Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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Helmand, Afghanistan: US marines walk past a Russian tank left over from the war between the Soviet Union and Afghan mujahideen Photograph: David Goldman/AP
… might as well drink.
For the moment, I am drowning myself in Barry Lyndon. Seems as good a drowning pool as any…..
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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.
From the last thread hon:
Yup, one brutal patriarchy is the goal. It’s already here, been here …and in a constant state of refining, furthering, the suppression … and suppressing and destroying, …… anything decent and humane associated with ‘religion.’
And yeah, where were: the DC Christos, oBombster; … Boner; …etc., ….when this happened:
Clergy arrested in Capitol budget protest
Published: July 29, 2011 at 7:06 AM
prefacing piccy
Rabbi Arthur Waskow is arrested as he participates in a group prayer to protest the proposed budget cuts that will threaten programs for the poor and needy on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 28, 2011. The group was arrested after refusing to leave. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
oh the Catholics Bishops have protested the cuts as well.
I find most of it to be charades.
Whatever charades are being played …(and I’m admittedly, very suspicious myself hon,, as to the heads of the “Temples” …arriving: way late in the slaughters going on), .it has become quite clear …that …. empathy is passé (actually, ….it has never, ever been a goal in DC …) …. I have a feeling they didn’t think they would be cuffed that quickly, …yeah ……join the fuckin crowd ….. :0)
I skipped all news all day after am soaps… tune into the evening news, just in time for Big Break in so he, manna from heaven, can address us.
“Countdown to Crisis” from ABC.
Line us up and shoot us now, get it over with.
yeah, ..that photo, you prefaced with, …is looking …like our future ……there are not enough handkerchiefs to go around ….for that one ….
then again, ..”we’ve” been submitting others, to that future…, ….for quite the time …
and anyone sane, has been prescribed, psychotropic meds.
we’ve got a long way to go, …. doesn’t even begin to describe the mess we are in, …with teens, …willfully, …. taking their lives, …with ease!
kdlang
(I would submit also, that that gymnasium wall ….also includes ..”mental” gymnastics ,……in that …the most sadistic, heartless mother fuckers, who win that argument, because they can’t be bothered with considering the downsides to the living,…and therefore, …are the first ones to come up with the “right” answer” …are now being rewarded …like nobodies fuckin bizniss) …
Not sure if it’s been posted before:
Cancer stricken ground zero worker gets check for $0
how truly awful… I had not heard that.
And that breakdown of money withheld is just how they do it. s if he has the strength to fight the supposed “liens” withheld…
I don’t kow if they still have this, but it USED to be that if ordered by the judge, attys got the “costs” paid by te court as well.
Pretty slick huh?
Jeezis. LOL. And WaPo actually pays this kid to beat-off….
And today, to peddle Giuseppe’s ass-wares, too!
Good thing I don’t take the print version,
,,,, with all that jizz on it.
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Actually a couple of grafs in Noonan’s piece made perfect sense…. For one, that Obster is singular as a apretzel: NO FRIENDS… none. Which I have said for a long while.
One reason is he doesn’t really acknowlege other people, and certainly nto congress.
And his present, shallow, purported “circle” are all the same too.
Insular AND ineffectual.
And while I think anybody is better off without Rahm, Emanual like Schumer simply purchases or extorts what temporal “loyalties” they need. But Plouffe? Pfft. The Staffer from Delaware shtick worked on the college kids. Messina? As shallow as they come, And no juice on the Hill, A supplicant among supplicants. I’d at least say this about Axelrod and this is from peripheral contact with him for a brief time years ago, that, however aloof, he at least had the political ability to project some humanity around those he worked with. Almost REAL, even! LOL. And,a campaign-rescue instinct to bundle whatever baby he was handling aboard floundering ship. Which of course would last until you’d see him with a lifejacket then tossing baby as flotsam. LOL. Some endorsement! LOL.
But you know what I mean.
There is a clip of the two of them on Slection Night, immediately after it was called for Obby. They were getting on an elevator. Really revealing, the facades stripped away, Neither Axelrod nor Plouffe able to fake it thru the earnest, No-Drama thing anymore, They spoke and laughed like they had just boosted an armored car. Which they did.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Axelrod and his Jr. / Diminishing Returns Partner – Plouffe – part ways after Payday 2012 regardless of the inside/outside arrangement they have now or will need to make ,:wink:, : for the campaign. A coupla campaigns together, which, .to borrow a phrase from you, is a “long thieving run” in politics.
