Mickey Z

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Summer Re-Run: Undoing the Latches

2. Good morning Mickey. The sheep who could undo the latches..., I often feel badly our 2 cats can’t go outside whenever they would like. We would be literally feeding them to the wolves, actually the fox, the coyotes and fishers. That certainly doesn’t support the ‘natural’ scheme of things for there is nothing natural about this living arrangement.

   Then there is the prisoner hunger strike at Pelican Bay State prison. I can’t imagine being locked behind iron bars and going on a hunger strike..., in their way of life land?

   Undoing the latches would be another excellent metaphor for liberating ourselves of everything we have had stuffed into our minds, our cells, our being as had all life on this planet.

   Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/22  at  05:39 AM

3. Joe, your last paragraph above is precisely why I had originally written this article.

   If only…

   Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  07/22  at  11:06 AM

4. You’d think just from an economic point of view that these farmers would invest in a better lock, rather than wasting bullets and the life of a sheep, which has a huge monetary value to the farmers. 

   But human stupidity knows no bounds, and is exceeded only by human cruelty toward animals.

   Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  07/22  at  02:53 PM

5. We shoot the people who flip the latch, too. Max Keiser asked “Why didn’t JFK and MLK get a foam pie [like Rupert Murdoch] instead of a bullet?”

   Will turning up the heat help with the AGW latch? The eastern half of the US is roasting.

   “Quick, Shep, one’s gettin’ away!” - Bill Hicks

   I’m housesitting in tiny Carnation, WA (Pop. 1,789). A few llamas and cows next door, a coyote trotted by on the street a few nights ago. Tonight, out for some air, I heard something enter the neighboring pasture - maybe a cougar or large bobcat jumping the barbed wire. The animals are indoors for the night.

   Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  07/23  at  02:57 AM

6. Hello Zen...Yes, the heat and humidity in Brunswick, Maine were absolutely brutal.

   I sent a question down the ‘peace’ email pike yesterday. I asked if all wars were to stop tomorrow, what then? No answer which is the same answer I got 10 years ago when I asked the same question.

   In my opinion, the local peace group supports war more than peace. Simply chanting peace while holding on to old behavior patterns, hatred, discrimination, shitty attitudes in general, isn’t going to change this bestial society.

   Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/23  at  04:08 AM

7. Hi Joe, Charles, Zen, Mickey, and all…

   Joe...I agree about peace groups. Here I have often received criticism because one of the signs I have says STOP USA WAR CRIMES. Seems that that is offensive to some of the so-called peace advocates. Denial is a national pastime. Since the election of O there is no peace movement.

   Interesting report on the radio yesterday saying that the US was blocking food aid to the starving people in Somalia. I have seen the film clips of the bodies of the babies dead and dying -unbelievable. The evil of Capitalism knows no bounds.

   Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  07/23  at  11:31 AM

8. What justification is the US using to block aid to Somalia?

   Posted by Charles from Jersey City, NJ  on  07/23  at  10:05 PM

9. Charles, the u.s. justification is to terrorize and inflict suffering and cruelty because that’s what barbarians do, that’s all they’re capable of as the degenerates they are.

   Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/24  at  03:22 AM

10. Hi Charles and Joe…
    The news report said that it was because some of the food might get into the hands of ‘terrorists’.  The U$A always has an excuse for doing the wrong thing.  As Madeleine Albright said in 1997 - We think the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it. Same foreign policy is still in effect. 

    Amazing that with all of the budget talks going on, no one is mentioning the poor - it’s all about the Stock Market AND none of these experts seem to make the connection between increased industrial development, which is what they are pushing for, and the destruction of the environment.  Amazing at a time when we are experiencing the most extreme weather condition in centuries.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  07/24  at  10:32 AM

11. The suffering the u.s. is bringing to this planet has got to be the most extreme, heinous act of human behavior this entire universe has ever experienced. The bestial invasion.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/24  at  01:22 PM

12. Thanks, all…

    New post just went live.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  07/24  at  03:41 PM

13. . When the current is switched off, the relay remains in its last state. This is achieved with a solenoid operating a ratchet and cam mechanism, or by having two opposing coils with an over-center spring or permanent magnet to hold the armature and contacts in position while the coil is relaxed, or with a remanent core. In the ratchet and cam example, the first pulse to the coil turns the relay on and the second pulse turns it off. In the two coil example, a pulse to one coil turns the relay on and a pulse to the opposite coil turns the relay off. This type of relay has the advantage that one coil consumes power only for an instant, while it is being switched, and the relay contacts retain this setting across a power outage. A remanent core latching relay requires a current pulse of opposite polarity to make it change state.
    Posted by fairytale from   on  07/24  at  09:41 PM