Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, August 06, 2007
Would you like some fries with your climate change?
Fantastic post, Mickey. This sort of thing should really be forwarded far and wide.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/06 at 09:07 AMProsecute Gore
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/06 at 09:09 AMGood morning, Mickey and all yet to arrive here.
Another inconvenient truth - today is the anniversary of the first atomic bomb drop on Japan. It’s inconvenient for the usa to remember the 140,000+ deaths caused by this country on that day. Even today, Hillary and the rest of the ruthless mob of killers will not “take nuclear weapons” off the table. And we wonder why they hate us. They will be justified in hating us until we have an opposition party in this country. No opposition party is on the table.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/06 at 09:14 AMJames and joe we were symultyping. That might be the first time that it was a threesome.
Prosecute ALL of them.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/06 at 09:16 AMA ‘threesome’...***""";;;***
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/06 at 09:24 AMHello Expendables. A threesome? Mind if I at least watch?
James: Today’s post was culled from the first installment of my new Veg News but please feel free to share it.
P.S. Hiroshima: 62 years ago today...
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/06 at 09:25 AMProsecute Simon LeBon, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, hell even Moby… though wasn’t Snoop already prosecuted?
Yeah, it’s getting hot here, hope lots of other visitors show up and remember the Inconvenience.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/06 at 09:35 AMOne tiny step forward.
“...The House of Representatives has approved a report accompanying the FY 2008 Defense
Appropriations bill that demands the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC) release to the public the names of all students and
instructors who attended the school during the fiscal years of 2005 and 2006. The
directive also requires that the same information be available to the public in all
future fiscal years....”Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/06 at 10:48 AMMickey...6...Isn’t watching a threesome a bit unusual? Should we take turns watching a threesome?
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/06 at 11:01 AMMickey #6...you have to participate. Standing on the sidelines - you get no extra credit - remember gym class. I’m an old PE teacher.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/06 at 11:45 AMIf I participate, it’s technically no longer a threesome.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/06 at 11:57 AMOh dear…
Great post and deserving of wider exposure. Once again, excellent work.
Posted by The CultureGhost on from Concord CA 08/06 at 12:01 PMMickey 11...never being very good at math...4 is close enough to 3...the Law of Octaves is 7 plus another Do
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/06 at 12:06 PMchiming in with the rest… execellent post.
several months ago i was talking with a man who was very upset about “global warming”. when i suggested vegetarianism as part of the solution he snapped out of his distress, looked me straight in the eye and said “ aint gonna happen!”
everyone wants a solution...as long as nothing changes.
Posted by frances on from bc 08/06 at 12:22 PMFrances..."everyone wants a solution...as long as nothing changes”...that is precisely the message I see coming from even most activists...envisioning beyond the ordinary…
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/06 at 12:33 PMI hope to make some changes in the right direction. Our ARM is about to come due in December (damn, it’s been so nice to be paying only 4.78% for the last five years), so we have to re-fi. The SigOt has a friend from The Club (what some of us call AA) who just started his own solar panel install business with a recent engineering grad, so we had them come over and give us a quote. Our roof is flat, we get massive amounts of sun all day...This is the third I’ve gotten a quote, but this time we’re taking the money out and doing it. It’s a start in the right direction.
My car needs a smog check next June and it’s already borderline and the state of CA offers me $600 each time registration rolls around to take it off the road. I may spend the money on a diesel Jetta or some other diesel VW and just “brew” my own biodiesel (took a workshop about a year ago).
It’s what I can do…Irony upon ironies, captcha word is “more.”
Posted by The CultureGhost on from Concord CA 08/06 at 01:36 PMCultureGhost...I just now wrote the monthly check for my ARM. I’m paying more than 4.78. One of my friends up here built his own house and is off the grid. He built a Saltbox style with most windows on the south. Being off the grid up here is not easy - not much sunshine. This friend is a smart guy - a ham and also he built his own computer 20+ years ago.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/06 at 03:19 PMHere’s a threesome story for you all. A married couple go home with a nice young lady, after meeting at a party. They all 3 spend the night together. They go home to the couple’s home, which happens to be owned by the Dad of the married woman, and the Dad lives there too. After a full night for the 3 lovers, the visiting woman gets up to get a coffee and to go home etc. Visiting woman meets the Dad of the married lover at breakfast in the kitchen. The 65 y.o. Dad thinks the young 30 something lover is hot. He is wealthy, buys her everything, woos her big time. They end up gettin married. Now, better that one. Stay safe, Bob.
Posted by Bob on from New York 08/06 at 11:27 PMHello Expendables. Another humid, muggy, awful August day here in Astoria...and not a threesome in sight (nice story, Bob).
Related to yesterday’s original post...
