Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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So depressing. The cons, religious grifters and panhandlers, skunks, slags … I can’t find words crass enough for the horrid mess we are presented with.
And Slob of course. The Singing Pretzel.
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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.
hmmm
And because I am a fucking juvenile. I have no idea why they gave me this job, but it was The Plan.
On a directly related note, Bradley Manning defers plea after being formally charged with aiding the enemy:
Obama has a problem with rebelious whites, imo. White media who leak (or just write things he doesn’t like), white governmental agency people who leak and little gay white subversives. ANd yet he loves to align with the ruling white class.
He’s got race issues I think.
And DOJ counters that by arresting loads of poor blacks, poor black muslims and old guys in Florida who have been tricked into appearing to be full fledged terrorists, worthy of endless detention rather than being investigated, slapped awake by short sentences… etc.
I have repaired early (tho having eaten lunch!) to a bottle of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Vino Rosso”… Other wise known as Dago Red… LOL
If anyone is looking for a superior red table wine, at 9 bucks (La Maison Safeway) a bottle, it is very very good.
then again, maybe Casa di Safeway is more appropriate!
hmmm, sounds good honey! ;0) enjoy!
Perfect capture of the slime and sleaze
Oh look at Dicky PA …… that tight jaw, …spittle gathering on the lips ….. A perfect portrait of Sociopathic, Latin Mass Frat ™ Smuggery and Blatant Hypocrisy. ….A spittley, White $$$$Boyo$$$$, Index Finger Pointer, ….bar none.
And look at Romney, laughing and thinking: at least Mormonism – Openly, and Loudly, embraces Predatory, Fascist Corporate/”Private” Investor ™ Practices and Misogyny….
(where’s Lil Doc PATex, and the Albino Swamp Lizard?)
off to search the Daily Mail, for a pic of our blooz singer emoting for his subjects and Looking To Replace Hope and Change!!!! ™ Campaign 2012!!!!! (the kiddles will only be fooled once Obombster.)
Obama’s got the blues: President belts out a few bars as he joins …. Mick Jagger to salute Black History Month (what? what’s a Black History/American Blues White House Honoring, without Brit Rock Musicians?)
Piccy [Dedicated to Bosom Bud, Rahm]
Oh, go on then: Obama didn’t miss the opportunity to sing a few bars of blues classic Sweet Home Chicago …..
I’ve only caught little snips of it, but one shot I saw gave me a huge laugh… Slob and wif were leaving early (it looked to still be a going, happening event) He led the way with Memsab behind… and right behind her – and I do mean herding, cramping, tailgating…… was MIL Robinson. What is that, First MIL of the US… FMILOTUS ????
Fun times in the private residence.
Lookin in the UPI collection for a possible shot of that one (had almost forgotten their habit of ‘photo albuming’).
There’s also the WH flickr account…
I am having a lot of problems today with conenctivity and keeping a dial-up connection going, so I am not going very far afield…
No luck at UPI (interesting, they didn’t include any piccies of Mick either, though he was headlined so much), I don’t think they’ll have included the Mother In Law shot on Flicker, but I’ll give it a peekster.
Maybe AT&T is ‘working on’ (fucking up/Updating!/wiretapping/ nicking) the neighborhood lines? Or are you getting pings that cut the connection?
well what I saw was a vid… on some news program this am… first they shot Slob and wif facing the camera, they were basically exiting in the middle of two lines of cheering fans… then someone shot some film from behind them, I almost did not see Mother Robinson, as she is so much shorter, but there she was clearly herding.
welp, siiiiiggghhhhh, either there were actually no Blues at the White House, or they haven’t uploaded the shots yet. There is a shot of him signing off yesterday on the latest Tax Scam for the 1%ers though.
Ohh, and there was also an endearing shot of Obombster widely grinning that famous jokester’s grin he sports, ….and holding a black baby; …………….. just far enough away from ……………. him, ………… so that that he might not catch anything running around the neighborhood, ….. due to a stunningly cruel lack of health care in the ‘heart’ Cleveland, Ohio.
I cannot imagine handing a baby to a politician.. but people love to do it.
and then too (although you’ve brought up ugly memories of assholes frantically offering their newly born ….. to that diseased sociopath, Shrub), I wouldn’t doubt a person could be arrested now, for refusing to offer up their baby for an Incumbent Re-Election Piccie (I slightly jest, …. mehbe just tasered).
