Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Four snowy owl hatchlings sit in a basket at Geiselwind leisure park in Germany [EPA]
A little under the weather here, tho buoyed by a soft rain that fell in the city last night, a somewhat rare event for us in the summertime… I will let the hatchlings in Geiselwind carry the day….
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
gah.
common ground = losing ground
lol…Harvard Professor Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him
Popcorn!
I think I read they are (so to speak) related thru the Inch of Niall. Or Nine Inch Nail. Or Naill of Inch. 😆 Maybe they can all compare familial heraldry over the beers. Can this get more drawn out?
Then again I also read that PBS has put a stop to more of his DNA shows till he better substantiates the science, or his use of the science…. Whoops.
Maybe they, PBS corporate backers, could jsut look a little closer over all.
Well, let’s hope they all get sloshed at the WH and end up sleeping together in Lincoln’s bedroom…or something.
LOL
I thought that was going to be a link to the Onion.
Sully has a tantrum:
what an odd thing to surface on. He’s used Iran and all sorts of issues to mask having to comment on Obster issues. And helpfully was on sabbatical, as they called it, for weeks.
BUT I certainly have ntoiced that, cued from somehwere, all of the “lib dem” Blahgs and mouthpieces are spending a lot of time and column space on Birthering.
Josh Marhsall last Friday had one of the longest pieces he has ever written at the site, on his main page. I did nto bother to read it.
Did they think that mess would blow Cambridge off the map?
The other thing that they’re not looking at is the NJ/NY corruption story – at least not at dkos and certainly not in the kind of detail they would be if the culprits had been mostly Repub and non-Jewish. Very telling, afaic.
On and on it goes:
Link to Politico
“co-op” sounds awfully commie. I’m just sayin’…
I letter the signs once a week for our co-op. We always run out of the red markers and the black markers first.
😀
All the way to page 3 of the headlining articfe at Politico on the health care 000ps I mean INSURANCE REFORM bill… is this:
If Republicans involved in the talks can hold off on completing a deal until after the recess, the chances of actually reaching one could diminish significantly.
Yuuup.
link to politico
So apparently old people believe that the Nigerian Candidate, after he destroys the gov’t, economy and makes us commies, is going to walk up to elderly people and give them a choice between a bullet in the head or a dry cleaning bag held over their heads with a rubber band … to save money on his healthcare plan, which is still supposed to cost more than all the money ever spent in like forever ….
Never seizes to amaze me that the donks lose over and over to made up crap.
give them a choice between a bullet in the head or a dry cleaning bag held over their heads with a rubber band … to save money on his healthcare plan,
Their organs are worth $$$. And, apparently, that’s kosher.
fucking wimps piddling in their tighty whities:
US border station scraps sign that says “United States” because terrorists might attack it
Then Ivahnenko curled up in a fetal position and started to suck her thumb, eyes wild with fear.
“The sign could be a huge target and attract undue attention. Anything that would place our officers at risk we need to avoid.”
Well…. Achtung! to you too sweetie.
Exactly.
…Never seizes to amaze me that the donks lose over and over to made up crap….
They haven’t lost anything Madman. Nobody’s rushing to threaten their incumbencies over this, or take away their taxpayer-funded care.
SMBIVA has been pretty cogent on that over the last few days, though Paine seems to be heavily into the half-a-loaf-is-better theory on the Donks’ plan. I might agree with him, if the half-loaf wasn’t full of ground glass and other highly problematic additives.
End of story on that.
In other news: It’s hotter than fuck here, and I’m temping in a fucking warehouse. No lie. At least they splurged and turned all the fans on this week.
well, good point … though one would think it would get boring being the Judy to the Republican Punch all the time.
[grin]
Well, it bores me for sure. That’s why I gave up politics and took up carving statues of recently deceased pop stars out of butter.
I bought a special refrigerated Hummer for this purpose. It was marked down.
That’s why I gave up politics and took up carving statues of recently deceased pop stars out of butter.
for some reason that made me laugh.. so hard i projected bits of a heath bar i was chewing a bite of .. out into the near stratosphere… 😆
Ah, it didn’t make the news in these parts? The big summer festival in Iowa was supposed to have a “Moonwalk” butter carving featuring you-know-who, but it was apparently nixed due to “public outcry.”
