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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Distractions on the Left
Demonstrations like they used to be As a genuine card carrying member of the Old Left I get lots of emails. Mostly asking for money to support some Congressional or Senatorial candidate in some far away state because the sun … Continue reading
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Tagged "new left", "old left", abortion, contrception, distractions, domestic abuse, gay marriage, gay rights, Hillary Clinton, Islamic State, left, one percent, socialists, syria, war
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New Apple Phone Blocks NSA – Gummit Pissed!
Signaling the commencement of the post-Snowden era, the New York Times reported today that the new Apple iphone6 locks out NSA snooping – and the snoops are pissed. The article may be seen here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/technology/iphone-locks-out-the-nsa-signaling-a-post-snowden-era-.html The phone is the … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, brazil, China, FBI, FISA courts, Germany, google, government snooping, iphone6, marketing, NSA, post-snowden, snowden
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The “John the Baptist” of Fascism
Italians in Fiume cheering D’Annunzio in September 1919 . There murmur swarming through my drowsy head In this vast furnace of a summer day Relentless verses clamoring to be said, As beetles round a putrid carcass play. One doesn’t often … Continue reading
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Tagged Axis, corporatism, fascism, fascist poet, Fiume, Gabriele D'Annunzio, history, Hitler, irredentism, irrendist, Italian, literature, March on Rome, Mussolini, nationalist, poet, Regency of Carnaro, Rijecka, theater of Fascism, Vienna, World War l
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10,000 Views
Today I reached 10,000 views on this blog – a pretty nice one year milestone for an old retired guy living in Florida who tries to write poetry (not very well) and sundry other posts. Ten thousand times in the … Continue reading
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Tagged countries where readers live, Facebook, one year's traffic, social media, ten thosand views, thank you, twitter, wordpress blog, yaay
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Modern Romance
She knew he didn’t love her ’cause his top three Snapchat rates were all of other girls and that web cam whore Kate. And she wanted to hang out but he said it was too late then he posted on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged breaking up, deletes, Facebook, little talking face to face, poetry, sexting, snapchat, social media, social skills, texting, tweets, twenty something love, twitter, what is love, whatever
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Bring Back the Draft
Well to no one’s surprise, the United States commenced bombing ISIL targets inside Syria ensuring we continue to wage war as we have done for the last thirteen years. The MSM immediately began quoting “Pentagon officials” on how the battle … Continue reading
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Tagged anti war protest, Bahrain, bombings, caliphate, Charlie Rangel, conscription, disconnect, draft, Hessians, Iraq, ISSIL, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, syria, Turkey, U.A.E., volunteer army, war tax
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ISIL and Sykes-Picot
Fat Chance Several months ago, ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, announced it’s intention to do away with the borders of the modern Middle-East. It already controls territory spanning the “border” between Iraq and Syria. “Levant”, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf states, Iraq, ISIL, isis, Islamic State, Jordan, Kurdistan, Kurds, Lebanon, national borders, Ottoman state, Ottomans, Palestine, Saoudi Arabia, Sauds, Shia, Sunni, Sykes Picot Agreement, syria, Trans-Jordan, Treaty of Lausanne, upcoming war, Versailles, Wahabists, world war II
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White Sands
before It wasn’t called White Sands even by those who lived there on dirt streets that dead ended north side of the creek. Houses where the eldest son never had his own room only a Castro Convertible to dream his … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, Brooklyn, dreams, hopes, John F. Kennedy, parking lots, poetry, poverty, White Sands, youth
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Wage Slavery and the Student Loan Mafia
“Student debt collectors have powers that would make a mobster envious”. Thus spake Elizabeth Warren and, if anything, she is understating the student loan crisis. We used to jail loan sharks. Now they run the likes of Wells Fargo. Student … Continue reading
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Tagged "middle class", bankruptcy, banks, banksters, co-maker parents, collection tactics, college costs, debt, default, Elizabeth Warren, for profits "colleges", investment in education, Lyndon Johnson, mafia tactics, one percenters, poverty, refinancing, social security checks, student loans, wage garnishment, wage slaves
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Return of the Abbasid
And so yesterday the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham committed another barbarity. A captured American journalist, Steven Sotloff was beheaded on camera as a “message” to America. Presumably this atrocity was ordered by Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, self-styled “Caliph … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbasids, Al Bagdadi, beheading, caliph, caliphate, isis, Islamic State, Kurd, Mongols, Mosul, Osama Bin Laden, Ottomans, Raqqa, Saudi royals, Shia, Steven Sotloff, Sunni, Umayyads, Wahabis
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