or not riding
Potato couch surfing all eyes ingrown and not
April, PDX
1893 wine on the shelf
'The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title
Transformation,
was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. "
"Miriam is a beautiful painter with an unknown past. Throughout the novel, she is compared to many other women including Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Judith, and Cleopatra. Miriam is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her “evil genius” through life. Hilda is an innocent copyist. She is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove. Her simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart. Miriam and Hilda are often contrasted.
Kenyon is a sculptor who represents rationalist humanism. He cherishes a romantic affection towards Hilda. Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, is often compared to Adam and is in love with Miriam. Donatello amazingly resembles the marble Faun of Praxiteles, and the novel plays with the characters’ belief that the Count may be a descendant of the antique Faun. Hawthorne, however, withholds a definite statement even in the novel’s concluding chapters and postscript."
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"Sophia wrote to her sister Elizabeth Peabody that her husband's reaction was typical:
"As usual, he thinks the book good for nothing..."
Alas, it's good for wine
The smell of ancient pages
From trees pulped not long
After civil war blood
Had nourished their roots
Trace notes are detected
Upon opening the bottle
1893 a seasonable vintage
To one discerning
Friendship inscribed by some February past
When life began as grape
To slowly become 1993,
2023 wine.
gulf of camo plaid
So what do we do, auto pilot
Thru fascism, shop by impulse,
Regardless of shoveling money
To the puppeteer, that sounds a mite wrong,
Slave master, shoot the children cued
For rice, help stir the toxins
Into our water, do the lastest dance
On earths grave, zone out professionally
Gripe and get gas cheaper
Just have to drive over a few flesh bollards
360 blinders robosign blacklist
Wear plaid blend in maybe no one will notice
Park the liberal car around the corner
Toss some ass appliances in the front yard
Sell lemonade stands full of nails
Heaven forbid we add seats
To scotus while Democrats hold government
That'd be woke
"All eyes must remain on Gaza, where children are dying of starvation in their mothers’ arms, while their fathers and siblings are bombed into pieces while searching for food,” she wrote"
"She most recently issued a report naming several US companies among those aiding what she described as Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza."
Thursday, July 10, 2025
$1 Bean
"ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum each made $ Million donations. None of the three companies have any morality whatsoever.
Altogether, Global witness identified $19,151,933 in donations from fossil fuel-linked donors.
The president raised a stunning $239m for his inauguration – more than the previous three inaugural committees took in combined and more than double the previous record – according to data published by the US Federal Election Commission (FEC).
energy giant Chevron made the largest contribution to Trump’s inaugural fund at $2m"
"that was less than the $1bean he requested from the sector in an infamous meeting at his Mar-a-Lago club last spring"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/sheldon-whitehouse-fossil-fuels
"The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in an interview on Monday with the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. "
Long before Donald Trump reportedly told oil company CEOs he would repeal Joe Biden’s climate policies if they contributed $1bn to his 2024 presidential campaign, Republicans went silent on climate change in return for oil industry money,
Sheldon Whitehouse asserted. The key shift came after the supreme court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which struck down limits on campaign spending.
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Con Conrad, Unholy Puttanesca
"Conrad received the first Academy Award for Best Song for The Continental in 1934 with collaborator Herb Magidson. He died four years later in Van Nuys, California at age 47 after a long illness.
His spouse was actress Francine Larrimore.
Conrad was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Conrad
"1. Midnight in Paris" (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson; additional lyrics by Antonia, Peter Stampfel, Paul Presti) – 3:17" .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!
"Midnight in Paris" (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson; additional lyrics by Antonia, Peter Stampfel, Paul Presti) – 3:17
"Robbin' Banks" (Jeffrey Frederick) – 4:00
"Slurf Song" (Michael Hurley) – 3:18
"Jackknife/The Red Newt" (Frederick) – 3:29
"Griselda" (Antonia [Duren]) – 2:22
"What Made My Hamburger Disappear" (Frederick) – 3:05
"Sweet Lucy" (Hurley) – 4:05
"Country Bump" (Stampfel) – 2:38
"Fooey Fooey" – (Hurley) 2:55
"Jealous Daddy's Death Song" (Antonia [Duren], Presti) – 2:04
"Driving Wheel" (Hurley) – 3:45
"Weep Weep Weep" (Frederick) – 2:13
"Hoodoo Bash" (Antonia [Duren]) – 3:32
alla puttanesca
(Italian: [spaˈɡetti alla puttaˈneska]) .
is a pasta dish invented in the Italian city of Naples in the mid-20th century and made typically with
tomatoes, olives, capers, anchovies, garlic, peperoncino, extra virgin olive oil, and salt.
