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TIDES; TIGER & THE BABE!
by Richard Day 5/18/2013 - 2:53 am
I am missing Smith.
So I am creating this non-Haiku in the hopes I can find out how he is doing.
I was thinking about tides.
We can better understand the miraculous as long as we admit the miracle of tides.
The ole 'ebb and flow' as they say.
Babe Ruth is a hero of mine.
He was some Irish mug who was thrown away by his parents and tossed out of school and picked up by a Priest. [Read more]
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The Amish Las Vegas: "Breaking Amish" Comes to Pinecraft
by trkingmomoe 5/14/2013 - 5:00 am
"Breaking Amish" TLC hit series from last fall season on Sunday night has started shooting the second season at Pinecraft, a community in Sarasota, Florida. I haven't seen the series because I don't have cable but according to Wikipedia it is about five young adults trying out a new life, to see if they want to remain in their upbringing. Because the series had high ratings and good reviews, it was announced last month that they were shooting a spin off with a new cast starting their lives in Sarasota. There are many former members of Mennonite [Read more]
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Here we are again; A Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 5/10/2013 - 1:49 pm
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The Amish Las Vegas and Quilting
by trkingmomoe 4/29/2013 - 4:02 am
I like to treat myself a short 15 min. ride to Alma Sue's Quilt shop from my house a couple of times a year. It is a joy to walk into her new shop and watch the Amish and Menonnites quilt. They quilt from frames hung from the ceiling and speak a form a German that is known a Pa. [Read more]
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This Poem of Yours
by Wattree 4/27/2013 - 6:35 pm
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
THIS POEM OF YOURS [Read more]
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Yet another Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 4/26/2013 - 2:22 pm
Here's this week's heap of haikus:
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The scent of jasmine
scatters as the door is slammed
and she walks away.
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A Cold, Rainy Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 4/12/2013 - 2:26 pm
Here's this week's heap of haikus:
Warmed-over coffee
fills my mug like an old friend
who slept on the couch.
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An island sunset,
the sky aglow with passion …
here I sit ... alone.
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A Very Late Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 4/5/2013 - 5:50 pm
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MOMMY
by Richard Day 4/3/2013 - 7:23 pm
I took my little trip to the grocers.
It was a Monday and I was almost out of my allowance till Wednesday and I only needed to spend under twelve bucks.
Oh I have a couple hundred in savings now and that is there to make sure that if my computer goes down....well, I can get a back-up and not destroy an entire monthly budget!
And I am looking for the carrots and the coffee ($4.00) and some meat product andI will skip looking for some other things 'I need'. [Read more]
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PONCE DE LEON & GEORGE W. BUSH
by Richard Day 4/2/2013 - 10:16 pm
JUAN PONCE DE LEON
I just caught this little squib at the NYT about the seeker of the Fountain of Youth.
Evidently they are going to put the SOB on a postage stamp or something commemorating things the bastard never accomplished.
A certain T.D. Altman does the honors here; Altman is an historian who just published a history of Florida. [Read more]
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We Have A Pope
by A Guy Called LULU 3/26/2013 - 9:05 pm
I just stumbled onto a pretty good movie that is coincidentally quite timely. It is a comedy played seriously. It is called We Have A Pope. I liked it from the beginning where there is what I presume to be a realistic portrayal of the pomp and ceremony surrounding the death of a Pope. It quickly goes to the election process for the new Pope which reminded me of a comical twist on Putney Swope that might actually be quite inciteful. The movie is completely non-polemic. Wiki's description;
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A Pre-Sprung Spring Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 3/22/2013 - 1:56 pm
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A Swingin' Affair
by Wattree 3/20/2013 - 8:06 am
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE [Read more]
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Another Late Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 3/15/2013 - 2:54 pm
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LOOKING FOR COMMIES IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES!
by Richard Day 3/13/2013 - 11:05 pm
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A Slushy, Snowy Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 3/8/2013 - 2:24 pm
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The Building of a Jazz Man
by Wattree 3/6/2013 - 9:07 am
Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree
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A Wish-filled Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 2/22/2013 - 1:35 pm
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Melody For C
by Wattree 2/21/2013 - 9:49 am
Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree
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The Man
by Wattree 2/21/2013 - 6:18 am
Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree [Read more]
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A Heartless Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 2/15/2013 - 1:46 pm
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- 216 reads
In the News
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Tightens Grip After Disqualifying Two...
By Karl Vick, Time Magazine, May 22, 2013
For the cleric who runs Iran, there’s no such thing as a pleasant surprise, especially on election day. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei was not pleased when a librarian named Mohammed Khatami was swept into the President’s office in 1997, leading a wave of reformists who challenged the status quo in which Khamenei, as the unelected Supreme Leader of the Revolution, was most heavily invested. In every election cycle since, the self-appointed portion of Iran’s government has done all it can to winnow the choices placed before Iranian voters. On Tuesday, that system tightened the screen once more, ...
Read the article at http://world.time.com/2013/05/22/irans-supreme-leader-tightens-grip-after-disqualifying-two-presidential-candidates/#ixzz2UFQKiE2j- Add new comment
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Banks’ Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
By Eric Lipton & Ben Protess, New York Times, May 23/24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves.
One bill that sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month — over the objections of...
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China Bluntly Tells North Korea to Return to Nuclear Talks
By Jane Perlez, New York Times, May 24-25, 2013
BEIJING — The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, bluntly told a North Korean envoy Friday that his country should return to diplomatic talks designed to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons, according to a state-run Chinese news agency.
“The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and lasting peace on the peninsula is what the people want and also the trend of the times,” Mr. Xi said in a meeting at the Great Hall of the People with Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, a personal envoy of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, the China News Service reported.
Vice Marshal Choe, who has been in Beijing for three days on a mission to...
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I-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River near Mount Vernon;...
A bridge collapsed over Skagit River tonight near Mount Vernon. This was on Interstate 5 both north bound and south bound, four lanes total. No word yet on how many cars went into the water. This is so sad. How many of these will we have to have before we start financing infrastructure? Most of our bridges are in sad shape.
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Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to...There’s very little public discussion of utilities or utility regulations, especially relative to sexier topics like fracking or electric cars. That’s mainly because the subject is excruciatingly boring, a thicket of obscure institutions and processes, opaque jargon, and acronyms out the wazoo. Whether PURPA allows IOUs to customize RFPs for low-carbon QFs is actually quite important, but you, dear reader, don’t know it, because you fell asleep halfway through this sentence. Utilities are shielded by a force field of tedium.It’s is an unfortunate state of affairs, because this is going to be the century of electricity. Everything that can be electrified will be. (This point calls for its own post, but mark my...
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