Heaven speaks… 25 May 2011
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
A tornado passes near the Ryan Ranch subdivision in southern Denton County, Texas [AP]
That is what it looks like. Whole lot of Old Testament raining down.
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"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.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
It is going to be a long, nearly unendurable election season. Banging that drum to death.
To death.
I noticed that Southern demogogue, despite his skin color, Clyburn, also thought the Dems would hold the House last November.
Good luck to them all.
Yeah, because it’s not like Obamalama’s policies have anything to do with…anything!
Really? It’s not like that stops him from sending drones to kill innocent children or prosecuting whistleblowers or ignoring BushCo’s war crimes or sucking up to Wall Street etc ad infinitum.
This is interesting.
It sure beats the slobbery mess that Cornel West opened up. So useless.
Harry was already under the bus during the campaign.
I really enjoyed Enlightened Cynic’s comments there, and am forever grateful to that commenter, that one of them:
Led me to a Joe Bageant post I hadn’t read, http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2006/07/adam_smith_meet.html>Adam Smith Meets Cousin Ronnie’s Boy, which has now become my favorite of Joe’s eats:
continued (and corrected link) Adam Smith Meets Cousin Ronnie’s Boy
Lastly, Joe’s finishing touch from Adam Smith Meets Cousin Ronnie’s Boy:
That was excellent. Thanks.
I near wept when I read it myself, I’m so glad Marisa posted the link and I read Enlightened Cynic’s comment.
IOZ – done? Well, shit.
Slobberation at TPM: Ed Schultz Apologizes On The Ed Show For Calling Laura Ingraham A ‘Right-Wing Slut’
lol
If Glenn Beck had called Maddow a right-wing slut and apologized would he be getting the kind of treatment Blowhard Schultz is there?
Join me as I mourn for the sudden suspension of Brother Ed and open up your hymnbooks to Psalm 69.
Join me as I mourn for the sudden suspension of Brother Ed and open up your hymnbooks to Psalm 69.
Can’t we mash Ed S and Laura I together in a salad bowl? Toss ‘n Serve it to someone who cares. ????
(Not that Beck would have called Maddow a RIGHT-wing slut. Whoops.
) But the point still stands.
They’re all a bunch of cartoon characters, afaic. I can only stand the pushy lecturing for so long.
I dropped in to a few mins of what I guess IS the real true last emanation of Poprah.
Somewhere in the middle of the show….
And all I can say is very very strange. Wearing a pink that … ugh I think even is not in the spectrum of the debased latter day Max Factor Rose Beige old lady junk… Not even Pepto Bismol either.
Very very odd.
Yup yup .. a live birth greatly complicates an affair. Or all of the affairs!
Plus, people are pissed at a few things Arnold did on the way out.
What bullshit. People knew very well what they voted into office.
yup. It may as well have been a qualification for the job, and headlined the resumé.
Obama got Ratko Mladic!
So many lies told about that civil war.
I absolutely love you honey, and I love that photo …
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…yeah ..Mother Fuckers,….there is.. a freight train headed straight to your doorstep …one way or another ….
so while the rest of us drown ….locked up below deck ….we get get to inately know ….You’re Day,…..Will Come, …that, …The Good Earth…moment….of enough,…. is a fucking, … enough
(Congress Extends Patriot Act Provisions for Four Years
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well… 23 voted against it, but it is meaningless. It’s like the war vote on Iraq. If they needed for their district to be a “No” (that would be Barbara Boxer, LOL) they were allowed to do it.
Long as it passed.
Kind of like the [too too too] cute little conversation caught between Bill C and Paul Ryan. Compadres, brothers-in-arms.
We is surrounded!!
sigh. 10, 20 years ago, I would have taken small heart at the Wired article. NOT that things would “change” but that someone somewhere, inside government, got it.
But i htink most all of this, the odd interview with a Wyden, a Boxer, or that old harridan Kucinich, is carefully lain trip wire. To calm us down, make us back off. Turn the page.
In the end the bums and creeps, the kapos, the shits, the thugs and the bullies get their way.
yup, carefully lain trip wire, is certainly what it’s come to feel like. I bet Boxer and Kucinich miss steam venter Ted too.
Hmm they are NOT flying the PATRIOT Act to Europe for Daddy-O to sign.
They will be using the “automatic robot pen”.
Really. That is what they said.
Did it take a separate act of congress to reach that decision? I almost think it did.
“They will be using the “automatic robot pen”.”
The jokes write themselves.
Missy Mama ”peeled off” (their phrase) and is off the 6 day swing thru Europe (dropping France in addition to Poland) with no public release of her “program”. That is their wording…
(snicker snax break, what else is there but jive and gossip!??!)
My guess, someone decided not to also fly the damned Patriot Act across the pond. Presumably she is winging home. He took a ”smaller plane” to the continent, so I guess she took AF 1 home.
Can you imagine the Koswhakian ire if Laura did that.
No shopping in Paris?
Apparently not…………. Nor wandering the chilly, windswept streets of Deauville. Either.
I figured something like that would happen when WAPO scrubbed their early morning Tuesday article about the necessary air flight. I’m betting the signature wasn’t actually legal …but knew they’d “pass” the fucker anyway….
Well I heard an extended back and forth… it is legal, but … I think the danger is for any future, less publicly acknowledged use.
AFAIK the auto pen was devised for much more casual use…. signing stuff for the fan boys and fan girls, etc. NOT for major legislation.
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