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Sunday, February 3, 2008 03:46 AM

W.T., I think I remember hearing that song sung by Holly in a tavern last night?

Some Sunday you'll hear the song in a Mennonite or Brethren Synagogue with the lyrics changed?

The word-changing will serve a good intention. It will be to send a subtle message to journalist, and all former and present attorney generals,

the DOJ's staff, and singing moo cows.

O, and a Moo Cow Head~

Somehow after reading some back letters of yours, Cow Head (including the days events and many compounding thoughts), I went to

browse a book, 'Gardners Art Through The Ages, tenth edition,

Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European Art.' by Tansey & Kleiner.

You get to look at many beautiful pictures in books like that: You'll see Bull Beaded lyres made of gold leaf, lapis lazull and the musical instrument is over (Harp) 5' 5'' high. It was dug from a 2600 BC Puabi cemetery.

The chapter on Ancient Near Eastern Art is real fun to skim: There are so many

pieces of museum quality, 'um priceless, and they are treasures (Nineveh, Babylonian, Neo-Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Assyrian etc., BC).

They were once showcased in The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

Well, the State Department knows something about pneumatic pump jacks? The fly C5- A.F. airplanes to haul plundered museum loot?

The original point I was wanting to make was we best not think we Americans are so fancy-pants "rich" and hot-shot powerful that we think we GOPS are something important! Dare browse past BC cultures and admire the past artisan collected history. Read about the past era.

This American continent will likely be plundered for oil some day? It may be similar to the now dessert lands we plunder for oil in former Persia? (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.,)

During colonial day not too long ago ~ People did saw a acre of trees neat the Potomac River for a cannon-ball with a British insignia on it because Europe's trees were all cut-down from boat building industries. The fish whale (Jonah) blubber was harvested then. The shoppers could wine and dine on "5th Ave" walking streets. Whale blubber lights wicks were all lit.

The ancient Sumer were often at war with one another. The bellicose aspects of Sumerian society -- and BTW~boasting their connections and considerable wealth of the rulers --

O, which reminds me 'um -- DEAD -- now.

About Ur ~ scholars debate whether the robbed graves for wealth status and museums window gazing were all "kings and queens"

or simply aristocrats (Plutocrat loyal pundits) who were laid to rest with wealth? The popular belief in some latter afterlife existence? ('humph. I read 80% of Americans believe that too) Who knows?

Anyway, it's interesting history. Musicians, servants, charioteers (SUV's), and soldiers, who gave their lives 'willingly' to accompany "leaders" to a afterlife.

....(and miles to go before we sleep?)....I slept terrible.

I blame art G.? The lightening struck a persimmon tree, and art G., the wood bowl twirler artist, makes a museum piece from a lightening bolted dead zapped persimmon tree.

And blame the good 'ole Cow Head too.

aka, ho heh, tsk.

The horrible greedy will plunder mountains.

And wood forest for a reserved special place where? Hades.

The Cow Head musical harp is made of gold.

It has horns and is part of the lyre-harp.

The book is filled with art. The 2600 era shows Ur panels depicting the War-Side and the agrarian Peace Rural scenes.

Panels are inlaid with shells, red limestone, lapis, gold...

Saturday, February 2, 2008 12:30 PM

I got to shut up.

Absence from immediate thought is not the absence of sound mind,

and it may mean,

no be carried away from thought, in the process of thought.

It's a scripture,

from 6th Patriarch.

A nonattachment idea.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 12:09 PM

Pedinska!

Great!

* Chang Tzu said: And Master [Gardener] said, "You must be more specific."

"It is in the ant." "As low a thing as that?"

"It is in the panic grass." "But lower still!"

"It is in the shards and tiles." "How so low?"

"It is in the piss and shit!" O, said Master Tung-kuo...

Then: "Your questions and reply simply do not get at the substance of the matter." Then: Inspector Huo asked, and BTW, he was superintendent of the Market Place, and BTW, he said, "How do you test the fatness of a pig by pressing with the foot." The lower down on you own-pig you press, the nearer

you come to the truth.

Wow. O, vile or virtue?

We ramble. We go quiet and tranquil. We hush. We never get too exhausted. We want concord and honest discussion. Nothing wrong about that! Knowledge enter in, and who knows? None. Where it will ever end..." Never.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:47 AM

A Tragic Legacy's preface...by Glenn Greenwald

Two quotes:

Let me just first tell you that I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions. George W. Bush, September 12, 2006, speaking to a group of right-wing pundits in the White House.

`

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:35 AM

DCLaw!

The depressed GOP artist gather,

pouring lighter fluid on the Abu photo.

McCain thinks aloud, We could do better.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:25 AM

William.

Looking into a old musty attic,

finding mom's broken necklace,

a Rabbi with bulged-out eyes,

wonders if he could have tried,

to prevented any future Holocaust.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:19 AM

Taped to the White House front door by a field mouse.

Go back to Texas for to read,

a Diagnostic Statistical Manuel.

Open any page. Point the finger.

Yep. And go do some GOP therapy.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:15 AM

Respectfully to glenncg.

The younger Bush has a metal breakdown,

realizing he sounds like mom and pappy.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:12 AM

glenncg. (sp?)

While the other Glenn snores somewhere with some strawberry sops,

Salon intervenes and rules they now charge a nuclei for each lame brain-comment.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:03 AM

Pedinska.

On a Saturday, the e-mail list may have 99-missives?

Want to save time for UT reads? Ignore penile growth ones.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:59 AM

DCLaw1.

Remember.

If you live to be a old lawyer centenarian,

clip ya's toenails. Or 'holes' are worn in socks.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:55 AM

Voltaire

"Cultivate the garden." Candide.

If necessary, use the toenails if there...

Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:51 AM

Por Que?

After the needle nose pliers...

Just you use Play-Doh for a sooth comfort?

Nails grow back? My request. Paint them pink.

Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:42 AM

Pedinska.

I'd rather you remove it?

You don't pull the whole,

entire nail off, I hope.

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