Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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This goose-stepping owl was photographed by Austin Thomas near Formby, Lancashire. “It’s quite unusual to see an owl walking along the ground like this,” he explained. “He would often fly from his nest and perch on a nearby barn where he would look for insects and worms in the grass to feed to his young” [AUSTIN THOMAS/SOLENT]
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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]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
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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.
Please god. Let it all be this entertaining.
ROTFLMAO!
The Wayne Gacy flub….
It is pretty perfect…. Hey, take it away, Michelles of the world.
Oh! Regime change is just SO hard.
Cpunch’s lead piece on Libya:
Hard… harder… hardest.
No place for the creche! Too little money for insurgent needs!
yum yum… Toobin just tore into Slobster on ss marriage.
On Charlie Rose… whcih I have not watched……. since the hosptial, I think.
The Associated Press has been releasing some meaty reports after an extensive one year study of Nuclear Plants in the US:
06/28/11 – Feds, industry rewrite U.S. nuclear history
06/27/11 – Population density around nuke plants soars
06/21/11 – Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites
06/20/11 – US watering down nuclear safety laws
and as that heat nears Los Alamos, ….and millions, likely, don’t believe that Nebraska, for only one, is safe from radiation,….. we carry on! …droning the fuck out of that terrerist terrertory, the Middle East; …and forcing dying 95 year old Wimmin terrerists to prove they are not wearing nuclear underwear.
yup, Forward March! ….
Some of that report made it to one of the national evening news programs last night (ofrget which one i watched, they all congeal).
P o s s i b l y because at least 3 are in immediate danger and others are known to be weakening. Aging out, even as their lives are being extended.
That might have been a CBS report you saw hon. I noticed that CBS online, picked up all of the AP reports I linked above. Haven’t noticed: ABC, NBC, PBS, FOX, …et al,…TV Networks, . picking up any of them (let alone Pwogwessive Blawghers), I used the New Zealand 3news links for two of them, as they provide all of the report on one ‘page.’
Maybe CBS (and AP) can also start: extensively covering the Drone Industry Government …if they are pure of overriding financial motives obstructing the revealing of the Death Cult we are living under.
Probably was CBS.
Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP’s yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard — sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.
That is the part that was focused on in the national news last ngiht.
Don’t laugh TOO hard now. You might choke.
Great country ain’t it?
They probably threatened her with a nuclear depends check.…..Talk about a butter job, …Al’s got nuthin on the oBombster………..
(anyone think that’s racist? Then it’s on you, I’ll slime a white thug all the same, and yeah, there’s an abundance of them, to shame).
oh I think she got off on all of that shite. The Iowa County Fair is “on the route”.
I certainly used pics of her big butter cow… it so exemplified the mess we are in. And I even like a lot of by-products and curiosities of … oh…. farm land exposition. What to call it.
she may have,…sounds like she did; …. I was just trying to (awkwardly ) fit that in to highlight that: elder, child, too dark, single wimmin, gay, et al: … ANYONE CONSIDERED ABSOLUTELY HELPLESS TO NATIONAL ABUSE, IS “FAIR GAME”, …… humiliation check going on, … ;0(
oh no… I got… not to worry…
;0) …love you honey!
He needed the butter to lube up the country for the forcible butt-fucking he was going to give it, a la Last Tango in Paris.
think we have butter coming out of our ears… at this point
For some reason I think that owl is marching along to “All Along the Watchtower”.
it is quite the stance….
And for the latest in nitwittery…
Tech
Here Comes Bubble 2.0, Which Is Just What The Economy Needs
Jun. 29 2011 – 12:55 am
Written by Maha Ibrahim
Maha Ibrahim: Bring on the bubble.
With the LinkedIn, Pandora and Bankrate IPOs behind us, and Groupon, Zillow, CafePress and others waiting in the wings, there’s a palpable sense of optimism in Silicon Valley. Over 80 companies have filed to go public in the first six months of the year, and dozens more will certainly file in the months to come.
Are we entering another tech bubble? Yes. But I would argue that bubbles can be very positive, and this one is needed to kick start a long-sputtering economy.
While many of my venture capital colleagues argue that “it’s different this time” and “these companies really are worth billions”, {{{{
~bhhm }}}} I’m the first to admit we’re entering another tech IPO bubble. With all bubbles come the inflation, the euphoria, and finally the pop, so there is bound to be some pain around the corner. But right now we’re in the run-up phase of the bubble, and that’s great news for not only the venture capitalists, investment bankers, and entrepreneurs who will directly profit from IPOs, but also for the wider economy as a whole. Why? Because the early days of a bubble create optimism, and optimism fuels hiring, spending and growth.
LET”S JUST KEEP ON DRINKIN!
or.
WAYNE”S WORLD! EXCELLENT!..if you will.
(party on Garth)
Oh yeah def in a tech bubble… (hell we are in a trekkie techie bubble, if you ask me)… and I cannot imagine how hard the crash will be this time.
Our RE never buzzed as high in 2003-04-05 etc., as elsewhere because it had buzzed higher back in 99-00-01. Til of course the BUZzARDS arrived.
…via some damn fool at F O R B E S
Geesh.
Ob. Presser. 11:30 ET.