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/07 at 09:42 AMYes Mickey, I read that article in the paper. Sad, what has happened to the family dinner table - and to the family in general. I know most here won’t agree with me, but I think that part of the decline in the family was started by the women’s lib movement. I would have preferred a “women’s enhancement” movement. The libbers trivialized home, family, and motherhood and many fought to be men-like or men-lite. A movement which honored the special place of women and mothers in our society might have had better results. In the meantime, kids will gorge on “Happy meals” and grow up institutionalized in day care centers. The only real winners were the corporations who got 2 workers for the price of 1 as the numbers in the work force increased. Chalk another one up for Capitalism. Sad.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/07 at 12:57 PMGood muggy morning Mickey.
Looks like its not just the food that causes cancer, obesity, and diabetes. its the packaging as well.
bpa seems to be everywhere including dental fillings.Posted by frances on from bc 08/07 at 01:17 PMHi RJM....#20 I agree with you. somehow the womens liberation movement has gotten all turned around, with everyone being more oppressed as a result.
Posted by frances on from bc 08/07 at 01:23 PMRMJ 20, Frances 22...Where is the men’s liberation movement...liberation of the fertilizer spreaders, liberation of the macho athletes who always say ‘you’ instead of ‘I’ when they speak of themselves...completely, emotionally, intellectually, philosophically, metaphysically SHUTDOWN.
Liberation from all the false images conjured up in the moth-ball brains of males, all the should’s and shouldn’ts, men swallow right after seeing themselves turning hairy. Liberation from concepts of leadership and domination.
Men and Woman should have liberated themselves simultaneously, helped each other with the lies internalized and defended as truths...and this has perhaps happened in few situations.
Actually...there has been no liberation movement.
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/07 at 01:55 PMfrances and joe...I agree. We all are becoming more oppressed. The corporations have been liberated. ....Reminds me of a debate going on nearby in another small town. People moved there for the simple, quiet life. Now they have been invaded by guys riding ATVs, snow mobiles, making noise, disrupting the animal and plant life, etc. I am not affected, but I wonder how far away you would have to move to have a simple, peaceful, quiet life.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/07 at 02:41 PMDoes anyone remember when we didn’t need cell phones, iPods. computers, etc?
Captcha sez: nuclear. Remember when we didn’t “need” intercontinental ballistic missiles?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/07 at 03:42 PMI remember when we didn’t NEED to go to college or even high school in order to be paid enough to support a family. I remember when we didn’t NEED day care centers for the old and young. I remember when we didn’t NEED health care insurance because the doctor came to the house and my father paid him by repairing his car. I remember when we didn’t NEED to lock our doors.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/07 at 04:03 PMHi. Here is a riddle for you all. Look up the following phrase on Google: “displacedhuman”. It should lead you to an amazon review site. Read all the reviews, listmanias etc. Here’s the question: what left wing writer would write this review site? The clues I got were “over 55 years, not born here but in an English speaking country closer to London than New York but not exactly England”. Have an interesting read and try guessing. Apparently I guessed correctly after a few tries and was amazed at the answer. Go everyone!!!
Posted by Bob on from New York 08/07 at 04:22 PMMickey 25...Why...I remember when you could still find a decent size cigar butt on the road...smoke it and not think about diseases.
I can remember sitting on the front porch counting cars going by....10 cars was heavy traffic...I remember being aroused by my next neighbor’s great smile and butt, while I watched cars go by…
I remember challenging someone to a fight, when he accepted, I made up every excuse possible to back down but still attempt to assert my superiority as a dumb american adolescent…
I can remember my first struggle dealing with a liar...it was my best friend at the time...I felt insulted, betrayed...my neighbors butt was more interesting…
Posted by joe of maine on from 08/07 at 04:42 PMHey, I just found this post of things I remember.
Bob: It’s not Cockburn, is it?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/07 at 05:04 PMI remember the milkman delivering fresh milk each day. Quart sized glass jars topped with a paper cap. There was always at least an inch of delicious cream floating on top.
I remember hour long lunch breaks at school. enough time to walk several long blocks home for lunch watch the flintstones and walk back. Even though we were little kids the cars all stopped and waited for us to cross the road safely.
I remember when our street was lined with arching elm trees.
I remember when am radio rocked!
I havent thought aabout this stuff in ages. thanks for the prompting.Posted by frances on from bc 08/07 at 06:20 PMMickey, it’s a riddle. Let a few more people guess. I’ve always thought you have an excellent mind, Mickey. An academic would have taken longer to guess an answer. They don’t think, do they. They just remember facts. Always trust your own mind, your intuition, focus on your writing and always use a non internet connected computer for writing drafts, as someone recently said here. Never under estimate your own mind, Mickey Z. Trust yourself. That’s all I’ll say for now.
Posted by Bob on from New York 08/07 at 07:54 PM
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