Statistically speaking, it’s an old dog anniversary
22 de Maio de 2017, 8:22
I received a WordPress congratulation message yesterday. This blog is a year old.
Wow!
Leanne and I were reminiscing about the humble goals and objectives I started with a year ago and I confess to mild amazement at the way this idea has manifested into a core part of my life, and for some of you, I think, of yours also.
The most Liked/most Viewed poem in the first year of the blog was a piece called ‘Old Dogs‘. For this anniversary, I’ve decided to republish Old Dogs, with a picture of the other old dog featured in the piece.
Thank you to everyone who reads here, I hope you enjoy and keep enjoying the work that ends up here.
Leelu
Old Dogs
we’re tired dogs
we seem to want
to go to bed together
at the exact same time
I hit the sack
in…
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Michael Simms: US involvement in Yemen Civil War Continues to Grow under Trump
22 de Maio de 2017, 8:21
While the American mainstream media is diligently reporting on the scandal of Melania not wearing a headscarf in Riyadh and cheering the triumph of her husband not bowing to the Saudi King as his predecessor did, the rogue elephant in the palace is being largely ignored. On Saturday Trump signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The weapons sale, the largest single arms deal in American history, will according to Trump “help the Saudi military take a greater role in security operations.”
More specifically, the sale will further enable the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition to carry out additional war crimes and add to fatalities in the war on the impoverished Arab country of Yemen. In addition to the death toll from bombs, the Yemeni people are now dying of hunger and cholera.
The roots of the Yemeni war go back to the Arab Spring in 2011…
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Trova do sorriso
21 de Maio de 2017, 20:28
Sorria, ilustração de John Atherton, 1948, capa, Saturday Evening Post.
O sorriso é flor de sebe,
perfume de resedá.
Anima a quem o recebe,
embeleza a quem o dá.
(Nair Starling)
O CALIFADO DE CURITIBA, CAI JUNTO COM AÉCIO
21 de Maio de 2017, 19:25
Por Carlos Henrique Machado Freitas
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