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   <title>Double (Blue) Crossing the River Styx</title>
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   <summary> Dr. Christsakes took a yawning breath and pushed the oars deeper into the Stygian river. Sticks and stones can break my bones, he thought, but death panels won&apos;t hurt my business. His rivercraft to the other side was full...</summary>
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<p><span>Dr. Christsakes took a
yawning breath and pushed the oars deeper into the Stygian river. Sticks and
stones can break my bones, he thought, but death panels won't hurt my business.
His rivercraft to the other side was full of previously middleclass baby-boomers and
his palliative crew was busy setting the final rigging in the cool autumn air. The
pre-fabricated vessel made flat line waves as they began their
once-in-a-lifetime death trip across the river. Ironically, some religiously
yearned to survive it. Since the recent election, it had been determined that
rising health insurance premiums were a pre-existing perdition and that those without healthcare
would be forced to wander the banks of America for one hundred years. </span></p>

<p><span>Recently re-animated by working for an enormous salary in
insurance subsidized services, the good doctor's fairy had generated odious
religious convictions and copious capital in the form of co-pays. Ontologically,<i> </i><em><span>the irreversible loss of
personhood was on everyone's mind. </span></em>But terrestrial evidence
suggested that from the source, all rivers flow downhill, typically terminating
in that notion.</span></p>

<p><span>Beginning as an evangelical death panel hypothesis, this
"probability of living eternally without government healthcare" meme had
morphed toward infamy; penetrating Alaskan swamp-gas radio shows, passing for treason
under the gold-covered bridge to nowhere and landing somewhere beyond the
conceptual horizon.<span>&nbsp; </span>Quite rapidly the
questions of what constituted a human condition and how we could determine its needs
had emerged as a political issue both philosophically rich and patently unheard.
</span></p>

<p><span>Like an itchy uncertainty prince, Dr. Christsakes gathered
up the opiate expedition tickets from his one-way commuters. Under duress, everyone
had purchased them before boarding the common antiboat. The boomers were a
little short of funds as many had complications of under-remuneration regarding
their impending retirements. Somewhat exhausted by medical bankruptcies, most
had conscientiously set their personal affairs in order, ready to give it up -
notwithstanding the stormy crowd who gathered on the other side of the blather.</span></p>

<p><span>Double Blue-Crossing the River Styx, some prepaid winky
whacktivists carrying semi-autocratic weapons and turbo snakes were bused in by
repelican propaganda corporations. Zoned out hotsy sympathizers carrying
flipnfuck mattresses from Null-Mart struggled to block some boomers from joining
the hospice hospitality lines. But standing there in the majority, democritters
who had lost their voices while in exile for nine years were now drinking unbottled
municipal water and making reality-based appeals to reframe their optional
hopes.</span></p>

<p><span>"Have you ever read that poem by Dylan Thomas?" Dr.
Christsakes finally asked his passengers with a sardonic smile. "After the
first death, there is no other." All rose on their last legs, placing their
binoculars of foresight into a care package for the living. They threw paper
airplanes back toward the children crowded on the shore. Printed on the planes surface
was House Resolution 676, <i>Medicare for
All</i>. The other side outlined the titillating <i>Cash for Punkers</i> program, already funded by insurance conglomerates
and moving like an engine in full revolution. <br /></span></p><p><br /><span></span></p>

<p><span>&nbsp;::::::::::::::::::::::</span></p>

<p><span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00676:@@@D&amp;summ2=m&amp;">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00676:@@@D&amp;summ2=m&amp;</a></span></p>

<p><span><a href="http://www.hr676.org/">http://www.hr676.org/</a></span></p>

<p><span><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death-definition/">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death-definition/</a></span></p>

<span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/health/20doctors.html?pagewanted=6&amp;ref=health">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/health/20doctors.html?pagewanted=6&amp;ref=health</a></span> ]]>
      
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<entry>
   <title>Shush Phlegmpaw Pushes Right To The Right On Wealthcare Reform </title>
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   <summary> Blog-us-sphere, EARTH: Like other dishwater poppyfish, mockshow host Shush Phlegmpaw extracted oxygen from over-the-air, as well as from supersillyously angry Re-Pelicans using a variety of aquamedia-structures to stir up the ailing atmosphere. Carelessly wonkering down at the microphony again,...</summary>
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<p>Blog-us-sphere, EARTH:</p>

<p>Like other dishwater poppyfish, mockshow host Shush
Phlegmpaw extracted oxygen from over-the-air, as well as from supersillyously angry
Re-Pelicans using a variety of aquamedia-structures to stir up the ailing
atmosphere.</p>

