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TAKING UP SERPENTS
Woman Fatally Bitten by Snake in Church
LONDON, Ky. (AP) -- A woman who was bitten by a snake at a church that neighbors say practices serpent handling died of her wounds hours later, a newspaper reported.
Linda Long, 48, was bitten Sunday at East London Holiness Church, where neighbors said the reptiles are handled as part of religious services, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Tuesday.
Long died at University of Kentucky Medical Center about four hours after being bitten, authorities told the newspaper.
"She said she was bitten by a snake at her church," said Lt. Ed Sizemore of the Laurel County Sheriff's Office.
Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in Kentucky. Snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50 to $100 fine.
Police said they had not received any reports of snake handling at the church.
Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
Church officials could not be reached for comment.
Rumsfeld Quits; Bush Taps Gates for Post
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After years of defending his secretary of defense, President Bush on Wednesday announced Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation within hours of the Democrats' triumph in congressional elections. Bush reached back to his father's administration to tap a former CIA director to run the Pentagon.
The Iraq war was the central issue of Rumsfeld's nearly six-year tenure, and unhappiness with the war was a major element of voter dissatisfaction Tuesday - and the main impetus for his departure. Even some GOP lawmakers became critical of the war's management, and growing numbers of politicians were urging Bush to replace Rumsfeld.
TAKING UP SERPENTS
O! Your pungent veins refused to dream! They sent away the spirit
and deceived the supple skin. Your serpent swims coldly past
in the daylight of our minds revealing such a grandiose silhouette;
your murderous, clumsy tenure; goddamned metaphor of terror!
Finished, yet not soon forgotten, your ragged breath’s gone cold.
Barren and witless, you observe your own sightless prostration!
Is this the reality, that you should come to this; such venom
displayed in the rising tally of `no confidence’? What of truth?
Have you left it, not to a free people, but to evaporated sins,
to stepping down as mere warmonger bowed upon retirement?
O! Sir! It shall not be so happy an account that you’ve laid down,
Leaving so many in harms way, bloodied, writhing on the ground!
You stand now at the alter of your own twisted, external reality;
The fear ridden episodic drumbeating to aspirations of tyranny!
You leave a bent and broken man with expressions of gloom
Only befitting one who claimed deaths makeshift throne!
You’ve been bitten by the venomous truth swimming near you!
It swam not in you, but outside of you as ill-fated liar’s bait
Which you did greedily consume with worthless deception
Sacrificing charitable patriots instead of yourself!
March, sir! Stride past! Be done with it! You’ve wasted life!
You’re a leper! A scud felled silent! The sacrificial lamb
Laid down in the midst of discord; oils fraudulent folly,
And you shall not again this way come. Amen…
Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman
ONE FAST `CRUDE' VERSE OF LIES
Rumsfeld the master of slipshod bullshit
Got caught between his adoring fans
And one very smart, well spoken man
Who used his words to let the lies slip…
`Rummy said he knew where they’d rest!
Around the area of Baghdad, Tikrit
And North, South, East and West.’
Yet he knew the intelligence was shit.
He knew no scary Double U's we’d see,
Knew there was not one damned Emmm,
And knew we’d not find the big Deeee!
He knew it! So I say, `To hell with him!’
This tale one would think would be done,
And Rummy, his suit case, would pack,
But he’s more fiction where he got that one
In a bag of lies sitting upon his back!
Copyright © 2006 mrp
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The bipartisan Iraq Study Group released recommendations for changing course in the country, saying
President Bush's policy in Iraq "is not working." The Iraqi government said the U.S. report did "not come as a surprise," and it agreed that Iraq must take the lead in its own security.
"The situation is grave, very grave in fact, and cannot be tolerated," Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh said on the pan-Arab satellite TV channel Al-Arabiya. "Absolute dependence on foreign troops is not possible. The focus must be on boosting the Iraqi security forces." -By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer (Full article...)
Coiling. Blooming.
Rumbling capital.
December 05, 2003.
Sounds of distant
Holidays’ ...booming.
God.
Cities long past their autumn.
George W. Bush.
Trees scraping
The squatting luminaries.
Burnt orange are the trees.
Dick Cheney.
No pleasure in frigid lifelessness…
Dogs howl
The scowling moon.
Bill Frist.
Pitiless are the mongrels
Greedily devouring children.
Condoleeza Rice.
All of this in the name of
A calamity-glooming worship.
Fred Phelps.
Under horrifying expressions
And last rites.
Donald Rumsfeld.
Boiling. Booming.
Shrieking center.
December 06, 2006.
Deafening noise
Over motionless homes.
Deus ex machina.
Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman