the firstcat (1988)

The first cat to tip the garbage can found
An undiscovered treasure chest of thrownaway scraps
And jarred a sleeping nest of mice causing them to scurry
Fatally into his mouth and stupefied the owner of the slum hideaway
Who awoke from the floor to pour a saucer of milk invoking
Sympathy from the housewife who upon seeing
Him with battle worn ears and crusty matted fur took him in
To clean and in the end found himself
Presenting his lament MEOW to a coffeehouse of
Mousehaired pseudo-intellectual yuppies
Who with the first drag off poverty can only muster a
Googooeyed wow, who were really too uptight
To purr in public in the first place




1988 Lawrence Ks.

in tune in tune (1988)

On a mandolin there are shadow strings
Corresponding mates of the same note
In tune in tune with one another

All they require is breath of nimble fingers
All they need is space to fill with
Their innate harmonies

Sweet ingredients! Battle not under
The damp sheet but rise with each yeast’s
Muscle flex, bust the bowl

Be it condo, cavedwelling, or
Californian. Stroke resonance
Internal& merge 

as a bird’s summer hum



(1988, Lawrence Ks.

fourth of july (1988)

Fireworks celebrate the fourth of july sky over the gulf of Persia
And you’re in italy sleeping off a siesta,

The planes passengers crossing the channel to their homes 
Smelling of Lebanese meats and spices, the sound of silly

Children happy to see daddy, spouse’s complaint of the local
Vicious dog that terrorizes the innocent meter reader doing daily duties

I’m pitching horseshoes in Oklahoma, taking aim
And firing with my lower lip silently chewed in contemplation

Pitching my shoe and hoping for a ringer the macho
Burst of fireworks resounds in my mind

And all I felt was disgust, and all I felt was this remorseful code
Dashdashdash dotdotdot dashdashdashing thru all the

Miles and differing wartime zones, and all I felt
From this celebration of isolation was nausea

My mind churning with the bloated floating dead
O spangled banner of america who’d guess you’re not an island

Though surrounded by mental waters you only
Lower your drawbridge to send out armed salesmen, what

Carrion you produce along the skyways of commerce!
What blisters swelling on the triggerfingers of ignorance,

What vain nationalism with your civil plights
And comdom-nation of others! And what  say I of myself?

I’m america too, an isolatoe, but I think that think my nation
Hates thinking, knockout those with something to give

Wrap nature in disposable diapers and talcum the
Consciences by proclaiming I am 

Not me! Swear it doesn’t hurt though the drought burns
Our pink skins like sonic insults! Independence day

Fade away like a pipe bomb, like a tummy ache, like 
A cramp in the side, and shatter our illusory caskets!



Midland Review, Oklahoma State Univ., 1989



"Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed"

ain't no jobs (1988)

Ain’t no jobs in Stillsville none in the greasy armpit 
Restaurants where the youth roll up their sleeves and plunge
Into the putrid dishwater and choke on the shit eating grin 
While cleaning up for the zillionaire rednecks and
Their beehived concubines who snarl for ashtrays and deposit
Their chewing gum under yer apron

Ain’t no work in the convenience store unless ya lop off
Yer hair’s golden plumes and forsake the limbs of
Yer mind to the tree cutters and even if
You get the job it means livin on money stained with the
Feces of satan where bossman hides his piggybank full

Of coke and bribery ain’t no work with the paintbrush
Unless you got her papers certifying your ability to
Mask the seams cause even  if you were to get a shot at
That job you’d probably fall off a ladder with
Paint in your eyes

Ain’t no labor opportunity in the construction sectors because
They’re being hatched prefab in mexico and korea
Out of shredded old growth complete with bedside bible
And ten gauge and even if you lucked into a shift
Here and there you’d see thru the shabbiness of the human condition
And make homes of mud

But there ain’t no positions to fill being a protector of the 
Planet tho if I could get this appointment I’d
Take a few looks at our lawnmowers and suburban sprawl and
Family dissolution which would
Be more than an unending job





