tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:50:10 +0000political opinionpoliticalsatirefractalopinionprosecoeur daleneidahohumortumblewordswhite houseAndy CardB-52['sCraigGrand Forks HeraldIraqauthorsautoautomakersbailoutblogcredit cardsdogmaelderselectionfree speechfriendly roboticsgarage cleanergeorges palacehealthhouse cleanerirobotlegislatorsminimum wagemythnewnuclear warheadoldparadoxpatio toolpithrepairrobotroboticsrobotssarahshock jocksocialsecuritystepfordteamtimetruevacuumwar campus bombs evil political opinion anime poem fractalwatercolorSatire, irony, parody, humor, near fable and undictionaried words to portray the funny and frustrating actions of our self-professed leaders and their followers.http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)Blogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-215552668944793664Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:19:00 +00002009-02-23T16:26:37.815-08:00political opinionproseOnce in the not so far ago, there was a piece of land co-opted from original owners. With turkey quills and pestled plants, the upstarts wrote words to spell the country and tide it over the trauma created by inhouse wars and outhouse battles.The piece of land imported shiploads of folks to help them do their chores. It's not easy to work a country into the ground.The country filled up and http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-it-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-3137475490018757985Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:56:00 +00002008-12-18T22:02:52.515-08:00politicalproseMy sense of humor has been sorely stretched by the moronity of the last eight years.Will the McCain (who repeatedly vowed that he knew the location of Osama bin Laden and could bring him to justice when he became president) make that information available even though he lost the election?After all, how can he continue to say that he's committed his life for this country and keep a secret like http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/12/spit-it-out-john.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-1486492783475149362Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:32:00 +00002008-11-20T13:36:42.948-08:00political opinionIndia shot up a pirate ship. Way to go, India! I'm beginning to link pirates with Paulson & Pals Perk and Burning Bush Bull-etins.Pre-emptive war pretty much spread its parachute over all things piratical. It's not enough to bankrupt a country by a faulty war, there must be added threats. Such as:The economy's in the tank if taxpayers don't fork over $700,000,000,000 to the crooks who perpetratedhttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/11/return-of-blackbeard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-1962209677031292440Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:00 +00002008-11-19T15:12:07.183-08:00automakersbailoutpolitical opinion'Big Three CEO's Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds' was the headline on the ABC News page. The woman who drove her Maserati to the welfare office to collect food stamps is the first image that comes to mind.Automobile icons, these men each traveled in his private jet to Congressional hearings where they begged taxpayer funding to get them out of debt they created. They claim to be http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/11/pomposity-and-prosperity-plead-poverty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-3073320397606932161Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:00:00 +00002008-11-08T18:04:04.401-08:00political opinionprosesarahPlease, stay home and keep your mouth zipped. Quite frankly, if I don't see you again it will be too soon. You spent your entire veep campaign spouting hate and stirring the cauldron of devisiveness. You spread rumors, lies and nastiness. Watching you whine, grin, wink and lie was less than a proud moment for this female. When you throw dirt, don't cry when it comes back. Signed: An Independent http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-letter-to-sarah-palin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-782149706815609290Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:25:00 +00002008-10-29T20:29:00.972-07:00electionpolitical opinionprose♠Once not so long ago an ol' solon, chip off the burning bush, created a case before the dumbling clowns of a biggish country. His aging was sorely evident and became a largish talked about point so the wisher scurried to the frozen north to pull out a plum ~ a hot young chick who talked like a redneck and told lies same-ish as those told by the big house drunk. In wilding speak, she http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/10/plum-pie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-7604368756333585955Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:36:00 +00002008-04-17T16:39:58.895-07:00humorpoliticalpolitical opinionsatire Long long ago, chickens laid eggs in part of the farmer’s barn. Each morning, the farmer’s wife went to the hen part, and moved the birds from their nests in order to swipe their eggs. When she had harvested enough eggs, the family went to the nearest town to sell them to folks who didn’t have chickens. The family returned home after selling all their eggs and put this nest egg in a holder http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/04/dont-count-your-eggs-part-1_17.