Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Upcoming methane expulsion… to describe the Speech! The antidote is frequent application of alcohol.
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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 
Thanks be to son the younger’s music teacher, who (unwittingly or not) has scheduled him to sing tonight, and has saved me from the gas expulsion!
😉
A very good out!
Damnit. It didn’t last long enough….has he not even frakking STARTED yet?!
the pre-speech circle jerk took longer than expected … Boehner kept bursting into tears and ruining the mood. The poor pages are all tired out now.
LOL! Well, I guess I’m glad I missed THAT!
hmm via Business Insider:
Read more: BI
97 pieces of luggage – think of the fees on that!
Return your seats and tray tables to their upright position!!!!!!!!
Eyebrows raised on that.
GOOD.
We’re all Israelis now:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12273145
Well, naked editorializing by the BBC at least.
What BULLSHIT.
After Medvedev’s visit to Israel was just cancelled??
And he just visited the West Bank instead?
That at least Shimon Peres had the sensibility to make an apology for his crassy ass kook of a country?
GMAFB.
Welp, for everybody’s sake, the RW paranoiacs in Israel better not have had the slightest shit-stirring connection to this.
Putin has vowed “inevitable retribution”.
And I’d take him at his word, as there are signs he’s tiring of managing the quarrelsome Israeli Gangsters and a counterfeit WikiLeaks, RuLeaks, they just happened to pop up recently, leaking photos of his new villa.
May they all claw each other to death, and I know where you’re coming from mattes, they’d turn us all into naked work tourists o’er the planet if deemed serviceable outside the cage, but I’d really want an EXACT translation. No direct quote in the BBC piece. FWIW, RT has a small clip of Medvedevs remarks.
But Medvedev just was in israel. He was to return so quickly?? (whne he was there they took him to where John baptised Jesus… -snicker-)
By some accounts, yes, Bethlehem is in Israel.
Then again so is New York and DC by mine. LOL.
I seriously doubt they were on Medvedevs TPMs tho.
And Yep, Putins lad scooted back to Russia faster ‘n a , well faster’n a Rahm Emanual petition can be goose-shat through the Illinois Supreme Court!
And that’s pretty fast! 😆
I’ve not kept up with Medvedev and “Russian gangsters” too much lately, but the attack reminded me mightily of 911 and Bibi’s comments: how it benefited Israel that the States had now experienced first hand what poor Israelis have had to suffer for decades.
…..As the world spoke ‘We’re all Americans today’.
No doubt on BiBi. And I’m not saying, regardless of the origin of attack, that Putin & Co. wouldn’t use it for whatever purposes..Chechnya, justifying whatever else they saw fit..
I’m not naive : They’re ALL Gangsters, the facile “US” / “Them” has just minor variance in grain of one veneer or other.
With an important exception: the current U.S. and Israeli leadership have a longer record and greater motive for War and pursuing global chaos than any other cabal present.
Sure it could be “the usual suspects”.
But the greater threat of instability in Russia is hardly from Chechnya. Its transnational warfare among the assorted Mafiosa themselves; “Ours” “theirs” “the Israelis”, I think it really is secondary tho whether a “Don” is in the government or not. Revolving doors and all that.
Notice how the – hello- PLUTONIUM poisoning trail all over the EU just kinda got Commision Report filed away..
Ya…what EVER happened to that story. Russian oligarchs an’ all.
….damn, I just finished my last margarita. Sure wish I had another four pack, with a side of Jose Cuervo, for Obamas’ speech. 😦
Hey did you know…..you could make,
Diamonds produced from tequila
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7725815.stm
No wonder the stuff gives me a tremendous hangover.
Your brain on diamonds!
so that’s why they call it hard liquor
You cad! 😆 😉
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I couldn’t resist!
While Obama prepares to blow hard….
4 to 5% Inflation coming in in the UK.
Unicorn rider Howard Dean on MSNBC now..
talking cordially with fellow Progressive (heh) Larry O’Brien about how mythical Progressive Democratic Community villagers are sure to be pleased! They will be Pleased!
Thanks, Santa.
Now leave your crappy candy bar in the sock.
Full text of El Speecho.
Apparently he will also call for an end to……..
