WASHINGTON (AP) – Even as Republicans publicly welcome President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan confab on health care, some privately worry that he might be laying a trap to portray their ideas as flimsy.
Pre-game jitters
make Republicans
pre-accuse Obama
of pre-entrapment.
Why? They know
they might do better
as pre-burnt toast.
Onto the back lawn
they now must go as
media squirrels await,
their noses twitching,
tails thrashingly alert.
(09 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v3
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
dull, ordinary, jobless
It’s a dull, ordinary day here.
A gold & cream ’87 El Camino
pulls up at the corner of Dolores
& South Winchester, next to
The Church of the Valley;
I can’t see the driver inside,
but there must be one there.
I imagine them dressed in white
ordinary, clothes: T-shirt, pants.
They don’t have to get out for
me to see, I just imagine them
as typical Norcalifornians,
non-hispanic, anglo, jobless..
By now you know this isn’t
a fantasy, it's just about life
in pseudocyclically declining
Silicon Valley usa. Jobless.
(08 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v5
A gold & cream ’87 El Camino
pulls up at the corner of Dolores
& South Winchester, next to
The Church of the Valley;
I can’t see the driver inside,
but there must be one there.
I imagine them dressed in white
ordinary, clothes: T-shirt, pants.
They don’t have to get out for
me to see, I just imagine them
as typical Norcalifornians,
non-hispanic, anglo, jobless..
By now you know this isn’t
a fantasy, it's just about life
in pseudocyclically declining
Silicon Valley usa. Jobless.
(08 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v5
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Palinocity
“Ask God’s Help”
Palin urges Tea-Party Convention.
coming soon:
"In God We Trust"
as a rider on all new mortgages.
Next, a new national silver dollar
with Jesus’ profile on both sides.
Early adopter, Las Vegas' strip
declares Jesus’ Dollar new min. coin:
"Whenever Jesus spins, we all win!"
(07 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v3
Palin urges Tea-Party Convention.
coming soon:
"In God We Trust"
as a rider on all new mortgages.
Next, a new national silver dollar
with Jesus’ profile on both sides.
Early adopter, Las Vegas' strip
declares Jesus’ Dollar new min. coin:
"Whenever Jesus spins, we all win!"
(07 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v3
Monday, February 1, 2010
Cuppa & Quilt; Takemitsu & Adams
It’s the Rainy Season here in South (S.F.) Bay. I’m up for visiting Ginny’s for a tepid cuppa Zhena Muzyka's Gypsy Tea, & a nap under a sky blue quilt (that we share.)
On a rare sunny day last week, Ginny drove her Prius 50 mi. S to San Juan Bautista (where) at its junk-Thrift Shop, I got (2) 2nd-hand Takemitsu CDs (USD$3 ea.):
MUSIC OF TAKEMITSU (Rudolf Werthen, cond. I Fiamminghi - The Orchestra of Flanders; Telarc, 1998, 20-bit Surround Sound)
THE FILM MUSIC OF TORU TAKEMITSU (1930-1996) (John Adams* cond. London Sinfonietta; Nonesuch, 1997.)
*Ginny met Adams at the SF Opera production of his "Dr. Atomic."
On a rare sunny day last week, Ginny drove her Prius 50 mi. S to San Juan Bautista (where) at its junk-Thrift Shop, I got (2) 2nd-hand Takemitsu CDs (USD$3 ea.):
MUSIC OF TAKEMITSU (Rudolf Werthen, cond. I Fiamminghi - The Orchestra of Flanders; Telarc, 1998, 20-bit Surround Sound)
THE FILM MUSIC OF TORU TAKEMITSU (1930-1996) (John Adams* cond. London Sinfonietta; Nonesuch, 1997.)
*Ginny met Adams at the SF Opera production of his "Dr. Atomic."
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Davos Skinny-Dips
Midnite before the final session
of Davos world economic forum:
Big bankers are invited to skinnydip
in the heated olympic swimming-pool
in the (unnamed) grandest hotel
after its heat is turned off.
After an hour of uncomfortably
comparing genitalia, they realize
it’s gotten chillier, but none
dares admit it as the chill raises
their visible expectations.
Peckers stand up, balls harden,
coughing rebounds off tile walls.
The first one to climb out loses
a place in the lockeroom queue,
a warm shower, warm towel,
clean clothes in the lockerroom,
floors below, valet parking for
their limo full of Swiss chocolate.
Who wins? Ask around, after
compensating chattering teeth.