<p>Carelessly wonkering down at the microphony again, Shush
compared President O-Balm-Ah to his own late uncle:<span>&nbsp; </span>A dolphin hitter in the illegal tuna trade.
Truth be soldout, Shush had his own pecuniary propellers stuffed offshore, but
never opened a can of tuna without thinking about his favorite Doppelgängler at
Golden Sucks.</p>

<p>Teleconferencing in to his yesterday balkshow last week was
Smarma Railin, an emerging quitter and fish gutter from up north in what is sometimes
called the "pretend state," which I cannot prove, but I'll Aska.<span>&nbsp; </span>Smarma could talk the hind legs off a blue
donkey, but no one had asked her for a mirth certificate. Consequently, she had
fictitiously agreed without confirmation to participate in a nationally
televised <i>"Death Panel"</i> on the merits
of <i>Greed Reform</i>, regarding salaries
worth their weight in rescinded health benefits. </p>

<p>Spinning for the Re-Pelicans wasn't all it was mocked-up to
be for Shush, either in real time or rebroadcast through Smarma. (You can't
hide those fry in eyes.) She abstractly twittered her worminal deathfish,
concealed in the hanging pouch that had stretched out to store mendacity and
extinct blinkered species.</p>

<p>Bouncing zealously around the <i>Tele-Death-Panel</i>, Shush obsessed about his disabling chub addiction
and the high price of reeling in those azure equus asinii canum. Several
interchangeable members of the <i>Washington
Wealth Insurance Lobby</i> also phoned it in, solely to keep the cameras out of
their grouper nets, or as in the case of socialism for the dickfish sector, to
monopolize the board game and profit from a government one-off.</p>

<p>And though the game of medical inflation was fixed, real
ectothermic commercial bloodsuckers accompanied by unemployed Americans on the
corporate media trawler responded with a fierce sense of betrayal, like they
had to the pandemic of swine flu, FISA farms, or unnecessary wars. </p>

<p><i>Wealthcare </i>was
obviously not for everyone. A flea-market ideology for the masses was all they
could recommend. So the "Death Panel" members voted overwhelmingly to fully
fund and authorize <i>Nocialism</i>.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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   <title>WIDDLEDUB PROMOTES AMBIGUOUS LAW LIBRARY  (Tweeting His Scary Decisis to the Birds &amp; the Birthers)</title>
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   <summary> By THE DIS-ASSOCIATED PRESS Singing little known jingoistic jingles to the flummoxed floater inside his head, his two surveilling eyes still more terrible than a bleeding pullet, Widdledub released the convoluted plans for his high-status Ambiguous Law Library which...</summary>
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<p><b><span></span></b><span>By
THE DIS-ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></p>



<p><span>Singing little known jingoistic jingles to the
flummoxed floater inside his head, his two surveilling eyes still more terrible
than a bleeding pullet, Widdledub released the convoluted plans for his high-status<i> Ambiguous Law Library </i>which would be
headed by Jonny Yoooo with crude overseas funding located sho-nuff off-shore
somewhere in the a.m. going south.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>

<p>Despite lingering concerns and opposition from southern method-actors,
<span>Blunderdick
half-heartedly mentioned to Widdledub that minor republican hummingbirds like
Yooo, addicted to the red sticky of downwardly spiraling empirical realities
always get access to the hegemonic legal juice and can still utter flutteringly
laudable lies whether re-employed as counsel or wingnutted for political profit
into creamy base-butter. </span></p>

<p><span>Widdledub slowly climbed the 22 key steps to his new
ambiguous law office as deficits of doom squelched his languorous feelings like
positron props holding up the democratic future. Grabbing Siddamn's unloaded
9.11 mil. Grok Huss-Pistol from his office trophy drawer and making a gurgling
sound, Widdle wobbled for a spider-hole moment. A frantic call had just come in
from Blunderdick's snide-kick, Diz Blamey (not the Lizbian one).<span>&nbsp; </span>She screeched that somewhere over the rainbow
in New York City in the duo-pluvial northeastern summer; Widdledub's 9.11
bullyhorn had been designated as misplaced malice aforethought! </span></p>

