AT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AT EVERY STREET CORNER

Unites States Custom and Border Protection has issued another pamphlet as to where and how illegal immigrants hide to blend in with the populace. Most amass at street corners, in schools, out of schools, in supermarkets and at the local Cineplex, if not at the beach, vulnerable areas within the social fabric. Their key decoy is apparent citizenship, but overall, their short dark looks are a dead giveaway that the entire country is targeted by this so called Mexican take over plot. At first these people will claim their name is Sanchez, then call themselves Wilson, in an effort to befuddle those they work for and to send them in for a psych evaluation. While the boss is gone, they will throw parties to fund raise and celebrate their own systemic invasion of American soil.

Ground Zero Muslim Center replaced by a hot dog stand

After weeks of contentiousness, the downtown Muslim Center is being substituted by a hot dog stand to please both sides. "We ascertained the hot dogs would be all beef and kosher" said a proponent of Obama's what-were-they-thinking-of approach to the Center's problem. Another out of towner, who included Ground Zero as a visitor's stop on her city tour, said: "It's so much better this way: it's a pause that refreshes on an otherwise busy tour schedule. I always feed my french poodle some as a quick meal on the go". For the opposing side, Newt Gingrich was happy that the old New York architecture was giving way to a populist metal stand to symbolize the effort to keep the poor poor and the rest meat eaters. A Tea Party member said he thought not selling biscuits to throw at immigrants and foreign tourists a minus, but he could always pack his own.

AND SO IT GOES

Yesterday 250,000 Gaza children destrapped from their atomic zap guns to fly a Guinness world record breaking number of kites;

(RAI 3 notizie, 17.00, www.rai.it 8/11/10)

Senator Lindsey Graham, Arizona, is now interested in altering the 14th amendment of the U.S. constitution so as to imitate the Bossi-Fini law in denying citizenship to children born in this country;

(Newsweek, August 9, 2010 page 9 The Next Immigration)

As Proposition 8, declaring same sex marriages illegal, has been finally put to rest by a federal judge, Mexico is declaring the unions legal in all of the country, not only the zone they're celebrated in (think of the absurdity of this parochialism. Think of the advantages for the adulterous spouse: married only from 10:3If you time travel using the same logic an adulterous spouse can have a heyday: married from 10:00 to 12:00, a break for lunch)...

Not learning from past mistakes, such as forcing people to pay a fine for not enrolling in a health plan (declared unconstitutional) and supporting suicide or homicide in circumstances of extreme stress, NOW the Obama administration has signed into law 26 billion in assistance to save 300,000 public sector jobs, half of which teacher's but added a 12 billion cut in food stamps, beginning 2014. Hawaii closed its schools on 27 fridays due to a severe budget crisis, but how good is it to have people starve or eat life shortening food to make ends meet? Last I calculated I need at least 400 dollars a month to eat nutritionally sound food, and the food stamp maximum is 200 a month. If you call Human Resource Administration, the recording has the grace to say that food stamps help with food purchases, but when the rent assistance maximum is about 500, I'd like to know where these families live and shop. It's not in New York: a gallon of milk still without magnesium needed for calcium absorption but with the latter mineral, phosphorus and vitamin D is 4 dollars a half gallon, and you need three cups a day. On top of which vitamin and mineral supplements are full of phosphates, banned from sale in this state as in many others, and insoluble micro materials which can accumulate internally, if not aluminum, found in high concentrations in Alzheimer harmed people. What the hell are they thinking of?

(Democracy now, August 11, 2010)

and here a story in today's New York Times, Nation section, "In the rearview mirror, Oklahoma and Death Row", in Dan Barry, This Land:

James Fisher is named in a murder by another and sentenced to death with the help of two defense attorneys, one E. Melvin Porter, anti-gay at the time, and Johnny Albert who actually threatens Mr. Fisher's life, mind clouded with too much cocaine. The third attorney, Mr. Hudson, is the clincher-breaker and frees Mr. Fisher after he pleads guilty, since the new law requires a plea from death row inmates, leading to freedom but banishment from the state of Oklahoma. Now he's in a re-entry program sustained by Alabama's Equal Justice Initiative.

WOMEN IN BLACK



Every wednesday Women in Black meet in front of the Schwartzman library, New York Library's main building off 42nd on 5th avenue to protest the war, all wars,and all facile solutions to living, in a nation or in oneself.

WHY WIKILEAKS WHEN YOU CAN FROLICK IN FLIM FLAM?

Pentagon officials are requesting Wikileaks cease publishing war documents and go away while they lower the civilian death count in Helman province to 6 (39 instead) and have President Obama support mental health, suicide hotlines and help for soldiers who are facing a rise in suicides comparable to those occurred in the Vietnam war, but does not send letters of condolescence to who had taken their lives, such as to Gregg Keesling, father of Chancellor and to Kevin and Joyce Lucey, parents of Jeffrey?

See democracynow.org

GENE RUFFINI

Author of 2 books, multiple magazine articles, poems and plays, one of the latter collected in an anthology of Italian American authors to be published this October.

He sent me 4 poems to publish on this blog, and I present you with them all. The first two are an ontological key to understand life, the latter in function of migration and labor, patriotism, and war.

AGE

when old hopes are lost

life can begin again

a chance unseen by most

though a new way is open

they are smote by defeat

unwilling to fight

though hearts still beat

to place day over night

You can struggle in the bog of time

or forget and start anew

cutting memory's strangling vine

shouting you are never through

while blood runs and the years beckon

with fresh prizes to be taken.



DEATH

Death may be expected or no

even invited by some,

but always with sorrow in tow

a dark emptiness unwelcome

And loss becomes just memories

sights and sounds within the mind

of what will never again be

therefore of cold death be resigned

think not of its finality

but do frolic fully in love,

of flesh and festivity

life's here not below or above

There is nothing after the end

so waste not the journey there

but on joy and bliss depend

and with a lover curtain cares

of razored rocks, blows and tears

and steep mountains you must climb

til death comes at the end of years

or at the appointed time.



Ellis Island Wall

Columns of names etched in black granite

each a vessel if dreams and hopes

Courageous people holding their fears tight

in a new land of unknown scope.

My father's name was on that lengthy list

A lone traveler at sixteen

His kin in Italy forever missed

As he faced a fate unforeseen

A boy among thousands on strange new shores

but first there was Ellis Island

examinations, questions ever more

on money, health, lessons learned and unlearned

He came here with only twenty dollars

five less than the sum required

and clothing hardly more than those he wore

but there was work and he had been hired

He labored Day One in America

Always with aching back and bone

A man of strong will and hard character

Who left his name inscribed in stone



Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam siren summons young men and young women,

to save we who are so good from those who are evil,

to fight in strange streets or fetid jungles near Phnom Penh,

and lose life and limb in a dark world of upheaval.

But Uncle Sam has a corporate belly of greed,

and lies to send youth to suffer and die in false war

blown up by bombs or sliced by bullets and who then bleed

so that those who already have can get more and more.