Sunday, June 24, 2007

A book assignment and caption contest to help you forget I'm not around

Posted by Mickey Z on 06/24 at 06:27 AM
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  1. This is fun:

    “The next it appeared to be only what, in all likelihood, it was: a kind of retraction.

    Zimbalist struggled for the next hour to understand that move, and for the strength to resist confiding to a ten-year-old whose universe was bounded by the study house, the shul, and the door to his mother’s kitchen, the sorrow and dark rapture of Zimbalist’s love for the dying widow, how some secret thirst of his own was quenched every time he dribbled cool water through her peeling lips.”

    From The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, by Michael Chabon.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  06/24  at  08:49 AM

  2. Caption:

    “RENT MY MOVIE!  oh yeah, and we should really do something about the environment.”

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  06/24  at  08:51 AM

  3. Since I am at work, the only book near me is a copy of, Technician/General Class License Manual for The Radio Amateur, The ARRL 1985-1986.

    This book is about HAM radio and information needed to obtain a HAM License...for transmitting, not receiving.

    The pages are not in traditional numerical order. Now isn’t this as fascinating as the study of particles in the universe, which we as humans, as expendables are only one of...but each of us are comprised of many smaller particles, vibrating, just like electronic signals of radio transmissons. So where do human emotions come into this...well, how the hell sould I know?

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/24  at  09:29 AM

  4. this book has been sitting on my printer for weeks now.
    Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh.
    Theres a poem on pg123.
    “I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
    in order to fear and to hope.
    The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
    death of all that are alive.”

    Good morning JOS and Joe.

    Posted by frances from bc  on  06/24  at  10:00 AM

  5. Hello Frances...Thich Nhat Hanh is great! I was reading some brief stories by him just yesterday, while at work. I hope you are doing well.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/24  at  10:11 AM

  6. “My-my life is always like th-this. Everything’s always awful. Even my own p-penis hates me.”

    From Ed The Happy Clown by Chester Brown

    Posted by Buddhamonkeydevil from USA  on  06/24  at  10:46 AM

  7. Thank you Joe, yes I am doing well.  Mostly irrational fears and emotional sludge...really makes me feel inept and incompetant.  Other than that just waiting for the sun to reappear, its been about a week of overcast and drizzle.  When the sky does manage to clear, jet trails quickly smear it up with a glaring white filmy haze...I am really starting to hate human technological innovation.

    Posted by Frances from bc  on  06/24  at  11:03 AM

  8. Frances...7...I don’t know if it helps you to know, I and many people I know are very disconerted, confused, hurt, pissed off, etc. Every strange feeling for me personally, except for being grounded with calm.

    I was just reading, ‘some teachings’ I am familiar with and simply reading about it is not really helpful, but for me is calming and keeps me in the moment and quiets mind. I do not intend to pontificate by saying you have the insight, and desire humane truth to understand expressing what many are clueless to.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/24  at  11:11 AM

  9. yes Joe, I read to calm myself as well...I agree that without ‘practice’ it does little in the long run.  we have a saying in our home,"fake it till you make it”. 
    Our morning ritual is a hug first thing in the day.  Start things off with a warm sharing.  Sometimes it feels like we are only going through the motions...other times its a genuine expression of caring here and nowness.  Without judgement, just being aware of the feelings of closeness and seperation.

    Posted by frances from bc  on  06/24  at  12:20 PM

  10. Frances...9...you said,"fake it till you make it”

    Yeah...it takes effort to become...It seems like your household is far more sane than most I have been aware of!

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/24  at  12:39 PM

  11. “A small number of parties have emerged...but none of them, excepting Civic Forum, appears to have the strength or organizational muscle to challenge the ...Communist Party.”
    from The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style. (If my fellow Expendables could have seen the look on my face when I found this quote! It doesn’t name the source, but is the entry for use of ‘except’ and ‘excepting.’)

    Joe, I agree with your view; almost everyone I know had/is having/will soon have darkness descend. This is what fascism looks like. I reflect on the various peoples, foreign and domestic, for whom this sort of misery has gone on for generations. Here’s to having nothing left to lose.

