Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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Tahrir square, Cairo: Revellers enjoy celebrations for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan [Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]
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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.
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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 
laugh laugh laugh… Matt Stoller in Salon
since 1894…
Matt …. a Hahvad man too, you know: Carved PEAS?
Stoller….With impressive, extensively cited, white liberalsh thesis – adding up now to yer basic Who let the Nig in the Party?
I haven’t read him in years.. so I have no idea of where he stood (hmm, well… I use the word advisedly, 😆 ) back in 2008
I think he overlooked how bad 1938 was for the Dems.
I noticed the blurb at the end says he is with the Roosevelt Inst…. 😆 maybe they have rule about how you talk about ’38…..
Oh, I love the last graf:
Imagine there’s no money. It’s easy if you’re delusional…
So much of what that crew, blahggers of the first decade, write is sludge. SMBIVA is laughing at Yglesias (a really hilarious piece, too)…. and IOZ is laughing at a fill-in for Sully.
It’s endless………………………………………….
👿 … 😯 … 🙄
or else third parties or civil disorder are inevitable –
Matt Stoller
😆 Then you’d have your cats livin with dogs, 😯 dogs livin with cats! 😯 who knows WHAT ills will come out of, you know, third parties and all….
Such nicompoopish laughingstock LOL….
He’s probably more “poop” than “nincom”
Matt “Poopish” Stoller.
Yeah that works..
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Good Luck!!
Our daily fare… but not necessarily on the printed menu. Apparently 2 of the dead were National Guard – in uniform. So…. and of course a chain restaurant (IHOP) shooting does demand a headline.
Otherwise, there must be so many multiple GSW killings in any given week……………
oh ”clueless” and ”hateful” come to mind when I think of Janet Nap….
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62705.html
Maybe she and the rest of the Obama thugs can just go house to house and strangle us all…. THEN we’d b really safe!!!!!!
I’d really prefer it if they strangled each other.
oh me too. Pay per View.
In Romania during the “revolution”, they just marched Ceacescu onto national TV, declared him a traitor to the country and shot him in the head. No charge. Free for all.
We should emulate them…or adopt the traveling guillotine and make it a picnic family type event…”this is what happens to tyrants, mijito”
Yeah I did love it… no shyness about showing the dead bodies of him and the wif on TV either…. and they sure created a countrywide horror show…
Oh I am SO INTO the travelling Guillotine… Of course I want my own!!
wrt countrywide horror show, my buddy, from the video link, was in the Romanianarmy at the time and the song is about him and the rest of the young conscripts (mandatory draft, to fight off the capitalist pigs) refused to fire per their orders…anyhoo he says that Ceacescu kept russian troops out of the country (something unique in eastern europe commie block countries) because he set up a “snitch on your neighbor” police state that the Kremlin actually admired for its pervasive paranoia…btw he says the only troops that supported ceacescu at the end were orphans he raised to be his bodygaurds.
wrt traveling guillotines, I’m requesting a slow motion model, so the bastards suffer…
or use some sort of Lone Wolf!!!!!!!! ™ (the nooooo WMD!!!!!!! ™) poisoned bait at our doorsteps…..
some truly diseased mother fuckers runnin shit.
Lone Wolf:
one who doesn’t agree with the pack; historically used for someone thoughtful (versus sociopathic and violent) to my recollect.
Obama must be blushing with pride at that one.
perhaps cheney let obama ‘nurse’ on his dick …for that one….
as janet was suckled at those deformed, maggot infested balls.
speaking of Baalzebub, have you ever checked out this view of DICK Cheney?
I know I am going to an eye exam for new glasses tomorrow (I am…), but all I see is shadow, where I guess I should be seeing the Hercules of all apparati.
But also, I never heard of that book… totally fascinating. God knows what they all get up to on their own. Certainly Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut was trying to tell us. Not just metaphor…
I wonder who (or which country’s populace) had just been hideously tormented, then slaughtered, to have brought that one on….
or had he just huntin out that limo window, wit fully loaded rifle, wit frendz …and the sun in his eye.
