To All - Yeah, I changed my name. A few reasons:
1. The most immediate nickname that always occurs to me under previous name is 'Chances arse'... hehe
2. Everyone calls me Chances - someone else initiated that (I could look up who it was...)
3. Chances is on a slightly different mission which I can't quite define yet, or if I really want to define it.
4. I don't want to have to look at the painful stuff that I've written so far in my history, I want to move past it.
Thanks for putting up with me.
Chances
Misti you are too funny. You could write em a smack-up anti war poem and submit it to poetsagainsthewar.org (look above it I got that wrong, I just got up and I need coffee bad)
bk
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/01/opinion/01SAT2.html?th
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/01/politics/01AIDS.html?th
Please take a moment out of your day today to pray for and remember the service of the astronauts that were lost in today's tragedy.
Much like our military, these are warriors FOR humanity, they serve our planet in ways that most of us are either incapable or unqualified to undertake.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sfl-shuttle0201,0,2580351.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines
Sushi- I am glad you can admit to your wrong thinking of Bush, when first he was elected president. He is doing an admirable job of leading this country in the 9/11 aftermath.
I am not a blood hungry person, and I don't like war, but I sure as hell am not for sitting on our ass, while Iraq continues producing weapons of mass destruction. I have close family members who will be involved in the mess we are leading up to, but those of us who see straight realize that sometimes things have to be done before the shit really hits the fan.
The attacks of 9/11 have made it evident not only in our eyes, but also the eyes of our enemies that we are not totally invulnerable. While the political leaders of our great country may give you other (valid) reasons to justify war, my reason is simple. I would prefer to "get" them, before they "get" us. Tell me how screwy you think that is, when one of your children, or another loved one is dying from some disease courtesy of Saddam.
Holly
Sushi ~ "Much like our military, these are warriors FOR humanity, they serve our planet in ways that most of us are either incapable or unqualified to undertake." [OR UNDERSTAND!]
Thank you.
It also appears that some people don't really understand that the reason the USA hasn't been a victim of an attack bigger than the ones we already have been subject to in the last 10 years, and particularily in 2001, is BECAUSE we have a HUGE and STRONG armed force. The presence of our military is what stops the people who would like to see us all dead. And believe you me, there are people who want each and every one of us that way. And they're not about to turn around and play nicey nice just because the Prez. says, "Oh, ok. I'll lift the pressure from you." And Dubya and the other leaders of this country who know the details are very aware of that. So, all you people who are not part of the leaders of this country, or who are willing to let others be the warriors and soldiers while you sit back and postulate all sorts of things, I just want you to know, you make me laugh. In a bitter sad sort of way.
*sigh* didn't want to get into to this
-Teej
t.j.- I bet you sometimes feel a little unappreciated. We all owe you and every other member of our armed forces a great big thank-you. (hug)..
Even those who believe in protesting justifiable wars know in thier hearts, that it is you and people like you who make this great country what it is.
I hope you remain safe, wherever the days after February fifth lead you. (and if it is ever into the company of Tim Spence, give him a great big hug, and tell him his sister loves him)
Holly
Gossie~
I understand what your feeling. I just started to think i had something to live for again about 2 weeks ago. Im sorry you have to go through this...you dont deserve it. If you ever need to talk, or just need to scream at someone call me.
lylas:)
Lulu
Those who use national tragedies as opportunities to make political points disgust me - and I would bet a few others as well.
Sometimes national tragedies are political. Sometimes.
Holly ~ Yes. Sometimes I do feel that way. Along with all my other brothers and sisters in arms, ready to protect the people. Thank you for your empathy.
And if I ever meet a Tim Spence he'll be one confused man with a woman in cammo hugging him.
-Teej
Star of David-
Thank you for reading, and thank you so much for the kind words...
TJ-
THANK YOU for being where you are and doing what you do... (I have not wanted to say anything publicy either, but support for those who do what YOU do cannot be given loudly enough)
I cried listening to NPR and hearing of the loss of our astronauts. I have been following their experiments with spiders and ants and that they took care of their critters and looked after them every day. They created a fireball in outter space wow can you imagine. I was awed by them. My emotions sank at their loss and my heart goes out to their loved ones.
Jimmys right, in what he said but I'm not going to let this slide. Here's how it goes. We are loosing money at the rate of 2 billion a day and more. The price of the dollar is falling and we can't keep this up. It means the rest of the world pays less for our goods and we lose in the stock market and JOBS. If the dollar dies we die, the economy dies. That means that the rest of the worlds opinion is vital. We can't keep this up. The rest of the world is losing confidence in us because of the threat of a messy war and the fat lipped bully pulpit of our president and are selling dollars as fast as they can. They think we are going to sink fast in a messy long war.(Maybe like Teej said some would like to see this happen) And if it happens we are doomed...got me so far...(By the way turn on NPR or NPT for those of you that dont know what that is National Public Television or National Public Radio, they have a whole cast of economists, and politicians on constantly talking about all of this and its not only educational its NON BIASED!!!
