For Words!

4 the People
2B Partisan or a Different Club?

This is more of a play on words and numbers, than a criticism of a candidate or a system, except to point out the differences. Florida is a Closed Primary, meaning (I assume) an independent runs only in the General Election. Washington is an Open Primary in this case only the top two vote getters regardless of party will be in the General Election. (I won't get into the British system.)

(Embedded within are the links to particulars in regard to Washington candidates challenging Democrats while in Florida, the big news is that a Republican governor has decided to run from the party the tea partiers have taken over. I have almost considered it a Rovian calculation for them to run from their party. There is the theory of the two Santas, so running against a strength, would that be the two Grinches* theory?

* radical independents supported by divide to revive...the right.**
(In a bigger picture look at this, the difference is truly the pressure of politics which is valid. In Florida a survival of a moderate candidate for senate in the form of the current governor, and in Washington; pressure from the left on moderate or progressive candidates, but with different electoral processes.)

** more on the two Grinches, not to despair valid Tea Party issues but to the money and support that lumps or divides them

Back Log and 4 Mat

Hit and Run Republicans, simply reflects the open field and many tents in which leadership is hard to locate. Not exactly hit and run, but more like running from various factions and issues.
As projected now by Chris Cillizza or 2B soon [*], but here is the point of my format. Democrats as well have their wings, but the political calculus depends upon whether there are closed or open primaries, especially when it comes to independents and progressives verses(sic) tea partiers** and disappointed liberals, not to mention the fluid* or radical moderates.(not to overly characterize)

[Hi! See Noon? Or midnight sessions where "Senate Republicans use the rules to stop things, Senate Democrats are going to use the rules to keep everybody working late."]

*pun on the oversea's similar difficulties and disappointments and party electoral process differences.[***]

** no disrespect but there are at least two major factions I call the Palin and Paul wings, both uncertain about whether they are running for or from the Republican Party.

[Teeter Totter? Gamble and Investments.]

[***] Not so puny. Plus it was only natural google that(or which) intersected the links.]

[*] 4wards ho!

Updates A and B

A: A Modest Proposal [The Spectrum War] David Brooks
B: Bail Out of Day Oh. (or earlier)

[Bailout Bail Out Beatle Juice!]

[C: Suddenly Nuanced and subtle segment of email rant: But down to the legal ease or difficulty of writing laws... I have barely attmepted to read the Arizona bill, but it may be in the process of evolving itself. My real point is that short laws are not really good laws if they have to be interpreted to be enforced. This hits the nail on the table of the Palin Paul Pup Tents in the Republican Bail Out from Responsibility. I mean they whine about too many laws(and pages), and hang on the "original intent" of the constitution, and then pass a law that needs more work and interpretation. ...to say the least.]

Bailout or Bail Out

Flyer than Swift Boating.
Sub Title: Bail Out* in Con Text.

* Robert Reich

A Modest Proposal

Bail Out in Con Text: Sub Title Meants.
In the two word culture sometimes words are only half meant anyway, that means the two words are lucky to be one.
Democrats run to govern: BAILOUT.
Republicans govern to run: BAIL OUT.

[Representation without Taxation an Update? Not to mention the OK Choral!]

[Added 4-29-10: Speaking of Embattled Or Flew Id Metaphors, The Spectrum War or Milk Toast Middle. I hate characterizations but when they are characters it may be OK, Brooks is a mild-mannered intellectual version of Glenn Beck with delusions of balance. Or to use his words aimed differently, he "wittingly or unwittingly"..."created an impression of federal onslaught." ]

Hi Noon?

Reforming Wall Street
(Meet the Press)

[Lo nuance. Or More of the Same?]

[Chalk up a win.]

Representation without Taxation...

or emmigration without documentation.

OK, they probably have documentation, but for example: how did GM get to pay off their bailout with foreign profits when their bailout was probably needed due to the emmigration of profits? I put it better, when I signed the petition. Oh, it started with the suggestion that Arizona officials pullover all suspicious looking corporations for documentation.

[Speaking* of lede'r$hip?(or slip around 1:05) *go2 comment one]
* Update 4-26-10 Asterisk, bold and link added.
[Update: 4-27-10 Not an endorsement nor full read of Arizona Bill 1070.]

Too Seriously Ponder?

