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esteban folsom

i am me

Website: http://www.artvt.com/poets/folsom/index.html

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• Maybe this will help on that debt ceiling crisis?
  • esteban folsom July 30, 2011 at 4:17 am

    -
    if you liked
    code pink

    you're gonna love
    code red
    -

• No surprise Bob Dylan is visiting the 'neighborhood bully'
  • esteban folsom April 14, 2011 at 12:33 am

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    well my friend

    there are very few choices in life
    that really might affect all of us

    we're all pissed at you - 'cause
    you could make a difference

    you still can

    it's the easiest thing in the world
    you listen to your own true heart

    i know you will make the right decision
    it could mean more than all you've ever done
    -
    and yes
    we've looked
    each-other
    in the eye
    est

• Return To Sender: Israeli activists say, 'we won’t be 'the US aircraft carrier in the Middle East''
  • esteban folsom March 3, 2011 at 7:40 pm with 2 replies

    who killed the man ?
    the man that held the gun ?

    or was it the bullet
    or god
    who made mans flesh weak ?

    we all know what's right and wrong
    we have absolutely no excuse

    it will be the soldiers who end this
    by refusing to fire

    then
    we can call ourselves human

• Well who does he remind you of?
  • esteban folsom January 6, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    a closed fist
    like a closed mind
    holds nothing

    only useful
    for one thing
    -
    this gesture says to me
    'hold on -i know what's best for you-
    -
    it will take awhile
    with great effort
    but the fist will open

    and in the palm of his hands
    each man will see
    his salvation proceeds
    from his own efforts
    [in concert with all of us]

    bibi's people
    can be at the front of the line
    -in this realization -
    or dragged behind

    either way
    it's gonna happen

    extend a hand in friendship
    or receive one in enmity

• 'Hey AIPAC leave Iran alone!' --Flashmob strikes AIPAC event in Oakland-- 7 arrests
  • esteban folsom December 14, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    well
    i have to say i was surprised to see
    a google ad for aipac [and similar]

    right there at the bottom of u-tube

    then i remembered where i was
    just no - end to it - is there ?

• UN: Two men killed on 'Mavi Marmara' were holding cameras when they were shot
  • esteban folsom September 26, 2010 at 2:42 am

    one more time
    in his own words
    ken o'keefe :

    I said this straight to Israeli agents, probably of Mossad or Shin Bet, and I say it again now, on the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day. One brother with a bullet entering dead center in his forehead, in what appeared to be an execution. I knew the commandos were murdering when I removed a 9mm pistol from one of them. I had that gun in my hands and as an ex-US Marine with training in the use of guns it was completely within my power to use that gun on the commando who may have been the murderer of one of my brothers. But that is not what I, nor any other defender of the ship did. I took that weapon away, removed the bullets, proper lead bullets, separated them from the weapon and hid the gun. I did this in the hopes that we would repel the attack and submit this weapon as evidence in a criminal trial against Israeli authorities for mass murder.
    I also helped to physically separate one commando from his assault rifle, which another brother apparently threw into the sea. I and hundreds of others know the truth that makes a mockery of the brave and moral Israeli military. We had in our full possession, three completely disarmed and helpless commandos. These boys were at our mercy, they were out of reach of their fellow murderers, inside the ship and surrounded by 100 or more men. I looked into the eyes of all three of these boys and I can tell you they had the fear of God in them. They looked at us as if we were them, and I have no doubt they did not believe there was any way they would survive that day. They looked like frightened children in the face of an abusive father.
    But they did not face an enemy as ruthless as they.
    Instead the woman provided basic first aid, and ultimately they were released, battered and bruised for sure, but alive. Able to live another day. Able to feel the sun over head and the embrace of loved ones. Unlike those they murdered. Despite mourning the loss of our brothers, feeling rage towards these boys, we let them go. The Israeli prostitutes of propaganda can spew all of their disgusting bile all they wish, the commandos are the murders, we are the defenders, and yet we fought. We fought not just for our lives, not just for our cargo, not just for the people of Palestine, we fought in the name of justice and humanity. We were right to do so, in every way.

• New ways to follow Mondoweiss
  • esteban folsom September 12, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    ok
    so i go out and buy a 21# monitor
    thinking 'now i can read these guys
    without the constant shuffling back and forth'
    but no go flo-jo

    can you guys [and paul at war in context]
    possibly keep the column width tighter ?
    see juan coles IC word-press site for example

    much and many thanks
    for your consideration
    esteban

• Israeli blackmail: You must do what we can’t, because if you don’t, we will
  • esteban folsom August 11, 2010 at 10:19 pm with 1 replies

    W.B Yeats

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.