1988 stillwater/lawrence

extraterritorial pessimism( kirk incrustation)

extraterritorial pessimism unloosen
airman-first-class
snowball fetish right
survive Chinese reason
system jack dribble
scuttle pro-bono-publico
cannonball madam pompous
go ascetic being
crescendo fertile honeycomb
tableau reduce offspring
glitch deodorant hot
alligator estuary lymph
bon appetit
hawk bank dawdle
advertise bolt cutoff
deal eyesight treadmill
potentate garnishment awestruck
bluff augmentation chimpanzee
non compose mentis
scapegoat pod flag
awash gamey impasse

*

astrology
center
red cedar

metalwork
inappreciable
Fabian

impromptu
EMT
battalion

revive
chivalry
drag rap bet

*


carbonate press-room
geriatric biddy

flat ASAP
conundrum half-hearted

blank-verse insider
cap flatfish

missile Masonic
traffic ark

taxidermy currency
forge emend

kirk incrustation
fascism bulimia

precaution taxi
leg flick

blog carboy
hole cherry

*

limber jalousie album
faerie vice-admiral CEO




(automatic
dada poem)

11-21-19
Portland OR

ASAP Rex

little world

Silverado Savings and Loan

Silverado Savings and Loan collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion. Neil Bush, the son of then Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush, was on the Board of Directors of Silverado at the time. Neil Bush was accused of giving himself a loan from Silverado, but he denied all wrongdoing.[29]

The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado's failure and determined that Neil Bush had engaged in numerous "breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest". Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement, The Washington Post reported.[30]

As a director of a failing thrift, Bush voted to approve $100 million in what were ultimately bad loans to two of his business partners. And in voting for the loans, he failed to inform fellow board members at Silverado Savings & Loan that the loan applicants were his business partners.[31]

Neil Bush paid a $50,000 fine, paid for him by Republican supporters,[32] and was banned from banking activities for his role in taking down Silverado, which cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. An RTC suit against Bush and other Silverado officers was settled in 1991 for $26.5 million.

_________


Kermit Mowbray was a President for Topeka, KS in the Federal Home Loan Bank Board with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 House Committee.Appearances by Title:PreviouslyPresident, Topeka, KS, Federal Home Loan Bank Boardc. June 19, 1990 - c. June 18, 1990

https://www.c-span.org/video/?12746-1/silverado-savings-loan-closure

__________

"by doing nothing, all is done"

the Tao or the Dow Jones

_____________

After a short tenure as a CIA analyst,[8] in 1988, Volker joined the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Foreign Service.[5] While in the Foreign Service, he served in various assignments overseas including London and Brussels, and the US Embassy in Budapest (1994–1997). Volker was special assistant to the United States special envoy for Bosnia negotiations, Richard Holbrooke.[9]


Volker served as a legislative fellow on the staff of Senator John McCain from 1997 to 1998. 


Volker went into the private sector in 2009, becoming an independent director at The Wall Street Fund Inc,[11] where he worked until 2012. He was a member of the board of directors at Capital Guardian Funds Trust[12] beginning in 2013.[13] Volker was also an independent director at Evercore Wealth Management Macro Opportunity Fund until 2012.[14]

Volker served as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, a global consulting firm from 2010–2011.

In 2011, he joined BGR Group, a Washington-based lobbying firm and investment bank, where he currently serves as a managing director in the firm's international group.[15]


He then became executive director of Arizona State University's McCain Institute for International Leadership[16] when it was launched[17] in 2012. He resigned in 2019.



________


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

"On November 17, 1989, the Senate Ethics Committee investigation began of the Keating Five, Alan Cranston (D–CA), Dennis DeConcini (D–AZ), John Glenn (D–OH), John McCain (R–AZ), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D–MI), who were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association.

Keating's Lincoln Savings failed in 1989, costing the federal government over $3 billion and leaving 23,000 customers with worthless bonds. In the early 1990s, Keating was convicted in both federal and state courts of many counts of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. He served four and a half years in prison before those convictions were overturned in 1996. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a more limited set of wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud counts, and sentenced to the time he had already served."



_______


1986 Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) purchased 50 percent of CITGO.

1990  CITGO became wholly owned by Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

That same year, the former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, became a part of the company’s refining network.

