Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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Starburst, £6,400, Cox London Photograph: PR
Sooo… are we hanging from the chandeliers yet? Again?
snicker….
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.
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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]
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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.
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Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
Surely this calls for a Beer Summit.
Our Leader loves nothing more than welcoming some team.
Don’t discount Biden in China.
They’re not even gonna keep him as collateral!
AND He took the Georgetown Basketball team too, you know.
Which worked out well. {Pic} 😆
It really Sucks tho when China empties the bench,
you know – and brings on the 200Millionth string.
– NY Possssst
😆 😆 😆
LOL. Whoop, I missed it! By a nose! A broken nose! 😉
Anyways the CBS link is a hoot. Knob on opening night .
The Georgetown Hoyas are in China on a 10-day goodwill trip which has been cited by the U.S. State Department as an example of sports diplomacy that strengthens ties between the two countries’ peoples. The team was briefed by the State Department ahead of its departure on what to expect during its trip to Beijing and Shanghai, according to news releases on the university’s website.
“The team was briefed by the State Department ahead of its departure on what to expect during its trip”
Okay guys, there’s gonna be 10 to 15 of you, coaching staff and.
the Vice=President. Surrounded by Chinese.
Cheerleaders can be summoned as a last resort. Good Luck! 😆
This reminds me of our local talk radio the morning after the opening events of the Beijing Olympics…. people were stuttering and stammering… blown away by the precision of the martial display (why this was nooz I don’t know) it lurched into panic. Several said, we must find a way to be friends with these people… they re SCARY.
Gave me a laugh.
I am POSITIVE that old harridan Biden was in his hotel room drinking each night in China…, despite all of his claims of never drinking. That or he has strange brain lapses…and You Tube has ’em.
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Snicker riot.
Ah SPORT, the healing balm between nations…. Or bombs away. Flying fisticuffs….
the whole thing makes me laugh…
opps, the CBS link
the photo op of Knob is funny, Look at the AA women strategically above his shoulder, Look at the White Jockstrap to her left, even the little kid sitting right next next to Knob. F E E L the EASE interacting with the locals. Yep, Ya can tell- they all just LOVE the CHINKS!
hmmm
Please try understand Foundling… after all he was a small time City fixer, he did not deal with rural issues, but he is learning!!…. He’s just one man, He can’t do it all. Everyone criticises him. No one has suffered in the job like he has. He tries so hard…. and he cares for every little sparrow and lost dog or cat. He does.
Finally and last, he will pray for you…
he’s so inept
it is kind of appalling how bad he is at this. he was one cossetted bambino in Chicago… No raucous meets and greets for the precious one, I guess… it si all I can think…..
I mean FFS, people are seeing La Nan in her dottage.. she used to be very adept at Town Halls. 20 years ago. La Nan… so he should b able to do better.
The 2012 Election Campaign Warm Up in Oaktown, Cali:
And Nan manages to not clutch those pearls …for just a short bit:
Speaking of that [highly edited] video compiled from similar meetings across the nation, from the initial piece by the same author covering the 2012 Election Campaign Warm Up in Oaktown:
oh ….and in other absolutely disgusting, though not sooprizing, Cali jobz noooz, Jerry Brown names a jobs czar
yup,…snickety snackities! …WTF!!!!!!!!! ™ :0) !
(bolding, and all bracketed ‘edits,’ :0), mine)
It’s time to screw them back… with a buzz saw.
They can pick the orifice (ears too!) but that’s it. Death by Buzz Saw.
oh…I don’t know hon, think of the fossil fuel wastage …. I would like to proclaim my greenness …and opt for the garrote, …simple, green, and efficient, …best of all quiet: …it won’t drown out those lies and pleading noises squealed out as they are gasping ….. for the same air they want to suck, … from those they claim to serve.
I think Jesuit Jerry should be one of the first in line, ..what do you think hon, …as, your mileage may vary? ;0)
Battery buzz saw… then.
