Duking it Out in Delaware: Republican Candidates Battling for Senate Primary Win
by Lauren Torlone | September 11, 2010
Voters in 7 states and the District of Columbia will head to the polls Tuesday, in what will be the last major primary before midterm election day on November 2nd. One state that's being closely watched is Delaware, where Christine O'Donnell is competing against Congressman Mike Castle in the state's Republican Senate primary.
Recent polling from Rasmussen Reports gives Castle a thirty point advantage over O'Donnell, a gap some political analysts think she can overcome, despite some image setbacks during her campaign.
In recent weeks, O'Donnell has faced questions surrounding her finances and college education. O'Donnell officially earned her diploma from Farleigh Dickinson University earlier this month, even though she attended the school more than twenty years ago. Sean Trende, Senior Elections Analyst at Real Clear Politics says in spite of setbacks, "in the year of the Tea Party, anything can happen in Delaware." O'Donnell is backed by the Tea Party Express, the same group that helped Joe Miller to victory over Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's Republican Senate primary.
Also buoyed by recent endorsements from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and the National Rifle Association, Trende says O'Donnell is in a "competitive situation" against Castle. If accurate, an impressive feat given Castle is a long-established candidate who "has had a chance to prepare" for a race against O'Donnell.
While O'Donnell's high profile endorsements lend publicly to her candidacy, Trende cautions her own public profile is smaller within the state, something that could help Castle in Delaware "where he's probably met most of the citizens over the course of his career."
The winner of Tuesday's vote will go on to face Democrat Chris Coons. Polling data of a match-up between Castle and Coons gives Castle an eleven point lead over Coons, while a pairing of Coons versus O'Donnell puts Coons ahead by 11 points heading into November.
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If the Tea Party pulls this one out of the hat, watch out.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best year for challengers that I've ever seen. With just a little money for yard signs if nothing else, people get themselves elected to office.
ReplyDeleteI hope she pulls it out. Nothing like shaking up the establishment.
ReplyDeletePolling data of a match-up between Castle and Coons gives Castle an eleven point lead over Coons, while a pairing of Coons versus O'Donnell puts Coons ahead by 11 points heading into November.
ReplyDeleteAll this time I thought that the objective was for the Republicans to win the Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden.
There is a 22 point swing to the Democrats if O'Donnell wins the GOP primary.
Go O'Donnell ?!?!?
Castle is a "big time" RINO. I would just as soon see the Dem get it as Castle.
ReplyDeleteNot much difference in the way they will vote, and with Coons the Dems get the blame, and not the Pubs.
Castle is desperate and trashing her big time. I can't stand that kind of campaign.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican "Party" is helping him do it. They, recently, sued her for getting "help" from the Tea Party. They're trying to claim it is an "illegal contribution."
ReplyDeleteI think she might win.
This is the damnedest Populist uprising in the history of the Republic.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of funny, really. If I was a politician I'd be a RINO; BUT, I'm supporting the "crazies" big time.
ReplyDeleteI just love to see the politicians "at war." That way they're less liable to have time for their war on me, and mine.
The most dangerous thing in the world is a bunch of politicians "in agreement."
ReplyDeleteThis is another important election:
ReplyDeleteTurks vote in divisive referendum
If the ruling party is successful, we could see a model being developed. The news articles are not in depth but they indicate that the ruling AKP (Islamist party) is vying to let wrest control of the judiciary and put curbs on the military.
I think the AKP probably thinks it is shameful that Turkey is not an Islamic republic.
In at least one state the legislature only meets every other year. That seems eminently sensible to me.
ReplyDeletePolitics is fascinating. Who would believe you if you told them 80% of American Muslims preferred George Bush in 2000 over Al Gore?
ReplyDeleteThe theme of the week is: "Americans against Islam"
ReplyDeleteThe grass roots Tea Party is trying to send a message that pragmatic politics as usual is no longer acceptable. The Republicans are trying to be pragmatic in the face of what they see as self defeating idealism. In Florida, initially, they threw their weight behind the RINO Charlie Crist until Rubio's numbers changed the tune.
ReplyDeleteBoth Rubio and O'Donnel seem young for the Senate but that's where some of the fresh faces are coming from; youth.
She'll win, hasn't Sara endorsed her?
ReplyDeleteWe used to meet only every other year, Ruf. We should go back to that.
Will Rogers said to send'em home, and then when we find something we miss we'll bring'em back.
ReplyDeleteIt's awfully quiet.
ReplyDeleteJust post something about'em all being a bunch of morons, Trish.
ReplyDeleteThat got'em going yesterday.
Rufus, there's something very strange going on here.
ReplyDeleteOr I really am losing my mind.
