tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196955682024-03-07T15:07:52.958-05:00Terminal ChaosityWhen every risk's a paper risk/
when every toe and tac and tic
is underlined and scored/
I'll bet you're bored.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.comBlogger541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-55865390696975575872013-10-12T19:35:00.003-04:002013-10-12T19:38:48.024-04:00Started a new blog today....beltway whining. I thought about putting it here, but it doesn't quite seem like the right place to rant.
Anyhow....give it a look:
<a href="http://beltwaybitch.blogspot.com/">http://beltwaybitch.blogspot.com/</a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-41424583052228165882013-05-11T21:04:00.002-04:002013-05-11T21:04:26.509-04:00Long Time No BlogFinally got a new computer with a current enough browser to let me post again.
What a shame I've got nothing to say.
Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-91477601620701111272012-04-15T08:42:00.001-04:002012-04-15T08:44:55.481-04:00Talking Tea with Ann RomneyAlthough I have finally convinced myself that I am financially secure enough to buy and drink Earl Gray tea on a daily basis instead of reserving it for special occasions I have not yet permitted myself to even <em>imagine</em> using a new tea bag for each cup. Do you think Ann Romney understands my angst?Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-71074743314792315092012-03-08T20:28:00.002-05:002012-03-08T20:33:00.140-05:00St. Baldricks<a href="http://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/donorlist/545470/2012">St. Baldricks</a><br /><br />Please hit the above link and donate!! <br /><br />Dominic H. is my 7 year old grandson who is shaving his beautiful curly red locks to raise money for kids with cancer.<br /><br />I am awed at his generousity and his willingness to help others. Please show him that adults, too, are equally generous and willing.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd-0L9Wqo0GI3vTIHS85bPktHens9VD0IB8zh90Qtnq087zrCV9r0r2ch1WlvxsP3DYxMlAb8HNOBgJN5a6VY43efZQZBwPCMX26VJ4X7HjCaMpzW7qZVw_g-Mrzl8kiap8gUkrQ/s1600/Dominic+Rock+Star.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd-0L9Wqo0GI3vTIHS85bPktHens9VD0IB8zh90Qtnq087zrCV9r0r2ch1WlvxsP3DYxMlAb8HNOBgJN5a6VY43efZQZBwPCMX26VJ4X7HjCaMpzW7qZVw_g-Mrzl8kiap8gUkrQ/s400/Dominic+Rock+Star.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717704077023343490" /></a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-17015517487655830132011-12-23T10:49:00.002-05:002011-12-23T11:09:37.810-05:00How Can Ron Paul Justifyhis old newsletters, written in his name and published in a newsletter named after him as something "he didn't write and didn't read?"<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/272102/20111223/ron-paul-newsletter-ad-really-sign-matter.htm">http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/272102/20111223/ron-paul-newsletter-ad-really-sign-matter.htm</a><br /><br />Even a half-ass, mediocre, rarely published poet/writer like myself is very careful to always know where I'm publishing, who I'm publishing with and who else is routinely published in any given magazine or Internet site. <br /><br />I spend time researching before I submit a poem or an article. I've been known to pull poems right before publication and to have poetry already published on Internet Sites removed if and when I suddenly find out that the media outlet in question has a reputation for also publishing racist, sexist or religiously bigoted poems or who has a habit of publishing work of artists who are racist, sexist or religiously bigoted people.<br /><br />It's my <em>name</em>, yanno? It's what I have. It's who I am. Where I publish defines me almost as much as what I publish. <br /><br />In the same vein, what an editor or a newsletter owner publishes also defines them.<br /><br />Face it, Howard Hefner is not a chaste individual. Nor does anyone who's ever read Playboy expect him to be. "The Catholic Digest" is not going to publish articles promoting Judaism. The "Jewish Poetry Monthly" is not going to print a lot of poems praising Jesus. <br /><br />If you read my blog you expect to read about me. Or about things I believe in. If my name is on an article posted here or elsewhere, you are going to expect that I've written it myself - or, at the very least, have taken the time to read and approve the content thoroughly enough that I fully support every idea that it contains. <br /><br />Thus it is with a newsletter called, "The Ron Paul Newsletter." <br /><br />I don't know what's worse - to think that he was aware of everything his newsletters contained or that he wasn't.