Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Amateur photographer Meta Penca took some pictures of a female brown bear seemingly doing her early morning yoga stretches at Ahtari Zoo in Finland. The display went on for over 15 minutes to the delight of visitors [META PENCA / BNPS]
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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.
Or she could be a Monty Python fan a la “I wave my private parts at your aunties”.
I like that hought better…
Thatcher hair mite…
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moves in on Hillary.
No further info on its projected path.
The “cone” , if you will..
Oh my dog. She’s one of the lizard people.
That is not working for HIllary.
I’ve wondered for months WHY she cannot find someone in NYC – London – Paris who can devise a simple hairdo for her, chignon, French Twist, small “Georges” a low little curve of hair at the nape of the neck… something she can do herslef when she travels.
Obamalama (who apparently has a talk show now): “There is not a country in the world that would not want to change places with us.”
I’m not a “country” but let me just reply with this: “pfffftttt…”
I think he must’ve “misspoken” again…what he meant to say was:
There isn’t a country in the world that would want to change places with us….well, ‘cept maybe Afghanistan, they they could drone US to death!
And i don’t hink their election went all that well, however much we strive to show women in burqas with purple fingers. (new PR needed, it’s old)
A lot of people would take Germany right about now. Or Japan, fr all its monetary problems, the most hospitable Universal Care there is (TR Reid in his book and documentary)
I’m taking Taiwan. Or camping out in catnip’s backyard.
Bring your own tent! Must love ducks.
horses, cows, cats…………………………..
salamanders too!
i can vouch for taiwan’s HC system sanity. it is quite a bitter shock to deal with american health insurance bills and dr’s appointments again, after getting accustomed to $60/ month family insurance bills, $6 copays for any visit to any clinic or hospital, and everything walk-in and 2-5″ wait times.
here it’s just a goddamn protection racket.
It’s a scam… and it is not just the hosptials and medical centers, it’s the doctors too. the whole structure of it…
like everything else, it’s the resource extraction model applied to people.
And Obama (and his white backers and corporate cohorts) simply made things much much worse.
.. to say nothing of the stability, health care and sound banks of Canada.
AND their geese…
And our lovely weather! grrr…
Well, that talk show sucked. He didn’t send the audience to Australia and he didn’t even give away any gift bags. Two thumbs down.
He punted a question about SS with “it’s important that what comes in has to match what goes out” and then changed the subject to veterans. I have no doubt SS will be cut ie. they’ll probably raise the retirement age and try to put some lipstick on that pig to sell it.
See, if what went out…to the PEOPLE, mind….actually DID equal what went in, there’d be no problem! It’s the incessant “borrowing” from the fund that screws it all up! No wonder he changed the subject!
No, Barack, it’s not important at all that it takes in what goes out. That’s why the trust fund was set up, to build up a big pile that would tide us over until the Baby Boomers die off. So it’s not gonna quite make it. Why not just raise the damn w/h tax 0.5%? That would get us over the hump and you don’t have to cut off people who already are getting shafted by the COLA year after year.
Incidentally, we’re still taking in more than goes out.
He’s a complete fucking liar. To the core.
Why not just raise the damn w/h tax 0.5%
I get what you’re saying as example of how tepid the guy is even by incrementalist standards. I don’t agree with such a hike tho as it maintains the whole regressive set up.
Instead, I think they should DO AWAY with the Wage Base Limits. {currently 106,800}. LOL- Not that any policy makers listen to anyone other than rate-fixers for corporate and upper income brackets. Let alone my prole ass.
But if* the idea is , mythical assumptions follow here , that no matter who you are and level of onetime income and health circumstances, all are subject to the hardship that life and our free market system can dish out – then why other than class prerogative why shouldn’t it be taxed regardless of level of income? Much is fiction in the foregoing assumptions of course. The way its going they might as well just establish a permanent caste system, tho. As if, at 110 grand or so, that some Regional Sales Director Smithers or Supply Chain Analyst other, is declared permanently “in”. BIG fiction there, too.
You’re right about that, doing away with the wage limit would work better. I was just noting how little has to be done considering the program won’t run out of money for 25 years even in worst case assumptions. Cutting benefits shouldn’t be even considered by sane people (candidate’s for Lipless’ asylum).
Ok.. is the fire drill over? Emergency evacuation drill is over?
Something called the NBER, National Bureau of Economic Something or Other says the Recession was over in June of 2009.
The Job Fair Drills are over, then?
The statistics say that was the low point in absolute terms. We’re not a whole lot above that point though. The recovery has been so mild as to be non-existent. On a per capita basis, GDP is still falling. We’ve probably added back about 100,000 non-Census, non-birth/death jobs after losing 9 million.
About as significant as every time the Dow breaks through 10,000.
hmm I see the Isrealis are floating some deal involving Pollard.
More than floating judging by how entities are pushing it…
Good Luck Obby.
