Options 25 November 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Afghanistan War, AFRICOM, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iran, Iraq War, Israel/AIPAC, Moscow, NORCOM, Pakistan, Total fucking lunatics, WAR!.trackback
Don’t worry! It can’t be the twilight of the American Empire, we still have options for war…. that table, the one reserved for war options, is loaded to the gills!!! We never empty that table…
You want Northern War? Southern War (always tasty! and a bonifide Reagan favorite!)? War in the East?! War in the West ??? Or, best for last… multidirectional war: Iran and China!!
We have options.
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Snicker Snax…. a second cartoon in the gallery also dealt with sabre rattling at China, employing a wicked satire of Slob. YUM.
A true Homeland, Fall Bounty, …a cornucopia of snax ,… this was my tasty, pre din din, snack!
From the Los Angeles Times:
and, what a coincidence, why I was thinking, just the other day, that I had better go get my small pox vaccine.
she may b trying to head off a scandal…I’d never accept an untested vaccine. And why would a parent for a child?
that’s what came to my mind, looking at the twelve day gap in dates, between those two pieces; ….why not release something to the press while, either, everyone is trying to stock up on $$$$$Black Friday$$$$ ..or they are enjoying what little time they can now share, with those they love.
I really think it’s time that the Obamapologists admit that they’re perfectly fine with insane candidates and insane policies. Because if Bachmann or Romney or some other foaming-at-the-mouth GOP clown was responsible for this, they’d be ballistic.
But insanity is okay, so long as it has tasteful graphics and is presented in well-modulated tones. Vote Democrat, because yelling and frothing while you fuck the base is soooooooooo damn gauche.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
same thing here… as long as it is Jerry Brown…. no notice… and while they scarcely bitched about Arnold they did play the game when it suited
yep.
(this may be a duplicate “yep” as the loverly software over seers of committting ludditity, gave me a warning that I have made a duplicate comment (as if I didn’t know that ….siiiiigh ……), yet didn’t inform as to whether they had allowed it to be posted anyway, which is normally what happens.)
yep.
This month, I officially reached the point where I need one credit to pay off another. I still remember when using Visa to pay Mastercard was just a whimsical joke.
After meeting the minimum payment today, in celebration of Buy Nothing Day, I’m left with sixty bucks while I wait and see if the temp agency feels inclined to cough up next week’s check. It’s amazing how fact you can run up those minimum payments while everyone and their dog dicks you around six ways from Sunday.
Happy Black Friday, America. Enjoy that brand-new widescreen, in the event that it helps you find something actually worth watching.
ohh fuck, ‘online’ hugs! sounds so vapid, but ….
Never fear, Baby! I’ve got my eye on a really sexy bag of dried beans! And one of mac, too!
Take care of yourselves, my faithful mud wallowers.
you too sweetness, wish you were my next door neighbor, I really do.
Show the cats the bills and tell them to pungle up. Or risk being sold by the weight for fresh cat gut.
I used to make jokes with the cats, to ”turn out their pockets and contribute”. They never did.
LOL. I’m still trying to figure out how to declare them as dependents come tax time.
=^..^=
At the potluck yesterday there were six or seven resident cats, plus a neighbor cat (Manx, patchy bright orange) who didn’t live there but kept sneaking in with the guests so he could scout around for scraps.
Can you get them Social Sec numbers? Cuz then you could deduct for them!!
I found out years afterwards, that for many years my father claimed a second child. He just got a bee in his bonnet one year – pissed at the government and taxes nd whatever else…and added a child. That was before mandatory SS #s at birth etc.
that’s too fuckin funny hon, Miss Ruby has taken to demanding that she drink from the bath spigot, when ever anyone goes into the bathroom; … versus the porcelain ‘soup’ cup. I told her, just this morning that, since my ‘landlord’ (who pays the water bill) has been the first seemingly decent one I’ve ever had, that I can’t allow that spigot to run every time she hollers at me, ….she may as well have given me the middle claw. Artful Dodger[essa], …indeed.
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oh I had a cat drank from the hand washing sink in the bathroom… YOu would pass the bathroom and see him sitting there, peering out toward the doorway…. looking baleful and almost motioning you in… so someobdy would go in, turn on the cold to a trickle and when he had his fill and got down, go turn it off…
I envy your spigot experience sweety, …Miss Ruby totally skipped the baleful routine and went straight to waking up the dead, pre sunrise, …demanding, ‘fresh’ running water, …LOUDLY; …and if that doesn’t work, threatens to hop over your face with unretractable monster claw …perhaps snagging an eyeball, …horrid times we live in …..siiiiiiigh….
