Monday, June 27, 2011

Summer re-runs (yeah, here we go again)

Posted by Mickey Z on 06/27 at 05:10 AM

  2. Hi Mickey...Nice photo & good topic again today…

    I often think about how we got to the automobile culture.  When I was a kid, many people did not have cars and got along very well. Now, in many places a car is necessary for survival. For me, I need a car to get drinking water because the town will not allow us to hook on to the municipal system and my well water here is terrible - off the charts in hardness. The national highway system, auto corporations, zoning laws… on and on got us here. Now we have to figure out a way to get out of this catastrophe.  The electric car is not the answer. Like solar power on the roof too expensive for too many.

    On the brighter side - today is one of those perfect days up here - blue, blue sky, clear air, sunshine, warm… The birds are chirping. Chipmunks are running all over the place. Tiger lilies in bloom. Crown vetch looking great.  Spirea bursting out............

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/27  at  01:21 PM

  3. Hello Mickey and RMJ..., I like the Set UP and the question. Great Wit!

    RMJ...what ‘drives’ me crazy are people who have an allegiance to a particular make of car. In my opinion, all the cars in the universe combined aren’t worth their weight in pigeon dung. In fact, everything in america combined isn’t worth anything!

    I need a favor from anyone who has read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I have not read this book and I was wondering, in a nut shell, what is the one most important message that Stowe stressed. She wrote this book while living in Brunswick, Maine. The home still stands on Federal St., right up the road about 3 miles. I’m trying to determine if local racism had anything to do with her writing this book, while living in Brunswick. Thanks.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  06/27  at  01:43 PM

  4. Nice weather this week here, too, RMJ.

    Joe, this may or may not help, but here’s something I wrote a few years ago: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/green-lessons-uncle-toms.html

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/27  at  01:48 PM

  5. Thanks Mickey and that’s the kind of comparison I was looking for. Slavery was not a cosmological truth and the need for so much change today will require accepting certain uncomfortable truths, requiring effort.

    I was trying to determine if social conditions right here in Brunswick, Maine, where Stowe wrote her book, provided the final spark needed to express herself. The locals, nice, sanctimonious, apathetic white people as I see them today.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  06/27  at  03:26 PM

  6. Great summer re-run, Mickey - and hi, Rosemarie and Joe.

    Nice weather here as well, if a bit cooler than over there.

    Best,
    Helga

    Posted by Helga from Daylesford, Australia  on  06/27  at  07:02 PM

  7. Answer: probably.

    joe, wish I could help you with that question. Cliff Notes, maybe?

    The End Department, Ocean Critter Division: tropical species have been sighted and/or recovered off Washington state: brown booby, striped marlin, ocean sunfish, Bryde’s whale, long-beaked dolphin. http://tinyurl.com/3eo9wd2

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  06/28  at  04:05 PM

  8. Good evening Zen and everyone.

    Zen, I think ‘The End’ was their best composition. Great to listen to while heading north on the Garden State Parkway with Virginia as your destination.

    I think if the u.s. was a blackboard, I would recommend erasing it entirely. Start with a fresh mind. Let go of it all and the past.

    Now I don’t expect many people to agree with that, so I must attempt this myself and while living with the blackboard not erased.

    The impositions we have accepted, which so many people never question, are horrifying to think about. And the threat of what if we don’t comply to these demands. It’s hard to stay dry while in the septic tank.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  06/28  at  05:50 PM

  9. If we start a Radical Mafia, Joe’s nickname will be “The Eraser.”

    On that note, a new/old post is up and running.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/29  at  11:23 AM

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