Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Sunderland, England: Waves pound the sea wall near Seaham lighthouse | Owen Humphreys/PA
Maybe Florida itself implodes…? More? Again? This feels like a DVD with an alternative ending included: See what happens when the R playlist fails to gel with the public. Or, not gel predictably…
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.
Maybe Sandusky announces he’s running, and is America Elect’s true, prime, secret candidate?
Stevie comes out from hiding after resurrection …and announces (much to the relief of those who’ve had their tounge up his ass while his contracted workforce commits suicide by the droves) he, in fact, is the messiah … no need for an election …. ?
(she wrote, while trying to keep the Pabst 24 ouncer well away from the new puter screen with the luverly face recognition, et al … installed)
(In re: puters, it’s been quite interesting trying to figure out what Gates and the NSA cooked up with WIN 7. Also, the tracking of “Searches,” (and deleting files, … despite, …just saying NO) within the puter, and certainly on the tubes (despite just saying NO) has me “intrigued” …. )
uggh “Also,” was a fucked up choice of wording (haste makes waste) I should have wrtitten:
im surprised isteve’s resurrection has not yet been made public. we all know it took jesus 3 days, but that’s just because of the primitive software used to download his soul back into his body. but nowadays, resurrection should take at most like 3 minutes.
maybe they’re saving his resurrection to coincide with the new ipad
:0) (;0)
yeah, now that the our new “toys” have the loverly handwriting recognition factory installed too, … haven’t figured how to “uninstall” that one yet, though the face recognition app seemed pretty straight forward (hmmmm …. traces remain? DESPITE SAY NO …….”thank you! [MONSTORS]” …….. ;0( … )
unfortunately, he was reborn in a small farming village in China to a recently widowed wife of a man who fitted a chip into the the motherboard of thousands of iPads, over and over again, until he jumped from the roof of Foxconn in despair of the cold, empty void that his life had been reduced to.
Of course, I type this snarky shit on my bluetooth enabled Apple keyboard into my iMac, so …
Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases
:0)
I so love a simple garroting, …primitive, …yet effective, …. no muss, …. no fuss.
Speaking of… probably from the same people who sold concentration camps as Summer Camp For All. And the warsaw Ghetto as a Safety Measure. Etc.
Read more at:
Slap Happy Wash Post
saw that a day or two ago … and yeah … no surprise …. CALI appears to have been the same perfect location CAULDRON for Mother Fuckers ….. as Pit Berg PA was, …..with all those lovely rivers ….. until waterways were replaced with choo choos and planes ….
I jsut spied this at Business Insider:
LOL
sure, that will work.
I don’t even know what to say to that sort of ”p l a n” from a full fledged bank.
gah.
If anyone cares… I dropped out at 11 minutes after the hour. Entry of the Pharoah pretty much did me in.
Read more at:
Wash Po
Or visit washingtonpost.com.
You didn’t miss a thing… It was pathetic.
Bill Gates put out a summation of his charitable doings today, The Bill and Melinda Gates Global Fund… I read that. Maxed out on lies and gibberish and drool for the day.
One shroud of slobber is enough.
omigod he is still going… over an hour. just ended it.
And you are not impressed?!
Wow!
I had the good fortune of missing the whole thing, but reading the text is plain fucking ridiculous. We can do Better! LOL
Okay now I’m starting to get pissed scrolling thru it….
I’ll need to vent a bit.
(Psst: I don’t care WHO the GOP runs I’m not voting for Barry)
Plenty of huffing at Iran…
I think all baby bottles should get spoonfuls of gin in the milk.
Honey if they can run Newt and I am not tempted, nor whispers of Jebbie (and Colomba, tho having Mother Bush back would be icky, very icky!)
then I am I N N O C U L A T E D against voting.
And I’ll hold up fine. Hell, I got the serum HERE.
I’m trying to figure what to write in (“none of the above” … is kind of boring), if I can’t wrap my mind and trust around any of the third party candidates.
And, so true:
Although! Mickey bringing Timmeh G Man into that urban Philadelphia PA grocery store to teach ‘folks’ how to buy groceries was (I thought) somewhat of a contender with Bab’s (paraphrasing here):
‘that’s probably the best time they’ve had in their lives’
(as regards those (not really accidentally) stuck in that stadium during hurricane Katrina.)
and/or, Bab’s (paraphrasing again):
‘I don’t know why I should have to look at those body bags [my husband and son are responsible for].’
