Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Choirboys attend a mass lead by Britain’s Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI, unseen, at Westminster Abbey, in London Friday,Sept. 17, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on the second day of the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain.… Read more »
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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 
Reminds me of when I used to fall asleep during “Christian Ethics” classes.
Obama’s view of liberal criticisms
He’s a waiter. I’ll say it again. I read the text of his “remarks” in Greenwich, a phenomenally wealthy enclave, last night.
Play it again Sam.
He pulled out his “bitter” and “clingers” line here in SF, in a very very wealthy home. I may deride religion and its oppression but I am not going to wrench mileage from people who perhaps have few choices.
He was slammed on his back, impressed by money, in both instances. He performed to please.
And again, someone tie his apron tighter, cut off his air.
DUMB LIKE US! Who do we liberals love to hate? The clerk in a grocery store
NBC’s “Meet the Press“: Former President Bill Clinton; former Secretary of State Colin Powell
ABC’s “This Week“: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; roundtable with ABC’s George Will, the New York Times’ David E. Sanger, the Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart and Delaware GOP Chairman Tom Ross
CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Former President Bill Clinton; U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (R-DE)
Fox’s “Fox News Sunday“: U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (R-DE); former Bush adviser Karl Rove; roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, Fortune’s Nina Easton, former State Department official Liz Cheney and NPR’s Juan Williams
CNN’s “State of the Union“: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC); DNC Chairman and former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA); former NRCC Chairman and former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) and former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn
C-SPAN: “Newsmakers“: (10am ET / 6pm ET Sunday): Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, questioned by the Wall Street Journal’s Janet Adamy and Reuters’ Susan Heavey … “The Communicators” (6:30pm ET Saturday): Yahoo! Policy Vice President and Head of Privacy Anne Toth, questioned by National Journal’s Juliana Gruenwald … ‘Q&A’ (8pm ET & 11pm ET Sunday): Washington Post Cars columnist Warren Brown
Univision’s “Al Punto“: Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ); Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ); “United We Dream” President Carlos Saavedra; Mexican Actor Joaquín Cosío; roundtable with Sun Sentinel’s Doreen Hemlock and La Prensa Libre’s Francisco Ayala Silva
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He’s lying low because the connection between him and Paladino is Roger Stone, Republican operative and strategist…. Stone manipulated Sharpton thru the 2004 season, ensuring his puppet had a prime time speaking spot at the DNC, further, while all speakers at the podium surrendered their speeches for review and approval, only two did not. Sharpton and Jimmy Carter.
Poor poor Democrats, so thoroughly fucked up… and just plain fucked.
So owned.
The problem with Obama’s D faction in a nutshell
Off to the Rapture….
Apparently a woman named…… Reyna Chicas is the leader. So they say.
Laughable. And I see Mama Obama wore Reagan Red.
Appropriate.
BTW, I see now it is the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc (Bloomberg got that tidbit in)
snicker.
No, asshole, it’s because they can see the ONLY people you helped were big banks that caused the problems and the auto makers (all while telling the unions they had to give up lots of ground as part of it). Where are the COLA increases for people living on assistance? Where are the loud, hard fights for expanded food assistance, expanded unemployment etc?
Yup, they’re NOWHERE, which is why people aren’t “energized”, they can see with their own two eyes that you’re just another con lying politician who is only interested in telling them what they’re doing wrong.
Be interesting to see what happens… Think Calculated Risk added a comment ot their posting of the SS notice (which I have not received yet, maybe it is at the site, which I never go to) wondering how the elderly will be voting.
Yeah, the elderly or anyone on SS knows that their inflation rate wasn’t 0%. Not even close.
I am working my way up to calling Pelosi… or at least seriously considering it. I’d write, but at least if I call, for a minute, minute and half, I have a human by the neck.
Basics have gone up, milk eggs butter…. and a uniquely SF cost, we pay (unless you live in a multiple unit apartment house) for garbage collection, it has gone up about 40% in the pst 8 months…
a uniquely SF cost, ….. (unless you live in a multiple unit apartment house) for garbage collection, it has gone up about 40% in the pst 8 months…
… jeesh, smells like Gavin Newsom’s shoes, ……. after a romp through North Beach whence his Pradas got drenched with water from a crab catch.
Doncha know, as an unmarried female homeowner, ya need to SELL ………….sign on to a sustainable $GREEN apartment (on the 8th floor) Al Gore would agree, …that’s really all ya need to know ….
…oopsy, …neglected to mention that Meg, Carley and the Nazi Groper are quite on board with the funereal Gavster and Gore ……………………(for those who needed that mention) …………
I am just thankful they have not delivered to me the third garbage bin, the Green One… mandated for compostables… suppposedly with inspection for compliance and fines.
gah… I produce little garbage as such … I don’t know what I would do with a green bin.