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(but, …but….she looks so petite …adoptable! …black and white straaaaayyyyyyy …fem …… ;0) ….)
oh yeah this cat was sooo polite. Short haired big red/orange cat… He did n’t feel well one night, so we penned him in the kitchen with access to the indoor porch, outdoor porch and a way out if he wished (cat door)… when we got home, he had clawed newspapers off a kitchen chair seat down to the floor – and vomited on the newsprint.
ya don’t say?
priceless, can’t imagine why he would do that….
how primitive
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I thought it was pretty amazing…
I would like to echo what Ganja said in the last thread about the Midwest and the creepy vibe of restless racial undercurrents all the damned time. It’s oppressive, and more so because everybody here insists on how friendly and open they are.
It’s a whole culture built around smiling in your face while their looking for an opportunity to shove the knife in.
Word. Amongst Babe’0licious’s friends everyone constantly complains how “evil” people are here and how they want to leave…It is really something remarkable to me, and I have traveled fairly widely within this country and the only place I’ve found similiar in tension and general nastiness hidden behind a smirky grin is Dallas/Ft Worth (arlington to be specific) but that was 20 years ago and I don’t now what it’s like now…
It is exactly the same, GG. Ick. Arlington….
There is a lot of that outward “nicety” veneer pasted thinly over some really awful nasty here in Texas….something that after 17 years, I still cannot stomach….bless their black little hearts.
We’re rounding up the wagons right now and heading southwest after lunch…The pan-handle of texas won’t be so bad (amarillo by morning…) but the cattywampass across Okie on the 44 gives me pause…a John Deere cap and a pony tail for my dreads, a padded plaid coat and camo pants, work boots complete the uniform and my lady is yelling that I got to load the rig so wish us luck….
It’s funny how regions will have a vibe.
be well, happy trails …
ugh it wasn’t only San Leandro (East Bay) where there was shooting in a mall area… in Myrtle Beach AND in Fayetteville too.
LOVELY.
I’ve been collecting the “Black Friday,” violence links today (….ooooooh but those campers, ….occupiers, …. with their, ludddite boooooks, …. and libraries …. )
pretty fucking damning.
for one instance (a raw, ‘paste’ job):
Other shoppers spoke up for him…so let’s see.
Suspicion of shoplifting is one of the greates crimes in the US… obviously.
Safeway here is trying to bactrack over an over reaction (a BIG ONE) to a FOUR YEAR OLD…. ejected from a Safeway and a demand from Safeway security that she sign a statement (4 years old, remember?) along with a signed promise to never enter a Safeway again. Seems she may have eaten part of a small bag of candy and then replaced it on a shelf.
Gee whoops.
yeah, I’m pretty sure, he was victimized every bit as much as that little girl.
Even if he had been shoplifting which I seriously doubt, since when is it in the law books (that are rarely, if ever, followed) that shoplifting warrants a Bloody Beating by the proclaimed “Peace Keepers” in this country?
He hadn’t even left the store.
Right, which is a critical point…
Oh, … and gotta lurve that: WAPO [ohhh,…and that Associated “Press” ™ too] …who play both sides of the fence, only when they are forced to, and even then, they leave that taint of GUILT on the voiceless. By the way of which:
(a, hesitant, thanks to Susie. Hesitant, because that bit about, perhaps reasonable, Rethugs (a short while back, during that creepy, “NetRoots” ™ thang) made me want to puke; … although I couldn’t agree more about WAPO, unpurchased, and lower echelon, reporters being fucked, …and quite a few other things she posts about.)
The problem is I don’t think the Post alone in doing this… the past few years have been brutal in newsrooms.. not just print either…
Yep, I’m sure, you’re right. My thought is, if the powers that be have their way, there will, soon, no longer be such a thing as paid wages, or ‘employees,’ …. in any ‘industry;’… just: paid concubines; bots; …. and slavery ….
FWIW, people getting their contracts bought out are in better shape than most people.
