New 21 May 2011
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
A newborn Galah, or rose-breasted cockatoo, looks out of a box in Gross Schauen, Germany [EPA]
********************
Marisacat
Opera Glasses and Popcorn
trackback
-
About...
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]
-
Admin Controls
So.
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman- "Enormous Expansion of the Law": James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing
- "Collective Punishment": As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank
- "No Due Process": Columbia Prof. Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests
- Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country
- Headlines for April 22, 2024
- U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists
- "Fear and Terror": Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel's Assault
- Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear Pro-Palestine Student Protest
- "No Palestinian Is Safe": Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem
- Headlines for April 19, 2024
- Electronic Intifada / General Content
- As if nothing happened
- Daily life in Rafah's desert camp
- No protection from illness in Gaza
- Trapped in a nightmare
- US senator recommends ripping skin off Gaza protesters
- Court orders release of Palestinian feminist scholar arrested in Jerusalem
- Students fight escalating repression on US campuses
- Israel killed my grandmother
- Israel subjects UN workers to torture
- Genocide alert issued over Israeli violence in West Bank
- Press TV / Middle East News
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Press TV
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- McClatchy Headlines
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- The Real News
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Reuters / Politics
- Tesla is playing a brutal price game of 'how low can you go' with its Chinese EV rivals
- Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight
- The radical repricing of US interest rates
- Cliffs’ CEO Calls Share Buybacks Better Use of Money Than Deals
- UPS’s Earnings Are Coming. Investors Want to See Better Demand
- South Korea and U.S. hold largest combined air force drills
- J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow’ Sweeps Platino Awards as Filmmaker Offers Support to Argentina
- Rail spikes hammered, bullet train being built from Sin City to the City of Angels
- ZachXBT Exposes 12 Abandoned Solana Presale Meme Coin Projects
- International disapproval of U.S. leadership ticks upward
Flickr Photos
October 7 1955
"a remarkable collection of angels
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
Democrats…
Same as goddam fucking forever.
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.
Amazon PayPage
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.
Marisacat 
baby looks pretty hungry,..and I’m positive there are are loads of worms around that we could feed to baby ….of course they’d have to be chopped down to swallowable size for honey,….mutant, enormous worms that they are…
hmm We just had a tiny earthquake. Not sure I would have felt it if I had not been curled up in bed watching Netflix……
I wonder if that was Camping, blowing a gasket…
snicker.
I didn’t feel a thing, :0) …;0) ….ts?
the fuckers will at least want the pleasure of destroying any form whatsoever of social security, before they allow anyone to Rapture out… anyway …
I am Rapture-Proof once again!
and just in time for some oven heated berry pie with ice cream! ;0)
The cat held you down and said
You can’t take her!!!!!!!!!!!!
I usually check out Susie Madrak regarding PennsylvaniA nooz, but this sure got my attention: How to Spot A Psychopath …I’m not quite done reading it thoroughly yet, but from what I’ve read so far, it’s both heart rending, and horrific.
(Do have to say though, far easier to lurve Jerry Brown at a distance, than live under him (speshully being fairly familiar with his partners in “Government” ….whom he’s quite silent about) ….yeah he’s preferable to czar Arne Duncan, on education, ….but is that really the point at which he becomes a wonderful Governor?????? Really? …….We’ve sunk pretty low then, haven’t we?)
(oops Susies ‘website’ … for one, some fracking news, not commonly available)
(for another, a bunch of music suggestions (yeah, I do love alot of ’em ;0) ) and more, Fuck em, opinion, on PA local Assholes.)
and more, …. a link to this:What has Obama done for African Americans?
(bolding mine)
Hard to sink lower than Arnold. And anyway, all I ever saw for years was the Dems being quiet little political partners of Arnie. DiFI immediately “loaned” Arnold her CofS, forge the first name, that Kennedy woman. And DiFi is very close to Jerry. Married him and the wif.
We’re very very screweddddddd.
I was thinkin of Arne Duncan, but yeah, ya really can’t sink too much lower than the Groper either, as a “Public Servant” …such a hideously mind blowing experience to live in a state governed by someone who, with no solicitation: grabbed woman’s breasts, when he didn’t even know those women, let alone the fact that it’s totally unacceptable, even if one knows the victim.
I had some Cali Asshole grab my breasts while riding by on a bike one time, while I was carrying a large plant, …I’ve never recovered, and I’ll never totally recover from being taught that the country I was born in: claims to stand on high moral ground, when assholes like that bike assaulter can get “elected” to govern me, and those I love.
well…. they are all over the place. Marauders, ass holes. And so on.
