Mickey Z
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
STOP the killing
Che Guevara sez: “How close we could look into a bright future should two, three, or many Vietnams flourish throughout the world . . . our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people’s unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.”
Posted by Che Guevara on from 08/09 at 11:53 AMWow, Mick, I don’t know what to add to your post, except that HRC has made A Very Presidential Move by invoking Billy Graham. Next: her secret career as a fighter pilot...she’ll stack her bomb damage assessment(TM) footage up against anyone’s.
“Ignorance Is Bliss,” from Living Colour’s ‘Vivid’ (1993):
Living with myself is hard enough
So I get away when things get rough
Famine, strife, and thoughts of war
Matter less than the dress she woreIn the Asterisk Department, “Juicing The Game” by Howard Bryant is an excellent survey of the game from the ‘94 strike to late 2005- captures just how screwed up the national pastime is, another example of a corrupted/failed American institution.
Richie, good to hear from you yesterday.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 08/09 at 12:24 PMThe box building where I work is surrounded by green, trees, wildflowers. During break I watched different bees at the wildflowers and thought....
I wonder what world governments would think if they knew a large popululation of the u.s. people wanted OUR war criminals prosecuted...and not simply impeached. Would there view, there relation to the u.s., to money...change?
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/09 at 12:31 PMMarkos Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga:
“It was going to be a tough decision at first, but then the CIA insisted that if, if I joined that, they’d want me to do the first duty assignment in Washington, DC, and I hate Washington, DC.”
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 08/09 at 02:15 PMWow Mickey, you made my day with the front page today - Fisk photos and Churchill. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Hi Che, Zen, joe, Robert, and all. I will be fast because we are having power outages up here and the last time that happened it created a need for a $100 computer repair for me.
About dead children and Hillary - here’s one for you.
http://tinyurl.com/2magyjPosted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/09 at 03:27 PMjoe...MY view of everything would change if I thought that a large portion of the US population wanted the war criminals prosecuted. Zen says “Ignorance is bliss”. This is a very blissful nation.
captacha word says “moral”
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/09 at 05:32 PMHello Expendables. More rain on the way here in NYC (land of the tornado). To add to today’s post and the comment above, I give you Mr. Shaw:
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity."
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/09 at 05:36 PMMickey #7...That is one of my favorite quotes. Indifference toward a fellow being shows a complete inability to connect emotionally. It is considered to be a symptom of some mental disorders. Yes, maybe it is much better to be hated than to be dehumanized.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/09 at 05:53 PMRMJ..8..."being hated is much better than being dehumanized??? I like that and I’m not completely sure why.”
Brunswick, Maine was home to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Hawthorne at one time, in fact they lived in the same building which is just up the street a few hundred yards. Soooo, throughout town there are plaques inlaid into the sidewalk with lines from, eg., a poet. [there is also a silly statue of some civil war officer, person further up the street...twisted history!]
RMJ...your question is far more interesting than the one liner by Nate Hawthorne, that I read this morning.
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/09 at 07:25 PMjoe, I think that Civil War statue might be Col. Joshua Chamberlain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_ChamberlainPosted by Zen Prole on from Urth 08/09 at 09:03 PMhello everyone
douglas adams says…
“the human race, which is unique in its ability to learn from others, is also unique for its apparent disinclination to do so”
Posted by michael on from scotland 08/10 at 07:15 AMZEN..10..I asked the historical society why the statue of Chamberlain shows him in his civil war uniform, if as a civilian he was so well liked for doing wonderful things...for who...I would question.
Noooo...they must have this canon in the park figure, that in not just my opinion, is an eyesore and an insult. Why didn’t they plant a tree and state it’s the same kind of tree that grew at Appomattox?
Michael..11..if we took a bird from the woods, put it in a cage, ‘trained’ it simple stimuli response, it’s inherent, spirit for life, too, would die.
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/10 at 09:42 AMjoe, michael, Zen, Mickey...how is everyone today?
joe...I don’t know Nate Hawthorne. Did I miss something? What did he say?On the topic of STOP the killing. Here’s a link that shows how far we have descended into the abyss.
http://tinyurl.com/3457e5Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/10 at 12:42 PMRMJ..13..there was a line from Nathaniel Hawthorne, something about happiness...on a plaque inlaid into the sidewalk...I thought your question was much interesting.
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/10 at 01:03 PMThis little fucker is supposed to be liberal?:
Found it after searching on Robert’s quote above.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/10 at 01:23 PMI am shocked, shocked that there’s hypocrisy at Daily Kos.
P.S. Hello Expendables...from rain-soaked Astoria.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/10 at 01:26 PMjoe...thanks, I missed that.
JOS and Mickey...about the Daily KOS thing - it seems that the extreme right has been using it to their advantage by calling the KOS Liberal.
This whole thing reminds me of how the Dems got so involved in the Plame thing. The more agents that are exposed and identified, the better. Identify ALL of them and the world might be a better place.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/10 at 01:58 PM“Identify ALL of them and the world might be a better place.”
And be careful casting stones....
I once sought a career with the CIA before I knew much about it.
I’ve learned quite a bit since that time, and am thankful I was turned down.
Maybe it was because I lacked the profile they sought. I was opposed then and now to covert operations in peacetime; I now believe that secrecy and democracy are fundamentally in conflict, and that transparency and love are what we need most if we are to help save this world.
I recommend people read the brilliant book “On the Causes of War” by Michael Andregg (it is available free to download on the ‘net).
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 08/10 at 03:15 PMThomas Berry sez..."We cannot obliterate the continuities of history, nor can we move into the future without guidance from existing cultural forms. Yet, somehow we must reach even further back to where our genetic coding connects with the species codings of the entire earth community. Only then can we overcome the limitations of the anthropocentrism that binds us.”
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/10 at 04:32 PMHey all…
Mick, I heard a rumor that another story of yours is coming soon to a small press website that I know and love. Congratulations…
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 08/10 at 11:45 PMThanks, JOS. Do you know when it’ll be up?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/11 at 05:42 AMit will be in the next edition...Josh, the editor over there, accepted one of my poems and I mentioned I had been enjoying your storys.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 08/11 at 10:54 AMThanks again, JOS...and congrats on your poem. Let us know when it’s up.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/11 at 11:34 AM#### you and #### Ward Churchill.
Posted by Fuck You on from 08/11 at 02:44 PM
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