Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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NOW there is a report surfacing, I think from the blonde the captain was seen with, he ordered dinner after the crash.
It boggles the mind.
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"
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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."
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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.
halfway through January, and getting only our second snow storm of the season. Slippery mess, but nothing like the piles we got last year.
we finally have rain… and I guess there will be some rain, at least early on in the game Sunday…
Occupy Riverside Disrupts UC Regents Meeting, Confronted by Riot Police
oh I completely forgot about aht, watching the protests today here in SF… yes they sure did shut it down.
Toooo funny… Mittens wins NH and nothing else:
oh very bad news for Mittens:
N. Gingrich 40.7% 72,968
M. Romney 26.0% 46,578
the circus continues!
whatever is painful for them!
What is going on here with voters and Romney?!
They keep rejecting this perfect facsimile of a leading man!
(the dynamic to watch,imo.)
Wake up Mitt!
We don’t like wholshmomeshmolsome in America!
Go on a bender! Tonite! Join a swingers club! Something!
Wreck a car! Leave the hash right there on the front seat!
Have a meth lab in the trunk, in case they try and let ya go!!
Something! Anything YOU FUCKING KEN DOLL!!
What a joke it all is…
Newt up now for victory speech… LOL
He’s “the embodiment of Christ” or something.
Not a direct quote, but close!
Now he’s moving to co-opt the Santoreans AND the Paul camp. LOL.
Here we go – “the growing anti religious bigotry of our Elite”.
Bad Newt, is ouit now, Chuckie Dolll Newt with that look now.
I predict Newt goes on a good old fashion never-out-of-date Southern pol tear. Snack food and popcorn laid in the for next few weeks.
Larry Obrien says he’s unelectable.
I mean, really, fuck, who has ever been elected slobbering over Christo-Fascist-Militarist-Racists before dressing it with a little Muslim Bashing Israeli Loving Populism and Student Loan Relief after the Convention? This is America!
Anybody can get elected! This IS America!
And thank God of it! LOL – You know –
American God-but-not-the-Mormon-American God!
Obviously!
Oh, Newt. What an example. And Such a great night to
consider converting to Catholicism!
As I write, I have the tube on in the other room and I hear one Obbytwink after another going on about how great this is for Barry.
I can HEAR the sweat puddles forming tho. LOL
One thing about Newt, he’d stick it to Slob. I think that is what worries people about Mittens. No real spit no real fire. LOL No basic spit and fire, either!!
…No Fur, no club. No fucked up teeth.
Newt’s the Man! Cro~Magnan Man, but hey! LOL.
Hey hey honey,
Oopsie doopsie, on December 10th, I was reading Ex “Associated Press” journalist, Robert Kagan’s poignant piece(at “Smirking Chimp”) re the anniversary of Gary Webb’s “suicide”, when , quite sober, the 24 ouncer of cheap Pabst brew, which I was holding, jolted, ….along with my heart, …….splattered, ……and …fried my puter. I’m just now ‘reconnecting.’ …
oh diane! I worried about you. Just today I dug out the card I had written your phone numbers on when you called the hhospital. I thought I should try to get a hold of you, make sure you were alright…
Do you mean in the midst of that, that you had a heart attack?
Oh Honey I did, but not the physical type of heart attack, ..and actually it started when I started digging into the PA penal system on account of something BooHooHooMan posted …I was gonna post about it but it was so bleak …I didn’t want to spread that bleakness …fuck ..penology is a PA system? The PA Abu Graib Focker (Grainer? I’m fried and can’t spell right now) teenagers are sentenced to prisons via paying off “Justices” ..who the fuck wouldn’t want to get toasted to a crisp ….It is all so fucking heart breaking because Humans are so capable of such astounding love.
and did you hear that asshole one recent weekday on KGO, who hosted some creep named Marty Nemus, an Education Expert!!!!!! …who stated that we should genuflect to Zuckerfuck/Face Joke? and in that same breath, …implied that all others should be happy kneeling and groveling their way through life?
Uggh,sorry, Robert Parry, not Robert Kagan, apologies.
What’s goin on? What’s up?
turmoil and grief (jeesh, I guess I better never apply for a jawb at “Hallmark Cards” ..never been much of a liar….) …
Got some ears.
