Opera Glasses and Popcorn
A protester stands in front of a burning barricade in Cairo [REUTERS via UK Telegraph]
No question, it is one.
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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
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"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
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"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
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"... 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.
Schumer wants a secular government in Egypt. But the “jewish” state is okay?
All I ask is that Madeleine Albright not chime in. Zbig this am on some channel ws enough! (I’ve compromised!)
Friedman: Israel should close the deal on Palestine now.
Ya, think?
Jeebus, Indyk and Haas … why not just knit together things they’ve said before? Those two are such broken records on Zakaria’s show.
All the old gargoyles, juggling.
Where are Baker n’ Kissinger? I think they even might be more interesting.
I am so glad it is about something other than idiot fundy-ism. (I just don’t think all that many muslims, to say nothing of secular Arabs, give a flying fuck about the depiction of Mohammed)
IMO leave the people alone – both sides, Israel, Saudi and the US — stop paying the fucking fundies to make noise, come out, bomb things etc.
Let people find their way.
It’s obvious most demonstrators are not fundies, as when it was time to pray, most stayed standing.
oh clearly… this is not an islamist uprising.
LOL Nor a Southern Baptist one…
Thanks be….
Yeah! Like I said to my mom last night as we were talking about this, they’re not “Islamists” or “terrorists” or any other monolithic stereotype, they’re people and they’re fucking pissed off as shit!
yes, people are people… and as much as fundamentalism is a problem, our,s theirs, Israel’s, all of it, it is just a slice of what is happening.
Forget what channel I was watching, it may have been AJ, but a street protestor in English, called for a global Arab unity, a pan arab coming together.
Nasser must be smiling…. broadly.
Of course Bruce Reidel, a CIA guy, retired now iirc, has been an advisor to ObRama… and stood on the podium stage with Obby 4 times, as he (that would be Obby) pronounced on the wars.
Reidel has stated that the British did not lose in Afghanistan and neither will we.
Typical clueless idiot…
Angry Arab:
Angry A linked back to this at the NYT an Eliz Bumiller [gah] article, quoting Riedel, Indyk, Mullen, Hillary and the like.
hey maybe Miss Maddy and James Baker are terminal somwhere…
This can’t go on for too long. It’s pissing off Wall Street.
Well it is not just the tear gas that is Made in the USA, but the tanks, the stun grenades and who knows what else. Prolly our planes sold to Egypt are flying low over Tahrir Sq… and wherever else..
I think we have been unmasked, more than usual, even with hideous wars going.
How many Americans care though? When Israel last tried to bomb Lebanon back into the Stone Age, sponsored by the US, there just seemed to be a collective shrug. Scary brown people and all of that…
oh it is only in cities…. the protests in solidarity I mean.
Well I think Gaza War and the most recent attack on Lebanon, 2007 (the war in which Hexbollah and Nasrallah fought back against a flabby IDF)? did sharpen some sensibilities in the US. It is not an accepted response however in the USA USA media.
But it is there.
One of the worst pro Israel, pro war (tho he masks as selectively for or against wars) has tried to push the “But the Alternative is the Muslim Brotherhood” on KGO, which is tightly aligned to the Democratic machine here… and it is falling flat. Masses of calls against his talking points.
And i have seen that grow over the past 3 years.
I am unsure how much the american people even matter. Much is decided outside the US now. Thankfully.
Spoofing Hilary:
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/spoofing-hillary/
Egypt doesn’t need our foreign aid…all they need, is to start collecting a nice tarif on oil going through the Suez canal, and up the charge on the gas going into Israel.
I reposted that at The Big Conflicted Orange Place.
You whippersnapper you!
Damn, wish I could blog over there again.
…I got banned when I was beginning to realize and post, Israel NEVER had intentions of negociating any kind of peace. As soon as Hamas opened the door to 1967 borders, the bombing started.
They wanted the whole pie.
ElBaradei:
Hmmm…I have to wonder if that isn’t just bluster. Impossible to know in the midst of what’s going on.
oh that is wishful thinking on his part… he wants to be selected by the US.