Weeelllll, ….okay … Babs has Mickey well beat, but yeah, we shouldn’t forget that Babs is far older and more experienced. With time, Mickey will be saying things equally horrifying, such as:
‘Those fat kids need to stop whining about why they’re being forced into the Foster Care Industry, and taken from their parents. …….. They should be thanking me for not mandating they be sent to Boot Camps …..’
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Yeah but. That last would be said in chorus by both Mother Bush and Memsab. As little multicolored people hand raked their sandy beaches.
Etc.
I need to read the CA rules on write in candidates. Might vote for Heywood Jablomie or Mike Oxbig if it wouldn’t get thrown out and could end up on the SOS results.
Just don’t leave it blank… as I often did. It meant, I learned, in the wake of GE 2000, that my ballot was most often thrown out. They assume something is wrong with the whole ballot, as, in their opinion, if someone votes he/she of COURSE voted for the top of the ticket.
oh another thing I learned listening to tons of elections experts and litigators in the GE 2000 mess…. often they don’t even bohter to count the absentee votes here in Cali in a GE. THEY NEGOTIATE AND DEAL MAKE ON AN AGREED COUNT. In a close or contested election they will bother, otherwise for the national GE, not. I had a knock down drag out in threads at Dkos over that, and I had to hunt up taht very assessment in print.
It went a long way to my loss of any interest much in voting.
Wrecker with a sunshine enema.
LOL – Yeh well scan the entirety of Mr. Democrat’s speech there for a reference to Franklin – Delano – Roosevelt.
Try and find “FDR” in there. Oh we got the technology!
Try and find it! Sorry JFK fans.
All things Kennedy were left out too!
Barry has a New favorite President offed in the ’60s, a different century to boot!
Oh I’m not going to review in detail this errand boy’s crooning. , So In Love With You while humping Fascism.
Collaborator. Vichy.
I did see one thing on the domestic front, oh everything’s a “front” – that jumped out from the usual goon-and-dope rally.
Thing is,they already have Major Financial Crimes units operating in every US Attorneys office, and, – jaundiced eye and all that – a good number of careerists at DoJ have proved more adept at covering their ass while making waves in prosecutions against fraud,
Oh, for a host of reasons we know the fixers’ deal, but the O’Blame-o’s are indeed having problems propping up Lanny Breuer and Holder and maintaining control at DoJ.
If they could, they;d like to wholesale fire many of the compromise candidates they appointed to keep peace @ Justice.
MAybe the Republicans will forget about pressing it in the Spring.
The Philipines.. it’s not just for filming movies about the US Vietnam war anymore. It is once again and forever strategic.
They so want world war. Full on.
Read more at:
Washington Post
I don’t even have the heart to bother arguing with O’Nixon fans anymore about what a worthless, warmongering piece of shit he is. It’s like trying to tell an American Idol fan that the fucking show has nothing to do with art or music.
it’s all about war, everything is now.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of a 20-30% oil price spike if Iranian exports are disrupted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16728942
Really???
oh well. Our very good friends the Saudis, who assist unasked with skyscraper demolition, have said they will ramp up immediately. Would take but a few days.
Saudis, covering our back. I feel so good!!
Saudis and GoldMSAC are just determined to reach $200-400/b oil….
ugh. Not like Vance has a good record in the DA office with high profile rape cases… and I don’t mean Nafissatou vs DSK, that was just the most recent.
Oh waht a mess.
We have our own Top Cop mess out here too… the newly elected Sheriff, supposedly from the Liberal WIng of SF gov (as if there is such a thing) is all tangled up in domestic violence charges. And very very messy it is too.
I heard a Federal Judge just mandated Oakland P.D. to have an overseer or some such……a guy from………the DEA
that came from Judge Thelton Henderson iirc his name accurately. I t is because OPD has never satisfied conditions they had to meet as of 9 years ago from a huge scandal over there. The judge threatened a few months ago to put OPD into Federal oversight. Then the no good Chief of Police left, Occupy revealed that even new city admin is a fucking mess… the new Chief is a mess (as I see it) and Good lUck to them all.
The Feds took over the public schools while Jerry was mayor over there. Enh.
Zinfandel anyone!?
at least it is legal…
I’d love to get a Med MJ card… and see if a place not to far from me (if it was not raided and shut) that supposedly made the “best edibles” had anything for pain and sleep… but I cannot face half a day at the DMV to get a new state ID. Can not face it.
Oh, how bad can it be?.
