Arthur James's Open Salon Blog

The Return of the sexual priestess? huh? kind-of-blue?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:09:50 -0400

I don't know about the latest masturbation theories of ducks, geese, poodles, and human beings. I guess 'theoretically' it may be possible to me married to a quack with a paid staff from Monsanto and use children, flowers, and green grass?

Garbage!

Toxic dump!

Nasty cracker!

Parrot ate baloney?

Maybe we need to go to India and sit along a polluted river and pray to pro?

The bloated dead goats?

One thing is certain? huh?

We are together gazing into the phenomena here @ Open Salon too learn.

Maybe we scream:`

What in tarnation?

We can yodel @ OS!

Ahoy! Ah! Enlighten!

Amy? You be lovable?

Ya a Tantric goddess?

Ya will laps dance too?

Ya will be obscure too?

Ya a high brow disguise!

Ya teach ancient Tao too?

Ya gonna help enlighten?

We sit at Ya feet and web.

Welcome Congratulation.

You can be a New Divinity.

This is clear as any pure bell.

A sound of true refreshment.

Personal message to Jebbie ref:`G. Greenwald.

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:09:43 -0400

This is a personal message to Jebbie @ Salon.

Jebbie placed a comment on Glenn Greenwald.

I never comment on any of the www.Salon.com.

Two names I used was:`bebop-o and GoodCelery!

Thanks Jebbie.

I got banned.

I call it`barns.

O so- heehaw

Pedinska is still feisty and She grows banana trees.

She gave my son a potted banana tree that is hardy.

She says the banana tree will die back and flourish.

The potted banana tree She gave is a cherished gift.

I can't comment there. I am saying:`Howdy Jebbie.

Thanks for the book Ya sent via cranky:`Pedinska.

Love a book? Tim O'Brian. "The Things they Carry."

I recommend the O'Brien book. We still kick a mule.

we moo like a Hereford moo cow and rooster cackle.

serious. I was browsing the blogosphere this morn.

Thanks for the thought and the book you sent me.

A P- 38 peanut-butter can opener weighs a Pale ail.

I forgot I left my green P- 38 in the `Nam jungles.

A dead human beings is real heavy. You need 4- GI!

I told Michelle Obama? "I loved you!" huh? I sure do!

She hugged my best Friend who is only 5- 1/2 years old.

It was yesterday at a White House Farm Market by a V.A.

I hope Michelle helps me stay out of jail! I fear obese cells!

I am not good at getting acquainted with white collar crooks!

Hi?

huh?

okay.

shush.

after a read from:`Kate Bishop.

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:09:23 -0400

Sweet, sweet is the greeting of the eyes,

And sweet is the voice in its greeting,

When adieus have grown old and goodbyes

Fade away where old Time is retreating.

Warm the nerve of a welcoming hand,

And earnest a kiss on the brow,

When we meet over sea and o'er land

Where furrows are new to the plough.

What lurk beneath? "If this be treason, make the most of it"

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:09:21 -0400

"Give me liberty, or give me death."

"These are the times that try men's [and Ladies] souls."

"I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country."

"Don't fire [postal clerk] till you see the whites of their eyes."

"I can't tell a lie."

What do those words mean? What are the real stories behind them?

"We hold these truths" ....

Patrick Henry may never have said:`If this is treason, make the most of it.

The Stamp Act became law in 1765. This required colonist to pay for postage to affix to legal papers and love letters. The troops, after all, needed to be paid. Troops were to protect colonial land grabbers who loved to rob Native Folk from their well tended Real Estate. Well?

You know that the invading French and Indians wanted territory too. The people were getting inflamed. People everywhere began believing that these taxes were in bad taste. They were violation- taxes. The lightening and thunder roaring was beginning to rumble. The ferment was felt too.

Patrick Henry addressed the Virginia House of Burgesses. Here's how [howling] William Wirt described the scene in his biography, which was first published in 1817:`

Henry exclaimed in a voice of thunder, and with a look of a god:`Cesar had his Brutas - Charles the First, his Cromwell - and George the Third - ('Treason!'

Cried Patrick Henry the speaker - Treason, treason! Echoed from every part of the house .... Henry faltered not for an instant; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis)--may profit from their example.

"If this be treason, make the most of it." Did Henry say that? I don't know.

One eyewitness quoted by Wirt was a young student of law, Thomas Jefferson. "I well remember the cry treason," Jefferson told Wirt, "the pause of Mr. Henry at the name of George 111, and the presence of mind he closed his sentence, and baffled the charge vociferated."

Henry stirred citizens and strongly was condemming the acts of Parliament. A chasm was deepening. Henry put it in this writ way:`

Light and heat were seen and felt throughout the continent; and ... everywhere there was talk about colonial liberty ... The spirit of great resistance became bolder and bolder, until the continent was in a flame."

Words get overshadowed. Henry latter commented:`No taxation without representation." There were eyewitnesses and people took sides. People were becoming horrified. The most "sober and virtuous part of these audiences ... some of whom did murmur at the time, 'treason! treason!"

Despite the claim of Henry's 1776 response to the cries of treason, it's by no means clear he ever suggested making the most of it. Biographer and historian Mr. Wirt's recollections were compiled decades after the event. In 1921 an anonymous Frenchman - whose report was written just one day after the speech in a private journal declares a different story:`

Henry confronted with the accusation of treason, immediately apologized to the entire audience and pledged loyalty to the king. Personally, I (me) find this very interesting.

The Frenchman wrote:`

Shortly after I came in, one of the members stood up and said he had read in former times Tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he did not doubt that some good Americans would stand up, in favor of his country, but (say he) in a more moderate manner, and was going to continue, when the speaker of the house rose and said, he, the last that stood up had spoken treason, and was sorry to see that not one of the members of the house was loyal enough to stop him, before he had gone too far.

