Sunday thread… 14 November 2010
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics, UK.trackback
Ducks feed at the pond in Central Park, New York Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
While I was fishing around at the Guardian…. I saw a headline… that McDonalds and Coca-Cola will have a hand in writing UK “health policy”.
I did not even open it. What utter shit.
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Well after writing the above, I gave into temptation… It’s PepsiCo, as it happens…. and a few others too.
The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald’s and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.
In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign groups to be the equivalent of handing smoking policy over to the tobacco industry, health secretary Andrew Lansley has set up five “responsibility deal” networks with business, co-chaired by ministers, to come up with policies. Some of these are expected to be used in the public health white paper due in the next month.
The groups are dominated by food and alcohol industry members, who have been invited to suggest measures to tackle public health crises. ….
Maybe Baby Fat Hunter can help too.
oh here is a laugh….
Apparenlty there is a mini movement on… people are moving W’s book, Decision Points to the Crime Section in stores.
Good one.
I was about to add, they should ALSO move Audacity of Hope to the Religion section.. but …….. really
It should be the REMAINDER table. The SALE table.
needed that laugh after reading about that ghastly UK Health Policy, …the serial killer clown section right? Somewhere close to daddy’s All My Best… It should catch on in a lot of libraries in a big way (gotta go dig up up my dewey decimal system reference sheet).
And if that clearance table can’t hold all those Audacious Hope books, they could put the rest in the restroom for paper shortages.
well they could put the book, W’s I mean, beside any biography of a serial killer. Dahmer…. etc. Gacy.
alpha order would ease access, between Bundy and Dahmer.
Ah… there you go.
AND BOTH Bundy and Dahmer were cannibals.
Perfect!!!
Or the humor section.
good idea!
Michael Moore was pushing doing that on Maher on Friday.
Read an interesting AP piece this evening in a days old, hardcopy Sentinel about Jerry’s Republican/Independent/democrat wife, Ann Gust Brown (ex Gap VP). The way the piece read, the marriage sounded like it was arranged by invisible parties, versus a loving union, .
Read as if she had been elected Cali’s Governer …and pointedly noted that she is not even the teeniest bit “whimsical” ….
Can’t wait to find out !……….uggggghhhhhhh
She ran the campaign.
We are all underwear bombers until proven innocent.
I read that another pilot has protested…. he called it “sexual assault” (he went for the pat down) and when he was home … the thought of having to go thru it again, caused him to vomit in his driveway…
Sully, Sullenberger has spoken out against the radiation for pilots who fly 15, 18 times a month. Which some business people fly that much as well..
and it’s all just theater … it produces no real guarantee of “safety”.
I stopped flying United (no loss, what a fuck up airline) because of what they put me thru BEFORE 9/11, here in SF on a domestic departure…. I cannot even imagine what it is like, REALLY like, now.
It took me years to realise I was the “control”…. or the afternoon entertainment… (customs in SF in a return from Paris in 96, when I was held an hour. I was so angry, I promptly “lost” my passport somewhere inside the house and did not go anywhere for almost 3 years)…
Of course the “control”, now, to prove it, The State, is not profiling (and I really don’t care anymore) is 90 year old grannies and babies. Who get felt up. And down. Grannies who are dnied boarding as the names on travel and ID dox are not exactly the same. DiFi got a grannie back home last year in a situation like that… stuck on the East Coast, as winter came on.
gah.
Found this via Corrente: UK Students trash British Conservatives’ HQ … the children’s crusade
I read during the night that in the UK the trashing of the Consrvative party head quarters is the planned start of a winter of protest.
Good.
I’ve read some fears of a return to the riots and rage during Thatcher.
Thanks so much for relaying that, couldn’t agree with Mr. Seaton more.
Love this picture too: “this picture”
Leave it to youth for doing much need things which require an ability to hop fences …
And to elders for their ability to take their time, at recollecting the injustice they have witnessed, …throughout their lives …and stand in line for the slaughter, because they are unable to hop that fence, yet still demand time to speak of injustice, ….. if that is what it takes …save the young for tomorrow, if there is one……….
Ahh well, now I find it necessary to note that I witnessed no vandalism in Oakland, California on November 5th, 2010.
Again, I didn’t witness any. ….That ‘Oaktown’ fight, was directly addressing (versus indirectly, as in the above linked picture), the murder of humans of a different hue.
Businesses Do Not Create Jobs
I read that “small business” so lauded by the pols… are not only closing… but in record numbers, new ones are NOT opening, being launched, etc.
