Mickey Z
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Summer re-runs, Part IV
Mickey—Stay prayerful this week-end == many times it is the tonic that brings peace .... Take a look at some of these messages to G O D written by kidz .... ==http://tinyurl.com/yuzztq == http://tinyurl.com/yvnsmh == http://tinyurl.com/2ghnwt ==http://tinyurl.com/23eq2b == http://tinyurl.com/yvy2e9 == BON JOVI GOT IT RIGHT == http://tinyurl.com/22kec8 == STAY SAFE --MY FRIEND—We’ll be on the blog-step when you get home == smile = richie
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers fl 07/25 at 07:53 AM.........2 more prayers == http://tinyurl.com/yuzztq == http://tinyurl.com/23eq2b == PACK PLENTY OF CLEAN underwear
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers fl 07/25 at 07:58 AMSORRY THE KIDZ PRAYER THING BOMBED—well the thought and action is what counts anyway—Here’s a site my 4 yr old grandaughter uses out in Palm Springs… Jaelyn Maria knows her letters and numbers—papa teaches 4th grade at JFK (go COYOTES) in Indio == It’s inter-active— http://tinyurl.com/3df6ps - AND have some fun watching the BON JESUITS FROM BOSTON COLLEGE DO “LIVING ON A PRAYER” smile http://tinyurl.com/22kec8 captcha says “society” must be the ssj for the Jesuit Society of Jesus ?!?
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers fl 07/25 at 08:31 AMHey Richie and everyone else, and best wishes in Texas, Mickey… a good one I found from the Mighty George Monbiot:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2731/
Posted by James on from work 07/25 at 09:53 AMHave a peaceful trip, Mickey—my thoughts are with you. My wife and I drove out to California last month, on a similar mission. I wouldn’t call it “fun,” but I did get to say the things I needed to say, and the moments were priceless.
Texas in late July… whew!
Oh, and I hope your site generates some “income” (captcha) for you and yours!
Posted by Hawk on from Boulder, CO, USA 07/25 at 10:58 AMJAMES at work.......great link story......puts the world a bit’ more in perspective --- CHICKEN LITTLE HAS A LIL’ MORE WAITIN’ TIME left before the sky falls—and MOTHER EARTH CONCEDES defeat == ciao… smile ..
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers fl 07/25 at 01:40 PMThanks Richie… but oh dear lord I do not want to be known as “James at Work”... so I’ll fix it to James in Hell’s Kitchen, whether I’m emailing from home or from the office here!
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/25 at 01:47 PMGood luck in Texas, MZ. Greetings and well-wishes to your kin from The Expendables.
James, I loved the seven words from Monbiot’s fellow passenger. They should be stamped on the cover of every Mother Jones issue henceforth. (Captcha sez ‘clear’?)
Here’s an interesting literary bit: “The cat with his phosphoric eyes, which serve him as lanterns, and sparks flying from his back, fearlessly haunts the darkness, where he encounters wandering phantoms, sorcerers, alchemists, necromancers, resurrectionists, lovers, pickpockets, assassins, drunken patrols, and all those obscene larvae which sally forth and do their work only at night. He has the air of having heard last Sunday’s sermon, and readily rubs himself against the lame leg of Mephistopheles.” Baudelaire, 1868
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 07/25 at 02:43 PMHELL’S KITCHEN JAMES == MY OLD SUMMER OF 68’ roomie—jimmy mcdonough was from hell’s kitchen...... we worked at spatan-thrift atlantic—in the quad cities—before i shipped out for “river-watch” duty in astrange land --- but hell i made it back in one piece—and for that i am thankful..... i like the handle—hell’s kitchen james—sonny barger use to hang out there as a kid....... i run into his nephew down in n ft myer’s .. sonny apparently spends time down there as well.... the world is way too small..... how bout a lil’ “born to be wild” by the wilson sisters—HEART—http://tinyurl.com/2xcban captcha says** l i v e **
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers fl 07/25 at 05:02 PMMickey...How was the trip? Best to your Mom and Dad.
