Squawk 26 August 2010
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
A pelican squawks at a hapless donkey named Apollo 13 at the private animal park owned by Roland Adam, in the Teutoburg forest, near Horstel, Lower Saxony, Germany [ANIMAL PRESS / BARCROFT MEDIA]
I think the pelican in Saxony has been reading his email from the Gulf.
In other feathered news… my guess is Canadian Invasion Geese, well armed, were being employed to guard these huge poppy grows in BC…
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Geese…bears…we give our wildlife amazing job opportunities.
oh was it Canada employing the bears? I could not remember if it was you or the US….
Want a raise? Wash your vagina.
I m scared to look.
lol…it’s worth it.
I looked. Hve there been big nasty Obama fghts lately? Bad as the ad is, this looks like the sort of stuff they run when the place has nearly bissected itself.
Everybody can join in agreeing on this…
There are big fights at the end of every week. It’s very predictable. The big fight is over Simpson now (lots of “that’s the last straw!” comments) so this can be seen as a distraction but I doubt it was planned that way. Although…you never know. I think the diarist is a card-carrying member of the Obama Defender League over there.
I remember not liking dhonig… but no memory of why…
I think he/she is an Israel shill too.
oh NOW I remember… yes dhonig was an hasbara in training…
Speaking of… Dean Baker takes a few slaps at Simpson. But it misses the mark. Why not open up on what Obby and Snobby are up to?
Who they are operatives FOR, who this commission serves… etc. And where it is headed. Simpson is just a tool.
It all stops short.
BTW, as endless shit hits the various fans… according to the gossip column at The Hill, Arianna is in Italy with Gingrich. At least standing on a corner or bridge with him… and 4 other people.
All friends. All good.
big fat snicker.
All friends, all good
All in need of towelettes, too…
yup…
Hunh.
At least this blurb at TPM has a clue
Whoops, Not meant as a reply.
Anyways…
Barbara, please, have some dignity.
And I used to like Babs. I really did.
FWIW ( I know) the last poll showed her up 5.
I don’t htink she is doing all that well out on the stumpings… hustings, the campaign trail. Think she and Carly have a debate for September 1….
Carly is very hard core anti abortion… and that may not go down well in Cali.
gah.
maybe she feels regret at that company she aborted.
awful woman…
Barbara, please, have some dignity.
That about sums it up.
At least she isn’t running a “Barbara’s Got Guts” banner ad.
some media is trying to say that the Enright journals have no anti arab or anti muslim remarks… hmmm…. I think that has to do with tourism… but AP is reporting that Enright falsely claimed he was Jewish when caught.
Can this get more wrinkled?
You know it’s really “make a run on the ham salad at the wake gathering” time when such weeping ensues from the the Dupes of Orange. You know, the people from The Credibility-in-Polling Place.
And you know it’s {Aunt Edna starts tucking away those little pastries as “snacks for later”} time, when Donk candidates are running against…the pollsters. As in,
No~No! We Really Don’t suck THAT BAD!
Well, I know dummbfuckery. LOL
And this is an extraordinary claim of dumbfuckery-
Yeh right, the pollsters.
People in PA are gonna burn down THEIR houses: Begone from us Ye Polling Twinkies of the Academy!
I assume it i s going to be bad…. I figure his numbers will fall [more] as soon as he caps off his summer with an appearance in the Oval Off to address the hapless nation……….on Iraq.
Which just blew up, 13 cities… strings of suicide bombers (a gift we have given to several countries now). what on earth can he say that makes sense?
Oh, none other than Politico is doing its bit, 3 stories, 3 days on ObWif… I did not read them… I have limits!!
13 cities
I tried to get into Wikileaks earlier. It was blocked for several hours this afternoon.
They have a new file up CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States “exporting terrorism”, 2 Feb 2010
Pretty bland stuff so far, tho the IRA ref and the Weisenthal nod were …IMHO…interesting.
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I have limits!
I know. And I’m trying to lay off the minutia.
But, you know, I’m a natural. LOL.
A Red Cell Memorandum on United States “exporting terrorism”, 2 Feb 2010
They said they would release CIA dox on Wednesday… and then in all the turmoil at my house this week, I forgot…
hmm Did no papers agree to post the CIA material, sounds like not.
Obviously we must worry fret and dream about Lower Manhattan at all times… think of nothing else!! (what a crap heap we are stuck in)
Welp, whoever put this out…
is either Irish or Jewish. LOL. LOooong on the potato eating with sour creme and gelignite notalgia. And heavy on Brits killin Natzi’s, SO THERE.
I have my doubts about Assange.
These are also offerings on the site..
“The morning of 9/11, before they realized the world had changed”
“Website Wikileaks publishes ’9/11 messages’ ”
This History from WikiPEDIA is well cited…
Wikileaks first appeared on the Internet in January 2007.[9] The site states that it was “founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa”.[1] The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified.[10] It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks’ advisory board.[11] News reports in The Australian have called Assange the “founder of Wikileaks”.[12] As of June 2009[update], the site had over 1,200 registered volunteers[1] and listed an advisory board comprising Assange, Phillip Adams, Wang Dan, C. J. Hinke, Ben Laurie, Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Xiao Qiang, Chico Whitaker and Wang Youcai.[13] Despite appearing on the list, when contacted by Mother Jones magazine in 2010, Khamsitsang said that while he received an e-mail from WikiLeaks, he had never agreed to be an advisor.[14]
WikiLeaks states that its “primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.”[1][15]
In January 2007, the website stated that it had over 1.2 million leaked documents that it was preparing to publish.[16] An article in The New Yorker said one of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network. Millions of secret transmissions passed through it. The activist noticed that hackers from China were using the network to gather foreign governments’ information, and began to record this traffic. Only a small fraction has ever been posted on WikiLeaks, but the initial tranche served as the site’s foundation, and Assange was able to say, “[w]e have received over one million documents from thirteen countries.”[17][18]
To me, it increasingly seems like both honeypot and shaping tool. Coinciding with what has been an exponential increase in leak prosecutions since 2007, and certainly in record breaking pace in the Obby Regency, something In the Hall of Mirrors…
Well Assange certainly could be some sort of… how to put it? mixed use person…. after the initial big release, last month was it?, people did note there were troubling phrases and comments in some of the writings that accompanied the release…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just decided that it was legal for the police to put a GPS tracking device on your car, sitting in your driveway, on your property.