EARMARKS.
he lives dangerously! Double Oh Seven Man!!
LOL As they loiter…
Gene Robinson : “A Bubble of Good Feeling”
He farted? Again?
Looks like Obster washed the black rinse out of his hair….
Eminence Gris for the SOTU? Black patent hair for the Chinese leader?
What does it all mean!!!!!!!!
at least he skipped the rouge!
Reporting for Popcorn Distribution duty.
Oh! Where’s his little ribbon??
…why are they so damn happy?
drinking their own drool.
Okay. There’s no way I can listen to any more of Lawrence O’Donnell.
Slim pickings.
No kidding. You know it’s hopeless when you actually prefer listening to Blitzer. I should switch over to the CDN channel…
Anti-capitalist rumba rave in a Spanish bank
No. No, the symbolism is NOT important! Not in the least fucking bit.
Where’s Boehner’s huge…gavel?
(He is SO on the verge of tears.)
He’s also looking quite spectacularly orange this evening.
Noticed that. He always looks too yellow, it’s a simple video camera adjustment.
He looks darker than Obamalama.
LOL…I thought you were talking about Obama!
All the flesh tones look off.
Oh fuck there goes Boehner BWAAHAWHAWL
I love my kid (both of ’em of course, but this is the 7-year-old)– I told him the president was talking. Told him it was called “The State of the Union”. That presidents give it every year and it is supposed to be about what’s going on in the country.
He asks: “is he doing it right now? I say yes.
He says: “it should be called the ‘stupid president place’.
I ask, what place would that be?
He says: “The place we are right now.”
What else is there to say?
How perfect!
Thanks, Marisa!
I thought so too! Some days when I look at them, I think maybe there is hope for something different for them…
He’s obviously one of those kinder-terrorists.
I can only hope! 😉 We can flee to you when they come after us, right?
Sure! Bring your own tent!
Gifford’s Empty Chair = new band title?
Is it just me or is he straining to sound excited? Sounds faux to me…
Poised for Progress People! Pretty Plain to see plastic platitudes only partially peel away the pain of the Pacific Rim Pants wedgie we weally been fealwing of late.
Proceed.
Prolific!
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Hey Brinn! I’ve been reading along and didn’t want to crowd ya. Having been thru some things that rocked me to the core, I bet the last thing you need is any reminder of resilience but I want you to know I’m really grateful for seeing yours.
Wow. Thanks, BHHM — I needed that!
You’ll never crowd me — no worries!
*smooches*
WTF?
unless we were brown, black, red or had a uterus.
And what an idea it was idea was:
Lower Taxes.
I think they just walked up and down the aisles of a Hallmark store and copied the insides of various cards for this speech.
😆
Out Innovate! Out Educate! Outbuild!
😯 D R I N K 😯
Outbullshit!
Oh, outbullshit happened LOOOONG ago….no one is even close! And after tonight, we may be so far ahead that catching up will be impossible!
Sputnik!!
**DRINK** x 2!
….what would we do without all those new financial instruments!
countless new RETAIL jobs! Woo hoo!!!
Stuff is IN.
Michelle Bachman’s response:
“Reinvent THIS, motherfucker!”
There’s Nobel Prize Winning Steven Chu.
What’s all of that crap in front of Boehner? Vials of holy water?
Jello shots
The one appliance looks like some kind of plug like devise.
Then of course,
there’s Vice President Little Gavel…
We must win the future
This is really hammered shit.
Fuck the Sputnik moment.
The country should be trying to figure out whether we can chuck a tomato as far as DC..
Rocket launcher for the Tomatoes!!
That’s innovation!
Yeah, ’cause too many schools don’t have books or desks or pencils…
Race to the Top my ASS — fucking lying stupid fucker !!
Don’t make me laugh…
for the children…
We want good schools all across the country — we just don’t want to pay for them!
Fuck respect — show me the money!!
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Your country needs you, brinn! It just doesn’t need to give you a job.
I need to go out on the side of the road with a sign that says: “Will Teach for Food” — actually, I need to re-read that book, maybe write a sequel!
and we’ll show that respect by privatizing the schools and breaking the unions and getting rid of tenure, right Arne?!?!
you too can be a nation builder teacher in america
ZOMG – what a boring, fucking speech. I missed Law & Order: SVU for this?
uninspiring…who wrote this?
