Mickey Z
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
The collection of links formerly known as "mystery"
Hey everyone,
The breast-fed cat reminded me of Tori Amos suckling a piglet on one of her album sleeves. I think her reasoning was, a young creature is a young creature…
Got to run for my train back to fields and trees. I’ll try and dig up something fun to post later.Posted by Mew on from London 02/23 at 08:09 AMAh, yes, the obligatory comparison of the leader of our newest “enemy” country to Hitler…
Here’s another video (not related to my above comment):
Posted by Jeremy on from Taiwan 02/23 at 08:10 AMGood morning All...I’m back to my computer after being out of town for a few days. I like the link to the worse companies in the USA. I will be thinking about that all day but right off the top of my head I would say:
USA government gets first place
Democratic and Republican parties come in second
and in 3rd place MONSANTO
with Halliburton closing in......
I will probably revise my list later to include the Press.....Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/23 at 08:16 AMHope to read through all of these at some point, but yep-- after today’s mystery cat link, I just might have lost my title of Supreme Cat Lady…
Speaking of which, will the new apartment be cat-friendly this time?
Posted by James on from work 02/23 at 09:21 AMAwww, I miss Url the Mystery Lynx. He was purty.
Cat friendly...does this mean there will be room for a Feline-American chez Z? CatLady’s gotten to you, hasn’t he? Spreading the pernicious doctrine of cat-worship...oughta be a law....
A few meditations on Hitler, the “Good War” and corporate greed that might amuse:
http://tinyurl.com/jcqjk
http://tinyurl.com/jttpq
http://tinyurl.com/epayePosted by Mudge on from Austin 02/23 at 09:52 AMnews just in - there is a bounty on kofi annans head
Posted by michael on from scotland 02/23 at 10:46 AMCorporate greed, or just plain stupidity?
http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist, quoting a spokesman for the telecommunications company Lucent in January, reported that “nearly a million people” in the United States still lease their house phones for around $60 a year (about 20 years after they were no longer required to), rather than buy them for as little as $20 each.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 02/23 at 10:57 AMGood day every Expendable,
Well, well, breast fed cats and dogs running to their deaths.
Quite a mixed bag Mickey & some I’ve not yet checked out.
A bounty on Annan’s head Michael - I myself prefer an Almond Joy, but to each their own.
Mudge corporate greed and plain ole’ stupidity are codependancies that must be purged through knowledge and self control - same as any other addiction. The telephone’s as good a place as any to start if one hasn’t left the gate yet! It is a little unsettling just how many ways and how many people find to excercise stupidity though, don’t you think?
World “leaders” included, but mostly at the greed end of things. On 2nd thought, it’s personal greed that steers many people toward stupidity, and stupidity keeps them from seeing their greed pales in comparison to the corporate variety, thus completing the cycle.
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 02/23 at 12:38 PMGood morning, Mickey and good morning, Mew, Rosemary, Jeremy, James, Mudge, Michael and Amelopsis - it is 6:31 am on a Friday morning and will be a bit of a ‘scorcher’ today: about 95F.
And being German by birth, I clicked on ‘The Next Hitler’ - another enlightening link! And didn’t some magazine try to make Saddam Hussein look more Hitler in the run-up to the 2003 war?
Btw: I haven’t forgotten that I want to order some more of your books, Mickey - there’ll be light at the end of our financial tunnel in July 2006.
Be well, all of you,
Mrs Helga from down underPosted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 02/23 at 02:31 PMHello Expendables. I’m happy to see the links are meeting with your approval. Thanks for your links, images, etc.
I’m making my way into the Mowat book and like what I’ve read so far.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 02:35 PMhello all...I have a mystery link here that is beyond strange:
be sure to skip down to the last two paragraphs if you don’t make it all the way through. I guess it’s not so strange…
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 02:44 PMThis is probably old, but we had great fun with it in the office this week:
http://tinyurl.com/e7cvxPosted by mew on from not london, hooray! 02/23 at 02:49 PMmy cousin’s six-year-old just sent me one of those monk-e-mails last week...it was hilarious and extremely cute, mew.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 02:56 PMMONKEYS!!!!
