The Redacted
and the sound
Of running feet from every side was heard
Bent on the
THE END
- Jonathan Swift Somers in The Spooniad
Nurse's Epilogue
This world is held together
by dogs and gardens,
ladders and bells,
really tight shoestrings.
As her kidneys fail
her tears drain light
from her woebegone eyes.
All the way to Tombstone today,
should I take my gun?
You have to laugh sometimes.
At three in the morning
I wonder about her potassium,
feel sad about the way
she looked at me before
I knew that she was sick.
I'll never forget that darkness
because I thought that it was mine.
She stood in the first row
at the end, left to right.
We were all such pretty girls.
A penny for your thoughts
it is only a description
of things past
the entire day spent
in suspicion, hard on
with doubt
knowing but not knowing
in the cloud of envy
a pin drops
she lives alone
and watches QVC
all night long
she breaks
in her car
with a best-seller at lunch
I keep on working
through and stop
twice to smoke
Snowman, come here.
"The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth."
21.1.09
19.1.09
Did Dubya kill
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson?
-Hunter would say so.
"Mista Kurtz, he dead."
Who has time for movies anymore? I certainly don't but I try. My Netflix subscription is back and no doubt the hubby will cancel me before long. That's because I have all these aspirations when it comes to movies. Those are generally built on what I am told to view by the entertainment industry and after I imbibe a few of those I am so disappointed that I end up ordering movies and leaving them on the coffee table to serve as drink coasters.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson isn't going to make it into your local theater, I guarantee you that.
But it should. Gonzo is a documentary about the life of the last journalist America ever produced. The movie which is a blend of real life clips and dramatizations starring Johnny Depp (in clips from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas directed by Terry Gilliam) as Dr. Thompson (was he really a Dr.?) is a tour de force of the Love Generation as it foreshadows the death of the American Dream.
It is Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in Apocolypse Now. It is T.S. Eliot when he writes in Requiem:
For thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
It starts out pretty slow and for those who are unfamiliar with Dr. Thompson's career...they will abandon the flick right away. For some of us however, we are willing to put up with the horrible first few lengths out of the gate. And they are, horrible, absolutely.
Once this movie gets going however, you will not be disappointed.
It is one of the most tender, hilarious and mind expanding ETHICAL experiences I've ever had in front of a screen. By the time Dr. Thompson's double-thumbed gravestone is lifted after his much contemplated suicide early in the Bush administration....complete with fireworks and an all star cast at the wake....you'll want to meet the man in Paradise but you suspect it would be in Hell. You have to let the man go and hope for the best.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson?
-Hunter would say so.
"Mista Kurtz, he dead."
Who has time for movies anymore? I certainly don't but I try. My Netflix subscription is back and no doubt the hubby will cancel me before long. That's because I have all these aspirations when it comes to movies. Those are generally built on what I am told to view by the entertainment industry and after I imbibe a few of those I am so disappointed that I end up ordering movies and leaving them on the coffee table to serve as drink coasters.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson isn't going to make it into your local theater, I guarantee you that.
But it should. Gonzo is a documentary about the life of the last journalist America ever produced. The movie which is a blend of real life clips and dramatizations starring Johnny Depp (in clips from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas directed by Terry Gilliam) as Dr. Thompson (was he really a Dr.?) is a tour de force of the Love Generation as it foreshadows the death of the American Dream.
It is Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in Apocolypse Now. It is T.S. Eliot when he writes in Requiem:
For thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
It starts out pretty slow and for those who are unfamiliar with Dr. Thompson's career...they will abandon the flick right away. For some of us however, we are willing to put up with the horrible first few lengths out of the gate. And they are, horrible, absolutely.
Once this movie gets going however, you will not be disappointed.
It is one of the most tender, hilarious and mind expanding ETHICAL experiences I've ever had in front of a screen. By the time Dr. Thompson's double-thumbed gravestone is lifted after his much contemplated suicide early in the Bush administration....complete with fireworks and an all star cast at the wake....you'll want to meet the man in Paradise but you suspect it would be in Hell. You have to let the man go and hope for the best.
18.1.09
Pass this on to a friend...it's really contagious
Guess what? Go ahead....just give it a stab. No, no....we all knew Israel would give up and the next phase of that....well...is utter disaster in the press for the murderous regime running that FAILING theocracy. That was written before the invasion began.
No...this is something important to YOU.
