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Friday afternoon vs. The Haiku-lodeon
by MrSmith1 2/17/2012 - 1:44 pm
This week's heap of haikus:
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Did you see my note?
I left it on the table,
right next to the ... oops.
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[Read more] I left it on the table,
right next to the ... oops.
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more haikus for another Friday afternoon plus ...
by MrSmith1 1/27/2012 - 1:01 pm
Haikus for a Friday afternoon ... again. January 20th edition
by MrSmith1 1/20/2012 - 2:28 pm
Still even more haikus for a Friday afternoon and January is almost half over
by MrSmith1 1/13/2012 - 1:36 pm
more haikus for a friday afternoon; the first one of the new year ...
by MrSmith1 1/6/2012 - 12:37 pm
Still more haikus for the last Friday afternoon of 2011
by MrSmith1 12/30/2011 - 12:43 pm
Christmas with the Condiments ...
by MrSmith1 12/27/2011 - 10:55 pm
I posted this last year, but, given the season, I thought I should re-post it. It's a story I wrote many years ago, stuck in a drawer and forgot about. In 2009, I was going through the drawer and found it, and promised myself that I would not put it back in the drawer again. [Read more]
More haikus for the Friday before Christmas Eve
by MrSmith1 12/22/2011 - 11:44 pm
haiku: When you're 61
and your mom is 93,
You find pics like this.
(My mom with Santa circa 1926)
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In the News
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There Will Be No Saviors for the GOP in 2012
Outstanding article:
Prominent Republicans keep hoping for someone to rescue them from its slate of mediocre candidates. But the party’s biggest problem is the ideological bloodlust of its base.
The bombshell dropped in Saturday’s Playbook, the chattering-class email sent out every morning by the Politico’s Mike Allen. If Mitt Romney fails to win Michigan next Tuesday, a few high-powered Republicans have started saying, the party needs to go back to square one and recruit a new candidate. Yes, maybe it does. But what will that fix? Not much. What the party needs is not simply a new candidate. It needs someone with the courage to stand up and say that the GOP has gone completely off the deep end—and that the party could run an amalgam of Ronald Reagan and Mahatma Gandhi and he wouldn’t win as long as the party’s inflamed base keeps with its current attitudes. But it lacks such a person utterly. It’s a party made up of on the one hand unprincipled cowards, and on the other of people devoted to principles so extreme that they’d have serious trouble attracting more than about 42 percent of the vote.
The report continues with viable and on target points.
Read the article at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/21/michael-tomasky-there-will-be-no-saviors-for-the-gop-in-2012.html- Add new comment
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Greek Debt 'Relief' Leaves Greece w/Higher Debt
The 'rescue package' appears to reduce interest rates on some bonds held by hedge funds and banks, while more than making up for that 'relief' with a new EU loan which is more than the purported savings on the previous bonds. This is 'relief'? For Greece or hedge funds and banks?
...The deal in Brussels gives Greece its second financial lifeline in less than two years — a combined package of foreign loans equivalent to about €22,000 ($29,000) for every Greek citizen, children included. National debt already amounts to about €32,000 ($42,300) each....
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Being Strong: Why Russia needs to rebuild its military.
By Vladimir Putin, ForeignPolicy.com, Feb. 21, 2012
[....] It is no surprise that some are calling for resources of global significance to be freed from the exclusive sovereignty of a single nation. This cannot happen to Russia, not even hypothetically [....]
Editor's note: A longer version of this article appeared in the Russian newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give $100M To...
By Steve Bertoni, Forbes Magazine, Feb. 21, 2012
[....] The man whose net worth, by Forbes’ calculations, has jumped more ($21.6 billion) during the Obama administration than any other American — Mark Zuckerberg included — wants to take the president out for economic reasons. “What scares me is the continuation of the socialist-style economy we’ve been experiencing for almost four years. That scares me because the redistribution of wealth is the path to more socialism, and to more of the government controlling people’s lives. What scares me is the lack of accountability that people would prefer to experience, just let the government take care of everything and I’ll go fish or I won’t work, etc.”
“U.S. domestic politics is very important to me because I see that the things that made this country great are now being relegated into duplicating that which is making other countries less great. … I’m afraid of the trend where more and more people have the tendency to want to be given instead of wanting to give. People are less willing to share. There are fewer philanthropists being grown and there are greater expectations of the government. I believe that people will come to their senses and not extend the current Administration’s quest to socialize this country. It won’t be a socialist democracy because it won’t be a democracy.” [....]
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Supreme Court HealthCare Arguments Extended To Six Hours
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has added another 30 minutes to upcoming arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The sessions now will span six hours over three days in late March.
The breakdown of the three central topics to be heard are in body of report.
This is a critical decision for all.
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