What I really don’t like is that the world only stops and assesses in horror SOME of the stories. It is quite happy to let rape (of all ages) and various and sundry sexual assault be a quagmire. For the victims. Like the thousands, tens of thousands of forgotten, lost, never gotten to, rape kits around the country, sitting there, untested.
yeah…and then all those unreported rapes with no kit used …..I certainly never reported the breast grab, to what end? …and I had to get Back To Work … Buck up, Grow Up, That’s What It’s all about ..Little Lady (barely audible: bitch) ….. …yup, good thing I don’t own a gun ….(sad thing is, I might be tempted to shoot myself first anyway, just trying to evade the fuckers)
BTW, imo his wif is right down there in the gutter with him. Filthy drain water swirling around both of them.
The Shriver woman I mean. Oh please, she did not know? She aggressively, very agrressively, re sold him and defended him in 2003, to the Cali electorate.
And of course she comes frm a rapacious family. (NTIM and Not That I Care, NTIC)
oh, yeah, same take here, she had to have known, likely why she looked such a mess during, and after, the whole Cali Recall Clown/Clownessa Show …quite the cesspool … well shit, Nixon, Reagan …(Clint….Bono) …etc……..
On the funny side: Next Media has a new video up on the rapture;
Oh little Republican hearts are breaking….
Headline at Politico……….
I might be mistaken, but I think the RNC money, and potentially WallStreet money, is/might be on this particular
billionaire predator currently:
He is defintely casting himself as an alternative to Mittens. No idea what he is like on the stump tho…. or the schtupp!!, LOL!
Reading in between the lines, it sure looks, to me, like the Bush Crime Family connections are behind the Billionaire Mormon, and maybe exerted pressure on Daniels to back out: :
Upon Daniels ‘demise’ he jumped right in to note that he’d carry on in Daniels hideous fiscal‘spirit’:
And he and his backers were sure prepared from the jump with a clever story line to mitigate ill repercussions from his extensive business dealings (under both Bushes and Obama) in China:
UGGGGHHH, I’m so not looking forward to 2012, and praying some third party candidate can derail the Rat/Thug Partay system.
So how IS it going under Obama , the Continue the Wars Guy?
Under Mr. Historic Prefselldent Bullshit-About-it Fellah?
How DID the Big vote work out?
Count em.
Didn’t they get the gorilla suit memo? Hmm??
About how Obama Got Osama™ and all?
Still loyal, Dems? Get the fuckin memo?
How Precious is doing and his lock on ‘012?
About Barry and his Big, ah, ~WIN?
We must fight the good fight over fat children.
Something like that.
People should be afraid, I caught a presser the other day on Deutsche Welle, Germany talking about how to remake its military for all the “engagements to come”.
It ws NOT a good idea to wake both Japan and Germany. And we of course are totally at attention – and wide, wide awake…. In a dumb and stupid killing machine way, Slave Patroller Days Are Here Again! way, certainement!
I won’t be here for the Bigger Worser Wars To Come. And I am glad.
BUT- 😉 factoring in time, one need not be pessimistic. Consider the end of World War 1 thru 1933. Then ’33 to 1945. Look how much was done!
Why, under Barry we’re only 3 years into the **Post Bush** Era!
.
.
.
.
**Sure**!!
So get your darts out folks.
Who is behind the attacks?
Friend or foe?
Who knows in this real estate deal?
A Partner ~ Gasp ~
in one of our Sacred Relationships?
So many to choose from, afterall.
Be it the Iraq Interior Ministry or Israeli Prime…
Of course, they’ll blame it on Iran either way.
Besides, they don’t have Osama Bin Laden to kick around and slide off an aircraft carrier anymore.
Lest the glow of capture and kill fade, I noticed this on the side bar to the right:
It would be interesting to see if Pakistan upped the ante to something like shooting down a Predator drone if another high profile territorial invasion happened.
O’Ham. In the land of O’s:
Still yearning to be a dead white man, I see. Or a too-out-of-it to shut-yo’-mouf white man (that would be Clinton)-
(Please God, let it end!)
He likely used that Ronnie Reagan Black dye when they did that touchup for the Assassination Success presser.
Like anybody’s paying attention?
Agree.. I don’t see anybody caring. Much at all.
I read that most Irish kind of roll their eyes at the whole idea of yet another Pretzel claiming to be Irish, but that Moneygall hopes to make………. what else, money off it.
GOOD LUCK everybody!
I need a drink just watching the Patrick Kennedy well, I guess “Special” on CNN.
hair of the dog what bit ya……………….!!