Italians use puttana
(and related words) almost the way we use shit,
as an all-purpose profanity
, so pasta alla puttanesca might have originated with someone saying, essentially
'I just threw a bunch of shit from the cupboard into a pan'."..
"Because puttana means roughly 'whore' or 'prostitute' and puttanesca is an adjective derived from that word, .
the dish may have been invented in one of many bordellos in the Naples working-class neighbourhood of Quartieri Spagnoli as
a quick meal taken between servicing clients" . .
"the 1971 edition of the Il cucchiaio d'argento (The Silver Spoon), one of Italy's most prominent cookbooks, has no recipe with the name puttanesca, but two recipes that are similar:
the Neapolitan spaghetti alla partenopea is made with anchovies and generous quantities of oregano, while spaghetti alla siciliana is distinguished by the addition of green peppers; still again, there is a Sicilian style popular around Palermo
that includes olives, anchovies, and raisins
In Dom DeLuise's 1988 cookbook,.
Eat This... It'll Make You Feel Better!,
he offers a recipe named "Puttanesca Sauce (Harlot Sauce)", which he explains was introduced to him by Caterina Valente during the filming of The Entertainers in 1964.
DeLuise's recipe calls for both olives and capers, along with red pepper flakes, but no anchovies or oregano."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca
(Skip Raisins)
Monday, July 07, 2025
chop chop.
"You a word a cadavre exquis
fold it over
the next person can’t see
on a piece of paper, then fold it fold it over
fold it over fold it over fold it overover so the next person can’t see what you’ve written fold it over , and you end up with a strange sentence fold it over the next person
The game is now known as Exquisite Corpse, after the result of their first go: Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau (The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine).
Exquisite Corpse gave Breton so much joy because it summed up the essence of the surrealist school of art he was trying to articulate at the time.
In his first 1924 manifesto, he told budding surrealists to put themselves in “as passive, or receptive, a state of mind” as they can and write quickly.
Forget about talent, about subject, about perception or punctuation. Simply trust, he writes, “in the inexhaustible nature of the murmur”.
The printed word, which he handles like a builder might a brick, is useful raw material the next person, as they can, might a brick.
The surrealists were among the first anticolonialists, the staunchest anti-fascists, proponents of social revolution and proto-eco warriors.
Malaysian-born artist Cheman Chong- Chong, whose work is currently on show at the Singapuke Art Museum. This survey exhibition is organised into nine categories: swords, whimpers, toasts, journs, fitures, fink-paste, infras, sure....faces and endings.
Exquisite Corpse sums up surrealism’s most lasting legacy to modern art today:
a tool that taps you into something , or receptive unexplored, a game for “pure young people who refuse to knuckle down”.
Sunday, July 06, 2025
letters from kamp
"Petroliferous" is an adjective describing rocks or geological formations that contain or yield petroleum (oil). It essentially means a rock or area
has the potential to produce oil. "
Where there will be way,
There moolah there sway
Where there men cray-cray
Where divining no stay
Glass half empty, tithe half full
Forecast peter-out two gulf lull
What's mystic is how trust a pie w/no crust
Greed overflowing banks morals gone bust
Taught me how to swim, ice tea lunch
Taught me catechisms that nature's a hunch
Learned me good about commandments, thou shall obey
Lights out, in bed, bunk bed put-away
Dismantle education, see what we get
Boots on the ground, round up the wet
Wetback born here visitors sent to swamps
Big jefe in the sky fix your mind on dikes
Put a finger in the hole, ring stay there
FEMA wash away in DOGE clean stare
Water recede, goldilocks gold nugget a searcher mine
Fill the TV with all American crime
Inundated coverage as daily children die
Brown, poor, bombed or starved my lie
Thousands, ten thousands, sand is their date
Sandbags blow away never filled, texas hate
Pity us who knew a bankers dozen in an hour
In the nile, denial, crocs must glower
Wimpy burger borrow, pay ya tomorrow
Sacrifice the innocent camp-follower
Never heard before that shylock means jew
Never learned holocaust or nazi salute
Never vett my very fine people tearing up the government
Threw forecaster baby out in the bathwater for improvement
Trump got a perfume, he got truth social
He got his own bible, delusion anecdotals
He leaves trail of carnage, tongue of a worm
Missing a locket check his pocket squirm
The german shylock don silt smiling
First memorial, next a fund, next on your vote I'm counting
Dracula always count, sesame street taught us so
PBS a last sandbag don gotta throw
All the cancelled programs, to billionaires it flows
Fifty-billionaire, ain't squat today knows
Big booty Bill, take away Medicare
Mystic voodoo GOP trap you snare
Miles downstream, dolly in a tree
Roots torn out, pile of cars no time to flee
Letter from my camp what I did this summer
Learned to be flushed as avarice manned texas hummer
Spare the rid, spoil the mild
Spare rib sauce the child
Deep state, got a pole, thoughts preying
Bop the mole, gopher golf, mules braying
Cluster bomb, muster Custer
Black hills runoff, raindunce mister
Bunker buster, shockwave Geiger
Prospector kidnapped inspector hiker
Looney tunes, uvalde, wald gone adios
Few wanted the wall, locked in well as out
Seawall, river, a tide of opinion
Written in sharpie more acerbic than the Onion
Too early it's fresh not in sudan
Not in the Riviera stilts holding ground
Not in the cue stretching miles thru a hail
Of lead, drone rain, bibi's sent mail
Don't need a weather man , nor feather man
Maggie's farm blowing dust bowl
Nursing formula Not an F 1
A brad pittance of race to food
Maybe a flick will dune the crude
Veep yer diddy keep yer g Gordon liddy
If asap cool then hot is spiffy
Witch way wind blow
Just see the vain vane
Barn doors open fulla mansplain
Friday, July 04, 2025
Jaberwock, the hoodoo bash, history jest
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song,
with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.