I cannot imagine a reason to watch, but for the too great likelihood he makes some half way interesting flub.
Well maybe he’s ready for His War™ with Iran now.
As Cameron and Hague and Obby and Hillary must be all Zionist twitter aflitter,(with glitter – no reports in yet on a whole glam rock/ baby blue/ Star of David but-not-Bowie type retro tour ) uh, now that Iran carried out a missile test., uh, ballistic missile test, uh, take three, possibly nuclear ballistic missile test.
Whoopdy fuckin doo.
Like the Umbilical Alliance (hee!) has the high ground there, anywhere, well, except in Golan Heights or the West Bank . Bummer. So not good to be nested in a nice-no-money-down-or-ever two story when maybe one of the neighbors finally get the shits of ya and pulls the ole atmospheric detonation of an A-Bomb, eh?
Gotta Love that Muttally Assured Destruction idea.
So werkin out fer ya.
LOL,
LOL. “Pretty Intensive” Oh that is going to be Hell for him.
The whole Lewd-Photo-Sendin Impulse Control Sessions.
During “undie group” therapy , you know, the Digi-Cam Temptation Test,
one loaded, another inoperable, a wireless laptop just sitting there on the table with plenty of signal available. Sheer Hell.
I guess somebody spilled wine on Glenn Beck’s wife’s blanket, or something. AND IT WAS AN OFFENSE TO HUMANITY!
I’d love to have seen it..
Hmm, let’s see now
Attacks in central Kabul. And at the InterContinental! – Hotel!
They no like our Branding?
And All the Warlords lined up against us and our man Karzai.
And rollout of the book now of the CIA punk’d with the boom-boom.
Barry to Resurge the De-Surge?
An’ta’tink~ Barry could have gotten out with the swipe of a pen in 2009.
Dumbass.
NTIM. All afloat on liferafts of TOAST..
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And with that, a good day to all under Empire struggling against it.
The PATER Land ‘crew’ are slathering on the Rancid Buttah, in a nasty, feverish sweat. …. I guess this stunning lie, put out in the announcement of oBombster’s new counterterrorism strategy! was considered helpful in defending the sadistic TSA abuse of dying elderly US citizens (et al) and the, what rational person didn’t expect this, proliferation of drones on the Homeland:
Despicable fucking liar, emphasis has been concentrated on US citizens for over a decade now, …at the very least, since the bin Laden family were one, of a teeny handful, to fly without restriction after September 11, 2001. May you rot in the Hell of your sadistic, fevered aspirations Mr. Brennan.
April 16th, 2011 – Lobbying Report: Drones Fly Through Congress to Enter US Skies
(bolding mine)
If it helps, you are not alone Jennifer, there are millions….billions of us, with the same, gut disgust :
The ONLY thing that might, and it is only a might, affect this is a massive reduction in flying numbers. Foreigners coming INTO the US has been faling for years, even as the dollar is making it attractive to shop here, and it is due to hassles at incoming Customs and Immigration.
One thing, the other night when a terrible host spent 3 hours on this, supporting TSA and even saying people are SO RUDE to agents, etc, so many callers said their air travel is down to absolute must-do-ths-one and they even know people who have completely stopped any pleasure travel. They go shorter diswtances and drive.
it is the ONLY thing that will ever affect this. Hit the fucking airlines in the daily deposits.
YES
oopsie, …I extended the piccy link through the first paragraph ….no harm done …to my mind. …..We actually pay? To be abused like that? People need to to start shutting down the Major US Media if they are not committed to ending this insanity ….block their doorwells,…. lay down….sit a spell ……. so that they can’t go on……reporting the same ole….same ole ……
I don’t know what is worse, the drones or that people like God Damned Fucking Shumer run our lives.
hideous, all of it.
ROTFLMAO!!
All of Texas has been declared a natural disaster…oh, and there’s a drought too…
What took them so damned long?!?Hope ya’ll are well! Still ass deep in alligators with the move…
Is there a pool at your friend’s house?
I guess lie in it til you cool off… WE had masses of rain yesterday. NOT the big moist droplets of fog that we sometimes, rarely, get in summer, but real rain.
No pool at the house, but the apt. complex has a really nice one — we won’t be official tenants there until next Thursday though….and it is locked up with a key!
UGH.. hit the pool on Thursday morning!!
Thursday is the day that we move the ‘fridge, washer and dryer to the house, and all of the furniture and redundant stuff (microwave, pots and pans, etc.) to the apt. If we get done before it closes, maybe in the evening….I have a sneaking feeling that the only thing that I’ll be hitting is a bed. I’m still feeling aches and pains from Sat. and Sun. (moved the majority of our stuff to the house, just me, my friend and the boys — fairly brutal)….it ain’t over yet. Still have the yard and the garage to clean up, and the house itself…I am hoping to get at least 1/2 of the 1750$ security deposit back from 7 years ago…not that I’m holding my breath or anything, but I am going to do what I can….sucks to be broke.
.. and in the heat too! Oh brinn have a long distance {{{{hug}}}}… Life is too hard. That’s been my opinion for long long time.
Thanks for the hug, Mcat — I needed that!
This is/has been pretty hard, but, hey, there are worse things I can think of that I have never once had to deal with, so I’m not going to start bitching now! (too tired, anyway!)
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