Here’s a Link to part four of an interview with the victim by Jeff Wells of Rigorous Intuition. The links to the other three parts can be found there. BTW Jeff uses a photo from Eyes Wide Shut at post head (no pun intended-heh!)
I think the metaphor, if not the reality is wide spread (and prolly mostly true); My favorite fictional portrayal of this club of sadists is found in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead where ultra rich blue blooded bad guys are sexual predators altho the agonists in this story are more homosexual in their targets
Texas Lawmakers Notice Wildfires, Slash Funding To Firefighters
We don’t need no stinkin’ bomberos, in Tejas…
That Reuters article that Wonkette links to is from May….so I’m pretty fucking sure that budget ship has already sailed (and who is to say they didn’t cut more than a third — our stupidass lege probably figgered that we don’t got so much forrest here, so why they hell do they need money? (damnit, I miss Molly Ivins)
….too bad “no one” could have predicted the summer we’d have (and are still having). Yeah, that was heavy sarcasm..
And it sure as hell explains why Bastrop county is calling in tankers and firefighters from as far away as South Dakota.
“Managed Decline”, my ass, we are heading straight to hell in a supersonic handbasket.
I heard on NPR this afternoon that Perry is whining about the lack of a federal response. That boy sure does like to have thing both ways …
Don’t even get me started on Goodhair’s Hypocrisies….
How’re things up your way, madman?
and more … Revelry!!!! I guess when a civilization’s language, wholly betrays the language of the most powerless of that civilization, … ‘things’ are truly infested.
After Years of Abuse, Obama Now Woos Democratic Base
(bolding mine)
then again …who will need “language” …as our techie wunderkinds hideously obsolesce the written word, the thought thought and , ultimately the voiced voice
(the above was assisted by that hideous, Huge Daddy BOT voiced, Foodmax ™ …commercial being aired on the Cali, Bay Area’s ™ …only Black ™ …radio network , as I’m sure, quite similar Mickey! My Food Plate …versions are being played, couintrywide …after all, only ONE ENTITY owns that Black Radio Network ™
(those Sly Con Valley vicinity call letters are KBLX, …102.9 FM, on the dial …a lot of great music (and yeah, …a bit, … not even worth listening too ….perhaps even deadly, when repeated….over and over and over …..by rote …..), ….. but I’d suggest turnin it off at that “commercial break.”….)
just go ask Angry Black Guy ™ …over at Talk Left,. …as “he” chums the water….
Patriot Act search warrants overwhelmingly used for drugs
No one here will be shocked by this, but the graph at the link is kind of amazing.
Heads, its WaPo:…
Obama again turns to Big Speech
Tails, …Drudge & Fox News…
Pelosi Peeved GOP Opts Out of Rebuttal to Address…
Aw, c’mon Nancy – – – I know, I know, it sucks.
Sucks Pretty Bad.
Pretty bad, Mother Superior, when about the best response possible for your featured Sponsor-a-Kid is an eerie vibe of Fuck Off and DIE LEPER from a couple hundred million people.
Not even phoned in fer Crissakes.
Well, for anyone feeling politically malnourished about now, there IS the Mike Allen Interview of Rick Santorum over at Politico .. 😆
ALSO on offer tonite is that Satanic frolicker CHENEY
Encouraging Hillary to Run Against Obama.
Jeezis. 😯 That’s the Seventh Seal, right?!?
Folks™, 😉 WE NEEDA PLAN™.
Ya know – for one bodacious RAPTURE party here before long….
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I find Cheney’s comments on Hilarious a scream!
IF ONLY people could get what a hard core pro war conservative she has become.
Good Luck! Buona Fortuna! Bonne Chance!
NYT
More good luck, so far the thread comments are running about 20 to 1 AGAINST him.
FWIW.
Schoene Reise!… they said….
…. well, ~when they sent the Hindenburg off to New Jersey…
Tiny martinet. Tiny tiny tiny.
