Thursday, August 20, 2009
Every life is precious...
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morning mick—been a hell-uva-week.. so far ... with today and tomorrow yet to unfold..
i’m feelin—unsettled—somethin .. is brewin out there—so here’s a lil BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD .. to sum up my state --
http://tinyurl.com/3f62oj MONTEREY --** 67’
richie
ps OBAMA SEZ AFGHANASTAN , WORTH THE BLOODLETTING ..
Posted by richie from st james city, FL on 08/20 at 05:45 AM -
one more --- who remembers richie furay—????? music people do?
http://tinyurl.com/lk5zpq FOUNDING OF POCO & BUFF/SPR
http://tinyurl.com/mdb2x3 autism—from the mind of:
MICK—remember yesterday ... and all that JESUS TALK .. ??
believe it or not ... BELIEVIN .. is one of the few OASIS IN MY WEARY SOUL ..
http://tinyurl.com/nm8ywt JC .. or is it ..?
richie
Posted by richie from st james city, FL on 08/20 at 06:03 AM -
Albert Camus sez…
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Posted by michael from not scotland on 08/20 at 07:53 AM -
Obama: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Nice to see that dedication to James up…
Posted by JOS from Chicago on 08/20 at 09:09 AM -
Hello all.
As any gardner will tell you, if you don’t get at their roots, weeds will continue to overrun your garden. I’m beginning to think all the phony debates over what Jared Diamond (in Guns, Germs, and Steel) calls ‘proximate factors’ are really willful. I mean to say that many people ignore the roots of problems on purpose. And then the problems are destined to grow and flourish. There may be a variety of reasons for this, but Derrick Jensen’s notion of the culture being insane is compelling.
Which is a nice segueway to this: I usually like what George Monbiot has to say. But in this debate I’m disappointed: Should We Save Industrial Civilization?
Posted by Keir from here and there on 08/20 at 11:15 AM -
Hey Expendables. Only time for a quick hello. Will check in later.
Posted by Mickey Z. from on the road on 08/20 at 02:04 PM -
Great quotes - as always, Mickey! And thanks for putting up a link to James Langergaard on the top right-hand side, along with a link to your late Mum.
Something is brewing here as well - a storm is headed our way, and the good burghers of Daylesford and surrounds have been informed that the next fire season might start as early as November (the last month of spring down under) and might also be worse than the one we lived through in February/March 2009.
I hope you, i.e. richie, michael, keir, JOS and Mickey, have a reasonably good weekend anyway!
Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia on 08/20 at 07:52 PM -
Oh, and keir #5, I was also disappointed in what Monbiot had to say in that debate about the industrial civilisation - happened to read it yesterday on The Guardian’s website, but shall not read it again. Btw: I once heard Monbiot speak at a ‘festival of ideas’ in Adelaide, South Australia, and was disappointed as well. Face-to-face, he strikes one as rather aloof. One last thing: IMHO, he does not pay enough attention to the problem of population growth. Just saying ..
Cheers,
your Australian expendable HelgaPosted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia on 08/20 at 07:57 PM -
In my comment #8, that should have been ‘but shall now read it again ..’ instead of ‘not read it again.’
And sad to say but Australia is now almost as unequal as the US - and the absolute poverty rate seems to be even worse:
http://www.cepr.net/documents/social_exclusion_2006_08.pdf
(pages 5 and 6)
So next time someone tries to tell you what an egalitarian country Australia is, you have statistics at hand. Rather saddening.Oh, and hey, Mickey! Thanks for your great site - and for introducting to all those expendables.
Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia on 08/20 at 08:04 PM -
It must be one of those days: the last sentence in #9 should have read: ‘Thanks for your great site - and for introducing me to all those expendables.’ I’d like to add another sentence: ‘I hope to meet at least one or the other expendable either down under or over there.’
Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia on 08/20 at 08:15 PM -
Read the Monbiot piece.
The best part was this quote from Paul, not George,
“As for ’saving the planet’ - what
we are really trying to save, as we scrabble around planting turbines on
mountains and shouting at ministers, is not the planet but our attachment to the
Western material culture which we cannot imagine living without.The challenge now is not how to shore up a crumbling empire with wave machines
and global summits but to start thinking about how we are going to live through
its fall, and what we can learn from its collapse.”And the ironic thing is that if we are to have any chance of saving our culture and species at all - the above idea is is the bare minimum attitude needed to do it.
