Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Li Jinlong demonstrates his impressive ball skills on Chinese TV. He used just his mouth to balance a tower consisting of three plastic bottles, 12 wine glasses, glass plates and 16 footballs. He then made the entire contraption spin using just his tongue. [Quirky China News / Rex Features]
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]
Marisacat -
"... 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 
footage from NYC protest
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
ooo you got here with it before I did….
😉
jam.fuse dropped this off at the end of the last thread… 😉
raw footage of nyc protest
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
thanks… feel free to delete redundant posts.
Here is a twitter stream or whatever it is called,
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OCCUPYWALLST
(someone just wrote ‘Warning: dude in gray sweatshirt with Guy Fawkes mask was talking on police walkie’)
Meanwhile Anonymous
left “Who’s Makin Love To Your Old Lady?” on the Cop’s cell phone, conjured up a rather motherfuckery-laden “Declaration of Honest Patrolman Plutarski’s Intent to Testify” and sent it to all the heads and capos of the Five Families , then cleaned out the aspiring sergeant’s bank account . LOL.
So yah, they’re gonna need a plan.
Wherein lies the rub in the rubble:.
A plan to manage chaos with chaos in order to control chaos.
Form a distinguished panel! While they last!
So, the dillema as old as the Imperial Stone Age.
Careflul with that lever on the rock slide fellahs
I like Anonymous, they got rid of the precious neurotic hubris laden spkesperson fr BART… they also want the Chief of BART cops gone… I hope they achieve that one.
I feel they did me a personal favor on the spokesman.
thanks for the link!
Oh why not just batter the kids with constant x rays?
The Naked Radiated Kiddy Porn Security Program (dibs) could be run through Big Sis at DHS, the private monitoring contracts bid through a Faith Based Initiative operated through ( hmm, tough call here, I dunno Catholic Pedo Outreach or Israel thru one of the Orthodox Assistance Programs, prolly the Catholics, tho:: name brand and all 😆 :wink:)
Ah, well. – Attention Gun Owners!
SHOOT A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA TODAY!
Or a Principal or School Board Member! Just SHOOOOOT!
Don’t have a gun? Bolt cutters and a sledgehammer will do!
Principals seeking cameras in schools
Emma Brown
Spurred by food-fight frustration, Fairfax’s 27 high school principals are banding together to ask for a powerful disciplinary and security tool.
Oh but let’s look for the upside, shall we? – – > The food riot impulse I find find VERY interesting. So Young! And anti-hapless autoritarian! Couple that with an absolutely numb-to-it / could-give-fuck attitude over being surveiled from a very young age and when this whole paranoid motherfucker of a police state spinning plates Blows, it’s gonna be BIG.
From mcat’s (droll, VERY droll 😉 ) caption above:
He then made the entire contraption spin using just his tongue.
Oh it’s what America WANTS. The PTB certainly.
One hummer-ringer-dinger of a rimjob election and fiscal year after another. Hey, WIN that Future, I say.
I also see Drudge and his doughy matzoh ball sidekick Breitbart, tho normally tasked with tsk tsk seem fully freaked about the flash mobbing yute, Drrudge’s latest (rather self fulfilling IMO , LOL ) mirrors the underlying deal in NY 9 , losing control , rrrrr – this morning’s offer Black and Hispanic Youths Attack 4 White Men! was quickly taken down, tho. He got a call. Chill for a few…..
anyways……
Oh ~thisisnews 😆 In the New Fucked Times –
Shylock in spam. 😉 The irony!
oopws ! He’s ot now!
Anyways – > could this be more PERFECT:?!!? 😆
Look at that mug!.
another turd plopped on the plentiful pile….
This is why I hate economists.
The only economist worth listening to is the unsponsored “amateur”, i.e., one who doesn’t get paid for his/her analysis.
They are out there, but you have to listen real hard to hear them….the paid shills drown them out.
Also, the focus on money and banking is inanely out of proportion to the economies we really need to be focusing on….
Only an Expert
One of my favorites!
sorry they languished…. I slept and slept and slept….
TPM wrap-up w/ pics: Hacktivists Begin Operation Occupy Wall Street
oh, and a Pinkerton speaks:
And ”they” ‘d be R I G H T
For those of you who still do FB, I have posted some photos that son the younger has taken — they’ll be fun to guess and the prize is being able to see the world through the eyes of 8-year-old!
Home school is FUN! 😉
Hope all is well with ya’ll!
The various cabals hosting the first of the Perry fundraisers in NYC
Holy Jews fer Jeezis.
LOL, That piece needs passed around.
Anybody got a list of trigger-happy, borderline psychotic, meth fueled Neo-Nazis who enjoy casual reading?
Anybody know how to forward email?
Anyways.
I see Greenburg of AIG was one of the suitcases behind the rabbis..
amidst that zombie criminal’s AIG concerted efforts to re-emerge with a new, cough, choke, cough, ahem, “image” … 🙄 .
As of last year, Greenburg still had around $2 Billion tied up in the joint between he and the wif, the family foundation and assorted minions, HG’s baton merely handed off in zombie swaps with the Berkowitz clan of Fairhome Capital Mgmt. Also seen there is the big Golden Calf yet to be hacked up: the U.S. Treasury who still own 87%….
I saw derivatives fixer / lawyer Koster was there at the Perry conflab, too. We are so Blessed!
