Flash Story: Security Tales From America, (Bush Era Reflections)

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 SECURITY TALES FROM AMERICA
 
Juniper paid for her poppyseed bagel ladened with herb scented cream cheese and gathered her water with lemon and cream colored coffee that held a melting pile of Hershey kisses at the bottom.
She proceeded to the check out counter and paid a paltry fee for [...]

Richard Holbrooke’s Assessment Of Bush’s Policy Of Eradication Of Poppy Crops In Afghanistan

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Over the last years of  President Bush’s tenure a policy of eradication of the  heroin producing poppy crop in Afghanistan was employed through the technique of spraying chemicals over farms with poppy crops.
Millions of dollars were wasted because the percentage of crops destroyed had no effect on the Taliban and related Al [...]

Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier Decompression Tip # 1

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The Decompression Tip, meant for soldiers is a new feature of  The Pale Green Mermaid Blog.  
A serious phase to go through… but this will be a light hearted attempt to offer ideas that might help in the transition back to regular life.
So here we go!
 
Decompression Tip number one,
Create a tape of your [...]

Song Of The Week – “Bleed It Out”

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I am listening to 104.5 FM Philly station, my bose are doing their appropriate duty and playing  … I’m waiting for the artist…but it is a great song “Bleed It Out” , Linkin Park. old song, great song (2007)
If you don’t want to think  – if you just want to dance mindlessly, [...]

My Comment On The Whole Gates – Crowley Debate

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“If  your thinking of being my brother, it don’t matter if you are black or white.
I’m not going to spend my life being a color”
 
Michael Jackson  (from song “Black or White”)
 

 
PEACE
 
Note:  If you listen to that song, there is a whole little dissertation in there,  that covers all the main points [...]

Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier’s Art / Poetry Slam Session 20

 
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Hello,
 
Soldier
You sleep in ditches,
You carry eighty pounds on your back,
You wait for orders,
And try to remember the person you once were.
 
No words can seal our gratitude.
 
BJHC
 
Please send any thoughts or ideas to shivazzzzz@aol.com and I will post or use comments area, thanks,
 
Good Evening and see you next Saturday,
 
www.ivaw.org Iraq Veterans Against The War
www.iava.org Iraq [...]

Friday Night Gallery Chat /Conceptual Art And Barbara Kruger’s Messages

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Hey Guys, let us speak of conceptual art tonight, when I was getting my degree in painting /photography Barbara Kruger was all the rage and one of my favorite conceptual photographers.  That was in 1981.  Her work was sparse in color and elements.  It was the simplicity and directness of her [...]

Weekend Skywatching Cocktail

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FALLEN ANGEL Recipe
1 bouquet of indigo roses
1 Iced glass
5 oz coffee (Warm)
1 oz cream
1-2 oz frangelica liqueur 
Take all ingredients and mix (except roses)
Smother with whipped cream. Done!
 
Go outside (with roses)
Find the sky, sit down
dream.
(When you get sleepy use roses as your pillow)
 
Have a silent weekend,
BJHC
 

Hamas Art And Peace, There Is A Reason Why Dictatorial Rulers Always Try To Silence The “Elite”

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There is a reason why the so called elite (writers artists media people)  are the first to be quashed when dictatorial styles of governing take hold.  They understand that an idea, a voice, a sentence can take their government down.  Keep people in fear and you have control over them – complete control.
If [...]

Dirty Beaches, Dirty Meat, We Are Poisioning Ourselves And The Earth

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There was a report in the NY Times science  section, this past Tuesday, stating that there is a strong possibility that if you dig at the beach ala sandcastles or even worse bury yourself in the sand (within 7 miles of a sewage plant) you are  more likely to vomit or get [...]

Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier’s Art / Poetry Slam Session 19

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Hello, tonight 2 photographs, by Robert Capa, a photographer from WW2,

D-Day landings, 6-6-1944.

D-Day landings, 6-6-1944.

At this time when fighting is taking place in Afghanistan, let’s think about the purpose of war …which seems to be negotiations in the end, perhaps we can think about a peace conference in Afghanistan now, so no [...]

Song of The Week / “Cheap Thrills” Janice Joplin and the Holding Company

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JANIS JOPLIN and The Holding Company – “Cheap Thrills”
Instrumental ( vocals guitar drums)
 
Whoa (many) whoas
yeah yeah (many)
come on (many) come on
Whoa
gonna knock it to ya ,rock it to ya , sock it to ya , come on oh yeah
then a little operatic sing fest at the end 
 
 Whoo doggie! Man oh man ,oh man ,oh man, [...]

Friday Night Gallery Chat / Melancholy Moods and Edward Hopper

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Goods Evening,
Tonight an American artist who exemplified the isolation and loneliness of  living in urban America in his paintings,  the realist,  Edward Hopper.  Realism was a reaction to the overt emotionalism of the Romantic movement in the 1850’s.  The realists depicted what was explicitly in front of them, attempting to keep the interpretation of the [...]

Michael Jackson And Bruce Springsteen – Musical Blood Brothers?

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Michael Jackson

 “ Don’t tell me you agree with me, when I saw you  kicking dirt in my eye,
I said if  you’re thinking of being my brother, it don’t matter if you are black or white…” Michael Jackson

 

 Bruce Springsteen       

 

“I’m stranded in the jungle, taking all the heat they were giving,
the night is dark but the [...]

ECO-LIFE Idea / Birds, Eco-systems And Yards

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Are there birds singing when you wake up?  Even if you have a small patch of green space there should be life in it.  If there is not, you are living in a dying or dead eco-system.
My neighborhood had a cacaphony of birds everytime I woke up, then slowly as neighbors [...]