Mn-prog-events Mailing List: Progressive Calendar 10.09.05

[David Shove (shove001]

             P R O G R E S S I V E   C A L E N D A R     10.09.05

1. Transportation     10.09 9:30am
2. Same sex unions    10.09 10am
3. Activism/thinking  10.09 10am
4. Children's Theatre 10.09 11am/7pm
5. Sensible vigil     10.09 12noon
6. Superior hiking    10.09 12noon Duluth
7. Save Ren Box       10.09 12noon
8. History of wars    10.09 1pm
9. NWA strike         10.09 4pm
10. KFAI/Indian       10.09 4pm
11. Dessert storm     10.09 7pm
12. Sink Columbus     10.09 11pm

13. Will Youmans    - Recruiters and thugs on campus
14, Dave Lindorff   - Bird flu: evolution or intelligent design?
15. Dermot Purgavie - Is this the death of America?
16. Mark Strand     - The new poetry handbook (poem)

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From: Lydia Howell <lhowell [at] visi.com>
Subject: Transportation 10.09.05 9:30am

Sunday, October 9 9:30-11:30am
Val Barnes & Others: Troubles with Transportation: Struggles with Getting
There
Wilde Roast Café, 518 East Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis


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From: Eva Young <lloydletta [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Same sex unions 10.09 10am

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka (UUCM) has been a
Welcoming Community for many years. In these troubling times, our GLBT
congregation members - as well as the larger gay community - are under
attack as religious dogma is being used in the political arena to create
an atmosphere of fear and bigotry. We are concerned about the potentially
devastating results of the efforts of the religious right.

In an attempt to both open dialog of this urgent issue within our
membership as well as to increase our knowledge and understanding of GLBT
concerns, UUCM is dedicating a Sunday service to the GLBT issues on
Sunday, October 9th at 10am. Dennis Sanders, an ordained minister and
current head of the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans, will give the sermon.

Following the service, UUCM is sponsoring a Forum on Same Sex Unions
starting at 11:15. Eva Young of the Log Cabin Republicans will speak and
there will be a Q & A session afterwards. Both the service and forum is
open to all interested parties and we welcome your attendance.

UUCM is located at 605 Rice Street, Wayzata, MN 55391; (952)-593-5900;
<http://www.uucmtka.org>http://www.uucmtka.org.

Eva Young Near North Minneapolis lloydletta [at] gmail.com


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From: Bob Treumann <bobtr [at] visi.com>
Subject: Activism/thinking 10.09 10am

A few months ago, several people asked me to post updates about Critical
Thinking Club meetings when we have a good topic.  The topic this weekend
is relevant to this group, I think.  Please RSVP to me, or to
leesal[AT]comcast.net

Critical Thinking Club of Saint Paul
"Why Activism Is Mandatory For Critical Thinkers"
SPEAKER: Kate Mudge
Sunday Oct 9 at The Kelly Inn, St.Paul Breakfast $10.00
10am-12noon

Please RSVP Lee Salisbury:   leesal AT comcast.net
See www.criticalthinkingclub.org for more information about the club

What do we, as members of the Critical Thinking Club do when our Sunday
morning meetings are over?

Maintaining a keen, logical, and critical eye towards our society
oftentimes means taking action as well. In fact, it is imperative to do
so.  But what is "action"?  How do we live our lives in a non hypocritical
way?  Is thinking about injustice enough, or does recognizing the cracks
in the world around us demand that we also attempt to rectify them?

Kate will be discussing activism and its importance in daily life- what it
means to be an activist and why it is necessary.  In addition, how is
inaction impacting us in American society, and what can we do to have the
greatest effect on injustice and apathy without turning into malcontent
mavericks?


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From: Barbara Lickness <blickness [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Children's Theatre 10.09 11am/7pm

Sunday, October 9:

You may tour the building from 11am-3pm. The EGO plays again at 2pm.

Renowned speaker on creativity and imagination, Sir Kenneth Robinson, will
speak at 7pm. (Tickets are free for Ken Robinson, but you must make a
reservation at 874-0400).  For more info, go to www.childrenstheatre.org


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From: skarx001 <skarx001 [at] umn.edu>
Subject: Sensible vigil 10.09 12noon

The sensible people for peace hold weekly peace vigils at the intersection
of Snelling and Summit in St. Paul,  Sunday between noon and 1pm. (This is
across from the Mac campus.)  We provide signs protesting current gov.
foreign and domestic policy.  We would appreciate others joining our
vigil/protest.