1990   Collapse of the Soviet Union

godzilla on pause

scratching at the door, lonely
makes trouble, or announces it as a feature
or policy, amid muttered non sequiturs
aimed at ankle high pets
indoors nearly all day watching squirrels
run the fence tops beating winter,
anxious, watching the rain wait
touching the not dry paint
eating not folding clothes or making
play-dates, leaf wrangling with power tools
as the corner kitchen tilts
with eddies of soiled baggies and
thriftstore cups, soon cleaned back to
starting positions as frozen goods
fall from an overstuffed top door
if one takes a chance at ice
thawing trouble 
as i pause godzilla to find out what
they want



11-16-19
portland OR

Pleasantville Iowa 2007 with Senator Obama

On a side note:  

"When I first met President Obama, he said to me: “I saw that match when I was 12, and I’ll never forget it. 

It helped me think about how I want to raise my daughters to be strong.”

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/nov/26/billie-jean-king-there-was-a-lot-riding-on-that-match-90m-people-were-watching

Surreal T.S. 1996

 photo: Kat Nyberg

Bloodgood Nurseries "America's Oldest Nursery---est 1790"

Surreal Gwine Round the World

Weird Portland

Sondland greeted in Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland businessman and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland arrived at Portland International Airport late Tuesday night and was greeted by protesters.

“Hey, Gordon Sondland, tell the truth! Hey, Gordon Sondland, we’re watching you!” protesters chanted as they followed Sondland through the airport after he got off a plane.

Sondland has been a key witness in the U.S. House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

Sondland initially testified last month that a quid pro quo did not occur during Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine. But on Tuesday his revised testimony was released that showed the opposite.

But as he walked through the terminal, a reporter asked Sondland why he had changed his testimony.

“I didn’t change my testimony,” he said.

He added that he couldn’t answer any questions.

https://katu.com/news/local/sondland-arrives-at-pdx-to-chants-from-protesters-says-he-didnt-change-testimony

family gwine up/down

of all the buses in the world, 
you get on with that impeccable toddler
taking him home to your sister.
it isn't my usual route or time
to go up/down sad miles of dusty pre-owned cars,
gwine to my storage.
space, valuable moments in tow.
i relocate to sit near you
and your nephew in a puffy blue coat,
his cherub hair and seal sky eyes.
i look at your hair
what it is doing on each side. 
it looks good today,
what fun. one young couple gets on
with a flimsy stroller full of child.
another stop brings another
stroller family entourage, as i watch
them boarding you suggest i make room
for them, of course. i should,
and do move out of their way. it was
sweet how you and your charge
followed, our random
yet precious time. after what sixteen seventeen
years every day our wheels
and children engines seldom apart,
or misfiring.

harvey and marvels

it was harvey and marvel to the north

not like it mattered to my feet or mind if i wanted thru

their field of cows ever since they shot our dog

when i was a baby or later dad brought home

the squab for mom to bbq i took care of

the anthills with gasoline and firecrackers and cleaned the highway

of empty cans that their weenie dog could get

stuck in they had steep stairs with carpet

across just a ways was the split rail

which had cockfighting in the basement i was told it was

no nonsense on union and 51

where dad put his plants in the pines it was

a marvel no one saw those nocturnal angels

peppered on barn beams

noodled way different not like it mattered


*********


north down union on the gravel road

years of xmas trees, blackberry buckets, barefoot jogs,

magazine subscription cold calls,

learning to drive the datsun wagon,

walks. a backway home, later.

south on union were a few amigos, for a few years.

and the intersection a mile out

where busboys drank, leaning toward insurrection.