You very likely have Herpes. That is, if you live in the continental United States of America. Research suggests that 27% of all women without bacterial vaginosis (non specific infection of the vagina with bacteria..yuck) are infected with HSV 2. That's the kind that gives you sores and a spot on a curious TV ad for eHarmony. Worse, out of those who DO have a buggy or two in their naughty bits, 37.2% are infected. Yikes. That's a lot of Herpes people. And if you get Herpes Simplex type 2 during the last trimester of your pregnancy...there's an increased risk you will pass it to your baby and give it all sorts of setbacks including a real major one known as death. Wow. Now you do the math....that is a compilation study of two distinct groups...those who DO have buggy fannies and those who DON'T have buggy fannies (British term for the naughty bits which is a Monty Python term for naughty bits). I hate to tell you this next part: there are only two types of females on the planet...those with Bacterial Vaginosis and those without it. Therefore, we simply have to add the two figures and we come up with an ASTONISHING statistic.
64.2% of all women in that study...are seropositive for Herpes Simplex Type 2. Wow. I mean...wow. Other studies, several in fact, estimate the incidence to be about 1 in 5 Americans are infected with HSV2.
Guess what? Go ahead....just give it a stab. No, no....we all knew Israel would give up and the next phase of that....well...is utter disaster in the press for the murderous regime running that FAILING theocracy. That was written before the invasion began.
No...this is something important to YOU.
You very likely have Herpes. That is, if you live in the continental United States of America. Research suggests that 27% of all women without bacterial vaginosis (non specific infection of the vagina with bacteria..yuck) are infected with HSV 2. That's the kind that gives you sores and a spot on a curious TV ad for eHarmony. Worse, out of those who DO have a buggy or two in their naughty bits, 37.2% are infected. Yikes. That's a lot of Herpes people. And if you get Herpes Simplex type 2 during the last trimester of your pregnancy...there's an increased risk you will pass it to your baby and give it all sorts of setbacks including a real major one known as death. Wow. Now you do the math....that is a compilation study of two distinct groups...those who DO have buggy fannies and those who DON'T have buggy fannies (British term for the naughty bits which is a Monty Python term for naughty bits). I hate to tell you this next part: there are only two types of females on the planet...those with Bacterial Vaginosis and those without it. Therefore, we simply have to add the two figures and we come up with an ASTONISHING statistic.
64.2% of all women in that study...are seropositive for Herpes Simplex Type 2. Wow. I mean...wow. Other studies, several in fact, estimate the incidence to be about 1 in 5 Americans are infected with HSV2.
The real downside to this stat above is the factoid that testing for HSV 2 is relatively new. It isn't widely available..at least not as available as Chlamydia testing has become. Therefore, I think it is very, very safe to assume that the above stats are UNDER REPRESENTING the actual problem.
Oh...and I almost forgot to say that infection with HSV 2 gives you a whopping increase in the chances that a person will contract the dreaded HIV/AIDS virus.
You know....scientists still don't know why moths are drawn to light bulbs. Lots of things have been suggested as the cause. Mostly, they just do it because that is all they know how to do apparently. And if this were about Ebola or the THREAT of a worldwide epidemic of the DREADED flu sniffles (well..yes...flu can be a hoary problem).....well. It would just be all over CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, PBS, WKRP in Cincinnati.....just all over...wouldn't it. I mean come on...it would.What gets me is the fact that we know for a fact what causes sexually transmitted disease.
http://cdc.confex.com/cdc/std2008/techprogram/P15317.HTM
14.1.09
Palestinian Child Dies For the Sins of Israel
More photos of innocent children murdered in cold blood by the Army of Death aka IDF
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/phopto-gallery-of-gazas-martyred-children/
Once people get past the general horror of seeing innocent people murdered in such horrendous ways, I'd like to point out something.
As a pediatric nurse specialist, these dead bodies were going to be dead anyway, from starvation. Almost every body I have seen is showing signs of DEFINITE MALNUTRITION.
That is because Israel has been methodically starving these people to death.
13.1.09
Eulogy for the Slavic Latern
Glass graveyards are where
people do things in
a parthenon of procedures
in the decadent and similar:
television, lamp, side table -
beds turned down, pillows fluffed
between the windows and the eye.
In the code of old Egyptian,
ready made for the stacks
of ash and flood materials,
we ask about the time,
from the top to the bottom.
Each ticky-tock a better flashback,
the trees coming and going
a little faster- away with you
Chupacabra! Away with you
John Travolta! Away with you
Aurora Borealis!