    A teaspoon of good news: my mom’s partner is making a rapid recovery from a triple bypass. He’s a good guy - I’m glad that they’re together.

    I’m stumped for a caption. Mostly the photo makes me want to puke. It’s in the same class (insert rim shot) as that Dubya/Hillary shot from a while back.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  06/24  at  02:58 PM

  12. Good afternnoon Mickey, JOS, frances, Zen, Buddahmonkey, and joe…
    What a coincidence. I just happen to have the HAM manual at my side, too. As joe says, the pages are not numbered. I will pick a sentence at random from Chapter 6. “...Radiation resistance should not be confused with the feed-point impedance...”. A long time ago, I was a HAM- WA2YYU.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/24  at  03:41 PM

  13. RMJ...12...yeah RMJ...that is weird...do you still receive? I’m only involved with Shortwave and not on a regular basis these days. Mostly to listen to music from other countries when reception is good.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/24  at  03:57 PM

  14. Joe...I was licensed in the 60s and have had so many life changes since then that I had to give it all up. Sometimes I miss it. I have friends who communicate with HAMS all around the world. That would be fun but I never was very good with code. My brain just does not work that way.
    What kind of work do you do now that is connected to HAM radio?

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/24  at  04:52 PM

  15. Hi everybody...do you sometimes pick up the morning paper and know that you could write a better headline than the Editor did?  Yesterday, I would have used the headline, “Labor Pains in Vermont”. The lead story was about our hospital which has been in operation since 1918. We have been having a major crisis in health care here. The Delivery Room is now closed on week-ends...not enough Pediatricians, etc. Yes, things are SiCKO in Vermont these days. We need an emergency air shuttle service to Havana.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/24  at  05:00 PM

  16. RMJ...14...I don’t do anything with HAM...the books have been on my desk at work, given to me by someone who thought I would find them interesting because he knew I had shortwave receivers...well I’m not interested in HAM radios and my mind does not work in a way that I could learn the information anyway.

    I bought a shortwave receiver because I wanted a different flavor of propagand, but really to listen to music from other countries. I think a radio is a more interesting way of doing this in place of the computer, which I spend too damn much time in front of anyway....so it’s fun listening to the English broadcast of Radio Madrid poking fun at our backwards medical profession..e.g., listening to some very intense music from Turkey or elsewhere...sometimes I listen to another language broadcast, since I don’t know what anyone is talking about in English, I might as well NOT know what they are saying in another language...at least the sound is unfamiliar...(-:...also I can’t tell it’s obviously bullshit…

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/24  at  05:06 PM

  17. This really is fun, Mickey!  And before I forget:  I hope you and Michelle have the most pleasant holidays.

    Here are sentences 5 and 6 from p. 123 of the book I am reading at the moment:
    ‘It’s what’s coming.  The only thing language does now is separate us from the animals.’

    The book:  ‘Honored Guest’, a collection of short stories by Joy Williams published in 2004 - the quote is from the story ‘Claro’.  The (American) edition of this book was sent to me by an American friend after I had told him how much I like Joy Williams.  Expect the unexpected when you read her stories.  Highly recommended. 

    And ‘hi’ from a cool but dry Daylesford to JOS, Frances, Joe of Maine (#8: ‘I don’t know if it helps you to know, I and many people I know are very disconerted, confused, hurt, pissed off, etc. Every strange feeling for me personally, except for being grounded with calm.’ I am one of those ‘many people’, Joe and Frances), buddhamonkeydevil, Zen Prole and Rosemarie.

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  06/24  at  08:35 PM

  18. Rosemarie #15: We have been having a major crisis in health care here. The Delivery Room is now closed on week-ends...not enough Pediatricians, etc.’ Just yesterday a report was published pointing out a similar health care crisis in Australia.  It seems the Federal government has been underfunding hospitals to the tune of 1.1 bn dollars a year - but they never have trouble finding billions of dollars for ‘defense’.

