Orange 29 October 2011
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Orangutans in Gunung Leuser national park – Sumatra [Photograph: Anup Shah/Corbis]

Orangutans in Gunung Leuser national park – Sumatra [Photograph: Anup Shah/Corbis]
An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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- 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.
Syd Hoff’s Teeth: The Leftist Satire of A. Redfield
25 protesters arrested in Portland, for “taking over” a park in The Pearl– our very own miniature “posh urban” neighborhood. Like the West Hills, but without any hills. At the peak of the demo, there were apparently about 150 people. They chanted a lot but otherwise seemed pretty relaxed. Some were wearing Halloween costumes.
I watched some of the footage. The Mayor showed up but seemed, as ever, disengaged. The man really doesn’t give a fuck about people’s pain. I don’t know how much clearer he can make it beyond putting it on a damn T-Shirt at this point. (Of course, it would be a sustainable hemp T-Shirt with Soy-Based inks, because this is fucking Portland.)
Christian groups: we will bodily protect Occupy London from St Paul’s
OWS: the sand-sculpture/Day of the Dead edition
I just saw that. 8)
Is it wrong that I’m spending so much of my Day Of Rest™ poking fun at all the little wannabe-oligarchs who showed up for that “Homeless Halloween” thread?
I mean, I’d rather be reading comics, but I’d have to pay for them.
Bloomberg to Host “Go-Big” Coalition for Sunday Dinner
Occupy Gracie
Los Lobos provides the musical portion of our service:
Preach it!
Latest Leak on State Attorney General Mortgage Settlement: A Shameless Sellout to the Banks
I am really surprised at Kamala Harris out here, staying out of it. The reporting, such as it is, is that she is getting the cold shoulder fom the Obammy crowd. She and her husband (at DOJ in DC) are (were?) close wtih Slobby.
Yeah it was never going to be much. Everything now is headlines. And nothing else.
#OWS Guest Post: Denver Police Use Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Batons and Pepper Spray On Protesters
They liked Oakland.
BTW NOW i is being reported there were 18 different cop jurisdictions out in Oakland that night. First it was 10, then 12 an dnow 18.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the feds weren’t there, too.
I assume they were.
oh I sense a reformation, an awakening (snicker!): MoveOn.org is running TV ads against Quan. I don’t defend her, she is in full-on, no-holds-barred messy collapse, but Est Dems are moving in. They must be thrilled. Two birds one stone, Quan, who I would still maintain is not a standard issue thief.. AND ranked choice voting.
MoveOn is so damn repugnant…
snicker.
Out of uriosity I looked up the mayor of Portland. yeah seems like a made man.
of the Democratic party variety.
That’s pretty much all we ever get here.
Ursula LeGuin apparently praised Adams recently for his “Taoism,” because he took a trip to China when the Occupy stuff was first hitting Portland.
Yeah. “Taoism” = “Being A Rich, Clueless, Self-Centered Dick.”
LeGuin should stick to writing fiction.
Hahahahah yeah I think all the cities where Occupy sites have been harshly, violently raided are Demcratic mayor towns.
I feel pretty safe thinking panic PANIC!!!!! that it all might be going on when the Dem mouth breathers converge on Charlotte NC is a big topic in hte WH. West Wing, whereever.
Bigger than Jahbz. Just a wild guess on my part
I’m wondering if we might have another Chicago ’68 setting up here.
The whole world is watching.
I don’t think the Occupies are going away…
And of course in ’68 things were rough at the Rep convention too, in Miami but it all got much much less attnetion than Daley and Chicago.
I think as soon as whichever dipshit gets elected mayor here in SF, as of Nov 8, after that we will see a huge crackdown.
I cannot believe I am doing this, but I am listening to Perry on with Chris Wallace on FOX Sunday.
So bad…
Guess he tried to deliver more than pizza…. Cain got ambushed outside CBS studios after his interview with Shieffer.

LOL I saw that and figured, Okay, when do they clip him in the back of the head? I had such hopes for Herman. LOL..
I also saw that Ron Paul (NOT an Endorsement! LOL) has gotten enough traction among 2 Iowa straw poll hoohahs *** involving Iowa voters only*** – that he actually made CNN tonight .. LOL.
Apperently in Des Moines he carried 84% of 500 people who turned out… enough to hear talk on the CNN broadcast that there may be a whupset underway LOL.
So place yer bets, people: How long before reports roll in on the crazy old Dr. in the barn doin the unspeakable with corncobs upon livestock?
