Waiting… 26 August 2011
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, The Battle for New Orleans.trackback
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A lifeguard watches from his chair at a beach before the arrival of Hurricane Irene (AFP/Getty Images, Spencer Platt)
.. for Irene.
AFP:
[M]ichael Curcio, who lives directly across from Rockaway Beach, boarded up his windows piece by piece with wood as he prepared for the storm.
“I wasn’t going to do this, but the mayor convinced me. I got a good deal on the wood, so instead of suffering $7,000 in damage, maybe we can save the house. Or maybe the house will be gone and the wood will still be here,” he said with a smile.
But he was still undecided about whether to leave.
“My wife says she wants to stay here and see the waves. I told her I’ll put a rope around her waist and hold on as long as I can,” Curcio said jokingly. . . . .
I don’t know what they are saying in the East but here it is being reported that Irene is shifting a bit East, and while it will cause flooding, be a strong tropical storm with surging sea levels and downpour, it appears to be weakening in advance of landfall in NYC.
Carry on! (no need for a[nother] speech from L’Obster, is what I think!)
Marisacat 
hmm earthquake in the South Bay… 13 miles outside of Soledad which is inland… not sure of the Richter.
Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on.
two in a row…. a 4.6 followed by a 3.6…. somewhere down around Hollister.
hope the china and tea cups are alright…
I did not even feel it… nor the one of a few days ago, either…
And I have at times felt rather small ones… it all depends on so many factors…
I was in a 7.6 in back in the 90’s…shook the half the water out of the neighbors’s pools…it seemed like a wicked vibe preceded the quake, and then a calm…
yes friends with pools in 1989 told me of watching the water make huge waves from side to side….
This house is on rock, predates the 1906 (by three years) guake… and is wood frame shingle… with a basement. So, no problems.. 3 cracks in the interior plaster of rooms with outside walls. That was it.
The friend feeding the cats said not even the water in their bowls spilled.
Nevetheless, whole lot of movement happening.
Waiting for Godot? Waiting for more war. This is gonna piss of some paisanos for sure…
NYT
Es mejor a morir en las patas que vivir en las rodillas…I just wish I had a gun that shot ganjasmoke or mushroom juice or something that got the target got so stoned they drop their guns, take of all their clothes, and start singing “de colores”…
Nothing good was going to come from NORCOM being formed. Nothing good at all…
No doubt, and unfortunately the average american probably thinks its a good idea to further militarize the border…
yeah they do… across wide swathes of the citizenry. Or maybe they should just be called “volk”. I’ve kind of given up… for one thing I can do no more than “sit in my cage and glare”… so………………………………………………………
volk, yeah that’s about perfect…brings to mind the old vw fahrfegnuggen ad campaign; sell the new, improved american volk dream, call it farfromthinkin’ or fukkenstuppid…
Las Vegas Animal Shelters Are Overrun With ‘Foreclosure Kittens’
If some of those kitties are from siegfried and roy’s place maybe they could ship them to where brooklyn has the kingkong rats(ok, ok I’ll stop on the rat/cat jag)..seriously though it seems emblematic of the problem; we have filled the american desert with yuppie immigrants housed in woodframe homes resourced from siberia and watered from an ever decreasing snow-pack in Colorado; when the resource tap runs dry even just survival becomes impossible… recently re-read my old copy of the Cadillac Desert, a seminal work on water and development in the west, and one thing I had forgotten about was how Carter tried at the beginning of his administration tried to reign in the criminal scamming of water subsidies going to a few corps and ultrarich perople and that pretty much gutted his administration immediatley. The Dems led the way to his emasculation and even though he reversed course within the first year, the damage was done long before any malaise
Carter did try… and I would never never say he did not have good ideas to do with energy and getting the fuck on to do ing something…. at a time when ti mattered.
It has all watered down to a much too much talked about fucking WH vegetable garden. As too many of the people begin to starve, or keep starving. And Mother Michelle wears butt ugly 570 dollar Lanvin sneakers to the soup kitchen (yes she did)
BTW Alice Waters was sashaying thru SF two days ago, making like a breathy mumbling idiot about her “plan for school food”, growing it on-site and teaching the little kittlepops about where food comes from. Except, as I emailed a friend earlier this week, she promised a 250,000 a year as a guarantor of the project, to the Oakland school that was working this model a few years ago. Only to withdraw the money one year in.
But still blathering on, I see, as if she really and truly means it.