With just a little money for yard signs if nothing else, people get themselves elected to office.
ReplyDeleteSigns that say "Flip this House 2010"
Of course it's entirely possible that I really am losing my mind.
ReplyDeleteTrish, there's ALWAYS been somethin "Strange" goin on here.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just your Sanity coming back. :)
It's the "silly season," Patricia. The Election draws near.
ReplyDeleteEverybody wants to vote, and Nobody can stand Any of the politicians.
If there was the "Will Rogers Proposal" on the ballot (ie. send'em all home,) the politicos woud have a one-year "vacation."
Unpaid.
Your sane as Aristotle, Trish. Sanest one around the bar.
ReplyDeleteJust think about the rest of us a little while, you'll see what I mean :)
I didn't get to sleep till about three last night and just woke up it's about 11 here but that's 8 hours anyway.
'Unpaid pay czar' got 6-figure salary
ReplyDeleteWho ARE you?
ReplyDeleteBut I did figure out your dream.
ReplyDeleteIt was a portent of a huge Republican sweep this November.
That is why you are upset. From your point of view the world is loosing its collective mind all round you.
Actually my dream had to do with Melody.
ReplyDeletetrish said:
ReplyDeleteActually my dream had to do with Melody.
But not to do with Melody the way I would do Melody, I trust.
Rufus, there's something very strange going on here.
ReplyDeleteOr I really am losing my mind.
Was ist los ittle ein?
No!
ReplyDeleteWe have something in common.
Serious question for QUIRK.
If you've had kidney stones, were you prescribed something to dissolve them? Or a diet?
Fearful minds are anxious to know.
Dad had to have an operation.
"But not to do with Melody the way I would do Melody, I trust."
ReplyDeleteUm, yeah. Not that kind of dream.
Cherry juice, Bob, but as a preventative measure. Gout and Kidney stones are the same thing, precipitated uric acid crystals in places where you really, really don't want them to be.
ReplyDeleteTrish wans to know who somebody ARE.
ReplyDeleteWho are the somebody you want to know the "areness" of, Trish?
...precipitated uric acid crystals...
ReplyDeleteI did not know that.
I Googled Ralph Lauren driving mocs last night.
ReplyDeleteI ended up at a website that knew my name.
Signs that say "Flip this House 2010"
ReplyDeleteI like it! or maybe "Flip the House 2010"
We could bill it as the "Ultimate Reality Show"
She found calcium something or other in my urine this time around, said it might indicate kidney stones. I've been drinking a lot of cherry juice. I have a three page printout of every last item about me. I'm in pretty good shape, save the stones and possible cancer. :)
ReplyDeleteDid that place have ugly earth shoes?
ReplyDeleteWe have all possible cancer. What's yours all about? And while we're discussing your health, are you still not smoking?
ReplyDeleteIs it too much to ask what the whole point of this is?
ReplyDeleteCherry juice works for gout, but it's a little slow. Indomethicin takes it immediately away. You can control it with diet and drink. I have.
ReplyDeleteWhen dad had his operation which went well Dr Jensen, an old family farm descendant we all know well. forgot to put the little gas vent in his side, he gassed up like a sick cow, extreme pain, Jensen comes in, shit he says, we forgot the gas vent, we'll stick him with a---and I forget the name of the farm tool--like we used to do with sick blotted cattle. :)
They put the tube in, he was soon all right again. It was kinda funny but not from dad's point of view.
Life is tough, out west.
Man is a social animal.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's a sufficient answer.
ReplyDeleteI strongly suggest reading the thread from the top down.
ReplyDeleteI've relapsed on the smoking, but have cut down a lot. Am still working on it.
ReplyDeleteMy need to try to pee when I'm basically dry comes from possible prostate cancer. I go to a specialist in November for some really powerful x-rays that will finally tell the story. There's an outside chance I may have kidney or bladder cancer, but I don't think so, as this has gone on so long, I'd be dead by now. She doesn't think so either. Also the x-rays will reveal any kidney stones. So I'm in limbo till then, but sleeping like a baby. Almost worth it.
If I read the threads from the bottom up, I might think I was losing mind.
ReplyDelete"I strongly suggest..."
ReplyDeleteI don't follow direction too well.
Good luck with that, bob.
ReplyDeleteAs for the smoking, I suggest Equate nicotine gum from Walmart. Feed's the nic addition without the carcinogens. Plus, it's a whole lot cheaper.
But opponents of the changes say they constitute an orchestrated power grab aimed at undermining the secular order established by the country’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923 and giving the religious conservatives power over the military and judiciary, the last independent guardians of the secular state.
