Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Flies over this article at Politico (fwiw)
So, chickie babies, what’s the joke? Surely the collegiate hilarity is not…. ENFORCED?
Doesn’t look like a fun party.
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.
Madman comment, moved forward from end of last thread:
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And no, this isn’t the Onion:
Orly Taitz Appeals to United Nations for Protection, Investigation
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pretty damned funny.
I love that she’s trying to get protection from the black helicopter using One World Gov’t that Barry is supposedly serving by turning the US into a fascistsocialistcommiehippieblackpanther state.
All of them, “both” “sides” are just too hilarious.
Aren’t they?
As Scott Brown infuriates tea partiers and CPACers… the screaming escalates
Brown revealed the bait and switch pretty fast.
oh yes, “free” (s)elections prove SO much.
what a hoot!
The tea partiers are screaming “traitor”… and want their money back……………………
All for one vote on the jobs bill. Little as it is.
From Instapundit… an Anchoress tittertweet:
snicker …
I wonder if Cheney accidentally came into contact with some holy water or garlic.
I heard a snip from some CPACer that sounded as tho they want to canonise him. All about how they understand he charged them with “taking back the country” and ”winning elections”.
Geesh.
maybe he wandered in front of Boehner’s portable tanning bed at CPAC and it set him on fire?
Canada just kicked US butt in ice dancing. Gold medal, baby!
1. I can’t believe I watched ice dancing.
2. We needed SOMETHING after losing to you guys in hockey yesterday. Bastards. But the fat lady hasn’t sung on that one yet.
yeah America really rubbed it in over the hockey………………
That was the most watched sporting event ever here – even more viewers than the Canada/Russia series – which I remember watching in the school gym when it was on.
I just saw a headline that MSNBC grabbed huge viewership for the hockey…………………
I was just reading this:
I think NBC has made big mistakes in the delayed coverage — among other things…. I drop in sometimes at night, but the commenting panels ARE SO BAD, I drop right back out again.
well, at least your women’s curling team kicks ass.
I’m utterly mesmerized by that sport.
Shuffleboard on ice.
A friend of mine who curls took this week off just to watch it.
Wanted: a redesigned hot dog
Back in my day, we ate lawn darts…
I am thinking maybe no one tells small children to chew their food… of course if you swallow too big a bite, unchewed, you will get in trouble, no matter the age.
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I git a Lifesaver stuck in my throat during a car trip when I was a kid. Luckily, it was the kind with a hole in the middle.
ugh… KGO running the talking points…
“the only way we will get change is if the Democrats sweep the mid terms”.
Geesh.
What have done to deserve to sweep anything?????
Damn good thing they’re not curlers.
Exactly right!
damn good thing they’re not curlers.
and how….
Now how long did they have to get some scratched together plan together, slap ”West Wing” on it and get it to CBO? A year?
and while I am still here… some tids and bits on Haig. The late and unlamented.
Graet article, long but well worth reading:
Debt Dynamite Dominoes: The Coming Financial Catastrophe
Assessing the Illusion of Recovery
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
snip
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAR20100222&articleId=17736
Thanks for posting that mattes…
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass:
Florida bankers move to dramatically speed up the foreclosure process
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/realestate/article1069024.ece
As soon as they are done shooting fat people, they will start in on the non-productive… then on to the anti-social.
Moving right along…………
And bipartisanship works just fine… (via Google News FP of Business)
AND as that proposal for an 11% reduction in corps’ taxes FALLS from the FP of Google, this rises. Halllujah.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100223/ap_on_bi_ge/us_odd_foreclosure_bulldozer
I still can’t understand how Geithner got away without paying his taxes.
pretty spectacular version of walk away or “jingle mail”.
Well, at least he didn’t fly his bulldozer into a building or anything!
It’s getting weird out there — batton down those hatches!
it was a little astonishing how much damage a single engine can do, tho lucky to lose just a single inhabitant…..
maybe a full gas tank… (not that I would know)
Traficant running for old seat
Popcorn!
BIG season coming up!!
gnu
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