Opera Glasses and Popcorn
A hazel dormouse slumbers. Hazel dormouse numbers have fallen by almost two fifths in the past two decades – but the rate of decline is slowing down significantly [Picture: PA at the UK Telegraph]
**********
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
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... 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]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
|
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.
[...]
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.
I don’t think US is really reporting (tho BI has photos of protests in Rome) but I have on Euro News and they are reporting
“all major cities and towns in Italy have risen up”, there are “100,000″ people on the streets of Rome and people from L’Aquila, where the earth quake was and B built some white marble facaded building for some stupid G-gagas meeting, have come to Rome to join the protests…
agaisnt Berlusconi, against austerity programs and school costs rise.
I missed that news. Looks pretty wild.
Quite the pic on the front page of La Repubblica.
More power to ‘em!!
I know, it cheered me up!
The Daily Mail just posted a number of good shots at: Riot breaks out on streets of Rome as scandal-hit Silvio Berlusconi survives as Italian premier by just THREE votes
Some more re: Italy
Just turned on news, so far nothing on cnn and msnbc.
Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hemotology, has
published these findings out of The Charité in Berlin.
Submitted in September, they were “accepted” for publication four days ago and are up online prior to hitting the dead tree edition.
Wow. Thanks for the link BHHM! Here’s hoping it’s scalable!
This certainly shouldn’t surprise as most people who test ‘positive’ for HIV do so because the body evidences necrotic conditions [such as systemic fungal infections]. Reconstituting necrotic cells within the body by use of stem cells would eliminate the cell necrosis that underlies a positive antibody test. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily alleviate the ultimate cause, which in my humble estimation, per the Perth Group is oxidative stress.
Whoa, lucid! I knew you were a talented musician, but didn’t know you were also so well versed in the biological sciences!
This group of people never ceases to amaze and delight me!
I’m actually a rocket scientist.
Ahem.
hahahhaha.. I am not sure wat I am…
I’m desperately trying to join the fun and think of ‘what I am,’ other than a fool…….sigh………..
We’re all just modest geniuses.
speak for yourself … I’m a high-functioning circus freak.
An honourable profession!
I’m a deterministic automaton.
I’m just a dropout.
oh thanks for that hanky honey, you didn’t have to ya know ….;0)
incognito…..
Anyone see this, too strange for words:
Anna Ardin, Julian Assange Rape Accuser, May Have Ceased Pursuing Claims
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/anna-ardin-julian-assange_n_794285.html
o gawd.
Little stephie says Holbrook “died with his boots on”.
gah.
That must have been uncomfortable.
Speaking of Italy and Medicine, reminds me of UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ); which, according to some of my peepsies in Pittsburgh, appears to be taking over all of the hospitals, medical insurance (see here), and doing quite the transplant business in Sicily (see here, for one, …and yes, there is a significant Sicilian population in Pittsburgh).
UPMC reminds me of another, unrelated, PMC: Palo Alto [CA] Medical Center, which also seems to be sprouting up everywhere outside of Palo Alto, and I haven’t heard anything but negative remarks from those stuck with it.
the hospital I was in here has done that, the take overs I mean. They now have 4 ”campuses”, comprised of hosptials they acquired.
I guess fairly soon there’ll be just one, World Hospital, with severely limited access at that, sigh…
Looks like UPMC doctors have been doing a significant ‘online’ practise, I’ll just never ‘see’ a doctor if it ends up being the only thing available.
J’Accuse: Sweden, Britain, and Interpol Insult Rape Victims Worldwide
Lots of sad details from various warzones and etc about the horrors visited upon women as a matter of course in this fucked up world, then …
One thing I learned from being not too long in a criminal def firm, if anything like that were to happen to me, to just crawl home, don’t bother with a rape kit and try to heal.
about it.
Amen.
Thanks for that Madman, and ditto Marisa and catnip.
Well, we invaded Afghanistan because, you know, bhurkas…
…and we are staying for the wimmens and children.
Sorry for double post, see this?
Anna Ardin, Julian Assange Rape Accuser, May Have Ceased Pursuing Claims
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/anna-ardin-julian-assange_n_794285.html
Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ties/
And then there’s this:
Who is Behind Wikileaks?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22389
Muddinging the waters:
“Wikileaks and The Economist have also entered into what seems to be a contradictory relationship. Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange was granted in 2008 The Economist’s New Media Award.
The Economist has a close relationship to Britain’s financial elites. It is an establishment news outlet, which has, on balance, supported Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war. It bears the stamp of the Rothschild family. Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild was chairman of The Economist from 1972 to 1989. His wife Lynn Forester de Rothschild currently sits on The Economist’s board. The Rothschild family also has a sizeable shareholder interest in The Economist.
The broader question is why would Julian Assange receive the support from Britain’s foremost establishment news outfit which has consistently been involved in media disinformation?”
