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Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., looks at hanging beef carcasses during a plant tour at Amend Packing Co. in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
It is a pretty damned perfect depiction…. (snicker)
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Thar’s the Beef. I guess since Rawlings left Bachmann’s team she’s pretty much become a side show. I say bring on the popcorn, Bachmann never fails to produce a chuckle or too. Of course Perry’s “Morning in America” promises to be a bigger abomination than Raygun’s, but we’re skrewed so lets get really stoned.
BTW, Here’s my “Beef” this morning:
WaPo
War?! Nobody wants to hear about war. No real income potential after the invasion. Think about a future version of the “COPS” TV show, where criminals are “terminated” based on facial recognition technology from unseen platforms 15k feet overhead.
The ratings would be sky high
“. . . minus beefcake and time travel”
shit. those were the only part of our skynet future i was looking forward to.
More Drones:
WaPo
Remember when “drone” meant something as innocuous as male bee or an office worker?
whoops. sorry. I see this was posted towards the end of the last thread. I guess great minds think alike.
oh don’t worry about it… doesn’t bother me if things appear a couple of times…
It looks like we are planning ‘drones across the world’
Oobster at UN. Everything this guy does is weak, weak, weak. He’s got to be 5-10 minutes in, and still nothing DIRECT about Palestine Israel…dance around the bush, no pun intended
“peace is hard” pffft.
He, a small time Daley machine fixer, says this in a long rambling lecture about well known international events to professional diplomats.
What an empty suit, arrogant, but no cajones past an implied superiority
What about Palestine?!
what fuking prik. When he finally gets to palestine he starts yelling about how they need to cool it. Cause their way won’t work. Sanctimonious shithead. Ignorant, Arrogant, and moot in Palestine and the US
Do you know what really gets me about his delivery? His body language; especially the way he lifts chin up when he pauses, ala mussolini but not quite as exaggerated. The kind of move that allows the user to look down his nose at everyone…it’s also the move that begs for a haymaker punch, but that would be wrong…
Not to pile on, but it has been noted by more than one account, his mother did that as well.
Yes I’d have to say, he has become ENTIRELY disagreeable. Distasteful even.. By now I just want him off the stage. Could care less who comes next. They are all bad.
Same stuff Susan Rice said this am on the news tour. “Peace is hard, and we have been at this for 60 years.”
I am so tired of Israel I could die. Who fcking cares by now. The dead are long dead…. and gone. Of course the Palestinians can have a lousy state. Why not.
Pretzel Larry…
From an entry at BI on ’10 things that freak out’ the Obster WH on the Suskind book:
Read more: Bus Insider posting
Obviously, this whole down econonmy thing is because wimmins are inherently inferior in math skills…thank goodness the WH won’t let them do anything but make the coffee
hmm I think young male hirelings from the poor parts of DC MAKE the coffee …. the wimmens is allowed to CARRY the coffee to the mens.
Something like that.
Prized WH internships… you arrive and find out you make coffee in some far part of the kitchens. Until Mother Michelle absconds with you… and you get to pick vegetables from the WH plantation.
Carry coffee, wimmins!,
Pick green Obamic Veggies!
“Michelle wants you, too”
Everything is working out so well………….
Ohhh hon, and the bustier, leggier, younger wimmins …. can carry that hornet hive, WH Honey Ale ™ into those profound Boyo meet ups …Mickey will be on hand to teach the wimmens how to swish ….
oh shit. This typhoon has been on track to hit Japan for a few days, touching down yesterday and today. AND, I just managed to remembr that in several pieces lately, it is reported that at one of the square towers at Fukushima, it is open to the air, and the spent fuel rods sitting there, also there are open to the air.
oh truly …things don’t look so good.
such a shame …on all of us … yet there are those who deserve a far larger portion of blame, and we start truly restricting them, putting an end to their life, if necessary, …maybe we can salvage something.
so glad to see there are still those standing tall at Wall Street …whatever ‘typos,’ etc, they have made.
meaning shackled, …not like it is a new idea, as this Homeland ™ …appears to hold a current record, …for shackeling (and assassination). …I mean ….not like it is a new, ….. Lone Wolf ™, ….threat, …is it.
meaning shackled, …
Not like it is a new idea, as this Homeland ™ …appears to hold a current record, …for shackeling (and … assassination). …I mean ….not like it (shackeling) is a new, ….. Lone Wolf ™, ….threat, …is it.