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From: GibbsJudy [at] aol.com
Subject: Superior hiking 10.09 12noon Duluth

The Superior Hiking Trail seeks volunteers to help build 14 miles of
trail through the city of Duluth this season. No experience is necessary,
tools provided. Bring plenty of water and snacks. Call 218-391-0886 or
email gibbsjudy [at] aol.com or check the Superior Hiking Trail website at
www.shta.org for more information.

Sunday, October 9, 12-5 pm. Meet near the Allyndale Motel at the dead-end
on Westgate Boulevard and 68th Ave. W. To get there, take Cody Street
north from Grand or south from interstate 35. Turn onto 66th Ave West and
go one block to Westgate Boulevard. Turn left and go two blocks to dead
end at 68th Ave. W.

Monday, October 10, 10-3 pm. Meet at the third 'pull off' area on Skyline
Drive west of Haines (40th Ave. W)

Thursday, October 13, 10-3 pm. Meet at the third 'pull off' area on
Skyline Drive west of Haines (40th Ave. W)

Friday, October 14, 10-3 pm. Meet at the third 'pull off' area on Skyline
Drive west of Haines (40th Ave. W)

Saturday, October 15, 10-3 pm. Meet at the third 'pull off' area on
Skyline Drive west of Haines (40th Ave. W)

Judy Gibbs 5875 North Shore Drive Duluth, MN 55804 218-391-0886 (mobile)


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From: David Strand <mncivil [at] yahoo.com>
from john [at] bikeped.org
Subject: Save Ren Box 10.09 12noon

Calling all bicyclists!  We need your help.  The future of the Renaissance
Box building that houses the Sibley Bike Depot and several other
community-based non-profit organizations is in jeopardy.  Please come by
on Sunday, October 9, 2005 at noon to sign a petition and show community
support for the Sibley Bike Depot remaining in the community.

Central Community Housing Trust (CCHT), a non-profit developer hopes to
purchase the building and wants to continue the community aspects of the
Renaissance Box vision. This is at the same time as the Grand opening of
the Wacouta Commons park, a block from the Depot and your presence will
make a difference! Please come to show community support.  Meet at the
Renaissance Box/Sibley Bike Depot at Noon.  See you there!


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From: wamm <wamm [at] mtn.org>
Subject: History of wars 10.09 1pm

"Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Plea for Peace" Reception and Presentation

Sunday, October 9, 1pm. Basilica of St. Mary, Teresa of Calcutta
Room/Gallery. (lower level of Basilica undercroft). Hennepin Avenue at
16th Street, Minneapolis.

In remembrance of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years
ago. Discover ways to transcend violence today, create peace and remain
hopeful. Reception & "History of Wars: Ancient through Modern"
presentation. Women's International Peace & Freedom League (WIFL), dressed
in black, honor Julia Barkley's lifelong contribution in art. Paintings on
exhibit.  Hear about the artist and connect with Twin Cities peace
organizations. "History of Wars" presentation. Poetry by Alla Bozarth.
Exhibit runs through October 23.

Gallery hours: 7:30am-8pm, Saturday, 10am-6:30pm and by appointment.
Sponsored by Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, Basilica Sacred
Arts and Peace & Justice Ministries, Peace Garden Project, Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers.


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From: Solidarity Committee <nwasolidaritymsp [at] hotmail.com>
Subject: NWA strike 10.09 4pm

OCTOBER 9th SOLIDARITY EVENT:

Meet at AMFA Strike Headquarters (directions below) at 4pm sharp.
Directions for participation will await you.  All you need is a bright red
"I SUPPORT NORTHWEST WORKERS" shirt or buttons.  The event will last until
approximately 6pm.  The event will be legal and orderly, so bring your
family and friends.  Additional paraphernalia will be for sale at the
point of departure.

AMFA STRIKE HEADQUARTERS; Parking lot of the AmeriSuites on the I-494
frontage road just West of the intersection of I-494 and 34th Avenue
South. Exit I-494 at 34th Avenue South.  Proceed to the South.  Turn Right
at 80th Street.  Turn Right on International Drive.  Strike Headquarters
is two blocks up on the Left.


