Saturday, April 02, 2011

America: "Home" of the brave

Posted by Mickey Z on 04/02 at 06:13 AM

  2. Empty houses but loads of homeless...I have to agree with the Tea Partiers that you have a Socialist President!

    Posted by Rick (The Cartoonist) from England  on  04/02  at  06:33 AM

  3. A Muslim Socialist president, perhaps?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/02  at  06:43 AM

  4. We have local elections coming up here in GB.
    My choice I believe is Conservative or Liberal Democrat.
    We currently have a coalition Government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

    Spoilt for Choice?

    Posted by Rick (The Cartoonist) from England  on  04/02  at  01:26 PM

  5. Hello, Mickey and Rick - and thanks for the updating of some rather depressing information, Mickey! 

    I’ve been back in Daylesford for 2 days now and think a cold might be on its way.  Never mind ...
    Am still a bit jetlagged but that should pass within the next week or so. 

    It was good to hear your voice, Mickey even if we did not meet while I was in New York.  There is always a next time, however.

    Take care,
    Helga from down under

    Posted by Helga from Daylesford, Australia  on  04/02  at  01:35 PM

  6. We need to get beyond leaders and followers, people making decisions for the masses, which really are decisions convenient for the deciders. We need to stop validating corrupt political systems, stop giving life to them, it seems to big to do in a lifetime, but this is when we should stop enabling kings and peasants, plantation owners and slaves, politics and the pain and suffering caused by deciders decisions. Decisions reinforced by religions, enforced by the police, the militia’s, the national guards, the military...the triad of destruction and control, church-state-military.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  04/02  at  01:44 PM

  7. To me, voting for the “lesser evil” or the “slightly better” is (in our current situation) like deciding between being headbutted or kicked in the nuts.

    For people to make decisions on others’ behalf is ok, as long as they are controlled by the people. In Bolivia if the Gov does something the people don’t like...they get the decision changed.

    P.S. The Libyan Foreign Minister who defected to Britain...there’s talk of “Ooo, maybe he’ll face charges over the Lockerbie bombing!?!?”

    Err...zero chance of that happening, for one simple reason:

    Libya didn’t do the Lockerbie bombing.

    To admit we skewed the trial and chucked an innocent Libyan in prison for years...would make us look crappy.

    Shaping up as the new Western-controlled Libyan Government: Former Interior Minister (Internal Security), and the former Foreign Minister (and former Intelligence chief).

    Hope? Change?

    Posted by Rick (The Cartoonist) from England  on  04/02  at  02:14 PM

  8. Deciders enforce what they as individuals want. They project their ideas as being policy for everyone, the system presented as inevitable, with no other possibility. This process is repeated, year after year. Evolution stopped ‘dead’ in its tracks. We become dumber, more inwardly agitated, more violent, we degenerate, cycle repeats.

    Children grow from little babies who are 16 inches long. They become 6 feet tall adults. This goes unquestioned. What also CAN occur is continuous increasing awareness, that goes unseen, unaware of and cannot be measured with a ruler. This is seldom thought about, those mysteries of what if, what can be, other possibilities for the individual, for the entire society.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window @ 3:45am  on  04/03  at  02:52 AM

  9. Good morning Helga, Rick, Joe, Mickey, and all…

    Mickey...I love the photo of the homeless family. I have worked with the homeless for years. One family had 3 children, plus a new born baby. One child had chicken pox. The Dad could not get a job. They lived in a broken down van.  Eventually one of the children developed cancer and died. Recently there was a photo on the front page of the newspaper about a man living in his car...meanwhile the temperature was well below zero.  There was no public showing of compassion.

    Joe...#5 - You sound more and more like a Socialist every day. You make my heart smile. No leaders, no followers, no political parties… just humanity.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/03  at  09:26 AM

  10. I wonder how many of those homeless are veterans. Pity the army doesn’t advertise that part in their ads.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City, NJ  on  04/03  at  11:02 AM

  11. Charles #9...or that if a soldier does his duty and exposes war crimes, he will be imprisoned, tortured, and made to stand at parade rest in the nude… or that he might wind up with a leader who orders him to be part of a ‘kill team’.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/03  at  02:08 PM

  12. Hello everyone.

    According to “official” estimates, about 25% of homeless Americans are veterans.

    Support the troops?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/03  at  02:28 PM

  13. Support the families of the dead victims of the troops?

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/03  at  02:54 PM

  14. As long as they’re not in the teachers’ union.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/03  at  03:00 PM

  15. #12 RMJ, you’d need to be built like a leaf-cutter ant to support that many people!

    The Mass Media here keeps saying that Gaddafi is using “mercenaries”. 2 things. I work with a Bulgarian who used to work in Libya. He says that Gaddafi took orphans from Sub-Saharan Africa and built army units from them (VERY loyal for obvious reasons). The British Army uses Nepalese Gurkhas..never called mercenaries.

    Secondly...talking of mercenaries...where does the Rebels’ air force come from? The US, UK, France, (Qatar)...all regions of Libya I assume.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  04/03  at  04:16 PM

  16. Rick #14...Agreed.

    Aren’t all of the killers mercenaries?  Maybe not, Some kill for the thrill.  As the USA Officer sez: “It’s a hell of a hoot to shoot some people...”.  Then the government gave him a promotion. The ‘thrill of the kill’ is an important part of US military culture.

    Recently there was an on-air discussion. The topic was: do you think that US troops would fire on US citizens if ordered to do so?  What do you think?  I know the answer to that question.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/04  at  11:06 AM

  17. Maybe 90% yes?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  11:16 AM

  18. RMJ-15, Would u.s. troops fire on u.s. citizens? There is no doubt in my mind, the military, the police, the national guard, the militia’s would fire on u.s. citizens. And the nightly news would call the victims, extremists, terrorists and pretzel addicts. They would be called anything as a focal point for america’s rage.

    If not shoot, americans might be sprayed with some kind of poison gas from helicopters or special guns designed to lob some kind of crap. It would be entertaining for the masses to take a break from their cell phone conversations and watch people gasping for air that’s slightly less polluted. After all, the degenerates can’t be interrupted.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  04/04  at  12:01 PM

  19. One example: http://www.zcommunications.org/the-bonus-army-by-mickey-z

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  12:56 PM

  20. I just put up a new post but please feel free to carry this conversation over, as usual.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/04  at  02:31 PM

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