Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Zurich, Switzerland: The arm of a baby gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) protrudes through the coat of its mother at the city zoo [Steffen Schmidt/EPA]
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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
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"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
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"... 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 
BHHM comment from end of the last thread… :
More from Hitler in the Bunker Night on DK:
And …em….ah…….this one.
So “Progressive.”
So different from Bush supporters and Republicans.
😯
So very VERY fucked up.
Um… you could volunteer to pretend you’re Bin Laden and get yourself blown away by a drone.
I did not notice anyone in the pundit or poltical chat throngs mention it despite how obviouis it was…, but I think desperation for a “game changer”, and possibly coming from the very top, is what led to the horrific CIA mess with the intel offering at the base camp. What a bloody mess.
It has to hve crossed the collective mind of the numbskulls in the WH that if they could capture or kill bin Laden………. what a coup.
This sounds like a job for Rahmbo.
😆
Maybe the West Wing could hire Stallone. Jsut get it over with………………………
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Is Rocky a Dem? He could team up with Ahnold in that spirit of bipartisanship.
I think Rocky (Stallone) is just mafia…. 😆 Should work out!
hmmm Apparently Ron Paul embraced the John Birch Society as recently as last year. Not that it matters, CPAC loves them enough, all on their own…
so blessed.
Paul is the GOP’s Kucinich. He’s far too earnest and honest to ever land the top job, no matter how popular he is.
oh see I never saw him that way… itneresting on a couple of things… financial end of things, ths and that… but a fucking nutter.
I keep wishing some interviewer would let him go right over the edge on abortion, they always calm him and bring him back from the edge. He has schooled himself on race, however, no chance of it descending into what he REALLy thinks.
Let’s get this meltdown partehstarted: CNN’s Suzanne Malveux just reported that Obamalama’s plan does not have a PO.
White House unveils new compromise health care bill
Lie down, fall down…
LMAO. OOPS.
No Rubusto!
Plenty of Lame-O , tho.. 😆
Hysterically funny! All the lib sites promised a PO. In Ob’s plan!
Is this an OOPS?
Breaking :
FOOFERVILLE_- Public Option Still Dead
Phantom P.O. Missing in Fresh Crap Casserole Plan Slated for Sellout
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Villagers Picking Through Poo Pie for Morsels
Looks like it still has the mandate – though they’re careful to expunge any mention of it. Nothing new, just more fucking dishonest, if that were possible.
All I can say on the New HCR fight…
Where is Tom Harkin? More Harkin!
Harken Harkin! We need more Harkin!
well, the lib sites sure are not headlining that it has no PO, if they re even reporting it, it is below the fold… ugh I guess I have to pull up the whole text… gah. Don’t wanna do it!
Mandate, no PO………………….
2 wreck list dkos diaries were posted before The Plan™ was released this am so the PO news is added in updates. They’re struggling to eat whatever slivers of meat they can find on the bones of that carcass – including the idea that the feds would actually regulate premium hikes. Right. Like that’s gonna happen.
Last year, Obamalama was all for states’ rights for emission controls:
Now he wants to override states’ regulatory rights for health insurance? Without expecting major blowback? Is he high?
well… the Feds (congress) did not limit the interest that banks can charge on credit cards… so why would they limit the premiums…………
gah. What a mess!!
Here is the bill… via Politico. It loads fast (even on my slow connection)
Pretzel’s Proposal
Gah, they don’t even mention the phase in of subsidies, which I assume are still in there. Same crap cake with an extra layer of frosting.
Please please GOP kill this bill.
As usual the thread at Americablog is far tougher than he is………………. (maybe someday they catch onto Aravosis)
There’s no text that I can see, just a press release.
Americablog links to several blog reactions, WH.gov “summary” as well as Think Progress which purports to compare House Senate and Pretzel offerings.
I doubt any of the booster blogs is being at all truthful. Aravosis works to sound happy he would only pay 850.00/mo.
GOOD LUCK!
LOL…The typical…trotting out the apologists.
Or Trooping the Colors…Somethin or other. LOL.
This via HuffPo
Etc. Blah Weak Pathetic etc.
