Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Redhead Complainer™

Posted by Mickey Z on 09/23 at 06:19 AM
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  1. Good morning.

    Bowling can be kinda fun.

    One more week.

    Posted by Keir from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts)  on  09/23  at  06:56 AM

  2. Nice story, Mick. I felt like I was on the train with you.
    Amelopsis...I want a horse, too.
    Mudge...I would say I love you, but you already know that and I DO know why I love you!

    I will be on topic today for a change. I have a story that keeps popping up in my mind. Back in 1993, during a visit to Pennsylvania, I met Angela. Angela was with her mother, Louise. Louise was a poor, hard working house maid. At the time Angela was 12 years old. Something about her made an intense impression on me. She was intelligent, lively, and very talkative. Maybe I was impressed because she seemed to be so protective of her mother. Angela radiated kindness. She was different from anyone else I had ever met.
    About a year later, I learned that Angela was dead. She had been born with a defect in her heart. Louise had taken Angela to the hospital for routine, corrective surgery. Angela died on the operating table. Louise was consumed with grief but friends encouraged her to have an autopsy done. Louis did that. The autopsy report showed that Angela’s heart was “missing”.  Friends again prevailed on Louise to get a lawyer. She did that. A lawyer accepted the case. After several agonizing years, the lawyer dropped the case. The word on the street is that he had been “paid off”.
    Last I heard, Louise is still poor, still scrubbing toilets for the rich, and still consumed in grief.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  09/23  at  07:15 AM

  3. Good morning Mickey and Keir,

    It can be funny too. http://tinyurl.com/htoxh

    (I think I saw a redhead in that crowd)

    Posted by Amelopsis from Canada  on  09/23  at  07:19 AM

  4. Good morning Keir...we were symultyping. I can’t see the video. Good luck to TNS.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  09/23  at  07:19 AM

  5. Good morning Rosemarie, simultyping.
    Is that ‘real’ story?  Intriguing.

    Posted by Amelopsis from canada  on  09/23  at  07:22 AM

  6. Just seeing if I can simultype with you again...third times a charm smile

    Posted by Amelopsis from Canada  on  09/23  at  07:24 AM

  7. Amelopsis...we would have been symultyping but google did something, changed my settings, and now I have to do extra clicks to get anywhere. My favorites don’t pull down like they used to. I think google installed something and now my “history” is 2 steps removed.
    Yes, that is a true story. Angela died on October 28, 1994. Maybe she has been on my mind more that usual lately because she was operated on in the same “prestigious” hospital that just made the medication error that could have killed my mother.

    Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  09/23  at  07:32 AM

  8. Hello Expendables from a damp Astoria. I don’t mean to pin you down, but can you guys spare another bowling video?

    RMJ: I think it should be illegal for the word “prestigious” to be used in describing anything to do with medicine. That is a sad yet all too common story. You’d think people would rise up but alas, we’re a species of walking dead.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  08:19 AM

  9. Speaking of the walking dead...

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  08:26 AM

  10. Sorry for the bad links above. They should be working now.

    Speaking of which, someone asked yesterday about hyperlinks. Jeremy, maybe? Anyway, here’s how I do it:

    <a href="URL HERE “target="new">click here to offer some much-needed financial support.</a>

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  08:32 AM

  11. It seems the MSM isn’t sure if Osama is alive, but we all know that Chomsky is.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  09:34 AM

  12. RMJ: “but google did something, changed my settings” I’ve noticed that Google has done that to every computer I go to...without asking.  Those guys are scary...they have access to too much of our persoal lives and are too willing to sell it.

    Mick, that is pretty funny what Chavez said about Chomsky.  I guess he should have done a little more homework.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  09/23  at  09:47 AM

  13. Maybe you should go to your “cookies” and delete anything Google-related.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  09:53 AM

  14. Spare me the bowling pins--er, puns.

    Yeah, that was me asking about hyperlinks. OK, let me try:

    click here

    Sweet. I can see that it works in the preview. Now I won’t need to use Tiny URL so much to post links. Thanks.

    And with that I can figure out how to post images.

    Cool.

    Posted by Jeremy from Taipei  on  09/23  at  12:23 PM

  15. Okay, just checking to see if I remember it now.

    Webcast: Chavez’s address to the UN

    OK. I think I got it. I’ll quit playin’ around now. If that link doesn’t work, go here and follow the link.

    Posted by Jeremy from Taipei  on  09/23  at  12:30 PM

  16. saturday story: my housemate brought home a couple of Kubrick films, Paths of Glory and 2001 and got me thinking of a friend of mine from when I lived in south of Spain, a Scottish painter in his seventies, worked on the latter film. He designed a New York telephone directory for the film but wasn´t sure if they ever used it. He got fired for coming in on his day off, having a wander round set through curiosity and a guy with a clipboard came up to him, said You supposed to be here? don´t come back. He said the Kubrick experience didn´t particularly agree with him, said the director´s favourite expression at the time was “like a bullet,” as in “get down there and do that like a bullet.” Neither did he get on with the special effects supervisors, Douglas Trumbull and Bruce Logan, whom he called Trug Dumbull and Loose Brogan. I commented I´d always found Kubrick´s films strange in that they seemed to have warmly human satirical messages told in a cold and mechanistic way and my friend replied, “Kubrick was anything but human.”

