Friday, April 04, 2008

Progressives for Pinochet

Posted by Mickey Z on 04/04 at 05:46 AM
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  1. Good Morning Mickey...I’ve got to say I don’t know anything or have read anything about Pinochet...I’m presently consumed by my little world of sludge capitalism with its inherent discriminatory practices and complete lack of ethics...these people who practice class discrimination, I’m sure, wonder why america is such a damn disaster...spending their entire life reciting 5th grade math and memory recall exercises without any sense or thoughts about life and the way living life is and could be.

    Bottom line is raw stupidity without awareness of looking for real answers, the shutdown of human spirit and potential, the lack of creative thinking, communication...only childish selfishness and people abusing their authority...and it all pisses me off!

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/04  at  11:07 AM

  2. boy...well, uh, so how’s the family, heard any good music lately, started any seedling’s, noticed the cost of living rising every 3 seconds.

    The walnuts I buy frequently increased in price by 60 cents in 1 week, bought some 1x4 pine trim wood, fell over when I heard the price...I guess the forests are declining and greed increasing. Maine wants to increase cigarette tax again...not because they are discouraging tobacco products...the abusive authorities want more tax money to PLAY with...like little child with an endless supply of money that they can’t wait to spend, embezzle, give to the wealthy and other dishonorable deeds. Maine always looking for tourist dollars...good thing the remaining natural environment is pleasant and is being encroached upon by developers building expensive condo’s in the middle of a parking lot...Hmmm...I smell corruption. Who would pay mega bucks to live in the middle of a parking lot with no decent view in any direction...not following building codes...the town manager just happened to acquire one of these condo’s. Most of the locals seem to enjoy being abused by corrupt authorities, can’t wait their chance, I guess to screw a fellow man...that’s the way it works they think...I can now screw you and you must accept your position to me and being disrespected...social change will not start in Maine. I can only enjoy the gorgeous coast line and trees and watch the relinquishing of a beautiful place by its passive, [comatose] citizenry.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/04  at  12:21 PM

  3. Like all good satires, the article has that edge due to the fact that it might as well be true/straight, that’s how absurd things are right now.

    Posted by Andy from Shanghai  on  04/04  at  12:23 PM

  4. Hello Expendables...from drizzly, damp Astoria. Speaking of tax money, Joe, I just read that, each day, the US gives $7 million of our tax money to Israel (not to mention the billions to Egypt and Jordan to keep them pretending to tolerate Israel).

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  12:25 PM

  5. Oops...sorry, Andy. We were simultyping.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  12:26 PM

  6. Mickey...4...yeah, as you can tell, I have a problem with the likes of Benjamin TheYahoo...and I read journalists stating americans are screwed...we have been nothing but screwed since 1776...the myths of freedom, of democracy, of education all that crap!

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/04  at  12:42 PM

  7. One the Founding Fathers™, John Jay, once said America should be governed by the people who own it. He’s smiling somewhere.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  12:47 PM

  8. Yesterday, the human resource manager...can you imagine this title, what the hell does it mean...emailed to everyone in the warkplace, the organization chart...the hierarchy flowchart, imprinting our place...at the top of the chart is the companies greatest liability, the ceo, who extracts tooooo much money and without any receprocity to the people who allow him to stay in his coma...clueless to this idea of Human and Humane Relations, unable to bring up the subject for they have no idea of what Human Relations is, though people are seen everyday, in the same place doing the same thing, lying to each, playing the role, reciting the same standardized line, not noticing if the rehearsed phrases are even relevant to the situtation, but, instead revealing there comfort level, their neurosis for lack of the ability to deal with anything that stirs the blood circulating in their brain....jesus christ, this is almost beyond belief, so many people can be so damned clueless, more than most wark environments that I have been in...rural america, natural beauty with hell made by man.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/04  at  02:14 PM

  9. Mickey...a friend of mine, who considers herself evolved, spiritual, leftist etc., recently tried to sell me on the idea that “we cannot know peace without knowing war.”

    I gave up the conversation after a few seconds.

    On a lighter note...at least we can trust in Joba so far!

    Posted by Tommy from I live by the River  on  04/04  at  02:27 PM

  10. Progressives for Joba!!!!

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  02:34 PM

  11. Tommy..9..."we cannot know peace without knowing war.”

    I think she went to the wrong, Transendental Awareness Building, Consciousness Shifting, Spiritual Awakening, Growth without Wisdom
    Money for Charlatans...seminar

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/04  at  02:41 PM

  12. Joe...do you know her also?

    Mickey...did you hear about the girl who was attacked by a hawk at Fenway?
    Her name is Alexa Rodriguez.
    STRANGE!
    Or maybe an omen?

