Pomp 21 April 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, AFRICOM, Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics, WAR!.trackback
Corporal Andrew Skinner from 1st Battalion Mercian Regiment shows ram Derby to former England women’s cricket captain Baroness Rachel Heyhoe-Flint after she was awarded the freedom of Wolverhampton [AFP/GETTY]
and a whole lotta circumstance…
I think Derby the ram is saying quietly, Holy Fucking Fuck! Unhand me! Return me to my meadow! I am NOT a Dog! I am not amenable to “walkies”!
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Also in the column of pomp and circumstance is Libya… John Ellis, Bush relative, calls it, meaning L’Obster’s move to permit armed drones over Libya, a “tactic in search of a strategy”…
It is also a nightmare.
He quotes from a FT article:
[I]t is hard to see how regime change can be achieved, and its consequences managed, without committing ground forces, at least in a stabilisation role. This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya’s population is only a fraction of Iraq’s or Afghanistan’s. It would split the Nato alliance, many of whose members are unwilling even to join the bombing campaign. It would engage Britain, France and the US in a deployment to arbitrate the future of Libya, while Iraq and Afghanistan remain unfinished business. . . .
yup: Q U A G M I R E
Madman postd this at the end of the last thread:
Protestors interrupt Obama fundraiser to sing for Bradley Manning
BTW, here is a tidbit not made clear in the local reporting… AND breakfast with the messiah ran 5 – 10K so a table of 10 … not cheap.
oh… the jokes write themselves.
oh wow… I am hearing an updated report on this, it was 21, TWENTY ONE in the group. A single activist, a woman who was part of the group, paid for the tickets.
At 5K that ran 100,000 +, at 10K, 210,000.
Serves him right, the pretzel parade was absolutely closed mouthed about this event, not even the food they ate this morning, was released, nor that Jerry Brown was there (’til he was gone, then they said)
didn’t go the way they wanted, so therefore it never happened.
it seems The Pisser got pissy over the serenading.
I’d love to know the real, not the advrtised, take from his 2 days 7, 8, 9 fundraisers drop in…
Methinks Barry will be faced with more of this the way they peddle his ass. Too bad his pimps sell him SO CHEAP. I think plenty of juicy gotcha footage will be , basically, purchased for the cost of admission to these things. The Salahi incident made it clear their ass is wide open, fuck, if you look the part so with some tickets for an erstwhile OFA or clean record blogaroon with a modicum of Barry flattery left on the web, in ya go and ya got your withering 30 second spot DONE. Gotta love it: The ole amenable ticket acquisition trick. Niiice. As much for the response of the Barry zeaolots, and the jackboots hustling someone off for daring a peep before the Transparent One, making great counter to the lunatic fringe being the sole province of Goopers.
And while the Secret Service is building a Presidential armored BUS to get him to and fro collection plate hoody-oots, (accomodating gun ports and the counterassault team in undercarriage) unless they have greed, stupidity, and reality countermeasures for the Pretzel and his dumbfuck staff, they’re going to have a rough time saving Haughty Bubble Jesus from embarrassment. Of course I have some advise for the Obama campaign. To Run. I mean,
A multi-pronged campaign:
1. Hire Mark Penn and Terry McAuliffe.
Declare Win now, maintain presumptive pose.
2. Re-Hire Axelrod to run against Washington.
If he’s not working for Bloomberg or Trump by then.
3. Hire Joe Trippi and Bob Shrum after reviewing their record. Sure, at 7, maybe 6 bucks an hour with meals discount, but there’s your job creation.
Yup… the Salahi antic was endlessly entertaining. Esp as the WH denied they ever got close to Foundling, even as the Salahis had immediately posted ot the web the photo fo them right with, not only Biden (his arms around her I remember), but also the pic of them, shaking hands with Barry.
What a hoot.
