July 2010 archive
Jul 02 2010
Docudharma Times Friday July 2
Jul 02 2010
Muse in the Morning
 Muse in the Morning |
and in its movement from phase to phase
it is governed only by the impersonal, implacable law
of arising, change, and passing away.
–Bhikkhu Bodhi, Introduction to The Dhammapada
Phenomena VII: changing
 Seeking to Connect
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Jul 02 2010
This film is no longer available.
Jul 02 2010
RIP, Ridley, 20100702
No one here knows who Ridley was, and actually, his name was not Ridley. His name was Leslie Hill Johnson,and I have full permission of the family to write about him here. I shall blockquote the funeral announcement in the text.
The name Ridley came about from him, his son, and all of us reading Kipling whilst drinking coffee when his son and I were around 12 years old. He was a WWII and Korean War veteran, and he had tales to tell! Some were better than others. Ridley just came as a joke.
Jul 02 2010
On Music Appreciation, Part Two, Or, Records Only Have One Groove
It was just yesterday that we decided to take a day off from politics and talk about music, both familiar and not so much; the conversation ran a bit long, and when we got halfway through we decided to get together tomorrow.
It was pretty fun, what with sewers and male models and Gorillaz and all, and when we had put down the pen it was just after taking in Sarah Vaughan’s reworked dance version of the Peggy Lee classic, “Fever”.
They say tomorrow never comes…but now it has…and we have eight more songs to talk about before we can finish our multigenerational “Summer Music Appreciation Playlist”.
Today we’ll incorporate jazz and dance, the invention of modern musical recording, arguably the greatest saxophone player ever, and a shout out to “our man in Paris”.
If all that wasn’t enough, we also discover what happens when you graft a certain Pepper onto Jamaica’s musical tree.
You don’t want to stop now, so jump on board and let’s get this train rollin’.
Jul 02 2010
Fashion, photography, sexuality and social anxiety?
I probably shouldn’t pull punches here. I find some of the rhetoric and claims in this video a bit suspect.
Perhaps the oddest part for me is that the videomaker is using imagery that she considers disgusting at least, while arguing (it seems to me) that the ads for children’s clothing used by American Apparel are somehow pornographic.
Now there’s a part of me that sympathizes with this view. And then there’s the part of me that thinks… didn’t you just manage to make an unpaid ad for this company by using the same images as part of your critique? Aren’t you also exploiting these children by showing the images, and not only that, but unlike the company that paid the models and their parents, you’re exploiting them without any compensation. (Then again, by embedding this and drawing attention to it, perhaps I’m doing the same thing?)
It strikes me as a very slippery slope, to say the least. Before I sound like a pontiff from a religion that doesn’t institutionalize child sexual abuse, let me just embed the video I’m talking about, so you can make up your own mind before I continue my rant.
Don’t view the following video if you think it might contain soft-core pron.
Jul 01 2010
Wild Wild Left Radio #71 An Interview with Joe Bageant
July 2nd at 6PM Eastern Time, WWL Radio!!!!!
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There is no other possible way to kick off a weekend of self-congratulatory patriotic fervor, rife with layers of mass over-consumption and a creamy drunken frosting, than to be given the honor of interviewing JOE BAGEANT to discuss his latest article, “Live from Planet Norte ~ America’s totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder, or, life is a titty tuck and a Dodge truck”
This man GETS it. America has been at war since its very inception, a long and brutal war which most people choose not to see. Not only have we blinded ourselves to it, but we have become actively complicit in the fact we are losing it… Its a Class War, people!!! Whew… now these are the types of fireworks I can truly sink my teeth into!
Joe is the author of “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.” His newest book, “Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir,” deals with America’s permanent white underclass, and how it was intentionally created. To be released in September in Australia and October in the United Kingdom. Rainbow Pie is available for preorder from Amazon-UK and Amazon-Canada.
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Jul 01 2010
Govt To Fed Ex Sea Turtle Eggs to Florida Coast
Because the original is so oftentimes better than the description in the “can’t make this up” category, here is the latest press release from the Government’s Deepwater Horizon Incident JIC page:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonres…
NEW ORLEANS — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is proud to announce that FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) is joining the efforts to protect sea turtle nests and eggs from potential impacts of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The company will be donating resources to transport hundreds of nests containing thousands of eggs to Florida’s Atlantic Coast and its logistics experts are working the Unified Command and its partner organizations to implement this complex translocation. The relocation efforts are scheduled to begin in mid-July and continue throughout the hatching season.FedEx is working closely with Unified Command Wildlife Branch scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA and other partners to create the safest transportation solution for the relocation effort. FedEx will take extensive precautions to protect the sea turtle nests and eggs, which will travel exclusively in its FedEx Custom Critical air-ride, temperature-controlled vehicles.
“In light of the imminent threat to sea turtles, we felt it was important to help move this extraordinary project forward,” said Jeff Trandahl, executive director of NFWF. “Given our strong partnership with FedEx and our long standing relationship with the federal agencies, we were able to move quickly to develop an effective plan. We’ll continue to work with all parties so that this relocation offers the best hope for sea turtles’ survival.”
FedEx provides logistics expertise, in-kind shipping and funding for disaster preparedness, relief and recovery, working with organizations including the Red Cross, Salvation Army and Heart to Heart International. A FedEx-sponsored Salvation Army disaster response unit is in use to support responders to the oil leak right now. In 2006, FedEx donated its transportation services to deliver more than 1.2 million pounds of medical and other relief supplies to the Gulf Coast area in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
NFWF is supporting a number of wildlife projects in the Gulf region and is helping to coordinate the work of federal agencies, biologists and others who will be involved in the massive transport effort. The Foundation, established by Congress in 1984, is a non-profit conservation organization that works closely with federal agencies and private sector partners to protect wildlife and natural resources.
No word yet on whether or not the beaches in Florida will have to be at home and able to answer the phone or doorbell at the time of the delivery, or wait until the next scheduled package delivery on that route after the weekend and on the next business working day.
Help. I’ve lost my habitat.
photo from US Govt. flickerstream, Deepwater Horizon Response, 6/10/2010 UC Davis
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update 7/2/10 : they’re going to hatch the eggs in a climate controlled warehouse, release them, and hope the turtles know where to return years later. http://www.marconews.com/news/…
Jul 01 2010
Whistleblower says that BP Spending Millions to Cover up Spill Instead of Clean it Up (UPDATED)
Something we have all suspected as being true is now being admitted publicly by a whistle-blower.
“In a shocking interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on June 29th, Allegiance Capitol Corporation V.P. Fred McCallister said that BP is deliberately sinking oil with the toxic chemical disbursant Corexit, to hide the size of the oil spill. By sinking the oil before it can be collected, BP won’t have to pay fines on it.
McCallister said, “Everybody in Europe, where the standard practice is to raise the oil and collect it, is scratching their heads, and quite honestly laughing at what’s happening in the Gulf.” He added, “Everyone is looking at us and wondering why we’re allowing this to happen.”
http://videocafe.crooksandliar…
Jul 01 2010
The 50 Year Struggle, & Deepwater Horizon
AlJazeeraEnglish | 30 June 2010
Hurricane Alex, with winds of up to 100km an hour, is hampering efforts to clean-up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The state department has welcomed help from 12 countries offering to assist with the clean-up. And there has been a rare offer of support from an indigenous community from Ecuador for another indigenous tribe in Louisiana that has been affected by the spill.
Al Jazeera’s Scott Heidler joined the Ecuadorians in Louisiana’s Bay Baptiste. They underwent a long and tough journey in a boat to visit the oil-tained wetlands.
