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WHO SHALL MEET THE LOOMING STRIKE
2007-07-13 06:17:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Open post to read the poemWho hears the coming tollclanging down upon existence;the hell?s bell strafing the motherlandin shock and awe?s comeuppance?Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.Not nearly enough of the breathing.For the idle flesh... it?s now beyond remittance.Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.For whom should it toll?And for how much longer?Ask the twisted faces... staring back in anger.Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.Behind us, the screeching gloom hunched in wait.In front, that goddamned piece of paperof which... we?ve made a solemn pledge.Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.What should each of us do?And why should each of us do it?Ask the occupied... that kneel in rigid prayer.Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.Who should heed the gruesome bell?And who should meet the looming strikeof shock and awe?s reward?Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.Not nearly enough of the living.For the fallen... it?s now beyond their giving.Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.Who should stand and hold back hell?And ...
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POROUS
2007-07-12 07:00:00
(SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D), CONNECTICUT: The war is not lost in Iraq. In fact, now American Iraqi security forces are winning. The enemy is on the run in Iraq. But, here in — in Congress, in Washington, we seem to be, or some — some members seem to be on the run, chased, I fear, by public opinion polls.)COOPER: Is the enemy on the run in Iraq, Michael (Ware)?WARE: No, certainly not. And I think we need to be aware that it’s enemies. I mean, America doesn’t face just one opponent in this country, but a whole multitude, many of whom are becoming stronger, the longer the U.S. occupation here, or presence here, in Iraq continues. So, unfortunately, I’m afraid that Senator Lieberman has taken an excursion into fantasy.porousO warriors in the red gleaming grovewith voices like that of stone…Heroes beneath the noisy rubble of human ragewith breath like that of decomposing joy…Brothers and sisters at rest under the darkened skywith an ashen vigor like that of midnight fog...Ha...

POROUS
2007-07-12 07:00:00
(SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D), CONNECTICUT: The war is not lost in Iraq. In fact, now American Iraqi security forces are winning. The enemy is on the run in Iraq. But, here in ? in Congress, in Washington, we seem to be, or some ? some members seem to be on the run, chased, I fear, by public opinion polls.)COOPER: Is the enemy on the run in Iraq, Michael?WARE: No, certainly not. And I think we need to be aware that it?s enemies. I mean, America doesn?t face just one opponent in this country, but a whole multitude, many of whom are becoming stronger, the longer the U.S. occupation here, or presence here, in Iraq continues. So, unfortunately, I?m afraid that Senator Lieberman has taken an excursion into fantasy.O warriors in the red gleaming grovewith voices like that of stone?Heroes beneath the noisy rubble of human ragewith breath like that of decomposing joy?Brothers and sisters at rest under the darkened skywith an ashen vigor like that of midnight fog...Half?lived and fruitless towa...

Take Action!
2007-07-11 07:46:00
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Al Franken: God Spoke 1 - 9
2007-07-10 07:00:00
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07-07-2007- LIVE EARTH - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
2007-07-09 08:14:00
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Iraq Vets Against the War Present Operation First Casualty
2007-07-08 19:36:00
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One Year ago- LISTEN CLOSELY
2007-07-08 07:16:00
An al-Sadr aide, Shaikh Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, denounced the Baghdad raid, saying 11 civilians were killed and dozens wounded as U.S. jets fired on the area while people were sleeping on their roofs amid searing summer temperatures and electricity shortages."This is a big escalation from the American side," he said. "I condemn all the silence toward such violations and I call for the withdrawal of the American forces."There were conflicting casualty figures. Lt. Kadim Abbas Hamza of the Sadr City police said fighter planes fired from the air at about 3:15 a.m. and nine people, including a woman, were killed and 14 were wounded. He also said eight people were arrested. A hospital official said seven people were killed and 34 wounded______________________________Now that we truly see them, the people of the world,Why are our eyes not wet in the midst of scaly grief?Have we not shrieked in nameless terror long enough,Been onlooker to nightmares of insensible wintersBeckoning to us from...
