Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Sculpture by the Sea 2010 in Sydney: outdoor art exhibition on a beach in Australia: ‘Oh My God’ by Lucy Vader [Picture: GETTY]
Yeah really… looking ahead, what else can you say. And I don’t mean the bone dry, desert dry, absolutely wrung dry story of “coming Democratic losses”.
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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]
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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.
Loose files, sinking ships and whatever else. Letters gone astray.
And then there is Lipless:
– Five days before the midterms, Gibbs claimed that enthusiasm among Democratic voters “has increased.” He added, “This overall notion of huge disappointment among Democratic voters is — it is not matched in any of the empirical data that you guys produce and that we see.”
As this election draws near, I find I am reconsidering my position given the core question that remains unanswered, which, given the stakes… is obviously this:
Would YOU buy aluminum siding from this man?
LOL. What a fuckin shyster.
A ringing cry! They can Still Win! Yes they might!
Michael, Michael, Michael…
Why, YES! No, MM?
Is that Michael Moore? He needs to go sit with Nader. And a few others.
Yep, Michael Moore. The guy who makes those movies around the theme of commiseration.
How quick movies become………….. mooooo mooo moovies.
To me he really really really neutered his Capitalism: A Love Story with the laughable claim that Wall Street hustled TARP through because they were fearful of Ob as the new sherrif coming to town.
The stuff of spaghetti westerns.
He’s a Party guy and will die as such. Shame.
Mostly dumb: WTF he’s talking about as “consolidating” “gains” …I haven’t the foggiest.
Pisses me off. Howard, Dennis, etc.
All that Lockheed Martin geese jerky.
A very light spread as it turned out.
oh he fell in wuv with wObbly. Plus.. let’s get real, there is a lot to MM that is old time, Catholic, beefy union guy.
The only innoculation for that disease (wObbly luv) is a lotta pain inflicted on a lot of people.
hey hey hey whoa hey
They’re trying to get Meek to drop out for Charlie.
LOL.
I see Meek not dropping out. I feel pretty sure he feels he is chosen by God. Or some industry he has taken money from.
Bill C is pushing Kendrick to turn tail.
An obvious move, but Jesus, just release a statement, Bill.
Oh I dunno, like,
Pretty much fuck you Party niggers in Florida.
We want Chuck to be Leader.
Sorry to be blunt but that’s about it.
They’re now leaking that Meek said no. Meek.
said no.
We’ll see how long this lasts.
How long til Meek cries, Momma!
Meek just had a Breaking! press conference and said the Politico story was “inaccurate, at best”. He’s not dropping out and he Bubba are friends.
Of course, that depends on what your definition of “friends” is.
They can “Frenemy” each other on Facebook!!
I’m thinking it might also be a stunt, too.
Not so much to draw attention to his dead campaign, but leaking this tid to depress a few percent of his vote just the same. NTIM. Seems to me Crist doesn’t have the support his humpers would have us believe. Just my .02.
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FWIW (not much) Man Titz is on with Larry O’Donnell and it looks like its dawning on him that he’s screwed. Really weak and desperate if you can imagine any more sad sackery with Harry.
Also FWIW Nate Silver now rates Angle over Reid as a 75% bet…
Fuck em all. I’m a popcorn muncher these days.
Man Titz is on with Larry O’Donnell and it looks like its dawning on him that he’s screwed. Really weak and desperate if you can imagine any more sad sackery with Harry.
And he so easily gets confused…
I’ll be glad when that fucker is gone.
I see Crist is telling TIME he spoke “numerous times” with ”42 insiders”. Forty Two.
They are all going off the rails.
By my count ( Call Nate!) that’s at least one Protestant and 2 Insiders better than Ali Babba and the 40 Thieves. Right?
What this means – I don’t know.
People mag had a piece up, this at the end………………
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44337.html#ixzz13i0qP83g
oh very funny… the Field poll is out……. and Jerry is swamping Meggie.