LOL. “Pass, Pledge, Promise”. Who conjures up this Velveeta?
Why not just go with “Pull Pud Profusely” ?
Well, sorry, but if the best you can do is to sit on your ass and just make phone calls on Feb 24 instead of getting out there in the streets, you deserve what you get.
Mind you, if the “lefties” did decide to protest, Rahm would personally be out there manning the sound cannons.
The thing is, it does not matter what people do. The ONLY thing that might register with the Democrats is horrific losses at the polling booth. And that gets us nowhere as well. Tho I am for CHAOS.. LOL.
The government is unmovable. All there wil ever be is tiny small bandaids sold as splints. They have all sold out, completely, not a shred even left.
I’m predicting an Easter timeline for passage using the resurrection meme. 😉
I see the right is already attacking this new fed regulatory authority as “price controls” a la Nixon. Yeah. That should go over well…
In the interim we get obesity prayers. I did get a laugh seeing how chubby Huck has gotten to be, off the stump route.
😆 … 🙄 … 😈 … 👿 ….
NATO kills another 27 Afghan civilians
Well Prof Yoo says our Pretzel can. He can authorise a village of dissidents, militants, terrorists to be killed OR a village of innocents.
Yahoooooooooooooooo 👿
Laptop surveillance kid was disciplined when spying authorities mistook candies for pills
oh that is ridiculous.. like the 13 year old whose panties were searched (in Ken Starr thoroughness!) for Ibuprophen. Which frankly she should be able to have, but also DID NOT have.
Since her case went to the SC thsi Merion School District should be penalised, punished — in some way..
It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Son of missing IRS employee speaks out after plane crash
first thing I’ve seen about this poor man.
He is usually not even named… which is wrong.
Chris Floyd: Crash Program
Another Floyd w/ a great acronym: Humanitarian Expeditionary League of Love (HELL)
We interupt Evening Bible Study…
😯
😕 Bummer:
“”Doctors described his condition to the network as stable…””
I imagine one of his attendings might have eleaborated further:
Ya know – remarkable man, yes, he is stable in that certain Sociopathic War Criminal Mastermind Cyborg kind of way we now have to say concomitant with Heart Disease. See it all the time.
Is that okay? May I go home to my family now?
Or as was said in 2000, no medical professional in the nation thinks he should serve with his heart — BUT his own doctors…
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The First Comment– at least that isn’t “hidden” – the First Comment in response to the latest blip from Cheney’s ticker has some yutz starting in with the Mind Your Manners. The thread – LOL – is about evenly split on well wishers.
I can only imagine back in the day in Milan where these gentle sorts might have gone down to the square where the Partisans were stringing up Il Duce and Mussolini’s entourage and they’d end up hanging high themselves. LOL.
This comment stood out as wholly illustrative WHY the country is given over to Wingers in the first place. Absolutely illustrates the center of gravity in the DP.
Fuckin whacks.
Oh FFS – shades of when Reagan died and the Republican voting Lib Blahgers monitored the threads, viciously:
has some yutz starting in with the Mind Your Manners
hmm I don’t think Obster is wiping the floor with anyone… kinda the other way around.
In Fairness, You Do Have To Prioritize
We Are the Champions
I have no idea what country they’re from. It’s great, wherever they’re from.
How we know “The President’s Proposal” on health care really is Obama’s baby
yeah… one thing I wills ay against ob… that is correct in that snippet …. AND that his love of medical records blither is only matched by his love for talking about light bulbs in state and federal buildings.
Obama fancies himself a geek
Bingo, never, ever been interested in policy in his life. Annenberg School Challenge does not count. That went down well in his NGO, non profit ghetto of overly paid elected and civil servants in SS Chicago. It was MEANINGLESS.
he’s such a fraud, in so very many ways.
yeah one of the very few things that can be said about the Clintons… AND it is completely destroyed by their personal and political mendacity, BUT they did have a decades long interest in policy.
NTIM.
ACORN Dissolves
And no, this isn’t the Onion:
Orly Taitz Appeals to United Nations for Protection, Investigation
noooo
LINK
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Madman, I will move the Orly Taitz post forward… 😉