late show burdundy,

the scorpions or rush or van halen nothing in a stew of stars

and more oil underfoot than anywhere on planet earth

with our firebird, 280z, porsche, or vega

haunting midnight after work in the country

where headlights say hello a mile before


************


the stansfields had the brick yawn at the foot of the drive

to our three acre hippy haven and owned the

steak lobster coke and shrimp place a hundred yards away

with no windows a cinderblock shelter themed

in spats and formal attire playing joe jackson or count basie

seize this this (1999)

seize this this poem as evidence

   of the worlds inside which collide

with clashing scimitars resounding

   muffled by a buffalo hide


seize this this home as evidence

   of the love of the air and the tree

breathe the fragrance of your own doings

   exemplify the peace of one, free


seize this his body as evidence

   limb by limb fold me into thy cell

only then could i awaken

   from relentless consumer spell


seize this this entire universe

   stick a barcode on the moon

buy grafted simu-cool reality

   with microscopic digital spoons


seize this this flagrant evidence

   a pile of consumer's bones

shred the passive neuroses to smithereens

   burn quaint Timorese in their homes


seize this this wrapper by providence

   left on the smudge of the hook

them heathen needs be crucified

   but spare 'em if they can cook


seize this this moment as medicine

   for the soul of the earth is food

acorn, creekmint, broccoli

   feed flesh as well as its mood




1999 Swale Canyon, Wa

autopsy of a dictionary bouncer ( rearview mirror intact

autopsy of a dictionary bouncer ( rearview mirror intact

"In Roman mythology, the lemures /ˈlɛmjəriːz/ were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae /ˈlɑrviː/ (from Latin larva, "mask") as disturbing or frightening"


regular sirocco streetwalker
---ergotamine hiss,
masectomy cist diagonal
history levee retrorocket
springhead eosin
management bell confederate gatecrasher
antioxidant doormat
lemures(spirits of the departed, ghosts
recriminate exanimate beechdrops
circular system logorrhea prism
electronegative pitchout windswept
exasperate catholic buck
earthy/ear trumpet
priggish verticil
napiform follicle brassica
genealogy inconsistent
cabinclass douglas spruce
finicky carcinogen

____________________________

note: an "automatic" or "dada" poem, "written" by random finger points in a dictionary
____________

Ergotamine is an ergopeptine and part of the ergot family of alkaloids; it is structurally and biochemically closely related to ergoline. It possesses structural similarity to several neurotransmitters, and has biological activity as a vasoconstrictor.
It is used medicinally for treatment of acute migraine attacks (sometimes in combination with caffeine)

The name Eosin comes from Eos, the Ancient Greek word for 'dawn' and the name of the Ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. Eosin is a fluorescent red dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein. It can be used to stain cytoplasm, collagen and muscle fibers for examination under the microscope.

Sirocco, scirocco, /sɪˈrɒkoʊ/, jugo or, rarely, siroc (Catalan: Xaloc, Greek: Σορόκος, Spanish: Siroco) is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe.

verticil (plural verticils)
(chiefly botany) A whorl, a group of similar parts such as leaves radiating from a shared axis

napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)
(botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.

exanimate (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.

scenery colors

the lilac sky dipped in washed out persimmon
behind the leaf still branches
out one window, out the other: 
all periwinkle superimposed by 
a sharp conifer
arrowhead
that's scenery 

Pax Rex

Trio

gitten out of frown

getting the town out of you
is the ride,
reality wash. it clangs along
at the ankle halo
presaging.
smiling thugs benevolence,
getting out of frown.

Bergman's bloggod train

Giant purple fungi Oregon

Moss Star 93

Harvest Sunday

surreal swordfern forests

Fall to the east

Mesa stripe

fumarole gotta

take your next breath
for granted wall street gasps
perched on fraudulent piers and peer brokerages
hyper-inflated to offshore pontoon-speeches
                          underwater glacier amigos
the fumarole must vent
        the island, build,
                 of sturdy studied vog
only to be swallowed
by elemental transactions crashing
primal oppositions like a supertanker 
gouging virgin coral

grasshopper

grasshopper on the warm autumn wall, sun
rounding the rough plank
getting painted, perfect leaves 
welcome the veneer of human effort, 
well until
i come across a squished squirrel in the residential
street, i pull and fling
it by its death costume 
to some grassy crevasse
by a fence, that's better.

well

Gordon Sondland, Portland tool

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770714277/read-gordon-sondlands-opening-statement-to-congress


I am a lifelong Republican. Like all of my political Ambassadorial colleagues, I am an appointee of the President and serve at the pleasure of the President. I also know that part affiliations are set aside when representing the United States.

