“Red ruffed”… 15 August 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
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Two red ruffed lemurs sit in their enclosure at the Duisburg Zoo in Germany [AFP/GETTY]
but not the same as “red neck”!
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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.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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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.
It all means so much to the bully boys, ’til it does not.
Drudge
BUFFETT: Super Rich Should Pay MORE in Taxes…
BUCHANAN: OK, Set an Example, Send $5 Billion Check to Gov’t…
Wellll, Not to be outdone in the vent-hole game,
the Dailykos “recommended” list..
AND
So there it is. Somebody please resolve this impasse!
The ANSWER!
Warren! Creep em out! WE Need a PLAN!
Warren has done this on multiple occasions, and no, it has never been a game changer. These people have the attention span of a gnat.
You mean……………We HAVE NO PLAN??!?
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Let us speak now of something genuine, beautiful, and creative.
How’s your music, man? A festival you were putting together?
plane plane plane… so much better than a plan.
Anonymous protests BART (happening now)
Basically, at least on the BART side, a replay of last week. They have cut the service to cells, shut several stations and so on..
No, now I am hearing they did not cut service to cells…
Henh. .”Well we know where this is going”
…. that it wouldn’t be long before the Blog Boyz and Markos “The Gaybos Are Going To Rape My Ass In Boot Camp” Moulitsas would be all CORNDOG after the Iowa GOP…Front Page spread and all. I wouldn’t be surprised if TPM is running it by morning. Don’t have the TV but I’d bet the MSNBC line-up will if they haven’t already.
Just like I said
And while I’d like to say I’m getting better with my political prognostications, nah, I just speak fluent Dem-Shallow. Which has more in common with the 1930′s colloquial parade grounds German than one might imagine. I consider myself more a red ruffed lemur myself.
Aren’t the red ruffs bee-yu-tiful? I thought they were wonderful…
Maybe the classic American Red Neck could find a way to sprout such beautiful fur.
And now that I read Markos captions…
Oh yes, Dem-Shallow meets Party Rally at Nuremburg.
Some congealing grunt of Fuck-speak.
…in native-tongue, tho lacking nuance or any refinement. A rather dull little blade, you see.
Fuckin Desperate.
oh I followed the link to Dkos. Appalling… by which I mean juvenile.
But yes, it is down to the bare nubs for the Dems: SC SC SC SC… and, THEY EAT CORNDOGS!!!!!!!!!!
And, Marcus and Rick are GHEY!!
Nubbins.
Leave the religious exceptional ism alone.
Fall all over the MIC. Fighting Dems.
Choose Bob Casey!
Sacred Relationships. Chosen People.
All else is racism.
Fuck the Hippies. Bash the Gays.
Oh I want in all right, I want IN.
THEN a PLANE!
HOLY Nubbins.
With a special Ratz-inikal Rabid-inate.
oh massive snicker.
Widge ~ polidickly -
bhringdittuhda whole climactic and all.
Holy Nubbins War.
The object being to shoot off the other guy’s nubbin.
So to Speak!
Women? No Problem! Ascribe a nubbin to them and THEN shoot it off. Always be gracious after fighting the good fight in which , well, at least the dreams never die, tho the nubbins? ~Enh!
They miraculously grow back!
(Ignore the dead chick in the car, Liberal Lions.)
All can now be divined to be nubbinly fulfilled, manifest in the Glorious Cajone Steel Balls of Ob.
What does anyone expect?™
We’re workin with.. NUBBINS!
Afterall..
Very funneee… if you ignore the dead chick in the car you will have Holy Universal Health Care… And other Holy things too.
Certainly worked out that way didn’t it? (Not that I trouble myself over the Kopechnes)
oh it is shades of Nixon… I see he says he has a jobs plan. Well … er … no… not quite… he’ll have one
NEXT MONTH.
And he’ll tell congress to pass it. He will. He will!
Bridges for sale in Aisle 9… maybe they will sell better than his 15 dollar mugs.
On and on it goes………………..
