Opera Glasses and Popcorn
A mandrill seems to flash a rude gesture towards photographer Mark Rogers at the San Francisco zoo. However, the animal suffers from arthritis and is unable to lower his middle finger [MARK ROGERS / CATERS]
He is too perfect. Of course, it might be a she, too…. 😉
Maybe she is saying, Man-Up!
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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- 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."
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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.
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Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
all of this, and we might STILL be suck with Saggy Everlasts? Gawd, if there’s a bloodbath, couldn’t they lop off that old zombie’s head while they were at it?
I think it was establishment R who pulled it off (if he scrapes thru), from everything i have read about Harry.
I don’t know…sticking them with a rapidly frittering majority might be entertaining. Like the Hotel California.
Marisa didn’t think Nan could handle it, maybe Harry throws in the towel after this term too.
Well … my own guess would have been that La Nan sticks it out, but there has been several hours of CW out here. That says no….
And some scuttlebtt that she has zero interest in serving AND losing all the perks of Speaker. I’d add that no one will be rep from SF that she does nto pick….
One of which, Hastert had it too, but a smaller plane, a mil plane at your disposal for trips home. Every weekend.
I’m definitely gonna watch if Barry O. addresses the House before January, just to see the expression behind his right shoulder.
HAHAHA! A 3-Fer!
It’s so funny when you cling on the Nu Link and the mandrill pops up. ROFLMAO!
Ike Skelton (Armed Services) goes down. Wretched nasty anti abortion rights…
Another FRAUD.
good riddance
AP calls it for Jerry Brown.
Geesh, aparrently FOX all but stabbed Carly, declared it for Boxer at 8:01 PM.
NYT has it even with 17% reporting. We may have our first premature declaration of the evening.
MSNBC is straight up not reporting the PA Sen.
The Philly Inquirer already called it.
But Olberman with the helpful “still to close to call”
Rossi’s winning in WA: 54% to 46% with 35% in.
No kiddin? Jeez.
Well way too early, plus I can always botch something else.. 😆
NYT has sneaker lady up by 17k with 59% in now.
Recount 2: Electric Boeingaloo
It just flipped:
Murray 51%
Rossi 49%
54% in
Another of Markos Patrons goes down:
MAMZ:
Hall & Oates?
He’s gone and I don’t know why
I don’t know how to take it. He’s gone -oh why?
LOL
😆
Different Hall – from the band Orleans.
I really think Reid has been big supporter, his office, discretionary income from DSCC and so on…
Hilarious twitter comment: “Meg Whitman finally learns how it feels to lose out on your bid for something you really wanted at the last minute.”
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I think Paladino threatened to beat Cuomo with a baseball bat if he didn’t learn the right lesson … I guess he’s supposed to regret winning by double digits.
The talking points from EVERY Republican are remarkably consistent … almost word-for-word. You have to almost admire the sheer efficiency of it.
They’ve had an 800 number, for a long time now.. you can call in every morning. Get the marching orders, TP of the day…
Prolly email now.
(I am not kidding)
they don’t even pretend to be answering an actual question if it doesn’t fit the talking points.
It’s really stunning how disciplined they are at it.
I really believe they have training camp. A real one, set of training camps….
Not some fucking Dem “retreat”.
AND I believe they are taught to pitch their voices, to cut thru a mish mash on a panel.
It takes major discipline to keep speaking with brown stuff leaking out of your ears. I’m reflexively wiping the tv with toilet paper every time the Boner opens his mouth. (Changed too many dirty diapers the last two years)
AP calls it, Dems keep senate.
🙄
welllllllllllll
Local CBS is showing Boxer and Carly at 47% each.
again it was FOX that first called it.
Jeezis.
Fuck Gianoilias LOST!
OK.. full on major bloodbath.
Looks like Manchin is..the Donks firewall in the Sen…
Bennett might still pull out CO & I think Murray pulls out WA and Reid NV. Who knows what happens in AK with the collapse of the handcuffer.
AND IN OHIO: GOP Rep. John Kasich will unseat Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, the AP projects.
Oh I delight in that.
Strickland that Third Way DLC Clintonite piece of shit.
Quinn won for Gov in Ill… with .3 (so far 95+% in)
Boxer 47. 2
Carly 47. 1
Republicans will run hard core anti abortion in Cali …. this is better than their wildest dreams.
I have to say that Carly became a very effective campaigner, face to face… something Meg never managed.
Sestak: “…sepulcher in the heart of the Pennsylvania”
WTF?
Ha! Tweety finally found his movie analogy about Sestak: “Mr Smith doesn’t get to go to Washington”.
The CA SoS site is getting crushed. I got in for a sec and Babs is 48 to Fiorina’s 46.somethin Carly. I went to refresh and got blown out again..
Shiyaaat. I just got on again and Firina is UP.
