Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Minsk, Belarus: A squirrel reaches for a peanut from the hand of a woman in a park
Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP
but there is so much ugly imagery out there…
Just a thread, should anyone want one…..
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]
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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.
Oh! And now I get the chance to post a link to the ever-entertaining Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel.
sorry catnip! …
This lanquished in Spam… for a long time.. out now..
Domo arigato, Mr Robusto?
“weaker”…who could have predicted that??
lol
Meanwhile, over at the Big Orange Denial Factory:
I’ll take Who has the real rumour? for $500, Alex.
{ Sports Announcer voice}
Catnip… Catnip Out of the Backfield – Wow!
It’s the Double Reverse Robusto!
Looks like this one is Going GOING…GONE!
Gotta Love it..From “The Robusto” PO…to..
The Pepper Jack PO by nightfall….and By next Week?
They’ll be pushing the “Mildly Seasoned” something or other….
The Wilted Lettucher for Leftishers by Halloween…
Speaking of wilted lettuce in the Fall, Meanwhile….
I SO want Corzine to lose here in NJ. Could ya tell? LOL.
The shit they’re saying about Deeds ( and GMAFB there – Ob risks NOTHING going full bore in NJ and PA for the likes of Corzine and Specter and I bet he came back in a 2nd time on a deal to Fall Down in VA.) So the Bullshit about Deeds…having failed to fully embrace Obamawon’t fly wrt Corzine…
To me ..in Jersey, it’s not about the Top 3 candidates at all…
Shithealls all of them, two Major Party Frauds and one Poseur as an “ex GOP” “Independent”…
So it’s certainly not about the “Top” candidates to me…
It’s about the People going off script.
The Howard Beale thing .
I am getting a big kick otu of the pre election whining about the VA election. Coming frorm the big guy in Dc…
Mommy Mommy! Deeds did not embrace me! No wonder he lost!
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Oh PS, he goes itno CT later today (or aboutnow I guess) for Dodd.
Too funny for words. Let it rip I say! And Emily’s List was represented by Bob Bauer, from the Ob campaign.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28627.html
Whaddya know?
A kernel of wisdom in this WaPo article..
LOL —> We were KIDDING!
I see after all that frothy French blither (Frederic Mitterand and others) over the issue, they have kidnapped a rapist murderer of a 14 year old, a German national, with Germany declining to pursue the case …. the father apparently pushed and pushed in France… and I guess had some pull… will find the link and post it.
With all the predictable bitching about Hollywood backing Polanski, I went and read that petition and the signatures yesterday. There are very very few people from Hollywood on it, almost none in fact. Mostly European directors who wouldn’t believe it if an American court said the sky was blue.
And Woody Allen.
I think the problems are from people like Debra Winger and some of the directors and others… who frankly said very dumb things. And I rather doubt when questioned that Jack Nicholson and Angelica Huston are going to cover themselves in glory.
Anyway, he ahs asked for extradition.. apparently figuring LA is a better deal, because Samantha G most likely will ask for the least to be done. Not sure how much bearing it will ahve… as the case probably will come down to flight… unless they reopen and go at it from the top. There seems to be a running argument, a legal one, that maybe they can do that.
I don’t see why anyone would expect some film celebrity to have any very developed moral sense, or even any intelligence, period. We don’t expect it from the NBA, the Chamber of Commerce, congress, or the media, so why should Hollyweird be any different?
Nobody looks good in this.
Ha ha ha! Wonder if Jerry Lee Lewis weighed in?!
Hmm. Omicidio!
A Priest in New Jersey found dead In the Rectory this morning.
Authorities investigating a Serious case of Stigmata if ya know what I mean….
So far (I see This Week’s Cavalcade of Stars si not published yet):
Meet the Press: Sens. Cornyn and Schumer, CNBC’s Burnett, NYT’s Sorkin; roundtable with Jane Mayer, Joe Scarborough, Dan Senor, Tavis Smiley
Face the Nation: Sens. McCain and Feingold
Fox News Sunday: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah, Sens. Levin and Kyl, USCC’s Josten, AHIP’s Tuffin
State of the Union: Sens. Hatch, Nelson and Webb
LOL. When clowning McJoan Last night?
Her “Action” Diary with a list of numbers to call ?
