Politics, Oklahoma style

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You thought Disneyland was shopworn?

The "lake." Click photo to enlarge.

You thought Wallyworld was looking a little threadbare?

Dubaidave of here of arguably (actually, not so arguably) The Worst Theme Park In the World.

The good news: it costs seven Egyptian pounds to enter (about $1.50 US), although Dubaidave seemed to find that the admission may be based on how much money it looks like you have...

The grand entrance to Fantazyland. Click to enlarge.
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Poem: Changes 12/Standstill

1.
Heaven draws farther
And farther away,
While the earth below

Sinks into the depths
In a time of stasis
And standstill and decline

Heaven and mother earth
Are locked
In a stand-off

But heaven holds the cards
We're just actors
In a rosy farce

2.
The great depart
The small approach
Heaven and Earth are numb

What is above
Has no relation
To what is below

Confusion and disorder prevail
The dark power inside
The light power outside

Heaven and Earth do not unite
The standstill
Is the time of fear and trembling
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Poem: Tendrils

When a bush is cut down
Volunteer shoots sprout
From the roots

Sending tendrils of life into the world
In an urgent last gasp
A genetic S.O.S.

Like what they say
Happens
When you hang a man.
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Another time travel Help Wanted: wanted, an alien or someone with time travel technology

Further to the want-ad I posted here last week looking for a fellow time traveler, this gent from AOL was looking (a few years ago) for both a companion and some hardware:

To: <rountreej@earthlink.net>
From: Bobby<timetravel@gdcs.net>
Subject: Time travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:46:04

If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!

My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!! I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!

I need to be able to:

Travel back in time.

Rewind my life including my age back to 4.

Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.

I am in very great danger and need this immediately!

I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.

I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist. I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.

If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Please be advised that any temporal device that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as well as the temporal location. I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is useless without a vortex. If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would also be helpful.

Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!

Only if you have this technology and can help me please send me a (SEPARATE) email to:

Robby0809@aol.com

Please do not reply if your an evil alien! Thanks

Poem: Rub-a-dub

1.
Tidiness is phobia
Cleanliness is delusion
Order is madness

So much is lost
The love music art
Books and walks and idle moments

Of shocking profundity and beauty
Put on hold or abandoned
Even Dr. Lister would be appalled

2.
We've become a nation of
Rub-a-dub-Georges
Wielding sprayers wipes and germicides

Madly laving away
The sepsis germs and cooties
Scrubbing for dear life

3.
Cleanliness and tidiness
Are a bulwark
Against the inevitable

Tidiness to the extreme
Exterminates the connections
Between the parts

4.
No one ever said
On their deathbed
I wished I'd kept a cleaner house.
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Alien Lore No. 75 - What the f***, duck? Grey body appears in mallard's X-ray

Last week, workers found what seemed to be the image of a Grey in the x-ray of a duck. At least, some workers at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia (in the Bay area) seem to think.

Lodged in the duck's gizzard, is an image of a scowling Grey. However, when an autopsy was performed after the mallard died, the Grey had departed the host's body and was no doubt off performing implants, abductions, and other mischief.

Jay Holcomb, the director of the rescue center, said "I don't know my aliens well, but it looks like one of those with the big eyes and the long fingers."

The bird arrived at the center last Sunday with a broken wing. Workers do not know how the mallard was injured, but, well, eating a Grey can't be that salubrious for your health. One worker, first seeing the x-ray cried out "Look at this, it's an alien head!"

According to one worker at the rescue center, strange things happen among male mallards during the spring mating season. Their testicles, for one, grow to three times the size of their brains; none however have ever grown an alien head before.

The one-of-a-kind X-ray, which measures 17 inches by 14 inches will be auctioned, along with a certificate of authenticity, starting this week.

Maybe the mallard stumbled upon a nest of aliens and ate one of the babies.

Cordelia is something of a hotbed of alien phenomena. Crop circles have been discovered twice in the past three years on wheat fields near the rescue center.
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Digging for Jimmy Hoffa

I guess Jimmy Hoffa is really the Judge Crater of our time. . .although Hoffa clearly had far more enemies. FBI teams yesterday sifted dirt from a chest-deep hole in the ground in an intense search for the body of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa three decades after his disappearance.

FBI agents directed a work crew that used heavy equipment to rip up the concrete floor of a horse farm barn demolished a day earlier. After the rough stuff, they started working like archaeologists... sorting through the soil under the foundation of the barn by hand, photographing and videotaping evidence (they hope) inside the yellow crime scene tape. The investigation was triggered by a tip from a federal marijuana prisoner who lived on the farm at the time of Hoffa's disappearance.

The property was previously owned by Hoffa associate/Teamster official/Mafia associate Rolland McMaster. The farm is about 20 miles from where the Teamster boss disappeared without a trace in 1975.
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Cate Blanchett to play Bob Dylan in new movie

Cate Blanchett will play Bob Dylan in his "androgynous" phase (I assume they mean the made-up Bob during his Rolling Thunder/Desire era) in an upcoming film by director Todd Haynes (who made the interesting and strange Velvet Goldmine, roughly based on Bowie's life).

Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) and Richard Gere will play (presumably) the younger and older Dylan. Click here to read the full AFP article. . .
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Happy 123rd Birthday Brooklyn Bridge!

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One of my favorite walks when I lived in Brooklyn and Manhattan was across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Today is the Brooklyn Bridge's 123rd birthday. Crossing the East River between the huge cities of NYC and Brooklyn, it opened on May 24, 1883, after 14 years of construction (and 27 deaths).

Within 24 hours, a quarter million people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, using the promenade above the roadway that John Roebling designed specifically for walkers.



The connection between the population centers of Brooklyn and Manhattan changed New York forever, and in 1898, the city of Brooklyn merged with New York, Staten Island, and a few farm towns to create what would become the wonderful and terrible NYC metroplex.
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Help wanted: Need a Time Traveler. "I have only done this once before"

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