Peace

When we are peaceful
the world is at peace.

Earthrise

Earthrise at Christmas

Coffee :: Yum‽

Weasel Puke Coffee

General Order No. 11 (December 17,1862)

Bazaar Jews,
as a class
taken for

Grant[ed.], (.U.S.
A./his story)

violating every regulation
ð/Τ῾en es s῾ee
Bizarre‽

Misunderestimated W

Q. Misunderestimated W worst President of all time?
A. No.

Forgotten Memory

I don't know about you ... but
I've found that if
I don't remember something
I tend to forget about it.

Caputer :: Immanent act of imminent philologist Armón emanates new word

Caputer [kah-poot-ter]
–noun
Leader of a country who has devastated the country lead.

Eminent obsolete philologist Armón of Vila Verde, Carlosterra Norte has phlebotomised the word Caputer, hopefully not in vain.

This word combines the mean/ings/ness of the words [K][C]apo, Caput and Kaput with all the derogatory implications of Pooter to describe a leader of a country who has devastated the country lead.

Examples of this are: Cr. Adolf Hitler, Cr. Josef Stalin, Cr. Saddam Hussein, Cr. George Bush, & Cr. Robert Mugabe.

Cr. Mugabe of Zimbabwe Discovers Pestiferous Plots

Cr. Mugabe of Zimbabwe discovers pernicious plots to oust him from power.

These insidious plots are called "The Will of the Zimbabwean People" and "Democracy".

If things continue as they are, all of Zimbabwe will be pestilential. Cr. Mugabe believes his plans will foil these perfidious plots.

His plans are called "Brutal Violent Oppression" and "Fascist Dictatorship".

Even now we can see his plans coming to fruition.

Fearless caput Robert Mugabe kaput of Zimbabwe discovers new medical technique : Struthio camelus caput!

Fearless leader Robert Mugabe, Caputer of Zimbabwe, discovers Struthio camelus caput medical technique! Cr. Mugabe has used this technique to completely cure Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic. After declaring there is no more cholera in Zimbabwe, Caputer Mugabe is now able to say, "I am happy to say ... now that there is no cholera."

Cr. Mugabe is believed to have developed this technique as an improvement on the technique used to achieve military victory in Iraq by Cr. Bush.

South African leaders hope to learn this technique from Cr. Mugabe as they may need it in order to cure all the thousands of cholera infected Zimbabweans who are pouring over the borders into South Africa.

USTR Seeks Public Comments on Possible Changes to Product List in EU – Beef Hormones Dispute

USTR Seeks Public Comments on Possible Changes to Product List in EU – Beef Hormones Dispute

[Annex II potential alternative products to impose increased rates of duty (100 percent ad valorem)]

Annex II to [Docket No. USTR-2008-0036] Review of Action ... ACTION: Request for comments
...
0206 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, or mules, fresh, chilled or frozen
...
02101200 Bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
...
05040000 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
...
16023200 Prepared or preserved meat or meat offal of chickens, other than sausages and similar products
...
20079905 Lingonberry and raspberry jams obtained by cooking
...
87112000 Motorcycles (incl. mopeds) and cycles, fitted with reciprocating internal-combustion piston engine with cylinder capacity of over 50 cc but not over 250 cc

87113000 Motorcycles (incl. mopeds) and cycles, fitted with reciprocating internal-combustion piston engine with cylinder capacity of over 250 cc but not over 500 cc

My Comment: That's a really stupid-ass idea,
what's lingonberry jam doing on the list‽

Here's some other people's comments==> http://www.regulations.gov/ search for USTR-2008-0036

One Potato

Too potato

BMV to Hoosiers

No smiling‽

A lass, poor Flo Max! I knew her HO ratio‽

To pee or not to pee, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler the mind vertiginous
The quiver no arrows, an outrageous fortune,
Or re-armed Tamsulosin against pee troubles,
And by dosing, end them.

Enter prizes of great strength this moment
With this regard their currents return a right,
nor lose the name of action.
—Shaky, Willie
(Ham my let pair-a-phrases)

ทักษิณ ชินวัตร

Since ทักษิณ ชินวัต seems to have been basically one of the best Prime Ministers of ราชอาณาจักรไทย, accomplishing only good for King and Country, why do Thai middle class people hate him so much?

