Mickey Z
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Friday, September 09, 2005
50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed To Know (win a free copy)
Dick (Cheney) and Don (Rumsfeld).
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 07:41 AMDick and Don in 69?
Posted by Rob on from Toronto 09/09 at 07:49 AM1970?
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 07:49 AMThat’s pretty funny about Page 6...if you make them run a correction you’ll get twice the publicity. Does anyone know the best way to put a link for the book on a website (with a picture and all that so it looks somewhat professional)?
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 07:57 AMI tried the correction angle, James, but Page Six didn’t bite. I’ll keep trying.
I guess it wasn’t so hard to recognize Dick and Don...but the year the photo was taken will be the tougher.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 08:15 AMi’ve already got a copy so i’ll say its condoleeza rice and madeleine albright in 2020.
Posted by michael on from scotland 09/09 at 08:18 AMWell, Dick worked for Don from ‘69 to ‘71, and DICK has some hair left in this picture...so how about 1971?
Everybody who takes the time to register can go here and write a letter to the Post demanding a correction:
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/letters/letters_editor.htm
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 08:28 AMYou have me nervous now, James. You see, I got the image from a trusted friend who told me the year it was taken...and was after 1971. However, you just convinced me that I might have it wrong. So, maybe I should just send you the book and call it day. It’ll be my thanks for all your support.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 08:31 AMbonnie and clyde in 1933. i wonder which one is bonnie?
Posted by michael on from scotland 09/09 at 08:38 AMYou’re getting warmer, Michael...but it’s not Abbott and Costello in 1945 or Sacco and Vanzetti in 1921 or even Sonny and Cher in 1966.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 08:39 AMburke and hare! if you don’t know who they are....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_HarePosted by michael on from scotland 09/09 at 08:43 AMyeah - if you read the burke and hare bit maybe secretly thats what the iraq war is all about!
Posted by michael on from scotland 09/09 at 08:49 AMDick and Rummy - 1975
Love the site -can’t wait to read the book
Posted by Youngfox on from 09/09 at 08:51 AMOh, I could be wrong and Rob got the year in there first. Dick and Don spent many lovely years together...definitely could be later. I’d stick with your friend’s information.
The only problem with the Burke and Hare reference is that they only killed 16 people. Dick and Don have been responible for far, far more than that.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 08:54 AMYoungfox hit it on the head. Bravo (E-mail me your address so I can send you the book.). How did you know and how did you find this site?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 09:01 AMYEEEEEEE HAW!
Righteous Mickey Z!I hate to admit it but upon seeing the possibility of getting free literate Mickey Z swag I immediately did an Alta Vista image search and found the year.
I had no problem recognizing the mugs because after all, Evil is timeless.
I found this site through the Press Action site where I found (and linked) the Helen Keller excerpt.
I am always on the lookout for compelling progressive sites,
(especially Americans who are fighting the tide of hatred and ignorance on the home front).Thanks for your site and the insight into the REAL American heart.
I cannot wait to read (and review) your book!address info is forthcoming…
Keep on keeping on Mickey Z!
Posted by Youngfox on from Canada 09/09 at 09:29 AMYou are a young and resourceful fox, aren’t you? I’ll add your blog to my links list.
Thanks for playing “Name That War Criminal” (sorry, no parting gifts for everyone else).
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 09:33 AMGood interview with Zinn here:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=20715
The note in the beginning is pretty interesting as well.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 09:53 AMRosemarie (the “4 foot 10 inch grandmother") update:
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8676~3046811,00.html
I think I filled my comment quota for the day. Have a beautiful Friday, everyone.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 10:38 AMI believe its Cheney and Rumsfeld in 1975.
Posted by l.a.i.n. on from St. Louis, MO 09/09 at 10:41 AMThanks, James. I haven’t heard from Rosemarie and was wondering what happened. Also, I took your advice and asked the PBU bloggers to consider making Rosemarie the topic this Monday.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 10:41 AMYou’re right, l.a.i.n...but just a little too late. Youngfox beat you to it.
How did you hear of this blog?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 10:42 AMYeah, I didn’t notice Youngfox’s response when I posted. I found the site from a link in a vegan blog a few weeks ago and have been following it since then. I’ll definitely be buying the book.
