Protest 27 February 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, AFRICOM, DC Politics, Egypt, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011, Total fucking lunatics.trackback
Zagreb, Croatia: Policemen clash with protesters during an anti-government protest [Hrvoje Polan/AFP/Getty Images]
Just for contrast, who is gamboling around Tahrir Square Cairo?
McCain and Lieberman.
Really!, they are.
The Tweedledee and Tweedledum of cartoon politics. If only cartoons did not kill.
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Some Angry Arab….
The name Qadhdhafi or Qadhdhaf Ad-Dam
What are the origins of the name of Qadhdhafi or Qadhdhaf Ad-Dam (his special envoy, Ahmad Qadhdhaf Ad-Dam who resigned from his post two days ago and defected). Apparently, the legend of the family is that they were pious Sufis who kept invoking God and qur’anic citations until blood came out of their mouths, hence the name: Qadhdhafi (spitter or emitter) or Qadhdhaf Ad-Dam (spitter of blood).
Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil at 10:15 AM
And:
A source who does not want to be identified sent me this:
“Oman is on fire and al-Jazeera is quiet, and so is al-Arabiyya who only reported on points lost in Oman stock market. And of course Omani channels are not saying a word. Reuters reported this yesterday: but the number of protesters was higher, around 3000; the police used tear gas and the protesters reacted by attacking the police injuring a high ranking one and sending him to hospital. The road to al-`Ayn in the Emirates was temporarily closed.
And this is what is not being reported:
Yesterday there was a demonstration in Sour and a police center was burned. Today: more protests in Sohar and the police used live ammunition killing a 15 year old boy. Banks are closed in Sohar now. The Wali of Sohar came out with other tribal leaders to calm people down but they were attacked and ran away. A police station was put on fire. It seems tanks are deployed there now. There are protests in Salala too. I don’t know if you know this, but Omani police and mukhabarat get much of their training in Jordan.
How did I get this info?… is sending me updates. info is reliable (my … People are spreading the news there be telephoning each other). If you report this, please don’t mention my name and try not to provide all the details:”
Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil at 10:11 AM
Marisacat 
The Best Signs From Yesterday’s Rally For Women’s Health
Let’s Talk About How Bad the National Coverage Is
It seems it should be relatively easy to have a simple movement for millions of the populace to lay off the TV, radio, and buying a newspaper for just one day (too bad it’s apparently not that easy) And – though it likely seems counterintuitive to many, particularly the yout’ – to my mind, it would even be sweeter if millions chose a day not to get on the web, let alone not watching TV, listening to the radio, or buying a paper because, since they OWN all four venues of the NOOZ, ….the Elite would Freak at that single-mindedness of millions, let alone the confused explosion of technobots which consistently measure the Pulse/Vital Signs of ‘The Citizenry’ via the web, and …oh my! ….all that lost ‘disposable income’ …..that the citizenry is not receiving any of anyway, anyhow …..
yup, Stop The Machine, ….if only for one day, shouldn’t be that hard.
could even top off the day with a massive too ill from stress overload to show up to work today strike ….(okay, that might prove a tad difficult though ‘do’able))
Officials: No forcible removal of protesters from state Capitol
I did see something, somewhere in my travels on the intertubes today, about protests in Oman and I thought, Oman? AA is right – nobody seems to be talking about that.
Yet another year when I haven’t seen any of the Oscar-nominated movies.
and, Go Colin Firth!
well you are nt alone in that… 😉
Ooops…Melissa Leo said “fucking”.
I’m just relieved I knew who she was… some people are blanks to me.
Glad she won too!
More Dead Dolphin Babies Found along Gulf Coast
About 600 protesters will be allowed to stay in Capitol
Q: What’s one way to unclog a frozen river? A: Dynamite
Maybe it all builds to something but kind of a anti-climactic Oscars. Have to say.
Not brimming over with spirit..
Kind of a bizarre show, this one.
Disjointed….
Oh my Dog – a cameo by Obamalama.
There’s just no escaping him, is there?
I missed that.
Blissfully….
But I see Oprah is said to be appearing. And I quickly saw one of the Banksy elephant installations… whiz by….
I missed the Banksy moment.