Henry was backpedaling recognizing he has gone too far? Was Wirts account, then, no different from those of Parson Weems, the biographer of George Washington who invented a story of chopping down the pretty cherry tree?

Patrick Henry gave a speech. It "seized the pillars of the temple, shook them terribly, and seemed to threaten his opponents with ruin" ...

And it's written "the fainthearted gathered courage ... And cowards became the era's of the heroes, while they gazed upon their exploits."

My o day, wild.

I just don't know.

I know I gotta behave.

I'll clean cans from farm trucks.

"E Pluribus Unum"

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:09:30 -0400

" Pluribus Unum"

Having declared independence, the Continental Congress needed an emblem for the new nation. I know it is not July 4. But, Congress named John Adams. Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson --- three of the five men who were assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence --- to design a "a device for a seal for the United States of America."

From a letter to his wife, Abigail, we know that Sam Adams (loved a good beer brew?) suggested a image of Hercules. Jefferson suggested the image of the children of Israel in the wilderness. Franklin wanted a picture of Moses parting the Red Sea. He wanted Pharaoh being engulfed by he waters, along with the motto:`

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. I feel I need to say this:`

~ off-focus?

I personally espouse a politics of nonviolence. Years ago, at DC's Institute For Policy Studies, I took a noncredit course on Non`Violence with Coleman McCarthy. I also took The Fellowship of Reconciliation's course on Nonviolence at 'Kirkridge' center to think through these past living, and very concerned people. I believe we people must also be our generation of humans who espouse Reason and Non Hate ideology/philosophy. I got a scroll-paper to prove that I ain't a- fibbing! Ay, honest. I just want to be clear ref:` nonviolence.

I don't want another pain in the neck job. I just saying:`I farm for free! Buy green manure seeds, clover cover crops, and broad-caste well composted horse manure. I did send a few farm interns to a Amish Horse Workshop. They got a certificate and learned:`How to saddle up a horse plow and wagon team. Giddy Whoa. The next door neighbors have five beautiful black mules who go:` heehaw. Horse neigh. Love thy human neighbors who heehaw. okay.

~ try to foci/okay.

The Congressional people were unable to agree.

Finally, 'E Pluribus Unum' - *Out of Many, One.*

Congress ignored it. They turned the nasty problem over to its secretary, Charles Thomson. He incorporated features of all other previous designs. The bald eagle got its prominent place on the seal and was thanked for bringing back 'E Pluribus Unum' from the first design. Two other Latin phrases were added to the seal:`

1) 'Annuit Coeptis' - He has favored our undertaking. (He can be culturally expounded on ... in my personal opine. It does not offend, if understood)

2) 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' - A New Order of the Ages. I'll banter a few thoughts:`

Wheels roll slow? A plow mule may step out of line. Beast, like a human too - a beast snorts and plows a corn row. Diversity is the natural order.

Foci! okay.

Finally, six years latter, the seal was approved. Those radicals cared (radical means:`grounded). The designers of the Declaration of Independence didn't use horse and mule analogies? I don't know?

That's my rant/vent. Marriage is similar to being behind a mule jackass who emits gas? If Ya stay at 'it' and toot in the bedroom too ... Ya may fall back in step somedays? We can gently march to a cadence of harmonious steps? Maybe? Sometimes?

I know some people do. Yea!

Focus.

Clearly. The idea is:`out of many states (there were 13- states back then) came out:`One nation. The origin of the phrase is a bit murkier and m mustier. Scholars trace it back to the Roman poet Virgil. Virgil's Father had farm land stolen.

'Moretum' tells of a farmer who mixes various ingredients into a salad dressing.

The poem uses the phrase:`e pluribus unus.

But, the words are not exactly the same-same. Virgil was describing how out of many herbs, and other nutritious and natural ingredients comes a dressing of a single color. But, another classicist, the respectable, Monroe E. Deutsch .... puts it:`The idea of a 'salad of states' hardly seems the case and appropriate happy one... analogy. I like the salad mix analogy tho ...

Horace was another Roman poet that some trace back to, or the lover of logic -the philosopher, Augustine. Besides, many of the founders and their partners/wives were well versed in the classic writs. People use to think!

This is interesting:`There was a 'Gentleman's Magazine' with that title published in London and read on both sides of the Atlantic:` E Pluribus Unum' was published in 1734. The publishers explained:`The choice of this phrase in verse:`

'E Puribus Unum' :`

To your motto most true, for our monthly inspection,

Yo mix various rich sweets in one fragrant collection.

The Editors of the magazine may have been inspired.

Was it Virgil, or Horace, or Augustine. The magazine?

B. Franklin clearly had a knack for mottoes. Remember?

Ben Franklin suggested:`Rebellion to tyrants? Obey creep?

He said things like:`Join or Die. Whatever the origins of:`

'E Pluribus Unum' - the meaning has changed over times.

We people need to unify more than 13- states. So celebrate!

Celebrate. Respect the increasingly diverse American people!

Like the lyrics to the song:`Yankee Doodle' ... it makes sense?

The etymology of 'yankee' is particularly murky. The Yankoos.

Yankoos were tribes. Colonialist said:`'Um are hard to defeat.

Yankee has even been traced to Persian 'jangbe' as in Jenghis.

Or, Genghis Khan. Doodle is easy to explain. A Doodle is silly.

huh? a country bumpkin. a sort of noodle. a dandy ate pasta?

No. He dressed a odd style to artificial city slicks. O Macaroni!

When "Yankee Doodle" was sung on a pony who ridiculed Ya!

I think people who dress in expensive threads look dandy huh?

Ah!

The next time I ride to DCs towns, I'll sell no feathers in baloney?