Wednesday 23 February 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, AFRICOM, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011.trackback
An anti-government protester brandishes his arm during a protest outside Sanaa University. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said protesters demanding an end to his 32-year rule would not achieve their goal through “anarchy and killing”. [REUTERS]
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Oh and yeah. Ob says they will ”cease to defend” DOMA as constitutional.
Bone. Toss. (Hey, he took a stand!)
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And a piece at Cpunch on some of the deals and wheels the EU and individual countries have enacted to stop immigration. Cash support for keeping the fleeing population on the continent of Africa. In Qaddafi’s case he also agreed to repatriation.
http://counterpunch.org/behzad02232011.html
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Cost of a Barrel of Oil Exceeds $100 for the First Time Since 2008 [1:30 p.m. ET]
catnip once again reporting live from Renovation Square where, since the ceilings are being textured, I’m now living in some sci-fi like, plastic-lined, decontamination unit.
The prisoner/citizen/reporter kept her sense of humor tho!!
Why is anyone “texturing” the ceilings in 2011. More like 1961 or something.
Will you be getting an avocado gold toilet? Or that hideous nasty peach color they used back in the whatever era.
I can only hope that it’s Pepto Pink!
I have NFI why the ceilings are being textured. I’m just a lowly tenant. The only ceiling being re-textured in my place is in the john but the rest of my textured ceilings will be re-painted eventually. Good thing I don’t suffer from claustrophobia. The rest of the house is one big, plastic maze.
o god now it is RE Texturing.
I know! They had it all scraped off and re-mudded and could have just painted it. But, no… At least they’re not adding sparklies.
As we say in Joisy:
Nuttin like a good popcorn ceiling.
Ya knows ~ ta gowitduh lifestyle~
Just mirror-tile everything else.
And columns.
Get yourself a couple of columns.
What more could ya want? LOL.
Gold statues. Lots of gold statues.
… and sons named Primo and Secundo.
Which we have had here, in fact.
I have a confession… I have been getting a HUGE kick out of Real Housewives of New Jersey. Dames of Franklin Lakes, a place I have never heard of. Prolly new since last I was in NJ.
Omigod. Wht a scream it is!!
To me, the textured ceiling always resembled cottage cheese, not popcorn.
And I hate cottage cheese. It was so not my choice for our lovely showplace of a home. :/
ms_xeno! How are you?
(Kiss the kitties!)
The same. :/
I have one more week on LJ before I move my account. But I did put a new post up today. Will not be deleting the old stuff apart from most of the art, which I’ll be moving elsewhere to save a few bucks.
The Sid thinks my umbrella left open to dry in the corner of the living room is the most amazing thing ever. Unlike every other object in the house, he doesn’t try to trash it. He likes to sit under it while it’s drying.
Cats are funny.
Cats are VERY funny…
Meanwhile.
Making friends where ever we go.
Washington Post reported that as well. Whch was surprising and indicates some kind of crack (sorry Obby is not saving us, not that kind of “crack”). Or a feeling that The Great Man is cracking. Has cracked.
I am sure he fully expected a 5th star at some point, but jesus, the wars are ENDLESS.
I’d love ot know the back story on Petraeus. Who always struck me as a FUCKING DOLT. And idiot. Wows the corporates as he can talk about Remington bronzes.
What fucking fullshit.
Obamalama set to speak/finger-wag/sternly-worded scold re: Libya at 5:15pm ET.
oh he hopes to counteract what I suspect was a poor reaction (internationally, not domestically) to a release, think from the WH yesterday that while he is being kept advised, he is NOT part of the strategic planning meetings. WRT Meddle Est and Libya.
Of course not. He and Mama Michelle are so disinterested in everything that it drrips off them.
Shuld be entertaining… because I think the EU and US would prefer that, somehow or other, Qaddafi weathers the storm.
catching snips of the ObRama Speech.
He pounds his fist……… into a pillow.
San Francisco surpassed 4.00 a gallon for premium.
