Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Cotton Candy the rabbit takes part in a show jumping event at the Kaninhop Club in the village of Jena, Germany. Competitors hop over a variety of different sized mini-jumps. The more jumps they clear the higher their score and there is also normally a time element
[Action Press / Rex Features]
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Clearing hurdles. Next!
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.
[...]
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 
Rome: AND on the day John Paul 2 was beatified.
London: During the Royal Bunga Bunga we might add.
Paris, Berlin : ~U.S. Operation?
Moscow, Beijing : Henh.
Tokyo:
Mugabe was in Rome for the Santo Soubito, where is my fucking beatification?, stuff.
😆
Well heathens, 😉 discount this miracle at peril of eternal hamnation, but ISTANBUL is presently experiencing some sort of mass spontaneous conversion.
200,000 repentents surging in the Square!
Wait – Nope – Oops! Sorry there!
That’s the number turned out for the MAY DAY PROTESTS – 😆 😉
Biggest in 30 years. LOL.
That is cheering! Beats all the idiots breaking out wit chants of USA!!!! USA!!! from NYC to the Phillies Mets game to the total frat freak mob outside the WH.
Makes me think of the sectarian mobs in India. Or over Danish cartoons… etc.
Yeah, that is cheering, looks like Los Angeles was the largest US march, of about 60,000.
GMAFB –
And on we go. Time to invest across the board in wholly integrated goat milking operations, tho. Lobster bibs and slickers another opportunity, anything in the Slobber service sector should be a nice little short term position. Barry McAffree on now.. Good Lord, I can only imagine Matthews and ODonnells lineup Monday night.
One of the MSNBC overnight tools before going to break is touting this TPM “America will wake up to a New Normal”. And coming back just keeps repeating this “New Normal” TPM.
Oh I got yer “New Normal”:
the USA! not-so-NewSpeak for something like
Perma War~ Get Used To It.
CBS had Lara Logan on pretty quick to say The Wars Go On. Osama was but one leader and Zawahiri was nt at the compound.
Thanks we got the message between taking off shoes and restricting carry on liguids.
Etc.
Thumbs up, Lara.
ya mean like Pfizer and Wyeth:
Of course the first thing Big Pharma did, was blame it on drug safety requirements:
Anywhoooo…not to worry! Obama and Congress jumped on the issue immediately …well okay, one senator sponsored a bill, and 4 added their signatures. Welp, one thing we can all be sure of, if those medicines are replenished, the prices for them will be obscene.
Well Somebody, LOL – like everybody trying to cash out before carriage turns to pumpkin in the London silver markets knew what was up prior to the OBL announcement.
BIG plunge about 12 hours ago.
So….To market rally tomorrow in the Dow!
US Bonds too! Home Sales can’t be far off!
I love bein a peasant, frankly, as none of this shit makes no never mind to me.
what about JAHBZ?
I swear they have destroyed that word too.
They just reported Bin Laden was buried…
at sea. Quick!
Which means, according to my calculations, he should be appearing in Atlantic City over Memorial Day weekend. I’m thinking with Paul Anka at one of the Trump joints. You know, classy.
I noticed they rushed around suddenly a few hours ago, to say the body was being treated in accordance with Islamic law.
Gave me a laugh.
The story/stories as they emerged sure were garbled.
in accordance with Islamic law.
I hope they Do tell how the celebratory photo of corpse figures in to that. One of our specialties tho.
As the shit now flows fast and deep.
Isikoff on now. (4AM Mon EST) UGH.
Going on about how this lead came from “High Value Guantanamo detainees”. Going back YEARS.
Riiiight.
:Roll:puke: validate torture: puke some more:
I just wonder how the DNC will re-cut the obligatory convention film footage of Tedddy sailing and the JFK voice over of all men returning to sea , you know, with like OB L in sack getting shoved off the side of an aircraft carrier.
well we went from ”drone strike some days ago”, to, in a few hours, attack just TODAY!!! (USA!! USA!!, it rhymes) on a long observed (4 whole years!) compound that appeared to have been built to hide someone (snicker) and that he was shot in the head in the assault.
On and on it goes.
Making it all worthwhile!
This is the BEST DAMN THING to happen to college kids late on a research paper since, like, EVAH!
😆
Well US JAHBZ were up!
At least for five minute on the Financial Times. Which lead Asian Stocks higher!
Which they now say is due to the ole CIA chum Osama finally turning into, well, just chum in the ole Islamic tradition.
