Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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Definitely not high, 😆
Tho if any one of them did not want, desperately at the end of the day, to go somewhere and ingest, smoke, drink something altering, then even nuttier than they all appear to be…
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.
Marisacat 
Oh my, what lovely, potted, yellow, hybridized narcissi ……
so perky!
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that’s a cool promo pic from the “Walking Dead” …
… oh, wait …
Snicker!
I almost used a pic of Cameron and Slob at the game, both chukking down hot dogs. Pretty damned funny…
Whatever-it-is-im-against-it ran that one.
LOL The Gallery was not bad…. but rather too much of Sam Cam and Memsab at some srt of mini-Olympics…
mayhap, UPI, or the Daily Mail have something delightful in their collections, I’ll go check …..
welp, this one is fitting.
please, at least post a linky!
Luckily I still had the Gallery open…
oops, never mind (I’m slowwww) :0)
thanks ts!
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Some ‘worldview”.
Oh you know fuck them all, but I’d like a link, please, to the Howard endorsement if only because he is mush on everything else.
Uhm Gravy Train Zionist War Humping for Israel? Yes?
No? The Usual? For the Money alone?
So sick of these people.
Howard is a paid lobbyist for them…
Well YeeHaww.. Pretty much settles t h a t 😯 😳 😆 Aw hell, Learn to love the bomb, Howard.
Anyways, I forgot to blockquote from There’s an astonishing 🙄 thru of course Rendell NTIM, Sooo NTIM…
Not saying he was Jesus frm Vermont at any point, but he flushed whatever little was left of a soul down the executive toilette at the DNC.
Madman sent me this… Taibbi on BofA.
😆 Too crooked to fail
a good, and infuriating, read.
I wonder how much of that, if any, has to do with the fact that states like Cali, set up accounts with BofA and forced those on disablity and unemployment benefits to use BofA debit cards, no opt out allowed (despite the fact that it really seems like an unlawful forced contract), versus direct deposit to their own bank accounts, or receiving checks via the mail (oh and nice vicious kick to the endangered Postal Employees while the fuckers were at it).
Delivery of checks began to die off years ago… they, the Feds wanted to get away from lost, stolen, misappropriated checks. To the extent that some measure of security exists (more than a mail box) if it goes into an account.
The big problem for people is anyone NOT with an existing acct… OR on some sort of welfare, cash payments not secured by a person’s own Social Security. At least as I understand it.
So much that is going on never should have been allowed or cooperated with, by, the Feds and the States.
In Cali, the delivery of checks for disability and unemployment, was only being terminated (over a period of months), about a little over a year ago, after the bailouts, and there were no offers for deposit into a person’s account. A woman who works where I bank told me it was handled very abusively, with no opt out, a forced dump into BofA, instead of that person’s own bank account, After all of the exposed Criminality ……
About the mailing fears, I think people should be given a choice, I’ve been on unemployment before, and never had a problem receiving anything sent. Same goes for the odd instituting of a law that people could no longer receive their cancelled checks in the mail. Of course the banks inititally offered sending copies of both sides, which is necessary to prove payment, now I doubt any of them do, next I guess they’ll force people onto online banking, Huge Error!
My bank statements have photocopies of my checks on the last page of the statement…
In terms of completely non-secure mail, think the projects. Subsidized Section 8 housing. Entire parts of LA and rural areas. And so on.
My statements used to have copies of the back of the check, which of course is what is needed to prove payment, but stopped doing it, and my understanding is most banks no longer provide copies of the back of the check.
As to areas where there are mail problems, again, it should be choice. It’s just my opinion that they wan’t to destroy the Public Postal Service, instead of doing what’s needed to keep it alive, and yeah, it began with Reagan.
oh it is obvious they want to destroy the USPS… it’s part of the large and deep destabilisation of American life.
Closing rural post offices, closing regional hubs and transfer facilities… never talking about all that the USPS has done to modernise and work with, in partnerhip, the big shippers, I mean suppliers and wholesale retail, etc.
