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Got mad at Comcast.

Discontinued all services.

Will not be as frequent with blogging, as you may have noticed.

Have many new poems to post in the future.

Back to pen and paper for now!

naughty little no-see-um

you vicious little creature

go back to where you came from

you blood-sucking feeder

prey upon another

something your own size

you hungry little mother

invisible to my eyes

by me

I think hurricanes should have names like:

Aggressive Al

Bad Luck Betty

Calamity Chris

Disasterous Dale

Evil Emily

Fiasco Fred

Grueling Greg

Hazardous Hal

Infamous Irma

Jabbing Jake

Killer Kelly

Leveling Lou

Misfortunate Mel

Notorious Nate

Obnoxious Ollie

Pulverizing Pat

Quick Quincy

Raging Rick

Stormy Steve

Tragic Trish

Unfortunate Ugo

Vicious Vic

Windy Wendy

Xavier the Destroyer

Yelling Yancey

Zany Zac

Have you ever asked, "Where do my taxes really go?"

If so, here's the answer...

-from 2009

I did not have children yet my money goes to the local school districts. Is this fair?

Most local taxes go toward local gvmt personnel and schools.

Fire, ambulance, parks, and libraries, that's fine. If you have kids, you should have to pay for their school. It's not everybody's bill. If you can't afford it, why did you have children? Most kids are not planned so everybody shares in paying for their "mistakes".

the "blind" vegetarian has little defense

where carnivorous humans make no sense

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"here, come on and try it, it has no meat"

as you partake in what they offer to eat

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tricking the unknowing with a tainted meal

from their numb conscience, the ones that blind feel

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how proud they must be when the blind can't tell

like feeding humans to themselves

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then you find with little disguise

that your meat-free meal once had eyes

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the carnivores laugh with, "what's the big deal?"

as you're slowly sickened from their calloused reveal

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little do they know that their Sunday beliefs

are just like your moral code they defeat

I would never trick a Hindu to eat a cow

nor would I have a priest retract his vow

what if the meat was coming from their pets

would they trade their slaughter house for their vets?

by me

the noble crow

atop his tree

looking down

on humanity

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spying through

the falling leaves

gently revealing

all he sees

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concrete paths

and metal boxes

rolling around in

clouds of toxins

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wooden nests

with carpet grass

multiplying

ever fast

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endless seas

of noisy creatures

plasticising

natural features

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magnetic waves

filling space

bolstering

the human race

by me

The frenzied hysteria of media sharks is over

and nobody wins. Justice prevailed for Casey Anthony

when the jury found her not guilty of murder.

Whether she was involved or not, whether it was

an accident or not, there just wasn't enough solid

evidence to convict her.

The court of public opinion is a flawed social personality trait.

She burned her family bridges with accusations of abuse.

This girl will probably learn an important lesson from the

miserable experience.

My advise to her is to set herself up quietly with a book

or movie deal, use the money for counseling, plastic surgery,

and a legal name change. Then retire to a small community

on a tropical island.

July 4, 1776

• 13 American colonies independent from Great Britain.

Date each state entered the union:

1. Delaware Dec. 7, 1787
2. Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787
3. New Jersey Dec. 18, 1787
4. Georgia Jan. 2, 1788
5. Connecticut Jan. 9, 1788
6. Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788
7. Maryland Apr. 28, 1788
8. South Carolina May 23, 1788
9. New Hampshire June 21, 1788
10. Virginia June 25, 1788
11. New York July 26, 1788
12. North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789
13. Rhode Island May 29, 1790
14. Vermont Mar. 4, 1791
15. Kentucky June 1, 1792
16. Tennessee June 1, 1796
17. Ohio Mar. 1, 1803
18. Louisiana Apr. 30, 1812
19. Indiana Dec. 11, 1816
20. Mississippi Dec. 10, 1817
21. Illinois Dec. 3, 1818
22. Alabama Dec. 14, 1819
23. Maine Mar. 15, 1820
24. Missouri Aug. 10, 1821
25. Arkansas June 15, 1836
26. Michigan Jan. 26, 1837
27. Florida Mar. 3, 1845 1565
28. Texas Dec. 29, 1845
29. Iowa Dec. 28, 1846
30. Wisconsin May 29, 1848
31. California Sept. 9, 1850
32. Minnesota May 11, 1858
33. Oregon Feb. 14, 1859
34. Kansas Jan. 29, 1861
35. West Virginia June 20, 1863
36. Nevada Oct. 31, 1864
37. Nebraska Mar. 1, 1867
38. Colorado Aug. 1, 1876
39. North Dakota Nov. 2, 1889
40. South Dakota Nov. 2, 1889
41. Montana Nov. 8, 1889
42. Washington Nov. 11, 1889
43. Idaho July 3, 1890
44. Wyoming July 10, 1890
45. Utah Jan. 4, 1896
46. Oklahoma Nov. 16, 1907
47. New Mexico Jan. 6, 1912
48. Arizona Feb. 14, 1912
49. Alaska Jan. 3, 1959
50. Hawaii Aug. 21, 1959

Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom:

As per the Casey Anthony case:

• I would lie for someone to save their life.
• Who are we to take another's life?
• You don't have to be a sympathizer to disagree with an eye for an eye.

People who kill other people aren't on the same page as most other citizens, so why do we think the death penalty will be a deterrent for them? Do  you think they actually say to themselves, "I'm thinking about murdering someone, but that darned death penalty is standing in my way."

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Kill people who kill people, what whacky logic. It is beating up your child for beating up another child or cheating on your spouse because they cheated on you. It's an immature response by vengeant people. When have two wrongs ever equalled a right?

“A haughty look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.”

Do we learn nothing from history and its lessons?

Pride consumes us.

I have great respect for the late Nikola Tesla and show you a man with true humility:

When an engineer (Otis Pond) once said to Tesla, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you" regarding Marconi's radio system, Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents."

http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Nikola_Tesla.htm

And Remember...

“You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,

till iniquity was found in you.”

Artist: LC Neill

Title: “Dandelion XI”