Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Greece has lost its marbles...or were they stolen?
Good Snowy Morning All… I hear that you are getting some horizontal snow down there, Mickey. How’s it going? It’s the horizontal stuff that’s the worse.
I liked your article about Cutler. “...did not bother with due process...” That comment struck very close to home with me. Get a load of this...yesterday I found out that the government is planning on hiring an expensive “Expert Witness”, an Accident Reconstruction Specialist, otherwise known as “Liars for Hire”. It looks like the government’s campaign of character assassination on me has not been as effective as they would like. Now they will try to prove that a car stopped in a line of traffic is at fault when rear-ended by a speeding truck. That would be like trying to prove that a murder victim walked into the bullet and the guy that pulled the trigger was not at fault. The government has an infinite amount of taxpayer money to spend. I don’t have any money to counteract with an opposing “expert”. It will be interesting to see if they succeed with their latest tactic.
About marble...the largest subterranean marble mine (in the world, I think) is not too far from here. It is in Danby, Vermont. The Supreme Court and many other well known monuments are made from this high grade marble.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 09:06 AMGood morning, Rosemarie. Yes indeed, we are in the midst of a serious blizzard. This had been the mildest winter in several years but we’re paying for it now. Anyone got a shovel?
Also, in terms of your case, there’s a radio show on WBAI called “Expert Witness.” It’s hosted by a former DEA agent with a decidedly non-mainstream perspective: Michael Levine. Maybe you can touch base with him for advice. Please mention that you know me (use both Mickey Z. and my full name): http://www.expertwitnessradio.org/contactus.htm
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 09:26 AM“P.S. Here’s what to do if you ever come across a beached whale.”
Is a beached whale a whale for the killing? What would Mowat say?
Posted by Jeremy on from Taiwan 02/12 at 09:26 AMYeah, Jeremy...I will be making whale references galore over the next few weeks. You know...building up anticipation, luring in more readers to our book club. It’s a little thing we Americans like to call marketing. It’s in our blood.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 09:30 AMafternoon/morning/evening everyone
whale stories....
Posted by michael on from scotland 02/12 at 09:50 AMGood morning Every Expendable,
Not as much snow as you’re getting MZ, bright sunny sparkly morning here today.
Great post - I liked the Cutler piece, and agree with your opinion on actions of ‘the law’.
RMJ - I was once ‘front ended’ by an old guy in front of me while we were both stopped at a light - I cannot imagine that the state will be able to prove that you were at fault in the accident; it frankly seems assenine of them to make the effort; I do hope you get in touch with this contact Mickey has...you need some legal professionalism to balance out the bags of money the state’s flinging willy nilly.
Michael - that whale is a Fin Whale, the same sort as Mowat’s book is about.
And from the book:
"I would come and live among them and excape from the increasingly mechanistic mainland wold, with its March Hare preocccupation with witless production for mindless consumption; its desruptive infatuation with change for its own sake; its idiot dedication to the bitch goddess, Progress."
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 02/12 at 10:15 AMGreat article on Bruce Cutler & I totally agree about Sammy Gravano. I read “Underboss” & remember thinking how uneasy I would be to live in a country where he was allowed to walk free. Some of the killings were astoundingly brutal ... yet the guy could still cut a deal! What a system, what a joke.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, England 02/12 at 10:15 AMRMJ, you’re getting totally unfair treatment, but maybe the jury will see through that! After all, they’re 12 independent minded people so hopefully the bullying tactics of Vermont will be exposed as such. Unless it’s a trial without jury, in which case, shoot, I don’t like to think.
Your phrase about marbles reminds me of my home city’s most stupid folly - a giant pebble (made of marble, so I would have presumed that makes it a giant marble, but they insist on calling it a pebble!) outside a concert hall - it cost 140 grand about ten years ago, & a fine local hospital had to close down at the same time. Sane? Just? Even attractive? Nowhere near.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, England 02/12 at 10:19 AMMickey, thanks for the tip. I will definitely follow up on it asap.
Beached whales I have not seen but I have seen beached sea lions in Maine. The precautions for taking care of them are similar. The are really cute.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 11:10 AMRMJ I didn’t know that Sea Lions got beached. I know that they are presently starving on the beaches in places, but I thought that generally if they were on land it was to breed or nurse...I had no idea that they beached themselves in the same way that whales do.
