Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Israeli border police officers use pepper spray as they detain an injured Palestinian protester outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem | Ammar Awad/Reuters
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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.
HA! Occupy SF has taken over a large unoccupied building, at Turk and Gough, for anyone who knows the city… think that lies within the Tenderloin…
Good going…
So far so good… turns out the building belongs to Sacred Heart HS, which used to be – and I guess still is – a Catholic boys’ private school, Jesuits…
They have told the police to do nothing. For now…
But sounds like the diocese will get involved.
Oh very clever…
I read over at Instapundit that now that we have bona fide 1 dollar bills carrying Tim Geithner signature, some have taken to adding a little red stamped “Tax Cheat” above his name.
I like that…we’ve got to entertain ourselves SOMEHOW.
The sadist with the green vest looks like he’s ‘climaxing’ ..the contortion on his face seems to go far beyond the one-armed ‘effort’ of restraining his victim. Looks like he could easily work a ‘night shift’ of being a serial murderer…….
I thought it was a pretty brutal photo… and with pepper spray and other assault weapons more and more in the news….
The photo struck me as representative of the ‘new,’ and even more horrifyingly genocidal, swastika/master ‘race’,… which represents the current, global and near total, bastardization of the incredibly fine line of ‘keeping the peace.’
(Speaking of which, as much as Jeralyn’s more and more frequent comment deletions have become disturbing (would never post there myself), I am glad she’s highlighted the Sadists that the “Supreme” Court is filled with: Supreme Court Okays Visual Strip Searches of All Arrestees.
I likely disagree with her as regards to my belief, that even most, if not all, of the dissenters in that opinion, have partaken in their own sadism at some point ….in what never should have been …..their life long appointments; …never, ever, .. subject to the scrutiny, debasement and humiliation ….which they so blatantly and inhumanely impose on others.)
Yeah I was never a fan of Jeralyn…. and her stances on commenting make the place completely inhospitable imo… hilarious that she ended up as the nursery-in-detention for Arm*ndo.
Don’t say anything mean about Zimmerman!… LOL down in the dangling organ that is Florida… geesh what a circus. I’ve noticed several people have corrected her as she constatnly lets it seem that Zimmerman was official neighborhood watch, as in agreed to formally by residents and affiliated with the national org. Best of Luck to the homeowners… as it does seem the Retreat made him quasi official, in the limited extent.
yup, she deleted an entire sub thread of ZImmerman/farewell message to Jeralyn posts, after she deleted a photo link, replacing it with her own version. Then filled in the deleted space with a vapid non apology to a person who had been loyal to her for years, as if they’d never existed; topping the whole thing off by cutting off any further comments on the entire post.
A stunning dismissal of those she clearly considers her lessers, after all, she’s in it to support her income, no matter who she finds herself defending, that’s what “our glorious Capitalist system” is all about after all.
I don’t think it has worked, especially, to augment her income…. she veered from her original “goal” for the blog, not that that matters, but she also lost writers for the blog as she turned away from a somewhat 50/50 mix of politics wtih a lot of crime and criminal def postings…
Unelss someone sees her on cable, I don’t think any come to her anymore for on the spot commentary on crime and related matters, she used to comment from her home, a cam on her computer, for both CNN and MSNBC…
I don’t read her much, but her site loads easily for me so I was dropping in on her posts, despite all of her problems she did
m o s t l y keep to the facts in the case…
I am guessing… maybe Colorado… she might have strong pro gun views… no idea really. I always wondered at her being so often at Hunter S Thompson home, but I think she was or used to be the friend of his wife.
As for being a liberal, I’ve logn thought she is a phoney, just a plain old Democrat. Big whoop.
Oakland is on a hot plate today….
feds multiagency – what else? raided Oaksterdam U a very out there entity with classes in MJ cultivation and whatever else…. DEA and IRS in the raid… early they detained the head of it… haven’t seen an update
and
the mass killing which I assume is all over the news and the netteries…
******Banging head against the wall*****….
I am listening to a local talk show host, who pretends to oppose the ruling today in strip search, the Florence case…
but of course it is a handy election stick. He’s made a mess of it. People are not able to grasp it…. they just willy nilly assume that it would apply to the violent or the drunk, etc. ….
