Mickey Z

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Posted by Mickey Z on 09/06 at 04:08 AM

Thank you, Mickey for posting the link to the Fisk photos. I look at them on a regular basis. Please notice the 3 photos in the second row - the little girl with the back of her head blown off by a usa cluster bomb. I remember the first time that I saw that photo several years ago. A friend delivered a brown manila envelope with photos. We sat down on the steps to my front porch and I started to look at them. When I came to that one I momentarily wondered why a photo of a beautiful child without a scratch on her face had been included. Then I saw the back of her head. In that moment, I knew that I had been changed forever and my life would never again be the same.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 09/06 at 06:56 AM

Just started Endgame (Jensen) and really like how he explains perspective and propaganda using 4 different versions of the what happened on 9/11. I have only just begun the book but can see again how much Daniel Quinn has influenced him, especially the part about how ridiculous the idea is that there is only one right way to live. I am looking forward to reading the rest…

Posted by JOS on from Chicago 09/06 at 09:35 AM

That reminds me, I’ve had part two of Endgame on order for over a month now. Grrr. Anyway, here’s my contribution for today - almost comically psychotic.

Posted by Mew on from at "work" 09/06 at 10:05 AM

Hello Expendables from a suddenly sunny Astoria. Good to have JOS and Mew back. Thanks for the links, etc.

Captcha sez: Stop. What on earth could that mean?

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/06 at 11:08 AM

Voltaire sez: “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/06 at 04:47 PM

...and we are all “snowflakes”. From one Flake to another, I’m wondering if today’s news will wake up any of the sleeping. I am sure that all Expendables already knew (a long time ago) the 2 top news stories of the day (I am hoping for visitors here)...the hanky panky between the Army and Raytheon, and the Bush announcement that the CIA has been operating a secret prison system. Like I keep saying, if we didn’t have a secret Black Budget, there would not be funding for a secret prison system.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 09/06 at 06:23 PM

Amelopsis #7...I just clicked on your link...I hope any pro-war visitors here see that one !

My captcha word “dead”

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 09/06 at 06:41 PM

Great proverb, Mickey. Any idea which part of Africa it’s from? I’ve recently begun to notice that the term ‘African’ is often used in a sense which is never applied to any other other large continent (even relatively homogenous ones), e.g. usage of the word “ubuntu” here (from the “African” language), or the attack on “black Africans" by others who look exactly like them and would consider themselves either ‘black’ or ‘African’ in the same sense I suppose as Koreans would consider themselves yellow or Asian. Curious…

Posted by sk on from 09/06 at 10:32 PM

Hey SK...long time, no see. I’m not sure which part of Africa it’s from. I’ll have to check. Good point, though, about the use of the word “African.”

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/07 at 04:06 AM