Steve Clemons blasts Senator Schumer for going public with an issue of foreign policy and international consequence. It's called free speech and politics, but that does not mean that a deeper look and lesser mingling is not called for.

The Hartmann Award.

HA! The Hartmann Award: It may not be DHA(daily) but here is the 1st, Under-reported Progressive Action of the day. Thanks to Thom Hartmann, and McClatchy News.

Happy 40!

Earth to People.
11thHourAction
Local
Wishing all a heavily nuanced day!
[To Read] [To Link /Interactive?]
[Get Caffeinated Here]

[To Un-Thrasymachate or Detergiversate, Independents need to get pumped.]

[HA! Hartmann Award: It may not be DHA(daily) but here is the 1st, Under-reported Progressive Action of the day. Thanks to Thom Hartmann, and McClatchy News.]

Left Behind

Legacy?
Warren or Koh for Supreme Court?
"This Will Be Obama's Legacy."
Mine will be to better read*. But I did entertain thoughts that the seemingly disenfranchised left merge with the Tea Partiers to come together on the populist issues that might make for progress ala Ross Perot or Ron Paul. Not that I would fall for such a pipe dream or policital calculus of hope.

* or weave?(comment there)Manicean TriUnism? Two Reeds?

[Yet! On the other hand!]

One Well...

Read.

Punderous Ponderings

Link Updated

Two Reeds:
Manichean TryUnism

[Saved in Draft: Fully read, and finally posted 4-18-10]
[12-19-11 Punderous Pondering and Try-Unism added for search purposes.
Awe heck it didn't work]

R not, R2, R not, R2, R2, R not.

Are Democrats taking bipartisanship off the table?

Thanks to Stephanie Miller:
Austin Goolsby BTW: Not recovery-dot-com but maybe commerce.gov?
Timothy Geithner
Huffington Post.
[Earlier thank you, Rachel Maddow . Also... you can't handle the truth!]*

* wikispoiler? who gets it [**]in the end?

[** Obama Won(R2D2), Go for it, Get Over it, Toy Story. Punchline: Who writes your stuff.]

The Under-Stans

We have not yet begun to read.

Not necessarily yet even need to?

The under lying principle* is what and who are you fighting for? Background: JPJ foreign born "America's first well-known naval hero during its Revolutionary War, and later served in the Imperial Russian Navy."
Foreground: see above to read and note the geography and political and historical nature of the support for regime change. More specifically so far, our administrations support in the past for the political situations in other countries and other countries changes in political situations. Not to imply the forceful or violent nature of certain parties, but the over standing of rhetoric in too many situations.

No Pundit Stand, or Cause Ick Stand, But Cure G stand? If we work on where we stand.

* or is it rhetorical or a question?
[No offense to Stans or any other entities or groups.]

Close Enough for

Government Work?
The Leviathan.Not Exactly.
But well put.

The next small step?
Old style?
[I am unable to retrace the techo-cultural trip that landed me on the Ed Woods production but it was a tangent from Pop Culture entertainer Glenn Beck.]

Calvin...

and Hobbes or
Pee Wee Pulpit?
[Infinity in Retrospect] i. e. "and back again"

Re: Ribble to Read? See Obsolescence.

[To the heart of the matter... see "also"@who knows!]
My direct meaning is that if they read the full context there is nothing to fear but fear itself, but that brings back Roosevelt too clearly for some. Even if they don't like either Teddy or Franklin speaking of Red.

Not Exactly

Random (not so) links:
Beck Ed:
Bachman Palin Express How's that new normal working for ya?
the Apostle Paul in letters
Cognitive Policy Works?
Obsolescence?

Of hate or humor?
Media Matters?

As a personal recipient of the Palin humor or bumper sticker advice, I have a suggestion: advice does not fit on a bumper sticker and apparently not even in your rallies.

I was at a metered on ramp and a white SUV was aside me, with the character driving smiling and speaking through my slightly open window on a beautiful day. As I smiled and rolled down my window, he said: "How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya?" (To be honest I am not sure that he or I now have it correctly spelled or quoted.) I flashed an even bigger smile and a vigorous thumbs up, and he continuted: "Are you a commmunist or do ya just vote for them?" To which I replied: "Are you kidding or(?)" ...we moved on. But that guy did not know who he was messing with (someone who knows better*)... someone with a sense of humor and a sense that righteousness is a lack of faith. (I just came up with that, as I really had some wise cracks, some even appropriately expletive(Tea "partier")adjusted. Speaking of what's in the bag. I have mysteriously completed a loop as to who or what is working? I will call that my Ribble of Intelligent Design at which I will give the links by number.