A 10 pt split, over all. Almost 25 pt spread with latino…….. and a 16 pt spread with wimmen.
Gosh. Bye Meg.
It’s What’s For Dinner!
Flugennock is such a trip.
It really is good… both of his up at corrente right now……
oops guess he has THREE up….
Oh a big belly laugh.
Drudge so helpful with the 1, 2
CLINTON PUSHED BLACK CANDIDATE TO GET OUT
OBAMA CAMPAIGNED FOR MEEK LAST WEEK
And linking thru to the NYT-
CHUCK READY TO BECOME LEADER IF HARRY FALLS…
Matt’s certainly a happy helper.
Hand them more knives.
hey:
More and better BACK STABBING.
What a hoot… that NYT lede Drudge links to -
“Schumer Subtly Maneuvers for Top Senate Post.”
“Subtly”. Seriously. Uh-huh.
Yeh like Chuck’s pledge that Harry would have the DSCC at his disposal. Plenty of Cash.
Too Funny.
The top ops in the country. Spare no expense.
A real tear jerker when I heard it.
Kinda like “Saving Private Ryan” meets the Donner Party. Right there in present day Nevada. So Harry would return as Leader.
Fuckin Chuck’s Press Ops aren’t even waitin for the deed to go down. More knives is right. I mean as a matter of decency. Fuck, Schumers people are already dissecting Harry with a fuckin spoon.
I’m fuckin out. LOL.
‘night all.
I can’t pass this up.
From the Cain and Abel story to Rattner to the plug for Netflix. Who the fuck are Hernandez and Steinhauer at the Times?
Gawd, what shillage. Okay. All done.
Harry = dead chicken in an Everlast outfit.
I think they killed him and stuffed him in a locker at the Port Authority building.
Obama: More Aggressive Anti-Foreclosure Efforts Would Help People Who Don’t Deserve It
Choke on THAT fucking hope and change.
hugh, over at corrente, picked apart how BAD the questions were. And of course the lame-o answers.
Really?! That’s the biggest challenge? Fucking Really!?!? Well, the asswipe, hire me, I’ve been collecting unemployment for over a year while working part-time jobs and trying to keep my kids fed — yeah, me, with my meager BA in Econ, I can help you overcome that big “challenge” in a HEARTBEAT!! IT ain’t that difficult.
Oh, and HERE’S an idea: before you start worrying about accidentally giving a few deadbeats and speculators a coupla hundred thousand here and there, why don’t we first take care of the motherfuckers who have been helped who REALLY don’t deserve it, to the tune a trillion or two, eh?
Goddes what a slimy piece of shit he is!!
he inspires more disgust and loathing with nearly every month that goes by.
Long years ahead. I AM wondering when London bookies start making odds on 2012.
I go back and forth.
Blacks Smoke Marijuana Less Than Whites, Get Arrested More
I think San Francisco is happily unraveling…. a couple of weeks ago they basically decriminalised personal use quantities of MJ…. there was a segment on the news tonight that up in Yuba Co, some uptight retiree is all whupset over a small grow “plantation” next door (he really ddi say he needs to protect his children!)… an official for the county said, sorry, we are just stretched too thin and small no problem plantings we cannot worry about.
AND our “new” intown ball park abuts a small man made cove… people usually float there in small boats, kayaks what have you during games.. and apparently tonight the air was perfumed with MJ.
I’d be faintng or passed out (the odor has always jsut felled me), but WHOOPEE.
Let it rip.
Maybe not an invasive enough pat down? hand slide?
Is this their October surprise? They need new material.
I am wondering if ti is in retaliation for expressions, started off by a speech from the head of BA, that various European commerical air entities, airlines, airports are sick to death of whta we demand of “security” for flights coming here. Screeenings and shoes and separate examination of laptops, a whole list.
AND THEN… the Israelis agreed with the Europeans.
So I would guess we are in a snit. Snit of a fit.