And, Oil is Down! AND The Dollar is UP!
AND …ETC!
We are so Blessed.
Barry just MacGruber’d our way thru. Till Summer!
hmm Chris Hedges was asked to make some comments on the death, he was at a fundraiser in LA….
Excellent
Ah yes. Where else can you find Pwogwessive commentary like this?
To a David Swanson diary on DK.
Not to be missed IMO.
Fortunately, the top of thread jacker , the pool party idiot, was met with this..
Nah. Back In. The mooks on Morning Joe.
Led by eponymous mook, Joe Scarborough:
Mika Twytzynski on now.
He WAS Shot in the Head.
Richard Hass: Pakistans Fault, abbettors of Terrorism, says Ricky, segueing to Bush Doctrine nicely.
Jon Meacham now: Hitler Death on MAy 1st too! (DRINK!)
Willie Geist: People were honking their horns last night in New York. Amazing and Emotional.
Oh thanx for that, Willie.
Okay, now I’m out.
The historical narrative has been set.
Now I’m out.
Nyap, still in.
Scarorough: Not even the beginning of the End, these Wars go on, {Sigh} etc…
LOL Now Miklaszewski, the NBC DoD guy says top Pentagon peeps said they didn’t even really know OBL was in there. The President took the gamble, etc, AND…Islamic Traditional Funeral reminder.
Okay. I’m So not sticking around to watch Jack Jacobs to stroke his meat while tick off military hardware used to an inquisitive Willie Geist…
War pr0n:
Did Tweety just say this is a day to go to church? Ummm…why?
Shopped?
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/02/6568249-we-think-that-bin-laden-death-photo-just-the-photo-is-a-fake
IOW: We think the photo is a fake, but still just take the military at their word that he’s dead, despite the forgery of key forensic evidence.
I would so totally laugh if he made a video (if not several) years ago announcing that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated and had his minions release it about a week from now. The ultimate mind****.
NTIM, the wars will go on, and the boot stamping on the human face, forever.
yeah that is clearly photoshopped…
This means they admit they filmed it. So 😆 bring it on.
“buried at sea” = body dumped ASAP
oh! now it is shot in the FACE. Not just a head shot.
Handy.
Cancel the parties…. 😆 This is the same government that filmed the “rescue” of Jessica Lynch, as it was happening with night vision….. SO!! Bring on the film of the operation. Showing Usama before he was shot.
What a scream. More vapor.
oh! now it is shot in the FACE.
It’s a Western, what can ya say?
It’ll be “right between the eyes” before sundown, pardner.
But My. God.
This could be the popcorn run of all time.
The full frontal take down of recorded history.
The best episode of Punk’d ever.
As Now no mere photo of his face was transmitted to analysts, who confirmed the identification. that Mike Allen’s sources say..
DNA!
They got the DNA during the Islamic Traditional Funeral!
Sweaty Admin lips and brows now, anyone?
Cancel the parties…. 😆 This is the same government that filmed the “rescue” of Jessica Lynch, as it was happening with night vision….. SO!! Bring on the film of the operation. Showing Usama before he was shot.
What a scream. More vapor.
And how. Me, I’m taking in the yawning skeptical thud if not outright crickets from captials around the world measured against the increasingly shrill decibel level of US PTB screaming at those duplicitous Pakistanis.
Haven’t we seen this flick before?
But Next? Cruise missile launched before NEXT TAPE reaches Al Jazeera overnight inbox?
Of course, who knows. But do I think it’s possible that – Gasp – the allegedly Best and Brightest the U.S. has to offer right down to the lesser pols and propaganda humpers doing their journeyman’s work on TV could have been played out of position? Oh I think the answer to that question was outsourced a long time ago.
China keeps mum on Osama bin Laden’s death
Shot above the left eye, they say.
😆
I am sorry, no matter what the assembled shit class politicos have put us thru so much. I am standing with the dead Reagan:
Trust but verify! And I ain’t budging.
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Why not just put his body on a pike in the White House? Cut the head off, affix it to Obama’s limo? Like they did in the old days as an example to the others.
Oh, we’re okay with strafing civilians to get some third or fourth level alleged al-Qaeda boogeyman, but we don’t draw and quarter? Puh-leeze.
Shot in the face = we can’t recognize him
Buried at sea = no body left to check – oopsie
What a crock of shit. Do they just pump this out to see how much people will swallow?