    Here are two (non-fiction) pieces by Joy Williams published in ‘Granta’, one about the case against children and one about her dog ‘Hawk’:
    http://www.granta.com/extracts/778
    http://www.granta.com/extracts/497

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  06/24  at  08:44 PM

  19. Helga, I liked Joy Williams on children. It reminded me of Patton Oswalt, one of the best comedians in the US. He complains about the reflexive majesty afforded people having kids or getting sober on the DVD ‘No Reason To Complain’: “So I’ve learned to limit my drinking to two scotches and I’m not polluting the world with miniature versions of myself—where’s my recognition?”

    Here’s a taste of him on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/2mzyeh

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  06/24  at  10:34 PM

  20. Here goes:  “I couldn’t go, so I asked Gene if he could go and represent me, and he did.  When Gene returned from the funeral he told me that there had been an open casket and that the autographed picture was beside Jimmy’s head” from = the Soul of a Butterfly - Reflections on Life’s Journey = by Muhammed Ali with Hana Yasmeen Ali =p 123= Jimmy was a 12 year old boy who once visited Ali’s training camp while the champ was training to fight George “the griile guy” Foreman.  Jimmy had leukemia.  Jimmy’s dad called Gene while the boy was in his final days battling the disease.  Ali and Gene (a trainer/assistant) jumped in the car and hurried to Philly to find Jimmy white as a sheet but smiling. “I knew you’d come.” said Jimmy.  The champ said, “I’m going to beat George Foreman and you are going to beat cancer.” The story is about determination.  Ali won!  Jimmy passed on.  =HEROES= I met Ali in April of 69’.  He was out of boxing because of his religious principle to resist/defy the draft.  He visited our University in the Quad Cities - IL/IA..for a speaking engagement in our Old LeClaire sweatbox gym.  A small group of Chi-town Southsiders met with him one-on-one following the talk.  Ali was living in Chicago at that time. He asked us about our neighborhoods back home and identified locales we mutually frequented.  Thirty-five years later, I wrote a small tribute ABOUT THAT MEETING in the guest comment section on the Ali Foundation website.  The Development Director called me for greater detail on that evening.  Turns out, the Center’s Curator/Display Director didn’t have much info for that period of Ali’s Draft Resistance.  She put me in touch with the Center’s Director, Michael J Fox, whom I also knew something about.  Michael’s dad was a player-coach during the WWII era on a team that went 8-1, featuring “Crazy Legs” Hirsch. The head coach was one of Notre Dame’s infamous “Four Horseman”.  THE FOLKS ON THAT TEAM BECAME HEROES OF A DIFFERENT KIND ==Small world!  Link to U/W football team == VERY INTERESTING== 1942 http://tinyurl.com/34egv6 Link to Ali Center http:// tinyurl.com/3cdqe6 == AND FINALLY MUHAMMED HAS HIS MOMENT WITH GEORGE BUSH==WHILE ACCEPTING THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM http://tinyurl.com/2fd3n3 == only ALI == DOIN’ WHAT MANY THINK BUT WOULD NEVER HAVE THE GUTS TO DO == WELL MAYBE ROSEMARIE!! smile ==richie

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/24  at  11:42 PM

  21. I AM A DUNDERHEAD WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSCRIPTION .. ALI CENTER LINK http://tinyurl/2mvy7b MUHAMMED ALI CLIP http://tinyurl.com/2fdzn3 ENJOY

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/24  at  11:58 PM

  22. SOMEONE TAKE THE PRINGLES AND HAMM’S BEER OUT OF MY HANDS SO I CAN TYPE AND PROOF == THE NIGHT SHIFT = ALI CENTER LINK http://tinyurl.com/2mvy7b == burma shave!

