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¡No seas tan boludo, boludo!

BALADA DEL BOLUDO
Isidoro Blastein
Por mirar el otoño Perdía el tren del verano
Usaba el corazón en la corbata
Se subia a una nube,
Cuando todos bajaban.
Su madre le decía: No mires las estrellas para abajo
No mires la lluvia desde arriba
No camines las calles con la cara,
No ensucies la camisa;
No lleves tu corazón bajo la lluvia,que se moja
No des la espalda al llanto
No vayas vestido de ventana
No compres ningún tílburi en desuso.
Mirá tu primo el recto
Que duerme por las noches.
Mirá tu primo el justo
Que almuerza y se sonrie.
Mirá tu primo el probo
Puso un banco en el cielo,
Tu cuñado el astuto
Que ahora alquila la lluvia
Tu otro primo el sagaz
Que es gerente en la luna.
-Tienes razón ,mamá- dijo el boludo.
Y se bebió una rosa.
-No seré más boludo

I was greatly today saddened to hear of the passing of Ann Richards. Texas has lost one its icons and heroes. Ann and her hair and everything about her was legendary and larger than life. I am a very cynical person and it's not often I have a kind word to say about a Texas politician but Richards was special. I've never forgotten the time my father and I met Governor Richards near 7th and Congress back in the early 90s. We had just had lunch and Ann was on her way to the same place. She was so friendly and took time to chat with us for a few minutes.
Apparently someone named Bono, who spends most of his time riding around in giant rubber duckies with someone named The Edge, wearing $1,800 sunglasses everywhere he goes, thinks the solution to African poverty is music. And not just any music, but his own brand of hypocritical and insipid pop music. Together with contemporary, Bob Geldof (who, on a daily basis, snorts up enough money to feed the entire Sudan), two incredibly rich assholes organized a group of white rock bands to play a series of massively expensive concerts in London to raise "awareness" of the problems in Africa. If that isn't bad enough, it seems to have worked: what does it say about our world when someone with only one name addresses the UN, is named one of Time Magazine's Men of the Year, is given awards by Portugal, and has the ear of the Pope? Actually, that makes more sense now that I think about it. Still, what does it take to make them realize that this choad is doing nothing but capitalizing on the plight of real people in order to sell records?

A Bush cut-up by Chris Morris.

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Are cult apologists buying up domain names on the Internet to mislead the public? - CounterCOG.com, a domain name once devoted to archiving critical information about the so-called Children of God now known as The Family, seems to have been co-opted by cult apologists. It appears this shift of purpose took place about two years... [CultNews.com]

The rest of the story.


countercog.com expired and someone else [a cult apologist?] registered it.

I remember when this happened. Sam had been hosting his CounterCOG newsletters on countercog.officehiway.com. He had been using the name CounterCOG for many years before that. Then at some point, someone helped him register countercog.com and host it somewhere else or set up some type of redirection to his hosting provider at the time. He did not bother to register countercog.net or countercog.org. Someone else (Peter Steiler and Peter Vincent) registered countercog.net and countercog.org and later, countercog.com and pointed all of them to a page on s102.freespace.com.

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