Opera Glasses and Popcorn
The eye of a parrotfish near Hawaii, as captured by Swiss underwater snapper Franco Banfi, who has photographed many of the creatures who populate the waters of the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea | Franco Banfi/Rex Features
Just a stunning photograph…
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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]
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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]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
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.
The eye of a parrotfish …
And you can’t count on me for all the latest Election Headquarters updates!
You know, I almost made the title, “Politics” or “General Election”, then I decided to call it what it is. Eye…
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Hi All!
Just wanted to check in and let you know that I’m still alive! I am on Day 29 without nicotine, so I don’t feel very alive just now, but am hoping that things will get better in the next couple of weeks….
Everyone tell me how you are! I miss you!
**hugs**
Hi dear… I worried soemthing ight have happened! Good t hear you are alive and holding on.. congrats on the cigarettes…
Nah, well, nothing more than the damned usual….heh. Kiddo the younger is back at public school…I started to think that the effects of social isolation were outweighing the accelerated pace at which I was able to tech him.
I’m thinking about writing a book about the absolute hell having my boys in public school has been…and what I plan to do to keep myself sane and be sure that they come out educated in spite of it all! One of the first things is to see how many days/year I can take them out of school for “educational reasons”…I remember reading somewhere about this…
I’m also thinking about writing a children’s book or two — kid the younger has expressed and interest in being co-author!
Mostly, I am yearning for the day when I don’t spend most of my waking hours thinking about cigarettes and it doesn’t take me 10x as long to do any work! The “extra” $120/month sure will come in handy tho!
Everyone here is healthy and overall, happy! I promise not to go so long without saying “hello”!
Woo-hoo! Well done, brinn.
I wish I smoked so I could quit them and give myself an impromptu “raise.”
:p
Yaaaay brinn, congrats honey!
I think if you called it “Public School Hell” it would sell.
There was a fabulous scene in The Shield where the squad moved in hard in a public school and were wrenching open locked lockers. One child dared say, How dare you? We have rights!! and whatshisname barked:
You’re in public school kid, you have no rights.
QUITE RIGHT TOO… SOMEBODY has to say it.
At my last temp job, they were feverishly obsessed with “security.” Metal detectors, constant reminders that We’re watching you ALL the time, Peons! Lectures about how many fucking pockets you could wear in the workplace… all that shit. These people were more paranoid than the fucking Pentagon… to the point where they literally made it impossible for me to do the job they outlined… but of course somehow that was my fault, so I got sacked.
Better to break the human spirit young, then when they’re older, all this probing and prying and willful intrusion on every last iota of one’s private space (even mental space) won’t disturb the stupid little peasants so much.
I wouldn’t call my current job great, but at least the overlords get out of my fucking way so I can actually get their fucking work done. Christ.
oopsie ……….. doopsie ….
oohhh but nevermind! and the Rockets red glare! …the bombs bursting in air on nuclearized testosterone …
Mehbe when they get those rocket parts to Cape Canaveral in Florida or California, where the military has a launch facility at Vandenburg Air Force Base,. they can attach the Contract …[on the] … America[s] Newtster, to that rocket and send the Focker to the Moon so he can be a true Pioneer! And then they can attache (oops) Obombster and Mickey to the next rocket, …and they can pioneer on Mars! ….
Calista too… and tell her she can pack extra Aqua Net. We’ll send a shipment of Dippity-Do ahead of her.
Absolutely, give Newt his dream, send him to Outer Space.
Calista may prefer one of those multitude of earthlike planets NASA keeps announcing, …the Moon atmosphere may fuck with her doo ….
Mehhbe they could send her up with Sanatorium, Romney, Huntsman, Paul, et al, on a third Mission! ™,..and she could be a concubine/wife to them all?
OMG
We need to establish the Concubinate there,
to fight the Caliphate here!
Ohhh Yes! We could photoshop an old Lemon Pledge commercial, …. or Babs Bush could lend a moth balled taffeta gown (despite having never polished furniture in her life) …! STIMULUS …Homeland CAN DOO! Gender Equality!
I say send Calista the Catholic and Memsab the Lecturer TOGETHER. Strap ‘em to the same rocket.
Bye.
Always room for a strap-on.
Could do wonders for those boring Smithsonian field trips, too.
oh right! Can you see Calista the Catholic and Memsab the lecturer with strap ons? Too tooo toooo funnee. And very accurate is my take.
buh bye ………
what a wonderful dream … ;0) …. if only ….. who knows ….
Is This Why US Rail Traffic Is So Strong?
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Via zerohedge. Also explains Uncle Warrnes move into railroads.
A real business genius, there.
sure is good we didn’t use all that money to feed, house and clothe people
Oakland Occupy is on the move, in a big way… hundreds in the street, hundreds of cops and Oakland has sent out a call for mutual aid…
Occupy promises, no matter what comes down they “will be back tomorrow”.
It’s been going on since about Noon, moving from place to place…
Rock on, Oakland!
great!
interesting tidbit… that Cockburn gleaned from the Romney tax docs:
hmm I just remembered, they have a vacation home in NH too.
Sheldon Adelson, who presides over a global empire of casinos, hotels and convention centers and is by some estimates worth as much as $22 billion, is a large financial source for Newt Gingrich.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/us/politics/the-man-behind-gingrichs-money.html?exprod=myyahoo
Solidarity Sunday – Wear Black Fight Back
My local talk radio tried hard to gin up a backlash today to Oakland Occ…. BUT as it happens the cops arrested 3 reporters… in one nstance they declined, on the spot, to recognise a SF Police issued Press Pass – that reporter was actually from the local talk radio station, LOL…. two reporters were released from handcuffs (had been arested, but not transported or charged) one, an SF Chron reporter who had no police issued press pass, was transported and held for several hours before release.
Appalling. Occ made it inside City Hall and attempted to get inside at YMCA. Have to catch up today as I blew off the evening news last night, watched dvds…. It will all be rehashed on the news tonight… as media finds Oakland Occ a very hot topic.
300 arrests over the night …
stories I’m finding are all, of course, emphasizing the violence.
one of the propagandistic things that is ongoing here… and has ramped up and been neatly and cosily embraced by older blacks and liberal whites (who, both, too many of them, are imo conservative and reactionary), a “criticism” is to compare Occupy to the Civil Rights Movement. Again we are forced into the path of All Glory to certain historical events. And a huge glossing over of history.
I find it utterly distasteful and very dishonest.
disgusts me that people can’t see they’re all of a piece …
MLK did, which is the real reason they killed him (and Malcolm too, for that matter).
the two things that were pushed this morning, between two women hosts…. Civil Rights Had LEADERS… people unafraid to be known…
Yes and how many were targetted and killed? I think it is a significant political reality and advancement, that Occupy will openly not identify the leaders. Which of course they Do have leaders.
I like the way Anonymous operates too.
And the other bullshite thing: CRM leaders and marchers were not whiners, they went willingly to jail. They knew the consequences.
Oh get over yourselves.
So much of the bullshite is sheer anger from operatives and thugs that the movement, whatever it is or is not, will not cleave to the Democratic party and go sit on R in DC.
What a waste that would be. Total waste.
You only have to look at the “Left Wing of the Democratic Party” to see how useless such “leaders” are. Brand names to be exploited. Kucinich and the rest. All colors, genders, orientations. All in the end, without exception, self-centered assholes protecting Daddy Donkey. Fuck ‘em.
yeah exactly. I am so fucking tired of Barbara Lee I could die. Basically yet another “housekeeper” for the partay.
“It looked like a trap”
An Open Salon blogger gives a firsthand account of how the police beat and teargassed protesters at Occupy Oakland
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