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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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I scanned a nice article at NYT forecasting how our energy needs will change over the next decade.
But it really is the progress our nation has made over the last five years that astounds me.
We are really close to seeing America as a net oil exporter!
Alternative sources of energy are cutting our dependency on coal.
Alternative sources of energy are creating jobs!
New sources of traditional fuel are creating jobs; real jobs paying good money. [Read more]
The NRA is having another convention and crazy crazy people will show up and give grand speeches about liberty and the Constitution and the commie liberals.
Mediamatters does a splendid job demonstrating how the voices of the right including Hannity and Nugent and beckerhead and so many other nutjobs have been calling for out-right revolution over the last few years.
Talk about yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater? [Read more]
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Senator Cruz
Speaking of revolutions:
Ted Cruz has been accused of setting himself up for a 2016 run for the Presidency!
Ted Cruz has denied these charges.
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/ted_cruz_will_never_be_president/?source=newsletter
Like Joan Walsh postulates:
IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!
And yes, I would welcome a Cruz candidacy.
What a wonderful opportunity to run against Joe McCarthy! [Read more]

I had a wonderful day.
Spring was more than a month late but damn I had a wonderful day.
It was 67 F for chrissakes!
Seany notified me by email that he would arrive with the troop on the weekend, like two days before the event.
I did not expect the troop until sometime in May.
We had just experienced a blizzard six days beforehand.
The roads and paths were impassable. [Read more]
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We're goin into Iraq, find a way!
(George W. Bush to his Cabinet in January, 2001.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0NJXoWATcM
We are celebrating a man who refused to read any memo longer than 3 pages during his administration! [Read more]
ITS THE DARK SKINNED GUY
I knew it!
I knew it when I first viewed the damage!
IT'S THE DARK SKINNED GUY!
WELL MAYBE NOT THIS TIME!
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MISCEGENATION
We as a nation have so many dire issues facing us.
The 21st century has presented us with a new Boston Massacre.
And there has been little news presented of late that even touches upon other dire issues that effect this country.
I still think that a discussion regarding race is important and it actually touches upon the racist attacks brought on by the right wing mass media in retaliation to this event. [Read more]
FUNNY & GUILELESS
Saline County Commissioner Jim Gile (R) used the term "nigger-rigging" during a commission discussion April 2 about hiring an architect to work on a county building, the Salina Journal reported on Saturday. Gile apologized for the comments, but residents called for his resignation during a commission meeting Tuesday afternoon...
"I am not a prejudiced person," Gile told the Salina Journal. "I have built Habitat homes for colored people."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/jim-gile-kansas_n_3045720.html?ref=topbar
There are other punch lines, believe it or not, to this story. See also:
http://www.salina.com/news/Gile2013-04-06T04-27-33 [Read more]
Prompted by Peggy Noonan's claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres. Obama's honor. "Can she actually believe this?," he asks incredulously.
By Julian Pecquet, The Hill, May 18, 2013
Congress is ramping up a new round of sanctions against Iran, ignoring the Obama administration's request to let diplomacy run its course.
In back-to-back hearings this week, lawmakers on key House and Senate panels put the State and Treasury departments on notice that their patience is wearing thin after the latest round of talks last month failed to produce a deal. Both chambers have legislative efforts in the works – the House foreign affairs panel will vote next week – but the administration is warning against any moves that could undermine international support for the existing sanctions against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program [....]
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times/Science, May 16/17, 2013
An article that summarizes the recent work of Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines which is pointing to the theory that dogs domesticated themselves.
But the article's message is not just what it first appears to be. When you get to the concluding paragraphs there are some real though provokers:
[....] SLC6A4 may have played a crucial part in this change, because serotonin influences aggression.
To test these ideas,...
By Neha Paliwal, Passport @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 17, 2013
On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church had demanded that authorities stop the rally, calling it a "violation of the majority's right."
According to EurasiaNet, the mob, which numbered...
By Miriam Elder in Moscow, The Guardian, May 17, 2013
Federal Security Service spokesman breaches protocol as he accuses US agency of crossing 'red line' in its recruitment efforts