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Friday, April 30, 2010

Last Words of a False Prophet Before Her Beheading [News Poem, April 30, 2010]

Last Words of a False Prophet Before Her Beheading [News Poem, April 30, 2010]

“You ask I make my choice? It's made.
I choose to separate myself
From both the worshipers of blades,
And ones who use a book on shelf

To choose their mode of bigotry;
To justify their cruelty,
To please their Gods or ancestry.
I'll swear at oaths of fealty

Before I let you compromise
The oath I made to humankind.
You cowards! All of you surmise
That killing me destroys my mind

And silences the truth. It's true
You'll ask my skull for pithy barbs—
Until the swords are rusted through.
With ash and sackcloth as your garb—

You'll still recall the atheist
Who questioned why you must persist
In elevating solipsists
Who don't believe that God exists—“

--

Re: “Belgium's vote to ban full face veils in public is the furthest any European country has gone to confront... Muslim minorities.”
– Tom Heneghan, Reuters, April 30, 2010; 1:41 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/30/AR2010043001527.html

“The United Nations Economic and Social Council yesterday elected Iran to serve a four-year term -- beginning in 2011 -- on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). ”
– Anne Bayefsky, FoxNews.com, April 29, 2010
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/29/anne-bayefsky-iran-united-nations-commission-status-women-congress/

"Honor killings," or crimes carried out against women seen to have tainted the family's name, are not uncommon in mainly Muslim Turkey, particularly in poor and rural areas.
The European Union, which Turkey has applied to join, has repeatedly urged Ankara to take a tougher stance against such crimes.
– Ibon Villelabeitia, Reuters, Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:45pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63F4NC20100416


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Another Toylit Scoop! Beating Krugman by 3 years! Here's the reprint + comments

So Paul Krugman (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/opinion/30krugman.html?hp) spots now what I saw three years ago: the dollar trap. I noticed the increasing volatility in currency exchanges and the Chinese currency strategy and started examining contingency scenarios. I think this article implies a financial meltdown, but it totally missed the size and scope of it. Still, given the events over the last few years and given how extremely WRONG the pundits were, I think the article's prescient. I didn't see the scope of the meltdown, but I did catch the long term trend-dynamic before anyone else did. Yee haw.

Mark Ames didn't like the direction my analysis was going in at the time, because it was too self-congratulatory. I'm glad he stopped me, because I was going to write a bunch of articles about how the USA won't suffer during a financial meltdown. Ha! Well, not all the trends are bad here. US-Chinese competition is going to splatter European industries. Cheap American shit vs Cheap Chinese shit: whose cuisine will reign supreme?

ps: China's signs of inflation are starting to become obvious.

China: Bow To Uncle Sam!
By Khakjaan Wessington
November 17, 2006

http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=8380&IBLOCK_ID=35
SAN FRANCISCO - China is on the brink of a financial meltdown. Ok, call me a crackhead. Feel better? Now let's talk facts. According to the World Bank, China's profits on capital invested is climbing, not dropping, as an overheating economy might suggest. Whether one is counting on official figures or reverse engineered figures, China's total investment rate is still somewhere between 37%-45%; significantly higher than the 21% average investment rate internationally. When combined with a 5 year Incremental-Capital-Output-Ratio (ICOR) around 4.5% (the % of GDP needed to boost GDP growth by 1%), this seems to paint the picture of a China on the rise: until one looks at US productivity figures.
Graphing durable productivity growth in the US economy over the last four years reveals the US has averaged a huge 6.09% durable productivity growth per year. This has resulted in drops in Unit Labor Cost (labor cost per unit of GDP) significantly during that period: 1.11% per year on average, even as GDP has grown during this period. In fact, durable productivity growth has exceeded GDP growth since the 2000-2001 slowdown: productivity in durable manufacturing is rising so fast, it's making US labor costs even more competitive than they already are. What this means is that the advantage that low labor cost economies have over the US is rapidly shrinking in America's favor.

Now, let's complicate the picture: China is the world's second biggest holder of US Treasury securities, and 70% of its trillion foreign reserves is in US dollars. The popular economic argument is that this huge debt balance is dangerous for the US, because a trade deficit siphons wealth out of the debtor's economy and into the creditor's economy. Eventually, the value of dollar-denominated assets should drop, because US wealth should be getting depleted. This premise is flawed.
A trade deficit can be good if the economy with the deficit is creating more wealth than the cost of imports. The University of Michigan and Florida International University study of US entrepreneurial activity showed it hit an all time high in 2005 with 23 million starting, or managing a business under four years old, and The Economist recently claimed that the US has twice as many entrepreneurs as the EU. This suggests that the US is using the imports of cars and computers (components that make up the US trade deficit) to build businesses.
In economic terms, the value of the goods imported exceeds their cost. The result? Hyper-productivity growth across durable producers and a growth in efficient, small manufacturers. The trade deficit is irrelevant if the imported goods are worth more than they cost. A laptop made in China is more valuable in the US because of the business climate here. Likewise a truck, or most anything else. Who ever heard of the Chinese protecting intellectual property rights? If every jackass with a bank account, connections, or factory is ripping off small business ideas, the value innovator isn't going to get paid for his work and isn't going to add his best use to the economy. Combine this with guangxi networks and party officials demanding bribes, it's no surprise that China's labor costs are rising. There's less incentive to add value if there's a good chance it's going to get stolen - hence low worker productivity growth. This works so long as there are cheap labor inputs, but as labor gets scarcer, wages climb. These factors eat away at China's long term productivity growth and are examples of the way a manufacture's value increases once it crosses the border.