I heard this while kibbitzing a trivia contest at a local bar a few days ago. mr_xeno won a box of toffee-coated popcorn, two Simpsons pins, some bubble gum shaped like characters from Spongebob, and a poster featuring Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.* I was so proud of him. [beams]
*Not a paid endorsement.
weather in Portland and Seattle made the national evening snooze.
meanwhile we have had one of our traditional mostly cool, plenty of fog and overcast summers. After several years of sweating thru 3 week heatwaves that few would admit were actually happening – and the wild fires that came with it.
Go figure.
Hard as it might be to believe, I don’t listen to KGO at night just to let the dulcet tones of Ray Taliaferro lull me to sleep. The real draw is the weather report. In the dark with the AC running, I tell myself that it really is 56 degrees outside — although right now it’s almost springlike, only 82.
Show-off.
Speaking os SMBIVA.. I esp loved the one of the not so happy fortunes of those who worked directly for Oblander to push him into office. Pretty damned tragic, except so many are suffering
Mcat, I picked up a giant cheap-ass chocolate bar at some remainder store on my way home today. By the time I got the damn thing home. (40 min. trip) it had literally liquified inside the shopping bag. Through some miracle, the wrapping didn’t break or burst. I lifted it from the bag with a metal spatula and slid into the fridge.
Butterscotch overcame her usual fear of the electric fan when she figured out that it does more than make loud noises. 😀
ms-x!
Good to hear you rescued your chocolat and that cooler heads prevailed. 😉
Indeed. Sorry for the pronoun trouble there. I did not actually get in the fridge with the chocolate, but it did make a miraculous recovery, I’m sure. 😀
jsut caught a sniggle of Napolitano on with Charlie as I was surfing along. she seems anesthetised. Or somnolent. Or cauterised. Or soemthing. Not awake, aware and with us, frankly.
She was on with Maher the other night via remote video, and I noticed the same thing. Not so much somnolent then as cauterized, perhaps … at any rate, highly strained, to the point that I could almost ‘feel’ her muscle tension. She seemed to be gripping the table or desk, and leaning forward into the camera. And the voice was so tight it was nearly monotone.
Of course, if I’d had to recite the script they gave her, I’d likely not have done half as well. Lock the jaw and enunciate clearly when you say “inside the Homeland.”
it was so evident… painful too. And Charlie just followed her to greater somnolence.
What a fucking mess we are in. She may never have been a winner but I do remember when she seemed alive. Geesh.
HA!
John Caruso via Tiny Revolution on Cambridge Events.
In my dreamier moments I get images of a long sprawl of wild and crazy queer queens in all manner of dress, undress, make up, no make up, running after Obama with pitchforks, lightning bolts, spears of fire, etc. It does make me smile…
Via Americablog… I hope they and Sullification are not tooooo surprised.
maybe they should picket the WH, carry signs and banners of Rahm in a tutu…. there are pics of him in ballet drag. Be creative. I’d be using those youthful pics of Only Begotten Son, the ones that were locked away in a bank vault til the election was over. There is a whiff of gigolo about them… 😆 I sure don’t think they were hidden just because he was photographed iwth a cigarette, all those years ago…
LOL. Okay – who wrote it?
Who hopped over the fence and took a dump on their lawn?
Well now. Rather snippy. LOL
Make room at the table….
Bang the drum… someone won:
Amended for clarity:
“…and it wouldn’t matter, until mid-terms when we alllllll go back to throwing our arms around these sociopathic twerpface collaborators and saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, li’l Democwat! We noble Pwoggies shall again save you from the eviiiiiiil Right Wingers! (And all those Left-leaning challengers, who are really working for Right Wingers!) We will!! Here, have some more votes and all the pennies I could dig up from inside the couch! Me LOVES youuuuuu!!”
Yikes! Popcorn a la mode for that one.
So I was perusing the Notre Dame student manual tonight [don’t ask…] and came across this gem:
Unless of course you are a priest taking advantage of a ‘confused’ young man…
why do I think that the believers of God Is In The Mix, like Ob and, I would guess, Snob… did not wait. For the Holy Threesome.
