Opera Glasses and Popcorn
IIRC, this golf cart float was from a looney little free-for-all parade of some sort down in So California…
I used to toss this photo up from time to time when the Democrats were being spectacularly ba-a-a-a-d. Could have left it up every day, frankly.
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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
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... 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]
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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 
Nothin’ like a shampoo and a nice fluff!
For a second there, I confused the poodle for Steny Hoyer also greeting us on Morning Blow.
Mika Blurbinski just said they’ll be right back with some bad news on Le Poodle in Chief’s – wait for it™ –
… “EFFORTS to close GITMO.”
Oh Gad: “Efforts”. Buy a new top, Mika.
I got a chuckle out of this on
the Register –
…just as long as they don’t turn off the electricity!
…or the water supply, or heavens forbid, the cell phone towers and GPS — then we’ll see some real anarchy! I know some people who would be lost in more ways in one without those last two! 8)
Protests in England over tuition hikes. Protests at La Scala over arts cuts.
Tax breaks for the supremely wealthy in the US? Crickets chirp.
Here in the Great White North Security State, the ombudsman’s report on G20 security is out and it doesn’t look good for the Powers That Be.
That’s quite the statement considering Trudeau’s extremely controversial use of the War Measures Act back in the 70s to deal with the FLQ.
But – there’s no doubt that we need a public inquiry about the G20 fiasco. The federal Con gov’t is punting responsibility, of course.
Happy International Anti-Corruption Day!
(Gift bags available for a small…fee.)
Brrreaking via CNN: House won’t take up Obamalama tax deal in current form.
Damn sanctimonious purists!
I hear Republicans (a review of Republicans appearing on FOX yesterday saying, sorry, not good enough!, We won’t be voting for it!) are breaking against it too…. damn ingrates.
After all ObRama has done for them!! How fucking dare they be purists.
What Wikileaks Tells Us About the War in Pakistan
Posted in the wrong place.
Obama’s naivete is startling.
I saw Clyburn interviewed last nite and he said they had a house caucus call on Sunday which didn’t include all of the info in Obama’s deal with the GOP which they then just learned about when he had his presser. No wonder the house told him to go fuck himself.
I have heard other comments on that “low information congress crittering” caucus call.
Hey, maybe they feel scammed!!
I defended Obama to the end, but no more.
My naivete comment should have posted under your Pakistan article.
Audacity is the word.
And it is clearly becoming evident his loyalties are with the central banks.
My naivete comment should have posted under your Pakistan article.
oh I am sorry… WP sometimes gets hiccuping episodes and slaps a comment where ever.
When a thread gets too long, I know the little system is overloaded, but this is a new thread, so WP is badly hiccuping…
Glad you’re feeling better….
Anyone been watching the J. Ventura show?
oh I did not know he had one! Where is it?
trutv….also, the program he did on the Fema camps were removed by NSA.
I think it’s still on youtube, I’ll go look.
http://www.trutv.com/shows/conspiracy_theory/index.html
So, who’s taking hostages now?
I say, he should keep talking.
LOL….I thought that was Bernanke’s and Geithner’s meme.
And now:
Bernanke: More Fed bond buys “certainly possible”
Just what does he think is going to happen now that China is dumping dollars??
Saudis to the rescue?
ugh our new owners…
as we bow to India, whcih only has a hundred million child laborers.
Interesting piece at Cpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/martens12092010.html
on the Rapiscan scanners and how bad they are, but Obrama, the desi wanna-be, had the head of OSI, the parent company of Rapiscan with him in India.
Of course he had about 200 CEOs and other “business leaders” with him in that renamed “jobs trip”.
Ya….I forgot about India.
More hostaging:
from The Note email:
Interesting that Clifton and Lobe are collaborating.
Wonder how long it will take before she is sidelined, like Thomas.
Neo-con narrative sidelines Palestinians
By Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe
During a February 14, 2010, meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, Qatar Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-thani suggested that Israel’s efforts to rally US and Arab support for a more confrontational policy towards Iran was really related to the Israel-Palestine conflict. “The Israelis,” he is reported as telling his guest, are “using Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons as a diversion from settling matters with the Palestinians”.
More from article:
Bibi and friends must be spinning like tops.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/the-palestine-cables-wikileaks-expose-european-chill-on-israel-after-cast-lead-and-lebanese-advice-on-defeating-hezbollah.html
awww..they’ll always have us. and Guam. Or some other small protectorate who can be persuaded to go along.
I’m always looking for that ray of hope, found this interesting:
US’s greatest contribution to the peace process has been to reveal Israeli intransigence
Also, Alex J. seems to think wikileaks is being sponsored by Soros. Titan Civil War?
