‘Nuff said 10 November 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics.trackback
Lipless and then some. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson…. Cat Food Commissioners.
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- "That Woman Is Worth Paying Attention To": Medea Benjamin Explains Why She Disrupted Obama's Speech 24 May 2013Less than 24 hours after she interrupted President Obama's major speech on the future of the secret drone war and Guantánamo, CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin describes why she repeatedly interrupted Obama's address. Benjamin, the author of "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," criticized Obama for failing to explain why a U.S. dr […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
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More PhotosOctober 7 1955
"a remarkable collection of angels
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
Democrats…
Same as goddam fucking forever.
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.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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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.
7 ft wall goes up during the night, around the convention center where the G-20 is held.
LA Times
Yeah right. Meanwhile we are still unclear on missile, contrail, bird, plane, Superman… or “?” — out here on our ‘streak to the sky’ of a couple days ago….
I call it our cute little terrorist missile from the far side of Catalina island. (what the hell, and who cares)
[boggles at picture]
I’ll see you in my nightmares.
:p
I think Mr Bowles is kindly showing us all how to hold a cat food can.
Reminds me of the Kids in the Hall sketch: “I’m crushing your head.”
I think he’s explaining the reason why he’s not popular with the ladies, and why he always got the ugly friend when Bill used him as a wingman at the bars in Little Rock.
oh gawddd.. can you imagine trolling the bars in LR.
I wonder if Chapel Hill is marginally better (J Edwards)
I think he’s indicating the size of Alan Simpson’s penis while explaining why it doesn’t hurt all that much to be fucked by him. What a pity they don’t have Bruce Frickin Reed in the photo to round it out.
Congrats for the mention on Bowie’s site, lucid! K3wl, as the kids say. (Do they still say that? I’m so old…)
Thanks. Do I qualify as a kid? I still say it.
kiss the kewl kitties too….
You do in my book.;)
yes, very cool lucid.
hmmm. Still shaking that big old finger, I see.
Laugh laugh laugh.
Shorter Obama: Suck it!
I’d add:
Shut it bitch.
And really if he wants to blame La Nan, he needs to blame himself. And the wif. And that Spanish beach too. The smoothly raked one… (and so much else.)
“shut your pie holes, since you won’t be able to afford pie to shove into it once we’re done with you anyway.”
wellllllll
Sirota got his rocks off. Seems very similar to Krugman. Pops off… periodically, sometimes, often, highly emotionally…. but pops right back on.
So old, so tired. So done.
The Hippies Lost, Mr Sirota! The Hippies Lost!
LOL
What a stupid day…
Let’s see…. I have Abe Foxman in the palm of one hand… Glenn Beck in the other hand. What to do??? What to do????
Smash my hands together and crush both.
Some solutions are simple. If bloody and a bit messy.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
just goes to show how fucking big tapeworms can get, will never forget as a child, the time my cat puked up a hideously leenggggthy one.
And then, there is, …the PIN WORM ….likely camaflogued as overflowing with concern for all the peeps …..every bit as deadly as the tape worm …………….jeesh ..life has become a true quagmire…
hmmmm …come to think of it…the asshole may as well be measuring worm length…. could care less about educating us on how to hold our dinner plates …he is fascinated by his lipless ‘kissing’ cousins and preparing for a dissertation and white paper on maggots and their relatives.
Bowles reminds me of this:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Woll_Smoth
(warning: some nsfw links there)
For Cats, a Big Gulp With a Touch of the Tongue
I am enlightened.
Now, if they can figure out why the landlord’s cat likes to grab the water dishes with his paw, drag them across the floor (and rugs) and dump them out frequently – that would be helpful. I believe they call that “Little Furry Shit Disturber Syndrome”.
I guess that cat cannot be left with unnattended water.
Maybe introduce him to a POOL. No dragging that baby across the floor!
I t sure would be fun.. like watching cats try to catch a spot light from a flashlight…
Arrgh.
Butterscotch the Evil LOVES to fling water out of the bowl and all over the damn floor. She also prefers to drink dirty water, rather than clean.
[sigh]
“Butterscotch the Evil” sounds funny, like “Fluffy the Destroyer”.
Yes, that’s the idea.
Of course, Sid is just “THE Sid.” Like when I buddy of mine years back named his cat “THE Balrog” after a Tolkien monster or whatever.
