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When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

You cannot shame the shameless.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

This really is a full service blog.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Second rate reporter says what?

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The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Come on, man.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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Conspiracy theorists take note: Bilderberg 2012 is here, and this year it’s back in CIA Country. Charlie Skelton’s posting regular dispatches at the Guardian:

It’s all change at Bilderberg this year, with a new chairman, new media and Occupy Bilderberg knocking at the gates….

The hotel is encircled by the offices of the world’s largest arms’ manufacturers, 15 minutes up the road from the headquarters of the CIA. I suspect they’ll be OK.

The Bilderberg conference was last here in Chantilly, at the exact same godforsaken spot, back in 2008 – which, like 2012, was a US election year, and the moment the current economic woes really started hitting the fan. You might remember, it was the year when then-senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton paid a flying visit to Bilderberg (aka ‘an event in northern Virginia’), after shaking off the press pack during the Democratic presidential campaign…

Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece? The Eurozone is Bilderberg’s biggest project, but it’s been looking distinctly shaky of late. What’s to be done? You can feel the unwillingness of Bilderberg to countenance a ‘Grexit’ in the stern words of Bilderberg spokesperson, the UK member of parliament for Rushcliffe, Kenneth Clarke. To leave the Euro, says Clarke, would be “disastrous” for the Greeks. “If they get a hopeless lot of rather cranky extremists elected at the next election then they will default on their debt.” Clarke took the time to brand eurosceptic British MPs “right-wing nationalists”, and euroscepticism itself “irresponsible”….

But we’re not in Europe now, we’re in Chantilly, and the CIA is just up the road from the conference venue, so protestors had better stay on their best behaviour. And we’re expecting plenty of them – gathering under the activist umbrella: “Occupy Bilderberg”

What a difference a year makes. Occupy Bilderberg? I love it. The Occupy movement seems finally to have realised that the problem isn’t the 1%, it’s the 0.001%. It’s the guys and gals and whatever David Rockefeller is who are meeting in Chantilly, Virginia, at the end of the week. Many hundreds of protestors have pledged to show up. And who knows, they may just manage to drag the mainstream news media with them…

Much more at the link, if you’re looking for weekend reading.

What else is on the agenda tonight?

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  1. 1.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I had a roommate in college from Chantilly. Maybe I should ask him if he’s a secret bilderberger.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    And who knows, they may just manage to drag the mainstream news media with them…

    Not likely. The lackies have their orders, and they will not endanger their supplies of cocktail weenies. No way, no how.

  5. 5.

    PeakVT

    Chantilly? What an utterly uninspiring place for the world’s rulers to meet. Couldn’t they book some place in Leesburg, at the very least?

    ETA: Also, it’s a tad more than 15 minutes from the CIA. Tysons is that close, but not Chantilly.

  9. 9.

    Culture of Truth

    I suggest it’s time for a moratorium on “_______ seems finally to have realised that _______”

    I have never read this lately without thinking “get over your fucking self”

  10. 10.

    Suffern ACE

    @PeakVT: The spies with eyes in the skies are headquartered in Chantilly. It’s the home of the National Reconnaissance Office is in Chantilly.

  12. 12.

    mclaren

    Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece turning humans into lizard people? The Eurozone human-reptoid interbreeding effort is Bilderberg’s biggest project, but it’s been looking distinctly shaky of late. What’s to be done?

    There, fixed that for all you conspiracy theorists.

    :-)

  15. 15.

    PeakVT

    @Suffern ACE: Yes, yes, some of the more important worker bees. They’re still little people, and I’m sure the head of the NRO would be happy to go to the Bilderbergers wherever they might meet.

  20. 20.

    lamh35

    whatever your politics, how can u not like a guy who does this? ya gotta check out the pic. The kid’s dad introduced Obama and he needed an excuse note for his teacher.

    Absence Excused

    Best absence note ever. For 5th grader Tyler Sullivan of Rochester, whose dad Ryan introduced Obama at Honeywell.

  23. 23.

    Ron

    A couple of weeks ago I was at our doctor’s office and some woman was passing out little pieces of paper imploring us to watch some videos on youtube. I glanced briefly and saw the words “Illuminati” and “Bilderberger”. 30 minutes later the same crazy woman was at the local supermarket doing the same thing.