Away with even you
Armageddon.
The soil sequesters
the rot in drag, locked
up tight for the future
in those awful Georgian coffins
that no one gets to see
and why buy that?
For sure, some do believe
in getting up again
and want to be ready
in the post post-mortem
to go anywhere, anytime with anyone.
Look at all the handsome darlings,
look at the ones who all fell bleeding
with mouths so froze wide open;
no one can hear them anymore.
No one could hear them then.
Glass graveyards are where
people do things in
a parthenon of procedures
in the decadent and similar:
television, lamp, side table -
beds turned down, pillows fluffed
between the windows and the eye.
In the code of old Egyptian,
ready made for the stacks
of ash and flood materials,
we ask about the time,
from the top to the bottom.
Each ticky-tock a better flashback,
the trees coming and going
a little faster- away with you
Chupacabra! Away with you
John Travolta! Away with you
Aurora Borealis!
Away with even you
Armageddon.
The soil sequesters
the rot in drag, locked
up tight for the future
in those awful Georgian coffins
that no one gets to see
and why buy that?
For sure, some do believe
in getting up again
and want to be ready
in the post post-mortem
to go anywhere, anytime with anyone.
Look at all the handsome darlings,
look at the ones who all fell bleeding
with mouths so froze wide open;
no one can hear them anymore.
No one could hear them then.
12.1.09
The epitome of oppression. Think about it and how that relates to how wars are fought around the world...
You see...Iran established as did Hezbollah...the old notion of taking prisoners, exchanging them for conciliations and reconciliations. They treated them all fairly well (as well as POWs can expect to be treated I suppose because being a POW can never be considered a picnic).....Ahmadinijad even gave the British sailors candies and new clothes. Instead of recognizing that for what it was...it was labeled a media trick. Well....all things considered...in the world of tricks I'd say that having 70,000 able bodied men show up for a jihad at the airport and then declaring a fatwa against such a thing...might indeed be a media trick...a staged example of how wars can be fought and won....merely by showing up and making a statement.
Yet Israel imprisons a whole population and shoots at them at will. They used to traipse into Lebanon at will (and still violate airspace every day) and rough up the occupants. They not only do not understand war but very soon, they will be quite puzzled at defeat.
This is a known outcome to the Islamic world (most of it). I do often chuckle at some muslims however who feel they have to FIGHT in order to win. Sometimes, you just have to sit there, trust, watch and organize the situations by labeling them for what they are. Israel no doubt and her occupants as well are most likely going through alot of things just about now..in their heads where this great war will be won. Where all wars are won.
You begin to see the truth shine and the falsehood subside if even by small degrees.
You see...Iran established as did Hezbollah...the old notion of taking prisoners, exchanging them for conciliations and reconciliations. They treated them all fairly well (as well as POWs can expect to be treated I suppose because being a POW can never be considered a picnic).....Ahmadinijad even gave the British sailors candies and new clothes. Instead of recognizing that for what it was...it was labeled a media trick. Well....all things considered...in the world of tricks I'd say that having 70,000 able bodied men show up for a jihad at the airport and then declaring a fatwa against such a thing...might indeed be a media trick...a staged example of how wars can be fought and won....merely by showing up and making a statement.
Yet Israel imprisons a whole population and shoots at them at will. They used to traipse into Lebanon at will (and still violate airspace every day) and rough up the occupants. They not only do not understand war but very soon, they will be quite puzzled at defeat.
This is a known outcome to the Islamic world (most of it). I do often chuckle at some muslims however who feel they have to FIGHT in order to win. Sometimes, you just have to sit there, trust, watch and organize the situations by labeling them for what they are. Israel no doubt and her occupants as well are most likely going through alot of things just about now..in their heads where this great war will be won. Where all wars are won.
You begin to see the truth shine and the falsehood subside if even by small degrees.
11.1.09
10.1.09
The Victory
The Victory is one of those amazing Suras that has found its way into the conscience of so many people in the world today...for better and for worse.
Some get really BOTHERED about it...especially when a muslim quotes it to them. That is because they don't like Allah, don't believe in the power of Allah. They do however confuse that principle with human power and superiority when they really shouldn't.
The statement in The Victory is:
"He it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with Guidance and the Religion of Truth (Islam), that He may establish (make) it (Islam) superior over all religions. And All-Sufficient is Allaah as a Witness." [Quran 48:28]
Heh..and you know...Allah doesn't make mistakes. Allah just doesn't...it is all logical and worthwhile.