So now 2 billion down or more per day (not counting the interest there) and here's Sadam with all that oil and money we can go in and take...HUMMMMMMM think now. How many countries out there have weapons of mass destruction...Plenty and how many have a nuke...Pakistan and India, Korea, Russia, Chinese, Israel. How many have tortured people killed them and mutilated and we've done nothing cause they did not have what we want OIL<Mega Buck oil.
Ok so the economists say, if Bush starts a war and he goes in and does it fast and wins FAST then the rest of the world will rejoice and he'll be popular again and the economy will thrive and he'll get anything he askes for.
(All his wonderful wishes that he cannot afford otherwise in his speech right)
On the other hand if it turns into a messy war the economy will be devistated, the stock market will drop to all time lows and we will be in a MAJOR DEPRESSION.
The way I see it, looks like we're gambling pretty heavily here, I think he sees no other way out and hes willing to risk everything and just do it...sigh It means we are headed for WAR whether we like it or not. IT's THE ECONOMY STUPID..I think this was in someone elses campaign but it so fits here.
And Spaded What about the babies on the other side...they don't want to be fire bombed for our economic problems either.
The worst part is that gb and cheney and dad and uncle bush all have big war machine companys and stocks that will rejoice and make millions. The rest of the world does not trust him nor does a bigger slice of America now. Yet because of 911 he has the power to do anything he wants. E_GADS thats too scarey. Our whole nation in his hands makes me sicker at my stomach every day. And to quote him....his own words...ha
"I'm the commander—see, I don't need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
-George W. Bush (from the book "Bush at War" by Bob Woodward)http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/n_8077/
This is the man thats going to start the war and push the buttons. Scares the hell outta me. I have all the confidence in the world in our Military strength, the amount of weapons of mass destruction that we have.(Oh we should be so proud) I've never questioned that we are the biggest and best of anything, in fact we are. But we have to have the strength of the world to lean on, we can't do it alone anymore...our economy banks on it> The rest of the world is asking us to do it in a peaceful manner which any MORAL country in the world would want as well. But we need big tax cuts for the rich, gas guzzling SUV's and stock market money out the ying-yang to survive. Think about it and watch NPR< NPT...PLEASE.. The END for now.
bk
bk
Look BK, we HAVE been trying to handle this peacefully for the last TWELVE YEARS. Our President the Security Council have more knowledgeable experts than any NPR load of f*cking journalists and economists, so I am quite confident that Dubya will LEAD...but the real decisions are made by the leaders of our military and allies. And you really need to get off that "Dumbass Dubya" bit 'cause it shows a lack of knowledge and understanding. Where else in your life do you so vehemently hate and despise others?
And to the other jerk...NO I was NOT politicizing the tragedy today. Astronauts ARE military, all part of the same trained and dedicated body...and they ARE warriors for humanity. My point one purely one of honor and respect. And the U.S. leads the planet, babe. You should lose some of that tragically hip notion that it is cool to talk a load of ignorant shit about your own country...ya drunk.
YES...I view all protests as nothing more than stupid anti-Americanism and a TOTAL lack of respect for what happened to OUR COUNTRY on 9/11. You wanna believe your pal Tariq Aziz and pretend there ain't no link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein? Then I can only thank GOD that you weren't around to make apologies for Hitler. I'd rather be on the side of Bush than that other mentally deranged world leader pretend, Nelson Manfuckingdela...
The only smoking gun I need to see is the one that blows both their fucking heads OFF, to paraphrase a fairly well-respected commentator on jerks like YOU.
God Bless America and God Bless The People Who Protect...including the divine Ms TJ (I've had a crush on her ever since she posted her pitchas!)
Deflating Your Tushi,
Inflatable Sushi
And ya know what else...?
An actress friend of mine in Hollyweird said this to me the other day (about that Dennis Miller stuff)...
"Well, it just shows that Bush has better spinners than Clinton did."
And after I finished laughing vomitously for an hour, I pointed out that Hollywood had their collective noses planted firmly up the colons of Bill and Hillary...the Harry Thomasons and Barbra Streisand and freakin Fleetwood Mac and Areefa Franklin...and Nelson Mandela and that drunk fucking bum Yeltsin. Eight years of the Clinton Party People, pretending you like in Camelot (well...Bil Clinton Came lots). And now y'all are awakening from a real bad drunk and realizing the planet is nearly f*cked ...and you wanna blame ol' Dubya.