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 02/12 at 11:51 AMAmelopsis, yes the ones that I saw looked very young. We gathered around and wondered if they were babies who had become separated from their mother. We called the wildlife officials and we all agreed that no one should touch the animals because someone said that if they had the scent of a human, the mother might reject them.
Mickey, I e-mailed your contact and said that you had sent me. Thanks
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 12:17 PMBREAKING NEWS...CNN reports that Vice President Cheney just accidentally shot someone while quail hunting. I think the victim was a lawyer...what can I say....
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 03:54 PMI’m sure he’s got a spare Beater in the trunk!
Lawyer - wow - talk about someone who’ll know how to negotiate his settlement. Or he could be a born again repugnican who’ll thank Dick and have some of the shot shadow-boxed in memoriam.Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 02/12 at 04:01 PMLeno and Letterman will have a field day with this story. It was covered up for 24 hours. Victim was an Austin lawyer named Harry Wittington.
I am having fun today...WE SCOOPED DRUDGE WITH THIS STORY!!! I gave them the tip, but it is not yet up on the Drudge site.
Mudge better be careful with all of the bird shot flying around.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 04:10 PMMickey, you said yesterday at cinema: “It contained ZERO laughs but here’s the real punch line: 90% of the audience was in hysterics. We felt like aliens.”
I love when that happens, I´m outside the herd mind taking a touristic peek through the window.
Posted by owen on from barcelona 02/12 at 04:22 PMCheney goes hunting: http://tinyurl.com/ddhjp
Hello everyone. It’s still snowing in Astoria. We got at least a foot. Made for a mellow day today...but tomorrow morning’s commute will be another story.
Owen: I agree with you but with the prices of movies in NYC, it’s was an expensive field trip.
Hello Michael, Chris, and my dear Empress.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 04:37 PMG’mornin’ snowbirds! It’s sunny, 65F, and breezy here today! Brrr! >snerk<
RMJ, please follow up on MZ’s advice and stay in touch with Michael Levine. You need some support!
#14: Quail shot might sting going in and itch while there, but it ain’t gonna kill me. Or Harry Whittington, either, more’s the pity. He’s Dick Whittington’s daddy, among other ills and sins (that was a joke...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Whittington)Amelopsis #6: “...its idiot dedication to the bitch goddess, Progress....” Rita Mae Brown’s best book, Six of One, has an honorable, upstanding, eccentric caracter called Celeste Chalfonte, who is the voice of conscience in her town. Celeste, during a thundersnow, slips out to exact revenge for many ills on the town’s Snidely Whiplash. As she stands in front of him, gun pointed at his head, they have a debate about the nature of the world...he impugns her adherence to a Jeffersonian agrarian rural model, touting the “progress” his factory brings to the town.
Celeste, in her magnificent high dudgeon, sneers, “Ah, yes, Progress! That industrial vampire.” Then she shoots him, saying, “The law allows what honor forbids.”
Yeup. About sums it up for me. It was also the first time I’d ever seen in print my maternal grandfather’s admonition to lead an honorable life. There’s irony there, I won’t go into it now.Whales beaching...no experience. When I was microscopic, my family had a house in Arcata, Calif., on Humboldt Bay. We used to bundle up and go down to the beach to watch whales breach. My mother HATED doing that, so every time was miserable and memorable.
I’m going to go bask in the sunshine on my back porchlet, see y’all later.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 02/12 at 04:42 PMDamn, Mudge. First Santa Cruz and now Arcata. Another place to which Michele and I considering moving. Where else did you “live”?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 04:47 PMIn Cali, MZ, we had a house on Green Street in San Francisco, on Russian Hill; moved from Los Altos to Los Gatos before I was born; had a vacation house in Arcata; drove to visit Santa Cruz and Monterey a lot; and then Mama moved me to Mercedes, Tex., and (bizarrely) I felt at home for the first time in my life.
Then we moved to Austin, where I was happy for the first time; my sister and I went to Boulder, Colo., in 1977, then Tulsa, Okla., in 1978. Then Manhattan from 1986-1999.
Lotsa trips different places when the family and I had money. I really want to go to New Zealand to retire.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 02/12 at 04:53 PMBoulder...yet another place we’ve considered.
Btw, I have been e-mailing with RMJ today, re: ideas to help with her case. Gray Panthers, Public Citizen, etc. Perhaps it’s best we go public in the hope of inspiring other ideas.