Posted by l.a.i.n. on from St. Louis, MO 09/09 at 10:46 AMA vegan blog, huh? I’m happy to hear that and hope to be “seeing” you here again. Thanks, l.a.i.n.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 10:49 AMDrat! I was gonna win that book. I woulda guessed it was you and Sander circa 1975-1976, but then I remembered how old Sander is.
I am so pleased the tinyurl links all work! It makes life easier, no? I’m quite sure you won’t, but please let’s all make a point of keeping Rosemarie’s undecided appeal in the forefront of our online world-views...set your newsfeed to capture all “Vermont Supreme Court” decisions, maybe? I have mine set for all info about “supreme court” everywhere and I get some fascinating articles that aren’t about John Roberts >ptuiptui< ::evileye::
Posted by Richard the Curmudgeon on from Texas 09/09 at 11:10 AMGood suggestion, Mr. Curmudgeon. I just found this from the Boston Globe: http://tinyurl.com/crhsz
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 11:14 AMInteresting article in the Boston Globe link in post 26, and I especially like this:
“And the key question is one of intent: Did Rosemarie Jackowski set out to block traffic to gain notice for her protest, or was the traffic tie-up incidental to her more important mission of protesting the war?”No similar issue-presentation para appeared in the Bennington Banner, that I saw anyway. Makes the state prosecutor’s case so much weaker to hear it boiled down to its essentials: Intentional truck-blocking vs Constitutionally protected free speech exercise...lessee, which is more important...hmmmm....
Posted by Richard the Curmudgeon on from Texas 09/09 at 11:46 AMHi, Humans -
I really liked Youngfox’s comment: “I had no problem recognizing the mugs because after all, Evil is timeless.”
Mickey & James, and everyone, I sure appreciate all the support you’ve given Rosemarie. We’ve been a pretty good community, here, methinks. I sent letters to a whole bunch of papers and A.P. reporters, around the north-east, including the Globe. I don’t know if they printed my letter, but it’s great to see their little article.When Noah Hoffenberg, from the Bennington Banner, didn’t publish any of our letters, I wrote to him, personally. I told him that he was in a unique position to help Rosemarie, as he could print an article mentioning that even the guy who prosecuted her, said in an interview - after her conviction - that he had no doubt that her intentions were good, but that there were “better ways to go about it… “ Hell, the whole trial was about “intentions.”
I added that, as a newspaper editor, he surely knows that the prosecutor was dead wrong: Rosemarie certainly had NO other way to get her point across; she had NO other way to inform the public, since newspapers don’t publish comprehensive articles critical of the war.
He could go to the hearing and tell that to the court, I concluded…
He wrote back and said that he certainly had published all sorts of “anti-war” material. I was wasting my time, he said, because I was just “preaching to the choir,” as far as his newspaper was concerned.
I followed up with some “analysis” of that position, but - to my amazement! - he dropped out of the conversation…You have a great weekend, too, James.
See ya all, shortly.Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/09 at 11:50 AMHey, Joe.
I know I filled my quota for the day, but I couldn’t resist posting this picture, which, I think, explains a lot of the problems we have been seeing in the government recently and could be a future caption contest candidate:
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 12:21 PMHi James & Mickey and the vast crowds in attendance -
Well James, in America, everything is upsided down, even, apparently, the phones.Mickey, I’ve given some thought to distributing your book and the important information within it. I’m not sure how else to approach it, but I’d very much like to help. I ordered a copy, and a copy of “No Good War,” some time ago, from Amazon. They say, when I consult the “where’s my stuff” section, that the book won’t even be in their hands till later in the month.
Once I get it, I’ll take it with me whenever I’m out, and get it “seen.” I’ve been reading lots of Chomsky & Zinn, of late, and I take the books with me wherever I go. I set them on countertops and on the table at restaurants, etc… Only once, recently, did anyone ask me about a book, but it’s something. A guy at the auto repair desk said: “What’s that mean - A People’s History...?” So, there’s one more guy who’s heard about Zinn, and might one day pick up the book. I’d have let him borrow it, but I’m still working with it, so I was greedy. I fear I might have missed a golden opportunity. (DUH!)
I promise, I’ll ponder and daydream and let you know about whatever “bubbles to the surface” of my strange, old brain.
Posted by joe on from where the woodbine twineth 09/09 at 01:16 PMPS - I forgot to mention yesterday’s Democracy Now program. They did a piece on FEMA. Get this: The new, Bush-appointed director has zero experience with disaster or emergency work, and no real experience with heading an organization like this one. He was the president of the Arabian Horse association, or some such goofy group.