I missed reading the thing thoroughly let alone the comments..
I just went back over it to for morsels in the comments
HOW DELICIOUS!
(Which pointed me to) THIS in the piece from McJoan:
When I saw THIS ..
YES THERE IS A GOD as a FIRST COMMENT:
Not to mention the delicious irony of HIS SIGNATURE LINE.
Just LMAO. 
She is not very smart. Nor observant.
Oh I am so entertained by much that is transpiring. I hope it leads to expiring.
Lib Dem Blahgers = Stupid as Rocks.
A commenter sums it up…
Kossacks went all apeshit (technical term) this am at the news on Politico about Nancy not having votes etc – slammed Politico (a “wingnut rag” into the wall with the piece being written by Mike Allen a “self-hating gay” – they’re SO progressive over there). This afternoon – well, whoops – mcjoan has a FP post saying maybe the Politico story should be taken seriously. Whiplash.
they are blinded by the light.
I had no idea Mike Allen was gay. Can we trust them to know, I wonder?
The kossack who called him that justified it by stating that he was gay. Like that makes it any better? I don’t know if Allen’s gay or not and don’t care one way or the other. They’re just flinging feces over there, as usual.
Politico anonymous sources = evil
TPM anonymous sources = good
You know how it goes…
link to mcjoan.
Round and round it goes…
yeah. such courage.
http://counterpunch.org/cockburn10232009.html
LMAO.
Not that Saunders prolly doesn’t already have his own bags packed…
Nice set up for the narrative if they lose in NJ, too…Which I still think they will…The Survey USA cross tabs…(a Clinton Op.. forget what’s his name behind it) …the cross tabs in their internals…The way I see it.. …prolllllems with AA support for Corzine..only 2/3 sold in the polling…Bigger prollems among Indys… half going straight for the R, Christie … Dagett Strength among younger voters… Christie in the 65+..
Saunders- with the Pwog Scam – is as much setting up the narrative for the DNC as he is explaining away his loss::
People “seepy”. Ready for nap time.
Headin for the little seepy mat at daycare
“That’s what’s wrong.” GMAFB.
I see Politico has a post up on the wimmens vote in VA and NJ…
Vote for me Baby! Win a Mammogram!
I’m going to vote that shit up for this year’s Most Offensive Pinkwashing Award, I think. Next time I meet up for a Drinking Bitterly event with jaded, radical BC survivorettes, that is. Maybe Barbara Ehrenreich will drop by and we can plot to burn some pink teddy bears at a marathon finish line somewhere!
Is October over yet? Halloween looks better and better every year, I swear . . . at least you get the ghouls and vampires straight up, no ribbons.
it really is awful.
If they cannot push the scam of “keeping abortion legal” (or the SCOTUS plugs) then they push breast cancer.
Geesh.
Boobs are endlessly – I mean, endlessly – marketable.
Even in absentia!
LOL … in a very dark laugh sort of way, of course.
Tie ‘em to the railroad tracks, and you can really attract a crowd!
Snicker, snicker.
Well shit… there hasn’t even been a race here for mayor. Bloomberg convinced the city council to overturn the term limits that had twice been voted in by people in the city, and I don’t even know who the fuck the D contender is… I guess our current city controller. There has been no media, no debates, nothing that would lead anyone to think that we have an election in less than two weeks for all of the city seats. Not even the usual Bloomberg postering every block illegally strategy.
Wait, I’m supposed to vote on Nov. 3? For what again?
Meanwhile, my cats are busily clawing each others eyes out in the storage area above the bathroom that I can’t touch because I’ve spent the week having horrendous asthma attacks by trying to throw away things from ‘storage’… And it pretty much sums up the state of the world.
There has been no media, no debates, nothing that would lead anyone to think that we have an election in less than two weeks for all of the city seats.
those ptb are pretty happy, I would say.
We have an election also on Nov 3… (I have not read thru the voter handbook yet) but there is NO mention of it on media here either. NONE.
Fauci is saying “we hope” (worn out language fella!) “to have enough vaccine by late fall”.
He says the vaccine did not “grow well” in the manufacture. It grew “non robusto” so to speak.
Fauci was reduced to saying “stay away from sick people”. I instantly flashed on the NYC subways… LOL (he looked kinda stressed I will say)
OK! If I still worked or went to school, will you send a car town and driver for me each day?