The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul.
The song's original release, performed by The Four Lads, was certified as a gold record. Numerous cover versions have been recorded over the years, most famously a
1990 version by They Might Be Giants."
Big Muffin Serious Band
"Big Muffin Serious Band, a ukulele-based music performance group from New Zealand, released a cover on their LP
"Jabberwocky Goes To Town" in 1987."
Muppets
"In Season 2, Episode 4 (U.S. release October 12, 1997)
of the television series Muppets Tonight, portions of the song were performed by
a quartet of rats in kaftans and fezzes."
"Guitarist Trey Anastasio has teased the song on numerous occasions with Phish and with his own band, Trey Anastasio Band."
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"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
*****
mesa, isis, surreal
All could recite/perform this
From early ages
Verbatim
They'd take turns.... sometimes
Then sing "the hoodoo bash" by Unholy Modal Rounders
Without missing a step.
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Down at the station at one in the morning
There's a trainload of strangers that just hit town
One has a top hat and one has a falcon
And although they just arrived they know their way a—round
Out to a house at the edge of the town
They're bringing Thunderbird wine and a pound of hash
Come on along if you're one of the people
Because we're gonna to get the spirit down at the Hoodoo Bash
All the wizards from the south
Came up special for the big turnout
Golden Blossom, Singing Bear
They're going to have a party and they just don't care
Fasten your seat belts, let down your hair
Because tonight is the night we've been waiting for
People in trances and African dances
Another kind of life is waiting behind that door
We got supplies that will last for a week
So there ain't nothing can stop us until we crash
When we have kids, we will tell them the story
'Bout the night we got the spirit at the Hoodoo Bash
Magic mushrooms from Singing Bear
Indian visions that'll curl your hair
And Golden Blossom said she'd make
Her dandelion wine and morning glory tea
Tell all your friends that you're gone out of town
And be prepared to go out of your natural mind
We're gonna rise when the sun's going down
When the spirit starts to hit you'll never know what you'll find
you're afraid, then you better stay home
'Cause there's no turning back once the dice are cast
Lovers and strangers will all go thru changes
When they get the good, old spirit down at the Hoodoo Bash.
Track #
13."Hoodoo Bash" (Antonia [Duren]) – 3:32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!
Population: 15.66 million
The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonists, potentially in the seventh century BC.
For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires:
the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922)
It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold and the seat of the last caliphate"
The first known name of the city is Byzantium
(Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion),
the name given to it at its foundation by Megarian colonists around 657 BCE.
Megarian colonists claimed a direct line back to the founders of the city,
Byzas, the son of the god Poseidon
and the nymph Ceroëssa."
___.
"Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE.
That early settlement, important in the spread of the Neolithic Revolution from the Near East to Europe, lasted for almost a millennium before
being inundated by rising water levels.
The first human settlement on the Asian side, the Fikirtepe mound, is from the Copper Age period, with artifacts dating from 5500 to 3500 BCE"
"A 1942 wealth tax assessed mainly on non-Muslims led to the transfer or liquidation of many businesses owned by religious minorities.
The US-incited. and state-sanctioned
1955 Istanbul pogrom,
in which hundreds of Greek men, women and children were attacked and raped and dozens murdered, led to the emigration of most of the remaining Greeks in Istanbul.
Government persecution of Greeks and religious minorities, especially Christians, intensified through the 1960s as part of the process of Turkification.
Further mass expulsions of Greeks took place in 1964–1965.
As a result of these policies, the Greek population of Istanbul decreased
from 110,000 in 1919 to 2,500 today "
Counter-Guerrilla
(Turkish: Kontrgerilla) is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio,
a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative
backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine.
