Mickey Z
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Truer words were never spoken
Buried an idiot...I know of 2 funeral directors in Maine, who own a chain of funeral parlors. I once worked at a hospital, I told my supervisor, should there be an emergency, while on the job, take me to the nearest coastal point and dump me in the ocean.
The lady sends me an angry email in response to my rant about a steady supply of cheap labor for wealthy business owners and other various inequities...she said I was prejudice...all the above would call me an idiot...by allowing their crap into my consciousness...I would agree with them. Is this like short people, tall people, fat people, skinny people...various levels of awareness...the lady disturbed me with her explanation of everything only being relative…
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 07:02 AMThey [the source’s institution] have “instructions” (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this--they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”
more at: http://www.juancole.com/
Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 08:26 AMlooks like there are a whole lot of geniuses that will never have a chance to become idiots.
Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 08:29 AMCatching up from last night...Richie, I am with you in my heart.
Hi Mickey, joe, and frances. I agree with the Buk quote. Think about how smart we would all be if only we had never gone to school. My father, who had to quit school in the second grade to go to work, had a saying. He said that the longer “they” go to school, the dumber they get. He had a real “thing” about professionals. He was a genius at diagnosing and fixing anything mechanical. When the big wheel engineers couldn’t solve a problem they came to my Dad, BUT they never paid him a fair amount for his expertise. People are not paid for what they know. Life is not fair - but then everyone here knows that.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/30 at 09:40 AMHello Expendables. Once again, the weather is cooler than usual for late August. Also, once again, I’m not getting any notification that comments are being left here.
To add to Buk’s quote in the main post, here’s this from some guy named Picasso: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/30 at 09:49 AMMickey...the temperature here is 79, but feels much hotter. Perhaps we have the luxury of depleted uranium dust in the air to enhance the salt air.
Growing up in america is like using a chainsaw in place of dental floss!
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 10:28 AMMorning all. This has probably been posted here before, but for those you haven’t seen it:
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Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/30 at 10:30 AMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzvFpWDTuJs
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/30 at 10:31 AM‘Moral Rot infecting America’ I simply like the title…
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 12:50 PM‘The Mysterious Stranger’, Mark Twain, online in its entirety. This tiny url thing, converter is great fun...but, life as a wretched bore is easily entertained. The only story I read by Twain...I missed out most likely.
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 01:08 PM“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead...” - Bukowski
Thanks for the link, Frances. I’ll repeat my previous claim that if open hostilities commence with Iran, invasion forces in Iraq are likely to be overrun and crushed. Right now the troops are beyond exhausted and at a standstill. Willfully adding another 100,000 trained hostiles (a low figure) to the mix would be tactical chaos and strategic suicide, and dramatically increase the possibility that these pathological clowns in DC would opt for nuclear weapons.
RMJ, I agree with your dad, and would only add that ‘expert’ is on a par with ‘professional.’ Last night on Colbert, one Andrew Keen ("The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture") was skewered for his clueless elitism. What a hack! Colbert toyed with him, but the breaking point was Keen’s claim that “professional” journalists were needed to make sense of the world. His apres-show dirty diapers (from his blog, no less) are now polluting Amazon.
Not Buried An Idiot: I’ve left instructions that my ashes will be taken out of the US - smuggled out on a bus, dumped in a ditch somewhere over a border - anywhere but here, and certainly not contributing to the mortuary monopoly.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 08/30 at 01:13 PMZen… Are you saying that the usa cannot “win” a military victory in Iran or anywhere else on the planet? Or are you saying that the usa would just resort to using nukes? I agree that the usa would stop at nothing to achieve its goals.
About that segment on Colbert last night - I saw it too. It was good. PROTECT US ALL FROM THE PROFESSIONALS AND EXPERTS !!!Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/30 at 02:10 PMPart of an e-mail I just received.
Fort Benning Censors Wikipedia Entry on the SOA/WHINSEC
“ A new scanning program has revealed that Wikipedia entries on the School of the Americas, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC) have been edited from an IP address from Fort Benning to omit all references to human rights abuses connected to the school....”
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/30 at 02:16 PMHello again, all. Over the years, the “left” has made more than its share of dire predictions that seemingly have not come true (or at least not in a dramatic, obvious way). But, like global warming, the impact of American interventionism is often gradual, cumulative, and inisidious.
