"The Blackfeather Convergence"

the Courts stopped lynching in the South

I am happy that I am not gay but to vote to take away a person's rights just because they have a different frame of reference just makes no sense. Allowing two people that want to join together out of love does not offend me. I view it as good for them, I don't understand the attraction, but I am okay not having to understand everything.

The Supreme Court stopped lynchings, and everyone bought guns because people believed that lynching blacks was the only way to control them. People are ignorant, close minded bigots if allowed to be.

See if this makes our news

'US air raid' kills Afghan guards

The deputy governor of Ghazni province called it a "brutal attack" [EPA] At least 24 security workers at a construction site in Afghanistan's Ghazni province have been killed in suspected US air raids. The deputy governor of the province southwest of the capital Kabul called Sunday's incident a "brutal attack". A provincial government source told the Reuters news agency that US-led forces had called in an air raid after fighters attacked several posts operated by the security company that guards the road construction project. The US military said it called in the aerial bombardment after its forces came under fire from "dozens of armed militants".  "All coalition forces survived the engagement, it is estimated multiple militants were killed during the fighting," a US military statement said. However, a US military official said that the claims that security guards were among the dead were being investigated. Bombardments The latest air raids come just days after the Afghan government said an attack by US-led forces killed nine Afghan soldiers in the southeastern province of Khost. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in operations by Nato and US-led international forces this year, according to Afghan officials and aid groups. Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Kabul, said that such an attack had created "an anti-American, anti-British sentiment in the country". "During the last few weeks and months there have been bombardments in Khost, Herat and Helmand, where there were civilian casualties," he said. "The Americans are saying constantly that they are very shrewd, very meticulous when it comes to bombarding such sites ... but the people say they have seen many, many cases where the targets were not Taliban fighters." Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan was told by a Taliban spokesman that 17 people working on a road construction project had been abducted in the eastern province of Kunar. The Taliban has reportedly said that it will only free the captives once the construction project, which is funded by the US, is abandoned. Taliban fighters have picked up there attacks in recent months and the United Nations has warned people not to expect the usual lull in violence over the winter months

Not everyone should vote

Some People Should Not Vote
"Did you see Sarah Palin on SNL?"
"Yeah she was so cool just to go on there, that took balls."
"I'm voting for her now because if people like me vote we at least know who, who.....what were we talking about?"
"Yeah, I'd vote for her, anything to keep that weird old man from winning. He freaks me out."
"Ohhh, I thought he was the man that danced on the Magic Mountain bus?"
"He, was funny, he cracked me up. No, that guy was funny ha ha, this guy is funny peculiar."
"Yeah, my sisters friends were at this bar, everytime he called himself something they would do a shot. A lot of them threw up."
"Well, What is the name he calls himself?"
"Oh, the Sardine."
"Yeah, I heard that."
"Why would you want to be called a sardine. I agree he does look like a sardine but not until you mention it?"
"Well they are pretty noble fish. My dad goes to costa rica and sometime catches them. He wants one on the wall."
"How long do they live?"
"No, they are dead when you put them on the wall."
"I am not that dumb, but anyway I hope she wins, or at least keeps the old guy from winning."
"If you put a patch on his eye he would look just like Popeye"
"Argg."
"Ha, ha that was pretty funny, argg."
"Some people don't even discuss politics and they still vote."
"Yeah, I hope she keeps him from winning."
"Yeah."

Beat this one!

About 7 years ago I was watching hockey at a local bar I think the Ducks were in the playoffs. I was sitting in the bar with my friends having dinner and drinks when a friend that I had not recently heard from called to see if I would stay until she got there, I said sure because we all knew each other.

We were having a great time and she joined us later. After the game we went to the patio to smoke a cigar. We ordered another round of drinks when the waitress extended her open palm to me, everyone got a big laugh but she wasn't kidding so I gave her my car keys. We all finished the next round and decided to leave, she came over and asked who was driving me home or did I need a taxi. My friend that had just joined us said she would get me home, I only lived a quarter mile away and she could take me home. That sounded good, she could take my car home and get me the next day.

I got in the passenger side and she started the car. She turned the wrong way and I told her. She looked at me with her big smile and said, "We haven't begun to party." and drove to the next bar.

Somewhere along the way my memory kicks out. I woke up sitting on the curb looking at my smashed car with her yelling at me to get into the driver's seat. I staggered into the seat as the police arrived and arrested me for a DUI.

That set the ball rolling for a series of events that I could only watch in horror. My finances had taken a turn for the worse and to save money I was carrying only the liability.

I bumped into a friend years later and we were talking and I mentioned that night. He looked at me and asked if I remembered seeing him that night and I said no. He said that he had stayed at the first bar till close but came over to where we had gone to see if they were still open and saw my friend and I drive out. I was sound asleep in the passenger seat. The accident happened about 10 minutes later on the way to my friends home twenty five minutes away.

I also learned that my friend had received a DUI a couple weeks before and she had not had anything to drink and wanted to party. She had someone drop her off knowing that I would get her home.

Sort of sad, but everything went downhill after that.

I told my attorney but he said nothing can be done unless she wanted to face the consequences and admit it. I knew she wouldn't.

can America crush Freedom

Most Americans want freedom crushed. At one time Freedom was something we loved, now it gets in the way of money and needs to be crushed. But America does not understand that Freedom can not be surpressed for long. America is listening in on everyone's phones, everyone's emails. America is creating layers and layers of secret police but America can not pay for them all.

America will soon need secret police for its secret police and then the secret police will rebel. America needs to know that Freedom can not be crushed.

Blackfeather

Moving On

I want to ride a scooter to Punteranas

I want to fly to Venus

I want to take a taxi to Avalon

I really just want to move on.

Edgar and I are stuck in a Maelstrom

Poe and I rant and rave at the norm

A Poem of Light and Dark

I hope that I don't bring you down

Listening to this old and empty clown

When you are trying to fight your way out

So you can smile and run about

I wanted to always be there by your side

But when you talk of love and hope, I hide

I always loved you with as much as I had

But the longer I stay, the longer you'll stay sad

Remember in the morning comes the lark,

And its song will lift you far from the dark

But please wait before you turn the light on

Wait a little longer, wait until I'm gone.

William Blackfeater, on a theme by Billy Robison

To the Editors

My friends are the opposite of what I believe politically, but thank you for letting me write. I also wrote to the London Times and Bakersfield but it was light weight. If McCain wins I hope you are correct. But he will go for the big war, that is what Americans want. The big war where we get to pay contractors to replenish our nuclear capabilities.

McCain will be the end of millions of peoples lives. Not ours, but I am an atheist and that is just too much to live with. Christians can say, Oops I am sorry and their God will forgive them. Atheists have to live with the tragedy.

And we have to live with people that hear spirits from the next dimension telling them to kill more people. George Bush is in contact with Jesus, as is the Pope who told his followers that if they support a womans right to choose they will lose their life in the future. A vote for Kerry was a vote for eternal damnation.

Thank you for letting me write this.

Anita

There is almost no human being that you .....there is no human being like Anita.

Pain

I was going to further my point....but nothing more I can say.

Pain, not broken arm pain, kills people. The pain that Billy Paul talks about. It hurts so much, it hurts so much inside. . . .