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-58806593842470298302011-12-08T08:58:00.003-05:002011-12-08T09:23:48.311-05:00Happy Blogversary!!Wow!! I just noticed that this blog is 6 years old today.<br /><br />I wish I had something profound to say.<br /><br />But I don't.<br /><br />There have been some major changes in my life. My aunt died, my mother became unable to care for herself and had to be moved to a nursing home. I sold her house and became her Power of Attorney and guardian. My mother-in-law suffered a catastrophic stroke in July, 2010 and Dan and I moved her from her home in New Jersey to a near-by nursing home here in Virginia in March of 2011 when it became clear she was not going to have a good recovery.<br /><br />I have learned many of the ways I do not want to get old.<br /><br />I have learned that Medicare pays for almost nothing when it comes to nursing homes and that a "life savings" can and will disappear in less than 18 months.<br /><br />I have learned about feeding tubes and obsessive/compulsive behaviours in dementia patients. I have also learned that "<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">dementia</span>" covers an extremely wide range of things and is used much too loosely in many instances.<br /><br />I have learned that nursing homes are not well staffed and that the staff they do have is overworked and underpaid and that most of them work very hard and are extremely dedicated in spite of it. I have also learned that a few bad apples really DO spoil the whole bunch.<br /><br />I have surmised, although I have no proof, that the new Medicare/Medicaid rules which state that they will no longer pay for nosocomial infections (infections acquired while a patient in a facility) such as Urinary Tract Infections or MRSA simply means that the nursing homes and hospitals will do their best to avoid testing for such infections in order to bypass the possibility of not being reimbursed for the treatment. Therefore, if you want your loved one treated for such infections you must take it upon yourself to watch them very carefully for signs and/symptoms of such infections and insist upon testing if and when you think it's a possibility.<br /><br />I have learned that it's always a possibility that they've got either a UTI or MRSA or both and that, in the elderly, often the only sign of a UTI is confusion, increased confusion, combative behaviour, increased lethergy or a sudden mood change.<br /><br />The rest of the family is well. All children and grandchildren are wonderful. Spouse is fantastic.<br /><br />Gaining weight is hard for some people and the struggle is often dissed badly by people who do not have a problem gaining weight.<br /><br />I no longer recognize even one name of anyone nominated for a music award.<br /><br />Cats are crazy.<br /><br />Poets are crazy.<br /><br />I like cats better than I like poets.<br /><br />Cockatiels live forever. They only get louder and more demanding as time passes.<br /><br />Jeeps rock.<br /><br />Winter sucks.<br /><br />Oceans rule.<br /><br />Someday I will touch a dolphin.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-36934648424420513642011-12-02T10:46:00.000-05:002011-12-02T10:48:46.744-05:00Herman Cain, Ginger White, OWS and WTF?You gotta wonder --- how does this:<br /><br /><em>Herman Cain recently criticized the Occupy Wall Street protesters, saying, "Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."At Tuesday night's CNN debate, Cain stood by his comments -- to loud cheers from the audience. "I still stand by my statement," he said.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1018798.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1018798.html</a><br /><br />Square with his suddenly big-hearted sympathy and understanding for Ginger White's unemployment situation?"<br /><br /><em>Sean, unfortunately, I'm a softy, and I feel sorry for people when they get in deep financial trouble, especially given this economy and people being out of work. This isn't the only person I have helped. There are members of my church, members of my family, you know other friends that I have helped all the time in terms of trying to help them during these tough economic times."