Love it…. 22 February 2011
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements.trackback

A pelican covers itself with its wings to keep warm at the Beijing Zoo after it snowed [AP]
….when the creatures signal how very much they belong on the fashion runways.

A pelican covers itself with its wings to keep warm at the Beijing Zoo after it snowed [AP]
….when the creatures signal how very much they belong on the fashion runways.
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.
[...]
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.
Hillary on now.
Same shit – Oh no no no REALLY Upping the ante now from yesterday’s ,and the day before, and the week’s before that:
Pfft.
weally weally …
Even the awful morning guy on KGO said,
The State Dept has issued their strongest worded statement yet. They will stand by, watch – and support whoever is still alve at the end
I did laugh.
And the irritating morning guy was a Hillary support system.
She’s really floundering now on the yacht incident:
We really need to like, act together and all!
I say get her some coffee and cigarettes before they trot her out in her State Department housecoat again. Really goin thru the motions now..
She looked close to nutty at her two speeches last week. That harsh static, I can Be Madeleine I can I can! look she gets.
I caught a few snips of her interview with Christiane. Boy I thouht she lurched ovr the edge… rambling with a silly smile about how “we want to stand with the young people” who want freedom.
When you KNOW All the conversations are entirely differnt, whether from Ob or HilPac or the NSA or whomever.
Ob is so bored it wheezes. The local news channel here, a provincial NY1, kept cutting to Obby in Cleveland and saying, well …………. we thought he’d mention Libya or … but no, so we’ll keep monitoring!!
AND I see LSE of which Saif is a proud grad, is rethinking their association with Qaddaffi.
SNICKER.
Guardian has a piece on the rumors of mercenaries…
first thing to pop in my mind (and no doubt, millions of others) was xe …have been wondering when that hideous alien would pop it’s fang snapping, bald, deforemd dick face out a belly again …. if they’re not there, I’m sure they’re prepared to go have some ‘hand’ in yet another slaughter….
(would love the know the full story on the transformation from Blackwater to xe …. )
Looks like the Indiana Dems are headed to Illinois too.
Parteh!
Somewhere, Rahm Emanuel is muttering “fucking retards”…
Wisconsin’s Walker looks like a sex scandal just waiting to happen. I’m just sayin’…
He does doesn’t he?
Tweety on MSNBC handing over the mic on Wisconsin to “pro Labor” Ed Rendell.
Take it away Ed:
“Walker is right ther must be givebacks, but went too far in trying to take away their right to bargain”
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IOW: Protect Right to CAVE! And TITHE!
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LOL – Rendell is just lying his ass off now on his record as Matthews finishes with the customarily sloppy blowjob.
Rendell is just lying his ass off now on his record as Matthews finishes with the customarily sloppy blowjob.
It’s a gang.
Just catching AJ E…. apparently some sort of Libyan mil naval vessel (not a “refugee rickshaw” as they were calling the Tunisian boats) off Malta… so Italy scrambled 5 F16s.
That’s bizarre. I read a tweet earlier that said another Libyan ship headed to Malta because the crew decided to defect. Italy thought they were going to attack Malta?
I don’t think Italy thinking clearly right now….
that interview was infuriating, like his interviews always are.
oh! That reminds me to check the nooooz for Chicago mayor returns.
Well, from The HuffPo,
Here’s the noos for ya!
Rahm: This Is A Critical Election For Chicago
I bet ya never heard THAT!
“critical”?
Not “historic”?
It’s a primary, what can ya say?
We don’t expect much here, anymore. LOL.
They have till April 5th to whip this turd into the Most Critical Historicest Election Dessert Topping EVAH
Most Critical Historicest Election Dessert Topping EVAH
DON’T forget the maraschino cherry.
Other wise the tilt of the earth gets off balance.
THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chicago lives [or dies] only if everyone and those prone in their graves votes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There. Feel better?
I would not be too shocked by a run off. A few days ago I read Rahm was at bus stops in his old district. Ummmmm
I posted below ..