No longer สยาม, don't ไทยรักไทย‽

Fallen Man

Making Sausage with Bob

Joy just joining
my miserly means
with whort wurst
some satanic stupidity‽ =:-O

Systems Analest

Building a system equally pleasing all
Building a system equally pestiferous‽

Friday Revelation

"... [the reason for] the change in global conditions was the Islamic Revolution of the Great Iranian people." —from November 14, 2008 Friday sermon by Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami
MEMRI : Special Dispatch Series - No. 2117

Well, Thank God for this recitation!

Now I can clearly see Iran to be at the center of the world and be amazed how such a small bump on the rump can affect all having established a fascist mediæval theocracy‽

So why does this all powerful Islamic Revolution shake in her chador with fear at a t-shirt?

Choice

If you hate someone enough, you will kill yourself.
If you love someone enough, you will save yourself.

José Raúl Capablanca :: 120

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
November 19, 1888

Havana's
on no
master
faster

1921-1927

Al no
kind gave
not max
or fo'
got
final stroke

Autorantic Virtual Moonbat

Willie :: 4 Score

Happy Birthday!
November 18, 1928

Nørholm «Dikterhytte»

Caesar's Image

Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ

Caesar created the stamped image, which is his.
God created the gold, which is His.

Give Caesar the image,
give God the gold.

Cede Caesar the surface,
give God the gold.

Concede Caesar the conceit,
give God the gold.

Jesus' Friends

Disreputable, tax collectors, lepers, prostitutes,
beggars, convicts, thieves,
orphans & widows, discontented, poor.
These were his friends.

Cast-off, fishermen, vagabond,
unemployed, terrorist (ζηλωτής), lost,
traitor, confused, impecunious.
These where his companions.

Respectable, governors, politicians, church leaders,
magnates, bourgeois, merchants,
movers & shakers, contented, rich.
These were his enemies.

Who are you?

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: Live Hog

Live Hog

One day, an old BMWMO had a vision of his next bike. He immediately called in his favorite riding companion and begged a favor of him.

"Anything for you." the companion replied.

"On my next ride, I will come back on a hog. Soon after my CS dies, our dealer will get a trade-in and I will want the first hog he receives. You will recognize me by a kerchef on my brow. When that happens, please take a sharp knife and end my life quickly."

Within the year, the CS passed away and the dealer got a trade-in. The companion sharpened his knife and found the kerchef'd biker. Suddenly the biker screamed "Stop! Don't kill me!"

The companion dropped his knife in surprise and stared at the biker. "When I was like you I didn't know what a hog would be like. It's great. Just let me go."

Παρρησία Τ Power

Parrhesia

Anglican Down

p end a win wæd
no merci a pagan

Experience in the streets of Portland

As I walked out in the streets of Portland
As I walked out in Portland one night

I remembered a drummer all wrapped in bright paisley
Wrapped up in bright paisley, koolest drummer in sight

I see by your outfit that you're experienced
These words he did say bold as love I strolled by

Come strum beside me and hear my sad story
I once kissed the sky and must now fade away

Oh beat the drum slowly and strum guitar lowly
Play grateful dead march as you carry Mitch along

Take him to Maui out by Haleakala
for he's Jimi's drummer, we miss him, so long

Armistice :: 90

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row

Keep faith with those who there did die
broke hollow victory we don't owe
let fallow course in fold Mars lie
no venal vengeance at verse, I
PrAY bow down quarrels cross the foe!

Take free torch, wit enhance
Give peace a chance!

1 Marne
Ypres
Verdun
Somme
2 Marne
Argonne
St. Quentin Canal
Versailles
Unmensch little Austrian

Ayokunle Odeleye

1898 Memorial Park

Wilmington, NC Coup d'état :: 110 years

Wilmington Racist Coup d'état
—November 10, 1898

North Carolina Democratic Party

Alfred Moore Waddell, racist

Two Year Old Votes for President Barack Obama in Ohio 2008

Scott McPherson :: Bit 'r Sixteen

I'd heard
just the other day
he'd left town.

