Monday, February 18, 2008

“You can never be too radical”

Posted by Mickey Z on 02/18 at 06:22 AM
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  1. Good Morning Mickey...if nothing else, people can express their disgust of this system whenever possible...in coffee shops, grocery stores, where ever possible. Recommendation, check out various organic farming journals to see what ‘THE LAW’ and monsanto are continuously up to...manipulating, intimidating farmers anyway possible. There are numerous examples that don’t get wide press coverage. Don’t have any journal names on the top of my boggled brain.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  02/18  at  11:04 AM

  2. RMJ...is your printer talking to your computer...if not...here’s your chance to take a vacation to India....(<;

    If your have a serial port on printer and computer, you might try that type of cable connection...but you probably don’t???

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  02/18  at  11:13 AM

  3. Mick, the comments on your articles never cease to amaze me.  Now that I know you a a secret agent for the Department of Homeland Security I am pretty worried about the potential case you have put togther against me.

    There is something suspect about that video of the ex Abu Ghraib guard...not because of his descriptions...we know that all that and more took place...it just seems a little fake.  These guys (and women) who were there are defintiely not the smartest in the world though, so who knows.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  02/18  at  01:09 PM

  4. Hi joe...no the printer is not talking except to give the BSOD. HP is talking and sending me e-mails of apology. That does not help. Remember the good ol’ days. You went to the hardware store down the street - bought a radio - it worked great for years and when it stopped working you pulled the tubes, went back to the hardware store, put them in the tube tester until you found the one that was burned out. Life was so much simpler then. 

    JOS...I can’t see the videos but I bet they are good. Nothing would surprise me about Abu Gariab.

    Mickey...I think that you have something up on the meat recall. I had planned to comment on that. This morn on CNN, USDA Dr. Peterson said that the cows went down because they were tired and didn’t want to walk anymore. Shocking stupidity or is it just more of the same - the corporations win, even when they kill people. The official word is that no one has gotten sick. Of course not, the latency period for JCD is many years. I am really very sad for the children who have been eating school lunches for the past 2 years. Do they have ticking time bombs inside of them? No one knows for sure. This is outrageous. The school lunch program should include a vegetarian choice. That modification should be made immediately. Close all schools until that happens. Arrest and prosecute all who work for the USDA.

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/18  at  01:32 PM

  5. Now for the Ten Reasons Liberals Invite Attack…

    Haven’t looked at the comments on Op-Ed, but I am further along in Derrick Jensen’s “The Culture of Make Believe.” Simply put, he’s the shit.

    MZ, I wussed out on the beef video ‘cause I’m eating (a vegan) breakfast right this minute. Later, when I’m trying to shed some winter pounds, I’ll put it on ‘repeat.’

    This Ain’t Yer Granddaddy’s Great Depression: have any Expendables heard about new funding for crisis-stage detention camps in the US? No-bid, for Halliburton subbie KBR, apparently… I haven’t chased down the line item, but when the Congress votes 404-6 for Homegrown Terrorism, it’s (obey the) party time! The owners and rulers have long detested how they choked and let in the New Deal, and they’re not looking to go 0-2.

    Bono sez, “I can see those fighter planes ... over Cleveland” http://tinyurl.com/35q9yf

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  02/18  at  01:41 PM

  6. RMJ...it would take too long to explain the problems I’ve had with my HP, and to list the number of 4 letter words I used to express my frustration...those damn drivers and discs...I recently re-installed my HP using a serial connection...no problem. The new products I think only use a USB connection...I don’t know anything about this crap. If I get another computer, it won’t be a bill gates product. I’ll let another CEO have an opportunity to rip me off, since this is what ceo’s do best. See if the nice people at SMall Dog electronics will help you, though they are only Apple, they might be willing to help???

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  02/18  at  01:56 PM

  7. Thanks, joe...Small Dog is too far away to help. I will have to check in to serial connections. Are they anything like serial killers?

    Zen...I hear that many prisons are being privatized.  Maybe there is a Gitmo in all of our futures...Gitmo sunrise...Gitmo memories...Gitmo lost my luggage...Doing Gitmo on your credit card...Gitmo for singles...Gitmo for couples...Gitmo cruises…

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/18  at  03:21 PM

  8. Well, well, well - what does this mean. Remember the big Bennington Monument that towers over the countryside...the police report that someone painted “F___ Bush” on it, also “HEROS ?” also the anarchist’s symbol.  I think that the “people” are getting restless.  Photo is in today’s paper.

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/18  at  03:26 PM

  9. RMJ...8...what does F underscore Bush mean? Is that computer programming language? My suggestion was to call Small Dog. Serial connections are larger than USB with many smaller prongs. Some printers and computers had both at one time. No you can never be too radical...this book of history called america should have been off the shelves hundreds of years ago...yet, I get email from activists everyday wanted to resurrect that which was never alive in the first place…

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  02/18  at  05:08 PM

  10. joe...the actual quote from the newspaper is “F--- Bush”.