The founding goal of the operation was to erect a stay-behind guerrilla force to undermine a possible Soviet occupation.
* The goal was/is oil, oil, power, oil.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom
why law matters (one example
"(4) For the purposes of this section, a pedestrian is crossing the roadway in a crosswalk when any part or extension of the pedestrian, including but not limited to
any part of the pedestrian’s body, wheelchair, cane, crutch or bicycle,
moves onto the roadway in a crosswalk with the intent to proceed.
(5) The offense described in this section, failure to stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian, is a Class B traffic violation. [2005 c.746 §2; 2011 c.507 §1]
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/811.028"
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For my children
For my grown children
For your children, grown/not
For safety
For order involving multiple variables
In which car/pedestrian is unequal
Yield, car/truck/progress
____
"The driver of a vehicle commits the offense of failure to stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian if the driver does not stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian when the pedestrian is:.."
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International Law.....
Genocide, human rights, environmental Law
b'gosh oshkanzh
"Oshkosh Corporation, formerly Oshkosh Truck, is an American industrial company that designs and builds specialty trucks,
military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus, and access equipment.
The corporation also owns Pierce Manufacturing, a fire apparatus manufacturer in Appleton, Wisconsin, and JLG Industries,
a manufacturer of lift equipment, including aerial lifts, boom lifts, scissor lifts, telehandlers and low-level access lifts."
"Founded in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company, the company was created to build a severe-duty four-wheel-drive truck. After the first prototype was built, the company began to develop rapidly.
This first four-wheel-drive truck, known today as "Old Betsy"
"On August 25, 2015, Oshkosh was awarded the U.S. military's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract.
The initial JLTV award is valued at $6.75 billion for up to 16,901 vehicles.
The procurement objective for JLTV stands at 49,099 Army and 9,091 Marines, with the Navy and Air Force also having smaller requirements.
The estimated program cost is $47.6 billion.
JLTV will partially replace the AM General Humvee."
"February 2021, Oshkosh Defense was awarded the U.S. Postal Service's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) mail truck contract for between 50,000 and 165,000 units over ten years, with production start targeted for 2023.
The fleet will include low-emissions internal combustion engine vehicles as well as battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and could be worth over $6 billion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_Corporation
"Genocide the Next Day, or Else"
Toddler overalls be damned.
Coming to the USAA.
___.
"OshKosh B'gosh
is an American children's apparel company.
founded in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
It is a subsidiary of Carter's.".
My mistake, gosh.
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Oshkosh
(/ˈɒʃkɒʃ/ ⓘ) is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, .
and its county seat. It is located on the western shore of Lake Winnebago
and had a population of 66,816 as of the 2020 census,
making it the ninth-most populous city in Wisconsin."
Call it 67k.
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Oshkosh was named for Menominee Chief Oshkosh,
whose name meant "claw "(cf. Ojibwe
oshkanzh,
"the claw").
'At one time, Oshkosh was known as the
"Sawdust Capital of the World"
due to the number of lumber mills in the city, 11 by 1860."
"Iceblock heaven"
1986-2006 Citgo provided gas to 7-Eleven for two decades.
"7-Eleven is dropping Citgo as the gasoline supplier to its 2,100 stations around the country..
The companies' contract was already set to expire, but 7-Eleven has been uneasy with its close ties to Citgo,
a subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez attacked President Bush repeatedly in a recent speech to the United Nations, calling him
"the devil" and a dangerous imperialist.
https://www.npr.org/2006/09/27/6154806/7-11-drops-citgo-citing-ties-to-venezuelas-chavez
Based in Houston, Texas, Citgo has provided gas to 7-Eleven for two decades.
So when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez crudely condemned President Bush on the floor of the United Nations last week,
7-Eleven drew a pretty big gulp."
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Countries
(OPEC
/ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek)
is an organization enabling the co-operation
of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to
collectively influence the global oil market and
maximize profit.
It was founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members:
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
and Venezuela. " (Tulsa)
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'In 1949, Venezuela initiated the move towards the establishment of what would become OPEC, by inviting Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to exchange views and explore avenues for more regular and closer communication among petroleum-exporting nations as the world recovered from World War II.
At the time, some of the world's largest oil fields were just entering production in the Middle East.
The United States had established the
Interstate Oil Compact Commission to join the Texas Railroad Commission
in limiting overproduction.
The US was simultaneously the world's largest producer and consumer of oil;
the world market was dominated by a group of multinational companies known as the "Seven Sisters",
five of which were headquartered in the US following the breakup of John D.
Rockefeller's original Standard Oil"
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"The 1973–1974 oil embargo had lasting effects on the United States and other industrialized nations,
which established the International Energy Agency in response, as well as national emergency stockpiles
designed to withstand months of future supply disruptions.
