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Friday, December 05, 2014
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Poem: The islands from eight miles high
By Jack Brummet
Threading between islands and straits.
They crest the waves
Beneath gathering clouds
As flocks of birds
Circumnavigate the globe,
Shuttling from landfall to landfall.
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Beneath
a chiseled frieze of cerulean blue
Islands recede into the water
To settle on the sea floor
Like an archipelago of Atlantises.
Islands come and go,
Bobbing up and bobbing down
Like lost corks
Drifting seven seas,
Treading continents,
Islands recede into the water
To settle on the sea floor
Like an archipelago of Atlantises.
Islands come and go,
Bobbing up and bobbing down
Like lost corks
Drifting seven seas,
Treading continents,
Threading between islands and straits.
They crest the waves
Beneath gathering clouds
As flocks of birds
Circumnavigate the globe,
Shuttling from landfall to landfall.
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#YouCouldOrderAFewMore: Air Force shares one wrench to attach nuclear warheads between three missile bases (they Fed Ex it back and forth!)
From The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2014:
"Pentagon studies of America’s nuclear missile infrastructure released in November included the revelation that nuclear warheads had to be attached with a particular wrench, even though the Air Force only owned one with which to service 450 missiles housed at three bases. Consequently, one official told the New York Times, 'They started FedExing the one tool' back and forth."
No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made,” typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”
No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made,” typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Poem: The Grey Ambassador
By Jack Brummet
Flybys,
crop circles, and other maneuvers
Were executed
To demonstrate their capability.
After the flybys, came landings, and contact.
The visitors
Did not appear hostile.
Some say we were softened up
By E.T., Klaatu, and ALF
And thought this was a mission of mercy.
If they figured out how to get here,
And have come to make war,
We can't stop them.
If they "come in peace"
To teach what they learned
The Hard Way,
Let’s get started.
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Were executed
To demonstrate their capability.
After the flybys, came landings, and contact.
The visitors
Did not appear hostile.
Some say we were softened up
By E.T., Klaatu, and ALF
And thought this was a mission of mercy.
If they figured out how to get here,
And have come to make war,
We can't stop them.
If they "come in peace"
To teach what they learned
The Hard Way,
Let’s get started.
Monday, December 01, 2014
Congressperson Michelle Bachmann covers Macklemore's "Thrift Shop"
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
Michelle Bachmann, the soon to be retiring U.S. Representative, posted a video today in which she quotes/covers Macklemore's Thrift Shop. I'm going to miss The Representative.
Michelle Bachmann, the soon to be retiring U.S. Representative, posted a video today in which she quotes/covers Macklemore's Thrift Shop. I'm going to miss The Representative.
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Poem: [you can’t see earth]
By Jack Brummet
1
You can't see earth
From the dark side of the moon
But maybe that changes
With the accelerating deceleration
Of the moon and earth.
A waning Gibbous moon
Dangles 1.3 light seconds away,
The Sea of Tranquility
A menacing sinkhole.
From the dark side of the moon
But maybe that changes
With the accelerating deceleration
Of the moon and earth.
A waning Gibbous moon
Dangles 1.3 light seconds away,
The Sea of Tranquility
A menacing sinkhole.
2
The moon
And the fog
Are in cahoots
The moon
And the fog
Are in cahoots
And
the fog slithers in,
Wraps itself around houses,
Trees, shrubs, and churches,
And threads its way
Wraps itself around houses,
Trees, shrubs, and churches,
And threads its way
Along
the ground,
Like a horror movie fog.
I wonder if the fog and moon
Really trigger
Like a horror movie fog.
I wonder if the fog and moon
Really trigger
Mayhem,
madness, and murder?
3
Do our brains have tides?
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Do our brains have tides?
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