We have to plan for the after.
I was thinking about the ideology of ‘hard’ science fiction the the day too. People just think there’ll be some kind of unlimited power source like ‘crystals’ or whatever that will enable us to magically carry on as we are to infinity.
They don’t seem to realise the real life perspective. One ... this model can’t possibly last until that kind of a discovery. No way.
Two, even if it somehow did happen, we’d then have the power to keep doing what exactly? ... destroying our environment.
Posted by Andy from Shanghai on 08/21 at 08:55 AM -
Hi Helga, Mickey, Keir, JOS, richie, Michael, and all…
Mickey...thanks for the photos on the front page.
If anyone still has any doubts about the insanity of the U$A, please watch the Barney Frank Health care meeting. It was aired, and re-aired many times yesterday on C-span. Actually, the Congressman impressed me. The ‘citizens’ were as rude and as misinformed as possible - predatory stupidity. I know that many here don’t watch TV, but this is a classic. It should be studied by historians, neuropsychologists, doctors, and also comedians.
Yesterday I happened to be talking with a former resident of Queens. I told him about James. He, too, referred to Queens Blvd. as the Highway of Death.
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 08/21 at 08:59 AM -
Hi Andy! I think that the first thing we have to do is to eliminate Capitalism. That would be a start to saving the planet.
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 08/21 at 09:05 AM -
Guess who said this…
“... This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is a—this is fundamental to the defense of our people.”
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 08/21 at 10:11 AM -
did BO say that? Or Hillary? Could have been either one or a thousand other elected officials.
Posted by JOS from Chicago on 08/21 at 11:15 AM -
Hi JOS...You win the prize. It was BO.
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 08/21 at 11:53 AM -
Hello Expendables. I agree with JOS...too many choices to guess.
RMJ: Every time i put up this post, I think of you. I’ll also think of James who would ask something like: What does Ward mean? How can make this stop? I need more specifics.
Posted by Mickey Z. from on the road on 08/21 at 11:55 AM -
As usual, such interesting posts, Mickey, and such interesting comments.
RMJ #13--A couple of years ago, a guy (a really stupid one) said that capitalism was evil. I said that capitalism itself wasn’t the problem, it was that people didn’t stand up for any standards within it. After lots of learning, I know you are right. Capitalism can never breed anything but evil, though the current system could be made tons better if people did demand a certain level of behavior within it.
I just read about James’s death. I also didn’t know him, but the fact that he was vegan (ethical vegan, I assume) and a cyclist (NOT the Lance-Armstrong-wanna-be kind) means that he was one of the few people whose life on this earth was lived for good purposes. That makes his death a true loss.
Posted by AngryDepressed from south U.S. on 08/22 at 09:50 AM -
By the way, has anybody heard of Tim Turner’s “Freedom Seminars”? Apparently his legal process is called a Redemption Method. I’m listening to the beginnings of his seminar now, & it seems to be like a magic wand against many of the govt’s attacks on innocent people. Only it’s not a magic wand--it uses commonly practiced laws regarding liens & contracts, but appears to be extremely powerful. Here are some of the uses I’ve heard about when a person becomes a “secured party creditor” (the end result of this process).
1) A man received a letter from his children’s school informing him that his children would be vaccinated at the school. The man went to the school & said he did not want his children vaccinated. The principal said the letter was not a permission slip, merely a notification. He did not need the man’s permission to give the vaccinations. This man took his “Freedom Documents” (the legal papers he had filed through this process) to the school district’s attorney. Shortly thereafter, the man got a call from the principal saying that his children would not be vaccinated without the father’s permission.
2) A man in Texas is currently being persecuted by some extremely corrupt law enforcement officials. At one point his bank account was frozen, leaving him with no money. He sent his “Freedom Documents” to the bank, and within 3 days, the bank apologized & unfroze his account. Now when is the last time you heard of a bank apologizing?
3) The man who teaches this process, Tim Turner, said he was involved in a long fight against some very corrupt govt officials & courts. He ended up putting liens against a bunch of lawyers, judges, & companies and everything they all owned. At one court hearing, when Tim refused to remove all the liens (which were put in place completely legally), the judge threatened to sanction (fine) him (illegally, of course). One of the attorneys present whined, “It doesn’t matter if you sanction him. You can’t collect anything from him!” And he was 100% correct.