Around we go. LOL – > Politico noted, for about 5 seconds, LOL, that Ron Paul took 45% of the CA straw poll, …before superceding it with the lede: Calif. takes back seat in GOP race 😆 Oh, the fix is SO IN.
in other NTIM news, LOL, Santorum was also nihilistically honored with a GOP PA straw poll as a native ……kook.
LOL..as AIPAC is all but working out of
People MagazinePolitico…Note journo-orifices……
The game seems to be anybody but Paul or Mittens now…
White House Seeks to Undermine Suskind’s ‘Ineffectual Obama’ Book
😆 Oh, c’mon. Man UP. Have a hanky.
Just because Inneffectual Obama Studies are now routinely cross-offerings among the Political Science , English Literature, Economics, and HISTORY Departments everywhere with students advised of the availability of textbooks in the library or the convenient Amazon SECTION….ya can’t necessarily call it IT”S OWN GENRE now, right? No? Yes? 😆
And just because Christmas retailers are betting the ranch on Barry the Ball-less Wonder Doll doesn’t mean it’s humiliating.
Plenty of Respect left for the President!
I read they aqre going ot have Geitner specifivally refute it. Why on earth would THAT work?
In some ways it is such a laugh… one of the big defenses of Obby IS that he is
1. weak
2 at the mercy of those around him.
So you know, HOME RUN.
Well , you know, they could have Biden handle it. 😆
Or __ wait for it__ HILLARY. 😆 😆
Oh isgonnabegood I think, like that couple who simply sent their adopted accessory children back with a one way ticket to Russia , I imagine Barry’s minders coming up with some awful explanation how he has become, well, ~ DIFFICULT
Cop Arrests Disabled Woman for Sitting
Oh I’m fine with it, budtatink ~
If only Bank of America knew the “safe word”.
Welp™, (Yelp! Help!) 😆 Hard to distinguish the NYPost piece….
from one of the solicitations from the DNC. LOL.
Honestly I cannot think why it would matter. Really…. what if she was a person who accepted the occasional acting role.. and got cast a lot as a dom.
Do they sign morals clause to work at the AG office… ? (Maybe they do, I have no idea)
It shouldn’t . and lousy of me to joke about it.
Stupid, too: The NY BoA settlement, (even the way these things are structured, lead with the headline – the actual payout subject to revision) – IIRC was a hard slap upfront, no joke about it.
And hardly a pol like Cuomo’s work.
I imagine she is being moved out by some fixer tanking a current case, something coming up on appeal, or what she knows about some muckety….
oh I don’t see a problem with joking about it. Life is short. Short short short… have fun….
😆
Stonewall? Just a little?
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63810.html
this from a guy who’s shtick for a couple of years was “Bush dun it, don’t forget, Bush done it!”
I’ve reached a point of relising there were no plans. Of any kind, partial, half baked, vague, flimsy or otherwise.. About any thing. Nor are there plans now. They just get up each day and stumble and exercise their well honed skills of “Let’s Make a Deal, it is our wish to serve, fill in the blanks, tell us what you want! You write it we’ll sign it!!”
…and so on.
Save San Francisco’s parks from commercialization
I was under the imprssion it was a done deal… which is a shame, the old cafe boat house, th ewhole atmosphere at Stow Lake is just so lovely and peaceful. And as the articlesays, cheap.
Well I am planning to vote just to vote against Lee, as it happens.
the thead is great!!
😆
OmyGod!
You mean online poker might be rigged? 😆
This could be bad – WHAT”S NEXT??
You mean Hot People in MY AREA might NOT want to fuck me tonight?!!
AGAIN?!? 😆
Wisconsin legislators attempt to ban all fetal cell research
Let’s build altars to the pre zygote.
esp. sad since so much of the original work in stem cell research was pioneered at UW Madison.
It’s amazing how fast they’re tearing down decades of tradition in this state.
well Cali is in rags. So much is gone…. and Jerry moving forward fast to complete Arnold’s work.
warwarwarwarwarwarwarwarwar
Link to Wapo
more
Wapo
This Time President Obama Really Means It – John Dickerson, Slate
🙄
oh ffs.
Dickerson’s mother, who I remember, apparently raised a simpleton. IF he even half believes that tired gibberdrool
OK! Rabbani was killed by a “bomb in the turban”. So now, as we take our shoes off… and are told to accept thru and thru porn shots and TSA finger probes…
Can we, for fuck’s sake! rescind the one and only religious exemption at the airport security? The exemption for the 8 yards (Or is it feet? Who can tell?) of fabric in a Sikh turban.
Please? Pretty please!?
Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests
oh you just have t love the “new industries”… so clean, so ethical. SO democratic!!
(so now we are China? Just checking, trying to pay attention here!)
Taibbi: Why David Brooks Really Is a Sap
Brooks pulled out that old chestnut, which ereally does not work… it is a misrepresentation ….
OF COURSE slobster should go after corps and there ought to be a small tax on certain kinds of transactions on Wall St.
But… whistle Dixie, etc.
😆 ANYONE can figure out the US tax situation deserves a medal. One that weighs about 2 tons and hangs from the neck.
argh. stop stop stop stop STOP!!
Can it get weaker. I guess so:
Get Real: Bush, GOP to Blame for Obama Woes – Bill Keller, New York Times
New
LINK
………. 😯