    Posted by Tommy from I live by the River  on  04/04  at  02:48 PM

  13. Maybe Red Sox Nation trained the bird to attack any “A-Rod”?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  02:50 PM

  14. Tommy 12...I meant I think she might be confused about cause and effect, perhaps in the process of a mindshift...I was also speaking satirically of various types of seminars for various types of growth, labeled Spiritual, Consciousness, Awareness, Oneness, Ness-ness, Finding God Through a Parts Diagram of a Jonsered ChainSaw, etc.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/04  at  03:03 PM

  15. MZ, that A-Pin quote got me laughing for the first time today. I bet that Clinton or Obama could get away with that one, but I don’t want to give them ideas.

    Waiting for the train this AM, I briefly saw some network anchor in funeral garb (stylish black dress, pearls) making somber-toned pieties about MLK. I sooooo wish I could have stuck around to hear the Sober Moral Authority Du Jour be interviewed.

    I still enjoy that Dubya line from the MLK memorial speech, “neighborhoods that are too poor.” Exactly how poor is that, I wonder? Freezing and hungry, but not yet reduced to cannibalism? Forget about gold-plated scientific greeting cards, *this* sort of stuff needs to be inscribed on satellites headed out of our solar system, along with plans for the H-bomb and breast implants. ("This is intergalactic 911, what is the nature of your emergency?")

    Captcha sez ‘above.’ http://tinyurl.com/3otmb7

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  04/04  at  04:19 PM

  16. Great post, Mickey - even if the headline is a bit startling.  And it came as a shock to liberal Catholics how much the late but not great JPII liked Pinochet- I believe he even sent the Pinochets a card on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.  Proves yet again that all the RCC cares about is the UNBORN life. 

    Hi, Joe of Maine, Andy, Tommy and Zen Prole from a rather cool Daylesford.  Autumn/fall has well and truly arrived.

    Have a good weekend, all of you and those who are going to comment here later!

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  04/04  at  05:48 PM

  17. Hello all.  I very much enjoyed this article, Mick.

    Being from Oak Park, I thought I should learn a little more about Frank Lloyd Wright and found this oer at metafilter...very interesting man and he says much that I agree with:

    http://tinyurl.com/4yfgp3

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  04/04  at  07:28 PM

  18. Good morning Helga and everyone...I’m preparing my parting email to be sent to the entire Warkplace. I don’t know when I’ll send this...it’s about dysfunction hierarchy’s and how debilitating they are to individuals and the collective group. I’m not a writer and if anyone has anything to suggest, please let me know. I’m trying to write without using my usual references such as 4 letter words, so people will read this commentary about corrupt companies and criminal ceo’s

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/05  at  09:14 AM

  19. Joe, Don’t forget about your 401K when you leave. You may want to take that money with you and invest it in some non-profit ventures to insure adequate growth for retirement one day. Non-Profit being the key word here because if any company makes a profit then it is evil.

    Posted by David from Louisville, KY.  on  04/05  at  11:23 AM

  20. Thanks David, don’t have 401k...can’t afford it! Can’t afford health care...I work in america for a company that can’t see the roof on the building let alone the people who make them rich...Not many choices for change that I see in immediate future...gotta get out of here though.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/05  at  11:59 AM

  21. Joe...I made a similar decision some time ago...with mixed results so far.

    Good luck Bro

    Posted by Tommy from I live by the River  on  04/05  at  12:04 PM

  22. Thanks Tommy...my life has been of mixed results so far...(<;

    As a semi-wise man once told me..."turn those question marks into exclamation points” ?-!

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  04/05  at  12:15 PM

  23. Hello Expendables. Sunny and almost “warm” here today.

    David: are you being serious or sarcastic here: if any company makes a profit then it is evil?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/05  at  03:13 PM

  24. Sunny and warm here in Oak Park!

    This is good:

    http://tinyurl.com/4rxjxe

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  04/05  at  04:20 PM

  25. Hello all…
    GOOD LUCK, joe. We are with you.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/05  at  04:34 PM

  26. Hey “all”, nothing much to say, just checking in, less dutifully and more happily than I check in at work.
    On the commute home yesterday, overheard (read: was unable to mentally block out the din of) some teenagers, girlys, one of whom was reading some shitty teenage, girly, magazine. “Brad Pitt is related to B… Brak Obma?*” “Who’s he?” “Dunno.”

    * in a faux Sarf Lundun accent, innit.

    Posted by Mew from clophill  on  04/05  at  06:14 PM

  27. So, Obama is related to both Cheney and Pitt. What does it all mean?

    Hey JOS, thanks for posting my link on that Buk site.

    Time to put up a new post…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/05  at  06:20 PM

  28. Mick #27...no problem, I thought you might start seeing some traffic from over there.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  04/05  at  11:45 PM

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