{It might take a while to sort out the serious, but I do emphasize the jest or just nature, rather than any unintended vitriol(wiki google branch: ethereal.) or Con Sequences. See Comment.]

Less than raw links:
catharsis
RE:Schadenfreude
Gloom at other's successes.

Raw links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Thessalonians
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+3&version=NIV
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_Paul_in_the_Bible
http://www.gotquestions.org/twelve-apostles-disciples-12.html
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/is-the-apostle-paul-one-of-the-12-disciples/

* in the particular case I am a minority (OK, I did not take the poll, but it is hard to believe it is representative of the truth. That would mean a thumbs up for the media, and I don't know what for congress.) But that is really cherry picking.

[Speaking of Bridge or post lonesome roads or sections of a train?.]

Water Under The Bridge.

Russel King's: An Open Letter to Conservatives.
(two links same letter)

Previous Ripples?
Waves to Come?
(Too much to filter.)

[Retrospective same day,
The Ed word of the Day: regime
(OK, I don't have words of the day...) But I would like to note that "regime" is not necessarily a bad word, as a form of government, ours is based on the constitution, but for some[*] it is an ideology and even that is a double-edged word. But who started it and how's it welt?]
[In modern usage it was the one of Bush's illusory excuses(Regime Change) for the invasion of Iraq, co-opted as a political call for his ouster by the left.]

[*]the seed of this was The Ed Show...
(asterisk and comment inserted 4-6-10)
[...which later germinated on Countdown.
Speaking of Ideology not quite "out of the blue", but confidently out of the red.]
[for some, "some people" are their sources which translates "some say"(i.e. opinion) to "news". Not O'Really]

The Best of Intentions...

Are No Joke!
Not to pick on April Fools, but I had no intention of marking yesterday (the first.)

[Comments On Yesterday's Case Study.] [**]
[Please note that my third link (there) was inserted after the call for "All on deck"... And know(I mean, NO!) I did not start it. Maybe the Bee Gees started it... But I will reiterate a word of caution on the "punc" link, while endorsing the "irony" message. "He ain't heavy..." and in closing note that the "truthout" under "Headlines" questions the Newsweek cover claim which is worth a read, which I am still amidst.]

[I am trying to unribble[*] this. I am still amidst reading the Newsweek article embedded in the first link, and look forward to the Nation project, but reiterate caution on "Master of Puppets" head banging, but soundly endorse The Hollies, "He ain't heavy..." Also the Bee Gees was a last minute insert.]

[*] in this case unwind some meaning or links

** maybe the law of unintended consequences kept me from adding comments for the time being, on my previous post.
[On the other hand. Here is to popping*** culture.]

*** Jon Stewart takes a whack at CNN and other AprilFools, which I cannot be certain the date of and needs an "expletive deleted warning".

Case Study

Headlines under question(marks)!
Some filter so other don't have to?
Please read, as I haven't yet.

CAUTION: Sarcasm warning! Or as "some people" might say "nuance"? Or was that missed metaphors* or hypocrisy or as I noted "equivalence"** as a challenge in this revolving rhetorical not revolutionary world?

* more likely sloppy punctuation, or logic and grammar?
SUBSET OF CAUTION: I make no equivalence, Google found these Trivium, and the punc is likely too heavy metal or irony?

** just posted "saved in draft"

[There are deeper and lighter case studies, but they are under investigation if not pending prosecution.]

[No Teaser but Prophetic? But dig that Newsweek "V" of triumvirates, the deck of emergence is at least missing the "mark"(?) as in Rand(y) Childish Partiers. I used to be overly sceptical(and ahead of the curve) in the area of Mainstream Media, especially more so in print(I won't mention the big 3) but their first initials are N,T & U or is it nuts? But they are just playing to the market yet the fair-E tale is always in the making. All on deck, even if you have a couple(decks) or are missing a few cards, they just might be only the jokers.]