Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Gaza – armed Palestinian women – July 18 2006
Cover of the UK Independent – July 2006
needs no explanation… [map originally found at left i on the news]
Delhi – Friday prayers – July 2006
map of locations bombed in Lebanon – July 12 -25 2006 [13 of 34 days of the campaign]
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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.
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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.
[...]
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 
Israel suxks donkey dick http://www.flickr.com/photos/election2008/1133340483/
Hmm. I”ve never burned a flag. I feel like I’ve missed something in life. But I’m not likely to do it now that I’m over 30.
One thing that’s always puzzled me. When the shitstorm erupted over those Danish cartoons, where did everybody in the Middle East suddenly find a cache of Danish flags?
I’m assuming people in most Islamic countries keep a few Israeli and American flags on hand just in case the occasion should arise.
But Danish flags? I wouldn’t know where to buy a Danish flag in NYC on short notice. How do you find them in the Gaza strip?
How do you find them in the Gaza strip?
Well, it’s a pretty simple design: red with a white cross.
well I never bought into the big anti cartoons wave of protests. I frankly think the people, many of them, are too sophisticated for that. For one it came oout that they had been published in the ME (Egypt for one) some months before, to yawns.
ALos the addition of 4 new cartoons that were not part of the original set.
Did the nationalist Danish press work for a set up. Well yes.
Mostly manufactured, imo, from the get go.
hey, kittyherb, from the last thread:
Can you imagine the outcry if Canada had cut off fuel supplies to the US because we opposed the election of dubya?
What I CAN imagine is the waves of bombers and missiles that would head south if Venezuela cut off the US from THEIR fuel supplies.
from dkosser in the previous thread:
Well, the Ottoman Empire took in the Jews that were persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition – that ought to do you for a start.
The ignorance of Americans (and probably much of the rest of the world, too) about Islamic history and culture is astounding.
Well, it’s a pretty simple design: red with a white cross.
True. That Israeli flag above looks awfully home made.
What I CAN imagine is the waves of bombers and missiles that would head south if Venezuela cut off the US from THEIR fuel supplies.
No kidding, especially with oil prices at an all time high – again.
Auschwitz officer scrapbook — “the banality of evil”
Hair Club…we are the light of the world.
Having been to flag burnings… it is probably best to make your own. most flags are synthetic and dont really burn dramatically
Video of Medea on Hardball yesterday connecting the tasering of the student to the treatment that protesters get from the Donklephants.
Why don’t they just lock the door and put a password on the site… they aren’t even that damn interesting. Had there not been the brouhaha about Armando rigging the system in his favor and all the mechanizations making sure that Pro–Palestinian commentators were to be treated unfairly… there would be nothing to read…. BORING!!!!
budhy tries to qwell Opol & Diane W. sniping:
” We don’t let people attack Armando (0.00 / 0)
and we won’t let anyone attack you OPOL.
We would LIKE to keep everybody from attacking anybody.
But it seems like every high profile blogger attracts emnity (Hi GOTV!) so yes, we will take extra care with the high profile bloggers here. And try to keep existing fueds from spreading here.
You can call that a double standard or special priviliges or whatever you want. I see NO reason to allow fights from elsewhere to bloom here.
We are trying to cast off old ways and and find new solutions….Let’s try to cast off old fights……and create NEW fights!
If two people have a problem….just stay the fuck away from each other and there will be no problems here.
But like I say….I am cranky right now, so…
Reality is the result of war between two rival groups of progammers, so….Yell Louder!!!
by: buhdydharma @ Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 19:08:51 PM ”
be sure to wear a flower in your hair.
DramaLama:
You beat me to it, D Throat. 😉
a 3-peat!
We don’t let people attack Armando
Bend over, budhy. Maybe if he’s nice, he’ll kiss you first.
It’s nice to see someone calling Diane on her bullshit — I knew she could not possibly be fooling as many people as she thinks she is!
Well I don’t know why Diane didn’t use her pff “Cuntbitcheous” nickname over there at the pony place. (snort)
Someone should tell Diane W. buddy does not have a clue what karma is. He’s a taoist by his own admission, but has not bothered to read the texts. ~~~Like Markos being a libertarian.
