Mickey Z
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Let's impeach all of America's capitalist warlords
Love it or leave it? You convinced me...I’m moving to Sweden.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 05/22 at 08:15 AMBig Country, say hi to Old Glen when you get there....
Hope discussion yesterday: If one is leaving things to fate or simply not taking action on them, I call that fantasizing, because it’s desiring an outcome without fully committing oneself to it.
No, MZ, you never said those were the only possible motivations for action (anger and outrage) but they were on the list...I used them because we have, many times, expressed these feelings as motivations around the Expendable board...including yesterday and today, if only indirectly ("impeach!" is not the cry of the satisfied citizen). Nor did I say these feelings of anger and outrage were invalid or inadequate as motivating factors. I am, as you imagined, incandescently angry at The System for its manifold abuses and inequities. I was that before I got my titty in the wringer, too. I had more faith (unfounded and ungrounded fantasy, in other words) in The System’s fixability before I entered these straits. What we got ain’t fixable. Gotta think of something else.
RMJ, from last night: Unparalleled is such a nice way of saying “weird!” You siren you...using words to ensnare me, knowing it’ll work every time.
I don’t just want to impeach the political class as a whole, I want to prosecute it for fraud. They represent themselves as capable leaders, and from where I sit, that’s simply not at all the truth.
I want their private pension money used to pay down the debt they’ve accumulated on our behalf. They can live on Social Security like the rest of us.
I want the private health insurance plan they enjoy to be canceled, and they all enjoy the glories of Medicaid to the exact level the poorest of their single male constituents do.
I want their salaries reduced to $5.15 an hour and indexed to the minimum wage at a rate of .75 to 1, their driver-driven cars repo-ed, and their staffs of flunkies furloughed. Their campaign warchests are to be seized and used to pay more of the idiot debt they’ve saddled us with.
I want weapons spending cut off immediately, and the heads of the military contractors to have THEIR assets seized. The engineers and flunkies in those organizations are to be reassigned to the places we’ve bombed and destroyed, thence to spend their entire energies and the rest of their lives finding solutions to the human costs of their amoral, conscienceless service to evil. Roads, bridges, water supplies, etc. Don’t speak the language? You’ll learn. Want your creature comforts? You’ll live in a tent, just like the troops whose masters you served made them live. And I hope you like MREs because that’s what you’re eating until further notice. Married? Wifey or hubby’s comin’ along for the ride. Enjoy now!
And that’s just the start.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/22 at 08:42 AMAh, trhe drudgery of the Writing Life:
“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
--Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/22 at 08:55 AMI’m with Mudge; impeachment ain’t enough for them wascally wabbits. Let the punishments fit the crime, and so, since they have (in many cases deliberately) broken everything, let them piece it all back together. One piece at a time. Out there in depleted uranium-saturated desert landscapes. With their teeth.
Who else should we impeach? Hey, as long as we’re rounding up bad guys and putting them through the Mudge School for the Rehabilitation of Bloodthirsty Anti-Social Thugs, can we please impeach this asswipe as well?
Mickey, this here Medialens article reminded me of your word play today.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 05/22 at 11:08 AMHello there, Mudge. Keir, Trump is one of the scariest freaks I have ever seen.
Here’s a fun little game called give GWB a brain:
http://www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3067907/graphic1.swf
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 05/22 at 11:15 AMHello Expendables.
Commando, why am I not surprised that article sold you on Sweden?
Hi Mudge.
Keir: I had not seen that Media Lens piece. Good stuff. And yeah, let’s start an “Impeach Trump” movement, too.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/22 at 11:16 AMYou got me...it was the tall swedish blondes.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 05/22 at 02:50 PMJOS, I have a feeling James the Cat Lady will have something to say about Sweden when he arrives.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/22 at 03:08 PMA bit far north, really. Why go further up than Denmark, unless you’re afraid you’ll accidentally sleep with one of my cousins, or you’re still harboring a grudge about those damn cartoons?
Heh. Awesome discussion from all here, and bravo to Mudge’s tirade #2. Is ‘Mudge’s tirade’ redundant?
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 05/22 at 06:36 PMKeep that title in mind for the next novel writing month: Mudge’s Tirade.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/22 at 06:40 PMI like this idea, Keir:
“[T]he Mudge School for the Rehabilitation of Bloodthirsty Anti-Social Thugs”Class is now in session! First, ladies and gentlemen, we learn what “pain” is...hand over your assets...that means the keys, the passwords, and the numbers. All of it, now.
CatLady #9: I, the SOUL of moderate and sweet kindliness, perpetrate a tirade?! How Bill O’Reilly! You take that back, young man, you’re not too big for a spanking!
The Norse myhtology studies I’ve been doing for Queen Matilda’s Tapestry have led me to a major re-envisioning of life as we know it. I think the Norsemen saw the string-theory level of reality somehow, and Yggdrasil is simply the metaphorical expression of this sudden and complete vision of a multiverse existing in higher-dimensional space.
>cricket sounds<
Is this another example of a “Mudge tirade?”
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/22 at 08:02 PMMudge! Be still my heart, you’re just capturing it, doing my work for me, preaching the gospel of the Aesir. So do you think that Ragnarok was just Christian revisionism, or was it already there for them to take advantage of. I must send you the major section of my Hel On Earth novel when I have enough to satisfy me. The Underground Man meets the goddess of the underworld meets a younger Cat Lady and… I’ll talk to you later about it.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 05/22 at 08:20 PMHmmm...Ragnarok is really not revisionism, or even syncretism...it’s simply the myth of the end of the world as makes sense for the Norse culture, as all cultures have an end-of-the-world myth.
Notice how Norse gods aren’t immortal? They aren’t, therefore, supernatural. They’re merely extremely long-lived and very powerful beings whose powers don’t spring from this ‘brane.
And the Norns. Oh my, the Norns. Sprang from nowhere, didn’t they? A little tiny splurp of mythlet in Voluspa and we’re largely done. I bet not...I bet Snorri Sturluson simply couldn’t make them fit into the Christian world-view he was infected with.
Even you, O Danish Viking, might appreciate reading a book called The Lost Gods of Britain by Brian Branston. Fascinating stuff on the Angle/Saxon/Jute mythic cosmos, and its material remains.
As to your novel, I’ll believe it when I see it. I’ve heard that before....actually, you don’t want to send me your writing because Mickey already told you about our hours of fun had at your expense, right?
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/23 at 12:42 AMI guess you’re right; got a lotta stuff to figure out on my own…
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 05/23 at 02:15 AM
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