4.09 as of today at the pump.
As I was driving home from a “recruiting event” at the unemployment office today, I noticed gas prices varied along the 6 mile stretch from 2.99 to 3.09 (for regular)….I went and filled up at 2.99…prices are all screwed up, the past two weeks from 2.85 to 2.97 back to 2.89 and now 2.99, all at one station by my house….
It is going to be a long hot motherfucking (speaking as a mother) summer….
I agree…
Before anything bubbled up in N Africa, we were told our gas locally would be 4.00 “by March”. Forget the reason they gave, China consumption, stories about our “special recipes”… gah.
So, one way or another, here we are.
Yep, here we are….
How’s everything health-wise with you, Marisa? Ok, I hope!
I am so disgusted with the state of almost everything at the moment, I sometimes marvel at the fact that I continue to get up every day…
Then I run in to people who give me hope here and there…for what exactly, I’m not sure, but in the moment, it is good.
oh pretty good…. holding my parts and pieces together….
how are the boys?
i agree, things are in a bad way.
Good to know! That’s what we’re all doing, eh? Holding our parts and pieces together?
Thanks for asking after the boys — they’re well, overall. Kid the elder earned 5 As and 2 Bs (89 and 87) this report card, though what he’s actually learning, I have my doubts….as long as he knows how to play game, and I can deprogram the worst of it, I have high hopes for him. For them both, really, kid the younger who is a full year younger than 90% of his classmates, has a teacher who is “very concerned” that he isn’t reading at grade level….while I feel for her and all of the stupid pressure that is put on in all the wrong directions (she is a 2nd year teacher), I had to agree with him when he came home from school yesterday and said “I have HAD it with school!”
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sorry for going on and on…things are indeed in a bad way, I burn to change them, even if in some small way….
Sorry, Hon.
But I think those boys are pretty lucky to have you, FWIW.
ms_xeno — right now, it’s worth one hell of a lot!! Thanks so much!
All told, I’m pretty damned lucky to have them too!
**hugs**
I intend to bring up the rising costs of fuel when I do my appeal to Unemployment. Given that the little fuckhead who denied my claim said that inability to reach a prospective job without an automobile is not valid grounds for NOT APPLYING to a particular job. He didn’t say “REFUSAL TO ACCEPT.” He said that NOT APPLYING to such jobs makes one, preemptively, disqualified for receiving Unemployment.
Because applying to a graveyard shift job out in the ‘burbs and then turning it down makes so much more sense, right? Lying to an prospective employer is really going to fly with these fucks better than only applying for work that one knows, from experience, is in a safe and practical locale for a non-driver.
This same State shithead had the colossal nerve to ask me why I couldn’t just take a cab to a warehouse job in the suburbs. Yes. Forty dollars a day to travel to a job that pays, tops, seventy-two dollars a day after taxes.
“Green, Sustainable” Portland Oregon my fucking ass.
[beats head on desk]
Holy crap, Ms.X — what the hell is going on in OR’s unemployment office?!
That just sucks out loud! Even here in Texas, where everyone thinks state services bite ass, “inability to reach a prospective job without an automobile” is a perfectly acceptable reason for not applying…as a matter of fact, each time I submit my request for payment, they ask if I have child care, transportation or other issues that would keep me from accepting full-time work…when I do, I still get paid.
Read up on the federal laws before you file your appeal too, because said fuckstick does NOT know what he is talking about!
Hang in, lady!
Thanks, brinn.
Yeah, it kind of floored me hearing that bullshit. I remember having to explain to their counterparts up in WA that I’d turned down a job offered by an agency because I couldn’t get to the ‘burb it was in without an automobile. I had to explain a couple of times, but eventually they got it, and I got my compensation. That was over two years ago. (Time flies!)
I think these fucks are just motivated to turn people away (after letting them twist in the wind for several weeks, of course) in hopes that they’ll give up. This is their idea of preserving resources. Probably at the behest of some asshole upstairs.