Yeah Noonan pointed up (from her near celestial perch) all the stupid empty crap going on fr 2012. It is just hyper gamer boys on crack doing an election. As I see it.. come be with th techno whiz kids!!!, etc.
She pushed that dumb “purple” crap tho – how wonderful it was, which seh knows very well is/was a crafted schtick that Axelrod has pushed thru several candidates. “One America” shit, whcih to be frank just sounds fascistic…
Not just Deval … Axelrod was with Edwards in 2004 and they pushed that. Freddie Ferrer in 2001.. and others.
How unsurprising that right now the High and Holy Speachifier of the blessed Saint Raygun would come down from the celestial palace to spew the Purple schmurple, the hip new jargon descriptor of the mythic “Raygun Democrat”
Certainly It is one of the new Shibboleths required for entry into political “debate” and cavort unicorn-like in abou tthe media’s poppyfields of “reason”.
And we all really need to be reasonable in this time of endless “crisis”
Ain’t freedom wonderful?.
B.Sun editiorial is yet one more formulation of the fable:
The author has got the gerrymandering right, but name me one “extreme leftist” anywhere on the national political stage.
yeah there aren’t any. None… you might get some that are a bit more liberal than others… but it is next to meaningless.
I’ve watched Kucinich, whom fools think is some savior, cavort with the party, do its bidding, etc. Bernie Sanders likes to bluster and blow and I am sure he does some qualified good, but big time Israel supporter, etc.
Hell even Franken is an old time liberal… but again, Uber Alles Israel.
They get them all on something.
Jackie Spier who has the old Tom Lantos seat, San Mateo Co and a large swathe of San Francisco as well.. was on the local am show and went harder against Obster than she ever has. Called him “the worst negotiator I have ever seen”. And was probably genuinely angry. She said his approach t o the deal was all about avoiding a similar fight between now and re election. Well yeah.
Two years ago she would not have gone hard against him… but enh.
… it all means nothing.
I just had a conversation with fellow “liberal” artist yesterday about Kookinich and Sanders. He was still a little doe-eyed yet; down on the Ooobster yet still believing that somehow the former pols will lead the Dems out of the wilderness of “wussy-ness”.
I told him I thought that those guys were cover for a huge con, and even if you could believe their sincerity on any given issue (and surely all of them are compromised on at least some issues, too), they serve only as window dressing.
W/o Sanders,Franken, the “kookinich,” Grijalva et al. the Dems could no longer claim to be a “left-of-Center” party, IMO
The world and our beleaguered nation would be better if those guys just quit and let the charade end…
yes they sell themselves as big tent… but they are not.
Pete Stark was on the local am show … last week.. and was very blunt about L’Obster… said he gets in bed with the R. Gee how nice.
But there are details around of decades of Pete Stark sell outs, esp to the medical industry. Another big time gate keeper in congress, like Dingell and Conyers and others.
It is so corrupt and they all share in the spoils as I see it. Only so many womens, only so many blacks, only so many latino.
And it really does not matter as they are all crooked, as I see it. Sell outs, hacks, bag carriers, etc. And all of them are authoritarian. All of them.
So…..~.Brrrreaking!
Gay Italian Ex Lover of Jonathon Capehart {(Who?}
Giuseppe! {(Who?}Still Supports, Obama! {(Who?!!}
- Obama / Giuseppe Relationship Remains Unchanged!
(Like Country!)
- Giuseppe / Obama Love Affair To Continue!
- Just NOT .with . Jonathon! All Remain Close!
I aso read he has (or had) been the publicist for McGeevey and his boyfriend.
NOT the Israeli one, snicker.
Gah.
oh I googled Jonathan Capehart as I knew nothing about him. Guiseppi is his boyfriend. Apparently.
So valuable knowing it is a Obama loving home. Gah. This is like so many relationships, gay straight and upsidedown, we get dragged thru.
EX Boyfriend!.
Capehart broke the news in his article! LOL
I am heart broken.
Too perfect. via “twig” at corrente
Don’t worry twig, we cannot make this shit up. THEY do it, all ready to go.
Did Obama capitulate — or is this a cagey move?
Uhm, I’ll take Capitulate for 2 Tril, Alex!.
‘night all…
oh gee.