Thank God I'm not in your AA group. What hillbilly junior college di you gradjeeate frum, Bubba? Betcha got one of them Communicashuns da-grees, huh?
...yeah, NPR is REAL un-biased. Pardon me while I laugh vomitously yet again.
Tell us what VILLAGE you're the IDIOT of Sushi, so we can report your missing.
bk
http://www.dailymail.com/news/Don+Surber/
http://www.mediaresearch.org/welcome.asp
"We've got too much liberal happy-talk in this country these days . . . this country has gotten too liberal and too soft . . . schools want to get rid of dodgeball . . .
isn't LIFE a 75 year-long dodgeball to the nuts?"
-- Dennis Miller on The Tonight Show with Jay Lame-o
IN the interests of fairness and balance we present Osama bin Laden's 2003 State of the Union address, as delivered yesterday to his ecstatic followers:
"MR Speaker, distinguished guests, earthworms and remains of faithful old kidney dialysis machine, as we gather tonight, our cause lies in ruin. Yet the forces of jihad have never been stronger!
The Western devil, he is trembling and broken, even though a massive number of our operatives in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe have been captured or killed, Afghan women are openly attending schools, and I'm a smorgasbord for centipedes. Jihad marches on.
For this, first I must thank Mullah Omar. Stand up, Mullah, wherever you are, and wave to the people. With your good hand! Thanks too to Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, whose plan would have worked perfectly were it not for his extreme blundering idiocy. And to my dear murderous friends in Bali who inspired us all, in your hour of need my heart goes out to you. Or it would, if a hungry bird hadn't already flown away with it.
We have faced the mildest, most measured attack our enemies could throw at us, and we have been rapidly defeated at almost every turn. The Muslim people have not risen as one to join my lunatic quest, the West has not been intimidated (well, except for the French) and every prediction about a Vietnam-style quagmire in Afghanistan proved false. Why, only this week US and Afghan troops easily put down a small al-Qa'ida uprising.
From this we can draw strength. For is it not written in the Koran that he who is pulped by US Army ordnance and buried beneath tonnes of Tora Bora dirt shall not later rise up and do more cool stuff with jets and buildings? You know, I bet it is.
Now to the case of my amigo in goodness, Saddam Hussein. The same people who predicted drawn-out warfare in Afghanistan with many thousands of civilian dead are predicting the same thing for Iraq. This prediction, it is a curse. I fear for Saddam. All of his glorious fundraising for the families of Palestinian suicide killers and the holy slaughter of his countrymen will mean nothing if the reverse-curse of the inaccurate Western commentators again comes true.
I would list all of these commentators, but my lack of a soft palate, lower jaw, and upper head makes difficult the task of pronouncing their decadent Western names. How much easier it would be if John Pilger was known as Mohammed Motown Aqsa ul Haq.
And finally, to you, George W. Bush, I say this: You have won the battle and you will win the war, while I was insane in life and am now munched upon by stray dogs in death. But at least no lunatic Western leftist ever called me stupid. Jihad triumphs again!"
Sushi the greatest intellectual cop-out is to attack your opponent and then say they probably loved Hitler..ha
Try these for something real
Kurt Vonneguts view on whats going on now
http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/11432.php
Michael Moores great links and views as well
http://www.michaelmoore.com/news/index.php
I'll stop now. Folks we have no choice, we're going to war cause the KING OF AMERICA wants his money crown. I was hoping against all hopes he was only bluffing, but fat chance of that. It's going to be a sad day in the land of the FREE. The price Win or Lose is going to be great to pay
Jack, Teej, and anybody else going, take good care of yourselves, keep us posted here. We love you all and our thoughts will be with you.
bk
bk
The sisters of Catherine the Great ask that you cover yourself with lightbulb filaments and take pains to make yourself fully incandescent this evening.
I came here on the recommendation that this was a poet's site, where people shared thoughts of love and romance. If I came for a political forum I'd sit and watch ACA or Today Tonight.
~empy~
GREATEST PUNCHLINE IN TWENTY YEARS...
"I have to admit I get a little angry when I read about the starving family consisting of a mother, father, and TWENTY-THREE children.
For Christ's sake, lady! It's a vagina, not a clown car!"
-- Dennis Miller
'Vomitously'. That's a great word, Sushi. Especially in reference to Dumbass Dubya, Dennis Miller and Dodgeball. They all have that fourth grade level thing going on. Or third, maybe.
Hello to all.
I'm new to this site .When I went to comments I thought I
was on the wrong site. WOW! I'm not crazy about Bush and I
live in Texas.He is acting like a spoiled brat that wants
his candy and everyone elses too.BUT,I really like the
poetry on this site and the way it's set up. Please try
to keep it a love and romance site. the_poet.
