Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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October 7, 2001: Afterburners create streaks of light during catapult launches from the flight deck aboard USS Enterprise as US Navy fighter aircraft depart for the first strike missions over Afghanistan. Picture: US Navy / Todd A. Bent / REUTERS
Ten long and lousy years.
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]
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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.
heads begin to fall……..
Evil Bank of America Crippled By People Closing Their Accounts
I feel I have no where to go tho……………. sob! I don’t want to be their LAST depositor!!
(This is so hard! when we are already in lock-down for various on-the-loose shooters or in mourning for STEVE!!)
it does leave a lot of people in a really hard position.
Former Milwaukee Archbishop Takes On Obama, Wades Into National Politics
The second these bozos start “protecting” what they call “religious freedom” we can all be rest assured that the rest our our freedoms are the ones under attack.
I don’t read her much anymore and obviously she is well to the right of me, but one thing I did agree with Ann Althouse on, a post at her blog, where she argued that we most certainly DO have a right to question the matter of religion, and she posed it in relation to the fact there are now 6, SIX!, Catholics on the US SC.
She was right too…. sweeping away any close look at religion or questioning of religion or this deep insertion all manner of religion (but all conservative!) has made into our lives and laws, should be allowed and not stifled under this “freedom of religion”…
Etc.
So now we mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the latest series of genocidal wars. And the beat goes on.
They know from Vietnam (to say nothing of the post WW2 occupations) that they can push it for a long time. Decades. Forever.
Wingnutty country..
Boston Globe
Any one of ‘em could have said it.
I suppose it could be worse, but hard to see how……..
hmm if they polled “West” somebody forgot to include it…. I don’t see “North” either.
So. – You’re discounting the Hawaii Strategy, eh?
Why~slap~your~wrists!!
Super fun Hedges video interview on OWS from our neighbors to the North.
Thanks, that was great.
@The CBC network tool…
who was very concerned with Goldman Sachs at the end…
Hedges did well….
he had more patience with that asshole than I would have.
wow, Canada has dickwad asshole financial “reporters” just like us! Someone needs to strangle that asshole with his yellow tie.
Oh, Josh Marshall, fully Search Engine Optimized, Trending Talk Show Talking Point Guest-Slot Seeker:
Democrats Wonder What To Do About ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Well, Wonder quickly, boys, wonder quickly.
Tho they CLEARLY have a plan for New Jersey.
VERY obvious yesterday in Jersey City at GS HQ – a deadwood Dem Op caging/ co-opt effort, predictable….
A decent stroll through the neighborhood otherwise by people with half a clue, a nice probing action but a very small showing of the typical credentialed protesting
deadwood union hall rounders, ward heelers and non profit retainers to divert support across the river on Wall Street.
Same old game , (thus far here in NJ anyways) from Menendez , the Union Bosses, and the DP sucklings: also run as a controlled little shakedown for campaign $$$$$.
Better results in Philly, I hear…..the East Coast Capital of yute flash-mob activity, I might proudly add, LOL, the Brady Donk apparatus let alone Fattah, let alone Nutter, let alone the AA mininistry meaning jack-shit to anyone anymore….
Democrats “wonder” a lot. For them it is an active activity.
Why?!
HE went~AWAyyyyy….
An’ I wunnnder, if he will st-a-a-aay?
Etc.
Or at least get some cash flow out of it.
Hmm. now thinking about my intro to the Joshie Marshal piece, it has me wondering about Markos and Bowers and all the Boyos… the veritable Charles Guiteau(s) of “activ- asm”, the Disappointed Guest-Slot Seekers they be….
Another obvious (however ridiculous) effort afoot is the attempt to declar certain blahgers as “emerging” literally, Ministry of Truth “leaders” this / and Spokesholes that…for, ya know, the whole organic movement, thing…. Who quickly veer into some Fox News takedown this, the Republicans that, etc, and end up on television.
Oh hell, have at, not a problem, it’s Fall, got the football and all.