It used to provide stable work, long term employment and retirements, bad as the 80s and “going postal” was… and in fact i heard just a few months ago, it is going to be a huge issue as mil come home. Thru the years they employed vets – from 26% to – a high of – 31% of the work force was veterans.
Incredibly destructive people running things, and too many who have faith in them to do the right thing.
gotta run …
Social Sec, began to actively discourage delivery of checks so long ago, in the 90s – and it was suggested even earlier. A benefit, if it was managed at all well is that direct deposit is faster, same as paychecks… The Feds got tired of sending helicopters tracking mail delivery people over the most vulnarable delivery routes.
General Assistance, state and county welfare and other forms of cash assistance are completely vulnerable. You have no say whatsoever…
A few years ago there was a push to move people into “special accts” which were farmed out to whomever the payer contracted iwth. Bad news, right off…
IF there was any fiduciary responsibility it would be OK… but it is all a casino.
Hurt Occupy Oakland protester was hit by beanbag
Fortunately that got a lot of coverage today… and a couple of nice interviews with him in his home.
Back when it happened and because there were canisters of tear gas around, it was assumed to be that, but people who were there said, and it looked that way on the films, it was shot directly at his head.
I don’t know who his atty is (I mean i don’t know anything about Martell) but rght off the bat he avoided a couple of hound dog collaborator attys. So that is good.
I hope he’s good.
I think so because there has been no high profile spin machine tour… whcih most of them charge for, anyway…. the focus was on Scott O and quotes from his atty. The phrase being used is a “substantial claim against the city and the OPD”.
Jean Q is so thoroughly weakened and the Chief of Police over there has clearly been in over his head… so I hope it goes well. PLUS you know the OPD is under ongoing threat of Fed take over. All to do with non compliance with court orders relating to issues of brutality and whatever else from the late 90s.
The media tells one story, but the reality is another. Rising directly from the OPD and how they have operated w/r/t Occupy is neighboring counties have rethought mutual aid…. Berkeley PD is in a HUGE snafu over a murder in the Oakland Hills where they used as excuse a completely peaceful Occupy protst for not showing up. I think hteir Chief may be a goner. AND Bekreley PD sent a goon to the door of a blogger who reported on it, after midnight, to demand retraction of his reporting.
re: BofA:
In OR, you can opt out, but only by specifically requesting it. I suppose if you have no bank account, the check-cashing store hucksters will still nail you. One way or another, the crooks win.
These jaggoffs now send me a new debit card about every 6-8 months, regardless of the status of my Unemployment claim. Like that’ll make me love them. Ick. I don’t use them, but I’m always afraid to throw them away, just in case the state accidentally on purpose changes its mind about how I receive my big fat fortune.
more and more of the check-cashing outfits are partly owned by the bigger banks, or I suspect the outfits use the bigger banks as correspondent banks, so they get a cut too.
I think when you have no bank acct is when you really run into big trouble. And of course lots of very legitimate people who may or may not have been part of the “grey” economy, running on a cash basis, are just that.
Well, I got a stay today. The temp job will last for one more week.
After 3 odd years of this shit, my file with the State is probably thicker than a vintage Manhattan Yellow Pages. Especially since I contested their fucking denial of claim last year and won.
I’d never talk to these schmucks again if I could possibly avoid it. The last two weeks have been the same old disorganized, infuriating shit. When you can reach them at all, that is. One asshole says file every week even if you’re working, to keep your claim active. The next day some other asshole says, no, don’t do that. You’re only creating more unnecessary paperwork.
One dipshit says your claim won’t be reduced this time around. Next day, some other dipshit says, oh yes it will. And so on and so on and so on…
They make it as hard as they can…
I’ll just be happy if my next “claim adjudicator” isn’t the same clueless shitball who denied my claim last year.
