Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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Starlings in the dusk skies above Gretna Green morph into the distinctive shape of a dolphin which is being chased across the sky by a whale with its mouth open
Picture: North News
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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
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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]
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.
wow … one of those photos, that, ..even if your mind follows that pattern …you have just got to witness …to believe happened ….
personally I think it was aided … by the photo shop … but I’ve been an assholessa, more than once in my life …. so please don’t take my word for it ….. :0) ;0)
(not that anyone will ;0) … siiiiighhhhhh ;0) )
I see a, gigantic, surreal Humming Bird ™, … in that photo, … too, let alone, … Moby Dick.
The starlings make all kinds of shapes …
Only a dark cocoon, ..before I get my gorgeous wings, …and …fly …
Joni Mitchell
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This makes horrifying, insane sense to me:
(some bolding mine)
Be nice if people figured it out. What do they think all the bases are for? But it seems to be a deeply held secret that the American people – too many of htem – REFUSE, resolutely and every day, to face, that the US and its people will be bled dry for war and for global dominance.
Talk about a downward trajectory. Greased slide to hell.
so totally screwed by Sadist Lunatics ….
(not sure why the President link didn’t work, maybe the placement of the qutation marks: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GV7gyZQumEsJ:www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/19/pakistan1+Zardari+“Mr+20%”+site:guardian.co.uk&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us …. and I probably should’ve added a more link, at the bottom, it’s a ‘meaty’ read.)
That was a good piece from Raimondo… I hadn’t bothered with him in years, it will remind me to drop in and check to see what articles are up from time to time.
I usually run across Antiwar.com pieces (as I did that one) at the, news now site.
This one, Fearing the Reaper (Drone), by Kelley B. Vlahos, was a worthwhile read too.
Bean-town Globe
Yeah the redistricting is killing them Dems
In other nooze the Gabachos broke their wheel bearing, cv joint and caliper bracket (?!!??!?!) just east of Amarillo and skidded to a stop at the “Jesus IS LORD, not a SWEAR WORD” truck stop just east of town. No lie. Written in big red and black letters on every blank white surface of the buildings, Gas pumps, roof lines, tow trucks, propane tanks, etc (…the Gabachos are now hiding out in a local motel waiting for “parts”)
omigod… stay safe. And if asked, why, Jesus is LORD and God. Holy Ghost too!
Good bye Barney. I am glad to see him go.
There is nothing that can happen, no boogeyman held up, no threat no warning that can make me care anymore about any Democrats. Even as I admit there is a small number who probably do try. But so few, it does nto matter.
Bye Barney. Who imo never tried. He just liked to rant.
Ta.
Oh PS, think that brings to 18 the retiring House Dems.
Bye.
Xactly. I find myself humming that old song “na na , hey, hey goodbye”
I hope Sanders decides to quit too, Get rid of the all beards and let all the Dems come out as little baby fascists…
BTW I found a youtube video of the truck-stop
its a little dated; They’ve managed to paint more scripture and praise since they’ve made the vid…
Oh too funny!
I cannot believe you broke down at a Xtian Truck stop and gas station. What godawful luck, so to speak. I hope the garage is a decent one.
The garage seems to be alright…the funniest thing is that just before the right front wheel decided to spontaneously half break off (it’s cantilevered off of perpendicular to the road by about 20 degrees) I began to sing my Raven spirit song and was finishing the fourth repetition when the car suddenly lost control…I swear my Animals always take care of this heathen and his kith and kin…Babe’olicious caught a ride with the biker/ex-meth head/ christian manager of the truck stop to our motel while I rode with the tow truck driver…evidently Babe let this nice lady know that our version of christ is a black transgendered welfare mom on her tenth abortion and that my pagan prayer song is what saved our hippy asses…the lady just said “the lord works in mysterious ways” Babe told me she nearly had to pinch herself to not laugh in the nice lady’s face…
Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B
we are so screwerewredddd
“Mahna Mahna”
How a ditty from a soft-core Italian movie became the Muppets’ catchiest tune.
volunteers across the state have collected over 300,000 signatures to Recall Scott Walker.