<p><span>Media memories had never spoken so intensely to Blamey's
amor</span><span>phous</span><span> eyes without recalling the high notes that
Daddydick had reached in the good old once-upon-a-time days before big-eyed
blog surveillance had broadcast Blunder's blunders.<span>&nbsp; </span>But now, even in the absurd suburbs and
urburbs across ill-ogical Amerika, ice cream wagons driven by out-of-work
lefties preprogrammed to restore organic cows wheeled through her thoughts,
pressing her senses toward taste-buds of tubbiness and concealed curios and
digitized alibi-sexual melodies repeating without mercy, evoking dreamy days
that never were, but evolving solely for this simul-contrast demo-counter to
Sunday talk shows. </span></p>

<p><span>Under Blunderdick's outstanding anti-Constitutional
orders, Dizzie's bubbles of facial anxiety nearly burst when the uptight Lamebridge
police department skipped through Widdle's (so far) closed Gates and surrounded
the mystery woman, Gallery Flame, who had shown up unexpectedly like an outed
CIA agent in an open dart gallery, concealing Widdledub and Blunderdick's
unredeemed trophy tickets for the Guantanamo Bay Closing Ceremonies. Without
standing conviction, Ms. Gallery noted as an aside to Diz that a post-post-press
conference strategy had yet to be instigated by the gate-keeping community
concerning the content of the 9.11 Lamebridge police tapes, and who called whom
a what, by any other name. </span></p>

<p><span>Widdle reconfiddled his pistol while twittering for
dollars in reckless rhythms. (Undisclosed in olfactory fictions with pre-existing
renditions, Blunderdick had once again "accidentally" stolen Widdledub's
bullyhorn without asking and was thundering</span><span> his own
anomalous repartee into the late Liddynight air</span><span>).</span></p>

<p><span>Dubbuns holstered his gun and tweeted his grand
opening statement to the press. By now the total media circus was in town
setting up for the surreptitious spectacle of Widdledub dressed distinctly in a
black judge's costume with an oversized white cowboy hat floating overhead; a
rhinestone Happy Trails belt wrapped snugly around his embroidered demeanor. He
smiled for the cameras like a lunitary ex-ecutive and continued writing scary decisions
with disappearing ink, mimicking those enacted while in office. But instead of
receiving the giddy glare of anticipated pre-publicity, all spotlights suddenly
whirled toward the lonely figure of the new Whitehouse Precedent.</span></p>

<p><b><span>O-BALM-AH
Reveals "Social" is a Pre-Existing Condition of Humanity</span></b></p>

<p><span>Mercifully slowing down
the merry-go-round of transparent Health "care" lobbyistical bummers, Precedent
O-Balm-Ah simultaneously achieved vibrational epiphanies in the heads of nihilistic
reporters and the beds of corrupt members of Congress concerning their imminent
vacations. But chiefly aiming his wizened words to the synthetically-profitable
middle masses and to the many dis/under/insured debt-laden and
disabled-by-disasters "our country isn't us anymore" citizens, he announced a
pronouncement affirming the pre-existing socialized nature of illness (which is
no longer covered by privatized health insurance.) </span></p>

<p><span>Suppressing his familial health insurance history
like a cancer victim on pain-killers, O-Balm-Ah calmly un-elevened the abstract
health of the nation, while also disarming Widdledub of his nine-o'clock Grok
with a donation of bifurcated cowboy boots and a fresh copy of his Hawaiian
birth certificate. </span></p>

<p><span>Notwithstanding a few New Guernsey organ
re-locators, the citizen's representatives had pro-formally dressed up for the
public's last option, but there was not a single payer at the revolving door, other
than Denny </span>Kucinich<span>, </span>Anthony Weiner and 76% of the
American public.<span></span></p>

<p><span>Precedent O-Balm-Ah then declared that the
Constitution was still in effect, in effect, though sorely affected by perverse
capitalization, consensual stupidity, and herewith unreformed profiteering of
the Common Good.</span></p><p><br /><span></span></p>

<p><span>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: </span></p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/us/06gun.html"><span>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/us/06gun.html</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://pacelawlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/04/doj-releases-bush-administration-memos.html"><span>http://pacelawlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/04/doj-releases-bush-administration-memos.html</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_Presidential_Center"><span>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_Presidential_Center</span></a></p>

<p><a href="http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572066_1____2/Positron.html#s2"><span>http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572066_1____2/Positron.html#s2</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/archive/tags/George+W.+Bush/default.aspx"><span>http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/archive/tags/George+W.+Bush/default.aspx</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/help/statements.php"><span>http://www.loc.gov/law/help/statements.php</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://law-library.rutgers.edu/archives/000201.php"><span>http://law-library.rutgers.edu/archives/000201.php</span></a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/askinsuit.pdf"><span>http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/askinsuit.pdf</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://claytonlittlejohn.blogspot.com/2009/07/sounds-very-scholarly.html"><span>http://claytonlittlejohn.blogspot.com/2009/07/sounds-very-scholarly.html</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/16/bush-bio-iraq/"><span>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/16/bush-bio-iraq/</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/george_w_bush_presidential_library/index.html"><span>http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/george_w_bush_presidential_library/index.html</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?em"><span>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?em</span></a><span></span></p>

