From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Since poets are now being banned because they want to read anti war poetry at the White House here is where you can go to PROTEST THE WAR as a POET. The news article is on google.news.com<BR>
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poetsagainstthewar.org
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Madi~<BR>
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Damn girl...<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.01.27.01.27.28473">lips</a> is so good! :) Thank you for sharing that piece.  *smile*<BR>
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Love and dreaming embers, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Ladyinwaiting – wow!<BR>
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Forever lost – “I question you motives for having me here” – Good one. Really like Back To Sane too.<BR>
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Lupschada – Moving Out is so touching<BR>
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Kevin Urenda – Pinpointing The Source – what can I say… Amazing!<BR>
The Glory of Almost, almost made me cry with remembered memories of moments gone by. It’s so beautiful…<BR>
The lines “I’ll still remember that you raised my eyes from the dead” will haunt me for ages I’m sure.<BR>
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Rennie Lorce – Timing Belts – how do you do it? I love what you write<BR>
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Jon – She Still Thinks Of Him – touching and sad…<BR>
And Highlight is very sweet.<BR>
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Walking Contradiction – Passing Infatuation – very cool.<BR>
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Misti – Bio in D minor – what I saw "personally" in those words is heart-breaking ‘cos your words make me remember some things…<BR>
Why is it that words can break my heart when they are not even written to me or about me or have anything to do with me in the first place!!<BR>
It takes me back down roads I walked some time ago which still reside in the backroads of my mind. What can I say? It’s major!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

My last post was at 3am and this should have been posted as well to make the link...<BR>
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<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134624725_poets30m.html">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134624725_poets30m.html</a><BR>
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Here's a chance to let your voice be heard!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Star of David ~ thank you for your response...your three letters brought joy to my ears<BR>
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Jon ~ I feel your heart break in 'She Still Thinks of Him'<BR>
there is no greater pain than to look into the eyes of the one you love and know it is not you they see.<BR>
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Chances ~ your recent submissions have touched me deeply...is it my cup stained with lipstick that awaits in your sink?  Is it my perfume that lingers in the air?  I live your moment through memories that are so clear...<BR>
Please do not throw in the towel
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Star of David~ I want to thank you for your comment above ... and to ditto what you've said about the others (in you comments) above since I wanted to say the same. I've enjoyed reading your work. I often find some shared feelings and pains there. Thanks again ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=911">Inflatable Sushi</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

On Wednesday's Tonight Show on NBC Dennis Miller delivered some zingers against opponents of taking on Saddam Hussein militarily. Since 9-11 the actor/comedian has honed his shtick around mocking liberals opposed to President Bush's tough line against terrorism.<BR>
     Some of his shots on the January 29 Tonight Show with Jay Leno:<BR>
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     -- “Sean Penn, for instance, is urging restraint. What could we possibly say to Sean to get him on board? If only Saddam Hussein was a paparazzi.” (Penn once punched a photographer.)<BR>
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     -- “The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.”<BR>
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     -- “The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.”<BR>
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     He also took on liberals for opposing school vouchers when public schools are a disaster and offered this blast at the ACLU's priorities:<BR>
     “The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.”<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=911">Inflatable Sushi</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Good for Laura Bush, too!  HER event was a tribute to poetry, and a bunch a freakin anti-American "poets" tried to change it to a war protest event.  She stood her ground while a bunch of bums and anti-patriots pee'd on all over the event.  Man, you can twist anything, cain'tcha?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1088">Purple Princess</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Empyrean, Walking Contradiction and Nonitta. Thanks guys for the comments. They meant a lot to me :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

It's the last time I'll eat and watch NPR with facts about Iraq. Looks like you can kiss your tax break goodbye, tis sinking fast Sushi, we just don't have the money. They said the interest alone on what we owe will take 31 states revenue to pay. Desperate times and so Bush thinks the only way out is the stinking war. They said if we don't win it it would be cataclysmic because we will be the only ones to pay. Can you imagine getting chump change from Poland or Italy...yeah right (maybe we could hold the pope for ransom)<BR>
It's a bloody war for oil to pay our debts and the economy from 911. Fucking Brilliant(NOT)idiots thinking. Just think of the Karma to pay there Sushi. KILLING all those innocent people so you can have your tax break and keep driving your big gas guzzlers..Is there a KARMA HELL..ha So why arent YOU grabbing your gun and joining fast??? (Because you would rather our innocent children do it for you you fripping COWARDS!)<BR>
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As for Laura, it's ok for her husband to kill for OIL and MEGA BUCKS but her poor innocent ears must not hear poetry about the American peoples distaste for it. WHAT A WUSS!<BR>
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And Dennis Miller, I would wager money the ad-execs that do Bushes PR (They do McDonalds by the way. Just think the white house reduced to mickey-d mentality...ha) hired him for PR for Bush. Poor man has to eat and who's heard of him much otherwise..ha<BR>
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This all makes me angry and sick to my stomach and to anyone human it does as well.<BR>
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       <a href="http://www.unitedforpeace.org">http://www.unitedforpeace.org</a><BR>
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MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!<BR>
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bk<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