😆 VERY funny.
I just couldn’t quit ’em!
As in, – > Do we want the WASP Republicans running us over, off a bridge, and selling us bullshit health insurance?!!? Do we?!!
Another round O’Camelot, McGinty!
LOL.
Newsflash… Obama says………………………
The Irish punch above their weight.
Snicker.
AND speaking of punching above your weight… the local CBS affiliate reports, not sure how, that Camping garnered a cool hundred mil off the End Times Rapture NOW scam.
hmm
Harold Camping’s Family Radio Completely Redesigns Website With No Mention Of Rapture
Read more: Business Insider
Wow, I’ll bet some of Poperah’s, New Age Spiritualist, con artist buds are seething with envy, like that sweat lodge killer …..
Surely someone will start offering Rapture Prosperity ™ Conventions, if they haven’t already been trademarked by Camping.
Oh I am sure. Apparently people sent money to his church.
Geesh, go figure.
I sort of took today off, then landed on an Al Jazeera report…. film of fires from the blast looked pretty spec-ta-cu-lar…
Vid at the link at BI:
Read more: Business Insider
After Fianna Failed, another EU government that chose austerity policies gets trounced.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Spains-Socialists-trounced-apf-2016504631.html?x=0&.v=20
Hmmm….
After Fianna Failed in Ireland, another government that puts bankers above the people goes down: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Spains-Socialists-trounced-apf-2016504631.html?x=0&.v=20
I found the comments in the spam file and released them WP hiccups a lot. Sorry about that…
I was just looking at photos of the biggest rallies going on in Spain, even during the few days before elections when they are not by law, supposed to publicly gather en massse and demonstrate… and of course they did back when they voted in the Socialists!! Refused to leave the small square outside the conservative party HQ…
just makes me so happy… and reports say they, the protest rallies, are going on in several towns…
Yay!
Okey. WP doesn’t seem to like my link – ate it twice now.
you can send it to me if you like and I will try to post it.
where.is.the.cat at gmail dot com
a period after each word, but not after cat just the at @ symbol….
😉
On a T-shirt I saw today: “I’M MUSLIM DONT PANIC”.
oh, that gave me a laugh!
Long time coming. And not the State SC, the US SC, in another 5/4 decision:
I’m sure Wall Street Prison Industry Investors everywhere, are ringing their sweaty hands at the injustice of it all, …and certainly Jerry, as he works on further overcrowding County Jails with non-criminals, will want it appealed, as he did as Attorney General in 2009:,
hmmm, Jerry, if being deeply disturbed really qualified people for incarceration, how do you explain all of the Deeply Disturbed, and Venal, US Politicians, and their Deeply Disturbed, and Venal, Corporate Masters, freely frisking around …. like rats at a garbage dump?
yup! Jerry fought this under Arnold.
OF COURSE we can find several tens of thousands to release. I think we are the only, or one of a tiny number where everyone, every single fucking prisoner is released to probation, parole. And we have a history of picking people up, returning them to prison, for small infractions.
I am all for prison/ long term, for brutal crimes of violence, assualts, rape, murder, etc.,… but that is not what we are doing.
Exactly, what it looks like Cali is doing, is supporting a Ghastly Fucking Industry. For example, from: from green.ca.gov…..:
(Some US jobs, which used to be able to pay a meager rent for the non-incarcerated, seem to have moved solely to US prison jobs, such as assembly work)
Well I am for s o m e prison work… but obvioiusly a lot of the prison industry stuff is utter scam. Trapped workers, no union, no labor leverage, of any type. And there should be no or extremely limited, supervised access to any computer with internet access. The problem is the guards are in on the scams.
Big mess.
About a year and a half ago I saw on Deutsche Welle a program on a Max Security prison in Aarlborg Germany. Wht a difference. I don’t mean to embrace the whole of the German prison system, but that one example was so different.
yeah, agreed on “some prison work,” and yeah, that’s not what has been done, they’ve made prison, a life option for persons they consider their tools, many of whom aren’t criminals ..pretty horrifying.
Will have to read up, on the Aarlborg program.
It’s probably findable on the Deutsche Welle site.
Are these people tense – or what?
Why not a tanker hauled in to cover the embarrassment? Attack drones to kill anyone who might have seen. Seen something, anything.
If the details in this are correct and not disinfo misinfo or mischief of some sort, Ob andhis crew have gone functionally nutz. And i don’t think it is because we got all puffed up and offed Osama.
😆
🙄
kinda sounds like vengeful pay back for not being invited to that wedding.