Somebody is going to shot up the unemployment office, other agencies that work to drive people nuts… like the poor mother last year in Texas at the welfare office…
As a former civil servant myself, I can think of a few prime specimens I would’ve liked to see at least scared out of their smug, petty, lazy little minds. Unfortunately, the good always perish with the bad, in those scenarios. And the people that dream up the way the system works in the first place are always in some locale where they never get any punishment for their actions, or inactions, as the case may be.
Frankly, if my experience was any indication, the shooter will probably be one of the shittier, more ungrateful little tyrant employees who’ll flip out when the Austerity Army finally comes to take his silver parachute away. Like most bullies, he won’t go after the higher-ups either. At least I’ll always have the satisfaction of knowing that I quit years before he snapped. 👿
oh I agree… and often the good die and the bad live. Not even a mix of the two on the bloody ground.
But every day almost, there is a shoot ’em up at some work site or school or street or court house… By now if you don’t kill mre than 3 you barely make the news outside your local press…
Among everything else that is happening, we just had a Iraq vet lose it (one must assume) shoot – maim or kill his mother (she can’t be found but evidence shows he shot her in her car) his 11 year old sister and finally himself.
I am not sure but for the missing mother and the timing with the 16 in Afghanstan, it would even be in the news now for several days running…
Occupy Miami’s Overtown Safehouse Raided by Dozens of Miami Police With Assault Rifles
oh I bet there was no “tip”….
I bet a public affairs officer walked down the street to a pay phone and placed a quick call …
LOL Can’t imagine why this WH would drop Montel Williams… a vegetable blender TV huckster, Cancer survivor huckster sounds so right for this admin (and any admin):
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People magPoliticoThe Super Secret wine list for the ‘almost but not reallly as he is not the Queen’ State Dinner for Cameron…
The Camerons should feel snubbed… it ranges from $29 – $80 a bottle… no 400 dollar bottles like for Hu Jin Tao.
Two from Cali, one from Virginia and one Washington state. (spread the love baby)
😆 Oh yes, The Chateau de Snubby. VERY Good. LOL..
May I recommend the Newark Glomon?
LOL, I love all these little pastry puffs floating on by…
Obby , Cameron, the the Duke Booker of Newark.
Why yes, Cory, consider setting up a Consulate in London, maybe go in halfsies with Hoboken, and work out of a jacked lorry in the East End.
these little pastry puffs floating on by…
Good one!
And so light! Such fribble all of them, and now Booker of Newarkshire with HIS minor operative entourage trying to ride in on imeeting with the Bastard Son descendant of William the Fourth, LOL. that would in fact be Cameron not Obby, tho maybe, Hell, who knows with the Peerage and leerage and the way they all dig livery and powdered wigs so…..
What a romp.
Anyways, Have a couple hundred or so of the pastry puffs!, Obviously there’s plenty more from wherever they came from…
hmm I’m recommending Fernet Branca as digestif….
Can you imagine the awful gastric upset that will ensue?
State Sen. Galloway to resign, leaving Senate split
Of course, she waited until they rammed through some truly horrible shit, but hopefully this will limit the damage they can do if Walker survives his recall, and there are still three more winger Senators facing recalls in May or June.
Well… there you go… Unsaid is, But let’s NOT find out!!
She’s the genius who pushed our new concealed carry law.
Good riddance.
I think those laws are awful – same with this attempt at bringing weapons onto campuses and parks…
People seem unware that the mil on their bases bans carrying weapons. Open, unloaded, carry of hand guns is worrisome enough.
And On the Eighth Day, the Lord Said to Hell With Planned Parenthood
I had not heard that…
Not sure what it means but after a few days, Komen ads for their next walk, early summer sometime I think, disappeared from TV, completely. Just recently there is from time to time an ad from them, but almost nothing.
And, it looked as tho “Avon Walk” which mimics the Komen event and ads, fell away as well.
I would guess there was broad back lash…
The former DA, Hallinan, is no peach himself, but his old style liberal way of doing things did just leave some stuff A L O N E.
We are so liberal here!!
