"Percolations" is emailed as a newsletter to the list of Coffee Coaster subscribers. (Normally, this newsletter-ette is sent Wednesday night or Thursday mid-day.) Percolations usually begins with the movie review for the weekend, then opens a brief general whassup section. — bw

Excerpt
Silent Running (1972)
For its time a bold, clever cry for Nature __ 8/10

...Unavoidably, the focus winds up on Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern). For one thing, he's so different. While his crew mates divert themselves with the many toys aboard Valley Forge, such as speedster electric cars, Lowell is shown in his long locks and a white robe, a Jesus/Noah image talking to the trees and seeing to some the birds and a few furry critters in the Domes. [Complete with a couple of nature-loving tunes sung by Joan Baez.] He eschews human contact, but consents to play poker with his crew mates, at which he excels... one supposes showing mental superiority even in the more conventional roles.

Freeman has "taken ownership" of his special environment. He's the kind who will reenlist when the one-year term is up, the sort we've all run into who would rather work at full-tilt-boogie every night at job he believes in than go home to the wife and kids. It's as if True Believer is written on Freeman's forehead and nothing will force him to sacrifice his mission. Even direct orders from his superiors, such as the orders that come "to destroy the orbiting greenhouses and redeploy the freighters to commercial service." What happens when those orders are received? [Full Review]

FROM THE COFFEE COASTER

Repeating a guest article from Maria (Hercher) Struck on one of the joys from the old neighborhood in Deetroit City.:

Especially for Garlic Lovers
James Ricci's incredelicious pasta sauce recipe
by Maria (Hercher) Struck

Newspaper columnist James Ricci, who is/was to The Detroit Free Press what John Schneider is to the Lansing State Journal, was a daily “must-read” for me when we first moved to Lansing from Detroit in the early 80’s. In fact, we could ill afford it, but I insisted on subscribing to two daily newspapers because I needed to stay in touch with my familiar and beloved columnists from the Freep: Ricci, McWhirter, Talbert and Harris. Being an at-home mom at the time, I was thus better able to keep my fingers on the pulse of the world.

One day Ricci ran a column about the ethnically rich pockets of the old Detroit neighborhoods and the foods that defined them, and especially how he was convinced that the food factor -- in Italian neighborhoods at least -- sparked Amore. With just the right combination of nostalgia, irony, mockery and sensitivity, he described the sights, sounds and aromas that emanated from the homes and streets of his youth... and mine.... [Full Article]

COFFEE COASTER WEEKLY PERK LIST

1. From Campaign for LIberty: Two years ago most Americans knew nothing about the Federal Reserve System. However, times have changed. Now, thanks to Ron Paul and others, 80% of the people favor a full audit of the private monopoly central bank that 'has the gold and makes the rules.' That's progress, and we must keep the heat on to liberate the money system from welfare banksters. Go here to aid in the fight.
   
   
2. From Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth.org): The organization was highly visible on the 9/11 9th anniversary: (1) Former Sen. Mike Gravel joins Richard Gage, AIA, prior to the Mock Debate at the National Press Club; (2) Family member Manny Badillo energizes the crowd in New York City; and, (3) the principal activists making the Third Beam a reality (Badillo, Barbara Honegger, Gage, and Steve White) celebrate as the beam is turned on. I particularly enjoyed the mock debate writeup.
   
   
3. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) reminds us that the 17th Annual HIA Convention & Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday and Monday, November 7-8, 2010 at the Holiday Inn - Civic Center in San Francisco, CA, directly after the SF Green Festival on November 5-7. Hemp is the natural strain of canabis that won't get you high. It's a large potential prime mover of economic growth for Americans NOW, and 17 states have passed legislation to allow farmers to grow. Here's a fellow from socialist Canada, no less, turning hemp into real wealth for his community and family.
   
   
4. According to the New York Times, a proposal by the Obama administration would mandate that all online communications services use technologies that would make it easier for the government to collect private communications and decode encrypted messages that Americans send. This includes communications sent using texting platforms, BlackBerries, social networking sites, and other "peer to peer" communications software such as Skype. Sign the ACLU's petition to Attorney General Holder: Rein in FBI surveillance power.
   
   
5. Let's start mourning Columbus Day (October 12) . C. Columbus—despite the honors bestowed upon him for washing up on the shores of a Caribbean Island in 1492—appears to have been, among other things to be sure, a Apocalyptic Christian psychotic mass-rapist, mass-torturer, mass-enslaver, and mass-murderer of the indigenous people he found there. He also is responsible for institutionalizing slavery of Africans in the Americas for his maniacal gold-extraction industry. Have I checked all sources? No, not yet. So I'll suspend judgment on ol' Chris, but let's say history tends to be written by the winners, and the truth buried. I'll do more research and report back.

From Brasscheck TV: Pigs in Space: It looks like the Pentagon has created a major improvement over the space shuttle for itself. We don't know exactly what it is, we don't know what it costs, and we don't know what it's for. The Air Force says: "We're not doing anything up there. We're just sort of hanging around." Check this vid out for some scary stuff. [This week I watched an ad for the Air Force, where kids sitting in front of a large video screen direct remote airborne drones to kill human beings—"bad guys"—at the touch of the Enter key: Then the voice, "It's not science fiction, it's reality. Join the Air Force." Back in Vietnam, the slogan was, "Join the Army, travel to exotic lands, meet lots of new people, and kill them. Now you can kill people by the thousands from your easy chair, and get to the local bar for Happy Hour.

From Drug Policy Alliance: On November 2nd, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, which would legalize personal possession of marijuana for adults and allow cities and counties to regulate its sale. Right now, polls indicate that Prop. 19 has a good chance of passing. But the fight is so close that voter turnout will make all the difference. That's why we need you to call California mail-in voters today and urge them to vote "Yes" on Prop. 19.

My constant reminder of the need to help Pete Hendrickson enforce the federal income tax law: Please check out a recent open letter from our valiant leader in the educated tax movement, Mr. Pete Hendrickson. I have posted under this title: "Tax Truth from the Front: Timely clarity on income tax from Pete Hendrickson." You can branch off to other sites, but we must free Pete Hendrickson and liberate all the other political prisoners if we are to enjoy a benevolent, free society based on the Sacred Nonaggression Principle.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine

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