</em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/herman-cain-hannity-interview_n_1124797.html?ref=politics&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C117172" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" vglnk_1322840766833="1">Herman Cain 'Hannity' Interview: GOP Presidential Candidate Says 'I Am Going To Reestablish My Character' (VIDEO)</a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-83417148074967530032011-09-26T10:42:00.008-04:002011-09-26T20:36:11.020-04:00HypertextsUgh. The poetry world sucks. <br /><br />It recently came to my attention that a <a href="http://lauraheidy.blogspot.com/2007/05/leaving-eratosphere-behind.html/"> blog post of mine from 2007</a> has been taken out of context and reprinted in <a href="http://www.thehypertexts.com/">The Hypertexts</a> in at least two different places.<br /><br />I've written the following letter to Michael Burch, the editor there and hopefully he will remove the posts as well as take down my page there. <br /><br />There are people, places and things I do not care to be associated with - The Hypertexts is all three.<br /><br /><em>Dear Mr. Burch,<br /><br />It has come to my attention that you've reprinted a blog post of mine from 2007 at least twice in The Hypertexts. Neither time have you bothered to link to the post in question, thus denying people the opportunity to read my post in surrounding context or have you asked my permission to use my name or quote my words.<br /><br />I did not ask to nor do I not wish to be involved in your petty little war with Eratosphere or the people there. <br /><br />If you had bothered to ask me why I left Eratosphere for a short time in 2007 I would have been happy to tell you that it was most due to a difference of opinion with several posters there at the time - only one of whom remains today. I've been a member in good standing there for many years and my leave-taking was quite temporary. <br /><br />In fact, the interview in which you most recently used my blog post for as "evidence" of discontent with Eratosphere was an interview with one of the people I most had problems with and who was one of the posters who was most instrumental in my decision to leave temporarily.<br /><br />There was a time when I would have expected more of you - but not now and not any longer. <br /><br />Your site has consistently been turning into a political/religious arena and remains little more than a vanity site and a place for you and those of like opinion to air their petty grievances against a poetry world which should be big enough for all of us but somehow is not.<br /><br />If you would, at the very least, care enough to be honest in your hatred you will remove my blog posts from these two pages <a href="http://www.thehypertexts.com/Janet%20Kenny%20Interview.htm/"> Interview with Janet Kenny.</a><br /><a href="http://www.thehypertexts.com/Eratosphere%20The%20Response%20to%20Erato%20Speared.htm/">Eratosphere & The Response.</a><br /><br />and while you are at it, please remove my page from you list of contemporary poets. <br /><a href="http://thehypertexts.com/Laura_Heidy_Poet_Poetry_Picture_Bo.htm/">Laura Heidy, Poet,Poetry, Picture</a><br /><br />I do not like the company which surrounds me and I do not wish to be associated with such mean-spirited and petty people and practices.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Laura Heidy</em><br /><br /><strong>UPDATE:</strong><br /><br />Mr. Burch has agreed to remove anything with my name on it from his site. He replied prompty and politely - for which I am grateful.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-49023111296564007542011-06-14T12:45:00.001-04:002011-06-14T12:47:16.352-04:00Rosenthal Crysler Jeep Dealer, Arlington, Va.Chuck Singleton<br />General Manager<br />Rosenthal Jeep<br />Arlington, Va.<br /> <br />Dear Mr. Singleton,<br /> <br />Thank you for your email of 6/14/11 in which you thank me for the opportunity to serve me, assure me that my satisfaction is your Number 1 Priority and inform me that if I am not satisfied, you are not satisfied. <br /> <br />Just to let you know - I filled out an Internet form for a rough quote on the value of my trade in on Sunday. Since then I have received 4 emails and 7 phone calls. I've asked, politely, with each successive phone call after the first one, that I not be contacted any more. I even went so far on Monday phone calls # 4, 5 and 6 to say that if I got another phone call or email contact that I would take my business elsewhere. I am ashamed to say that I simply yelled at Caller # 7 earlier this morning. <br /> <br />I've explained from phone call #2 on that I was not going to be able to bring my car in for a quote or to look at any other new car until the weekend. I asked, quite articulately and specifically, for people not to pressure me into coming in sooner. I made it quite clear that I was not interested in phone conversation or email advertisements between now and then. <br /> <br />Buying a car, like anything else, is something done at the buyer's convenience - not at the dealer's insistence. In fact, the more you insist, the more determined I become not to fall prey to high pressured sales tactics.