Opera Glasses and Popcorn
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of the star Alpha Camelopardalis. The big red arc is a bow shock, similar to the wake in front of the bow of a ship in water. [REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech]
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.
Not to worry because all the news lately has been good.
I see what they say about the second caller, except there are all kinds of people in the Gulf who have spent time in the Gulf oil business, on the water, and in helicopters. I would not be so quick to assume it is not credible.
Times-Picayune – nola.com
BI reports that at about 3:30 pm, the shares of the rig owner, W & T Offshore, tanked “hard”. (That was their phrasing.) And yes they are hot for cheap dramatics…
…. can’t find any denials (nearing 24 hours later from the first notice given) nor other info, guess the Coast Guard is still ‘researching’ …… as this link, dated the 19th and currently stating that: The incident is under investigation and more information will be released as it becomes available, is the last District 8 External Affairs Information Site Release as of 5:15 AM CDT on the 20th …
ugh.
photos
UPDATE 2: Coast Guard responds to reports of oil in Gulf of Mexico
Date: [Monday] March 21, 2011
Ina few weeks they will announce IT was Oil! We are shocked… shocked.
BTW, this was at Cpunch…
seems so
Rest in Peace Lorenda Starfelt, Basement Angel
Love that picture. I am such an astro geek.
Moving right along:
You had that pegged.
Let’s see if he does his Jeebus impression in front of it. Why not?
Supposedly he spoke to us at 1:30 PM, sometime, somewhere. Somebody’s 1:30.
I am watching the commentary audio over of The Dreamers. Boy, Obslob seems far away…
Ferry or tugboat it gets described variously, but an Italian ship of some sort, with crew has been seized… AS Danish fighter jets, F-16s, take off from an Italian base, to join the fight.
What a mess..
Have to love it, beside the article reporting on the fighter jets is a Google ad for cheap f-18s
Escobar: The Club Med war
CNN cut away from the pentagon briefing to just show the shock & awe in Tripoli. Hello?
Great pic, btw.
I dinno, ABC tonight reported that 11 years of records supposedly detailing rigourous safety checks and testing were falsified.
Might be one reaosn the CEO is almost completely MIA.
Reuters
You know it’s war when Wolf Blitzer’s working overtime. CNN has a new “Libya War” banner with heavy duty militaristic music.
Fisk: Remember the civilian victims of past ‘Allied’ bombing campaigns
Fisk: First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi. Now there’s a vacancy for the West’s favourite crackpot tyrant
Could this be, I wonder, why we have not heard from Lord Blair of Isfahan recently?
Accordng to Cherie he is diddling her and she is very excited.
If only they would die, exit stage right, whatever.
Aidid of Somalia, Noriega… and so on.
As we were bombing Aidid, his wife and children were living in the states.
I wonder if we will ever run out of tangled webs…
Heckuva Job, Barry
Radiation o=in USA…trust your gov.
http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/u/0/f6N_3JKz02c
All sorts o headlines… cables, electricity… and more quietly, black smoke that caused another “temprorary fleeing” and hidden here and there, despite headlines and leading graphs about “containment is intact” it is reported they are dumping concrete on the damned things.
“This is huge news, and there was absolutely no viable reason for the Federal Reserve/Bernanke to be able to hide behind the FOIA, except of course, to keep the American people in the dark about who ‘their best friends are,’ and who is favored in the Wall St./Banking cartel that destroyed our national and international economies, then of course, got paid off for doing so. ”
“In the “Faustian Bargain” series, Pittman explained how 5 percent of U.S. mortgage borrowers missing monthly payments could lead to a freeze in lending throughout the world.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/21/958642/-Bernanke-Loses!-SCOTUS-says-Show-us-the-Money
“The U.S. Treasury Department plans to wind down its $142 billion portfolio of mortgage bonds guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by selling as much as $10 billion per month.
Sales will start this month and be subject to market conditions, the department said today in a statement. When combined with principal repayments currently ranging between $3 billion and $5 billion a month, the sales may eliminate the portfolio in about one year, the Treasury said.
“We will exit this investment at a gradual and orderly pace to maximize the recovery of taxpayer dollars and help protect the process of repair of the housing finance market,””
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/treasury-to-sell-mortgage-backed-holdings-at-up-to-10-billion-per-month.html
This woman is just amazing in this clip:
Pakistani Actress Veena Malik schools a mullah about Islam
Does the pharmaceutical industry exaggerate their R&D costs?
US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians
In Official Notification Two Days Later, President Obama Alerts Congress the US Joined a War
CYA!
And by that I meant “Cover Your ASS”.
oh let little Kuc lead the band (with no one in it, with a working instrument) toward impeachment. Just so cute of the little guy from .. Cleveland is it?
He did have some back up…I’ll see if I can find the list.
Politico
Sad to say I just see it as electioneering… pandering to upset whupset quasi liberal groups, more HillPac than Obama.
I guess Barbara Lee gets a soft nod, at least she voted againt Afghanistan War, way back when. Then again, in the end it is all meaningless.
Dumb enough – the ones pining for Hill over Ob, as she is bats for war, and he likes to hang back, no matter the game at hand, well I guess but for basketball and brackets… .
Of 122 Tomahawks dropped in the first forays, 120 were ours. 2 were Britain’s…. but we are not leading. I love how we game the air space.
Well, at least somebody from the so-called left is making some noise.
I wish it meant anything… but over and over, it does not.
Turkey Blocks NATO Mission in Libya
Food fight!
I think we will just end up leading, by default.
Soemthing like that. Til of course he hangs on and we must decided what next.
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