NYT says Rahmy just won Irgunite Rabbi of Chicago Negroes , Slavs, and Irishmen outright, LOL,
No need for the April 5th HooHoo now…
well at least it is O V E R… ’til he has to start showing up for work.
Some talk – some – that turnout might be so low as to force – FORCE! – Rahmbo into a runoff.
I saw the headlines about low turnout. Any story in a storm, I guess….
gah.
Alaska state rep refuses TSA grope of her mastectomy scars, drives home from Seattle
I was glad she just refused to fly and drove.
The whole thing is utterly out of hand.
From Cairo to Madison, some pizza
That’s great!
I found this, LOL, in the Chi Trib..
LOL, Welcome to Russia.
Although REALLY – why drag them into it, right?
“‘We’re Killing Everybody We Can,’ Seattle Police Declare”
Mudcat Saunders has some advice for the unions in Wisconsin.
fucking genius, that guy.
Classic Democrat.
he’s already composing the fundraising emails.
M-u-u-u-gs For Sale (sung to “Love For Sale”)
Rahmbo elected outright says NYT / AP …
Let the tyranny begin.
hmmm Just checkd back in with BI:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/qadaffi-pipelines-2011-2#ixzz1EkDEiTU8
“US Uncut” Calls Out Corporate Tax Deadbeats
US Embassy in Tripoli says
Check with your airlines for a flight, and if ya wanna be sure that you won’t get shot down, ah, - they have a ferry available leaving for Malta tomorrow for all Americans in oountry on a first come first served basis.
Plan C? :: A Group Swim, I guess.
Play us out now-
From the Halls of Monte~zoooooma,
To the shores of Trip-o-li,
We will fight our OilCo baaa-a-tles
till we gottacatch THE FERR-Y.
Hit it Marine Corps Band!
Good Lord, Things haven’t been this FUBAR since Muammar went to rent that house in New Jersey.
That looks like a YouTube video just waiting to be made.
Travel Lightly.
Women and Poodles First.
Complimentary Breakfast at the Radisson.
P.S. – Please, No Commandeered Helicopters landing on Ship Deck during departure, it’s a charter.
They forgot to add the link for info about semen, ova and embryo travel too.
I wonder if this is because, last i read, we were “waiting” for Qaddafi to let us land a plane.
I notice the planes turned back, some went to Malta.
Feel the Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d like to know how all of those oil companies are going to get their employees safely out of their compounds to catch a ferry on the coast.
or anything else, frankly…
Canada is still trying to negotiate landing rights, apparently.
The UK has sent a “warship” for evacuation but yanks have to catch a ferry?
We’re working our way up to a big ship. Obby bein’ cautious!
Jesus… the GERMANS are making stronger worded condemnation than we can manage.
Embarrassing.
Canada is still trying to negotiate landing rights, apparently.
Yeh, well it never stopped their goose turds.
How about negotiatin’ some a’ THAT??!!
Bombs away!
Now Swim You Poodles, SWIM!!!!
Pink water wings for everyone who makes it to shore!! (some assembly necessary)
I don’t like the sound of that! Do they have TSA screeners waiting for them?
Flashback to 2007:
Fisk:
A crude mercantilist doctrine stands exposed
Richard Dalton , MI-6 rounder who got his start in Lebanon and Jordon in the 70s-80s/ naked Imperialist / Consul Gen to Jerusalem in the 90′s / UK Ambassador to Libya upon Blair’s rapprochement with Ghaddafi in 1999 / UK Ambassador to Iran 2003 to 2006..
REALLY got flattened tonite on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan programme by guests Hafed al-Ghwell and Mohamed al-Magariaf.
The Brits are clearly freaked about complicity and blowback stemming from their arms deals. Ghwell confronted Dalton on the Brits and the Americans “Like arming a man who is holding a family hostage when the killing starts you accept no responsibility.”
Also interesting was how Dalton squirmed throughout making several attempts to lay the finger on the US. Khans guest saw right thru the talk: Diversion, In it together, basically their no-bullshit response.