Barbara Boxer (Dem) 1,120,135
46.3%
Carly Fiorina (Rep) 1,165,935
48.2%
As of 9:22 PM Cali time…
Most of rural CA has been counted. The Bay Area is still around 25-30%. I think Babs is gonna pull away by 4-5 points late. Probably why they called it.
The Bay Area can swing a vote.
I just got to the LA county part of it only 7 % from an hour and a half ago..with Babs raking it in so she survives…
One thing I notice on the CA SoS is that Jerry isn’t blowing out Ebay Meg tho….
AP called it, with 17% in………..
Be interesting to watch. Carly is def a scrapper.
Mammma mia… I HAD thought Boehner was a tougher nut.
via the Media blog at People Mag…
It was hilarious. Maybe it’s a side effect of the spray on tan…
Well he had to eat a crap sandwich a couple years ago.
Picture of him after eating said sandwich in the sidebar.
Link isn’t clicking.
Uh, oh. Must have forgot a ” or a /
no part of the link survived… just post the URL and I can insert it…
😉
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/The_Sandwich_Chef
thanks … done!
MSNBC calls it for Harry. Nailed that one!
You and your spidey senses…
MSNBC has its orgasmic moment with the Reid victory.
And just called the Brown win.
They can pretend that the whole “repubs took over the house” thing didn’t happen – for a few minutes. He’s just lucky Angle is a loon.
Cue Schumer’s FAKE Orgasm. 😆
His acceptance speech tonight was atrocious… can’t stand that man.
Olberman:
Lookie here at- Literally – > the Palin Scoreboard!
Look at her endorsements!
LOL
Ahahahahaha!
I had forgot about “pre-existing conditions reform”.
Boxer 47%
Fiorina 48%
30% in
So what the fuck IS going on in California?
Is Gore on the ballot or what?
Their SoS site is totally crashed here
Seom Dem favs.. McNerney for one in CA-11 mayb in trouble.
Kamala Harris (our DA running for state AG) is another… too tight for Gavin — SF mayor runnin gfor Lt Gov —maybe………..
Hey hey.. princeling bestirs himself…
Isn’t that the same thing he said in 2008? Maybe it was a robocall.
Oh I’d LOVE to hear LaNan on THAT call.
THANKS ALOT YOU KENYAN BASTARD!
la Nan will be packing. It might be wrapped in Hermes silk, but she’s gunning.
Just my opinion…
Oh LOL-
Larry O’Donnel : “This is a successful hanging on night for the Democrats”
Gene Robinson: “It could have been MUCH Bigger.”
Yeh, Gene, with a fuckin asteroid and an
Extinction Level Event involved.
they are officially pathetic
They could have lost all 535 seats, but they’ll just have to try again in two years.
I looked up the worst losses ever: 71 in 1938, 55 in 1942 and 52 in 1994.
A solid #2 this year, GOP +56 with 55 seats still undecided.
Where’s my 52??
There’s always HOPE.
Ho-o-o-o-ope. Hopium………………
Okay. Do the MSNBC pundits realize they’re still live on the teevee?
Who knew you could train 5 chihuahuas to bark about Palin? Now they’re on to make merry about Alaska..
Seems to me the are avoiding WA…
They’re spinning tops – trying to figure out how all of this can help Obamalama in 2012. Yeah. Good luck.
CNN: Prop 19 defeated.
Tim Lincecum’s series victory couldn’t carry them.
Local CBS called AP to double check… “Hellooo this is San francisco calling… are you sure Boxer has won… ir is genuinely the projected winner???”
AP said yes.
HOWEVER, word is Babs will not give a speech til it “looks better”.
NOW CBS here is calling it “razor thin”.
I saw BB earlier today in Oakland (film).. and she was nervous.
Did any of you catch the craptastic piece Maddow opened with last night on the tremendous accomplishments of the 111th?
Not I. I’ve cut down on the puppet shows lately.
I saw some of th text of it.
She does shows that are just cut and paste.
What a shame.
Yeah – when she actually does journalism, it’s often good… Unfortunately there’s been little of that since we hit campaign season.
Their crowning achievement was tonight.
Politico has a “Rise and Fall of Nancy Pelosi” up
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44598.html#ixzz14C50yRrM
whoops.
“I think it’s going to take us a while to get beyond this,” said a House Democrat close to Pelosi. “10 years, maybe 20 years. I don’t know if we’ll get back the majority while I’m here.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44598.html
They’re definitely going in the wrong direction fast. Amazing what they accomplished in two years.
WaPo has called it for Boxer too.
Now they’re talking about blubbering Boehner. Mon dieu.
The Democrats are screwed… R picked up 8 governorships… and Dems lost 7.
All the way dowwwwwn ballot, too.
Like what you see in Cali, what Madman said is going on, this is from the State House in PA…
Barry is dead to the remnant Dem Congress Critters left to the mercies of GOP redistricting in the statehouses..
Not that any of it, our laughing-stock elections or these figureheads matter. The country is gangster state and the junta owns the media.