<br /><br />I don't know how well you all communicate at Rosenthal but to all appearances it is not at all. I asked the woman who called me from the concierge office yesterday to, yes, please, remove my name from your contact list when she asked. She apologized profusely, assured me she would - and here I am two phone calls and one email later - still asking.<br /> <br />In other words, I've been contacted 11 times in less than 48 hours and it's moved beyond frustrating and right into totally irritated.<br /> <br />So please, if you really want me to be "satisfied," if you really want me to be "confidant" that my satisfaction is your "Number 1 priority," start pay attention to me.<br /> <br />Do not, I beg of you, continue to ignore my very clearly stated wishes unless it is to give me the phone numbers and addresses of other Jeep dealers in the area.<br /> <br />Thank you,<br /> <br />Laura Heidy-HalbersteinLohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-88856620386948474462011-02-14T11:51:00.001-05:002011-02-14T11:53:14.761-05:00Estate SaleEstate Sale<br /><br />Although you’re not yet dead we rifle through<br />your closets and your drawers. We creep into<br />the crawl, we climb the attic stairs, we brush<br />ghost dust from books; find camisoles once lush<br />with lace and latched secure with eye and hook.<br /> <br />We spy a braid of faded blonde, and look!<br />A half-full flask is stashed beneath your wedding gown.<br />Whose masks are these? Whose ivory circus clown?<br />Who wrote the letters never sent or signed?<br />And why are we, your daughters, so resigned<br /> <br />to never knowing who you were or why<br />you left this task to us? We do not try<br />to suss you out. We sniff the flask and drain<br />it dry. We sell your treasures in the rain.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-8877795248857224782010-12-08T19:24:00.001-05:002010-12-08T19:25:47.793-05:00Sarah, Sarah, What Have We Created?<a href="http://thesociocapitalist.com/sarah-palins-fault/">Sarah Palin's All My Fault</a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-15915853037706755072010-12-08T09:15:00.002-05:002010-12-08T09:18:52.130-05:00How to Take the Fount out of FountainsApparently someone forgot to turn the water off before the temperature hit freezing.<br /><br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsOHkf-2m-XtSagEgUE7s2HcOAyFtveXQCDEJEyQXTGv06ZyqT3fsxNYozXvwTds4r1EwAv9V8EmG4Eb7_k9etDfaJIEjqTlVEAdFMrETWHm6IEeywAe_giTTE7KreiRBOISl1A/s1600/fountain+ice.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsOHkf-2m-XtSagEgUE7s2HcOAyFtveXQCDEJEyQXTGv06ZyqT3fsxNYozXvwTds4r1EwAv9V8EmG4Eb7_k9etDfaJIEjqTlVEAdFMrETWHm6IEeywAe_giTTE7KreiRBOISl1A/s320/fountain+ice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548315086525560274" /></a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-23587597255198428202010-11-24T10:21:00.003-05:002010-11-24T10:29:13.897-05:00The SocioCapitalist and MeNeat new site for those who are interested in truth and sustainability. Please check it out. Browse it, read it, comment on it, bookmark it. Heck, if you want to, you can even think about writing for it.<br /><br /><a href="http://thesociocapitalist.com/">The SocioCapitalist.com</a><br /><br />Oh, and while you're there.....say hello to ME!!!<br /><br /><a href="http://http://thesociocapitalist.com/medical-loss-ratio-means-premium/">Medical Loss Ratio What It Means to Your Premium</a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-55859685751629469522010-08-30T07:10:00.005-04:002010-08-30T09:57:29.886-04:00Housewife HaikuThere is a layer<br />of dust which coats the front room<br />Quick - shut the drapes<br /><br />___<br /><br />Food is wonderful<br />There's no way I will cook it<br />every single day<br /><br />_____<br /><br />Cat puke on the floor<br />barely digested morsels<br />with luck, he'll recycle.<br /><br />__________<br /><br />Eight licked stamps, two spoons,<br />a box worth of cracker crumbs<br />where is the mouse pad<br /><br />_________________<br /><br /><br />Pillows leak feathers<br />Silk sheets have no elastic<br />Close the bedroom door<br /><br />______________________________<br /><br />Children with dirty <br />faces are a gift from God<br />Please do not adjust<br />_______________________________________Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-89145286033593654972010-08-24T13:04:00.004-04:002010-08-24T13:08:45.260-04:00Where I want to be when I don't want to be here<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWhuwyvTtFokIhsG0xDaowSwrAA3rSZ9woOf-GrdJsLucQXbu1TEEjQ1v9xxlczB9h68mHallQ5xamu12z0CkKl_ycuVYScYOYp8yhmME3NDgRyRuvE6d2XLFJEHWOWuF-Hgouw/s1600/Nags+Head+June+2010+220.