Opera Glasses and Popcorn
A husky puppy is transported in a child’s push chair on a snowy street in downtown Bucharest, Romania
Picture: AP
… in the bitter bitter cold. And, he looks rather pleased, I think.
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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
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]
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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.
CIA station chief in Pakistan flees after being outed in a lawsuit.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7344057.html
What I find interesting about this story is that AP is unilaterally withholding the name from all of its news reports even though a) you can still easily find it with a google search b), any significant damage from this information’s release is already done and c), it was our “friends” at the ISI who apparently leaked the name.
Somebody will out the name… Let’s see how long it takes…
Jonathon Banks.
Just a guess tho!
ahh… you can Google. (I did not bother!)
The UK doesn’t seem to be under the same restrictions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/17/cia-chief-pakistan-drone-cover
more straight forward….
Yeah yeah yeah…
hmmm I would hope for an uptick in outing.
interesting that in all of those cases, including this one, the outings have been done by “allies”.
yeah that was interesting….
and both not tht long ago.
TSA misses enormous, loaded .40 calibre handgun in carry-on bag
my htought when I heard that on ABC, was, gee maybe they could fucking wake up.
Apparently they were ogling the busty woman on the other scanner.
Police video documents fatal encounter between officer and woodcarver
Birk fired four seconds after issuing the first command to drop the knife
oh m i god how horrible.
I see he “feared” for his itty bitty life.
the video is stunning, to a great extent b/c the actual event is all off screen, you just hear the shouting and gunshots. The cop comes out of the car VERY aggressively.
Oh jeesh, …hours later, …… had all sorts of windows open, preparing a post, re TANF, when everything froze, …even had to pull out the fuckin ‘puter plug, …………….sigh ….
In the meantime though,…jus slightly belated (late October), but certainly relevant:
(I hope your cold has gotten better honey, if you like bell peppers, you may want to chomp down on a few…….)
jeesh, …sorry about missing those consistent bracketed italics, the end bracket, and, a link, to the quote used
that kind of day …..
fuck, …and now, a missing html link ” /a> ” above.
jeeeesh.
(thanks sweetness!!!!!!!)
what is this Giant Eagle place? A market chain or what?
A grocery market chain, predominant, for one, in Pittsburgh …also the very first grocery store I witnessed (that one located in Penn Hills, a suburb of Pittsburgh, – dicky sanatorium’s empty residence may have flitted across the way too overloaded brain cells there), a line of checkout, human replacement, bots in, …would’ve thought, that that would have been Cali………
any whoooo, ……I’m getting that it is a likely possiblility, that 56 (plus minus a tad) year-old Debbie Weiloch, is possibly now fired, with no pension for 36 years of ‘putting/bucking up,’ bagging food people need to eat to stay alive……….
I soooo wish I was shocked…………..
ugh… she should have met them off the property, where no one could observe.
I doubt the nlrb will do much
right, the National Labor Reltaions Board (nlrb), won’t do fuck……cuz that’s not how they kept their jobs…
well it’s known as a weak agency…. quelle surprise!
…National Labor Retaliations Board ………
fwiw, the Guardian has gotten unauthorised access to the charges in Sweden against Assange. (And they posted it)
wandering around the Guardian… I see Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, died….
here is a personal obit … and the thread is quite sweet, however odd that might sound for CB
thanks for that …
a long time friend of mine, he was a young friend of my mother’s when I was 7 and he was 22, was his cousin, their fathers were brothers…. he never “got” Beefheart at all. Not the tiniest little bit. he knew, because people told him, that the man was a genius, but he never could hear it…
I have to admit that I didn’t get it at the time, when I first heard it. After a while, I got into Zappa, and I’m a huge Tom Waits fan (who is plainly influenced by him) … I would hear him from time to time and think, “how wonderfully odd”, but never really took the time. Admired rather than enjoyed, I guess.
I think I’m going to circle back and check out his work more closely.
sad …
So inspiring, such a wonderful era of ‘change.’ After 8 sadistic years under cheney/bush, the rapacious, …..finally know who the boss is:
Hospital hired models in lab coats and heels ‘to attract men’
(I don’t even think I want to know who they provided that DNA to.)
10 Best Christmas Songs for Atheists
it’s an okay list, thought I can’t believe she left “The Christmas Song (a.k.a. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” out of the top ten.
Here’s one of MY favorites:
lol…I’ve never heard that one.
I have to admit that my favourite is Feliz Navidad.
And I’ll be stripped of my citizenship if I don’t say the runner up is Bob and Doug’s 12 Days of Xmas.
oh, I’d forgotten about Bob & Doug!
The DREAM act has died.
Next up on the chopping block: DADT.
