Friday, October 12, 2007

Al Gore: Man of Peace?

Posted by Mickey Z on 10/12 at 01:42 PM
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  1. MICKEY AND Z-ITEZZ—ALBERT GORE SR—I say yea.. to a NOBEL PRIZE for STATESMANSHIP --- AL JR .. and Tipper ??? not so fast—buckeroos.  Albert jr does a POWERPOINT which in turn becomes the basis for a DOCUMENTARY—which earns ALbore KUDOS—which evens the score with BILL AND HILARY—WHICH makes his former BLIND TRUST—worth billions—as HIS MANSION burns enough juice in one month to equal 2 middle-income homes energy use for a full year—which of course—ALBORE AND TIPPER justify .. by—buying ENERGY CREDIT OFF-SETS .. FOR WHICH THEY JOINTLY OWN the controlling interest IN THE WORLD EXCHANGE THAT BROKERS THE CREDITS IN THE FIRST PLACE—WHILE PRIVATELY JETSETTING AROUND IN THEIR VERY OWN SOUNDBREAKER—OR SOMEONE ELSES—AS ALBORE DISCERNS-- WHOSE MORE DARLING—MICHAEL MOORE—OR the founder of MOVE-ON .. ORG… while HILARY LAMENTS WILLY’S GRIEVING ... and ALBORE DECIDES BETWEEN ANOTHER APPEARANCE ON SNL—or the JOHN STEWART SHOW—I hope HE chooses 30 ROCK—as a guest—and WE ALL GET OUR TALKING POINTS SHOT AT ALFULLBORE ON C-SPAN 2—OVER the re-issue of EARTH IN THE BALANCE—subtitle JUGGLING PLATE TECTONICS—WHILE WALKING THE EQUATOR LINE—as JOHNNY CASH WHISTLES DIXIE FROM THE GRAVE—or something like that == http://tinyurl.com/283gvl == HOW TRUE—HOW TRUE—ALBORE ON SNL—IF HE WON—ohhhhh—and thank u’ for giving us the INTERNET --AL jr ...- N*O*T** ------ smile ..... ps .. ‘LBERTO HAD A THING OR TWO—TO SAY IN 92’—TO PAPA BUSH AS WELL ---- http://tinyurl.com/ysjlh6 == Al had suspicions about SADAHM ...  but not GOMORAH .......... HEAR YOUNG albert out—please !!! u may be glad u did ....... capcha says }}}} **FUTURE*****

    Posted by Richie from N FT MYERS FL  on  10/12  at  02:41 PM

  2. I can’t say anything about Gore, other than he learned to walk 7 years ago.

    If you feel like buying a CD...’Jostojoo’, by Mamak Khadem. You might also know her as the lead vocalist with Axiom of Choice.

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/12  at  03:42 PM

  3. al gore - man of peace = nonsense.

    contributor to bombing of sudan and others.

    as for the rest of them, a phrase i have been overusing a lot lately is “shower of bastards”

    kissinger - i loved this line… “satire became obsolete the day that henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize”

    Posted by michael from scotland  on  10/12  at  04:17 PM

  4. I added a question mark to the title just in case some think I’m serious.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/12  at  04:24 PM

  5. didnt believe you thought so, just re-emphasising.

    anyone got any good jokes?

    Q. how do u turn a duck into a soul singer?

    Posted by michael from scotland  on  10/12  at  04:29 PM

  6. I was hoping you’d make a Gore post… speaking of potentially meaningful but most likely irrelevant movies, anyone hear about Brian DePalma’s Redacted:

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10008755-redacted/news/1679324/

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  10/12  at  04:30 PM

  7. Well James...what do you think we should do with Gore?

    Posted by Joe maine from   on  10/12  at  04:38 PM

  8. michael...I apologize if I seemed cranky this morning. It has been quite a last night and today. Last night’s storm did some damage. Where I live lightening is a problem - something to do with the geology here or something. A while back my well pump was hit and it cost a lot $$$$$. My pump is down 200 feet in the ground. No pump, means no water. Last night’s strike was like an atomic explosion. My house shook a lot. My neighbor’s pump was hit this time. I was lucky this time. I wish that someone would invent a system to protect well pumps from lightening. Nothing that technology has come up with so far works.

    Sorry to be venting about the trivial when more civilians, including a lot of children were killed yesterday by us in Iraq. The Rescue Party needs to rescue them before we kill them all.

    Since Kissinger, the prize has lost its meaning.

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  10/12  at  05:37 PM

  9. RMJ...8...I house sat an old farm, years ago that must have been in a strange electro-geographic location like your speaking of.

    The great dog at the house was very frightened of the loud noise that sounded like canons going off just 10 feet above our heads. We sat with each other in a shed. Lightning hit an old tree on the side of the house, fortunately it was leaning away from the house, though a tree falling into this house might have served a good purpose...but not while I was there.

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/12  at  07:42 PM

  10. Its a bit late for ‘post-a-story’ time (although, didn’t that used to be a Saturday thing Mickey? I guess I’m slightly early.) And its half a story at most…
    I’ve been house/cat-sitting for my sisters pad in London while shes been in New Zealand. She’s back today, so I head back up north to the village I was born in. Walking back down the high street, past the lower school I was educated (very well) in 20 years ago, where it is chucking out time, I hear a sproglet yell to another, “Stop! Call your au pair back here!” Just a What The Fuck, shit this has actually happened in my own backyard moment. This is perhaps the classless Britain I was promised as a chuckie, and delivered by our party of ‘labour’.