The second in command was a front man for Bush’s travels: he’d organize the Fuhrer’s appearances.
Man number 3 was a public relations hot-shot, somewhere.
`Nuff Said.Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/09 at 01:27 PMFEMA = Fine Example of ‘Merican Arrogance
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 02:13 PMMore on FEMA (moron FEMA?):
http://www.alternet.org/story/25227
http://www.rense.com/general67/femwont.htmPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 02:16 PMThis from the Bennington Banner article James linked to…
“The maximum penalty for disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, is two months in jail and a $500 fine. Suntag, however, ordered Jackowski to meet with the local Reparative Board, which typically requires defendants to perform community service.”
We here in The Hague would like you all to know that, as far as we’re concerned, Rosemarie’s protest WAS the community service.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 09/09 at 02:32 PMAnother thing, totally off topic, but perhaps interesting to y’all. Had a chat about Katrina yesterday with a Dutchman. We were talking about the many things that would be different if such a catastrophe were to strike The Netherlands. At a certain point in the conversation he addressed a question none of us have posed (as far as I’ve seen, I might have missed something).
“We couldn’t possibly loot guns from Wal-Marts,” he said, “because we don’t have Wal-Marts, and if we did, they wouldn’t carry guns.”
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 09/09 at 02:41 PMI’m actually a good quarter Dutch...have a distant relative there who took about six months off work, fully paid, for mental health leave.
It may sound silly to some, but I sure as hell could have used something like that in the past few years.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 02:50 PMSix months off work, fully paid, for mental health leave? Sounds like a commie plot to me.
There’s a joke here somewhere: What do you buy in a Dutch Wal-Mart?
Anyone have a punchline?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 02:55 PMWooden clogs (plastic and made in China).
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/09 at 03:39 PMHi everybody....it has been quite a couple of days here. First, I want to thank all of you here at Mickey’s....somehow, I always feel like I’m in Mickey’s living room when I am at his site. You all have beaten me to the punch and have come up with the news stories without me. You don’t need me anymore. But I will tell you about a couple of things that are not in the Press. We did have 2 Perry Mason moments in front of the Supremes yesterday. One when we compared the stopping of the traffic to the killing of civilians. It did my heart good to hear the words “collateral damage” in a U.S. courtroom. Also, another memorable moment came when the government said that they did not allow the jury to see the information, such as the list of U.S. war crimes, that I had on my sign because they did not know if it was true and where it came from. We responded that it came from former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark. That was a wonderful moment. I would be happy to answer any questions. Today’s Editorial in the Bennington Banner acknowledges that they have been inundated with letters of support from across the planet. HOWEVER, they are wrong in their accusation that I am not willing to accept the consequences of my action. I have sent a Noah a RESPONSE and hope that he will publish it tomorrow’s paper. I will also send it to Mickey.............After we, the activist group, left the Court we went to the little local book store. We were in Brattleboro, a tiny off-the-beaten-path town. I was very happy to announce to everyone in the store, that the display of books by the cash register were written by my friend. 50 REVOLUTIONS was proudly on display, right there for all of the activists to see.
Posted by rosemarie jackowski on from crossing the line 09/09 at 04:26 PMCongrats on having your new book out Mickey! And that ‘Page Six Boy’ looks very handsome ..
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford Australia 09/09 at 04:48 PMHi, Everyone, and everyone else, too -
Welcome home, Rosemarie. It’s wonderful to hear from you.
It’s amazing that the Banner would accuse you of not being willing to take responsibility for your actions. Right. Obviously, you’re a lethargic blob, hoping that someone else will solve the world’s problems, while you sit watching soap-operas and eating bon-bons.
I think Keir sums everything up, brilliantly: “…Rosemarie’s protest WAS the community service.”Good FEMA links, Mickey, thanks. I saw something, on Democracy Now, about that navy ship which was right near New Orleans. One of the officers on the ship, a lieutenant commander, spoke out about how upset he was with the whole business. He said something like: “You can’t imagine what a major US Naval Hospital Vessel can carry. We had hundreds of hospital beds, with modern medical equipment and medications at the ready. We had physicians and nurses and hundreds of people to do rescue work. We had helicopters and a variety of rescue boats. We had more than 100,000 gallons of fresh water, and an abundance of food, clothing and bedding. We’re like a small city. And we know what we’re doing. But we can move in only with an order from the President of the United States - and he did not issue such an order.”