I must admit I never did read much of what buddy said, I was taken in by his pretty pictures. There is a lesson somewhere there for me.
I wish Dhrama would just close the damn door and put a password on “his” site…. so that they could bore themselves to death…
Armando is only interesting when he is throwing flames… that is why he had to “out” himself when he became BTD… cuz no one paid the boring sod any attention.
Mind what I said —OPOL
Oh i have to laugh. What a HOOT! they are so desperate to lecture.
Because they are so WEAK.
Hey, buddy, I have not gotten an apology from Turkana for accusing me of chanelling shergald. Attacking me repeatedly and then banning me so I can’t defend myself. Kinda what the Zionists do to the Palestinians.
Marcat, great visuals.
FWIW, I’ve never seen the appeal of OPOL. He puts a bunch of references to the 60s in his diaries and ends by saying “impeach” or something like that. It’s not that I have anything against him. I just don’t see the appeal.
I think someone put steroids in Naomi Wolfe’s herbal tea. She’s beginning to sound like Naomi Klein.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/a-shocking-moment-for-soc_b_64909.html
HCfM–never cared for the pic diaries of anyone. all cheerleader, largely replacing MSOC rants on DK.
I liked OPOL’s determination. As for buhdy, people who continually post ponies (and people who are happy happy all the time) kind of annoy me.
ANOTHER 56 vote :Failure:… the Democrats ae barn animals. Led around by their little toes. Rings in their noses, choke chains on their necks. And they agrew witht he Republicans.
HCfM — I cant stand him. not him but his diaries… I am one of the those punk xers who rejected his entire culture. I might find it annoying but it really doesnt resonate with anyone under 55 IMO. None of his iconography is in our memories. It just seems very dated.
I really cant stand people who want the drag us back 40 years in realtio to waht is going on today. Like his valentine to Joan Baez
“She has not only fought, but has led us through many righteous battles.”
Even people my age dont know hwo the fuck she is and if the do she is usually derided
In spite of the pony pics and the LOLs and the !!!s, budhydrama never struck me as a happy person.
I’m not surprised he’s never read any of the literature of the spirituality he pretends to espouse. He’s a phony like so many of them.
The internet attracts fakers and con artists of all stripes. I’ve been on it for 18+ years and have seen many unsavory things.
Loved Didion’s essay on Joan Baez–“Where the Kissing Never Stops”
Wakee wakee:
Be sure and vote for Bloooooooooo Dogs. And then fundraise for them. Then slurp for them. Then vote for them, then fundraise for them, then slurp for them.
And repeat. Then when you whine and moan, check for a diaper pin stuck in your flesh.
Like his valentine to Joan Baez
I like Joan Baez.
But it seems to me as if framing the opposition to Bush and the war in Iraq in terms of “culture” is diluting the opposition.
There’s a reason I/P diaries are banned at the Daily Kos. They directly impact on the Middle East.
But 60s hippie culture is harmless. Most of the deadheads I knew growing up were Republicans.
And it’s not just the 1960s. If I were to post diary after diary with the theme of “well if Kurt hadn’t shot himself he’d be opposing this war” I’d bore myself too.
I might find it annoying but it really doesnt resonate with anyone under 55 IMO. None of his iconography is in our memories.
I’m 48 and remember those images well. Then again, I was heavily influenced by my brother, “Mike, the hippy”.
In spite of the pony pics and the LOLs and the !!!s, budhydrama never struck me as a happy person.
Didn’t mean to say he was. That’s why I put the “happy people” thing in brackets.
“# 11 Rev – can’t the Chinese make anything properly? We want our protest flags made out of cotton – Indian or Egyptian will do, but we do still have some good old fasioned American cotton, I think unless were grinding all the seeds up to fry up our freedom fries or stick in our gas tanks.
27- Hair, I’m not sure about Naomi W, I’ve read a lot of her writing and these latest pieces doesn’t sound much like her. However I gather she has a book coming out and is energetically flogging it so she’s liable to say anything. She does have a sensationalistic bent so it could be that she’s switching it over from sexuality/woomyinish stuff to panic about American Fascism.
Can we expect another “buck up!” diary from kos? lol
She does have a sensationalistic bent so it could be that she’s switching it over from sexuality/woomyinish stuff to panic about American Fascism.