Oh yeah what a shock there on that last. ….
http://www.counterpunch.org/grant08152011.html
Been out of town this weekend, visiting red ruffled relatives in the land of ADM (Corn never creeped me out until I spent 3 days surrounded by it, ewwww!) and I swear the MSNBC morning anchors look shell shocked…oooh sounds like Iraq isn’t as stable as we thought and that Afghan “withdrawl” is looking very problematic…if its not one crisis its another, dow down…
Well at least Uncle WAR B.ucks has our back…
Most corn growing in a field is taller than I am… so I keep my distance.
same with ADM.
I need a t-shirt (made from soy and corn, we’re going green™ ):
I survived the attack of the GME clones..
Local human clone pol “flavor”:
Pantagraph Opinion
George C. Devol, Inventor of Robot Arm, Dies
Let’s see, so far we got all the great wipeouts.
,Speedy Weeny nuke-dogs. Those were the days.
GM. Chrysler. Ford. The microwavey and Japan
(Not to drone on!)
Time, obviously, for the fully robotic funeral..
Think of what a better world we’d have in Mr. Devol had focused his attention on robot arms that could masturbate the poor overworked industrial human drone..
A cottage industry in America tho! LOL’
For some reason my thoughts turn to the scene in the Coen Brothers priceless Burn After Reading
Isn’t that the machine for training Democratic operatives?
Seein as how I backed into it. LOL.
I think so! It’s been some time!
Tho I might be confusing it with my old Catholic Cub Scout days.
In the basement of the rectory! When Father insisted we build HIS version of our soap-box racer. Oh the fucker was FAST lemme tell ya, but the other teams weren’t constantly getting jack-hammer-thrown from the car. LOL.
I’m sure the Japanese have developed one of those by now …
Don’t know the MIC droid.
Cursory condolences to the family, etc.
A quick hop to Wiki and you find what you know will be there…
Greenwich Ct.
Typical. Nestled among intertwined MIC/ HedgeFundy hedgerows since FOREVAH. Made trendy among the stars.
A little Newman’s Own salad dressing with the Speedy Weeny.
Vote Gore, Vote Lieberman, NTIM, Vote Ob, etc.
Things are going well in WTF, Winning the Future, What the Fuck!!
Ben Smith full text:
Green Jobs for Ob-slobs,
same old tax suet pig out
big “new” shiny trough
Isn’t it pathetic?
Like Solyandra here… iirc over a BILLION in various loan guarantees under separate Stumble stuff thru Dept of Energy… year and half ago Slob was here and spoke at the factory site… under construction and construction workers not allowed to be there, site shut for the day no pay… Solyandra supposedly going to have TWO sites over in the East Bay, the one already open and the one under construction……
and soon enough… oh too expensive! Cannot do it! So sad too bad, jobs going to ChinaIndiaVietnamBlangladesh…
I heard a rumor that they were importing Vietnames soft ware people, super cheap… paid for flight in.. no idea where they were to live, and paid under, well under, 10K per year. I could never run it down — tho searching I did land on a LOT of immgration atty ads, for all manner of “work visas” many more types than H1B—- advertising jobs for people from everywhere but here.
WTF!!!!!!! Stiff Upper Lip.. We ARE Americans, WE are Globalists! WE shall rise like the Phoenix. Yeah, the CHINESE phoenix.
Speakin of Phx (“upside down mortage)gulag for OrangeCountry emigrees) and the ‘Nam…Coming home last night from the no-grope/high rad scan Mesa (ne Phoenix-Gateway) airport BBC radio had a report from Vietnam; essentially their economy is based on US dollar and has broken into two tracks, “legit” jobs gained thru neopotism or bribes, and black market jobs for those who lack the where-withal to join at the smallest seats in the Corporate banquet.
All aboard the PLANe to WTF! Building the new, improved 21st Century Ghetto in a country near you soon!
ugh… I gritted my teeth pretty hard a few years ago when Cheney went in, twice iirc to Ho Chi Minh City (and whereever else, as well)… and Rumsfeld TOO went in.
God knows what they were all cooking up.
Not good news for any people. There or here.
Too Funny. I saw some figures floating around.