Here’s another interesting story. It seems that Tim Russert was on the Imus radio show, recently. Here’s a paragraph of what Russert said: “We’ve talked to the head of the Hurricane Center at LSU, who, one year ago, did a simulated computer model - table top exercise - called “Hurricane Pam,” in which they predicted this, almost to the letter. And he called FEMA and said, on Saturday or Sunday; “You have to have tent cities set up outside of N.O., outside the state. You’re gonna have hundreds of thousands of evacuees. You have to be able to absorb them, or they’re gonna die in the streets.”
And FEMA said to them: “Americans don’t sleep in tents.”Posted by joe on from The Hague, with Keir 09/09 at 06:52 PMCorporate charity on the TV. It interrupted my soap opera viewing, so I put down my bon-bons and came to see if Rosemarie had posted yet...hi RMJ! All six feet three of me bearhugs your four-ten grandmotherly gorgeousness! Success is already yours, vindication will trot along behind.
Keir, it does my heart good to see someone who posts from The Hague spell and use “y’all” correctly. >mmmmwah< smooch of appreciation
Mickey. Your book! I know it will come as a surprise that I think it’s wonderful, but it is, and graphically delightful as well! I used some birthday Amazon credits to order two more for gifting to Repulsivecan family members. And the inscription warmed my heart...of course I believed in Saving Private Power the minute I saw the idea, and I still believe it should be a best seller. May 50AR be the one that breaks out!!
Posted by Richard the Curmudgeon on from the State of Outrage 09/09 at 07:50 PMJoe, I am nauseated by the idea that Shrub should simply *not have sisued* the order to use a Navy hospital ship in New Orleans! Holy CRAP! That’s callous and uncaring even for HIM!! Thank you for letting me know about this.
Posted by Richard the Curmudgeon on from the State of Outrage 09/09 at 07:55 PMHello, Richard the Curmudgeon -
Very good to hear from you. And, a belated Thanks Much, Mudge! for your snappy definition of “curmudgeon,” the other day.
Yup, things look grim. You know, a couple of years ago, I read a few articles arguing that AIDS was created by some US psycho-scientists in a lab somewhere, and was somehow surreptitiously introduced into humans. I thought: “Oh, geeze! Shut up and find something useful to do.” But, recently, I realize it might be part of the government’s new environmental program. Since we’re destroying so many species of life every few minutes, the Elites decided to introduce new “quasi-life” forms into the environment to help restore the balance.
I guess it could be true. They seem like just “that” sort of people, don’t you think?Take care, Mudge.
And, please, save a few pieces of candy for the rest of us. I like to nibble something while watching All My Children. ( I think Babs is pregnant. Billy will be so mad! )Posted by joe on from the beach, Bali 09/09 at 08:32 PMTearing myself away from the Yankees-Red Sox game long enough to post.
It’s great to “hear” your voice, RMJ. I got your statement and will run it here on Monday. I’m also hoping that members of the Progressive Bloggers Union will post something about you all across the globe. Stay tuned for more on that. If anyone wants to post a copy of Rosemarie’s reply to the Bennington Banner, e-mail me.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 09:12 PMThanks for your kind words about my book, Richard. I’ve been hearing from people all acorss America that it’s in stores...and prominently displayed. A good start.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/09 at 09:27 PMI just read a very, very disturbing piece about conditions in New Orleans. Here’s the link but, as it’s late, I’ll post it again tomorrow, and maybe every day:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/091005Chin/091005chin.html
- joe
Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/09 at 10:55 PMJoe, I resent your posting such an honest and truth-telling piece on this site during what are for me the small hours of the morning. I’m middle-aged and infirm, and need my sleep, so kindly refrain from truth-telling until after cock-crow. Thenkewveddymahch.
I defined “curmudgeon” snappily...? Geeze Laweez, this Half-heimer’s disease is progressing into Alz. What did I say? When was this?
Long ago in a galaxy far away I read a piece in Rolling Stone asserting AIDS was engineered by the Salk vaccine trials in what was then the Belgian Congo. Simian viruses were used to carry the dead polio virus and the dread retrovirus, long present in our cousins, entered humanity via this route.
