It was a dark and stormy night
How better to lead off a meandering blog entry than a reference to the greatest dogged writter of them all, who inbued our young souls with both comical and mystical wisdom.
On the subject of young souls and commystical wisdom, there are many stormy nights ahead for Madonna.
First the material girl went to England and acquired an English accent, and husband with it. Then she went off to Israel to pick up some spiritual teaching, until she leaned that as a Kabbalist you can't celebrate Christmas, and gave it all up for the sake of her Christian children. Perhaps Madonna misunderstood the Hebrew word "Kabbalah", which literally means receiving, because now she has gone to Africa and taken someone else's child.
Couldn't she have been happy with one of those flowered hats or some banana leaf art? Apparantly she just had to have one of those cute black children for her other two children to play with.
According to Reuters, the child's father, Yohane Banda, who put him in an orphanage when his monther died, said "I suppose deep in my heart I always imagined that when he was better, or I had got another wife, I would go and take him back," Banda told the Mail on Sunday. "I did not think anyone would want to take him away."
With millions of dollars idle in her bank account, Madonna could easily have supported both the child and his father back in Africa. But somehow Madonna managed to get around the Malawian law that bans adoptions by non-residents, hustling the child on her private lear jet back to her estate outside of London. Now there is something they don't teach you in Kaballah school.
Back in New York, Lynne Stewart, the 67 year old champion of the underserverd, couldn't quite get around the law this time, and will be spending a dark and quiet twenty eight months in supermax.
Lynne received a reduced sentence yesterday, down from a requested thirty years by prosectors road testing the new Patriot Act, for coming to the legal defense of Sheik Omar-Abdel Rahman, the blind cleric convicted of "seditious conspiracy" from charges relating to the 1993 world trade center bombing.
Where is the widom in giving any jail time to our public defenders? Even if they are wacked out hippies who have trouble with the finer details of the law, such as not passing along notes to radical followers in Egypt that say, "the Jihad is on, baby!"
At her sentencing, Lynne seemed not to fear the darkness ahead, intoning with some obvious bluster, ``As my clients say to me, `I could do that standing on my head.' "
Lynne, you might actually get your wish, and do that time standing on your head. Today Bush signed away our habeas corpus, inking legislation that authorizes tough interrogation of terror suspects, and stripping (figuratively) detainess of their legal right to seek release from unlawful imprisonment, a pillar of our legal system.
"It is a rare occasion when a president can sign a bill that he knows will save American lives," Bush said. "I have that privilege this morning."
This epiphany marks a new nadir for Mr. Bush in his dark and stormy six year tenure. Just yesterday he bottomed out again in polls, the approval rating for his handling Iraq at a mere 34 percentage points.
Mr. President, you are only 34 points from zero, with two years to go, I think you'll get there.
You've got to wonder about that 34 percent of the American population who still thinks that the President is handling Iraq well. Something tells me they are probably followers of the mystical teachings of radical right's Jerry Falwell, who believes we are winning a holy war in Iraq, and blames CNN for misinforming the public.
As we round the corner of 300,000,000 people in America today, that is 102,000,000 who have no clue. Which also happens to be the number of people who watch YouTube on a daily basis, no coorelation of course. Perhaps Google can impart some wisdom there.
Back on the Korean peninsula, it will be dark and stormy nights for all as we learn that North Korea is gearing up for another nuclear test. This one they intend to get right.
On the subject of large, mystical explosions, back in Kansas, scientists have found an unusual 154 pound meteorite under a wheat field. Scientists say it fell to earth 10,000 years ago in a colossal explosion that makes north Korea's one kiloton test look like day old kimchee.
The Kansas State Board of Education, however, has declared the meteor further evidence of intelligent design. "Why would someone put a meteor in a wheat field? It's gotta be evidence of some greater intelligence," said Ken Willard, while chewing gum and scratching his head.
Finally its National Poetry day in England. Or rather, was National Poetry day on October 5. The theme this year is "identity", so I have done some deep inner relecting, and have written a short poem inspired by the esoteric Kabbalistic widsom my dog shares with me each night.
My dog barks to me at night
My dog barks
My dog barks to me at night
I have trouble sleeping
This poem brought to you by Ambien.
So pull out your old typewritter and bang away. Your dark and stormy oeuvre couldn't be any stranger than this weeks news.
