wouldn't the rains come in time if all the yogic frawg hoppers went to Cali and did their sleeping - er, I mean their program out there in the dry spots? -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 1/21/14, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New meaning for Kesey's "Are you on the bus
or off the bus?"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 7:07 PM
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,
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
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
> 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
>