People...just seem to think...that the whole Islamization process ended with the end of the Ottoman Empire...because people tend to associate religion with ethnicity more often than not. I mean..afterall..we have the African American Church now. What on earth is that? It is what it is...it is an ethnically centered type of Christian worship just like the Ottoman Empire was primarily for Ottoman centered people.
The statement in The Victory wasn't that Allah would make the Arabs victorious or the Jews or any other particular type or color of nation....victorious.
Allah said he would establish ISLAM as superior. Not, something else. People really need to pay attention to those curious little details and grab hold. Because Allah states about "himself" that Allah doesn't change his mind, his promises, his methods or his decision about his own Creation.
The Victory is one of those amazing Suras that has found its way into the conscience of so many people in the world today...for better and for worse.
Some get really BOTHERED about it...especially when a muslim quotes it to them. That is because they don't like Allah, don't believe in the power of Allah. They do however confuse that principle with human power and superiority when they really shouldn't.
The statement in The Victory is:
"He it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with Guidance and the Religion of Truth (Islam), that He may establish (make) it (Islam) superior over all religions. And All-Sufficient is Allaah as a Witness." [Quran 48:28]
Heh..and you know...Allah doesn't make mistakes. Allah just doesn't...it is all logical and worthwhile.
People...just seem to think...that the whole Islamization process ended with the end of the Ottoman Empire...because people tend to associate religion with ethnicity more often than not. I mean..afterall..we have the African American Church now. What on earth is that? It is what it is...it is an ethnically centered type of Christian worship just like the Ottoman Empire was primarily for Ottoman centered people.
The statement in The Victory wasn't that Allah would make the Arabs victorious or the Jews or any other particular type or color of nation....victorious.
Allah said he would establish ISLAM as superior. Not, something else. People really need to pay attention to those curious little details and grab hold. Because Allah states about "himself" that Allah doesn't change his mind, his promises, his methods or his decision about his own Creation.
9.1.09
Iran's Supreme Leader bans suicide attacks against Israel:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231167317200&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Well done. They aren't worth the loss of muslim lives who would be given nor are they worth the gun powder it would take, in the first place, to blow them to hell.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231167317200&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Well done. They aren't worth the loss of muslim lives who would be given nor are they worth the gun powder it would take, in the first place, to blow them to hell.
8.1.09
What Really Gets Me
About the Ages of Ignorance
or...the Thing in Itself
(and how to convince people that they aren't really seeing what they are seeing)
There are a number of things that really get me. For one, Christopher Hitchens at Slate labels Gaza as "Islamic Gaza". Not only that, with his headline he labels Gaza as a Moral Failure before the vote is even counted! What on earth could that mean? I'll tell you what it means in the context of Mr. Hitchens' vitriolic hate against anything remotely "religious". Mr. Hitchens is a defiant athiest, better than all of us numb-skulls and uses his incredibly contagious ignorance to misguide a significant number of people to follow the norm he perceives to be "reality".
He indicates with his language that there are some parts of the world that are "Islamic"...well...what on earth could that mean afterall? It means that Mr. Hitchens, as a devout athiest...actually thinks Allah has Omnipotence in some parts of the world and basically has no sway in others. Well..there either is or there isn't, Mr. Hitchens.....a Creator. Mr. Hitchens is entitled to his take on things but the rest of us ought to ponder that little bit of information in some depth.
Another thing that really gets me...is the way some folks "weigh in" without really "weighing in".
Ron Silliman at Silliman's Blog a decidedly Pro Israel Poetry Blog who finally took it upon himself to mention something definite about Gaza and the horrendous acts of Israel against a democratically elected albeit "Islamic" government. By the people, for the people and all that jazz, only as long as it isn't for the "Muslim" people.
