Mickey Z
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
(Some of) what I believe
i believe everyone should read this http://tinyurl.com/qrg4m and redouble their efforts trying to halt the madness
Posted by michael on from exile 10/12 at 07:27 AMI believe that we should each try our utmost to act as if the future of the planet depends on us.
Great post today Mickey.
(And, petition signed.)Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 10/12 at 07:54 AMGood morning, Mickey. I agree with everything you say. I signed the petition.
Michael...very good article. I think we agree that the Congress should be held responsible. Only the Congress has the right to declare war. Congress continues to fund the killing machine. I think that the Congress is a much bigger problem than Bush. The Bush administration only got the power to do what it is doing because the Congress is derelict in its duty.
Here is one on the lighter side....
http://tinyurl.com/ezsncPosted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/12 at 07:58 AMI believe Mickey Z is as well-read as his website is well-written!
“I believe that inasmuch as this world of ours seems to become more mad and dehumanized, an ever greater number of individuals will feel the need to associate and work with others who share their worries.”
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 10/12 at 08:00 AMHi, Amelosis...we were symultyping. Last night I had another power outage. This time it was a wide area that was without electricity for hours. No explanation what caused it. Maybe a rain drop on a wire. As I sat in the total darkness I was thinking about how all systems in the usa are collapsing. Health care, education, family farms, the food supply, etc. When I was a kid, in ALL of the years that I was growing up, there was only one power outage. That happened during a freak hurricane in Pennsylvania. The end of the Empire may be approaching faster than we think.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/12 at 08:07 AMRMJ - The closer it comes, the more fast and furious the effort to convince the masses otherwise. (After all, it’s ‘their job to look out for us’, right?)
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 10/12 at 09:52 AMAmelopsis...you’re right. They keep telling us how great things are. Just look at the DOW, while Wall Street booms, Main Street burns.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/12 at 10:04 AMI believe that the people doing everything they can to destroy life on this planet should expect me to be equally destructive towards them.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 10/12 at 10:09 AMI believe the book order I just placed is going to back up my stack of reading to an even more hopeless height.
“See No Evil” and “Sleeping with the Devil” by Robert Baer, Scott Ritter, “The Age of War” by Gabriel Kolko, “The Connection” by Stephen F. Hayes, “Out of the Ashes” by Andrew Cockburn, “Hubris” by Michael Isikoff, “The Grand Chessboard” by Zbigniew Brzezinski. And last but not least, “50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed to Know” by one Mickey Z.
Posted by Jeremy on from Taipei 10/12 at 10:22 AMHello Expendables. After a very rainy night, the sun is trying to sneak a peek here.
I believe I’d like to say thank to you folks for sharing some of your beliefs, signing the petition, your kind words...and to Jeremy for ordering my book. Much appreciated.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/12 at 12:15 PMIt is snowing in Chicago.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 10/12 at 12:18 PMHey man, cool post today, but come one-- do you always have to be so negative? Can’t you offer a solution once in a while, not just…
Sorry, couldn’t help it. You know I’m kidding. As for possible solutions to certain issues, check this out: http://www.sfwa.org/writing/strategies.html
Mudge, you out there? NaNo or not, I’d definitely adopting some of the above. More later.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 10/12 at 02:20 PMpatriarchy? snort. Men would rule this planet on their own for about two days and then off to mow the lawn and the supermarket for tampons.
Posted by owen on from barcelona 10/12 at 03:31 PMHey Mickey I stopped by this morning and I’ve been thinking about this all day. I think it’s strong stuff and ought to become a full-length work a la Eliot Weinberger’s What I Heard About Iraq.
I would like to repeat one of your beliefs in particular because it’s so spot on . . . “I believe all this talk about “preserving our way of life” gets to the heart of the matter. “Our” way of life is precisely the issue.” You wrote “the issue” and not “the problem” and I wonder how many people would realize what you mean.
As for my beliefs, I’ll have to be a bit abstract and quote someone else’s . . .