Which is so wrong because, 4 out of 5 livestock polled so far (as it were) ALSO want to END THE FED. LOL Who Doesn’t?
Which
Sorry , I was LMAO too much….
Apperently in Des Moines he carried 84% of 500 people who turned out… enough to hear talk on the CNN broadcast that there may be a whupset underway LOL.
Ours is a broad based democracy…. and we kill anyone who says otherwise!
Oh I’d LURVE to see the guy disrupt the narrative…
Which will be allowed long enough till video is released of him in bed with a purported campaign operative dairy cow , the two of em sharing a nice post-coital doobie. LOL.
ETC.
I gather Herman likes to baiser cheap pizza sausage.
Hard to beat that.
You know,
sorta like the way they were OUT TO GET EDWARDS.
By the way, you see the latest on that dumbfucker?
Pre-trial motion to have his case dropped last week? DENIED. LOL
Easy come, easy go.
Time’s up for Johnny.
I laughed pretty damned hard a few years ago (2004) when he fluffed and huffed and tried to stuff himself into pretzel or vice pretzel… AND hs record of barely voting came out, and almost never in a primary… AND that his first convention was 2000. A significant trial lawyer in a shitty pond called NC (and i even like the state but let’s get real) and no history of contact iwth the Dem party. Snicker.
Apparenlty he has spent the time since D I V O R C E and her death (finally! No more books!) warming barstools in his little burg.
I am REALLY sorry that his ”chop shop” as I call it, his packages of experts his firm hired out to cases on issues he had won on never was examined.
hard to tell JUST WHO is gonna be shooting at the Dem Convention by August…I mean who’s the genius that picked Charlotte for next summer and , hell, ..Why?
Fuck , at this point, I think all we’ll need to do by then is set up Popcorn tents and watch as Obby calls in the Vanguard Pwog Bloggers to try and hold off the turned-savage Bank of America Headquarters types and ex-mil Battalions vying for first dibs at storming the Hall….
Of course, if there IS a lone gunman scenario,
it probably WILL be Edwards. :lol
They’ll have to get him into custody beforehand. LOL.
Sadly he fell from the heights to become unhinged. A Great American Tragedy.
Doesn’t seem likely the cod liver oil and CDS (all fresh and new again!) and “eat your peas” and “listen to momma speaking to you from The Victory Garden” is going to go down well at all.
I jsut want my own travelling guillotine.. just one. I wuld be happy and not ask for anything more. Promise.
I wonder if Marcotte ever returns his calls… :/
Ha! too busy shilling the Americanischer readers of the Guardian….
Welp, starting with the Bl
berg:
…Enter , … the Socialist Troll –
Bon Dieu! – me plier un lavabo!
Oui, oui! — > Elle, comme un petit monstre hideux,
elle baise avec sa tête.,
..she trolls him,.
fucks with his head.
Loved the Martine Aubry, particularly considering(.according to an AFP pice on al Aribiya anyways) China says…….
Good Luck!
Poor Sarko!
And BTW,”Wall Street star” Corzine?
called in the bankruptcy lawyers over the weekend…should be a filing, oh I don’t know, considering the snow and all?, LOL…- uh momentarily..
Merde! Poor Everybody!
Children are taught in French language class that “baiser” is “to kiss”. Generation after generation use it innocently, I imagine on their first trip to France… … only to find out!
They have a lousy line up running too…. I have no idea who will win… Prolly Sarko… but last I read (before bebe!) his numbers were disastrously low. Not that it means much…
snicker.
oh I feel so stupid. Whta does it mean when the water pipes rumble?
air in the pipes?
It started with my tub, when I turned on water, both the lower faucet and the shower rise. the wall seemed to vibrate, even.. and now in the middle of the fucking night the toilet is yelling.
I cannot believe it. The damned rumble in the toilet woke me up… flushing diminishes it very briefly and then it starts up.
what a dicey problem to have arrive.
1. Here, it’s usually freezing or water “hammer” (my bet) caused when larger, higher pressure supply lines (bigger pipes usually an 1 1/4″ , 1″, or 3/4″ pipes) as they branch off into smaller pipes supplying kitchen and bathrooms and their fixtures…
Here it’s usually that or,
2. they’re working somebody over in the basement. or
3. they found people chained in the basement after the lower level slave traders from a massive multi state fraud ring left.
So, methodically working backwards on a solution, in the last two cases, a hack saw should be used to free up victims, with no special attention to wiping it clean as it will be needed later before being discarded.Of course make a list of everything: And , necessarily, devolve into vigilantism.