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From: Chris Spotted Eagle <chris [at] spottedeagle.org>
Subject: KFAI/Indian 10.09 4pm

KFAI's Indian Uprising for Oct. 9th

LETTER FROM LOUISIANA - HIGH WATER (How Presidents and citizens react to
disaster) by David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker Magazine, Oct. 3, 2005

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051003fa_fact

"We had with us three-month-old twins, a two-month-old, no water," he
said. "People were pulling guns. What we saw on that overpass was beyond
imagining: there were suicides, people jumping off the bridge, older
people who couldnšt take it, there were dead bodies floating underneath,
the whole overpass reeked of feces and urine. Fights broke out all the
time. People tried to jump on whatever military vehicles went by, but of
course they wouldnšt let anyone on. There were choppers over our heads. We
could see the touch-and-gos of the helicopters - it went on all night
long, and no one got any sleep. It was so hot and humid. And the one thing
Išll never forget is that the sky was so clear and full of stars. So clear
because there werenšt any lights from the city. And all night long the
kids were crying, the adults were crying, old people crying."

New Orleans was sixty-seven per cent African-American at the time of
Katrina. It always had a substantial black population - it was one of the
leading slave markets - and decades of migration starting at the time of
Reconstruction made it even larger. The city was, in per-capita terms, the
wealthiest in America before the Civil War and the wealthiest in the South
until the nineteen-twenties. No more. Few of the improvements in urban
America - the growth of the black middle class, the decline of the murder
rate, greater attention to inner-city schools - have taken firm hold in
New Orleans. There is hardly any industrial base, no major corporate
headquarters, no home-grown businesses on the scale of FedEx in Memphis,
Coca-Cola in Atlanta, the Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville.
Colonel Terry Ebbert, the head of Homeland Security in the city, told me,
"Drugs are the biggest business in town, bigger than tourism." Small
wonder that at school-board meetings of Orleans Parish parents may think
the worst - for example, that magnet schools are part of an over-all plan
of educational disenfranchisement Small wonder that they might believe
that the break in the levees was a plot.

"Perception is reality, and their reality is terrible," Jim Amoss, the
editor of the Times-Picayune, said. "We are talking about people who are
very poor and have a precondition to accept this belief. Lots are cut off
from mainstream news and information. They are isolated in shelters and
they know a thing or two about victimization. It fits well into a system
of belief."

I've not heard one mention, not one iota about indigenous (aboriginal)
peoples who have been devastated by hurricane Katrina in any of the
dominant societies television news programs or in their newspapers or
magazines, yet it has been well reported in Indian publications ­ Chris
Spotted Eagle

* * * *
Indian Uprising is a one-half hour Public & Cultural Affairs radio program
for, by, and about Indigenous people & all their relations, broadcast each
Sunday at 4pm over KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul. Current
programs are archived online after broadcast at www.kfai.org, for two
weeks.  Click Program Archives and scroll to Indian Uprising.


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From: Linda Winsor <ljwinsor [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Dessert storm 10.09 7pm

Dessert Potluck Party for Peace
Sunday, October 9, 7-9pm
Saint John the Evangelist Church
60 North Kent Street, Saint Paul
(1 block north of Summit, 1 block east of Dale)

The Crocus Hill / West 7th Neighbors for Peace group invites you to join
us on Sunday, Oct. 9.  Larry McDonough will begin the evening with some
jazz piano.  We will be viewing the film "When a Country Goes to War" made
by Cloquet High School students, sharing our Peace Jam banner "Blowin' in
the Wind - Iraqi Children Lost to War" and showing the DVD "Leave My Child
Alone."

"The film is a collage of soldier interviews, letters home, still photos,
and newsreel footage from Iraq. It's a personal look at Cloquet's young
people serving in the Iraq war."  For more info.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/04/04_kelleherb_warfilm/
For "Leave My Child Alone" go to: LeaveMyChildAlone.org

Bring neighbors, friends, and a snack or dessert to share.
Non-perishable food items for Neighborhood House will be collected.  We
hold Dessert Potluck Parties for Peace every second Sunday of the month.

Linda Winsor / ljwinsor [at] yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crocushillpeace/


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From: Lydia Howell <lhowell [at] visi.com>

Sunday OCT 9, @ 11pm: TEHUTI, spoken word performance show on KFAI Radio
Tune in for a preview of the upcoming anti-Colombus Day events(below).
Hear music by QUILOMBOLAS and LOS NATIVOS (performing Oct.12) and also
Shawnee poet BARNEY BUSH (performing Oct 19). Plus, remembering the
recently passed African-American playwirght AUGUST WILSON.