What a fucking mess.
small businesses are so beholden to local demand, if everyone in your area can’t create a big enough demand for your business, your business will die. Add to that the ideological rigidity that many in the small business community seem to have that they should NEVER have to pay taxes or submit to regulation, and the combination kills the whole thing.
well a lot of “small business people” are fucking crackpots.
No question.
Its a peculiar attitude, and my wife can’t understand it at all. I went to get additional bids for getting our house resided painted, and the general contractor who made the first bid seemed almost perplexed that I would do such a thing.
His initial bid was high, and as I told him I needed to look around and let some time pass, he managed to negotiate down the price of the painting that he’d contracted out, but his portion he only reduced the price in exchange for doing less.
My wife’s reaction was “WTF is it with this country? No haggling? Do business people just expect people to give them too much money and not even ask questions about it?” My reply was, “well, yeah. pretty much.”
when did it stop being wise to get at least two bids and preferably three? Esp NOW?
I’m thinking that as more small businesses go under, the surviving business owners get more and more arrogant. They consider their survival some kind of divine gold star from the god of Capital, or whatever. They are blessed, and you should worship them. Unconditionally.
No doubt some folks who still have jobs look at the jobless this way, as well.
Just a theory of mine, of course.
very much looking like an Oracle, Google, Apple, and Microsoft (Amazon likely merging into Google …Facebook into Apple or Microsoft …….any spidey sense out there as to the Murdoch piece? ….the Monsanto piece to little Billy?) landscape, which will then merge into one entity I really hope I’m not around to witness…..
hard to believe, isn’t it? It’s like you should be grateful that they would deign to let you hire them.
It’s an odd world they live in. In many ways many small business people have adopted the attitude of landlords. They “know” that they’re land/building/apartment is “worth”, and they would rather let it sit empty to be written off as a loss than negotiate for less. Seems to have become widespread across many other businesses.
Yup. I see it all over downtown when I have occasion to go there. Empty commercial and residential properties everywhere. The suburbs are no better, of course.
Portlanders would never burn down their buildings outright to keep away squatters of course. It’s not that they care about squatters’ health and well-being, but just THINK of what a high-carbon footprint arson-for-profit would bring! Tsk!
ugh I just saw film of Erskine Bowles (uttering the quote that “entitlements” are a “cancer”, will destroy the country “from within”…etc) … and what came to mind was “Tweety Twat”.
I don’t care if it is sexist or rude or whatever.
What an aging utterly lipless twist of nothing.
What a fucking Democrat.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
A very Southern (minor) Manor born attitude.
hello…hello?…can you hear me hon?….are you okay? ….
If you’re still having connection problems Marisa:
If you can tell who my ISP is, you might want to try ‘them’ ( or, if you know something I don’t know about them, …maybe not?) I have to say that ‘they’ appear to have been excellent re spam, and I have never been blocked from accessing the internet through ‘them,’ for more than an hour, and that was years ago. (Will say, that it has always bothered me about those rumored to have founded “my ISP” though.)
On the other hand, it could be landline/ATT (nicked wires, for an instance) problems if that is who you have a land line with. Like PG&E, they are ABSOLUTELY NEGLIGENT in maintaining systems that not only do people pay decent money for, but people find them necessary to carry on without slitting their wrists. And, quite Unfortunately, most, if not all of the other “land line” companies (the bulk, if not all via Texas) are every bit as NASTY.
I’m here… been assembling the monthly grocery order… and a few other things…
Well things seem fine, since early am (Saturday, I think) when I got back on…. I think it may hve been a problem at Netzero end… as things seem better in general… once the 18 or so hours of enforced offline were over…
I have AT&T land line… only used for the computer, no call waiting, no voicemails etc on this line.
Glad to ‘hear’ you.
I have ATT landline also …the fuckers ….
now I’m hungry, having read Grocery List!
thanks alot,…sigh…..guess I’ll have to get off my ass….
…shit, I left my fennel seeds at my brother’s place…..
welllll, okay…if any assholes out “there” want to be ANAL ….Grocery ORDER
(am I chasing my own shadow?)
Gee. He so needs to go.
clearly, … the word, “ethics,” has seen its day.
The next time the word, “ehtics,” pops up, may has well be some totally unrelated clothing line,…or mocking, online “game,” where the purpose is to shed as much blood as possible.
too late for embarassment now!
…meant “ethics,” not “ehtics,”…what the fuck ever,….jeesh
trying to prepare for those red shoes (slippers?) …. baila! …on point, ….finally!
oops, …very sorry:
¡baila!
I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleanings of an empty heart.
The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb
I live in lonely desolation
and wonder when my end will come.
