Con C. I love how you survived with a name Cornelius.
I was named A.V.L. James 111. The third ain't too royal.
If the Koch guys use libertarian labels. Buy 'Bag Balm'
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Are you sure you are not -
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Disneyland cashier
scolded for displaying
an abundance of glee
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In BC (before computers) past days a door opened to a Welsh Lake (I'm from a Wales ancestry)
and one who dared open a rock-boulder with a door (secret passage)
were led to a secret island - lake`
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On the exquisite island was a garden.
Gwragedd Annwn feted every Guest.
Visitors were fed every manner. Fruit.
They were given flowers and heard. Music.
The Faeries entertained with wondrous. Secret.
The Guest were invited to stay as long as`Forever.
However, they were warned the Place was`Secret.
Nothing could be taken away. Nothing was`Stolen.
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One day a visitor pocketed a flower he was `Offered.
He was wrong to think the flower would brink`Luck.
The moment the thief touched 'unhallowed' a`Wow!
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Other Guest to the enchanted Place (Beautiful Garden)
were bid farewell. The door in the rock remained closed.
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Fun read
NYC kook
think loot
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Woe lucre
Oh fools
Wastrels
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French nude beach . . .
Queens podiatrist staring
at a bunion

"Queens podiatrist staring at a bunion"--you stole that line from Ezra Pound, didn't you?

Con Chapman . . .

I will send you a pallet of Swiss Cheese.

Dr. Pat still makes a lanolin sheep salve.

I swear On a Stack of Blue Cheese to You.

Next barter we agree upon - I send some.

Bag Balm can be used for Koch groin itch.

Con C. We had a sad funeral. I missed it.
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I stayed on my porch and nibbled cheese.
My Guest was more fun than honey brew.
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Sad/Sigh
He was 49
He died
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beloved biker . . .
ninety-three 'Harley' riders
following his hearse
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My mom made me promise her three things: that I'd never get a tattoo, that I'd never knock over a gravestone, and that I'd never ride a motorcycle. So far I've been able to resist all three.

Oops
I forgot
My Guest
She twenty-two
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I'll ask her to shop
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Found at Pawn Shop
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Con Chapman's hat?
She'll locate one hat?
She's cute as pumpkin.
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proudly wearing
a shirt three sizes too small
stating Worlds Best Lawyer'
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apologies - No sue senyru poet
Robert H. Deluty sue Con C. too?

I don't know that it's fair to compare the two. On one hand you have one who builds wealth and creates mainly union jobs. The other one is know for bring down the currency of a nation almost destroying it.

Build it up or rip it up, let me think about that one.

You know I never knew much about the Koch brothers until I started blogging and then this potful of hate began to build. Is there one worse than the others?
I used to donate to my Mummy Susan g Komen thinking she was doing a lot for our women and breast cancer. Of course they are no longer funding Planned Parenthood so PP is going to be my mummy now. Okay it's not political but it is in a way as more and more things are taken away from women now and to me that is political.

HUGGGGGGGGGGG

Con C. You can lobby in New York City.

Ask that no 'Rolling Rock' beer be served.
Why doesn't the beer man yodel`Hot Tea!
Lobby that Yankees brewer drink catnip.
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Yankee Stadium . . .
hearing the umpire cursed out
in five languages
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Con C. Lawyers never return books.
No lend tour lover, beer, tool, pot,
or
your garden tool hoe to wild cats.
Oho.
Lawyers never return my old hoe.
Ignore
hi Hannah
Please behave
Your husband
He like Con C..
He sip cheap
'Rolling Rock'
awful beers
he upchucks
no clean up
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In my mind there's nothing wrong with trading foreign exchange--farmers and manufacturers do it as well as speculators. I just have a hard time understanding why a guy who sets off financial panics in both first and third world markets is more moral than a banker who makes a loan that enables somebody to buy a house.

My mom would say, "A pox on both their houses!"

Or as Daniel Moynihan said about the Iran-Iraq war, "Isn't there some way they could both lose?"

My dad sported a tattoo, but he told me if I came home with an earring, I'd better be a pirate. I did ride a motorcycle. My left side, and my left knee in particular, came to regret that decision when I t-boned a '57 Buick.

3-hole Buick, or the rare, seldom-seen 4-hole?

As for your piece in the BH, I think both the Kochs and Soros are examples of what is wrong with capitalism, or at least the kind of capitalism we currently suffer under. They may look at campaign contributions as their right and duty as citizens, but they aren't fooling the rest of us.

Or perhaps I should say, they aren't fooling those of us who are paying attention to what happens as a result of these contributions. These are investments that pay handsome -- or should I say ugly and obscene -- dividends. In truth, they are nothing more than legalized bribes.

At least you call 'em like an honest ref. Too many people I know on both ends of the spectrum think money in politics is like violence in hockey--it's only bad when the other side uses it.