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4COE-5dpGLUZgw4xXYe1pEg6bTBLLxsJN8cuj_d1ZcWtGNNKQFoAAKpvcUMg9UQAPdj5M10v90-DGF6uH6Hp0Kf3Jtay8MuhH51BZOhAc2sr2rKpMWFG3Fso-bJpNawFMXfA7A/s320/misc+030.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509021872063002930" /></a>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-8148517766733432472010-08-15T07:22:00.004-04:002010-08-30T07:33:02.245-04:00Richard Young<a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs280.snc4/40354_148953971787834_142826705733894_428000_5237592_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 426px;" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs280.snc4/40354_148953971787834_142826705733894_428000_5237592_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The first boy I ever lied to my parents about is dead. That's how old we've become. And my mother has outlived him. That's how strange and fickle death is.<br /><br />Death has to do with age to some extent, but death is also random and fingers the young before the old sometimes. <br /><br />This is not to say I wanted my mother to die before my first real boyfriend - only that I would have wanted my first real boyfriend to have outlived my mother, which is different.<br /><br />In a perfect world, my old boyfriend would still be alive, as would my mother. And whenever she died, he would have died 35 years later. <br /><br />I am searching my imperfect memory for pictures and thoughts of those long ago days. I remember he had long hair - blonde, unruly and curly, curly, curly, and a ready made smile which lit the world. He was heavy set, but compared to me, Twiggy was heavyset, so that's probably not a true memory. He played bass guitar and sang in several different bands over the years I knew him and I would sit at the edge of the stage and revel in my "she's with the band" groupie-ism. We laid on top of his car back in 1969 and watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. He was tripping and he saw more than I did, but I had chills, anyhow. We went with a bunch of people to his parent's cottage in Michigan (that's where the lie to my parent's came into play) and everyone drank and smoked and partied until most of them threw the hell up. It was fun. It was especially fun because I didn't throw up and it was my very first "vacation" sans parents. <br /><br />We held hands alot and swore undying love - and then, I forget why, we broke up and moved on. But we remained friends. I got pregnant by someone else and he stuck by my side when a lot of other, less open-minded friends did not. He still dragged me to band dates - I still sat on the edge of the stage, and scandalized the nuns and all the little Catholic girls because of my advanced state of unwed pregnancy. I gave birth and he met a new girl - she, too, became my friend. I believe that she, too, is dead now, although I do not know for sure. We lost touch sometime in the mid-eighties. They were divorcing and she was the victim of a little known genetic disease which had slowly robbed her of her ability to function physically and a demerol addiction which quickly robbed her of her ability to function mentally. The last I heard she was being placed in a nursing home and then silence from everyone.<br /><br />I did not pursue news of either of them. I had my own angst at the time and it was easier to wait for a phone call which never came. <br /><br />And then, a few days ago, thanks to Facebook, I thought I had found him. There was a friend of a friend of a friend on mine and they had a link to his old group, Fawn. I joined the Facebook Page, I wrote to the friend of the friend of the friend and asked for news.<br /><br />And the news was neither expected nor was it good.<br /><br />RY died 5 years ago, at the age of 54, of Hodgkins Lymphoma. <br /><br />May he rest in peace and may he be walking on the moon, smiling that 1,000 watt smile down on us all.