war 13 June 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Afghanistan War, WAR!.trackback
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Kabul graffiti – in pictures: Boys stand in front of graffiti printed on to a wall [Ahmad Masood/Reuters]
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Kabul graffiti – in pictures: Boys stand in front of graffiti printed on to a wall [Ahmad Masood/Reuters]
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the ‘child’ at the fore, a forty year old face? ..will we choose death …or life …getting kind of late in the day …and who doesn’t want to live a life that isn’t filled with the daily threat of annihilation?
These wars are not going to end. That much we know.
We did not build hundreds of bases, new prisons and whatever else, just to pull out.
Welp, after almost 6 years, our government sleuths have finished counting, and determined that what was once termed one of the largest thefts in history:
Was probably the largest theft in history:
Surprise!
Not a surprise, but still disgusting, it was disgusting the last time too:
Obama goes cap in hand to the ‘fat cats’: President woos Wall St as he gears up for election run
Yes it’s trickling out…
I especially loved him sitting at a panel table … yesterday, I guess in NC, with none other than Immelt. Immelt lecturing about how to make jobs.
😆 Might as well laugh. Meanwhile Big Mama was in LA extruding about how hard he works, how he reads “every word of every memo” so he will “know more than anyone briefing him”.
Distribute the in flight barf bags, by the gross. (Really)
Now, now, she was also in Beverly Hills providing guidance on how to integrate stories about military families into film and television. since that’s their most pressing need, being portrayed on tv .
Anyway, I guess that means you won’t be forking out $10K for a piccy and some private time with the Baby Fat Hunter?
(woopsie, looks like some of the commenters weren’t too impressed, they’ve scrubbed the comments)
Quick! Shut down BART, The Bay Bridge, Interstates 880, 580 and 680 … Mickey’s in ‘Oaktown,’ and she’s lookin for Premium Baby Fat Fodder for Endless Wars.
The singing protesters that got into (and paid to get into) Ob’s last visit here, breakfast at the Sheraton iirc… well they tried to get into BFH breakfast fundraiser at the Claremont in the Oakland/ Berkeley hills… and were turned away.
I read that Ob’s … think it was a dinner, fundraiser in Miami last night was not nearly sold out.
It’s hard out there for pimps.
I could be wrong, but, I generally connect dial up ping backs (I can hear the ping backs as a landline ring) to high net surveillance, and I’m getting a ton of them today, …not that I think it’s directed towards me individually ….but I’m imagining since Mickey’s in the state, ….that there’s a large presence surveilling Cali communications…..
Of course if the World Pimps weren’t so contrary and threatening to their own citizens, let alone other Sovereign Nations, I suppose, they wouldn’t have to worry about such things….I won’t be the one, I’ve never cared for the unnecessary spilling of blood..unlike some, who indiscriminately drone thousands……..and call it heroism.
(say honey: yeah, waste not want not……. thought ya might like these? …yeah well, what can I say hon, …not too original, …sigh, ……..on a severe budget …;0) …..)
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Yeah I thought that was a lovely bouquet, back when I found it….
(That photo always touched me hon, …I’ve boughten bouguets as gifts, because I thought they were beautiful, …..which looked near identical. ….;0) ….)
Supreme Court reinstates collective bargaining law
It feels like some days did under Nixon. Maybe the courts can save some shreds…
reinstated Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to all but end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers.
Oh NO rereading it… the first run thru I read it upside down.
Shoot.
very depressing, though like I said not a huge surprise.
From the dissents:
Seriously, just fuck Biden and Obama with a rusty fencepost:
More on the tortoise bullshit:
I’m glad to say I never voted for this motherfucker.
This is Reagan-style lying. I didn’t vote for Reagan back in the day, and I don’t plan to now. This is the straw that broke the tortoise’s back, for me.
You know, taht is very accurate. Reagan hated small things that made a difference. He really DID say that ketcup is a vegetable speaking of school lunches… and
“seen one tree, seen them all” – speaking of the coastal redwood, which is so astounding as to be almost unbelievable.
You know Bush 2 was extremely, profoundly destructive but there is a fuckedupedness and sheer MEANESS about Ob and consort that really pisses me off.
And Biden is just one more hand out to be greased, slack jawed hack.
I thought the extreme reaction was odd whn I heard it… I mean what does an internet page cost? And, from what i heard, no more on other creatures, either.
Maybe Obster wants a page in praise of all that BP did for the gulf tortoises.
gawd knows what that fucker wants/thinks …
My assumption is that the White House singled out the tortoise in part because the desert tortoise has been a roadblock in pushing through the “renewable” industrialization of public lands under the banner of solar.
Hello Chris… just to let you know your comment went to moderation as it was the first… now that you have commented, and the weak little system that is WP has read you name and references, comments should go thru fine.
in pushing through the “renewable” industrialization of public lands under the banner of solar.
Oh yes, our great “green” future. More likely something dripping toxic green ooze. Heaven forfend anyone fall in love with a tortoise. So in the way….
Great posts on this Chris.
I think you’re right.
FEMA: Razed Houses In Alabama Have ‘Insufficient Damage’ To Receive Funds
Not that I give a shit about a state full of hillbillies who more often than not vote for destroying the gov’t, but now does a completely destroyed house NOT qualify?
Oh one TV news camera crew just walked thru Berkeley today asking how people on the street feel about how closed to th public, closed to the press Snob’s Bay Area drop in is ($1000 – 2500 per ticket, at least one instance of a mother taking her young daughter to the luncheon).
They don’t like it, but they will vote for him. Her. Whoever.
The problem is being fucking stupid is bi partisan.