Best of luck if you are picked up on a leash law infraction… as that is the basis of one of the Appeals Court cases that gave rise to the ruling.
What a mess….
Ugh glad I wasn’t listening, I’m already in a foul mood today. I can well imagine that the case was seen as the perfect manner in which to further strike fear into the populace about neglecting to fastidiously dot their “i”s and cross their “t”s when dealing with AUTHORITY. As I recollect, a woman was sent to jail about a year ago for neglecting to pay a library fine.
I’m sure it was seen as a huge damper for all sorts of potential citizen protests, minor (refusing to pay what seem to be unfair fines, etc.) and major. SADISTS.
he concentrated on the elections angle, gotta elect Slobby cuz this was done by the wingers….
INSTEAD of pointing out the cases that gave rise to this ruling, not just Florence (whihc is apparently so fucking complicated that the NYT left out major aspects of the case) but appeals court cases to do wtih Leash Law, unlicensed driver and non payment of child support.
Gota elect Slobby…
I’m sure Slobby has no objections whatsoever to the ruling, it fits right in with the rest of his ‘policies,’ assassination and indefinite detention, sans charges, of citizens; jailing whistleblowers; etc…..
well I think he fully deserved the headline at Drudge a bit ago… wondering if he got “a leak” from the SC, below a pic of Kagan.
His silly “warning” to teh SC.
All you can do is laugh.
His Kagan appointment made me want to heave, wish I could laugh, …generally, I want to weep at the venal state of things … the level of malice is astounding.
well I didn’t care for either of his appointments… but Kagan was nothing but a Dem party operative. And a Clintonite, DLCer.
SMBIVA dug up sme good dirt on her father, who SLob and the system portrayed as some selfless Tenant Rights lawyer in NYC
yeah, Ms. Belize Club certainly was no prize either. (Ohh but they were both Wimmins!!!!! yeah ….jus like all those bitches in Cali …)
If I recollect, Glenn Greenwald ragged on Kagan’s ass too.
Turley was very opposed to sotomayor, by kagan I just basically passed out. “Another one…”
Found the Stop Me Before I VoteAgain link (wow….):
her family was pretty unnattractive… they sat behind her at the hearing looking like shtetl munchkins…. to be frank.
oh I should add… my very un PC nickname for EK was “Shreck-American”… I found it in a thread, somewhere…. it fit her.
unattractive indeed …, … truly fuckin nasty ….. and truly, …as if Obombster was not at all aware of that ‘untidy’ familial backdrop ….. when he chose her …..
well if he was, i am sure it was immaterial….
I’ll opt for Door Number Three™ hon: If he was [aware of the family backdrop] … , it was a qualifying, winning factor ….. in the selection. ….
All of these assholes agree… at some hearing in congress she and Thurgood Marshall III embraced each other and she chirped out, GOODIE! How are you!??
He is the piece of junk who serves on the board of CCA, Corrections Corporation of America…. along with a strong southern and midwestern slew of whites. He’s been there for years.
Irish Catholic Priest shares gay porn
How dare you speak ill of the 8th Sacrament!
Madman to Bhhm: Uhm, D U D E, There is no 8th Sacrament.
We live in sacrificial times!
apparently there is NOW.
hmmm from a new Campaign 2012 book from Mike Allen and Evan Thomas:
hmm Yes I can see that they struggled.
My guess is the delivery and imagery were even nuttier in person.
Good Luck!
Boiler? I think buy a new one…
Trees… call an arborist
Rocks? Oh that was a little too nutty for me to parse.
And all of a sudden you see him driving a tractor in your backyard,
Perfect for the young couple and Saturday morning lovemaking as the logging company rolls in and maniacal-tractor-driving Dad knocks out the back wall to get to the boiler in the basement.
CHOOSE your Daddy, folks.
As we must, right? And what a selection!
Don’t forget Barry Tucking the Girls In! Bombs at the ready!
CHOOSE your Daddy, people!
