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Thanks Hal cheered this codger up -we had dick whittington become lord mayor of London!! P distracted P Quote'A lot of poetry distractions all this love stuff' pmc -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Halvard Johnson Sent: 15 February 2006 14:41 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Snap: What I Hate (about Harry Whittington) What I Hate about Harry Whittington is that by putting himself into Vice President Dick Cheney's line of fire, he has distracted many of us from the Winter Olympics, which, in turn, have distracted us from the Global War on Terror and the shameful response of the Bush Administration to Katrina, both of which themselves distracted us from our losing war efforts in Iraq, which have had the effect of distracting us from our pain over the 9/11 attacks, which (thank God, some would say) distracted us from the collapse of Enron, the possible (no, probable) involvement in that (not to mention the betrayal of Joe Wilson's wife) of the Bush/Cheney Administration, which we, distracted by porn, pro football, baseball, basketball and pay-per-view TV, allowed to come into power by not voting in sufficient numbers to soundly defeat them or coming to grips with what really concerns us, whatever that happens to be. Hal, NYC, 2/15/06 Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org