I just love love the smell of ASTROTURF burning in the morning.
So pathetic, all of it…
China’s bubble is getting shaky.
Who are we gonna borrow from now?
Put it on a card?
A nice tid in there about a security guard @ Citi…
Oh I love this phase during collapse: them having to hire security guards to secure their security guards.
A damn fine job!
Put it on a card?
A nice tid in there regarding a security guard @ Citi.
Oh, I love this phase in collapse. Where they have to hire security guards to secure their security guards.
A damn fine job!
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(may be a duplicate post, not sure)
That day had to come… the deflation of China’s bubble I mean…
You know when BofA’s website went down? Well, um, it seems a bunch of debit card holders’ accounts got compromised. No we won’t tell you how many there were. And it has nothing to do with our website being down for six days I swear. Yes, we’re still gonna charge you the $5.
No question in my mind at least, such as it is, that these thoroughly criminal organizations known as banks , run from the inside are no different than the ole ghost employee/no show jobs on a construction site, the ole trucking company hijack scams and casino count room skimming operations. These massive, now routine, credit card, “compromises”…”hacks”, GMAFB, (while there are the get-and-go cowboys and unwelcome extranationals, I’d bet my testicles, (not a prollem, virtually mint condition, – I know! – Too Much Information! ) ..but I’d bet the ole beanbag that every last one of these TBTFs has special inside ops that just cream the digital card dough , hardly cash in an envelope for handing out anymore, which is all written off before it is layed off on CDS derivs or otherwise disappeared in the various card servicing subsidiaries, Joe Biden.
Time for some serious Wiki-leakage on THAT, pardon the expression.
Cuz whether it’s “rogue trader” after “rogue trader” lame excuse,
whether it’s insider trading after insider trading “errancy”, they would have us believe as “anecdotal” market manipulation, whether it’s a “friend of Angelo” mortgage through BoA, …Dodd’s “special” financing on his Irish estate , or HELLO , Hassan Nemazee the DNC/Clintonite walking into Citi and Bank of America and walking out with – HELLO AGAIN $292 MILLION in fluff-doc loans no other questions asked..we ALREADY KNOW the score, the M.O. of these gangsters.
Inside Ops. Banksters.
About it, says me ole sack ‘o balls.
(They talk to me, ya know)
ugh… I hope mine was not one of them.
Creedit cards and me testicles locked in spam methinks.
SO sorry! out now (I was dead asleep)
Bl
berg –
Oh don’t get hysterical, Mike.
Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!
It’s Always About MARSHA! !
Oh pull out ALL the Slobber-stops -
Nineleven. Noisev violations. Green Space.
Drudge mud=packing “sanitation” angle now.
Yeh. Sludge. Well. I imagine so, with all the PTB poo being thrown on the Wall.
IMO, if nothing else came of it, One thing that IS FUCKING AWESOME about all this is that it has thoroughly demolished ANY chance of Bl
berg flash-trading his political prospects in for the Presidency. Oh he’ll slither off with his billions, but it’s nice to see his frontman’s face flake off so desperately so…
Rally around Tourism and Finance!
Such a burnt out old hump even for the original Big Apple….
Oh money – and COP LOYALTY – quote –
HA! Oh Bl
berg & Co. – > DEFINITELY freaking out as the OWS message to cops is being drummed in
And for their faithful service – which now has the NYPD DESPISED GLOBALLY – they are being squeezed by their brass with a mission to “control” crowds that KEEP COMING. And have them in for scads of lawsuits that will personally.draw in? net? – Kettle is it? – numerous “just a good job” types
Bl
berg and Kelly tried to sell some drool the other day that the cops sent downtown to Wall Street were somehow preventing the level of quality policing people have come to expect throughout New York. Yep take it to the bank. Such a fine job they’ve done watching gunfire out in the boroughs tho… 
They got themselves a real clusterfuck on their hands
Growing. Amorphous. Mobile. at Sotheby’s, on Bridges,
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas shopping coming up.