Silliman blurts out..."I don't know much about it." Then goes on to blame Hamas for trying to defend its legitimacy not only as a governmental body, but as a RACE of people who just so happen to be the victims of the cruelest joke to date in human history. That joke being..that the poor old victims of the Holocaust moved in peacefully, asked the occupants to move aside in a nice tone and even paid them for their lands (which Israel always says it did..haha...oh...big joke that was and is!). All the while, these goody-two-shoe believers make out like they are searching for the Promised Land i.e. Allah created a special ethnically pure place just for them and no one else. So...it is the case that what gets me also used to get Ali ibn Abi Taleb, Chief of the Believers and Lion of Islam, First Imam and all around Prophet's Best Friend and Brother. People like Ron Silliman set out to convince us all of their utter innocence (in misguidance) and end up telling us how we ought to think. In fact, Ron Silliman is complicit. Just look at all the articles he has cited in the past few weeks about Hitler, the Protocols of Zion and even one crummy article about a lavisious Tehranian uncle who groped his Newly American Iranian runaway neice! Old story there you know...like...where are all the stories about Nice Iranian People? Are there none?
Ali ibn Abi Taleb once said and it is truly one of the most useful notes about the Age of Ignorance (Jahaliya):
Among all the people the most detested before Allah are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is himself misled from the guidance of those preceding him, misleads those who follow him in his life or after his death, carries the weight of others' sins and is entangled in his own misdeeds.
The other man is he who has picked up ignorance. He moves among the ignorant, is senseless in the thick of mischief and is blind to the advantages of peace. Those resembling like men have named him scholar but he is not so. He goes out early morning to collect things whose deficiency is better than plenty, till when he has quenched his thirst from polluted water and acquired meaningless things.
He sits among the people as a judge responsible for solving whatever is confusing to the others. If an ambiguous problem is presented before him he manages shabby argument about it of his own accord and passes judgement on its basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider's web, not knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, while if he is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance and riding on carriages aimlessly moving in darkness. He did not try to find reality of knowledge. He scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.
By Allah, he is not capable of solving the problems that come to him nor is fit for the position assigned to him. Whatever he does not know he does not regard it worth knowing. He does not realise that what is beyond his reach is within the reach of others. If anything is not clear to him he keeps quiet over it because he knows his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying against his unjust verdicts, and properties (that have been wrongly disposed of) are grumbling against him.
I complain to Allah about persons who live ignorant and die misguided. For them nothing is more worthless than Qur'an if it is recited as it should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an if its verses are removed from their places, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice.
And not just Hitchens and Silliman either. The world is Chock Full of people who speak as if they are authorities on something other than what they are in actuality...and that is people who have been drinking from a polluted pool of knowledge and hence pollute the world with nonsense and illogical conclusions that they hope others will actually not notice, not notice how stoopid it actually is to blame a displaced people for the violence used by an Occupier. Because if it is the case that Israel is the victim here...it would be the first time in human history that an Occupier behaved in a Non Occupying fashion.
The Bound to Happen
I thought I was just pretending
all along, saying well, that's
bound to happen and it does and I say
well, that's bound to happen.
We all know that when we leave
the room, the room disappears.
We've known it since we were born
and sometimes we talk about it
with strangers knowing full well
that once they leave
all secrets follow
into the ether or the dark,
same thing and who can tell
time as it passes
when you are asleep,
the clocks looking you over?
It is a strange statistic
and one I am fond of until
it comes to the war zones.
About the Ages of Ignorance
or...the Thing in Itself
(and how to convince people that they aren't really seeing what they are seeing)
There are a number of things that really get me. For one, Christopher Hitchens at Slate labels Gaza as "Islamic Gaza". Not only that, with his headline he labels Gaza as a Moral Failure before the vote is even counted! What on earth could that mean? I'll tell you what it means in the context of Mr. Hitchens' vitriolic hate against anything remotely "religious". Mr. Hitchens is a defiant athiest, better than all of us numb-skulls and uses his incredibly contagious ignorance to misguide a significant number of people to follow the norm he perceives to be "reality".
He indicates with his language that there are some parts of the world that are "Islamic"...well...what on earth could that mean afterall? It means that Mr. Hitchens, as a devout athiest...actually thinks Allah has Omnipotence in some parts of the world and basically has no sway in others. Well..there either is or there isn't, Mr. Hitchens.....a Creator. Mr. Hitchens is entitled to his take on things but the rest of us ought to ponder that little bit of information in some depth.
Another thing that really gets me...is the way some folks "weigh in" without really "weighing in".
Ron Silliman at Silliman's Blog a decidedly Pro Israel Poetry Blog who finally took it upon himself to mention something definite about Gaza and the horrendous acts of Israel against a democratically elected albeit "Islamic" government. By the people, for the people and all that jazz, only as long as it isn't for the "Muslim" people.