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-59134366253465399302010-08-13T23:38:00.002-04:002010-08-30T07:36:04.655-04:00One More RevisionMy Sister and I<br /><br /><br />We were the worst Girl Scouts. We did not sell<br />our cookies we just freely passed them out<br />to long-haired boys we barely knew and hell-<br />bound men on low-slung bikes who'd hang about<br />a day or two until their engines cooled;<br />until their fresh-inked dragons scabbed; until<br />our sainted mother dragged us home. She fooled<br />no one. She wanted us to cry; to spill<br />our guts; to crack like china; crumb like cake;<br />surrender unto Mom; to never cling<br />to strangers but to her; to cower; quake <br />on sheets still wet with Daddy's sweat; to sing<br />through tears that only she could make us shed.<br />She swore to Christ we'd bleed as she'd been bled.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-5387255070336310282010-08-13T18:04:00.001-04:002010-08-13T18:04:43.456-04:00NagsHead 2010 Slide Show<div><embed src="http://widget-ba.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=lt&il=1&channel=288230376172785594&site=widget-ba.slide.com" style="width:350px;height:262px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:350px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=288230376172785594&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-ba.slide.com/p1/288230376172785594/lt_t015_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=288230376172785594&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-ba.slide.com/p2/288230376172785594/lt_t015_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=288230376172785594&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-ba.slide.com/p4/288230376172785594/lt_t015_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div>Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-52048890106754471352010-08-13T10:04:00.003-04:002010-08-13T10:17:51.886-04:00Cleaning HouseArghhhh....Half the poetry links on the sidebar here were no longer valid. <br /><br />I'm old. I've outlived my internet poetry publications, apparently.<br /><br />Anyhow, I've gotten rid of the deadwood and added a few new ones. Very few, however, since I've virtually stopped submitting poetry altogether. <br /><br />It's such a small world - and an incestuous one at that. <br /><br />Having spent the last few years involved in it to greater and lesser degrees I've found that I either don't agree with an editor's politics and therefore do not wish to be associated with his/her ezine or that I don't like them or they don't like me or their friends don't like me and so what's the point? Regardless of how an editor might strive to be impartial it's hard to believe that seeing a known name doesn't bias a person in one direction or another. I'm afraid to send to the editors who don't like me for fear they'll dismiss my poetry based on my name and I'm afraid to send to editors who DO like me for fear they'll accept my poetry because they don't want to hurt my feelings. <br /><br />For awhile I was concentrating on anthologies but that soured quickly when I would get my "contributor's copy," (which a few times I had to PAY for) and found that I was disappointed in the quality of poetry provided within it's pages. Makes me think that I'm "that bad," too, and it creeps me out. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I like being published, I just don't like the idea that somewhere someone is sitting there reading<em> my </em>poem which happens to be on the page opposite <em>their</em> poem and they're going, "Damn, she's bad. What the heck is she doing here?"<br /><br />I've also reached the conclusion that no one reads poetry except other poets. Not that that's a bad thing, necessarily, it's just that I really wish it wasn't the <em>only</em> thing. <br /><br />Besides, I'm in one of my black-Irish phases where I hate everyone. <br /><br />What I'd like to do is never leave the house again.<br /><br />Except to get White Castles.<br /><br />And maybe Fudruckers.<br /><br />If they only delivered life would be perfect.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-14933985079351900712010-07-21T07:37:00.003-04:002010-07-21T08:00:15.786-04:00What a Difference a Day MakesThings that change when the truth becomes known:<br /><br />1) <a href="http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-statement-on-the-resignation-of-shirley-sherrod1/">The NAACP retracts their original damning statement regarding Shirley Sherrod:</a><br /><br /><em>With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.<br /><br />Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe the organization that edited the documents did so with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans. <br /><br />The fact is Ms. Sherrod did help the white farmers mentioned in her speech. They personally credit her with helping to save their family farm. <br /><br />Moreover, this incident and the lesson it prompted occurred more that 20 years before she went to work for USDA.