Liberals becoming more disenchanted with Democrats, USA Today/Gallup poll finds
That’s talking point #6 at the Big Orange Excuse Factory.
I like B.O.E.F. It sings!
Fed claims you need a permit to dig in the sand
Latest Real Estate Time Bomb: Title of Foreclosed Properties Clouded; Wells Fargo Dumping Risk on Hapless Buyers
The PWN3D Society is proceeding along swimmingly, I see. LOL.
Oh fuhhk, and now that we all got the faith heelers slap to the forehead,
~ Saved from the Recession!~ we are – I guess we can all feel free to collapse to floor , commence writhing and speaking in tongues.
But let the Service continue, eh! So says the PTB.
Let the serfs fight over usurious indentures ,
No! I I get to wear the yoke!…and hovel tenancy rights.
LOL. Ah well, at least you can decorate the motherfuckers. Run in a garden here and there, etc.
We are so fuckin owned.
And what are the listings going to be?
4 Bedroom Legal Clusterfuck for sale in Quicksand Meadows Estates. Semi literate School District. Playhouse/ Gun Turret along tree lined drive. Great for kids or repelling armed litigants. Relax in the Heated concrete pool. As it sets up.
“Last House on the Block… all the others were swllowed by sink holes!!”
Verifiable Gas Service. Exploding Now!
Oil up beachside! etc.
And we swear! Your house is not sitting on one f the 100 riskiest pipelines!!
(neither was San Bruno, it comes out today….)
Your house is not sitting on one of the 100 riskiest pipelines!! -mcat Snicker. Of course not. They’re in PA!
Anyways back to the marketing.
We have houses to sell!
Security by top notch Israeli firm.
Surveillance of DFH neighbors included in taxes funneled thru no bid contract.
A real paperboy on bicycle kinda town.
Pedaling past the multiple PA well blowouts of summer, that is.
Ed Rendell, Governor. Always a selling point!
A real paperboy on bicycle kinda town.
ice cream truck comes around!! … driven by the local pedophile……..
Father Good Humor offering Mr Softee.
I’m on a roll. LOL.
lol…I can’t believe this guy wasn’t auto-banned:
oooo I like Hannibal….
Welp, no need to worry.
Come Election they’ll be looking in those booths for votes.
You know it really sucks when you’re working a new program in life and jerking off in a porn shop on Election Day and the motherfuckers are eyeballin ya through the glory hole.
oh that was really funny……………….
Could be a confessional though.
They’ll be lookin everywhere. LOL.
the way they have so very slightly played with immgration and DADT, like they want to slightly diddle the groups, without being too loud about it.
Interesting, more so than the usual slurp in Politico, Lindsay Graham maintaining that Obby and WH shut down talks on closing Quantanamo.
IF one can believe the night blooming flower of the South, that is.
Obby is a strange one.
the night blooming flower…LOL.
My .02 (quickly devaluing!) They are trying to engineer or rather, maintain the predictable veal pen constituency group voting patterns. On both sides.
Reads to me like Obby and the Donks ARE getting propped up bit. Something for everybody in the shapeless , convoluted narrative too.
Kind of like the Dems to tie TeaParty to GOP story in the NYT. Yes! No! Everybody has juice! Stalemate goes Stalerer!
Stalemate IS the agenda. Not for Nancy anymore tho. Harry too, the way its looking now. Bottom line, if Schumer is to become Majority Leader, if such vanity is at play, he owns Reid as it is, they’ll have to make it happen this year or he’s going to be waiting a very long time.
Welp. Off to dream. I wonder if a flashing bear awaits in my slumber now. Thanks alot, mcat. LOL.
‘Night all.
Something for everybody in the shapeless , convoluted narrative too.
THAT is definitely the underpinning reality of this administration.
And that “Stalemate goes Stalerer“, too… I was thinking tonight, we are so trapped, the same things get wrangled over for decades.
So stuck.
Sarko needed a diversion… and he got one.
Up UP and AWAY to Mr and Mrs International Black People!
Read more: Link to
People MagPoliticoI caught sight of Bill C on some couch at some night time show tonight… back to the blank look, forgets to shut his mouth.
hmm
Well apparently after hours of avoiding it, the dead are Americans.
Someone, hopefully, tells Obby that no one, on any side of this (other than Sparta wives and mothers) wants a speech about it.
Head of Vatican Bank caught in money laundering probe
Brings back memories of reading In God’s Name back in the 1980s. There isn’t any aspect of the Catholic Church™ that isn’t corrupt.
Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies
Three cheers for HIR! Send Money Now!!
In other WTF Dem moves, I thought the decision about DADT was supposed to be made after the little “study” was over. Yet they’re holding a vote on it today? Hypocrisy, thy name is Democratic Party.
It’s tough out there for a pretzel.
Rush is playing clips from the CNBC Town Hall and interjecting the silliest crap from the campaign.
The oceans rise speech, we are the ones we have been waiting for speech… and rally cries of Yes We Can!