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Don’t forget Barry Tucking the Girls In! Bombs at the ready!
CHOOSE your Daddy, people!
(And fucking Bushiter so blithely hunting for the WMD under the Oval Office rug… )
Exactly! All fucking detached looneys…
Oh and Memsab on The Biggest Loser! Don’t miss it… all about health and wellness!!!!!!!
Tagg? Wtf is it with Republican politicians giving their children horrible names?
Shouldn’t Ann and Mittens be x examined on it, like Palin was…
think one of her kids was Trigg… and by now I forget the others…
But Mittens was a Mormon Bishop, mustn’t fuss TOO much…
What a pic atop thread.
And guess who is in Israel sucking up shmears?
Yes, because nothing says growth and mind expansion like –
Someone bombed the King David? Ya don’t say!?
LOL. Which they don’t! – Hmm, I wonder who was behind THAT?
: :
This comes as sentences are pending between now and summer against some half of those 44 busted ..the Pols, Orthodox rabbis, money launderers, black market organ sellers and the like in 2009 during Christie’s watch as US Attorney NJ in 2009. . Thing is , LOL, the “operation” is a goddam perpetual function here in Jersey, LOL, was going on long before Christie came in, sorta like regular vaccuming without necessarily moving the furniture just to keep up.
Anyways, the usual press organs, like here, are percolating up a line against the effrontery of cases being prosecuted, and for the local shmokel consumption here they are trotting out a Donk bullet dodger or two in the mix as excuse for the skank lot of them.
This just in! –
Oh Ya, same line on offer now in the provincial presses in NJ { the comment threads a hoot as they are uniformly calling BULLSHIT on it for the distraction it is, LOL, folks pretty much demanding heads-on-pikes regardless, LOL}
So there it is. Christie to the Holy Land for the talkin’ to ~~~
One other thing. This is shortly after he stepped up to the mic and offered up a timid Heya to the NYPD – all but along the lines of
So Ya wanna come into Jersey to investigate our Muslims?
Christie’s closer, literally, was, “Just let us know.” trailing off that all he wanted “was a call”. This was right after the pissed off head of FBI NJ, stepped out in rare public comment to the press and openly criticized the NYPD. This is one of the top Feds on Anti Terrorism involved in the FBI decision to NOT frame up that kid Pimentel when Bloomberg and Kelly were looking for a diversion while proceed apace at what they do: clubbing dissenters down wherever and whenever they feel like it.
So ya, the talkin’ to~~~
LINK to that last on the FBI presser….
I think groups should assume they are infiltrated, surveilled….. I mean, if they spy on Quaker anti war meet ups… they will spy on anyone.
I am unsure why MOSQUES think they should be exempt.
Back … maybe 2004 or so an horrific story broke out of CT, librarians investigated under the full fledged anti terror laws… It went on for two years. Educated, white LIBRARIANS…. under the anti terror laws for months they could not even figure out HOW to discuss it amongst themselves, how to tell spouses… Sounds nutty yes?
Get this, at one point they tried contacting Leahy, who was chair of the Judiciary (iirc) and he, as a Senator from VT would nto even speak to them.
Think of it.
Thsi piecemeal idea that my group should be exempt is a guaranteed failure.
Obama is no more the friend than Bushiter was. Or Clinton… or Papa Bush. Etc.
I agree. And the turf wars are nothing more than that…left unassailed is the surveillance state itself.
And Leahy? Pfft. So typical.
So, Donk fans ~~ Did Leahy vote to confim Scalia?
In that , uhm, 98-0 vote?
Why YES I think he DID!
oh yes he did confirm Scalia… and grandly says that he regrets it. “Regrets” and a dollar no longer buy coffee.. Nor much of anything else…
left unassailed is the surveillance state itself
BINGO!
Speaking of:
http://www.tomdispatch.com
You know in the first years after 9/11 Middle Easterner immigration to the US took a bit of a fall… gee what a shock. But soon it rebounded… and I always wondered WHY?
I would not come here…. I just would not. I am not saying other countries are not reactionary, rightfully or wrongfully, nor that other countries do not engage in internal spying… etc., but here you have a large, armed, volatile, domestic population.