Prolly hustling just a few Canadian Geese with the usual promises of the good life, the typical featherbedding line. I mean, not to be an apologist for the Rabbi, but if they were just geese, the numbers were small, maybe a flock or two, and at no time did he try and turn them into sex slaves or harvest their organs or whatever, REALLY – how bad can it be? LOL
Okay! Cornish game hens! Maybe just a few!
The Rabbi, see – he was just ….
Oh Big Time LULZ.
oh you just know there is a lot more to this.
A little birdie tells me the food stamp fraud at the kosher and not-so-kosher markets is next. 30,000 + False ID’s
I was LMAO about these – I forget which higher profile charity scam that recently reported money missing and “unauthorized charges” on bank cards etc…
LOL. Gotta hand it to em. Literally! This ain’t no small potatoes , beef’n'brew angle. This is pervasive organized crime at its best. This reaches in to every synogogue , JCC, and fraternal and social service org they have. Christ, why didn’t they just convert to Catholicism and get into the hospital business?
Hmmmmm, …… this piece, The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism which I’ve barely scanned yet, appears to be pretty juicy.
Having worked and lived, way tooo long in the valley, my thoughts have been centered around the MIC and the Purse Owners having FUNDED and CREATED the tubes (and puter ‘Accounting’ “software” which meant warp speed, unanalyzed data ( and a thorough decimation of hand written signatures, dates …generally: NO Accountability Remains), cuz no honest ‘Controller’ of checks and balances, could possibly keep up without being fired by their ‘masters’ for their ‘well being’( allowing a continual large Company swallowing smaller, yet better companies, while Congress clearly allowed any Monopoly and Pricing laws to be thoroughly trampled over, to the effect that soon we will end up with only one entity in every major industry that pertains to being able to survive) of solely, using such things as Sales Tax Exemptions! No Shipping Costs, DISCOUNTS! …… no brick and mortar could provide, etc. to the highest advantage.
(Yet a second hat tip, … too Alcuin, despite the fact that I didn’t like, at all, the pedantry by Alcuin and Lambert in re: Occupy Oakland.
To my wee ‘wisdom,’… if a dream came true: ….. Cloud Computing, a Davos ‘Brainstorm’ ™, …. would be garroted, stunning how there has been no dialogue whatsover as to the absolute decimation of jobs it has, and will have, effected, let alone a thorough decapitation of Accountability.)
Oops, dire comma missing, should have written (I’ve boldfaced the effect):
(I also fucked up on: “too” (Alcuin), versus “to”)
I haven’t tried corrente recently… the last time I did it was still, for me, nearly un-down-loadable. I must have some interface problems with cahnges he made to code.
Oh I think we are STRANGLING under the systems that run US and transnational biz in this country.
Having been forced (not ‘retired’ (whatever THAT means) yet), when my puter fried, to buy a new puter (Toshiba appeared to be a least evil, so I went with that (most of the Homeland Manufacturers appear to contract to Foxconn, etc. …not a recommendation of Toshiba necessarily, they have ugly issues of their own, such as adapter plugs that they (and all the Techie Outlets in Sly con Valley) say are normal when they spark while plugging them in with the puter, though the puter is ‘turned off.’), to ‘stay ‘alive’?[while nearing ‘DEAD’ because of the ‘High Tech Progress’], I have some thoughts re your connection issues, but need to sort them out instead of spitting shit out, willy nilly.
…. Though I will say, I was stuck with WIN 7 (which I think you might have been stuck with when you were forced to replace your puter), which licks corporate ass (as long as those Global Corps, lick WIN 7), and IE, whatever number it is now (having not yet decided on which browser to change to, since, honestly I don’t know that it makes a difference at the end of the day), and am able to access correntewire far quicker now, with my intertube setting set on ‘high security’ (again, Billy the Gate, is in the business of catering SECURED, ‘TIMELY,’ ACCESS to the PURSE Owners like him, that is not to say that my everywhim is not being recorded on my own puter (unhide the hidden files in “..Folder Options/view” and check out “Windows Explorer” ‘C drive/Users/You/ Searches/Everywhere[and/or] Indexed’).
Those high security settings will have to be tweaked though if you want to watch a video (I’ve deliberately weaned myself from You Tube for some time now (and it wasn’t easy, I had to once again rely on my own imagination and abilities to read between the lines and see something in my ‘mind’s eye’ while reading the text which so many thankfully provided) so I can’t speak to enabling video, you would have to tweak those high security settings to allow more ‘scripting,’ ‘applets,’ etc.)