It's the Fall 2005 KFAI Pledge Drive, so, we hope you'll call
(612)375-9030 and/or (612)344-0980 and pledge your support to independent
people-powered radio!

TEHUTI,Sundays,11pm co-hosts Sha Cage & eg bailey, KFAI 90.3fm Mpls
106.7fm St Paul all shows archived for 2 weeks after broadcast www.kfai.org
Oct.9 guest host Lydia Howell


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Recruiters and Thugs on Campus
Why Do We Hate Our Freedom?
By WILL YOUMANS
CounterPunch
October 7, 2005

The predatory tactics used by military recruiters to lure in youth from our schools and
universities feed on desperation by offering dreams of cash for college, marketable skills,
a signing bonus, and promises of cushy desk jobs. "Green card" soldiers fight for the hope
of citizenship. Recruiters have been known to deceive by offering that which they cannot
guarantee.

The recruiters, as a tangent, are doing little more that what George W.
Bush did. They both invent reasons to persuade us to kill and die. Where
the recruiters paint visions of a better life for the recruits, Bush
offered us the opportunity to defend ourselves from weapons of mass
destruction. Then, after the proof could not be found in the pudding, he
shifted it to establishing the first democratic domino in the region.
Later, it became about taking on Al-Qaeda in Iraq. This shifting logic is
the equivalent of the shifts a new recruit experiences when he or she
enlists. Instead of training as a medic in sunny Florida as promised, the
bright-eyed recruit ends up on the front lines in sunny Iraq.

Obviously, then, this is more than just about the dishonesty of quota and
bonus-driven recruiters, this is about the politics of the war these
recruitment efforts are part of. Thus, military recruiters are predictably
becoming the lightening rod for the anger of the betrayed public. On
schools and universities, student activists who confront recruiters are
facing expulsion, arrest, and other attacks.

Thanks to the Solomon Act universities lose some government funding if
they deny recruiters access to our future leaders. Those student-activists
trying to boot the recruiters off campus face more than the Department of
Defense, they have a budget-obsessed university administration to work
against. The danger is that they will prioritize free money from the
government over free speech for the students.

Before we can talk about whether campus recruiters should leave, we have
to make sure there can be a debate. At George Mason University,
specifically, the students have to fight for the freedom of speech just to
protest the presence of the recruiters. Last Thursday, Tariq Khan, a
student there who served for four years in the Air Force, simply stood
inside the student center with a handful of pamphlets and a small sign
taped on his chest. He shared on the sign his personal experiences with
the recruiters: they lie. It said, "Recruiters lie. Don't be deceived."

Khan just stood there, mostly silent. He offered his literature to anyone
who asked for it. Before he knew it, a ROTC student and his side-kick, a
lumpy right-winger, were yelling at him. With foam coming out of their
mouths, they called him a "pussy." They talked with enthusiasm about the
thrill of getting to kill Iraqis. The ROTC student grew angry with Khan's
calm demeanor. Several people tried to intervene by joining the debate.
Finally, the ROTC student grabbed the sign and ripped it. Khan calmly
began to write another notebook paper-sized sign.

Campus security arrived and told Khan he was violating school policy by
being there. Instead of arresting the ROTC student for assault and the
willful destruction of property, the officer sought to remove Khan for
"tabling" outside of the area where tabling is permitted. Khan did not
even have a table with him.

Khan refused to leave, believing the Constitution protected his right to
just stand there. The officer began to handcuff him. Khan did not resist,
but he did not comply. He saw it rightfully as an unjustified arrest.
Soon, some freedom-loving students were chanting "kick his ass," and a few
actually helped the officer subdue Khan. Though he was non-violent the
entire time, they caused him several injuries. A witness saw the officer
"putting him in a headlock, choking him, and then proceeding to throw him
against the stage." He was later charged with trespassing and disorderly
conduct.

I wonder if the recruiters who reeled in Khan fresh out of high school fed
him the fancy talk about defending our freedom--the same freedom that got
him a gash on his forehead. They probably just told him about the great
marketable skills he would learn, and all the money he would get for
college. Instead, they had him cleaning bathrooms and doing menial
labor--the type of work that requires no skills and no plans for
comfortable living. And the money his four years of service brings him is
not quite enough to pay for four years of college.

We could blame the officer for acting improperly, like we could fault
Lyndie England and other bad apples. Clearly, the problem here is a policy
framework that criminalizes free speech and those who practice it. If
universities want to benefit from recruiters telling students about the
freedoms they have to fight for, at least let those freedoms be practiced
on campus. Otherwise, students might just realize that the biggest threat
to freedom is not foreign enemies, but those claiming to protect them.

