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Al Gore:  Inventor of the internet; Nobel Laureate; Snorting, surly failed presidential candidate; angry, unhinged raving ranter, environmental pied piper.  And now, poet??? Al Gore has written a poem.  I'm not joking.  Vanity Fair is gushing over it.  Here are the funniest parts (I won't bore you with the whole thing; I want some readership left after this post):One thin September soon A floating continent disappears In midnight sun Vapors rise as Fever settles on an acid sea Neptune's bones dissolve The shepherd cries The hour of choosing has arrived Here are your tools Reverend Al has inspired me.  Here...

In his almost 30 years of crusading against global warming, Al Gore has worn a variety of hats. In roughly chronological order these include: congressman, senator, author, vice president, traveling evangelist, filmmaker, investment adviser, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Now, with the publication of his new book, Our Choice, Gore has unveiled a fresh and most unexpected talent: the book's opening chapter of concludes with a poem he wrote-21 lines of verse that are equal parts beautiful, evocative, and disturbing. Here is how the poem begins: One thin September soon A floating continent disappears In midnight sun Vapors rise as...

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And I thought her dancing was wretch-inducing....

In the United States, in the autumn of 2008, the Presidential election was decided on the hoopla of hope and change drenched in hyperbolic rhetoric which effectively drowned journalistic decorum to maintain any pretence at integrity. It put the Oval Office decisively lurching into a monopoly of power without any effective constraints in place. In short, the seeds of tyranny were safely and decisively planted. The jury is still out whether or not the 1986 Philippine Spring succeeded in vanquishing tyranny to nurture expanding liberty. The leading indicators point to a political governance being still in the clutches of a...

Announcing the Uniform EnCounters GC3 Writing Competition Hey, everyone! As promised: We have a writing competition! As I wrote in my last post, have I got a deal for you! This blog's sister site, UniformEnCounters, is hosting a fundraiser/writing competition designed to benefit three good causes (GC3): wounded troops; soldier morale; and you, the writer. Here's what you do. Contest Rules 1. In 700 words or less, write an essay, story, or poem depicting a servicemember or members of the U.S. Armed Forces or their allies (i.e., Australia, Canada, etc.) 2. The subject matter can be any active duty scenario...

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Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover And it resents fame With bitter vengeance Pills and powdres only placate it awhile Then it puts you in a place where the planet's poles reverse Where the currents of electricity shift Your Body becomes a magnet and pulls to it despair and rotten teeth, Cheese whiz and guns Whose triggers are shaped tenderly into a false lust In timeless illusion

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Was Fulke Greville really Shakespeare.Solving a Historic mystery between Shakespeare and Fulke Greville with the help of Fulke Grevilles 8th great grandson Christopher Brooke Fulke Greville and his cousin Historian Guy De La Bedoyere.

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They found him dead one morning Just a bum from off the street Tattered clothes upon his shoulders Ragged shoes upon his feet

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With the election of abortion-friendly President Obama, abortion advocates have been praising the return of “science” to issues of reproductive health. Conversely, I am an advocate for the health of the unborn and question what “science” has to do with abortion on demand. Attempts to rationalize the morality of the abortion issue with abortion advocates is a losing proposition when they believe in subjective morality, i.e. morality is defined by the majority or, in this case, by the loudest contingent of the population. Therefore, let’s evaluate the issue on a more scientific basis...

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The fact that President Obama had good Pakistani friends at (struck out) Columbia (end strikeout) in college was one that was basically kept out of his campaign on the theory that anything with any connection to Islam would feed a viral rumor the campaign was trying to kill. Now, though, it's another useful diplomatic tool, as in his interview with Dawn this weekend: ‘Any plan to visit Pakistan in the near future?’ ‘I would love to visit. As you know, I had Pakistani roommates in college who were very close friends of mine. I went to visit them when I...

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Using a pseudonym, a Jewish woman won an Arab poetry contest in Holland. Tuvit Shlomi, 28, who works at the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel and attends an Orthodox synagogue in The Hague, won the prestigious El Hizjra Prize, a poetry award designed to promote the culture of Arab immigrants to Holland, particularly those from Morocco.

