Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Washington, USA: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praises the diplomatic efforts by British and Irish leaders to resolve long-standing governing conflicts in Northern Ireland. [J Scott Applewhite/AP]
the photog captured some element of empire slide… electronically transmiting but what a void.
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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]
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 
New York Times Sitting on Paterson Swinging Bombshell?
It comes out in dribs and drabs… I read somewhere months ago he was told to cool it with the late night clubbing and dhowing up here and there.. and immediately went to some less than salubrious hang out. I figured it meant morewas there.
Plus he and his wife were smart when he ascended, they quickly got out in front of marital issues and seeing other people.
But my guess is……………………….. more of the same. (nto that I care… but geez don’t these guys realise our political system? They surely do.)
Off to read, I was just at Gawker and did nto see it… must have just gone up.
the thread is very pithy…
I really don’t think a lot of people care, ESPECIALLY in NYC.
i agree… Willie outhere had a out of wed lock child n his last years as mayor… hardly anybody noticed… Newsom and his first wife were most likely each others’ beards and except for the Castro laughing at everyone who laughed it off…………………….. (tho it does raise his scuttling gay marriage over and over)…
but there can be twists… and sad to say I don’t care who falls anymore — or how.
Tea time! (You betcha.)
Listening to Palin is like listening to nails on a chalkboard.
Palin looks like she’s sitting in front of a gigantic penis. I’ll have to find a pic of that to link to when one’s available.
Hopefully Yahoo News accommodates… 😆
Todd’s standing there behind her?
pa dum pum 😉
That women is dangerous.
Jezebel: Express Delivery: Liveblogging Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Speech
I see they have the video of her sitting in front of the mega penis.
Rahm Emanuel – Even-tempered apology
Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a ‘crackpot’
Popcorn! Get your free popcorn!
Did he call Hitchens a cryptofascist?
Says the man who sees islamofascists around every corner since the attacks, justifying illegal wars and torture?
MANY people were unhinged by those attacks, and Hitchens was plainly one of them.
“hopey changey”….
well, 😆 how’s that vote working out for you?
… and on that very question…
and, btw, if that vote is working for you, CLAIM THE WARS as your own. Drop the weak game of being against the wars.
London Times:
yes, just like we don’t want to have operations inside Yemen… etc. Africom… on and on it goes.
And, of course, the exposition last week, in the exchange between Hoestra and Deny (as the pretzel calls him) Blair about assassination / extra-judicial killings we may carry out against US citizens.. how long til we bellow we took out Awlaki, the US born cleric that we have linked ot both Hasan of Ft Hood and the panty bomber..
IF we believe what we say, that is.
From The Scotsman:
Such a catch! How long til Crist of FL comes over? (Let’s make a deal!)… or not? No announce after he met with the Ob.
Whatever! creates mayhem!
Read more: LINK
😆 and then some. Hey, may he win. Such a peach!
oh, that is TOO funny.
dkos FP:
Angry Mouse – new FPer, member of the sanctimonious womens’ studies set.
“Angry mouse”, what does that telegraph? A tiny little mouse scuttling around the edges, raising a fist?
Super Bowl prediction: Saints by 10 (even though I don’t watch US football and despite hearing that Payton Manning is, apparently, G*d.)
I thought I might watch this one……. Probably my second. I am sure i watched the time the 49ers went, Super Bowl XVII… and as little i know, I knew they would win.
Apparnetly The Who will play at half time.
And truly, the Sunday Soaps hit rock bottom today… I don’t knwo which was worse, Wallace with Palin… Gregory with Greenspan and a stuttering (really badly) Paulson – or Tapper with Geithner.. who answered nothing. All he said was how “hard” they are working. Funny, they LOOK limp.
Schieffer just decamped and went to the Sun Life Bowl… and doesn’t that sum us up? Nearly die trying to stay alive but there will be a cheap FL condo for you. Somewhere. Or not.
Gah.
hmm. wonder how that’s going to work out.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_presidential_elections
Well I think they were wise to reject the woman, the one who affects a German girl-child hair-do from the pre war… she and hers are too close to the American hard right, can’t remember which US House member she worked for, one of hte turly terribles… and of course the Neo Liberal support as well.
As if the “Orange Revolution” was nto a engineered joke.
I had a photo tucked away on the old computer of Hillary McCain and Liberman all decked otu in orange mufflers. Did they ever look funny.
well.. something blew up in CT.. a power plant.
Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor
Politico:
Seriously? He STILL thinks he can get the Repubs to get on board?
I was just going ot post that… I turned on CBS but i may have missed the All Important Interview witih Ob…
then read that at Politico.
[banging head against wall as they convene to beat a dead horse]
Well IMO ALL of the wimmens in politics are utter crap, so if someone swinging their ass in moderation (get a life) on a Sunday with good weather wants to tell me I sound like palin and try so hard to mean it as an insult:
who fucking cares.
I don’t see the lecturing, worry wort bag of nag democratic wimmens as any different.
and … CLAIM THE WARS, if that vote is working out so well for you.
Take a hike. Go hang with the Obamaites.
w00t!! Go Saints! 30-17
I can’t believe I’m actually watching this… Mind you, it’s on practically every fucking teevee channel.
I am SO almost psychic! 31-17. I should seriously start gambling. 😉
You guys have such a tiny trophy. Our Gery Cup is huge.
I started out iwth it and fell asleep twice… 😉 Missed half time… and everything else…
Half time was good – neat light show. But I was waiting for “Who the fuck are you?” – to no avail. 😦
nuuuu
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