Can pin my lips too.
ask Marisa for the land line number I gave her (without the 5 in it), if ya ever want to get an earload about sly con valley (though I can’t guarantee it isn’t tapped, as I believe it was in 2006 for still not understood reasons). If you do an online lookup on the number (and I certainly wouldn’t fault you for it), you’ll likely end up with a last name that ends with a “b,” that’s not my last name. If I don’t answer and you don’t get an answering machine, it means I’m on the tubes and haven’t been able to finangle knowing when my phone is ringing when I’m “online” yet … on my noo puter (I am working on that though), so try back.
(can you erase this at a timely point Marisa? thank you Honey!)
OK will do… as soon as I pass the number along.
Very relieved you are not ill… I worried your mother had either taken a turn for the worse or there was a series of events with you or your family. Good to know you are in one piece.
Thank you so much honey … for your concern, …and my mamma is still hanging in, and far better than when we rescued her from that hell hole last year, many hugs to you!
oops, should’ve wrote: without a five in the area code.
Mystery author for the moment…
F E E L the conviction.
That folks,….is Josh Marshall.
Who would have to know, that if Romney doesn’t win in Florida, he’s done. Yet Marshall isn’t totally purple-lipped with the Kool-Aid: given, at best, and wisely so if one takes the game and themselves seriously enough I suppose, is that he only offers that it would be “difficult” for Gingrich to beat Obama. He reveals much in saying so little. Frankly the Dems want a “bore-off” would be far better off facing Republicans with a underwhelming candidate of their own. The Donks can do scripted, Barry can do set-piece politics with rules of engagement …like the Clintons had that included not utterly crippling the Party so badly there would be nothing left of it. Gingrich is no-prisoners And I imagine GOP operatives, , stuck with McCain’s drippery and as surrogates for Sarah and the Wasilla Weirdos last time around, I bet they would just love to eat Barry and apologists like Marshall whole. I imagine Marshall
:gulp: LOL, knows that, too….
The thing is ..this idea…that there is some order to how this proceeds, that some order will, you know, show up and, wellll, order things all orderly like…oh I know, Joshie, I’ve been there, I understand, I doo, but that’s the thing about Empire’s in Decline…
sloughs off that mortal coil…
Romney to release tax returns Tuesday, admits error in delay.
Offers to Poop on Paterno at wake..
Oh I opened the wrong casket, I meant to tuck this in with the Romney looking defeated comment below, but, whatever!
Defeat, errors in delay, revisionist history, opportunism…
….. the American Gag-worthy Way.
Group psychologists could have, sorry, a field day in PA and this here lionized USA! today. Oh break out the 70′s Lincoln limo and throw coach on top already. Just get the thing movin.
Make panderer Casey run alongside in this parade past the indoctrinated . Right off the cliff..
the whole thing had a very Catholic whiff off it. Like a coven of priests preying.
hmm Mitt looks pretty damned defeated and with a complete loss of whatever buoyancy (sp?) he ever had. (FOX News with Chris Wallace)
Geesh. Buck up boyo.
Cue Jaws” theme music. Dehndin.
DehndinDehndinDehndinDehndinDehndin….
Mitt knows you’re on to him, Marisa.
Hahahahah… he’s gripping himself in panic in his magical underwear!
I am surprised, they sure did everything they could to make it look like she was in… and endlessly “getting better”….
Talk about a sad saga. it is, no doubt, but with the distinction of having fully funded great coverage. And investors to consider.
The whole thing is so craven. Craven is in. We do craven, a veritable craven-off in 2012, .Anyways, If they elevate her hubby, they might as well just have an IPO on the whole thing, like they do with every other….
oh it was corrupt from the first minute… and surely peaked with Slob and his magick visit. He laid hands on her and bingo, her dollar obsessed eyes opened soon after.
It was right up there with Prom Night Inauguration Slob Fest mit Beyonce. (it blew my mind it was so bad)
I want the Dems to win, because I want Daddy-O still in office when his l’il lambs start getting seriously whipsawed between their student debt and their first round of mandatory health insurance premiums.
I think the resultant demos will make OWS ’11 look like an old rerun of Romper Room, personally.
Plus, I’m dying to see if just once, that sanctimonious fuckstick and his creep of a wife are capable of feeling ANY embarrassment or shame over what they’ve done. It’s not likely, but Daddy O’s idol, Ronald Reagan, could plausibly fake regret from time to time. So we shall see.
