Occupy Congress Until Obama Jobs Bills Are Brought to A Vote

At some point we will wake upAt some point we will see that direct action is essentialAt some point we will Occupy Congressand for relaxationconduct a vigil outside the Supreme CourtThat is my hopeThat is my beliefNancy cannot do it on her ownJohn Boehner is not being moved yetWhat will have to happen to break the jamHere is what I believeBoehner remains the keyHe cannot now be trusted to do what he saysshould he say he will compromiseWe need to Occupy Congress with the following demandPlace the Obama jobs bills on the floor for an up or down voteIf the Republican majority stands with the Tea Partyso be itBut if the whole house passes these measures we will havebroken the jamSo the demand isBring the bills to the floorAnd if Occupy is listeningIf people ready to act are hearing then actGo to the Congress and sayObama jobs bills to the floor for a votebefore July 4

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I put on my Polonius hat for the President

I always thought Polonius got a bad rap

in addition to a fatal stab from Hamlet

He is the author of some timeless if shaky advice

like to thine own self be true

But I sometimes think of myself as a Polonius-sort

a mixed bag as it were

rather too verbose to be taken seriously

In any case I penned the following in November 2010

You can judge if it was salient

I have rescued it from my Yahoo Voices account

which is currently on its last legs

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We are now in a very delicate situation, Mr. President.

The GOP continues to condone a near-criminal assault on you.

The GOP has not repudiated racism.

The GOP Court has made elections a sale item.

And the country does not seem to care.

Self-interest reigns. The government remains subject to criminal GOP attacks.

So what do you have to do to survive?

The first thing Sir is to smile.

That is how John Wayne would deal with a similar indignity. 

But we would know that behind that smile is some raw power.

Smile and exercise raw power Sir.

This is why you have Plouffe at your side. 

He can see the fissures and soft spots.

Stop seeing politics as something stupid people do 

when they are not serious. 

It may be stupid but the GOP does it 24/7 in its sleep. 

And we have to politic back.

So get political Sir.

Have Michelle invite Susan Eisenhower to tea. Show up.

Confuse people.

Use your power.

Make nice to the media. 

Put yourself out for the next reporter who has an illness in the family.

Start publicizing the two hundred things you have done 

from day one 

that no one knows about.

Give exclusive interviews to enemy journalists.

Start having fun playing politics. 

Rub on some FDR dust.

And remember Sir you are just marking time. 

There is light at the end of your tunnel.

That may be optimistic. 

But never believe anything optimistic Sir. 

Assume the worst.

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Cyber-community 101 - Lesson Four Turbines are the future

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You can access prior lessons at the link above.

Cyber-communities are imagined settlements of the future

These nested lessons spell out the elements

Cyber-communities are dense enough 

to enable viable economies

Cyber-communities are walkable and sustainable

Cyber-communities possess all elements of city living

Cyber-communities integrate residence work 

recreation health and education

Turbines seem to me the most likely candidates for 

generating the energy needed to make these communities 

independent and sustainable

Turbines can be powered with both solar and wind 

Turbines can be so pervasive and attractive 

they make wind farms look like what they are

a bad and ugly investment

We need to build proper cyber-communities from scratch

Imagine a giant Stonehenge-like matrix whose vertical stones

each house 40 turbines

Simple!

Energy is distributed to all who live and work in the community

Surplus is saved or shared 

Most thought about this is hampered by our worship of oil and car

These retro things dictate current sad sprawl design

Cyber-communities are an evolution to sustainability 

with teeth

and an eye to global leadership

in the thought department 

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The Seven Giants of Creeping Totalitarianism

I see today's world as a series of events that have or might occurthat signal hope or doomHere are seven of the doom events or signsThere have been many more
1. The Supreme Court installation of George W. Bush2. The decision to treat 9/11 as a patriotic oil ground war and use of lies to justify Iraq3. The hallowing of torture4. The McConnell Anti-Obama Ploy rejecting compromise and poisoning politics5. Citizens United6. The emergence of the Tea Party and the 2012 GOP Primaries 7. The Walker recall fails

Each of the above countered only by the hope placed in the ultimate disposition of the American people and their will to vote for President Obamaand in the ability of President Obama and Democratsto confront these giants and help fashion a counter-movement that moves beyond oil toward a post-consumer societybased on community rather than selfishness
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I humbly thank John Boehner / For all the good he does

Re-introduced July 7, 2012


 I hope all who enjoy these will join me in beseeching @speakerboehner to pass Obama jobs acts still pending before the house. The examples of rhetoric below were previously published on Yahoo Voices which deemed my writing and graphics at odds with standards set forth in their Terms of Service. 

Irony

I humbly thank John Boehner 

For all the good he does 

When he's out on the grassy links 

I feel a happy buzz

Synedoche

Ship drifting languid 

Filled with wealthy passengers 

Toward the waterfall

Metonymy

Beware the gavel of the ghoul 

Lest it become your guillotine 

You have been played for a rank fool 

Run swiftly from this ghastly scene

Metaphor

Like Cyclops Speaker Boehner comes 

And fixes you with his one eye 

Inside the giant laughs aloud 

Outside he seems to cry 

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