Incidentally, The Sid got on the counter last Sunday and ate a 5″ piece of string that had been wrapped around a roast beef while it was cooking. So we rushed the little shit to the emergency vet and $1800!!! later, he’s fine.
But I’m gonna’ be pretty fucking sick when I get my next credit card bill, let me tell you…
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my old dentist stopped serving her cats bottled water when she saw them… yeah you know, imbibing in the powder room.
This is why the lid is always down in our bathroom unless a human being is in there. [sigh]
Wordless Video for Haiti: How To Make Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) in camps, to combat cholera
As I expected, the first thing after losing the election, they cave on the Bush tax cuts.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/11/white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts.html
They tied themselves into knots when they foolishly said that 200,000 dollars – or close to it… (and always a lot of confusion over was that gross or net or what… just a mess!) but they killed themselves when they broadcast a number.
And a number that is too low, too.
They really are screwballs… whether on purpose or not.
HOW’D THAT VOTE WORK OUT FER YA?
And I shit you not,
the vaunted Ms. McSupportDaTroops parting words:
Jon Soltz, chairman and cofounder of VoteVets.org and vocal Iraq War critic is going back to Iraq.
wow…. VoteVets was (is) such a shill organisation. hell they all are.
The Shanghai Composite dropped 5.6% this morning.
God I love it. After the so called smart money here pumped the Dow and plowed deeper into Chinese Equities. Oops!
Nice pushback, Beijing! Well Played!
And they’re shutting down further property buys by foreign entities. Which should put a little damper in the pampers of our connivers in the process of foisting real property holders on whoever the next sucker is in line…
Again well played, Beijing! Well played!
And they’re shutting down further property buys by foreign entities.
Oh vry interesting. Unlike us, but then we don’t seem to care who owns us….
Before i read this I saw snips from the presser… it looked like he was literally dying on his feet. What a fucking mess.
Maybe mammma never told him there’d be days like this.
People MagPoliticoHe seems to be suffering from “Low T”.
(When men are grouchy, they give it a groovy, hip-hop name. When women are, they’re just bitches. C’est la vie.)
Low T… meaning what… ? The testosterone took a dip? (in the pool the cat is trying to drag?)
yup, the newest manufactured “illness” for them to sell a “cure” to “treat” …
watch for “T Pumpin’” special nutrients and vitamins. Etc.
It will be endorsed by “The Situation”
Maybe cause Michelle has them in a safe deposit box and he gets them back when there are no more obese kids?
This is National Pain Awareness Week. I’ve been in so much fucking pain that I didn’t even notice.
Have you read the latest info on Vit. D?
B-12 Levels?
Iron levels?
My B-12 is low (130 this week). I give myself injections. I take Vit D for my various bone problems. My iron is good, afaik. I just need to be knocked out for a week or so. That would be a nice break.
I started taking 5000mg of B-12 and 25 mg of iron, plus 2000 of D and it’s helped some. Especially the B-12.
….the ever balancing act of controlling chronic pain.
I am starting a new hobby to occupy my mind. Designing and building cat condos for Barn Cats or feral cat colonies…crazy!
Yes, I’m CRAZY.
Drop out
did you see the NYT article of a couple (or three or four) months ago on CATPATIOS
Oh it was hysterical… and wonderul…
[and very sorry this lanquished in Mod for hours, it catches everybody, including me, from time to time tho it should not... and I had major computer problems from 11 am on Friday.... gah... so was not online]
Just googled Catpatios. What a riot!
Cats do have a way of getting us to work for them. Just went out and bought some hay. Guess that is the best interior material to work with.
I thought it was a hoot! Loved it…
If you take pictures of what you build, or a working model or whatever, please link to it here…
Fantastic idea…
That sounds like a great hobby. Cats deserve their own palaces (and they know it).
I think it’s great that you’re building them for the wild ones. That’s a nice luxury.
I just gave away a bunch of old pillows, blankets and towels to a lady who shelters animals yesterday. Softness for the critters: the more, the better.
Bill Clinton must be in fake empathy overload mode.
Bill Clinton loves the Common Man™ and The Common Man™ loves Bill Clinton! I read it on one of them other blogs, so I KNOW it must be twuuuuue!
