Open Merikan Rovian McCarthy-ism

Has it really come to this... maligning a man, a United States Senator, Mr. Barack Obama ... by stooping so low as to invoke "Black Listing" ?!?!?!

Is there any question why we are bitter?

Is there any reason why the American people should support any elected official that reached their office by stepping on the backs of good and decent men and women?

Is there any reason why the American people should not exercise their right to overthrow a despotic dictatorial regime?

We are getting mad as hell and we will not take it anymore!

Remember, the revolution will not be televised ... THE REVOLUTION WILL BE LIVE!

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Open Minded

This is why...

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Open Address

Vacationing on Fridays in April and May means that I get to spend some quality time on the Interweb. One stop is Friendfeed to palpate the insta-web pulse ... sure enough everyone still seems to be over-insta-stimulated with followers, invitations, noise, connections...and everything.

Here is the good news...

I am not going to "follow, invite or connect" you. Instead I am simply going to say, "I know where you live." If I want to read your stuff I will take it upon myself to find your work. If, on the other hand, you want to read my stuff - well, if you are here then you 'know where I live.'

Scribus Emptor (Writer Beware(?)) - If you scrawl insta-graphitti on the wall and someone comes along and scrawls over it... I may not get to see it. If you write on your own wall (blog) then I have a much a better chance of reading your work.

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Open Last Stanza

R.I.P.

Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire was born June 25, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, a small town on the northeast coast of Martinique in the French Caribbean. He attended the Lycée Schoelcher in Martinique, and the Parisian schools Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His books of poetry include Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry (University of California Press, 1983); Putting in Fetters (1960); Lost Bodies (1950), with illustrations by Pablo Picasso; Decapitated Sun (1948); Miraculous Arms (1946); and Notebook of a Return to the Homeland (1939). He is also a playwright, and has written Moi, Laminaire (1982); The Tempest (1968), based on Shakespeare's play; A Season at Congo (1966); and The Tragedy of King Cristophe (1963). As a student he and his friend, Léopold Senghor of Sénégal created L'Etudiant noir, a publication that brought together students of Africa and the West Indies. Later Césaire founded Tropiques, a journal dedicated to American black poetry. Both journals were a stronghold for the ideas of negritude. He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism (1950), a book of essays.

Césaire is a recipient of the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the second winner in its history. He served as Mayor of Fort-de-France as a member of the Communist Party, and later quit the party to establish his Martinique Independent Revolution Party. He also served as the deputy to the French National Assembly. He retired from politics in 1993.

that poets make terrible politicians. Known in the world of letters as the progenitor of Negritude (the first diasporic "black pride" movement), a major voice of Surrealism, and one of the great French poets, Césaire is also revered for his role in modern anticolonial and Pan-African movements. While it might appear that the poet and politician operated in separate spheres, Césaire's life and work demonstrate that poetry can be the motor of political imagination, a potent weapon in any movement that claims freedom as its primary goal.
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Open Famine

Here is something we really better not talk about. I don't think we should be having any discussions about the rising cost of staple foods. There shouldn't be any public forums on the diminishing availability of basic foods like rice and wheat.

At the same time we really should not concern ourselves with the similar rise in fuel prices.

It is really important to note that, strictly speaking, these issues are not directly related to more traditional Supply-and-Demand market perspectives. On the contrary, neither staple food supplies or base fuel supplies have been significantly diminished. It is only the price that has changed dramatically.

I believe this change is due to the practice of futures trading.

Futures trading, in my simple perspective, is the arena of the few monied interests to first artificially raise the price of base consumables and then reap HUGH profits from the artificially elevated market prices.

Profiteers lining their pockets while Americans are paying $3.50+ per gallon of gas. Greedy manipulators who have profited while "...100 million additional people are considered by the World Bank to have been forced into extreme poverty, and there have been food riots in Egypt, Haiti and elsewhere." [1]

The food crisis is a real one, with rice - basic to the diet in much of Asia - rising in price by 75 percent in two months, and the rise in wheat, equally important to most Western countries, rising by 120 percent over the year. This risks famine in vulnerable countries.[1]

And, before you scold me about lumping food and oil into the same issue please remember that fuel costs affect food production costs, as well as shipping and processing.

But all of this is of very little consequence because

A.) We are not going to talk about it.
B.) We are confident that our current administration has everything well in hand.
C.) We are far more concerned whether an un-named political figure does or does not have an American Flag lapel pin.

OK folks, lets not talk about this any more...OK?

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Open Scene

Saudi women jump through many hoops for basketball team

The Jeddah United team in Saudi Arabia openly flaunts a ban on women's sports.

By Faiza Saleh Ambah | Washington Post

from the April 16, 2008 edition

Jiddah, Saudi Arabia - The Jeddah United women's basketball team trickled onto the court, each player wrapped in a black abaya and head scarf. Within minutes, the women had shed their cloaks and were in uniform – white pants and jerseys with their names in red – practicing layups, passes, and foul shots.

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Open Food Crises

Food Crises, It Aint Local No More!!

By Faisal.k • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics • (2,460 views) • No Responses

Often a person gets so involved in their local and day to day problems of which we face several living in Pakistan, that we begin to lose sight of the bigger picture.

Pakistan has been in the grip of serious shortages of food, i.e flour, rice and other edibles since the start of this year. Which basically means an increase in prices of staples progressively leading to that fine line where the public breaks into mayhem to secure food.

At first it was thought that this is happening due to hoarding or the smuggling of food to Afghanistan. However lately through U.N and other media everyone knows that this “Shortage of Food” is now a global threat.