Pictures names and addresses of cops being ferreted out.
A real clusterfuck.
The request for National Guard should go over well.
Mayby Andy Cuomo will be asked to mobilize t
Oh Bl
berg.
Trying to manage top tier NYPD sociopaths, favorite son career get-overs and crminals atop a Department full of PTSD.
And the pretext -
Kelly: Protesters To Be ‘Met With Force’ If They Target Officers
Oh you can smell the desperation at City Hall.
I see Blooby trotted out Ray.
Everybody loves Raymond, right?
Ah yes, The Pols send the in goons to run amok , standing behind them while trying to distance themselves.
Well ya know how that goes…….people………pick up on it..
Nice to see everybody now adhering to the whole can’t really-say-who’s-in-charge thing tho.
OWS is decidedly non-violent. Everything else is… unfortunate.
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Cantor is with the Value Voters today and calls the protests ”a mob”. He’s “concerned” too…
BIPartisan!
hmm i hven’t gone yet to see if the Jane Mayer piece on “Red Map” (or how the Republicans won in 2010 as deeply on the state level as they did) is available sans subscription… but Vermont Public Radio has an extensive over view and interview with JM (who I do like!)
That’s the R for you, always planning, making moves in the war.
Then, over there, waaaay over there, are the Democrats saying they are the Better People.
oh and this…. don’t have liquid in your mouth…
The Jane Mayer article IS available online without a sub wall
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all
I saw a blurb last night, Tweety I think, on Obama 2.0 and The , uh, Stratuhgee. Something rattled off quick, yes come to think of it, it was Tweety, What about the South!? What about he West!?
Florida!? – everyplace rattled off I think except Marlon Brando’s old joint in Fiji – Do they think they can compete there? Are the really going with a 50 State Strategy? Howard
Fineman said something like
Well I think the President believes he can –
Matthews, (foaming thru Dem lightweight name droppin ) –
WuddabowPluff!? – What about Plouffe? Does Plouffe~
Howard: That’s the thing! Plouffe, see, is keepin his eye on Pennsylvania! See Plouffe – … Plouffe , see –
I was laughing my ass off at them both, considering the current composition of the Pa General Assembly.
The State House
The State Senate
Pfft. PA, Plouffe. The whole Obama on life support deal.
THE PA DP are the same fuckin mooks during the middle of the Bush Years when they managed to eek out a majority in the state House after the uproariously – we’re talkin exquisitely corrupt GOP Speaker Joh Perzel was ousted….one of their guys from the DP
crossed sides just for the vote to hand the Speakership BACK to the GOP 
Man! I guess we REALLY Didn’t Have the Votes!
Just drowning in shit, we are…
I think they are just in this to get as much cash in the door as they can.
It’s over.
And frankly, I welcome Ann Romney. I think she will be closer to the Laura mold: LEAVING US THE FUCK ALONE.
good piece
Oh Obby’s a fighter all right, just fight fight fightin away for the mi’dulll class,
Takin on them Banksters, yep,
“some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly”
Nigga, SRSLY?
Good Lord. And I shit you not…I just saw on CNN that next week MichellleO is going to try and break the Record for Most Jumping Jacks in a 24 Hour Period.
BREAKING – Shit you not.
Won’t someone hustle these yahoo-salahis offstage?
Drag them off.
That’s what the hummingbird drones are for, right?
If only.
Link to Obby’s Press Transcript yesterday.
LOL. Why, I don’t know.
Just one of those struggling to articulate things…
it was so bad.
Well, Frothy Butt Jizz, Welcome!
Pitch a tent for you and the kids!
Which reminds me I meant to say earlier that with all the concerted effort poo being thrown on the wall from Blooberg and the electeds right through all media shills
Noise. Sanitation, Green Space. Bad for Business. Bad for Workers. Bad For Tourism. And of course, Security and sullying the memory of Nineleven , I’m just waiting for some fucker to come out and say that partial birth abortions are being performed in the park-to-be-turned-into-a mosque by Michael Jackson killing physicians upon illiegal artificially inseminated Immigrant lesbians from Iran who want their sleeper cell gay sons to grow up to be married here in the good ole U.S. of A.