She’s right though about the public tasing being training to accept fascism.
I argue that strategists using historical models to close down an open society start by using force on ‘undesirables,’ ‘aliens,’ ‘enemies of the state,’ and those considered by mainstream civil society to be untouchable; in other times they were, of course, Jews, Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals. Then, once society has been acculturated to that use of force, the ‘blurring of the line’ begins and the parameters of criminalized speech are extended — the definition of ‘terrorist’ expanded — and the use of force begins to be deployed in HIGHLY VISIBLE, STRATEGIC and VISUALLY SHOCKING WAYS against people that others see and identify with as ordinary citizens.
Omar Khadr is spending his 21st birthday in Gitmo, speaking of the failure to restore habeus corpus.
41-let me guess-he got chicken L’orange? (waitaminute, that would be a great name for a blog…)
I try to expand upon my piece yesterday about the tasering to connect it to the broader, older and much more dangerous growth of police brutality and the injustice system, which seems to fit well with HCfM’s quote from Wolf:
Shout “Fire” in a Burning Country.
Sarkozy announces 22,000 civil service job cuts.
Marisa and D. Throat #146 & 147 – sigh — I know. It’s takes a bigger man or woman than MB to resist being made (or making oneself) the center of a personality cult. And there are always so many people so eager to join one. Yes, they are all variations of Elmer Gantry. Some more venal than others but none helpful. That’s why I liked Sy Hersh’s take on Abu Ghraib and the war in general when he said that adults in every country have a duty to protect the young from being sent into such places. An adult MB would reject being a center of attention or enabling the others in the creation of their cults. I’m glad I finally watched a snippet from the beginning of yrlykos the other day because within less than 30 seconds, it was obvious that Kos is nothing but a snake oil salesman and not a very sophisticated one at that.
I also know that I give men like MB lots of breaks, try not to trample on their fragile egos, and yet, I’m still considered to be a bitch by most men. How dumb does that make me. Might as well tell them what I really think and not waste anytime for them to start shouting, “Bitch, bitch…” Years of working in a male field has socialized me to be kind to the men– so, at least I have an excuse for my passivity that isn’t inherent.
I’m not sure why there’s so much mystery about Meteor Blades. He’s another Gitlin/Marc Cooper/David Corn Vichy leftist who thinks he needs to suck up to the LGF crowd to stay “credible”.
As to his being good or bad, it’s not really the right framing. He’s neither good nor bad. That’s the point. These people simply aren’t. They’re interchangeable. It’s not the banality of evil. It’s the banality of banality.
And for the most part, this type doesn’t even make it in terms of simple capitalist success. Genuine radicals like Michael Moore or Amy Goodman or Naomi Klein seem to get it both ways. They don’t have to suck up and they make $$$.
The Meteor Blades of the world are eternally bowing and scraping for little scraps (that article in Salon, that front paged article at Kos, that post by Andrew Sullivan or Tucker Carlson that “Mr. Meteor Blades may be a a liberal but he’s one I like”).
You knew the type in high-school. They stayed late to bang erasers after class. They made a point about hating punk or rap or whatever and tell their teachers they really liked Mozart and or that “well the music in the 60s was just better”.
If there of the male variety, girls don’t like them and they wonder why.
If they’re of the female variety they get progressively more reactionary as they get older (as opposed to the male variety who just get progressively more banal).
They’re not worth worrying about.
The return of Joe the Fixer
“Should I feel SHAME every time I talk about my breasts?”
it goes on from there
rev–talk about your breast anytime you want.
let me guess feminakoyanaqattsisms?
Larry in NYC is tenaciously leading the charge against Moran in the Michael Lerner diary.
I still think Chomsky got it right in his critique of the Walt/Mersheimer book. It’s not really about AIPAC. It’s about American corporate and military dominance.
AIPAC’s convenient when you want to set up the next Hitler of our time to attack.
So many people hate AIPAC now that you’d think American policy towards I/P would change.
But think about it. The approval rating for the war in Iraq is at an all time low and there’s no chance the US is pulling out, ever.
AIPAC’s one crime family among many (AIPAC, the NRA, the oil industry, the Xtian right, the health care industry). Sure, if you piss off the Luchese family, they’ll put a hit out on you. But if you wiped out the Luchese family there’d be another one to take it’s place.