    Posted by Mew from clophill  on  10/12  at  09:14 PM

  11. In 1988 I was a young man living in a small town in Alabama.  At the time I admired Gore and hoped he would be nominated to run for president.  Dukakis got the nomination, was widely ridiculed, and Bush Sr. won.

    I had once gone out to hear Gore give a speech at a small airfield.  There were not many of us (insiders were already saying that he was finished)-- at the time I quite admired him, and thought he was noble, handsome, and eloquent.

    Those were simpler times-- or so it it seems-- today I read somewhere that Bill Clinton was probably the bastard son of John Winthrop Rockefeller, or one of that tribe.  That was news to me-- but seems hardly surprising or unlikely.  Makes perfect sense when Strom Thurmond turned out to have had raped a black maid-- and kept it hushed up until their daughter had passed away.  We occasionally told crude jokes about him in high school. The old reptile had married a beauty pageant queen.

    Politics makes me ill, but I always hope that there are people who can be true and good-- people that the system cannot easily chew up and spit out.  Eugene McCarthy might have been one: some say flawed, but a decent man.

    Last week, Cynthia McKinney came through town and I went to hear her.  Among some local Greens she said several times how she really had done nothing extraordinary in her career and didn’t think she deserved so much attention!  I adore her.  She had an unstudied alertness and intelligence that I’ve seen in so very few people, my older sister being one.

    And I love Cindy Sheehan also!  I bumped into her at an event in Berkeley-- and she mentioned that she recognized me which was very flattering.  When I think of how she and so many others have suffered for no reason!

    Thinking of the direction this world has taken has truly made me ill.  I want to do anything I can to help those two women-- but then I think, what can I do?  I so often feel like a loser… I get tired of singing Imagine. 

    Something I did do: 

    After the Beach Impeach event where I saw Mckinney (again) and Cindy Sheehan-- I jotted up these little stories for the San Francisco IMC hoping to give them and the event some publicity.

    http://tinyurl.com/2hu42q
    http://tinyurl.com/2dln7f
    http://tinyurl.com/3xwqf5
    http://tinyurl.com/369sob

    CAPTCHA says “RESPECT"-- Mickey, I can’t remember if it was to Cindy or Cynthia I mentioned it to-- but I’ve been telling everyone lately how much I like your idea of starting a “Rescue Party”.

    Posted by Robert B. Livingston from San Francisco, California  on  10/12  at  11:43 PM

  12. i really shouldn’t allow myself anywhere near the internet when i come home after a night out.

    i have just woken up and remembered that i submitted an article called “i am very pleased winston churchill is dead” to a website last night.

    if it is published i expect a bit of blowback

    morning all!

    Posted by michael from scotland  on  10/13  at  02:51 AM

  13. Good frosty morning to Mickey, joe, Mew, Robert, Michael and all yet to arrive… It was 36 on the thermometer here this morning. I finally decided to turn the heat on to take the chill off.

    micheal, your article sounds interesting. Let us know when it is published. Blowback is good. I love blowback on articles - it gives additional opportunity for discussion.

    Robert, I met Cindy a few months ago. I was impressed. She seemed so genuine - unlike other politicians. Her motives are clear and honorable. She openly wept while speaking about the war and her son. I have no doubt about her sincerity. Sadly, the good people never win an election in the usa.

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  10/13  at  08:17 AM

  14. Good Morning Mickey, RMJ, Michael, Robert, Zen, Ritchie, Joe...It is a gorgeous day on the Maine coast. Sun sparkling on the water of Casco Bay. Visibility is excellent after a rain storm last evening and it is chilly this morning as well, RMJ.

    Michael, nothing to worry about...how could anyone take Churchill seriously?

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/13  at  09:34 AM

  15. This kind of story title raises my blood pressure and I know everyone has seen this nonsense.

    ‘Questioning the morality of war’

    This can only come from someone who has not left their office in at least 50 years or whose elevator doesn’t go to the top floor!

    Who the hell sits around and thinks this stuff up?

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/13  at  12:15 PM

  16. Michael’s #12 gets my vote for post of the day.

    Today I spent several hours watching my two little cousins, boys aged about 2 and 3. If I were in Amsterdam, right now I’d be smoking a huge blunt to take the edge off.

    Weird news: since I can’t pay (nor would I) $2000 for a ticket to tonight’s Red Sox game, I will listen on-line. The station I found has Rage Against The Machine’s “Know Your Enemy” for bed music (music under the talking). Somehow baseball and revolution don’t resonate for me…

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  10/13  at  05:25 PM

  17. Zen..16...Yeah, that’s why I walked out on the game at the age of 12..it’s hell not having a healthy childhood.

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/13  at  06:43 PM

  18. I just saw a commercial for Nissan cars featuring the Clash’s version of Pressure Drop. Don’t think I have the words to express such sorrow.

    Yes Joe, prosecute Gore along with Leo DiCaprio. Except I rented The Departed the other night, and the whole thing was pretty cool, the whole cast and everything. A crime drama that didn’t take place in NYC or LA, who knew?

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  10/13  at  06:44 PM

  19. James..18...Maybe we could change our minds on Leo DiCaprio? please...I somewhat like the name...Gore...sounds like the name of a snowplow component!

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/13  at  07:08 PM

  20. And it’s the first name of Mr. Vidal, who should not be prosecuted as far as I know.

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  10/13  at  07:29 PM

  21. James....perhaps we should postpone all prosecutions until further investigation...The headline of a recent local email stated there will be a spaghetti supper with congressman tom allen appearing. Initially, I rolled over laughing, then I thought, another free meal from taxpayers...it’s like digging up the dead and begging the cadaver for breadcrumbs...or taking an anchor with you to the Y swimming pool.

    Posted by joe maine from   on  10/13  at  08:43 PM

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