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………………Alexander Pushkin
…….. a “noble heart in a cruel age”
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TSA Full-Body Scanners: Protecting Passengers or Padding Pockets?
Luv that one company is called Rapiscan.
So perfect.
Hi .. bye.
Maybe India will take him in. Or Indonesia. Somewhere.
Read more: Link to People Mag
Oh he’ll have to come back to make it, well, Official and all now:
Taxes – How Quaint!
Now Wholly Optional for our Overlords.
Fully given over to the Bondsmen.
Should work out about as well Greenspan’s Monetarism.
Obama to present US Israel-Palestinian border map within 3 months —DEBE__KA_FILE
Can this be true??
Peter Orszag gets another NYT editorial column to push how cat food is good for you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/opinion/15orszag.html
“But, but, but we’re going to make SS more progressive.” Bullshit. This is your same bait-and-switch crap as the public option. Funny how that worked out.
Have faithiness!
lol…Sigh…
And it comes with the requisite Update!
Shorter Doc: Please don’t hurt me!!
Hey, if you post a diary you gotta be ready to take a big orange wedgie from time to time.
They’re swarmers. Packs of little Orange Bullies.
Oh, prrrrr Scratch, Claw…
2 Dems claim Huffington stole website idea
FLUFFDIGGERS!!
And On the cover of
People* *Marisa’s tag for Politico that isWhich is precious,
Daou and James Boyce’ Fluff on FluffPo violence…
considering the Pwogwessive guest-spectacle of Black Man and Cheney Ass Licker Ron Christie calling out Charlie Rangel…. at HuffPo.
Everybody okay?
Anybody need a drink? Canapés? Everybody good?
I really need to stock up on popcorn this week.
Holy orange-hued meltdown, Batman.
Yup.
Need.more.popcorn.
I sure need another drink, are you obliging? …
(well what the fuck, they say, honesty is a virtue!)
But but but…Daily Kos!
hehehe…
Harry Reid creates special leadership job for Chuck Schumer
Too funny. Of the “this just in” variety:
Howdy Doody revealed as
Buffalo Bob’s Biological Father.
Olbermann, MSNBC See Ratings Bump In Wake Of Suspension
Well They don’t call stuff Made for Television for nothin’.
Skimming by for something more substantive, – Monday Night Football it is! Soooo so screwed –
I could swear I saw Olbermann humping Murrow’s corpse again tonight. Jeezis.
Rangel guilty on 11 ethics charges
And…wait for it…
Well, you’re obviously a racist because you don’t support Wobbly!
Obviously. That goes without saying (although, according to some, it needs to be said every single day.)
Hi everybody. I just wanted to let everyone know that Marisacat sent me word that she’s under the weather and probably won’t be able to post for a day or two … she didn’t want everybody to think she’d just disappeared.
I’ll let you know if I get anymore updates before she comes back herself.
Thanks for letting us know.
no problem …
Get better soon Marisa.
Get well soon Marisacat!
Do you have an update on how Marisa is doing Madman?
for whatever it’s worth, if you’re in contact with her, please send her a huge hug from me.
“Quantitative Easing” explained…
Oh Good Lord, ts,
Thanks for that, that was great.
(and a big Jersey hug out to mcat, too..)
love that
“The Ben Bernanke”
“So what qualifies him to run the Fed?”
“I don’t know, maybe the fact that he has a nice beard.”
…
“This is true the plumber is clearly smarter than the Ben Bernanke.”
Bristol Palin’s dancing prompts man to shoot his TV
That’s kind of funny (considering how bleak all else seems) boysenberry cheesecake to you !
Was she imitating a metal studded, daughter of a vampiress? I can’t get ABC, despite the fact that we the public presumeably own those US network frequencies (and despite the fact that I live in an area that used to receive those US: ABC, CBS, NBC frequencies, FREE, with absolutely no ‘delivery problem) otherwise, I might have checked it out for the hideously bleak humor (at some point, I guess, we search for something to smile about, since there is so very little out there…. to smile about …)
Mmmm…boysenberry! That makes me smile.
nothing like sun ripened berries….
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Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda
TSA Enhanced Screening Procedures Explained
There’s just something about the text-to-speech and clunky 80s computer animation that makes it so droll.
The infantilazing irony is delicious.
You know – ala those instructional CD’s and TV segs of the “Baby Reads” hustle… variety.
to get your beloved months-old little turdmeister on the dumb-downed credentialing path on their way to -what?- who knows! but maybe a TSA job OR a corporate cattle-chute dweller of one sort or another, that is…
*IF they’re lucky.
So there it is.