(post date: River. …
If it’s the one I’m thinking it is (can’t do the “you tube,” I’m obsolete!), that was a totally unexpected, breath taking ‘cover,’ (the best comparison I can make is ‘Luther,’ singing, …. … a house is not a home, … ….. my tear ducts let me know they were still there, …that they couldn’t always be, … APA/MIC ™, ‘socially’ trained, … to, … Buck UP, …. LOSER!!!!!!!!! ™ )
Oh my, …forgot that end parenthesis above.. …What shall I do, but continue? …I bought a dulcimer, after I heard Joni’s Blue album, …I never tire of listening to it.)
a stabbing at arden fair mall in sac too.
I admit I’ve avoided the ‘Godammit You WILL be Happy Holiday News’ last night and today, with a slew of Netflix discs.. Malls – much less mall parking lots – are a HORRIBLE premise to build so-called community around. What a shame it all is.
Stabbings, lovely. I did manage to read that the pepper spray woman got away in the mess. What a MESS! So far, she got away with it!
Right now I have a several hour disc running on how to transform private gardens and other small habitat areas to wild creatures… a Harlem garden is first up, getting it to the level of a certified sanctuary area in the fly over region that is NYC…
Actually I see the Mad Pepper Spray WOman has turned hrslf in….
BUT look what is also at th Google News link above, way down at the bottom. I missed this mess… Holy Shit.
unbelievable
Time covers this week, US vs. the rest of the world.
US contra mundi… it was inevitable.
Rising anti-Americanism everywhere.
And why not.
Or let’s be more precise, rising anti-American ANTI-ISRAELI sentiment everywhere.
The world is fucking tired of us, even as States and leaders persist in signing on with us.
same thing
Vile.
I’ll bet the Californian who layed on the Bart tracks, for the first and last time, a few nights ago, and all those other multiplying Rail, Track, and Bridge “Trespassers,” for just one group, would have loved to have used that US Cover as their last piece of toilet paper in life.
or
(sorry, the Time Inc. contact data link)
They’ve done this for decades tho, preferentially playing with covers, depending on what sells where. Awful as this is, it is just more of the same, as I see it.
I am REALLY surprised they did not find a way to do a religious cover for the US version, I’ve read they persist in selling well for both TIME and Newsqueak.
Pity all around.
Disgusting bullshtie that has been lobbed for a few years now, that anxiety fear and panic are somehow OK. That it is a failure to not do well under pressure. (or take a handy pill for that!)
Hell on toast.
If I’m not mistaken, there was, yet another, CALI Trespasser ™, suicide, … between San Mateo and San Francisco, last night. I heard a (uncommented on, by Pat) blurp, on KGO NOOOZ, …in the wee morning hours,…when the despondant are unable to sleep, … about yet another, ….Trespasser, ™. The one I referred to above, was on the Bart Tracks, this one was on the railroad tracks, …if I’m not mistaken.
(an asides: highly unfortunate that KGO refers to the early morning callers in to Pat, as those of the Loser, DUI, etc., prone, …have been arrested crowd, …..is that a new Cumulus thing hon? …or did Citadel do it to? (I’d never noticed it previously, but then, I generally cut the sound, on the noooz/commercials.))
(sorry, should have added ‘end italics,’ ‘html’ ™, … after:
how very primitive of me, to have , not done so, …….. siiiiighhhhhh ….
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but, then again, …I’m pretty sure that many have said that to someone, ..before me, so maybe the itallics, are correct …after all ….
I have not heard it…
not surprised, it was an, oh so, so quick, and totally humanly detached, of a noooz blurb, about a trespasser on the tracks, which, as we know, generally equates to another suicide; around 2-3?, plus/minus, AM PST. What caught my notice , is that it wasn’t on Bart tracks, as the one a few days back was.
No, I did not hear the ad for Pat….
I’m pretty sure I heard that hideous piece of shit while tuning in, close to midnight?, to see if someone listenable was on a holidy fill in for the gasbag who usually precedes her.
Have to say, now, I will, never, call in to her show.
Not that it is even her doing ..
She had a really good show Friday night, early Saturday…. Russ Baker the political investigative reporter was on for the whole night…
I listened to that. It was kind of bleakly ‘cute,’ because I had been just saying to my two remaining (‘alive’) brothers, Thursday night, that perhaps Watergate was a red herring, and that the Halloween Massacre, was perhaps more indicative of what was actually going on..
(I kind of threw up in my mouth though … when he seemed to blush, liking that Poppy may admire him, …….for giving the child sodomizer his due …..)