In the house I walked by each day
He'd many brothers and sisters

His brother a motorcyclist
His father a race car driver

Died tragically

The koolest kid in school

lived
up the street from me

Witty and smart
Funny and good
Theatrical
A joy to be around

I wish he were here
Instead of there.

November 7, 1992

—Harmon Ronaldson

Light Acquaintance

I have been one acquainted with the light.
I have walked out in rain - and back in light.
I have outwalked the furthest city night.
I have looked down the saddest country lane.
I have passed the policeman on his beat
will grace attain - lift eye to bright.

I ran & filled the road with the sound of feet
When near by a wailing cry
Came waifting across the street,

Left small comfort crying one gave I
Walked child home before falling night
One last knock the missing clock on high

Proclaiming all ways now the time is right.
I have been once acquainted with the light.

Barracked When

I though I heard a trumpet call
a clarion sound of joy

Like on the day the mist will fall
returning man from croix


See dewy sparkle golden light
raise from behind the hill

When morning birds shouting song might
awake me with a thrill


A sweet taste savoury victory
the expectation might

the pale in contradictory
the change from wrong to right


Winging out, I'll be touched by gay
to see the scoundrels leave

Ƿ, Shining One, fought God one day
Milton described the heave


Dove's olive branch it smells of peace

O to the sky take flight
Back virtue now, hope no more cease
Make just his turn to might!

Gold Will Not Away

Nature's softest metal gold
Slackens not her tightning hold
Winds around her grip to power
Tighter tighter hour hour
Need is not a single leaf
So John Milton was a thief
Pair a dice will not away
Now that merry is not gay

AJW :: We Come in Peace

An Answer

I said to voice from salmon stream
& spoke with heartfelt glee
pain of birth & life & death seem
worth it all to be!

—Harmon Ronaldson

from Douglas bridge (My Father was here)

I look above Mt. Juneau's height
a salmon stream, Ursa at night

the bear he laid against the sand
these river stones were in his hand

at flounder creek by little lake
grizzle cold hardtack, who would make

my children's faces all so dear
I know my father, He was here.

—Harmon Ronaldson

Dzántik'i Héeni
Aak'w
t'aakh

Small Paws

small paws
in the night

pause

early
in the morning

Juno left

Juno

Juno's here,
soon she'll
not be.

Stretching

mine
time
chronic
chthonic
tonic
tonikós

malignant pain

To hear the
good people of
middle America still
small minded virulent

racist

is
so
depressing.

Welfare Mothers, You'll discover

It's hard to kneel
when you're not Young

Wise & Foolish

Foolish youth
dreams someday
wise old man
he'll prove wrong

Wise old man
dreams someday
foolish youth
will be right.

Southern Hospitality

Several years ago, not exact quotes but approximate.

Commenting on some of the people who had come to work in Washington, North Carolina, Linda V. said, “Around here we really don't care for Northerners. For example, since my sister moved up north, I really don't like her any more.”

I asked her where up north was.

She said, "Virginia."

marriage :: conservative definition

marriage
    –noun
social institution under which, living together,
there are shared legal commitments,
religious, ceremonies, etc.,
between a man and a woman
... and a woman
... and a woman
... and a woman
... and a woman
... and a woman
... and yet another woman
... and maybe some more women ...

Icesave :: Frozen Assets‽

"We are not currently processing any deposits or any withdrawal requests through our Icesave internet accounts. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our customers. We hope to provide you with more information shortly."
—http://www.icesave.co.uk/

Vogon Pœtry :: Vocabulary

A perfect word to add:
  ἐπιχαιρεκακία - Epicaricacy - Schadenfreude

Welfare Mothers, You'll discover

People, pick up on who I'm puttin' down now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Down at every financier in town now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
While they're stealin' you can hear this sound now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Worthless Wall Street Swindlers!

Hard to believe they get our money for free now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Out on the street with the whole family now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Hard to believe they took our home for free now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Worthless Wall Street Swindlers!

People, pick up on who I'm puttin' down now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Down at every financier in town now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
While they're stealin' you can hear this sound now
Welfare Mothers, You'll discover
Worthless Wall Street Swindlers!

