tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7481923730324759327..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: While All Eyes Have Been On That Idiot in the White House or Our Suffocating OceansThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12085711062153124072018-01-07T23:47:32.477-08:002018-01-07T23:47:32.477-08:00What you're describing, John B, is akin to an ...<br />What you're describing, John B, is akin to an execution. Oh, we won't get off that easy.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15134398472820627772018-01-07T23:46:44.094-08:002018-01-07T23:46:44.094-08:00
Hard to argue with that, Trail Blazer.
<br />Hard to argue with that, Trail Blazer.<br />The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30591363210359210752018-01-07T23:46:12.663-08:002018-01-07T23:46:12.663-08:00John A, thanks for the book reference. Not sure ho...John A, thanks for the book reference. Not sure how I'll fit it in with the enormous backlog staring me in the face at the moment.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-42088091219922065132018-01-07T22:11:27.433-08:002018-01-07T22:11:27.433-08:00Just up the H2S to 7000 ppm. Two snorts later the...Just up the H2S to 7000 ppm. Two snorts later the virus is toast, along with just about everything else that once moved. Then mother earth can try again.John B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-49329542354167015962018-01-07T17:33:26.284-08:002018-01-07T17:33:26.284-08:00The world would sooner read Michael Wolff than Geo...The world would sooner read Michael Wolff than George Monbiot!!<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-28199316616963396552018-01-07T16:57:27.243-08:002018-01-07T16:57:27.243-08:00Add to your list "small is beautiful" by...Add to your list "small is beautiful" by EF Schumacher. It was written in 1973, yes 45 years ago and makes the same warnings as today. We may not have heeded his warnings 45 years ago and we may not heed them now and we may not be here in another 45 years.John's Aghastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35486082476625531852018-01-07T15:33:21.972-08:002018-01-07T15:33:21.972-08:00The people who are making the decisions are not gi...The people who are making the decisions are not giving the other seven billion much say in the matter and will be surprised when the pitchforks come out. Think of the many major revolutions such as the French one of 1789 when the royals and elite wondered what the fuss was about until their necks were sliced.Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33873395455401360792018-01-07T14:41:40.997-08:002018-01-07T14:41:40.997-08:00It reminds me of an acquaintance who died a couple...<br />It reminds me of an acquaintance who died a couple of years ago. He was a skilled computer tech, an avid skier, ski patrol, etc. He was also a chronic smoker. He probably weighed 95 pounds. At 50 he looked 75. He really ripped up his lungs.<br /><br />This fellow would tour the island on his monster Kawasaki motorcycle every summer. It must have weighed close to 800 pounds. Every year he would stop by for a visit. We would sit in the back yard and he would have three bottles of beer with a half dozen cigarettes. <br /><br />On his final visit the routine varied a bit. When I passed him the first beer he used the first swig to down two pills. When I asked what the pills were for he wasn't even slightly evasive. They were to open the passages in his lungs. He told me they made it easier for him to smoke while he drank beer.<br /><br />I never saw him again but we did speak a few times by phone. He called when he was admitted to St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver for respiratory failure. Apparently the medicos gave him a proposal. If he quit smoking for six months he could go on a waiting list for a double lung transplant. He seemed eager to take this very last chance.<br /><br />Within a couple of months he was smoking again and he said he knew that meant no 'slim chance' prospect of a transplant. Mutual friends then informed me that he had been admitted to hospice. About a week later he called to say goodbye. He said that he chose his fate of his own free will knowing it would bring him to this point. He didn't want to die. He just wanted to keep smoking even more.<br /><br />As a society I think we're much like this fellow only far less honest with ourselves. He faced his end with some sort of integrity, perhaps dignity. We won't.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1076671385942143312018-01-07T14:01:36.945-08:002018-01-07T14:01:36.945-08:00Increasingly, it becomes a valid question to ask, ...Increasingly, it becomes a valid question to ask, Mound: Does the human species even deserve to survive, given our heedless destruction of the world around us? <br /><br />The Earth definitely has a fever, and we are the infecting agent.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-32170787624231610912018-01-07T12:05:25.881-08:002018-01-07T12:05:25.881-08:00It may be coming from Photobucket. https://produc...It may be coming from Photobucket. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/UbGagxy2Kbc<br /><br />Sorry about sidetracking your thread. Back to the subject.<br /><br />Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33995978405825110282018-01-07T11:47:28.508-08:002018-01-07T11:47:28.508-08:00Toby I don't have a clue what that thing is. I...<br />Toby I don't have a clue what that thing is. I've simply chosen to ignore it, perhaps stupidly.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43481026022604037042018-01-07T11:29:43.516-08:002018-01-07T11:29:43.516-08:00We have no hope whatsoever as long as mainstream m...We have no hope whatsoever as long as mainstream media lets celebrities suck all the oxygen out of the room. Trump would not be president if media had done its job properly.<br /><br />_________________<br /><br />Mound, what's that box on your site that says "please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting" there for? It links to http://canadianprogressives.ca/ and a post about some ski area. Did you put it there or die Canadian Progressives do it? Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-46757095892634150952018-01-07T11:28:08.917-08:002018-01-07T11:28:08.917-08:00We have no hope whatsoever as long as mainstream m...We have no hope whatsoever as long as mainstream media lets celebrities suck all the oxygen out of the room. Trump would not be president if media had done its job properly. <br /><br />_________________<br /><br />Mound, what's that box on your site that says "please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting" there for? It links to http://canadianprogressives.ca/ and a post about some ski area. Did you put it there or die Canadian Progressives do it? Tobynoreply@blogger.com