Having said all that, as we wait for the U.S. to decide when (not if) it will bomb Iran, I still feel such an act has serious potential to bring about a more immediate, high profile effect...perhaps what Zen outlines above or maybe the introduction of steady retaliation (or the threat thereof) on U.S. soil.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/30 at 02:28 PMon u.s. soil...how ripe we have been
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 02:46 PMI agree...the bombing of Iran will most likely have major, immediate negative effects on the US and the world (nothing new there). The difference here is that I think the US will actually have to pay an immediate price...something (or several things) that even the most idiotic American would have to recognize. It would be impossible to predict the extent or the details, but some things come to mind...oil doubling/tripling in price leading us into a depression...some sort of major defeat militarily...serious worldwide backlash.
The worst thing will be the bombing of the nuclear sites in Iran...I am no scientist, but whatever is unleashed into our worldwide breathing space from that will be horrible.
I saw one of the talking head ex-generals on CNN go into what the detailed, realistic and horrifying results of an American attack on Iran would be...I wish I could find a transcript or youtube version of it.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/30 at 03:07 PMRMJ, my point is that the breezy notion of attacking Iran would backfire in an exponentially worse way. Over there, over here as Joe opines, wherever.
Though MZ is right that this is about the 5th trial balloon on Iran, I think the barriers to carrying out an attack, in the eyes of Cheney & Co., are only logistical. The ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are completely worn out, but that’s unwelcome news in high places and maneuvering to avoid its firm arrival feeds this super-idiotic threat to take on Iran. (If he was smart, Cheney would convince the Iranians to buy into the disintegrating mortgage market. Teheran would fall faster than the dollar.)
Thanks for posting that bit about Wikipedia Tracker, RMJ. I’ve meant to post this link for several days now: http://tinyurl.com/36k9a6
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 08/30 at 03:35 PMNimmo on Iran:
http://adereview.com/blog/?p=16#more-16
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/30 at 03:56 PMHUmmm...I think all of you guys are way too optimistic. Do you really believe that the world operates in a fair and just way? Has the usa EVER paid an equitable price for its misdeeds? Others pay a price - but the usa, never. It hasn’t happened yet. 9/11 does not compare with all that the usa has done. The chickens might never come home to roost. All we get are tiny peeps coming home. If there was ever EQUITABLE Blowback, everything would change but I don’t think that there is one chance in a million of that happening. The usa killed 500,000+ children and the world yawned. He who has the most nukes wins the game, and this game ended a long time ago.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/30 at 04:02 PMWhat pisses me off is...those freak mongers don’t care who bombs who and where the bombs drop, they’ll look for some way to make profits.
Apparently among others, the Rothchilds, whoever they are make huge bucks from this depleted uranium genocide...never thinking they too can be affected...these money addicts are lower than whale shit and would sell a country for bombing if the right price...guard the runways, don’t let them out!
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 04:29 PMleave it to RMJ to set us straight. I am sure you’re right…
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/30 at 04:37 PMspeaking of depleted uranium here is some interesting( I am hesitant to use the word ‘good̵ r /> “Congress has ordered a comprehensive independent study, due in October, of the health effects of depleted uranium exposure on U.S. soldiers and their children. And a “DU bill” — ordering all members of the U.S. military exposed to it be identified and tested — is working its way through Congress.
“Basically, we want to get ahead of this curve, and not go through the years of painful denial we went through with Agent Orange that was the legacy of Vietnam,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., a co-sponsor of the bill.”What pisses me off is… no mention of civilian exposure in the ‘war zone’.
http://tinyurl.com/2a9l9rI dont know what to think about US threats to bomb Iran. I was nervously checking the news for months, but evenually grew tired of the mental exhaustion it created. The consequences of such willfull ignorant action are too horrific...like how will China and Russia India and Pakistan respond?
Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 05:16 PMfrances....thanks for that. The usa has been considering a bill like that for a long time now. About a year ago, I placed it on the VFP agenda. We discussed it and decided to NOT support it because it did not provide for any testing of the Iraqis.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/30 at 05:21 PMI forgot to say that everyone should look at the photos of babies born to mothers who have been exposed to DU.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/30 at 05:24 PMyesterday I was googling “we eat fear for breakfast” and found this interesting article about following the food chain back to Iraq.