Rock Bottom

rock bottom
    –noun
   Queen's big thing

Rock Bottom

rock bottom
    –noun
   a firm foundation

Jeff Miller :: One Sparkling Tear

Beauty filled youth
Sparkle eyes

Blond hair flying
Blue eyes twinkling

What'll we ride next
at Disney World?

After I last saw you
In the hallway at OCLC

I often wondered where you were
What you were doing

Not knowing now
how many years

you're gone.

—Harmon Ronaldson

Q. & A.

Q. I've all questions.
A. I've all answers.

Note: Now if someone could just pair them up correctly for me I'd much appreciate it.

Morning Storm

Morning rain over our house
I rode away into clear weather.

Bad Boy

Bad - Not good
Boy - Not man

Always defending
honour
completely lacking

Without courage
to keep commitment
virtue
truth

Boasting
I know him not

It would please me more than he
to be proven completely wrong.

Feeling s o sequential

Guessed Gus Gust

Haitian hovering guest
Gustav gushes,
gusts.

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: How To Write a Chinese Poem

How To Write a Chinese Poem

A well-known Japanese poet, Niiro Kyousou, was asked how to compose a Chinese poem.

"The usual Chinese poem is four lines," Kyousou explained. "The first line contains the initial phrase; the second line, the continuation of that phrase; the third line turns from this subject and begins a new one; and the fourth line brings the first three lines together. A popular Japanese song illustrates this:

Two F650s of BMW were made in Germany.
The elder has chain, the younger, belt.
A sport bike may kill with its price,
But these bikes slay men with their farkles."

Rush In Lover

Q. Why does everyone in South Ossetia love Russia?
A. Everyone who didn't was shot.

Dead Reckoning

In recognition of the Russian Duma recognizing the independence of South Ossetia,

I would like to recognize democracy in Russia.

Also, I would like to recognize the independence of Narnia.

Losing it

Life long losing
battle with loss

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: Rusty F650

Rusty F650

A nun who was searching for enlightenment bought an F650 and covered it with Touratech. Wherever she went she rode the Touratech F650.

Years passed and, still riding her F650, the nun came to live in a small town in a country where there were many F650s, each one with its own particular garage.

The nun wished to daily clean her Touratech F650, not liking the idea of mud covering her F650 like it did all the others. This rusted her Touratech F650, making it especially ugly.

左右

左道 無 限道限 無 道右

Lest as sure a boz worth

two door's down
Hank's even
3 Dick's death
broom'swept out
two door's rose

Peerless Thoughts

What a jury of one’s peers think

Several years ago, not exact quotes but approximate.

Linda V. said, “My husband is serving on a jury this week.”

Near as I can recall the trial was for someone charged with a serious crime - on the order of murder.

“He is going to do his duty and convict [the defendant].”

I asked her why it would be his duty to convict the defendant regardless of any proof of his guilt.

She said, “You can't believe any of that evidence the defense brings forward, it is just to get him off.” and “After all, the police wouldn't have arrested him if he wasn't guilty.”

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: The Most Valuable Thing in the World

The Most Valuable Thing in the World

Zen master 價值, was asked by an inmate: "What is the most valuable thing in the world?"

The master replied: "A broken water pump from an F650."

"Why is a broken water pump from an F650 the most valuable thing in the world?" inquired the inmate.

Jiazhi replied: "Because no one can name its price."

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: The Blockhead Cager

The Blockhead Cager

Two Zen teachers, Guretsu and Gosei, were invited to visit a cager. Upon arriving, Gosei said to the cager: "You drive skillfully by nature and have an inborn ability to learn."

"Nonsense," said Guretsu. "Why do you flatter this blockhead? He's a cager, so he doesn't know anything."

So, instead of running over Gosei, the cager ran over Guretsu.

Luny

But I feel only partially eclipsed.

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: Temper

Temper

A Zen student came to Nagoyaka and complained: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper. How can I cure it?"

"You have something very strange," replied Nagoyaka. "Let me see what you have."

"Just now I cannot show it to you," replied the other.

"When can you show it to me?" asked Nagoyaka.

