Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Amritsar, India: Idols of the Hindu god Ganesh are displayed at a roadside stall [Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty]
… to the animal gods. Better than what they throw at us to worship…
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
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"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
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"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
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"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
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on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
Moving Madman’s last couple of comments forward… sorry for the bad timing of the new thread…
Wrist-slap and Tickle: Obama Goes Mild on CIA Torture
Another from Madman….
a comment over there:
lol
Third from Madman
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AND he put up a vid from Real News, on the Palestinian water supply being stolen… here is the link to the comment with the vid… 😉
I’m all link happy. Heck, here’s one more:
The Further Pillage of New Orleans: Shady Bush Cronies Sold Us Faulty Pumps
KGO tonight is in lunatic land. The evening host is saying “in the Fall we begin the serious debate on Health Care”.
Wow. Been in a hole for a couple of months? In a coffin? Sealed room?
shucked off that mortal coil.
Market Update: Incense Futures UP.
Enough to Burn an Extinction Level Event in the Ozone UP..
Well.. the next few days the post mortem slobber is going to take down more than a few Republicans, AND a good chunk of us left on the Left.
Fortunately, I went long on incense futures.
Unfortunately, I can see the Enormous Smog Wall of Death coming over the Horizon already and shouldn’t be far behind Ted when the Solar Radiation caused by the Smoke of his funeral consumes the East Coast first.
Not even a leftover platter…..
And Just when everything was going so well.
I see Truthdig already has a remembrance up to Teddy.
Pardon me, they have FOUR up… and it is only 1:40 am on the Pacific Ocean. 4:40 am ET.
gah.
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Truly we have scraped bottom, in a bottomless sea. Ruth Marcus, lame brain that she is, claims that only Grassley can save bi partisan health care.
And i am sure Ob would have it no other way.
How’s that vote working out for those that b e l i e v e d.
Cue Northeast Clusterfuck as the Mass. Donks figure out Who How and When they
A. – either give appointment Powers to Deval-u (which why the fuck would they do that he has a sipper cup of juice now)
OR
B.- schedule Special Election to replace Dead Ted within 145 to 165 days…
It was all such shit for so many reasons… but if that 60 votes was car…it might as well have been sold in mint condition by one long lived little old lady…. Mary Jo Kopechne. Alive and well and going strong…Neither dust nor a scratch on any of em…
I’m out
Douglas Brinkley already pushing Teddy’s book, “his last words”. In bookstores in October… make a note!
Sell that book, hoist that barge, hook that voter…
… and so on.
they have their martyr to sell the fake reform now.
well it may get used, but I doubt it would do it. But blither on they will……………
BTW, the wages of sin (went over to read at Sully’s even as he is on “bloggatical” – really, they use that word): i now know that the “birthers” want to know if Pretzel is circumcised.
We are way past “boxers or briefs”…. I think.
La voila:
Byrd wants health bill renamed for Kennedy
They are rushing the book out! It will be on the stands on 9/14!!!!
get inline NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well…your gov’t certainly can’t afford to lose a liberal. There are so few of them. I thought it was absurd that Kennedy threw his support behind Obamalama but…flashback…
Welp.
There goes the Toaster for opening a new account.
was charged with making terroristic threats after he repeatedly called Center State Mortgage on Route 9
Someone goes insane in an insane world… and is a terrorist. Charged under the Anti Terror laws, who knows how long he may spend in jail… Summers, Bernanke and Geithner are safe in their ruinous jobs however.
Carry on! Pray every morning and night, and! esp!! don’t smoke!
unless he makes those threats to a women’s health provider. No problem then.
yup…
o-h-h-a shit…
BIG fuckin Bust…..Spread that Love around…
In other News, the White House Immediately Announced Plans for
an “unprecedented” 6 MONTH LONG Kennedy Funeral. LOL
FEC records coming up in a bit…
isn’t that dicey… Anyone who can pay off a 74 million dollar debit in a day is up to no good.. I don’t care what the cover story is!! There is another Bid D arrest running aorund too… involves bombs. Glenn the Instapundit is hot on it for days…
and sotto voce... I notice Jimmy keeping quiet that Teddy finally bit the bullet (oh that was so rude of me!)
I missed it…The FEC shows he was dropping max donations straight Reid and Schumer —> within the last two months..< —
Big Drops on DSCC thoughout…
Other Prob…He's Iranian…not that it matters to me, he's prolly a Pahlavi-ite but we can see where that's headed..
Rather than take up thread space ( A miracle! )
The FEC search is quite the howl two pages
…Last name..Nemazee , First Name Hassan…LOL
Hor’s d’oeuvres passed around to everybody from Barbara Boxer to Jesse Helms and Kay Bailey HairHelmetson! ( a few grand here and there..) Otherwise a straight to the Top Kick to Hillary Schumer and the DSCC, Reid in line as recently as JUNE.
I wanna check the flow to Rangel and Menendez via PACs,, hard to keep track of one misleading Apple Pie Name from another…
Oh PS think it was noted yesterday that his beloveds will be only returning the actual monies HE gave them… and not the bigger bundler amounts he engineered in their direction.
Here is the schedule… so people can attend at the TV or hide… (LOL)
Biden is choking up! (why stop!? choke on!)