Gotta run, will check back honey.
well I do have Win 7, but I managed to avoid Vista, which got such bad reviews and I never read anything good said about it. All I really asked was that my old computer not die til there was the successor to Vista.
My sincere apologies to Alcuin, the Pedant (along with Lambert) I was actually recollecting, re Occupy Oakland, was Affinis.
Further, I believe that Pedantry can have as violent of an effect (and then some) on ‘underdogs,’ as smashing a bank window in pained rage, in an underdog community, when that bank is surely responsible for the loss of human lives in multitudes. Just because there weren’t rivers of blood, does not mean they weren’t hideous, agonizing, ultra VIOLENT in their own ‘benign’ passivity, ….Untimely Deaths.
Oohhhh, for fucks sake, that drug/gun running bastard: Meese, … the third!, … et al: … Ronald [Micky Dee’s ketchup is a ‘sustaining’ vegetable (takes one to know one)] Reagan and the Founding
(disclosure: didn’t bother to read it, I’m positive that underneath it, is putrid, toxic, death cult ROT ..which, in my current state of my mind, would send me into yet another tailspin at the horrid state of things, …perhaps I can handle it at some other point in time, …perhaps not…)
GOP debate on the CNN….
10 minutes and counting.
Lapel pins? Corn dog? Plastic sheeting anyone?
It’s so Historic.
… and all.
Gingrich getting boos taking the stage..
Hall management? Advantage? The other 3 mooks.
College Chamber Singers up with the National Anthem.
A bold move, frankly. LOL
Oh fuck Santorum introducing his mother fro a standing ovation.
Gingrich intro -
Proud to be here in Hooterhoo Florida, the next home of Carrier Group DeathStar or something..
Paul intro to big cheers. Correction on the earlier.
Hall advantage is the Paul camp.
I shut up now.
ugh. Santorum has a mother? surely he is merely spawn.
Speaking of evolution…Romney is back.
Pulling it off too.
Newt with 3 boners in his face at the moment.
And no sooner does Romney get off the mat, then he he hands Santorum the club.
What a show!
There’s a winner in there somewhere!
(it’s just not gonna be any of us)
They’re gonna all gang up on Newt. It seems…
GINGRICH: MY WIFE ISN”T NECESSARILY BETTER THAN THE OTHER THREE
Kid you not!
Popcorn! Quick!
“Other Three“?
Is he including Arianna, or something? Or one wife was so bad she seemed like two wives?
He was responding to a question ,
one of those cozy softball set-ups as the network try to pace the thing, Blitzer, After the Break we’ll have each of the candidates tell us why their wife will make the best First Lady! ( Oh I know !)
Anyways, thats where he said it, I cackled out loud because they had quickly cut to Calista who had this WTF! moment of Stepford paste sort of melting off her face ,uhm, look. ..
An Awkward moment, here the other candidates were showering the gooey lovely lady routine on their wives and Gingrich – oh I remember – he opened by pandering that ANY of the other three running wifs would be fine and then transitioned into saying, essentially, Calista ain’t all that. A real card, that Newt.
hmm Bill C and Bush Due ued to both pull the old “I married up” crap. Boy, Newt.
I actually want Ann ROmney as Flotus (LOL I don’t care which husband she drags with her!). I think she will leave us the fuck alone.
At this point, and for both Parties, I’m for whatever puts together the campaign bus with the most interpersonal hostilities possible. The men at each others throats, the women throwing uppercuts, biting, hair-pulling, what have you, no-holds-barred, preferably reaching pitched battle just as that pneumatic bus door sounds opening gate at hinterland stop, the relentless, broken tooth combatants tumbling out unfazed, the internecine gang warfare escalating on the pavement before horrified Hootervillagers, and camera crews alike, it continuing down the street, moving through the town, leveling trees, demolishing homes, picking up vehicles and hurling them aloft like so many grains of sand, it all leaving utter destruction in its wake before crossing the horizon and fading from view.
But, you know me.
Always an optimist.
LOL
Anything that is painful for them, works for me!!
Palestinian American Republican question, feels left out.
Romney lecturing him in full, ‘nother-asshole-owned-by- Israel mode.
Gingrich trying to outmanoevre Romney in full, ‘nother-asshole-owned-by- Israel mode.
Like I said – There’s a winner in there somewhere!
(it’s just not gonna be any of us)
All of them humping religion now…. except Paul
No news, I know. They’re wrapping up.
Romney up I’d say.
I can only imagine the airways in Fla the next 4 days…
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