Silliman blurts out..."I don't know much about it." Then goes on to blame Hamas for trying to defend its legitimacy not only as a governmental body, but as a RACE of people who just so happen to be the victims of the cruelest joke to date in human history. That joke being..that the poor old victims of the Holocaust moved in peacefully, asked the occupants to move aside in a nice tone and even paid them for their lands (which Israel always says it did..haha...oh...big joke that was and is!). All the while, these goody-two-shoe believers make out like they are searching for the Promised Land i.e. Allah created a special ethnically pure place just for them and no one else. So...it is the case that what gets me also used to get Ali ibn Abi Taleb, Chief of the Believers and Lion of Islam, First Imam and all around Prophet's Best Friend and Brother. People like Ron Silliman set out to convince us all of their utter innocence (in misguidance) and end up telling us how we ought to think. In fact, Ron Silliman is complicit. Just look at all the articles he has cited in the past few weeks about Hitler, the Protocols of Zion and even one crummy article about a lavisious Tehranian uncle who groped his Newly American Iranian runaway neice! Old story there you know...like...where are all the stories about Nice Iranian People? Are there none?
Ali ibn Abi Taleb once said and it is truly one of the most useful notes about the Age of Ignorance (Jahaliya):
Among all the people the most detested before Allah are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is himself misled from the guidance of those preceding him, misleads those who follow him in his life or after his death, carries the weight of others' sins and is entangled in his own misdeeds.
The other man is he who has picked up ignorance. He moves among the ignorant, is senseless in the thick of mischief and is blind to the advantages of peace. Those resembling like men have named him scholar but he is not so. He goes out early morning to collect things whose deficiency is better than plenty, till when he has quenched his thirst from polluted water and acquired meaningless things.
He sits among the people as a judge responsible for solving whatever is confusing to the others. If an ambiguous problem is presented before him he manages shabby argument about it of his own accord and passes judgement on its basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider's web, not knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, while if he is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance and riding on carriages aimlessly moving in darkness. He did not try to find reality of knowledge. He scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.
By Allah, he is not capable of solving the problems that come to him nor is fit for the position assigned to him. Whatever he does not know he does not regard it worth knowing. He does not realise that what is beyond his reach is within the reach of others. If anything is not clear to him he keeps quiet over it because he knows his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying against his unjust verdicts, and properties (that have been wrongly disposed of) are grumbling against him.
I complain to Allah about persons who live ignorant and die misguided. For them nothing is more worthless than Qur'an if it is recited as it should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an if its verses are removed from their places, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice.
And not just Hitchens and Silliman either. The world is Chock Full of people who speak as if they are authorities on something other than what they are in actuality...and that is people who have been drinking from a polluted pool of knowledge and hence pollute the world with nonsense and illogical conclusions that they hope others will actually not notice, not notice how stoopid it actually is to blame a displaced people for the violence used by an Occupier. Because if it is the case that Israel is the victim here...it would be the first time in human history that an Occupier behaved in a Non Occupying fashion.
I complain to Allah about these kinds of people. I complain that truly...we cannot rectify what was done to the African slaves that we mutilated and imprisoned on our plantations. We cannot rectify what we did to the Native Americans except maybe we ought to give them a heads-up about the Casino Industry.
To try however to convince people that we cannot do anything about this massacre and oppression while it is STILL IN PROGRESS is a flat out lie and myth in the making. Oh sure....one hundred years from now we can all wring our hands and say...oh well! Here's a Casino for you to run.
But this is happening NOW. Not LATER. There is no two ways about that and if you think there is...there is something MOST DEFINITELY WRONG WITH YOU.
The last thing that gets me is the fact that as a muslim...I'm just not entitled to an opinion on this matter. That goes for all the muslims in the world...all billion or so of us (at last count). We just cannot "take sides" on the matter and be given our due.
Oh we are BIASED.
Well....yes. We Muslims are biased but that bias is towards the TRUTH. And anyone who is biased toward the falsehoods and the evil ways of conducting human affairs is NATURALLY going to see us as having a biased opinion.
At the end of the day however (or end of the whole damn story), we know we are right. It isn't a matter of hating anyone but it is a matter of hating evil. Without that under your belt...you are absolutely lost. You'll throw your towel in with all sorts of lost and frustrating causes.
