Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

All you need is love (…and a small, well-trained army)

Posted by Mickey Z on 11/08 at 05:39 AM

Good morning, Mickey has another great article. Thanks for this gem which is worth repeating.....
You’ve got to learn
that when
you push people around,
some people push back.
As they should.
As they must.
And as they undoubtedly will.
There is justice
in such symmetry.

(Ward Churchill)

Right now Democracy Now is reporting on the new “Socialist” in the Senate. I guess that Amy Goodman did not have time to check Bernie’s voting record in Congress. The important fact about the race for Senator in Vermont is that there REALLY was a REAL Socialist on the ballot for that seat, my friend Peter. Amy could have gotten the facts straight if she had checked the socialist web site..........Now she has Ralph Nader on. His analysis is the best I have heard.

Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 11/08 at 08:40 AM

Hello Expendables...from a rain-soaked NYC. Coming right after the elections, this is the type of day that reminds me of Travis Bickle: Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

RMJ: Someone asked me this morning what I thought of the big Democrat win. I told him I felt like someone changed the label on the bottle of poison we are all drinking.

Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/08 at 11:56 AM

MZ re #2: you hit the nail on the head.

Which reminds me of a great tune, the first off Funkadelic’s 1972 America Eats Its Young:

<i>Just because you win the fight
don’t make you right!
Just because you think
don’t make you good!

Posted by Keir from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts) on 11/08 at 12:02 PM

So, Rummy is gone and his replacement is a former CIA Director. As I said, pick yer poison.

Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/08 at 02:01 PM

Yeah, I was just stopping in to share the pseudo-news. Donny Pentagon took the fall.

If you strain your ears, you can hear billions of people around the globe and under the benvolent US gun saying “So?”

Fancy him making a trip to Baghdad now? Maybe he wants to add some last minute testimony to Saddam’s appeal.

Whatever.

This gives me more to think about.

Posted by Keir from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts) on 11/08 at 02:39 PM

Keir: Thanks for that sad link. I was going to say how I’m suprised more people aren’t opting out these days but then I thought: There are ways of killing yourself without killing yourself.

So, where is everyone? I thought today’s topic might provoke a conversation or two but the trend continues: Traffic is increasing while comments are decreasing. Is it stage fright?

Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/08 at 03:07 PM

Keir...that is so sad. I just posted a comment there.
The dems will be dancing in the street with the Rummy news and the vote totals. Sadly, all of this will mean that the push for real change is dead. Moveon, or one of those pretend peace organizations, is sending out e-mails asking for big parties all over the country.
Mickey, someone asked me a few days ago the same question about what the effect of a dem win would be. I said that it would not have any effect. I was wrong. I think it has made everything worse, much worse.

Posted by RMJ from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 11/08 at 03:43 PM

No matter which party controls Congress or who is the Secretary of Defense (sic) or even if Britney Spears gets divorced, the beat goes on.

Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/08 at 04:09 PM

And the beat goes on:
http://tinyurl.com/yb3nfr

Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/08 at 05:02 PM

Find that today has been very depressing and in a dangerous mood to lay blame against just about everything and everyone (but myself).

-- And Keir’s link to Tim Ershot. Wow. I looked at Ershot’s photos, and thought to myself what a lonely person he seemed to be. I’ve had those times when I just took pictures of buildings and things in my closet.

On another note--

Yesterday, I had a moment of elation when a lifelong Democrat (I think) and dear person whispered in my ear that she voted for Peter Camejo (she told me it was her “protest vote"-- I had lent her Camejo’s book, “California Under Corporate Rule"-- and she had actually read it!).

Another thing has picked me up a bit. This past summer, I had the joy to get in on economist and lifelong committed activist Doug Dowd’s last free lectures here in San Francisco. The lectures are available on line-- and they are a pleasure to listen to again-- lingering over the gems of thought that frequently came up.

http://tinyurl.com/y8smto

This morning, in one I relistened to, Dowd says something I will never forget:

He explained to us that he is neither an optimist nor a pessimist-- both labels, he said, imply a gift to look into the future which is unknowable. Rather, said he, he believes people must choose between hope and despair.

This is a difficult time to live in, but thinking persons must choose hope, and feeling persons must reject despair.

Dowd often reminded us that unexpected good things happen-- and the New Deal (actually the second New Deal) was one that was completely unexpected when it happened.

Let us not give up hope, or activism. And let us not be afraid.

(And turn off the TV.)

Posted by Robert B. Livingston from San Francisco, California on 11/08 at 10:21 PM