Which is the problem with America. You do shit for real suffering people but Andre Leon Talley wears a 500 dollar cashmire knit hat with your name in brilliants:
“O B A M A”.
Orale! At this point of disintegration the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is reduced to a Fashion Statement; whether you’re a proggie with Obama rhinestones on the soles of your shoes as you gavotte between gross consumption of exhorbitantly priced rarities at “green” restaurants and boutiques while pausing to piroutte for “humanitarian” bombardments, and don’t get me started the PIGs of ‘merikka (Prejudiced, Ignonrant, and “God-fearing”) in their foreign mades weatshop clothes, goosestepping over the the rotting corpse of Liberty,
rhinestones on the soles of your shoes
oh i love that song…. whatever Paul Simon may or may not be, Graceland… and Diamonds on the soles of her feet … AND the myth of fingerprints has gotten me thru many an airport
prolly would be no match for heil usa!! usa!!! TSA… however
Ah yes Paul Simon, well I won’t through stones for being a gabacho inspired by Africa and its diaspora but I will say his music improved greatly when he began to “colloborate” with the inventors of syncopation…
They also refuse to credit him (nightmare that it is and was, as we live with the blowback) for the Mujahadeen “Charlie Wilson” supported war in Afghanistan agaisnt the Russians.
NTIM as the pretzels are all in it together… they know the bottom line.
They are all in on it together when it comes down to the bottom line for sure…one reason I’m not 100% sure they’re gonna boot L’obster; he’s doing what “they” want and the Perry/bachman/palin/Fascist Retard No nothings they’re dangling about are just a distraction, cattle call for the “PIGS” of amerikkka. When nov 012 rolls around unless the fool from the Rethugs has the improtant folks convinced he’ll be a better step and fetchit than Oobster( hard to achieve, IMHO) than the R wil go down to a narrow defeat, proving to the talkers we are a “divided nation” split evenly right down the middle” (/barf)
I think it is up in the air…. but so often i can see, he she they wanna move on. cash in now. be as i call it Mr and Mrs International Black People.
And you know… Mandela has only so long to live… the world needs another in-synch, totally set up black man to bless their bloodletting (Mandela only objected when Bush did it… too Neo Con and not Neo Liberal, snicker). I am sure Muhammed Ali’s wife tries hard to sell him for the job, but a little too far gone for full employment.
HA! (must get back to work…ta for now…)
There were a lot of things I hated about Jimmeh, but if people had listened to him on energy and water we’d be in a much, much better place now.
That was the time to do it….
Well whatever. Hopefully no one loses their electricity like in NC… at the least.
And I see soemone with an eye to the optics (gah) had Potus and Flotus and progeny and dog all leave MV on the same damn fucking plane. At least.
oh who knows…. I do think, however, he needs a bigger assemblage of white independents to win the wet and shredded paper ring. And more of the white wimmens gotta get back on board too.
Maybe send Michelle? Oops no I don’t think that will work… AND from all signs and signals, she will be campaigning as little as pos.
Soaps
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: FEMA Director Craig Fugate; roundtable with New York Times columnist David Brooks, Georgetown University’s Michael Eric Dyson, BBC’s Katty Kay and NBC News’ Jamie Gangel
–ABC’s “This Week“: FEMA Director Craig Fugate; political roundtable with the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, ABC’s George Will and ABC’s Cokie Roberts; foreign policy roundtable with the Brookings Institution’s Robert Kagan, author Robin Wright (“Rock the Casbah”), the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasakaren and ABC’s George Will
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Segment on the latest on Hurricane Irene; former Secretary of State Colin Powell
— “Fox News Sunday“: FEMA Director Craig Fugate; 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes, NPR’s Mara Liasson, former Bush White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and Fox News’ Juan Williams
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: FEMA Director Craig Fugate.
–CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS Live“: (Sun., 10 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. ET): Pre-empted for live news (CNN Newsroom with T.J. Holmes)
Concerned thoughts out to BooHooHooMan, NYCee (sp?), NYCO, Lucid, …et al ..if the storm doesn’t affect, it always seems the $$$$UZ$$$$ Governments will follow behind with their own hideous, sadistic punishment. ;0(
On a humor in the face of forever bleakness moment, sweet piccy here (story, ….though I don’t think I’d try to do what that fool is doin. …Shit, one of my most docile, petite kitty companions, in life, …turned into a horrifying TIGRESS …when hit with anything from a spray bottle, …go the fuck figure where the guy attained his nerve at? :0)
(will check back, hugs to all,….gotta run)
Didja love Chris Christie’s moment to get on TV and excoriate tanning on the beach?