Preparation for life living inside a cartoon.
Pretty much all you need to know about life in the US you could learn from a few these primers before you’ve even figured out how to stop crapping in your pants.
Which brings back fond memories as a zygote:
“Nothin like efficiency!”, someone always said through the I Phone sonographic amplifier during fertilization.
The GM IPO … Way up!
In Suckers Round x.0 with GM.
Wherein Pension Funds will be ripped off for Billions yet again.
Cause it sure isn’t Mom and Pop face down in the dirt doing the buying.
Bloomberg had Durbin on right before the markets opened..
just hump hump humping ..an IPO.
Some shill of an analyst, too.
Gonna be Great! the gist..
GMAFB.
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I recently viewed Patrick Byrne’s site Deep Capture… which is pretty much all you need to know about markets – very accessible yet precise in how derivatives – “naked short” options are manipulated
Byrne is the CEO of Overstock who was targetted by the Rubin crowd in a “Bear Raid” . A competitor to Meggy Moo’s Ebay, He fucking destroys the SEC and Financial reporters as wholly owned- shows precisely how the take works…
And BREAKING (not) ..
the SEC today formally announces settlement with Rattner!
LOL. AFTER the IPO. Oh and after Andy Coumos sighs in the last few weeks before the election.
So. Anybody seriously wanna bet the settlement wasn’t effective BEFORE today..
No folks™, remember, Rattner got a pass last month.
God, those motherfuckers love Obama!
So Party On Steve! Party on, Bob!
Now proceed with all alacrity to dump the GM shitpaper wherever and whenever you wish.
I’m just hopin to be loaded up on popcorn in a remote village when the Paulites and the Palinoids start shooting these motherfuckers.
Go Rand! Take aim, Sarah!
I Would Pay Cash Money To See The Look on Gergen’s Face
LOL. Oh that is good.
And perfect for one of those Xtranormal animes…
::
Q: What did Taibbi say to The Gergen?
A: To The Gergen. Taibbi said.
fuck the business community.
Q: And what did The Gergen say to The Taibbi?
A: To the Taibbi.
Gergen said. fuck the the business community.
Q: He said that Yes?
A: Yes. He said that.
Q: Who?
A: He did-
Q: What?
A: Also Say that’s -
Q: What did he say?
A: – what you say to. the business community.
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and so forth..
BTW, the Xtranormal site was getting crushed this morning..
Gergen. Jesus. Like Locusts and frogs and blood running in the river this Spring.
Q: And why are they afraid of The Rubin?
A: Because they want to eat.
Q: What do they eat?
A: I don’t know. Maybe Reubens with The Gerkhin.
ETC.
LOL
that would be funny
Pictorial …. on the Student Protest of the University of California SYSTEM. In other words: the PIGGY REGENTS, $“LEADERS”$, and THE HIGHLY SECURED, BRICK “HOUSE,” THE PIGGIES ARE CONSTRUCTING ……as they announce the raising of the cost of that “STATE” education close to 50% within two fucking years
(pics from the San Ho(usually) Murky, )
(If it were me, I wouldn’t bother wasting too much time on the piccy subtitles, nor the hardcopy stories attached to these piccys (the hardcopy piece, is titled Students, cops, clash, on the front page of the Local News section of the San Jose Mercury News, for November 18th, 2010) – they tend to take a while before any sort of truth is revealed, if they decide to reveal any truth.)
(interestingly, I found no obvious, online, version of the protest “story;” let alone one that was emphasized, ….given that the US (particularly CALI), is in such a RACE TO THE TOP…… That makes sense to me, the ‘Murky’ (see here, also.) whored by so many billionaires, and such military might, would not want the rest of the world to know about the cesspool in the middle of that fecund Sly Con Valley and environs …….
This ‘post,’ is further commentary to my, just prior, Student Protest comment …. which will likely post very soon. )
Pretty simple mathematically,
If “Money is Speech” wrt politics ,
lets take a look where the Democrats are ..
House Dems Borrowed Millions To Avoid Worse Losses
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Well, you can’t mortgage gelatin, soooo..
And what pray tell is the collateral? None?
Unsecured? Well, technically of course, yes.
An unsecured loan. But like any other, it’s predicated on ..what else? CASH FLOW.
So I say Bring on the Jackals. NTIM.
Don’t bother, they’re here….etc
G’Night.
And speaking of living in a cartoon…
The Santorum is back.
Mulling a 2012.
I laughed my ass off when I read this..
The……..authentic Popeye candidate.
Oh, Bring ‘Em On. What the hell – why not? LOL.