LOL A ‘San Francisco value’ that the Righties will love.
WTF? Just seriously, WTF?
scary, isn’t it? The swing in the Supreme Court is going to produce all kinds of tertiary results like this in the years going for.
oops, going forWARD.
And Clarence has already been on the court just short of 20 long years… Roberts is young… Alito is not old. Both Ginsberg and Breyer when Clinton put them ON the damned court were getting older. I would magine that is one reason Hatch agreed to them.
Whats her name this last is young, but she is little more than Democratic operative. No ideological beliefs, none imo.
Hanky in aisle 4.
Then you’re obviously a fucking idiot. No hanky for you.
And, of course, he had to add an update so the Obama Defender Squad didn’t ride him out on the rails.
Bloody hilarious pattern they have going on over there.
Write a diary expressing disappointment in Obama.
Get trashed in the comments.
Write update and raise pom poms.
Also, too, Send Money Now!!
Oh no, Ye Canadian Hanky Denier.
Obama would NEVAH flip-flop on anything.
What’s the problem, Ms. RevWrightCrunchBus? LOL
It’s hard out there for a pretzel.
he is doing what he said he was going to do … the writer just didn’t bother to listen to the whole speeches and releases.
Personally, I hink as a sign of respect he should stay out of New Orleans…
Gah.
Blast from the past: Obama the Dancing Bear?
Yikes… if I had read that at the time, I sure forgot it.
Between that and his Rorshach comments… who needs him?
I don’t know…isn’t that racist or something??
isn’t that racist or something??
It cannot be, ObRama said it…
Nothing to do with politics, but this is really fascinating:
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
snip
Interesting ideas.
Will read in full later, but the answer to the question posed in the title is:
DUH! Of course it does!
Sorry. Just not having a good day.
I’m sorry to hear that … I recommend beer and ribs.
oh sorry to hear that brinn…take care… ok?
Except in men – who continue to refuse to ask for directions when they’re lost.
Filling Up Prisons Without Fighting Crime: Mark Kleiman on America’s Criminal Justice System
doesn’t reduce crime or rehabilitate prisoners
probably easy to argue the gubmint isn’t interested in either…
However over and over, violent crime incidence IS going down.
I just heard that Richmond, very tough in parts, over in the East bay, last year to date the homicide rate ws over 30, 34 I think they said … this year, 14. A really big difference…
Pretty astonishing…
This adorable tiger cub was found in a suitcase packed with plushies when the luggage went through an X-ray machine at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
Obviously a Terrorist Tiger Baby.
I jsut saw pictures of the cub at Guardian…. good thing it lived thru it…
Sen. Patty Murray Asks for the Liberal Vote Even Though She Voted for DOMA
quick video inteview, summed up as “Rossi sucks, that’s why you should vote for me!”
I’d say Vote Against Patty… either by voting for Rossi or not at all.
Hey, there’s still a choice!!!
Struggling Cities Shut Firehouses in Budget Crisis
San Jose, Calif., laid off 49 firefighters last month
I think the 49 will be brought back… the lay off was to get them to agree to a distributed 9% cut in pay and their contriobution to their retirement… or medical, I forget which at the moment (maybe both).
THere is a two day vote going on thru the union on what to accept…
To be honest, I think they should agree to the cut. They make plenty, have decent medical (and were not required to make a monthly contribution previouisly) and very good retirement, to which iirc they had only been contributing 2 or 3 %… .
Bloomberg:
Well.. I am fine if he wants to just keep playing golf and shooting hoops. No need to go to the Gulf on Sunday. Skip the speech from the Oval too! (please)
None at all.
For you cat lovers:
Cat sneaks on to train, gets lost, is reunited with owner via Twitter
Beats the garbage bin!
‘It’s as if a nuclear apocalypse has gone off in the Gulf’
I am watching a long long cut from The Big Uneasy… which I think is the
… it is hte HARRY SHEARER film on NO / Katrina….
new Spike LeeOOPS no …I ahd the sound off, but looked up and saw Harry Shearer so I knew it was on NO….
Using several people they put out the best overall description of what happened, why the levees and the various walls and MR GO, which was a terrible redirecting of the Mississippi River thru NO that although I read about it for years, I never completely understood it… WHY it all failed… and what was done wrong in the “repairs”… how the new flood prevention constructions will FAIL…
Best explanation, over all.
IMDB it opens in theatres August 30th… here is the only review up as yet:
I tossed something up
hmm reminded me of the movie too…
AND from the movie, IMDB offered up a telling quote, or series of them in a conversation between Richrd Burton and Claire Bloom (what better actors to converse?)
I really need to see that movie, I’ve never caught it.
I am going to put it on my list, I’d like to see it again… I saw it once as a child and once in my early 20s, when movies still had to come around to theatres… unless you knew someone set up to project reel to reel….
ugh it’s not available, I mean NFlix does not have a DVD of it at all… I had to flag it to the wait list…
Barack Obama vs. The World
I like Alan Smithee’s comment:
Neue…
LINK
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