The drought is a big topic in California. Just listened to a SF talk
show where it was the topic. Again this is being called "climate
disruption" now by the climate scientists. And we have been getting
delayed rain in years past. Someone even mentioned on the talk show
that the almanac says Feb and Mar will wet.
Problems with a drought compared to last big one in the late 1970s is
that back then people might have been able to afford to do plumbing and
things to help. Now many are squeaking by and won't be able to do things
like that this round.
So it goes.
On 01/21/2014 09:52 AM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, not to be too persnickity but I just saw on the weather
report this morning that there is already drought in California. And
no rain in the long range forecast!
I'm beginning to suspect that *the powers that be* are using Super
Bowls and Golden Globe Awards, etc. to distract the masses from the
reality that we're schtooked!
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:19 AM, Bhairitu
<noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Oh, but that would be taking "other people's money" which we all know
they "worked so hard for.":-D
Actually I suspect Scorsese probably would say he got his desired
effect with you. I haven't seen the film yet as I relegated it to the
BD rental phase.
You are not alone in your reaction to the Oxfram study (which I posted
here yesterday) as I heard several radio commentators say the same
thing. Just take their money and redistribute it. As I see it the the
rich, like dogs, have so soiled their capitalist beds that the penalty
should be global socialism for the next 400 years. Doesn't have to be
mean, authoritarian or totalitarian. Could be very transcendental and
pleasant.
But looking at the weather, the coming drought and famine there might
not be anyone around in 40 years let alone 400.
On 01/21/2014 05:58 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, Michael Jackson wrote:
>
> I'd ride with 'em, I ain't prejudiced agin rich folk.
*/Personally, I suspect that the planet would be better off if we
managed to get all 85 of these people on one bus, and then threatened
them with driving the bus off a cliff with them on it unless they
signed over all of their money to the poor people they fucked over to
get it. After they signed, then we'd take the signed papers, get off
the bus and push it over the edge anyway, and then redistribute the
funds.
But that may just be how I feel today, after having been forced to
sit through "The Wolf Of Wall Street." I now completely agree with
everything said in the open letter
<http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2013/12/26/an-open-letter-to-the-makers-of-the-wolf-of-wall-street-and-the-wolf-himself>
written by /**/Christina McDowell, daughter of one of the real-life
scumbags who worked with the real-life Jordan Belfort. I think that
Martin Scorcese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and all of the other producers
who glorified greed and immorality in this film should be sentenced
to spend the rest of their lives doing "community service" by making
movies about the "little people" these real-life scumbags ripped off,
and whose lives they ruined.
Those of you who mouth off about misogyny, you really haven't even
*seen* misogyny until you've seen this movie. There is not a woman in
the film who isn't portrayed as a bimbo, a hooker, and just one more
rube to be fucked and fucked over. I literally had to take a shower
after watching it.
The experience made me rethink Martin Scorcese's work as a whole.
Yes, he has made the occasional film that *doesn't* celebrate greed,
corruption, and misogyny (although the only ones I can think of right
now are "Hugo," "The Last Temptation of Christ," and "Kundun"), but
those subjects have been the focus of and the preoccupation of almost
*all* of his other films. Only 3 films as a director out of 55 *not*
about slimeballs. And his next film is going to be about Frank
Sinatra. What a fuckin' waste of creative talents.
/*
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 1/21/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] New meaning for Kesey's "Are you on the
bus or off the bus?"
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 8:19 AM
>
> According to a recent
> OXFAM report the 85 people who own *half of the planet's
> wealth* could all fit onto this bus:
>
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/oxfam-bus-wealth_n_4616103.html
>
