Opera Glasses and Popcorn
This sleepy dormouse made use of a TV prop mini sofa at Paignton Zoo in Devon and dozed away to his heart’s content whilst waiting to be photographed for a feature on the lifestyle of dormice Picture: RICHARD AUSTIN
but, if the legend beneath the photo is true, just a model lounging before a shoot… 
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.
Jobless Growing Desperate, Angry, as Unemployment Deadline Looms
Hi MitheM! Thanks for your concern (last thread), but we’re fine! Hey, you still have my email addy don’t you? If not, let me know!
catnip! (also from last thread)
I agree 100% about having to look deeper — until we USAians start dealing with root causes of our problems/issues both on a personal and societal level, we aren’t ever going to solve a goddesdamed thing!
Nowhere Man
The vain search for Harold Ford’s principles.
Vilify the health insurance parasites
I heard today that Ignani, point woman for the insurance cos thru all of this and around for them for years… USED to be the HC point woman for the AFL-CIO.
Gotta love it.
figures
Welp. One thing’s for sure. After the whole IRS thing,
The guy in Austin DEFINITELY won’t be able to write off the trip now.
And, unlike the panty bomber, he definitely will not get Mirandized.
Ioz
And then, from IOZ…. after a few other things are said:
that’s it exactly, we’re the bad guys.
I thought the entry from IOZ was perfect… also his interjected graphics screaming at her, Have you heard of VIETNAM?
Her writing is unbelievably bad. Talk about the bull that accompanies End of Empire (however many decades it may take)
Unfortunately, she is the one with the job.
so many like her around as well………
“The [cost of the] wars are a drop in the bucket compared to our Entitlements”,
…the pro war, pro Israel evening host on KGO. Then he slings out the IAEA statement today that Iran is enriching the Uranium and Ob declares himself very concerned.
So it goes. They will bleed us to death for the wars.
Just read this in the Mike Allen email. So typical.
wow, he’s either stupid or deliberately full of shit.
More and more people call in saying The Wars Must End, we cannot support this…
… and this host always shuts people down, and in fact can become hysterical. He can start screaming.
He claims to oppose Iraq War, but he is so rabidly pro Israel, I doubt he really does or ever did… and he is def FOR Iran War…
Are we talking about this guy?
While many in the public eye work hard to avoid labels such as “unpredictable” and “iconoclast”, KGO’s Gene Burns embraces them gleefully. Each weeknight Burns holds forth celebrating the richness of the English language, challenging cherished opinions and enthusiastically tilting at windmills. His bosses grumble that both his words and telephone calls are too long! His detractors label him too opinionated. While listening respectfully, the successful broadcasting veteran begs to differ. “Free speech is an American parlor sport and intellectually based verbal combat is the essence of its exercise,” he says, adding, “Citizen activism is at the very heart of democracy.”
Acutally last night it was John Rothman… he has a perfectly hideous propaganda book out, about the Palestine High Mufti, who had contact with Hitler… think it is called Icon of Evil. Lunatic book.
Burns is horrible as well. The ccommon thread at KGO other than tied ot the Democratic machine (we are a machine town) is nasty authoritarianism. I realise “reactionary” is a oxymoron w/r/t to talk radio, but that is what they are. Authoritarian reactionaries.
Rothman is a legacy Republican, worked for Nixon (at the WH as a very young man) but has been a Democrat for a couple of decades. I would say he ws part of how larded we are as a city with former R calling themselves Democrats. As if it mattered. The parties are so indivisible. IMO
Iran is the ONLY country left in the ME to stop the hegemony that is Israel.
well, USA – Israel. We are partners, as I see it.
I hve no idea what will stop us. The plan for America, as I see it, is to bleed the country endlessly for wars. All over the globe. Not just the ME.
He also pushed the new panel headed by Simpson and Erskine Bowles last night… spent an hour on it. I find the host to be a horrid propagandist.
heh. or both — as are so many…
The push is on.
Meanwhile:
U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
http://info-wars.org/2010/01/21/h1n1-swine-flu-hoax-falls-apart-at-the-seams/
IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Nuke Docs Were Forged
http://www.counterpunch.org/porter09152009.html
Israel gaffe reveals ‘Iran ship photos’ were forged
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:05:33 GMT
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=111410§ionid=351020101
I am waiting for the next false flag incident. Or MAJOR provocation of the Persians or Arabs.
And as for bin laden trying to bankrupt the USA, the NY bankers and our own military need no more outside help.
LOL don’t think we will be hearing anything new from Ob and Axe and Rahm. Still hot for Iran Sanctions, part IV… and whatever else they can manage to foment.
I don’t think Tiger is doing too well…………… but I am also appalled I am watching. ..
But I am!
you and me both…
What a long-winded Tiger Woods – apologizing to everybody and their dog.
I thought it failed… and there was a report out this am that there are “stories” coming out of hte treatment center that he has been disruptive and up set other patients.. (or whatever one calls them, clients? customers?).
