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PoetrymanPoetry - September 2007

Star Shower

September 23rd 2007 01:37

Star Shower

Azure in the courts of Cerulean. Thunderstorms by candlelight. A thousand league shout. Clad in gossamer gowns, Goddess and nymphs by babbling brooks.

Black cloud like a fist. And flash of thunderous lightning like a revelation. Here it comes...

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Linear Rainbows

September 18th 2007 23:51

Linear Rainbow

Thunder and Rainbows.

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You Know, Someone’s on the Take, Don’t You

September 8th 2007 21:59

Have you ever wondered how someone gets drugs onto a high school campus? Consider this: as adults we, via credit cards and online bookings, can appear anywhere in the world at moment’s notice. Considering all the businessmen and women in the world, many of us actually do this.
Children in our society are considerably less free to travel. The exception proves the rule. When a teenager flew to Iraq without his parent’s permission it was big news. Thousands of our soldiers have gone to Iraq—have you seen 100,000 big news stories, one on each individual soldier? You don’t have hours enough in the day to do that much reading. If you tried it, you could read nothing else for months—maybe years.

This lack of mobility for children means theoretically, Police, the children’s parents, teachers, and school administrators could know, with far more precision than adults, where each individual kid is at all times. There are only so many places they could be. Let me get this straight, you couldn’t keep drugs away from those very, very few places, if you really wanted to?

Look at the phalanx of supposedly willing guardians of juvenile virtue we have at our disposal. Parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, police. And what about the means for detecting and interdicting drugs: dogs and hyper efficient scientific drug identification devices. Moreover, we could require any student who partakes in any extra-curricular activity from drama, or football to the chess club and the year book committee to take a drug test. So how is it, given all we have at our command to keep kids off drugs, how is it that a new generation of drug users is starting out young in schools across America. The answer would appear to be simple, someone is on the take. It could be as obscure as rich parents bribing a drug lab to make sure that junior’s steroid test comes up clean. Or a high school coach is dealing drugs to his star athletes under the table. Notice that if true drug interdiction was occurring, at least two people have to be corrupt to get past the system. Say the coach and the drug test lab. If the coach is sending bogus samples to the lab, the coach and some negligent parent I are sufficient. If there are kids on drugs in American schools it is because at least two adults in each case is not doing their jobs.

Are there other areas wherein we know someone is on the take? How about the drugs and illegals coming across borders? After 9-11, if our governments’ goal was truly to keep us safe, there will be walls on the borders and armed guards questioning and photographing everyone who comes in. There would be no possibility of a terrorist with a suitcase nuke sneaking across the border in the dead of night in the company of drug dealers and illegals. Every illegal who works in America is breaking at lest two laws. They came across the border illegally and unless the employer has knowingly hired a criminal, the illegal worker has used a stolen social security number. Isn’t that a felony? Gee, how many laws does a foreigner have to break before he is a fugitive as we citizens would be if we committed two felonies? Since illegals depress wages and take jobs from Americans you would think that the unions would be up in arms. Given the statements the Mexican government has made on the matter, Mexico has in effect declared war against the United States and sent a force of millions to invade and occupy us. And why isn’t congress up in arms? Apparently, congress will commit treason for bribes. It would be interesting if we merely treated the illegals the same way Mexico treats people who come across it’s southern border illegally…By the way, the fact that drugs keep coming across the border, when a concerted effort from our government could stop them, is another indication that somebody is on the take.

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Wedgies

September 8th 2007 21:38

Giving Wedgies

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Fractal Moon (LINK)

September 5th 2007 10:28

$moon, fractal, abstract, digital$

Fractal Moon

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You Will Die Before We Reach You

September 4th 2007 10:35

The poor and elderly should be moved out of harms way. This is the true lesson of the Katrina hurricane. We should use two criteria to evaluate evacuation zones. The first is: what is the likelihood of a disaster occurring? The second is: what is the likelihood that it will take longer than three days for authorities to get to the most difficult to reach people? Multiply these two probabilities together and we get a rough estimate of the places where it should be public policy to evacuate the poor and elderly. The 100 places in the United States with the worse overall scores should be evacuated as soon as possible. Furthermore, just as governments should not reward people for building in flood plains or on earthquake faults, governments should also not pay to put affordable housing in the most hazardous areas in America. In fact, in conjunction with the evacuation which should be done as soon as possible, we should engage in longer term planning. Zoning commissions in various municipalities should zone certain residential areas as being unfit for the poor and elderly. These areas would come from a larger list of the 1000 least safe places in America.
The poor and elderly should clamor for these changes most of all. During Katrina we saw the spectacle of poor people who did not have cars locked in an arena. After the bathrooms stopped working conditions were like being locked in an outhouse or cesspool. No human being in America should be treated that way. As for the elderly, when some of their care takers fled to higher ground it is still unclear what was or was not done to the old people who were stranded.
As a rough measure we can identify places where it might be hard to rescue people. Katrina again comes to the fore. Any location where natural or man made disasters are relatively likely would be one criteria. Take for instance, fault lines in major California cities. Another factor is geography. Help is much quicker to arrive when there are many maintained roads entering the affected areas from every direction. If you have an ocean on one or more sides then the disaster has to take out fewer paths before our emergency response would become suspect

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Moire Commute

September 3rd 2007 15:31

Moire Commute

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Rumors of War (LINK)

September 2nd 2007 12:08

We may not solve warfare or famine in your time. But the cure of all disease may be within our grasp. Imagine the if the trillions spent on "Wars of Choice" or "Wars against a concept" was spent testing every natural and artificial substance known to man against every disease known to man. Imagine if we spent the remainder on determining the molecular structure and sequencing the genes of every disease so that we could construct cures that while harmless and inert to ourselves, are deadly and irresistible to the viruses, anti-viruses, and bacterias that plague us. War is not the triumph of God. War is the failure of men. Though there are necessary wars such as World War II, most wars could be prevented. For instance, if we stopped buying oil from Saudi Arabia, the money that finances terrorism would dry up and the so called "War Against Terror" would be over. It is instructive to note that no major politician has as his chief goal, destroying terrorism in this way. Perhaps they don't really want it to stop....And besides, every major politician is getting bought by foreign oil interests and domestic big oil. We could easily use coal and nuclear energy to be free of those who fund terrorism. Unfortunately, the politicians have yet to find a way to get paid if we switch to domestic energy sources. Every pundit who says we can't switch to domestic energy is also on they pay roll of big oil and foreign oil interests.

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