If you have to fly to pay your proper respects, make sure to thank Teddy for the shitty service on the airlines he helped deregulate. If you’re driving, make sure you thank him for that speeding trucker who nearly ran you off the road:
Worked out pretty well, wouldn’t you say?
Adam Clymer may be a shit (or whatever Bush 2 called him on an open mic) but he is very smart on politics. And back then (20 + years ago) Richard Cohen still breathed.
the two of them here are acting as shills however.
yup, and selling the narrative that is being pushed, that he was a “real” liberal, but what made him GREAT was his selling out his constituents and working with Republicans.
Stoppppppppppppp the presses!
Obama is to deliver the Eulogy on Saturday…
ratings will have a dead cat bounce. ‘Til the old people catch on to NO COLA raises… (maybe Ted can send some cash from the grave)
Obama is to deliver the Eulogy on Saturday…
Oh ffs. Really. He knew him all of 2 minutes.
wescue the watings. Don’t think it will have long effect however.
“The Teddy Kennedy Memorial Bridge over Troubled Waters Forced Health Insurance Act”
No doubt.
It promises in the policy not to abandon you when you’re drowning in medical bills.
and then, of course, it does.
then teddy runs over and says there is a clause in invisible ink that he, personally, will take care of you. ”the dream shall not die”, he says
then he runs off and is not seen again.
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i read today he bought the damned bridge at chappaquidick — and had it removed to his property.
Interactive Map: U.S. Airstrikes in Pakistan on the Rise
GQ is running a profile of Teddy from almost 20 years ago (1990) by a shit from similar stock, Micheal Kelly… who neatly died in Iraq after promoting the war.
In defence of the NHS: I’m glad I didn’t break my leg in the US
telling her there was only $945 (£570) left to spend on treatment for her this year, under the US government’s Medicare scheme for over 65s.
hmm i wonder what scheme the mother in law belongs to. Unless of course there have been rules changes.. i admit i am so dismissive of anything beyond Xanax that I don’t open the Medicare eps… haven’t for years.
Maybe it refers to the mess that is Medicare Part D… the jumbled mess that is the pharmacy coverage.
I think it’s Part D. Sounds like she’s running into the donut hole thingie.
Whew! At least he wasn’t taken down by “Little Head”.
Or “A little head”.
John lewis has truly fallen apart… from what ever was once there (if there was).
rambling on on Lehrer about how he will treasure forever a signed photo teddy gave him. And I do mean ramble.
Jeebus.
Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
well done
An update on Climate Camp (the bobby-free version).
BHHM
Christie Faces Questions Over ’05 Traffic Tickets
Was there a body in the trunk?
Another Dem Assemblyman Tony the Claw Somebody…LOL-
… just got indicted.
Inanotherfuckincase.
For Putting Ghost Worker’s State payroll checks directly into his personal accounts. Smaaaaaart.
But here’s some thinkin’ now~~ The charge was brought by Corzine’s State AG. ..who set it up as No Arrest so no perp walk.
Assemblyman
Tony Mook-lookin Contest Winner
can appear for booking at his arraignment.instead.
Trying to take wind out of Fed Charges soon to follow…
You guys have too much fun there in NJ.
You know your state’s economy REALLY sucks when…
Judge: Ky. can’t legislate dependence on God
[insert the obvious here]
“The statute pronounces very plainly that current citizens of the Commonwealth cannot be safe, neither now, nor in the future, without the aid of Almighty God.
He sounds like Ob: “God is our partner”, “God is in the mix”.
And so on.
Why wasn’t this guy charged with making “terroristic” threats? (Rhetorical question)
thanks for that link…
Charlie Rose:
I knew then that I had to interrupt my vacation and come to this table and talk of Teddy Kennedy…
Doris Kearns Goodwin joins by car phone. Well that is what CR said. “car phone”. Lost in the 80s?
…and on. And on.
The epilogue I put up on facebook…
gah – a pronoun nightmare the above post….
So when is Israel Attacking?
Mcat, this story…
FFS. They’re shopping this story again.
Several Times now
WaPo a few days ago..
now at the NYT… .
The passed around Coverage is classic Zionist media bullshit..
and Security State amplification , mostly for their own benefit, because it sure as hell isn’t going to give genuine mouth-breathers pause…
A staff of 28 pissing a minimum of 3-5 Million a year away on Israeli bullshit.
These people are seriously, seriously fucked up.
And seriously fucking up the prospects of peaceful life on the planet.
Since ’67 at least? The Zionists are thoroughly dug in the US Policy apparatus while we pursue a positively bi-polar strategy of “energy security” on the one hand and wrecking the Middle East for Israel on another. Fuckin Brilliant.
I certainly am not interested in fighting off a bunch of genuine Goy jackboot thugs for Rahm and David And Bill and Chuck when the whole thing collapses.
we are relentless in search of our global enemies. Frenemies. We will search high and low, make war high and low. As long as we have enemies, we will endure.
Something like that…
Hell, why don’t they go after our boyos in Croatia and Bosnia… after all, Tudjman and Izetbegovic were actually Nazi’s… like the pope.
time to dig out noel coward, was it??? ”oh, let’s not be nasty to the nazis!!”
… ‘cuz we’re all nazis now!
cue the chorus!
nu
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