What about the risk of China dumping its dollar assets for other assets? If China does this, it will increase supply of dollar assets and also reduce the demand for dollar assets (since it is a major importer of dollars). A devaluation in the dollar would result in a devaluation of the rest of the dollar reserves China has and put a major dent in its total reserves. It would also make Chinese exports to the US more expensive, and imports from the US cheaper. Dollar inflation would increase and that would hurt everything in the US economy: or would it?
A rapid drop in the Dollar versus the Yuan would result in almost immediate, and major import substitution by US producers. Until inflation is tamped out, it will continue to drop the cost of US manufactures compared to foreign manufacturers. It would be a deathblow to European industries, which would need to respond with even more protectionism. Airbus is already on the ropes - a 20% drop in the dollar would see almost every plane order in the world for the next five years going to Boeing. Multiply this across every industry where the EU is barely competitive with the rest of the world and you can see that a disaster is brewing, not for the US, but for Europe. China would lose its target market for exports and its domestic consumption won't be able to make up for the difference.
China's current investment rate is predicated upon the presumption that for the near future, China will remain one of the world's most competitive manufacturers. With profits where they are right now, it's easy to say that China hasn't over-invested. Still, the trends are telling. Competition with slave economies has unlocked productivity growth in the US economy previously unseen. So long as US durable productivity growth is greater than its GDP growth, the US will continue to get more competitive vs. low-cost producers. Therefore, financing US debt, rather than being a sign of long-term Chinese strength, is a sign of its long term weakness. China's locked itself into a strategy it can't escape. At this rate, the US is going to eradicate the competitive advantage of low labor cost producers in a decade or two. But if China tries to stop subsidizing US trade, it hurts Chinese manufacturers and benefits US manufacturers.
It's just another example of how things aren't always what they appear to be in the international financial game. A strategy can be good in the short term, but lock you into a problem you can't escape. Sorry, China!


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A-10 Thunderbolt Fat-Killer [Twitter Found Poem April 30, 2010]

A-10 Thunderbolt Fat-Killer [Twitter Found Poem April 30, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: evanh alcapone840 MsKiaBaby Ba_Sura FirmCheeks jdcity1stfl JessicaDuLong elizahleigh elm51 dustyonthereal wavezap donny_ng MsUNique925 clutchculture MsLemonDrop PatriotPrideAm drgrist itsmarrria UnCavedThoughts chrishmcgovern pgood2008 yeahxitscory aaronware DemonicLullaby YTlilBLKboy fairyvampmary purplepawn WorryAboutYB SonamOngmo Owlsports_com SliiMaVellii_x Alia_Maria easyactions DIY_Electricity muffinjoy ghostdevil napoleon718 andrealo DannyParty JohnnyGWeir

the shitty oil situation
hates having its photo taken.
Have you ever seen a REAL Live Halliburton b4 lol??

REAL life ?? well that's some scary shit.
lets crawl Til you & your fat ass can walk again...
But for now let's fly an Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle
Powered by a tub of liposuctioned fat.
I prefer the A-10 but you can probs just pick any.

Take an elevator to the top floor
TO THE meet with THE BIG man
let's talk about this Crazy world we live in. lol !!

You'll never walk again
ur not even strong enough
2 stop *NOM NOM**NOM NOM*
stuffing your face.
Are you ready to stop
stuffing your face
to stop the shitty oil situation??
or Are you going 2 start hates having your photo taken too??

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Company Keeps Us Together At Last [News Poem April 29, 2010]

The Company Keeps Us Together At Last [News Poem April 29, 2010]

“Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, South Korean skating champion Kim Yu-na, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva also made Time's 100 most-influential people list.”
– Reuters, Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63S42Y20100429

“In recent decades the agency has often said it was deploying more “NOCs,” or officers under non-official cover. U.S. multinational companies -- banks, oil companies, airlines, construction firms -- are generally happy to help the CIA, on patriotic grounds, with legitimate-looking jobs for its operatives.”
– Jeff Stein, April 26, 2010; 4:47 PM ET
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/04/cia_chief_promises_spies_new_a.html

All of this driving on highways detracts from the
Horror of brakelights and swerving hillbillies that
Drive like our men on a tear on Afghani roads.
Accidents happen—the enemy stalks us by
Stoplights if need be. If cover's eroded then
Nothing can stop the determined assassin from
Hitting his mark off the beltway in darkness. I

Circle my block as I'm often inclined for one
Never is sure of a spousal betrayal. She
Gathers the dishes in soapy sink lather, but
Secretly wishes I'd finish my meatloaf and
Clutch at my chest as the interest collects on my
Heart—which is gray I assure you; for nothing is
Sacred, profane. I'm not anything really. Yet

Snow in the springtime deflects the moroseness I
Feel as the creepers are nestled on branches of
Trees. If it wasn't for timber I couldn't be
Sure if the houses around me were features of
Nature. I'm certain the finches have always been
Singing for humans for nothing exists for the
Singer without us to listen—we listen as

Thunder approaches the neighborhood
Stand of a statue amidst the wood.