(possible duplicate post, …if so, I apologize)
yup, perfect piccy,
the carcasses may as well be human.
and no doubt in my mind, that any of the candidates for POTUS …
would show that self same, seemingly oblivious to the industrialized death …
which surrounds them (is applauded by them), …. gee golly that’s great! ……LOOOOOK ..
well, okay Ron Paul might have a look of disturbance, about why the photo shoot was taking place in a meat locker, but at the end of the day, his eugenics/genderized fiscal policies, basically promise the same reality, with the difference that the those corpses are far less ‘attractive,’ having died a far slower death …more bone, less flesh, still corpses though.
(jeeesh, where the fuck are my manners? ….that would be Doctor Paul!!!!, …,.My Pissburgh,PA Homey!!!!!!! ™)
I love the open toed shoes she wears to a SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
Who in their right mind wears sandals will strolling onto a killing floor?
I guess our rulers do, knowing well and good all the nasty bits will be mopped up before their paramabulations and there is no fear any of the gore will get lodged between their lily white toes…still if Rawlings still were in charge she’d have big manly boots on and and a starched and perfectly white apron…optics are nearly everything, doncha know?
yes … SLAUGHTERHOUSE …
words can’t even ‘live’ down to the ‘occasion.’
Rest In Peace …. Troy Davis … and so many countless more … daily.
In case anyone else was following this…
He was declared dead not long ago
The Wapoo news alert:
What was said here the other day?
Violence is the point
Yeah, that’s it:
Whoops. I hit the post button before I could snip a little more and add the Tucson Citizen Link
I am surprised the numbers aren’t higher…
There was a convoluted pick up for deportation here, back during the 2008 campaign… the son was picked up for deportation to Peru, where he was born, the parents were originally illegal immigrants from China to Peru, had the baby there and all moved on from Peru durng the troubles there, to come here. Only he was picked up as China has a standing policy, no returns… but Peru said they would take the son, who is a Peruvian national.
Anyway, SF ICE sent him t a private detention facility in AZ to await return to Peru…. Di FI intervened (and go t him and whole family push the Dream Act, of course after election we nver heard from them again… ) and got him out of AZ and brought back to SF…. he said the favility hd 3 toilets fr 64 prisoners and 4 showers….
I think it is all bad, top to bottom… an absolute horror… and NO accountability…
There’s Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own, Says Elizabeth Warren
thanks for that, I saw the headline referring to what she said and it slipped by me. Good for her…. I hope she sharpens the message and pushes harder.
I had not known her personal background, it gave me hope she has a bit of grit….
she kicked ass on Morning Joe this morning, she kicked Halperin’s smarmy little ass.
I refuse to get my hopes up that anything will come of this, but dear god it was nice to watch.
Pretty profound last words from Troy Davis…
RIP
oh thanks for that… I had only heard a paraphrasing of his last words…
“Twist” should be renamed “Fail”.
I’d go for Operation Fuck -up
wow, Dow down almost 370 – and the market is barely open 20 mins.
Hey, Good Luck Obby!
I like the name. It seems appropriate; isn’t the “twist” some kind of bizzare S+M move? (not that I would know
) Plus there’s that old urban legend about the twist dance breaking your back (damn chubby checker!)
it made me think of the rich twisting the knife …
And the beat goes on…
whoops. Honestly, wtf did they expect, making Social Security benefit amounts static for two years running. Did they think people would not NOTICE that?
I’m just amazed that right after the GOP Congress, with approval rating 18, rejected their own bill and now sends us into yet another shutdown crisis which is directly responsible for their low numbers, Obama one-ups them by declaring he will not accept Medicare cuts without tax increases, finding a way to piss off everyone in the country with one statement. Are they both trying for zero? Then Ben Bernanke tries to help with this “twist” nonsense that sends the stock market down another 600 points and spiraling around the drain even faster.
We are so screwed.
It is amazing isn’t it?