How it is. The "thing" in itself is known as the Truth. It survives all else and falsehood inevitably passes away and the Israeli Occupation follows the definition of falsehood: oppression, forced labor, murder, larceny, spying, deception, treason to everything except itself...everything that all good people know is absolutely in the column labeled Bad Deeds. There are some foolhearty persons in the world that will tell others all sorts of things and like Alice Notley wrestling with Phyllis Schaffly over whose disobedience is better and winning merely because she can talk a better talk....so do Kantian era theosophists with emphasis in there on the Sophist part of the word...try to convince people that the children in Gaza actually deserve a bit of tasty Israeli evil.
The Bound to Happen
I thought I was just pretending
all along, saying well, that's
bound to happen and it does and I say
well, that's bound to happen.
We all know that when we leave
the room, the room disappears.
We've known it since we were born
and sometimes we talk about it
with strangers knowing full well
that once they leave
all secrets follow
into the ether or the dark,
same thing and who can tell
time as it passes
when you are asleep,
the clocks looking you over?
It is a strange statistic
and one I am fond of until
it comes to the war zones.
7.1.09
[7.46] And between the two there shall be a veil, and on the most elevated places there shall be men who know all by their marks, and they shall call out to the dwellers of the garden: Peace be on you; they shall not have yet entered it, though they hope.
[7.48] And the dwellers of the most elevated places shall ca!l out to men whom they will recognize by their marks saying: Of no avail were to you your amassings and your behaving haughtily:
[7.48] And the dwellers of the most elevated places shall ca!l out to men whom they will recognize by their marks saying: Of no avail were to you your amassings and your behaving haughtily:
6.1.09
So there's these folks ayasee? theys talking trash and tellin everyone bout the endtimes yasee? but wes anot listening yasee? because the knowledge is all transparentdental yasee? them dianetics in their lost trousers put up the cash yasee? but all it was paper yasee? IOUs and ticket stubs to the sox games where theyses sittin up there supposin no ones listenin yasee? but listenin bein what listenin is didn't mind its own business yasee? talkin trash yasee? oh man did I tells you all about the way that them do-what you wants-to braggarts gets all the cash in the endtimes yasee? not the endtimes but the endtimes when the trees start talking and sayin' yasee? here's one and he's a winner named Madoff yasee? took 40 and gave it to his grandpappy yasee? Bernie I think hes called that or a scheister but he most likely bought a piece of Senator this or that like they buyin up copies of the New York Times or sumthin yasee?
"Yeah, yeah right." Jim looked at this fella...bit strange, got an accent and tapped his cup so the waitress would come back by and he could examine her rack once again as she bent over to lovingly fill his cup. Right over the top and hot coffee oozed towards Jim's plate of shew bread and gravy like a flood at Cedar Rapids. "Thanks girlie. You're a fine girl."
Up above in the sky, a UFO group whizzed by (without any sound of course) and headed off towards Guatamala at cruising speed.
"Yeah, yeah right." Jim looked at this fella...bit strange, got an accent and tapped his cup so the waitress would come back by and he could examine her rack once again as she bent over to lovingly fill his cup. Right over the top and hot coffee oozed towards Jim's plate of shew bread and gravy like a flood at Cedar Rapids. "Thanks girlie. You're a fine girl."
Up above in the sky, a UFO group whizzed by (without any sound of course) and headed off towards Guatamala at cruising speed.
5.1.09
4.1.09
3.1.09
1.1.09
http://normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2311
Photo album at NormFinkelstein's place of Gaza children in coffins, intubated, ripped to shreds, lined up and related by the most intelligent and consciencious Jew in our times. Our babies are good enough for him.
The following poem can be distributed via emails with or without the name of this poet. I have distributed it to at least five hundred individuals and have received a few responses. I hope to relate those to you when I have the permission of the authors of those letters.
It takes a bit of courage to say such things, to read such things....let alone to send them to someone who might be truly offended by the act of disobedience that it involves.
I do assure you however that at the end of that process, you will understand the people in your life that actually support what you support and hate what you hate. Strangely enough...just like the Niggeritis poem got me into hot water for the N word (no one minded the Islamofascist word at the end of Niggeritis).....most will ignore the Martha Stewart Palin Schaffly-ness of the muffins in there. How it is...people see what they want to see and sometimes you have to force them to take a good hard look at something they'd rather not be subjected to.
Our Babies Are Good Enough
Would Phyllis Schaffly shoot fish
in a barrell like they do in Gaza,
shoot babies in the cradle like
they do in Gaza, the Jews,
yes the Jews who are not
funny anymore, pathetic
How to say Hi! to the Jew
anymore after the fish
in the barrell come floating
to the top, boycott the looking
yes, Jew. You. How to shoot
fish in the AusDachauBlederling?