    Posted by owen from barcelona  on  09/23  at  02:45 PM

  17. Nice work, Jeremy...and cool story, Owen. Thanks.

    As you might imagine, I’m not big on the forwarded e-mails that make the rounds but Michele just got one about “friendship” that made me laugh:

    1. When you are sad: I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you that way.
    2. When you are blue: I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.
    3. When you smile: I will know you finally got laid.
    4. When you are scared: I will rag on you about it every chance I get.
    5. When you are worried: I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining.
    6. When you are confused: I will use little words.
    7. When you are sick: Stay the hell away from me until you are well again. I don’t want to catch whatever you have.
    8. When you fall: I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.
    9. This is my oath, I pledge it to the end. “Why?” you may ask: “Because you are my friend”

    Friendship is like peeing your pants: everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  07:02 PM

  18. Yeah, Kubrick once said something like “we are the link between apes and humans.” Paths of Glory is a dynamite film though.

    Posted by Keir from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts)  on  09/23  at  07:04 PM

  19. Another classic Kubrick line: “The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  07:08 PM

  20. Hi all.  Tomorrow’s the evil day I go to the Williamson County (Texas) Humane Society and give up the pups.  It’s horribly painful even now, but I hope to hold it together until Dave and I are in the car and I can let go without traumatizing them.

    Empress, from last night: Thanks, my dear, good wishes from all quarters are all that make this experience doable.

    RMJ, awww gee I’m all blushy an’ stuff.

    For the Canadians among us, I offer a quote from Roy Bonisteel’s autobiography The Was A Time...:

    Remembering the past is not just nostalgic.  It’s acknowledging where I’ve been so that I can see where I am.

    I will check in tomorrow, let y’all know I survived.

    Posted by Mudge from Austin, Texas  on  09/23  at  08:37 PM

  21. Stay strong, Mudge. I’m still hoping for an eleventh hour reprieve.

    Captcha sez: future

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/23  at  08:45 PM

  22. Mickey,
    I wanted to run this by ya.  I’m caught up in this religious movement debate at the moment.  Wondering if you could dissect this “soliloquy” of mine a bit.  Where are the weaknesses?  Hope that yur up!

    Was not LBJ’s Great Society a big government plan to address poverty?  Reagan publicly agreed and “advocated” for the same idea.  He needed to convey that he had his own ideas and big expectations.  He needed to make a connection with the last greatest big idea attempted and he did.  Yet once he was elected all of his policies lacked even a partial direction to which the plan of the Great Society consisted.  And as we all know he then quickly did everything to turn this message upside down – the very kind of big government he originally praised.  One has to wonder how the Great Society could be championed on one hand but then completely ignored on the other.  Even today the Christian Right and Conservatives will admit to the past successes of big government action but then vehemently oppose those who argue for it.  The simple fact is that they loathe this idea as a solution to address poverty and other human rights.  But conservative leader after conservative leader knows the unprecedented success that big government action has brought the nation.  Yet they are fundamentally against the mere notion of big government.  It’s a complete contradiction.  Politically, they placate their own moderate wing to legitimate their policies and then discredit everyone else.

    Posted by dw from   on  09/23  at  10:25 PM

  23. I’m not sure what “unprecedented success’ you mean but it’s seems like a standard MO of politicians to promise everything to the masses but deliver only to their corporate donors.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/24  at  06:17 AM

  24. That’s what I think too.  That was the case of LBJ’s Great Society.  And FDR’s New Deal brought minimal success to the masses as well.  I’m trying to make the point that there is an automatic response to negatively label plans that help a large amount of Americans.  In other words, FDR was a Democrat but if someone like him tried to run for office today he would get raked over the coals and be labeled a socialsist/communist.  The conservative hypocrysy about this subject is just too blatantly obvious for the public not to understand.  Especially when every other country has a broader perspective on the way big government action can help a large amount of people.  That’s not to say these types of plans will always win over the electorate but at least they can hold weight with the others.  The way it is now the religious Right and their politicians control all hope of getting to that point with their bully talk.

    Posted by dw from   on  09/24  at  11:17 AM

  25. I believe that nothing is “just too blatantly obvious for the public not to understand” it.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  09/24  at  11:24 AM

  26. Yes but it doesn’t help to roll over to the secret brotherhoods and Black Magic.  I’d rather not wait it out.

    Posted by dw from   on  09/24  at  11:41 AM

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