Dow down 400 now….
Well, shiver me timbers, some good news:
LINK
ARRRRG! Nuthin’ but ships of line on this side of the Atlantic…
With a parliamentary system, there is a chance at least. we are utterly stuck in this two party vise…
did you mean two party vice?
I was thinking how under the parliamentary system 8.9% of the vote that the pirates garned was at least enough to gain a foot-hold and excercise some franchise, while here…
well both really, we are squeezed in the vise, every day and a LOT every 2, 4 years…. and of course the thing is corrupt as all hell.
Yes parliament is not perfect, but over and over, small movements can grow and get a few seats, find ways to build coalitions.
I think we are stuck with such a brutally closed system.
wow… the Dow is down almost 500 pts.
Frankly it lamost makes me laugh.
I am having difficulty maintaining my composure my damnself.
Jeezis. Seriously. over a 7 percent intra-day drop at one point….
Helluva thing going to protest on Wall Street these days, when you can’t merely survive the cop-thugs but have to worry about getting done in now by some options trading suit plunging off the Morgan./ Deutsche Bank Building…
Such the irony, no? When the cops moving people out of the way might actually be a matter of public safety!
Plunge Away, Banksters! Plunge Away!
Well, to my Born Again Dirty Fuckin Hippy way of thinking, I think the thing for us lovers to do is invest in track shoes, oversized coffee mugs and silos, FUCKIN SILO’s of POPCORN. . To hold us over , I figure, when getting the hell out of the way to hunker down on strategy- .when every ripped off Uncle luvin stakeholder down to Ma and Pa Kettle rush in with firearms to get a chance to shoot the suit-jumpers mid-air or, you know, depending on traffic, otherwise engage in remnant corporate corpse abuse on the pavement,
There you have it: We GOT a PLAN!
no champagne in the house. I don’t plan well. Gold not on a rise tho it is back at 1737.
My guess is Bernanke really f—ed up with this twist nonsense. The market, aka hedge funds, uses the short/long term yield spread to leverage everything. Even though 10-year bonds have a three handle (or did – maybe not at the close today), short rates are virtually zero and you can sell unlimited amounts of short bonds to the fed, buy the long stuff and rest assured (until a couple days ago) of raking in 3% times how ever much you want to leverage because Bernanke has said zero rates forever and soft economy yadda yadda.
Not now apparently. So hedge funds are liquidating everything: commodities weren’t safe (limit down 5% across the board, oil down $5 a barrel, gold worst week in four months).
It’s not like the market discovered today that Greece was going to default or that the global economy was staggering, but hedge funds had an out (or thought they did). I imagine Bernanke may have to backtrack on twist pretty soon.
untwist?
(I hope it hurts, sounds like it would!)
Yet more charges of corruption along the US/Mex border:
El Paso Times
There’s more juicey stuff, like Perry’s office being contacted and dismissing the charges as baseless, at the link.
I just love the canard about how corrupt mexico is, as if the US isn’t matching measure for measure…
as if we don’t actively exacerbate the corruption. As tho we are white clothed angels.
Who are laboring mightily to bring civilization to the brown, almost, but not quite, people of mexico despite their devilish intransigence and morally defiecent souls. Which is so good of us because those dark skinned devils seek to destroy amerikkka with their satanic reconquesta of our heartland…
gun turrets… we need gun turrets!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eh, did someone mention a Maginot Line
Imagine the possibilities…
as if this is new… we are, we say we are anyway, whupset as it is Mexican nationals.
Dope dealers, all sides of the legal line, get a vote. Always have… and I am for legalising everything. Adults WANT altered states. Very clearly. Let it be. Cannot be worse than how things are now…. plus if you need a pain killer you should nto hav to beg some looney doctor. Or be forced to the streets.
Loved this quote from one of the released american hikers:
LINK
yeah i caught that too…it played on the nooz reports here… and he placed it close enoughto the obligatory thanks to Oman that it almost had to run…
Breaking the broken news
From the Wapo news alerts
ObamaSpeak (translation below)
“Our” Hero ™
(and yeah, absolutely no mention of those “below” that Middle Class [whatever the fuck that “Middle” is even supposed to mean] ™)
Priceless! …. Glad I never bought any books through the Mother Fuckers, and never bought a Kindle [et al] ™.