The Republicans won. The wingers won. Pete Petersen won. Cato Insitute won. Club for Growth won. Richard Viguerie won.
To me, the Tea Droop people are so inconsequential, just the latest petit-fours on the tea table.
Sorry, one more…
First paragraph form Ezra -
FEEL THAT WIN COMIN ON!
Good Fuckin Grief.
GET ME OUT OF HERE.
Jeezus Crifes. Between Capehart and Klein,
Who is passing out the loincloths and gold body paint
Who’s handin out the poppers , lotion, and laurels in DC tonite?
Holy F U C K.
Goooood night.
I think I will actually read tht. Exra spent so much of 2007 and 08 with his mouth cupping Obama’s nearly non existent balls. He wrote such exuberant slime, I could hardly believe it.
oh that was pretty bad. Geesh.
EVERYthing is going so well…
And framing! It is a success – A VICTORY! as people will get their August checks. What spin.
hmm The New Yorker has a write up of the getting of bin laden… some crafted fiction I am sure, but it has tidbits that feel real.
http://nyr.kr/oFPffT
“For God and Country”…. our universal blessing, I guess, on horror. Our expiation.
And this rings true… Useless and Not Needed goes golfing and then watches it on TV….
I don’t know the author, Nicholas Schmidle… but I think we are supposed to be impressed he speaks Persian and Urdu.
Whooop de do.
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Our Leader Doth Speaketh
Audacity of Hope, 31-32.
Courtesy Mike Whitney who quotes it in his C Punch piece today.
http://counterpunch.org/
Nice pick.
Amen, and pass the ammunition
see, i always thought his personal story was vry problematical… if people bought the surface stories… and they did with absolutely NO reading of the archives at the big chicago dailies, a treasure trove… nor did people read the local black press… nor apparently were many so-called liberals and others equipped to come to any independent conclusions. clearly. and sorry to be blunt but a boat load of black people were just silly and stupid.
IF they can’t recognise a black overseer, LOL we are fucking fucked.
He is one of the biggest jokes and crimes ever hatched with the compliance of the voters…. Or as BHHM said last night, Axelrod and Plouffe hijacked an armoured car and got away with it.
Yeah.
The interesting thing is that if Congress cannot agree on cuts, then everything gets the ax proportionately, including our military budget, which under normal circumstances is the third fourth and fifth rail.
Course, after 2012 there may no longer be disagreement in Congress (or the Presidency), but if O and the Senate Dems can hang on by their fingernails, I may run short of popcorn.
I heard on an update Bernie Sanders is voting NO
whatever, finally.
Oh god theatre, the Dems hauled in Gabby Giffords to show up. I am so tired of the games, at the end of the day… I guess no need to read 218 on thsi one… :
Sorry that total was before they reached the fll number. Dems held back til the Republicans had enough to put it over.
Gabby, bless her dear nearly assassinated mind, voted YES.
Passes the house by a 54 vote margin…the “lefties” on MSNBC “surprised” its so large a margin. LMAO
Love the Huffed up post headline: Debt Ceiling Deal Paves Way For Potentially Historic Lobbying Campaign
Ya, and not just for the 12 member “super congress”…
OMG Fineman just said bill “sanctified” by Giffords vote…
I think she needs to wear a tiara, really. Apply to the Vatican for living sainthood.
Absolute fucking joke it has become.
Ya a saint for the holy reagan democrats…she’s never been any kind of liberal and here jerrymandered district manages to skip over a lot of poor brown folks to unite whites in the suburbs ringing the mountains that surround Tucson….
Now Chris Mathews has got Rangel on…unbelievable that anyone who can breathe believes these mountebanks…
Gabby used to be a R, which is a favored sort recruited by the DNC or the local party to run in certain districts.
Oh I have no use for her. She and the husband are, imo, soft fascists. Nor do I think they should continue the fakery that she can serve. Her Chief Admin, think her name is Capusano, spoke, I think probably a littl too honestly, a few weeks ago about what condition GG is in.
it is very very very basic. Single words, or maybe two. Gestures for most things.
Not enough. She needs to move on, and out. Not that it matters, ultimately.