Please sign this petition calling on the university to drop the charges:
http://fawcettweb.com/peace/

Will Youmans has a blog: www.kabobfest.com. He contributed a chapter to
'The Politics of Anti-Semitism.'


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Bird Flu: Evolution or Intelligent Design?
God's Pandemic
By DAVE LINDORFF
CounterPunch
October 7, 2005

Even as the new "Scopes Trial" over evolution vs. "intelligent design" is
underway in Dover, PA, the proof that those who disparage Darwin are
hypocrites and charlatans is right in front of us.

The Creationist-in-Chief, in his latest press conference, expressed
concern that the Bird Flu virus could evolve into a strain capable of
being transmitted from human to human, instead of just from bird to bird
or bird to human. If so, he warned, it could lead to up to 2 million
deaths in the U.S. alone. Accordingly, he is proposing using the military
to quarantine areas of outbreaks. His backers in the Republican-led
Congress just slid $3.9 billion into the latest military funding bill to
cover epidemic preparedness in case the Bird Flu evolves into a human flu.

What was that? The flu virus "evolves"?

H-m-m-m-m. I wonder what else evolves? Life on earth, perhaps?

Are we saying that viruses evolve, but not bacteria? Or that only simple
organisms evolve, but not complex animals? I wonder where one draws the
line?

Let's be honest here. If we're dealing with intelligent design--an
intelligence surely way beyond our own pathetic efforts at reason and
logic--then why worry about Bird Flu? Why blow nearly $4 billion (money
that could more profitably fund a month of God's work killing the Iraqi
heathen) on military preparedness for an epidemic? If the bird Flu virus
starts suddenly infecting humans, it must be the Maker's intention, and
who are we to try to interfere? The proper recourse would be to pray, not
pay.

If evolution is just so much bunk from the academy, why worry about it. It
ain't gonna happen.

There's no such thing as evolution, right?

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the
Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch columns
titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press.
Information about both books and other work by Lindorff can be found at
www.thiscantbehappening.net.

He can be reached at: dlindorff [at] yahoo.com


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Is This the Death of America?
America's sense of itself - its pride in its power - has been profoundly
damaged
by Dermot Purgavie
Published on Saturday, October 8, 2005 by the Daily Mirror/UK

This week Karen Hughes, long-time political adviser to George Bush, began
her new mission as the State Department's official defender of America's
image with a tour of the Middle East.

She might have been more help to her beleaguered president had she stayed
at home and used her PR skills on her neighbors. At the end of a cruel and
turbulent summer, nobody is more dismayed and demoralized about America
than Americans.

They have watched with growing disbelief and horror as a convergence of
events - dominated by the unending war in Iraq and two hurricanes - have
exposed ugly and disturbing things in the undergrowth that shame and
embarrass Americans and undermine their belief in the nation and its
values.

With TV providing a ceaseless backdrop of the country's failings - a
crippled and tone-deaf president, a negligent government, corruption,
military atrocities, soaring debt, racial conflict, poverty, bloated
bodies in floodwater, people dying on camera for want of food, water and
medicine - it seemed things were falling apart in the land where happiness
is promoted in the constitution.

Disillusioning news was everywhere. In the flight from Hurricane Rita,
evacuees fought knife fights over cans of petrol. In storm-hit Louisiana
there were long queues at gun stores as people armed themselves against
looters.

America, which has the world's costliest health care, had, it turned out,
higher infant mortality rates than the broke and despised Cuba.

Tom De Lay, Republican enforcer in the House of Representatives, was
indicted for conspiracy and money laundering. The leader of the
Republicans in the Senate was under investigation for his stock dealings.
And Osama bin Laden was still on the loose.

Americans are the planet's biggest flag wavers. They are reared on the
conceit that theirs is the world's best and most enviable country, born
only the day before yesterday but a model society with freedom,
opportunity and prosperity not found, they think, in older cultures.

They rejoice that "We are No.1", and in many ways they are.

But events have revealed a creeping mildew of pain and privation, graft
and injustice and much incompetence lurking beneath the glow of
star-spangled superiority.

Many here feel the country is breaking down and losing its moral and
political authority.

"US in funk" say the headlines. "I am ashamed to be an American," say the
letters to the editor. We are seeing, say the commentators, a crumbling -
and humbling - of America.