So, according to CNN, the story is that one person sent suspicious packages from Yemen with things made to look like IEDs but containing no explosives but IF they had explosives they would have been “viable”. Oy.
So, the point of this is…?
Bomb bomb bomb Yemen would be my guess.
Meanwhile we …………. “quarantined” Newark.
Which sounds redundant for an EPA pit.
Let’s hope they haven’t quarantined BHHM! Free BHHM!
Okay. This is overkill:
“Fighter jets to escort UAE flight from Yemen into JFK”
Are you guys at threat level Elmo yet?
And how stupid does this suspected Yemen sender have to be to include his name and address on these packages? Hello? Does that pass the smell test?
Meanwhile, Shooter may be Marine, FBI says
Sure. Right after they ship him off to Gitmo. Nice to know the FBI is in the psychotherapy business too.
might be a U.S. Marine with a grievance against the Corps.
I assumed it was military… either ex or still serving. As the phrasing goes. Still shooting, let’s say…
Let’s speed this up and simply put all Yemenis, those there, those here, on lockdown.
Get it over with.. You know we want to…………..
And send US MArshalls (I assume) to protect synagogues in … where else? CHICAGO… now that we say the temples were the intended recipient of the packages.
Or whatever they were.
I see Obamalama is going to have a presser now. Be afraid, be very afraid. And Send Money Now! to the Dems. Don’t forget to vote!
Rush had a line that made me laugh today… he was recounting the details of the Obby’s India trip. 500 + rooms in one hotel (the Taj Mahal Hotel) … 100+ rooms in an auxiliary hotel… more than 40 planes, 4 altogether the size of AF 1… etc
And Rush said, “Here is the question… ARE THEY COMING BACK?”
I will go anywhere for a laugh.
I think we can rely on wObbly giving away what little is left in the store.
Boychick is so hot for sub continent of India Indians, he’ll just bat his eyes and get all foolish and giggly..
Extreme Makeover: Curried Edition
I could kill for a plate of curry. Curry anything………………….
Joe Bageant is in Ferrara Italia…
Can I just say that these so-called “intelligence experts” on CNN and MSNBC are fucking clueless? Every one I’ve seen is saying that they don’t get why these packages were sent the way they were ie. so obvious, from Yemen, is it a dry run? etc.
Hello? The idea of “terrorism” is to scare people. Mission accomplished.
We were all in a dither today over an apparently abandoned “piece of luggage”. Buses were re routed, office towers told to “shelter in place”… streets closed…. ………….. and it was lost luggage with some clothing inside.
But! We are safe!
Meanwhile a few blocks away, at the City Hall area, there was a scheduled terror alert drill.
Maybe we can jsut call the mistaken identity issues of ”lost luggage” The Drill? And save money?
Thank Dog it wasn’t Terror Kitties!
More terror in their tiny claws and sharp baby teeth than an incoming UPS plane!
No doubt. There goes my plan to dress up as either a baby kitty or Yemeni printer cartridge salesperson for Halloween.
PANIC!!!!!!!!
Marijuana legalization ad to air on Colbert and Daily Show: “If We Vote, We’ll Win!”
Schmidt Under Fire For Discussing Abortion With Kids
They seem very emboldened…. a third party group is running a pro life commercial on behalf of Carly. I personally think that despite all the hoopla and bullshit… and the fact that Boxer has always been a lousy deer in the headlights campaigner (and mostly spared having to bother) that this race was never close… and a good part of it was to run a hard core anti abortion candidate, and see how well it does.
It being Carly.
is your meaning something comparable to the 2008 test drive for another “it,” Palin?
…. that would make sense to me, especially after seeing that commercial we were discussing a few threads back.
(Who could blame someone for not wanting to bring a child into this cesspool? …for what? to be tased, or droned? …to live under a bridge if their integrity prevented them from “earning” a paycheck that covered the BILLS?)
Apparently lots of people, people not for Carly, think that is a very good political commercial. Doesn’t work for me… but…
neue….
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