It was like “I am a Gay American!!!!”… calculated for TV exposure.
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BHHM Said to Say:
He’s Reporting in from the Greatest State in The Union with the finest Hurricane Preparation in the Land.
:: ( And on a personal note, Aunt Edna and I would like to add You all seem to be such very nice people for a bunch of Communists.)
Yup… we are a covert cell!!!!!
CO VERT
Dear Edna and Fred,
How kind of you, hadn’t known flag wrapped Walmart shoppers were so friendly either, ….and yeah, ya better tell that moron nephew, boo, to get off the fuckin beach, Chris Christie [Kringle] saiz so. Chris is sure he recognized your nephew tanning as he was jogging the shore with the National Guard, to patrol for dangers, …and, as I’m sure the two of you well know, ….Chris, ….is Gawd.
Sincerely,
diane
yup.
hmm worse than that even, everyone is free to JUDGE everyone else. Having put a black man iwth the middle name of Hussein (let’s not forget that cute bonus point!) in to the glorious WH, ANYBODY who is in trouble, is hungry, lost, poor, in prison, almost in prison, in need of help… can be reviled, BY EVERYONE else, no matter the color of THEIR skin.
it is a fucking free for all.
Racial Profiling First Hand
I don’t want to excerpt any of it … worth reading the whole thing.
What do I tell your children?
Indeed. With the arrival my mi changito, que es puro guero, a very pertinent question.
thanks, loco
I’d tell’em some folks ain’t got no soul. That that kind don’t know a good thing when they see it, and when it comes to angels unawares they demand the mob proctology “exam”…so be careful, and you must be you, no matter what the consequences, because even your kith and kin can be your worst enemy in rascist world rife with haters….
mi changito…. is a bambino?
If so, belated congratulations….
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Thankyou. Planned if you can believe it, but mom and I have only divided so far, and the little girl we hope for in a year or two will get us to parity/replacement (worthy candidtates, IMHO) and will stop for the benefit of the rest of the planet. It is true act of hope, and pro’ly stupidly foolhardy, but so far they greatest trip of my life. Sorry for the tardiness in reply, I’m burning the candle at both ends to fulfill my Barney’s order (la de da, look who’s a limousine liberal wannabe, name dropping douche bag-lol)
But yes, literally “little monkey” and specifically, in my case un orangutanito (don’t you love latin cognates?) due to his orange coloring…seriously, orange and white, of course. But we’re mud bloods too, mom is adopted and has some genetic markers that make me think native blood , basically she’s a little red, while I’m a sixteenth(whhopty-do!) mohawk (and lot moreQuebec FRENCH! oui!) on my moms side while I got some seriously blond genes from dad. None of this really matters, and i’m rambling almost as much as Iziyah Jahn, my son who seems to be intent on trying to walk and talk at 3 months…sorry, I’ve become the hackeneyd cliche; a goofy dad blown away by the mysteries of love and biology
oh congratulations on Barney’s as a client!!… where will they put your things, I mean which store…. ???
They kept an office, ground floor with big open un-curtained windows in Paris, in an off street location, inside the Palais Royal if you know it… and I used to like to walk by during the big buying seasons, the cat walk days in spring and fall… they would have two numbers guys sitting there literally churning out the accounting tape… something sweet and direct about it all…
oh Fantastic on the baby!! Tho working out, or attempting to, walking and talking at 3 mos, on his way to adulthood… 😉
I’m not sure where they’re going to market it them. I’ve got to send the pieces to an address in manhattan…and it is a totally mercenary agreement, which is why I’m sweating it, ’cause a drop dead day is a drop dead day and everyday that passes makes that deadly day a day closer..
of to the grind…
Continuing Wisconsin Protests Lead to Arrests
Trumka is saying that he wants to build Labor’s own orgs and not be swung from the chandeliers every two or four years for the Democrats.
hmmm Andy Stern said the same thing n 2004, even before la Kerry LOSt………. but if Trumka means it… WI is a perfect place to lay down some markers. Lines in the sand. Boxing gloves in the upright position… and then some bareknuckle fighting.
So [sound of toe tapping] anytime the big burly fellas wanna get to it…………………….. Hello? Anyone there?
we’ll see what they do
wellllllll not vry inspiring.
Leading From Behind to Victory – David Remnick, The New Yorker
You Think Obama’s Been a Bad President? Prove It – Jon Alter, Bloomberg
[Peter Wehner over at Commentary answers Alter, but since both are fiction writers, why bother… -Mcat]
Outside the Beltway, Democrats Are Winning – John Nichols, The Nation
[they are? -Mcat]
and here is a really big laugh:
How Obama Can Avoid Becoming Bush 41 – Bob Shrum, The Week
Flooding has begun in ………………………… Hoboken…. among other places….
I just hung out in the hurricane for about 2 hours, shameless… I wish the worst of it wasn’t coming when I’m sleeping… That was awesome… I want the 80 mph winds…
Just saying hi from NYC where I’m lovin’ Irene…
I’ve always understood why people don’t leave….
make some espresso… prop yourself up… stay with Irene thru the night…
😉
OH and KISS THE KITTIES!!
Gizmo will no doubt retreat shortly… It’s just so awesome standing out in the wind and rain… I was soaked to the bone, shirtless, and I’ve never felt better.
Damn, lucid, that DOES sound awesome! Living vicariously thru ya from down here in parched parched Tejas…
Glad you and the kitties are safe!
MsExPat has some excellent, under the skirts, comments about Bloomberg’s hurricane Concerns ™ here …and here …Clearly, mother nature is safer and far more inspiring to deal with, ..than the $$$$UZ$$$$$ guvMINTS ….
Yeah, sho do like like Bloomberg was havin katrina …wet dreams ….
(glad to know that all are likely still alive, ….as concerns the weather, …. on the eastern seaboard …I’m really envying those walks, wades and swims …. in the ocean … I love the Atlantic … ;0) …)
I heard the [Red Cross] shelters were turning away people who arrived with their pets.
I had not heard of demanding mandatory volunteering. How awful. But — sigh — we live under war time terra terra terra rules.
Pretty obviously. How soon to a national draft?
“mandatory volunteering” — Orwell had nothing on this bunch…
christ.
but don’t “mandatory volunteer” the rich to pay a little more in taxes …
Out here about two or three years ago when a tanker of some srt from … Korea I think, the Cosco Busan iirc was the name, began to leak in the Bay, INSIDE the Bay… all sorts of grass roots rose up… and the ptb wanted people to take a LOYALTY OATH to volunteer. They finally dropped it. But it took days, maybe a couple of weeks.
To walk a beach and retrieve tar balls and oil sludge… a loyalty oath.
Paging Paul Ryan and Scott Walker: Wisconsin protests are on the rise and protesters will find you
A rundown of protests over the past week in WI.
Dispatch From the Front Lines of the Wisconsin DMV
It’s a long piece, sad.
My California ID is out of date, expired in 2007…. the passport expired August 7th of this year.
I cannot see myself going to the DMV but I will probably have to. Last week the bank “let me” conduct an in person transaction with the expired ID (I managed to leave the cash debit card at home by the bed… and honestly I don’t remember the pass code on it, either, tho I can still make online purchases with it), as I was only depositing a little cash to cover some purchases I made..
sigh. I dunno.
I don’t think it is necessarily worse, but I think terrible practices are now more widely applied. More creeps in charge, too…. I keep reminding myself that when I went ot the Passport office in SF in ’91 to get a new passport… I had every pass port I had ever had, but NOT the most recent (lost somewhere). And while the US passport officers MAY accept any expired passport as ID, they also are not required to… Eventually I had to bring someone with me to swear on penalty of perjury that I am who I say I am.
I nearly lost my mind over that one.
it’s all so damned nuts.
ElBloombito: Mayor Bloomberg’s Spanglish Twitter Parody
Jeje! Que chiste bien!
oh this just made me laugh… the Brits, the Sp Forces supposedly (we are told), clear the way to Tripoli for the NTC (whomsoever they may be!!) but no go on handing over the goods…
I think they just flipped Cameron the finger. A big version of it…
I think whatever else they maybe, the various permutations of the “arab spring” will provide many single fingered salutes to the same cocksuckers who drew the map lines for the ME in the last century (i.e. the brits and US)…
BTW warnerd’s take on the “victory” in libya is that it was due more to the Berber minority moving in from the west than whatever SAS did to open up the eastern road into tripoli
I think you are right on all the raised fingers that will be flying.
Angry Arab indicates that despite much wrong with Eqypt’s seasonal change…. they are much harder against Israel than the Mubarak regime…
For the rest .. we shall see.
And yeah, I can easily see ti was tribal forces that cleared the way, with the UK trying to take credit.
So typical…
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