My guess would be a South Korean (?)…
He’s obviously suffering from South Korea Envy™
LOLOLOL! I love how they showed the Chinese guy right after he said “America is the nation who built the transcontinental railroad”!
Some of the camera people have a couple brain cells to run together?
Good catch. 🙂
I don’t know what is going on with education, but a friend of mine’s daughter has only been teaching for 2 years and now wants out.
I have a friend who teaches in inner-city Chicago who got punched in the face the other day by a disruptive student she ejected from the classroom when he wouldn’t quiet down during one of the mandated state tests.
Sometimes I think we are poisening ourselves…there is no other explantion for the dumbdown, uncontrolable emotionally handicaped children I have come accross. Many on hard drugs, street or otherwise. Scary.
I hate to break it to him, but the Koreans had faster internet a long time ago.
cheaper too
an airport groping joke? did i just hear that or am I that high…
Jesse Ventura’s suing the TSA for repeated groping because he has a titanium hip.
oh fuck yea, lower the corporate tax rate! total win
this is the best Republican speech EVAH …
He studies Reagan… he even told us.
st ronnie is with us
“It’s why last year, we put in place consumer protections against hidden fees and penalties by credit card companies, and new rules to prevent another financial crisis. And it’s why we passed reform that finally prevents the health insurance industry from exploiting patients.”
Oh, GMAFB!No there are no HIDDEN fees — they have no reason to hide them! 30% interest– right out there where everyone can see it!
Consumer protections, my sweet ass.
Thank Biden.
Does this “winning the future” thing remind anyone else of the first X-Files movie?
What a bunch of crap this is…
i hate that phrase so hard
Who do you mean by “we” kimosabe??
I know MY debt is not your concern….
Hey asshole — I’d settle for a govt. that doesn’t steal from me to settle OTHERS’ debts, especially when they’re paying themselves millions a year!
3 people clapped for that one.
a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnSZGvlUIMg”
btw, the x-files movie phrase was “fight the future”, an equally retarded notion
Yes, I know….
😆 LMAO
we have the technology
wow, not getting to sit at their regular lunch tables is really throwing off their ability to celebrate with their friends.
Yeah, but nobody at all regulates the genetically engineered salmon!
win the future in the information age by downloading e-medical records with a mouse click
i love it when they hold up iraq as a success… one million dead and a culture destroyed. WIN
You can say it all you want there, sparky…
The Iraq War is Coming to An End!
The Finest in OutBullshittery since 1991!
Who’s that old guy sitting with Levin? They look like those codgers in the balcony on the Muppet Show.
Alright that’s it — gonna go read Green Eggs and Ham with my kiddo — “mom, are you still in the president’s stupid place?”
Nope, I’m done!
Damn I wish Dr. Seuss was still with us for real….
Be good ya’ll!
oxoxo
…oh nose!
“Zoonoses in the Bedroom,”
Out of the sack, cat! Sleeping with pets carries disease risk
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41235440/ns/health-pet_health/
…sorry. got bored. went surfing.
Hey Mr. Tal-E-ban, tally me ba-bomb-as!
Daylight come and me want ta’ go home!
sorry, drives me crazy the way he pronounces “Taliban”.
Finally had to turn it off.
sorry, drives me crazy the way he pronounces “Taliban”.
That’s cuz he went to Pahkeestan when he was 20.
He’s Ill’in now. Kim Jong-il ‘n.
Dude, They already set off The Bomb.
FOR THE TROOPS
If they don’t want a bad story in the newspapers it doesn’t get written
What Planet is this guy from?
We believe in the dream of the destruction of the constitution
Oh fuck. Boehener closing Dad’s bar down.
Bring the mops.
and i say unto thee, we do big things
What last gasp theatrics at the end.
Useless.
What kind of drugs is Tweety on?
How old is this Paul Ryan guy? 18?
His haircut is 50.
And what’s he got against hammocks?
Hammocks are a commie construction.
Shorter Ryan: Run for the border!!
Dickhead was a speechwriter for Bill Bennett
new…
LINK
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Oops. Just switched over to CNN and there’s Bachman. Who the fuck is she looking at??