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Amazing Photos Of Puppies In Costume At New York’s Annual Halloween Dog Parade: A New York Giant meets a hula dancer. Probably not the first time this has happened [Image: Daniel Goodman / Business Insider]
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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]
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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 
Oakland GA voting on General Strike now
http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland
oh my fondest wish!
Just passed by 97%…
Now they DANCE.
LOVE IT!
They are going to raid SF Occupy
tomorrow.I mean tonight, as in very soon….
There’s film that shows after a small number, looks to be about 8, turned back to the help the injured vet, that police tossed a tear gas canister into the little crowd… I think I saw 2…. in fact.
10:40 pm
media says 200 are on the march in Oakland.. but really t me it looks bigger…
Th authorities across he country are, you just know, FREAKING OUT.
Cops are ringing 880, a freeway, I guess in fear they plan to walk to SF.. or soemthing.
Looks like three blocks worth of people marching. More than 200 but not sure how many.
one report says “over a thousand” marching in Oakland.
I think it is a gentle display of force, myself.
they’ve plainly just pushed people too far …
I think it got up to 2000. And I really think it was a gentle show of force from the Occupiers…
The authorities across he country are, you just know, FREAKING OUT. -mcat
eeeeeyyYEP. 😉
a BFM.
They SO fucked up with the beatdowns.
Fucking stupid on so many levels, politically, tactically…
fuck, in this economy? Utter disconnect as to its consequences, but fact that Banksters pullled those so strings so quickly in the first place shows IMO shows just how precarious they perceive their position to be..Now before anyone goes all “no news there” , that’s not what I’m saying; we’re talking about timing, and how the PTB have had the luxury all these years. really since, the 60’s of playing the co-option for peanuts, the lip-service and waiting game. IMO.
Another delicious irony is how the meant-to-be brain scrambling media has , after all these absurd “War IS Peace” years, they’ve created the very level of numbing detachment necessary to tune out their propaganda.
Look I’m a slow as hell ex-Democrat, but sooner or later, ya just have to go all OMG- It’s ALL BULLSHIT!!!
What was I ThINKING???!? 😉
i am so enjoying it… and the freak out.. whcih I get to hear reverberate via the operatives at KGO radio. The 10 to 1 am guy, lousy partisan humper…. is deriding people for abandoning the electoral process, for abandoning Sloboma… no less!… for OMG! CHAOS!! It’s chaos out there! ANARCHY too!!
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Full text (so classic)
Read more: McClatchy
ugh earthquake…. 5:37 am
same spot as the earlier ones, close in, 1 mi E of Berkeley… 3.9
Thsi jsut made me laugh. I sure felt that big 2.5… didn’t you?
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
U.S. Economy Grew 2.5% in the 3rd Quarter
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Whatt??!?? NO NAMES?
A BILLION this time.. Not even a referal to a doctor?
A good house of worship?
The local Schumer operative? LOL.
Nope! No Names Here Either!
It’s all so Historic and Anonymous now…LOL
And for those who’ve missed out on OTHER J-FRAUD News…
Good Lord, these motherduckers seem to be the only people hiring…
hi dear.. link fail!
I want to apologize for referring to Mary Shapiro, Chair of the FEC yesterday as a Wall Street Fecal-dropping.
Today, under her helmswomanship, the SEC has made a top priority of rounding up that criminally infamous ring, The Avon Ladies.
Oh fer fuck’s sake, Mary – just do a COMMERCIAL for Revlon with Ron Perleman, er, I mean, Mr LimeyMacAndrews & Forbes” himself… LOL.
musn’t have any wimmens congregating door to door, ….on lunch breaks ….. in person …in the raw ….THERE ARE HEALTH CONCERNS TOOO!!!!!!!! ….
Besides, mebbe Jeff Bezos/Amazon [MANnno] has decided he wants that global market also …in Partnership with Apple and Google, there could be i/Android/Kindle Cloud, i Android PhoneBook, Make Up Partays !!!!!…so much more inclusive of that global neighborhoood of the wimmins …..
