Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Unfortunately Flying Critics

He who has harnessed hope
Has lifted a balloon of presence
With hours of awareness and wind.

She who bested caustic presence
Won the elusive wind
And a massive infusion of hope.

Difficult critics imagine the wind
May stage the ambitious hope
Of turning stars into presence.

-- Andrew Bailey

Balloons used in priest's record flight attempt found
Analysis: Obama still struggling to win key constituencies
Critics agree Gone With The Wind blows

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Betrayed Children Evacuated

our duty, to protect
survivors of this church
not deeply ashamed

to separate them
from mothers in the sect
all sexual physical abuse

save the children
our recovery mission
to give secular healing

-- Barbara A Taylor

Fallout from FLDS raid is intense
Plane Crashes at Takeoff in Congo
Pope, in US, Is ‘Ashamed’ of Pedophile Priests

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Booze Breaking Intentions

We hear that due to a crackdown planned on the alcopops
        of Wales.
37,000 youths were dispersed by underage minister, Coaker,
and that 1027 spirits called the police home choke a success.

Jail, though. Regular gig again
for the car-breaking junkie who took a cocaine solo
        on Thursday.
Then Glastonbury Pete turned up on a horse.

Enough to have a she and tell study?
Or ruin the well-prepared glance with size-line of jaw
        and woo eyes?
Look, clues! Is enough to glance at the well-prepared shape.

-- Pam Thompson

Over 20000 litres of alcohol seized from kids
Pete Doherty jailed for breaking bail and taking drugs
Face gives away sexual intentions, new study

Friday, April 04, 2008

Rule Of More

A robotic control series gingerly bottles Coke,
while hanging fans breathe robotic applause.
We slide from a needed cargo to an embarrassing ocean.

Jules Verne oversees the Bureau of Supplies,
and cheers on the development of giant new things.
200 tons of spare computers, and still expanding!

We are added in the turnstiles of a flawless abacus.
A second later, our newfangled seats have been constructed:
Not likely to be more comfortable than our grandfathers'.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Census counts on pencils, not computers
Cargo Ship From Europe Joins Station in Space
Fenway gets a few upgrades for a home-field advantage

Thursday, April 03, 2008

On Popular Peaks

Temporary peaks of incomplete mountains
Like watching a million faces deep in sleep.
Faces, people, anyone with compelling reason

Anyone who has ventured outside of precision.
Only one so free who is not involved
Should chance an appeal should risk losing.

Video strokes create new context, new terms,
While memory releases a nation’s cognitive history.
An American audience exercises a new identity.

-- Tom Trusty

When the waist widens, risk of dementia rises
U.S. Iraq Embassy Workers Ordered Inside
YouTube Releases Video Analytics Tool

Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Hour of Earth

The sudden skyscrapers embraced their second
climate change. The obviously usual individuals
answered far short. Massive. Thousands. Green.

A switch flicked in disappointed harbourside
gone dark. Hundreds of Earth. Thousands
of Hour: Then Atlanta and the big chicken.

A phenomenon. Massive. Varsity gone north and wild.
The expecting answer, far short. Be.
Less predictable gathered important short time.

-- Jeff Hansen

Lights off! Sydney supports Earth Hour
Lights to go out in Atlanta for Earth Hour
Earth Hour: Let there be dark

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Pregnancy engagement falling

Among the important issues raised by the pregnancy of Oregonian Thomas Beatie is whether a female-to-male transgender person who becomes pregnant might be endangering the fetus, especially someone like Beatie, who has been taking testosterone for at least 10 years. There's very little research on the subject to date, and some experts are at odds about it. Any possible damage done by 10 years of testosterone would be irreversible, he said.

Jamie Lynn Spears amped up her own engagement rumors Tuesday by showing off a sparkly rock during a Kentwood, La., coffee run. Of course, if it is an engagement ring, she's wearing it on the wrong hand. But those Spears sisters always have done things...uh, a little differently.

"It was like any other night," Raul Navaira, 40, said Wednesday.

Except it wasn't.

"The next thing I knew, I felt stuff falling over me," he said.

-- Mario Puente

Transgender Man's Baby May Have Health Problems
Jamie Lynn's Ring: Just What Does It Mean?
Emilio Navaira's Brother Recalls Crash

Friday, March 21, 2008

Rejecting Backgrounds Speculative

Time in at this point,
the keeping in with futures,
and nowadays shimmering impenetrable the at odyssey
        known.