Also handily explains why Dr. Salk was so busily trying to help with AIDS-cure-finding long after his retirement...sorta like Richard Coueur-de-Lion’s preference for bananas over cherries explains the Third Crusade. Rescue the holiest site in Christendom, get forgiven for being queer...rescue the folks your cure sickened from death, get forgiven for being unlucky and foolish.
Get’cher own candy. And Billy’s only mad ‘cause Babs is really in love with Ellen and he wants to know who got to slip Babs the pork to get her enceinte since she won’t even let him change his underwear until she leaves the house. Dishy!
Posted by The Mudge (is this my rap name?) on from High Dudgeon 09/10 at 12:26 AMAh, Mickey. I know how much appreciation and regard I have for your powerful and insightful brain anew every time I am reminded that YOU SvCK!!
The Yank-mes are the exemplars of what’s wrong with baseball (the AL, Bud Selig, Congress spending time on doping hoo-hahs), like too much money and that candy-ass DH rule all in one place! The METS are *real* baseball players! The *CUBS* are real baseball players!!
Ahem. Back to our scheduled love-fest: You think and write at a level I don’t even aspire to, and your faith in humanity’s ability to avoid self-destruction is a model I do aspire to, but on baseball we disagree. A sad rift. I shall understand if you choose not to speak to me again, though I shall mourn.
Posted by Richard the Curmudgeon on from Texas 09/10 at 12:41 AMHi Mudge -
It’s late, eh?
I, too, am getting old. 55 in a week. I’ll be able to order from those special menus at restaurants. I wonder if I’ll be able to get a discount on those adult diapers?
My friend Bobby quit smoking about 8 years ago. He said: “Joe, you’ll probably die way before I do. I’ll miss you.”
I said: “Yes, no doubt. You’ll be sitting in a leaking, old pair of depends, in a wheelchair, in some dank nursing home, waiting for your 90th birthday. You’ll miss me. Some perky, beautiful little candy-striper will enter the room, smell the rotting diaper and remark: ‘Robert, you disgusting, dried up old crud. You make me sick. Now, let’s get you back to bed so I can change your diaper. God, I hope I can do this without vomiting!’ Yes, Bobby. I guess I’ll probably miss out on lots of new, ‘quaint’ experiences.” I left him, then, and went out for a smoke.
Soon, I suppose, it will be New Orleans, everywhere… or Auschwitz. Maybe we can all get into the showers together and sing some ancient Anarchist-Resistance song as we go out…Sorry, Mudge. Tonight, in this aging brain, it’s “Don Rickles, as Howard Zinn.”
Ever read Hemingway’s “Clean, Well-Lighted Place?”G`Night, Mudge. Thanks for the wonderfully curmudgeonous remarks.
Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/10 at 02:33 AMA sunny morning here in The Hague. Following up on the Online Journal link Joe left last night, here’s this item from the BagNews site about the banning of photography where the Black Ops op.
I should explain the ‘“y’all" so there’s no more confusion (plus, I think I once promised some background in installments). Before I landed in The Hague, before I landed in Krakow, before London and before Ithaca, there was Denton, Texas. Two full, frightening years of it. Anne Richards was in the Governor’s mansion still and Dallas had its first black mayor. Yet things were more out of whack with my previously experienced reality in the Northeast--this was all well after Brooklyn and after Mamaroneck, NY--than anything I would later encounter in the little place beyond America’s borders called The World.
A fellow student at Univ. of North Texas, in his mid-40’s and from backwoods Louisiana, confessed to a group of students to never having seen a Jew before and being surprised they didn’t have horns and a tail. In my dormitory, three young and ambitious white students founded a pseudo-fraternity called the Kappa Kappa Kappas (KKK), complete with black hats embroidered with their logo, ostensibly to deal with the fact that I had been so bold as to befriend a group of black women students. These women and I would have hilarious and public debates about “black music"--I being then (as now) a devotee of Funkadelic, Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, James Brown and they being into newer music. Anyway, the KKK’s would leave notes on my door with messages like “You won’t talk so much when you’re lynched.” Very quietly, after my first semester, I was moved to the most desirable dorm on campus, which normally had a long waiting list, and no “race” problems were reported or dealt with.
(It’s already Saturday here so technically the story is appropriate, yes?)
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 09/10 at 04:38 AM
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