Politics and holy stains
NAPLES, Florida…Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan;
new town being built in Florida will be governed according to
strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion,
pornography or birth control.
Monaghan…at least $250 million and calls it “God’s will.”
God will call it just more junk.
God laments. “Why not donate $250 mil to rebuild New Orleans?”
Semite
CATEGORY: culture; language
DEFINITION: A name applied to the speakers of a set of related languages who inhabited portions of southwestern Asia since the time of the first cities.The Semites are first recorded on the steppe margins of the Arabian desert, encroaching upon the Sumerians to form the kingdom of Akkad c 2400 BC. The Amorites appear c 2000 in the same area and in Syria-Palestine, where they settled to become the Canaanites.
The Khabiru (Hebrews) appear in the same context. In the 12th century BC, the Amorites were followed by the Aramaeans, particularly in inland Syria.The Phoenicians from the 9th century BC carried their Semitic language over much of the Mediterranean.
Arabic and Hebrew are the most important surviving Semitic languages.Most, probably all, alphabetic scripts derive from the Semitic alphabet, created sometime in the 2nd millennium BC.The Semitic script was invented by speakers of some Semitic language, possibly Phoenician, who lived in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
(from Archaeology Wordsmith online)
Macon Hawkins, of Kosciusko, Texas,
a diabetic 69-year-old American hostage
released on his birthday (today) said,
“I have no animosity toward them at all.
I’ve seen their little villages, they’re dirt poor,
poor as field mice.”
Nigerian militants want a greater share
of proceeds from the oil pumped
from beneath their southern lands,
which remain deeply impoverished.
Report Released on February 23, 2006
Nigeria (1.174 million barrels per day)
exported to the Good Ol’ Addicts US of A
What US abet we owe atonement,
and the dues are way past due.
when sleep won’t come
and the moon is full
when arms are empty
will we remember?
play must be work
when day is done
and previous distractions
no longer distract
when all is said
and nothing done
no place to hide
no place to run
naked of masks
we face our feet
are we walking our talk
or splitting our tongue?
we made God
in our image then swear
He made us
in His
we make our enemy
the Devil and swear
who is not with us
is against us
nono nannette declares
never more
Poe’s raven cries
some of us wear sandals
walking in the sand
across lines drawn
blown clean
by feathered wind
the first temptation is little
yer a good ol’ cowboy
all you hafta do to stay out of Vietnam
is become a fly boy
Son you’re so special head on down to Atlanta
and take the helm of a fighter jet
Mock I is guaranteed to scar the shit out of a home boy
“You can either go to jail for missing guard duity or
become a Governor of the great state of Texas”
Governor Bush, prince in waiting,
followed the directions of The Great Persuader
now Texas is in the state our Molly Ivins decries.
The stage is set, our once innocent cowboy
now is given the temptation to be the king of the hill
he can become “The most powerful ruler in the world.”
All he has to do is let Cheney pull the strings
Now cowboys have a way of slicing thru the bull
Cowboy George still could see
we saw him look and feel the Twin Towers disaster
and he spoke to we the people sincerely
and promised to get his man “Dead or Alive”
But was turned aside by the power brokers that brought him here
he followed, he saw, he heard
today his popularity dropped to 34% in spite of the advice he receives
down from high 60’s or 70’s
has it happened yet – i think yes
in comes the Jackal and gives Cowboy George the choice
“In this pocket is the key to all the riches in the world
In the other pocket is a gun.
If you don’t choose the riches, you choose death.
Now the cowboy loves his children, and maybe loves his wife,
but he sure likes livin’ (even if not Mock I)
Who has there been to vote for since John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
nobody – now surely
George Bush growing up in Midland and Huston
studied history at Yale, graduating in 1968,
learned of the assassination of JFK
and the controversy still alive in 2006
Mr. President can follow orders
but Cowboy George was country too
before country was born
The Master Manipulators Grand plans
crumble beneath their feet
the nature of the beast exposed
and all the world is watching
Beautiful America is what we have
if we can restore her wings they broke
yes storm clouds brew on the horizon
one we recognize
paranoia is contagious only if it is true
past abuses of presidential powers we know
we were fooled once, shame on them
If we are fooled in 2006
or whenever it is “they” figure Bush a liability
will we be fooled again?
Shame on us if we are.
Speak to us Cowboy John Wayne Bush fan,
watch your popularity rise to the highest ever
for a sitting president.
If you try we will remember, always.
When the most intense revivals swept
the mountains just a century ago,
participants described the shouts and barks
in unknown tongues, the jerks of those who tried
to climb the walls, the holy dance and laugh.
But strangest are reports of what was called
the holy cuss. Sometimes a man who spoke
in tongues and leapt for joy would break into
an avalanche of cursing that would stun
with brilliance and duration. Those that heard
would say the holy spirit spoke as from
a whirlwind. Words burned on the air like chains
of dynamite. The listeners felt transfigured,
and felt true contact and true presence then,
as if the shock of unfamiliar
and blasphemous profanity broke through
beyond the reach of prayer and song and hallo
to answer heaven’s anger with its echo.
First printed in Southern Poetry Review, Vol. 43, No. 1 2004
© 2004 by Robert Morgan
Bush in today’s stubby speach:
“Osama was firing rockets at the fly overs
patrolling the Iraqi no fly zone.”
Don’t we all feel safer now?
With all the rocket fired on our planes
in all the years they paroled the no fly zone
NONE ever came near hitting our planes.
Question of the moment:
If the UAE royalty loves Osama
and Bush loves the UAE royalty
does that equal Bush loving Osama?
If the “enemy of our enemy is our friend.”
Are Bush, Osama, and UAE royalty
our enemy because they are friends?
Or is Rumsfield proved a prophet,
predicting in 1991; if we continued to Baghdad
there would be a civil war in Iraq?
End of investigative reporters
at least in the main stream
who will connect the dots between the 2004 event
in Afghanistan when Osama was not bombed because
the Royalty of the UAE were visiting with bin Laden
and the control of our ports turned over to UAE 2006?
or
an unnamed 44 yr old musician gets Anthrax
from animal hides from Africa to make drums
we could call it
do unto others as they have done unto you
blankets with smallpox : hides with anthrax
if one had never cured a hide
Wants the Death Penalty
of COURSE not for himself
In the name of compassion for the victims
he wants death penalty
Ben derides those against the death penalty
as having compassion for the wrong people.
SHADES of George W. Bush
use your rational mind Ben Ferguson
there IS another option if you can hear
People that are against the death penalty
have compassion for BOTH the victim
AND the criminal who is also human,
even after committing a criminal act.
Keep the criminal isolated from society
for the rest of his life. It does not matter
whether he confesses to the crime or not,
he Knows why he is being isolated,
guilty, or not guilty.
We have all the evidence any rational mind should need,
to know, in America, we have murdered innocent people.
Do not believe, if you so choose,
the statistics that tell us the death penalty
does not deter crime, but
KNOW, every time an innocent person is put to death
those who support the death penalty
also have blood on their hands.
(Ben is only 21, so there is still hope, for him)
C-SPAN, Washington Journal:
calling in on the Republican line,
in response to Arab countries taking over
the running of American ports said,
“Arabs are Muslims, and Muslims
want to destroy Israel and America,
WHAT IS GEORGE BUSH THINGING OF
HE MUST HAVE MUSH FOR BRAINS.”
Not all Arabs are Muslims,
not all Muslims are Arabs,
not all Muslims or Arabs
want to destroy Israel and America,
anyone who things otherwise
must have mush for brains.
But this does not disprove
Bush has mush for brains.