"It arises unexpectedly from cagers on the road," replied the student.

"Then," concluded Nagoyaka, "it must not be your own true nature. If it were, you could show it to me at any time. When you mounted your bike you did not have it, and your riding did not give it to you. Think that over."

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: A Cup of Tea

A Cup of Tea

Nakano, a Japanese master during the 平成 era (1989- ), received a scholar who came to inquire about riding.

Nakano served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The scholar watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nakano said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can you learn to ride unless you first empty your cup?"

Zen Koans

29

29 : naw a deugain

Now adoo gain

Now a do gain's on me :)

I've score twice and nine.

Veggy's I'm a l'speak

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: Returning to the Ordinary World

Returning to the Ordinary World

An inmate asked Sabaku,
"How does a rider of bikes return to driving an automobile?"

Sabaku replied, "A broken mirror never reflects again;
fallen flowers never go back to the old branches."

42

..
..

12.19.15.10.7

Mayan long count
12 baktun 19 katun 15 tun 10 uinal 7 kin

Desert Passion

Last tide of the inland sea,
the passion went out
leaving behind desert sand
and dry bones.

Old Creep

New Cadillac
old man

stop on Forrest Hill

creep on to 10th
creep on 10th

I stop on 10th

creep left before me.

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan :: The CS in the Garden

The CS in the Garden

An inmate saw a CS in the garden of Kozentaru's monastery and asked the teacher,
"All bikes keep their oil in tank or engine.
Why does this bike keep oil in its frame?"
Master Kozentaru took off on it.

If you build it, they will come

KZ Mauthausen (August 7, 1938 - Spring 1945)

• DEST
• Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA
• Bayer
• Deutsche Bergwerks- und Hüttenbau
• Linz-based Eisenwerke Oberdonau
• Flugmotorenwerke Ostmark
• Otto Eberhard Patronenfabrik
• Heinkel und Messerschmitt
• Hofherr und Schrenz
• Österreichische Sauerwerks
• PUCH
• Rax-Werke
• Steyr
• Steyr-Daimler-Puch
• Universale Hoch und Tiefbau

Très Huit

Whee variate!

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 七

七
An inmate asked Master FǎLàXu to teach him.
法辣旭 夫子 asked, "Have you an F650?"
The inmate replied, "Yes, I have."
"Then go ride it," said 法辣旭 夫子。
At that moment, the inmate was enlightened.
Note: All attributions, since they are of great antiquity, may be erroneous.
法辣旭 FaLaXu (Law spicy sun)

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 六

六
An inmate asked Pai-chang,
"What is a matter of special wonder?"
Pai-chang said, "Riding alone at Deal's Gap."
The inmate rode off and the Dragon struck him.

Religion :: Vaccine of the masses‽

Fincher, Corey L. and Thornhill, Randy. 2008. "Assortative sociality, limited dispersal, infectious disease and the genesis of the global pattern of religion diversity". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, July 29.

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 五

五
Grand Master 法辣旭's Classic was unwell.
The inmate asked him, "FǎLàXu, how has your venerable Classic been lately?"
The Grand Master said, "Ride Classic, Repair Classic."
Note: All attributions, since they are of great antiquity, may be erroneous.
法辣旭 FaLaXu (Law spicy sun)

Ψyllium

So,
silly
'm
I won't go
without thee‽

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 四

四
The inmate asked 趙州, "Does an F650 have Buddha nature or not?"
趙州 said, "Wúwúwúwú"

Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын

A fortunate man,
now safe from pain,
having lived his life well.

(December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008)

Dumb Girl

From the Valley
girl expression mute
she leaves stop sign

left Cherokee flying
before me

I Kent stop.

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 三

三
Two cylinders fire and there is a sound;
what is the sound of one cylinder?

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 二

二
Which way does a squirrel jump?

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 一

一
Repairing a bike,
why's the repair
what you do last?

The Brand - Wúwúwúwúwúwú

The day they drove you to my town
and all my smiles were singin'
The day they drove you to my town
and your horns were ringin'

I went:
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!

Casmerodius albus

Sigh not cypress
less regret
egged on egress
white egret.

