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Remember March of Dines. The

Richard Day — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:50:33 +0000

In reply to DD -- It was a typo--- It was

Remember March of Dines. The idea was to collect dimes and cure polio or something.

I was forced to watch golf again Cville, because woods was back in form. Came in second. But they always get the co sponsor or the president of the club; usually fat rich and old. This time it was the CEO of Chevron.

Anyway they will go on an on about how these tournaments help sick children or send them golf balls or some such and will mention some figure, like a million two or something that went to charity over the last two decades.

It always kills me because the amount of money spent and collected over those two decades is a thousand times whatever sum went to charity.

I dont even know why I brought this up. hahahaha

DD -- It was a typo--- It was

CVille Dem — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:51:25 +0000

In reply to Yeah, No Child Left Behind.

DD -- It was a typo---

It was supposed to read:

NO CHILD LEFT A DIME

Larry I love the early 50's

NCD — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:54:50 +0000

In reply to I confess to a certain

Larry I love the early 50's Victory at Sea also, but everyone should realize the that although the BS/propaganda level is high today it has always been around, at least we are not having a world war, although the results of climate change could be as devastating though it will lack the sudden 'shock and awe' of wars.

If you get deeper than the Victory at Sea films that don't mention most of the blunders and errors, you find a lot of the same kind of fools were running things during the heyday of the 'greatest generation' and engaging in similar behaviors to those of today. One of the best books I've read on WW2 was Cecil Brown's (a leading national war correspondent on CBS radio) 1943 book, From Suez to Singapore. He was on the HMS Repulse when it was sunk off Malaya, and then he and survivors went to British Singapore. Brown was one of the last to depart Singapore before its fall and he relates that his press pass was pulled, and the British kicked him out of Singapore (his luck), for his factual reporting of the deteriorating conditions there. He says Singapore Commander Percival said no Jap would set foot on Singapore Island the day before they crossed to it in force. Brown said the restrictions placed on his reporting from Singapore by the British were worse than fascist Italy (under Mussolini) which he had left earlier that year, 1942.

Brown left Singapore for Australia on a PBY and below a direct quote from his book as he sat through a meeting of the Australian Parliament, just after reports were received that Jap bombers had struck Australia, and had leveled much of Darwin:

"I sat through part of that session at the House, listening in amazement to the inane, vapid utterings of the men who represented the people of Australia. They were concerned with pork barrel measures and incidentals of no importance even in peace time."

Sound like familiar behavior of politicians? He also mentions that ships sunk at Darwin by the Japs had not been unloaded of vital aircraft and parts from America due to a union work stoppage and strike at the docks.

Then there are the well known failure of US torpedoes which were almost totally ineffective for the critical early years of the war when the Japs were ascendant, and proven so in tests in the war zone, but overruled by Navy tests by bumbling idiots in the navy munitions hierarchy who said the torpedoes were OK.

Other mistakes, the self promoting MacArthur leaving US planes in the open the day after Pearl was bombed allowing the Japs to destroy them wholesale, MacArthur also rejected the advice of his commissary officer failing to appropriate canned goods from private sources in Manila before sending thousands of US troops to starve and finally surrender on the Bataan peninsula, while MacArthur went to Corregidor and then to Australia. The US decision to make Wake Island a sentinel for watching the Japs in 1941, but not supplying them with even one patrol aircraft or even electric gasoline pumps to fuel the aircraft they had-before the island was overrun by the Japs, and of course our locking up of Japs and some German Americans as security risks and countless other blunders. We did win because we were bigger, richer, and made less mistakes than the other side.

It seems the problems we face today are not as well defined as WW2, but you have to retain some optimism that when push comes to shove, our country and the world will meet the challenges, yet not without the errors, idiocy and mistakes that are always part of what we do.

I will miss that world even

cmaukonen — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:09:27 +0000

In reply to I confess to a certain

I will miss that world even if it never existed.

According to the Zen masters, it only exists (existed) in you mind.