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-6788595049338818394Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:35:00 +00002008-04-17T16:36:13.891-07:00humorpoliticalpolitical opinionsatireThis continued for many years and the people were happy and well fed. Then the sages in the big white house, devised a plan whereby the farmer could make more money if he didn’t generate so many chickens, milk and pigs. Soon after that, the farmer signed a piece of paper that promised him more money than he had ever seen just for not producing these farming things.For a long time, this way of http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/04/dont-count-your-eggs-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-8892324270539033319Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:04:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:06.235-08:00fractalpoliticalToday is the first of the remaining days of the War With Many Names.Each day, while looking at the photographs of the children killed, I apologize for the cowboy-in-chief and his posse who are more concerned with their coffers and corruption than the outcome of this grossly mismanaged invasion of a soverign nation.I apologize to those dead children for a lazy nation fully distracted by steroid http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-say-i-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-5775813086196596636Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:46:00 +00002008-03-10T15:58:43.682-07:00opinionpoliticalOnce upon a not so long ago, a megalomaniac convinced himself he was king and did softshoe tappings (like the stall hoppin' gop from hidey-ho) on the stage to giggle up the news ferretlesses while waiting for a lateshow pretend-bloomer. Lo, the ferretless later mused in cutesy fashion about how the tapper jived onstage as if he were the happiest king alive and still knew not that his robes had http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/03/softshoe-mission-accomplished.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-8274556661928419761Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:04:00 +00002008-02-27T14:20:04.205-08:00georges palacepolitical opinionWar on Terror is calculated to inspire fear and trust in our failing government. It's a drummed up hoofbeat to keep the minions under their beds.Homeland Security sounds like a proper government function until you delve below the hype and see that it, too, is a worthless and calculated phrase. Nice job, bunkie.We have no intention of staying in Iraq is sharply defied by building an expensive and http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/02/played-by-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-1878914058432340683Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:03:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:06.378-08:00coeur dalenepolitical opinionsatireLong ago, an avuncular figure adopted a stolen country. Sam claimed to care for allbodies' interests in return for full allegiance. Time lapsed and Sam largened with hot air while the regular joes were sucked too small. Lo, avuncular Sam gained confusion and unsureness and fell into the trap of protecting themselves against themselves like a Robin Hood gone wild. In due time, the uncle http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2008/01/case-of-disappearing-beer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-6400842330975771588Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:02:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:06.651-08:00B-52['sCraigGrand Forks Heraldidahonuclear warheadThe absurd flu strikes again.Concern about Larry Craig, a toe-tapping wide-stanced congressman from Idaho, Iowa or Ohio (commentators and pundits cannot be sure which state he owns) steals print and internet headlines as well as TV and YouTube screens.While people watch and discuss this sexadillo for hour after hour, our own B-52's from Minot, ND fly over several states with nuclear warheads…and http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/09/absurd-flu-strikes-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-1743822303330712212Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:26:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:06.843-08:00coeur daleneidahoopinionpoliticaltumblewordsWhat were they thinking?Where were the heads of the lenders who were making huge mortgage loans to unqualified buyers under the clever marketing tool of creative financing? While they pocketed big bucks, I watched interviews (this was several years ago) with consumers who were nonchalant about what would happen when they needed to pay more than a minimum amount of interest when required to pick http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/08/subprime-and-greed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-8107336217138271306Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:48:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:07.126-08:00autocoeur dalenecredit cardshealthnewoldrepairtimeMy previous auto mechanic worked for several months off and on and replaced some pricey parts only to find the problem was still active. Eventually when I was down to my last credit card, he shook his head and said, 'I hate to give up, but I have no idea where to go now.' I mentally patted myself on the back when I refrained from giving him an idea.Next, I said to a new mechanic, 'It must be hardhttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/06/titanium-hips-and-auto-repair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-8699112418179272328Mon, 14 May 2007 15:32:00 +00002007-07-22T20:58:54.467-07:00Yellowstone Park changes constantly. The earthquake that formed Hebgen Lake was felt in the Coeur d'Alene area on August 17, 1959. Several family friends lost their lives there. One of the survivors wrote an incredible book detailing the horrors of that night.Massive land shifts occurred and I've often wondered why that was the last one that rumbled through here. The first time I crossed the Parkhttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/05/earthquakes-swarm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-6116580920303723939Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:56:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:07.526-08:00war campus bombs evil political opinion anime poem