Hard… 26 December 2010
Posted by marisacat in California / Pacific Coast, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
A butterfly in a flower in Los Angeles, California [Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images]
.. to let go of red, it is such a beautiful color. The legend posted along wth the photo in the wildlife gallery at the Guardian does not say so, but it is a hibiscus… which are all over Southern California.
I used to visit in a house on Mulholland Drive, surrounded by bushes of pink and red hibiscus blossoms…. Which I constantly plucked to put in water – - no matter how many times I saw the fast fade and wilt they go thru, it was impossible to believe.
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The color red.
Just a personal opinion ….but I can’t get over the fact, that ….in abundance, it reminds me of mindless slaughter,…………………the blood is apparently blue, before it is let?
Which is probably why, it is such an uncommon color in nature …….
I love red shoes though ……………..
a consistent abundance of red, makes me horrified beyond despair…………
red will be a far nore common color, as the machines replace replace the mammals ……. well…good luck to those MACHINES, ….. see ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya!
well, …sorry,…”more” ..(in “english”), ..not “nore” ……
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oh I thnk there is plenty of red in nature. If one counts the spectrum, from pink, rose, red, orange and including red-violet.
And finally, imo, like it or not, blood and the wreckage, the human wreckage, of war is part of nature. Harsh, oppositional, mindlessly irrational as it may seem to some…. the urge and drive to fight, the ability to incense as desired a population is not going away any time soon.
yes there is plenty of red, but there is not plenty of red in large swathes of it, it is generally an accent color; …. when it is found in abundance, it’s a usually a rarity, ….in comparison to its neighboring colors. Arizona, and its landscape, ..is a perfect example ….
what I meant to say there, was that,……kindness, …..love, …… and absence of desiring to let blood, is a true reality, as has been evidenced through centuries of ‘human beings’………..
and anyone who would deny that there have been ‘human beings,’ who sacrificed their lives, not willing to ruthlessly “kill their own,” is, in fact, a liar…….
sad, ;0( … but appears to be true ….
Jesus… Lipless…
Even our local FOX affiliate, on the local news tonight, telling the tale of “indefinite detentions” had a back drop banner that said:
“Nowhere for the innocents to go”
But Lipless….
not so regrettable so that they’ll do what they campaigned they’d do.
hateful men. And I include Janet Nap in that.
Well, okay the color red aside,…I would like to know why the two 12/26/10 diary pics at correntewire, of two green eyed, black cats, searching for sink water, each have deeper green right eyes (to one’s left as they look at the piccy), than left eyes?
And, yes I am paranoid, though, in this instance, I just find it kind funny…..
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(the fact that I’ve had way too much to drink does not, in any way change the fact that the kitty eye’s to the left of the piccy, are obviously, a darker green)
(hmmm, …they also appear rounder….okay, your turn, …all ya’ll brain surgeons! …..) :0)
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..the effect, is most predominently seen, in the kitty at the forefront, ….why is that kitty’s left/right eye, a deeper green that of the right/left eye, of the kitty clearly farther away (in back of it) from the camera?
… truth be told, I’m not even paranoid, just scared, cause of what I’ve come to realize is a potential reality ………..: a selected few, “humans” (bipartisan), will call the shots, …… the rest of the “humans” ? …a one way ticket, to a planet even more uninhabitable than earth?
I highly doubt it will really be a volunteer “mission” ……. Just look at the three (or was it more) nazis , the CIA appointed to NASA ……. Which is only being acknowledged now, when it is far too late, to prevent that probable “legacy” ?
Quite the snowy mess down east. Hope BHHM, lucid et al are okay.
We are Fog City here…. no, really! not jsut a re imagined diner! They just showed the San Mateo bridge, south of me, and you could see the ground level fog creeping across it…
Pea Soup Forever!!
(and nothing taking off at SFO, pretty much!)
Winter wonderland… lots abandoned cars and buses all over the street. And the 50 mph winds don’t help.
Good to see you’re safe and warm.
At the office actually
I read 20 inches of snow in Central Park….
Too damnd fucking cold… esp with wind.
oh too funny! I drop in on John Caruso and who is he very appropriately skewering? San Francisco!
He does go on to indicate he thinks the current Board of Supes is a lot more liberal than I think they are…. tho we have a nominally more conservative BofSupes about to line up…. No one would disagree on that one…
the most recent PG@E bit, about the “insurgent” PG@E customers who don’t quite care for the smartmeter ploy ….was highly, and bleakly hilarious;…..how pathetic, that the last few decade’s ‘peals of laughter,’ have been absolutely absent of that “Hopey” thing has been so thoroughly pimped, and whored about the insatiable “nation” controlled by a handful who would never be so foolish as to be ‘patriotic,’ …nor, personal responsibility shoes, and self sacrificing…after all,….that is never where the Money is……….
and one of the big ol’ pimps for “Hope” was Jesse Jackson.
I understand young people (I mean first GE or second) voting for RobRama…. but Jesus, he was/is such a pasted together fucking third rate Pied Piper.
It ws so damned obvious.
that reminds me of a conversation I had with a female, black woman from Chigago a while back, …early nineties …. thought Jesse was an absolute fraud …… despised him …..
fwiw… Madman,
The News Hour is doing an extended segment on the new incoming Rs in Wisconsin… and the plans to cut back state Medic-aid, which I gather is called “Badger Care”.