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One Year ago- LISTEN CLOSELY
2007-07-08 07:16:00
An al-Sadr aide, Shaikh Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, denounced the Baghdad raid, saying 11 civilians were killed and dozens wounded as U.S. jets fired on the area while people were sleeping on their roofs amid searing summer temperatures and electricity shortages."This is a big escalation from the American side," he said. "I condemn all the silence toward such violations and I call for the withdrawal of the American forces."There were conflicting casualty figures. Lt. Kadim Abbas Hamza of the Sadr City police said fighter planes fired from the air at about 3:15 a.m. and nine people, including a woman, were killed and 14 were wounded. He also said eight people were arrested. A hospital official said seven people were killed and 34 wounded.Now that we truly see them, the people of the world,Why are our eyes not wet in the midst of scaly grief?Have we not shrieked in nameless terror long enough,Been onlooker to nightmares of insensible wintersBeckoning to us from unfilled graves etched in aw...
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Join in on the impeachment matrix!
2007-07-07 07:13:00
Any and all...Please continue the effort here by adding it to your blog and spreading the matrix...Hat Tip to Betmo of Life's Journey...Instructions:1.- Copy and paste this message as a new post on your own blog.2. - Replace one of the ?Impeach NOW? tags in the matrix below with your anchor text (Blog name) of choice with your blog?s URL (Don't hesitate to e-mail me if you have questions about this!). Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.3. - Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.4.- The above steps will not only add your voice to the chorus for impeachment, but will also increase your Technorati stats as an added bonus.We, the undersigned bloggers of America, agreeing that dissent is the truest form of patriotism, hereby publicly voice our unanimous discontent with the Bush administration and beseech the Congress of the United States of America to provide redress by immediately initiating impeachm...
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Join in on the impeachment matrix!
2007-07-07 07:13:00
h/t to Betmo of Life's Journey For instructions: 1.- Copy and paste this message as a new post on your own blog.2. - Replace one of the “Impeach NOW� tags in the matrix below with your anchor text (Blog name) of choice with your blog’s URL (Don't hesitate to e-mail me if you have questions about this!). Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.3. - Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally. 4.- The above steps will not only add your voice to the chorus for impeachment, but will also increase your Technorati stats as an added bonus.We, the undersigned bloggers of America, agreeing that dissent is the truest form of patriotism, hereby publicly voice our unanimous discontent with the Bush administration and beseech the Congress of the United States of America to provide redress by immediately initiating impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.Left in Aboite Fort Wayne Left Left...
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WORTH
2007-07-06 07:00:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage )Breath to a corpse,A bottomless floor,A penny to the poor,A whispered roar;A country's flagis worth no more;Illusion of truth,Slight of hand,Trap door.© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanPentagon Hides Piles of IED-shredded Humvees From Public http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/atom.x ml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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THE VISITOR by André de Korvin
2007-07-05 07:04:00
When he drove into town,the plaza clock turnedits face away, a shy brideand just to please himdowntown windows took onthe look of chessboardswhere black was winning.Years went up in smoke,nicotine stains on his lips,and I rememberedthe many roads I walked,running circles,not knowing where to go.Traffic lights spoketheir limited language of colors.Red, nothing movesorange, the season of changes is nowgreen, here's resurrection time.For hours, I stood on the steps of my porchwatching the truck that death rodeignite the whole sky orange, long afterthe sun had set.A gentle wind kept callingthe names of placesI had left.© 2007 adk/ andrédekorvin http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/atom.x ml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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COMMUTABLE DISEASE
2007-07-03 21:49:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Newsday.com ? Bush Respects the Jury and the Judge but not the Sentence?I respect the jury's verdict," Bush said in a statement. "But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive."National Review Online ? Libby gets what he deserves? freedomSay what??We have urged President Bush to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby from the moment a jury found Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff guilty of perjury and obstruction in the CIA-leak case. Now the president has acted. He didn't go as far as we would have liked, choosing to commute Libby's prison term while leaving his conviction, fine, and probation intact. But his action ensures that Libby will not go to jail, and that's a good thing. There were a lot of reasons why presidential clemency was appropriate. The first is that the CIA-leak investigation was a fundamentally political exercise from Day One. Even before the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzge...
