Mike J Baron will be appearing live at the Garage in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for their open mic night taking the stage at 8:45 PM. I wonder if Mike will sing about the Dam Scam?

I thought a few of my readers might be interested in my new day job and my day job blog at Salvage America-- Greensboro's leading recycler.

Read about it here.

Democrats and Republicans are coming together in Washington in a move that will reduce the Neocon war machine and help to put an end to their legacy of death and destruction worldwide. From today's news:

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to bring up for a vote Tuesday a provision to halt oil shipments to the federal reserve until the end of the year. Senate Republicans said they want shipments halted for six months, but are expected to support the Democratic measure.

The House is taking up a similar provision later in the day that also is expected to get broad support." Read it and weep.

And while you're at it don't forget this key line:

"The government obtains the oil in lieu of royalties that otherwise would be paid by producers who pump it from federal land. If shipments were halted, the oil would flow into the open market."

What that means is oil companies make a higher profit on oil that is sold to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and places the argument in a whole different light known as the truth.

Today the wicked old sage cuts me to the bone at Confuseus.com.

Confuseus sez, "Everyone love sad poems... Except poet."

 See what I mean? If only I hadn't signed that lifetime contract-- my lifetime.

It was in March of 2007 that myself and several partners founded MuseCrafters.com, an open source Pligg based poetry aggregator and social bookmarking site. It would only take weeks before I would find myself completely disillusioned with the Pligg and all its applications. Tonight I discovered Litmarks-- social bookmarking site for poetry and literature links.

Neither site compared to Bud Parr's MetaxuCafe’ Litblog Network or the Poets101.com poetry aggregator built by Roch Smith Jr of We101.com fame and managed by your's truly.

Pligg based sites are nothing more than spam bait. They require almost constant attention and as soon as the spammers learn of its existence they'll swamp the site in spam completely unrelated to poetry and literature. The open nature of a Pligg based site makes it an easy target and the fact that it's open source makes it even easier to high jack by spammers who sign up to become members.

I wish the owners of Litmarks the best of luck but think they'd have done better with a spam proof application like Blogsboro Poetry Club. Maybe, if we're lucky, Roch will breath new life into Poets101.com using the same application he uses for We101.com.

Aggregation works good to a point but sites based on Pligg are almost always a failure. Even Digg.com and other popular social bookmarking sites are currently loosing market share as corporations pay members to boost their articles to the top while burying any indie posts that show potential. And the social aspect... Well there's nothing social about it.

Good luck, Je' Maverick, you're going to need it. I'll add you to my list of aggregators.

Despite the fact that the smoked up old sage of Confuseus.com has never had a job he still has opinions about working for a living. Me, I'm off to the J-O-B.

Confuseus sez, "Hi ho, Hi ho, it's off to work we go... Wait, Confuseus not work, Seven Dwarfs say that... Confuseus sez, work only if you have to, but earn every day."

See what I mean.

Yeah, right!

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