Big Alaska Rally/Playing With Our Money/HL Mencken/Lew Welch

(P1) Political

Photos From Big Anchorage Rally (self-explanatory)

If McCain Had His Way, That'd Be Our Social Security Money Wall Street is Losing

- Headline from Huffington Post 9-08

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You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.

- Jared Bernstein

Note: Sorry to those who come to the Palin Church You Tube in a posting below. It was removed somewhere at the source, not by me!!

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(P2) Poetical

I Saw Myself

I saw myself
a ring of bone
in the clear stream
of all of it

and vowed
always to be open to it
that all of it
might flow through

and then heard
"ring of bone" where
ring is what a

bell does

- Lew Welch

(P3) Philosophical

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man (or Ed adds woman) is always skeptical and tolerant (as Ed is with H. L. Mencken's archaic use of the word man in this otherwise bright piece).

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Green Cheese/Drill, Baby, Drill/Jim Spitzer Art/Don Wentworth Poem

(P1) Political

Green Cheese

If John McCain and Sarah Palin were to say the moon was made of green cheese, we can be certain that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would pounce on it, and point out it's actually made of rock. And you just know the headline in the paper the next day would read: "CANDIDATES CLASH ON LUNAR LANDSCAPE."

--Paul Begala

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(P2) Poetical

What Planet Do These People Live On?

These are selected remarks by Thomas Friedman on the Sept. 8, 2008 Fresh Air with Terry Gross:

When I heard Rudi Guiliani lead that crowd (at the Repub convention) in chanting “Drill Baby Drill,” I thought, what planet are these people inhabiting? It’s as if on the eve of the advent of computer technology, the Republicans were out there saying “Let’s stick with the IBM Selectric Typewriter.” Type baby type. Type. Type. Type.

If the Petro-dictators–the leaders of the world’s most repressive, anti-modern, anti-woman regimes like Saudi Arabia, which we’re supporting by our addiction to oil, either foreign OR domestic–were up in the bleachers at that convention, they would have been giving each other high fives! They WANT us to remain focused on fossil fuels.

We ought to be promoting fuels from Heaven (wind, solar, etc) rather than fuels from hell (fossil based)

John McCain, whom I used to respect, has been ‘bloody dishonest.’ He’s making people stupid, and it’s frankly disgusting.

John McCain’s support for lifting the federal gas tax for a summer giveaway was absurd and misleading.

We ought to have 100000 innovators working in 100000 garages.

The current tax and production credits for wind and solar energy expire on December 31. A bill to extend them has been brought up in Congress eight times and John McCain didn’t show up to vote eight times. Obama showed up three times and voted to extend. So now, at this crucial time, the solar and wind innovators in this country are at a dead stop, frozen. Nobody is starting new projects. This makes no sense at all.

President Bush claimed we have an addiction to oil, but do you think he invited all these senators, Republican’s and Democrats, to Camp David and said, “Let’s work it out.” Do you think he lifted one little finger, one pinky to help?

Remember when Ronald Reagan pulled Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House?

When Reagan canceled Carter’s tax credits for wind, Denmark bought the top American wind company and now has the largest wind company in the world.

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(P2) Poetical

Against Ted Hughes
by Don Wentworth

Leaves will reattach themselves
to trees before being a poet
will ever be more
important than
being.

(P3) Philosophical Ted Hughes
by Don Wentwort
Jim Spitzer Poster Detail

Palin's Nutbag Church Video/Bumper Snicker/James Tracy

(P1) Philosophical

Sarah Palin's Nutbag Church

If you've entertained any doubt about Sarah Palin's nutty and dangerous political/religious views, just watch her numerous times in these scenes from Wasilla Assembly of God Church. Also bear in mind that her pastor in Juneau, where she also attends, is said to be a member of "Joel's Army" which wants Armageddon to happen now! If McCain wins, Sarah is only a heartbeat away from the nuclear button!






(P2) Political

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(P3) Poetical

A Million Revolutions

by James Tracy

walking in circles, I picket myself
do not patronize! self unfair to self and others

boycotting myself like a field strawberry
i will not buy my own bullshit anymore

leading a sit-down strike in my own room
until better living conditions are achieved

washing my molotov mouth out with soap
for kinder, gentler dialogue

stepping outside and smiling
the earth moves a million revolutions per minute