Yep. Just like Laura Bush pimped feminism so Hubby and his bipartisan pals could bomb the Afghanis.
Two weeks ago AManpour had on some woman from some supposed Afghani pro women pro education group (think it was “Afghanistan Education Institute”), swathed head to toe in demure black, the sort of inverted triangle of the face open, but no more… I think she even wore black gloves, declaring the US must stay in A for the girls and women.
Nir Rosen has documented, there have been MORE honor killings with us there.
How are you feeling Marisa, you have only one post today, ( I’m sure I’m not the only one concerned)?
My humble apologies if you’re just taking a break ……..
no I started sort of dipping downward last Sunday… I plan to call the cardiologist tomorrw… I have an appt to se him next Monday (in four days) but maybe I should go in earlier…
I think the whole “recovery” has just been a lot. The night I was in the ER, as people swirled around and young idiots tried to sell me on the “procedure” (which I knew I needed, I jsut was nt going to have it done as some casual, local anesthetic thing done by a resident) no one answered me on “the recovery”.
gah…
I will be fine… it is a just a lot, for a “simple procedure”
whew, … Im so glad you responded, even happier at ‘hearing’ I will be fine ….
I sure wish the medical experience you’re having, was far more humane (in the more promising reality of that word) than it’s come to be….. sigh …….
honestly it’s been horrible.
I just do not do well with the “hospital regime”. And don’t want to go back in…. I tried ot get thru it as best I could, but I noticed that a woman who came in the day before I went home, in the late afternoon following one of thse “angio” procedure, where they snake catheters to the heart from the groin, to the bed next to me… she kept up a brave front the following morning with the doctors and nurses and so on… but when her husband came she broke down.
I had heard her say she was an emergency cardio patient in the summer at Uof Michigan hospital ….so I wondered if the regime during the night at this hospital ws esp harsh.
They wake you at 4 am every night to weigh you, at 5 am for blood draw. I tend to wake early, so it ws less intrusive to me than someone who normally sleeps to 6 or 7 (tho I dreadd everyblood draw) … She’d had a bad night, which as I would wake, during the night, I sensed. Apparently, as she tld her husband, she walked out to the Nurses station (all too often Party Central, even in the ICU-CCU) at 2 AM, to ask for Restoril, got some fitful sleep sort of, only to be awkened to be weighed. Then blood an hour later…
Nevertheless, even tho my fit ful sleep patterns meant I was often awke at 4 and 5… I hated the whole thing, both stays…
the waking for wieghing, at 4 AM, seems sadistic, given how very few are awake at that hour … especially for those whose bodies need every stitch of fortification possible to successfully live through major surgeries…..
and yeah, if they’re up at two, why can’t the weight be taken then, before they are finally able to get some sleep?……
uggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
it was a lot… we both managed to get out at 1 or 2 pm that next day, so I had no chance to ask her if the regime at this hospital ws strikingly different from UofMichigan’s hospital…
But I did notice she clearly felt very shakey and scared to leave the hospital but still, she absolutely went.
and yeah, if they’re up at two, why can’t the weight be taken then, before they are finally able to get some sleep?……
oh well that would scrw with Party Central at the nurses’ station. I don’t mean to say there were nt good and fully cmpetent people who did their jobs, but there were a lot NOT in that group, as well.
Oh wait …..I get it, ….my oopsie, ….. The 4 AM thing must be a bot algorithm (yup, had to look that spelling up), ….. and who would dare defy, … ‘such perfect reasoning,’ ….even if, that ‘reasoning,’ is incorporated into that software, by a chosen, and select, few ‘human beings’ (and not by a ‘perfectly reasoning computer’) …..
welllllll, …the negligent fuckers better party it up now, as they’ll soon be replaced when only a handful will ‘warrant’ the ‘comfort’ of a hospital bed….and the rest of us will be dispensed with by who knows who, or what, online …..
honestly it’s been horrible.
Get as much rest as you can.
[points]
What catnip said.
dkos 4 beta
oooo….ahhhh…
Could it load ANY slower??? Over 20 seconds and still waiting….
I know. And it’s really buggy.
Bu-u-u-u-t… we’re always for Human Rights! Right?
From Angry Arab, a letter to the NYT:
She gets there with the last line. It’s all connected…
Kissinger’s a psychopath.
He is.
Nobel Peace prize winner, tho!!
yup, in far too a long of a line of them ……..
we are so very ……………………..
I know it sounds sappy, but I sure hope we can somehow survive it… at least a few of the youth ….
Oh no… I just heard a snippet on the radio that Dan Choi was “involuntarily committed” following a breakdown… will look for a news report.
Village Voice… they don’t use or mention “involuntary” commitment… but fwiw…
I read about that last nite at L’OrangeVille. He’s been through so much and to think this damn fight is STILL going on.