ReplyDelete“The suggested changes are nothing more than the ruling party trying to convert institutions that do not favor their government, closer to their side,” said Sedat Ergin, a columnist of Hurriyet, a leading newspaper. “After these changes, all we would be left with will be a system lacking checks and balances.”
Analysts say the vote will have profound consequences for upcoming general elections in the spring. A yes vote would strongly buttress the government, whose popularily has waned in recent months as the economy has faltered, as well as Mr. Erdogan’s chances of winning a third successive election victory.
Ataturk's Secular Vision Takes a Hit
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cG8CaS-pw:>Landslide</a> and lyrics
ReplyDeleteI'll take it as a sign if Turkey goes religious.
ReplyDeleteMan is a social animal.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but also in need of solitude.
The trick is to establish a rhythm between the two, a back and forth.
There are different cuases for kidney stones Bob.
ReplyDeleteExcess calcium is one of them.
If it's kidney stones, you should have blood in your urine.
Why are they waiting intil November
If nothing else, the Bar has improved my sex life.
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't that a little strange?
Quirk, how's it going today, young man?
ReplyDeleteFeeling better? worse?
BTW - When you're feeling better, I could use some help trimming hedges. No ladders needed.
If nothing else, the Bar has improved my sex life.
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't that a little strange?
Strange? I guess so!
The Bar improved it? How do you figure that?
"The Bar improved it? How do you figure that?"
ReplyDeleteThe art of suggestion.
From the NYTimes:
ReplyDeleteTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish voters approved a sweeping package of constitutional reforms by a wide margin on Sunday, handing a major victory to the Islamist-rooted government and marking another concrete step in an inexorable shift in power away from the secular Westernized elite that has governed modern Turkey for most of its history.
We'll see where they go from here.
Erdogan on the victory:
ReplyDelete“The main message out of the ballot boxes is that our nation said yes to advanced democracy,...
Okay, that sounds good.
... yes to freedoms, yes to the superiority of law — not the law of the superiors... —
Good, good.
...and yes to the sovereignty of national will,” he said.
Ooooooh, hmmmm, what do you have in mind?
When do I regain my privacy?
ReplyDeleteFeeling better? worse?
ReplyDeleteOk. Thanks for asking.
These things always get worse before they get better but that is what I expected.
However, I've been through this stuff before and have the routine down pat.
I am now in the "milk it to the degree possible" stage.
I'm pretty much restricted to the bedroom. However, it's a sunny beautiful day. I been watching animals wandering through my back yard all morning (deer, rabbits, squirrels).
I'm high on the drugs they gave me. I've got my desk, the computer, access to the bathroom, a TV in the closet for watching the Lion's game and playing X-Box.
My wife just brought me a cup of spicy tomato soup and a bowl full of dates, apricots, and figs.
I feel like Omar Khayyam.
Life is good (kinda).
.
Oh, and I did notice that 'young man'.
ReplyDeleteThanks Whit.
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If it's kidney stones, you should have blood in your urine.
ReplyDeleteI had both red and white blood cells in my urine. The cipro took care of the whites, mostly. She didn't mention the reds.
Why are they waiting intil November
That's what I'd like to know. The specialist is here in Lewiston. I could go to Spokane I guess. Must have a full schedule, or maybe it's the first effects of ObamaCare.
Well, at least you've gotten something out of the EB, Trish :)
: )
ReplyDeleteWhen do I regain my privacy?
ReplyDeleteIt's tough with a family.
One thing I liked about farming was the balance between society and solitude. Some of these guys I talk to maybe two three times a year. Nothing overwhelming like working in an office.
Glad you're feeling more spunk, Omar.
A person can feel punk (mom's term) or spunk.
Like things are either in whack or outta whack.
T's link to the Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon movie was certainly suggestive.
ReplyDelete"One thing I liked about farming was the balance between society and solitude."
ReplyDeleteIt's an odd thing. I don't know how many people really enjoy solitude.
T's link to the Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon movie was certainly suggestive.
ReplyDeleteIt suggests the Universal Male Dream, "Can I watch?"
No. You can't.
ReplyDelete"Scientific evidence available to us within the last 100 years that was not available during Galileo's confrontation shows that the Catholic Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically supportable, but it is the most stable model of the universe and the one which best answers all the evidence we see in the cosmos."
ReplyDeleteYou can be born a Muslim. You can be born a Jew. But you can't be born a Christian. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteIt suggests the Universal Male Dream, "Can I watch?"
ReplyDeleteWhich shows you really know nothing about men, as is to be expected.
You might be projecting? :)
The desire for solitude must vary, but I think a person would be nuts not to want some of it.
I was born a Taoist, and converted to Lutheranism.
ReplyDeleteNonsense, respectfully submitted, Miss T.