Hi Richie, Zen, Hawk, James, and all… Here’s one for your approval or disapproval.
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15678/26/Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/25 at 06:07 PMHello Expendables. I’m checking in the Dubya Land. No time to comment now but I’ll try to chat a bit later.
Captcha sez: help
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Dubya Land 07/26 at 08:40 AMMickey...captcha is tracking you. It now is “western”.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/26 at 09:06 AMI responded to an email from local peace group in Brunswick, Maine. Something about progressive democrat initiatives. So I simply responded with the question; what is a progressive democrat?
Well, this ignited the repressed tempers. My next question that I haven’t asked yet, are ‘they’ more concerned with maintaining a tradition, continuing this page of history with thoughts of cleaning up corruption?
What do they want to change? What do they want to maintain? So it is more clear to me, change will happen in small groups in small increments...there will be no magical formula to transform 300 million people or more in any short time frame.
My friend made reference to the constitution, my response is, who is paying attention to, following any constitution. How can there be so much corruption and dysfunction and mention made to a constitution. Does the constitution state we will be a toxic, corrupt, inequitable society. Apparently it does?
Posted by joe of maine on from 07/26 at 09:32 AMHey ya’ all == RoseMarie—splendid article/op-ed on Ward Churchill. I’m slowly starting to see the light of reason on the Churchill situation. Though I still believe his lawyer is a publicity hound—Wade himself .. seems to be level-headed and logical in his current legal position (which is archived in PDF format on the Denver NBC web-site - dated 7/19/07). Churchill’s historical questioning is also intriquing, but wanders between fact and speculation—often—in many Historical Scholars opinion - recklessly. We have to remember that Churchill is an Ethnic Studies Professor—not a trained and published/defended Historian. Neither am I. I’m a reader and questioner/learner - not a Scholar like many proclaim Churchill to be. Localized debate - blogging establish a quasi-relative position-base. If I choose not to defend - so be it.. I can move on—my lively-hood doesn’t depend on it. I’m retired. Churchill is a paid political writer and commentator—and quite provocative. Zen and I agree to disagree - but the Blog-Master - MZ - made sense to me by requesting civility on all of our parts - when we proclaim—shame—criticize—etc. I’m not aware of any of the Expendables holding Advance Degrees in any University related teaching or research field. I point this out because the basis of much of our musing is self-enlightenment through reading. You, Rose-Marie and Mickey place your musings in the court of wide-media public forums. Sometimes you are paid for your words.
I’ve googled and yahood’ each of your names. Whew—the open-aire venom you subject yourselves too! We Expendable Blogeroos—a relatively new media forum—have smaler audiences for criticism - mainly - one another. Living in the heart of Indian Country—and growing up in the shadow of LaHota Country—Southern MN Sioux Territory—I listened to old-timers stories (oral-history) as an early 50’s era kid. Those stories came from grandpa and from their fathers and fathers’s fathers—circa 1850-s in Southern MN Territory. This was not the land of Black Hills Gold Rush/Land Rush stampede that directly aided in “holocausting” LaKota Native Culture. My German ancestor/farmers were not part of that Government supported eradication of Indian Culture out West. They were Minnesotans. Germans and Scandanavian refugees were looking for a better life .. and the MN Territory of the 1850’s held out that hope for a new beginning. The Traverse - Shakopee and other Siouxan clan/tribes were mostly welcoming. Minnesota and Cottonwood River Country provided ample non-farming - hunting and fishing grounds for hunters and trappers. The rolling hills and river-banks remain this way today. Flat land was cleared for planting. This was not buffalo roaming territory like the wide-open dry plains of Dakota Territory. My paternal grandmother—Claira and her sisters grew up in and around the Great Swan Lake - summer Home of Chief Sleepy Eye and his descendants. This land remains today as a haven for duck, pheasant, small game, deer hunting and