It’s the system, not one ethnic lobby.
Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity
I hope he’s careful, else he end up dead like Pat Tilman.
well AIPAC is one of many. The pro israeli greased by cash congress, MEI, MEMRI, others, MIC, the neocon themselves, the hard right think tanks, the post retirement contracts that mil get if they play “right”, the contracts either at home or in the ME, whether Israel or SArabia, etc.
it’s the whole of it. AIPAC is known as they are prominent, sponsor the famous annual dinner, the troooping of the congressional colors (green and yellow, I would say!)… and so on.
Now LarryNYC, MBNYC, and the rest of the gang are trying a flanking maneuver. They’re saying “oh I like Michael Lerner but his 9/11 Truth stuff was hard to swallow” while at the same time saying “you don’t talk this way about the Irish”.
Well, the Irish aren’t the Israelis. They’re the Palestinians, if the Palestinians happened to be white, Christian and the largest single European ethnic group in the USA and the British are the Israelis.
The pro israeli greased by cash congress, MEI, MEMRI, others, MIC, the neocon themselves, the hard right think tanks, the post retirement contracts that mil get if they play “right”, the contracts either at home or in the ME, whether Israel or SArabia, etc.
Well, the interests of the arms industry and the Israeli lobby coinicide nicely. When they don’t, the Israeli lobby gets smacked down.
Remember a few months ago how they were whining through their contacts in the press about how the US military isn’t buying their super duper anti-IED system?
How much have you heard about it since. Even the Israeli lobby isn’t messing with Lockheed Martin.
I also think there are a number of dead hooker in the Casino (see Godfather II) incidents and photos of hot gay sex in reserve to, um, persuade all those congressman who come back from all those nice junkets to Israel to vote their way.
But in some ways this debate on the Lobby is a nice outer perimeter of defense for the ruling class.
There’s so much pressure not to criticize the lobby that it’s a struggle to criticize the lobby. It’s like a bad lawsuit. It sucks down your energy.
And when you win, you get to be Pat Buchanan.
The Lobby’s great at this kind of distraction. Think about how LGF and Michelle Malkin start shreiking bloody murder every time some public person is seen wearing a Kafihyeh (someday I’m going to learn how to spell that and bourgieosie).
Well, I can say “hey fuck you I’m wearing my Kafiyeh” and guess what, no intelligent person cares.
Richmond VA City Democratic Committee Passes Bush-Cheney Impeachment Resolution Using Jefferson’s Manual
HC:
Which is fine so far as it goes, but by the same token I’ve heard apologists for AIPAC-driven policy deny that Palestinians are suffering under a system that looks like apartheid, walks like it, quacks like it, etc.
Not anyone here, of course.
If hegemony has more than one locale, than obviously so do the oppressed. I don’t like the apologists hiding behind me while they try to have their cake and eat it, too. 😦
HC
I agree as to who is on top. And to the blackmail.
I wish they’d all drown in the shrinking Dead Sea.
If you want to know why the Donklephants WON’T stop the war, why they SUPPORT the war, then go read this.
The numbers in the rest of the article are stunning, and I bet they’re only the visible foam on the top of a vast sea of blood.
MitM # 51
Bruce Wilson had a diary yesterday about MTTF, featuring the Jeremy Hall case.
MRFF Lawsuit Alleges Mandatory Christianity in US Military
but by the same token I’ve heard apologists for AIPAC-driven policy deny that Palestinians are suffering under a system that looks like apartheid, walks like it, quacks like it, etc.
Oh, I’m not defending Israeli attitudes towards the Palestinians. It’s racism tinged with a weird sort of (shall we say) sense of “caste” (in the sense that “caste” is more than just racism or class). Read enough hard core lobby writing on the Palestinians and it feels like you’re reading a high caste Indian talking about an untoucable. It’s not secular. It’s very baroquoe and really not something I entirely understand.
But Moran wasn’t even talking about the Palestinians. He was talking about the Lobby’s influence in the invasion of Iraq (which was considerable) and the power “American Jews” would have had to stop it (to which I’d say “are you kidding”. Bush/Cheney don’t give a flying fuck what Jews or anybody else thinks).