To quote the master, Charlie Brown, "life is easier if you only dread one day at a time."
On the subject of young souls and commystical wisdom, there are many stormy nights ahead for Madonna.
First the material girl went to England and acquired an English accent, and husband with it. Then she went off to Israel to pick up some spiritual teaching, until she leaned that as a Kabbalist you can't celebrate Christmas, and gave it all up for the sake of her Christian children. Perhaps Madonna misunderstood the Hebrew word "Kabbalah", which literally means receiving, because now she has gone to Africa and taken someone else's child.
Couldn't she have been happy with one of those flowered hats or some banana leaf art? Apparantly she just had to have one of those cute black children for her other two children to play with.
According to Reuters, the child's father, Yohane Banda, who put him in an orphanage when his monther died, said "I suppose deep in my heart I always imagined that when he was better, or I had got another wife, I would go and take him back," Banda told the Mail on Sunday. "I did not think anyone would want to take him away."
With millions of dollars idle in her bank account, Madonna could easily have supported both the child and his father back in Africa. But somehow Madonna managed to get around the Malawian law that bans adoptions by non-residents, hustling the child on her private lear jet back to her estate outside of London. Now there is something they don't teach you in Kaballah school.
Back in New York, Lynne Stewart, the 67 year old champion of the underserverd, couldn't quite get around the law this time, and will be spending a dark and quiet twenty eight months in supermax.
Lynne received a reduced sentence yesterday, down from a requested thirty years by prosectors road testing the new Patriot Act, for coming to the legal defense of Sheik Omar-Abdel Rahman, the blind cleric convicted of "seditious conspiracy" from charges relating to the 1993 world trade center bombing.
Where is the widom in giving any jail time to our public defenders? Even if they are wacked out hippies who have trouble with the finer details of the law, such as not passing along notes to radical followers in Egypt that say, "the Jihad is on, baby!"
At her sentencing, Lynne seemed not to fear the darkness ahead, intoning with some obvious bluster, ``As my clients say to me, `I could do that standing on my head.' "
Lynne, you might actually get your wish, and do that time standing on your head. Today Bush signed away our habeas corpus, inking legislation that authorizes tough interrogation of terror suspects, and stripping (figuratively) detainess of their legal right to seek release from unlawful imprisonment, a pillar of our legal system.
"It is a rare occasion when a president can sign a bill that he knows will save American lives," Bush said. "I have that privilege this morning."
This epiphany marks a new nadir for Mr. Bush in his dark and stormy six year tenure. Just yesterday he bottomed out again in polls, the approval rating for his handling Iraq at a mere 34 percentage points.
Mr. President, you are only 34 points from zero, with two years to go, I think you'll get there.
You've got to wonder about that 34 percent of the American population who still thinks that the President is handling Iraq well. Something tells me they are probably followers of the mystical teachings of radical right's Jerry Falwell, who believes we are winning a holy war in Iraq, and blames CNN for misinforming the public.
As we round the corner of 300,000,000 people in America today, that is 102,000,000 who have no clue. Which also happens to be the number of people who watch YouTube on a daily basis, no coorelation of course. Perhaps Google can impart some wisdom there.
Back on the Korean peninsula, it will be dark and stormy nights for all as we learn that North Korea is gearing up for another nuclear test. This one they intend to get right.
On the subject of large, mystical explosions, back in Kansas, scientists have found an unusual 154 pound meteorite under a wheat field. Scientists say it fell to earth 10,000 years ago in a colossal explosion that makes north Korea's one kiloton test look like day old kimchee.
The Kansas State Board of Education, however, has declared the meteor further evidence of intelligent design. "Why would someone put a meteor in a wheat field? It's gotta be evidence of some greater intelligence," said Ken Willard, while chewing gum and scratching his head.
Finally its National Poetry day in England. Or rather, was National Poetry day on October 5. The theme this year is "identity", so I have done some deep inner relecting, and have written a short poem inspired by the esoteric Kabbalistic widsom my dog shares with me each night.
My dog barks to me at night
My dog barks
My dog barks to me at night
I have trouble sleeping
This poem brought to you by Ambien.
So pull out your old typewritter and bang away. Your dark and stormy oeuvre couldn't be any stranger than this weeks news.
To quote the master, Charlie Brown, "life is easier if you only dread one day at a time."
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