“I believe in the scattering of numbers, scattering them without regret”
---Wislawa Szymborska, The DiscoveryPosted by Keir on from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts) 10/12 at 05:06 PMMickey, thanks for letting me link to your article on my poor little blog. Thanks also for the invite to join in here.
I believe that Bushco is on the biggest power trip ever seen in America. I would like to believe that America will wake up to the facts that we are headed towards a total control police state.
Well, when they send us to the camps for not “falling in line” at least I will get to meet in person some very intelligent people.
I believe that we the people need to get our act togther and vote the bums out. No, I do NOT believe the donkey gang will be any better. Funny, America, my home since birth, we have a “choice” between the donkey and the elephant. Neither are house broken. They both stomp through the flowers and shit in my yard. Some choice.
I believe we need a REAL third party.
I believe we need to get our troops HOME, NOW. I also believe we need to stop trying to be the biggest damned bully on the planet.
Just my 2 cents for today.Posted by charlie ehlen on from 10/12 at 05:51 PMKeir, I believe I’m flattered by your suggestion and will seriously consider acting on it.
Charlie, welcome, I believe you will fit right in around here.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/12 at 06:03 PMGreat post, Mickey! Let me just say that I share your beliefs.
Hello, my fellow expendables - another very warm day in Daylesford: 86F.
Auf Wiederemailen,
HelgaPosted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 10/12 at 08:11 PMKucinich has a bigger pair of nuts on him than P. Wellstone did. I wouldn’t call either a capitulator. Kucinich is actually ahead of the curve in D.C
Posted by Dog on from 10/12 at 10:19 PMKucinich talked a good talk during the primaries but got right in line with the corporate war mongers at the convention. We won’t get fooled again…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/13 at 04:18 AMI gotta agree with MZ on that. I was a great admire of Dennis K. right after 9/11. Then, he was courageous. He wanted to save the world. But during the 2004 selection cycle he just wanted to save the Democratic party. Don’t beat a dead donkey, I say.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts) 10/13 at 07:43 AMBut you can’t unring the bell of Congress once you’re sworn in, either. You wanna ring da bell? Ding, Ding…
Posted by Dog on from 10/13 at 12:15 PMRe: Kucinich
His ideas were were outstanding.
He would have made a terrible president.
Posted by ddjango on from 10/13 at 03:39 PMI dunno either, dd. Depressing.
Posted by Dog on from 10/13 at 04:42 PMThe case for Dennis K:
His positions on all the issues are right on. Outside of Congress, he’s an ethical vegan humanitarian, and visionary peace activist. Did he “sell out” at the convention?
Well, let’s take a look. He has chosen the electoral forum —and god knows his voice needs to be heard there.
So he backed the nominee of his party. Had he not, he probably loses his Congressional seat and gets more marginalized than he already was. I don’t know about you, but I think he does more good in than out.
So Bush “won” and the killing continues. Had Kerry “won,” the killing would continue. But the difference was that with Kerry winning, Dennis has a voice and the ability to influence events—and we can argue about how significant that would be.
And if Dennis’ influence in a Kerry administration saved 10 lives, or 1000 lives, great! And if that’s a net improvement over Bush, great! A chance for an opening with Kerry is better than no chance whatsoever with Bush.
Ultimately, electoral politics won’t save the world anyway, absent people powered political movements. But I’d rather have Dennis in DC than not.
Hey Mickey Z, great blog! I start my morning daily by checking in!
Posted by WK on from 10/14 at 11:23 AMThanks, WK. Nice to “meet” you.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/14 at 04:49 PMI believe like Descartes’s cogito I think, therefore, I am. I believe this has been a philosophic doorway and barrier since it was first scribed. Descartes held the cogito to be all we can know for sure, all else being fallible.
But, I also believe I have shattered the philosophic barrier of the cogito by finding the incontravertable moral imperative of life to be to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives of those who will follow us into this world.
I’ve enjoyed mine, haven’t you?
I thought so.
Thanks for your time and the space.
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