But garrott is nice… if you have the strength.. not so easy I think…
welll ….to get over that hard part, you imitate the fuckers, you simply pretend you’ve got their back; ™ … then, …in a symbolic gesture, … you act like you’re getting ready to hug them from behind (they’re so used to being futilely admired by their constituents, they’ll never suspect!). …. At that point, you just loop over that garrote, …. twisting the ends if you’re slight of strenghth, …a matter of physics, …and the neck is defenseless, as are, for the most part, the arms and legs …. in that position.
There is a great and I mean GREAT garrott scene in a movie, Wim Wenders’ The American Friend… pretty intense… Also in the more recent version Ripley’s Game with Malkovich.
Yum
it strikes me that a handful of garroters might do it because they can’t bear to see the face of someone they loved …someone who betrayed them ….hideously, …while the majority of garroters likely do it, because … it’s frighteningly easy to do.
I could do Jerry.
Wouldn’t think twice about it. 😆
But for guys like Reich, Krugman, etc.? Guise like them?
Man, {blink, blink{ I don’t think I could do it.
Like…..I IDENTIFY. LOL. Like I went to Oxford!
Like I s-s-triangulated whoever was in the way for a career.
Nope, not me, not about the identification anymore.
So I dunno. Maybe one? For the resume? 😉
You See? Same ole…loop
Fuck it, I’ll do all three. 😆
I knew I loved ya homesy! but let’s share! I want some of that ass too……… ;0) …
and yeah …I appear to be certifiably sane, and yeah that appears to have been a problem from ever since I can remember …trying to live life peacefully … without brutalizing others I have no issue with ……… whatsoever.
….any who .. so now I am, at the least, calling for symbolic brutality against every single mother fucking slimebag running the mother fucking show.
at this point to be completely honest, things have gotten so fucking bad, I would not shed a single tear if any politician in Congress died tomorrow.
I’d feel sorry for their children, and that’s about it.
at this point to be completely honest, things have gotten so fucking bad, I would not shed a single tear if any politician in Congress died tomorrow.
I’d feel sorry for their children, and that’s about it.
Well….Howdy neighbor! 😉
The kids are wearin thin tho .
Senator Schlossberg-Kennedy for instance!
Who’d be dumb enough to imagine she’d get in? 😆 😉
Camelotta.
yeah, millions and millions of us, …in the united states alone, and that’s our strong suit, …one which the puppeteers are doing everything possible to: subdue, …stratify, ….. set to battle against one another, ….and … make appear … irrelevant …..
(yeah, … I knew I should have qualified about those kids; …. mostly, …I meant underage children, …though not to exclude those adults who would never, evah … want to follow in their parents’ obscenely priveleged – to the detriment and ultimate untimely deaths (at the least, lives lived in never ending fear) of their constituents – ….footsteps)
Pinched off Drudge…
Obama Cancels Deportation of Illegals.
Dems declare ‘victory’…
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Desm ESPECIALLY thinking maybe we can SELL EM!
Obama, Senate Democrats fight over campaign cash…
Some HOPE for the Swing States tho!
Talk of campaign efficiencies!
Doubling up on the trail!
EASY PEASY to see where this is going…
both of them are going to have a battle… I AM NOT A fan of McCaskill but she waged a hard tough battle against Jim Talent. But too close to Obster…
And Tester seems to be Nowhere Man. Or I am I missing him when he shows up…. ?
Well – whatisname – Chump in Overalls him – yeh not a problem seein him plowed under. Sirota can write the obit.
And McKaskill. had her moments.
And now ….. Claire? Pavement? Bus?
That;s the thing, no need for the garrote with most of. these passersby, the Lay Down™, Fall Down Dems™.
I haven’t checked into Pa., no idea what the GOP Daddy Party has in mind for the Sen…but, UGH, ~Casey~ I COULD see him surviving.
But Hey- Good Luck! Which WILL BE a hustings hoot , trying to run Catholic Unibrow as distanced from Ob. …. Casey / His “OWN MAN!”. 😆
AS IS Resident Prefsident Hesitant! OWN OWN OWN!