One thing I always hated in the minor event roles I had working with mostly minor Dem candidates, almost to a person they were all awful when for-real shit happens as it inevitable does in front of real – hello – people or the press. All cork in the ass, deer in the headlights, or the phoney self effacing. I mean fuck, if you get punked, roll with it or push back hard, but Jesus, keep breathing for Crissakes. As tight as incumbent events are, as set-piece the campaigns that GOP run, as singular events, the Adam Clyburn “Real Asshole” of the NYT commentary , the “closed door” in China emergency, even the horrific beating and jailing of Muntadhar al-Zaidi …all were contained with the minor shelf life of “And? So?” ..fucked up, for real, and as really fucked up as it all was…
Contrast that with Gore trying to sigh. etc. Or fucking duck hunter Kerry..like when that kid got tased before his eyes. The Clintons were easily pulled off their cool without terms of engagement or a laydown press. And as you’ve said regarding Obby’s rise, that he was elevated , and while it can be understood in terms of a largely reactionary vote, he also got the soft ball or outright pass on a whole lot of shite…but very fragile, very fragile when slightly out of comfort zone. I think it should be fun to watch this time around if he’s not wholly encased in bubble-wrap.
Added entertainment, Barry is so tense. And she is so bored.
They both wanna be out and raking in the bucks (for themselves, with no DNC reaching in with big shovels)… My own guess is the ptb are running him as they think ultimately he can still pull in the cash, come what may.
Since cash is what t is all about, both sides.
But I wonder.
Added entertainment, Barry is so tense. And she is so bored.
The Dildo Clause in a Pre-Nup can avoid couples so much heartache.
that gave me a laugh…
but very fragile, very fragile when slightly out of comfort zone
and how. He hates being with people, ordinary people, voters…. If one observed him closely at events, large and small, in the primaries and GE, it was very evident. BIIIG problem. You have to find a way to ace (as in, publicly tolerate) physical proximity to people.
He also has some physical demeanors and attitudes of face and body, that are quite revealing, but were carefully, mostly but not completely, kept from view.
He also has some physical demeanors and attitudes of face and body, that are quite revealing, but were carefully, mostly but not completely, kept from view.
of the Bush pertubed chicken lips variety..
Not sure of the Latin, but yeh, the turned head, almost turned-back manager busy with paperwork when he dissed off the “You’re nice enough, Hillary” in debate. Not that I give a shit about a Hillary takedown, but Peach Compote on Date Night he is not. Doted-on by overcompensating grandparents, my take, Grampa of Pacific Command and the Peace Corps embed for Momma in Indonesia during the height of the Viet Nam War aside, Barry more the entitled Army indeed intel brat than glad-to-be-off-the-base kid.
Delighted to be back in Honolulu afterward. BabyFatHunter just plain Army, of the Partisan Special Forces Mercenary variety: “Oh We’re GETTIN Paid.”
Somewhere in the past few days I came upon a well squashed tidbit… maybe in the NYT mag piece on his mother… while in Indonesia, the household had 4 in help. 2 maids, a cook and a gardener/driver.
Gave me a laugh.
And while the Secret Service is building a Presidential armored BUS to get him to and fro collection plate hoody-oots …
Speaking of, Gerstein has a post on this: Two buses at 1.1 mil each from the manufacturer in TN, before special add ons from the SS.
Sharp little comments from the thread:
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Unions pulling money from banks backing Florida Chamber
Texas governer proclaims three days of “Prayer for Rain”
Gavin, who is now our Lt Governor, has gone to Tejas to see all the good that is going on there.
Have a laugh!
What’s he coming to look at exactly? The way our budget is being balanced on the backs of children, the elderly, disabled and the sick?
The ways in which we are being assraped for the benefit of corporate tax breaks for new “development and growth” that continues to pollute the water and air?
The highest city and local tax rates in the country? Our failing schools? Or lack of decent paying jobs? The drones flying over the border?
Oh, DO tell!
oh tejas is constantly pushed here as so much better run, business-wise, than we are. But of course one scratch below the surface the story is very idfferent. Aside from the fact that the Texas deficit is jsut as big as ours is.