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Sgt. JoAnna Menzie Davis holds up a copy of her poetry book that she wrote while serving in Iraq. Photo by Sgt. Keith Anderson, 16th Sustainment Brigade. COB Q-WEST — Sgt. JoAnna Menzie Davis set some personal goals during her deployment here – which included publishing a book of poetry. The non-commissioned officer in charge of awards with the 16th Sustainment Brigade accomplished that goal when the first shipment of 20 copies of her published book arrived here recently."I was astounded," Davis said. "I knew that all my hard work and dedication had paid off. I was elated. And I...

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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

Obama's eyes are nothing like the sun; Karl is just as red as his lips' red; His mom is white, why then he's a black man's son; If hairs be wires, grey wires grow on his head. I have seen Ayers unmasked, red and white, As thorns on the roses in the stimulus he seeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than the cigarette breath that from the Messiah reeks. I love to hear him speak, yet well I know He'll talk our economy into the ground; I grant I never saw a goddess go but Sarah Palin,...

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Ode to Obama Poems in Occidental's former literary magazine Feast document the literary ambitions of alumnus and Presidential candidate Barack Obama '83 By: Kevin Batton Posted: 3/21/07 Since the remarkable details of Barack Obama's heritage and biography are coming to be some of the most important aspects of his campaign for the presidency, it is no surprise that journalists from major news organizations are out for whatever details from Obama's life they can get their hands on. Obama's years at Occidental are not being overlooked, with the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post having already reported on them....

Let me first say that I am no judge of poetry. I have little knowledge of the stuff and have even less interest in it. So, for all I knew the poem that Elizabeth Alexander read during Obama's inaugural was a great one. It seemed a bit pedestrian to me, but, like I said, what do I know? As the days rolled onward after the inaugural ended more and more people in the know about poetry came out to say that Alexander's poem was a bad one. Well, apparently the poem buying public agrees with those in the know because...

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The Wondering Wanderer by: Bethany Stotts, January 29, 2009 As Accuracy in Academia (AIA) has previously documented, members of the Ivory Tower, some of whom remain ardent Marxists themselves, maintain that McCarthyite “hysteria” suppressed free expression in the 1950s and led to the unjustified blacklisting of those with socialist sentiments. But one poet, Langston Hughes, may not be as innocent as these academics suggest. “Yet two decades later, even as he was composing his memoir of this event, Hughes suffered an ordeal of anti-communist fervor in his own country at the hands of [Senator Joseph] McCarthy and, more portentously, [General]...

So easy, a poet could do it. The internet is full of poetry generators, most of which do a better job than Elizabeth Alexander's strange musings. My favorite, the Beatnik Rambler. The United States muscle hath United The are just its much 'cause athlete you freaks am liking No, then dance, toes of the drug deeply. to sing, to dance, to watch "Frasier" weekly... yet time waneth not like unto the moon and whatever's there Dancing the Boogah 'neath the big Disco Ball. When is this ranting to end!? I declair. All this pointless waste of air. Don't breathe! My...

Barack Obama has undercut any claims of meritocracy with at least one choice: the woman who will delivering his inaugural poem. Aside from the fact that she has known Obama since they worked together at the University of Chicago, one is hard-pressed to find a rationale for this honor. Only the fourth poet to participate in a presidential inauguration, Elizabeth Alexander is no Robert Frost, nor even Maya Angelou. Alexander is an unpoet who arranges words into impenetrable jumbles flecked with juvenile imagery, inappropriate word choice, an obsessive PC view of race and "gender," a dubious take on miscegenation, and...

The 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee has selected Penn alumna Dr. Elizabeth Alexander to deliver an original poem at today’s inauguration of President Barack Obama. Dr. Alexander received her PhD in English in 1992 at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught here in spring 2006 as well as in 1987-88. She is currently a professor at Yale and a Pulitzer finalist. A spokesman for the Obama inauguration described Dr. Alexander as “incredibly gifted” and the fact that she is selected “demonstrates the important role that the arts and literature can play in helping to bring our country together.” This is only...