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Open Secret: MicroNovell (2)

Is there any chance that I can get them to pay for my idea(s)

Novell: 'The Standalone OS is Dead' ... so says InternetNews.com

The future of the standalone operating system is not particularly bright. At least, that's according to Nat Friedman, chief technology and strategy officer for open source at Novell, which yesterday officially announced the company's entry into the Linux appliance space.

Novell's effort, the SUSE Appliance Program, aims to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with an appliance-friendly version of Novell's SUSE Linux, so they can create integrated software appliances.

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"The big story here is Linux versus Windows," he said. "I do not believe that Microsoft has shown the interest, time and the will to allow an ISV to embed their operating system and intermediate between Microsoft and the customer."

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Despite its earlier rhetoric, Novell also said it would be taking advantage of its interoperability agreement with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to ensure that the SUSE Appliance will be able to run on Microsoft's Hyper-V.

"We can run Windows on top of Xen," he said. "That's part of our agreement with Microsoft to do the technical interoperability to make that happen. We're also the only Linux platform that Microsoft certifies to run as a guest on top of Hyper-V."

You didn't hear it here first ... and you haven't heard the last of it!

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Open Bail - Followup to Open McCarthy-ism

Iran: Woman activist is released on bail

from Global Voices Online by Hamid Tehrani

According to[Fa] Change4equality, Khadijeh Moghadam, an Iranian woman activist for equal rights,has been released on bail after 9 days in Tehran. She has been accused of activities against “national security.” Several people waited for her outside of the prison.Watch the photos here.

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Open Blogging, quitting

Recently I came across the following...

I have to confess that I am seriously considering quitting blogging. Any thoughts from the Peanut Gallery?

Now I am not going to cite my source for this quote (you know who you are) because it is not my intention to embarrass a given individual... Nope, I am setting my sights a bit higher than that. I want to send a message to all of the folks that are currently uttering such plaintive cries...

If you have to ask a question like this you are blogging for the wrong reasons!

Following the sage advice of my great-great-grandmother... "Iffen you don't have anything to say then STFU!" Ok, ok, she would not have used the colloquial 'iffen' but you get the message.

So here are a simple set of rules...for blogging.

1. If you have something to say then go ahead and blog.
2. If you don't have anything to say then don't blog.
3. If you don't feel like blogging then don't blog.
4. DO NOT ask [me] if you should continue blogging.

If you are blogging for other people you are blogging for the wrong reasons.

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Open FUD

Fear, uncertainty and doubt = Windows Vista devil

April 16th, 2008

Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7 one you don’t?

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 2:20 pm

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Couple Sinofsky’s track record with the fact that Windows 7 will likely be a minor upgrade to Vista, plus the fact that the Softies gave themselves quite a bit of extra breathing room with the 2010 due date, and I’d say it’s more likely Windows 7 will ship early than late.

So when is a pig in an evening gown not a pig? When you change the name to Windows 7 and ??? ... will likely be a minor upgrade to an existing pig; Vista!

Aside: A recent study shows that a PC that is Vista suitable costs in the neighborhood of $1,100.00 USD. (Papa Research & Co.)

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Open Fair Pay Day

Why, in this day and age of enlightenment, do we have to legislate parity and equality?!?!?

Are we truly such a backwards society that we still don't know how to treat our fellow men and women with respect?!?!

"But, but... nobody ever tol' me I had to."

Excuse me but didn't Jesus teach us to 'love thy neighbor as thy self'?

Doesn't the primary canon of our society, the Golden Rule, say, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"?

"Yeaha but neither one of them'll stand up in court iffen yer o-po-nent has hizsef a good mouph piece."

And now we wonder why we live in such litigious times...

Shark-Fu (go there and read her stuff) posted a reminder that we have to lobby for fairness and parity - again and again and again.

Raise your voice in support and sign up to post to your blog on Friday, April 18, about the importance of fair pay for women.

And urge to your Senators to support the Fair Pay Restoration Act.

Thanks ABB for keeping us on the straight and narrow.

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Open Interests

From Sister Beth Who-doesn't-blog-yet...

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Open Baseball Quiz

Where are these women playing baseball?

The First Iranian Women Sport Magazine

Shirzanan | شیر زنان

Our Goal هدف ما - اولین هفته نامه ورزش زنان در ایران با هدف جبران کمبود پوشش اخبار این حوزه (...) +ادامه

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Open Art & Culture

Ethan Kaplan at blackrimglasses poses this question . . .

Where do you all see the import of art and music education within the public school system?

After giving his question some thought (and some feeling) I have come to the following conclusion...

As you easily see I am not a great visual artist. I was however able to render both an image and a symbol that succinctly speaks of our culture.

The serpent of our society will succeed in consuming itself unless we fortify it (our society) with values that are greater than its sense of self.

Art, as crude as mine, draws its power from the ability of the image to resonate with the members of the audience. With out even the most rudimentary Arts appreciation such expression would fall on deaf eyes - and the serpent would in fact consume itself.

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Open: Papa List

Current Projects:

IPv6: Prepare presentation for Greater Owensboro Territory - Information Technologists (GOT-IT) meeting.

Haiku-a-day

Shamus.txt - A work in progress - a tribute to hard nosed gumshoes and the dames that just seem to fall for 'em...

HIDS - Host-based Intrusion Detection System

Ceramic sculpture study - hand building with slabs

Neural network research

Assistant Director for "Cell" - Owensboro Mystery Festival June 13th - 20th


[This list appears in the sidebar of Pa^2 Patois. It will be updated appropriately there as list items come and go.]

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