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The journalist on Fox News who said Yes, we know there was surveillance, and it's coming from Britain, was suspended from the network, but came back, saying the same thing, making all of us, well, me anyway, think, that the Russian ties to influence the election needed to be verified somehow by a source unknown to us, and so surveillance was used, or that we can't talk about our own spy agencies and intelligence gathering. If he was doing that as a favor to Trump, it didn't work, but if we're talking British government, pretty sure they hate the Russians. The story on Nunes truth of surveillance came on the day of the London attack. Nunes insisted that what he found has nothing to do with the Russians, and he apologized for not including the committee, and FBI is forced to pardon more accusations brought up by the Republicans in office, and all across the country, against Democrats.

Somehow a Trump White House staffer gets wind that Obama wiretapped Trump's phone after the election, as some sort of spiteful revenge of Trump using Russian ties to win the election, and that some other staffer working for Obama told this other staffer about it  (but don't forget Fox News who are big know it alls too) even though nobody with authority has said it actually happened, But Trump latched onto it, went to the media, Nunes was supposedly called in and was the only one who really did know something fishy was going on, but we don't know how he knows this, he took the heat, but Trump laid off, saying, I appreciate his findings and what he found out. Spicer is pretty fucking mad that their first major move can't get rid of Obama (new health care bill) but he also does this dragging through the mud to get back at the supposed liberal media the only thing missing now is What were the findings with Trump being caught in some kind of survei...

Dear Mr. G., Thank you for taking the time to contact me about issues impacting Iowans in the Senate. It is important for me to hear from folks in Iowa on important policy matters such as these.  For two decades, I proudly wore our nation’s uniform in the Iowa Army National Guard and I am proud to now represent you in the United States Senate. As both an Army officer and a United States Senator, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. This is an oath I take very seriously.  I am going to keep fighting to defend the Constitution. My focus is on issues important to Iowans. Issues like repealing and replacing a health care law that’s hurt so many hardworking families, correcting executive overreach, encouraging a limited and responsible government, ending harmful foreign policies, and ensuring that our nation’s men and women in uniform are supported as they diligently protect us from the growing threats overseas.  I am dedi...

She married now, so she decided to go with Alex's Blue Cross insurance with a lower premium, but higher deductible (4K) and not Obamacare.  the camp, along with Blue Cross, raised everyone's cost for their insurance plan, and I wonder if that has anything to do with Branstad/Republican state house. I'm worried about this plan...Beth might start needing a tune-up like other CF'ers and she has a polyp back that might need surgery. There were high co-pays for her meds, but now it's been met. My co-pays for Medicaid will go up with working, but I only pay them about a little over half a year.

* “Do-rag” O darling, the moon did not disrobe you. You fell asleep that way, nude and capsized by our wine, our bump n’ grind shenanigans. Blame it on whatever you like; my bed welcomes whomever you decide to be: hung- mistress, bride’s bouquet, John Doe in the alcove of my dreams. You can quote verbatim an entire album of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony with your ass in the air. There’s nothing wrong with that. They mince syllables as you call me yours. You don’t like me but still invite me to your home when your homies aren’t near enough to hear us crash into each other like hours. Some men have killed their lovers because they loved them so much in secret that the secret kept coming out: wife gouging her husband with suspicion, churches sneering when an usher enters. Never mind that. The sickle moon turns the sky into a man’s mouth slapped sideways to keep him from spilling what no one would understand: you call me god when it gets good though I do not exist to y...

An excerpt from  Lotion : Lotion is a palliative. What does it correct? It corrects ash. What is ashiness? Ash is a gray track of evident decay, most striking in contrast with darker skins, brown skins, tending to black. After bathing, I apply both face and body lotions. After handwashing, hand lotion. In the winter, I apply an extra layer of thick oily cream, too oily for the hands (but good for the thin skin on the shins that cracks in cold, dry weather) to my heels and elbows. Sometimes I notice a black woman unknown to me, not homeless, whose legs or feet or hands are so ashy that I wonder whether she has lost her mind. Liniments are a second class of lotions, meant to address a deeper set of problems. I find myself on my knees with some rags and a bucket filled with scalding hot soapy water and bleach. My mother has visited and discovered some scuzz on the stepladder that I am obliged to use for retrieving bowls, pitchers and the like from the uppermost shelves in my ...

When Trump said Obama was wiretapping him after the election all the Dems and media continue to say (thank you, Dan Rather) is that the former administration did not do that to Trump and his team there hasn't been one thing about surveillance in general all Nunes is supposed to do is prove truth or falsehood to what Trump has claimed.   I hope Nunes will tell us if there was surveillance, who was under it, who was doing it, and why. I would ask Trump, go back with your team to those Russians you shook hands with, find them, ask them. I've been thinking more about Britain, and I guess I would need to read more on what has been said about RH negative blood (stop talking about your bad blood) the history and the church/state/land that drove people to target us.

Untitled  I go off wrapping mine mind around trees  in pink ribbon the ones I'll never climb  the dead ones that must be removed  when nothing can be made from it  Once I put out fires with sand in bags  from my trunk but it was just in my head  burning and rising out of control from the gut  when there will be so castles or moats  any kind of bridge to get to the other side  my mother had a painting burnt on wood  glossy as that sky that bites down with teeth  and leaves an imprint there in the middle  Say my mind wrapped around the globe  stretching with it across stormy seas  you'd call that distance that aerial view that big picture  nothing but surface and lines you don't want to cross  Days pass and my mind is still  the trees are waiting for something  nothing but angry birds at times that stop only briefly  s.m.g.

Jason was a cutter Jason was a cutter before he cut into his first pomegranate , soft and giving, the fruit bled his own handling of things, stinging his raw fingernails and finding that right pain something you suck away without being Morrison, or any vegetable he might be getting tire of. Jason would walk for miles for that pomegranate , and he'd pay anything and call that cuting, the art of life, sections of sweetness even ripening the sky when he got too open with me and I left like a balloon that disappears. I had too much wind. Jason didn't have to eat his own liver, lung, or lips he just kept replacing his arm and his leg and his chest for getting to the middle or the center of what was picked, boxed like a memory then out in the open, this fruit was his, and his taste improved, and sometime I'm going to tell him, no poem, no beer, that I want him back. s.m.g.

When we went out collecting votes for early voting, the people on our list had already voted Democrat. You think we waste our time on Republicans? If they had already voted, they were registered to vote. There might have been one person in the house who also wanted to vote Absentee, so we signed them up. No, I never checked if that person was registered to vote. I'm assuming the auditor did. Maybe not. It happened happened very rarely, if ever.