I hope people get to tap dance on his grave
Hoping that the Lt. Gov (who’s a nutball xtian anti) and a one or two of the Rep Senators go with him.
Fingers crossed!!
John Nichols: Under Walker, Wisconsin is No. 1 job loser
While poking around for non ‘mainstream’ news (I did catch a short bit of audio on the radio where some wonderful student called out obscenely wealthy regent, Dick Blum, DiFi’s hubby ) on the UC Protests today, I also found the following, totally damning letter, re: Bratton/Kroll, at Occupy CA. KROLL as campus security? …Yudof, and all the fucking regents should be forced out, in SHAME:
(too much I wanted to boldface, so I didn’t bold anything)
ugh… it’s even worse than I thought…
They also announced today they hired Justice Reynoso as well to investigate. He served on the Cal SC til he was impeached, recalled along with Rose Bird (CJ of the CSC) – for opposing the death penalty (well, that is what they used for the 3 recalls). I would suspect he is made of mush. It would be nice to think otherwise but why bother to bother.
Finding that out about Kroll made me ill. Despicable, fascist people running things, and an absolutely worthless, complicit “press”
(sorry, I should have inserted an end blockquote after: individuals whose decisions are in question.))
he’s a nice guy, and well known around town, but he’d be a fig leaf here. the fact that he was named shows that the UC admin is learning, ever so slowly, how to put together a decent whitewash.
I’m not expecting anything from him.
(thank you for the bold facing assistance, honey!, ….. something just broke in me (yet another piece of me), and I wanted to … just bold face, …Louden ….ROAR… the fuck out of it all …… )
All I thought was avoid Geary Blvd… maybe anywhere along it.
Lordy.
and if you want to read some hilarious police brutality apologia, here ya go.
“why do you make me hurt you?”
poor fwagle widdle stormtroopers …
why is there no video of any of this supposed violence they confronted? I think they’re so ramped up to fear the population that ANY resistance gets transformed into the mayhem they describe in this letter.
EVERY stat I’ve seen shows violent crime has been steadily declining for years.
oh, except rape … I think that is pretty much a steady horror … and it’s not like cops give a shit about that.
Supposedly if one relies on the FBI stats… among others, violent assault of all kinds is down for years. City after city, town after town, community after community…
I do feel tho with active destabilisation and revved up loss of programs (good and bad alike)…. it may not hold.
Decreased violence did not suit the masters, that much is certain.
police brutality certainly seems to be on an uptick.
Snicker. It’s official: He’s thinkin’, thinkin’….
I feel I have seen – and heard – enough of Herman. Go home, inflict yourself on your relatives (it’s that season!!).
Speaking of drumming up mythology about crime and brutality against the police by the common folk, does anyone else find it odd about the hints of not charging the woman who sprayed the shoppers with pepper spray? That it was self defense? The timing with the UC Davis brutality? The fact that it obscured the reality that Police pepper sprayed shoppers somewhere, If I recollect.correctly?
I mean why would she go shopping on Black Friday if she thought she was worried enough to prepare herself for it with pepper spray, to “defend herself” with?
Not that I want to see yet another Californian incarcerated on bullshit charges, but since people are being incarcerated and brutalized (many times, en masse) by the authorities for totally bogus reasons – not dispersing from peaceful protests, when they were never allowed to disperse, or given the offer; …. arabic language flash cards at a Philadelphi airport, ….. overdue Library books, etc., etc. – at a stunning rate (given the authorities own nationwide crime statistics), I find, both the incident – a Lone Wolf ™, purported 99%er, pepper spraying her fellow 99%ers – and its ‘handling’ by The Authorities, ..VERY ODD.
Yes police did pepper spray shoppers (
IF you shop we will drop you!! 
) over the weekedn.
