Life in the Empire
The Collapse
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Permalink Reply by Cal on
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Yes its the World Cup Soccer 2010 tournament this country has been gearing up for for about four years now. Everyone is wandering around waving little flags and dressed in yellow soccer shirts, scarfs and beanies and blowing that wretched vuvuzela instrument. We spent an hour at work today being taught the national dance choreographed specially for the event. I must be the only south african I knnow who has manged to watch absolutely no soccer at all. I'm sure I'll probably be drawn into the final though.
I haven't heard anyone around me speak about the Gulf oil spill at all except a single email prompting me not to support BP garages in the country.
And yes here too the christian mindset is very much that of having come to the prophesied end times. They simply do not make the connection between the way we are living and what is happening to the planet.
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Permalink Reply by curt on
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I've become accustomed to the vuvuzela buzz so much that I miss it once it goes missing for a single day.
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curt
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Permalink Reply by hannah j on
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there is a button now on youtube videos, under the bottom right corner, shaped like a soccer ball that when pressed plays the vuvuzela for you. i hit it by accident!
hey, hi, curt!
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Permalink Reply by waldopaper on
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LOM: An extended vacation: how fast can you get ready for a long camping trip? The nearest high ground seems to be in Georgia. Don't think like an immigrant. Think like a refugee. When you see the "officials" vacating the place, that's the signal. Go on "vacation." Take whatever family that believes you along with. You can all discuss the ins-and-outs when you're more than six inches above sea level!
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a mysterious disease has stricken crops in Mississippi and it may be connected to the BP oil gusher "It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi," writes Benjamin. The disease has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops.Benjamin believes the disease is the result of BP spraying the oil dispersant Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico. Corexit 9500 is believed to be responsible for widespread reports of oil cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress, dizziness and headaches "Dispersants have never been applied on this scale, leaving environmental scientists guessing about the consequences. Corexit may have caused seven cleanup workers to be admitted to the hospital with shortness of breath and nausea," reports Popular Science.
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Permalink Reply by littleoldme on
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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100702/US.Californi...
People used as pawns....can you imagine.
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Permalink Reply by Mouse on
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The BP well is not going to cause the Gulf of Mexico to erupt into a world-ending volcano. Millions of people will not die because of this. There will be no tsunami.
DandelionSalad
Have a good 4th July Littleoldme.
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http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/62378
from kpfa, a couple of good 'stories' about the gusher and the rising of sea level. two distinct stories, science based.
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I saw a lot of nonconstructive "deconstruction" myself as a boy in the 1950s. I'm too young (!) to remember the inter-urban light rail... but I DO remember electric buses... and the tracks for the electric trolleys were everywhere. You could walk out of your house after breakfast with a suitcase, get on a bus, hop a train, and be in Chicago before dinner (with a dynamite lunch on the train- with the Cream o Wheat guy and everything). I know. Dad and I did it a couple of times.
One fucking company... General Motors... bought up all that infrastructure and milked it until it disappeared. So they could fill it up with cars. At the time, we thought it was great. No walk to the bus stop (in the weather), no waiting for the train. Just get in your car and go. What could be better? All along the way, there were mom-pop shops, "motels" and restaurants to stop and relax. That was before the "interstates" in 1959. We thought that was great too. Wow. 4-lanes... no stopping.
We could not imagine "gridlock." When the boys and I stopped in a "rest stop" on the "toll road" in Ohio... I had to leave... I got physically ill... because it reminded me of a morgue. Everything was standardized... seamless and round so it could be hosed-down. There were actually drains strategically placed on a carefully-designed floor... just like in a morgue. The lighting was uniform and everywhere... just like... oh fuk- you get the idea.
So you tell me... if one company can cause a paradigm-shift like that, why can't an entire Nation do another one... greater... better? Why? Because a bunch of retarded sausage-necked fucks with butts for heads, assholes for mouths dicks for noses and twats for eyes keep wet-farting "socialism" out their rose-holes when the only Marx they know about is Groucho? Is THAT it? I ain't buyin it.
Hey-- what happened to "drill, baby, drill?" What happened to "drill here drill now?" What happened to "support our troops?" I venture a guess... they got their flabby man-tit caught in a wringer and while they were squealing about their fucking "jobs" and wet-farted a steaming rotten pork-chunk stink-bile soup ball into their webby Wall-Mart tattered Chinese leaking-load gag-spray skivvies so no human being with a functioning nose will go near them even to stop their obnoxious pig-squeal while their cheeto-dust yellowed man-tit is flattened in their very own butt-head sphincter-lip dick-ring fucktard machine. That's what I think.
How about you?
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responding to the first part:
my dad used to take the red car (of roger rabbit fame) to work from arcadia to downtown los angeles. the median where it used to travel is still there, mostly grass, and you see people jogging on it, why they do i don't know, as huntington drive is a busy 4 lane thoroughfare.... huntington named after railroad magnate.
my god we are so fucked, my response to the rest.
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Damn Waldo, I remember those days myself. I remember when the first McDonald opened, we were so excited, someplace to eat something other then moms meatloaf and quick too. Sigh.... I miss moms meatloaf.
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