Looks like that little photo op and TPM ,oh, ripped off some coupla pension fund piggy portfolios – The Classic move now! – for like a billion bucks. Poof! Didn’t Work Out! We Tried! Really WE DID!
HAVE A PICTURE! You see the SPEECH??!? Etc.
Fuckin stock promoters. Fuckin fraudsters LOL
It’s so classic….
Well, that’s good.
Now the other investors whose initial investment came from other phony investment scams can get THEIR money back. LOL.
Thank God they’re working it all out!
Well, that’s good.
Now the other investors whose initial investment came from other phony investment scams can get THEIR money back. LOL.
Thank God they’re working it all out!
Hey, Blackberry fans.
GM stock giving you the blues?
Miss out on Facebook?
Miss your chance with Evergreen Solar?
A new Offer!
GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR NOW!
SOAR with Obby.
BTW, FWIW, and I doubt anyone here gives a flying fuk, but it does “take one to know one” and Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC is stoned! Take a gander if you will: glassy, red eyes and an off-kilter, weird stare to the eyes (btw visine doesn’t get the red out because pot dilates occular blood vessels, rather than irritate the eyeball) …Cannabis is a wonderful mistress, but she definitely marks her own and slaves to the resin like myself know who suffers our beautiful bondage to buddha at a glance…
So… Dylan is stoned and on MSNBC? Maybe it was the only way he could handle it?
Would make sense to me.
Its the only way I can handle it…seriously though, he usually looks about 1 or 2 hours out from a good stone, today it looked closer to 15 minutes before air time.
He actually advocates to decriminlize so I won’t throw stones (hehheheh!) wrt cannabis…
AGES ago I had myself pulled off the Pelosi mailing list… but I admit I crumbled MANY weeks ago and sent an email to her senate.gov, the real email, addy. I see looking back it was July 7 when I did that…
My close to the email (it was pretty short, believe me) was this:
I checked the ”no reply” box btw when i sent that……
And today I got this (and a lot of blither I cut out,
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mamamamama mia.
HA! I should explain… TWICE, at least, I have tried to re-register as “Decline to State”… but when my absentee ballot comes and the big fat voter infomation booklet… I can see they keep me as a Democrat.
I figure if I re-register as a R, ti might stick.
I know, pretty funny. Stapping them around, just in print, oddly made me quite happy.
Funny how it works that way. I laughed myself silly writing it. I found a way to tell thm I had violent thouhgts, imaginings. But they should do it… FOR ME.
Snicker Town.
Update on BART shutting the repeater service to cell phones at several stations…
FWIW…. ACLU and EFF “may or may not” sue… they are undecided. Reports they are not going to, jumped the gun.
BART has a possible problem, much as they are pushing that they offered cell access as “an amenity”.
They are part of government, thus as a part of givernment they offered access to free speech at their stations, undergroud platforms and so on.
THEN, they decided to withdraw it, with little internal discussion (the BART Board was not consulted) and one excuse offered is that it was at the request of the police (which, SF or BART is unclear to me) and that withdrawal of access which does fall under free speech may end up having to be argued in court.
There Is No Morality Without Religion
POUNDING HEAD ON DESK.
Religion is child abuse, sometimes literally.
Defending Traditional Marriage From Dead Lesbians
Christina Santiago died when the stage in Indiana collapsed, now:
Libertarian Billionaire Wants Island Nation for Libertarian Billionaires
don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out …
Their own Island? Nah, lets just put them undersea, like say at the bottom of the Marianas trench…
That didn’t work out so well in Bioshock
Mman ur 2 kewl 4 skul!
Where do you find this awesome shit?!
I refuse to grow up …
… it was a very cool game, and I had a good time running around under the sea shooting libtards in the head.
Off-shoring!
Narcosphere
S+P manipulating ratings for their own profit? Say it ain’t so joe…
Actually what really pisses me off is that the Obslobs faced with knowledge of the downgrade quibbled about numbers with the conmen rather than pointing out to the public S+P’s history of and current conflict of interest and set that asshole Eric Holder after them all
Neue
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