Having served on non-partisan commissions by the appointment of three Democratic governors and on the transition team for Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, another Democrat, I am well accustomed to working across the aisle.

 For example, I worked briefly with former Vice President Biden's office in connection with the Vice President's nationwide anti-cancer initiative and admire his long record of public service.

I had bipartisan support for my ambassadorial nomination. My successful business background and results-oriented focus made me, in my view, well suited to bring the fresh perspective to U.S. foreign policy that President Trump had sought.


_________________

"Taylor also told lawmakers that Sondland had explained that Trump is a “businessman” and that when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone he asks for what he is owed. Taylor scoffed at the notion that Ukraine “owed” anything to Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/diplomat-who-raised-alarm-about-withholding-aid-to-ukraine-testifies-in-impeachment-probe/2019/10/22/086fb850-f436-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html


Well, That's the way Sondland operated out of Portland.

barking anger

it bares its bald and inbred teeth
as you try to pet it
anger, try to feed it anger.
it'd rather starve
anger, hungry for love anger.
it doesn't dare anger on a leash,
down a sidewalk anger
staggers, its fence anger
fetching a bark to not bark anger

oklahoma state cafeteria (1986)

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 graph paper 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 diligently while at home in the dorm.

here in the cafeteria, they watch

american bacteria socialize







OSU 1986



__________________







Tillerson was born on March 23, 1952, in Wichita Falls, Texas, He was raised in Vernon, Texas; Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Huntsville, Texas.

"At age 14, he began to work as a bus boy in the student union building at Oklahoma State University.


Two years later in 1968 he became a janitor working in one of the engineering buildings at the university.

On weekends, he worked picking cotton."

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

isn't isn't (2018)

Sunday, August 19, 2018

isn't isn't


unknown region isn't eluded google's net
unknown region isn't the seychelles
unknown region isn't a sub in the columbia
unknown region isn't a dacha in maryland
unknown region isn't a hub or fusion center 
unknown region isn't a drone and all the other above things
unknown region isn't a pubic inplant
unknown region isn't a fiber optic nest of lies
unknown religion isn't a region nor is it vatican
unknown region isn't negative space hiding plain sight
unknown region isn't getting away with everything
unknown region isn't a studio ghibli anime
unknown region isn't in a race to anonymity 
unknown region isn't gerrymandered or german intel
unknown region isn't full of refugees and slaves
unknown region isn't lacking red ink or radar
unknown region isn't for the have nots
unknown region isn't warm in the antarctic vodka stew
unknown region isn't masked like a gru batman
unknown region isn't a caterpillar pushing down settlements
unknown region isn't capable of lone ranger jokes
unknown region isn't a fourth dimensional intrusion
unknown region isn't harboring decent water
unknown region isn't yet, nyet
unknown region isn't a trillionaire's hobby horse
unknown region isn't hopping with mirrored fleas
unknown region isn't a tool of confidence men
unknown region isn't false/true or between/addresses
unknown region isn't the map to our inner circle
unknown region isn't fog draped liberty holding a torch
unknown region isn't worth the cramp or crap
unknown region isn't born to crawl honestly
unknown region isn't a pandora can of giggles
unknown region isn't particular about hosting 
unknown region isn't manned by cyborg serfs
unknown region isn't chuck barris in a paper sack
unknown region isn't doomed to the funny pages
unknown region isn't a dart board made of air
unknown region isn't a stable genius or noble twit
unknown region isn't O
unknown -regional, a truman show on steroids
unknown rejion ain't above the flaw
unknown region cain't tie its own flip flops 
unawaeegion won't sequester the molester 
unknown region dupes the media scoops
unknown region isn't a pea under the prince's futon
unknown region isn't likely
unknown region isn't a stopover for gulliver or odysseus
unknown region isn't a grey zone of wolves
unknown region isn't GPS on LSD or the CIA's LCD
unknown region isn't in the right lane
unknown region isn't space saying YO whassup
unknown region isn't a flat balloon or a halo
unknown region isn't atlas holding gaia on his shoulders
unknown region isn't much help nor hinderance
unknown region isn't a smoke free zone for harmony
unknown region isn't aware of poetry
unknown region isn't on the tourist slate for yaks
unknown region isn't semi autonomous or partially woke
unknown region isn't a constellation to implore
unknown reach'n isn't carte blanche or a pussygrabbed siren
is it?