Obamalama said his favourite movie song was As Time Goes By.
oh it (elephant) was just a flash shot of coming attractions.
The thing came to life a bit with the NYU film student… alive for a minute.
Ha! Good on the Inside Job filmmaker for stating the obvious.
something. A small anything.
Nobody’s thanked “the troops” yet. I guess the wars have been going on too long…
Oh noes! It’s Celine!
war movies haven’t done well… overall. That is one reason. Ah here is Bigelow….
I went to the ktichen and made toast during the In Memoriam.
Woohoo! Go Colin.
Well, that was my most exciting part of a snoozer nite.
A really dull dead Oscar night.
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
This was a lead baloon. It really was.
worst Oscars I can think of.
The End.
Yes, I think that was the least entertaining Oscars show I’ve ever watched. Not that I’m crazy about overkill in the song and dance dept that they have some years but the humour was really strained and cutesy.
Nobody seemed to even want to be there. Whatshername was game enough, I guess, but the male host not there, not really.
Presenters, winners all of them. Dull as could be.
Sucks to be kos. Too busy with the site redesign:
Life’s a bitch.
I’m more bummed out that Alan Smithee hasn’t updated his blog in almost two months. I hope everything’s okay in MN…
Ethan at 6th or 7th is also on hiatus, taking a break after a lot of blogging about the ME uprisings.
(I’m on hiatus more often than not, which is why I never bother to notify people of it. :p)
Seems to me I have seen a comment or two of Smitthee’s at SMBIVA within the past two months.
Unless of course I am mistaken… which is entirely possible.
I haven’t had time to keep up on all my reading since the Sportswear/Temp gods rendered me idle once more. So I may have missed ’em.
It’s amazing how the Eternal Job Search Clusterfuck eats up more time and energy than actual labor does. :p
Well the Google crackdown against revenue scammers {Google “Bombing”, Search Engine Optimization, linkfarms, etc..)a class action waiting to happen IMO- which would adversely affect the Big G’s share prices… couldn’t come at a worse time after Moulitsas hired Bowers – who wrote piece after touting piece about doing so.
And his new l a y o u t * j u s t * s u c k s.
Early opthalmalogical studies indicate it actually induces occular migration for all the
f u c k i n g * w h i t e * s p a c e. 😯
LOL. Of course he has Netroots Nation to fall back on.
Like the Party, obviously a Top Tier Brand now.
Surely Facebook, Twitter, and HuffPo are watching his every move. LOL
And any more w h i t e s p a c e on Markos blog with that occular migration thing going on and they’ll be havin fish at the buffet in Vegas next summer.
Standing in line in T shirts. 😯 gurgle gurgle.
LOL
I think the funniest thing of recent days is Reid standing up and calling for legalised prostitution in NV to be outlawed. I had missed it, like I missed the NASCAR scrap fest…..
What a scream! From saggy man tits. Geesh. Then Ensign stood up and sorta said, leave it alone.
Funny you should mention Harry and his man-nubbins. I was poking around the Independents daily editorial cartoons and nobody, I mean nobody does man titties like Dave Brown there. He just titty twisted David Cameron. LMAO – I *think over the Tabloid phone tap scandal but I was just so Man-hootered Awestruck I couldn’t really tell. LOL. As I was at his rendition of Hosni’s Mooby boobies. 😆
And while not of the Man-crumpet Genre, per se,
He really nailed Obama, too .
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/the-daily-cartoon-760940.html?ino=10
Whoops, wrong link. Here’s the Dave Brown on Obama
So basically Obby has gotten so painful to make excuses for that Kos is gonna be doing whiskey shots in his basement until the next election gives him something else to talk about.
There you go.
That sounds like an accurate translation!
But he’ll clean himself up if the investment bankers come a’courtin.
😆
He ought to buy whiskey for everyone who’s ever suffered through his… uh, distinctly lackluster writing on their own time.
JPMorgan fund eyes 10% stake in Twitter
“Businessman” Markos is prolly just playin chess with those venture capitalists till they beg him to sell. Word is their in it fpr his trendspotting research and polling operation.
