Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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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]
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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.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NB11Ak03.html
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Feels like old news….but continues to anger me.
Hahahahah I caught up to something Santorum said, how i missed it, I don’t know… that if we re elect Obama, we are headed for the Guillotine.
TOO Funny.
not going to be the Obamites w/ the Guillotines …
hmm for some reason I was thinking the other day how she completely destroyed her voice….
Poor thing.
hmm if we play the one two three game, that these come in 3s… Could be Etta James, Don Cornelius and now WH.
Well, pushover Don Lemon was on when it came across the CNN,
, they scrambled and got Larry King on the phone, and viewers were treated to a Larry launching into a Clive Davis Production about the great Clive Davis this and Clive Davis that. Oh yeh and Whitney, Wow – such a shock coming right before Clive Davis’ night-before the Grammy’s Dinner and all… 
(psst Larry — ~hey~ that would be Clive “Too Cheap To Pay For His Own Son’s Bar Mitzvah That He Billed It To The Label/ Thereby Stealing Artist Money” Davis)
Baby bled to death. a long, sloooow methodical bleed,
whatever the medical cause.
Oh she had choices, and indeed she did… within a cartel.
And what a range, her singing that is.
How many parasites from Clive & Co. dope-men on down to that kept man of hers did she have on her back all these years? As the moneygrubbing begins anew upon her death.
yup, pretty much.
One of the in memoriams I caught somewhere said as she tried for another come back, she had reached out to her old “mentor” Clive Davis….
Imagine the criminal accounting around her earnings over the years…I’d say to hell with a coroners inquest or anything over cooking crack. Methinks Mentor Clive and the Book-Cookers would be the place to start.
Rest in Peace Honey
(uuugh yet another time to dodge all of the Happiness and Well Being Experts and their finger wagging and/or hypocrisy, subtle and otherwise. This will be much worse than the Amy Winehouse Lectouring …..)
Wall to wall Whtney.
I rarely hear any of the many commenters and finger waggers on Amy Winehouse actually know it was ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL that killed her. I am not saying that is not part ad parcel of alcoholism but so many assume she OD’d .
Some doctors know that depending on the patient, and depending on what you can get people to drink (some alcohol is less destuctive than others), soemtimes it is better to be left on a maintenance self-dosing of alcohol.
But, you know, we are in the Prohibition Era, big time.
yup. Such a Shame!!!!!! She shoulda: …. blah blah blah ….
Gotta love the putz’s at the NYT.
The Ragtaggers are done! But they’re Up!
But What do They Want?!?
And What Will They Do?!
Don’t they Know They’re Not Allowed ?! RAGTAG!
Loosely Organized! Will They Embrace Obama?! RAGTAG!
Erik Eckholm and the New York Times…..
Douchebags.
Couple of years go the NYT did a piece on San Francisco, not in the travel section… it was so provincial and hidebound, it was laughable.
They went ot the Folsom Street Fair which is basically a sex fair, a lot of it gay or related but also bondage and so on. Lots of street scenes meant to provoke etc…. there usually is a .. sort of a bondage wheel with someone strapped to it, lots of blck leather outfits and so on. Exposed butt cheeks and so on..
NYT made some strange comment about the political leanings of people at the fair, assuming all sorts of silliness. Assuming a lot of far left and radical stances.
Gee as if. I am sure the people encompassed the full spectrum. And plenty of them conservative and right/reactionary.
And plenty of them conservative and right/reactionary.
ESPECIALLY in the BDSM community.
Yes, really! (A little authoritarian whipping with your cornflakes this morning?)
Welp, I speak fluent – FLUENT – ” provincial and hidebound.” LOL
That being the case, I’m not fluent in any other goddam thing.
But, yanooo, just out of curiosity, when is the Folsom Street Fair and are directions available? I have a friend, see, who’s wondering –
Are they gentle with newcomers? LOL.
Hey – Wait a second!.
there usually is a .. sort of a bondage wheel with someone strapped to it, lots of blck leather outfits and so on. Exposed butt cheeks and so on.
That’s not a Goddam Fair,
that’s Sunday Dinner where we come from. LOL.
I see Romney Dominated the Maine Caucus. {BIG Snicker}
39% to Pauls 36% out of 5000 votes or so.
With propeller beany wearing base for Santorum and Gingrich managing to carpool in a few – practically in a single car! .
Which, you know, as far as I am concerned, IS a victory,
you know, for Democracy in America.and, apparently,
People United In NOT GIVING A SHIT.