, the main supplies hot + cold that rising from floor to floor before supplying the lesser , plebeian sorts
of water lines near fixtures.
BUT if it’s strictly a water issue, the landlord should put valves in at the branch of the lines giving the problem, and water lines can be draned,, blown out with air, and then add “water hammers” atop the pipes giving the problem…Usually attop the riser, say behind a sink wall or at branch of a main riser in a building,
By riser , meaning the Elites of water pipage in your building,
So,
<– put the water hammer here

I ___________ when the supplies pick up a fixer here
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BASEMENT
And if its a landlord problem, well then, there are solutions for that too, but we don’t have the re-education camps set up yet.
..
So if you really need water Now then I’d say the plumbing work is the way to go….
(Oh c’mon. comrades! Trotsky was as much responsible for fucking things up the last time around because he couldn’t take a joke)
Strangely after a few hours of it, it has passed. It was SO noisy it kind of unnerved me…. I think I will try to ignore unless it happens again, soon… then I will call in the neighborhood handy person to look at it…
Thanks!
That it was in the cold water lines too , it it sounded like it was intermittent a good thing, not uncommon in pipes as they get minerals build up etc that hopefully flush pass thru… and not uncommon when radiator heat is furst turned up in the Fall either, but you’ll know when you get the kind of OMG! WTF! unrelenting THIS IS IT! kinda thing when a boiler is ready to blow….
oh shoot… it could be the boiler?
ugh
Well my real expertise HERE IN JERSEY is as a political prognosticator.:lol: ;wink:
BUT
FEAR NOT! — Anyways if there is a boiler to radiators, baseboards etc, and this thing only happens when the heat cycles on prolly a good idea to have someone check that the valves are all open, and the thermostat to the whatchamicalllit- the thermocouple/sensor inside where the furnace actually fires that THAT is in working order. Pretty hard to blow a boiler itself , but if the thing doesn’t know when to shut off – (sensor at the furnace) and/or valves are closed or the circulator. which pumps the water to radiators is in circulator Imbroglio or something, one of THOSE components need to be hammered ever so – (No! I’m kidding! No Hammers!) one of those components (about all there is) prolly will need replaced. Sometimes someone shuts or partially shuts valves in the heat loops in between seasons and they simply need re-opened..
All it is is a tea kettle piped to a pump, then looped through pipes back to the tea kettle, The thermostats runs to the burner saying mo’ betta heat or no mas up in heya.. The circulator pumps the warm tea of not freezing our ass off LIFE.. Relief valves, like a whistle on a tea kettle, Hell,
, who knows what kind of shroomage could get in them?
. So the thermostats, the circulator pump, , the peripheral valves along various living space loops , the pressure relief valves, Who ever calls should ask for a standard service call which should cover that and be ready with questions when they say you need a whole new reactor or something.. Do NOT, repeat, DO NOT
, like my beloved once did, call somebody out by saying “I THINK OUR HOUSE IS READY TO BLOW UP!”
:wink
*Again, the disclaimer in the New York, Jersey, and Philly markets is to always check FIRST to see if somebody is getting worked over in the basement.
Possible questions for savvy residents-
Is that O’Rourke kid or Nicky Manginiguini out on parole again?
Oh, They ARE the Plumbers now?
I do have a boiler for the hot water…. and it is not old… just over 10 years… and appears to be in good shape.
If it returns I’ll call the local handyperson….
at the moment it is blissfully quiet.
In college we had steam baseboard heating. If the heater wasn’t turned all the way up (or all the way off), air would get in the furnace and cause a banging sound. Least that’s what they told me.
So if you have a boiler in the basement for this purpose, it may be causing the same problem. Could also happen, I would think, if they just started it up after a long summer and there was sediment and whatnot in the system. Otherwise, don’t listen to me and listen to bhhm.
Well, We got the FBI all Halloween-treat freaked out now, anyways.
Which is great, ya know.
Now that the Nazis are showin up ready to help and all.
Fellahs – Fellahs! How about doin in a couple hundred Bankster Gangsters and we’ll call it even, m’kay??
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Corzine’s MF Global files for bankruptcy
Like,…. bummer.
With the NY FED closing its window and the NYSE delisting him.
Some other morsels tho as people pour over recent proxy statements …..Corzine set himself up for a 12 Million Dollar Golden Parachute.
And the boys at zerohedge have just been devouring the Chapeter 11 filing, noting that MF, Corzines corporate carcass, owes CNBC the better part of a mil in unpaid advertising .
while reminding the rest of us out here in Dead Peasant Land, that , conveniently, just LAst Week ,
CNBC had Wall Street Piggy Fudge Packer Dick BOVE on…
(No no! Really! It’s Quite alright!