In a sense, Moran was talking to Jews the way Bill Cosby was talking to blacks. He was wagging his finger and saying “well you people have to do better”.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/26973“>Specific Suggestion: General Strike
moiv … that is a fantastic video. Thanks so much for the link.
I’m looking forward to their upcoming lawsuits and more details. Is he posting it eventually at Talk to Action eventually?
oops, not video, LINK.
I’m losing it.
Aaarrghh. I would like to work towards a world in which supposedly feminist women DO NOT TALK ABOUT THEIR BREASTS ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Or their SHOES. Or their CLOTHES. Or SEX.
Really, folks, it’s not too difficult. There are many other topics to be interested in, and women are more than just bodies to be ogled, fucked, and adorned.
HC #46 Almost too good, but whaddya mean the music wasn’t better in the ’60s?
Not to select out that comment, but you’re on a roll this evening. Or maybe it’s just me because I”ve been getting the jokes here the past couple of days. (I know, I know, in some ways I’m slow.
On that General Strike thingy – American’s aren’t personally hurting enough to go there yet. Which is why I proposed a one hour (lunch hour) stand on the streets. Start there and if needed, work our way up to a full day, It’s not something that’s in the genes of Americans or we bred those out of our genes with our creepy corporate sponsored nationalism and militarism
Fortress America, but protecting us from what?
Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why
I posted a Times link that just went into spam.
Arthur Magazine’s Magpie blog has good pic of the die in in DC last Saturday.
#59. Smedley Butler must be rolling over in his grave.
31. Revisionist
I didn’t really enjoy OPOL’s appropriation of Hunter Thompson’s image one time. HST was not a hippy dippy lefty, and always exaggerated that stuff, especially the drugs. I’m only 30 and even I know that.
Everytime you think you’ve heard it all (found via Balloon Juice):
U.S. Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees
moive and MitM thanks for the posts on the religion and the military. Only got through a couple of minutes of that video. Cults creep me out. Be they Mormon, “New Age” or Campus Crusade for Christ (first ran into those guys in the late sixties and they were nasty if you weren’t with them).
SV – those are just narcissists that co-opt the language of feminism and turn it inside out because they think it makes them look cool. When in fact it just makes them look like garden variety misogynsts circa 1958 with a Britney Spears fetish or fantasy.
Almost too good, but whaddya mean the music wasn’t better in the ’60s?
Speaking of the 60s, this is pretty contemporary. 60s music and 2007 politics.
#70 – along with Harry Truman.
Madman —
Bruce usually posts first at TTA, and I don’t know why he hasn’t posted this piece there yet. But here’s the index of all TTA stories on Dominionism in the Military. There’s some good stuff there.
#73 HC – thanks that’s pretty good (except for the inclusion of Elian that has nothing to do with the theme and is really gratuitous).
Guess when I think comtemporary, I think of Hip Hop and Rap which I loathe. Love the post GWB comment Dixie Chicks.
Thanks moiv … I’ll keep an eye out for more developments in his work on those lawsuits.
I found an interesting piece by Folkbum.
Now, that’s not a surprise to us, but he takes it a step further and plugs in the various presidential candidates into the Political Compass thing, using their voting records and public documents. NONE of us would be surprised that ALL of them are in the upper-right, RIGHT/AUTHORITARIAN quadrant of the field. Hit the link, take a look. It’s depressing, but not surprising.
Marx is a Communist, not a socialist.
I took the test and came out as a left libertarian. Then I clicked recommended reading for left libertarians and got books by Eric Alterman and Benjamin Barber.
Hmmmm…….
There is lots of good stuff out there Marie, it’s just hard to find, not flogged by the labels or radio or “music” (once in a while) video stations.
For good rap, there is Spearhead/Michael Franti, Common, Jurrassic Five … and I’m old and out of touch since I left NYC, so there is probably new guys this old fart no longer hears about. There is lots of good folk and “Americana”/American Roots/alt-folk/singer-songwriter/whatever-the-fuck-you-want-to-call-it coming out, like the new Joe Henry (not to mention all of the great stuff he produces these days), Steve Earle, Patty Griffin. Page through No Depression magazine at your local big bookstore for some good reviews and interviews. Some great metal and hard-to-catagorize progressive stuff (like on Mike Patton’s Ipecac label) is also out there. Oh, and Bluegrass has got LOTS of good stuff happening (it may not be traditional, but Jim Lauderdale has a couple of great Bluegrassish discs out). Oh, and some great so-called “World” (ie, not white Americans/Brits) music is out there too.