Did you see the latest remarks by the head honcho of the marines? He should be fired.
marines and army are opposing…….. navy air force ok with it.
May they all go to war against each other.
That would be a good solution.
a friend of mine jokes that those gay would-be soldiers must be pretty bad ass if big strong highly-trained Marines need to be scared of them … and if they are so strong and overpowering, wouldn’t the military WANT them?
it hit some news by around 3:00 – 3:30 Eastern standard, as I saw it, before I went to sleep last night-morning, at newsnow………
shit, sorry that should be 4:00 – 4:30 AM.
I admit it, I’m near fried, and desperately trying to hold on, like so very many of us …………….
sad … I hope he recovers.
he has so radiated strength….
I missed much of the news of the past 24 hours… so I did not hear it during the night, and slept thru evening news, almost all of it…
jeesh boohoohooman … you’ve been kinda quiet honey … hoping that’s a good thing ……. :0)
take care, whatever is up, homezy ….. ;0)
I needed to go through some different channels lately. All is okay tho I’ve been running late this week.
::
Anyways Di..wrt those university gangsters back east..you may be interested to know they were among the first backers of LTCM. (One of the great iterations of the same Ponzi scheme that’s been going on for decades now)
another whew, …..I know, I’m pathetic….but damnnnnnnnnnn …
(though I did figure you might be okay …tough as fuckin jerky …..and still an acronym asshole :0) …my fuckin head is swimming with the fuckers ………………..)
:0):0):0):0)
:0):0):0)
:0):0)
:0)
What is this? An obtuse – off?
Okay Lemme guess… LTCM ….
Long Term Capital Management.
It’s worth a goog if you’re interested.
LTCM
Talk about a fucking RESCUE
I have no idea WTF is going on BUT Jon Stewart’s Moment of Zen was a video clip of “Male acrobats performing for the Pope” (as he gazed and drooled).
Engineered by all the same dudes, still trading chits on it.
Well, Till NOW. As the story that I think that has been SOOOO Sotto voce in the US… is how the Fed HAS BEEN propping up the Treasuries Market.
OOPS.
“Folks” (henh) around the globe just. aren’t. interested.
LOL. Well, they SHOULD say there’s apetite for risk anywhere but Banana~Donko~Repulic HERE. And what it means with this monopoly money is Uncle is getting wrestled to the mat and having to pay a whole shitload of it out as both bond and currency are literally worth … less.
Because as far as USA is concerned, let’s get real : Basically we’re ALREADY defaulting on our debt by dilution, the printing of money.
Fuck it, The Bernanke should just start handing out DREIDELS. LOL.
I dunno of course, but given what we’re seeing, I don’t think its a stretch to see Europe blowing sooner rather than later.
Which should, ahem, do wonders for the Obama {cough cough} ~ “recovery”…
Really scary. Wonder if we will have hyper inflation next year.
What do you think?
It’s simple hon, while I was glad you were okay, LTCM stumped me…… perhaps I should’ve been familiar, but I (simpleton) simply was not, no harm meant. Too many possibilities when words are shortened down to their first letters, and, the audience, is left to guess, what they mean.
I do get, Long Term Capital Management though,
and the nasty events it now implies
;0)
hmmm, that term, Long Term Capital Management, always did have that implication, …for that matter …..
(yeah, to my mind, haste does make waste, …that’s a saying I thought made a lot of sense. Too bad I fail so often at following it.)
I was kiddin too.
remember jackoff!!!!! sweety? ….yeah, that keystone state, with all those convenient waterways …. carp and river rats abundant……..
sigh ….. humans jumping off bridges onto cement … snstead of those waterways …..
pretty overwhelming……
Well “jackoff” technically is very Central PA,
whereas “jag off” is da Burgh,
and in Philly its almost “Jrkov”
(almost joykoff if said quickly, as in
LOL. ‘sall good.
hmmmm, I cawl yoo awt ….
I recollect both jackoff and jagoff having high frequencies …..
did your highschool have that cream yellow (football stars and homecoming queens) versus drab blue (“greasers”), with plaid lining, barracuda jacket thing? The to have brand, being Sir sumpin or other?
(hurry up now, I still haven’t eaten yet…….)
;0)
Poor Catholic School. Not enough young men to go around to field a whole football team AND a band not to mention the typically dedicated altar boy pep squad praying for a miracle on the sidelines as we faced or Cycloptic public school opponents over pigskin. ( Which they quickly replace with a regulation football) So ANYWAYS…we really had this horrific textile mashup thing going on when running the wing T out of the backfield. Did YOU ever donn trombone, pads, rosary, and helmet and try to advance the ball in an ankle length cassock set off by a epauletted top that would make John Phillips Sousa proud? Well did Ya?!??
I am so lost.