ZuckerFuck could institute a Historic Partay Timeline with Iris Scans included……certainly there would also be room for ……little Billy, the former Page, GATE THEM OFF and the Great Pumpkin Head Database Samurai.. …think of all the Tweet traffic tooo! The Meet Ups! But the crowning glory of course is the, too slobber over, by SADISTS BAR NONE, …attempting to cut off of the little cash left going to the wimmens and their households ……………..
(may not be abble to respond back if you comment on this post, shut down problems when I ‘allow scripting’)
I think the Avon ladies dared assemble, or soemthing.
Radical Rose Beige Lipsticks….
it would take another, over fifty ‘years,’ lifetime to respond to that the way I’d like to, …… but yeah, …those EVIL WIMMINS ……..
connecting the dots (‘they’ so want to erase, …permanently), I think this is a tad instructive also (thanks “Mo Blue”): WTF? Louisiana Bans Cash For Second Hand Transactions
“The Bill” (thank you “ScottW714”).
BTW, Olsen the injured marine has been upgraded again, to Fair.
hmm I don’t get Curretn TV but I gather Olberman called for Jean Quan (mayor of Oakland) to step down.
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no defense whatsoever of mizzy quan here, but it’ll be a high speshul day when that prick Olberman calls for himself to step down ….along with all his BiPartisan Deformed Dick Suckers.
Well I think Quan was not a thief… one thing the Democrats will always be against, non-thiefdom. But as I said over and over, my hope for her was never thicker than a dime… and actually thinner. LOL Perata is not the answer, tho Est Dems have trotted him out. He’d have to move out of ORINDA to run again… if he even bothererd. Thieves and criminals always welcome.
So… they have a wide range of alll colors of step n fetchits to choose from over there if she is recalled…
Well, I know little about her, except to say that if she had any part of the “AYE,”in the ghastly decision made, for pre ‘sun rise,’ Tuesday ‘morning,’ ….fuck her.
But yeah, if she’s not a thief, the BiPartisan Powers that be will make every effort possible to see to it She Gets Fucked, …Every Which Way, …Then …UNDER…..
Jerry The Jesuit Brown, ex ROTC Saviour to Oaktown, will, no doubt, halp, …wit da shake and bake.
The Est Dems have been lned up against her. They HATE ranked choice voting, the Est Dems loved Don Perata… who as I say, has done everything short of murder – and who knows! – that you go to jail for and strangely is not in jail!!
I think she was taken down sometime ago… this is just the public unravelment… and as I said, many hacks and step n fetchits to step in.
People don’t realise how the cops run everything in the Bay Area… We are SO LIBERAL you know.
(In re: Jerry – So very bleakly amusing how Jerry The Jesuit, and Job[s], the Zen Buddhist, came to look almost like identical spartican, ‘austere,’ obscenely wealthy with power/money, …. twins, …….right before garage stevie died …and was immediately resurrected to the ribbbittts of frogs in an enormous pot of boiling water they mistook for a spa.)
Oh don’t make me laugh TOO Hard… the ‘story”out today for why the raid on SF was called off…
(sit down or you will fall down laghing) they had INTEL that said it was TOO DANGEROUS to go in.
Scream with laughter… so they repaired with their hankies over to Treasure Island, for “drills and training” hich I guess is code for :
Mary, fall on the fainting couch! Call for the smelling salts! Loosen the whalebone girdle.
O what fucking bullshite.
:LOL:
oh and to see them on vid tell it! The Chief of Police and the little skunk mayor. Lousy Democrat Fascists, basically. All across the country…
Olbermann is reporting that Quan is going to speak to the General Assembly at the park at 7 PT.
Mayor Quan to Speak at Occupy Oakland
well it soundds a lot more tentative than that in news here… but we shall see.
Can’t they just bus in some kitties?
=^..^=
Kitty Provacateurs! Blac Bloc Kitty! Agit Prop Kitty!! CIA Kitty!