Interesting…I don’t know if this is meant to be ironic or what but the banner on AJ’s site at the top reads: The Project for a New Arab Century.
Oh I hope that is some intended irony. And slap back.
LOL.
“Street Prophets” down to 22 visits a day.
Lower ‘n a Pedo Priest with a Facebook page.
Look at this crew cut from last summer and somebody explain how it wasn’t Holy Click Fraud beforehand…
oh that s great to hear. Surely Pastor Dan and his lousy piece of merchandise Pennsylvania Del Dem-ming lover wife were such BAD NEWS.
In a word: Yuk!
Country of 350 million. They get 22,
literally, TWENTY TWO visits a day now.
The Resurrection Will Not Be Televised.
He was so fucing boring. and I would guess, still is.
The New York York Times.
In Full Imperial Orifice Mode:
Humping Diplomatic Immunity for Balckwater CIA Contract Killer Davis.
Uhm , NO. Murder Case,fuckwads. Nice try.
Look at this exquisite Piece of Shit Press Organ PLACEMENT
Debating? Who’s Debating?
Yup, no more shame, or even the slightest blush, in admitting a War against citizens by the world’s elite, this from the UK:
just despicable:
g’night all.
oops sorry, fucked up the blockquotes, “just despicable” was my comment, before the second intended blockquote.
Front Page lede on Haaretz:
Report: Gadhafi ordered sabotage of oil pipelines to Mediterranean ports
Front Page lede on Jerusalem Post
‘Gaddafi orders explosion of Libya’s oil pipelines’
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
02/23/2011 08:52
Both Linking to a CIA Bob Baer’s piece in Time Mag..
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Meanwhile the NYT– as in Please New Yorkers, Don’t Crush the Markets This Morning –
has this helpful little entreaty..
Qaddafi’s Grip on the Capital Tightens as Revolt Grows
By KAREEM FAHIM and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Business Insider has taken it, this threat to blow the oil pipelines to the Med, from being a small post at the top, a few hours ago, to now the whole top of the page.
But they too link to Baer in TIME.
Not defending Ghadaffi, but a href=”http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2052961,00.html”>Baer’s piece within this last 24 is the kind of exploitative conjectural shite that could have easily been written by any one of us TV. Hell, I could have written it -
It even leads with the speculative question and certainly a firm grip on the obvious wrt “chaos” –
Pretty clear someone WANTS a Civil War.
To get those oil fields in Eastern Libya? Shiiiit.
Kind of like our bottom line over Sinai, IMO. Another War for a Pipeline..in the pipeline…
oh I agree… Baer is an ex CIA and an operative. No question.
Ghadaffis Interior Minister?
The guy that defected within the last 24?
CNN now reporting he has been kidnapped.
The question is who…Cuz the guy was unambiguous in support of the people’s Revolution. So who’s behind this? Ghaddafi’s remanants? US? The Brits? BP? Blackwater? About the only corporate killer we can rule out is that guy Davis sitting in jail in Pakistan now…
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Welp,
You can ask us to be flag wave and fund Criminal Wars.
You can rob our meager livelihoods.
Then have us ignore our ill and elderly.
Yet, this is America, and like the people of Egypt, of Libya, Yemen, Bahrain…
there is a moment in time, our time, when we will stand and fight for our rights.
In a Dennys Restaurant. Over Maple Syrup.
As the World Turns..
Dig the chick manning the Revolutionary Root Beer in the lower left corner.
Aw. they stood for soemthing.
2011…officially the Year of the Crazies.
Times are tough… Aisha Qaddafi denied landing at Malta… and a DIL denied in London.
SO many tyrant relatives on the run.
Will 2011 Bring the End of the Israeli State as We Know It?
Katie Halper interviews her long-lost non-relative Jeff Halper about why he’s sure 2011 will be the end of Israel as we know it.
http://www.alternet.org/world/149849/will_2011_bring_the_end_of_the_israeli_state_as_we_know_it
new
LINK
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