Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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A one-month-old baby lion-tailed macaque clings to its mother at Berlin’s Tiergarten zoo [JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images]
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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- 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
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"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
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"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
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"... 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.
Man faces 75 years for recording police
Paid Democratic Consultants with Baby Operative.
I can’t make Baby out……………. Is that….. Moulitsas?
SO rude you are to the German Macaques!!
They are better looking than the Kos cadres… and Moulitsas himself.
Indeed, upon first glance I thought you had somehow happened upon a photo of my family, but then I realized it was a photo of my uncle’s.
You see we ain’t inbred, and I know I’m a monkey’s nephew not his uncle…
Look at that little arm reaching up for Mama… obviously we are related.
It always reminds me of how silly the Creationists, Int Design people are.
A little blurb that seems relevant from the first new post from Jeff Wells at rigorous intuition in two years It’s from the latter part of a long and fantastic post.
oh my a post at RI… have to go look, thanks for the alert
Oh no – it’s them all right
Prolly Markos with Dem Pollsters watching Obama’s numbers come in.
Fuck. Easy to spot a retinue of these lounger types,
the God Damn Slackers.
god now you are being mean to the Japanese hot springs hang out fellas…
I am watching documentaries of The Doors… what a trip!!
As for Obama… wow… I actually think he really is finished. This latest is quite the wingding:
jobs speech coming right up! but first I must go on vacay! b here when I get back, ‘k? then the whole Boehner bullshite, back and forth, the Rs win, now squeezing himself in before some big game… YIKES… I would take back almost any president of my entire LIFE, except Reagan, to be rid of this shit.
(And I grew up with a mother who nearly foamed at the mouth over Nixon. I mean, it was EPIC.)
Well this sounds like fun. Good luck to all.
God knows what we’ve brewed up.
Shazam! How did THAT happen?
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I see the Imperiall presses have recently rolled out a few pieces on Petraeus retirement? transition?..sort of Gomer Pile-o-Carnage meets capstone of a glorious career /now headed to CIA ya know / with a heapiin helpin of the newset new awesomey fearsomenest Take-no-Prisoners ‘tude to be expected..
A real shocker there.
CIA shifts focus to killing targets
I also see they slipped in – they always do – during –
what shall we call this lead up to the big Passion play?
9-11 LENT? – - –
the latest notice of CIA Big Brotherdom on the ….DOMESTIC FRONT.
…Just so everyone can get a’worshippin’ and all…..
Shake
Speaking of JAHBZ
pretzel is so being set up. and he seems fine with it…
Hunh. And after Barry’s strenuous efforts all summer.
And, Joe Biden.
I thought it was all about jobs, Jobs, JAHBS – the Jobbies…
and so forth.
Yeah they worked so hard on… something.
Golf swing. Non sequitors, etc.
Pretzel has run off to Camp David. Then he drops in to visit you BHHM.
The gift that keeps on being given….
Collusion is all.
Alleging Captive Labor, Foreign Students Walk Out of Work-Study Program at Hershey Plant
I read the first piece you posted on this, a couple or so days ago…
BTW, someone from Slobby’s jobs council at the WH, a dipshitty woman who used to be on staff for Pawlenty as well.. was on KGO today… PUSHING how great that program is, the Summer Intern Hire a Foreign Student for the Summer… and I heard again the mantra that all these foreign work visas are necessary as, the line of bull is that, Americans are not properly educated for jobs. She mentioned in particular Engineering. Higher maths and sciences, etc.
Corporate business ahs had its nose, its hands its parts and pieces poked into US education for decades. All of my adult life anyway.
Such fucking bullshit.
I just pull up my retelling ad nauseum about the Times Square Bomber… he came here on work visa, originally… and the work he did, so valuable so tightly trained ! was as an accounting clerk in a back office operation for Elizabeth Arden located in CT.
SO valuable. Not too good at bombs either.
All this bullshite of bringing in foreign workers is a big fat scam, and I think it is thoroughly worked out in trade deals with various countries.
So fucking screwed.
I thought it was interesting to hear the students talk about their fight … one of the great things about Democracy Now is getting to hear people like that talk about what they’re doing themselves.
The visa thing is all a huge scam, just another way that corps drive down wages, find workers who aren’t expecting the labor laws to be followed etc, which is kind of amazing, considering how compliant to corporate bullying average Americans already are.
they won’t be happy until the entire population are captive indentured servants.
the Dem NOW was a good piece….
and it stated again, thi is the biggest immigrant work visa program. geesh.