Jesse:
Also from Teh Note email:
Geez Loueez.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
I did notice in hospital how very terrible CNN has become (their package of cable did not include MS nor FOX). Inescapably down market, low low low production values, no international news, hardly any breaking news and a big fat emphasis that is bad news, imo: lots of propganda plays to blacks… they should be fucing insulted, to be frank…
but here is a tid bit (vid at the site) on MSNBC via Ben Smith.
LOL! You know, the day the earth no longer exists will also be the day Mars no longer exists. I think we may need to set our sites a little further out in the galaxy.
Barbree is ossified…
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No pink pudles here!
London Protest Latest: Car Carrying Prince Charles And Wife Attacked
Well, you know, them Royals never really had good luck with cars. Of course, Mountbatten didn’t make out too well by boa,t either.
Yep, nothin like havin’ Mr. & Mrs. Prince of Wales in the Royal Rolls to show up in the middle of a riot on their way to the theater.
That went well.
And I laughed my ass off at some CNN shnoob how they
…Carried On! With Aplomb!
It so funny, those helpful little dumbass Media add-ons, while they’re waiting for the next seg to roll…like Ali Relish or whatever the fuck his name is …saying today how they’re burning the “Bomb House” in Cali “because it SO unsafe – it’s not even safe for the Bomb Handling ROBOTS!”
I kid you not.
Makes me think they needed to destroy evidence.
oh burning that bomb house seems weird o me. I saw fences and structures near the house. I would not like to be living within a few block radius of this mess…
I was pretty dmaned happy the day Montbatten bought it.
And I bet the Irish had a file on his colonial sexual subjugations of Irish male youth that would curl people’s skin.
Keep Calm and Carry On.
at least they weren’t in a paris underpass …
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oh, too true!
Photo update (with a link, at the bottom, to protests in Italy.)
Must say ….. Charles and Camilla would do well to take lessons from Cheney when unpleasantly surrounded by the riff raff in their armored vehicles……………
kinda funny,…. as I was posting was listening to an Alan Sherman cassette, and this came on:
I am amazed the protesters could break the side window glass. Seems poor security on the part of the Uber Alles Royals Brits…. and that they drove where they did.
Geesh.
Photo update (with a link, at the bottom, to protests in Italy.)
Must say ….. Charles and Camilla would do well to take lessons from Cheney when unpleasantly surrounded by the riff raff in their armored vehicles……………
kinda funny,…. as I was posting was listening to an Alan Sherman cassette, and this came on:
(link cleaned up version, sorry)
Maybe she can complain to Deepak Chopra (a different one) the head of OSI, parent company of Rapiscan. An INDIAN who accompaniied Ob to India in that hastily renamed “jobs trip”
Fron t page of Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html
So, one of our foreign masters is WHUPSET?
But GMA, that bizarre morning show, with Robin Roberts (who happily sold out the MS coast in the aftermath of Katrina, she a daughter of Pas Christian) and wee Stephie a couple fo weeks ago cheerily warned WESTERN women that wearing a “pencil or slim cut” skirt would not permit access needed if diverted for “pat down” and the would be RE DRESSED in either a government issued “shift” or a TOWEL.
We should all just wear snuggies…
I loved the woman in the bikini who DANCED thru…. and Madman told me there was a woman who keeps an online porn site, telephone numbers, ‘call the girls’ type of thing, who wore see thru negligee, exposing [a view of] pubic hair.
I LOVED IT!
she goes by the name “furrygirl”.
oh that is right… you did tell me!
We ARE a comedy show!
Via Tom Dispatch:
http://www.tomdispatch.com
hmm of course the vote just lost in the senate. Hs there been a worse press guy than Gibbs, Lipless Wonder. ??????????????
Susan Collins on saying, AFTER the tax cut deal there will be “60 or 61 votes” for DADT
Oh the Dems should just pack off Aravosis and Sully now and send em off to the Lincolnesque Log Cabin at GOP Straight Camp.
I wonder if they’re fixed for marshmallows for the big cookout. Maybe the boys should pack some wein- wait, no, I, – I guess they got those covered.
or uncovered!
Everybody’s got insurance now. 😉
So to speak. And just waiting for encryption!
I think more and more each day, you see senators coming out.
I don’t think you meant it THAT way, lipless.
Then again……………..
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Wikileaks on Shell Oil, USA inside all the Nigerian ministries. And ofcourse we read everything that pertains to anything.
Read more: Link to Daily Mail UK
From 2008, Brown blunders in pledge to secure Nigeria oil.
Viva la Colonialism!
it’s so clear we are waging that horrible war in the Delta. Where, if I am recalling rightly, 4 MILLION have died…. to say nothing of the raped, damaged, kidnapped, forced to fight…….. and so on.
I thiknk on the “4 million” I am thinking of the war in the Congo.
hmm I see via Daily Mail, “hacktavists” are saying Amazon “is next”
…lemmee see I think I have a hankie for amazon ’round here somewhere …..
oops, guess I don’t …
Heads, you live, …tails, you die …What can you say:
eenie meenie minie mo
The plan is to kill people off. Could not be clearer.
nope, it couldn’t be any clearer……..