I’d have provided links, but the resulting singularity caused by WordPress trying to put a multi-linked post into uber spam might have destroyed the interweb and all silicone-chipped devices wired or wi-fied into it.
when I take that compass thing, my little dot is struggling to get off the grid. Away from the whole thing.
actually, I shouldn’t have typed ALL of them, Kucinich and Gravel are in the “left/libertarian” quadrant. I end up WAY down in the lower left-hand corner.
Oh, the Alterman thing is funny. I’d stick him nearish the center in the left/authoritarian catagory.
I’m somewhere down by Gandhi. It’s been a while since I took that test.
Left I on the News: Sept. 15 Antiwar Demonstration: The Speeches.
He’s also got a quickie up about the silliness out of the Bush Admin and Israel complaining about Iran saying they would retaliate if they are attacked.
Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26
I’ve never even bothered to take the Political Compass thingie.
Marie, MitM is right, there’s a lot of really great music out there, but it usually doesn’t get on the mainstream radio playlists, or into the mainstream press. Often it doesn’t even get into this country! Most of the singers I listen to sing in a foreign language, for example, this guy.
Madman
thanks for the link to Arthur mag and the photos/DC
#82 – Marisa, sadly I’m on the grid, but lower and to the left of DK. No wonder I can’t stand any of these politicians — we don’t belong in the same species.
#86 – you’re almost off the grid there too. Today I’m only -7.xx econ and -6.xx on the other one.
woo hoo, a new PJ Harvey comes out next week!
IOZ pegs the latest Donklephant “failure”:
Could Be, Who Knows
Catnip It’s true Butler must be rolling over in his grave. I betcha he’s still pissed his folks named him Smedley though 😀
Joe Lieberman, by the way, discussed Presidential election primary reform before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee today. He claims he wants integrity and fairness restored to Presidential elections.
Joe Lieberman believes elections should be fair.
These people are shameless.
29. liberalcatnip – 19 September 2007
I liked OPOL’s determination. As for buhdy, people who continually post ponies (and people who are happy happy all the time) kind of annoy me.
That’s just it. He’s NOT happy happy all the time. Buddybuddhaboy is a very angry person–shockingly so in his emails to me, and again on Politicalfleshfeast and on “his” blog. The “Up With People!” attitude never fooled me, but those who are shocked were those who were gulled by his mask.
The mask is now off. Buddyboy is a sociopath like the rest of the blogging barons. Somebody really ought to study the mentality of these people who are drawn to start political blogs, but really, truly hate people. Booman, MSOC, Buddyboy, Kos, Armando–all of them narcissistic and paranoid and prone to projecting their own Grand Canyon-sized faults onto others.
Grand Canyon?
oh, and it took me a while to catch up on the huge backlog you people create while I’m at work staring at spreadsheets and cutting and pasting boilerplate into documents, but I just wanted to thank Steven D for stopping by and reminding me that I’m “controversial”. Warmed the cockles of my heart.
65. supervixen – 19 September 2007
Aaarrghh. I would like to work towards a world in which supposedly feminist women DO NOT TALK ABOUT THEIR BREASTS ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Or their SHOES. Or their CLOTHES. Or SEX.
I agree. I would like to build a world in which women talk about ME all the time. In a favourable manner, of course.
But that’s just the point: the “feminist” women on DailyKogs are a bad parody of actual feminists–they are what Markos Moulitsas thinks is “chick talk”. Why do you think his wife’s blog is titled “Mother Talkers”? Why not “Father Talkers”? It’s “Mother Talkers” and not “Father Talkers” because a woman is not a full-fledged person but rather a function derived from her relation to men: mother, wife, sister, daughter, whore, lover, saint.