We have citizens who now happily carry multiple GPS tracking devices , all of us proles blithely pass by security cams a hundred times a day whether its from subway to stoplight to cubicle to restroom AND have webcams turned on in their homes. Which they purchased.
Now the irony is not lost on me that the old Bell switchboards are not so far removed from the DARPA developed ISP’s we all use now, but anyone thinking we da peeps are headed anywhere good are out of their fucking minds.
As our Wars and plunder carry on…
Dope springs Eternal.
Think of what would happen if Prop 19 passed!
All my nephews would move to California!
Write-ins winning AK senate. I assume that is Murkowski.
Could be Santa Claus.
I wrote in Jimmy McMillan for a NYS Supreme Court judge today [I just had to vote Green for gov. on the off chance of improving ballot access].
Respectfully, Evan, if you bail out on your party you need to STFU. Especially when the GOP now holds your seat.
ugh.. i hate evan bayh.
I’d like to punch him in the face.
And knock that farmboy haircut off his head.
DiFi is at boxer hq… shr says too close to call. they are holding tight.
my own opinion is that difi is for fiorino
Oh, I agree. Babs is just a stockbroker. DiFi and Carly are in the CEO class, or at least married to them.
Wow. Depressing speech, Harry.
If Barbara loses…. senate goes to 50/50.
Meg will not concede til 75% of the vote is in…
Jerry Brown is giving a very California speech. 😉
Babs has jumped to +3.5% with 35% reporting. Murray has maintained 17k over Rossi with 61% reporting. Inouye is up 70/25 in Hawaii, though they haven’t called it yet.
I’m sticking to my earlier 5-6 seat call.
Though Murkowski is a pro-choice Republican.
It’s way past Wolf Blitzer’s bed time.
Fiorina is giving her concession speech.
Oh – nope. She’s saying 36% has been counted and it’s a dead heat.
Meanwhile, Boxer’s claiming victory.
she’s claiming to have pulled aheaed by several pts, even before “LA Co and Alameda Co”….
hmm we shall see.
I had to reboot so………. must catch up………………
LOL
Now all I get from the Cali returns site is this:
“Fuck You, Inquiring Citizen.
Check Back Later, Asshole.”
A bit brusk, I must say.
Oh the ole presumptive win speech…
No mention of a Fiorina concession..Hmmm.
Babs is saying how the media outlets projected her the winner.
Politco has BB aheaad by 5, 200K in votes…
I think the R are working in concert, no concession.
Which I have no problems with…
Looks like Jerry McNerney going down… in CA 11.
This was pretty good: http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2010/11/surprise_rest_of_the_shoo-ins.php
The most bizarre and unsettling Democratic shoo-in of the 2010 election season is Jenny Oropeza (D), incumbent for the senatorial seat of the Long Beach area. She’s running against John S. Stammreich (R – no chance whatsoever). Thing is, Oropeza died of cancer two weeks ago.
It was close, though. She is only winning 53/41.
Meg ascends to speak… and the music was very odd… to say the least.
Sort of Valhalla Crescendo.
She is conceding.
😆 sort of Valhalla Crescendo
You go from the midnight Southern rockers next door the other week to this…
Hang Mcat till we can get reinforcements in!
Hang ON Mcat!
Gawdddd blesssssssssssssss the USAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Several rounds of it too… LOL
I see it is still neck in neck for Buck and Bennet.
Yikes.
Night kids…
Kiss the Kitties… 😉
Hmm LAT walking back their lede a bit..
Boxer claims victory; Fiorina won’t concede
MSNBC says Bennet won’t speak till morning, has gone to bed, literally..
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And they say that WA Sen still has a million mail in votes that won’t be opened till later today.
Which make it perfectly obvious what this means:
Just not to me as usual. LOL.
But this needn’t interfere with my posturing.
…that it comes down to who is more likely to mail in and who was more effective at getting that done.. Yeh , I do a little football analysis now and then, too.
Now IF I had spidey senses, I’d bet mail-ins would tend to be weighted towards older exurban and corporate types..and if they are anything like similar voters we’ve seen in the East, that will favor the R…
Washington, they only have to mail on election day. (I think)
Now I’m not even making this up…
The Cali website has this rejection for me:
This website is temporarily unavailable.
Please check back later.
Unfortunately there were no suitable nodes available to serve this request.
Suitable/ Unsuitable – I Don’t Give Shit!
Give me a node, Goddamit! 😆
Pete Wilson referred to the SoS site being down off and on all night.
A mess…. As I said a couple of the Dem favs went down or were in tight races…
It’s all so Historic and Nodular now.
NOW it really is post racial.
Tho of course we are STILL stuck in Reconstruction.
That one after the Civil War.
Welp, I gotta get some sleep now that the people have spoken in the Greatest Democracy Evah and we move to the historic litigation and recrimination phase ®. LOL.
Mandrill ‘012!
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Hey hey???!!! Whatta about all the Green Jahbs they promised? Do we still NOT get those, as planned?