Yes. I’m afraid my best

LarryH — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:50:47 +0000

In reply to If you and Larry were here,

Yes. I’m afraid my best drinking days are behind me too.

“When history falls apart on you.” Lately I’ve been attending to some very old gentlemen of my acquaintance who are coming to the end of their lives. I am beginning to think that we don’t so much “die” as we just stop. Like the lines from Shakespeare on the stages of life, “Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

Perhaps it is the same for nations.

The canary in the coal mine.

Richard Day — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:06:17 +0000

In reply to And as for our art, when was

The canary in the coal mine. damn!!!!

Was it orange or red or yellow?

Who do they pray for? I mean these monks? I have understood the hermitage. for chrissakes!!!!

And as for our art, when was

Elusive Trope — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:00:11 +0000

In reply to If you and Larry were here,

And as for our art, when was the last GREAT new film, novel or piece of music you heard/saw/read?

The canary in the coal mine. Maybe the Creative Corner and those like it will help stem the tide.

The monks in their solitude pray.

fUCKIN ZOMBIES!!! You know it

Richard Day — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:31:30 +0000

In reply to If you and Larry were here,

fUCKIN ZOMBIES!!! You know it was great when he did that in 67 or whatever. Romero?

But damn, every other damn movie on cable is about zombies. I think it all has to do with our own Jungian urge to kill and maim and totally destroy our brother. hahahaha I mean some of it is funny Q but jesus h christ. There must be limits. I mean we have speed limits. And we have wikileak limits. for chrissakes. hhaahaha

and save the liver for chrissakes: http://onceuponaparadigm.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/save-the-liver/

hahahahah. I don't know. Hell lets just forget the dems. I understand. Both houses and the exec and jesus h christ the repubs filibuster in the senate when we only have 59 or 58 or 57 or....

Who the fuck cares anymore?

All I am attempting to do is demonstrate that all repubs are nazis but only some of us dems. hahahahahahah

I think I am rambling, but we shall get drunk together sometime and look for truffles.

If you and Larry were here,

quinn esq — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:21:39 +0000

In reply to As usual between you and Q I

If you and Larry were here, I'd get drunk with you. Sadly, I come from a long line of drunks, so I started out with a liver that was shot. And thus, have to space out my binges - hold them off for big occasions. I think it's time though. We should meet in Salk Lake City or someplace, and party.

But really, as in REALLY, things have gone bad. In our world. The worst people are angry. And the best people, the good people, are despairing, or flat busted down, or depressed, or collapsed. All of them. We talk about it. What it's like when history falls apart on you. When absolutely nothing you used to care about seems to function. When the fire goes out.

The NYT had a piece this weekend I think, about zombies. And saying that they were so popular because people felt their lives were zombie lives, and those they were surrounded by were zombies. Now, I donno about you, but this doesn't seem entirely healthy to me.

I've never seen such a collapse. Such a collapse of mood, of hope. Things just really truly deeply are not fucking working. People got no juice. None.

Anyhoo. I feel it starting to come back, at least inside me. Which is good. But I can't talk this same talk I've talked for 20-30 years. Mostly because I just don't believe any of it anymore. At all. The economic stuff, I learned how to talk it, so I could get things done. But it's a diseased language. I find I can't even debate it anymore - what the Fed should be doing and such. It has hardly any traction anyway. We're grasping at visions of straws. Same with our politics. Actually, Dick's right, but people are just afraid to face it - how bad the Republicans have become. But these Democrats? Could any football team have fumbled away such advantages as they had? No way. And as for our art, when was the last GREAT new film, novel or piece of music you heard/saw/read? Fuckit. It's NOT just age. Something's wrong.

And this is the only way to fix it. Tate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUn9tzwj2E

I kind of just stumbled on

Elusive Trope — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:21:36 +0000

In reply to hahahaha. I was just thinking

I kind of just stumbled on Arno. But is he not the answer to question of what would the French love child of Joe Cocker and Tom Waits look like?