Mouser-in-Chief 30 April 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics, UK.trackback
Larry, the 10 Downing Street cat, sits on the Cabinet table wearing a Union Flag bow tie ahead of the street party to celebrate the Royal Wedding. Hopefully Larry won’t need to catch any rats during the street party [AFP / GETTY]
I tried to fnd a still shot of the verger who did cartwheels down the red carpet in Westminster Cathedral… Larry is a good runner up however. I say put him in charge of everything.
Did anyone catch the military uniform worn by Harry? Epaulets, stand-up collar and gold swag that managed to look heavy. And lots of it. Obviously, faded empire has too much in common with lunatic tin pot dictators.
Of course, we are not far behind.
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I thought this picture was pretty funny.
oh thanks for that… that site linked to a slideshow of pics. And this one shows Harry in the weighted down gold braid. And how.
and of course the photoshoppers are hard at work.
LOL That one was in the slideshow i linked to, as well. With an appropriate sub text of course… !
Wildcat unions on the rise in China:
I don’t know of it is true or not, but I read that one reason Chinese labor factories are moving back from the coast, to much deepr inland (away from Shanghai for one) is the work and labor protests and desire for unions and so on had been growing.
So much of the millions who labor had come from the interior of China, in hopes of a job, that they are now being told they can go back home and get jobs closer to wehre their families are.
I think most of the goods at my last job were from China. Maybe Turkey was the runner-up in terms of quantity, I’m not sure.
Then again, what does “Made in the USA” even mean nowadays, with American Labor as toothless and useless as it is?
Maybe I’ll go to the May Day march tomorrow, if my left foot isn’t bothering me. Anything to get out of the house and see new faces for a couple of hours, right?
There are certain things I cannot stop myself from doing, smoking horrible deadly cigarettes and posting from time to time on these blogs, in particular. Two horrible habits I often regret. BUT, greetings and salutations to all. Anyway over at rigorousintuition there is a mass revolt of the not really so many female contributors.. so i told them to come here. Just a heads up.
Hey jam.fuse,
How are you!?
I did not realise Rig Int was back up. There seemed to be about a year or so, months at least between posts… I will go take a look! I used to love “incandescent cuttlefish’s” comments in particular over there…
Hey mcat, I am pretty alright at the moment, hope you are okay,
rigint is crazy’r'n the proverbial shithouse rat, but torrents of information, waaaaay too much to for lil ol me to wade thru. I think i, cuttlefish is long gone. Go to ‘general discussion’ , the;site is not well organized.
Anyroad really loving it in the eu, although the global crackdown is rolling along here too. You cant even buy drugs in the subways anymore, its terrible.. And a couple days ago some poor english schook was beaten to death at a disco in hamburg for no apparent reason by i think five turkish bouncers. The terror, if allowed to use that word, of the racism here is matched only by its pointlessness and stupidity.
But its like the wild west and pretty sweet if you’ve got the appetite, lots of colorful characters most of whom speak german which is another problem. Im thinking best get married or start selling artwork.
Thanks! yeah, I took a look and I found the board is where it is happening now. I will check into Gen Discussion, thanks!
Stay safe!! Polis, polizei, police are everywhere.
What can you do but laugh.
Just popping in to wave “hello” to jam.fuse. Always good to see an old-timer again.
My job-search slog goes on, but I’ve posted a shit ton of art since being canned. So win some/lose some, right?
Hello ms_xeno!
How are you feeling, Mcat? The cold, soggy weather is driving me nuts up here! :/
it’s chilly here and several days this past week with some light rain. Light, I don’t even hear it til I go to the kitchen and see it hitting a window that is kept open at a tilt, top to bottom tilt…
I like overcast and light rain, but I like it about 10 or more degrees warmer.
I creamed thru the whole season of Treme in a couple of days, kept me going. Sort of kind of…
Kiss the kitties! (going to check out the artwork!
The felines are enjoying a couple of rare sun-patches at the moment. And I’m enjoying that they’re not noisily pummeling the crap out of one another for once. :p
Yeah. I shouldn’t whine given the horrible climate shit going on elsewhere in the country/world, but I do it anyway.
I shouldn’t whine given …
Oh why not!
Salutations ms_xeno, I just looked at your artwork for the first time, quite disturbing, a superlative in my lexicon.
Thanks!
I really think of my love-hate relationship with advertising and “feminine” trappings as being the guiding principle there. And let’s face it, that shit IS damn disturbing all by itself.
So much great collage on flickr from all over the world. I try not to get too intimidated…
If you’d like to own a card, I can probably get it to you for just the cost of postage. (I’d feel terrible cutting too deeply into anyone’s smokes budget.