Thanks … I missed the first showing, but they replay it on one of the extra digital channels later tonight.
It’s actually hard to keep up here other than through local blogs, as all the local major media is owned by conservatives.
It’s too bad … Badger Care is a good program in many ways.
the Governor Elect declined to be interviewed, his office claimed scheduling or time constraints… but the incoming R majority leader in the state house and one other new (or now elevated) incoming R did talk to TNH… fwiw.
TNH plays over and over and over and over here, between the various PBS channels. hard to miss it here… gah.
Walker is notorious for refusing to answer questions, except softballs from friendly “journalists”.
Thanks for telling me about the segment. It was very interesting, though I thought they went pretty easy on the Fitzgerald brothers, who’re wackjob wingers who are always screaming about supposed “voter fraud” and such.
And see, I did not know who they were, at all… they did refer to them as brothers and identified the one as incoming Majority leader (forget what spot No 2 Brother will hold)… and I can certainly pick up on their agenda, but …………..
Well I remind myself, when Haley was throwing people, thousands and thousands, off MS state Medic-Aid…. SO was Bredesen in Tennessee, TennCare. And Bredesen was a Dmocrat. He threw almost a quarter million off TennCare…
Can’t thes sorts just consume each other and produce one person. It would be less tiring.
esp. bad b/c the underclass here is already under great stress. There are some good non-profits trying to help people, but they’re utterly swamped.
They mentioned that Doyle, I guess not that longago, had extended Badger Care to childless adults… which brought abut 60,000 + onto the rolls….
They also had a doctor on who clearly supports expanding the numbers eligible for Badger Care (or any form of care), he says over and over they see people who have not had medical care in years despite chronic problems…
yup, there is a waiting list.
IIRC, Doyle did that as a compromise to get some Dems to stop pushing for basically a local version of single payer.
Not a big fan of Doyle, not that incoming Walker isn’t worse, but he’s basically Clinton w/out the charm.
IIRC, Doyle did that as a compromise to get some Dems to stop pushing for basically a local version of single payer.
BTW, it was not widely reported and the vote was not state wide in MA, think it was on the ballot in 8 counties … but a ballot measure calling for Single Payer won over whelmingly where it was on the ballot.
the pols are so terrified that the bloodsucking medical “insurance” industry’s business model would be rendered obsolete …
And of coure ObSnobCare helps support that model.
it is all retail politics.
Tho I surely support the R plan to kill the mandate. perfectly horrible.
EXCLUSIVE SURVEY RESULTS: In The Worst Economy Ever, People Are Quitting Their Jobs With Nothing Else Lined Up
I love the people in the comment thread who think that if you quit your job, you get unemployment insurance. Is it any wonder so many teabaggers won this fall?
it is always a depressing how willfully ill-informed so many people are.
Seriously, what will make these warmongering motherfuckers happy … every family sacrificing a first born to the Empire?
Press the Meat yesterday:
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Of course, considering how much the Harvard grads have fucked everything else up, maybe more of them in the military would actually finish the evil institution off.
I caught that round table. God it was awful… only matched by Ms Valerie Jarrett BFFoO on earlier.
we’re subject to the opinions of such small, narrow people.
It amazes me that this was Tom Brokaw. The Tom Brokaw. But then he always had a hard-on for the “greatest generation”. Can’t you just STFU and head to the golf course already, Tom? There’s plenty of them guys trading war stories to fawn over.
So, I watched the news tonight. There was a backlog on 1,400 callers on 911 today, with critical calls such as heart attacks having a 3 hour wait. I have to say, I found it odd that when walking down Driggs St. through the park on the way to the subway this morning that there were 3 city buses, 4 cars and one tow truck left abandoned – obstructing the road from any critical traffic, but thought is was likely isolated to certain neighborhoods in the outer boroughs… alas no. I witnessed an ambulance on Houston St. get stuck [because some abandoned cars on Houston prevented the plows from getting through properly] and a crew had to come dig it out – lights flashing & everything. Same deal with fire fighters apparently…
Crazy… As one born and raised in the northern midwest, this didn’t seem like that big of a deal, but the whole management of this thing was fucked, top to bottom. They should have shut down bus service yesterday mid-afternoon. I can’t believe they had city buses not only driving and getting stuck in it, but ultimately obstructing the roads – and further, with bus drivers left in freezing conditions overnight ‘guarding’ their buses. One bus driver was on the news saying that he finally got frustrated and walked 10 miles home in the blizzard, because there was no transportation running at that point…
Christ!
but the pundits will still tell us how Bloomie’s bidness experience makes him a genius leader etc.
He also said everything was under control…
snicker.
PS – when I came back from work at 7 – 3 city buses, 4 cars and a tow-truck, still left abandonned. Driggs St. [a pretty well trafficked St. through Williamsburg] impassable.
And the Daily Mail, UK, is claiming they are up a creek with no paddle in the rough weather, but gee America just keeps on truckin’.
I caught B’berg lecturing about 911… he sounded dead, disinterested and detached.
Grreat.
Obama’s indefinite detentions: the NYT puts lipstick on a pig.
“The Paper of Record”
NY Mag slams Bloomberg.
Gee about time. Do they feel so much courage due to snow ever rising?
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Speaking of Canada geese…
How hysterically funny! Spam as diary.
Tho I gather from the thread this is not the first appearnce of such.
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