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Poem: An ode to Christmases past, present and future

Posted on December 28, 2017 |
By Rustan Swenson



’Twas the night after Christmas and all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse.

 

Piles of debris and throwaway toys

Is all that remained from the wee girls and boys.

 

Children were nestled all snug in their beds

With cell phones and new apps tucked under their heads.

 

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Letter to the Editor: Tweet your way to happiness

Posted on November 2, 2017 |
By Rustan Swenson



Tweeting from my tower of Babble

Enlightening the dissidents and opposition rabble

To liberate my body and mind

I tweet on topics of every kind.

 

When I was a mere lad I heard the following pronouncement of wisdom, from a dear old Irish lady neighbor, which continues to this day to profoundly influence and shape my everyday life.

 

Tweedeli deedeli dee, Tweedeli deedeli dot

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Letter to the Editor: Government is failing the people

Posted on May 25, 2017 |
By Rustan Swenson



Our nation desperately needs to move to a “non-GMO” system. Governmental administration has launched a campaign of manipulation, mongrelization and modification through massive malfeasance and malpractice assaulting the critical life and quality of life-sustaining organizations and government agencies. We must return to original founding principals and cleanse ourselves of the massive pollution of bodies, minds and souls.

We must return to our OMG:

Original founding principles and virtues.

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Opinion: Americans must break free from their 'CARB' diet

Posted on August 8, 2016 |
By Rustan Swenson



With the capitulation of every founding principle Americans have lost their sense of nation. If we cease to act as a nation we shall cease to be a nation. A brief summary of some symptoms defining the frightening litany of chaos and failures will witness our desperate need for a radical change from our high CARB diet.

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Opinion: 'Twas the Night After Christmas

Posted on December 17, 2015 |
By Rustan Swenson



’Twas the Night After Christmas

’Twas the night after Christmas and all through the house,

Not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse.

Piles of debris and throw-away toys

Is all that remained from the wee girls and boys.

Children was nestled all snug in their beds

With cell phones and new apps tucked under their head.

Sacred icons once shaped with our hands

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Opinion: New definition of PAC is offered

Posted on November 25, 2015 |
By Rustan Swenson



I’m all in favor of PACs in the political process, provided we just allow for a small, subtle change to the acronym and its reading. PACCC: Public Advocacy for Concerned, Conscientious Citizens. Not what we have today: Profligate Aggression and Control by Corporate Contrivance.

Rustan Swenson, Shoreham 

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Opinion: Nation seen to be sinking into moral relativism 'under clod'

Posted on September 21, 2015 |
By Rustan Swenson



The New Age of Faith, one nation under clod. (Clod: a lump or mass of earth or clay from whence we all evolved.)

After almost two-and-a-half centuries since the Declaration of Independence, it is high time to set the document and the record straight.

Our so-called Founding Fathers established the Declaration on their misperceived concepts of a firm, absolute base and ground of principles, which time and science has since laid to waste.

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Opinion: The Hills are Alive - but with the sounds of profit

Posted on June 29, 2015 |
By Rustan Swenson



This was composed for, and performed at, the Pubic Service Board hearing rally across the street from the service board offices on June 22 in opposition to the fracked gas pipeline. I was there in full Revolutionary War uniform singing and partaking in the rally. This is performed to the music of “The Sound of Music.”

 

The Destiny of Vermont

The hills are alive with a threat from afar

The fields are the path this monster shall scar

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Opinion: PSB has licensed the desecreation of the Green Mountains

Posted on April 13, 2015 |
By Rustan Swenson



Vermont is racing toward a crisis of unprecedented magnitude and irreversible consequence. At stake is not a few lives, but our very way of life. Crisis is the touchstone of sincerity and opportunity, requiring immediate action to achieve renewal.

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Opinion: Voters' wishes were ignored

Posted on January 14, 2015 |
By Rustan Swenson



In this last election cycle a precious few enlightened Citizens beheld the voice of one crying in the wilderness, a lone echo, and they cast their votes in the hope of a rebirth, a renaissance, a new beginning. I was humbled and profoundly grateful for these heroic voters from across Vermont from Shelburne to Shoreham, to Orwell, Whiting and Middlebury.

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