What the HELL!?!
What happened to research ethics? Did these people sign up to be “test subjects”? We’re they asked for informed consent!? I had to pass a LENGTHY human subject review to do my research in graduate school, and all I was doing was talking with teachers who had to sign a consent form to even talk with me.
These people are dicking around with people being out on the streets “in the name of getting good statistical data”!?!
If this “Homebase” program has even one cent of public $$, it should be immediately shut down. This is WORSE that the freaking Milgram Experiement. Jesus H. on toast!
I know I shouldn’t be, but I am FLOORED!
You can’t make this shit up, the commissioner of the Homeless Services Department name is Diamond?! DIAMOND?
OMFG.
AND they’re paying 577,000$ for it?!? Bet those “about to be evicted or behind on their rent” sure could use some THAT!
Wow. Just wow. What can I say?
Oh, I know what I can say — once these people become homeless how are the fucking assholes from City University going to find and “track” them?? Did they insert subcutaneous GPS trackers in them?
probably gave them those extra tee-shirts with chips in them left over from the Richmond, California school, et al ….
Oh, well, it’s ethical because:
“it was not an entitlement, meaning it was not available to everyone; because it could not serve all of the people who applied for it; and because the control group had access to other services.”
No. No. No. That does not make it ethical at all.
hard to believe, isn’t it?
well it was under the Clintons that replacement, one for one, was no longer mandated for destroyed, unusable, etc., public housing.
I amnot saying it was closely observed, but at least it was the Federal law.
There is a very cute system used here as older public housing (aside from rental assitance and other programs) moves along. They build small buildings or complexes, touting all natural materials and so forth.
Great, but no where near enough of it. And here it is mostly used for the “working” poor. The indigent, those with nothing, get pt on some form of assitance, whatever out sourced private services and supposed non -profits can scrounge up, then put in motel rooms and SROs that take almost all of it.
Endless retelling of They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
The Republican long game on DADT
Sorry to read that you were in the hospital, Mcat.
😦 Hope you’re feeling better now.
Oh thanks ms xeno….
How are you doing?
Update to The Sid String Saga:
Just got the first credit card bill that reflects the new vet charges. I got one of those “chargeback extras” or whatever they’re called when the suits try to encourage you to buy more shit than you can afford. For a charge of about $1960 dollars in one month, the “extra/rebate” iiiiiis…
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[dramatic pause]
$4.68 !!!!
Everyone belly up to the bar!! The drink is on me!!!
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But ya’ll have to provide your own straws.
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Kitty!! Kitty! Stop Bankrupting Mammma!
He was in fine form this morning. Five minutes before I left for work, he pounced on a deli sandwich from the night before: my lunch, boxed up for work. Or he tried to pounch on it. My plastic travel mug was in his way.
Coffee all over the table, the floor, under the table, etc.
I made mr_xeno haul his ass out of bed to do the cleanup, since he’s self-employed and I’m the one who would’ve been docked at work.
But the sandwich was saved!! 😀
(Lousy rotten no-good cat.)
My mother used to smile so sweetly at one pair of cats we had and tell them (a male and a female),
Oh you screwball bitches.
I swear she faked them out, they almost smiled back.
My mother’s little gray tux cat is actually the best-behaved cat on the planet. My Mom keeps a full bag of kibble on the kitchen floor and the cat just ambles past it…even when her dish is empty. She wait politely for my mother to dish out the goodies.
That…would never fly at chez_xeno. The Sid and Butterscotch the Evil would just rip a hole in the bag and hoover it all up in a couple of hours.
😆
OH!! I am hearing thr students who attacked the Royal High Humpmobile chanted,
Off with their heads!
LOL
love that!
🙂
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Excellent!
I read somewhere this am that Camilla dived for the floor…
Woo Hoo!
Up next: Lawrence O’Donnell is going to interview Nader who’s advocating that somebody should primary challenge G*dbama. Massive grey matter explosion coming in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
haha…O’Donnell apologizes for being “inexcusably rude” to Grayson. Gee, ya think?? (Asshole.)
I hope Nader arrives swathed in plastic.
I hope he punches Larry.
Off with his head!
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Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science
YUM!
‘Cuz no mere mortal can keep up with the volume
GA Inmates Stage One Day Peaceful Prison Strike, Authorities React With Violence
I saw that.. wonder if it will spread.
one can hope …
This is a pretty fun party honey ….so glad I came!
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I know it needs a new thread, but leaving this up for a while.
I admit by evening I am worn out …………….. sigh.
I’m sure this thread will do just fine until you feel refreshed sweetie…we don’t want you in that hospital again :0( :0( :0(
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