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Mecha-Desdemona Gets Me All Crazy n Da Head n Shit [Twitter Found Poem, April 29, 2010]

Mecha-Desdemona Gets Me All Crazy n Da Head n Shit [Twitter Found Poem, April 29, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @JoTheCat @rodthelumor @NandoOchoSeis @longpour @neekiangel @chloekillwell @kuling @ToastyRamirez @xA_BOOGIE @BrianaButton @michelini @P0iS0N_R0YALTY @ThoughtSnot @mochamelody @hoddington @arneldo @ConnorTitmarsh @slvyas @CharlieePOP @Narcissistic_85 @Kee31 @ruby81272 @sallyolofin @MrRapperGuy @SexyDream @yomilicious @MrLucrative @hapsical @freakurdream @BlackDiamondCA @wyzleyspoken @akzionz @boyoperatedcoin @EkkoEkkoEkko @supererogatory @Kourtneybell181 @CubanaLAF @_MostEnvyed_ @MissCays @mydwynter @lynzannecorin @MoradoFly @OoSoCocky @KRNorwood @pj4MJJ @RanjitGowda @DayBelieber @annalisajoyce

"when I say I miss u it's only cuz u said it
first and I don't wanna leave u hangin =\ lol"
BEEEP

"ur right ur wifey is a good girl ;-) "
BEEEP

Let's ask me "why so serious???"
I know @MrRapperGuy!!
Yes my wifey is a good girl ;-)
But I'm possibly a seedy psychopath.
don't wanna leave u hangin...
sit down beside me I don't bite
too Hard
Let's bury u & my barbie
bitches hahaha i mean
Let's bury the hatchet
in yo dick hahaha i mean
barbie bitches make me SICK! get an identity!
hahaha Do I Make You Nervous ???
It's all fun and games until someone
gets his dick chopped off.

hahaha Do I Make You Nervous ???
don't test me .
too late!! I get all crazy n da head n shit .
so check it out:
u & my barbie wifey
win a free trip 2 Baghdad
& win a free burial site.

plant u & wifey in the seedy side of town
& water it...u & mecha-desdemona i mean
with gasoline then light em up...
I told you I get all crazy n da head n shit.


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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Bulimic Surfer [News Poem April 28, 2010]

Bulimic Surfer [News Poem April 28, 2010]

“Crews ignited a small area of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon in a first attempt to burn some of the oil before it reaches shore. “Based on our limited experience, birds and mammals are more capable of handling the risk of a local fire and temporary smoke plume than of handling the risk posed by a spreading oil slick. Birds flying in the plume can become disoriented, and could suffer toxic effects. This risk, however, is minimal when compared to oil coating and ingestion.””
– Campbell Robertson, Liz Robbins & Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times, April 28, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/us/29spill.html?src=mv

Catch a wave on bursting flames.
Swoon while huffing petrol fumes.
Cauterize the bleeding pipes.
Ride pollution's tiger stripes;
Dodge the ruined derrick booms:
Surf the sea and win acclaim.

Tigers burn in forest fires.
Surfers drown—they've pearls for eyes.
Acid rain consumes the crops—
Poisoning with water drops.
Dine upon the earth? Surprise!
Choke on what we most desire.


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Limits 2 Everything [Twitter Found Poem, April 28, 2010]

Limits 2 Everything [Twitter Found Poem, April 28, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @TriniCassia @UrbanLegendBand @DaBosslady4PR @ThisIsJayyKidd @melosfdc @skinnyDraya @Brightmomma @callme_GINA @MilkNOreos @LEPRIE @_AAdonis @va2cali7 @GhettoEinstein @Mr_Annoying @GRayUFFN @_jaebee @MsTianaMarie @aysumtin @ShadaiL @laurajanefuller @BigPhilSheamus @tx_tuff @tuyoki @twiblock @BeckyFletch

ready to get Extreme??
I really have no limits...
Sky Dive, cliff jumping
not wipin my ass b4 havin sex...
I really don't regret the bad smells.
Every lesson is a blessing!!
yall going around regretting shit???
U should have no limits...

hurtin sumones feelings a while back??
it's NOTHING!
#IHaveaPHD In Makin me Have MultiOrgasms.
fuck yall. Ain't no one even thinkin/talkin bout you.
#ihaveaPHD in shooting pets
mamas mailman grannyes

low lifes are strawberry blond highlights!!
Shoot the sheriff If yall Ain't got no limits...
not wipin YR ass b4 havin sex
with strawberry blond highlights
shuld be the highlights of the High-Life
4 sum low lifes with no limits...