I just found these:
http://tinyurl.com/97cvs
http://www.cc-info.net/advocacy.html
http://www.lawlinevt.org/vvlp.htmlAnyone else feel like joining in?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 04:56 PMWell well, Cheney shoots a lawyer - of all the things I hoped to learn from this site, finding a positive purpose for this man being alive wasn’t one of them. Just goes to show!
Regretably I have no legal knowledge to share re RMJ’s long struggle with unworthy wanksplats. I wish I had!
Mudge, enjoy the sunshine.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, England 02/12 at 05:11 PMA Lawyer for the Killing? I’ve got first dibs on the screenplay! Hopefully I can get Phyllis Diller to play Dick Cheney.
I wonder what quail laughter sounds like?
Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 02/12 at 05:44 PMMZ #20: I don’t recommend Boulder, Hawk notwithstanding. It’s a peculiarly bald sort of place, like Ireland in a funny way is bald.
I’m looking into the law school here to see what I can find out about student cases....
Chris #21: It’s gorgeous, and I’m going out in it here pretty quick. See y’all!
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 02/12 at 05:44 PMQuayle laugh: http://ollin.net/laugh/danquayle.html
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 05:50 PMWhen King George declares himself President for Life and Dick Cheney meets his Maker(Satan, we’ll assume)in an awkward fly fishing accident, maybe we could have Bush/Quayle? You could actually hear the brain cells dying.
Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 02/12 at 06:00 PM- ¨&k hank you Sir Mickey. Under your leadership we shall overcome. As a long term project, I believe my civil case should be taken up by a Law class someplace. That won’t give any relief to me but it could help others in the future. I am starting to get the gut feeling that soon I will need the public to be informed about all of this. They are really going to be pis--- when they see how much taxpayer money has been wasted. On June 5th this case will be in its 7th year....a simple rear-ender case with witnesses. This case should have settled in a few weeks.
Mudge, I like it this way better, “Honor allows what the law forbids.” I could have used that at my sentencing. I will keep it in mind for the next time that I am arrested.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 06:36 PM Speaking about whales and other forms of sea life.... author Peter Benchley just died.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/12 at 06:48 PMDid Cheney shoot Benchley, too?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 06:54 PMGood night....from under the record snowfall.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/12 at 10:16 PMThis is just a test.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/13 at 10:27 PMI am just commenting on an article of yours that I saw in metro newspaper. I did send the comment to metro’s letters editor, but doubt that it will be printed. I am cutting and pasting the letter right here. I hope the results as I intend them to be. Remember it is just my opinion in light of what I read of yours. Thank you:
February 16 Thursday 2006
To metro lettters Editor:Re: Mickey Z’s “America And The New World Order” (Feb. 15): Mr Z told of how killing someone while you are uniformed makes you a hero while killing someone while you’re wearing gang colors makes you a criminal, also how selling cigarettes and liqour makes you a businessman while smoking a joint makes you a menace to society.
You forgot some others:
If the child-welfare authorities (in the US) were to allow a homeless, jobless drug-addicted alcoholic to adopt a child, then that would considered government irresponsibility. But, it would be seen as a human-rights violation and “big-brotherish” if the government were to forbid that same drug-addicted homeless jobless person from having children of his or her own with another homeless alcoholic. In fact there have been prisoners on death row claiming that it s their right to have their genes continue through sperm donation.
If black “rap artists” sing about street-gang wars, and villanous black culture, and claim it is “free speech” (while making money off of bigoted whites who like to hear that blacks behave as reputed to behave, and off of blacks who think it is cool to be dysfunctional) then black rappers are entrapeneurs. (Oh, same with Richard Pryor and his kind of comedy). But if Calvin Butts or Colin Powell of Condoleezza Rice speaks against the stereotyping that maligns all blacks in society, then it is “oreo-ism.”
If Howard Stern or Louis Farrakhan say, or have said it, it is “gutsy.” If the pope or President Bush says it, (or perhaps Baseball pitcher John Rocker) it is reflective of a closed-minded, Hitler-ish person. If it stereotypes women as objects and pedestals porn then it is “true women’s liberation.” Say anything about the dignity of women, and it’s “sick.”
It’s been said that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a racist who influenced Hitler’s white- supremacist mentality, but Louis Farrakhan once claimed to admire, and complimented Hitler as a great man who brought Germany up from ashes.Posted by L M on from 02/16 at 01:21 PM
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