Opera Glasses and Popcorn
A group of mating frogs leap away after laying eggs in a lake in Jura, eastern France, causing the spawn to scatter. Tadpoles usually hatch three weeks after the eggs are laid. [Michel Loup/Biosphoto]
… looking at a politician’s puss – by a long shot…
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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]
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"... 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.
I see MSNBC is making a big to-do about US “combat” troops leaving Iraq – leaving behind 50,000 “other” troops and who knows how many contractors. The occupation continues…
Oh, there’s Tweety getting all historical about the historicality of the historical moment. I think he and KO are going to cry.
KO: How will you know that you’ve crossed the Kuwait border? Will a flare go up?
Mon dieu. Umm, no Keith, it’s an actual border crossing. With people and everything.
that coverage was fucking pathetic.
and a hundred bases. that they admit to…
So now that we’ve left Iraq we won’t need any supplemental appropriations and we can use the money on a stimulus pa–
Wait…what?
There’s a Big Fucking Deal of an embassy to pay for for decades on end.
The biggest embassy we have….
Yeah we are so leaving.
Read more: Politico
Maybe we can declare an Il Duce version of Godwin’s Law (not that I ever paid attention to it… )
At this rate it will give Gingrich ideas of accepting the nom with a coronet of laurel leaves…
Happy 90th Birthday, 19th Amendment!
So the military spokespuppet for Iraq says it’s not a “war” anymore. Mission accomplished!
Was is such a slow news day that MSNBC had to suspend all of its programming in order to endlessly replay footage of military trucks crossing the border, while nattering on incessantly about nothing?
It was either that or endless “ground zero mosque” coverage.
And I always love KO’s ‘self questioning’ journalism in that regard – ‘Is this a story we should be covering… No I think it is not, but I’m covering it nonetheless, because I’m and insufferable blowhard’….
and funny that they chose the “liberal” *cough* network to give an exclusive …
tools, all of them.
Spike Lee warns BP’s greed could be ‘downfall’ of the US
Lee is appalled that BP has been allowed to be the deciding authority on which claims it wants to pay.
But we wuz promised that Feinberg was in charge… any day now! Or last week… next week? Next month? Next year? I know they said something many weeks ago. Feinberg promised he had angel wings. Or Jewish Banker Wings… or something!
I think they’re doing this on purpose
Click through, you’ll thank me.
Touchme Ministries?
Oh chuckle.
the thread is very very good… what a hoot.
I laughed at a lot of it … “Jesus must REALLY love children”.
Maybe the church has finally decided to go with honesty in advertizing.
LOL. The best was the LouisCk. A classic.
love that one
Haha Reuters:
A Banner ad on the NY Times homepage:
Ralph Lauren presents The first shoppable children’s storybook
Is this revolting or what? Talk about pimps.
What shits… Just hearing a report, a local man in the Gulf… He was told Feinberg was taking over payments AND as it happens, the two checks BP cut him BOUNCED.
Have to love the American way. Transnational corps and their US lackeys (Obby et al and every one else)
BOUNCED? Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Oh, well, here’s why….
I cannot get the site to open, but i can guess.
There was wise speculation around at the time that Obby/admin got NOHTING on paper from BP about the 20 billion. Which was going to be a structured pay out anyway, a couple bl this year, a few next year, a few later… I figured at the time they might make good with something this year, less next year, then walk. Quietly…
And with th silence from Feinberg, Mabus, appointed as special something or other for Gulf Recovery, anywhere but on the Gulf (he has been here this week as Sec of the Navy) and so on, I am guessing something HUGE has fallen apart.
Earlier checks were supposed to be coming from BP funds with the supposed moneis from the 20 bil to be under Feinberg.
I am thinking it was all smoke and mirrors. ALL OF IT.
got it open.
Yeah no surprise.
Cannot wiat to see the votes not roll in from the Gulf.
And the Obbys those lousy shits could not even take a walk on a FEW BEACHES with the dog. I cannot wiat for them to be gone.
Yeah, they really are nauseating, the 4 of ‘em….
The sad thing is that I foresee nothing better coming down the pike…ah, well, at least it has an infinitesimal chance of being different…..wait, who am I kidding?!
I am not…
I hope whoever BP’s bank is charges them the same $75 NSF check charge that my bank does.
ugh it is supposed to be reduced to 29.00 fee (or so I thought) under the new rules…
And, damnit, only BenFrakingNelson is the ONLY one opposing THIS?!?!?
The skullfucking never ends…..
No no no ……. leave us alone…………………………..
From Mount St Martha’s Vineyard?
Soon they will be selling Obama Rosaries, made from material gleaned from places he had performed his Great Speeches Series.
Well,you can always grab an Obama Rosary Bag.
The pat Tillman Story trailer….I hope the W Bros did a good job!
I saw his mother interviewed and she endorsed the end product.
I cheerfully admit that Mosqueria had [almost] everything I could ask for, loudmouthed, in your face political idiots on all sides.
Had they added an open mic contest for a bevy of cats to be Mosqueria Cats, it would have been absolutely perfect.
Michael Goodwin NYDN via Ben Smith.
Funeral dirge:
Dead in the water. It hardly matters it is a terrible killing bill, the R will repeal it but they will leave in all of the gutting that was done (esp to Medicare) to make it look OK on paper.