(01 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
In memoriam, Lee R. Baxandall
(26 JAN 1935 - 28 NOV 2008)
of Davos world economic forum:
Big bankers are invited to skinnydip
in the heated olympic swimming-pool
in the (unnamed) grandest hotel
after its heat is turned off.
After an hour of uncomfortably
comparing genitalia, they realize
it’s gotten chillier, but none
dares admit it as the chill raises
their visible expectations.
Peckers stand up, balls harden,
coughing rebounds off tile walls.
The first one to climb out loses
a place in the lockeroom queue,
a warm shower, warm towel,
clean clothes in the lockerroom,
floors below, valet parking for
their limo full of Swiss chocolate.
Who wins? Ask around, after
compensating chattering teeth.
(01 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
In memoriam, Lee R. Baxandall
(26 JAN 1935 - 28 NOV 2008)
DAVOS IS SO SORRY
"Get it wrong one way
& we risk a new crisis;
get it wrong the other way
& we'll take the steam
out of the recovery
& reduce the chances
of creating new jobs,"
The right balance must be struck
"between making a safer banking system
& a financial system that can support
the sort of dynamism & growth
in job creation." Everyone must have
"a degree of humility about what
we actually know, & how confident
we can be that the ideas
we're going to put in place
are going to have the consequences
that we thought they were going to have….
Tho discussions were "very constructive"
"They haven't (in a sense) solved the issues,
but they certainly, I think, pushed them forward."
- Peter Sands, CEO
Standard Chartered Bank
Muhammad Yunus,
managing director
of Grameen (microcredit) Bank:
"This is a good time to redesign
the entire financial system.
Big guys are not the big sufferers.
Big sufferers are the small guys
who lost their jobs,
who lost their food,
who lost their livelihood."
(01 FEB 10)v1
& we risk a new crisis;
get it wrong the other way
& we'll take the steam
out of the recovery
& reduce the chances
of creating new jobs,"
The right balance must be struck
"between making a safer banking system
& a financial system that can support
the sort of dynamism & growth
in job creation." Everyone must have
"a degree of humility about what
we actually know, & how confident
we can be that the ideas
we're going to put in place
are going to have the consequences
that we thought they were going to have….
Tho discussions were "very constructive"
"They haven't (in a sense) solved the issues,
but they certainly, I think, pushed them forward."
- Peter Sands, CEO
Standard Chartered Bank
Muhammad Yunus,
managing director
of Grameen (microcredit) Bank:
"This is a good time to redesign
the entire financial system.
Big guys are not the big sufferers.
Big sufferers are the small guys
who lost their jobs,
who lost their food,
who lost their livelihood."
(01 FEB 10)v1
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Free 2B Corporate
FREE TO BE CORPOR@TE
"…the Senator from Du Pont Chemicals with his 45 votes…the Senator from Nash-Kelvinator with his 6." Pohl & Kornbluth, THE SPACE MERCHANTS (1952/3) pp.13-14
Money talks. Politics c@lls:
“Steve, I need to know where
what’s left of GM stands on this.”
“I hope you’re recording this,”
asks GM Senator Steve Steeves.
“Yes, I am,” says UAW Senator
Paul ‘Polack’ Propulski. Silence;
neither realizes they’re tapped
by Ford Senator Henry Ford IV
who thinks “Those jerks don’t
realize all this is legal now” with
corporate masters humanized,
according to SCOTUS, free to
exercise 1st-amendment rights.
“Speak up, you 2!” says Ford,
breaking their cautious silence,
"Be freemen in a freecorpor@te
world. You're finally free! Now,
let's work us a corpor@te deal.”
(30 JAN 10, Santa Clara CA)v4
"…the Senator from Du Pont Chemicals with his 45 votes…the Senator from Nash-Kelvinator with his 6." Pohl & Kornbluth, THE SPACE MERCHANTS (1952/3) pp.13-14
Money talks. Politics c@lls:
“Steve, I need to know where
what’s left of GM stands on this.”
“I hope you’re recording this,”
asks GM Senator Steve Steeves.
“Yes, I am,” says UAW Senator
Paul ‘Polack’ Propulski. Silence;
neither realizes they’re tapped
by Ford Senator Henry Ford IV
who thinks “Those jerks don’t
realize all this is legal now” with
corporate masters humanized,
according to SCOTUS, free to
exercise 1st-amendment rights.
“Speak up, you 2!” says Ford,
breaking their cautious silence,
"Be freemen in a freecorpor@te
world. You're finally free! Now,
let's work us a corpor@te deal.”
(30 JAN 10, Santa Clara CA)v4
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