Oh I think how it was handled is entirely becasue of the assaults on campus.
If you look over in the right hand side bar, Democracy NOW had on the formulator inventor of weapns grade pepper spray… and he wants to stress it was nto invented for how it is being used.
Too Late Now!!!!!!!
I heard Gas Bag #1, RothMan, last night, on KGO, conflating the Berkeley Campus MIC letter, with criminals in Oaktown who long ago decided the only way to make a living and keep up with the Jonzez is to the follow the CorpGuv’s lead …CRIME! .He wrapped it up in a snazzy little holiday gift package of implication: well WE TRIED SO HAAAARD, but “we the people” are just violent by nature loozers, and maybe armed drones …are the answer ….
I’ve been a bit interested in a crime that took place at Geary and 11th Avenue up here… same weekend as the 8 shot in Oakland (which is a huge mess and the litle boy may die)….
Early Friday am, around 2:45 a fight broke out at the jack-in-the-box at Geary and 11th. Neither the fast food joint nor the patrons paid much attention AS THERE ARE SO MNY FIGHTS THERE AT NIGHT.
Geesh.
Thsi one went further, at first the fight appeared over, but two blocks away, one of the two ran the other down. Not sure this fellow will make it either.
Wow. Good luck!
I read about that, the SUV and the Fireman, …. very, very heart rending.
if they back people further and further against the wall, the violence of the masses against the masses will come, more and more, as They certainly appear to want it to.
and then, it becomes more and more difficult to discern the paid operatives from the righteously angry ..just snapped, and the, off the hook, wannabe just like the Masters,…etc. ….
Rove, … and Bipartisan, lackey pals and palessas, must be giggling, masturbating, and humping each other ,,,,, to it all … to beat the band, …Their Masters Are Content with the Landscaping Project, ….. so far.
they have to reinforce the idea that pepper spray is no big deal … though of course the cops version is much more nasty than the commercial “self defense” stuff.
yep.
People are idiots if they mass again for thsi joke of Black Friday Thursday whatever.
ANYONE who places themselves in a Wal-Mart parking lot during the night – in a high panic thing like Friday after Tgiving, is nuts.
I HAVE read that as government checks hit bank accounts at midnight, there has started a sort of small rush on the nights that various federal checks go in… people are so short of things (diapers, food, staples) by the end of the month that they gather their purchases and wait, literally for midnight. What a tragedy…
Walmart Sees ‘Enormous’ Spike In Late Night Shopping Due To Food Stamp Refills
Oh I just mentioned a related phenomenon, it, that midnight clustering to shop, happens in conjunction with all fed checks…
For intance they are delivered whether welfare, SS, SS Dis or whatever by your birth day…. Philip, my neighbor and I both get our disability checks on the same day of the month, we share a birthday…
Police hand- and ankle-cuff 5-year-old, charge him with battery on a police officer
Out of control.
monsters.
OH! Have ot go look it up but just heard on a news update that Slob is polling lower than other pretzels at this point in their pretzeldentia. Lower than Jimmeh… said the report…
You know the R are salivating. Some of them anyway… the Romney camp…
A GE coming up with whiners. What could possibly be more dreary.
If Holder were busy being AG of the US he wouldn’t notice nor would he need some idiocy like Media Matters to be his chorus.
Maybe he could busy himself with this (oh wait!), …sooprize:
(there’s an embedded copy of the video at the linked, Wired site. bolding mine)
I’ll move this and the live stream URL forward to the new post…
Apparently the cops have been massing at Dodger stadium and are now moving in toward Occupy LA.
SF has rejected the “offer” made to them.. not only moving way the hell away from where they are, but a list of 17 demands they would have to sign (can this get sillier?).
So I am guessing our little toad mayor, Ed Lee will be moving in on them.. using Villaraigosa for cover.
(here’s the Occupy Los Angeles Live Stream site, for anyone able to view the videos (note, the video time stamps look like they’re noted in GMT time, versus PST, an 8 hour difference.)