Mickey Z
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
Checklist
Mickey--
Good timing, my friend.
Thanks.
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 11/03 at 08:49 AMGood morning Mickey and everyone…
Michael of Scotland previous post: are there any secession movements in Scotland? Didn’t Iceland secede from Europe and are there other secession movements currently in Europe as there is in Vermont.
Some thoughts on the checklist...I think we americans/westerners are lacking some important knowledge...I have no idea what this is. We might have to research pre-christian cultures/ideas...and we might need to think about who we are if we were not filled with the information ‘used’ to foster and perpetuate our imbalance with the natural world. The imbalance that is manifested by worstening violence against all things. Why are not the major religious leaders of the world speaking out more boldly and loudly against the global violence and specifically speaking out against the u.s. genocide? Our body, our being as an organ sensing information, of the internal and external,is too repressed I think.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/03 at 09:28 AMWhile thinking about the checklist again, I remembered this simple but delightful message...[I think it’s delightful]
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them.
“Not very long,” answered the Mexican.
“But then, why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” asked the American.
The Mexican explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs and those of his family.
The American asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”
“I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, and take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings, I go into the village to see my friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs. I have a full life.”
The American interrupted, “I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you! You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat.”
“And after that?” asked the Mexican.
“With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers. Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant. You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City, Los Angeles, or even New York City! From there you can direct your huge new enterprise.”
“How long would that take?” asked the Mexican.
“Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years,” replied the American.
“And after that?”
“Afterwards? Well my friend, that’s when it gets really interesting,” answered the American, laughing. “When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!”
“Millions? Really? And after that?” asked the Mexican.
“After that you’ll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends.”
And the moral of this story is: ......... Know where you’re going in life… you may already be there.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/03 at 09:43 AMHello Expendables...from damp cold Astoria.
Excellent, excellent story, Joe. Thanks.
Hey Robert. Care to elaborate?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/03 at 12:13 PMChecklist checklist: as the US descends further into a Great Depression-like political/economic scheme, simple liberations will have to do until rebellious notions catch up with the magnitude of the problem. It’s a start, though the Geniuses Of The McLeft (tm) may yet propose a virtual demonstration - “Show the very bad people you mean business and appear in spirit on the 3rd of Never”
Joe, thanks a ton for the Mexico tale. Science, as opposed to reason, can be as tyrranical and foolish as religion, something that often goes unremarked. Give me reason and intuition any day of the millenium. (thought of a great name for a band - The Sharkbait Consultants, a surf/thrash outfit from Kansas City whose frontman is named Iron Will)
Uh-oh. Someone rang the cowbell alarm! (insert a favorite link here - looks like YouTube aced the cowbell skit.) This is my choice: http://tinyurl.com/23yrgj
Picks to click: DVD- “Cocaine Cowboys” is a bracing documentary. After watching, I had the strong suspicion all the drug cash that disappeared from post-invasion Panama was seed money for the Carlyle Group. The Big Screen- “Into The Wild” is very well done, and shot entirely on location in a few dozen places. Definitely worth seeing at the cinema.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 11/03 at 01:19 PMhello evryone.
joe - there is a very a large secession movement and most people want it but certain large forces are working day and night to make sure it doesn’t happen.
on another toopic, i have a little article at opednews just now..
Posted by michael on from scotland 11/03 at 03:51 PMHey everyone, really busy weekend, but for the Walken/Ferrell cowbell, see here at about 1:55:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiG8yLf7h1M
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 11/03 at 05:09 PMHi Zen, Mickey, Robert…
michael...you have a good one there on Op-ed.
joe...great story. Unfortunately schools are STILL preparing the young minds to be good corporate workers and non-critical thinkers. Nothing will change, until the system of bending young minds changes.Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/03 at 05:13 PMJames, how the heck are you. Where have you been?
Today is the 5th anniversary of the usa assassination of a usa citizen. The government says it is legal because an executive order makes it legal. If you are reading this, you probably weren’t assassinated today. No promises about tomorrow though. Just another day in the good ol’ usa.
http://tinyurl.com/2kunegPosted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/03 at 06:29 PMHere’s another anniversary. Apparently his ideas were not aligned with the authorities and perhaps especially the church. He must have scared the hell out of them.
Wilhelm Reich...before his death in an american prison in 1957
“We are facing an emergency, facing it not only as the species mankind; the principle of LIFE ITSELF on Earth is challenged. We are in a process of deep and crucial change in our total existence, biological, physical, emotional and cosmic.”
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/03 at 06:47 PMthanks rmj.
if anyone is interested regarding the scotland thing i am at this moment involved in a heated debate at a certain site (tho it must be said that i am heating it up a bit!).
there will be a lot of cmments flying round
take a look and join in. keep pressing refresh…
http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=959#comments
Posted by michael on from scotland 11/03 at 07:22 PMMichael..1..I was just visiting the websites of Scotland secession movements.