麼暗 Mō.àn: Motorcycle Koan

麼暗
Mō.àn

Motorcycle Koan

English (moan /moʊn/)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moan

Noun
1. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or even pleasure (as in the sound made when hearing a pun or Motorcycle Koan)

Verb
1. to make a moan or similar sound
2. to complain


Cantonese (mo1)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/麼
麼
1. interrogative final particle (note that with sufficient repetition, it is some times the final particle, depending on where you stop==> mo an mo an mo an mo ... ).
2. insignificant, small, tiny

Mandarin (an4)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/暗
暗
1. dark
2. obscure
3. in secret, covert

Atiana

Arrives

Jon Stewart has good comments on traitor's Hit-and-Run

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

ἀπόκρυφα :: Founding Faðer's Stories :: Simón Bolívar

Colombia
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Blanco (July 24, 1783)

When Simón's father asked who planted this beautiful new tree in the garden,

Simón replied, "I did."

However, his neighbors gathered around, chopped it up, & tore it down.

NOTE :: While all these apocryphal stories are obviously not true perhaps they speak to the character of the various founding fathers & their famiglia.

Cyclist Gives D.C. police traitor

Traitor fails to conserve compassion.

“ Novak cited after hitting pedestrian ...
Novak: ‘... The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that.’
... ” —Politico. JONATHAN MARTIN & CHRIS FRATES | 7/23/08 2:02 PM EST
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11985.html

L ast RUNDOWN :: Clear Audit

Galactic Overlord Xenu:
“Within me ∞ voices scream,
‘Pure Dreck,
Toxic Tech,
SCAM!’”

ἀπόκρυφα :: Founding Faðer's Stories :: Carolus Magnus

France
Carolus Magnus (747)

When Charles' father asked Charles about who chopped off their gallic rooster's head,

Charles (who was frankly rather German at the time) replied, "I can not germinate a lie, I'm frankly proud".

Whether germane or galling, his famiglia has been ever since.

NOTE :: While all these apocryphal stories are obviously not true perhaps they speak to the character of the various founding fathers & their famiglia.

His approach to failure

To avoid failure
he did nothing
and it came to him.

Felt

Luxurious
Gluttony
Greedily
Slothfull
Wrath filled
Envy

Pride & Prudence

Justly
Restrains
Courage
Faithfully
Hope for
Love

MINEÐKNOT

anchorlessmeanderingsstreamss
Þreuuunstablemine
ÐFEELÐ

石頭記

A time to cast away stone
or
a time to gather stone together?

A time to every purpose under the heaven

Old man
grey hair
grey beard
blew explorer

from Emerson
he wanted to
turn, turn, turn
left
On the Boulevard.

A bike is
directly
before him

I saw,
his approach.

I'm Baldrick ‽

Favorite vegetable : Bok Choi

Bok Choi ==> Brassica rapa <==> Brassica rapa <== Turnip

"Other traits shared by all Baldricks ... an obsession with turnips."
—Baldrick Wiki

Peaceful Nuclear Energy

Delivery system for peaceful nuclear energy?

Independence Day

Happy 4th of July!

Today is the day we celebrate revolution!
Today is the day we cast off the colonial power of Great Britain!
Today is the day we set an example for others to follow!

The others that followed were:
Rhodesia

Jest Is :: Just Is

Jesse יָהוּ (Yahoo) jarred
Jesus ישוע (Yeshua)
Jewish יהודים (Yehudim).

the Cure

For alcoholism and drug addiction:
magic mushrooms‽
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms

Wouldn't that be bizarre‽

Amelia

Still innever land?

∞無∞

∞無∞
限道
石道
右道

∞道∞

∞無∞
限道
左道
右道

MIST ÐIS MISsed ALL

PAPAVERITASSOMNIFERVM

"Die Religion ... "

Begone burnt sap of poppy
No more liturgical in cense Be
gone from cense or
No more opiate of the masses!

"... ist das Opium des Volkes"

ITEMISSAESTDEOGRATIAS

אהיה אשר אהיה

Ehyeh asher ehyeh
Conatus
Joie de vivre

Kopi Jawa

¿∎ sat down coffee mourning
I ⊣ ∴ new th oug ht knew ∴ ⊦ I
AM coffee bittaי‽

بدعة

In an unchanging world
Unchanging law could be

but bitter, bitter in a changing world

innovation would be better

יהוה

I AM COFFEE - JAVA AM I.