They seem perfect representatives of Boobus Americanus. Just like George 2 and George 1 and Babs before them. And the looney mix of loose goose skirt chaser / drooler and Hillarious as stern Governess in the middle of the run..
So many proud, historic moments, didn’t George 2’s security helicopters rip the shit out of one of the royal gardens or something.
oh yeah did do that. They insisted on landing in an area of garden they had been asked not to…. I think some hydrangeas met an early death.
Scared the peacocks somewhere too, maybe Windsor.
Except that idiots who live in one street towns come out for the jerks, I think we are too damned much trouble. (I know I know, Ireland is in some level of trouble, Moneygall hopes for a little cash dividend, the Celtic Tiger is something we built of Papier Mache and now ObSlob is there to shore up the Irish corporate haven we built. Assisted building…. Etc)
Certainly not surprised, but still sick to mystomach anyway, from Glenn Greenwald: The Patriot Act and bipartisanship
Of course DIFI was one of the extensions loudest supporters.
The Fight Over Fracking: Josh Fox vs. Big Gas – The Oscar-nominated filmmaker exposed the dirty secrets of gas drilling. Then the industry decided to play rough.
By Alexander Zaitchik
(bolding mine)
I think our fate is sealed.
We look like glow ‘n the dark jokes anyway.
Things sure aren’t looking well, don’t even want to know the FEMA nightmare all the recent flood and tornado victims will end up in…there have got to be tens of thousands of people made homeless in the last month just due to weather, and I don’t get the impression the powers that be really care at all.
well like the Japanese… parents are upset and demonstrating as officials have raised the allowable radiation for children to 20 x the recommended level.
It’s hard out there for governmental pimps.
We are trapped inside a joke.
With He Himself and the religio-whack-a-nut nuts.
Joplin will rise again, by virtue of He, Himself’s Presence. …As we all know: He, Himself, his beloved Czars, and Bipartisan Public Servants, have already comforted, and taken care of, the country’s: millions of unemployed; elderly; foreclosure victims; and the sick and uninsured …
Your Money: Billions in Stimulus Funds Paid to Tax Delinquent Contractors
such as:
I think it is all about the manna that drops from his fingertips…
His, Hisself’s divine fingertips, ………get it right hon.
they all seem to be losing it… moiv sent this around
Torygraph
jeesh …..Duck!
and of course that Cannes comment from another of our dear Hollowwood Muses ….will serve to even further beef up the already insane security measures against those of us who can’t escape to Cannes …and don’t own our very own jets.
will serve to even further beef up the already insane security measures
That is what I thought, the looney white boys shoring up ObRama have now tightened their sphincters up to their nose hairs…
yup. Humvee sales, with night vision, for the wealthier of them, are probably skyrocketing ….
Well, once the food riots start, who knows…
yeah who knows what is coming…. even with historic (gulp!) lows in violent crime, in region after region, town after town, across the country.
Tho we have one of the big standouts! Vallejo, with a massive increase in violent crime, over in the East Bay. Even with a major nut case religio whack job as mayor… who declared Vallejo a City of God a few years ago (even as the town went officially bankrupt). Oh and his hatred, bible based, of gays.
That too.
California’s Toxic Prison Conditions
(bolding mine)
Honestly I doubt Texas prisons are any different from ours.
Anywy, California, esp down at the level where this has to be adminstered, has known this was coming. So has Jerry. Long expensive game with the Prison Lobby. Which is NATIONAL.
I’ve read it is bigger in DC than the commodity / farm lobby. And with the whole of congress butt kssing Bibi, Israel hardly needs a damned lobby. Truth be told.
I haven’t has the pleasure of any prisons here in Tejas, but if the city and county jails where I have been lucky enough about 10 years ago to spend a night or two are any indication….I have no doubt that the adjectives “appalling,” “inhumane,” and “unacceptable” would apply!
Here the Sheriff and his deputies run the city/ county jails, CCSF, City and Co of San Francisco… and we have a long time Sheriff from the much more liberal days in the 70s, who is also a good manager… and STILL our system for the poor is rough. We also have a very good head of the Public Defender office. REALLY good…. But again – because it is only one part, a part and dependent on several systems…
Not to even start on other counties, much less the state and Federal prisons. Ours have been under federal mandate, Federal watch, judicial orders relating to law suits, corruption etc for EVER. Or so it seems.
yup, one enormous Vampire Squid of a National, Stimulated, Security Industry, Partnered with Israel …
(yeah, and fuck Jerry, of course he’s known ….and is so very glad it’s not him in one of those toiletless cages.)
New
LINK
…… 😯 … 🙄