How much more drawn out can the religious loons make it.
lemme outta here!
I always knew this was the policy. My dad was a chairman of a department there [and one wonders why I didn’t go there to get a free education]. But that was two decades ago – and it hasn’t changed? Really? In 2009 they still kick you out for fucking?
I bet God jumps into bed with anyone, at anytime. License or not…………..
How bizarre.
Well, if one really believes in god, apparently it fucks everything that moves… in all senses… what other possible interpretation of Genesis is there?
yeah agree…
Gawd is probably some permutation mutation of Arnold in the old Terminator persona.
LOL I remember calling a gay friend when Arnold popped up for the Recall.. and I said, so?… as stories were around of the 24 hour filming in the old Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach… and my friend said, oh I am sure he fucked anything that moved. Male, Female, over age, under age. Whatever.
That’d be Gawd.
And more:
So not is there only no fucking… but snuggling is against the law!
and the counting of the holy hand grenade shall be…
Holder: “You can disagree with me but when you start to call me dishonest, then you have a fight with me.”
Did we ask? If Holder was or was not? Did we say?
But it sure popped up………
Well, let’s hope he gets loaded and drops into the suds summit to beat someone up.
ms_x…41C yesterday in your neck of the woods?? Merde.
In other news, today is National Cheesecake Day and I plan to celebrate.
Oh shit now the Celsius from the Canadian tryin to force those
Canady/Canadytemps on us. LOL
{ducks}
I’ll have you know I am only TWICE the moron in real life when using the Celsius Blogger to Meatspace Conversion formula.
Wait- that can’t be right…{double checking}
Son of a gun…It IS. I’m a Total Asshole in Celsius. AND FAHREHEIT.
Not to mention the Spelling of Fahrenheit.
All your temperatures are belong to us.
😉
Luv ya, truly, you know that…
But I still can’t help but thinking you guys are somehow chiseling us with that Celsius thing. A few degrees here, a few degrees there…LOL
(Okay I’m done.)
Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?
sorry this got stuck in Moderation… out now!
LMAO. Markos’ Stunt Double
Baby face Mayor of Hoboken Peter Cammarano to resign Fri.
So says Corzine at least.
LOL. The motherfucker was in office a little more than THREE WEEKS.
Me?
I’d like to see him NOT Resign. Not yet-
Fuhhhck ….milk it , baby….
I hope he Blago-fies the sitchomolation a bit ,
just fucks Corzine, that hapless tool …
and Ob’s political “juice” along with it.
It’d be nice to show the whole rotted mess for what it is…
My guess on CammIranAscam is he’ll go…. laughably done via the templated “noble” gesture::
which, incidentally , NO.
No they don’t.
They deserve Anarchy. As does the rest of the people in this state. Frankly we need a clean break from the Donklephant Partisans Cons. Immediately.
Hoboken.
Was Hoboken ever not corrupt I wonder.
Obama says it is “jes folks” havin’ a beer tonight.
I am not being silly, nor offensive…. he’s been dropping “g”s madly, for weeks, and it was “jes”.
Please, wear alligator cow boy boots tonight and a bolo tie. PUHLEEZE.
“But nor…”
Sully. Back on the big ocean liner. And the reader email he is responding to is a doozy.
The reader states, using 1890s and 1920s era engagements as examples, that we have had uglier war involvements… Oh please, our wars are racist wars. They are ALL bad. bad bad bad bad.
Reader, in part:
Save me. From the beer swillin’ folks and the pundits and readers.
Earthy. Straightforward. Unaffected.
Along those lines…
Either John Kerry has a message grounding problem…
…or Kerry is so distraught by his irrelevance that he has entered
Martian Wormlike Creatures Living in My Neighbor’s Navel Have Apparently Absconded With The Planet Territory.
Competent Political Advise for John Forbes Kerry Heinz?
Just Don’t say ANYTHING, John…Just, just….Just DON”T.
Eat a pickle or something. You can do that, can’t ya John?
And the joke is he prolly didn’t write it himself.
Senator Aloof Doof Extraordinaire.
Kerry has too many problems. Waaay too many.
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