Know Where You Are

Why such rush
to nowhere
when you're there
already?

Small Means Weal

a bad man is poverty
a good man is wealth

time folds years
bend an ear

real wealth is not found
between folds of wallets

we'll only find wealth
between folds of our ears

Mary Perry

♥
58 & 1 day
June 27, 1888 – June 28, 1946

LL Number Type

Intelligence

On September 11, 2001 there were 8 FBI agents who could speak Arabic.

Q. How many are there now?
A. 9‽

Ban Pause

5 step Pas
paws 2 bear arms
Washington bare pause
𝄐

\(^o^)/

Some things
are just
too cute!

We fan Woven

However long warp
Woof is weft,
selvage to selvage is weft to right.

self edge selvegge

oof ōwef
wef ta

Dōm

Why's fate woven
doom
always bad?

Herbergeour

If the harbinger traditionally sought lodging for royalty,
why is the most common current usage for the word
"Harbinger of Doom"?

What I meant to say was ... ahmmm ...

Mem'ries,
may be beautiful and yet,
I find that as I'm getting older,
I simply ... forget ...

George Left Seven Words

George left
some words
for
our laughter

In the Water Month

I've been thinking about 大正六年

News is ...

" ... anything that someone is trying to hide, all else is advertising."
—Lord Beaverbrook as paraphrased by Jeff Fager as paraphrased by me

Free līberālis!

Precisely which of the following
  are those who use liberal as a slur
  against?

liberal

Accurately all‽

Ψikotic :: ðe Economist

Oddly amusing

The Economist by Psikotic

Très Foxey

Baby

Faðer's Day Reading

Faðer's Day Nap

Le Pyre, Smoke Burn, Rising

Evans Road Fire Smoke
Cast ghastly pall
Laural Wraith rising
Cross pallid dawn

Earlee morning expire
Arms exhaust.
My eyes burn
a little more than usual

Māter 's not :,

—Harmon Ronaldson

Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts

Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts
—The New York Times

On supporting basic human rights & the US Constitution:

For:
  Justice Kennedy
  Justice Breyer
  Justice Ginsburg
  Justice Souter
  Justice Stevens

Against:
  Chief Justice Roberts
  Justice Alito
  Justice Scalia
  Justice Thomas

Malfunctioning Traffic Signals :: realHow

Call your state/county DOT and/or city Public Works Department and tell them to fix the broken signal.

If you live in Greenville, NC call:
COG :: Public Works Department
(252) 329-4522 Monday - Friday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm
(252) 329-4300 after hours

NC DOT District / County Maintenance Engineers Directory

District Engineer
Elwood Jarvis
(252) 946-3689
(Washington, NC)

County Maintenance Engineer
Jeff Cabaniss
(252) 830-3142
(Greenville, NC)

NC DOT Division of Highways
Highway Maintenance - Pitt County
104 W Belvoir Rd
(252) 830-3142

Traffic Engineer
1704 N Greene St
(252) 830-3146

Traffic Services Dept.
1712 N Memorial Dr
(252) 830-3493

Malfunctioning Traffic Signals :: wikiHow

How to Trigger Green Traffic Lights

Malfunctioning Traffic Signals

Basically all "demand-actuated" traffic signals.

This example is about a year old, but is typical:

The whole quote is in an article here :
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/072007/07162007/298724
(would be nice if more news organizations had a transportation reporter)

"Dear Kelly: I ride a motorcycle and have frequent problems with traffic lights not working correctly. One example is the intersection of State Route 205 and U.S. 301 in King George ....

The Virginia Department of Transportation sent a traffic signal unit to inspect the signal at State Route 205/U.S. 301. ...

The signal unit found the sensor to be working properly, [VDOT] said. ... Contact Tina Bundy at 540/899-4560 ..." [to tell them otherwise]
—Kelly Hannon's on-line column Getting There in the Fredericksburg, VA The Free Lance-Star

Unfortunately a typical response from a DOT — "We checked it and it works ..."