Read more: Politico
deader than dead:
page 2
Everybody is tired of the narratives and stories…
Lipstick on a pig.
Teh wimmens like that kind of thing.
traditionally some women do… but there is a lot of anger out there..
TSA digs through woman’s purse and flips out over $8,000 worth of checks
Lucky they didn’t find a vibrator.
which is not much money…..
crazy, I thought.
Abuse your chickens, and you abuse everyone else in the line of fire as well…
USA Today:
One of the brands they are sold under is the Safeway, Lucern dairy brand… but I buy California eggs, an extra two bucks and well worth it.
The evening news went up to a classic old Petaluma egg farm and the farmer detailed the laws in Cali (for once!) that head off the kind of salmonella this is.. and apparently it is a really nasty one. Hard to get rid of once you have it…
Gah.
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s unguarded talk on video: How I destroyed the Oslo Accords, and how easily Americans are manipulated
It’s from nine years ago …
oh isn’t that great, I caught the printed text somewhere… what rubes and dupes the US has in place.
Compare and Contrast
speaking of Dr Dean (not that we were!) I saw today that someone or other has said that win lose die or be buried in November, Kaine is ”better than Dean” and will be kept.
I say Obby likes his little suburban white Catholic men.
CNN
Now to Sports. In the Jockstraps for Eunuchs Games,
Ezra Klein, fluffer, JournoList founder, (I’m TPM shocked!)…
takes an early lead in the Obama-Fanny Seat Cushion event.
Consider Reagan and Clinton, Ezra posits.
oh very entertaining:
Ezra needs to read the quotes from the none too swift Bill Burton today… on Obby and his religionism… They are in deep trouble and entering a manic (more than they ave been) period of explaining. And it is going to be so very boring.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE CHUMPS…
Barack Obama has done X.
Now we’re talking real math.
my thought when I read all that from little Ezra was … “maybe XXX would be of some help to Ezra”.
They are in deep trouble and entering a manic (more than they ave been) period of explaining. -mcat
Definitely.
I see a few remnant good eggs pointing out the non troop withdrawal at The Big Orange Daily Delusion. Hilarious the same m.o. from the Speak No Evil types. This piece is up just up now about the BP ..
A good graphic in the piece, too.
But yeh, Dem apologists are gonna have their hands full.
I’m a PA native, but I think you may find this read interesting for the backbiting tids between Rendell and Fat Bob (High School Graduate!) Brady. Which I kinda figured would come..
“Don’t look at me”, says Ed. Which is a laugh and a half. As is the seasonal fashion coverage of Philly goons at HQ which is spot on. Real Guys and Dolls shit if set in a heatwave. In a Depression. LOL.
More laughs, the summer – white- street machine traditions which convene at Brady’s in Wildwood NJ. Never seen it, TV’s “Jersey Shore” but nothing matches the Philly Street goons on vaca. The muckety mooks summer at various better digs in towns north and south. The Hamptons is is not tho.
But there really is a good book in all that. Of course cursory press accounts leave out the dirty cop entourage integral to the whole thing.
Anywas, The Times piece is a perfunctory prop for Sestak. As is Bloomie’s endorse without BANK. So, LOL, from the Irish goon and AA Min POV – LOLx2 >>> Ed and Arlen were CHEAP. Now Brady’s people are all but saying they are going to sell themselves to Toomey. Some surprise,
as the goons will end up working for the same motherfuckers anyways. Plus ca change…
May I have a close quote after Fish Out of Water’s Gulf piece?
Sorry.
Hotline, pinched off RCP…
(That was a hoot the other day, BTW.)
Singer is a real hoot on authenticity too.
Is it me? Tinfoil undies with laptop too close to the microwave?
I’ve just don’t have a good feeling about any of it.
Seems to me there’s been a power dump of shit in the bowl this past week that could serve our patented, Reluctant yet Justified™ warrior meme: Buttoned lip Gates chatting his plans to leave DoD. As the RW, Bolton et al, push the “Israel must strike Iran in days” meme.. To the surfacing of that Netanyahu video. Who knows what Uncle and Nettyhoohoo are going to do…but it seems to me it all can serve a plausible denial meme. In Russia’s most recent statement, .I could almost smell the popcorn , or maybe it was the microwave, but how is this bad for them?
The Russians, while perhaps taking a temporary financial loss on any unpaid Iranian nuke plant investment, they would more than make a score on the run up in oil prices. Their wheat harvest just turned to cinder this summer. The other thing, Our troop movements… “going home” yeh, right into Kuwait during all this is another thing to consider . Gates leaving. troops “leaving” etc…Seems to me all this serves a plausible deniability narrative as it does anything else before whoops™ ™ ™ we just HAVE to go in now etc…
(almost the tell tale sign there is Mo War , the US and Israel peddling “Peace”. Seems like a lot of shit floating around with Mosqueria suddenly this week.
They’ve been real heavy on questioning the nature of Sacred Relationships these last few..And just on the outbreak of Peace Talks Sept 2..
I also meant the ex officio RW, Bolton et al..
Also the bow shot from Mullen in the Guardian on Aug 1st, US has plan to attack Iran if needed, military chief admits…Set out for a different set of consumers.
IOZ has a number of great pieces up recently. And I found this , while cutting through the crap on Mosqueria, really stands out regarding Iran.
You know how it is:
We bomb them b e c a u s e we love them… and it hurts us more than… etc.
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