Don’t worry, we are making our cutbacks on the backs of the poor, disabled, children, etc., and so on. which is likely why Gavin is there.
Oh, yes, “business-wise”, things are swell here, and getting better all the time!
It’s so easy to “run” a state (into the ground) when you bend over backwards to make life peachy for big business and the wealthy and ignore everyone else!
But that is what we want!! So we go to the master to study!!
*sigh*
Some days it is very hard to find the energy to give a shit….the game is rigged, and there’s no way not to play.
well.. exactly.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Could Perry get any more reDICKUlous?!
Prayers for rain, really? “Normal way of life”? Really?
What an asshole.
No surprise…
NYT:
Scrambled Hope over easy.
The Israel-Palestine Plate Heating Up..SPECIAL.
With Toast.
SSDD from Clemons- essentially doing advance for BiBi’s upcoming sermon to Congress.
Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!DiVACUOUS QUALIFIED DING!
Well, Just because Clemons is a well kept rent-boy doesn’t mean he can also be dumb as shit for mentioning Israel’s government, even under Netanyahu, and PEACE in the same sentence.
pathetic and petty , that last paltry point.
What a servile piece of shit.
Linky Ding…
and out…
Catching on the CBS news overnight a fellow from CNET, Declan McCullough I htink they said, who is dead on serious on the GPA tracking that has been happening thru Apple phones.
He mentioned that the cops have known for sometime about this feature, even as all the rest of us just now learn of it… He also said Apple is absolutely stonewalling and not answering questions about the privacy issues.
Obama, DOJ a firm eye… on something.
What utter bullshite:
They don’t have anything better to do?!?
Who the FUCK cares?!
utter bullshite, indeed.
I had a good laugh. People missed that Ob and Snob (that would be Baby Fat Hunter), both, are tedious authoritarians. VERY tedious.
Just a bit ago, the DOJ (led by another third rate authoritarian, Holder) went after online poker. Much of which, I am reading, is penny bets. Wow even bets as big as a nickel.
Think about the children, THE CHILDREN!!!
If I can manage to stay awake (and not gag too much) I will watch to catch a glimpse of Eboo Patel… that faith based outreach shit is much more active under ObRama than it ever was under Bush. And so far they ALL look like knaves, curs and thieves.
Update to that whole Jesus in the Silver Market story. Not lookin good come late Friday.
Genius gambling degenerates at JP Morgan, CEO & Chairmanya Jamie Dimon, Morgan commodities chief Blythe Masters, Bill Daley – UP! – are – henh – sitting on massive, market dominating SHORT positions in the Silver market.
Jeezis, BUMMER, man.
The likes of which haven’t been seen since the corpse abuse of the Hunt Brother ’round Easter 1980.
Fast forward relevant Gospel:
Deal: Chicago, Commodities Markets.
Bill Daley, JPMorgan, silver, Obama, other commodities.
So. Morgan “naked” short sells silver – as of Christmas past nary months ago, JP had bet the ole Ob ranch (it does own) on silver it doesn’t assured silver / precious metals market will fall (saving JP market-shoring stock and bond positions to boot). Due in days, now, Shit has, like, happened since.
Well, they did, like, realise, Oh shit~ 5 weeks ago ~ they needed an edge prior to paying piper. Like being able to conduct their own contract settlement audits from behind vault door and squeek out All is WELL! No- the Money is in Here! Just a sec! In the Shower! We’ll be right out! ETC.
So here we are. JP. MORGAN. Hmm, the loss potential of “naked” short positions? Oh……
Infinite.
When further-derived against equity positions??
REALLY Infinite. LOL.
We seen this Crucifixion before , right?
Oh I think that story has to be wrong. Wrong!
Because Easter is all about Resurrection. And new clothes. And marshmallow peeps. Chocolate Bunnies! And so on.
(What a hoot!)
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