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A Balkanization too far: taking back The United Counties of America

By ann summers Malheur Wildlife Refuge’s standoff even with its indicted malingerers demonstrates the abject FAIL of the Bundystani attempt to create a county-level bantustan near Burns, Oregon. However, chances are the armed farces now cruising Burns in their flag-flying pickup trucks have nothing … Continue reading

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Word Cloud: KNOWLEDGE

by Nona Blyth Cloud Rita Dove, United States Library of Congress Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, served two terms: 1993-94 and 1994-95. She has the distinction of being the first African-American, AND at age 40, the youngest poet to be appointed … Continue reading

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Word Cloud: AFRICA

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD One of the things that shocked me during my long-ago-summer-back-packing-through-Europe was the vast difference in scale between Europe and the United States. Greece, the “Birthplace of Western Civilization,” is about the size of Louisiana. Italy, wellspring … Continue reading

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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency

By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ.  Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading

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After week III, another two months of Bundystani insurgency, now with moronic extra-Constitutionality

By ann summers Evoking New York language values, Slate magazine has now labeled the East Oregon Bundystani as Jamokes trying to enforce Shania(sic) Law in an incursion by outsiders. We may not understand public land laws, but we understand how to … Continue reading

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Word Cloud: BARD

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Monday, January 25, will be the 257th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759–1796), forever the National Bard of Scotland. A widely celebrated event in his country and in many places around the world known as Burns Night, … Continue reading

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Bundystan now riddled with bulletpoints as Fluffy Unicornists seek Freedom Vanilla creamer

By ann summers TarpBoy LaVoy, the Fluffy Unicorn whisperer of Eastern Oregon, like most of his band of Unicornists has been coming out from his tarp in anticipation of Groundhog Day, one of the few days in Pennsylvania where fewer … Continue reading

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Word Cloud: BEGINNINGS

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD For there’s more enterprise In walking naked     – William Butler Yeats, “A Coat” from A Cloak by Denise Levertov And I walked naked from the beginning breathing in my life, breathing out poems,   … Continue reading

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Fluffy Unicornists prepared to announce their withdrawal plan: “Honor without Prosecution”

  one persons’s paramilitary cosplay & Roman fasces is another’s…red crayon By ann summers While tarp boy LaVoy announced that the Bundy gang will reveal their “exit Plan” on Friday at 7pm at a venue yet to be determined although the Burns, … Continue reading

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David Bowie Dead at 69

OED defines the icon as “a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.” Icon is bandied about rather casually these days, especially in the realm of entertainment. However, it is hard to argue that … Continue reading

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