Realizing that I've been alive through eight presidencies, the thought has occured: I am getting old.

Still, no friends
No real enemies

Oddly neutral and somewhat feared
Respected yet avoided

It's a funny time to be me
Or is it?


"The radical right are to conservatives as anarchists are to liberals."
- D.P. Moynihan

"The—Pet—Goat. A—girl—got—a—pet—goat. But—the—goat—did—some—things—that—made—the—girl's—dad—mad."
- G.W. Bush

Why do republicans hate Americans?

Salon.com News | Bush urges blacks not to back Democrats

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"What we can say with confidence is that none of the measures adopted by the US government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al-Qaida plot.

Mr Kean, a Republican former governor of New Jersey, said it was not the commission's job to assign blame on a particular administration. Instead, he said: "Any person in a senior position within our government during this time bears some element of responsibility for our government's actions."

The commission also faulted Congress for failing to monitor the intelligence and counter-terrorist agencies properly and recommended it create a single committee to oversee homeland security. "So long as oversight is undermined by current congressional rules and resolutions, we believe the American people will not get the security they want and need," the commissioners wrote.


Analysis: This ALL happened under a wack job (R) administration and a wack job (R) congress way too busy looking at the president's penis to notice the world coming apart at the seams.

remember back in oh-one september
remember how scared we all were?
we were running around sorting out who would live
who would die
but where are we now?
nowhere
nowhere at all yet
 
My Life of Proabability

"My final prediction for today is that the U.S. will not send any teams to the Olympic Games this year. And the World Series will also be canceled or at least postponed for a National Security emergency that will never be explained in public until long after George Bush is gone from the White House, which will happen in early November -- or at least before Groundhog Day next year.


We are all going for a very wild ride for the next few months. So good luck and drink all the cold beer you can get your hands on for as long as necessary to guarantee victory and lasting peace in the nation and the world.


Buy the ticket, take the ride."

HST - 07.06.04

"So I had a choice to make: either take the word of a madman or defend America. Given that choice I will defend America."

George W. Bush on Saddam Hussein
July 12, 2004

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"So I had a choice to make: either take the word of a madman or defend America. Given that choice I will defend America."

Ty Hardaway on George W. Bush
July 12, 2004

Whew.

Maybe Patrick was right. Maybe the election is a lock after all.... Isn't this convenient? You don't have to compete if there's no competition.

The King of America is planning to eliminate democratic elections:

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The Boston Herald
Feds plan for disruption of elections
By Andrew Miga
Monday, July 12, 2004

WASHINGTON - Two Bay State congressmen yesterday scoffed at emergency plans under review by Homeland Security to postpone the November election should al-Qaeda launch a major strike to disrupt it.

``That would be the ultimate surrender to terrorism for a democracy,'' said U.S. Rep. William Delahunt [related, bio] (D-Quincy) in a Herald interview. ``It just creates more fear, if you will. I can't imagine postponing an election like that.''

The presidential election delay contingency planning, first reported by Newsweek, comes in the wake of public warnings last week by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge that al-Qaeda may seek to influence the Nov. 2 election with a ``large-scale'' attack.

``I find it difficult to believe that al-Qaeda could attack the country in such a way that the election would have to be postponed,'' said U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano [related, bio] (D-Somerville). ``It seems pretty extreme to me, but we live in a new world after 9/11.

Capuano has been a leading critic of the Homeland Security Department, which he said has focused on the wrong types of anti-terror measures.

Homeland Security officials last week asked the Justice Department what legal steps would be needed for the federal government to postpone a national election in the event of a terrorist attack on the day before or the day of the election, Newsweek reported.

Officials believe such authority could require constitutional changes as well as new election laws on the state and local levels.

``I hope they don't spend a lot of time on this election postponement (proposal),'' said Capuano. ``I'd rather have them figure out how to handle the Democratic National Convention more smoothly.''

U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Malden), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, was less critical, saying emergency election plans would be a ``drastic step'' that could pay dividends.

``The best answer to this threat is prevention - don't let an attack succeed in the first place,'' said Markey. ``Unfortunately, there are too many gaps in our homeland defenses to say with any confidence that we are ready to thwart any threat.''

Homeland Security sought legal advice from the Justice Department after receiving a letter from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which helps localities conduct federal elections.

Soaries urged Ridge to press Congress for emergency legislation that would permit the Election Assistance Commission to postpone federal elections should catastrophes such as a terrorist strike occur near the voting.

Numerous intelligence sources suggest senior al-Qaeda officials are behind the planning to sabotage the U.S. presidential election, Ridge said last week.

The Madrid railway bombings by al-Qaeda in March helped spur the ouster of Spain's prime minister, who had backed President Bush [related, bio] in the war in Iraq.

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All hail!

When you never eat the cocoa
You don't need much
Of the cocoa
To whet your whistle

Thank you and good night
Or as Brennie sez

"Nite nite"

"Thanks. It's probably neurochemical. Someone told me that I sometimes talk in my sleep in a hash of English-sounding phonemes that are not real words but are arranged in paragraphs and have the tone of someone engaged in a rational argument. Stuff just skitters through my brain all the time. A constant chorus of associations."

S. Erfurth, 07.08.04

Will I survive this lifetime?
What is it I ascribe to be?
Have I lost all humor?

A Dissection Begins:
Detailed analysis of Rich Walkling’s The Floods of Lexington Pacheco


No more southern precedents
Headphone insanity
Shit, goddamn motherfuckin’ yeah!
Lay your hammer down upon me

[Perhaps the best six minutes I’ve ever experienced]

Forget this shit
Time to turn on the Visualizer, man
So goddamn luxurious
Vowed to serve people in poverty, sickness, and ignorance

After the wars we will all wear headphones
Cannot concentrate on anything anymore
All focus is on floods
Floods and more floods

A patience that exceed all lessons
And I still have no idea what any of it means
Yet so painfully jealous and happy
A resounding joy – I hear you

Canons and angels and Asian chicks
In one song
So intentional
Such a wonderful noise

Reduced to tears
Like an insane toddler
in a Chinese prison
Beaten like a goddamn egg

You broke my shovel
Don’t push me there
You know how hyper-competitive I get
I will too hunker down

[Perhaps the best nine minutes I’ve ever experienced]

Thank you - bless you

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Take it back:

:: Give to save America ::

It's ours!

[Previously Untitled - July, 06, 2004]

The Floods of Lexington Pacheco

Aborted poetry in light of a
Casual nastiness that is less a
Surrogate for a knowing haughtiness
But more the hideous mask of
Personal insecurity
The kind that screams:

"What kind of American are you?
You don't even have a flag on your car.
Your car! Your fucking Car! Jesus Christ,
it's like you're some kind of God damn retard!
I don't know, are you retarded?
No flag, no yellow ribbons, no nothing. Jesus!
God damn you. God fucking damn you! I would
kill you now if I didn't know you were going
straight to hell. At least get a 'National Pride'
air freshener for crying out loud! What is your problem?!
This is America!"

I certainly appreciate a good, well-placed snap; one born quickly and smartly. But, typified of our lost and dying cultural intellect, cold, dumb remarks that attempt to enhance one's own stature only expose the chinks, the cracks and Achilles vulnerabilities.

In us all.