    Who is the most radical person in the US now?

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/18  at  06:10 PM

  11. Hello Expendables...from rainy Astoria. Michele and I (and our friend Jenn) saw this today:
    http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/285/102

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/18  at  07:32 PM

  12. I wish I could be in Astoria on 10 March 2008, Mickey!  And dare I say it:  sometimes Helga thinks she is a liberal, so she hopes she is still permitted to comment on the Cool Observer’s website which is one of the great blogs around and always her first stop on her Internet ‘tours’.

    And hi, Joe of Maine, JOS, Rosemarie and Zen Prole from a quite warm Daylesford:  94F today.

    I actually watched ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ on TV last night and think it is a much better film than ‘Citizen Kane’ - of course most film critics would take issue with me there ..

    Take care!

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  02/18  at  08:02 PM

  13. Zen and Rosemarie #7, when it comes to privatisation of prisons, the State of Victoria down under leads the world.  We had a ‘liberal’ government between 1992 and 1999 and they made Victoria the world leader in these particular privatisations, or so a Melbourne broadsheet said at the time.  And in 2008, most prisons are still run by private corporations ..

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  02/18  at  08:25 PM

  14. You’ll always be welcome here, Helga...and I’m also a fan of Ambersons (although I think Kane is the superior film).

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/18  at  08:59 PM

  15. Erich Fromm even pointed out once that in a sense love serves no utilitarian purpose-- it is expendible is it not?

    But isn’t it the truly the hallmark of our humanity-- the most radical action of all?

    Our Presidents Day in San Francisco (misspellings and all):
    http://tinyurl.com/2rrtx6

    Posted by Robert B. Livingston from San Francisco, California  on  02/19  at  03:11 PM

  16. Hello Expendables. We just had a visitor here from the US Dept of Justice. He/she found the site by typing “write in mickey z president” at Google.

    Some call it coincidence…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/19  at  04:20 PM

  17. AHHHH...welcome to all of those government types hanging around here. If they read some of Mickey’s books they might become enlightened and realize that they are on the wrong side. Let’s challenge them to a debate.

    At about 8:43 EST tonight - lunar eclipse…
    Totality lasts 51 minutes. During the first half, as the sky becomes progressively darker, the background stars of Leo the Lion will appear. The constellation’s brightest star, Regulus, appears 3° (6 Moon-widths) above the Moon.
    You also will spot Saturn easily 4° (8 Moon-widths) to the Moon’s lower left. The eclipse is a great time to notice how the Moon moves through the sky. As the eclipse begins, the Moon lies 4.4° from Saturn. When the event ends, the gap measures only 3.5°.
    After totality, it takes the Moon another 78 minutes to leave Earth’s umbra.

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/19  at  04:39 PM

  18. Maybe the government types will think that all of the talk about the eclipse and other discussions here are code.

    Posted by RMJ from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/19  at  05:12 PM

  19. When is that eclipse? The NASA site seems to say it starts tomorrow, if I read it correctly:

    http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  02/19  at  05:37 PM

  20. U.S. aggression toward Cuba since 1959 denied the world a chance to witness what that revolution may have become: http://tinyurl.com/3crqnx

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/19  at  05:43 PM

  21. It does seem that the eclipse is tomorrow night.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/19  at  06:08 PM

  22. Me again. Fidel cartoon added to original post.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/19  at  06:12 PM

  23. Mickey #14:  thanks for rolling out the welcome mat again.  And I don’t know why but ‘Citizen Kane’ never appealed to me - and I’ve watched this film several times.  Of course, most film critics think ‘Kane’ is one of the best films ever made ..

    And rain is here at last, along with much cooler weather:  around the 74F mark for the next few days.

    And hi, Robert B. Livingston and James who have joined in since I last visited ..

    Now for something completely different: had a somewhat ‘queasy’ feeling about the declaration of independence in Kosovo - Diana Johnstone told me why:
    http://counterpunch.org/johnstone02182008.html

    Thanks, Diana!

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  02/19  at  06:45 PM

  24. Hello everyone.
    Just finished Diana Johnstone’s “Fool’s Crusade” Helga, an outstanding explanation of the whole Yugoslavia mess, even if she comes over as rather partisan. Also I’m afraid the Germans don’t come out of it very well.
    Mickey, if it weren’t for that 9.5% homeland security budget increase, they’d have stopped at “write in mickey v president”.

    Posted by Mew from clophill  on  02/20  at  06:40 AM

  25. hi , great post

    Posted by travel to melbourne from melbourne  on  03/05  at  11:24 AM

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