NTIM, the damage is done…
Comedy… apparenlty, or so Fox reports, he also vandalised cars…
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Breaking! (well one of us has to do it!)
Ambassador George Clooney suffers three hours in a Secret Police Van in Sudan! …sacrificing all, as he marches forward with the Obama administration on a Humanitarian Mission, having resolved all civil rights issues in the UZ in a flawless partnership with our benefactors, Wall Street and the MIC!
No wait, I misspoke, it gets worse: the Daily Mail informs that he actually did time in a Sudanese cell also [being forced to sign autographs and pose for photos!].
just look at the fear as he’s led to his horrid unknown destiny by the Sudanese captors
Rumors of who arranged the US Secret Service Arrest have not yet been confirmed.
Clooney is unabashedly proud of the Obama Administration, recently stating:
I thought he and his father looked like idiots today… and IMO he is being paid by some entity, US – Christian – Israeli, some part and parcel of the gang up on parts of the Sudan.
All of these jerks that align with the UN or the CFR and the like, from Alyssa Milano to Brangelina to Clooney to the Mosqueteers (and all of that dried up and died like the Manhattan RE scam it was) are nothing but war mongers.
Yep.
http://forwantofanail.com/2011/12/yeah-well-im-more-disillusioned-than-you-pal/
Thanks for that, any validating sanity helps, I read some outrageous slobber about Clooney earlier and near heaved.
was that from the Pat Dollard link? (I’ve always found PD to b very interesting.)
it was from the link ms. xeno posted.
(I’m not familiar with Pat Dollard, I landed there doing a search for a quote of that outrageous bullshit Clooney had said a short while back.)
😆 He’s going ot be on MTP this Sunday… as well as Fox News Sunday with Wallace… AND with Fareed on CNN.
Geesh….
No problem, diane. I think Jack Crow also posted some snicker-worthy stuff late last year about George Clooney: Modern-Day Dag Hammerskjold wannabe. But I didn’t have the chance to go and look for it.
(well, okay, the Sudanese Embassy in DC …but still!)
I made it through surgery today, somehow.
oh my goodness ts… how are you doing? Are you home?
I’m home. It was minor surgery, but for an incredibly debilitating and painful condition that should have been taken care of back in January. Why it wasn’t taken care of immediately is actually an interesting example of how messed up our health care system. I’ll post it on my blog if I ever get around to posting on my blog again. (I haven’t since the condition presented itself.)
Few doctors have any real interest in their patients… no matter how compliant the patient may be… and they sure decline to cut you in on any real infromation on your condition…
If you do post, leave a link here – or, feel like telling in a comment here, feel free.
Oh we are so screwedddd.
In this case I had a doctor (who may have been on somebody’s payroll) insisting we make sure there wasn’t an underlying condition. I got a colonoscopy and endoscopy I probably didn’t need. My insurance company paid for it, but it’s clear he was gaming the system. Eventually, he prescribed me a very speculative ulcerative colitis drug at $200 a week *after* the colonoscopy had shown I did not have ulcerative colitis. Then he wanted to schedule a capsule endoscopy – who knows how much that was going to cost. It was at that point I asked him for a reference for surgery (which he grudgingly gave me). I never went to pick up my prescriptions and I cancelled all my future appointments.
Had I trusted my own research about the issue, I should have demanded surgery on January 8, when it became obvious that the problem wasn’t going to go away by itself. Instead, I trusted this guy’s judgement and went through two more months of hell, because it was five weeks to get his stuff done, and three weeks to schedule the eventual surgery.
What a nightmare! They pad their bills with the bread and butter procedures, whether you need it or another one, or not.
And media has spent years selling people on colonoscopy (and whatever else)… and how necessary and how beneficial, that even without symptoms you should consider one…. OR, a few!!
Glad you’re going to be okay, ts.
well wishes to you ts, I hope you have a rapid recovery.
Glad to hear , ts. And on the mend?
May you be up and around quickly, with your trademark insight, wit and zingers to follow!
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