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your homecoming will be my homecoming-

my selves go with you,only i remain;
a shadow phantom effigy or seeming
(an almost someone always who's noone)

a noone who,till their and your returning,
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your mourning

feeling their stars have risen through your skies:

so,in how merciful love's own name,linger
no more than selfless i can quite endure
the absence of that moment when a stranger
takes in his arms my very lifes who's you

-when all fears hopes beliefs doubts disappear.
Everywhere and joy's perfect wholeness we're.
--e.e. cummings

if I should sleep with a lady called death
get another man with firmer lips
to take your new mouth in his teeth
(hips pumping pleasure into hips).

Seeing how the limp huddling string
of your smile over his body squirms
kissingly, I will bring you every spring
handfuls of little normal worms.

Dress deftly your flesh in stupid stuffs,
phrase the immense weapon of your hair.
Understanding why his eye laughs,
I will bring you every year

something which is worth the whole,
an inch of nothing for your soul.
--e.e. cummings

Weatherlea, Saturday, November 15, 2008 Part 1

Recorded on my iPhone using Cycorder. This is really only a test of the FOSS app. iPhonevideorecorder seems to have better compression, but is slower as a result.

Racist European Responses to Obama's Victory

http://m.npr.org/#_452748

Peter L. Baldwin
www.peterbaldwin.info

Kenyans React to Obama Campaign

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”

L’homme qu’il faut

par Eric Fottorino

D’abord il faut écrire ces mots en toutes lettres. Les lire lentement à haute voix pour mesurer l’ampleur de la nouvelle, sa charge d’histoire et d’émotion : le peuple américain vient d’élire à la Maison Blanche un homme à la peau noire. Quelle intelligence, quelle maestria, quel sang-froid aussi a-t-il fallu à Barack Obama pour enlever un scrutin qui, rappelons-le, était tout sauf acquis, si l’on se reporte moins d’un an en arrière. Combien d’écueils évités, de pesanteurs et de préjugés vaincus, avant de donner par sa victoire un puissant signal d’optimisme à l’Amérique et au reste du monde. Obama a fait coïncider l’espoir avec le noir. Sans que jamais, et ce fut sa virtuosité, il apparaisse comme le candidat d’une communauté.

Mêlant sa jeunesse à la sagesse qui n’a pas d’âge, le sénateur de l’Illinois a su dépasser les fractures originelles d’une nation née dans l’esclavage et la ségrégation pour la rattacher à son idéal fondateur, le fameux "E pluribus unum" : faire un seul de plusieurs; considérer que la multitude des origines n’empêche pas le partage d’une aspiration commune. (more...)

Reactions from friends around the world

It's all too much to write about just yet, so here are responses from friends around the world:

"Bonjour et Felicitations. Toute l'Afrique salue cette action historique des americains. Nous prions pour que OBAMA puisse etre un President des USA qui puisse repondre aux inquietudes des americains d'abord puis le reste du Monde si possible. Bonne fete."

"Nous avons passé une nuit historique. Que Dieu Benise l' Amérique. Le monde peut etre fier de vous. Le plus difficile commence, changer le monde pour un monde meilleur."

From afribone.com:
Plein d’espoir après la victoire de Barack Obama
Les Européens ont salué avec enthousiasme mercredi l’élection de Barack Obama, avec l’espoir qu’il permettra d’instaurer un "new deal" entre les Etats-Unis et l’Europe, aux liens distendus sous George Bush. Cinq ans après la brouille entre Paris et Washington provoquée par l’intervention américaine en Irak, le président Sarkozy qui comme beaucoup d’Européens n’avait pas caché sa préférence pour le candidat démocrate a été le premier à adresser des félicitations élogieuses au premier président noir des Etats-Unis."Votre brillante victoire" couronne "une campagne exceptionnelle, dont le souffle et l’élévation ont prouvé au monde entier la vitalité de la démocratie américaine, en même temps qu’ils le tenaient en haleine", s’est ainsi réjoui Nicolas Sarkozy. Qualifiant sa victoire d’historique, la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel a elle souligné "l’importance et la valeur de notre partenariat transatlantique", en invitant M. Obama en Allemagne.

Herein I will imitiate the sun

I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;
Redeeming time when men think least I will.

Sarah Palin prank call

Priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nGlFxpgaw4

Peter L. Baldwin
www.peterbaldwin.info
615-430-7445

Cheney Endorses McCain

I know, I know. That could be the dullest headline ever: "Cheney Endorses McCain". But here is the Dark Overlord himself giving his endorsement:



In prepared remarks scheduled to be delivered in Colorado on Saturday afternoon, is Obama's response:

I'd like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington's biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney's support.

But here's my question for you, Colorado: do you think Dick Cheney is delighted to support John McCain because he thinks John McCain's going to bring change? Do you think John McCain and Dick Cheney have been talking about how to shake things up, and get rid of the lobbyists and the old boys club in Washington?

Colorado, we know better. After all, it was just a few days ago that Senator McCain said that he and President Bush share a "common philosophy." And we know that when it comes to foreign policy, John McCain and Dick Cheney share a common philosophy that thinks that empty bluster from Washington will fix all of our problems, and a war without end in Iraq is the way to defeat Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists who are in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

So George Bush may be in an undisclosed location, but Dick Cheney's out there on the campaign trail because he'd be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain. He knows that with John McCain you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy -- but that's a risk we cannot afford to take.