Sondland, Influence Peddling Middleman

The phrase “quid pro quo” has become a kind of shorthand reference to the entire Ukraine debacle. But it is a phrase that Sondland uses himself to explain his negotiating philosophy.

In a 2016 interview with the Portland Business Journal, for example, he used it to describe how he facilitated phone calls between the former Democratic governor of Oregon and then-President George W. Bush.

“We would make these requests, and they were done quietly, they were done with rifle precision and there was always a quid pro quo,” Sondland said. 

“The governor would help the president with something and the president would help the governor with something, and it was very transactional.”


https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-gordon-sondland-the-ambassador-whose-texts-put-him-at-the-center-of-ukraine-scandal/

________________________________

Ron Wyden, Sondland, and Oregon Good Old Boys Club

Sondland or his business also made contributions to Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, former Portland Mayors Sam Adams and Charlie Hales, as well as Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick. Some were made under Sondland's name, while others were submitted by Provenance Hotels. 

And, in what would lead to his current position, Sondland donated one million dollars to Donald Trump's inauguration committee in 2016. Trump eventually appointed Sondland the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union.

Sondland's nomination was supported by both Republicans and Democrats. Most notably, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden was an outspoken supporter of Sondland at his June 2018 confirmation hearing.

"I have known 'Gordy' for well over a quarter of a century," Wyden said during the hearing.

 "At a time when lots of politics is polarized and divisive, Gordon Sondland will be a good fit."

Records show Sondland has donated nearly $15,000 to Wyden over the past 22 years. His wife has donated more than $20,000.


https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/gordon-sondland-hotelier-portland-seattle-trump-ambassador-ukraine/283-7a229daf-48eb-4dd6-a215-5a44e82d668b

Bondi Trump Parnas Ballard Partners

Parnas appears to have received the first of two five-figure payments from Ballard Partners, a Florida lobbying firm that has become a powerhouse in Trump’s Washington. Bank records obtained by BuzzFeed News show Parnas received a $22,500 wire from Ballard in March and a second payment for the same amount in September. Ballard has previously said the September payment “has nothing to do whatsoever with Mr. Parnas's reported efforts related to Ukraine.”



http://ballardpartners.com/the-team/rebecca-benn-2/


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/lev-parnas-igor-fruman-arrested-giuliani-ukraine

"a three-year-old donation of $25,000 from Trump’s foundation to help re-elect Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican. "He sent Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi thousands from his foundation, just as she was considering an investigation into his sham university," says the digital ad, released Sept. 14. "She cashed the check, blocked the case, and he tried to cover up the donation."

dung dog spook smell

i had to heed the bumblebee, as they graced me
with no flower in sight, unless my dusty sweat
were sweet. i took my brushe
to the yard bucket of water,
removed the drowning astronaut and placed
them on the lawn. calling it a day,
the numbers swirling.
off the meet a bus, a hasty car pulls over
a bit ahead down the street. a wild eyed
wolf-dog darted across the street as
the man from the car ran after.
the dog ran to stop and sniff my hand,
he was a newly adopted stray,
as he led it back to his car by his red bandanna collar.
at my destination watering hole,
i watched as a shiny black SUV loitered in traffic
its plates obscured or missing. inside,
a loud bald man
several drinks boisterous held court at the bar,
a napkin-draped beer claiming a seat
for an absentee. the loud bald man
made rude unflattering comments,
reached into my space to point at some dumb ass
thing. i moved down a seat,
lo to more weirdness. like dung beetles
in the dark, looking to be rescued.