It’s always heartening to hear common sense populist sentiment from the strangest of places. In this case, Hot Chicks with Douchebags
I think the propaganda of decades is finally, really paying off for the cadres and crews that run this country… People are so hare-brained and confused….
Years ago that dreadful, but all too effective, R pollster and propagandist, Luntz, used a phrase that I thought really summed it up:
Feed them the words.
People have consumed such utter shit propaganda for so long, in a country where so much of the food has no value, no nutrition… and now too many don’t have enough to eat…
It really is appalling.
Dow Jonesin’
I see the Dow only dropped 253 points today.
Only a bit over 2%.
So the average Future Winning hopeful, say., 10 dollar an hour, salt-of-the-earth, 80 bucks a dayer with 10 grand in a there-for-the-banksters- pillaging 401K….
is out ,oh, only 200 bucks for the day.
Why work, folks? Oh, Just cook it all up in a bottle cap and
SHOOT that American Dream.
Anybody remember the Good Ole Days™?
When a decent heroin habit was less expensive?
Obama yields on smog rule in face of GOP demands
So much hope and change we’re literally choking on it.
I see Chmber of Commerce, Cornyn and others are all very happy with this… I almost think EPA’s Jackson, no green environmentalist she… is a bit taken aback.
We are so blessed.
We don’t need no stinking air. We’ll just by cans of O2, and if you can’t afford them, well then you’re obviously a moral deviant and don’t deserve to breathe…
Loved this little graf:
Oh dear what will they do…
I’m sure Asshole in chief will get plenty of you pitching his schlock…
MoveOn, in particular, will find a way… snicker. Something that was not a bad idea, way back in 98 or whenever, became a sort of kneeling bench for the party.
and then Ruben held his breath until he turned blue, at which point he gave up and sent out another fundraising email.
I think they all take DNC or other Dem party money as well…. whcih, if there were ever to be any real opposition, takes care of any “problems”.
Like the buy off the Dems did of the various anti war groups in 2005, 06 and so on. Millions went to the various groups… which either became (or continued to be) fake fronts or just took the money disappeared…
yeah……….
Roger Hickey sounds like an idiot, whoever he is. The disaster is ongoing and present tense.
The Soaps….
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: Roundtable with author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (“That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back”), the Wall Street Journal’s Paul Gigot, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
–ABC’s “This Week“: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC); political roundtable with Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, radio talk show host and BigJournalism.com Editor Dana Loesch and ABC News’ Jon Karl; economic roundtable with former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Jared Bernstein, the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman; segment with the family of Fort. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Rep. Michele Bachmann and Jon Huntsman
– “Fox News Sunday“: Author and former Vice President Dick Cheney (“In My Time”); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, NPR’s Mara Liasson, former RNC Chairman and Bush White House Counselor Ed Gillespie and New York Post columnist Kirsten Powers
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC); International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James Hoffa; Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI)
–CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS Live“: (Sun., 10 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. ET): Roundtable with author and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (“Half the Sky”), Women for Women International Founder Zainab Salbi and investment banker and co-author Sheryl WuDunn (“Half the Sky”); architect Frank Gehry; Carnegie Mellon doctoral robotics candidate Heather Knight; photographer Platon (TIME and The New Yorker)
hmm Just at the moment, I don’t see how they can wedge him back in….
From Maureen Dowd
Prolly not a good idea to be a laughing stock… and looks like it is headed that way.
I think he’s just about arrived at laughing stock…he definitely sounds ridiculous whenever he opens his mouth and speechifies nonsense at another round of the theater of the absurd (JOBiez and DEAFicIT or is that DEAFicIT and JOBiez?)
oh say it isn’t so ????
I heard a trickle that after Paterson and after his speeches (kill us now, please!) on JAHBZ and then deficit (deceit, works for me!) he and la famille – or maybe just he and Mother Michelle –
are off to Bali
(I looked it up…. He and Mother go to Bali for an East Asia Summit in Nov…. and are hitting up a few related areas, maybe.. From the press n Australia, sounds like they almost wish he would not bother, having stood them up twice. My own prediction, if they don’t find some poor girls for her to lecture, she flies home early – in one snit or another… )
yup
People Magoops no! I mean, Politico….New
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