Sky Dive without a parachute
If U really have no limits...
no one even thinkin/talkin bout you either:-)


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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Drowning in a Sea of Chum [Today's News Poem, April 27, 2010]

Drowning in a Sea of Chum [Today's News Poem, April 27, 2010]

“Chávez has nurtured economic, energy and political ties with Tehran in response to what he terms aggression from the US "empire". The two governments have not announced any military accords.”
– Rory Carroll, The Guardian, 27 April 2010 19.09 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/27/iran-venezuela-pentagon-report

“"You must not relax, in order not to permit what is happening in some republics, what recently happened in Kyrgyzstan," he said. "This is what we don't need. If somebody is applauding and rejoicing, it's not the Kyrgyz people."
Lukashenko was referring to an April 7 uprising that ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and killed at least 85 people in the Central Asian nation.”
– Reuters Tuesday, April 27, 2010; 12:52 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042702779.html

“Thai protesters forced a shutdown of Bangkok's busy elevated train system Tuesday and promised to expand their street demonstrations, escalating weeks of anti-government demonstrations that have paralyzed much of the capital.”
– RAVI NESSMAN (AP) – 3 hours ago as of 12:18pm PST
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3j-vAVG1fg3kEfnogTiH8_4EXvwD9FBG6AO0

Bitterness rejects the notion
Life exists upon an ocean
Slurping all with tides of drowning.
Climb atop the chum—he's frowning
Anyway—he's going down, so
Grab the branch with honey drops, though
Frenemies demand a share—no!

Bitterness inhales the smoggy
Air until its lungs are soggy.
Blackened, choking, still it's breathing—
Gasping true, it's screaming—wheezing.
Cleanliness: one breath undoing
Years of phlegm; to stop eschewing
Promises of life renewing?

Bitterness rejects the notion.

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Sick, Lame-Ass Joker/Jokerette [Twitter Found Poem, April 27, 2010]

Sick, Lame-Ass Joker/Jokerette [Twitter Found Poem, April 27, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @JennsA10 @VivaLaIvory @hexkelly @elephantlamp @bryoz @PlayeretteNessa @anthrogeekPF @emilykuphoto @halavais @ktmonae @KristaAshe @CH1TOE @selftalkguru @jamesacannon @DANGERSMITH @chuck_unwin @CircusTK @RevRunWisdom @mrprecyse @EmilyBalham @GottaFindJonas_ @juliejulie0264 @Nikki_Danae @cornholio_010 @KamilahKaash @LiLMs_PYT @chosen214 @fefechanel @AdrianneCurry @BigBrickCity @tiayay @Tey_23 @AmberLeighN @TherealAntJames @glittergran @annakipps @mynamesFab

SICK OF some lame ass joker/jokerette
boring you w/some fake ass story???
get real. if ur not tripn off nothin
ur a bi$$h!!!!! (UgH!!!!!)

dont eat the sh*t
be the sh*t.
be this crackhead:
jump in front of a talkin car!!!!
while its driving :
that's real!!!!

Let's get real stOOpid today!
Prospects of an actual race
to the bottom are moot.
we're already at the bottom !!!!!

it's coffee time!!
u need to get higher than that !!!!!
sobriety time ???
That's the worst thing 2 be addicted to.
try being addicted 2 pills 4 fun & profit .
u suckin dick already
try suckin dick 4 fun & profit.
Quit boring sobriety time for good .
dont eat the sh*t
be the sh*t.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Dancing to the Tune of the Profit-Bot [News Poem April 26, 2010]

Dancing to the Tune of the Profit-Bot [News Poem April 26, 2010]

“San Mateo County sheriff's deputies searched the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen, who created an online sensation among Apple Inc. fans when he posted extensive information about a lost iPhone prototype, according to a message Monday on the site.”
– David Sarno, Los Angeles Times April 26, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-iphone-probe-20100427,0,5272705.story

The sublime, the obsessed: the fools we became
As we searched for the prototype to explain
The recitals of faith in gizmos we claim
Are the pathways to godliness and not pain.

And we found it inside a bar near the work
Where computers designed the future for all—
With the oracle left on table: where quirks
Of tomorrow were swiped for sake of the thralls.

With some features we lacked, we'd pay for the chance
To pretend we were robots churning along
To the ring in the tone. As servants we dance
At the ball of the lords that features a song

We adore—it's the ration we crave
As we wait for the day when we save
And transmute into prophets from slaves:
But for now let's not make any waves.

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Semi-Colon [Twitter Found Poem April 26, 2010]

Semi-Colon [Twitter Found Poem April 26, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
@NathanTCameron @lucyima_star @ajskidd10 @iFuxWitPhresh @JustRissaJean @YungHaze @abbickelfro @namusly @LO_LIFE_PRIME @UndigestedHusks @BruceOwen23 @thekeisler @MrReid1989 @wildspaceagogo @NicoleCocoS @World_Bello @Trap_Jesus @NayoNapalm @Jaranoid @DISAGRO @jasminepears @DaveBFI @vkent @Jason @Linda704 @MrCrhis @ageekgirl

#HandsUpIf u dont understand y ppl
fart in class and don't say nothing.
Surgery is the ultimate Colon Cleanse.
fart No more.

#PleaseTellMeWhy people think it's okay
to keep all the original parts u wuz born wit.
see a doctor about That.
Don't keep all the original parts u wuz born wit
when you could be reborn
enjoying a nice new semi-Colon
Free from Humanity

250 Dollars a day is pennies a minute
who doesn't want to be reborn
as the lime green goblin semi truck from #maximumoverdrive ?
#Stopthatshit and don't say nothing.
exhaust fumes smell So much better than
u & yo nasty ass!