<br /><br />Finally, she was sharing this account as part of a story of transformation and redemption.</em><br /><br />The USDA, who stood firmly by their resignation request and acceptance is now saying, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/21/agriculture.employee.usda/index.html?hpt=T1">"<strong>Of course </strong>we'll review it."</a><br /><br /><br /><em>Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said early Wednesday that he will review the case of a former Agriculture Department official who resigned after a video clip surfaced of her discussing a white farmer.</em><br /><br /><em>"I am, of course, willing and will conduct a thorough review and consider additional facts to ensure to the American people we are providing services in a fair and equitable manner," Vilsack said in a statement.</em><br /><br />Even <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007200065">Glenn Beck</a> who was one of the first to shout "Off with her head," is now playing magician and magically erasing not only his involvement in spreading "the news" but also absolving Andrew Breitbart, FOXNews and all of it's assorted front men of any culpability by laying all of the blame firmly where he thinks it belongs - on The White House.<br /><br /><em>Glenn Beck devoted the first twenty minutes of this evening's Fox News program to attacking the Obama administration for their response to the release yesterday of heavily-edited clips a speech then-USDA official Shirley Sherrod gave. Beck savaged them for not waiting to see the full context of her comments before attacking her, saying that it appeared that she was discussing a "turning point," and said that she shouldn't have been fired. <br /><br />But Beck -- while claiming that "Context matters" -- somehow manages to erase Andrew Breitbart and Fox News from the creation of that image.<br /><br />All Beck says about Breitbart is that he's "trying to get the full video." In fact, it was Breitbart, without having that full video (the "context" that "matters") who originally posted the clip, claiming that it was "video evidence of racism" by Sherrod, and illustrating his post with an actual "race" card. Breitbart called her a racist without knowing the context of her statements, and has subsequently said that the context doesn't matter, that what he saw in the clip is sufficient to support his claims. Beck doesn't mention that -- in fact, he actively suggests the opposite is true, that Breitbart is engaging in responsible journalism.<br /><br />Beck does not mention Fox's own horrendous coverage, which certainly did not wait for "context" before declaring Sherrod a racist. FoxNews.com's first report on Sherrod -- the first mainstream report on her speech -- gave no indication that her comment might have been taken out of context. It reported that Fox was "seeking a response from both the NAACP and the USDA," but not that they had attempted to find the full version of the tape or contact Sherrod herself. In the network's first coverage of the comments, Bill O'Reilly said they were "simply unacceptable" and called on Sherrod to "resign immediately." Newt Gingrich said that her comments indicated a "viciously racist attitude," Sean Hannity called them "racially charged," and the Fox and Friends co-hosts agreed they were "Exhibit A" of "what racism looks like."</em><br /><br />Sue 'em all, Shirley, sue 'em all.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-22680723753650461302010-07-20T13:44:00.003-04:002010-07-20T13:58:02.187-04:00Shirley Sherrod Update #1More information coming forth:<br /><br />The NAACP had the following statement issued by Ben Jealous on their website:<br /><br /><em>"Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race." <br /><br />"We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers."</em><br /><br />That statement has now been removed - which is good since she didn't "abuse her power" in her "position at USDA," and if Mr. Jealous had not jumped the gun and done exactly as those manipulating the news wanted him to do, he would have realized that by the remark "right after Chapter 12 for farmers."<br /><br />It looks as though everyone from the president on down might need to say they're sorry right along with Mr. Jealous.<br /> <br /><em>Sherrod told CNN on Tuesday that she was told repeatedly to resign Monday afternoon after the clip surfaced.