Someone got laughed at at Americablog for posting this, from CNS. I am guessing the laughers did not bother to read it.
And this from Nancy’ office…. the aftermath of her not answering a question about mandates:
we still haven’t reinstated Habeas Corpus … I don’t think the Constitution matters to them at all.
On the other hand, it could lead to some interesting lawsuits.
Good point(s).
I was barely paying attention to the evening national news… til they got to the Hawai’ian school year, the days per year count under new budget constrictions… (and remember, when Ob is not Indonesian, or Chicagoan, he is Hawai’an)
163. Per year.
So……………… that really does mean 202 days not in school per year?
GOOD LUCK.
Are those Russky squirrels wired for sound or do those furry ears just help get ‘em thru Siberian winters?!
oh aren’t the ears great? That is what I thought too…. and that rear foot action…
Absolutely! Such acrobats. I took a series of backyard photos recently with squirrels and blue jays and chipmunks, all of which bring out my inner Edward Muybridge.
Speaking of acrobats, I was sorry to see the story about the ice-skating bear who went postal at a Russian circus rehearsal the other day. Two dead (including the bear, who was shot), and one mauled pretty bad. I wonder if the world will ever come up with an International Court for Interspecies Crimes?
oh i missed that story… will look it up….
Wow fancy new interface that makes wordpress much more readable from my iPhone. Moving to greenpoint next week. Hopefully the nightmare of the last two months will shortly be over… Carry on
glad to hear it! on all counts!!
Best wishes . . . good riddance to bad rubbish, etcetera!
One can hope… in a non-hopychanginess way.
Sorry, Eadward!
Thomas to other Supreme Court justices: Hush!
Then why have those pesky lawyer types appear at all? They’re obviously a waste of his time.
maybe he could just RETIRE.
Because it can make for great movies Catnip… great movies.
must be tired of them waking him up … no reason to engage when you’ve already made up your mind.
Oyah – take it from…………”Capt Underpants”.
Fitting.
Ah, well. Not a problem when “The Robusto” PO goes
down the shitter and they’re left with sandpaper for TP.
The guy can always change his name coming up here in a bit:
“Captain New Underpants” has a certain fresh feel to it…
Easier on the chapped ass, too.
I wonder if he’s the real Captain Underpants. That would explain a lot.
I saw some wag was calling her Presdient Snowe this week. She will do the dirty work for the weak kneed Dems and make sure there is no PO… such as it ever was.
Dems, the handmaiden party. Republicans, the ones counted on to do the job.
Shit, it gets so old.
Mcat. I actually do think they will get a terribly weak version of the public option through – a negotiable rate some such that will be completely unable to address the problem. While it may compete with insurance companies, it won’t by much, and it certainly won’t allow the government to negotiate drug prices.
well maybe some “trigger” version of it. Clearly the ins cos do not want a PO competitor.
Not that it matters. Just like they will get a lousy fucked HC bill thru.
And shortly after RE ELECTION (if he even wants it, he is dropping out day by day as I see it) it will hit, and people will slowly over a couple of years fucking freak out.
This was catnip’s first comment, way at the top, now out of Spam File
Oh! And now I get the chance to post a link to the ever-entertaining Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel.
Obama comin BACK into Jersey for the 3rd time charm next Sunday. I was wrong over the summer. The man loves us. Wants to see us again and again.
Rendell coming in too… a piss ant venue in Asbury Park this Sunday. An area so reliable that it tells me if they are horsewhipping there, its a problem…They really do have a lot to lose: an Olympic defeat , first dibs at the State trough, the patronage, the money skimmed etc if the R win. I suppose that either way, Ob has to go all in, because a Corzine loss – Big Drama and all that – would come in a narrow margin under any scenario given +D registration advantage..And given the very real prospect of a narrow loss Ob would take bigger lumps if he was a no show down the stratch, especially after the remarks said about Deeds in VA..