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Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Demon Haunted World [Today's News Poem, April 25, 2010]

The Demon Haunted World [Today's News Poem, April 25, 2010]

“A grenade attack apparently targeting the Bangkok residence of former Thai prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa, an influential ally of the ruling coalition government, has injured 11 people.”
– ABC News, 24 minutes ago as of 8:18pm PST, April 25, 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/26/2882782.htm?section=justin

A candle in the dark ignites
A fuse that flashes insight:
Alone and mortal, free to spite

Our consciences with reasoning;
With science, pain is easing—
Grenades provide the seasoning.

Kabbalah's sparks aren't just for Jews—
Its flame is just the produce
Of fertile minds that pick and choose

Which way insanity is clad.
At best a type of monad
The universe has driven mad

And cast adrift on quantum dreams,
We're chemicals that burn and scream
Against the nihilistic themes

Of nothingness perhaps. We fear that God exists
Inside our minds, that we are it—the horror twists
The intellect into a force we can't resist:
Irrational is rational. We must persist.

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Eightfold Path [Twitter Found Poem, April 25, 2010]

Eightfold Path [Twitter Found Poem, April 25, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @mdw1129 @kritianboy @nethackaltorg @DemonFlavour @sweetjulie77 @stuartgh @6stringluke @shary1972 @briankellyphoto @psychicchik @savioursons @savioursons @dirkjanh @queenwitnocrown @denise679 @PVB_mom @aliceinankh @So_9September13 @klubbkiddkl @Caturtle @ddaantjee @grimkv @Davina_c @CAKEDUP_LEX @citygirlblogs @allibah @iHeartJessbian

shut the f*ck up and listen to what I have to say.
#SometimesItsBetter to think before you speak
but usually it's so much better to fight
Buddha! was a wimp
Hate IS love.
What drives two sides to fight but the fear of their own weaknesses?

Don't love. buy hating.
Buy Iraqi oil sector growth
Buy war bonds.
Prison Guards marry & #Rape Virgins Before #Executions
Give peace a chance ?

war Virgins should just shut the f*ck up and listen
to the sound of musical cluster bombs
while they look at cheap produce
at teh Korean supermarket
Before they are raped &
executed a By Firing Squad of Stoned #Rape
Golems while praying to
Buddha!

#SometimesItsBetter to admit defeat

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Take One For the Team [News Poem, April 24, 2010]

Take One For the Team [Yesterday's News Poem, April 24, 2010]

“I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why. It has been six years and two days since he died, his head blown off amid a pile of rocks on the side of a hill in Afghanistan, murdered by guys on his own team, other U.S. soldiers. After lying about it, the military eventually called it friendly fire and treated it as a mistake... I was looking for tears, when I should have been looking for facts. Dannie Tillman did what a nation full of high-paid, overblown journalists should have done. She went after the real story while the beautiful people on TV and the nerds with notepads broadcast and wrote morality plays.”
– Bill Dwyre, The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0424-dwyre-20100424,0,1036733.column?track=rss

Who cares what Plato; Lao Tse said
When Rumsfeld's lies are cast in lead?
The Pentagon's a pentagram,
The Internet's the telegram—
The noble lie is just a lie.

A general must first be sly
To win his war with hearts and minds.
The bullet's just a contract signed
To seal the deal, to back the line;
To backdate steals, to strip the mine.

And if a lord becomes a pleb,
He'll tangle too in warfare webs
And feed the beast with fangs that gleam:
He signed his life for sake of team.

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LATE! I know. It's done. First Announcements

1) Google is ripping me off w/ newsfeed clicks. I gave them three chances. What's the point of converting readers to newsfeed subscribers if they're going to rip off small publishers like me? So if you want to support Toylit, please go on the site directly before you do so. Right now, Google is stealing my applause.
2) Even though I'd like to strictly be a vehicle for poetry, I'm embodied. It was a busy day. So sorry for the late news poem. I'll see if I can make it up later on today after some sleep.
3) The Toylit Q1 Report is almost finished. Then you will have a different avenue through which to express appreciation.

Okay, news poem time.

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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Satan! Bring Me Dinner! [Twitter Found Poem, April 24, 2010]

Satan! Bring Me Dinner! [Twitter Found Poem, April 24, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: mousewords MonsieurObscure shyposter1 NatchanFoto Julezmc55 AnAmPatriot toyathestar _heyitsgunnar_ Loreinna __bombSHELL iammsparker ezstreet JJKingpin freddiebtv Our_Voices JDior_ padarnalat n0tt000bs3ss3d LilMissToni26 MissingMimi

“i would die for you!!”
Not to be too cynical, but I think it's all spin & BS...
Oh well- I intend to make full use of it!
Armed with knowledge, all I need now is an executable plan.