I agree, it’s a huge temptation tht he be in office when the bloody nightstick begins to swing. It would be fatal for the DNC I think. And I could see him being if not run out of office then certainly being run out of DC at the close of it and hounded, far worse than anything ever laid upon Jimmeh C.
The mandatory health premiums are going to bankrupt people before they ever even get sick. Plus there seems every chance the economy blows up far worse than the last 3 – 5 years.
hmm Artur (Davis) is an irritating little putz, but he is not wrong.
http://www.politico.com/arena/ (only a couple down if anyone wants to read it)
He points out that SOUTH Carolina is the first state up where Ob and his policies are perceived as an utter failure and further, it is the state where his NLRB fought the Boeing move, and 10,000 in jobs, for over a year, only to recently drop it.
Snip from it:
I admit I am watching the Niners game today… and I watched a little of the earlier game too, the Ravens and the NE Patriots… not that I know much about te game, but I get the basics, at least…
There is supposed to be some hard driving rain to hit near the end of the game (we’ve had drizzle all along from the opening)… and I am curious to see how muddy and sloppy it gets.
slate colored skies here … looks like it might pour unrelentingly …. probably needs to ……
(“heh” anyone born, or having lived in PA, likely gets to always remember what slate looks like, and how very unstable it can be whilst trying to travel steep slopes on it.)
Whatever is coming down now is not too hard. No sign of it bouncing off their helmets.
well if I was going to pick a game to watch, this was it.
17 17 both sides… into overtime. Raining hard. I can see it come down against the lights over the field.
Good ole’ Fareed was happy to throw softballs to David Rubenstein about how wonderful to us hedge fund guys like him are.
My favorite part was him talking about how he was buying up rare historical documents and sharing them with us all out of the goodness of his shriveled heart and patriotic fervor:
Yes Fareed, he especially liked the way you squeezed his balls while you blew him.
Oh the blowjob and peanut squeeze is obligatory when the Hedge Fund MotU demand airtime rolling out a pre-emptive public relations campaign as they are being tracked by hostile villagers at their homes and huge protests are being planned for the Spring and even the Feds have a few tracking devices in some of their homes.
I DO have an cheerful side!
And frankly, the idea of a designated dickschmoker is rather shlong-handling-efficient. No, not that it recommended while driving,but it must help the derivative markets in some way.
Oh Gad. So grateful that Rubenstein let’s lets us wave at those atrophied pieces of fiction that he carries as some bullshit-o-flated notional asset value on a balance somewhere. And collaterallizes other notional float. And prolly gets some tax angle for his charitable inclinations.
Jeezis what channel do they carry that on?
The GobbleSlurp Network?
I liked the quietly implied threat that he could take them away.
iirc Fareed’s brother is on wall St.
I was reading thru that… and really it is just so CUUUUTE of him.
He bought something for the little black people, The Emancipation Proclamation. And he bought something for the little white people, the Declaration of I.
And I suppose he thinks he bought the other items for all the little people, black, brown, white, yellow and tiger striped.
I think the American Indians should def feel left out. Not a thing he can buy for them.
What a fucking crock.
It was a pretty shameless performance.
Ah yes. [Sl]Obama as truth teller. Etc.
Read more: Business Insider links back to Mother Jones article…
Land of the Freee and home of the…. Brave!!
Read more at:
WashPo
Or visit PostPolitics.com.
Sen. Rand Paul Outraged that His Right to Privacy Was Infringed on His Way to Advocate for Infringing Others’ Right to Privacy
link fixed – Mcat
ooop… link fail!
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/01/23/sen-rand-paul-outraged-that-his-right-to-privacy-was-infringed-on-his-way-to-advocate-for-infringing-others-right-to-privacy
linky dinky
Thanks!
so much lesser an evil, our Pretzel:
Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure
and speaking of due process (on a more serious issue than “stealing” intellectual “property”):
Western justice and transparency
That’s one hell of a baby cigar …
Jeebus this country is evil.
hmm I have to say I am irritated… I fiddled quite a bit with the antennae…. both the arms or whatever the word is (VHF, I think it controls)… and the circular part (UHF, I think) to get NBC to come back (it disappeared again Sat) for the debate.
And it is not on.
I tell ya.
Just tuning in 2/3 of the away thru.
Let’s see if we can hobble across the line.
I’ll live3 blog.
Tell me if that’s not motivation to slam the tv into compliance!
Anyways seems sedate so sedate that I can’t tell if fireworks flew yet or not.