The catalogue of afflictions is long and grisly. Hurricane Katrina
revealed confusion and incompetence throughout government, from town hall
to White House.

President Bush, accused of an alarming failure of leadership over the
disaster, has now been to the Gulf coast seven times for carefully
orchestrated photo ops.

But his approval has dropped below 40 per cent. Public doubt about his
capacity to deal with pressing problems is growing.

Americans feel ashamed by the violent, predatory behavior Katrina
triggered - nothing similar happened in the tsunami-hit Third World
countries - and by the deep racial and class divisions it revealed.

The press has since been giving the country a crash course on poverty and
race, informing the flag wavers that an uncaring America may be No.1 on
the world inequities index.

It has 37 million living under the poverty line, largely unnoticed by the
richest in a country with more than three million millionaires.

The typical white family has $80,000 in assets; the average black family
about $6,000. It's a wealth gap out of the Middle Ages. Some 46 million
can't afford health insurance, 18,000 of whom will die early because of
it.

The US, we learn, is 43rd in the world infant mortality rankings. A baby
born in Beijing has nearly three times the chance of reaching its first
birthday than a baby born in Washington. Those who survive face rotten
schools. On reading and math tests for 15-year-olds, America is 24th out
of 29 nations.

On the other side of the tracks, 18 corporate executives have so far been
jailed for cooking the books and looting billions. The prosecution of Mr
Bush's pals at Enron - the showcase trial of the greed-is-good culture -
will be soon.

But the backroom deal lives on and, in an orgy of cronyism, billions of
dollars are being carved up in no-bid contracts awarded to
politically-connected firms for work in the hurricane-hit states and in
Iraq.

The war, seen as unwinnable, is becoming a bleak burden, with nearly 2,000
American dead. Two-thirds think the invasion was a mistake.

The war costs $6 billion a month, driving up a nose-bleed high $331
billion budget deficit. In five years the conflict will have cost each
American family $11,300, it is said.

Mr Bush says blithely he'll cut existing programs to pay for the war and
fund an estimated $200 billion for hurricane damage. He won't, he says,
rescind his tax cuts. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel says Mr Bush is
"disconnected from reality".

Americans have been angered by a reports that US troops have routinely
tortured Iraqi prisoners. Some 230 low-rankers have been convicted - but
not one general or Pentagon overseer. Disgruntled young officers are
leaving in increasing numbers.

Meanwhile, further damaging Americans' self image, there's Afghanistan.
The White House says its operations there were a success, yet last year
Afghanistan supplied 90 per cent of the world's heroin.

America's sense of itself - its pride in its power and authority, its
faith in its institutions and its belief in its leaders - has been
profoundly damaged. And now the talking heads in Washington predict
dramatic political change and the death of the Republicans' hope of
becoming the permanent government.

 2005 The Daily Mirror UK


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 Mark Strand
 The New Poetry Handbook

1    If a man understands a poem,
     he shall have troubles.

2    If a man lives with a poem,
     he shall die lonely.

3    If a man lives with two poems,
     he shall be unfaithful to one.

4    If a man conceives of a poem,
     he shall have one less child.

5    If a man conceives of two poems,
     he shall have two children less.

6    If a man wears a crown on his head as he writes,
     he shall be found out.

7    If a man wears no crown on his head as he writes,
     he shall deceive no one but himself.

8    If a man gets angry at a poem,
     he shall be scorned by men.

9    If a man continues to be angry at a poem,
     he shall be scorned by women.

10   If a man publicly denounces poetry,
     his shoes will fill with urine.

11   If a man gives up poetry for power,
     he shall have lots of power.

12   If a man brags about his poems,
     he shall be loved by fools.

13   If a man brags about his poems and loves fools,
     he shall write no more.

14   If a man craves attention because of his poems,
     he shall be like a jackass in moonlight.

15   If a man writes a poem and praises the poem of a fellow,
     he shall have a beautiful mistress.

16   If a man writes a poem and praises the poem of a fellow overly,
     he shall drive his mistress away.

17   If a man claims the poem of another,
     his heart shall double in size.

18   If a man lets his poems go naked,
     he shall fear death.

19   If a man fears death,
     he shall be saved by his poems.

20   If a man does not fear death,
     he may or may not be saved by his poems.

21   If a man finishes a poem,
     he shall bathe in the blank wake of his passion
     and be kissed by white paper.


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