Hank/Knah Ok City

KNAH is a radio station airing a Classic Country format from Envision Radio Networks Hank FM branding licensed to Mustang, Oklahoma, broadcasting on 99.7 MHz FM. The station serves the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, and is owned by Champlin Broadcasting, Inc.[1] KNAH previously aired an oldies format as KZLS “True Oldies 99.7” before switching to its current format of Classic Country in late September 2013 of Envision Radio Networks Hank FM branding. 99.7 Hank FM broadcasts in HD: HD1 Hank HD2: The Rooster Red Dirt 24/7 HD3: Frey Miller Trucking's Big Rig Radio (mix of new and classic country with southern classic rock) HD4: KZLS AM 1640 The Eagle

Owner	Champlin Broadcasting, Inc.

Owner Champlin Broadcasting, Inc.

  

May 26, 2023, the then-KNAH rebranded as "99.7 The Wolf", and shifted its playlist to include more current country music, while still maintaining a classic-heavy focus.[5] The station changed its call sign to KWFF on July 2, 2023.

 

Gates Goss Gump

"Gates was born in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Isabel V. (née Goss) and Melville A. "Mel" Gates.

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


Gates was nominated to become the Director of Central Intelligence (head of the CIA) in early 1987.

He withdrew his name after it became clear the Senate would reject the nomination due to controversy about his role in the Iran-Contra affair."

Porter Goss, lobbyist for Turkey

Goss first retired from the CIA in 1971, and moved to Sanibel, Florida.

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"The Washington Post reported statements made by Goss on May 17, 2002. Goss said he was looking for "solutions, not scapegoats." He called the uproar over the President's Daily Brief of August 6, 2001, Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, "a lot of nonsense."

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Goss is an active speaker on the lecture circuit.

On February 16, 2016, Goss expressed his support for former Speaker Dennis Hastert in a letter to Judge Thomas Durkin.



The retired CIA Director registered in April 2015 as a lobbyist representing Turkey.

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

Black SUV, antifa murdered

"Original post, 1:28 pm: A leftist activist is believed dead after a hit-and-run near Cider Riot, an antifascist nightspot in Northeast Portland.

Portland police say an SUV crashed into a side of a commercial building at Northeast 8th Avenue and Northeast Davis Street at roughly 12:14 am today. 

That location is less than a block from Cider Riot. Police arriving on the scene found the vehicle abandoned, but gunshots had been fired into it.
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Multiple sources tell WW that the SUV hit a leftist activist who was a regular patron of Cider Riot. He is believed dead.

Police would not confirm the death. "The nature of the injuries and the condition of that patient is not being released pending further investigation," the bureau said in a statement.

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The Democratic Party of Oregon has confirmed that the building hit by the SUV was its office."

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2019/10/12/a-patron-was-hit-by-an-suv-last-night-near-cider-riot-believed-dead/

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"Investigators think people have information about Saturday’s incident and “the chain of events” preceding it, police said.


A memorial had cropped up Saturday in front of the Democratic Party of Oregon building on Ninth Avenue, where a blood stain could be seen on the sidewalk. The Democratic Party of Oregon building is a two-minute walk from Cider Riot."

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/10/suv-connected-to-gunfire-crashes-into-portland-building-police-say.html

Boycott Sondland's Provenance Hotels

"Gordon Sondland, intends to tell"
"Sondland plans to tell lawmakers"
"The person familiar with Sondland’s testimony"
"the person said of Sondland’s understanding."
"Sondland appears poised to say"
"said the person familiar"
"Sondland is prepared to say "



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-envoy-who-denied-quid-pro-quo-now-says-he-isnt-certain/2019/10/12/4abe0902-bc19-44e8-8c38-9aa35c544859_story.html

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https://www.opb.org/news/article/provenance-hotels-ethics-complaint-blumenauer-boycott/

"Provenance Hotels announced Saturday that it has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Oregon Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer.

Blumenauer called for a boycott of the Portland-based hotel company Wednesday, due to its connection to Ambassador Gordon Sondland; Sondland is currently embroiled in the Ukraine controversy with President Donald Trump. He’s also the founder of Provenance Hotels.

Blumenauer had called for the boycott when Sondland was originally blocked from testifying in the impeachment inquiry by the Trump administration. Sondland has since said he will testify.