Some of these states certainly have their primaries late in the political season.
ReplyDeleteHere we have them in May which is better I think, gives more time to get to know the candidates.
Bob: Nonsense, respectfully submitted, Miss T.
ReplyDeleteIf your mother is a Jew, then you are a Jew. If your father and brothers are Muslim, then you are either Muslim, or dead.
Christian worshippers attacked in Indonesia
ReplyDeleteAssailants stabbed a Christian worshipper in the stomach and pounded a minister in the head with a wooden plank as they headed to morning prayers Sunday outside Indonesia's capital.
Neither of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. But suspicion immediately fell on Islamic hard-liners who have repeatedly warned members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church against worshipping on a field housing their now-shuttered church.
In recent months, they have thrown shoes and water bottles at the church members, interrupted sermons with chants of "Infidels!" and "Leave Now!" and dumped piles of feces on the land.
Muslims Attack Christians
Mosque?
Korans?
Please.
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Gay Saudi Diplomat Friends With Jewish Woman Seeks Asylum
ReplyDeleteWhat will the big O do?
Does sound like the guy is in a lot of trouble, back home.
Once a Catholic, always a Catholic, mostly.
ReplyDeleteAnd muzzie cleric in Australia calls for beheading Gert Wilders
ReplyDeleteHe's not getting the police protection he really needs, I've read. Sarah Palin needs some body guards too.
I volunteer.
I'd take a bullet for that woman.
Quirk, I thought "People of the Book" were good to go. What's the problem, are they in arrears on their Jisya?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete...in arrears on their Jisya?
ReplyDeleteEvidently T.
Big time.
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Why, then, does the left focus so much on the Christianity of those Americans who seek rest on Sunday, try hard to stay married, view excess drinking and illegal drugs as dangerous, believe human life is sacred, want kids to read the Bible, and value prayer as an important part of life? What these good people are cleaving to is really Judaism in practice, albeit with the additional theological elements of Christianity. These social conservatives are celebrating the essential goodness of Judaism, which should be a high compliment to all Jews in America.
ReplyDeleteJudeo/Christiandom
If she enters the race, Palin will have the inside track. A recent Gallup poll found that among Republican voters, she's more popular than Abraham Lincoln, with a 76 percent favorable rating -- higher than any other potential GOP presidential candidate listed by Gallup. The nomination is starting to look like it's hers for the asking.
ReplyDeletePalin's Bubble Would
Burst If She Ran For President
Which, it seems obvious, she is doing. Maybe Deuce is right in saying she can't win.
Michael Moore is opposed to the building of the mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. He wants it built on Ground Zero.
ReplyDeleteWhy, then, does the left focus so much on the Christianity of those Americans...
ReplyDeleteThe infinity and the fact of the universe are inexplicable. Understanding is not available to limited human sensory inputs.
It's the part about a 'personal god' that divides people. I identify myself as agnostic, as opposed to atheist, but my belief system is identical to the brief synopsis posted by Desert Rat not too long ago.
One need not invoke a personal god to behave as a civilized member of society.
I will note that regardless of one's acceptance or rejection of a personal god, the belief comes from the same place - deep and traumatic personal pain. Each person makes a conscious decision which way to go.
And most of the writing and speaking on this subject is such shallow mind-numbing ankle-biting tripe that I have to move away and do something else. (ref Glen "I am an Alcoholic" Beck rallies.)
Jerry Brown Has a Big Plan to Balance California's Budget? What is it? It's a Secret! Just like Nixon's 1968 plan to get out of Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteNow Pastor Terry Jones is responsible for dead people: 3 Muslims Dead As Koran Protests Continue. If the Pastor had not scheduled a Koran Burning for 9-11, then the three people in Afghanistan would not have been executed. Yes, nominally it was other Muslims who killed the three Muslims, but actually no Muslim ever died at the hand of another Muslim. The ones who were killed were not True Muslims (cue the bagpipes).
ReplyDeleteMSNBC:Russia quelling dissent by confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software, with Microsoft's enthusiastic assistance.
ReplyDeleteI am...
ReplyDeleteOkay Melody. You're a bitch. That is awesome.
ReplyDeleteEveryone else is a dick.
Or a prick.
That is awesome, too.
So what does that make you?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that out of all those characteristics you bitch.
ReplyDeleteBecause I don't think I have ever shown that side of me on this blog.
ReplyDelete...chose bitch
ReplyDeleteAnd you are the one that asked, "Who ARE you?" Not that I think it was directed towards me but I'm game I answered.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about this dream, though.
ReplyDelete"So what does that make you?"
ReplyDeleteSomeone whose life is falling apart.
Since you asked...