There must be something in the water in the coal and gas sludge that passes for water in my homestate of PA. Just swill it down, folks.
Cuz Tom Ridge is lookin like he wants in, too.
Sahs, ahem, choke, Bush “didn’t get a fair shake”
Those stories – and what stories they are -
from ….. Politico.
I saw somewhere The Gergen was humping Jeb B’s entrance into 2012. Just pass the bullets all around.
Somehow I missed this report, motive:
9/11 :CNN Reported Third Explosion Brought Down WTC1 On 911.
well, that didn’t take long: Elizabeth Warren Extends Olive Branch, Borrows Idea From Lenders In First Major Speech
Sure, that will work.
Obamalama’s Number One Fan, blackwaterdog, has left the building – again. Idol worship: it’s not for the faint of heart!
The pom-pom girls are in a big whoopty today over Cenk Uygur’s occasional criticism of O. Last I looked, it had reached the point of calling out Uygur’s four month old son in a diary title. Surely that’s contrary to something in the holy 83-volume book of rules and their various exegeses.
I missed that one!
To the rescue:
Useless sycophants. They look up “democracy” in a dictionary and see a self-gagged donkey.
gawd he makes me sick
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would like to post something (in addition to the two posts, 11/18/10, in spam, yet to show up, re the UC protests) but my cat keeps tromping back and forth on the keyboard as I attempt it …
so be it …
hugs to Marisa…..
hmmm,…ruby has stopped tromping on the keyboard, I’ll attempt a repost of my (currently unposted), 11/18/10 posts:
Unposted, Post One:
Pictorial …. on the Student Protest of the University of California SYSTEM. In other words: the PIGGY REGENTS, $“LEADERS”$, and THE HIGHLY SECURED, BRICK “HOUSE,” THE PIGGIES ARE CONSTRUCTING ……as they announce the raising of the cost of that “STATE” education close to 50% within two fucking years
(pics from the San Ho(usually) Murky, )
(If it were me, I wouldn’t bother wasting too much time on the piccy subtitles, nor the hardcopy stories attached to these piccys (the hardcopy piece, is titled Students, cops, clash, on the front page of the Local News section of the San Jose Mercury News, for November 18th, 2010) – they tend to take a while before any sort of truth is revealed, if they decide to reveal any truth.)
Unposted, Post Two:
(interestingly, I found no obvious, online, version of the protest “story;” let alone one that was emphasized, ….given that the US (particularly CALI), is in such a RACE TO THE TOP…… That makes sense to me, the ‘Murky’ (see here, also.) whored by so many billionaires, and such military might, would not want the rest of the world to know about the cesspool in the middle of that fecund Sly Con Valley and environs …….
This ‘post,’ is further commentary to my, just prior, Student Protest comment …. which will likely post very soon. )
too funny, just moments ago, my November 18th post has finally posted also, three days later, the more the merrier, I suppose ….I hope that means you are back and doing okay Marisa!
think I let three out of Moderation…
all of mine are out of moderation.
So very glad you are back honey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Gahd. I think I’ve gotta do a little more woodwork , maybe take up some fruit carving, join the others in the dayroom for Mahjong…
‘cuz poking around on the internets I think I just discovered that Obama is a descendant of Yezhov.
…that is a fairly stunning likeness, even better than the Babs Pierce (etc.) Bush/Crowley likeness.
…must be sumthin about how they use their facial muscles when scheming, conveying, or covering up, their agendas …………..Or, they are fuckin related.
Signing in, Sunday 6:54 PM Pacific
Somehow or other, I am here….
I made it out and back.
But I am battered and bruised for the week it took them to save me.
They only let me out today as I promised (they almost made me sign in blood but they had so much of it already) that on TUESDAY I show up for another echocardio… and more blood work. And more of that everyweek for weeks….
And see the doc I selected no later than the week following TGiving.
But … I made it.
I hope everyone is well and safe…
>^..^<
YAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
You are back!
So glad
Take it easy Sweety…
Ruby Kitty waves a dangerous paw (with claws fully retracted) too….
hey, welcome back!
made it…. by the skin of my teeth I think.
I’m glad you convinced your captors to release you …
when I realised it might get extended… becasue it had begun to appear to wind down Tuesday afternoon, then by Tuesday evening ratcheted UP big time and they moved me to the cardiac telemetry…. where they suggested, with little preamble, an invasive procedure. I blew what gaskets I had left…. and as soon as I saw it getting even more extended, simply said I had to have a standing order for Ativan. Cocoon myself against them.
And escaped the procedure…. Invasive is where they can (and mostly do) make big big big big big mistakes. Not having it.
whew.
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