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Everybody has lost or will lose somebody during their lives... Maybe this poem can make the loss a little easier. Merry Christmas

<p>Obama has been touted as among the most literary presidents in modern history, but his choice for an inaugural poet has some scratching their heads.</p> <p>Acting more like a man of politics than a man of letters, Obama picked former Chicago neighbor and family chum Elizabeth Alexander to deliver an original inaugural poem next month. Alexander, 46, is an African-American studies professor at Yale. Her brother worked on Obama’s campaign and transition team, according to the New Yorker magazine.</p>

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End Time Poetry From The Messianic Literary Corner Introduction End-Time Poetry is a special genre of Messianic or Christian poetry that heralds the coming of the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) to gather His elect, judge this world and establish the prophesied Messianic Kingdom.  A selection of End-Time poetry links is listed below.Feel free to visit the Messianic Literary Corner and read the poetry of over fifty poets. Poetry Index New Poetry Showcase Satiric Poetry Showcase End Time Poetry Showcase Poems of Graham Barlin Back To Earth Poems of Marshall Beeber Shalom Shalom Through A Dimly Lit Corridor The Shofar's Blast...

A poetry group has been banned from performing in its local pub on health and safety grounds after the council said the landlords had the wrong licence. The Royal Standard in Ely, Cambs, has been threatened with a £5,000 fine because it only has an entertainment licence for singing and not speaking. The threat forced landlord Richard Whitmore to call time on the poetry group, called Turning Point, which has been drawing in customers on quiet Tuesday evenings. Playwright Paola Trimarco, 46, who heads the group, accused East Cambridgeshire District Council of being petty. He said: "The council are being...

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Great men two hundred years ago brought fourth this Godly nation. They fought for what is true and right to summon liberation. A free Market with free speech was the new configuration— For which patriot fathers died—For Our Unified Nation. But with time came Marx, a man possessed with killing corporation; And soon Russia fell to riots, birthing collectivization. Tens of millions died in murders wrought from commie motivation; And indeed those commies changed the world with their fiat inflation. Proselytizers of this movement then took a brief vacation, And made their way to the USA advancing socialization. Now, a...

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POP* Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
 In, sprinkled with ashes
 Pop switches channels, takes another
 Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
 What to do with me, a green young man
 Who fails to consider the Flim and flam of the world, since
 Things have been easy for me; 
 I stare hard at his face, a stare
 That deflects off his brow; 
 I’m sure he’s unaware of his
 Dark, watery eyes, that
 Glance in different directions,
 And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
 Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
 Listen, open, till I cling to his pale, 
...

DUBAI: The elusive al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s literary work will be published soon by an Oxford-educated academic expert in Arabic, according to media reports. Bin Laden's recitals at wedding banquets and other feasts during the 1990s were recorded on tapes recovered from his compound in Afghanistan in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks in the US. They were studied by Professor Flagg Miller, who teaches Arabic poetry at University of California, Davis, the report said. Bin Laden is a skilled poet with clever rhymes and metres, which was one reason why many people taped him and passed recordings around,...

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(With apologies to Dr. Seuss) O and Joe Joe and O I will not vote for O and Joe

The poetry I call "Tokuisei Verse" was developed over a period of several years on an internet web site called FREEREPUBLIC.COM. I would like to thank the owner, operators and financial donors who provide this public forum for allowing me, without condition, such a frivolous use of their bandwidth. Tokuisei is a Japanese word meaning singularity.(A point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted) Tokuisei Verse is a direct descendant of the traditional Japanese Haiku. However it contains only nine beats. It is...

My Dragonfly And Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in the...

My Dragonfly And Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in the...

Following are two poems by Barack Obama that were published in the Spring 1981 issue of “Feast,” a 51-page student literary journal that described itself as "a semi-annual journal of short poetry and fiction collected from the Occidental College community.” The journal is no longer published, according to a college spokesman.