International Grouch

[jimmoyer]

I'm a grouch.

I'm tired of readers thinking all other readers are pawns of
the newspapers. Are they just sheep calling everyone else
sheep ?

I'm sick and tired that they actually believe the government
is so competent that it knows everything AND actually
communicates this omniscience to every other bureaucratic
department.

I'm sick and tired of the conspiracy theorists who believe,
paradoxcially, in the competence of government to actually
plan something with a guarranteed result AND keep a secret
doing it.

Amazing.

I'm a grouch.

I'm sick and tired of the all-knowing anti-americanism that
is allowing yet another nation to join the big boy's club of
nuclear gonads, out of some wisdom that it is okay and we all
deserve it, and so we're just going to let more vicious variables
and potential for disaster.

I'm a grouch.

But when I draw a light shadow of a tree at dusk, I'm happy.

 

[Curiosity]

JimMoyer

Thank you - That post of yours turned my "what am I doing here"?
feelings into a smile.

A good way to start the day.

You like a dreaming among trees and their changing shapes in the light the day moves on?

That's good - my preference is fat babies, wired up kids running amok, or nuzzling critters saying hi as they do best.

When they are around - all is right with the world. We certainly don't need confirmation by the press - they rarely see good in anything.

Keep it simple JimMoyer.... and enjoy your day with all it has to offer!

 

[Jay]

I'm a grouch.

I'm tired of readers thinking all other readers are pawns of
the newspapers. Are they just sheep calling everyone else
sheep ?

I'm sick and tired that they actually believe the government
is so competent that it knows everything AND actually
communicates this omniscience to every other bureaucratic
department.

I'm sick and tired of the conspiracy theorists who believe,
paradoxcially, in the competence of government to actually
plan something with a guarranteed result AND keep a secret
doing it.

Amazing.

I'm a grouch.

I'm sick and tired of the all-knowing anti-americanism that
is allowing yet another nation to join the big boy's club of
nuclear gonads, out of some wisdom that it is okay and we all
deserve it, and so we're just going to let more vicious variables
and potential for disaster.

I'm a grouch.

But when I draw a light shadow of a tree at dusk, I'm happy.

Movie critics never give comedy the place in
the heavens it truly deserves.

For Comedy is King, Drama is for Queens.

Your quote....


Sure they can sell us into slavery, without ever realizing they are doing it and standing there with that stupid look on their faces wonder why in the hell we are laughing at them and poking fun at them.

Ignorance is bliss...but don't think for a moment I'm going to stop teasing them about their tom-foolery and ignorance disguised as substance.....

"For Comedy is King, Drama is for Queens"

I liked that one.

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

I'm a grouch.

Well, Sir Grouch, you happen to be our very most favourite grouch. Your words ring true, as they usually do.

 

[jimmoyer]

You know what ?

I'm not grouchy anymore.

Thanks everybody.

Really.

Now, if I can just get that other voyeur, Caracal Kid
on the bandwagon, we've got a party.

Kids and Trees, eh Wednesday's Child ?
I always made up stories to my daughter how those
tall trees sat over us, listening, and when the
wind blew you could hear them talk and some of
them were angry, some were happy and so for a long
time I'd catch her looking up.

Hey Jay, that King and Queen quote, I'm sure has
been thunk before, but it was an epiphany
for me one night at the oasis debating over my Maker's Mark.

 

[the caracal kid]

i have arrived, jim.

however, i can only act as "voyeur" for I have no arms to sell Iran, and I have no pull with Bushco.

Isn't life grand for the ones holding the bigger stick?
Nobody ever wants to give up their advantage.
Nobody ever wants to be at a disadvantage.

 

[Said1]

Re: RE: International Grouch

Oops.

 

[Said1]

Re: RE: International Grouch

i have arrived, jim.

however, i can only act as "voyeur" for I have no arms to sell Iran, and I have no pull with Bushco.

Isn't life grand for the ones holding the bigger stick?
Nobody ever wants to give up their advantage.
Nobody ever wants to be at a disadvantage.

Everything is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

 

[jimmoyer]

And knowing that, and understanding that (even if
you don't agree with it) that nuclear NON-proliferation
is the more do-able than total disarmament, since as
you say,"Nobody ever wants to give up their advantage."

For those who seek to rise above disadvantage, stop
them while they seek it.

For example Saddam said his biggest mistake was
not having some nuclear warheads before he invaded
Kuwait.

And if the West was sufficiently frightened by him
Kuwait would now have a decade under Saddam's boot.
And really, what would really be wrong about
Kuwait, a fictitious state created by Britain, not be
a part of Saddam's Iraq ?

arrrrrrrgh.

I get too cranky again.

What was your old signature, Caracal ?

Breathe in breathe out ?