I see Slob has declared Bradley Manning guilty, of breaking the law.
Our Con law professor, lecturer, reader whatever he was, declared to someone in a rope line that BM “broke the law”.
Well this is all going so well…
Well.. no matter. Too late now. AS IF they would have even considered it….
Timid. Tepid. Totally Owned.
One of those days where I could see Barry getting shoved aside by whomever is left standing in the GOP.
Unemployment, people doing battle with paramilitaty police again this Spring, here and abroad, The Wars turning to a rout, soaring Gas, the glue melting off (DLTH) “recovering” market’s mask…..
I think the WH is nervous… all things seem unsettled, hard to tell if they can keep up the supposed “Good News” for, what? 6 months? Oooops no NINE months. to GE day.
GOOD LUCK!
EuroNews has a great and rather wonderful feature, they run a segment called “No Comment” which is just rolling video of soemthing happening somewhere, with audio… usually I know what it is that is going on, but wow… armed battle on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem… plenty of explosions…
I suppose I could go to one of the news aggregators and figure out what is happening, but gee… why bother.
It’s endless.
Washington Times via Drudge (whatevAH! LOL)
Karen Santorum: Husband’s surge ‘is God’s will’...
Bravo Loving Couple!
Go Forth from this place! May such faith hold you in good stead when cast down among the Sodomites!
KOOKS! Of course, what was that Memsab and Barry said?
and must admit, I don’t recall them invoking the memory of, let’s see, Fred Strempo, yeh, the best auto body mechanic on one side or other of the Mississippi, see, who left a family and a 63 Chevy Impala unfinished. SO – Other than noting ole dead Strempie’s legacy and offering to take up Fred’s torch, literally, they invoked EVERY GOD DAMN BODY ELSE,
RATHER, the question is – What messianic heir-to-the throne crap DIDN”T they engage in? To be fair, I heard this story see,
Of course having a kidlet with Trisomy 18 is God’s Will too.
[I guess this is our King of Kings movie moment, the 30s era tear jerker!]
Bill honey tell us how you REALLY feel. Geesh if a million doesn’t, what does?
I lifted it from the afternoon Wapo email.. will fish up a link.
LOL. Putz.
Not to worry!
Madman looked it up… Generous Bill M has PLEDGED a mil.
My guess is that he will solicit donations to a ‘million dollar fund’ for our beloved lesser evil, Slob… then down the road, quietly turn over whatever he rakes in… or snicker snax!
S O M E of it…
Etc.
Life in the fast lane!
WELlthenI’ll pledge to Bill!
You want pledges Bill? Barry? Oh not a problem!
And if I may be so bold ,
I think most of us here feel the same way!
Hey, Don’t Worry Fellahs!
We’ll be there fer Barry like he’s been there fer us!!
Count on Us, Bill!
You can buy a mug to show you care…
Campaign tchotckes go up to 450.00… that is for a full set of campaign flag lapel pins. State by state. snicker. All 57 states…
You can buy a mug to show you care…
Campaign tchotckes go up to 450.00
Do you mean ones that get installed somewhere in the government or the useful items that at least hold coffee? Perhaps clothing articles that might retain rag bag utility value over the years?
Yes? No? ALL trash? Just dropped right in moments after arrival? LOL.
A mug’s game that offers mugs!
I don’t think Slob and Slob-ites have caught on tho… (as we get mugged)….
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
RFLMAO
Vt. lesbian couple fight DOMA, deportation
Wakey wakey girlie.
We had a pair of those here, Filipinas… they got DiFi to intervene… Vermont.. oh well I am sure Leahy will take care of everything. Right?
Gregoire just said Slob was the INSPIRATION for the new law in Washington State.
(magick fingers I guess)
I love how everybody forgets that Bill The Putz foisted DOMA on us in the first place.
Dog save me from ignorant people…
exactly!!
God knows what we will do in retaliation
Read more at:
Wapo
Or visit http://www.washingtonpost.com.
I wish they”d just spare us the “NATO” crap.
Decades now of the Press pass on the American Imperial DISASTER.
The NYT, not quite helicopters on the rooftops yet , but bringing us along, if only for their war humping on Syria and Iran…
And emerging from the rabbithole that is the WaPo piece, there is this absurdity.