Not exactly a new attitude, but nonetheless depressing to see so many men, and women, still hold it.
yvw, Marisacat. I like Arthur’s website a lot. Unfortunately, the only indie record store in town that distributes the paper version is way outside of my usual haunts and travel routes … and the local bus service being the increasingly shitty (and declining, thanks to the wingers in the ‘burbs who control the budget) and sporadic crap that it is, not worth the long time and multiple transfers it would take to get there just to get a free paper, even though it’s only about 4 miles from my apt.
Their takedown of Godsmack last year for selling their music to the Pentagon for recruiting is classic.
Markos’s wife is also an operative. It is his sad attempt to control the minds of soccer moms.
#93 – anti – you have to understand holy Joe – he truly believes if elections were fair he would be living in the WH today.
#94 – they’re all fascist libertarians. Living in the third dimension of that grid. otherwise known as la-la land.
Sweet dreams everybody. Thanks for the great links and “conversation” (bloggersation), as usual.
Oh, and I especially want to thank our hostess for putting together such effective and powerful reminders of what our 51st state is doing to the Palestinian people. I can always count on you for great stuff from publications that I forget to check in on often enough.
“See” ya’ all on the ‘morrow.
I sometimes wonder if these events occur for a reason.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5149608.html
ST. GEORGE, Utah — The two people at the center of a criminal case against a polygamous-sect leader have painted dramatically different pictures of their arranged marriage.
A young woman said she tearfully objected and was forced to have sex against her will when she was just 14.
Her tears? Her husband didn’t recall any during the 2001 wedding ceremony and insisted it was the teen bride who snuggled up to him to have her back scratched before their first sexual encounter.
“I believe that every story needs two sides for the truth to come out,” Allen Steed said Wednesday as he testified for the defense.
#98 – re: Sully – guess they don’t teach logic in schools anymore. The guy isn’t completely factually challenged (although he doesn’t seem to have a clue about anything outside the US) but he can’t string them together to reach a logical conclusion. Yeah we do bad things but that’s okay because it keeps me free to do my thing. Why not just say, we’re fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them here.
Capitalism has created a new equation:
money=crack=child
Across Missouri: St. Louis man sentenced to five years in sex trafficking case
ST. LOUIS | Man sentenced in sex trafficking case
A St. Louis man was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a case in which federal prosecutors have said a child was essentially bought and sold for crack cocaine.
Darrill Gray, 51, pleaded guilty April 26 to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a juvenile. Co-defendant John Geiler Jr., 36, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison on Aug. 17 on the same charge.
In January, Geiler took a 17-year-old girl to locations in Jefferson County and St. Louis to work as a prostitute. He provided her with crack cocaine, according to court records.
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/276075.html
If the liberal blogosphere was truly liberal, we would discuss the reasons why these and other events occur.
Catnip It’s true Butler must be rolling over in his grave. I betcha he’s still pissed his folks named him Smedley though
Maybe “Smedley” was a hot name at the time. 😉
Okay now – just to clear up this minor point – I didn’t say budhy was one of those “happy people”. They just popped into my head when thinking of people who annoy me (besides those who, like budhy, post pony pics).
Carry on.
180,000 private contractors flood Iraq
anti hege
issues of forced sex, sex work/workers, porn, etc., have been discussed here, some months ago. Several times.
Buddhist monks protest in Burma. Go dudes!
Re: the ongoing Warren Jeffs trial, the Salt Lake Trib has more than we ought to want to know.
Not in those words . . .
monks…
i was going to blog that catnip… i have been following it for a few weeks. at first i thought it was weid because they are buhddist monsk and have been getting violent. but i read up on it and they have been a driving political force for years. The governemnt goes lightly on them because the people would go apeshit if they really cracked down.
“I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world,” Giuliani told a small group of reporters
Yes, right up there with OJ, GWB, Homer and Tom Cruise. A small time murderer and thief, a big time murderer and big thief, a cartoon and one tht does his best to act like a cartoon. Good company Rudy, but what does it mean? It’s not like the world gets to vote and if they did they wouldn’t be voting for you or GWB. He so much wants to be part of the famous killers gang but famous cartoon is about all she wrote for Rudy. (Although I must question his claim — Rudy who? is more likely in most of the world.)
Mama and Papa Butler made up for naming him Smedley when they gave him the middle name of Darlington.
What else could he have grown up to be but a Marine?
Marie,
add Michael Jackson to the list.