ReplyDeleteI dreamed that I was competing with you. In a kind of spectator sport.
Like I said, I may actually be losing my mind.
That doesn't sound good.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't.
ReplyDeleteYou're not losing your mind. It's normal to be curious about someone you have conversations with several nights a week that you've never met or no nothing about.
ReplyDelete"Does your daughter live with you?"
ReplyDeleteYes.
Does she knows what's going on?
ReplyDelete"or no nothing about."
ReplyDeleteHangs head and sighs.
Seahawks deconstruct 49'ers 31-6.
ReplyDelete49'ers had twelve straight possessions without a first down.
"Does she knows what's going on?"
ReplyDeleteDoes she know that my computer, my tv, and my newspaper have been hacked?
What happened to your newspaper?
ReplyDeleteYou're a strong person, Trish, I can tell. You're also the kind of person who likes self control. Sleep deprivation will fuck you up. If you're feeling like you don't have that it will probably make you feel like you're going crazy.
ReplyDeleteAnd why is there a search bar at the bottom of my page?
ReplyDeleteIf I was a woman I'd miss my husband a lot if he was away so much and I worried about him.
ReplyDeleteSee even at your lowest you have to correct my grammar. You're not crazy you're OCD.
ReplyDeleteBlogger MeLoDy said...
ReplyDeleteBecause I don't think I have ever shown that side of me on this blog.
:)
Does that mean you have that side of you?
Please don't get pissed.
jokejokehahhah
You're right, sleep deprivation can really fuck a person up.
"If I was a woman I'd miss my husband a lot if he was away so much..."
ReplyDeleteYou have no fucking idea.
If he were away so much.
ReplyDeleteThat anonymous was me, bob, who always admits his many failings, takes credit for his misdeeds, I hit the wrong button.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I Wish I Were More Like Taliesin
Stead of the farmer I have been.
Was just a thought Trish.
ReplyDeleteShe isn't OCD at all, rat may be.
ReplyDeleteI've switched from my desk top to my
ReplyDeletelap top I've taken it down and stored it away. Seven times of it screwing up when I've done nothing wrong is enough. Lost all my e-mails and documents and stuff again. The hell with it.
I'm waiting.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what I'm waiting for.
I think I subconsciously misspell words just to make you crazy, cause ya know, I'm a bitch like that. ( :
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck is it with the reverse smile?
ReplyDeleteI sometimes feel I've waited all my life, and I'm older than you.
ReplyDeleteThen I more or less learned, sometimes very much less, to just take it as it comes.
Maybe I found whatever salvation I have in fly fishing, though it's more fishing in my mind now than on a real stream.
It's a left handed thing I guess. Just like I wear my watch on my right hand. But you know what? My new phone has a feature for left or right handed people.
ReplyDeleteAnd I used to worry like you wouldn't believe in my early days of farming, and woke up one morning seeing it does no good. Then I kinda got back in the habit over the world situation, where I have zero control, till Melody came through with some wise words and I switched it off again. That and the sleeping pills have helped.
ReplyDeleteEventually you are going to tell me who you are.
ReplyDeleteAre you talking to your computer or me?
ReplyDeleteTo you.
ReplyDeleteAnd reveal all my secrets?
ReplyDeleteIt's funny I use to blog with a someone that was just like you. My grammar and misspelling of words would drive her crazy until one day she had no choice but to stop. Back then you would have never thought that today we are very good friends and talk on the phone once a month. I have yet to meet her.
ReplyDeleteSee, that's really creepy.
ReplyDeleteIt's not creepy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there's a better word for it.
ReplyDeleteWe've had several opportunities to meet but plans fell through on both sides. She actually was in Philly for three days but was visiting someone on his dime and felt bad to say, "I'm just going to go hand out with my friend I've never met."
ReplyDeleteOh, my.
ReplyDeleteI am eternally lost.
I actually met her through my friend friend's blog so it's not like she is a total stranger.
ReplyDelete16,000 Diamondbacks Fans Killed On Complimentary Rattlesnake Night
ReplyDeleteWhen Diamondbacks reliever Blaine Boyer was spotted in the bullpen wildly convulsing in a writhing knot of rattlesnakes, the stadium grew quiet, save for a steady undercurrent of rattling.
MArketing Mistake
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You'll find your way.
ReplyDeleteYou're the one that said, "Eventually you're going to tell me who you are.
Back out of all this now too much for us,
ReplyDeleteBack in a time made simple by the loss
Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more a house
Upon a farm that is no more a farm
And in a town that is no more a town.
The road there, if you'll let a guide direct you
Who only has at heart your getting lost,
May seem as if it should have been a quarry –
Great monolithic knees the former town
Long since gave up pretense of keeping covered.