<p><a href="http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-committee-whip"><span>http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-committee-whip</span></a><span></span></p>

<span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/obama-boost-new-poll-show_n_217175.html"><span>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/obama-boost-new-poll-show_n_217175.html</span></a></span> ]]>
      
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   <title>Widdledub Engages in Thinkery:  The Legacy Speech</title>
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   <summary><![CDATA[ EERIE, Pa. Recently reclusing and reproofing his forthcoming storybook at a library in Texas, Widdledub finally broke his silence on Oh-Balm-Ah, speaking to $1500 dollar tables at The Manufacturit &amp; Busyness Association's 104th Annual Wingnutteroo. Breathing in the parrhasia...]]></summary>
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<p>EERIE, Pa. <span>Recently reclusing and reproofing his forthcoming
storybook at a library in Texas, Widdledub finally broke his silence on
Oh-Balm-Ah, speaking to $1500 dollar tables at </span><span>The<i> <em><span>Manufacturit</span></em> &amp; <em><span>Busyness Association's 104th Annual</span></em>
Wingnutteroo</i>. <span>Breathing
in the parrhasia and breathing out his displeasia he took to the stage </span>benighted
and feckless with a large helping of arcane verbal tendencies. Widdle began by
serving up enigmatic drift and wooly treasons for his "Eight Year Reign of
Error:" </span></p>



<p><span>&nbsp;</span><i><span>Kakourgos,
Onourtourbus, Yurwithus, Yuraginus, </span></i><span>he poured forthwith into the faux microphoney.</span><span></span></p>



<p><span>&nbsp;Notorious
for his derivative sneers tilted to common people but also skewed to the
vanishing middle class, Widdledub refused to reference by name (but
body-languaged) his favorite megalomedia "accidental" shooter,
Blunderdick.<span>&nbsp; </span>Suddenly stumbling deeper
into his own financial foibles, he blurted," the verdict is out on socialism."
He now seemed hazy about his green paper TARP, which flew by intentional
coincidence over America's depleted soils.</span></p>

<p><span>"I'll
just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at
a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work,"
doubled-negged Widdle. Deep into one side of the face, he decided to stop
talking while his numbers continued to fall. He left the odditorium stage as
his last applause line linked his self-described "soul" to a lack of citizen
popularity and French fries.</span></p>

<p><span>Widdledub
wished to distance himself from Blunder's recent networked torture confession which
had been televised internationally. But regarding his obdurate torture policies
he yielded, "The first thing you do is ask what's legal?" and
"Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind." </span></p>

<p><span>One-minded
and all, the detainees Widdledub cited had finished their lengthy rehab at the
Saudi Sentre for Singing in Unison in 2007. Since enduring Widdle's policy of
foreign care and counseling tactics, some of the jihadis had begun anew, their
bodies and minds still driven by suffering the Blunderdick's untouchable
unterrorgators.</span></p>

<p><span>Stepping over Raygun's
glove, Widdledub retired to the skene, breaking the rehearsed circularity of
the neocon design but making infantile noises under the flying fish arches
where the golden public stood in union lines still hoping for Oh-Balm-Ah's
uneleven bread.<span>&nbsp; </span>The new Prez had already
flown over for the rescue, but hovered up in the air, nearly becoming a
constellation. </span></p>



<p><span>Waiting made the people
hungrier and feverish, but Iran had run away with a burning news cycle while more
US soldiers were invisibly dying next door, and besides, the smoke and mirrors
were obscuring their telling visions. </span></p>



<p><span></span><i><span>Declassify
my mind? Declassify my brine? Declassify my byline</span></i><span>? Widdledub chimed, repositioning his
cowboy hat for a new song and a dance. He left the fund raising arena after
dropping off some co-optation, patronage, and coercion, humming an old Saw-di
da'wah, supercilious la-dee-do-dah-day, either zoned-out or jumping the snarks.
</span></p>

<p><span>&nbsp;<br /></span></p>

<p><span>:::::::::</span></p>



<p><span>Un-Finis<i> Parrhasia: (free speech)</i></span></p>

<p><i><span>in
spite of <span>Kakourgos (evil doers)</span></span></i></p>

<p><span>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/obama-adminis-1.html"><span>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/obama-adminis-1.html</span></a><span></span></p>