<br /><br />"They harassed me," she said. "I got three calls from the White House. At one point they asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you are going to be on Glenn Beck tonight." <br /><br />Sherrod said the calls came from Cheryl Cook, USDA deputy undersecretary for rural development.</em><br /><br /><br />Sherrod is also saying that she and the white farmer she referred to in the video, Roger Spooner, became friends. Apparently this is so because Spooner's wife, Eloise, confirmed to CNN that she and her husband considered Sherrod friends. <br /><br /><em>"She helped us save our farm by getting in there and doing everything she could do," Eloise Spooner said. "They haven't treated her right." </em><br /><br />Sherrod said she told the story to make the point that at the time she thought that white farmers had the advantages because of their race but she learned that was not the case. <br /><br />"The point was to get them to understand that we need to look beyond race," Sherrod said. <br /><br />There's more worth reading <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/07/usda_worker_quits_over_racism.html">here, in The Washington Post.</a><br /><br />CNN has also just announced that The NAACP has issued a statement saying they are now conducting an investigation into the matter - and after speaking to Shirley Sherrod, the farmer in question and after viewing the entire video they will issue another statement.<br /><br />Which means they <em>never even bothered </em>to contact either of those people before publicly condemning Ms. Sherrod. <br /><br />Nor did The White House apparently.<br /><br /><br /><br />__________________Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-39060287096528945572010-07-20T07:11:00.003-04:002010-07-20T08:35:09.053-04:00Shirley Sherrod Video Edited?I'm trying to find more information on this story but it's either not there or it's slow coming......<br /><br />There's enough available, however, to mention here, especially since it doesn't seen to be being mentioned anyplace else.<br /><br />We've all seen the FoxNews, Andrew Breitbart video of Shirley making her speech to the NAACP dated March 27th. We've all heard that she's resigned her position and her resignation has been accepted. We've all read that The NAACP has condemned her actions.<br /><br />What we're not hearing much about is the fact that in the video Shirley states that this white farmer incident took place shortly after Chapter 12 was established for farmers. Chapter 12 for farmers was established in 1986. In 1986, Ms. Sherrod worked for The New Communities Black Farm Coop in Georgia - she was not employeed by the government in any way at that time. It also means that the white farmer in question came to a black organization for help - 24 years ago - in a different racial climate and a different time. It's not unreasonable to believe that the farmer in question was not associated with the black coop and thus not eligible for help from the coop which Shirley worked with. <br /><br />What's more, in a telephone interview with Ms. Sherrod this morning, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/resigned-usda-official-says-574027.html">The Atlanta Journal Constitution</a> is reporting that Ms. Sharrod told them the following:<br /><br /><em>Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.<br /><br />Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with the farmer and his wife.<br /><br />"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."</em><br /><br />The AJC is trying to recover the full video footage of Sherrod's speech to the Douglas NAACP.<br /><br />Stay tuned.Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997469173838577796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19695568.post-41090253623692878432010-07-11T18:49:00.012-04:002010-07-11T20:53:02.879-04:00Flip That Room - By JoeBefore<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnuf3SU1XWByL0OCIKi8FjxAtkBCcyENC2mtOFWtXnYkUHOZQUXGOsa96GPBk5uf0dVqxKP_DgGF7gSOKFdmwimcz4HhKJ2B0R17HkO6vE5oxwPpMEL8vH5FxIYuRwDPDzcuezA/s1600/before+renovations+023.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnuf3SU1XWByL0OCIKi8FjxAtkBCcyENC2mtOFWtXnYkUHOZQUXGOsa96GPBk5uf0dVqxKP_DgGF7gSOKFdmwimcz4HhKJ2B0R17HkO6vE5oxwPpMEL8vH5FxIYuRwDPDzcuezA/s320/before+renovations+023.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492789226451336210" /></a><br />After<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7HhDswAMIWkRo4O5vde3v4cv9SD3fP7Byz9rQSKdkFOgaVovpqLedPFNlQN_orlHk6dUVcnuSQSjI6h9uoCbbg5DT9ikrnyNijlryrlyBAc3hAmPfEPecl6pACokOAXN2yVET6g/s1600/after+renovations+011.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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