And there's a story in a book about it:
Besides the wear of iron wagon wheels
The ledges show lines ruled southeast-northwest,
The chisel work of an enormous Glacier
That braced his feet against the Arctic Pole.
You must not mind a certain coolness from him
Still said to haunt this side of Panther Mountain.
Nor need you mind the serial ordeal
Of being watched from forty cellar holes
As if by eye pairs out of forty firkins.
As for the woods' excitement over you
That sends light rustle rushes to their leaves,
Charge that to upstart inexperience.
Where were they all not twenty years ago?
They think too much of having shaded out
A few old pecker-fretted apple trees.
Make yourself up a cheering song of how
Someone's road home from work this once was,
Who may be just ahead of you on foot
Or creaking with a buggy load of grain.
The height of the adventure is the height
Of country where two village cultures faded
Into each other. Both of them are lost.
And if you're lost enough to find yourself
By now, pull in your ladder road behind you
And put a sign up CLOSED to all but me.
Then make yourself at home. The only field
Now left's no bigger than a harness gall.
First there's the children's house of make-believe,
Some shattered dishes underneath a pine,
The playthings in the playhouse of the children.
Weep for what little things could make them glad.
Then for the house that is no more a house,
But only a belilaced cellar hole,
Now slowly closing like a dent in dough.
This was no playhouse but a house in earnest.
Your destination and your destiny's
A brook that was the water of the house,
Cold as a spring as yet so near its source,
Too lofty and original to rage.
(We know the valley streams that when aroused
Will leave their tatters hung on barb and thorn.)
I have kept hidden in the instep arch
Of an old cedar at the waterside
A broken drinking goblet like the Grail
Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it,
So can't get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn't.
(I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.)
Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
That's Robert Frost's 'Directive' always meant a lot to me.
ReplyDeleteI like the way he brings in the Grail but think he should have kept St. Mark out of it.
ReplyDeleteDelaware At Single Digits
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I really don't give a shit about politics though it's interesting what Deuce said about the muzzie vote. Considering the Jewish vote is just about the opposite, off hand I'd say things are ass backwards, all f'd up. How can one make any sense out of it?
My aunt said on occasion, vat ve neet iss a goot King. Maybe she was right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2PYEEMXREU
ReplyDeleteTo err is human, to blame it on others is politics.
ReplyDeleteMost people enjoy solitude best with pleasant company. I do.
ReplyDelete"You'll find your way."
ReplyDeleteThat's the nicest thing anyone ever said about me.
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
ReplyDeleteby Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
On My Way Home lyrics
ReplyDeleteI have been given
one moment from heaven
as I am walking
surrounded by night,
Stars high above me
make a wish under moonlight.
On my way home
I remember
only good days.
On my way home
I remember all the best days.
I'm on my way home
I can remember
every new day.
I move in silence
with each step taken,
snow falling round me
like angels in flight,
Far in the distance
is my wish under moonlight.
Now that was beautiful.
"How do you know your life's task is not over? You're still alive aren't you?"
Quote by somebody or other in van Lommel's book about NDE's that I gave to my lady doc.
Would you like to read this?
YES! I can read it during my maternity leave.
FINALLY I've found SOMEONE I can talk to about my subject. :)
May I be, Dear Lord, just mildly ill for a couple of years so's we have time to talk.
I've always liked that by Emily, too.
ReplyDelete...Dickinson found love, spiritual quickening and immortality, all on her own terms. One model remained: Wuthering Heights. Yet unlike the anarchic lovers of the Heights, Dickinson was a moral being, a product of upright New England: she grasped the potential destructiveness – to her sanity, for a start – of the "Bomb" in her bosom; and she witnessed the eruption of the feud – during her lifetime, another secret within the family. She refers repeatedly to a secret "Existence" – primarily her poetry – that must be seen in terms of New England individualism, the Emersonian ethos of self-reliance that in its fullest bloom eludes label. It's more awkward and less lovable than English eccentricity – dangerous, in fact, as Dickinson owned when she said, "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –".
ReplyDeleteGuardian
So if I play that video at Youtube, do you know that I'm playing that video?
ReplyDeleteLet women sing at Wailing Wall: On High Holy Days, a plea to open Israel's holiest site to all Jews
ReplyDeleteI had to use anon....blogger had a blogdown.
ReplyDeleteTrish's Enja
ReplyDeleteUniversity Rankings
ReplyDeleteTrish that was beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHere is what separates me from others. You are constantly being told about your links. You are constantly being shown how to make a link. It irks many that you don't do it. I couldn't care less how you write it.
Most people do not bother to copy and paste links. I am not trying to be a pedant over it; I link them if I think they deserve attention.