Oil conservation efforts included lower speed limits on highways, smaller and more energy-efficient cars and appliances, year-round daylight saving time, reduced usage of heating and air-conditioning, better building insulation, increased support of mass transit, and
greater emphasis on coal, natural gas, ethanol, nuclear and other alternative energy sources.
These long-term efforts became effective enough that US oil consumption rose only 11 percent during 1980–2014, while real GDP rose 150 perce
the years after 1973, as an example of so-called "checkbook diplomacy", certain Arab nations have been among the world's largest providers of foreign aid"
On 21 December 1975, Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Iran's Jamshid Amuzegar, and the other OPEC oil ministers were taken hostage at their semi-annual conference in Vienna, Austria.
The attack, which killed three non-ministers, was orchestrated by a six-person team led by Venezuelan terrorist "Carlos the Jackal "
The self-named "Arm of the Arab Revolution" group declared its goal to be the liberation of Palestine.
Carlos planned to take over the conference by force and hold for ransom all eleven attending oil ministers, except for Yamani and Amuzegar who were to be executed.[73]
Carlos arranged bus and plane travel for his team and 42 of the original 63 hostages, with stops in Algiers and Tripoli, planning to fly eventually to Baghdad, where Yamani and Amuzegar were to be killed.
All 30 non-Arab hostages were released in Algiers, excluding Amuzegar
Sometime after the attack, Carlos's accomplices revealed that the operation was commanded by Wadie Haddad, a founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
They also claimed that the idea and funding came from an Arab president, widely thought to be Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, itself an OPEC member.
Fellow militants Bassam Abu Sharif and Klein claimed that Carlos received and kept a ransom between 20 million and US$50 million from "an Arab president".
Carlos claimed that Saudi Arabia paid ransom on behalf of Iran, but that the money was "diverted en route and lost by the Revolution".
He was finally captured in 1994 and is serving life sentences for at least 16 other murders."
one oil analyst summarized succinctly: "When the price of something as essential as oil spikes, humanity does two things: finds more of it and finds ways to use less
Faced with increasing economic hardship
(which ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989),
The September 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on the US and
the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq
had even milder short-term impacts on oil prices,
as Saudi Arabia and other exporters again cooperated to keep the world adequately supplied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
____
"Bush did not attribute the phrase to either Burroughs or Lewis.
It has been speculated Bush avoided all mention of William S. Burroughs in his first two major speeches
because he did not wish to associate his candidacy or incipient presidency with Burroughs' controversial works and personal escapades."
___
"1991 article in The New York Times noted that the phrase had inspired "a host of caustic political satires, including cartoons of devastated communities as
'a thousand points of blight.'
U.S. President Donald Trump mocked the phrase at a rally in Montana on July 5, 2018, asking .
"What does that mean? I know one thing:
Make America Great Again we understand.
Putting America first we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one.
What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? "
"The first known instance of the phrase "a thousand points of light" appears in Arthur C. Clarke's short story
"Rescue Party," initially published in Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1946:"
***
"The day after the 1984 presidential election, Atwater became a senior partner at
the political consulting firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly.
During his years in Washington, Atwater became aligned with
Vice President George H. W. Bush, who chose Atwater to manage his 1988 presidential campaign."
____
"Isn't It a Pity" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass.
Harrison wrote the song in 1966,
In many countries around the world, the song was also issued on a double A-side single with "My Sweet Lord".
Duster on Max used the song in episode 8.
I found the quote by Kissinger and used it here at bloggod, in reference to Iran and Iraq or was it reference to Atrocity and Capitalism's Crimes.
Look it up, kitten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isn%27t_It_a_Pity
"In 2019, financial commentator J. Mulraj of The Hindu wrote that, in an international climate of distrust fostered by the Military–industrial complex, oil prices and irresponsible banking practices,
"World leaders should listen to George Harrison's song"
"as encapsulated in a remark by American diplomat Henry Kissinger that "
Isn't it....
"It's a pity they both can't lose."
Thursday, July 03, 2025
Delicious pragmatic pita fajita
Sauteed medium chopped onion , half a red pepper, in tablespoon oil (olive, sesame, canola etc
1 big grated carrot, wait
When slightly charred/cooked, add carrot 2 minutes on low heat
Remove contents from cast iron
Heat pita in skillet, flip
Cover in grated sharp cheddar or cheese available (vegan cheese if need)
Cover in sauteed veggies content, lid 1-2 min. On low heat.
Top w/ nutritional yeast, salt, chilli powder
Remove, fold pita into sandwich, fajita style
Eat w/ fingers or knife/fork
Vary ingredients to taste or pantry need.