Oh that is hilarious, teeny napoleon got his marching orders/prescribed duties …wonder who wrote that for him, and am I whiffing a possibility of the O’Bombster under the Bus option (aka giddily “retired” to Wall Street),… and a welcome back party for a select group of the previously banned, ….or do I just need to empty the garbage.
Not a pretty picture this reinstatement business. Does it involve kneelng w/ mouth open?
whatever it entails I’m sure he’ll be pretty pissed if they don’t have to kneel openmouthed like he did, and may thweaten to take his ball and go home.
and may thweaten to take his ball and go home
He does have one ball you know. I believe it was part of the opposition research we obtained through one of our covert sources. 😆 😎 😯 😆
I’m glad you validated that homey, I do hate to lie on a person, but I was pretty sure, so I took that leap..
oh very funneee!
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Markos Moulitsas;
Markos Moulitsas;
Occupation: Writer
~ Progressive. Oh, and Lawyer. LOL, ironically
Soldier. Husband.
Bath-House denizen.
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Profile: Joke in Motion
waaaaay keeeewwwwwl, …but kinda hard to pick a favorite, …. I rather like this one (on a hottie ™> day in hell) …
Well, some serious issues for the little fellah Markos….
when scolded by the more mature kiddies whether at home or in his clubhouse as seen here
In response?? Peter Pan doth protest too strongly!
AND reveals the nature of his site’s readership.
[ Parent ]…….[ I S S U E S ]
So much for hundreds of thousands of active users… 🙄
What can ya say? – – The little tyke is a fibber. 😆
tykster
sad paramecium, … I’d offer it a hanky, …but, …alas, the weight of the fabric, may crush it, they don’t make them that small.
😆 HA! SO apropos , too – > I did notice some names of the recently banned among the more vocal on Obby and the BANKSTERS.
Well, now! Have we left anything out?
I mean, in thoroughly demolishing Moulitsas’ credibility? 😆
Well, one other thing, on a serious note: Liberace of Berkeley keeps whining about being “dragged into” the parental role.
Not good.
I wonder how this all will affect our reinstatement? 😆
i dunno, with all the dicks and purging around, and not one pussy to be found, it sounds like a gay version of Bulimic Survivor and I don’t think I want to be “reinstated” onto that particular kind of Island…
Ah yeah.. not a thing to want… taht much is certain.
😆 I am pretty sure they never wanted me back. Anyway, it was clear years ago, you had to do god knows what to get back in. And some sure did do whatever it was… [snicker]
UGH.
Does that mean they have a third child?
Counting Bowers? Remember they adopted him? 😆
The last I heard they sent Grampa Lange, “Meteor Blades” off to some home or other, and took in that Armando boy. There is talk that the other rage-disordered foster children who were taken away, Dana Houle and MSOC, may return, depending of course on appropriate evaluations and monitoring of all parties concerned. LOL.
😆 😯
Reminds me of hot times in the hot tub in Maumelle Ark. Isn’t this a classic?
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😆 – – > And for Tonite’s Weather Forecast?
NAKED DEAD GUY IN THE TUB! RIGHT THERE, BRETT! 😆
Isn’t it almost unbelievably perfect?
Maumelle, no doubt next door to Bug Tussle Ark. And, a dog collar in the story!!
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times tho not briefly, If you’re a weatherman, ANY kind of weatherman, let alone one who might turn up on television, if you’re going into a hot-tub with another man to engage in the kind of steamy, late-night, horse-nostrilled coke-snorting debauchery involving a comrade in a dog collar, please use the kind of dual-purpose yet appealing neck rings now marketed with AIRBAGS for just such occasions. Preferably outfitted with the optional plastic doggy head-funnel which will amplify your distressed companion’s cries for help or more. The occasional inconvenience of the airbag exploding before you do is a small price to pay where safety is concerned.
I am pretty sure an exploding air bag can somehow be …. like auto asphyxia in sex games.
