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Quetta, Pakistan: Smoke and flames rise past residents standing along the wall of a truck terminal where fuel tankers were set ablaze. Militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at trucks loaded with fuel and supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan | Naseer Ahmed/Reuters
The “enemy” … gets a vote.
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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- 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]
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"... 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.
hmm I watched it last night, but I left it at the commerical break, after the exchange highlighted in this review. (vid at the link, if anyone cares)
Arrogant disdainful interviews can be the norm for Foundling but last night on 60 Minutes with Kroft was even more so.
His lack of interest and his dislike for everything in his view was … well a bit amazing for a shlumpf running for pretzel.
I’m so overwhelmingly bored by Better-than-you-in-Chief; he seems completely extraneous to the process that his ennui isn’t argravating it’s just mind dulling.
I’m hoping the primary is looooong and drawn out, because the entertainment value is much higher than the general promises to provide
and he wears out easily.
As does Romney and at some point happy clown Gingrich will snarl.
UK tests “non-blinding” police lasers
The Future so bright I gotta wear shades
from the article:
which means that everything the cyberpunks predicted in the mid-80s is finally coming true
Yep. Well, almost.
We can’t directly jack in to to computers, yet
No grown organ transplants.
We don’t have open war with South America,
Giant Babylon space station
No space rastas (I hope I live at least long enough to see that!)
etc.
Undoubtedly the author was bit hyperbolic but William Gibson is a freaking genius…
Foreshadowing of L’Oobster 012 rallies?
NYT
Rock the Vote should take notes.
I don’t know what those gawdless red-rusky kids are bitching about, isn’t there some other billionaire trying to out flank putin and become the new czar (same as the old czar, won’t get fooled again)
I figure a lot of the 012 rallies will be smushed into being with a similar model to his very early appeance in Berline. Free beer, free food and three bands. Of course people showed up. Oktoberfest was a ways off yet. Tons of beer sodden white people in Germany cheering for him.
Yeah that really works.
Well if they want tons of beer sodden white people people cheering for him Here, they’ll need to offer free shots. Of course the cheers are apt to be comprised of :
There! Oh! You missed! Set Your Beer Down! Reload! Get Him!
There you go! Fire Again!…..and so forth…
Narconews
Because illegal mexicans are an invented people I think the Israeli contractor is a brilliant move…
Maybe they could just issue us all Star of David discs we could wear. Drop the flag on the lapel silliness.
I say opt for the star spangled yarmulkes and forced circumcisions for the goyim of “middle america”. I volunteer to be a mohel
I guess the USA!! USA!! decided to give drones for Christmas this year.
Seems kind of expensiv… snicker.
Those “Reapers” are old school. Check out this Russian “UFO.” I’ve noticed things like the Russian “UFO” over the borderlands for 10+ years now…
FWIW , Grilled Filets in the Senate today…
CORZINE and minion before Stabenow..in the Sen….
Oh Good Lord!
Stabenow::
WHERE”S THE MONEY??
WHERE”S THE MONEY??
WHERE”S THE MONEY??
WHERE”S THE MONEY??
Oh this is Hilarious!
The Derivitive Speculators…can’t speculate! About Anything!
Cuz it would be Speculative!
Isn’t that how Doug Adam’s space ship from the hitcher’s guides work; the derivative speculator drive?
“Scotty” Corzine: The Derivative Speculator drive’ went down and I don’t know if She can take any more Capt.!
GuardianUK
Xmas time = Open Season
I read he had an AK 47, a revolver and the grenades… with no details he also had “sex offences”….
drug offenses too, supposedly had an “interview” with police scheduled…some italian dude randomly shot down some senegalese youths in Florence today…
Duck! The Halls are Full of Hand-Grenades
FA LA LA LAA La La LAAA LA (I can’t wait for more xmas carols!)
bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb IRAAAAN!
CPunch
I don’t see how any serious air-strikes can pass Chinese and Russian “muster.” Mebbe the Israelis are crazy enough to think, “fuck the Chinese” but they do a lot of business with the Russians…
The problem si I think both the Israelis and the US have gone insane.
right, but there’s crazy and there’s crazy like a fox…
I don’t know but I gotta believe the US doesn’t want to provoke China too much until we’re ready to default on their note…
Who knows? They (US/Israel) certainly are sociopathic and psychotic, and crazy is as crazy does
We’ve gone after all the old enemies. The former associates and vassals. If we can acquire we have.
Why would we leave Syria and Iran out?
I do feel we are functionally insane. Beyond crazy fox, way out in the insane galaxy…. We shake our fist at China and Russia, too. Soon imo we will at Euro Franco-Germania.
I think we are utterly nutz. I think acquisition of resources is pretty much almost a side business, of course we like it and if we can get by taking, Great!!, but the truth is just plain old domination. Domination of people, land – and resources are good to have too… Yum. An so on.
And now has Corzine and the MFCFO naming names now..
And the GOP are going after Gary Gensler puttin the fix in.
Jeezis – .Corzine was veritably slurring , LOL, referring to
Chairman “GeMLER”. Hell call GeNSLER… Hiimmler. ,or Gafney. or Hefner.
Hell, Who gives a fuck?
WHERE”S THE MONEY CORZINE???
YOU GOT THE MONEY???
WHERE”S THE FUCKIN MONEY, MAN???
Maybe some fomer mayorof Jerusalem can help him….. forget his name.
Calling all milk cartons, for new imprinting.
If he is slurring I would guess he is on alcohol or pills, whcih ever he prefers.
Well for Prêt-à-Porter Holiday crafts , I’m tryin to track down a bunch of those REALLY GOOD refrigerator boxes, you know?? LOL With several extra for the folded tops. Ready to wear!
Oh it is SUCH LAUGHINGSTOCK these hearings….
Next up? The “regulator” Jill Sommers, underling to Gensler at CFTC, LOBBYISTA for the Swaps and Derivatives Association..
Fucking ridiculous the whole thing..
I SAY they ALL get life-size Milk Cartons to wear ..till they “Find” it.
Corzine, his pals, AND ‘The Committees”. ALL of them
Have you seen this money?
IF YOU FIND 1.8 BILLION DOLLARS., Please Call….
…and so forth….We’ll Pick it Up!
Oopsie! <b?The head of the CME is now testifying – straight up – that Corzine KNEW and they have turned the names of the MF Gloabla people who reported this to the CME and all names and documentation have been turned over to the DoJ.
OOPS.
Oopsie! The head of the CME is now testifying – straight up – that Corzine KNEW and they have turned the names of the MF Gloabla people who reported this to the CME and all names and documentation have been turned over to the DoJ
He’ll be doing more than slurring the odd name here or there.
Maybe a suite is opening up in No Carolina… Madoff on one side, Pollard in the middle and Corzine to the other side.
I can see it.
Slob and Holder can point to Big Democrat Big Gold Saxe boy Corzine. “See we meant business all along!”
Oh honey, and forgive me for being so fresh,
but you’ve gotta see the video below …
LMAO.
Oh POPCORN NOW!
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