Comments on: Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home

By: To Jock

To Jock — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:19:50 +0000

Comment #10 JOCK: When you said: “I think it’s totally reasonable that journalists should be banned by editors for daring to have ideas contrary to others’. It’s Amerika!”
It’s precisely because it is America that we’ve put up with you for sooooooo longgggggg. And it’s precisely because this is America that YOU CAN START YOUR OWN BLOG instead of abusing this one. Go be the revolutionary “star” somewhere else…because honestly, you have no clue of how boring you are.
You weren’t banned for having ‘another opinion. You were banned for being so F-boring, uninteresting, uncreative, unhelpful. What you think is your “gift of controversy” is you “gift of boredom”. As soon I even see your name, I scroll down to the next comment (unless it’s short, which is rare!)
Your articles evoke distaste instead of peaking anyone’s interest in your opinions. If you really want people to pay attention to you, try a creative approach, maybe a more loving, friendly approach, or dare I say “a little humor wouldn’t hurt either, instead of your boring ordinary sarcasm.
Your “Jock” needs a soft “crotch” to give it a little levity and perspective, cause right now you’re “rock dense” and definitely not listening to anyone or anything but your “Jock” – and all it’s desires of “sex, revolutionary fame and glory”.
Go plant another tree, or play with your dog, something to keep your mind off all the misery and wrongdoings of life and how your boring rhetoric is going to change the world.
Of course, the other side of this, is you’re probably a great guy when you’re being your natural intelligent, friendly, helpful, working, useful, nice guy Jock self, instead of this made up persona…I’d like to see that beautiful guy a little more often. I’d be anticipating what “that” guy writes, cause then maybe I’d learn something and be inspired.
Hoping for the best, Dvorah

By: Franz Chávez

Franz Chávez — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:29:02 +0000

LA PAZ, Nov 28 (IPS) – Journalists from indigenous communities in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala and Bolivia came together in La Paz to take the first step towards creating a network to work together and support each other.
Some 20 professionals from radio stations that cover rural areas shared their work experiences in a Nov. 25-26 workshop sponsored by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and organised by the Inter Press Service (IPS) global news agency.
Participants also presented initiatives aimed at establishing an ongoing exchange of information concerning the activities of their communities and their hopes and objectives in terms of social development.
At the workshop, called ”Journalistic Minga: Developing Indigenous Reporting in Latin America”, the 20 or so reporters representing a variety of indigenous cultures — from Central America to Bolivia’s Andean highlands region — identified common interests and opened up ways to communicate with each other.
The indigenous term ”minga” was aptly chosen for the workshop’s title as the word refers to a traditional indigenous gathering convened to achieve some sort of collective purpose … full story here,
http://globalnewsblog.com/wp/2008/11/28/latin-america-indigenous-journalists-plant-a-seed
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By: Dharma

Dharma — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:19:36 +0000

Since Jock seems intent on adding his bile to the pages of the Ojai Post, I repeat the following:
At this stage in their lives, don’t Millennium Twain, Jock and even poor Dennis remind us all of Russell Crowe’s portrayal of John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind.” (No Nobel prizes or Academy Awards here though)
I believe the correct term is paranoid schizophrenic for people who see conspiracies everywhere and use their fantasies as a substitute for living in the real world and actually taking responsibility for their daily actions.
Add a touch of megalomania and manic depression to multitudinous folklore on a webpage and you’ve got Millennium Twain in color. Isn’t the name give away enough?
And didn’t Jock try to crucify himself on stage in the image of some other well know persona?
These poor deluded souls weave existing facts and images together with improbably delusions using moments of theatrical brilliance as if to prove that they and only they have the power and insight to expose the dark secrets of the underworld to us mere mortals.
They prey upon the fear and ignorance of those naive enough to think there is a whit of truth in anything conclusions they reach.
If only half of what these schlockmeisters continually throw out to the rest of the community as dark and hidden conspiracies of world domination and control, wouldn’t those very evil persons have snatched MT & Jock and Dennis off the streets already and whisked them into some secret prison and force them to undergo rendition and water torture to silence them? Prevent them from warning the rest of us? Oh, the horror!
Think about it, with Google, it would take a secret agent hiding in the shadow world that MT and Jock have postulated into existence, maybe five seconds or less to locate these two and be done with them.
It is a truly sad and pitiful spectacle to watch the mind of fellow humans disintegrate right before our eyes.. Even sadder to watch other struggling souls flock to these troubled men like so many moths to a flame.

By: Jock Doubleday

Jock Doubleday — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:57:56 +0000

I think it’s totally reasonable that journalists should be banned by editors for daring to have ideas contrary to others’.
It’s Amerika!
Jock

By: me too

me too — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:26:23 +0000

and calling our next president a spook and comparing him to Osama is disgusting, mean-spirited, rude and hateful. calling him on it is not.

By: Dharma to Dhama

Dharma to Dhama — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:12:35 +0000

If “calling out” charlatans and hypocrites who trade in hate speech, racism, anti-Semitism, financial fraud and perpetrate ludicrous conspiracy theories while hiding behind all too thin veneers of new age symbolism is rude, then so be it.

By: to Dhama

to Dhama — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:47:50 +0000

It’s because you’re so outrageously hateful to MT…what has he done to you that makes you so impartial to “hating” him?
Look, I’m not his biggest fan or Jocks or that other guy who can’t stop writing while he’s ahead…but your rancor is uncalled for…it’s compeltely mean-spirited and rude…

By: Me too

Me too — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:58:08 +0000

MT’s done the same thing to me! Why does Jock get banned for conspiracy theories and not this guy?

By: Dharma

Dharma — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:25:30 +0000

MT,
When will you secede from the Union? And when you do, will you please take Jock with you.
And by the way, please stop deleting my replies to your posts(or re-writing them) , unless your fragile mind is too weak to handle opposing views or views that expose your psychosis.

By: millennium

millennium — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:17:17 +0000

very glad to hear you consider indigenous economics and sovereignty — and local economics and sovereignty — “worthy” Tyler, in a discussion thread on the legacy of the natives peoples.
will be interesting to hear if this FreeLakotaBank is a one-person corporation, or represents a large number of the Lakota peoples — in particular the Republic of Lakotah spearheaded by Russell Means. at wikipedia Canupa Gluha Mani, is listed as also having the white name of Duane Martin Sr — and being one of the signatories of the Lakotah Declaration of Independence last December.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Lakotah
I have forwarded an inquiry to a Lakota GrandMother who will know the veracity of this bank … will reply further when I know more!
considering the serious possibility of other North American states seceding from the Union — perhaps on this coming 21 January 2009 — a much much expanded dialog on local banking and local barter economy I expect will be materializing here at the Ojai Post in the days and weeks to come.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22January+21%2C+2009%22+secession
with and for all our sacred relations …