How could I forget?
DRONE Kitty!!
Occupy College
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Yup. And Obama’s Hope Brigade has such fucking gall. They tell us used-up “old folks” that we should just go back to school because that would magically solve all our fucking employment problems.
Assholes.
Clinton said the same thing… “expect to have 7 careers in your working life”… I almost swallowed my teeth the day I heard that.
They are in such a big opaque bubble.
I like to spread it around that Mama Obammamamam let her membership in the BAR … ANY BAR, lapse in less than 5 years of getting her JD and passing the BAR exams (I assume she took the Illinois exams)…. which means she, the lauded Legumier and Vacationer! did not complete any of the mandatory CEB, Continuing Education of the BAR which you have to do to stay current….
Yeah. I’ve got no quarrel with the students. We all know they’re being fucked, too.
Just tired of Billy and Hopey and the rest of these finger-wagging assholes, in bed with the banks and with the other oligarchs that keep our shitty wages in the dirt– when we can succeed in drawing a wage at all. They babble at us like we’re not-very-bright infants. Always waving some shiny bauble at us that they have no intention of ever putting in our hands. >:
I’m old enough to remember when a company would actually TRAIN you to do a fucking job. No more. You’d better be a fresh-faced grad well-versed in who knows how much soon-to-be-archaic techno-shit. Or you can forget about them even turning their heads to spit on you. >:
Ana Marie Cox – Why Occupy Wall Street is not just a leftwing Tea Party
Ex-Gay Candidate So Christian Now That Sex With Teen Doesn’t Count
Washington Post Illustrates Oakland Police Brutality With Cop Petting Kitty
KGO declines to even mention Scott Olsen… tho all the local news TV media is covering it, with more and more video too…
we’ve moved to lunacy
My favorite comment over there, though the one about the cop concealing apple pie in his other hand was pretty funny, too.
and he is carrying his mother on his back too….
(snicker)
and plays baseball with amputee orphans on weekends.
and feeds the homeless … IN IRAQ
He feeds them only locally-grown, organic Slow Food™!!
ONLY that which is blessed by Mama Obamammamam
{rubbing eyes now, looking at commode, waving Buh-Bye – }
I didn’t have the foresight yesterday to see..
but nope, yes, woap – THERE he is, – coming into view now –
, amazingly, CORZINE’s still visible, yep –
even further down the bowl
GOD this is a long flush!
He don’t have the Votes! NOR the money to cover – Help HELP!
Good Lord, he lost 15% today😆 when “the market” was rewarding anyone with a shred of skin left in the game…
I think this is a much bigger story than is presently known.
Who knows the ripple effect that comes with this,
but witness the hubris on display –
This is a “known known” — > his firm and the firms that are his major shareholders are chock-full of ex-Goldman darlings who assumed the EU would all but pay them in Full 😳
I think the current assessment of market contrarians holds true,
that these upswings are driven by a scramble to cover CDS contacts as the derivative triggering events come due……
Pretty clear the pressure applied
, amazingly, CORZINE’s still visible, yep –
Sigh. There is SUCH a pressing need for the travelling Guillotines. But, none available on the open market, apparently all sent t LIBYA.
And the WaPo kitteh picture is already a ‘net meme: Oakland Riot Cat
BTW, I’ve not heard of Jean Quan showing up at Occupy Oakland… at least not yet…
From the wonders of Quans “status” facecrack’s page:
The comments are fun; somebody even suggested “off with her head”. I’ve got my fingers crossed for the guillotines to win…
It always sounded tentative iin the news out here.. I would have been surprised if she showed.
I just left a long comment over at SMBIVA on Quan…. but it has not appeared yet in the thread (a second one showed up, but it was just a short addition to the first…. a third has not appeared… gah)… if it does will link to it here.
I don’t think it will post at SMBIVA (long history of my comments being eaten alive over there) so here it is, fwiw:
Believe me, I have no desire to defend Jean Quan… but Perata is a major league asshole, criminal and one who lives by the standard operation manual for Dem thieves. The joke is that he is well named, “Don” Perata.