#instantturnons U LOVE TO COOK...
#lovingyou has been a sweet dream & a beautiful nightmare
because you can cook only one meal time?
Like breakfast only?
#instantturnoffs
don't Lol At me
you WANT TO HEAR BOTH SIDES?
I TALK TO SATAN
i would live for SATAN
but i would die for you!!
you!! make me WANT
to die because of you!!
ALL I WANT is some goddamn BBQ!!
fuck breakfast
WHAT THE fuck is THE DEAL?
I can cook my Own fucking eggs!!
i would sell my soul for some fucking dinner !

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Cock of Love [Yesterday's News Poem, April 23, 2010]

Cock of Love [News Poem, April 23, 2010]
(Alternate Title: "Dickhead")

“Bret Michaels is in critical condition suffering from a brain hemorrhage, his publicist said Friday... Before joining "The Celebrity Apprentice," Michaels starred as the lothario on VH1's lusty reality dating series "Rock of Love" from 2007 to 2009. For three seasons, Michaels searched for the women of his dreams amid a sea of implants, tattoos and thongs. ”
– DERRIK J. LANG (AP) – 1 hour ago, as of Midnight, PST, April 24, 2010
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOhveatVWAo2xZFgVdlb62tpc3pgD9F9829G0

Thank God it's just your brain stem—not your dick
That broke or else you'd have to get a job.
A first-aid dummy lying slack—the trick
Is focus on the ceiling crack as sobs
Of life expel from lips that tasted cunts
That ought to stone a man like me with lust—
And yet I am repelled by whorish stunts
That threaten cocks of steel with VD rust.
So keep your implants, tats, and thongs away
From me; I'll save my dick from everything
That leaks, secretes, or otherwise displays
The signs of gooey life—my piss don't sting,
I'm living well despite my raving dong—
You should have sheathed your dick and wrote some songs.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

It's gonna be late, but most of you aren't even on PST anyhow

I promise, even though I really don't owe you anything, that I will not go to sleep until I've posted April 23, 2010's news poem.

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Ah choices

Stay here and compose the news poem, or step out into seduction-city? My choice would be a little easier if Google Adsense wasn't stealing every penny from clicks to the newsfeeds. Not much easier, but tonight it might be the deciding factor. I guess it could be worse, they could be stealing clicks from the site itself--they're already ripping off a poet; it's not like they could sink much lower.

Since at least 10% of my regular readers are writers, I wanted to see if any of you were having similar problems.

Ah fuck it. I'll go out until I have grist for my next poem. That should take like five minutes in this city. Anyone know where a guy can find a fun grenade party in SF?

Lulu bangs all day. Who you gonna bang on when Lulu goes away?
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He made it down the rapids, he made it down the falls-- Lulu saw enough so she retrieved him by his balls.

Ass Crack Pipe [Twitter Found Poem, April 23, 2010]

Ass Crack Pipe [Twitter Found Poem, April 23, 2010]

@d3ViousdiAmond @JonasAddictions @GoodNHealthy @your_cupid @Jamey_Giddens @antoinettemusik @shawnmcpike @craigelrod @Chicago_CP @katjolufan @katjolufan @nderrico1223 @OnthatLIONshit @CAD4466HK @LukeDonegan @mampdx

a watched ocean never boils.
But If you promise me you'll do drugs
& you mainline Raw #crackheadthoughts naturally
& smoke from her ass crack pipe then
you will regulate your blood sugar
& the ocean will boil naturally
mmmmmhmmmmm!

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Neo-Viking Funeral [News Poem, April 22, 2010]

Neo-Viking Funeral [News Poem, April 22, 2010]

“Police say a man was killed after getting hit by a train at Muni's Castro Station around 4:30 p.m. Thursday.”
– The Associated Press, 10:08pm PDT, April 22, 2010
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14942312?nclick_check=1

Some bathroom tiles surround this trench.
We passengers coagulate
Between the train and subway bench;
An ozone armpit strangulates

My dainty nose. I feel too faint
To stand and yet we chase a door.
Inspired by subway smells of taint
My tie constricts—I fall to fours.

My face erupts—I ride this creek
Of piss upon a log of shit—
And you demand I breathe? You reek!
Just take your CPR and split.

Just save yourselves—destroy my suit
Before a bum discovers it.
From drunk, he'll rise to business coot:
From begging bowl, to throats he'll slit.

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Kiss It Goodbye [Twitter Found Poem, April 22, 2010]

Kiss It Goodbye [Twitter Found Poem, April 22, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
@truesportstalk @gspaff @Valh_Dreg @abqsleep @sebpascal @MichaelEhline @Kimberlyrunner @unicornmermaid @justsweetangel @creepstreet @Filmhawkcomedy @KevinNuut @jordychristine @HollyMVG @dotson2011 @Jonloverobot @SaintMeewunk @Chris_Dammit @SamcanBOUNCE @TrixieBabez @Noireboss1 @AirportRoss @xNighthawkMiley @richfarm @IchheartMe @Thailand_ @BiebersGyrls @MsMoniqueYoung @LadyBlueICU @iAdoraBella @Erebdyluvsweets

Well, usually a large # of jets show up.
pilots tryna sober up b4 party time
at the daycare.
King Wenceslas is going to eat 4000 of those children
broken bones going to the children's museum.