Get real.
yup, in the $UZ$, we have a Sanctified Legislated Industrialized Self Hating Violence Culture, no small wonder that Blackwater>xe>Academi!!!!!!!™ birthed here (must not have abortions, no matter what beast might be born):
Well. You know our ethos. We own everything.
Yeah, but he got to be in the Batman movie.
oh I did not realise it…
One sweet thing this week was the Batman viral vid – and the story behind it…. the guy stopped in full Batman regalia… looked like a black Maserati too.
Thought of you hon (‘upthread’):
when I read Glenn’s piece on the Strip Search ‘Ruling’ today, The Obama DOJ and strip searches :
Jeezus fuckingloueez.
Between this and the news he wants to undo Head Start (Heritage Foundation is rully happy!)…
People should throw rotten tomatoes at him, esp when he speaks of those tired out props, the effing daughters.
oh ..I don’t know, … I think we should all pelt him with Hagus!!!! …. HeadCheese!!!!! ….. Ill prepared Chitlins!!!!!! …. and Gefelte (sorry about the spelling) Fish!!!!!!
The fact that Florence was unlawfully arrested (one could easily make the argument (and be correct), for being a ‘successful’ black male), as he had already paid the fine he was arrested for (which apparently isn’t even an arrestable offense in New Jersey), and the fact that unlawful, at the very least petty and maliciously punitive, arrests are rampant in this country makes the “Ruling” a PERMANENT BLOTCH on the “Supreme Court”…. and the near entirety of the Malarial Swamp, in DC.
Yes the Florence case is horrifying… And he and his wife had the original court doc and copies, showing that he had paid the fine (or whatever it was)….
But it also arose from Appeals court cases in Portland, SF CAlifornia… and hmm i think Atlanta… where undercourts sided with the individual but appeals courts found that a search, unfounded, is legal in detention arrest for
- LEASH LAW, the goddamned fucking leash laws…
- unlicensed driver
and
- non payment of child support.
fukcing insane.
off to do a “strip search” search, not sure what I’ll find, as the walls seem to be increasingly closing on tubes searches, I’m thinking that once they do away with hardcopies (under the auspices of the color [$]Green[$]) it will be immpossible to research anything in the digital world which doesn’t speak well of our Lords and Lordessas.
moiv says Digby posted the GG… I am having too much computer trouble to open it til I get a fresh connection, but here
Bi partisan Authority Everybody Wants…
That’s a pleasant surprise, though I question as to Digby stating that Obama’s support for the ruling was: a little known detail (and it’s kind of hard for the Dems to totally ignore Glenn). It might have been to her, but I’m thinking it wasn’t to most of the Big Dem Boyo Blawwgers ….
welp, most of the resulting search links were strip searches that were forced even though the targets were not arrestable (I’m sure the ‘Supremes’ will soon be giving those visual rapes the okey dokey also, some day soon):
Alum sues Georgia Tech for unlawful strip search
Ex-HPD [Houston Texas] officer pleads guilty in unlawful strip search
Lawsuit claims teens’ unlawful strip search in Alcorn [Corinth Mississippi] facility
The NYPD [Bronx] Has a Strip Search Problem
One of the ugliest of the non arrest, strip search rapes was done on a minor, during class hours, in Safford, Arizona:
ACLU Challenges Unlawful Strip Search Over Ibuprofen Allegation In School
These are the jail/prison related strip search links that came up on the first search results page (other than the Florence case and April 2012 links commenting on the “Ruling”):
ohhhhh Cali/Disney/HollowWood! …..
and
[Cook] County [Illinois] Settles Jail Strip-Search Case for $55M :
I’m sure the Captive Men’s Shower & Baths Warrior, Rahm, is now celebrating putting those sorts of penalties behind after putting abundant, behind the scenes energy into yesterday’s “Ruling.”
Unless it is another one, the 13 year old / Ibuprofen case came to the SCOTUS a couple years ago… Only because of Ginsberg who I think may have written the decision did it come down in her favor. The men did not understand why this was such an issue. Tells you something about what dumb bullocks of teens they were, young boys can often be very fragile.
