Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Yeah, it's time for pre-summer re-runs again
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Mickey, I just watched the Greg Palast video you posted in the comments yesterday, about how the 2008 election has already been stolen and McCain has already won. This has to be stopped, obviously, otherwise Democrats might not have the opportunity to crawl up their own asses in self-satisfaction when one of their own gets to fuck things up for a change.
Oh, this looks fun: Monbiot vs. Bolton.
Posted by keir from here and there on 05/28 at 10:21 AM -
I agree, Keir. One of the worst aspects of Bush stealing the 2004 election from Kerry was that Dubya deprived me of the pleasure of watching the Anybody-But-Bush crowd try to explain why their hero was not changing anything.
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 05/28 at 10:50 AM -
I’m planning on being a fly on the wall at the usual Dem partisan haunts should their candidate succeed the Crawford Caligula to the throne; that and periodically asking them how that “ending the war” and “ending torture” thing is working for them. I expect to be banned multiple times over at DKos.
Posted by Mahatma X (the artist formerly known as Dr. B) from Oklahoma U$A on 05/28 at 05:50 PM -
Yeah, I hope those liberal types are signing up for yoga and Pilates classes. They’re gonna need all their flexibility to do the contortions necessary to spin Obama as an agent of change.
Captcha sez: results
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 05/28 at 06:05 PM -
Looks like (not surprisingly) Bolton escaped with the help of some hired goons.
http://tinyurl.com/43xe3x
Posted by Mahatma X (the artist formerly known as Dr. B) from Oklahoma U$A on 05/28 at 06:08 PM -
I’ll likely be recycling an old article that a friend of mine wrote back in the 1980s - “So, where’s the change?” (appeared in Pressure #4 back in 1985 or so - was a nice little anarchist zine while it lasted). Those faux progressives are going to need to be double-jointed acrobats.
Posted by Mahatma X (the artist formerly known as Dr. B) from Oklahoma U$A on 05/28 at 06:12 PM -
Speaking of double-jointed liberals, it was Bono who sang: “I must be an acrobat to talk to this but act like that.”
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 05/28 at 06:21 PM -
Here’s another article of interest - “Spanish Judge Calls for Bush to be Tried for War Crimes”:
http://tinyurl.com/6738cx
Posted by Mahatma X (the artist formerly known as Dr. B) from Oklahoma U$A on 05/28 at 10:50 PM -
thanks for the links re the monbiot thing.
and well done nepal for declaring a republic and getting rid of a brutal autocrat.
Posted by michael from scotland (but in exile again) on 05/29 at 01:38 AM -
Hello All...my message to all politicians on this planet is...I don’t want you...you’re the greatest liability to all life...I don’t need you...now, to get on with building something new...the past is just that...this, my comment is already irrelevant.
Posted by joe of maine from on 05/29 at 10:52 AM -
How to make a citizen’s arrest of a war criminal.
Posted by Mahatma X (the artist formerly known as Dr. B) from Oklahoma U$A on 05/29 at 01:31 PM -
Mick—HOW CAN IT BE SUMMER ALREADY??—Q?—What happens to Mickey Z’s pen—during a quasi-hiatus?? 1) His Fisher Space Pen runs out of ink. 2) His T-ball Jotter gets the stomach cramps. 3) The fate of the Yankees takes precedent over musings from Astoria. 4) The lovely Michelle is ever-more captivating in her early-morning wear between Decoration Day and Labor Tag. 5) Even writers as prolific as Stephen King and Mickey Z ponder why their day-jobs never lasted long? 6) PLEASE ENTER YOUR OWN REASON .... SO, what’s a feller to do?—TRUMP just sealed a deal to unload his ATLANTIC CITY MARINA CASINO… Thought u might like to know. —http://tinyurl.com/5efds5—I HAD TO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NITE—by THE ELECTRIC PRUNES—for pal—JOE JOE—ps .. even Dick Clark worked the summers in Philly—xxx ... but look where he ended up !! ... SO REST AND REFRESH—MICK ....and charge again at the first lite of DAWN !!!!!
Posted by Richie from in the LINCOLN TUNNEL hitchin' rides on 05/29 at 02:06 PM -
these last few of the truly free are about to meet the destructive power of civilization:
http://tinyurl.com/6bqgds
Posted by JOS from Oak Park on 05/29 at 07:54 PM -
Thanks for that, JOS. This sums it up:
Contact is usually a disaster for these remote tribespeople, who live a life probably unchanged for more than 10,000 years. Even if the loggers do not shoot them (which they often do) or force them off their land, diseases against which these isolated humans have no resistance typically wipe out half an uncontacted tribe’s numbers in a year or two.
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 05/29 at 08:07 PM -
Great catch, JOS. It’s been a while, but I remember social psychologist James Jones making a roughly similar point as he decimated the contact hypothesis of prejudice reduction by pointing out that contact between the European colonialists and the peoples of the African peoples was nothing short of disastrous for the peoples of the African continent. Obviously the same holds true for the first nations peoples in the Americas, from Columbus to the present day.
Posted by Mahatma X (the artist formerly known as Dr. B) from Oklahoma U$A on 05/29 at 09:48 PM -
Not again!
Posted by Abba from on 06/08 at 01:26 PM -
Speaking of double-jointed liberals, it was Bono who sang: “I must be an acrobat to talk to this but act like that.”Downtown Toronto Condos
Posted by Toronto Lofts from Toronto on 06/14 at 06:25 PM
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