Marisa – PLEASE set aside some of the gourmet kernels for that one.
but, UGH, ~Casey~ I COULD see him surviving.
Jesus saves!!
HA! I Backed into another one! 😆
Hey, climb in the ring there with em, Bob.
Always been there? 😳 S O R R Y! 😯
😆 Read a certain way…: 🙄 ..ya know.
And I’m sorry, I am. But C’mon.
At this point? For Fuck’s Sake –
Munchkins-hittin-the- helium-again.
Bob can get in line behind Jesuit Jerry, …for the garrote, if he likes, …or, he can cut to the front of the line …like so fucking many of our benevolent spokes fuckers lurve to do. :0)
Just watching the entire absurd circus roll into town.
Where was Bob Reich when Biden and our boys were grappling with the Chinese? WHERE?
Bring Me the Head of Ronald McDonald
pretty clever….
😉
The Mostes with the Toast-ess.
After the closing bell today…
Well, on to Thursday overnight trading, which oddly, 😆
they do during the day in Japan on F R I D A Y. 😆
ANNNND —- THEY”RE OFF!
Obama lowered the sea levels yet?
See that ocean being sucked off the beach?
Global Bankster’s Derivatives Tsunami.
Not to worry! Biden is in China and Ob is rehearsing his best Moses out on Martha’s Vineyard. …Floaties OFF, Everyone!
I know i have pink water wings around somewhere!!
Father McGee would take us to the beach one by one and have us hold on to the infIatable swan’s neck. It wasn’t even a swan!
Jesus Saves!
Which reminds me Protests in Madrid on the eve of Pope Creepy Pants Capitalist Salve’s visit
Which oddly™, they do during the day he arrives, too! 😆 😉
Don’t you want to confess to an abortion!!????!! …. special dispensation while Ratzsnatch is in Madrid. Confess and they take you back……..! Ex-ex-communicated!
The raffle tickets and rigged Bingo games not enough?
How new. How Fresh.
Okay, Great. You’ve won Aunt Gladys with the PR.
How about knocking out the grid EXCEPT 911?
Except of course from management and your average lackey supervisor’s homes? Knock everything out there.
Does everything have to devolve to “Anonymous”?
Must Hillary continue to scold China for everything?
How about more of this?
Oh I dunno about that last one. It does seem that, coincidentallymind you, ya just cant get long distance every other day here in New Jersey. No international calls.
Sucks these days when you’re tempted to make a killing in the market.
😆 Biden sucking China on all fours now.
Sorry Israel. You know, the fuckin Negroes from Georgetown and all…
ALL fours.
As long as Biden doesn’t move around. Whoops! Knob’s Up!
And heading to the microphone-
🙄 In no small part…. it is the key. Nice rabbit hole here, uh?!
Jeezis Christ. .
Time to send in Hillary-the-Bitcher from the State Department with a reset button…..Bringing a tidy review of regional issues and U.S. history in Asia. from Korea thru Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos to Poppy Bush throwing up on the Japanese to Dubya not being able to find his way out of the room in Beijing including, of course, an offer to whack Biden, That’s the least we can do. 😆
I mean, f u c k, let’s get somethin goin’.
Anyways……’night all…
The “enemy” has a sense of humor. History and irony too.
Good Morning.
Obama Must Get Bold, Tell Republicans ‘It’s On’:
Jonathan Alter
3rd Alternate Stunt Double for Jason Alexander.
Alter……….Alexander.. Just sayin.
But No No! It’s ON Baby! its On!
WE Need A PLAN!™
Fuck the markets, try and get the rights to THAT jingle.
Here a war there a war….
in order to have a plan, you have to have an expert, because only an expert can develop a plan to deal with a problem.
I think we’re fresh out of experts.
But are we out of PLANES?
I had to laugh at myself, now ALL the headlines and lead-ins that [over]use “plan” float in front of me when I open a News page.
😆
maybe we’re running short on planes, at least ones cleared to fly, but there are always DRONES.
Hewlett Packard down 25% in oh the first 30 minutes.
Nobody move. LOL.