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Hell, why not. I love all the side articles about “What IS it about Weathermen?”
(hell if I know!)
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Thank you so very much, .. to everyone here, who have surely let me know, .. in so many words, …and sometimes in silence, … that I am not insane, ……….. or, .. at the very least, … that my lunacy is apropos of the time and clime ………….
good night, good morning, …good afternoon, …….sleep tight, …don’t let the mother fuckin ‘bed bugs’ bite, ….. kisses ….. :0) ….. ;0) …
FBI is executing search warrants at the Solyndra HQ, th one that got the huge half billion loan guarantee under a Dept of Energy stumble Bill thing…
CNET
I call dibs on “Solargate”…
Hmm..
“no fewer than 20 visits” to the White House in setting up the deal..
This should be good As we move into the sweaty lipped press flack and surrogates phase, ~ Barry can’t come out now! ` with the ole What the Prefseldent DIDN’T know and When he didn’t know it…
Revolving door…
I sort of think that the executing of warrants is a defensive move from the WH and DOE….. They have to do something to try to show they are moving against Solyndra. Apparenlty they broke state and Fed laws in the no notice lay off… Solyndra says no… they did not break any laws, as they were actively looking for funding.
Ah… I wonder if that flies..
Welp, I guess that bumps any Solyndra folks ™ from this charming Jobs Theme ™ list.
… in other public stimulus realted (IT Med Records –WTF!!!!!!! ™) Cali noooz:
(I’ve redacted the names, I was surprised she allowed anyone to print them, I hope she was asked about it.)
Yup! yet another bizzy High Tech!!!! Nooz ™ day in SolarCon Valley!
I just got bck from the eye doctor…. what a work out!!
But earlier in a very blithe way the local radio I listen to said that their “listener’s club” had been hacked… and emails were going out to … I guess the club list (I don’t join things like taht… so not me) and someone was sending out emails as tho from show hosts.
Maybe you just “join” by giving up your email… but usually almost anyone collecting info, wants as much as they can get. Not close to hacking medical records and diagnoses… but really, nothing is safe….
I hope the eye visit went well honey.
Yeah nothing is safe, in some cases, no matter what a person does or doesn’t do to keep their data safe. When fully enforced on The Cloud ™, as Obama plans it (and as his evil twin george had initially planned it), corporations, among others with ill intent, will be fully tracking potential hires med histories, and no doubt, any errors in the records will be impossible to correct.
I get really angry when I think of how many people didn’t and still don’t stop to consider just how destructive the planned full blown Cloud Computing will be in terms of: privacy violations; destroyed reputations due to false data; the destruction of millions upon millions of jobs; and so much more.
Stunning that in all the blawg talk about unemployment, there are crickets when it comes to millions being replaced by bots, it’s even worse than the silence on the thousands and thousands of work visas still being provided, which is a far, far larger threat to liveable wages for citizens, than anyone illegally crossing the border.
Solyndra via Wapo
Hundreds of longshoremen storm grain terminal in Washington
Notice the picture of the cop at the link. What a prick. He definetely should be prosecuted, or at least nominated for tender ministrations of my slow motion traveling guillotine…
Speaking of pics and power politics check out this one from the rally Notice the stick for his protest “sign”….I think these guys need some gas masks (pigs have pepper gunz) and then they could show those cock sucking cowardly pinkertons the unions guys’ true bravery and the power of the people united…
Oh I just stumbled onto reports of that … by accdent… no word of it on the news yesterday or today…
Google links in addition to the LAT I posted below
I went to the google link and find it fascinating that not one large media outlet outside of the west coast (or reuters or market watch…small potatoes) picked up this… Where’s mutherfucking Ed “Jimmy Hoffa” Shultz?
Hmmm. maybe the owners really don’t want anybody getting ideas from the weirdo left coasters….
it sounds like the Longshoremen are loaded for bear…
ohhh thanks for that, good for them!
YUM
LATimes
Shades of Tianamen?
NEW
LINK
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