Iko Iko by the Dixie Cups: Chords A, E
When a Lion is Hunting a Herd of Zebras, the Lion Eats the Slowest Zebra... Removing the Slow Zebra Gene from the Gene Pool... and HUMANS are the Same...
Iko Iko by the Dixie Cups: Chords A, E
What was that Famous Story about a Man making a Fake Coin out of Ice in order to Buy Heat for his room? I believe it was set in England.
A Man Lived in a room that had a Coin Operated Heater. He Would Put a Shilling in the Machine, turn the handle and the heater would run for a few Hours... So... Since he Often Did Not Have Money... He made a coin shaped mold on the windowsill outdoors and filled it with water... When it Froze, he put the coin shaped ice into the machine and "bought" heat for a few hours... Then the Fake Coin melted removing all evidence of the Crime...
If you remember the name of this Famous Old Time Tale please Leave a Comment or email me at gregvan [at] yahoo [dot] com.
What makes this piece very interesting to us, is that it was coin-operated. Much like a jukebox or slot machine, you paid as you played.
One morning we had no heat or hot water and could not light the boiler. My traveling companion was steaming and wanted to call the rental agent. I said “Wait a sec, let me check something”.
The gas meter, behind an access panel in the kitchen, had a mag stripe card slot. The LCD display read “£0.0”.
There was a new card sitting on top of the meter. I stuck it in, heard a click and the display read “£50.0”. Presto! Back in business.
Saved by the habit of reading old English novels. That’s where I found out about coin operated gas meters. Since the temperature there almost never drops below freezing, they don’t have to worry about frozen pipes.
NO USA Money for Israel or Ukraine. NO US Soldiers to Fight Other People's Wars. If Those People Over There Want To Kill Each Other, OK... I'm Comfortable With That. I Believe there are Bad People on Both Sides.
He Said: "Infrastructure Week" ( I guess he was referring to tRUMP'S Failure to Get anything Done... about Infrastructure and How the Republican't Party is Failing Badly Again!)
@georgetakei I'm Glad the Republican't are FAILING to Elect a Speaker... IT SHOUTS LOUDLY That they are Incompetent and a Total Disaster as a Political Party... The #RUNAWAY from the GOP Movement is Gaining Momentum as American Citizens are Becoming AWARE of Just What a Pile of SH*T the Republican't Party Has Become.
GOP: Crazy Stupid Evil - And That's Why They Die Young... Wonderful! We Certainly Don't Need People Like THAT In The Future!
STUDY: Americans in Republican Led States Die Younger...
Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds...
CHRISTMAS BEGINS!
Help me remember:
History: Youth Walks for Survival - An Ecology Fundraiser in Berkeley, CA in 1970. We asked Sponsors for a Nickle per Mile (or a Dime) and Hiked 20 Miles...
We Started at the Football Stadium on the UC Campus then Walked around Lake Merritt in Oakland and then Back to The Stadium. The Last Part was Uphill and a Real Struggle...
I Wonder Who Got the Money We Raised and What they Did With It... I was a High School Student in Los Gatos (about 50 miles away) at that time. Did We Rent a Bus? Carpool?
Does anyone Else Remember this Event? Email me at gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com or Comment at the Bottom of this Post...
http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/20105420918I'm contacting people and Groups that might remember this event...
For Example: https://ecologycenter.org/climatecoalition/
https://revolution.berkeley.edu/projects/secret-history-recycling/
After We Finished the Walk There was a Concert With Malvina Reynolds Singing "Boxes, Little Boxes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cjk0zst3Cs
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same
Cliff Humphrey both drew upon and utterly revised the “Declaration of Independence” to create this crucial founding document of the environmental movement. With its calligraphy, the “Declaration of Interdependence” looked like Thomas Jefferson’s document, and with its syntax it sounded like it too. But Humphrey’s manifesto suggested that the world needed to break with the attractive illusion of “independence” and be governed by a new principle—”interdependence”—if it wished to be aligned with the laws of nature.
Full Text of “The Declaration of Interdependence”
When in the course of evolution it becomes necessary for one species to denounce the notion of independence from all the rest, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the interdependent station to which the natural laws of the cosmos have placed them, a decent respect for the opinions of all mankind requires that they should declare the conditions which impel them to assert their interdependence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all species have evolved with equal and unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
——— That to insure these rights, nature has instituted certain principles for the sustenence of all species, deriving these principles from the capabilities of the planet’s life-support system.
——— That whenever any behavior by members of one species becomes destructive of these principles, it is the function of other members of that species to alter or abolish such irrelevant behavior and to reestablish the theme of interdependence with all life, in such a form and in accordance with those natural principles that will effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that cultural values long established should not be altered for light and transient causes, that mankind is more disposed to suffer from asserting a vain notion of independence than to right themselves by abolishing that culture to which they are now accustomed.
——— But when a long train of abuses and usurpations of these principles of interdependence, evinces a subtle design to reduce them, through absolute despolation of the planet’s fertility, to a state of ill will, bad health, and great anxiety, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such notions of independence from other species and from the life-support system and to provide new guards for the reestablishment of security, and maintenance of these principles. Such has been the quiet and patient sufferage of all species, and such is now the necessity which constrains the species homo sapiens to reassert the principles of interdependence.
——— The history of the present notion of independence is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations all having in direct effect the establishment of an absolute tyranny over life. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world.
——— 1. People are proliferating in such an irresponsible manner as to threaten the survival of all species.
——— 2. People have refused to recognize that they are interacting with other species in an evolutionary process.
——— 3. People have fouled the waters that all life drinks of and they have fouled the air that all life partakes of.
——— 4. People have transformed the face of the earth to enhance their notion of independence from it and in so doing have interrupted many natural processes that they are dependent upon.
——— 5. People have contaminated the common household with substances that are foreign to the life processes which are causing many organisms great difficulties.
——— 6. People have massacred and extincted fellow species for their feathers and fur, for their skins and tusks.
——— 7. People have persecuted most persistantly those known as coyote, lion, wolf, and fox because of their dramatic role in the expression of interdependence.
——— 8. People have warred upon one another which has brought great sorrow to themselves and vast destruction to the homes and the food supplies of many living things.
——— 9. People have denied others the right to live to completion their interdependencies to the full extent of their capabilities.
We therefore, among the mortal representatives of the eternal process of life and evolutionary principles, in mutual humbleness, explicitly stated, appealing to the ecological consciousness of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do solemly publish and declare that all species are interdependent, that they are all free to realize these relationships to the full extent of their capabilities; that each species is subservient to the requirements of the natural processes that sustain all life.
——— And for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on all other members of our species who understand their consciousness as a capability, to assist all of us and our brothers to interact in order to realize a life process that manifests its maximum potential of diversity, vitality and planetary fertility to ensure the continuity of life on earth.
Ecology Action
https://revolution.berkeley.edu/ecology-action-is/
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