Enjoy
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
of the United States, in antiquity
"The chief of naval operations (CNO) is the highest-ranking officer of the United States Navy. The position is a statutory office (10 U.S.C. § 8033) held by an admiral who is a military adviser and deputy to the secretary of the Navy.
The CNO is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (10 U.S.C. § 151)
and in this capacity, a military adviser to the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, the secretary of defense, and the president."
___
"J.S. Champlin refers to Captain Jackson Selover Champlin, a US Navy officer who had a distinguished career.
He commanded several ships, including the USS HARADEN and the USS MT. OLYMPUS, and served in various roles, including
an instructor at the Naval Academy
and in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
He also received numerous medals and decorations for his service"
____
"Sherman's next assignment, beginning in January 1948, was to command the navy's operating forces in the Mediterranean Sea .
He was recalled to Washington, D.C., at the end of October 1949 to become Chief of Naval Operations,
with the rank of admiral. During the next sixteen months, he helped the navy recover from a period of intense political controversy
(as in the so-called "Revolt of the Admirals").
Sherman's absence from the recent controversy, and his role in the unification negotiations made him the logical candidate.
As Chief of Naval Operations, he oversaw the responses to the twin challenges of a hot war in Korea and an intensifying cold war elsewhere in the world."
"On July 22, 1951, while on a military and diplomatic trip to Europe, Admiral Forrest Sherman died in Naples, Italy,
following a sudden series of heart attacks.
He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on July 27, 1951."
"The "Revolt of the Admirals" was a policy and funding dispute within the United States government during the Cold War in 1949, involving a number of retired and active duty United States Navy admirals.
These included serving officers Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, and Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, as well as Fleet Admirals Chester Nimitz and William Halsey, senior officers during World War II.
"The episode occurred at a time when President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson were seeking to reduce military expenditures in the aftermath of World War II so that President Truman could redirect funding to his domestic priorities.
This policy involved deep cuts to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps,
while making the United States Air Force and strategic nuclear bombing the primary means of defending American interests.
The Navy sought to carve out a role for itself in strategic bombing with Naval Aviation, which the Air Force saw as one of its primary roles."
"Partly driven by interservice rivalry, the debate escalated from differences over strategy to
the question of civilian control over the military.
Senior Navy officers...regarded the committee's recommendations as radical.
They opposed the idea of a single secretary of National Defense, which they felt was too much responsibility for one man,
and it interposed a civilian head between the JCS and the President of the United States, which might diminish the Navy's power and influence. "
"July 1946, James Forrestal, the Secretary of the Navy and Nimitz, now the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), replaced him with the DCNO for Operations,
Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman.
Although also a naval aviator, Sherman did not oppose unification. He and Norstad drew up an agreement that was endorsed by the JCS and forwarded to President Harry S. Truman, for approval on 12 December 1946.
This became the basis for the National Security Act of 1947,
which created the National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), an independent United States Air Force (USAF),
three civilian military department heads and the National Military Establishment, a unified command with a cabinet-level Secretary of Defense to oversee the service departments "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals
"Deficit spending had lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, but now Truman and his economic advisors were concerned about the prospect of inflation, which rose to 14.4 percent in 1947 after wartime price controls were removed, and embraced austerity.
To reduce expenditures, the armed services had to quickly demobilize and return to a peacetime military. "
"services were reduced from 89 Army and Marine divisions to 12;
from 213 Air Force air groups to 63 (only 11 of which were operational, with some existing only on paper);
and from 1,166 Navy warships to 343.
Meanwhile, $13 billion went into the Marshall Plan, from 1948 to 1952."
"US war plans were drafted for a potential conflict with the Soviet Union.
It was considered unlikely that the Soviet Union wanted to start a war, but the plans were prepared for the possibility that one might break out as a result of a miscalculation."
"Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, who had succeeded Nimitz as CNO on 15 December 1947, was critical of the war plan, which he regarded as deeply flawed.
He noted that abandoning Western Europe without a struggle ran counter
to the US Government policy of building up the democracies there,
and it meant accepting the loss of the Mediterranean Sea as well. "
"of the principal targets of the bombing offensive in Europe was destroyed or even suffered severe disruption and
only the oil campaign
was ultimately regarded as successful"
***
"T]he most effective air siege will result by concurrently attacking every critical element of the enemy's economy at the same time.
This will result in a general disintegration of all industry that will, in turn, prevent reconstruction.
Oil, transportation, power, vital end products, and weapon factories,
if destroyed concurrently...there seems little question but
that a nation would die
just as surely as a man will die
if a bullet pierces his heart and his circulatory system is stopped."
"The bombing campaign called for in the war plans was both nuclear and conventional. By June 1948, components for about fifty Fat Man and two Little Boy bombs were on hand.
These had to be assembled by specially trained Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assembly teams.