“Soft Fascist” is perfectly accurate. Highly tuned to power and ready to be its handmaiden…
re: “moving on”…I think that she’s got most of the lights on upstairs but great difficulty with fine movements and almost no language (bullet took out that part of her cerebellum, i.i.r.c.). But obviously she’s together enough to trot out for long distance camera shot’s to “sanctify” their proceedings…
I had the feeling her AZ chief was told to talk to the press but not given any guidelines and that she was truthful. But not what they wanted said, as they suddenly hustled out the pics of her that they had been sitting on and that Debbie Wasserman S creature appeared everywhere to say how competent and chatty GG is. She alsmot said she has political discussions with Gabby, but stopped just short.
Yeah right.
When her staff person said something very diffrent.
Our system is a mess, it really is. Black is white, up is down, rain is sunshine… etc:
Oh look at this.. (I am working from a Business Insider update email):
Sends a big message, doesn’t it?
what is the value of a word anyway… apparently at 4:33, I guess addressing Democrats, Biden called Tea Partiers “terrorists“.
sigh. No, just another pressure group that was used to an extraordinary degree by both parties. Nothing more nothing less.
whatever.
Does this have anything to do with Oobster railing against those private jets? (kidding)
R and D working for the future growth of the american ghetto…
he gets hooked on anedoctal stuff and uses it and reuses it. That seems to be one, for now. Remember when ti was lightbulbs? That got really boring. He used that so many times… til it was a joke.
Part of it, I think, is that he so disinterested. But also, other than scheming talent, I never caught the drift of all that much intelligence. I think he does what is easy for several reasons.
I’m not really sure the scheming part comes from him…Michelle obviously read McBeth as a how to manual…I wonder if she read the final act?
oh I think he has been a schemer his whole life. Or from adolescence, late teens. And I think his dealings with people are pretty dishonest… on a deeply personal level, I mean.
I’m not really sure the scheming part comes from him…Michelle obviously read McBeth
Yes! But has she read, , …McJOAN? :
Another classic:
SOAR with the Verse, Noble Ganjified!
Oya~ Right up there with the Bard’s-
Oh BULLLLLSHIT.
Making the rounds from AP…
saw the heap on Politico…
Benjamin Netanhayu reportedly bows to Obama on 1967 borders
BULLLLLSHIT.
They can’t even get through a few grafs without it piling up nose-deep.
Same ole pre-emptive propaganda.
Welp, if it’s extraordinary bullshit, faux- conciliatory, global news upstaging tortted out of malignant-narcissist Israel, it must be the first day of Ramadan.
(It is)
I see strategic multi-tasking is in this year, .
As.Officials set date for ‘Palestine 194′ march
- As Bibi is feeling a chill at home and Obama is TOAST here.
- As Erdogan in Turkey is consolidating his power and increasing his infuence.
- AsTurkey’s down-the-line US stooges in the Mil have resigned en-bloc.
As Mubarak is set to come to trial.
Oh my, no, I don’t see any new batch of Mil-freaks whether in Egypt or Turkey as certain to do anything other than serve themselves. But the Syrian model, pour example, is not working out so well, is it?, Assad will be dispatched eventually having nothing to do with narratives contrived out of DC and Tel Aviv.. Wherein lies the rub for Israel as the various heretofore neighboring lackey state military establishments reassess their internal tenability, they can no longer be counted on to do Israeli bidding, certainly not on the cheap.
Ah well, they will always have the U.S. and Obama.
Well, at least one for a time…
BHHM I will move tis ahead to the next thread…
Thanks, Mcat.
I see the McJoan/ Shakespeare commentary didn’t make the cut!
oh I will move that too… I just thought it was anchored as a “reply”….
Can’t really disagree, but he seems less than she on the whole…
I think she is very disinterested… leaves official trips early looks irritated unless lecturing to people… it has become very marked, and all that played out in their last trip to what was supposed to be the UK, then on to three stops on the continent, all the way over to Poland iirc. She flaked out and left after London and… forget some other stop in the UK, Ireland maybe…
I am unsure what the problems are, but they are evident.
I noticed, as I could track it in the media, reading between the lines, the Dems had to openly ask her, “promise” that she would be campaigning in 2010. She hardly bothered… It was reported she went to bed early election night.
Now I have said I wish the Clitnons had NEVER shown up, hell never been born.. but I would never say they were disinterested pols (in-office entertainmetns frm Monica aside) either of them, nor that they had most certainly been, for all their small town smarmy financials, but they had certainly been policy people for a good while of their lives.
The Obamas? Not sure what they are.
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