One american secessionist feels simply letting it be known, people, many people want to secede from the central government will have a destabilizing effect on authorities similar to how their crap creates so much confusion preventing a sense of how to be active. So it might simply be in the Word...we don’t need the criminals, we don’t want their help?, nor does anyone want these thugs and genocidal maniacs in their consciousness.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/03 at 07:50 PMi am not sure secessionist is the correct word.
this is different culture and a different place.
noone ever wanted the union
Posted by michael on from scotland 11/03 at 08:09 PMTonight I had the genuinely weird (yet entirely normal) experience of attending an event where vast amounts of explosive are detonated in commemoration of an abortive sectarian attack on the houses of parliament four centuries ago to the strains of Land Of Hope And Glory; like someone blowing up the White House to “Star Spangled Banner”. Given that the usual English impulse in these situations is to get exceedingly drunk and not think about a god damn thing, except how to get rid of the hiccups, I have little to say, except hooray for Alan Moore. No-one has made better use of the myth.
Posted by Mew on from clophill 11/03 at 08:48 PMI like that Rocky clip Mickey-- and lately I’ve taken a lot of hits-- and often I don’t think I can take any more. I’ve been out of work, depressed, proud, stupid, everything. I worry about losing my little apt. in the city I love-- and I hurt all over, sick too-- and then I look around and see so many more people so much worse off than me. On top of it-- I see the way this country is going, and it doesn’t look good.
At the same time.. there is a need to keep moving forward-- no matter what it takes…
Cindy Sheehan has opened a campaign office just down the street. (She is running against Nancy Pelosi.) Some friends and I went down there and painted all day trying to turn an old massage parlor with black walls and a see-through mirror into a cheery, welcoming place. There is still tons of work to do-- but we had a good time, and I can’t think of anyone more deserving of help than Cindy.
Her campaign is really shoestring, elbow grease, and pure tell-it-like-it-is. She has got a lot of gumption, and keeps everything real. 70% of San Franciscans believe as she does, and even though she is going against a legendary fundraiser with powerful connections, I believe Cindy can win. We would all win if Bush and Cheney were impeached and we could bring our troops home from Iraq.
I told Cindy’s sister how much I love reading your website everyday, how you work hard to keep it going even though your mother has been ill, how you are running for president with Rosemarie, and how inspiring your Rocky clip was at getting me out of bed this morning!
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 11/03 at 11:07 PMI’ve developed a new, unsettling and unexepected admiration for Mr Stallone since reading Susan Faludi’s “Stiffed”, its very easy to see the best elements of Rocky Balboa in the interviews he gives with her towards the end of the book, the rest is well worth reading too.
Posted by Mew on from clophill 11/03 at 11:33 PMThanks for a great day of comments, folks. Michele and I ended up seeing Michael Clayton tonight. Highly, highly recommended.
Sending you good vibes, Robert…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/03 at 11:33 PMGood afternoon all...a lot of good comments here for me to catch up on.
michael...I have not been following the developments in Scotland, but I will. Maybe we here can learn a lot by watching Scotland.Robert...I am very sorry to hear that you have been sick and that your home is threatened. That is a big burden. Yes, I agree about Cindy. I was much more impressed with her when I met her, than by just seeing her on TV. She is “real”. I think her campaign is important. When you talk to her, please tell her if she wins, she should NOT let Washington change her. We in Vermont sent a Socialist to Washington and got back a Democrat.
Mew...I have to check out Alan Moore.
joe...Yesterday I participated in the monthly peace demonstration here. I know that it will not bring about change but it is way to “socialize”. Motorists and passers-by often stop to comment - sometimes they say nice things, sometimes they throw things at us. Yesterday one of those who stopped was a young man -obviously mentally handicapped. He told us that he was “retarded”. I felt compassion for him, especially after he told us that he always votes and that last time he voted for Bush because that’s what he was told to do “by the people who help him”.Mickey...I rarely go to the movies but went to see Michael Clayton. I thought that it was a good movie, BUT the real legal system is much worse. In real life, there would have been a different ending. There is a need for a movie that really shows the legal system as it is. I can’t think of a film that ever did that. There is a need to really expose the rules of evidence and the system of expert witnesses (liars for hire). MC sort of did that but I hope that another film will follow with even more passion for justice.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/04 at 01:32 PMRMJ...18...some told the mentally disabled man to vote for bush...?
Let’s have a standing ovation for the people who work in america’s human services who know what is best for all things. Did they also give his name to the local marine recruitment office?
The latest updates on the missing nuclear bombs and the missing people around this subject is very strange. Is cheney going to nuke the u.s. or some other country and blame it on the Eskimos?
The other interesting tidbit, that might be old news since I did not follow the Tillman story...perhaps Tillman was executed intentionally, the order had been given, it was not a firefight accident at all?
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/04 at 01:44 PMjoe...about Tillman. What you say has been being talked about for a while now. I wonder if the truth will ever come out. Friendly fire is a big issue that is not talked about. In this case, it might have been more than just accidental friendly fire.
About missing nukes...I think that so many are missing no one knows how many. I know a couple of them are in the water off the Jersey coast - been there for a long time.