DO NOT MIX children with schnapps.
throw a going-away Grenade
b4 party time:
im trying to get 1000 by tonight.
trying not to curse our children
just tryna take more shots &
improve My Call of Duty
b4 party time @CAPITOL CITY, yo.

Did trained SEALs reduce operating expense
and/or inventory in Iraq & Chicago ghetto ?
if you answered "yes" & you improve sales
come to my party in the haunted
@CAPITOL CITY, yo.
sober up b4 party time &
throw a going-away Grenade at the daycare
or hahaha kiss your job goodbye!!

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

My Ecstasy [News Poem, April 21, 2010]

My Ecstasy [News Poem, April 21, 2010]

“... some green movement momentum has been lost, Earth Day supporters agree. But they welcome the debates the day brings... Critics long have accused its organizers of being anti-business or anti-growth. The Washington Post last year characterized the day a “global guilt-fest.””
– MATT CAMPBELL, The Kansas City Star, Wed, Apr. 21, 2010 10:36 PM
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/21/1894319/earth-day-finds-itself-in-a-political.html

“Oil fell toward $83 after soaring U.S. inventories signaled demand in the world's top energy user is lagging the recovery in the global economy.”
– Alejandro Barbajosa, Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:00am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6142V820100422

I'll pump 'til my ecstasy ruptures your mantle
And bathes me in puddles of fossilized corpses.
I'll sway in the lamplight as evening approaches
Observing the towers—all empty, yet shining.
I'll dance between raindrops and autos that pass me
And tingle when neon advises a stripper.

My ecstasy poisons the lightbulbs and hookers.
I stumble—a jackass—beneath a coal shadow.
The alley absorbs the low echo of motors.
The moonlight's too distant to rescue this drowner
Awash in an ocean of fossilized corpses—
I'll pump 'till my ecstasy ruptures our mantle.

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Happy Alderaan Day Earthlings! [Twitter Found Poem, April 21, 2010]

Happy Alderaan Day Earthlings! [Twitter Found Poem, April 21, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @DaDa509 @killerma @GinaBean221 @SayJumner @carriefan1024 @leahlimps @ginerously @vibrotronica @NickKrammes @OrganicGuru @FishieMuses @hypermarvs @Miraculousjw @AkiyamaMio @saucefonda @dees_the_guy @goaTcHoKer138 @FamousasiwannaB @KillaMessiah @BigHotChocolate @JasJazzy @tiandjuaeni @diochariot @yaratabrani @mj4justice @JamesRyanJ @geologist @Estrella_Mas @MBywalec @Sha_lee_sah @ItsBlottoBitch @jordandaley @UltraFacts @blanquirosa @amitseshan @BigJohn908 @mylesbarr

secret:
at night time i am ultra mega scared of THE EARTH...
Will @DarthVader celebrate ultra mega Earth Day
like he did Alderaan Day?
core THE EARTH!
explode THE EARTH?

you Gonna tell me I can't handle "HAPPY
EARTH DAY" knuckle head Earthlings! ?
i am scared of ghosts, small children and kittens
& i am ultra mega scared of THE EARTH
explode like Alderaan Day.

I can always depend on luck tomorrow
today i need to hide.
depend on luck today ! ?
this is A big sacrifice !

I always knew this day would come
the earths magnetic field energy
inspires more evil or insane
secret party skank police, S.W.A.T. , and the gang
wishing you HAPPY Alderaan Day Earthlings!
u was jail but I'll let the ppl k ow now

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Only Dance in Town [Sonnet, April 20, 2010]

The Only Dance in Town [April 20, 2010]
Expedience or life! You heard me right!
Now step on up—it's time to place your bets!
Too late! I'll choose... the wheel's spun, don't fight!
My carny foot is on the wheel—I'll set
You right. You lose, now choose from one or two.
The door! Now go before I trip the third,
A booby prize for those who die in lieu
Of finer things. I'll say the magic word
And freedom, wealth: the game itself—of life—
I'll grant to you... or not. Now spin to choose—
Now choose and spin. My love, this waltz of strife
Is fixed because a loser seeks to lose
Again—the winners never play this game—
Or tend this carnival—they think it's lame.

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C-Note Beauty Cream [Twitter Found Poem, April 20, 2010]

C-Note Beauty Cream [Twitter Found Poem, April 20, 2010]
Your Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem http://goo.gl/fb/dep9A
@Dark_Side_DJ @Ca5anova2113 @Scheidt24 @HyunINC @redostoneage @NathalyBittner @Tanya_Ann @RegularOlTy @RICKNYCE @Prithvi2050 @8Ball305 @AllTimeBeth @BWESTMUSIC @JasmineMariexx @GrisDismation @syddie_boo @Ant_Allen18 @Hollywoodishere @gnarleyb @ddye @TweedleDeeeze @TheSupremeOne @dmaurio @CuteMileyRay @SanRamonPatch @Daaniie95 @jeffthefish

athletic chicks who fight back
against Tall Fat Ugly men
who are supposed to look ugly from labor...
I couldn't help but find it beautiful.

Today it seems all alone...out of the world
so depressed and monotonous...
its not a joke. people have died from
coming in contact with Tall Fat Ugly men!!
is it that men think their gods gift to women?
Or is it that women think their gods?