fishing. That was the sustanance for small bands of Native Americans. Mystic Lake, Prairie Island, the Lower and Upper Sioux Bands still use the land this way today. Their tribal numbers today are smaller than 150 years ago, but it was not the result of genocidal warfare. You can verify this by examining Territotial Registries and 100 year Census data for these Southern Minnesota Counties. The Sioux-Uprising during the summer of 1862—which was not the design of the Older Chiefs—but over-zealous youthful warriors—created the Federal and consequently State of MN backlash. Over-reaction on the part of the military during the primary stages of the Civil War—resulted in hurding remaining post-62’ river tribe/clans out of Minnesota into Sisseton and Yanktonian Sioux Dakota Territory. LaHota survivors did eventually return in the 1890’s and were re-settled on the Upper and Lower Sioux Reservations in Morton and Granite Falls and also up in Ojibwa Country of White Earth and Leech Lake in NW MN—original land that remains this way today. The Bellecort Brothers - Clyde and Vernon—trace their Siouxan roots to White Earth --where they and their several generation LaHota ancestors were re-settled during the 1890’s timeframe. Their surnane “Bellecort” is French Ojibwe—remnants of the co-mingling of French trapper-trader/Ojibwe and Siouxan inter-marriage which is still quite prevalent today in Northern Minnesota—where I derived my Indian name “Zonodoon”...... I had to vent—and state another side to the Indian story—which as we know from Churchill’s declamations - has many facets ... By the by ... original AIM Founders—the Bellecort Bros .. seem to disagree with Professor Churchill as well! CAPTCHA SAYS “CHARGE”....what the hell does that imply????Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers fl 07/26 at 11:29 AMjoe...seems like your friends in the Peace Group have the same mental block as the groups in other places - they all seem to get “separation anxiety” at the mere mention of separating from the Democratic Party. Sometimes I try to expand their minds by suggesting that they join up with the Anarchists.
Richie...thanks for taking the time to read and write all of that. I like Churchill BECAUSE he is a provocateur. He embodies what I say in one of my favorite RMJ quotes.
“I want to surround myself with people
who are never bored, people who never sleep,
never wait, never are patient,
never make excuses…
people with a fire burning so deep in their gut
that it fills every cell of their body…
people with a passion so great
that it explodes across the countryside
like a wild hurricane.
I need people who never ask for justice,
but who demand justice now.
It is only the dissatisfied, the troublemakers,
the hard-core resisters who can make this
a better place.”richie...the last time that I was paid for anything that I wrote was in 1952. I was a high school kid working as a stringer for the newspaper. My story about a local fire hit the AP and I was paid. My pay was calculated by inch of column space. I think I got about $12.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/26 at 02:54 PMZen-- yes, “This is for people who don’t work"-- seems to describe all too many things we’d like to be involved in these days.
Richie, I moved to the west 40s a couple of years ago, and I bet it’s a lot different than the HK you recall… but still has a lot of character.
RMJ, are you and Ward wearing the same sunglasses in your photos? I don’t think I’ve ever seen him photographed without his on.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/26 at 04:27 PMJames...Yes, and you should see us when we wear our matching outfits - though he does get a bit cranky in the pink turtleneck!
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/26 at 05:19 PMHello all,
Good luck, Mr. Z, and I hope all goes well.
For those of you interested in Ward Churchill’s lynching, raucous coverage can be found at http://www.tryworks.org and official coverage at http://www.wardchurchill.net
There’s a lot of good things happening, the biggest being that Ward can finally go on the offense now in the Denver court system.
Posted by Benjamin on from Lynching Ground Zero 07/26 at 09:51 PMBack from another short trip to Melbourne - and best wishes for you and yours, Mickey! Hope all goes well in Texas.
Warmest wishes to you, Richie, James, Hawk, Zen Prole, Rosemarie and Joe of Maine.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 07/26 at 09:51 PM
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