Opera Glasses and Popcorn
A mandrill seems to flash a rude gesture towards photographer Mark Rogers at the San Francisco zoo. However, the animal suffers from arthritis and is unable to lower his middle finger [MARK ROGERS / CATERS]
He is so perfect, I brought him back… 😉
Carry on!
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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]
Marisacat -
"... 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 
HAHAHA! The Mandrill again. Love it!
Kaine has already ceded the House.
They still have 20 seats left to fritter! Man, they’re worse than the French.
hmmm polls have closed in NV
30 mins ago.
Nothing up yet on the Las Vegas Sun’s site.
I think Sestak shot his load. He is ahead now by 6000 votes 51/49 ….with 90+% of Philly in.
82% of the state reporting…
…
LOL. Menendez humping Sestak but fails to mention Philly is already in..
PA Gov has been called for the R, Corbett. Some flake off for Toomey He isn’t getting all the R votes Corbett has in the Gov vote…
The “T” is notoriously slow to report.
D’ope! Sestakks lead is down to 300 votes with 88% of the State in now.
And here comes the “T” of PA the notoriously slow reporting Top and Middle third of the State, the Hinterlands…Soooo
Based on how Sestak, Bennet and Giannoulas are up by 1-5% with about half reporting, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the GOP falls way short in the Senate – maybe picks up 5-6 seats.
agree.. the senate was out of reach, pretty much.
😆
Just like I predicted! 😆
Only a pt between Giannoulias and whoever. Kirk.
Feingold & Johnson dead even.
Recounts! Hanging chads!
MSNBC projects Johnson.
some bunch of precincts just came in … the local paper’s count jumped from roughly even to a 17% lead for Johnson.
our winger asshole Milwaukee County exec took the Gov. race, too.
Politico shows Johnson ahead by almost 100K in votes.
and ‘nads, too!
Little Stephie looks a bit stunned.
Oh GAD. GMAFB. Tweety lionizing Setaks heroic race.
With a 1.2 million Dem voter reg advantage. LOL.
Yes. Sestak was a little guy wearing a suit – or some such thing (??) 😆
with the ole Canadian class clown note taped on his back: “52”
😉
😛
CNN is projecting “52 or more”.
Nikki Haley wins in SC
Looks like Adler the D in Jersey 3 is going to Lose 50/48 with 99% in. Which is hilarious as they were the guys who put up a splitter …the Indy the Libertarian and the faux Tea Partier have close to 3% of the vote.
and MCAT , This is for You- boychick Murphy in PA 6 is trailing BAH BAh Baaad 53/47 with 80% IN
oh I am glad… Murphy was one of Rahm’s little warrior Dems… and they sold him as anti war.
But wait! Has Boober weighed in?! LOL.
Sorry PA-08
is was Murphy’s DistrictSpin seems to be that the losses in the House will be deep enough that no face saving way for La Nan to stay.
She will “retire” after the lame duck…
Had it been narrow she would have stayed to lead the Fight to Retake the House.
Etc.
ugh, does that mean fucking Steny rises?
I would guess…. Business Democrat.
Never could stand him.
Was talking at the dog park to a compatriot who grew up in Poland under Communism. He couldn’t stand Pelosi…said every time Obama spoke, he noticed she stood up faster to applaud than the hardest-core party apparatchik.
Neck and neck in PA setak lead down to 600 votes now with 92% in.
LOL. Sorry! Damn I need reading glasses.
Toomey now AHEAD by 3000 votes with 93% in…
Cali just closed.
Toomey pulling away now. Buh bye Joe.
LMAO_ Murphy got crushed: 54 / 46
Thanks Martin A BooBoo!
Go’head~ Take some potato salad home.
11:05 PM OUT IN S.C.:
Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has lost his reelection bid.
Jack Spratt who could eat no fat?
And the R just took
Sestak’s old House seat55/44
Moore (D-Milwaukee) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) won, a lot of the other dems here are going down in flames.