What the hell. I’ll give it a whirl.
Afterall, any damn fool can say where they think this is going…
Along with the news that the Fed NY shipped off some emergency loot to the Swiss Central Bank, I saw this…
Buyout Shops Get Mauled by Market
Private equity is being pummeled.
Few shares are experiencing the kind of beating that big buyout firms are enduring. Firms like Blackstone Group LP, KKR & Co., Apollo Global Management LLC and Fortress Investment Group LLC have seen their shares fall between 19% and 27% so far this month, compared with a drop of 9.5% for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
On Thursday, the carnage continued, as these stocks fell between 1.6% and 11%, while the Dow average fell 3.7%.
So you check KKR for instance, (@1030A EST) (the daily will hold the illustration) and Below them on the same page you can see their fellow suspects in Hi-Fi sector predictably getting a little bounce as they struggle off the mat. The thing that gets me is the skank minnow volume in these shares. Suckers bait anyone?
And taking the NYSE as a whole, compared to its average half hourly volume of late .. volume started way off @ 30% down, Bambi, across the board.. As hedged-in fund Masters of the Universe struggle to inflate share prices attempting lure suckers in.
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Welp its 11:00Am EST. and the Hedgies have crawled back to yesterdays close as trading volume picks up. .
Well steerage class via bookies who just wandered in,
fghting for lifejackets with the engineers should commence shortly.
Sorry, here’s the squeeze, the link to the hedge fundies woes yesterday in the WSJ
So reminds me of his lousy birth certificate dance for years… when it appeared it might turn MUCH nastier.. OR something other was threatened, Boyo got busy and got that long form at the ready.
Such a fucking bullshiter.
Cue up the Latino vote. And in a few months, they will be dropped… no corsage, no kiss goodnight.
😆
We doin’t need no pinche spppics, ese!
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Don’t make me laugh TOO hard now…
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ADBUSTERS: Occupy Wall Street
I’ve got my fingers crossed, but I remain highly skeptical. Of course if you are the mouse and the eagle is comming to eat you, giving the bastard the finger just before the talons rip thru your chest is highly laudable and perhaps the only way to go…
I think they will clear the area with whatever tools are necessary… under anti terrorism laws and in the wake of the UK reaction to the “riots”.
I had to turn it off it was upsetting me too much but I caught the umpteenth conversation on local talk radio on issues of quelling riots, stopping flash mobs (patrol social media! Round up anti terror Intelligence via word search!!) whose purpose is to overwhelm a store and steal…. and all around “we have to get tougher, we cannot put up with this”.
I say hang a fucking banker….get it over with.
But then I support the travelling Guillotine being brought back…
[snicker]
Oh noes… they did not write this ….did they?
Yikes. that won’t be working, we are DROWNING In commissions.
yeah they need to demand the traveling guillotine
I am very approving of the Guillotine… 😆 I’ve used photos of a remaining original of the travelling guillotine at the top of a thread or two…
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snork …. Well I’m reminded of my one and only …really fuckin pricey purchase of a hardcopy Adbusters mag, …. where there was no table of contents (kinda like the last Sly Con Valley Metro I picked up), … some things, no matter how old, were actually pretty good ideas! And clearly no editing, for instance: an advertised, make ya want to read the mag, article … which didn’t exist in the hardcopy I paid way too much for, nor did the article exist for those with no (not inexpensive at that time …or, actually now, ..for millions) ‘puter (even in these times, apparently about 30% of the us), yeah I did feel ‘taken.’
That little trip down memory lane just reminded me of a horde of wealthy (private plane ownership?) parented (private plane ownership?) $$$$$$$Saratoga$$$$$$ teen bicyclists apparently angry at the hordes of part time and temp workers on a major Saratoga thruway. Angry at hordes of worker bees who found it far, far more affordable and timely to drive their vehicles back and forth to work, versus pay the unaffordable, various commute prices they would have to pay to make it to their multiple non-livable wage jobs on time, take care of the kids, clean, cook and get a tad of sleep …..Fuck Al Gore and his self absorbed minions who have never, evah ….. practiced what they preach.
even if it does happen, no one will pay any attention, because 17 racists will show up on a teabagger bus somewhere to protest death panels giving free abortion to illegal alien shoplifting underaged girls who smoke crack.
shoplifting underaged girls who smoke crack.
who, more importantly, drink too much soda and eat too much [or any at all] fast food.
don’t forget slutty …
endless bipartisan possibilities there, certainly teabaggers, though nasty as fuck …hold no copyright on racism, misogyny and classism.