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TSOPTH *Do not share*
2007-07-03 06:47:00
Blog Against Theocracy (& Torture) III(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) POETIC TORTURE HANDBOOKONE1. The subject is bound at the foot and metaphor using a thick plastic rhetorical device2. A black hood?s placed over the simile3. The body is lashed to the stanza with chain rhymes4. Wire ellipses are then attached to the cantos and haiku5. Two hundred watts of symbolism and allusion find rhythm in subject?s couplets and strophe6. If this brings no allegorical narrative then it?s on to step two...TWO1.The subject is strapped flat on their assonance using ironic shackles2.A parallel of simile is then dripped upon the stichomythia3.Continue dripping until subject screams in iambic pentameter or until subject loses his or her mind altogether.4.Repeat for fourteen hours straight, if necessary.~First bloomBombIEDSacramentDeityFolded painGiven thee?A plea?A grasp?A hope?A bomb?An IED?An unfurrowed pain?An offering to theeBloomBombIEDChildrenAcheForfeitThee?T ake this tree, gOD?Take this flower...
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WARRING CHRIST (Blog Against Theocracy II)
2007-07-02 07:06:00
Theocracy is derived from the two Greek words, Qeo/j(Theos) meaning "God" and kra/tein (cratein) meaning "to rule." The Reverend Rod Parsley, a champion of theocracy, or what he calls a "christocracy," told his congregation at the World Harvest Church, located just outside Columbus, Ohio, "Theocracy means God is in control, and you are not." (more)D. James Kennedy, Pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries:"Our job is to reclaim America for Christ , whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society."Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself. (more)Dying in the meadows,They?ve all fallenLifeless along the windOld men and women,...
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DRUG INDEPENDENCE (Blog Against Theocracy I)
2007-07-01 07:00:00
Believe in Him, child.Don?t in your heart hold hatred or shame.Don?t have other god?s before HimAnd don?t say His name in vain.And for Christ?s sake! Don?t do drugs!Nicotine, Dramamine and Novocain,Caffeine and Ritalin; they?re just fine,But not LSD, marijuana or cocaine.Don?t forget to go to church on Sunday.Do not dishonor your father and mother.Do not commit adultery,Or have sex with your sister or brother. Don?t steal, lie, or cheat one another.Do not of your neighbor tell tales of fiction,Covet or lust for anyone?s wife,And don't trust people with brown skin.Another?s blood you must never spill If you want to get into heaven.Don?t, don?t, don?t, don't ever kill,Unless your leader says you must,To save your own fair skin.© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanFirst Freedom FirstBlog Against Theo cracy http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/atom.x ml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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Back to the Future
2007-06-30 07:00:00
Want to know what was on my mind one year ago today?It is time to bring `em home. Time to call it what it is,What it's always beenAnd will remain.It is time to bring `em home.Occasion is now not later.Later's mere deceitWaiting to be slain.It is time to bring `em home.Bomb no more, unlock,Unload their weaponAnd to us return.It is time to bring `em home.To terminate our mourning,To heal our grievanceAnd say lesson learned.It is time to bring `em home.That our love might comeYet again upon the dreamAnd embrace our soul.It is time to bring `em home.To air the people?s voiceAs one of peace and joyAnd unite the breathing fold.It is time to bring `em home.Time to call it what it is,What it's always beenAnd will remain.It is time to bring `em home.End our hold upon Iraq.Later's just a paradeWaiting on the rain.Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman One of the Many Reasons to Withdraw© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanhttp://apoeticjustice.blo gspot.com/atom.xml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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SiCKO!
2007-06-29 14:52:00
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THE BEST WE'VE TO OFFER
2007-06-29 00:58:00
High Court Rules Race Out (Another sad day)Is this really the best that our great thinkers have to offer?Bringing the good ol? boy conformist roaring to his feet?To rejuvenate ignorance and send Latinos packing?Separation's a gift! To hell with diversity! These thinkers with their backward idealsAnd old school divisionsKnuckle dragging the country right off a cliff!© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanhttp://apoeticjustice.blo gspot.com/atom.xml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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Immigration Bill Dies on Floor of Senate
2007-06-28 21:20:00
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TONY'S HANDS
2007-06-28 19:23:00
If that isn?t just a kick in the teeth!Tony?s going to usher in peace...That?s just so goddamned precious!Tony Blair as a peace manWith all that blood on his hands?Think again.© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanBlair Steps Down, Takes up Mideast Peacehttp://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/a tom.xml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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APJ & the Thinking Blogger Award
2007-06-28 01:56:00
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. ~H.G. WellsKid Sally of Nightbird's Fountain has bequeathed unto APJ the Thinking Blogger Award which I?ll certainly not refuse, ?three times?s a charm?, they say, so I'll accept this one for my muse. By now I would imagine most of you have heard of the Thinking Blogger Award? Thinking, or thought, is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. I'd say they rightly named the award using the word thinking instead of the word thought, because the Thoughting Blogger Award sounds rather awkward, if not down right stupid. (Why I've been nominated thrice for a thinking award is beyond me...)Where was I? Oh! Yes! My Thinking Blogger Award nominees.There are a good number of thinking bloggers to choose from out in blogospheria, so, if I decide to honor a blogger as thinking, it follo...