  25. 25.

    Cacti

    @lamh35:

    Say what you will about Barack Obama

    Okay, I’ll say it.

    Barack Obama is a damn fine President.

    I can’t think of a single way that he wouldn’t be superior to Romney.

  26. 26.

    Mouse Tolliver

    How could anyone think it would be a good idea to cast Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist? A nuclear physicist named Christmas Jones. And is Christmas Jones a pun that I’m simply not getting? Vesper Lynd was a pun that I completely missed until I read somewhere that it was a pun.

  27. 27.

    Mark S.

    Someone linked to this article in a previous thread, and it’s just unbelievable:

    The Vatican also complained that the nuns have focused attention on social justice issues, such as poverty, and have not spent enough time promoting the church’s view on divisive political questions such as abortion and gay marriage.

    That really is all those assholes give a shit about. For a bunch of supposedly celibate men, they are obsessed with other people’s sex lives.

  29. 29.

    Chris

    @Mouse Tolliver:

    Having a James Bond themed evening? I’m screening Tomorrow Never Dies right now myself…

    Casting Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist is generally considered a shitty idea to end all shitty ideas, maybe not quite the Jar Jar Binks of James Bond but not too far from it. They should’ve made the girl from the boat chase scene the second Bond girl, but oh well. Sophie Marceau more than made up for it, though.

    The name “Christmas” appears to have been chosen strictly to set up the pun at the end of the movie. Unless I totally missed something. And I’m in the same boat as you re “Vesper Lynd.” Apparently the assonance with “West Berlin” was supposed to foreshadow her divided loyalties, or something of that nature.

  31. 31.

    Citizen_X

    @Mouse Tolliver: Maybe somebody liked her as a perky starship pilot in Starship Troopers?

    In what godforsaken production is she cast as a nuclear physicist?

  33. 33.

    Egg Berry

    Quite an interesting list of participants at der Bilderberger. Niall Ferguson and Charlie Rose among them.

    Adding: If anyone needed a reason to suspect a global conspiracy, that list would be fuel for the fire.

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mark S.: Jake Barnes in “The Sun Also Rises” noted that he spent too much time thinking about the bedroom habits of his friends.*

    *Paraphrased as the book is not in front of me.

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Citizen_X: One of the Pierce Brosnan 007 movies (spit). Sophie Marceau (Praised be her name.) was the only redeeming aspect of the whole debacle.

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    So, anybody got an extra ticket for Queen Elizabeth’s flotilla? Anybody planning on crashing the party?

    BTW, the trailer for the new James Bond film, Skyfall, is gritty fun.

  42. 42.

    Ash Can

    @lamh35: Now I’m wondering if the national-level Dems have been all hands-off and easy-going and conciliatory about the recall election because they have inside info about the hammer about to come down on Walker, and they don’t want anyone to think that they had anything to do with it.

  44. 44.

    rda909

    And who knows, they may just manage to drag the mainstream news media with them…

    Only if they link Barack Obama into the Bilderberg matrix. Then it’ll be frontpage for weeks, just like when the “occupiers” succeeded in being stooges to help kill Obama’s Jobs Bill last year.

  45. 45.

    Suffern ACE

    “Who’s going to die next!” the actual screaming headline of the national Enquirer cover this week. Input is it really any worse than most of our other major newspapers in any given day. Sure, anyone can run obituaries AFTER someone dies, but where’s the risk? Where’s the investgative reporting?

  46. 46.

    Yutsano

    @Brachiator: They did it well too. As far as you know it’s a Daniel Craig movie until the very end. Nice way of springing the surprise if you’re not in the know on these things.

  47. 47.

    Marc McKenzie

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    That was The World Is Not Enough. Not the greatest of the Bond films, but hell, Brosnan was solid, and I did dig Robert Carlysle (sic) as the baddie. And Sophie Marceau was HAWT in that film.

    Surprisingly, I didn’t get that bent out of shape over Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist. For me, it seemed some people were upset that a female scientist would be that attractive…but maybe that’s just me.

  48. 48.

    Marc McKenzie

    @Yutsano:

    Have to agree. The Skyfall teaser trailer was amazing. Plus it did not give away the whole story.