 

[Curiosity]

Dear Jimmoyer

You write
Kids and Trees, eh Wednesday's Child ?
I always made up stories to my daughter how those
tall trees sat over us, listening, and when the
wind blew you could hear them talk and some of
them were angry, some were happy and so for a long
time I'd catch her looking up.

There are so few things in our world today Jim that can calm us into a more peaceful time.... to reflect..... to settle into a feeling of accomplishment for our day .... and to feel satisfaction we have spent good and worthwhile here.....even in small ways.

Children have this gift naturally - until we adults begin to "caution the simplicity" from them... It is still there waiting for all of us to call it back into our conscious mind....when we choose to.

 

[Jay]

Why would we pursue a policy of total disarmament?

 

[jimmoyer]

Wednesday's Child ---- a beautiful sentiment by you.
One day, my daughter came home saying we have
to move the little town and railroad down in the
basement because she's going to have friends coming
over. I knew it was the beginning of the end for Mayor
Big Bird and all the little guys that would ride around
in that town, sometimes hitching a hobo ride on the
railroad.

And Jay, please lead the class with that simple
Socratic question leading the allegedly wiser
ones to reconsider their old cause of nuclear non-proliferation.

 

[the caracal kid]

"For those who seek to rise above disadvantage, stop
them while they seek it. "

this is precisely what all that have the advantage will say as part of their "code" on how they are superior in all ways and thus best suited to being the keeper.

Remember that as much as a nuke would have given Saddam perhaps more of a chance in his quests, those that now hold nukes now hold that same improvement in their chances. When the US marches over somebody who steps up to stop them? It is only through the bias of a westerner that the US looks to be any better than any other warlord out there.

the signature was "Breathe. Breathe Naturally."

 

[Jay]

The west has a right to nuclear weapons. The US invented them and it has secured the entire western world.

Iran wishes to destroy the west and in particularly Israel and it isn't a question...their leaders say so.

The quickest way for Iran to get nuked would be to build a nuclear bomb. That would be the number one reason to go to war wit them at the moment and the powers of reason are stalling (what appears to be) the inevitable.

 

[jimmoyer]

Caracal Kid, I may remind you that no established
democratic nation has ever gone to war against
another established democratic nation.

Look hard. You won't find one instance in history.

 

[the caracal kid]

yet America does not refer itself as a democracy, it refers to itself as a Republic.

 

[darkbeaver]

America has repeatedly waged war on democratic nations.
And if you would take off your rose coloured glasses you could see that Jimmoyer, you seem incapable of objective critical thinking. Hati, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, El Salvador, Chile, Grenada, Venezuela and on and on. Thier are none so blind as those who will not see.

 

[jimmoyer]

LOL !!

That was quite a list of established democracies,
despite some glaring exceptions that appears to
be the rule.

We might compete for mastery of history in those
countries, or, I might just go down to the local
oasis in the night for another epiphany with Makers Mark.

Darkbeaver, you would be hard put to prove your case
in each one of those countries during any stretch
of years back to 1900 or of course before 1900.

Or maybe you'll be for real.

Name which country that has an exiled Japanese
President ?

Name which country had death squads for a decade?

Name what country had the Shining Path ?

I did like the one Marxist Pres who presaged the first
privatized portion of social security in the world. LOL!
What a paradox. Kissinger was wrong on that guy.

Name which country had a military junta rule it
for just about forever ?

Costa Rica was the first and only true democratic
nation that resulted by default of the Panama Canal
as Columbia seeked to maintain its hell over that
isthmus.

Unless you know your history, this dance will just
get boring.

Get googling Darkbeaver, I know you'll be a busy beaver.

 

[darkbeaver]

What runs your country Jimmoyer the people or the money?
Peru, El Salvadore, Columbia,Chile, Philipines.
And you,d be hard pressed to prove that you live in a democracy.

 

[Curiosity]

DearJimMoyer

I am having this lovely "side conversation" with you and enjoying it so much - you multi-task beautifully engaging other writers in conversation with you as well....

Your daughter was bound to bend to peer pressure - and especially when in each group of children, there are those whose parents
commercialize them into little streaming advertisements for "what's cool this season"..... There is generally one to a neighborhood. Most often they win the race to adulthood long before they are equipped.

No matter - your daughter still has those lovely memories at the ready any time she needs to borrow them from her head. To have a simple, uncomplicated part of childhood, even watching a worm crawl up a shrub in the garden can have magic in the moment. Mayor Big Bird still has a large place in her heart - forever.

For all of us ...to be a child again without a care for the next event of the day is a great exercise in restoration of our tranquility and strength to meet the next challenge.

I have had a bitch of a day and I thank you for creating this tiny garden of escape for me to run to a few times today....to rest in and enjoy.