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/25  at  12:04 AM

  23. EVER WONDER HOW MICKEY AND ALI (in 65’) stay (ed) in shape?  Ask Bundini == Ali’s Trainer == http://tinyurl.com/337q4v ==

    BUNDINI COINED “FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A BEE” == Speaking of which == an afterthought in lite of “Where are the Bees?” MUHAMMED THE POET LAUREATE IN HIS PRIME OF LIFE ....w/ LIBERACE AND MANY OTHERS == ALI IS AND ALWAYS WILL BEE THE GREATEST http://tinyurl.com/2hywmw nitey nite

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/25  at  12:43 AM
  24. Faced with this situation, the Government had no alternative but to go rapidly into reverse gear, broadening the criteria it had established about the places and spaces that could be requisitioned, resulting in the immediate and improvised utilisation of abandoned factories, disused churches, sports pavilions and empty warehouses. For the last two days there has been talk of setting up army tents, added the old man with the black eye-patch.

    The closest book at hand is Jose Saramago’s Blindness, which I also happen to be reading at the moment. Excellent author, excellent work.

    Posted by Keir from the hague  on  06/25  at  04:15 AM

  25. Let us begin our analysis by noting that men are not solitary but function within hierarchical structures. In birds, amphibians and mammals we find dominance structures (Tinbergen. 1953; Marler, 1967) and in human beings, structures of authority mediated by symbols rather than direct contests of physical strength.

    From ‘Obedience to Authority’ by Stanley Milgram - which is a fucking crazy book about lots of experiments they did on people to see how far they would continue to do what they were told even if they felt it was very wrong.

    Posted by michael from scotland  on  06/25  at  04:18 AM

  26. Michael of Scotland....from ‘Obedience to Authority’...It’s always curious to see man comparing himself to other species and life forms, frequently to legitimize man’s way of living and relating to one another

    How so many love hierarchies...how so many people feel they understand the behavior of other species as viewed and understood with the limited understanding of ego driven humans. How we project our own limitations onto the universe. PBS has shown the Cheetah always catching the Thompson Gazelle, they have shown this nature documentary dozens of times...so it certainly must be okay for man to be a predator, it would be easily concluded. The narrator of this series always sounds knowledgable and authoritative.

    There are other explanations for other species behavior that state they are NOT hierarchies as played out by human societies who possess insane weapons systems.

    The arrogance of humans who claim to understand, yet neglect to simply stop, observe, sense, feel and step out of the limited understanding of the conditioned human brain.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/25  at  09:08 AM

  27. “As it turns out, my mom, like a lot of moms who have kids about to go off to school, was sliding into a deep depression.  For her, the notion of an empty nest was no small concern.” Tim Wise, White Like Me.

    “...When asked what Lee Raymond was really like, Mr. Gore responded with ‘about this big,’ and opened his mouth in most curious way.  Back to you Bob.”

    Posted by bdaly from Upper Saddle River  on  06/25  at  09:48 AM

  28. “There are Christian scientists who challenge research regarding global warming, AIDS, and pregnancy prevention. Christian Right organizations such as the Traditional Values Coalition, whose founder, Paul Cameron, once called for AIDS ‘leper colonies,’ are lobbying to end all programs by the national Institutes of Health related to HIV infection.”

    from “American Fascists” by Chris Hedges.

    (No, I haven’t read it yet, it’s been sitting next to my computer for a couple weeks waiting for me to do find the time.)

    Posted by Thomas McCullock from Colorado Springs  on  06/25  at  10:42 AM

  29. FINALLY, proof of the existence of GOD !!!

    The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington
    chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that
    the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of
    course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

    Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic
    (absorbs heat)?

    Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law
    (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

    One student, however, wrote the following:

    First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
    need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate
    at which they are leaving.

    I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it
    will not leave.

    Therefore, no souls are leaving.  As for how many souls are entering
    Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world
    today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of
    their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of
    these religions and since people do not belong to more than one
    religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.

    With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
    souls in Hell to increase exponentially.  Now, we look at the rate of
    change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order
    for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume
    of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two
    possibilities:

    1.  If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
    enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase
    until all Hell breaks loose.

    2.  If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls
    in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes
    over.
    So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa
    during my Freshman year that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before I
    sleep with you,” and take into account the fact that I slept with her
    last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell
    is exothermic and has already frozen over.

    The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it
    follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore,
    extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a
    divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting

    “Oh my God.”

    THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/25  at  01:14 PM

  30. Is it time for all Expendables to decide which side they are on? I know where I stand!

    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/25  at  01:35 PM

  31. Zen Prole # 19:  I liked the quote by Patton Oswalt!

    ‘He complains about the reflexive majesty afforded people having kids.’ And so he should ..

    I like ‘Honored Guest’ so much that I bought another collection of short stories by Joy Williams yesterday:  ‘Escapes’ (1990).

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  06/25  at  11:07 PM

  32. “Certainly not in this part of the universe”, said Nemoto unperturbed.
    “What do you mean by that?”, asked Maura.

    Translated from the German version of “Manifold 2:Space” by Stephen Baxter.

    I haven’t read it yet. I found it while cleaning up the mess that my son left behind when he moved out.

    Posted by Dick Cox from Germany  on  06/26  at  12:38 AM

  33. THE LOWEST APPROVAL RATED CONGRESS IN HISTORY == NO WONDER OUR UNDIES ARE IN A BUNDLE AND WE ITCH ALL OVER.  IN 48’, THE YEAR OF MY BIRTH, PRESIDENT “GIVE EM’ HELL - HARRY TRUMAN” COINED THE PRESS TAG-LINE == “THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS” FIFTY-NINE YEARS LATER, WE SUNK THE MOTHER-LOAD, ACCORDING TO CLINTON’S FORMER RACHET-MAN, DICK MORRIS.  SEE AND THINK FOR YOURSELF!  http://tinyurl.com/25sh4z == thank you Nancy, Harry and Company for stepping on the hand that feeds you… Where are LBJ and HHH the Force of 64-65’ when you need them most?  Apparently, they were part of an old generation - with a warn out explanation http://tinyurl.com/yopg8x == THEY CAUGHT THE FIRST TRAIN TO THE COAST 40 YEARS AGO....... I LOVED THE VIBE = ROSEMARIE, MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE??  http:tinyurl.com/29lcfd == richie

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/26  at  12:41 AM

  34. ROSEMARIE == IF YOU SAY YES == I’LL LEAD http://tinyurl.com/29lcfd == richie == captcha “question”

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/26  at  12:46 AM

  35. DICK MORRIS ARTICLE ON DO-NOTHING CONGRESS http://tinyurl.com/2oruvo MUSIC TO DANCE WITH ROSEMARIE BY DON MCCLEAN http://tinyurl.com/29lefd == HELGA AND FRANCES—YOU R’ ON MY DANCE CARD TOO == JOE FROM MAINE AND MICKEY WILL CHAPERONE smile == richie

    Posted by Richie from st cloud / n ft myers  on  06/26  at  01:09 AM

  36. Good morning everyone...while at the dentist this morning, giving her money I don’t have, we discussed education of children, you know, the process where we take ever expanding minds and stuff them into a thimble…

    The receptionist said, “I think we’re going down the tubes”, I said, NO, “We’ve been down the tubes”. The other lady said, “we should live like they live in France”, I said, no, “Their down the tubes also, along with every other country that disguises their dictatorship with uninteresting, irrelevant, socio-economic-political words”

    Man-made ‘systems’, incongruent with our connection to nature, are failing systems from their beginnings...well,...you say, who the hell doesn’t know that? I don’t know. Who the hell is it that doesn’t know that? Most of the entire populations of most greed driven societies, perhaps?

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/26  at  08:33 AM

  37. Good morning everyone, heres something that got me smiling this morning.  Bliar the peace maker!
    Care of dependable renegade:
    http://tinyurl.com/2vs427
    great photoshop work.

    I would be happy to take a turn with you on the dance floor Richie...fire up the tunes and lets go.

    RMJ #30: I reached critical overload a while back. Headlines and photos are about all I can digest these days. I am standing on the side of truth, whatever that looks like.

    Posted by Frances from bc  on  06/26  at  11:56 AM

  38. Hi joe, Dick, and all…

    Helga...Sorry to hear that the health care in Australia is also in trouble. A news story today reports that the AMA is fighting against the health clinics in stores...a turf war, while 18,000 uninsured die every year.

