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I’ll dig with it. Saturday, poetry.

 

Digging
 
 
  Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun.   

Under my window a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

By God, the old man could handle a spade,
Just like his old man.

My grandfather could cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, digging down and down
For the good turf. Digging.

The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it. 

Seamus Heaney 

 

 

Oh Toby!

Thank you Toby Keith — another lifelong Democrat who is a Puma, even if he doesn’t know it. (gotta admit I never heard him sing before. nice voice, great smile.) 

I Love This Blog! Sing it with me Pumas!

Five Minutes of Nostalgia

How Hillary REALLY feels.

Thanks to pk in email.

and this is for jenniforhillary, PUMA JENNIFER…the meanest lil’ puma that ever was :)

Hey Obama, consult this!

And then consult this!

When I make a decision about my body, my life, or my health don’t tell me whom I should be consulting. And if it was OH SO IMPORTANT that we all fall in line behind you because ONLY YOU could save us from the back alleys and the clothes hangers (yes, they did go there) then why the hell are you NOT pledging to keep Roe v Wade safe?

Inspired yet?

Oh Joe

We love ya.

I know Joe.I’ve worked with him and hired him for my plumbing needs. The Romans invented plumbing. Aside from the obvious grossness of the milieu, plumbing is SO COOL. There’s physics and chemistry and GRAVITY and everything. My secret wish (aside from being a member of the French Resistance) has always been to be a plumber because water seeking its own level is so tautological.

Paddy O’Bloggin

A couple a guys are having a debate tonight I heard. We’ll be drinking.

holy smokes.

OHIO: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio’s top elections official to set up a system by the end of the week to verify new voters’ eligibility and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.”

Read the rest HERE.

Integrity? It’s not for Democrats anymore.

FRAUD

Remember Mark Foley? His replacement, Tim Mahoney, is engulfed” in his very own sex scandal

Watching the Acorn jokers respond to McCain’s earlier press conference. They look GUILTY as hell. What a bunch of wankers.

Listen to Sal, from Howard Stern’s show, interview voters. Shocking.

Watch the Danforth Rudman press conference on ACORN voter fraud  HERE.

Oh, and THIS STORY stood out this morning as well. These two beautiful girls were apparently murdered by their father because they messed with his HONOR. holy smokes.

Joe Cannon says that Larry Johnson was not pulling our legs about the Whitey Tape — but there’s no evidence the tape actually, you know, exists either. At this point I agree with him — even if the tape is real and is played nonstop on PBS, NPR, and MSNBC until November 4th, I don’t think it will affect voters much. Go back and listen to Howard Stern to find out why I think that.

Danforth says that 53,000 of the 300,000 or so new registrations filed by ACORN in Philadelphia were rejected as fraudulent. Wow. How many slipped through? That’s a high percentage. Holy smokes.

Danforth is a bore — but it’s worth listening to the press conference.

“Evidence is overwhelming that there have been an enormous number of problematic registrations.” — Warren Rudman.

Time to call Congress and tell our reps to DEMAND that ACORN share its voter registration database with Congressional officials.

Dum Dum

Not too many O supporters in NYC — at least not obviously. This one stood out though . . .

If you’re ever trapped with an under 10-year old and are desperate to entertain yourselves, rent Kit Kittredge, An American Girl, or A Night At the Museum Dum Dum (above) features prominently.

Spotted in the Square

Only in the city.

On the flip side, the damn New Yorker condescends to visit some voters in Ohio — trashed them as racists, morons, ugly, and poor.  natch.