You the quiet Jew minding
his own business, you being
Jewish controllingtheworld
like you do, quiet minding
the business of the heartbreak
AusDachauBlederling.
All our babies line up
for your photo albums
don't they? Lay real
still for your photo albums
don't they you Martha
Stewartberry muffins. The Fenshui
of AusDachauBlederling hotel
is one on top of the other
in good rubble, hard rubble.
Phyllis Schaffly loves me,
she loves me not.
Email this baby to five
friends or special
women and you will
see your blessings
in the next ten days.
Scroll down or forward,
all the same. Our babies
are good enough aren't they
at least the AusDachauBlederling
post-it note enough?
Trust me, this works.
Photo album at NormFinkelstein's place of Gaza children in coffins, intubated, ripped to shreds, lined up and related by the most intelligent and consciencious Jew in our times. Our babies are good enough for him.
The following poem can be distributed via emails with or without the name of this poet. I have distributed it to at least five hundred individuals and have received a few responses. I hope to relate those to you when I have the permission of the authors of those letters.
It takes a bit of courage to say such things, to read such things....let alone to send them to someone who might be truly offended by the act of disobedience that it involves.
I do assure you however that at the end of that process, you will understand the people in your life that actually support what you support and hate what you hate. Strangely enough...just like the Niggeritis poem got me into hot water for the N word (no one minded the Islamofascist word at the end of Niggeritis).....most will ignore the Martha Stewart Palin Schaffly-ness of the muffins in there. How it is...people see what they want to see and sometimes you have to force them to take a good hard look at something they'd rather not be subjected to.
Our Babies Are Good Enough
Would Phyllis Schaffly shoot fish
in a barrell like they do in Gaza,
shoot babies in the cradle like
they do in Gaza, the Jews,
yes the Jews who are not
funny anymore, pathetic
How to say Hi! to the Jew
anymore after the fish
in the barrell come floating
to the top, boycott the looking
yes, Jew. You. How to shoot
fish in the AusDachauBlederling?
You the quiet Jew minding
his own business, you being
Jewish controllingtheworld
like you do, quiet minding
the business of the heartbreak
AusDachauBlederling.
All our babies line up
for your photo albums
don't they? Lay real
still for your photo albums
don't they you Martha
Stewartberry muffins. The Fenshui
of AusDachauBlederling hotel
is one on top of the other
in good rubble, hard rubble.
Phyllis Schaffly loves me,
she loves me not.
Email this baby to five
friends or special
women and you will
see your blessings
in the next ten days.
Scroll down or forward,
all the same. Our babies
are good enough aren't they
at least the AusDachauBlederling
post-it note enough?
Trust me, this works.
http://www.victorynewsmagazine.com/ZuljanahABriefIntroduction.htm
A nice history of the stallion known as Zuljanah. The following video is an Ashura (means "ten") procession somewhere in India I believe.
And believe it or not, news of Zuljanah reaches Toronto. Where "white" people live and have no idea about the continuation story of religion. Most stopped reading before Allah was finished talking.
A nice history of the stallion known as Zuljanah. The following video is an Ashura (means "ten") procession somewhere in India I believe.
And believe it or not, news of Zuljanah reaches Toronto. Where "white" people live and have no idea about the continuation story of religion. Most stopped reading before Allah was finished talking.
31.12.08
The Happy New Years
It is so to speak
not over, not even
started. This page
where the thumb
rests for a moment
is already done
and mulled over.
Two giant priests
or pagans, two
rock hard idols
talk to no one,
not even
to each other.
Sun rises, sun sets.
Building down,
blood everywhere
more of that
special lust for life
found in the imprints.
Baby is held above
the crowd
in green coffins,
the sounds above
are whirring ghosts,
the incoming tracers
and revved up Jessies.
It is so to speak
not over, not even
started. This page
where the thumb
rests for a moment
is already done
and mulled over.
Two giant priests
or pagans, two
rock hard idols
talk to no one,
not even
to each other.
Sun rises, sun sets.
Building down,
blood everywhere
more of that
special lust for life
found in the imprints.
Baby is held above
the crowd
in green coffins,
the sounds above
are whirring ghosts,
the incoming tracers
and revved up Jessies.
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