😆
Aw. Not that he needs the money. Surely his folks will enjoy helping him out till Top Campaign Strategist Joe Trippi starts really handin out the dough again. LOL.
Okay, laughing too hard to type. 😆
Just caught mt local news where they called the Libyan people “rebels”. So says the NYT too: Rebels in Libya Gain Power and Defectors
I don’t remember the Egyptian or Tunisian people being called “rebels”.
They’ve been reporting the fighting differently too.
‘Anonymous’ takes down Americans for Prosperity website
People shouldn’t so that.
Henh. 😉
it seems to be a lot of toilet paper and paper towel brands. Quilted Northern, Angel Soft and Brawny…. I remember those being Koch industrial brands.
I hear of support rolling out shall we say to “return” the Koch TP, in …”new and improved” condition. So to speak. Any poo will do for accompaniment. The ole Brawny brownie as it were.
Of course there’s the impromptu Gelignite, the ear of an heir for the more irregular and really naughty sorts.. 😉
hmm Premium shows at 4.21/gal around town.
Clearly headed to 5.00….
ugh.
Regular is 3.29 – 3.50 around here….good thing I filled up last week (5 days ago) when it was 2.99….gas has gone up nearly .50 cents in the last 10 days….the speculators must be loving life.
Regular is 3.79 to 3.99
I cannot believe I listened to the Charlie Sheen interview on GMA but he delivered a line that makes one think of the Democrats:
They strapped on their diapers
😆 he’s referring to the CBS honchos who sidelined his show… but ……
No idea if it is an old line or not.
Just saw a clip. “You can’t process me with a normal brain.”
Yeah – except that we can there, Chuck.
Move over Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson and all the others.
Breast milk ice cream seized over health complaints
Hmmm…that might kill my SpermDog™ idea…
[chokes on morning coffee]
I knew all those years of consorting with BHHM would eventually ruin you.
Tsk.
Oh, c’mon now: “You can’t process me with a normal brain.”
😉
If this turns into a discussion of everyone’s underwear, you’re gonna’ see the GBCW to end all GBCWs.
You got something against boxers?
😆 Ha!
Last American WWI veteran dies
Most of the Great War vets turned out to be pretty antiwar folks after they came back. The press didn’t like interviewing them unless they never saw battle or kept their mouths shut. Getting hit with mustard gas and being asked to bum rush machine guns will do that to you.
Not looking forward to the last WWII soldiers…endless trotting out of Tom Brokaw and quotes that “we should have nuked more Japanese cities after what they did to the Jews.”
Maybe Tom could run out of Botox and decline to be interviewed. (if only)
A few years ago I saw a BBC segment on the nearly last WW1 vets, one from the UK and one from Germany. A meeting was arranged between them. Both rather dapper old guys, bundled up, it was winter, in wheelchairs and with nurses along. Both wept and decried the wars.
Yeah – not fit for US TV.
I’m sorry but I really have to laugh at this story. Everything about it. Mostly,
A. The fact that it has entered my consciousness and I’m curious enough to fuck around with it. LOL. The irony is not lost on me. 😆
Drudge has been humping the Story for Days,
DIOR Designer Galliano filmed saying ‘I love Hitler’ in new rant… but then again Drudge also has a blip up Small Nuclear War Could Reverse ‘Global Warming’… so, ya know.
But REALLY , while I’m down with any story with the words “Fashion Guru…” in the lede, if only to drown out the Charlie Sheen riot being pumped into every crevice here, I have to say the whole JG’s diminutive Kid Rock meets Slash The Top Hatted Guitarist Bastard Son of David Niven get-up just doesn’t work for me.
So I dunno, this fribble Galliano might want to rethink the Nazis as arbiters of taste..
Anybody hear what happened to that line of Ernst Rohm accessories?.. Or anyone else considered Army Navy passe?
American mil stationed in Germany generally are big buyers/collectors of Nazi paraphernalia. WW! as well, which they get away with wearing… can’t wear the Nazi stuff in public, as I recall.
Shouldn’t the French be citing fining dragging Galliano to court? (no free speech there, in that sense). They nabbed Alexander McQueen last week…. (think it was last week…)
New
LINK
…………. 😯
U.S. repositions military around Libya