    I like Craig as Bond, because he’s portraying the character as Bond was written in the novels–a tough, no-nonsense “blunt instrument”.

    And you should check out Jeffrey Deaver’s CARTE BLANCHE novel, which “reboots” Bond. It’s quite a good read.

  49. 49.

    Mouse Tolliver

    @Chris:

    Casting Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist is generally considered a shitty idea to end all shitty ideas, maybe not quite the Jar Jar Binks of James Bond but not too far from it. They should’ve made the girl from the boat chase scene the second Bond girl, but oh well. Sophie Marceau more than made up for it, though.

    Marceau is one of the best Bond girls ever, plus I like how that storyline was firmly rooted in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. She was even dressed like Tracy during the skiing scene.

    And Boat Girl should have had a much bigger role, if not second lead. Maybe they were going for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls-like camp with Richards, but it didn’t quite take.

    J.W. Pepper is the Jar Jar Binks of the 007 franchise.

  50. 50.

    Marc McKenzie

    @rda909:

    “…just like when the “occupiers” succeeded in being stooges to help kill Obama’s Jobs Bill last year.”

    Well, that was the GOP that killed the Jobs Bill last year. And as always, the MSM (and sadly, some Progressives) seemed to have forgotten that–and the fact that the President not only had a Jobs Bill, but gave a rip-roaring speech about it.

    However…while the Occupy Movement did not kill the Jobs Bill, I certainly didn’t hear a peep about the Jobs Bill from them. If it was mentioned and supported, then I stand corrected.

  51. 51.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    But I thought Mittens would be the star of the Bildeburgers.(Then again that would totally fire up the teabagger’s John Birch fantasies)Now what is the difference between the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

  52. 52.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @magurakurin:

    Yes, you’re never supposed to mention that a no-no is in progress during the game.

    Also, you’re supposed to sacrifice live chickens to wake up your bats. This from noted heavy bat guy Pedro Cerrano.

  54. 54.

    Mouse Tolliver

    @Marc McKenzie:

    Surprisingly, I didn’t get that bent out of shape over Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist. For me, it seemed some people were upset that a female scientist would be that attractive…but maybe that’s just me.

    For me, it’s the age more than anything else. That character should have been much older and with Honor Blackman’s personality.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Marc McKenzie: Look, Connery and Craig are the only people who have done Bond well. Lazenby is a distant third (and he had Diana Rigg as Tracy). I feel strongly about this. I should have known that my marriage would never last the moment my ex said that Brosnan was her favorite Bond.

    We can agree to disagree, but I am right.

    @Villago Delenda Est: “Hats for bats.”

    Edited to fix formatting.

  57. 57.

    some guy

    the Dept of War does not need no stinking Jobs Bill.

    war all the time, VA is ours, fuckers.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mr Stagger Lee:

    Now what is the difference between the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

    Only one of them requires membership in Skull and Bones.

  59. 59.

    Villago Delenda Est

    If I had to rank the Bonds, it would go like this:

    Connery, Craig, Dalton, Lazenby, Brosnan, Moore.

    And my favorite Bond flick has to be From Russia with Love, followed by You Only Live Twice.

  61. 61.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Dalton could have done well, but the lad never had a chance. Like you said, horrible scripts.

    OTOH, Best Bond girl: Eva Green/Diana Rigg (tie). Sophie Marceau was stuck with Brosnan and, of course, the less said about the Moore years, the better.

  62. 62.

    Kinky Beats

    I love reading all of the Alex Jones stuff during the Bilderberg meetings. It’s insane, but you almost want to believe some of the crap they say goes on there.

    Apparently, Mitch Daniels is at Bilderberg and that means he’ll be Romney’s VP.

    Douche/Boring 2012

  63. 63.

    Suffern ACE

    @Marc McKenzie: Wait. Which Jobs bill? The one in all caps (JOBS) or another one? I think the all caps one past and I wouldn’t be surprised if OWS was against that. I didn’t actually do anything about jobs, and made it easier to have an IPO, which is only an indirect way to put people to work, when one of those things is allowing them exemption from section 404 of Sarbanes Oxley compliance for five years. They didn’t kill it. Must be some other jobs bill.