Welcome "the poet" and all other new Blenderheads!
We are a randomly assorted group of sick, fatuous wannabee poets who never got enough of the "right" kind of love from our mommies and daddies. We are a sick, twisted cult of ignominity who welcome your tragic stumble on to "Th' Blenda..."
Everyone here is required to post hopeful poetry in the secret quest for love on the Internet. We all meet Fridays at Kirk's house for cigars and Ecstacy and a good old fashioned pig roast. Last week was Macho Pigs and this week is Right-Wing Alcoholic Pigs, and every third Sunday we roast some Sad Sorry Sow...all on a bed of licentious consequence. Me, I only post when I'm good and smoked up on some Humboldt County Red and drinking CocaColas in my underwear. We are all spatial and unique. And everybody here really digs comedian Dennis Miller - he is a Love God! If'n I were a fag, I'D f*ck 'eem!
Later taters,
Spoilt Fishhead Smell and his Orchestra
PS -
Many of us will actually drive long distances to meet and have sex with you, while our kids are at the Dairy Queen. And be careful - if you ever meet someone named Ophelia Butz on this website, well...just be forewarned. She's a MAN, baby.
Stoned immaculate,
IS
"vagina, not a clown car" that f*cking cracks me UP
Hey there Sushi.
Thanks for the welcome. It seems I always had the love of
my parents. It's the wives and girlfriends I had trouble
with. I've been on other sites and you get butchered by
some that think they know it all. This site accepts all
kinds of stuff as it is put on paper. no corrections.
I like that. again ,thanks for the welcome. the_poet
You know, I just rewatched George Bush's address after the Challenger tragedy today, in it's entirety...
...and I guess I just gotta say to the Bushwhackers, KISS MY ASS.
He is a damned good President, in spite of what the world and reality is throwing at him. He isn't an actor, he isn't a hick, he isn't a genius, and he isn't trying to impress the White House interns into providing Presidential blowjobs. Y'all watch too much TV...
If you'd told me two years ago that I would be saying all that, I would've opened up a 55 gallon tub of whupass on you. I hope you, too, can unlearn the bullshit.
take the blinders off, you ignoramous, he's a fucking puppet
Inflatable Sushi, you're posting too much offtopic stuff. Please try to reel it in a bit.
Everyone, when you ramble outside the poetry, try to keep it short.
BK, I'm not disagreeing with you on all your points but your view of dollar valuation is a offbase; a too-strong dollar means our goods are too expensive for other countries to buy. Our exporters have had a tough time with the huge strength of the dollar over the last decade.
Hey Gala, where are those picks?
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/
Sushi, I know you probably posted that at the same time I was suggesting to keep things ontopic, but THE BOARD IS NOT YOUR DAMN BLOG. This is not a forum for those old gems of Internet fame.
Coming Kahuna...my apologies!
I'm sorry Kirk. It is the reefer talking...
http://www.encouragingwords.net/love.htm
Kirk - THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! I was just at the point of picking up my keyboard and monitor and going far far away. Let us only hope that Fishyhead heeds your warning
~empy~
Cyan ~ Blue Streets had an excellent quality to it. Tasted of a late night walking barefoot on the waterfront dock street doing those twirls that are off balance and arms wide open. (a memory of mine that Blue Streets invoked) The line, "Whisper to me you never loved her" stood out for me. I'm not sure why.
Bravo.
-Teej
Kev ~ Thanks for what you said. It makes a difference.
Thanks bk, I hope I get to use a computer once in a while when I get there. I'll check in on the Blender if I do.
Inflatable Fishy ~ Osama bin Laden's 2003 State of the Union address was pretty dang funny! Laughed at a few things in it! But I think you ought to heed Kirk's words and try to stay on topic. There are a lot of other sites you could post those kinds of things to, even though I'm sure you wouldn't get quite the response you do here. Let's keep this place a refuge of peace and tranquility, hmmmm?
-Teej
Oh, also Sushi...I now understand why you have such drastic personality swings...you get faded too much! I don't know what you're smokin', but baby, put it in a PEACE pipe!!
-Teej
TJ -
Those pictures you linked us to long ago were STUNNING. Combined with your writing...well, I wish you wuz living in So Cali!
Go eat yourself, Sushi. You belong on one of those sites that you post links to - love poet for sure!
Chances
Cyan~You never knew , was very sad and touching. I really liked this one. Thanks for sharing.
-Jon
I DO have a problem with my subconscious stream slipping into conscious without noticing it... for anyone else who saw it.
it dosent matter - I always love to read a poem by you. of keys an the night...