Very telling. So between Collins and Snow and the Bush barbecue list for the ole Kennebunkport camp they couldn’t get another 5,000 people to show up for this historic occasion.?
Mittens gettin sold short?
Entre Jeb Converted to Catlickism Bush in the offing?
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LOL and Not so Fast! say Paul supporters in Maine.
Only 200 votes separating Mittens and Paul with 83% in!
And SOME COUNTIES {eyes darting suspiciously around the room} “canceling” their caucuses because of SNOW, (the white flaky stuff, not the Senatore.)
So Bullshit! says the Paul camp – Maine LOVES snow!
The fix was In!
Oh Please. Rigging an election?! A Major Party?!
LOLS all the way around …
Capping it off, via the FT -
Wellyanahwhatever LOL.
The history, like jokes, should write itself. Besides, the PTB will settle on someone they’ll shove upon us eventually.
It really is laughable…. soon they will have him on Sepcial Mormon Severely Conservative Crutches.
Shouldn’t he and Ann be hving to anwwer questions like, why they named a child ”Tagg”…. ????
What I find really disconcerting is the rumors about Tagg’s missing brother, Yurit. And Hopscotch, the sister the never speak about. What kind of Massachussetts Dynasty are they? LOL
Fake. Like everything else…
Pam Maartens at Cpunch
US Marines’ “SS” flag
Right-Wing Archbishop Listecki Says Catholic Church a “Corporation” While Cheerleading for Walker
same as Murder Inc.
A corporation… yeah.
Sorry You Need To Get Screened Before Your Flight, But The TSA Has No Females Working Right Now
In the Spirit: Some florists won’t deliver to atheist
McConnell: GOP Will Fight To Let ANY Employer Deny Birth Control Coverage
Under pummeling by Chris Wallace he finally just said “Our Policy is Clear” and basically shut down. Pathetic.
[NTIM]
is anyone sooprised?
Is-testosterone-new-drug-choice-Wall-Street-How-traders-using-male-hormone-booster-shots-maintain-competitive-edge. Is testosterone the new drug of choice on Wall Street? How traders are using male hormone booster shots to maintain a competitive edge
(in case I need to say it, I’m not making a comment against ‘maleness’ …I’m making a comment about a fucking stunning imbalance …….of the most potentially negative traits of ‘maleness’ …..)
(Oh jeesh, new BIlly the Gates owned puter, or requisite new BIlly the Gates owned Software ™ ….issues. …With my old puter, I could copy a link, and paste it into the requisite HTML CODING ™, …. without a space being added before it. …… Meant the comment to read as:
I’d likely be …. conveniently tagged as a terrerist if I had fully finished my thought as to the insanity going on as to the high tech industry,…..so, .I suppose, it’s a good thing I don’t really have the energy to do that at this point)
No the problme is you are leaving out the quote marks.
I fixed the earlier comment.
No honey, I never had to use quote marks to post a link on your site (and I wasn’t attempting to use blockquotes in the inital comment), the code I’ve always used is: left arrow; “a”; space; “href=”; the url address; right arrow; the link title; left arrow; “/a”; right arrow. Something in the new WIN 7 or MS Office software I’m using now, is adding a blank space before urls when they’re copied, which adds a space between “href=” and the url address, fucking up the link if I forget to delete the space.
Unfortunately, in rushing to make that point in my last post, I left out th right arrow after the url address, fucking up the link yet again.
whatever, it fails to come out right for lack of quotes… I use WIN 7 as well but not Microsft Office.
I use the same code but with quote marks.
my fault for the quote issue ….didn’t post the first comment with the intent to blockquote, I fucked up here in discussing it:
Sorry honey, I should be more careful in reading what I’ve written before I post, I know better than to rely on the Software.
;0)
it would help if WP had preview but they don’t…
(Anyway sweetheart,…as I was stumbling at:)
is anyone sooprised?
Is-testosterone-new-drug-choice-Wall-Street-How-traders-using-male-hormone-booster-shots-maintain-competitive-edge.html> Is testosterone the new drug of choice on Wall Street? How traders are using male hormone booster shots to maintain a competitive edge
(in case I need to say it, I’m not making a comment against ‘maleness’ …I’m making a comment about a fucking stunning imbalance …….of the most potentially negative traits of ‘maleness’ …..)
(siggghhhhhhhhh ………. :0) ……… ;0( …………. ;0) ….. )
(thoroughly beet faced, I notice that in addition to that pernicious MS space addition, I’ve inserted the url address after the boldface html coding, instead of before it ……….I despise html coding)
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