ReplyDeleteI'm an open book, myself. I live in a glass house. I carry my heart on my sleeve.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that hard to copy and paste links. It takes an extra two-seconds. I'm not even that lazy.
ReplyDelete"It irks many that you don't do it..."
ReplyDeleteWhy?
One of them, Theresa Angelo, said: 'My grandparents didn't expect special treatment.
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Some family members of those who died on 9/11 have spoken out against the anniversary being used by protest groups.
And President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, again tried to cool the temperature of inter-faith rhetoric by stressing that America is not at war with Islam.
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No woman can sing there anymore: Even women in the Israeli Defense Forces choir must now lip-sync at all national ceremonies.
ReplyDeleteA girl can't partake in her brother's bar mitzvah service at the Kotel. At most she can watch the service on the men's side while looking over the giant divider. The same girl shouldn't get her hopes up about having her own bat mitzvah there. A woman wearing a tallis, reading the Torah, or even praying in a loud voice? She risks being fined or even sentenced to prison.
Sheesh
Pic of Theodore Roethke with essay etc----My true self runs • toward a Hill
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I love the guy.
Who gives a fuck, Melody?
ReplyDeleteI mean seriously.
Really it's as easy to swipe a Trish link and pop it up there, doesn't bother me.
ReplyDeleteAll the initials, well..... I often have to look them up, sometimes there are multiple choices :)
My point exactly.
ReplyDeleteAnybody want anything at Wal-Mart?
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"How do you know your life's task is not over?"
ReplyDeleteHow do you know what your life's task is?
Blogger trish said...
ReplyDelete"Does she knows what's going on?"
Does she know that my computer, my tv, and my newspaper have been hacked?
heh heh, you might enjoy reading P.K. Dick.
If you are paranoid but right - where does that leave you?
"If you are paranoid but right..."
ReplyDeleteI am not paranoid. For God's sake, I inhabit the Hello Kitty universe.
yeah, but a "hello kitty universe" where everything has been hacked is one heck of a place to be. Like I said, you may very well enjoy some P.K. Dick. That is where most of his fictional worlds are for the protagonists - hacked in some way.
ReplyDeleteFor those who have no idea who that author is he penned a number of novels that were subsequently made into movies. Blade Runner being one - the book was "Do Android dream of Electric Sheep?"
ReplyDeleteDeep sigh.
ReplyDeleteReally deep sigh.
Iranian Regime Demands Obama Administration Make Clear Stand on Recent Insults to Holy Koran
ReplyDelete"As the Holy Quran tells us, Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." - Barack Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009
ReplyDeleterufus said...
ReplyDeleteNo woman can sing there anymore: Even women in the Israeli Defense Forces choir must now lip-sync at all national ceremonies.
A girl can't partake in her brother's bar mitzvah service at the Kotel. At most she can watch the service on the men's side while looking over the giant divider. The same girl shouldn't get her hopes up about having her own bat mitzvah there. A woman wearing a tallis, reading the Torah, or even praying in a loud voice? She risks being fined or even sentenced to prison.
Sheesh
Yeah it's a fucked up people...
hell they dont even let the men wear women's cloths either...
nor can men worship in the women's restroom...
and get this shit...
Men in the Jewish faith are not allowed to carry babies to birth!!!
what retards...
Obowow makes a $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, thus laying the groundwork for his conversion to the GOP after Nov 2.
ReplyDelete"Sheesh"
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Q. What do you call a redneck in a suit?
ReplyDeleteA. The defendant.
What time is it, sam?
ReplyDeleteWhen Jewish women are murdered simply for being Jewish, Rufus, t and Rat are silent...
ReplyDeleteWhen Jewish women are prohibited from using the Men's area of the Western Wall they get their knickers in a wad...
can we all say hypocrites?
So really, they can keep their opinions to themselves on that topic.
Let the old saying goes... Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and most stink....
"How do you know your life's task is not over?"
ReplyDeleteHow do you know what your life's task is?
I give my mother's basic answer. Love is primary. The other--rather the Thou(s)--tend to show up, sometimes unexpectedly. In my life I've really cared for maybe 12, maybe a few more, mostly relatives, my nuclear family, some others, the best my aunt, not a beauty but one hell of a woman, a nearly perfect relationship of 50 years or more.
Traubel said of Walt Whitman, I discovered, he simply wasn't capable of anger. She was like that. She raised me more than mom.
You got to keep yourself alive, hopefully honorably somehow, so you can do the love thing.
