new freedoms

VIMBY - Tempest Free Running

zlad! bad bad

found

big ups to sunshy for recovering Dune.

if you gots good soil

Home Grown Terrorism Act

mandatory money story

watch this. share this. for real

prelude in e minor

dirty bird

And you thought your parents were embarrassing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/11/2008111404055793981.html

Obama aide in 'anti-Arab' row

Rahm Emanuel, US president-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, has apologised to an Arab-American group for comments made by his father that disparaged Arabs. Benjamin Emanuel was reported as telling an Israeli newspaper about his son last week: "Obviously, he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House." The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee had sent a letter to Emanuel calling on him to distance himself from his father's remarks. Rahm Emanuel, also an Illinois congressman, called the group's president, Mary Rose Oakar, on Thursday to apologise on behalf of his family. "These are not the values upon which I was raised or those of my family," the group quoted him as saying. Pro-Israel 'fears' The committee, in a statement on its website, said Emanuel told Oakar it was unacceptable to make such remarks against any ethnic or religious group. Oakar welcomed the apology, saying: "We cannot allow Arabs and Muslims to be portrayed in these unacceptable terms." Some analysts in the Middle East have raised concerns about the appointment of Emanuel, who has a record of strongly supporting Israel, suggesting he could use his position to influence Obama's policies in the region. Emanuel dismissed the suggestions earlier this week, saying Obama did not need his influence to "orientate his policy toward Israel". Benjamin Emanuel is a Jerusalem-born doctor who was active in the Irgun - an underground Zionist organisation that fought the British in Palestine prior to the founding of Israel in 1947.

GreenPorno

Let Isabella Rossellini teach you a thing or two about sex.
Spread your wings and be free.
Eat your mate.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/#/watch-worm

Retirement Island Photoshoot

Just a little taste of the beauty that awaits you at retirement island....

To see pictures from our photoshoots check this flickr site where I upload all images to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicashade/

As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, -- John, I

sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,

drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.


Robert Creeley, I Know a Man

retirement island does halloween

Abu ya shaka

george r fay
entry at historycommons.org
pretty much the best site ever

my belle

my new hero Michele Bachman (R) Minn

i was unfamiliar with her until watching this
this is really happening.

history class

chips

catholic encyclopedia
baby hangover
world savior
stage diver

baby eating violently

psst

the birth of a tiger
there better be surprises in my mind
and always one in hand
the tiger cries out
am I in good taste?
disater invades true life
and prayers answered tenfold.
who doth invade this place?
the drug of mind
the tiger asks if I am
is a tricycle wheel
it’s death no tragedy.

psst.

the tiger makes a suggestion
to eliminate space
and bathe in new pleasure.
cowards test water
so I must move like a thief.
time negates order
taking billions of tiny pieces
in to the mouth of the tiger
billions of island countries
in to the eyes of the tiger
I am discovering a map
in writing a letter back
over the outline of a dress
drying the back of progress
like a child following
the tiger senses mischief
I placate it with secrets
the sun is always burning ( I say)
which puts my mind at risk
for making soup of my wishes
in standing still
the size of the world just tripled
I will pull that stunt again
I might will a sense of heaven
I’ve put in my request for immortality
and won’t be swallowed easily

no charmer

i don’t chew my food enough
and I can’t fold things til they disappear
or explain myself

that’s right I’m no charmer
every type of brain is really a flower
every finger has a space between its neighbor
every maze is serious buttons
makes me indistinguishable

reminder of my ambition to sleep
to do me well, with frills to control

the moment of the crisis at it’s peak
the cup is a secret type of full
that renders itself ineffective until sips are taken
a roar in the end of the age of making

insert here, all told, sameness

do

Comments on Polyamory

This is no forgotten highway, this road to you is not a ghost town and what exactly do you mean by polyamorous anyway?

So began a problem with friends.

Loving trees, we agreed later, does not mean spreading disease.

Loving me, it became clear, does not exactly mean loving you.

~Lauren

notes on terror

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let your sins be absolved on our beautiful front porch.

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