No one likes to be sexually assaulted, which is what happened to the girl in her school. And then of course she never had the damned suspect OTC fucking ibuprofen, anyway…
I can imagine a point in the very near future, especially with Ginsberg retired, when any decision that miraculously makes its way to the “Supreme Court” will be decided in favor of ‘Lawful’ Rape by all in the position of Authority. Hell it’s been at that point for millions anyway, because most are not able to even ‘take on’ THE LAW in the courts.
Did you ever see the documentary “Hot Coffee” ??? Really good on how elusive justice is in the courts for civilian plaintiffs…
It’s about more than the McDonald’s hot cofee case…
No I haven’t, will keep my eye out for. Yeah, the BLOTCH on this “Nation” is that there never has been equal representation, and millions live in fear for the better part of their lives, despite astounding security and wealth right down the street from them.
Netflix has it… so I assume others do too…
maybe I can find it in a library, it’s been so wonderful over the years how libraries have carried not only books, but music and movies. Breaks my heart to see all of the scanner bots that have replaced librarians, and the hefty fees for the better libraries if a person lives somewhere with a shitty library, in Sly Con Valley.
Oh THANK YOU For that, I have already cut and paste and sent it around…
Fuck him. That and Head Start… jesusfuckingchrist.
thank you, … for allowing the voicing of it, … honey.
Black Marine veteran, 68, shot dead by police after wearable medical alert gadget went off in error
Just heartbreaking interview w/ the man’s son.
The link above links to the Democracy Now transcript:
link to the Democracy Now transcript
Fortunately now and in the past few weeks there is an uptick of interest in this case, but … think it happened in Nov of last year? they really struggled to get it noticed, from what I have read…
Oh re reading I see it was November…
So very sad.
and months and months of stonewalling …
Mike Bloomberg’s New York: Cops in Your Hallways
Jeebus … I can’t believe I never heard of this crazy shit before.
I wish people would realise they HATE EVERYONE. finally.
If the cops raping women in NYC and the fucking DA Cyrus Vance being such a total fuck up and the cases being utterly screwedddd up did not awaken anyone, nothing will. One cop raped a woman who testified against him, as revenge.
ugh I couldn’t live with that level of intrusion, right inside my building. Hell it makes the whole gated community concept look LOOSE.
ID can be demanded when you take your own garbage out?
Fucking hell.
I can’t believe no one has sued over it until now.
I think it is absolutely appalling that New Yorkers accept this. The whole thing, and so many things now, jsut smell of
N a z i. Totalitarian.
Really.
I see re reading it has been in since ’91… so Guiliani, if I am remembering years right. Honestly I don’t know what to say anymore. And I am sure it ramped WAY up after 9/11
Rudy put in place so much of this sort of shit.
He was so hateful… is so hateful. Lotta horrible mayors of NYC ugh Koch is another….
’91 would have been Dinkins.
ugh
thanks for that…
btw lucid… do you know anyone who lives in one of these buildings… and how pervasive is the intrusion?
I think the main reason for the lack of lawsuits is that other than class action suits, it is impossible to find attornies to represent a client with minimal resources and no one powerful in their corner.
I can’t recollect ever seeing a Civil Rights Attorney listed in the Yellow Pages, and over the years, I’ve looked numerous times. There has never, ever, been equal legal representation in this country. What legal representation there is for people with few resources and no power, is based on a Lottery System, and then, they better be prepared to kiss plenty ass and promise to vote Dem …. at the end of the day.
Well the Firm that Slobby worked for in Chicago, Judson Miner, calls itself a Civil Rights law firm, but it is really a fixer and facilitator firm. Go between firm…
One thing that DOES surprise me is that no one, with an atty RELATIVE, has not sued. It’s very hard to get attys to take small cases…. I doubt Elena Kagan’s dead dad is interested!
… 
But this is ripe for public interest law… which is who I assume handles what little agitation there is over this nasty law.
Occupy San Francisco Creates Social Center in Vacant Church Building
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