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 02/23 at 03:11 PMGo Yanks: http://tinyurl.com/o9sgj
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 03:21 PMHi all,
Great links Mickey, found the Sonia Shah one especially interesting. Despicable crimes being carried out against the most vulnerable in the world in the pusuit of medical science profits. John Le Carre does the forward to her book too, the guy who wrote The Constant Gardener. Really moved by the movie and I met him and Fiennes at the evening standard awards in London recently. A real gentleman, and a real important book. I don’t know who to contact in relation to fighting this awful behaviour in our names but do my best to raise awareness locally.capcta account as in calling these companies to account. Love to all inhabiting expendability
Posted by declan on from a road amile of kingdom i am king 02/23 at 03:26 PMEven more mystery links - thanks!
And thanks so much, Mudge, for telling me what my birthday song was - on the previous comment thread. You are a GEM - a (sometimes) curmudgeonly gem ..
captcha: ‘stop’ as in ‘Stop - in the name of love ..’
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 02/23 at 03:27 PMWhere be Joe? if anyone is in contact with him, say hi for me or better yet, give him my email.
Posted by Owen on from barcelona 02/23 at 04:08 PMLet’s go Yank-ees!
I think this is our year (again), Mick. Even the Boss and Torre are getting along. Damon will give us something we haven’t had in a while...a true leadoff hitter.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 04:22 PMJust found this quote:
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.—Paulo Freire
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 07:14 PMAstonishing coincidence - that quote is on the mug I’m drinking out of right now. Its a Cuba Solidarity one with Che and Sandino, the crazy nut-nut
Posted by mew on from not london, hooray! 02/23 at 07:18 PMTalk about a mystery link, Mew…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 07:21 PMMickey #20...I like that. A couple of days ago, I hope that I did not offend when I talked about my favorite Malcolm X quotes here. Mudge or someone said that the quotes supported violent revolution. I sort of disagree but the point that I tried to make (my comment was lost, I was using someone else’s computer) was that there is a big difference between protecting the powerless and waging an illegal war. I have been struggling with this whole issue for a long time because I lived most of my life as a Pacifist. Now I believe that to announce to the war mongers ahead of time, as most in the Peace Movement have, that under no circumstances will violence be answered with violence places an unnecessary risk on those who are under attack. For example, the current rules of engagement (leveraging) that allow the U.S. to capture and hold the wives and children of men in Iraq should be stopped. How could that be done immediately without violence? I don’t think that using violence to protect the powerless is the same as originating the violence. Sorry to ramble on like this, but it seems to me that it is morally permissible to protect any civilian who is under immediate, deadly attack.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/23 at 08:06 PMI love your comments, RMJ...always thought provoking.
I agree that it is morally right to protect any civilian who is under immediate, deadly attack.
The immediacy and destructive nature of our occupation of Iraq is without question. In fact (in fact, and we are going into Churchill territory here), I wonder if violence is neccesary in forcing the removal of my country’s troops from Iraq, who are there in my name, as a US citizen.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 08:42 PM
exhibit 1:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11491483/
our actions in Iraq are responsible for this.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 08:49 PMJOS and RMJ: “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” (Che)
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 09:09 PMany word from Joe, Mick?
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 09:13 PMNot lately, JOS. It’s funny you ask because I was planning a mention on him in tomorrow’s post.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 09:15 PMcool…
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 09:19 PMYou still in the Windy City, Big Country?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 09:21 PMyes...I think I am going to make it my new home.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 09:22 PMnow this is interesting...freedom of speach?:
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 09:29 PMsorry, speEch.
signing off shortly...see you all tomorrow.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 02/23 at 09:30 PMAll right, JOS...I’ll see you (and everyone else) tomorrow.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/23 at 10:19 PMIt sucks living on the West Coast because when I’m ready to rumble everyone else has signed off.
JOS - “I wonder if violence is neccesary in forcing the removal of my country’s troops from Iraq, who are there in my name, as a US citizen”
Now obviously the last thing such a resistance would want is to have the majority of its population against it. But this is clearly the direction that Iraq is taking.
Robert Fisk sez:I think of the French OAS in Algeria in 1962, setting off bombs among France’s Muslim Algerian community. I recall the desperate efforts of the French authorities to set Algerian Muslim against Algerian Muslim which led to half a million dead souls.
And I’m afraid I also think of Ireland and the bombings in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974, which, as the years go by, appear to have an ever closer link, via Protestant “loyalist” paramilitaries, to elements of British military security.
Posted by Fiona on from San Diego, CA 02/23 at 11:57 PMSorry, Fiona. I love your input.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 02/24 at 07:17 AM
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