Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Remembering D-Day: 62 years ago today
hello all, 666 the devil made me do it on my way to work started a new job last week at the metropolitian opera. back to doing electrical work the paint brushes are resting now .have a nice day and remeber the devil it his day !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by mike conner on from rockland 06/06 at 05:06 AMIts also 10 Sivan 5766, 9 Jumada I-Ula 1427, 16 Jyaistha 1928, 12.19.13.6.10...and roughly 2010-14 years after Baby Jeezy may or may not have been born. Very auspicious date.
Posted by mew on from great street of portland stone 06/06 at 06:09 AMOh good lord. Calendrical nonsense like 6/6/06 and the turn of “The Millennium” (like there’s just the one calendrical system, how arrogant) gives me a headache.
Here’s a sad-but-true quote from one of my favorite funny men of the mid-century:
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”
--Franklin P. Adams, columnist (1881-1960)I’ve often wondered if you, MZ, are not the reincarnation of FPA; then I remember you were born before he died on March 23, 1960. Isn’t your birthday sometime in 1936? But still the parallels are eerie: He was a poet, a politically left satirist, a baseball fan, a daily columnist, author of several trivial-not-trivial books (to your one so far, 50AR)...egads, you ARE him!! “Really”!
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/06 at 07:06 AMHello Mike, Mew, and Mudge (3M). As I’m sure you can figure, dates and numbers like 666 mean little or nothing to me. I’m just having fun.
Mudge, please explain: “Isn’t your birthday sometime in 1936?”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 07:09 AM>Mudge, please explain: “Isn’t your birthday sometime in 1936?”<
I thought you were a well-preserved elder...am I wrong? >nudge<
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/06 at 07:25 AMStrange you should pick 1936. My mom was born that year.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 07:29 AM1936: The year of the CNT (Catelonia).
1976: The year of the CAT (Al Stewart)
6/6/6: ugh.... Just another day. Off to work now.
Posted by RT on from The Buyou City 06/06 at 08:16 AMI will be 33 this month...multiply that by 2 and add a six and you get 666...coincidence?
Jesus died when he was 33. Did you all know he was a 5 foot tall black man who was married to a prostitute?
Morning all...catch you back here later...unless all HELL breaks loose.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 08:41 AMWhat day this month, Big Country?
Hi RT.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 08:41 AMA candidate we dare not fail to support in 2008:
>chortle<
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/06 at 08:47 AMActually, a Zod presidency did have its precedent a few years ago:
http://www.dccomics.com/features/lex/lexwins.htmlOh dear lord, there’s gotta be better ways for me to spend my time than with that sort of research. Plus I’m at a job right now, so later…
Posted by James on from work 06/06 at 09:37 AMI will be 33 on the 26th, Mick...no gifts, please...especially from you Mudge.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 10:01 AMIn Iraq, every day is hell:
http://tinyurl.com/rrjhk
http://tinyurl.com/ka5fc
http://tinyurl.com/jua4vPosted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 11:31 AMJust as the big Canadian terror bust was mostly bullshit...looks like the big bust in Britain was exactly that...a bust:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1791110,00.html
Now...let’s keep an eye on this kind of thing. November elections are around the corner. Look for a lot of BS arrests of arab-looking people and a big offensive in Iraq killing (if it is even possible) even more Iraqi innocents.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 11:48 AMhello everyone
9 severed heads found in Iraq: http://tinyurl.com/effjv
great flash video: http://tinyurl.com/gq25d
Posted by TM on from 06/06 at 12:47 PM“WASHINGTON—The U.S. military has cut the number of Iraqi civilians killed at U.S. checkpoints or shot by U.S. convoys to about one a week today from about seven a week in July, according to U.S. defense officials in Iraq.
The reduction in civilian casualties shows that months before the killing of 24 Iraqis in the western Iraqi town of Haditha came to light, the military was pushing to reduce the number of Iraqi civilians killed or wounded at the hands of U.S. forces. The drop since July, however, suggests that hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed at U.S. checkpoints or on Iraqi highways during the first two years of the war.”
I am sure that for the first couple of years of this massacre in Iraq more than one person a day was killed at US checkpoints and by US convoys...meaning the number by now is most likely well over one thousand.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 01:12 PMHey TM...thanks for the links. Death squads are as American as pesticide-laden apple pie.
JOS: June 26 is my older sister’s b’day, too.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 01:22 PMJOS: For some reason, I’m getting notifications of comments here...but out of order. I didn’t mean to ignore all the great links you’ve posted today.
Anyway, it’s such an obvious pattern, huh? But they’ve got the populace so frightened that they fall for it every time.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 02:17 PMMore military news:
http://tinyurl.com/z4dp2Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 02:25 PMBut Big Country (#12)! I had a five-kilo block of salted anchovies all ready, gift-wrapped, and in a styrofoam cooler Just For You!
Oh what the hell...I’ll send it to Mickey instead.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/06 at 03:25 PMFor Mudge: http://www.noanchoviesusa.com
For Mudge’s Cat Lady friend:
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/armor.shtmlCaptcha sez: straight
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 04:05 PMThanks for the reminder and for setting the record straight, Mickey - this from a former German. You ROCK!
And ‘hi’ to Mike Conner, Mew, Mudge, RT, JOS, James and TM from a quite cold but sunny Daylesford, Australia: we are expecting 54F today but at least the sun is going to make an appearance.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 06/06 at 04:30 PMAnd that Franklin P. Adams sure sounds interesting, Mudge! You are on a roll at the moment, methinks - and so good to see that ..
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 06/06 at 04:32 PMHello Helga.
On the same theme JOS touched on above:
http://tinyurl.com/gtqj4Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 04:57 PMMore CIA - Nazi links:
Yeah Mick...a lot of talk about a “definite” terrorist attack before the end of the year. And you now what is pretty much as useful as a terrorist attack to a government? The fear of a terrorist attack instigated by government propaganda.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 05:23 PMI’ve commented on the Daily Hate Mail story, woo its a long shot, do you think it’ll be published?
It’s hilarious (in an extremely morbid kind of way) the way people will continue to cling on to WW2 myths. To workmates I’ve pointed out many of the points your article makes Mickey, especially the fact of the Red Army essentially defeating the Wehrmacht virtually on their own; the facts about both UK and US support for the Reich and “New Roman Empire” and hostility to the USSR are usually merely dismissed. (Uncle Joe will testify I hardly need to bore my real friends with this, though I still do. Just stop buying me rum.) The only squeak that comes back is about disrepecting the allied soldiers. Yup, its that old saw.
Like everyone my age I had grandparents in the war, and was reared with faintly plausible stories of hiding in cupboards from the Nasties, or shells lodging themselves unexploded mere feet away from the family jewels that would eventually spawn me. The thing is I didn’t learn that the war was won in the East from some Marxist textbook, I learned it form my (8th Army gunner) grandad, who was perfectly well aware at the time of the reality of the situation - both the extreme mortal danger to himself and his mates and that they weren’t in some Homeric tragedy, that actually the “other bad-guys” were the ones that were winning the war.
I am genuinely horrified at the thought of losing that real memory, that connection to the world wars; and if I ever do bring any sprogs into the world I’ll make bloody sure I pass it on.
Posted by Mew on from sister's Mac 06/06 at 05:36 PMI’m just a linkin machine today…
The horror! Those Canadian “terrorists” planned to behead the Prime Minister!:
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 06/06 at 05:49 PMWell said, Mew...plus, I’ve never heard the word “sprog” before.
Here are the good guys in action:
http://tinyurl.com/q3vjfPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/06 at 05:56 PM
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