Over the weekend I took a look at bio degradable plastic garbage bags, they run about $10.00 for 25
and what did that compostable bullshit penalty bill come to? (Hard to keep track) $1,000 or $500?
Loved Bronsteins piccy of Gavie’s bin.
I see Tim Kaine is saying today that the candidates should be running on Health Care.
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so is Steve Hildebrand:
There was a guest on KGO last night, part of the so called progressive ballot activism here in Cali…. and by way of talking about how, via the ballot, m a y b e something can be done to improve the horror that is coming.
And what was that “horror”…?
The mandated health care coverage. And on and on he went, discussing the mandated health care coverage that will hit in 2014. And elucidated what the Dems tried so hard to hide, every person will be forced, under law, to either be covered or buy coverage… and he added the other big thing they tried to hide:
There is no regulation in the laws for cost of health care. (and maybe in Cali we can mandate that thru the ballot, was the pitch)
None.
The host tried hard to hide the conversation by not replying. But he kept going.
Good luck little Dem doggies! Be sure to thank ObRamaRau.
it really should be overturned, the bastards.
Tim Kaine is probably reading the want ads right now. Maybe Rahm can hire him as a toady when he wins the mayorship (yeah, right).
Bill Maher – new Dem slogan: “Don’t get up, we’ll show ourselves out.”
No, no, no. I really want to give them a kick in the ass to get them out the door.
Route them to the Place de la Concorde and FIRE UP the Guillotines. Really.
I meant that to be in response to #8
I see Politico weighs in:
It’s hard out there for a pretzel.
Read more: Link to Politico
Your Coming Tax Cut (or Not)
IOZ realises he/his workplace was on the distribution list for the Rendell obtained intell using the Israeli snoop and infiltrate company:
This is the Philadelphia Inquirer piece, apparently, in a fit of apologetics, Rendell has dumped all the reports on the media.
Maybe he should take a pill or soemthing.
So apropos of the ‘day:’
An Aug. 9 bulletin, for example, called attention to an event in the northeast corner of the state – a picnic at Montrose High School sponsored by one of the drilling companies.
“Of note is that the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition has released a special communication harshly ridiculing and criticizing this event,” analysts wrote.
Cody said she and seven other antidrilling activists attended the picnic and set up a table with literature.
She ridiculed the bulletins. “Yes, I’m such a dangerous person,” she said Friday. “I’m a 54-year-old woman who’s making eggplant parmesan right now.”
[banging head against wall]
RoboRama.
Gah. Took him a week to put on the damned flag pin after conservative Dem consultant Doug Shoen said he had better start wearing one… and he has never taken it off.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
He’s like one of those little old-fashioned dolls on a stick, they pull on his strings and he does a little dance.
Comes in the bobble head version as well, for mounting in the car.
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Rapturing UP is postponed.
Or whatever that was in Palmdale… seems to include a load of itty bitty chihuahuas, somehow.
I am watching a report on France 24 News… and The Musicians’ Village, built in NO after Katrina… which I think was a PR thing, promoted by the whatstheirnames, that family of New Orleans trumpeters cannot think of their names… would be surprised if more than 3 dozen homes were built, if that.
Turns out they used CHINESE DRY WALL… and they are overwhelmed with toxic gases. Depending on the levels present, they have to vacate.
apropos of supporting a comment I made a few days ago, …oculus refers to Los Angeles as L.A. ….versus the weirdly frequent LA; which, actually …(when referring to the US), historically , refers to the state of Louisiana. …… well yeah, they are new times, but why have we unnecessarily thrown out so many babies (which, all reading this post, once were) with the bathwater?
(e.g. why make things confusing (to those who’ve actually taken care and precious time, to learn certain things), when it’s really not necessary, …actually harmful, ……. to do so?)
(..and a happy belated birthday, …to Miss Devore …a pretty hard ‘season’ to be born into …”THE FALL” …. (in my …humble opinion) ….
imagine ethereal ballons, with no rubber to pollute, …and clog storm drains and such, in your favorite color honey ….. ;0) )
(…oops, jeesh, …might I add, ..not visible, ….as, ..a, slave to the ‘puter either, …………and certainly, nuthin to do with THE RAPTURE. ….sorry that my wordpress, HTML skills don’t allow me to boldface and itallicize (fucked spelling ?) at the same time ;0) )
wordpress is either or wtih italic and bold… not both.
..probably a good thing …I don’t believe software could ever possibly, totally pick up, the nuance of living beings; nor, despite the brutality, the sympathies of living beings …..however few and far between …they may be.
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