But I doubt it would fly inside Eqypt, not right now….. they know he lives in Paris and earlier in Vienna … irrc his daughter has gone all thru school in France.
Speaking of Nasser (a comment of mine up somewhere… )
Judeo/Christians/IMF/Central Bankers worst fears: “we’re all Eqyptians now”.
…oh, let me add the Islamic fundies, too.
http://twitter.com/waelabbas
Thank god for photography…. snicker
SMBIVA has photos of Suleiman and El Baradei with either Sharon and or Bibi
Geesh. Poor Hillary.
Can she fall further…”backing forward or backing back”
Yikes. Good luck girlie.
I’m so heartened by the human connection in misr (“Egypt”), I’m speechless ……….
Loved this, I heard yesterday (passed on, as it were …)
anonymous from NO, Louisiana
What’s in all that tear gas we’ve been selling Egypt?
Angry Arab had an entry that at the headquarters in PA of the producer of the tear gas, they fly the Israeli flag.
Thisw seems related:
He links back to al akhbar, which is only in Arabic sadly.
Jesus… at least one pretzel will say it:
And then of course he scrooz it:
no wonder Carter’s ’bro,’ Billy, stayed loaded… publicly pissin’ all over everything he could find ……
(this may be a duplicate post, my dial up connection cut out while posting (and yeah,…in my wee opinion, I’m positive dial up has been on “their” hit list …. for quite the time))
yup …lil billy peanut ………….
Billy ws probably the “balance” to the fundi sister — not that Carter was not fundi enough. He was.
I’m blanking on his sis hon …my memory banks are overloaded recently (sigh, TS …. (tramatic stress) …hope it’s a temp thang…..)
ohhh, just shoot me, to all the fuckin’ pedantic, clueless bastards and bitches out there lurking, …for leaving out the fuckin YOU in traumatic …..
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indeed, ….not to disrespect “Ruth” ….but, why are the ‘citizens’ expected to pay remembrance, and RESPECT, to the lives, and families, of our ‘public servants’ (oops sorry, read: MASTERS, versus servants),… yet neglect our own remembrance of those we’ve loved: ……..those who were actually there for us, in a very tangible, and intangible way? …. quite unlike our “Public Servants” ……
well I do both. And just because I have good memory doesn’t mean that I ever respected any of them.
I threw my hands in the air when Carter cut off hard liquor in the WH, he wanted to cut WINE as well, but somebody stopped him. Lunatic!
And i laughed like hell when Billy C locked himself and his retinue inside a series of rooms at their hotel in Libya and drank like a fish. Loved it!
Harvey Milk found a way to make fun of Ruth C to her face when she was here with Carter (she was known to be virulently anti gay)… I lvoed that.
His sister Ruth… hey, not worth remembering.
Remember
St Gabby of the Unavailable Box Set Video?
No, still unavailable. No Box Set, yet, tho SHE’s Literally In There, we’re told.
Well. CNN just carried the Detroit Police precinct shooting in detail, right down to the guy hopping the counter, multiple angles of multiple shots showing who got hit, who hid under what desk and who didn’t, right down to the final frames of the assailant standing over and firing a shotgun at a cop heroically scrambling on the floor for dear life.
Just sayin.
I think at least one version of the Detroit bullet spray is online.
BTW, Dennis Perrin has, in one of his perambulations about open mic NYC stand up comedy, a GREAT joke about the Parking Lot Princess (the whole scene actually). Delivered by an old friend of his… LOL to GASPS in the audience.
Love it when it hits.
Definitely.
Dennis Perrin, really a good dude, “Stand up guy” comes to mind when thinking of him, certainly regarding character OR creation of his craft, and most most certainly his seeking to build both..
So I don’t think he has anything to worry about, certainly not being a Dad, loving his kid, showing his son by example how to LIVE.
Not to mention what he’s shown the lucky rest of us. And SOo NTIM I think, but I’m glad he’s out of the clubs. For now. Or whatever will come next with Dennis. Cuz you just know, as long as he’s around, come what may:
it’s gonna be good.
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