About the young man yesterday...I kind of got the feeling that he had been manipulated by maybe a family member - but it could have been a “professional” working with him. I wish that my conversation with him was longer but there was a lot happening when he came by. The way I look at it, most voters are manipulated. I always say, DON’T VOTE - UNLESS YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CANDIDATE STANDS ON ALL OF THE ISSUES. The young man told me that he votes because it is “patriotic”. His brainwashing has been complete.Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/04 at 02:06 PMRMJ...he votes because he’s patriotic?? Harry anybody votes becuase they like sardines in mustard sauce, Gorge public votes because he stalks his neighbor and mirrors their every action, Harriet the school teacher votes because she’s on autopilot and the polls are a good place to sample coffee and find out whose throwing their condoms on the driveway...I say denounce the entire system and give no mental energy, attention to it, do not enable it...after 250 years and what we have experience in the last 8 years...I do not expect this system to suddenly become human...or even ‘inch’ toward a more sane condition.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/04 at 02:18 PMThis sure seems like insanity to me...but then most things do as well…
Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/04 at 03:39 PMjoe...I have heard the, “Don’t vote it only encourages them” arguement a lot of times. It has some validity. BUT, not voting also encourages them and gives them absolute power. The bottom line is that we are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t.
The deaths of those who might have a connection to the missing nukes is interesting. For some time I have wondered why the Press has not followed up on that. I don’t beleive that it is because the Press has been silenced on the issue. Members of the Press are like most other people, motivated by self-interest. This story could be a big scoop and make some one’s career. I have gotten a lot of e-mails from conspiracy theorists about all this. I don’t know what to think. Just one more issue that I am agnostic about.Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/04 at 04:48 PMRMJ..23..yes, to believe this article, to understand, the broken chain of permission, inspection, safety matters, this is big and had to come from the top, the top of what I don’t know...the top authorities...and what was/is the plan? These people are lunatics of the severest level!
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/04 at 05:14 PMjoe 24… I agree but I am not sure that they are smart enough to engineer a conspiracy like this. I sort of think that there would be a lot more dead bodies - I don’t know. On the other hand maybe it could be pulled off with just a few people knowing about it. I wonder what the reaction of the general population would be if it was proven that the government planned to nuke us. I am not convinced that even that would wake the people. I think that general consensus of opinion would be, I hope that the big one falls on another city, not where I am. We are a nation that stands by in silence while 18,000 die every year from lack of health care. I can hear it now. The blame the victim brigade would take over and say that those in the bombed city had it coming because they chose to live there.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/04 at 05:26 PMRMJ..25..you said..."I am not convinced that even that would wake the people.”
First, with or without intent, that’s one of the funniest lines I’ve heard in a long time.
B, conspiracy simply means a plan only a few are part of. Now, I wouldn’t put anything past Cheney and Critters Inc.
3, As destructive as our weapons systems are, our military are a bunch of morons...oh sure they can pull a trigger, but they could pull a screw-up without plan...by just being.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/04 at 07:11 PMJoe..26...correction...it’s not Our military...I should be publicly flogged for that mistake!
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/04 at 07:19 PM“I wear a cross around my neck because I love right angles.”
- Lana TurnerPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/04 at 09:14 PMThanks Mickey and RMJ--
The other day I blurted out at Cindy (because her most endearing quality is her authenticity)-- “Please! When you win-- don’t go Hollywood!”
Cindy reacted just as one of my sisters might-- “Nooo!! Never!!!”
I don’t think anyone should ever fear that ever happening. Look at her-- she has travelled all around the world, and she has met some of the most incredible and famous people-- but her mission on behalf of the memory of her son Casey has never wavered. She doesn’t want what happened to him to happen to anyone else’s children. While she is realistic and smart enough to work with anyone who can help her realize that dream, she can recognize phoniness when she sees it-- and is ready to work for her beliefs in new directions.
I hope that I can be like that-- but life does throw some heavy-duty punches. Look what happened to Cindy. Not only did she lose her son (the very worst thing), but many Democrats turned on her when she called their bluffs. She lost her marriage, she has no fortune, her physical health was threatened.
Through it all, she retains a very touching sense of humor-- and has a very deep compassion for everyone-- even her “enemies” if you can believe that. She is no Mother Teresa, and there is absolutely nothing cultish about those that support her-- it is a joint deal: we just happen to want the same things.
I posted this little photo essay from Saturday just to give an idea of what we did. The photos don’t really show all of us.
I said that the building where she is setting up her headquarters used to be a massage parlor, but it was maybe a strip club or something like that. I googled the name of the old club and found out that it had the reputation of being a “clip joint” and disgruntled johns where hoping that the establishment would disappear from the face of the earth.
Imagine the posh digs of Emily’s List whose office used to be just a few blocks away-- if only Cindy could attract the support that place did-- some real changes might take place. All women in America should support her.
This headquarters is so modest and bootstrap one could despair-- but it was exciting to see its transformation already taking place-- and the happiness and hope that it was already generating. It certainly has good vibes, or feng shui. Nothing deters Cindy, she does not show disappointment easily. Her sister is helping her with her campaign and she is a powerful complement and encouragement to her.
I wish I could have gone yesterday, but I understand that Cindy joined other activists at Dianne Feinstein’s home to protest her support of Bush’s new Attorney General nominee.
http://tinyurl.com/2g22zyPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 11/05 at 11:11 AM
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