If Guiliani pushes this, he gets the list that is…
Smedley was the one who fired on Tampico where I used to vacation
Marisa, I knew that I was missing a biggie. That should knock out either Homer or Cruise but they’re both so perfect in their own way that I can’t decide.
Moiv – imagine what Semdly could have become if only his mother had nameed him Rhett.
#105, liberalcatnip.
They’re happy because they have a simple mind and don’t question anything to closely. IMO.
I did like all those buddhist photos buddy posted. But now I know he’s a fraud. And as usual, things are not what they seem.
This quote explains it all:
“We were taught there is no force in the Celestial Kingdom,” said Margaret Thomas, 31. ”If we want to be there, we have to be there by our own choice.”
http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_6934598
That is quite the convenient arrangement the boys out in Utah enjoy with their little slave girls.
But according to thereisnospoon, there is no rape.
There are way too many exclamation marks at DocuDrama.
Yes, Marie, but Smedley made Major General, and in my copy of GWTW, Rhett was only “Captain” Butler. 😉
They’re happy because they have a simple mind and don’t question anything to closely. IMO.
Or they’re Christian evangelists. Oh wait – same thing.
I did like all those buddhist photos buddy posted. But now I know he’s a fraud. And as usual, things are not what they seem.
Well I don’t know how you call yourself a Taoist and then admit you never studied Taoist texts. I guess I could say I’m a biker, even though I don’t have bike or know anything about them. It just sounds k3wl, doesn’t it?
NEW Video from AQ… audio clips from Osama!
i knwo christians who have never read the bible.
LOL….and today he’s a zen monk. What a jokester.
I think I’ll be a pope tomorrow. Better crochet myself the hat.
HA!!!
DHgottafindaJOB is auditioning as a “Democrat” on the front page of DK.
He has managed to push all the right “left wing” buttons by a stating and restating the obvious. Instead of the usual “Fuck Bush” useless diatribe … all DH could muster was this little known obsolete GOPer Boogie man… of no consequence. Kinda like the ones that he made Hodes retract his support from a very well like Democrat in NH.
I guess this is DH’s “I’ll show ’em whose boss” diary… of course once again DH’s “courage” only comes from surrounding himself with sycophants…. it is one thing to tell off GOPers from the safety of the DK front page… but DH crapped in his pants when he was confronted in an all blue district in and all blue state… he choked like the coward he is….
But what makes this diary different from all the rest he has made in the past 4 years is this is the first one he hasn’t called a commentor and “asshole” or attacked “voting Democrats”.
Of course the usual suspects and his BFF Meteor Blades showed up to give emotional support.
Someone in the thread should yell “GOPER” just to watch DH crawl under his desk “Where?”.
DH: By the way, if you want a copy of Vale of Tears, prices on Amazon start at the laughably low $1.86.
And, if you want a copy of Crashing the Gate, prices on Amazon start at the laughably low $5.13.
#122 – Rev – few Catholics read the Bible. They just stick with the excerpt in their missals.
#126 lc – I don’t know why anybody would read those books let alone pay money for them. Contemporary political and vanity political books are just dreck. They have no perspective nor insight. Really pisses me off when I pay good money for a crappy book. “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” was a rip off I’m still kicking myself about.
Well DH ought to know since they scared the shit out of him and… he ran as far from the Democratic candidate as possible … lest his boss be painted with the same crooked brush… then DH shat in his pants. I am positive during this whole brouhaha in NH… DH was happily bashing and tearing apart “Democratic voters” in the threads of Daily Kos…. COWARD.
Miss D – somebody’s crystal ball has a surprise in it for you. And not one of those welcome ones.
Big Nanny is after directed energy weapons. She;s going to tase us all
http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=410
129 ….
From the diary:
hey moiv are you a TU?
new post/thread
LINK
Good visuals up there, Marisa. Very relevant to the currently and always messier mess they are making in “the region.”
I have precious little time to post or even read blogs these days, but must say, after taking a little time to read the last thread, such a loser, that docudharma post that says I/P discussions are banned. The edict seems to be – just lift and separate the two, or no go, no how. Wow. That is so par for the taboo course. Dont tell me that blog is touted as progressive antidote to the status quo.
Just D-O-N-‘-T.
Please.
Later!