Only Silverplate Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers were capable of delivering nuclear weapons, and of the 65 that had been made, only 32 were operational at the start of 1948, all of which were assigned to the 509th Bombardment Group, which was
based at Walker Air Force Base, formerly Roswell Army Airfield, in New Mexico."
"the Berlin Blockade in June 1948 led to increased concerns about the aggressive stance taken by the Soviet Union, and demands for an intercontinental bomber "
"Being in third place for funding behind the Army and Air Force represented a major loss of status for the Navy,
which had traditionally seen itself as the nation's first line of defense.
The Navy's budget had exceeded the Army's for every year but one between 1922 and 1939.
It enjoyed the support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and had its own secretary who reported directly to him. "
___
"any target in the world was within 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) of the sea. A carrier could be deployed quickly in a crisis, and did not require the establishment of expensive overseas bases"
___
"Forrestal considered the notion of a single service having a monopoly on nuclear weapons to be misguided."
__&
"Forrestal did not support Truman's 1948 Presidential campaign; instead, he met with Truman's opponent, Thomas E. Dewey, with whom he discussed the possibility of remaining in cabinet in a Republican administration.
Truman was angered by this, and on 2 March 1949, after he won the election, he announced that Forrestal was being replaced by Louis A. Johnson, who had raised $1.5 million for Truman's re-election campaign.
On 22 May, Forrestal committed suicide by self-defenestration."
(Defenestration
(from Neo-Latin de fenestra)
"is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
the term is also used to describe the forcible or summary removal of an adversary." )
"Johnson had no qualms over supporting Truman's military budget reductions and fiscally preferred the Air Force's argument.
His idea of an executive was someone who gave orders, and those orders were to be carried out immediately and without question.
When the naval officers questioned his decisions on weapons and strategy
(such as the cancellation of the United States), he took that as a sign of insubordination.
When attacks appeared against his character, he wanted those responsible severely punished."
"Johnson recommended Francis P. Matthews for the position of
Secretary of the Navy.
A lawyer from Omaha, Nebraska, he had served as a director of the United Service Organizations (USO), a service organization that entertained the troops.
He came to the attention of Johnson by assisting him with political fund raising for the 1948 Truman campaign.
Matthews admitted the nearest he had come to naval experience was rowing a boat on a lake."
Smelling Drumpf Spirit blame Skinny Puppy for Vylan Halabja etc etc
"Even the proven presence of cyanide gas at Halabja would not necessarily implicate Iran," for two reasons outlined by Hiltermann. Prior to Halabja, Iranian forces made widespread use of
amyl nitrite
to counter what they repeatedly alleged was Iraqi cyanide gas. If those Iranian claims are accepted, then "By that logic, Iraq could also be implicated in any Halabja deaths by cyanide."
"There are no withdrawal symptoms. Overdose symptoms include nausea, vomiting, hypotension, hypoventilation, shortness of breath, and fainting.
The effects set in very quickly, typically within a few seconds and disappear within a few minutes. Amyl nitrite may also intensify
the experience of synesthesia.
Amyl nitrite, when given as a medication for patients with angina, can also be administered as an ampule.
The ampule is put in a gauze pad and then inhaled by the patient during an angina attack and repeated every fifteen minutes. "
"In the 1999 film Fight Club,
the character Chloe, a terminally ill woman, mentions having a collection of amyl nitrite while openly discussing her unfulfilled desires at a cancer support group.
The punk band Amyl and the Sniffers reference recreational use of amyl nitrite in their name.
https://youtu.be/jCxgUPFVFkA?si=HhU9fwpr6zBLICXZ
The Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sees amyl nitrite as one of the many drugs Raoul Duke packs for the trip to Las Vegas,
taking about two dozen ampules of it with him and usually justifying its usage by him and Dr. Gonzo to other people around them by
claiming it is for angina."
"Amyl nitrite, in common with other alkyl nitrites, is a potent vasodilator; it expands blood vessels, resulting in lowering of the blood pressure."
"Trace amounts are added to some perfumes. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyl_nitrite
"the Halabja massacre remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated region in human history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more "
"Canadian industrial-electronic band Skinny Puppy comments upon the Halabja chemical attacks in their song "VX Gas Attack" on their 1988 album VIVIsectVI."
rectal-skunkspeaker and a-hole system
"Trace amounts are added to some perfumes."
*#:&$@?$#?
"The British media in a frenzy about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, but artists all weekend at Glastonbury, from pop to rock to rap to punk to DJs, spoke up on stage, and there were tons of flags on every streamed set.
Trying to make it look like just a couple of isolated incidents and a couple of ‘bad bands’
so it appears the public isn’t as anti-genocide as it is.”
Writing in the Guardian, columnist Owen Jones compared the chant by Vylan
with the killing by Israeli forces of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food.