And let’s just desecrate the body to piss as many people off as possible. Why not stuff a Koran up his ass? I tell you, the lack of imagination in these people…
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Gergen…. Always hoping to be brought in as political facilitator. “even harder to beat”… Yeah right…
Obama got Osama. God, I can imagine how many people came when they field tested that at the PR office.
Even if he was truly killed in exactly the way they claim, I can’t imagine an emptier victory.
hmm der spiegel says Abbotobad is one of the most beautiful towns in Pakistan AND is a wealthy garrison town. Crawling with Pakistani mil.
What a hoot.
Tweet tweet (in English no less) from a local cafe owner, wondering what the hell is going on.
LOL. Oh it is.
Villas and orchards to die for. (As the saying goes.)
Carney Press briefing up now. How apropo.
And LOL emphasizing “IF we had actionable intelligence”..
Has Brennan as human shield. Interesting.
Says it was an ARREST mission now.
LOL. NOT going in to visual details.
Tapper with Brennan on the ropes now.
oh they are saying he was shot AFTER he was ordered to “surrender”.
Earlier it was a firefight…
Oh this is gettin good.
Script Doctor!
LOL AFTER Brennan said “Minutes seemed like years.” he was asked by Tapper about whether documentation, bank vaults, other intel was gathered when on this big coup.
Not Going into THAT either But yeh, We did like, grab some some stuff. If it was needed, see, because sure, sure , this was efficient. Like , sure, yes it really was. Quick but not so quick, but minutes seemed like years but not like LEAP years: Bin Laden had a woman as a shield, ya know!
the cafe owner’s tweeets (link up thread) present a different version of the downing of the helo.
Our version makes it sound like wardrobe malfunction… but still it was set down “gently” inside the walls.
Cafe tweeter says it crashed. And it was heard crashing….
We so need script docs.
Now REALLY stonewalling on the Visual Evidence.
Now he’s stamerring over who owned the compound.
Chuck Todd (my god for once the dumbfuck asks a decent question!) :
You said this was the gutsiest call a President has ever made. That implies disagreement around the table? Was there?
Met by a “well sure” etc.
THEN a follow up by Todd. (Wonders never cease)
“Was it a close call in your opinion?”
OMG
When was the Decision he would be buried at sea?
Deer in Headlights moment as room erupts.
One at a time! Carney says.
Why at Sea??!?
Oh this is NOT going well.
well calling the compound ”a million dollar property” is a good giggle. That is what we think 3,000 sq ft is – – – – with very high walls and barbed wire?
No pool? No sky lights? No indoor dog run? What were the home owner dues? We demand to know!!
Is it on Trulia? Zillow?
Henry Bodgett, Spitzer’s red headed step child, 😆 weighs in…
Read more: Business Insider
Oh fuck>
There are reports he was wrapped in a weighted white sheet. How secure is that?
BRENNAN REALLY FLUSTERED.
Visual Recording of the Burial?
Was there an Imam there?
OH! BRENNAN REALLY taken aback.
Brennan: Look,Now we can say with 99.9 % level of confidence this WAS Bin Laden.
BLINK.
What body of water?
I wanna know!
Man the beaches, without man-eating sharks he’s gonna wash up in a fishing net!!
😆 I wanna know!
Oh too funny. Well they called the presser.
Carney and Brennan really got whiplashed in what started as a high fiver.
Man the beaches, without man-eating sharks he’s gonna wash up in a fishing net!!
After this presser Brennan and Carney will be leading the way.
OOO! Put to Carney at close of Brennan seg as he made escape:
Was there was a reason Brennan said 99.9% sure?
Carney Verry sotto voce: I believe that has to do with DNA.
No body.
No body returned to family.
No visuals.
Sorry. They got a problem either way, whether they “got ‘im” or not. They let the bloodlust hoo-ha out of the bottle, so good luck satisfying the very people who were USA!ing it at first news. **
Frankly, the Traditional Islamic Funeral courtesy of SOCOM at sea is about the dumbest political angle on all counts they could have introduced into the mix.
But**….. poor Ghaddafi or the next target, (well, it’s gonna be SOMEBODY) given the unsated bloodlust of Barry and Obama for America: Revenge Impalement 2012.
Poor Ghaddafi or the next target who likely will end up as hood ornament on Barry Peace Prize’s limo.
So far, The most hideous angle I saw being worked was Michael Isikoff touting GITMO ops going back YEARS as instrumental in this, ahem, “win”.
hmm supposedly this is the compound, thanks to der spiegel.
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-67491-8.html
gah.
New
LINK
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