(ohhh too fuckin funny, the little billy gates spell check, doesn’t know how classism is spelled)
whelp, …if these aren’t some recent, not meant to be, $$$$$$clone$$$$$$ experiment, …I kind of love these diving kittens, …. even though zoos (and …the state of Ohio), make me really sad. …I will never forget the hideousness of the Highland Park Pittsburgh Zoo, in my youth …bleak, awful, cemeneted closets.
John Kerry, The Lazy Senator Who Would Not Learn
Kerry.. so deserving of Madame La Guillotine.
Hey- he gave up a leg in ‘Nam, Lady. 😆
Oh that’s right that was the other guy.
Kerry gave up his ASSSSS in Ohio.
I got a T-shirt out of the deal. 😉
Now…TO be macabre…extrapolate the whole “Fighting Dems” imperative limp along… and you inevitably arrive at a headless nominee. Try sail-fboarding one of those motherfuckers across the line.
one of his famous wounds was…. small, very small, burns on his forearm from flying rice kernels… when he and his buddy, on an almost after thought, blew a village’s rice storage. They were on their way out, but thought, hey! Let’s steal that car! And go joy riding! NO, let’s burn a small village’s rice stores!! More fun!! And who knows if we could get away with that at home! Prolly Not, but so much FUN FU FUN
It. gets. so. old.
I have a theory about that floating by in spam 😉
Maybe not! Anyways, if you extrapolate the whole “Fighting Dems” Imperative, limping… along, inevitably you are presented with a headless nominee.
Try and get one of those motherfuckers on a sail-board across the line!
got it out… sorry!…..
No Prob! Run em both! Neck and neck!
NTIM!
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BTW …I am shocked that if a shlub like me could see the intraday trading today, just who are the MOTU selling to? Each other of course., trying to lure suckers in. And once the KKRs and Blackstones of the world got some price support with the NY Fed to hemorrhaging Swiss custodial accounts,it was on with the PLAN; Oh and the MOTU? THEY have a PLAN
Big slam – – – > Volitility Scam- – – > Incremental S L I D E.. I see the market pooped right after 11 am today.
They are SO trying to break it to the sheep as gently as possible and avoid the inconvenient kicking and ya know, riots and runs on funds.
Criminal engineering at its best.
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So there is this DRAMA reporting around , ttrue enough but still drama, still diversion – about how big pensions and mutual funds are taking this all so seriously and their (stock/equity holding) funds are re-allocating to money market, well, FUNDS.
Henh. Where they are THEN looted. …
Hey how about letting people get ahold of that, uhm, agreed-upon currency? Why all the waiting periods and withdrawal rules? Oh sure sure, . To ENCOURAGE SAVINGS and Investment! DING! of course! Surely our PTB have people’s best interest in mind. 🙄
Oh it’s all shit, sticking people with beat-down pensions with beat down stocks with the added privilege of having provided the means for their incestuous thieving overlords to purchase the very bonds and commodities which every serf like us willl have to pay for for the rest of our miserable lives.
Invest wisely!
Buy a fuckin ICE CREAM CONE.
Guaranteed to last longer in August then Hewlett Packard!
Ready to serve!
Several new posts up at Boing Boing about Fukishima.
Japan: first report of radioactive contamination in rice
Fukushima: First photojournalist inside plant captures daily life of cleanup workers
Japan: Rare public apology by Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant manager
New Jersey: Huge Fat Guy In August Figures it Out. 😆
Christie: Climate Change is Real
My…..milieu 😆
Nu
LINK
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