Report: Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning subjected to “cruel and inhumane treatment” at Quantico brig
I caught a bit of that on some MSNBC show tonite. (I’m in a cable-land fog. All of these talking heads look and sound the same.) WTF do they think they’re going to gain from having him in solitary confinement – or any prisoner for that matter? There is nothing humane about that kind of treatment.
All of these talking heads look and sound the same
like ghouls, in my – now, nearing insane – opinion ………
and yeah, I do jest, I am not insane, may not be brilliant …may not even be the sharpest tool in the shed, after all, we cannot, all, be that, … but I do know, …that I am not insane ;0)
John Cole’s take on it: Thug Nation
I find his response a little interesting, seeing how much of a Barry apologist he usually is, but nice that someone on one of the donk sites SAYS this stuff.
I heard Glenn G say yesterday, I think it ws, on Russia Today, that alothough W often promised to pursue and prosecute whistle blowers, he never did.
But Obster has been vicious about it, going after “several”.
I am pretty well done with members of the black overseer class at DOJ and in the WH. I’ll go back to sick old white bread any day.
they seem to go out of their way to prove they can out-do the cruelty of the original owners of the White Plantation House.
….Shack Bullies United …..
That’s interesting. John Cole is one of the Obama Defender Squad’s heroes that’s trotted out and quoted frequently at dkos. Bit by bit, more people are slipping out of denial.
Ellsberg, Other Anti-War Protesters To Chain Themselves To White House Fence
Does he still say he’ll vote for Obama again?
You HAVE to see this video … I hope you can get it to load:
Christmas, Pope Come Early at Vatican
I’ll pass, …I haven’t eaten yet, …ya’ll ‘Midwesterners,’ always takin advantage of those to the west ……(whatever west means in a presumed 360 degree cirlce?)
I half josh (though yeah, I haven’t eaten yet, and probably should….)
i’ll give it a try when I fully reboot!!
My apologies honey, but you wouldn’t want to know the meaning that Zen has taken on in sly con valley, and the DEFENSE INDUSTRY, and how could you know, you don’t live in SLY CON VALLEY. I’ll bet a ton of the DEFENSE ASSHOLES, now ‘retired’ and living near, or in, SLY CON VALLEY, are “Zen Budhists” (spelling?) ..and quite chummy with Senator Dianne’s hubby DICK Blum, ……and they absolutely love, that “karma” excuse to murder their fellow human beings.
There’s Zen and there’s zen – 2 different things.
g’night all. ;0)
…well, okay, I did lie, what I am feeling is
:0( ……somehow, I doubt that helps though, …..
sigh ………..
You lied? On the internet?
What’s next?
Lame-ass ooga booga to the impervious?
Not on the Internet!
you fuckin asshole, I’m goin to get somethig to eat ….
jackoff ….jagoff
whichever you desire …..
:0)
;0)
(fuckin harpy……………..)
;0);0);)
oh jeesh……………………
you fuckin asshole
Not at the moment.
TMI
Not when my asshole’s involved.
(I do hope you realize, that I was playing off of the comments above (prior to your Poor Catholic School … response), and, more to the point, that I don’t actually think you’re an asshole, on the contrary, I’ve admired much of what you have to say …I really do apologize If you felt that I meant it…. hard to explain .. the ‘sense of humor’ I was feeling when I posted that, but believe me, I meant no harm, and I sincerely apologize to you, and anyone else who was offended by my comments.)
Diane,
my asshole doesn’t take it personally.
And I mean that.
So Peace.
And I mean that, too.
And on that note, a good night all…
wellll okaaaaaaaaaay, but you didn’t say you didn’t take it personally ;0( (dig, dig, dig, shovel …..hip boots …my little hat…with the light on it …………..)
g’night ….sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
HA! Kuttner manages some cutting remarks about ObRama.
And where does it appear, People Mag.
Don’t think i have ever seen an ostensibly liberal political writer in the pages of Politico.
Yum Yum… Michael J Smith at SMBIVA calls BFH “First Gym Rat”.
And skewers her.
On top of everything.. I think I have picked up a genuine head cold.
I don’t think I can blame thsi on rain, winds and carried grasses and what-have-you.
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Granted Conditional Bail and Expected to Be Freed Soon [8:12 a.m. ET]
From the department of What’s Wrong With This Picture?: UAE hotel boasts ‘most expensive Christmas tree ever
‘Whatever’ voted most annoying word
Whatever.
yeah but. Sometimes it really works.
Long ago I thought “jerk” and “crap” were a sign of not being inventive or fluid with the English language. Hahahah… a few years in a law firm and those words were absolutely perfectly good, imo
This looks disgusting…yet interesting: Mo’s Milk Chocolate Bacon Bar
Don’t make me laugh TOO hard.
From Politico “44″
nu
Link
………………..
… 