I do believe Nixon was removed from office. There were so many things wrong with the whole Watergate … whatever it was. Explosion. Not least of which was ALWAYS Woodruff.
But I can see if you are just hearing it for the first time, it makes no snese.
while I didn’t have a clue of it, while it was happening, given what has transpired in the ultimate wake of Watergate ™, it makes a lot of sense to me, too
Joint effort too. Like so many things…
Occupy Caturday
Kitties are the best historians!
Pre-Occupied
The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street
Oh thanks for this…
and ran into this, on the poster art I used the other day…
Read more Link to the New Yorker
I’m fascinated by how organic it’s been, and how people involved in organizing it have been willing to keep their mitts off when it spins off in a new direction.
After Feeding Thousands, OWS Sits Down in Liberty Square
Here, a community church helped get Occupy SF thru the day, there was donation of 1000.00 (at least that was the amount made public) to Glide Church that was hallmarked to feed Occupy, Glide feeds people in the Tenderloin…. that $ provided about 400 meals… but apparently “supporters” dropped off fruit and muffins – of which it looked like they had a lot…
Like Occupy Davis they have a lot of tents too that have been donated, tents that are stored away for now…. It has to be one reason that government entities are going slow or, having made big splashy mistakes, have pulled back. There is more support being expressed in many ways, than MSMBullshiters will report.
The other thing, I’ve said before, the government should worry. I see so many Asians, a lot of Japanese and Chinese but others too… Local Asians have been more and more visible ever since the 2006 immigration rallies that bloomed and appeared [sipposedly] over night… I not only see them protesting I see them arriving with donations.
good signs
a whole lot of the students at davis, both in the occupations and in the crowds of supporters at rallies, are asian, both south and east asian. one of the students pepper sprayed was palestinian, and had spent time getting tear-gassed in the west bank last summer. i don’t see much in the way of ethnic lines in this thing, it’s pretty representative of the broader student body, albeit with an overrepresentative % of the students in the sustainable agriculture, environmental engineering, history, and english depts.
monday should be fascinating. i have no idea if it’s be a plain vanilla rally, or whether they’re actually going to shut the campus down, transportation, conference call and all. there certainly seems to be broad support for the overall cause, from what i can tell.
and the west coast port strike on 12/12 could be something big, given the time of year and the importance of those ports to moving asian manufactured goods.
and the west coast port strike on 12/12 could be something big
I am really looking forward to it…
they pulled off oakland, but the city was hesitant to oppose them after the previous week’s police riot’s bad publicity. pulling this off at multiple ports, against coordinated police use of force, will be tricky.
still, if they can do it, all power to ‘em.
I hope Pakistan means it…
Ralph Steadman’s artwork for Alice in Wonderland takes you to Gonzoland
oh, just another, oh so bleakly “amusing,” passed down late, “Thanksgiving Snicker,” … from the WAPO incoming AP ™ Wire, cubicle …..::
I don’t have much doubt the dog in question, might have been a, Trained To Kill, Snarling Malinois (Belgian Shephard). Malinois have been ever so common in the East Coast, Urban areas (and certainly the Sout,’ at the very least), … for closing in on a century soon (which, I’m positive, sadly accounts for a large fear, and many times, hatred, of dogs by ethnic and poor communities, all over the US),…just like they were in Nazi Germany (siiiiiigh, I guess this link, will have to do for that connection to Fascists (…link source = Dogs in warfare)).
Please pardon the counterslant, and text omissions,…but really …some things get very tiring, and they just sniff WRONG …..
I’m Thankful We Have Such a Cohesive International Oligarchy
Black Friday Worker on the All-Night Shift Drives Into Canal
I guess this is what happens in an insane system, one which mandates that, making coin is the only honorable thing to do, even when there’s nothing decent left, which will bring in enough coin, to keep a person from being without the sustenance of water, food and shelter:
3 face prison time in special toilet paper scam
worse than that though, …the ones with the least integrity, are the first to, not only, cheat their nieghbors…and ….Buck Up To The System, ……but, to incerate them, for coin.
(and if those, pepper spraying, incarcerating ..etc.,… assholes don’t think they’ll also be “locked up” when no longer needed (for EDD, et al’s, Giddy, Lying, Unemployment Reports!!!!!) by their masters, .. at the end of the day, ….welll, …what can one really say?)
Spits-er tries to glom on.
Recall drive is picking up steam
Occupy Seattle Will Occupy the State Capitol in Olympia
Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask
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