Michelle Obama Now Going After Fat Babies
Hadn’t known the following. Have never used Google Earth, because I’ve always despised it. …The public, at large, was never asked whether a private company should: receive access to surreptitious government photos, (Keyhole ….many of which, were likely: Unconstitutional from the get go), then worse, be allowed to invade citizen’s privacy even further, with no permissions asked. Call me Unsurprised:
(bolding mine)
We are so protective of our girl friend…
Or is it our parent?
My uncle works with the Indian tribes out near Blythe, where several hundred to a thousand year old geoglyphs are going to be bulldozed to make way for Our Solar Future, really just monopoly profits for the big energy companies to make massive returns without having to take an ounce of risk or even use their own capital.
One of the first things to go down the crapper when the CA budget crisis hit were funds for small independent local solar producers which were pretty much the market outside of PGE/SDGE. Now that most of them are out of business and the big money has nobody to trouble them. It’s all about big money now. Tell the little people whatever they’ll swallow. They don’t matter. Only the filthy lucre matters.
Oddly enough I have been to Blythe… at the tag end of a bizarre journey down the Colorado. I always refer to it as:
The least Blythe place on earth.
BI has a page on the top investment holdings of the top guys (and Wasserman Shultz nd La Nana) in congress… heavy into big energy. Big banks, etc.
(not that this is news)
Thanks for that … well, maybe “thanks” isn’t the right word, but I appreciate knowing what these bastards are up to.
This book hasn’t even been printed yet, and it’s already got an audio book read by the best narrator imaginable. I agree with one of the reviewers that this book is cathartic – you never get too frustrated with the kids again because you automatically think of this book.
Just after you posted this, the local talk radio had the author on, it sounds absolutely charming…
that is so fucking great.
I read somewhere that they’re trying to get Werner Herzog to go a version.
Oh that would b great!
Woo hoo!
oh isn’t that wonderful! If I knew people with small children any more I would be buying it as gifts…
The interviewer on the local news talk said it was like a “Good Night Moon for seriously sleep deprived parents”.
I loved GN Moon as a child, and like seeing that thru the years, it does not age, nor do the illustrations…
Surely now that Obama is in chargey change-o…………. 😆
Of course the union busting , that is boss and pol co-opting Boeing
EFCA passed yet? –> LOL) and GE reap beaucoup via corp jet leasing and finance.
‘course it is high flyin’ GE, who paid 0, ZERO corporate income taxes, whose head honcho has his ass kissed and balls waxed regularly by Obama and his boychicks… when not ,uh. you know, “serving” the mere pedestrian class on that bullshit President Ob’s Economic Recovery, eh, …whatever the fuck they call it…
I must say tho, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Christie recently squealing like an airlifted pig during rescue flight here in Jersey.
Thiecing bastards all. Let everybody else pay they figure…
Thieving AND thiecing bastards, all. LOL
The whole union, Boeing, NC, Everett, who took jobs, did they take jobs as a punitive measure was it retaliation, etc., strikes me a huge fat mess. There is a vid that is not getting enough exposure of the top guy at Boeing, in interview, saying they cannot be vulnerable to shut downs like the 58 day strike….
A long long time ago, somewhere in the early 80s, I read a three parter in the old “not on our knees to the Democratic party” New Yorker, about how major corps decide where to locate, or often, RE locate the HQ. Over and over it is due to hwere the top one, two, three top guys want to live.
Period.
😆 Well it turns out Lipless Gibbs got passed over for the Facebook spokeshole gig in favor of Joe Lockhart.
I swear to Gad, if the ever remake The Graduate, they’d have to rework that line of career advice: “Plastics”.
One word: Retreads.
Oh god I saw that. Joe Lockhart. A nothing.
One thing, I am sure JL was a lot cheaper than Lipless. Not that either is worth the skin draped over them.
No joy….
…in Mudville.
Obama 2012! Continuing Bush policies but Half the EVIL! Vote for us, buy our mugs!!! Feel the Change!!!!!!!
The mugs are nicer.
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much nicer!
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And it’s all a matter of looking at things, really.
Is the mug half evil or full?
You wouldn’t want full evil would ya?
Vote Democratic! Sort of Evil your way into things!
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Oh! And speaking of mugs!
Johnny Blow Wave from Carolina!
Methinks Bluffer Boy will cop a plea eventually.
A trial? With Rielle’s video work in hotel?
Good Lord. Fuckin Pocorn and Retreads.
Like Pappy in Carolina used to say.
Get in on the ground floor.
Through a back door if you’re lucky, son!
(meaning the Federal courthouse for any
would-be Sodomites out there…)
I see the case getting dealt down, no matter what…
I am convinced the exhumation of Casey, the whole and complete rewriting of his [horrible]
father being shut out of giving a stage speech at the convention was/is a deal the Democrats made wtih the Catholic hierarchy.
Well, it’s a road they shouldn’t have gone down.
I mean, FEEL the inspiration!
Talk about weak. Casey and the Holy Men Who Wear Dresses and the Men Who Love Holy Men Who Wear Dresses, like that nut Bill Donohue. All I can say is a. reeeeal. smaaaart. move all around. FEEL the Brilliance! Appeasing Irish Catholics keen on incarcerating or otherwise running off Hispanics. Welp, maybe the Casey family and other Irish political machinists are stocked up on potatoes and serviceable relics,
cuz THEY”RE GONNA FUCKIN NEED ‘EM. 😆
I see Obby was pandering down Puerto Rico way….
I see Obby was pandering down Puerto Rico way….
Speaking of the PRs….
I am hunting for a Forbes piece on how the Latino vote is going to be problematic for L’Obster, but i think they scrubbed it. Right at the moment, I see BammyBaby losing. (I go back and forth)
New…
LINK
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