Awww…
Hope springs eternal. Or stupid. One or the other. or… eternally stupid.
’Rest In Peace,’ Dee Dee …., Oakland, California.
(I’m quite sure if all the Police guilty of domestic abuse (let alone abuse of anyone they can get away with it on) were murdered, and then replenished with new hires, much of the dismal employment figures would at least temporarily sky rocket.)
(sorry, I fucked up the link, corrected: link)
…let alone all of the Elite, and their politician asstoungers, guilty of, not only domestic abuse; but, hideous crimes against humanity.
(That was just (I believe) a statement of fact.
I don’t condone MURDER, and I really hope, I never will.)
The names of the two cops finally came out, one a 3 year veteran and one a 4 year veteran (if veteran is the right word)… but not a lot of details.
Betts, OPD chief, seemed a bit less ballsy than he has been… so I wonder.
good thing for him tulle stands up to moisture so well (though actually, not sure about that urine moisture), or he’d probably look even more of a mess, it is not every day that DC will send out the message, to those surrounding 17 plus counties (along with all of those acronymed forces of the deep unaccountable “black” hole funded, ….(and one has to wonder how much all that helicopter fuel costs in a “bankrupt” state.)), that enforcements are demanded by the big worm devoured dog, or is it son of the big worm devoured dog…distant cousin of the big worm devoured dog?
…oopsy, no callin on your mama, or sister, now… “mama” has died (in a Tony Perkins moment)…didn’t you realize that, as the blood and sweat stained your oh so spotless, military gloves, you gutless slimey fuckers?
aargh… 5:07 am Pacific Saturday…
Just back online after being off from 11 am or so Friday.
I don’t know what it was…. kept getting a busy (or so Netzero told me) when trying all three local access numbers…
Over and over again…. I began to hope it might be at their end, as their general instructions for that problem did not seem to indicate it was at my end (unless I had “noise” on the line…. ) and it seemed they hd no other San Francisco numbers to offer.
Anyway, at least for the moment, I am finally back on, after trying every couple of hours.
But I alos don’t know if I have a really good stable connection either… so will leave this thread up… and for the moment not struggle to put a new one up.
Gah. The joys of inefficient modernism.
wish me luck…
>^..^<
very frightening when our major avenues of communication are fuzzily cut off …..
I wish you all luck to eternity sweetness, and then some.
Absolutely. Silence isn’t always golden.
Gah
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press”: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); roundtable with former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), DLC Chairman and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN); Vanity Fair’s Bethany McLean
–ABC’s “The Week”: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Honeywell International CEO David Cote; roundtable with ABC’s George Will, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus and the Brookings Institution’s Robert Kagan
–CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-KY); Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
–“Fox News Sunday”: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC); roundtable with Fox News’ Brit Hume, NPR’s Mara Liasson, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and Fox News’ Juan Williams; “Power Player of the Week”: Actor / Activist Jeff Bridges (child hunger)
–CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA); House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC); Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC); roundtable with former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) (substitute anchor: Joe Johns)
–C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs, questioned by Telecommunications Reports’ Paul Kirby … “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET / 6pm ET): Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), GOP Majority Transition Team Chairman, questioned by AP’s Julie Hirschfield Davis and POLITICO’s Jake “Fast Break” Sherman … “Q&A” (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Author Bethany McLean (“All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis”)
–Univision’s “Al Punto”: Rep. Raul Grivalja (D-AZ); Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA); Rep. David Rivera (R-FL); U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual; Spanish dancer/choreographer Joaquin Cortes; roundtable with El Tiempo’s Ana Jaramillo and Diario Las Americas Alejandro Aguirre
How Two Gay Men Used Skype To Have a Legal Wedding In Texas
Silber
If Horatio Alger Had a Trust Fund, by Gen. JC Christian, patriot:
Yes the fetus story… Martha Raddatz and Jackie Calmes were just getting into a really (well almost, let’s be real) good back and forth on that story, when Gwen Ifill cut it off.
gah…. But Raddatz did manage to get in that W mentioned in the telling he had just gotten his license… and she looked it up, at that time you could get a driver’s license in Tejas at 14….
This whole “respect” for life is just such a fucking crock.
hmm tons of attacks across Afghanistan I see… checking in with the Noooz in between massive doses of Dexter.
Neue….
LINK
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