View in at this barrier,
the piercing in with refusal,
and paradoxically compared cracked the in think
        situations.

Exiles in at this sentinel,
the including in with fiction,
and more adopted imaginary the for information
        sharpened.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Some Tibetan Exiles Reject 'Middle Way'
State Dept. contractors access Obama's passport records
Where few have gone before

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Balls to Paul

confidentiality
engagement ring
burn in bin

abuse
the tatters
of this union

to
wake tensions
in fiasco supporters

-- Andrew Bailey

How 'gay' became children's insult of choice
Tensions rock at No 10
Paul Burrell 'Took Engagement Ring Off Diana's Body' Claim

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Callous Celebrity Shots

risk being damaged by the cult of celebrity
worst excesses of celebrity may lend to lurid
        headlines
sustained and cumulative casual sadism way these
        committed

encouraged visceral killing with little alienation or
        distancing
no more violent than episode of 24 or Quentin
        Tarantino film
believed academic success unnecessary make fame
        reality TV show

committed to making great interactive entertainment
balconies laden with potted plants facades festooned
        with flowers
housed in a glass cabinet, dreamt up by spiritual
        heirs

-- Clark Allison

Ban on 'sadistic' video game overturned
Celebrity culture 'harms pupils'
Cartagena: Love in the Time of Cholera

Friday, March 07, 2008

Forces Of Erosion

Through this canyon a million years in construction,
as water broke over the banks, deposits some mineral,
prospector banks on mineral, deposits $100.

The old carved cream, too tangy for amazement,
cut no ice amid fears of money -- to borrow from the earth,
to move out of caves and rent a grand new shed.

There's no reason geologists could lose their jobs,
but water ice manufacturers are unexpectedly predicting
flavors slightly off.

--Glenn R. Frantz

Economy Lost 63,000 Jobs in February
Could GOP lose Hastert seat?
Grand Canyon Still Grand but Older

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Targeted Chemical Powder

advanced technology jet fighters flew over bombed non-stop
failed to achieve aims military operation against guerillas
militants killed dozens of hideouts ammunition depots
        destroyed

ground assaults and air raids targeted rebel positions
spraying car with bullets and killing two of his guards
not clear substance summoning ambulance respiratory
        distress

several vials of powder found in a plastic bag
did not give more information about tabbed book
don’t know an awful lot about him

-- Clark Allison

Way Is Clear for the Execution of ‘Chemical Ali’
Guns, 'Anarchist Book' Found With Ricin
Turkish military operation failed: PKK leader

Friday, February 29, 2008

America's Afghanistan Poison

It's tough to imagine Hillary Clinton giving up
But like a gunslinger out of America's mythical past
Barack Obama has beaten her.

Prince Harry will be immediately brought home from
        Afghanistan
His presence there had been kept secret from the public
and then blasted into the global media spotlight

a deadly poison, was discovered in a hotel room
after a suspicious substance was reported
which can be deadly even in small quantities

-- Adam Alva

Clinton holsters up for Texas
Prince Harry in Afghanistan
Man in Las Vegas critical, ricin poison suspected

Friday, February 22, 2008

Until the Decision

Wolf boy and fish girl face a pregnant audience
Hunters are taken off the endangered rebel list
Efforts to attack the authorities and offensive tabloid people
        comes after casualties

The gray photo said Zebari Zebari Hushiyar
The actress and singer ran to lengthy long salsa island
Across the border into air

Wildlife launched across land and ground
Night was not aware of strikes
Tribes are back

-- Carmel Lousada-Stiven

Turkey Says It Has Sent Ground Troops Into Iraq
Jennifer Lopez gives birth to twins
Gray wolves to lose endangered status

Monday, February 18, 2008

Liberty U.S. Reported

£100k wedding dress for 21 year-old WAG,
Rooney, a designer gown, found a football,
and is thrilled with U.S. jetting, costing £100,000.

Fire fighters travelled to Venice,
to aid Valentine's Day,
identified and pulled from a canal

Paul Burrell, Queen of Wales,
who obtained The Sun in the States,
was very naughty and now lives with the butler.

-- Lisa Goodman

Missing British tourist found dead in Venice
Paul Burrell in video ‘confession’
Coleen McLoughlin finds wedding dress for £100,000