<p><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/bush-assails-those-who-offer-terrorists-therapy-though-his-administration-sent-detainees-to-saudi-co.html"><i><span>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/bush-assails-those-who-offer-terrorists-therapy-though-his-administration-sent-detainees-to-saudi-co.html</span></i></a><i><span></span></i></p>



<p><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/18/bush-takes-swipes-at-policies-of-obama/?page=2"><span>http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/18/bush-takes-swipes-at-policies-of-obama/?page=2</span></a><span></span></p>



<p><a href="http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp97_boucek_saudi_final.pdf"><span>http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp97_boucek_saudi_final.pdf</span></a><span></span></p>



<p><a href="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/ifstoneinterview.html"><span>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/ifstoneinterview.html</span></a><span></span></p>



<p><a href="http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/clouds.htm"><span>http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/clouds.htm</span></a></p>



<p><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/18/bush-takes-swipes-at-policies-of-obama/">http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/18/bush-takes-swipes-at-policies-of-obama/</a></p>

<p><a href="http://antiwar.com/casualties/list.php">http://antiwar.com/casualties/list.php</a></p>

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   <title>Detainees</title>
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   <published>2009-05-17T03:32:50Z</published>
   <updated>2009-05-17T04:48:52Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Some memos are in and the photos are damning The torture was clearly and openly shown They linked all their crimes to a day in September My daughter was walking the Brooklyn Bridge home Good bye to George Bush, farewell...</summary>
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The torture was clearly and openly shown<br />
They linked all their crimes to a day in September<br />
My daughter was walking the Brooklyn Bridge home</p>

<p>Good bye to George Bush, farewell Richard Cheney<br />
Au revoir to les Autres, eat cake Condoleezza<br />
You won't have a name when they take you to Baghdad<br />
All they will call you will be detainees</p>

<p>We used to remember the kindness of strangers<br />
We used to join hands and make good Union clothes<br />
Then Bushco convinced us our motives were pointless<br />
He spied on us all and shoved fear up our nose</p>

<p>Good bye to George Bush, farewell Richard Cheney<br />
Goodbye to the Others, eat cake Condoleezza<br />
You won't have a name when they take you to Baghdad<br />
All they will call you will be detainees</p>

<p>They never told Orwell that truth was a secret<br />
Or banks weren't too poor for the cynical Fed<br />
We have no more money for our obligations<br />
But people were tortured and people are dead</p>

<p>Good bye to George Bush, farewell Richard Cheney<br />
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   <title>CORPORATE  SWINE  FLU  PLANNEDEMIC</title>
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   <summary>If you&apos;re feelin&apos; ill and wonder why Checkout the grounds where pigs can&apos;t fly The corporate swamp around their sty With fluttering birds and icky flies The waste lagoons hold filthy spores And Mexico City closed its doors Industrial produce...</summary>
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<br />Checkout the grounds where pigs can't fly

<br />The corporate swamp around their sty

<br />With fluttering birds and icky flies

<br />The waste lagoons hold filthy spores

<br />And Mexico City closed its doors

<br />Industrial produce makes us ache

<br />When will we see the ads are faked?
<br />The workers work and take it home

<br />Their kids are there and then they roam

<br />The airplane's air is loaded too

<br />We have it now, Corporate Swine Flu

<br />(Production made the virus shift)

<br />(We got the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_drift">antigenic
drift</a>)<br /></div><br /><br /><blockquote>But what caused this acceleration of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/27/swine-flu-mexico-health/print">swine flu</a>&nbsp; evolution? Virologists have long believed that the intensive agricultural system of southern China is the
principal engine of influenza mutation: both seasonal "drift" and episodic genomic "shift". But the corporate industrialisation of livestock production has broken China's natural monopoly on influenza evolution. Animal husbandry in recent decades has been transformed into something that more closely resembles the petrochemical industry than the happy family farm depicted in school readers.<br /><br /><br /></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">February 6, 2009, News for Obama<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This Economy blows like a winter windstorm from the east,
raging down the Columbia River Gorge, cold air grasping us by the throat, heaving
firs and cedars toward Portland. Bent down and struggling, limbs contorted by
blasts of air, first up, then down, then sideways. The tree topples, the root-wad
pulls up and a huge hole in the ground remains. Don't go down in the hole. Watch
out for blowback, when the top of the cracked tree snaps and the tree springs
back on top of you like rich republicans obstructing the jobs bill. This
Economy blows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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