Makes me oh-so glad not to be a civil servant anymore, let me tell you…
The essence of bureaucracy. You need to become an expert in hoop-jumping to perform for that circus.
That’s the hell of it. This is my second go-’round in OR but it’s the first time I’ve encountered so many tall tales and so much free-floating assholery.
Hang in there both of you!
Thanks, Doll. =^..^=
Thanks, madman, and will do! 8)
omigod. I was on the phone and missed this comment til I read brinn’s reply.
That is HORRIBLE.
Sad to say, OR has a history of wide streaks of white (a state of mind, not necessarily related to skin color) and reactionary.
Not unlike large parts of Cali.
But we are all so Liberal!
I should tell them at the hearing that we’re lagging behind Texas. (See brinn’s comment above.)
They’ll wilt like broiled violets, right? :p
LOL! Well, there we have plenty of tall tales and assholery here too (everything’s bigger in Texas, dontcha know?), but the folks runnign the unemployment office, in my 19 months of dealing with them, are efficient and compassionate. I know, it floored me as well. Ours is an anomalous bureaucracy to be sure….
I’m sure the lege will be slashing their budget here soon though, you know because they do such a good job. grrr.
can you imagine what the summer gas prices are going to be?
Oh, and I read you folks might be getting snow down in city!
So they say on the snow. All I care about is that it is about 10 degrees warmer than it has been for days.
A couple of days ago I thought about ordering pizza. No ‘get up and go’ to cook or heat any sort of food, etc.
But the mere thought of opening the front door, standing there even two minutes kinda finished me off…
I think gas here by summer will by 5.00.
ANY excuse.
Cherished Coca-Cola “ghost sign” must go, say Frisco bureaucrats
They showed it tonight on the news. I just don’t get what the big deal is, but apparently someone complained to the city… and so it went.
Fisk makes it into Tripoli – and out again.
Quite the tale of a city under siege.
I admit tho I am really tired of this “mad dog” (Reagan’s words, still stuck to us like toilet paper ffs!) he’s “crazy” crap.
Yeah right.
If the Feds Get Their Way, Big Pharma Could Sell Pot — But Your Dime Bag Would Still Send You to Jail
we still hve raids. Top to bottom, all manner of grow operations, small, large – in houses and open air…. and even the medical MJ small growers that are licensed. AND dispensaries.
On and on it goes.
TSA Harasses 9-yo Boy and Other Train Passengers After Their Trip
AFTER they get off the train …
Two Libyan Pilots Eject After Refusing to Bomb Civilians
I’m starting to think that the powers that be have a terrible plan for Libya. Some sort of partition… with the wealthier east under one control and the west (Tripoli but fewer resources than the eastern part that is largely “liberated”) and Qaddafi left to another form of control.
Much of it like Somalia.
unless of course Qaddafi decides to bomb the east to some supposed submission. Or rubble.
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2011/02/23/ben-manski-on-cnbc-tax-the-rich/
Manski is really good.
Map of the Libyan liberation…so far
good timing… the site was down for a while i kept getting 404 and 403 and Forbidden….
AJ just broadcast a piece featuring the Embassy Cable how Ghaddafi wanted “the full range” of U.S. Military training offered by our State Department for his shock troops, of course including the , you know, deluxe tour of military bases in U.S. for his cadre to get all the advanced training and weaponry courses.
The AJ report went on to eviscerate Obama’s pathetic posturing and Hillary’s hypocrisy. hypocrisy.
They really have been pathetic… and I noticed she pulled her totally infuriating nodding routine when she stood with him yesterday.
THEY should be “off the table”!
Or on Dexter’s.
oh YUM! Very good idea!!
So much hope n change.
Carry on carrying on.
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden
Most women can’t even get a conviction, but these ladies get Assange extradited? Boy, they must be scared. Manymany secrets.
Airlift of Canadians from Libya cancelled
Why, you ask?