Aa funny thing in my life was my relationship with dad, stormy. Though we ended up best buds. He wanted me to be a lawyer. Didn't want to do that, for whatever reason. We damned near came to blows, quit speaking. Finally mom tells me, you two are having the same argument he had with his father, only ass backwards. Dad was the only male available to take over the farming, which grandfather wanted him to do.
Now I understand why dad never talked about him. And why there was no church wedding. Mom and dad got married by a Justice of the Peace, in Colfax, Washington. heh :)
Sometimes the other Thou isn't as cooperative as one might hope, then you're in the position of
If equal affection cannot be
Well let the more loving one be me
My answer: love's the task of life.
I hope to see my aunt and the others when I die, and truly think I will. We die into our love.
I wear my heart on my sleeve, no? :)
Why did they have to have a sale on potato chips at Wal-Mart?
Let the old saying goes... Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and most stink....
ReplyDeleteheh :)
Notice this stupid comment...
ReplyDeleteTeresita said...
Let women sing at Wailing Wall: On High Holy Days, a plea to open Israel's holiest site to all Jews
1. Only jackasses call it the "wailing wall" (it's the western wall)
2. the RETAINING was aint the holiest site. The TEMPLE MOUNT IS and JEWS (Both MEN AND WOMEN) are not allowed to PRAY there...
What ignorance displayed...
What stupidity...
What an sound bite mentality...
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ReplyDeleteThe Jew's HOLIEST SITE is occupied by a VICTORY MOSQUE.
ReplyDeleteLet's see the Jewish people's most holy site freed from pagan altars...
Destroy the Dome of the Rock...
It's a disgusting Occupation of the Jew's MOST holy site...
ANd Rufus and T are pissed that Jewish women can't sing next to a RETAINING WALL....
boo fucking hoo...
Maybe Rufus and T should think about why NON-moslems are not allowed in Mecca?
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ReplyDeleteNot true, I have mentioned the murder of 1.5 million Jews, by Israelis.
ReplyDeleteThat is the greatest number of murders, of Jews, that any group has accumulated since 1949.
No other group, other than the Nazis, have killed as many Jews, as the Israeli, in modern times.
That the Story of "o" denies their humanity, not very important, to me.
That other Israelis are killed in the War that they have propagated against the Arab residents of northern Arabia, just one of those things.
The number of casualties in that intra-Semitic conflict is insignificant, when compered o the 1.5 million Jews that the Israelis have murdered.
2. the RETAINING was aint the holiest site. The TEMPLE MOUNT IS and JEWS (Both MEN AND WOMEN) are not allowed to PRAY there...
ReplyDeleteMuslims to Jews on the Temple Mount: "NO PRAYER FOR YOU!"
Jews to women on the remnant of Herod's temple: "NO SONG FOR YOU!"
Yadda yadda yadda.
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Have a nice day
ReplyDeletedesert rat said...
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day
Rat you are a true Nazi...
We all know it...
The fact that you obsessed with some created number of abortions by jews is very telling...
IN the end?
you are still a creep...
and every one who ever reads this blog will learn that you are a self confessed murderer...
that you are in fact a jew hating, zionism hating, israel hating scum...
that is why you were thrown out of the Belmont Club, and one wonders about your actual prison record.
Of course you do make me sick, after all you support Hamas & Iran on their Jihad of genocide...
Some day I can only hope and pray, your karma comes back to bite you in your ass...
Til then? I only wish I could have gotten your mother to abort you......
Bob, Sarah endorsed Clint Didier over Dino Rossi, and it didn't do him a lick of good.
ReplyDeleteT channeling the Soup Nazi says:
ReplyDeleteTeresita said...
2. the RETAINING was aint the holiest site. The TEMPLE MOUNT IS and JEWS (Both MEN AND WOMEN) are not allowed to PRAY there...
Muslims to Jews on the Temple Mount: "NO PRAYER FOR YOU!"
Jews to women on the remnant of Herod's temple: "NO SONG FOR YOU!"
Yadda yadda yadda.
Funny thing, you get dumber by the day...
You still dont get it, and it get funnier by the day your lack of real knowledge of what you speak...
Stick to computer codes and pussy, I think that's where you excel, certainly not Jewish history, lore and ideas...
She does have a pretty good record, though, T.
ReplyDeleteThing is, her candidate in Delaware might be the easier one to beat by the democrats.
I'm only glad politics isn't my primary concern.
It can drive you, as Rufus might say, bat shit crazy.
WiO: ANd Rufus and T are pissed that Jewish women can't sing next to a RETAINING WALL....
ReplyDeleteboo fucking hoo...
Maybe Rufus and T should think about why NON-moslems are not allowed in Mecca?
Interesting display. WiO will defend any practice of Jews, no matter how discriminatory, because, hey, look over there, the Muslims are beheading people, isn't that worse?