Establishment Dems out here luved Perata (who now lives in a traditional prosperous East Bay ‘burb, Orinda, LOL) … and hate with a passion ranked choice voting… by which Quan won. She understood how it operated and her GOTV trained people in the basics… along with others who ran in the same election. They made agreements to talk up being each other’s 2 or 3 choice.
Perate assumed he would win and did not bother.
Whoops.
Because she dared win against a beloved and thru a voting system the party hates they have been gunning for her from day one. (This is not an endorsement, retroactive or other, nor am I excusing her her collapse).
The hard truth of Oakland and in fact many East Bay communities, the cops, police sheriff and others, run the joint. They have my entire life and it has just intensified over recent years….
She has tussled wtih the police over community policing, gang injunctions, youth curfew (of course the Est. Dems and the cops want it all, want it now and want the nightsticks on parade, as if the cops really do anything about crime against humans, they don’t)
Oakland PD has been under Federal watch for over 10 years from scandals and law suits dating back to 2000. Most recent word from the Federal bench in September, the Feds may take over OPD. Hey, I say good!:
streamline the communciation because what is happening IMO with Occupy sites is coming from the top: Twins Obby and Holder.
I know this is all very boring… and I am not weeping for JQ and I had but the slimmest of slim hopes that what I perceive to be a non-thief and one who did not fall in with the police hook line and sinker might survive.
My guess is she fell sometime ago, in summer, the entrenched cop corruption that runs Oakland won and this is the public unravelling.
And so on.
Now I will cross my fingers and hope this posts…
what is happening IMO with Occupy sites is coming from the top: Twins Obby and Holder.
Bingo!!!!! (oh. wait…everybody already has that number)
I don't know Quan, but she's pretty daft for a teacher. Still playing the authoritarian schoolmarm:
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, after saying she would attend a meeting with Occupy Oakland supporters, failed to show up and instead issued a statement Thursday night laying out “ground rules” for peaceful demonstrations.
Quan said demonstrators needed to have direct communication with city officials, maintain healthy and safe conditions at protest sites, allow rescue personnel to enter areas if problems arise and not camp overnight on public property.
On Thursday night, a number of tents had sprouted up at the City Hall plaza area as protesters began reconstructing their encampment, which was shut down early Tuesday by police.
LAT
I think I am being misunderstood. It does not matter what she says, where she goes or how she does anything.
It’s the windown. It’s over for her. And frankly it is over for Oakland. It really is, in a major way. Next the cops go for the Green mayor over in Richmond. Just a matter of time. EVERYBODY else imo over in the East Bay (and in SF) is tied in. Is a thief, is a full participant in the Dem playbook. Same in the South Bay.
We are now in the public shaming part of the take down.
Please I am not weeping for her, I am watching the extended take down. Which is what is happening. I like it, in terms of observing, when this much of a political play is on view.
And it will be interesting to watch the Occupies… and what moves are made next.
I nicked this from IOZ:
Thanks so much Kasim.
😆 not consistent with the most RESPECTED forms of civil disobedience
you know the kind of civil DISOBEDIENCE where you RESPECT the cops authority and keep prostrate as the step on your neck. You know be RESPECTFUL and kowtow in public and keep your protest in the internet ghetto…
Someone needs to send the mayor a letter:
I think he will continue to read the Dem playbook.
Back when he ran I was not impressed with him. Gravy trainer.
oh god. gear up. Michael Moore arrives to Oakland Occupy tomorrow.
Can’t he bring Sharpster, Kanye West, Cornel, Danny Glover and whoever else, get it all over with at once.
oh and Russell Simmons. Bring him too… Rosario Dawson too if she is advancing her Dem party cred.
And so on.
One thing that amuses, Lady Gagagagagagagagag (who I never minded til it was clear she was grafting on to the Dems) is keeping what I bet is a Dem advised distance from Occupado.
We are so fucking deep in the tank.
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