4) Stop foreclosures, IRS seizures, & you may even be able to stop paying taxes--I haven’t gotten far
enough to know that for sure, yet.Some of the buzzwords or keywords surrounding this process--redemption process, commercial law, admiralty or maritime law, strawman, liens, bonds, secured party creditor, UCC-1. Tim Turner says that no one who has used his process has ever gone to jail, and he has used it himself extensively.
Warning: You will have to listen to some Jesus stuff. If you think like Mickey & I do about that, then just tolerate it and keep listening. The process seems firmly rooted in law & reality.
Tim gives seminars for $300/person and sells a system with CD’s & workbook for $400. I couldn’t afford that no matter how badly I wanted to, and I ended up finding it free here:
SEMINAR AUDIO FILES: http://tinyurl.com/nfcjb3 [don’t download these from the home page--some of the links are a little off]
WORKBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/klqwsk [click on “Tims book.zip"] If the first book doesn’t open with PDF viewer, try this link: http://tinyurl.com/mnxj4f
FREEDOM DOCUMENTS: http://tinyurl.com/nrp422 [this is a zip file]
If you’re skeptical (which you should be), just listen to the first 3 or 4 “mp3” files of the seminar and you’ll have a good idea what it’s about. I promise you’ll be glad you did.
Regarding the Freedom Documents, go to http:\\www.moneyonaccount.com and follow the 2 links near the top of the page about updates to those documents. If you want to follow through with learning about this, keep the moneyonaccount.com website bookmarked (it has tons & tons of files on it) and I highly recommend going to the Yahoo group associated with it called RedemptionByMethod. The file section alone is enormous & there is a lot of activity. I haven’t been able to really read the messages yet.
If anybody has already heard about this, I’d love to hear your experience.
Posted by AngryDepressed from south U.S. on 08/22 at 09:56 AM -
Weird commercial break.
Don’t know if y’all saw this, but the Supreme Court granted Troy Davis the chance to finally present crucial evidence in court that may prove his innocence. They ruled that the District Court had to “receive testimony and make findings of fact as to whether evidence that could not have been obtained at the time of trial clearly establishes [Davis’] innocence.”
The vote was 6-2, the two dissenting judges being Thomas and Scalia, of course.
Posted by Charles from Jersey City on 08/22 at 11:52 AM -
The family that lives across the street has a dog - a mid-size, shaggy dog. For reasons that I can’t explain, the dog and I became bonded. He seemed to have a very special personality. He was a bit of a loner. His ‘owners’ had installed an electric fence to keep him safely in the yard, but he was smart enough to figure out a way to escape anyway. Every time that I saw him heading up toward the main highway, I would (in the most stern voice I could muster) tell him to “go home”. He would give me his special look, and then head back for home where he would spend the next few hours sitting in his driveway looking toward my house. I’m sure he was wishing that I would go away and take a vacation so he would be free to explore the world. Often he and I were the only ones in the neighborhood. I then would cross the street, kneel in the neighbor’s driveway and talk to my furry friend. I would usually give him my political rant of the day while he patiently looked at me with his big brown eyes. He really did understand everything I said. I could tell that he shared my politics and he really liked me. Early yesterday morning before I was outside he got out of his electric fence and was killed by a car.
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 08/22 at 04:15 PM -
As Mickey says, “Every life is precious”.
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 08/22 at 04:18 PM -
I’m so sorry, RMJ. You and your canine pal were lucky to have each other...and I’m so sorry this insane culture has taken him.
Posted by Mickey Z. from on the road on 08/22 at 05:14 PM -
Thank you for telling that story, so sad as it is, RMJ. Bless you for being that little guy’s friend--probably his only one.
Two precious lives gone in one week, both mowed down by cars (both likely speeding).
Posted by AngryDepressed from south U.S. on 08/22 at 06:27 PM -
hi everyone.
RMJ...with the dog story...I was going to tell a dog story earlier but decided not to. you might notice that i am posting from ‘scotland’ today and not ‘not scotland’ or ‘near scotland’ etc.
Yes, it is nice to be home. The dog was 12 yesterday and that is very old for a dog of her kind. you can all take it for granted that she will be getting spoiled rotten for the next few weeks.
Posted by michael from scotland on 08/22 at 06:37 PM -
Thanks, my friends…
A new post is now up. I’ll see you all there.
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