It’s Made from Real Corporate PIG FUDGE!)
seen in the middle of the clip just humping the fuck away how Corzines MF was fine and how blah blah blah and it’s a value play and blah blah blah before anybody makes Mass Exodus and blh blah blay and stay in and yada yada yada …to which the younger humps of course yield and chime in how Bove’s got a point and , etc. etc, ETC.
Oh I know, advanced capitalist decay,
we’ve all been over this before, but I really think (*especially for any malingering capitalist at this point) Patrick Byrne’s layout of what he calls Deep Capture is to be right there among the essential reading of the last 30 years….
Deep capture? Great title .. thanks for the link!
IByrne is the guy who ran Overstock and the GS and Citi crowd all lined up behind meggy Moo’s Ebay… he thoroughly lays out how overstock came under an orchestrated “short” raid, how the SEC was in the bag, how they employed nummerous media shills and how the market moved and documented all their trades..
Byrne’s a very brght guy, and the mofo had great counsel, investigators, and IT people…During discovery, they got scads of damning internal emails, texts messages, etc, got a score of the journos and lackey traders Fired LOL and ultimately got GOT PAID by GS/ Rubin’s Crew…
Minor miracle it was…
IIRC..in the last year, a couple of their operative lessers at the Hedge Funds got time and are said to be co-operating in some
criminal cases.
And speaking of plumbing, LOL –
This is an excellent update on Byrne from last summer,
the tids on Gary Weiss worth it on their own….
Patrick Byrne: ‘See, I told you America’s economy was busted’
The battle beyond naked shorts
Is Byrne still running Overstock?
yeh, I see now that he and his company are hanging in so far…
And I have nothin in the market or otherwise, no dog in any retailers fight but his case as far as I know is the only one to survive such an onslaught ..
Also Byrne credits Jon Hanson at Harvard Law for coming up with “Deep Capture” ( Prof’s Legal work wraps around social dynamics, behavioral finance, and regulatory capture)
;lol:
And here I just thought the fix was in!
Anyways, I did Catholic School and once served Latin Mass, so fuck, I can tolerate the intuhlecshally tedious from time to time when not shaving an insufferably ignorant mouthbreather in the mirror.
I ordered a couple of things from Overstock and ran into a problem, not with me or Overstock with the neighborhood mail boxes etc type of place that i had it sent to.
The customer service from Overstock was unbelievably good. It was not an expensive item, and even before it was clear it was the receiver’s error (they lost the package after USPS delivered it! AND refused to take any responsibility!) Overstock immediately sent a rplacement…. just 4 dishtowels for 15.00 but wow. AND they phoned me.
And while its notes that Goldman Sachs will picking up biz upon MF’s exit, IMO it still comes back to the basic point, there is no more foisting to be done – - > Like any of these “extend and pretend” deals are preventing Defaults from picking up pace…..
Another form of lay-off….
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Recycle…..
Read more: Business Insider
For this next one, inhale a whole balloon of helium, hold it….
hold it, hold it …Then- As fast as you can, Say -
JesusChrist,They’re goinafter’em like Herman Cain!
USA!!USA!! Oh JUST*~PASS*~THE*~NITROUS~~~~
Well, The last two resigned in support of Occupy London when they higher ups voted to sue for eviction…
Knowles, on the other hand, was the prig who was out in front whining about how people had to go,Move along, Move along God’s work and all, and was said to be a driving force behind them closing their doors…for the first time , and lasting longer than they during WORLD WAR II….. I saw a figure they released saying their losses for the week amounted to around 500,000 USD in tourist donations…which didn’t help them a bit. How
New
LINK
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(Sorry, not able to post on current thread, I’m assuming it’s browser issues)
Really looking forward to tomorrow (and really regretting I won’t be able to make it there). Wonder how many throughways and Bart Stations the fuckers will be attempting to block off …goood luck fockers!.
It would be nice if there were counter protests held to avert those 17 plus County Mounties which typically send their cops up to Oaktown to put a brutal lid on a pressure cooker of neglected humanity.
I love this:
hmm there is a possibility that tomorrow might be a little surprising…but we shall see.
and perhaps …some ‘home made’ honey among passenger’s tote bags ……at NorCali Airports …diverting the Federales who plan to MINGLE TOMORROW at Oaktown…….wouldn’t want anything sweet …liquid …non corporate, and humane …..crossing state boundaries, …without tagging it as a threat against life,… would we?.