But B.K.! Dennis Miller is a genius! He used to be on "Saturday Night Live"! They only let geniuses on there!<BR>
~*~*derisive snort*~*~<BR>
ah, well...as long as Laura has her top shelf margaritas and quality cosmetics and designer duds and as long as her lovely daughters are keeping out of trouble, dating guys like Daddy who read the cliff notes on "The Greatest Gatsby" but know all the right people and drive the newest SUVs...all is right with the red, white and blue. <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Star of David~<BR>
thank you for the compliment!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1125">Goosie</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Why am I sitting here crying? <BR>
I have nothing to lose,<BR>
Nothing to live for, <BR>
Nothing to gain. <BR>
<BR>
Why am I still here?<BR>
Why are you waiting for me?<BR>
You know that I am nothing to you.<BR>
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It seems like I am happy.<BR>
But you can tell i'm unstable.<BR>
I need you now, more than ever.<BR>
and you kow that I need you,<BR>
But, yet, you seem to not care.<BR>
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Wait.........<BR>
I do have something to live for.<BR>
One thing, and one thing only...<BR>
And that one thing is you.<BR>
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You make me so happy,<BR>
You fill me with so much joy.<BR>
I can't live without you,<BR>
I need you now and forever.<BR>
Please, don't let me go.<BR>
I Love You!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

I think the fashion police need to go after Laura. She needs some direction, poor thing...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

I finally get it,DUH, he based his speech on us already having taken over Iraq and what he will do with all the gushing monies afterwards. I mean they are already making contracts of who gets how much oil for how much money. All the wonderful things he'll do AFTER he bombs the hell out of IRAQ.(Blood Money) So sell it to us another way Freddie Kruger, Osama's hiding out in Baghdad RIGHT??? Get out your midriff top, short skirt and pom poms for that one!<BR>
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bk<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

I always hated pep rallies in junior high and high school. I remember running toward the parking lot with a hoard of Stoners (nemesis of the Preps), trying to make it to our cars so we could go hang out in the food court at the mall or whatever while our more spirited peers cheered beneath the Confederate flag. Well, the principal caught us and made us go back to the gym. I should have ignored him and kept running. <BR>
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Yeah! We should have a nation-wide pep rally! We can burn Osama bin Laden dolls and Eminem cds and porno mags and snort coke under the bleachers with rolled up hundred dollars bills, while describing the scenery to our parents on our Motorola phones! And we'll all be wearing red, white and blue tie-dye. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake will perform a duet and we'll all cry and raise our Bics 'cause they're back together. I am so there, dude.<BR>
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And hell yes Laura needs a new look! She needs to wear a t-shirt that says I Wish I Was Black (like the t-shirt Woody wears in "The People vs. Larry Flynt")with black leather pants and black rhinestone stilletos. I'd like to see her with long, straight black hair and no eye makeup, just M.A.C. Ruby Woo lipstick. She'd be a stunna. Maybe then George would concentrate on doin' her right instead of doin' the rest of us WRONG.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

oops..."stilettos," rather
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

<a href="http://www.ournet.md/~emmd/albums/emshow.htm#2">http://www.ournet.md/~emmd/albums/emshow.htm#2</a><BR>
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...just in case anybody thinks I really advocate the burning of Eminem cds. I absolutely don't. The thing I love most about America is freedom of expression. It's kind of important to me, ya know?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

Gossie ~ your words are touching...and the pain I know so well...it seems as though I know you...it is I looking through your eyes...but amazing how time makes the pain fade...when you return after a while...you will see what I mean.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 31 January 2003<P>

And since it's after midnight, the challenge is officially finito...results by dawn to Kahuna---and thank you everyone for giving it the dance!<BR>
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Whhhooo Hooo...Valentines Day here we come!
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