Our little ferry service is sidelined in bad weather.. and, apparently, tho a couple UK charters made it out, many others are just twiddling their thumbs at an airport that, if Fisk is to be believed, is a murderous place.
And clearly Qaddafi is not going to flee. Or so it seems from his telephone interview with some state TV guy there, just in the past little bit.
Yes, I was just reading Cameron’s apology for the slow responsebefore I posted that link. Quite the mess.
Meanwhile he is in the region for a week with defense and buziness types.
Bad.
The elites. Always on top of it… as in ya know
WINNING THE FUTURE (snicker)
It’d be laughable if it weren’t so corrupt and tragic.
Protesters aren’t fucking around in Greece.
They set a cop on fire in Athens.
My my my , maties…..
Questions are being raised in the NYT regarding our latest U.S. swashbuckling efforts that didn’t turn out so swell for the 4 Americans killed aboard their commandeered yacht, the U.S.S. Evangelical.
So to speak.
Shmitts piece all but says the Mil and FBI hostage negotiator involved had all the qualifications of having ticket stubs from seeing, ya know, Pirates of the Caribbean.
So to speak.
So, they could have been killed by “friendly fire”.
Yet another foreign policy fuck up by the administration.
Don’t worry, AJL to the rescue:
American Jewish leaders visit Greece
Banks: When oil hits $120, we’re in trouble
If only banks had their own militaries. Oh, wait…
Oh, yeah Goldman Sachs is “in trouble”, what they mean is that they will screw the rest of us further and harder.
Is that what it will take to get Americans in the streets?
Why not just nationalize all oil companies. And Banks too while we’re at it.
Fine with me!
As to what will get Americans in the streets….I am keeping an eye out…on 3/12 there is a march on the capital here in Austin to “save our schools” — I’ll let you know who/what I see and hear out there…
It’ll be different than WI tho, ’cause we’re already a “work-at-will” (aka ‘work for what we give you or fuck off and die’) state… our lege is just about to balance the budget on the backs of kids….increase class sizes, close schools, more charters, you know, the master plan writ large…
California has been an “at will” work state since the mid 80s. Ushered in by a state SC that was generally called “liberal”.
We are pwogwessive! We is!
I’m beginning to think that the only way out of this mess is to start getting people to understand connections between all of these things. Some of the opposition to the protesters in WI is so ignorant it makes my stomach turn…
Are you going to the march?
Oh, hell, yes! What else do I have to do?
It’s my weekend with the boys and they’ll come too — Quinn wasn’t born yet, but I have some great pix of Ethan at the anti-Iraq war marches….
Great. Take more pictures!
Will do! And video too!
Okay. Yuck. London shop to make breast milk ice cream
And it’s only $23/serving. What could possibly go wrong?
eeew.
What are they going to do with the babies?
_________!
Charge them half price?
LOL! catnip!
Damn you, Nescafe!
Or maybe he said it was “Osama bin Nescafe”…not too sure…
At least he didn’t blame breast milk- yet.
oh I had not heard about the nescafe connection. Well.. at least now wwe know.
Decaf drives people nuts.
Decaf gave me terrible headaches. I never ordered it nor bought it, but there was a long period (70s and 80s)when a lot of people served it in ther homes.
I don’t drink coffee. Too much caffeine and I don’t like the taste of decaf. I did drink it for about 5 years way back when. The best – Jamaican Blue Mountain with sweet milk…on a deck in Jamaica…overlooking Kingston. Those were the days…
All of this half-caf double decaf cow caf stuff is totally confusing to me.
I can’t drink cofee anymore… and miss it desperately. I do what I can with China black tea……….. but………….
Gas up to $3.19 at most stations for regular (saw one at $3.25) today on the way home from yet another job seeking activity…..
We’re up to $1.05 CDN per litre today.
Supreme went to 4.19 here.
Toyota recalls 2.2 million more autos; U.S. ends probe
Ya think?
Probe? What probe?
New
LINK
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