Of course, now that: most Independent Bookstores have been forced to shut down; now that school “textbooks” will be controlled by ”Our” Cloud ™, and edited at whim ; now that PUBLIC Libraries have not only shut down all over the map, but have started charging fees some cannot afford; and replaced countless librarians with bots; and last, but certainly not least, NOW THAT money is needed to fund State and Local thieving Bureaucrats, and make the Fed Bureaucrats look like they’ve had the citizen’s interests at heart all along …. the signal has been given, to that Fourth Estate ™, to report on the hideous conditions, suicides (FoxCon [indeed] ™), etc. …going on in the Tech Industry ™, as if any of those Estate owners cared about those they swore to represent.
The powers, and their lackies, who rule and abuse, …..what a bunch of nasty Human Fuckers, …skittering, diseased “rodents,” …so lucky that those they abuse are not as murderous as they are …and truly despise slaughter, …they will die alone in their Slaughter, …even if they live to an old age …. for what.
Yup
In Carter’s last year… so ’80… a friend came up from Los Angeles to SF by car…. and, for wahtever reason, by way of Pendleton which is a HUGE base… and said everything was painted in desert camo.
Everything.
My ex (
) runs a sweatshop on this side of the border, over seeing mexican nationals who sew these desert “digital” camo uniforms for the army. Evidently by law they have to be made in the U.S., so while the police and firefighter uniforms are made in a massive factory across the line, our soldier boys are wrapped in digs made by foreigners, but right here in Amerikkka (though I wouldn’t look for the union label)…
if the evil ex has any capitalist “Wit” (well okay, it looks like she do, with that evil moniker), she’s likely thinking ahead …WTF!!!!!! ™, …designing something to fit the backdrop of those major Homeland ™, duskier shaded folk, Urban Areas ™. …If she’s truly future thinking ™, …she’s probably got somethin cooked up for those Sub Burbs ™ too!
(Yeah hon, “sigh,” doesn’t even begin to encompass …..)
isn’t that classic? Where there is a will there is a wrong way….
I don’t know if you’ve seen lurid, bizarre story, but the fark.com headline was classic: “Woman who committed suicide with hands bound behind her back, naked, and hanged from balcony also clubbed herself on head in four places and referred to herself in suicide note in third person”
Boyfriend was the Medicis CEO, fwiw – probably a lot.
oh I had not heard that!!
thnk you….
he probably smells as guilty as he appears ….the Daily Mail (since it is not their crime), has been following it pretty religiously.
Typical Cali domiciled Sadism where The Cops ‘n Coroners ™ are fully bought and paid for, or, if not bought and paid for, afraid for their lives and those they love. Worse than Colorado with it (it’s that $$$Fed$$$$ Money, the Temperate weather, Ocean, and Vineyards ….), which is where he started, isn’t it? (…Meg Whitman/Hubby “Rutherford” and Dean Singleton …just popped up in my mind ….about CO.)
Oh, this one came out today – he’s going to sue the family’s lawyer if they make any incriminating statements about him
…which FURTHER mentions that she had tape residue and blood on her legs, and a t-shirt partially stuffed in her mouth…
Just a suicide…yep.
hmmm, I’ll bet bets are being taken as to whether his future wardrobe color will be orange or not. …After all, the powers that be have to ultimately pick and choose. ..Their favorites, appear to be Eric Prince/Blackwater/XE (those loudly working for the PATRIOT INTERESTS ™), types, with no LOUD, outright, messy domestic issues chumming the public waters.
….. Even so, it’s dubious that he even spends five years.
Certainly, even if 100% guilty, he will never share the fate that Troy Davis was dealt.
(hugs, salt laden , nurishing tears, ….. to you and yours, … ts)
oh!! I pulled it up, this is the death at the Coronado mansion… NOW I understand which it is…
Wowo looks like the Cali AG won’t even review it. (Democrats a go go… I can find no difference from when Arnold was our King)
gah.
I’ll be interested to se if he can get away with htat… absent a judge’s gag order.
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