Among Brothers? And we were so close! Who knew that our regularly sport shooting other members of the family, parading their corpses around after “the hunt” and missile strikes on the kinfolk’s weddings could cause such a rift!
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It’s disgusting isn’t it… an invading occupying bombing imprisoning torturing killing counter-terra-ism army claims to be “brother”.
Such fucking bullshite.
Somehow it reminds me of that utter and complete jerkwad, Cain. His brother other motherism scheisse.
Update on the Catlick Rape Cult in Philly, and on that Cardinal Bevilaqua , the one subpeonad to testify at trial that croaked on January 31st, and they all but set him in a dumpster rather than have a big, press-eyeballin funeral…..
Part of another cretin’s DEFENSE oh HAHAHA. blaming the higher ups. .Hey, Scratch Claw, Baby, Scratch CLAWWWW.
Helluva defense, Helluva defense: the ol e Only ORDAINED into the Catholic Rape Club gambit, Oh Good Luck on THAT…..
Hmm. They’re seeking to bar the dead Cardinal’s videotape deposition..
Well , the really shouldn’t be so….. touchy.
The article has more on the crimes the conspiciracy to cover up the trial proceeding thus far…..
Again, there is crickets on it in Jersey….
… and i just stumbled by accident on the report that Bevilaqua had croaked.. and done died…
I wouldn’t have heard about it unless I saw the link to the case here some weeks ago. Saw it again when rounding the PA dailies, but only in Philly. They defintely have some cone of silence on this thing….
IMHO, It is part of some deal, Part of the fight selection over contraception and their hospital plans with Obby. No small amount of diversion for a case bigger than Boston’s…
And FWIW I see the Feds – they sayyyyyyy –
now are going all in on the Sandusky case ? Deal, much? Easy pickins? I think so anyways…
the big thing with these cases to keep them tamped down, shut it off at some point.
Pity, all the pus and filth needs to come out.
They’ll never admit to the full number of Sandusky victims…
Talk about Loyalty! And Poor , poor Monsignor,
the Cardinal fucking him from the GRAVE like that.
If only they’d just scrooo each other… gravesite or whereever………………
Well we certainly can’t have that.
Sex? In some kind of Gothic milieu?
Where is the precedent for that? LOL
OWS got to Rumsfeld in Truman’s hometown.
Mic check at 1:30
Donald Rumsfeld turn yourself in!
The It got hot in the hall.
stab him in the back… get it over with… [joke!!]
He’s been dogged repeatedly now.
And it will continue.
His remainder, it seems, will not be without its discomforts.
No 24/7 either.
I love the willingness of the crowd to help pick people out.
So free.
Love the woman at the end, standing up to them, and it devolves “you’re a bitch”.
In September 2009, after admitting to my parents that I was atheist, I was abruptly woken in the middle of the night by two strange men who subsequently threw me in a van and drove me 200 mi. to a facility that I would later find out serves the sole purpose of eliminating free thinking adolescents.
There is a long thread, with lots of comments from kids who were sent to similar places.
ugh I wonder if anything can be done… the problem is she was or is a juvenile..
You know there was a boarding school outisde of Lausanne, a little ways down the lake from mine that had bars on the windows. If not Horizon Academy then somewhere else…
It’s clearly control and brainwashing.. but so much is.
I could never treat a child that way.
the thread is awful… not surprising tho…
reddit is full of nasty little libertarian shits
oh I meant people recounting similar experiences….
oh, those were appalling.
I was thinking about the idiots chastising them for not running away.
I liked the comments that understood, so little can be done… the children are stuck and there is little legal redress. So many hoops to get thru, even in the rare case where something might happen.
Part of the problem, and no way to know this for certain – in terms of numbers, but yu just KNOW that the children of judges and politicians and so on are in these for profit prisons, which is all they really are.
Jesus Christ.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/16/my-take-contraception-denigrates-me-as-a-woman/?iref=obnetwork
people really are nutz.
yes… fuckin’ nut case:
Anyone with this kind of obsession/career is probably hiding plenty of “dark” deeds (premarital sex, abortions and the like) in her own past.
Yeah, I really want some asshole with a terminal case of the sex guilts to coach me about marriage.
What a creepy little fuck.
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