Thursday, January 27, 2011

It's FAQ time

Posted by Mickey Z on 01/27 at 06:01 AM

  2. Good morning Mickey. I see by some questions people want to be told what to do, how to live and so on. Thinking independently, holistically is still too much, too complex. Too confusing to figure it all out, too emotionally and physically draining, give in.

    Aren’t people tired of dictators and deciders.

    I see it coming and I think it’s already happening. People will throw in the towel, support the criminals and spit on the victims, as has always been the case, until the stake body truck comes to pick them up.
    Too late for thinking now, the predators gotcha. So the little boy stood their in tears, watching his friend being hauled away by the authorities. Flutterby, Butterfly.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  01/27  at  10:53 AM

  3. JOS...CONGRATULATIONS !!!You are blessed and I am envious. Can I be an honorary aunt?

    Mickey… I like what you say.  Two issues - money, that is a big and increasing problem for many. Trying to keep it from eroding self-worth is an on-going effort in a culture that values people only by their financial statement. (Sometimes I feel like Sammy Davis who reminded people that he had to face discrimination because he was a one-eyed, black, Jew.  I am not sure that it is any easier being a poor, old, 4’10’’, dissenting female.)

    About those who don’t get the reason why we are activists - it has recently cost me one valued friendship - a friend who went into a state of rage because I am not a cheer leader for the health/sick care insurance industry. Things like that hurt. That is why is is so important to support and encourage each other. This site is a wonderful refuge. Thanks, Mickey.

    Yesterday I had a conversation with an otherwise intelligent articulate man. He said that the reason why there is so much poverty in the US is because “we give so much to other countries in foreign aid...”. I explained that the US is near the bottom of the list in humanitarian aid. Most of what we ‘give’ is military aid in a national/government money laundering scheme to get money back to US corporations.......

    I also have no answers...just a whole lot of questions. Chipping away at the mythology is more than a full time job...But one bit of encouragement. I just learned that there is one high school near here that is using Zinn in one of the classes - amazing.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  01/27  at  11:01 AM

  4. Hi joe...we were symultyping.

    captcha says ‘race’. The race is over. We lost.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  01/27  at  11:04 AM

  5. Mick’s poetry, sort of…

    Expendables’ virtues catalogued in
    no particular order
    helpful exercise

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  01/27  at  11:20 AM

  6. USA War Crimes video

    http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2011/video/opensecrets/

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  01/27  at  12:04 PM

  7. Hi Joe and thanks, Aunt RMJ.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  01/27  at  04:54 PM

  8. Five questions of separation: When faced with the conundrum of action vs. balkanization, Socrates comes to mind, where each part of the population he spoke to could only see through their own lens (politicians, poets, artisans).

    I’ve always looked for the siftings at the bottom of the rhetorical gold pan, where a collective Aha! moment might appear...still looking and trying to stay sane. Or, as Lewis Black once said, “I will have another drink, because it’s the only thing that stops the dogs from barking inside my head, OK?”

    In Tunisia, Egypt, and apparently now Yemen, I think they have a better approach. Captcha sez ‘lead’ (vs. follow).

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  01/27  at  07:33 PM

  9. Good morning everyone--and one might ask, ‘what’s so damn good about it?’

    You may have heard about Maine’s new governor, Lepage, who won by 38 percent of the votes, and it was probably less than that, he wants to gut many/all environmental laws that keep Maine from becoming a larger cesspool.

    He apparently doesn’t understand many aspects of the environment or ecology, but also, he’s too damn stupid to think of anything new, so destroy the environment, conquer the forests, the rivers. He would probably like to declare war on Nova Scotia. He likes power, wants to serve his term and skip off to Florida to get fatter.

    I’m still baffled by people who can’t/won’t see the relationship between the continuous war in the u.s., [1600-2011] and the wars abroad. Someone who is tuned into the extermination attempts in Palestine will come to the defense of Maine government. There’s nothing to defend about Augusta anymore than there is in D.C. I don’t know if that’s denial or drinking water chemicals working here. So here we are, marching backkwards in quick sand while blindfolded and listening to FIX news through ear plugs while texting the person standing along side.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  01/28  at  04:26 AM

  10. Some good context on the situation in Egypt:

    http://www.elshaheeed.co.uk

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  01/29  at  06:36 AM

  11. FYI: I just put up a new post for the weekend. See you there…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  01/29  at  09:11 AM

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