    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
    The darkness drops again; but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

• Neocon/Israel lobby strategy for getting US into war with Iran
  • esteban folsom August 2, 2010 at 6:44 am

    god damn it
    i said something
    and i'll say it again

    go ahead you fools
    let a couple go

    you are the ones
    that will suffer
    that terrible fate

    you may do some damage but then
    everyone will know
    where it came from

    and every one
    of your brethren
    will answer for
    your stupidity

    what a shame
    no one and i mean
    no one hates jews
    but all of us

    me included
    have had about
    enough of your
    foolishness

    wise up
    my friends
    your hola caustic
    is gonna look sweet

    compared to the hell
    you are courting

• 'Brown Man's Burden' of 1899 was prescient
  • esteban folsom July 24, 2010 at 2:39 am

    there is something about the truth
    it has a certain ring to it
    sort of like crystal

    it is easily heard
    impossible to deny
    once it makes that sound

    so much better
    than speaking a lie
    and knowing it

    catastrophic
    for the teller
    devastating
    for the recipients

    'always tell the truth
    it's so much easier
    than remembering
    a lie"

    and
    enough with this
    warring based on
    lies lies and more lies

• Oh no
  • esteban folsom July 7, 2010 at 4:02 am

    wait a minute
    am i to actually believe
    that israel or any other country
    would really launch nuclear weapons
    for any reason whatsoever ?

    not acceptable in any event
    can’t we figure that much out ?

    ‘now is the time
    for all good men
    to come to the aid
    of their country’

• Iara Lee: International pressure since flotilla shows it might be 'the beginning of the end'
  • esteban folsom June 30, 2010 at 11:12 pm with 1 replies

    kenneth o'keefe
    in his own words:

    "I said this straight to Israeli agents, probably of Mossad or Shin Bet, and I say it again now, on the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day. One brother with a bullet entering dead center in his forehead, in what appeared to be an execution. I knew the commandos were murdering when I removed a 9mm pistol from one of them. I had that gun in my hands and as an ex-US Marine with training in the use of guns it was completely within my power to use that gun on the commando who may have been the murderer of one of my brothers. But that is not what I, nor any other defender of the ship did. I took that weapon away, removed the bullets, proper lead bullets, separated them from the weapon and hid the gun. I did this in the hopes that we would repel the attack and submit this weapon as evidence in a criminal trial against Israeli authorities for mass murder.
    I also helped to physically separate one commando from his assault rifle, which another brother apparently threw into the sea. I and hundreds of others know the truth that makes a mockery of the brave and moral Israeli military. We had in our full possession, three completely disarmed and helpless commandos. These boys were at our mercy, they were out of reach of their fellow murderers, inside the ship and surrounded by 100 or more men. I looked into the eyes of all three of these boys and I can tell you they had the fear of God in them. They looked at us as if we were them, and I have no doubt they did not believe there was any way they would survive that day. They looked like frightened children in the face of an abusive father.
    But they did not face an enemy as ruthless as they.
    Instead the woman provided basic first aid, and ultimately they were released, battered and bruised for sure, but alive. Able to live another day. Able to feel the sun over head and the embrace of loved ones. Unlike those they murdered. Despite mourning the loss of our brothers, feeling rage towards these boys, we let them go. The Israeli prostitutes of propaganda can spew all of their disgusting bile all they wish, the commandos are the murders, we are the defenders, and yet we fought. We fought not just for our lives, not just for our cargo, not just for the people of Palestine, we fought in the name of justice and humanity. We were right to do so, in every way."

• Why does U.S. soccer fall short?
  • esteban folsom June 28, 2010 at 2:17 am

    no
    goals
    or not
    enough
    anyway
    i hated soccer
    you run up
    and back
    i could kick
    that ball though
    i played fullback
    we had to play
    if we wanted
    to ski
    and you know
    i had to do that
    so up i went
    and back i came
    got to kick the ball
    in every game
    and now i wish
    i felt the same
    youth ain't lost
    just the flame

    no
    i was never
    a soldier

• ANC is PNG on NPR's ATC
  • esteban folsom June 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    oddly enough i heard this interview
    words can be used for many things
    i've always liked the sound of 'obfuscation'

    the title ^ though reminds me of a little ditty
    i would leave on the top of 'usa today' boxes
    ---
    the cia is fbin'
    flyn' drugs in
    domestic spyn'
    bush is lyin'

    oh yeah
    meant
    bush two
    also
    and ...

• Farewell Helen Thomas
  • esteban folsom June 11, 2010 at 3:00 am

    Invictus

    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.
    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.
    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.
    William Ernest Henley

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