This is Santorum’s moment!. This is his chance!
Madman sent me this….
fits right in!!
Rand Paul Is Worried Occupy Wall Street Protesters Will Loot Rich People’s IPhones
But gotta love it,
Curlyhead Randy shampooing in a Product Placement!
I bet ya his Dad’s handlers wish he’d STFU, lest he dilute the whole Ron Paul , ya know, Revolution angle.
Cons, all of them.
True, but protesters might use the stolen iPhones to mount attacks ON police WITH the Iranian fetusi which COULD undermine the rule of Lawwwwwwww….
Someone needs to say it. LOL. I bet someone will.
Somebody might call Slob on his iBarry. Which actually really and TRULY had been Steve’s OWN.
We are so fucking fucked.
lol
force feeding of propophenol at High Noon
I am listening to an hour on the local talk radio on the huge coming dispensary clamp down.
Oh the host just cannot figure out what Slobster is up to. The Big WHY!!!!!!!!
The Why whine.
Geesh. One more fucking authoritarian born again black overseer.
Yes I so want that sort telling me what to do. As much as I ever wanted the lousy Irish. The Italians (why do Italians like Nana want to go into politics?) To say nothing of the other old city mobster group, the Jews.
Yes all such delectable sorts.
Oh Come on! Sharpton tonight:
PRODUCT PLACEMENT!
When times are tough I see he went to the Apple Store!??
FFS! Come ON!
Jeesus Christ. Next thing ya know he’s going to announce some General Afro Sheen elevated to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Come On! LOL
Sharpton is all het up over 60K?
Pity the day the Democrats picked him up and put him on salary.
WIIIAI must just start drooling every time another Obama speech is announced. If you can’t have jobs, or justice, or anything else, you can always enjoy juicy dripping sarcasm.
http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/2011/10/obama-press-conference-american-people.html
“I would love nothing more than to not have to be out there campaigning because we were seeing constructive action here in Congress.
Maybe they could just send out an animated collection plate.
Save on buying teleprompters.
hmm what a tidbit….
From Cockburn at Cpunch
Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.)
Jim Wallis Accuses Those Who Report on the Religious Right of ‘Fomenting Hysteria’
Full text at Politico in the Congress column.
So much packed into this…. always a home for creative loser Dems.
after Houle got the fart seat.
And where did Dana – that blown out whoopy cushion ever end up? Ah well, politics loss is The Beckley West Virgina Moonshiner’s Association’s new spokesmen I suppose…
Hillary atop Panetta now.
A classic DP move ready to accommodate Bibi and his pals.
No dripping innuendo about it, Leon Phelps.
“That’s why God invented the ‘skank’. “
So – and Dick Cheney would be proud of this girl, almost like a daughter manning, - efficiently Omar Bradley manning that is the State Department’s Middle East Affairs Desk, who, as the Cheney’s luck would have it is leaving things in perfect oder for Liz’s return…
ANYways, what we have from the obliterating Madame Secretary Orifice, whose tenure at State has sucked up every CIA , Blackwater, Israeli, Desi ,and every other escort firm contractually available, yes, after 10 long lousy years, the 3 under Barry as long and lousy as 8 under Bush IMO,
we arrive at the all-but-officially-rezombified…
Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance 2.0 ,
remember them, folks?
Coalition Provisional Authority? U.S. Administrator of Iraq, anyone?
Iraqi Interim Governing Council 2012. 0ooooooo?
How ’bout them Chalabis? Full Circle. Anyone?
Oh but be sure to vote for “Change”. Yah keep voting for Dems, all ye liberalish fools without one independent monkeywrenching thought in your skull.
And oh so important about SCOTUS, after Scalia was confirmed 98-0
Hooking this onto your last in the thread comment (I am having a lot of computer connectivity problems… gah)
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