NO, it DOESN'T work!

If a bicycle or motorcycle doesn't trigger it, then it doesn't work.

That is the definition of it working (both a bicycle and a motorcycle should trigger it), as a rule if something doesn't meet the definition of it working then it is considered to not work, duh‽

Further typical DOT responses along lines of "Well we don't have anything to check it with, why don't you bring your (bicycle, motorcycle, scooter, fill in the blank)".

Maybe if you need to test it to work with a bicycle or motorcycle, you should have a typical bike available for testing instead of using your DOT TEN TON TRUCK!

Careful With That Axe Dr. Eugene

Be careful if you're taking a hospital visit : "... 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year ... from preventable medical errors.". — http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/500_err.html

Modern Times :: The Golden Rule

Be fair with others;
then keep after them until they're fair with you.

Alan Alda. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself.
New York: Random House, 2007.

吃了

It's chīlly in the 中國。

Uncle Billy Roberts' Nickle

My mother's proudest possession.

Her favorite Uncle gave her
Before crushing logs
Shifted.

Her brother thought it would be good
To buy a coat for his intended girlfriend.

Lawrence at Home

Long straight road
round corner
Parker's house

Over shoulder,
"Hold tight!"

Watching Honda's speedo climbing.
Superior 750 power bro'.

100, 110, 120
How far would it go?

Home no more,
road ends.

He ŝee a she, whee!

和諧社會

Your Turning Intentions

What you intend - does not exist
What your tyre does - is

If the top of your front tyre is still
you are good

If the top of your front tyre is turning
it is a matter of great concern.

Think Effects Affects Me

Could not care less
what you think

Only care
what you do

Unfortunately

What you think
effects
what you do

In ðis country

In a country badly governed,
wealth is something to be ashamed of.
—孔夫子

Found On Road Dead

Cold metal brush
Explorering crosswalk

Rubbering me the wrong way

Must you need kill me
to reach a red light‽

Calvin

An old man
helped my other mother
with her yard and gardening

He must have been
thirty, maybe forty

Beside him I rode in his old pickup truck
To a cabin on Pea Ridge

Gravel beside the road
Land sweeping down to the distance

Neatly swept floor
Hard packed

Chickens
roam the yard

Children
I could play with

Cornbread
I could eat

Water magically flowing
just by moving a handle
up and down

A special house
out back
for restroom

Later he drove me back.

Atlantic Beach

Written in
the beach
before
high tide

now a
clean slate.

和谐社会

和諧社會
無自由
無是

Celina Branch

Willow dropped her broken limb
in shallow branch

water tugging down
flowed by wrist full

my toy boat caught there
momentum in time
yearning to be passed

pushing past,
forking past,
down stream.

Early Mourning

Through mist i
Thought I saw you standing by the river
Watching geese

Paddling & swiming
Noisily living
Eating & honking
Waddling up the riverbank

Mist cleared, you're gone.

The Seventh Commandment

I find it hard to resist breaking the seventh commandment sometimes. How about you‽

7. Do not mix sacrificial blood with leavened bread.

Classic Reflector•ism

Drug busts lead to arrests
The Daily Reflector
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Thorough Leaving

No portage to kettlehole
in Concord's tree domain

No walking to Wachusett
wilt now let us roam Maine

As twilight leaves the sun set day

As twilight leaves the sun set day
I would tarry on my way

to darker realms of sunless night
live and struggle as I might

the spinning globe of time goes round
silence takes away all sound

and if in slumber I repose
answer only God that knows.

—Harmon Ronaldson

Last Sycling Day

the last turn on
the cycling path
Albert drops out

胡錦濤

Harmonious Society
without liberty
without being!

Write Wright Rite Right Right

Wright
wrong
rite,
right
writes

Wright
rite,
right
writes
wrong

Wright
wrong
writes,
rite
rights

Wright
write,
rite
rights
wrong

Liberty Fire

None bear the torch of liberty
who'd protect us from its flames
by extinguishing its fire!

蒸的蛋在米粥裡

Stale·Mate

Fissure
Chest
Bobs
Away