Deadly.
sooo shocking:
“We’re disappointed at not being able to proceed in legislation, but we’re going to keep on trying.” – The Man with no Discernable Lips
Oh, no! They’re tryyyyyyy-ing!
Hell, they’re all going to be lame ducks in a couple months anyway.
He’s the Elmer Fudd of press secretaries.
Wascally Wepublicans!
Lame and lipless.
Not a pretty picture.
they never intended it to pass, they just wanted the SCARY Republicans to have a vote on the record against it. Same with the DREAM Act.
But the Democrats never USE anything like that whne they get it.. or are handed it.
From what I read it was a line vote. NOt one R.
The DREAM Act is a joke. Just more war puffery iwth a fake education overlay.
that’s true, now that you mention it. Maybe they just hoped going through the motions would shut people up.
Who knows with them … nothing they do ever makes any sense to me.
The comments from Charles Munger of Berkshire Hathaway have kicked around for a couple of days or so, but I finally made it to the Bloomberg report…
If he were to find himself face down in very wet mud, sucking it in deeply (I care not at all if he ”copes” with it,
), welll, there might be a bit of fairness in the whirled.
Fire up the Guillotines…
I think Goldman should have “suck(ed) it in and coped” when AIG was allowed to go under, like it should have.
Slap him silly on his way out. NTIM:
Gone…? not gone?
Does a man as a stomach churningly ugly as Summers HAVE A FAMILY?
Real live woman? Actual live birth children?
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The story is spread between “44″ at Politico and an actual article…. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42511.html
Apparenltly Bloomberg reported it first, using three anonymousie sources.
Oh silly. Of course he does.
Meet Larry Jr., 5 and Laurentia, 6.
LOL. Our future awaits.
Little gumdrops what fell from his tongue.
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NYT has it up now too.. Out at end of year.
Welp, as the saying goes…
WHERE”S OUR MONEY LARRY?
Those that can’t do…
Orzsag… shagged off…
Romer tried to slip away………. to the West..
and now Summers will squeeze his way sideways out a door. Part way only I bet.
Timmy?
Care to go play with any of the above?
And Rahm I guess will run for whatever that is in Chicago…
Will Obby be left with Valerie and Axelrod? And Mamma?
Well, given their level and amplitude of fail, you might as well throw all the cards in and take a new hand.
Ah, Timmeh’s too stupid to resign. They’re gonna have to relocate him to the storage room, stop paying his salary, and take away his stapler.
Naomi Klein
Eliz Warren’s own comments today (forget what show she was on) make me wonder how long she’ll stay, anyway. It sounds like she will see if she can do anything at all, and if not, gone.
I’m not expecting them to let her do much.
I figured she thinks that too…
Yeh, while I’m runnin the list,
fuck JJ Jr. too.
Gotta love it when a .piece.of.legacy.heel.shit.that.just.shit.won’t.seem.to.Jeebus!shit.legacy.shit.on.shoe.won’t……
Gets his.
Once the word “preposterous” is used as refutation, in a private matter well,…. ya know….
LOL. Ah well, ‘tsard out there for a Patriot Act supporting punk under surveillance. At least he had company. That roll call vote – gak.
just laughable. Chicago should put JJ Jr on a shelf. Forget about him. So clearly a con.
I read earlier this week, it was a subject of discussion in the home as to whether he or his wife (councilwoman or something similar?) would run for mayor.
Head too big much? x2?
Oh most definitely.
Passed along like W.
About it with these cheap fixtures.
And as much as I loathe Rahm , I like the takedown.
“I ask that you respect our privacy.”
Yeh that should work. Good Lord, what planet are these sucklings from?
I caught an hour of Rush L this am….. and there was some slobber about MO and her promoting breast feeding, esp in the black community (“suckling” reminded me).
Oh gah. I think I would have been smart enough to leave that campaign off the list. I actually did not believe Rush and googled. And yes, Mamama O is promoting breastfeeding. Part of the weight loss in the black community scam.
Oh fuck, I see it all now.. The Cabinet reshuffle, MObama on the promo road again with Larry in tow, Summers landing in the newly designated National Mammary position outfitted solely in trousers and feeding bra. Fuck THAT.
LOL.
Summers landing in the newly designated National Mammary position outfitted solely in trousers and feeding bra.
way way too scary.
oh I cannot ignore this! I see that the Breitbart site, Big Hollywood, is calling the breastfeeding ”thing” going on, with MO and Bundschen and others, “Celebrity Nipple Nazis”.
It did make me laugh!
Stickering London’s Barclay’s bicycles
Did Summers get caught having one of them homosextual affairs or something? He’s leaving [not really] kinda?
Men allege sexual coercion by prominent Atlanta pastor
Long took the other plaintiff, Maurice Murray Robinson, 20, to Auckland, New Zealand, in October 2008 for his 18th birthday and engaged in oral sex with him, Robinson’s suit alleges.
awfully long way for a Xtian BJ.
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