“How morally lost is a society in which a chant against a genocidal foreign army
provokes a political and media firestorm,
but the intentionally starved,
unarmed human beings being mowed down
on the orders of the IDF high command do not"
"For Patriots who never enlist, like President Trump.
This scent is your rallying cry in a bottle,” reads the advertising copy for both a men’s cologne and a women’s perfume sold under the same grift.
Trump launched the scents with an announcement on Truth Social, wedged between buttcheeks boasting
about U.S. tariff revenue and touting the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Hours later, Trump posted:
“We bought respect and dignity back.”
“Trump Fragrances are here. They’re called ‘Victory 45-47’ because they’re all about Winning, Strength, and Success,” wrote the president.
“Get yourself a bottle, and don’t forget to get one for your loved ones too. Enjoy, have fun, and keep winning!”
Victory 45-47 costs a whopping $249 "
#+@!_*$?&
"think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog’s nose in its own dog piss after it weed on your favourite rug,” frontwoman Amy Taylor has said "
___
"Marc Schack, an associate professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen, said:
“It is almost impossible to see how this use of that kind of munition can be justified.
If you are talking about 20, 30, 40 or more civilian casualties, usually that would have to be a target of very great importance
For coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, the accepted number for a very high-level target
was less than 30 civilians getting killed, and only then in exceptional circumstances.”
"Medical and other officials said between 24 and 36 Palestinians were killed in the attack on the cafe and dozens more were injured.
The dead included a well-known film-maker and an artist,
a 35-year-old housewife
and a four-year-old child.
Among the injured were a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl."
How many Hostages remain unreleased?
features of parodies (2018)
Features of maladies obscured in haste
The acrid greed dust my mouth tastes
Decades experience only fools go waste
Research symptoms facts cut and paste
Onto creatures of fallacies
Distant moral galaxies
Don't see what trees wanna seize
Economics trickle down please
Poisoned pension bleachers hid plain sight
Gladiators fall apart late at night
Coliseum colloidal crowned crows in flight
Nibbled up the blot specks lost bite by byte
Preachers of paradigms punked the power
Dirty dim Don plucked dung golden showered
Close inspection no thanks cowered
Via drone fed uplinks manned from towers
Teachers more than know
Revolution both ways flow
Scythes the grasses mow
Rust ploughshares buried low
Impeachers on the branch the bees their start
Flowers fruit democratic sugars from tart
Tongue torture all we gotta blurt
After dimdondungs tweets do their hurt
Meet yer looney money maker
Roger stone a slime filled quaker
Shakes his sheik banker
On the decks of bloody tankers
Another feature on the telly
Never broadcast from whales belly
Piccochio feels pretty smelly
Said his truth spreading jelly
2018
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
burn in hell GOP it's overtime
"I work hard not to Defect/Laugh,
to take care of a state that has more unique situations,
more unique people, Sarah Palin,
and it's just different," she said..
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
"Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the following three largest states of Texas, California, and Montana combined"
The expense and logistical difficulty of maintaining this distant possession prompted its
sale to the U.S. in 1867 .
for US $7.2 million
(equivalent to $162 million in 2024)"
***Equivalent to 3-4 seasons of a decent NBA player. ***
Yeah, all of Alaska.
___
"Abundant natural resources have enabled Alaska— with one of the smallest state economies
—to have one of the highest per capita incomes,
with commercial fishing, and the extraction of natural gas and oil,
dominating Alaska's economy.
U.S. Armed Forces bases and tourism also contribute to the economy;
more than half of the state is federally-owned land
containing national forests,
national parks,
and wildlife refuges. "
Loot, pollute. Verbs.
___
"According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Alaska had the
fifth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States,
with a ratio of 6.75 percent.
The oil and gas industry dominates the Alaskan economy, with .
more than 80% of the state's revenues derived from petroleum extraction. "
"Federal subsidies are also an important part of the economy, allowing the state to keep taxes low..
Its industrial outputs are crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold, precious metals, zinc and other mining, seafood processing, timber and wood products. "
"Canada's enormous Athabasca oil sands field, which by 2014 was producing about 1,500,000 barrels per day
(240,000 m3/d) of unconventional oil,
and had hundreds of years of producible reserves at that rate."
"But Alaska needs Food Stamps, and the greater USA gets a.... big beautiful "
___
"The Permanent Fund is often considered to be one of the leading examples of a basic income policy in the world."
"Nick Begich Jr.,
the son of the late U.S. Representative Nick Begich Sr., brother of former U.S. Senator Mark Begich and retired Alaska state senator Tom Begich, and.
father of current U.S. Representative Nick Begich III is the co-author of .
Angels Don't Play This HAARP"
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