) Just look for whatever’s tagged “unsold” and let me know.
May Day Solidarity March — This Sunday in Milwaukee!
Netflix Now Has More Subscribers Than Comcast
I just read it is something like 26 million… isn’t that like AOL in its hey day?
that sounds about right.
Madison NORML’s Ben Masel loses battle with lung cancer
oh I am sorry to hear that. Nobody should get cancer and die. Nobody.
hate to say it,…but good thing it was before the recently announced plan, for thorough lockdown on pain meds, for We The People.
Rest In Peace Ben.
(Regarding Painkillers: …after all, what good is the Power To Abuse, when one’s victim is able to numb the abuse, with no ill consequences (i.e. the stigmatism of smoking or drinking cheap brew, or, the illegality of, ….say: Heroin for one, now INDUSTRIALIZED THOROUGHLY … in Afghanistan) ….couldn’t have that, could we?)
(darn, …should’ve qualified the:
to that of smoking cigarettes, versus those Cigars, which actually warrant smoking tents at $Green$ $State$ Capitols for $Green$ Nazi Governors with fleets of $Green$ HUMVEES ….(and no, wouldn’t doubt it at all if Jerry ROTC Brown imbibes on either cigars, pipe, or, GASP, ciggies.)
though pipe, is the first thing that comes to my mind …not bong, …but a properly austere version of a Mearshaum (I’m pretty sure I spelled that incorrectly) …not to say mr ROTC doesn’t imbibe with the illegals ….in safe, comradic, surroundings with DIFI …et al …..
well we work the whole repression, ban, make illegal but control the illegal supply thing, we have it down pat.
Even the NYT, which I quote ad nauseum on this, reported that previously no large numbers of poppy were ever refined in country. Vry soon after we arrived, refining began right next to the “largest US base”. Which I would guess is Bagram.
Three years ago, when a phenomenal 92 % of global heroin (and other derivatives) was coming out of Afghanistan, based on a UN report, it was widely reported thru out the world. Newspaper after newspaper, site after site. HEAVILY reported in the European capitals about to be hit with it…
But not in the US, vastly underreported.
YEP…
YEP, YEP …
About the only time you can get enough pain medication is when you are dying. Even tho there is legislation, at least in Cali, that is supposed to ensure medical response to pain.
I can say they ask, over and over, in the hospital if you are in pain. I remember when they did not do that. There was also time when they acted like morphine did not exist. NOW they admit it exists adn they even like using it. Clean, leaves the body, kills pain, promotes calm and even people like me (inside an allergy storm often) have no problem with it…
Oh and cheap. All the opiates are…
Too many prescribing treating doctors, outside of hospitals, believe anti depressants cure everything. Not only depression (whatever that really is, a wider spectrum than most doctors admit to) but stress and pain.
Good luck iwth that.
One of the things they are going after is how FL, in particular, dispenses Oxycodone and Oxycontin… not sure why entirely. Maybe the cheap hallucinogenic Night Train and the like bottled alcohol are complaining.
I had a dear friend with lung cancer, who had wonderful Hospice, with plenty morphine, at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA …now those fuckers, UPMC, are tring to destroy West Penn (if they haven’t already?) …
(and yeah there is an ugly side to the Morphine Industry but that doesn’t negate it’s use when it’s actually needed to relieve someone of unbearable pain)
well the thing is I don’t care about the ugly side. One reason for legalisation. Let it all blow. Cut all the trade and policing that goes with illegal trade. But they won’t.
I care about the ugly side, it is very nasty, but as you say, legalization …. would ideally resolve that ..and THEY, do not want THAT….
what do you mean by “ugly side”?
for one, I know a woman, who was addicted to Heroin who went to one of Pittsburgh’s drug addiction clinics, and one of the fuckers working there, basically used morphine’s highly addictive qualities to make her life an absolute nightmare.
for another, I can’t speak to it much, it has something to do with a hideous temporary assignment I did one time (was escorted out the door when I didn’t sign on to the program …some truly nasty shit).
but these are issues of physical and emotional addiction. Which is a problem for
S O M E people no matter what.
they’ve turned the idea of mass, no exceptions, mass addiction into a living breathing monster for most people.
I’m just saying that there is an ugly side, not at all disagreeing with your premise of legality …
(and ..well, have to say that I don’t believe anyone is free of lifelong addictions, of some sort, …and I could be totally wrong there, …knee jerk gut instinct, is not necessarily logical, but everyone has at least one gut instinct that they can’t ever prove…yet will never shake off …….sigh? ;0( ;0) )
but it is made a thousand, 10 tousand times worse by illegality. There is an ugly side to alcohol too… and one ER doc, long ago, told me he sees nothing that is worse or more destructive than alcohol addiction. that it is horrific…
So………. which is why I say, the makers and purveyors of Night Train want to keep drugs illegal. Even poor old MJ.