His venue in North Jersey was 3 thousand people for visit number 2 and 25 minutes..I’m not objective of course, but the coverage was small potatoes here AND seemed to blur in with all the other campaign shit …And no bounce for Corzine. Axelrod has to be pissed with the sitch , needs to keep Ob moving, seen as proactive…in Fact SEEN …But next Sunday, Nov 1st? With Football? After “check day” ? Rendell working Asbury Park and the AC area this weekend? Hmmm. ( **I’m going somewhere with this..hopefully outta state as you’ll see)
They need to hold the area cutting across from Philly to AC all along the Atlantic City Expressway …Rendell has been a fixture in the crossover Philly Media market there, shlubbing it up for years as a guest football sportscaster for the Eagles. He Did it every weekend when he was Mayor… I lotahed him back then :: you couldn’t even catch a game if you wanted to without that crook’s face plastered on the TV.
**So Catch This
I FIGURE they are going to go with The Jockstrap Move™ next weekend as the New York Giants are playing the Eagles in Philly on 11/1 and , HERE”S THE PITCH , the Phillies are in the World Series with Game # 4 in in Philly ALSO ON November 1st…
No doubt they are going to do a huge Regional ad buy in the broadcasts, and I bet that “the buddies” go for some Nationally Televised Male Bonding at the ball games next Sunday…
You know the drill:
-the comment ‘taders yukking it up after every commercial.
{camera zooms to “noblemen” in attendance}
-The 3-way Bromance covered with Ob, Ed, and Corzine, eschewing the Uber Imperial Skybox precisely for those camera pans to cheaper seats where these cast as Regular Joes In View are happening to catch the game…
-Followed at Half Time or the 7th Inning Stretch with the “Oh- here’s one of those guys now to talk with us – ” ,
- more jockstrap yuckety yuk, the scripted talk of the friendly bet among rivals etc ….the political plugs…
Get. me. outta. here.
they have already said, for publication, that Deval is “struggling”.
Don’t blame Ob baby. he TRIIIIED
What a fucking joke it all is..
don’t make me laugh tooooo hard… shouldn’t they be hauling Springsteen’s ass in soon? Born in the USA and so on to rally the weak troops? Those for whom winning a mammogram will not work?
Talk about jerking the baby electorate around. Whiplash. Nan hasn’t got the votes in the House, but sag tit Reid thinks he does in the senate.
When HE FUCKING COUDN’T COUNT THE VOTES FOR THE DOC REIMBURSEMENT BILL (the Stabenow mess!) THE OTHER DAY.
Yeah right.
LOL It’s so cute how s l o w the Lib Dem Blahgers are to catch on. (They do have to conserve energy for round up, roping in the voters in a few months…
)
oh and um yes the obligatory push push push back.
And the sun also rises. And sets. Jesus was born in a manger. The lamb will lie down with the lion. Beware the snake in the Garden of Eden. Watch out for the apple too…………….
Any other tired lines to shove out?
A handy guide: Obama’s War Council
Not sure why but they seem to have left out Bruce Reidel… a thirty veteran of the CIA, at the Afghanistan (or maybe the larger region) desk.
He maintains the British “won” in Afghanistan as they established Kandahar. AND he maintains that Alexander won in Afghanistan as well…
He has stood on the stage with Ob twice when he made major Afghanistan promouncements… once for the famous March comments…
Oh Ob will send troops. My guess is more than people are thinking (I read 20K around)… I would guess more like 40K and surrepticiously more than that…
Here’s what you’ll be wearing on Halloween, BHHM: Balloon Boy Halloween Costume
LOL.. Of course,
here’s you if I try to cross the Canadian border in the damn thing.
lol
People really need to listen to pretzels. I dragged myself thru so many damned texts of speeches by Bush 2… and there was always something in it. Sad to say.
Some people do get it… Last summer, the famous week in July (2008) when I guess Axelrod decided Ob needed to veer the ship to the right and he made 7 or 8 gut punch pronouncements… One (which I think ws the last of the week) was that “women should nto get abortions just for being blue”…
Jan Crawford Greenburg who reports on the court for ABC and before that for PBS/TNH… did three columns on Ob being to the RIGHT of Scalia, from that one statement. And i have never considered her a liberal, but she knew what she heard. Understood what he said. He was conveying that he personally denies the mental health exception.
Wee whacked Orangers don’t listen. And would nto hear if they did….
Some US military asshole on the radio just said he’s never seen any evidence of racism against Iraqis by US troops in Iraq. Oh really??
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