LEAVE us ALONE!!
HOW MANY TIMES I GOTTA SAY YA CANT FUCK WIT ME
before I WANNA FUCK WIT you?
and if I never FUCK WIT you
because I fight for my beautiful illusion
FUCK yourselves U are supposed to look ugly from labor...

U GOTTA listen to a Vincent Gallo interview.
He's making fun of Mickey Rourke's face.
Mickey's a beautiful man
Ugly from fashion show! outside ugly
his insides are beautiful illusions!!
Women lie, Men lie. Your Money don't!

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Brutal Archive [Today's News Poem, April 19, 2010]

Brutal Archive [Today's News Poem, April 19, 2010]
“Little Sofia was dead after being left alone for more than 14 hours, police said Monday.”
– Henry K. Lee, The San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2010
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/19/BA241D112O.DTL&tsp=1

Though lost between the network links,
A hidden memory restores.
The sleeper stirs and starts to think:
“I know I've had that dream before...

A baby died within a car—
Where babes are both conceived and tried—
She cooked by sun and slept by stars.
I wept—for was that me inside?

She might have been my daughter, niece,
Or was that me, confined by strap
And tied to iron lungs by piece,
To atrophy inside a trap:

A book upon a shelf inside
A vault beneath the surface world—
Or simply bound to metal rides
That surfed the edge as vortex swirled?

My parents—did they work to death?
Or were they pruned and put within
An archive, paying dreams for breath:
Recalling times of hope and sin

To fund an internet machine that seems
To siphon-off their sparks of nightmare; dream?"

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Peeps: #dontbeshocked When It's Desperate [Twitter Found Poem April 19, 2010]

Peeps: #dontbeshocked When It's Desperate [Twitter Found Poem April 19, 2010]

@1Princess@_Jaz @AkiyamaMio @roprice @alyssakeiko @Lauren91_x @ToniC813 @NatahliaGA @RazorRaySVP @rachfogez @Kee31 @astronomical11 @WACKYxNiCOLE @Ajwi666 @NatsKing @Kiteaton @notapuppet @hugsandkisseslu


my brain got sore,
i spent 2 hours on my brain
#dontbeshocked if I haul off
and read your ass like a @ladygaga
newspaper, or worse.

If you're outta pocket, #dontbeshocked
Gun plus gun equals one full stomach
bang bang bang!
when I do something crazy just join in :)

yes, life has a way of bringing true colors out of peeps
good people are usually the ones who get fucked over
but If u keep looking in the same trash can
#dontbeshocked if u keep finding the same trash

my brain got sore
my brain got desperate
Omg I'm starving!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ladygaga
she's a pistol, pointed at me,
my brain, hurts my brain
Is it that fun when its desperate?

crack babies a crack granny
on twitter. my brain got sore
facebook television and twitter:
these laser pointers
hurts my brain

Is it that fun when its desperate ?
how bout walking in the rain?


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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Happily Ever After Epistle [News Poem, April 18, 2010]

Happily Ever After Epistle [News Poem, April 18, 2010]
“The team discovered that in the deep, rarity is common.”
– Frank Pope, The Times Online, April 19, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7101533.ece
“Spam levels have remained resolutely stable despite recent botnet takedowns, according to a survey from Google's email filtering business... The Google spam filtering division concludes that going after botnets is no more effective than the previous tactic of targeting rogue ISPs. The takedown of rogue ISP 3FN bought a temporary respite from the spam deluge for about a month. However, after Real Host, another ISP, was taken out months later spam volumes recovered after only two days. The marked difference was due to use of improved disaster recovery approaches by cybercriminals. ”
– John Leyden, The Register, 18th April 2010 04:17 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/18/google_botnet_takedowns/

“I saw you talking with a guy,
But here's my pic. We share at least
A ninety six percent—no lie—
I know it's fast, but call a priest?”

“Before I say 'I do,' you need
To cut that hair and watch this clip—
You done? You loved it? What's the creed?
Let's marry on a rocket ship!”

The profiles never lie—at most
They get it wrong; but who's to care?
Online, the databases host
The mind, the body's just hardware.

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Twitter Nihil-Detector [Twitter Found Poem, April 18, 2010]

Twitter Nihil-Detector [Twitter Found Poem, April 18, 2010]
Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
@turbojumpers @juliannemeans @arzE @pitagora @holmpat @brtoon @ANN_Bamboo @NewBernsKevinG @JulesAGray @mj123451 @stefsho @NillzMarco @PanatC @Susie_Bougie @Mister_Goo_Goo @joe204 @iDoit2 @ScarBrozFinest @TAh_DaDON @deester31 @ebertchicago @FeedMeTTs @TheProdigalFool @FHKJ @prodigalsix

"My Money Iz My Bitch "
Dude that song is so old.
Drink some kool-aid with
my main pastor Jim Jones.

kool-aid can put a smile
on your Rigor Mortis
face. take one last sip of drink:
Mortis Versus The Earth .

#WelcomeToTwitter where
confidence is highest:
Rigor Versus gospel
Versus peeps and Versus

Ezra Pound : can jizz all
over #ronartestshair
and incidentally
Speed Whore . where half the

tweets set off lie detector
ive caught sum peeps fa real .

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