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UNDISCLOSED HISTORY
2007-06-26 19:50:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) The Cheese Stands AloneBy Dana Milbank - The Washington PostTuesday, June 26, 2007 "We'll make statements only today," President Bush announced to reporters yesterday as he sat with the Estonian president in the Oval Office.No surprise there. Vice President Cheney's recent declaration that he is not part of the executive branch has prompted hard questions, and nobody in the White House has a good answer for why Cheney -- who hovered near Bush's desk while the president spoke -- had turned himself into a fourth branch of government.The explanatory task fell to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, whose skin reddened around her neck and collar as she pleaded ignorance during the daily briefing: "I'm not a legal scholar. . . . I'm not opining on his argument that his office is making. . . . I don't know why he made the arguments that he did.""It's a little surreal," remarked Keith Koffler of Congress Daily."You're telling me," Perino agreed."You ...
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Israel's Influence on American Foreign Policy
2007-06-25 07:19:00
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Tony Blair's Peace Music Video
2007-06-24 07:00:00
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WORDS (A eulogy for my Aunt Dorothy)
2007-06-23 15:51:00
My Aunt Dorothy loved words.She loved to write, read, create, speak and have them.In the last five or six years Dorothy and I played more games of Scrabble than anyone here could imagine, except perhaps, Tom and Jan, Dorothy?s next door neighbors, who had to have heard us arguing about a word on of us had just played. Dorothy and I were both somewhat amazed that they had never come over to check and see if the argument had ended in fisticuffs. Of course it never did, much to my relief. Last count we were at about 400 games. That, my friends, is a lot of words. But it wasn?t just about the love of words that she and I shared. It was also the love of coffee. And competition. And companionship. And caring. And her cooking (she loved to cook and I loved eating her cooking.) ...And it was about the laughter and even the tears. Which, when all combined; competition, companionship, caring, cooking, laughter and tears you get a sense of why most of our nearly 400 games took anywhere between...
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Who Stand up for America
2007-06-23 08:57:00
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BACK TO ANGUISH!
2007-06-22 05:10:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Family fled Iraq 14 years ago, might now face deportationThe neighborhood Dallal Muhamed lives in is like her life.Near her house in the stretches of Mountain's Edge is a lot losing dust to the wind, the skeleton of another house, some homes where the last roof tile was laid a week ago and a few houses with families unloading groceries from the car.There's an air of instability, the not-yet-ready, the soon-to-arrive, the just-left, the settling in.Muhamed has lived like this for 14 years, moving from Baghdad to Yemen, Munich, Tijuana and finally Las Vegas. She has been a civil engineer, a secretary, a real estate agent and a card dealer in a casino, all while raising a son and daughter.Soon, she may have to pick up again, if immigration authorities deport her to Iraq - the country she fled after being raped, she says, by a gang member with ties to one of Saddam Hussein's sons.Muhamed, who last month lost her bid to stay in this country in the 9th U....
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WHEN I SLEEP by André de Korvin
2007-06-21 06:47:00
My bed rocks gently, a raftdrifting on a winding river of clocks.Eyes closed, I askthe river whyclocks have spokenRussian all day.Rain in my sleepwrites poems, stanzasrunning Cyrillic acrossslanted roofs and overstreets leading to dead ends.It writes about what wasand isn't anymore,the blinding flash of the wheelchanging everythingso nothing remainsthe same.My bed drifts throughthe open window and the door(which all too oftentalks way too much in my dreams)asks why timeflows alwaysso strangein the morning.© 2007 adk/ andrédekorvin http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/atom.x ml http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
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