    Richie...tango, rumba, waltz, or jitterbug?

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/26  at  05:38 PM

  39. Richie #35, thanks for putting me on your dance card.  I can’t really dance but even the man is an accomplished dancer and ‘leader’, that should work. 

    And Rosemarie#38: re health care in trouble, isn’t it depressing to see how both your administration and our federal government can find billions of dollars for the latest high-tech weapons and wars but can’t seem capable of providing even millions for health, education, etc.?  SCREAM!

    I’m off to Melbourne shortly, so wish all my fellow expendables all the best for the next few days.  Should call in here on Sunday/Saturday again ..

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  06/26  at  09:49 PM

  40. Hi everyone...thunder and lightening here so I have to shut down the computer but wanted to remind all that today is the anniversary of the 1986 ruling in the International Court in the Hague. The USA was guilty of violating the sovereignty of Nicaragua by aiding the contras...sort of like what the USA is doing now in Venezuela...(that’s what I call a repeat offender that cannot be rehabilitated.)

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/27  at  04:58 PM

  41. Somehow I ended up on the democrats.com mailing list and this is what arrived in my mailbox this morning:
    Honk to Impeach! on july 4th. Make a sign and stand on the street corner.  WTF?

    What kind of pathetic drivel is this?  With a political strategy like that who needs an opposition party.

    Posted by frances from bc  on  06/28  at  09:30 AM

  42. Hi frances...I received that e-mail a couple of days ago. My reaction was the same as yours.  The thing that makes me so sad is that there IS a way to bring about change, and it’s legal and non-violent. If everyone just did nothing - no work, no shopping, no traveling. The only problem there is that for most, no work means no eating. BUT, I think that it would have an effect even if the total boycott of everything lasted only for a brief period of time..not long enough for babies to starve. The other problem is that if someone did not show up for work, he/she would be fired and replaced by someone without a conscience. I guess that there are just not enough people in this country who give a damn. Those who want Global Peace and Justice are just too small in numbers to achieve anything in a legal and non-violent way. That’s what Malcolm X, Ward Churchill, and so many others have been saying for a very long time.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/28  at  09:53 AM

  43. Hello Frances and RMJ...Prosecute YES...Impeach YES...Prosecute first, impeach later...trial needn’t be any more than 3 minutes in duration!

    World tribunals have established guilt....now...who the hell will take the responsibility to arrest these war bums?

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/28  at  12:15 PM

  44. This has nothing to do with barbaric politics...does anyone have detailed instructions to make real, quality sour-dough bread? I’d like to know...Thanks

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/28  at  01:50 PM

  45. joe...you are 1000% right. It should not take more than 3 minutes to give the body count. How quickly the world has forgotten and how little we have learned from history. If they had been killed in a furnace, there would be war crimes trials. They were killed with bombs, guns, DU, and cluster bombs, so they have gotten away with it…

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/28  at  01:52 PM

  46. Just have a second, but hey Joe, sourdough:

    http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=5842.0
    http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=11513.msg74645#msg74645

    Posted by James from work  on  06/28  at  02:45 PM

  47. Nothing new...simply one individuals perspective..if you don’t mind being quite pissed off for about 7 minutes, check out this commentary. Thanks James for the recipes.


    http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m34029&hd=&size=1&l=e

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  06/28  at  03:52 PM

  48. The townships, municipal bodies, and counties form so many concealed breakwaters, which check or part the tide of popular determination.  If an oppressive law were passed, liberty would still be protected by the mode of executing that law; the majority cannot descend to the details and what may be called the puerilities of administrative tyranny.

    Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America.

    Posted by candace from brooklyn  on  06/29  at  09:38 AM

  49. Well...I’m a bit late. But here goes.

    “I was feeling out on a limb in Korphe, operating all by myself,” Mortenson says. “And I wanted these people to feel like it wasn’t just me, that there were a bunch of other Americans back home concerned about helping them.”

    From Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (just got it this past week while I was away). Great Book! Talk about desperately important work to be done.

    Posted by Kati from   on  06/29  at  03:10 PM

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