Ellen Carmichael, spokeswoman for Provenance Hotels, said in postings on social media that Blumenauer’s call for a boycott is forbidden by the Office of Congressional Ethics."

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"As for Salt & Straw, if its decision is rooted in current events, it won’t be the company’s first brush with politics.

As vice president, Joe Biden famously stopped by Salt & Straw in 2014 and the rest was internet meme history."

https://www.opb.org/news/article/salt-straw-ice-cream-portland-oregon-gordon-sondland-provenance-hotels/

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Forster RIP

Bob Forster died last night,
as i watched Jackie Brown
on Netflix. He passed
away as Max
Cherry
looked across the desk at
Samuel Jackson.

CITGO Rosneft Trump, selling out National Security and avoiding Sanctions

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article235953812.html

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Sondland US Bancorp

Ambassador Sondland is also a current member of the US Bancorp Advisory Board,
https://useu.usmission.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/
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"In February 2018, the bank was charged by the Department of Justice with failing to implement measures preventing illegal activities, including one case of abetting them. To defer prosecution, U.S. Bancorp agreed to pay $613 million in fines "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bancorp

67 Putin, 67 Hillary, 67 Senators to Impeach

Putin turns 67 years old
Hillary Clinton was the 67th Sec of State at age 67
Takes 2/3 of the Senate, 67 to Impeach

Forrest Phog Dogg

Kansas athletic director Jeff Long issued an apology Friday night following a performance at Allen Fieldhouse by hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg that included pole dancers, a money gun and profanity.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/27770289/kansas-apologizes-snoop-dogg-show-late-night-phog

Kansas apologizes after Snoop Dogg's show at 'Late Night in the Phog'
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"Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen (November 18, 1885 – September 16, 1974) was an American basketball and baseball player, coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and osteopathic physician. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching"

Pot Luck with Belushi in Portland

"According to Belushi’s spokesperson, they were out in southwest Portland searching for a location to “create a ‘pay-what-you-can’ marijuana dispensary program for the downtrodden and homeless.”
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Mr Belushi, if you're listening:

https://katu.com/news/local/film-crew-member-attacked-in-sw-portland-while-unloading-gear-for-jim-belushi-project


Potluck in the ParkFacility name Potluck in the Park Commissary, 

Location 1628 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR 97201

Facility name	Potluck in the Park Commissary, Spot #1
Location	1628 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR 97201

In Goose Hollow, by the Max line

By two vegan restaurants, close to Providence Park

Also the Culinary Institute.

Or, go to the Waterfront by the Portland Saturday Market.

Have a booth and dispense freely!

Facility name Potluck in the Park Commissary, Spot #1

Location 1628 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR 97201

Trump resigns asap

Trump resigns asap
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Or I whistle blow
From East Moreland
To Kansas
To Stillwater

NPR, euphemisms for Fascism in the Trump era

I'm sick of hearing the Corporate Spin on NPR
I grew up listening to NPR
every morning, ride in the car with the parents
every evening. NPR has changed
it's worse and worse under Fascist Trump
it got worse after NPR
started doing "ads" for their "sponsors"
it got worse after McDonald's founder
gave NPR $225 Million

"As of 2009, corporate sponsorship made up 26% of the NPR budget"

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

n contrast with commercial broadcasting, NPR's radio broadcasts do not carry traditional commercials, but has advertising in the form of brief statements from major sponsors which may include corporate slogans, descriptions of products and services, contact information such as website addresses and telephone numbers.

These statements are called underwriting spots and, unlike commercials, are governed by specific FCC restrictions in addition to truth in advertising laws; they cannot advocate a product or "promote the goods and services" of for-profit entities.

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In a controversial act, NPR banned in 2009 the use of the word "torture" in the context of the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

 NPR's Ombudswoman Alicia Shepard's defense of the policy was that "calling waterboarding torture is tantamount to taking sides."But Berkeley Professor of Linguistics Geoffrey Nunberg pointed out that virtually all media around the world, other than what he called the "spineless U.S. media", call these techniques torture.

 In an article which criticized NPR and other U.S. media for their use of euphemisms for torture, Glenn Greenwald discussed what he called the enabling "corruption of American journalism":