[AGL] Clark's pointed to this:

[Gerry]

My longtime/sometime girlfriend, Hope, has moved to Lubbock to pursue her PHD, abandoning the wilderness. I am running for a spot on the board of directors of our food coop in Silver City and enjoying the social activities which surround this institution, including (yes) some women I had not met before, all quite young (30's and 40's) and interesting from a distance.

Also bemoaning New Orleans, a city I once visited twice monthly for 5 years and grew to admire. I recently redid the words to "Goin' to New Orleans" by Prof Longhair into a lament for the lost culture of that special musical place (for an appearance at our annual cabaret night. "If you see the Zulu Queen, tell her I have a place for her to stay..."

When Gore is hot he is not all that hot and when he's not he's really not (hot). But he can deliver a good speech once in awhile. I hope we have some better choice than he or HC, establishment squares of the highest order who will not support anything the resembles genuine change and who refuse to oppose the war. Who knows what all will transpire between now and 2008??? More natural disasters??? Implosion of the economy??? Rabid inflation??? A total collapse of the Bush regime??? Class awareness leading to social rebellion???  It would appear that any or all of the above is/are possible/inevitable. 

How many days did you spend with Cindy this summer?
G
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: mesmo at gilanet.com 
  Cc: Frances Morey ; Austin List 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:51 PM
  Subject: Fwd: Re: [AGL] Clark's pointed to this:


  Are you not tellin' if there's some new woman interest that's got you by the attention?
  It's good to hear that things in NM are sympatico.
  I say watch out Hillary, here comes Gore...
  Frances

  Gerry <> wrote:
    From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>
    To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
    Subject: Re: [AGL] Clark's pointed to this:
    Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:43:04 -0600


    Frances,
    I am alive and well and enjoying the incredible beauty of early autumn in the valley of the Gila where the long-legged water birds gather and the deer are fat from the marvelous growth of all green things, spurred by the floods of February.

    Perhaps even more provocative than Al Gore.

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091205D.shtml
    G

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Frances Morey 
      To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
      Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:51 AM
      Subject: Re: [AGL] Clark's pointed to this:


      EBR (everybody but Roger) For him it's ABD&Rs

      Have any news from Gerry Storm?

      Frances

      Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at hotpop.com> wrote:
        Clark,

        Very provocative. Makes one think that Americans
        might wake up some time soon and vote Democrat
        again.

        Mike

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        Al Gore: When there is No Vision, the People Perish
        by Bob Burnett
        CommonDreams.org
        Sunday, September 11, 2005

        Friday morning, when they arrived at the opening plenary session of the 
        first-ever Sierra Club convention held at San Francisco's Moscone Center, 
        several thousand activists got a surprise. Instead of an address by 
        Executive Director, Carl Pope, they heard a rousing speech from former Vice 
        President, Al Gore

        Gore's theme was based upon the quote from Proverbs, "When there is no 
        vision, the people perish." He dwelt at length on the catastrophe of 
        Hurricane Katrina observing, "It is important that we learn the right 
        lessons from what happened, or else we will repeat the mistakes that were 
        made."

        Gore identified three basic lessons that the American people must grasp: the 
        first is deceptively simple - Presidents should be expected to pay 
        attention. The former Vice President recalled that on August 6, 2001, 
        President Bush received an intelligence briefing, "Bin Laden determined to 
        strike in U.S.," but took no action as, "it was vacation time."

        Four years later, the Bush Administration received dire warnings of the 
        damage that would be done to New Orleans, and the Gulf Coast, if Hurricane 
        Katrina kept to its projected course; nothing was done, "It was, once again, 
        vacation time."

        The second lesson, according to Gore, involves presidential accountability. 
        "There has been no accountability for horrible misjudgment and outright 
        falsehood - leading to the tragedy of Iraq." The former VP argued that this 
        has produced an atmosphere, in the White Hou se, where "there is no fear of 
        accountability" for the Federal missteps surrounding Hurricane Katrina.

        Gore opined that the management philosophy of the Bush Administration has 
        been dictated by conservative lobbyist, Grover Nordquist, who famously 
        boasted, "my goal is to get government down to the size where we can drown 
        it in a bathtub." Gore indicated that, as a result, the President 
        deliberately shrunk the size of FEMA, rendering it "weak and helpless."

        The former Vice President's third lesson is that Presidents ought to heed 
        warnings. The Bush Administration ignored distress signals about Al Qaeda 
        and the frailty of the New Orleans' levees, and continues to disregard 
        warnings about global warming.

        "The average hurricane will get stronger because of global warming, he said, 
        noting a scientific study, recently reported in "Nature" magazine, that 
        concluded, "Since 1970, the average hurricane has been 50 percent strong er," 
        specifically because the oceans have grown warmer.

        Gore passionately compared present-day America to Great Britain on the eve 
        of World War II. He recalled the words that Winston Churchill spoke after 
        Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's infamous 1938 appeasement of Hitler,

        "They are decided to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for 
        drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent -

        This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the 
        first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year 
        unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise 
        again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."

        Noting the chilling similarities between the crisis-management style of Bush 
        and Chamberlain, the former VP declared that it is time that Americans, 
        "recover our moral health and demand accountability."

        Gore concluded his speec h by observing that the US is at "a moral moment - 
        This is not about scientific debate or political dialogue, but about who we 
        are.

        The former Vice President remembered that, after the end of the civil war, 
        Abraham Lincoln remarked, "As the problems are new, we must disenthrall 
        ourselves from the past."

        Gore implored his audience to help America be similarly disenthralled, "to 
        shed our illusions that have led us to ignore the consequences of the global 
        warming that has already begun."

        And the crowd went wild.

        I don't know why the geographic state of the United States

        was mysteriously steered away from its lawfully elected leader.

        If there is purpose here,

        It is a mysterious purpose indeed.

        Perhaps that purpose is beginning to reveal itself. 

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