Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Soon we will be treated to a speech. No doubt.
One thing, Ob won’t be running suddenly to the right in a panic, he headed that way from the git go. 😆
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.
[...]
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 
Hey hey.. it looks like Uncle Pookie DID get off the sofa in NY-23… The Dem might win… I found Hoffman a tad tooooo creepy, too Club for Growth frankly.
Tuned out; Gibbs: Obama ‘not watching returns’
😆
They claim nto to watch cable either. Or SNL. Or listen to Rush. Or Fox. Or or or….
I don’t think these people can be helped:
hmm county by county interactive for Jersey.
Gay pols won, marriage did not.
In full:
Aww. Some party..
Ooo hey- Tryyyyy the “Change You can Believe In™ chive dip, tho.
( and be sure to take a platter home.) 😆
Yesssssss… and Bloomie spent how much to eek / squeak out a win agaisnt Thompson??
Biggest losers tonite are Sarah Palin and Kos, whose stunning political insights have been the equivalent of a drunk driver weaving from one crash to the next.
😆
I see Sully is back to Iran Revolution! They are stomping on and tearing up images of Khomeini, in the streets!
What elections! What loss in Maine!? It is always getting better and better.
Sending a DOJ atty to his court appearance for having MJ on Federal land bought a lot, I would say.
A few weeks ago and even a few days ago, the word (Gibbs and others) was we would know soon after the elections, before the 11th.
Good luck! Clap!
Gotta laugh.
Dellums over in Oakland is mired in big time tax problems… going back several years. AND there are rumors he is no longer mentally competent – and in fact was deficient when he ran…
Gavin over here in Baghdad by the Bay… has crumpled and run off to Hawai’i. Supposedly to join the wif and MIL who annual go in Nov. But he slipped out with few words to anyone. Even his spokes person.
IMO he has long been UNSTABLE.
Clap!!!
Aha! The official description of Gavin is “mercurial”.
Talk he might “pull a Palin”.
Clap!!
Esquire has a multi parter running all week on the Big One Year Anniversary of the Con Job. Tho I think they are a tad less tart than that….
Part 1 is by Charles Pierce… and I think he is sufficiently tart. Tho insufficiently harsh on the Democrats, who I would frankly guillotine. In the public square. Republicans can be drowned in the dark for all I care.
Part 3 (and both 1 and 3 link to 2)
Just to remind myself of how fucking HYSTERICAL the country was at election last year, I followed the link to what Pierce wrote a month or so after Election Day.
Oh stuff it honey. White liberals slobbered for Ob. Lovingly linked him to Civil Rights. Right on cue.
Look what we got. Stop feeling good or needing to feel good off someone else’s skin. Stop it.
Beliefs, What Beliefs?
But it’s missing two important facts: the first is that the anger is legitimate.
… and it is a big fucking miss, too.
Yep, and yep. They ignore/laugh off that anger at their own peril…
I Think This Illustrates the Point Nicely
she’s shown clearly she is off her rocker. Or to be polite, unsuited for the promotion to SoS. Such as it is.
Some brief comments on NY-23: in the end, the voters behaved as you would expect of voters in that region (which is not politically homogenous): they were bemused and disgusted at outsiders. I think they enjoyed the attention at first, but by the end, the sweaty groping got to be too much. This is an area that is continually ignored during presidential elections (as the rest of the state is since it’s “safe Democratic”) and being all het up over ideological questions is not a way of life there. Because the region is ignored during presidential elections, the national parties really do not seem to know the lay of the land up here at all. The far-right will never be an organized force in New York State politics. Ever. There’s no social network for them to seize. It’s way too complicated for them.
The funny thing is that everyone says “there hasn’t been a Democrat representing this area since 1850-something” or whatever, but in fact, the political sensibilities of the area haven’t changed much since 1850-something… which is not a bad thing necessarily, because the NY Republicans of 1850-something were actually liberals by today’s standards.
Anyhow, the humiliation this affair brings to the weaselly remnants of the NY GOP (Pataki et al) is most amusing.
Better ground for the national rightwing nutjobs would have been NY-29, in rural Western New York (Eric Massa’s territory), which is even poorer than NY-23 and more homogenous. But, it didn’t happen that way.
Ha. When I read the comment above about The Biggest Loser at the WH, I thought they should just make the Obamas’ life into a reality show considering how much they love the cameras.
Well, here’s one more step towards that end: Michelle Obama to star with Nigella Lawson as she becomes first presidential wife to appear on a reality show
Oh, great spirits help us — what’s next?? Sasha in a balloon, careening around the National Mall?
We are so doomed!
Re the Biggest Loser at the WH… a comment in the thread at Tapper mentioned that it almost seemed on purpose. By some really stupid staffer. Considering the “fat” accusations Corzine was more than happy to level at Christie…
WHo knows. If the WH did not have on target internal polling… and thought Corzine could pull it out…
My latest: Italy Convicts CIA Agents of Kidnapping and Rendition
Speech! Speech! (No!! No!!)
He went back and spoke again to them in the afternoon.
Overkill surely.
He then added, “And I just like I fucked them over, I’ll fuck you over too. That’s changeyness you can believe in.”
it’s the kind of “change” they’ve been treated to for hundreds of years.
hellzapoppin’
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Fort Hood on Lockdown After Gunman Kills at Least 7 [3:18 p.m. ET]
For more on this and other breaking news go to ABCNews.com: http://abcnews.go.com?nwltr=bn
Shootings, multiple deaths reported at Fort Hood
November 5, 2009 3:39 p.m. EST
(CNN) — Multiple deaths and multiple injuries have resulted from shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a Fort Hood spokesman.
At least seven people are dead and as many as 20 are wounded, CNN affiliate KXXV reported, citing a Fort Hood spokesman. One person is in custody in connection with the incident, it said.
One attacker has been “neutralized” and one has been “cornered,” Lt. Gen Russel Honore, former deputy commander at Fort Hood, told CNN.
hmm a local Killeen TX channel helpfully [provided the Global Security link for Ft Hood.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-hood.htm
This seems to have some details…
More…
Some tweets are saying there’s new gunfire at Ft Hood.
(This is the first time I’ve used Twitter for anything. No US teevee since I moved…but it’s coming.)
well don’t think they have said they have both of them. Several reports sindicated one mght be “surrounded”.
But an early report also said one was “neutralised”. I assumed that meant killed.
But geesh who the hell knows.
obama will have the answers. No doubt.
Oh No.
Obama to address the nation about the Ft Hood killings. (FOX)
(please no)
CNN online live video: 3 shooters allegedly..12 people killed…one is one of the gunmen…2nd gunman in custody…
Lt General Bob Cohen/Ft Hood:
12 dead
31 people injured
1 gunman killed
2 other shooters in custody (?)
Three lone gunmen.
I mean, not to laugh at death…. but……………………..
KGO is reporting the shooters are US soldiers.
Maybe that is why Ob will speak to us. It is just a huge mess.
It is Cohen, just heard him, he called them “soldiers”.
Major Malik Nadal Hassan
apparently THE shooter.
Who the other two are… no word yet (that I am catching) or rather no update…
Oh. That name is sure to rile up the wingnuts.
military are calling into KGO.. they are shocked it is a Major – and not from the enlisted ranks… and very shocked he had access to a big ol’ weapon.
hmmm. Well what does a little blonde lefty know up against those big mil men.
Cone said they had handguns. It’s Texas. C’mon…
Doesn’t brinn live close to there? Austin?
I am not sure where she lives…
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