Ugh, the wingers here were already insufferable.
House +34, Senate still stuck at +3. House might be gone within the hour.
Times just declared for Johnson.
Buh-bye Russ.
Feingold, btw, got almost no money from the national party, and of course the self-righteous fool wouldn’t accept any other outside money.
I think the dems are happy he’s gone.
CNN has Reid 54%; Angle 42% with 41% reporting.
It would almost be fun to see him win just for the Scratch / Claw that will ensue…
I saw a film segment questioning voters at a polling station…
People saying they HATED him, but were voting for him…
😆
Can the networks drag out the reporting in PA any longer?
None of the networks are reporting on the Dem PA House delegation going down in flames…
Tweety hasn’t chosen his requisite movie analogy yet.
Shea Porter lost
Dahlkemper lost
Chris Carney (PA) too………… down the tubes…
Anotehr Rahm and Bill C special.
A perfect Repub name: Gov Butch Otter of Idaho.
Rendell is on now saying suburban Philly has yet to weigh in for Sestak…LOL. Sestak’s down 40,000 votes and his House seat flipped by 11. Yeh folks are just lining up for Joe as we speak…LOL.
The only thing going on in Montgomery County is the Party hacks trying to delay the reporting to prop up the DNC …
Zack Space (Ohio) is gone too…
Times saying 54-75 House seats picked up by GOP.
Ouch. There’s no way to spin that other than you sucked more than anyone else has sucked before.
Lipless is going to chew off the rest of his own face.
Oh I would pay cash to see that.
I would.
OK…. Gaspard is toast. I would guess Axe is on a plane now to Chicago…………… 😆
They will “promote” Lipsless… and if really dumb will be putting Bill Burton (dumber than rocks imo) in as Media or whatever they call it.
Promote him, whatever, just get him off the podium to a non-speaking role. He’ll do less damage that way. Shuffle those deck chairs real good.
They should be calling it soon for Toomey..
the spread is 4 points now…with 97% in…
Sorry to be watching this train wreck in slo-mo…
And frankly they have Rendell blabbering on MSNBC as a log jam
The ONLY good thing I would ever say about Rendell is he was the ONLY Dem willing to show his face the day after 2004 election.
La Nana crawled out the next day, quoting Scripture. That sick old ecdysiaste, Lou Dobbs, laughed in her face.
Carly opens in the lead, less than 9% in
Meg and Jerry neck in neck, 8% in
Reid 52%
Angle 44%
52% in
Illinois boy Markos says and I quote..
😳
Wow. Boehner is an extra shade of l’orange tonite.
ZOMG – now he’s crying.
I’m just going to mute all the triumphant bs. Look, you won the fight when your opponent punched himself in the face and fell out of the ring into a vat of rabid lobsters.
40 seats, 8:41pm
And from DK– 😆
The End of My Dream – Pulling the plug on DailyKOS.Com
by DaiIy Kos
Tue Nov 02, 2010 at 08:35:41 PM PDT
Nice try, Trolly McTrollbit. (18+ / 0-)
You must think we’re as dumb as GOP voters.
Liberty, Equality, Opportunity.
by Troubadour on Tue Nov 02, 2010 at 08:37:52 PM PDT
LOL. The mofo registered as “Daily Kos” User 275K or something…
DeMint has a shot across the bow up in the WSJ…
snip via Ben Smith:
And the three judges who ruled for SSM in Iowa are just about to be recalled… on a ballot measure, apparently.
Fuck Boehenr is a blubbering mess.
Oh God I think he’s lit up.
He sounds drunk as hell. LOL.
that sounds like just what I might have expected… Tho I thought he’d hold it in til later.. not in the first flush of all polls closed (but mail in OR and Alaska)
They just called it for Babs.
New….
LINK
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Philly Papers called it for Toomey.
Nnada from MSNBC while they’re humping Harry..
Did I botch the WA race yet? Any word on Murray?