Mittens looks weak.
Immigration. Mitt spoke of “self-deportation” LOL
And on NASA, of course,
“Yes. It should be a prority, everybody should have rockets.”
Not sure about the last phrase but close!
Into the stretch!
Newt saying “Extraordinary” a lot.
Okay now Williams is baiting them with their attacks on each other.
Moving under the desk now. It may be difficult for me, even as a viewer, to keep this up when the cannibalism commences as I suspect it will…
Oh Newt saying “enourmous” and “difficulty” alot too.
And “big ideas”.
Romney tsays America is “great”. The others agree.
I got this liveblogging down pat. And that’s it, it’s over.
Not bad coming in 2/3 of the way thru..
Serously I just turned in. And that was about it so I was looking to see how the first part went, apparently Mittens went on attack earlier and Newt just fucking ignored him. Blew him off LOL.. Not even the time off day, according to the post game crew….
Whoa! and right as I was going to press the send button, Mrs Greenspan brought mentioned the prospect of JEB BUSH if Romney doesn’t win Florida. She reports Party mucketies are saying they “are going to have to do something”. LOL
Sorry for the spelling , the cut and paste danglers , the trademark incoherency..
oh don’t worry about it… my fingers drag as I type, aside from all the other problems… it’s readable…
Romney tsays America is “great”. The others agree.
Democracy! In action!
I heard today Saudia Arabia says Syria needs some. Qatar said Syria does too need some democracy.
Funny… SA and Qatar don’t?
ugh it came on at 9PM here…. delayed I guess to start in that slot in the West. It’s a MESS. I gave up in 15 minutes.
Slobster faction is laughing themselves silly and crowning themselves for 2013 already. Any Republicans who planned to take the WH either have to rethink or get a new candidate.
Supposedly Mittens has had some boffo new debate coach, for weeks, since “Bachman left” th campaign (why that was reported as the start date… who knows). Seems a wste of money…
Couldn’t close the deal. Done. PoofgoestheMagicUnderpants.
Can’t get past their base.
via HuffPo
He’s got a week to live.
Good LORD!
Newt Fucking Gingrich?!! 
The Finest Meritocracy on Earth!
I saw that… of course in much smaller amt, (22K) but people forget the Slobbers only charity back in the pre pretzel days was Rev Wright’s drop in joint. Of course their act was forcibly cleaned up and by 2009 they had 22 official charity donations.
Mitt’s a Mess. I honestly think it’s over. Even Mrs Greenberg said they will have to reinvent the smoke filled room and shove someone in. Well… I think it was Andrea Mitchell.
I do to. Over.
Thing is, Newt, after this relatively civil little Sudetanland deal tonite is going to make Poland out of Romney in the last Fla debate Romey has himself so boxed in. Look up ‘box’ in Webster’s , his picture’s there. Hopey Changey Happy Nicey for the GOP is OUT , Romney effecting affecting it WHATEVER! LOL like now I can’t imagine it coming off as anything other than the desperate gambit it would be. Trying to out-lunatic Gingrich? Why– he’d have to be CRAZY. LOL What a spot, what a fine mess he’s in..
I’ve been poking around the RW heads, Krautheimer, Will, a few of the other patented sorts, and they ARE worried, I mean, hell, who doesn’t know Gingrich is a total fucking lunatic?…LOL. Anyways They seem to be voicing congreescritter concerns over potential Newt-drag down-ticket.
Meachum, LOL, says, Gingrich if anything, embodies the politics of resentment and righteous indignation.. It IS authentic for him.
Whay to keep up there, Meechy.
I think he’s electable, my damnself. LOL. Doesn’t matter he’s parked his fat ass in Washington since ronnelraygen. Romneywillow never grabbed the pissed off lunatic mantle, never to be underestimatedd here. LOL. And Sweatervest would never really eat into the party establishment, what axe does he have to grind with them? Gingrich was deposed, and he’s back. And the difference between him and Nixon, who methodically rebuilt himself in his exile, who endured the gladhanding and had to, Gingrich actually likes doing that, but has no pretense-to-civility constraints before getting on to what he really loves. Running amok. Different country than in the 60′s: largely asleep ,comatose frankly, if it wasn’t there would have been millions in the streets and semi-regular rioting in protests over the last however many…
I think the guy can get the nom, moreover: I think he can get elected if he does. In this country? Shiyat.
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