Not that legalisation is some cure-all dream. It is not.
One of the drugs i am on, a type of diuretic which was decided on as I don’t have classic water retention bloat, but apparently retain the salt then drink a lot of liquids to keep the salt hydrated, was making so ill so nauseous, that I, who intensely dislike MJ, don’t much like th eculture (but unlike JOan Baez, I could never flush anyone’s stash!, LOL) had me on the internet looking up how to get a MJ card. I wuz desperate.
Wow, what a fcking freakin’ mess. And one, but just ONE, of the big problems is WHERE the dispensaries are located. Pretty much bad parts of town. Which may just be the three block stretch the disp is in the middle of. I did not relish a cab ride alone to the one that was said to dispnse the best edibles.
Someone nearly snapped at me that that is no different frm how it always was….. Well I beg to differ. I may not ever have used MJ but I bought it often enough as gifts to other people and twice when I went to Texas in the late 70s I took it with me (boy, those days are O V E R)…. the last time was a Xmas gift for friends in the late 90s.
Each and every time I would jsut call a friend who was a consumer, ask if they would take me to their dealer. All was perfectly fine. I was never some where odd or out of place in my life, never afraid… but as I went with a trusted buyer I also did not hve go thru the ritual of smoking some (I’d have keeled over, frankly)… it was clear I was not DEA or the law or anybody like that…
O yeah alchohol addiction: NASTY ….
LIVER CANCER: …..NASTY …(and who the fuck, in their right mind, ….. wants to be JR? …or Jobs, ..for that matter?)
the PROFITS OFF OF IT: …..NASTY.
What can one say about JOAN, ….. never call ME GRANDMA!!!! ..or I’ll emotionally punish you…granddaughter. I thought Joan Didion did an excellent, years ago piece on her…
So sorry hon about the med dillemna …never cared for the lite smokeables (never done the hard ones …never cared for any of them …do have a taste for some nice cognac ), MJ,or Hashish, myself ….though loved, the pungent whiff of hashish.
….yeah, the streets are now,…absolutely fuckin mean.
Who is Joan?
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I know, I found that totally shocking…. It was Dylan’s, or the band’s and was in his hotel room. She landed on it and flushed it all.
(Joan Baez going strong, don’t call her Grandma)
I do have to admit, I’ve flushed stash brought into my ‘home’ when I felt threatened …(alchohol in that case), and would likely do it in someone I cared for’s home front if it seemed like it might prevent catastrophe.
oh I just couldn’t do it. I’d simply leave, if I could. Are you talking about imminent over dose or something?
I also cannot see what ”catastrophe” is involved in MJ.
Well JB was iirc estranged from her son for some years. Who knows. Joan Didion cracked up, imo, in the wake of the death of her husband and daughter. Became some proto-Catholic and wrote a piece for the NYRof Books that made righties so fuckig happy, about Schiavo, down in Pinellas FL, that whole mess during the 2004 election cycle.
I dragged myself thru her entire article in NYRofBooks and was horrified.
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yeah ..the imminent, check out thing ..one never really knows of course what they will actually do …until they get there …but It seems it would be pretty hard to walk away and let it happen … for me. I’ve known too many who’ve tried, and say they are glad they didn’t succeed ….that’s just my reality ….
I’m not surprised at all Joan is overwhelmed after all of that death ….mom..husband..daughter ….in a flash …not gonna make a call on that one …I really appreciated much of her writing prior to that, haven’t read anything of hers past that.
She validated that Schiavo was not brain dead. Well in her mind she validated it. Of course the autopsy showed something very different. As had many many testifying doctors as the damned thing worked itself thru years in the courts, all kept on fire by the totally loco parents and sister.
I just cannot – could not – hand the crazed right wing that sort of thing, esp if wrong! from a supposed long time opponent of the RW.
I don’t see what is so bad (”Don’t call me Grandma…” etc) about the small interview with JB. She spends time iwth the grandchild, which is what matters.
I re-read that article and attacked myself, asking myself the same question about what disturbed me about the grandma thing….I think for me, my first response is that she made such a crime of aging/greying ..for just one thing, when many of the elderly do not have that opportunity ($$$$$$), and certainly not the energy after a lifelong struggle, to appear as youthful as she does … there’s more there but I’d like to express it better thatn what’s flitting across my mind…so maybe I’ll revisit it.
but yeah for starters, what’s actually wrong with the word grandma, when that’s what she is? ..older, not as fresh looking physically, but presumeably wiser?