Stephie working to shore Tiger up. America is so shameless.
“What I did was not acceptable,”
You mean you acted like scum? No I don’t think that’s acceptable. I don’t accept scum on my tiles.
Interesting, KGO is reporting that despite it being held at the PGA, there was not a single golf writer at the press statement. They blew it off.
hmmm.
their professional org decided they would only participate if they were allowed to ask questions.
.. makes sense…
His only apology should be to his wife and kids as the papers are signed.
Hey catnip is this:
Canadian minister: attack on Israel is an attack on Canada
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/canadian-minister-attack-on-israel-is-an-attack-on-canada.html
I post link to mondoweiss because that is were I learned of the story, and he runs a great site, well worth visiting.
I like mondo weiss….
Apparently Pawlenty attacked San Francisco as ”elites who eat brie and chablis”… at the CPAC convention.
So out of date!
Chablis? How tasteless.
Everyone knows you should pair brie with sauvignon blanc or viognier.
they haven’t heard of Pinot up in MN?
H1N1 swine flu hoax falls apart at the seams
January 21, 2010 by Infowars Ireland
Now, I am not in agreement that any flu is harmless, but I have pointed out before that this was a money making venture.
Beware that that Pharma is about YOU, it’s a business like any other. It’s about money. I’ve seen it up close and personal.
it was a lot like SARS… where Bush and Bush cronies had an interest in BIO PORT…
Something happened down in Mexico, in the state where the illness originated, near the huge pig factory farm… but it was quickly labeled a flue, and the pharmaceuticals and the fear mongering governments moved in. There was little interest in what the original illness was. I mean, they concnetrated on the young boy who lived and never exhumed and autopsied the babies who died almost immediately. No interest. Just used it.
I still am convinced that it was connected to some laboratory. It takes a lot of pressure for viruses to jump species. And that one jumped three times!
Another thing that pisses me off is that pharma insists vaccines are harmless, they are not.
Pro life guy is in… LOL why bother wiht a primary!
Two bodies have been found in the wreckage of the IRS building in Austin. No word on whether either of them is the pilot.
FoxNews blog is reporting the IRS employee that died in the plane attack was Vernon Hunter, a 67-year old Revenue Office Manager. His wife was working in the building at the time and he had six kids.
I think the other body is the pilot…
Britain ‘knew Mossad was using fake passports for Dubai hit’
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1151018.html
…guess that makes it all nice and legal???
Just saw this clip on Democracy now. Now transcript yet.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/19/killing_of_hamas_leader_in_dubai
Angry Arab has a slew of posts on it………… and one, that he seems to support (and from him I would accept it is possible) but he links to an arabic language only site, al akhbar that he writes for, that it can be linked to Palestinians aligned with the Dahlan gangs… IF that is true I would assume directed by Mossad.
Anyway, the whole assassination, with visuals, is a fascnating wrinkle playing out before us…
Thanks just watched. That.
IMO. The reason this hit was done is to connect Abbas to the assassination, because as long as there is no Unity Government in Palestine, Israel has all the excuse it needs to keep taking land and blocking the establishment of a Palestine State.
There is not going ot be any unity government in Palestine… not in the cards. America will stop that… IMO Abbas may be Israel’s stooge but ours as well.
Waht a horrid joke it all is.
hmm I am guessing this might mean Crist is not pulling a Spector:
(via The Corner)
Good news:
Australia tells Japan: Stop whaling or face court
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8523328.stm
Lots of news.
Whale Wars:
http://www.seashepherd.org/
I have no idea why this issue is so dear to my heart, it just is. Just…as is the plight of the Palestinian people. Sometimes we are unable to divorce ourselves from the causes that move our hearts and emotions. On rare occasions of reflection, I wonder what makes us who we are. I have yet to resolve my questions, but have learned to accept them. Life is a mystery.
Counterpunch…
more wars for fairy tales
HAITI: Private Contractors ‘Like Vultures Coming to Grab the Loot’
Man in foreclosure bulldozes own home.
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Market — Just a Matter of Who Pays for It
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that is so interesting about the commons……….
I thought so. there is interesting stuff further down the interview about the Zapatistas and their attempts to revive the Athenian model of democracy:
You began by quoting Dr. King, who described himself as a democratic socialist.
gah if ONLY Ober would mention that as a slap back. Of course he dare not slap the teat he sucks on. AND he keeps the gibberish going that Martin was nought but some general issue, better than most, preacher man.
Sludge in sludge out, sludge forever! Uber sludge.
hmm just spied this at Politico
Read more: LINK to Politico
Carry on!!
Found a nice ‘letter from Cali’, of a sort, at C-punch:
That little “rise up” against the Israeli Ambassador, the US born Michael Oren, is what he bitched and moaned on KGO earlier this week was a run at “de-legitimisation” of Israel.
Might as well laugh.
oh, very interesting …
yeah I loved it………….
on and on it goes….
Read more: LINK
neue…
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