The cloture vote on DADT passed. Now, is there any possible way the Dems can screw this up so the final vote fails?
PZ Myers on the winger comment about Edwards not thanking Jeebus on her deathbed:
Favorite comments (#6 & #14) in the thread:
oops, forgot to close the link tag … sorry!
hmm i caught a great little roundtable on the BBC… it was about leadership in the ME cleric world about what they, who live and benefit in the West, they themselves say they oppose, the laws against women in their world and their religions. (which I DO believe they want to bring to the west, the most “devout”, read fundamentalist, of them)
They had a ME man who is a xtian, Bishop of Rochester, the head (devout muslim of course!) who is head of the Muslim Council of GB, another who spoke so little I did not notice who or what he was… and a white woman who represented some dominating secular group in the UK (missed the name).
She was great and pretty much baited them all. I thought all three were lying thru their teeth, frankly. But at one point the Bishop of Rochester could not contain himself and said ALL TOTALITARIAN movements had risen from the secular side. That they cannot rise from religion. (Good Luck on that one!)
She had him and the head of the UK Muslim Council tied in knots… and she had no problem telling them, more than once, she sat there as the only woman, they sat there as three men who benefited from their male hierarchical structures. Had there been a Catholic prelate present (oh let’s say the Bishop of Baghdad, who has been touring Europe begging for luv) nothing would have differed.
Would not happen here.!! The roundtable I mean….
An added benefit, she had a loose tangle of shoulder length reddish blonde curls. I think it drove them mad!
that sounds really great.
I think I found a clip!
Is clash between Islam and the West inevitable?
bummer, it stops just as she’s getting warmed up.
if it matters, I saw that local PBS (or whoever) sourced it back to KECT, the PBS in LA….
I would think it is findable somewhere……….. pity that tape cut off, she did really well. And this go round i Noticed Mr Silent did manage to say that “secularism is the problem”.
Pox on all their heads imo. From Ratzy, to the East and to the West. All directions.
it is just coming on again here, on PBS World….
They open with a montage of oppression thru the East, Eqypt for one, which I assume many think is more liberal.
SMBIVA writes about Halle’s petition today. Smith says he signed. Good for him. I did, too. Think I was #4450… some nice round number like that.
More whining in Smith’s link from some Obama defender whose still bawwwwwwwwing about the mean old Tea Party. As the kids today like to say: I LOLed.
How To Shout Down A Perv: Tips And Tricks From The Subway Badass
This Was the Christmas Party Barack Obama Couldn’t Miss?
How Will Americans Spend the Obama Tax Cuts?
HA! Nice little gathering of what I would call “natural born fascists“.
NYT via the Mike Allen email. (And I noticed Hilarious already hawking her fucking book-to-come)
‘Everything that we have accomplished that is working in Afghanistan and Pakistan is largely because of Richard,’
mass murder and war crimes?
stunning wasn’t it?
Happy self righteous fascists. All of them.
fwiw:
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: Vice President Joe Biden; roundtable with Mayor Cory Booker (D-Newark), Republican strategist and No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough
–ABC’s “The Week“: Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN); USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah; roundtable with ABC’s George Will, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland and the WashPost’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
–”Fox News Sunday“: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ); Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, NPR’s Mara Liasson, Kevin Madden and Fox News’ Juan Williams
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); roundtable on Afghanistan policy review with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, former Commander of U.S. Central Command General William Fallon (Ret.) and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers (Ret.); National Association of Letter Carriers President Frederic Rolando
–C-SPAN: The Communicators (Sat., 6:30pm ET): Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board Executive Director Scott Peterson and Direct Marketing Association Senior VP for Government Affairs Jerry Cerasale, questioned by IDG News Service’s Grant Gross … Newsmakers (Sun. 10am ET / 6pm ET): Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), questioned by the Wall Street Journal’s Sudeep Reddy and the Financial Times’ Robin Harding … Q&A (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Lord John Wakeham, Member of the House of Lords and former Leader of the House of Commons
–Univision’s “Al Punto“: Dream Act special segment; State of Mexico Governor Enrique Pea Nieto; former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.N. Diego Arria and political analyst and humorist Laureano Marquez; former computer hacker Adrian Lamo; roundtable with Grupo Radio Centros Ann Hoyt and Venezuela al Dias Manuel Corao
Some Saturday levity…it’s fairly old as internet things go…you can just enjoy the song if you want to ignore the infantile translation.
I am stunned:
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Senate Approves Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 65-31
I’m not.
Gotta’ have that cannon fodder, come what may.
I was not sure what would weigh oout, fodder vs expansion of FEDERAL rights and access.
Because th core fo the game is not to expand SS survivor/spousal rights.
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