(must go do some errands I’ve been meaning to do all day, will check back…)
Sorry I cannot see anything wrong with it. It is just an opinion. And pretty harmless as well. peoiple dislike being pigeon-holed, which is what I see in taht.
Not some massive embrace of a major right wing operation, run as part of the quadrennial madness we all live with. Esp when you, as Didion did, made a point of supposedly opposing all fo that for 60+ years.
Hell Annie the photog and Susan the writer NEVER officialy acknolweged their lesbian relationship. Even after Susan’s death… So what. People have different ideas on what constitutes their own privacy.
But I am sure there are ‘societal issues PC cops’ who think they cut the gay world dead, publicly, by never having discussions and rountables on what it all means.
My irk about the grandma comment was no more of an irk than your remark about Joan Baez flushing Dylan’s stash, to my mind …..so I’m a bit confused about the hypocrisy implying comparison of myself with Joan Didion , ….or the comment about “Annie” and “Susan” , if that was somehow meant to be related to my ‘post’? ;0( …just saying …and yeah I’ll take a long break, and think about it more, I’m not that much of an ass to think I don’t have blind spots, but I don’t believe your analogy, about my “grandma” comment: when you, as Didion did, made a point of supposedly opposing all fo that for 60+ years, was valid hon., any more than if I had made a similar analogy about your opposition to the stash toss. ;0(
It was the collective “you” diane.
I did not compare you, as an individual, nor your commentary, to Joan Didion.
Oh…I think I understand , at least I hope I do …..I’ve used that collective “you,” myself, right “here,” …and then,…. yeah, ….turned around and wondered as to whether someone had taken it as a personal “you” ……for the lack of the up front signals: eye contact, timbre, body language, sound track, scent ……unfiltered by technology ………I really do despise “the web” (yet ..find it, last ditch effort useful many times (despite its intended use), now that we’re stuck with it …..)
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yeah the web is pretty blank.
I was referring to JD and others like her, who have relied on the left, left of center, for sales for decades. Kind of like Susan Sarandon, who had no problem with Leviev diamonds (promotional gifts to her), even when many individuals and groups reached out to her, also privately, to please not give publicity in exchange for diamonds to Leviev. Appearing at his store parties and promotional events. Not just an Israeli, but a big time settlement promoters.
She ignored them. But has made bucks and bucks for years, off cultivating a “left” audience.
Same with Jane Fonda and whatshisname. Happy to be guests of Israel even as they were waging wars, like on Lebanon.
And so on.
A long tiresome litany.
must you bring up Sarandon ..this late in the eve hon?
I get you on Didion …outside of the family deaths …(I couldn’t stomach reading or listening, to either “side” ……it should have been private to my mind), Fucking Goldwater? But I have to admit she really fuckin nailed some “liberal” BULLSHIT …just like ROn Paul does, …but I fucking despise his buck up, everyone not white or male, White Male Fiscal Policies,…..outside of blowing up the Federal Reserve …..
Well I was USING Sarandon to indicate who I meant by “you”.
I know you were, just teasing hon, sorry …it is truly lost, and such a… difficult, strange effort, without the eye contact,timbre ..warm smile, …..etc….
Ohhhh shit ..out on front street with my own comment number, eleven! oopsey!
that was meant to follow your comment,
Marisa :0) ….:0( ….;0( … ….;0) ..
damn.
After that she and Vanessa Redgrave got up a truly tedious play… iirc based on the deaths. If their joint hour on Charlie Rose is any indication.
Well some just scuttle off, exit stage right.
yes I loved her writing for years. But…… some just wimper and whine into the night, finally.
well, I didn’t read her after that, didn’t want to witness that pain, so can’t offer my opinion, though I will say there was nastiness on every side I partially read, re: the when someone should die issue, one of the ironies for me is that so many that think a plug should be pulled, are the ones who want to stay alive forever …and be forever young, when it’s impossible. …Me? …think I’ll opt for the least physicaly painful, take me out, I don’t want to burden anyone, nor be humiliated with diapers,…and yet …I fear…our government could easily make that into a reason fro mass slayings …what the fuck to do?
(yeah, I did say I have to run jeesh, someday I’ll empty the fuckin garbage …stage whatever …sigh ….;0) ….)
I think you missed a lot of chapters in the St Terry of Pinellas mess.
Housing bust squeezes renters
The other thing that got squeezed in the bubble boom years was land long used for residential trailer parks. And, quite a few scooped up, at least the early steps of running off in many cases elderly residents, thanks to Kelo, just before Big Fat Bubble fucking burst.
And so on
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