fractaltanks lug across the sandtugging boys and girls in camobait for bombs and fire devicesnewly defined evil hoardsthe screen, deciders politicizea stateside campus lossremotes in casual handsclick the scene, surf to ugly bettynodding heads return to sandhttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/04/political-anime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-7194380086872589038Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:51:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:07.710-08:00blogfree speechidahoopinionpithshock jockteamtumblewordswatercolorFree speech demands that each of us can spout any amount of rancor, pith and ugliness but it doesn't preclude that a price can be extracted at some point.It's hard to believe the uproar that followed a shock jock's bomb tossed at a femme basketball team. Suddenly that sort of stupid attack registers as surprise or racist. It's also a little more than sexist. This was no rare occurrence and unlesshttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/04/monologue-vs-dialogue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-5770004701042636633Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:12:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:07.872-08:00fractalfriendly roboticsgarage cleanerhouse cleanerirobotpatio toolrobotroboticsrobotsvacuumReluctant to count myself as a lazy femme, the initial decision to purchase iRobot’s RoomBa to vacuum seemed hedonistic but when it vacuums under the couch, treadmill and bed, it’s worth its weight in gold and earns the badge of necessity. I watch and lift my feet off the floor (I learned that from others in an earlier life) when it passes by.The low pile of the carpet in my home renders the http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/04/irobot-and-friendly-robotics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-7521693324477853694Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:38:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:08.155-08:00Andy CardIraqopinionpoliticalsatirewhite houseWhen there was a maroon who held a card close to his chest and flashed red herrings to confuse the beholders, the foundation of the land of theocracy resembled one built on sand.The maroon oathed to become a uniter but his keys stuck and he divided into threes and pieces. A top card helped him keep everything under moving shells and sometimes mortars until it looked like a magician couldn't pull http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/03/house-that-card-wrought.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-92958233514058878Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:26:00 +00002007-03-14T10:14:36.590-07:00authorsparadoxsatiretruewhite houseAnd in the age when schooling mostly went home to read animé and such there came out of the Big House some bad books that took on legs.One scooter penned a piece revering bestiality even as canons were being passed by playing bigs who seemed not to know there were some pressing problems afoot.And the big Dick's wife , mother of his strange daughter, wrote a tale of girly/girly in the old west http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/03/white-house-ink.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-5000651443559712262Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:47:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:08.381-08:00 Several things threaten my peace of mind. Admittedly, it wasn't all that peaceful anyhow. The last six-plus years have been detrimental to my whole being. I feel democracy slipping away due to bad governance, multitudinous uninformed citizens and a single wing news system.It's hard to imagine double-bolting the front door and feeling safe while the back door and windows are wide open. It's http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/03/harken.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-7590662903571151392Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:41:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:08.519-08:00dogmafractallegislatorsminimum wagestepfordBackbone of roadpaved with dogmamarks a chart of longing,splinters trailthe blackened nightsilent as a dream.A strange idea came to me while I listened to old dogma spouted by Stepford faces.Instead of legislating a minimum wage, mandate a maximum.Rape of local land and distant countries might cease when the money monopoly dispersed so plenty could re-emerge.fractal by suehttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-edge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-82547427557468975Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:50:00 +00002008-12-09T20:43:08.650-08:00eldersfractalmythsocialsecurityLong ago, when the average death of life was about 40, there weren’t too many grandparents. And those few were often were placed in sanitoria or poor houses. A lucky few lived with unfortunate family. The great witch doctors decided there was more money to be made if folks lived longer. After all, an early death meant the end of taxes and tithes from the deceased. Putting their heads together, http://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2007/02/golden-age.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27614586.post-116760831457794129Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:30:00 +00002006-12-31T15:38:34.590-08:00I was so afraid this wouldn't happen.California finally passed a law, effective January 2007, which makes it illegal to drive a car containing a body in the trunk. Apparently nine people have died from this trick.It brings to mind Gov. Pataki who signed into law a requirement for cigarettes to be self-extinguishing.I am grateful that we are finally getting a handle on the obscene activities thathttp://2000-mythsteries.blogspot.com/2006/12/california-new-york-iraq.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:)0