This quote in particular caught my attention.“ George Kennan wrote in 1948 as the head of a State Department planning committee, ostensibly about Asian policy but really about how the United States was to deal with its newfound role as the dominant force on Earth. “We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth but only 6.3 percent of its population,” Kennan wrote. “In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.”“The day is not far off,” Kennan concluded, “when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.”
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 05:24 PMI wonder, now that the US has finally recognized agent orange has anyone in countries where is has been abused ever been ‘compensated’?
captcha says ‘talk’ as in all talk no action?Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 05:35 PMHad he been executed, would Kenneth Foster have been buried an idiot? Thankfully that’s irrelevant now as the Governor of Texas has commuted him to life imprisonment. May be this was THE most significant decision the Governor took in his entire career.
Cheers.
Posted by Ehtesham on from Canada 08/30 at 06:09 PMCongress wants a study on DU...all they have to do is a 2 minute search and they’ll find all the studies done on radion, nuclear b.s., depleted uranium. All the studies have been done. Congress studies will only confuse, contradict all the work that has been done in this area, congress doesn’t have the capacity to study toilet paper...here are just 3 links congress can start with...there are many more. Agent Orange was just 1 of at least 14 defoliant agents used to KILL. I don’t think the deciders have ever paid any country for the heinous acts committed. I could not get compensated for agent orange exposure, because the military did not want to recognize it can go air borne...we have god damn freaks trying to blow up the universe and they want reason to use more of this shit, test it, make more money slaughtering.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/ud_main.html
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 06:25 PM2 scientists who studied the effects of the current depleted uranium, in 86-88 were interviewed. They stated their findings to the pentagon, they said this stuff is too dangerous...the pentagon simply replied, it makes a good weapon.
Any studies that come from our political body, our military, will only support, enable the deciders and their insanity. Why doesn’t congress put on the florescent vests and go to Iraq for 2 years...they can get first hand knowledge instead of sitting behind a desk farting and belching, WASTING the time of the entire planet. While they belching the lifetime bagel break, people are suffering...for profits for the belchers and freaks. Here’s another DU link...if congress could stay sober for 5 minutes they might find enough courage to blow their own goddamn brains out!
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 06:50 PMThanks Joe. It really is totally pathetic isnt it? What gets me about all these scientific studies is they do testing on rats and when the results are positive ( read profitable) the findings become acceptable proof that whatever is being tested MAY be beneficial for humans. If the results are negative...like tests that reveal bpa or poly vinyl clhoride or DU, etc causes cancer or other bad things the results are always read as inconclusive because after all they are only testing on animals and it may not cause the same problems in humans. We need to take the science labs out of the hands of the industrialists and keep them independant. dream on......
Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 06:55 PMyes yes....the same congress that voted for torture can go over to falluja and “get first hand knowledge”...screw the kevlar let ‘em go native.
Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 07:00 PMThanks Frances...now that I’ve calmed down a bit, had some flax seed oil, lit a cigar...I think what we are witnessing with these dominant aggressors is the accumulation of 10,000 years of human stupidity from the idea of patriarchal, hierarchical social orders propped up by the church, the fear of god, the first method of terrorizing, controlling populations and commanding people to stop acknowledging earth laws.
Ultimately, I just do not understand how anyone can be as barbaric as these deciders. This author is pissed also…
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/30 at 07:29 PMHi Joe, heres a little formula i happened upon the other day.
good choices lead to
no confusion
which in turn
leads to
success and a feeling of
liberationbad choices lead to
confusion
which in turn
leads to
failure and a feeling of
oppressionIts simple really
Posted by frances on from bc 08/30 at 08:42 PMAnd to think, all this great discussion today prompted by a Bukowski quote! Now today’s http://www.toothpastefordinner.com cartoon seems like a good one to end the night:
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/31 at 12:09 AMAll this chat about the quote, but what about that image. That robot looks a little .... excited, no? Mickey- how does robot feel?
Posted by Sasha on from london 08/31 at 12:42 AMJames, an excellent cartoon. Now I want to play ‘empire.’ I call imperial court and the special power is “My kids don’t go to war.”
Q: Without DU munitions, how many people would have ‘pyrophoric,’ ‘hydroencephaly,’ or ‘mutagenicity’ in their vocabularies?
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 08/31 at 12:49 AMSasha, the robot is...uh, pumped?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/31 at 05:40 AMWhat is the robot pumped with? Or what is it pumped for?
Posted by Sasha on from london 08/31 at 04:06 PM
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