  64. 64.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Omnes Omnibus: What I liked about Dalton that I never got with any of the other Bonds before Craig was the sense that he really was in danger. That the reason that Bond drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and screws everything that moves is that none of these are going to be what kills him. One of these days his luck is going to run out and that’s what is going to kill him.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): In one of the novels, Bond, at that time 37 years old, was convinced that he would not live to 45, the age at which a Double O was automatically retired from the field and given a desk job.

    Yes, I have read all the Bond novels multiple times; why do you ask?

    @piratedan: Them’s fightin’ words… But, Casey Lowell, I know what you mean.

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suffern ACE: I think I already said that the less said about the Moore years, the better. And, also too, no, just no.

    @piratedan: I understand, yet I must stand by my choices and denigrate yours. It is beyond my control.

  77. 77.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Moore had some of the best villains, though. Christopher Lee? Yaphet Kotto?

    The problem with the Moore years is that the villains were so much cooler that you were cheering for them over Bond.

  79. 79.

    Citizen_X

    Nobody mentioned Ursula Andress? Come on, she had one of the greatest entrances of all time. And I mean in movies, not just Bond movies. (So great, they had Halle Berry redo it when she was the Bond Girl.)

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Citizen_X: She had a scene. Okay, a Scene. Oh, alright, Damn! Nevertheless, she did not equal either Eva Green or Diana Rigg overall.

  85. 85.

    Brachiator

    @Villago Delenda Est: Connery, Craig, Dalton, Lazenby, Brosnan, Moore.

    What about Barry Nelson, who played an American Jimmy Bond in a 50s tv show? Or even Woody Allen?

    Actually it’s Connery, Craig, then whoever. Dalton was saddled with bad scripts, but also never really seemed anything but dour as Bond.

    I recall that Brosnan was all set to do Bond until NBC yanked him back into Reminton Steele, so I hoped that he would do well. He tried hard, but was ultimately a middleweight Bond. Moore was much better as the Saint. Lazenby was in what could have been one of the best Bonds ever, but just didn’t have enough screen presence.

    Agree that pound for pound, From Russia with Love was one of the best. Daniella Bianci (hope I didn’t mangle her name) was a very delectable Bond babe. I’ve heard that prospective Bonds have to audition with the scene where Bond finds her in bed, dressed only with a ribbon around her neck.

    And special praise goes to Shirley Eaton, the woman who ends up gilded in Goldfinger.

    A letter turned up recently in which Fleming asks Alfred Hitchcock to take a go at a Bond movie. It was good that he turned Fleming down. Such a movie might have been very interesting, but likely done in such a way that it never could be the start of a franchise.

    My mother let me read all the novels when I was a pre-teen. I am eternally grateful that she was never concerned that I would be warped by all the sex and violence in the books or movies.

  86. 86.

    Corner Stone

    The first 20 minutes in the Daniel Craig version of Ca$in0 Royale should be immortalized in badassery moviemaking.

  87. 87.

    Brachiator

    Oh yeah, the Bildeberg Group is obviously SPECTRE. Watch out if any attendee is seen cradling a white cat.

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Brachiator: I think I read On Her Majesty’s Secret Service when I was 10 or 11. It affected my judgment about cars, wine, food, and women for years. Not necessarily in a bad way.

  91. 91.

    Mouse Tolliver

    @Corner Stone: Well, they had to make up for all that cartoony cgi in Die Another Day. BTW, worst Bond song ever. Worse than All Time High even. I bet Madonna’s never even watched a James Bond movie.

  92. 92.

    Brachiator

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You could just watch a 20 minute parkour video.

    No, the first minutes of the film mix in background scenes of newly minted Bond getting his first kill. It is a very gritty re-boot. His adversary doesn’t think that James has been properly “vetted.”

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Suffern ACE:

    Ok, Mrs. Ringo Starr is hot. No question.

    How about Barbara Carrera? Holding Bond at gunpoint, demanding that he write down that the best piece of ass he ever had in all his days was Fatima Blush.

  97. 97.

    BruinKid

    Yeah, Russia Today was running with this conspiracy-laden piece on Bilderberg, with lots of quotes from nutjob Alex Jones, which got my Ron Paul friends all crazy again about the “New World Order” crap.

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