Thursday, October 25, 2012

Local Politics

2012 General Election Endorsements
SCROLL DOWN FOR LOCAL ENDORSEMENTS

[INCONVENIENT EDIT: BOTTOM LINE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES*. (i.e.  I would like to have noted the follow up at the end of this Endorsement List.)  I would also like to have added that no party or candidate is responsible for my obtusity**, tan gents or bane oars. ***]

* something about the protocol of cut and paste does not allow me to place this I.E. and asterisk at the bottom of this post.  But this long and winding road, is about the ditch and the drive or...
** posted 10-29-12 (i.e. [!?
*** No Apologies Tour







YES

  • Referrendum 74 (marriage equality)

  • Initiative 502 (legalize+tax marijuana)

  • Advisory vote #1 (ESB6635 - close bank tax loophole)

  • Advisory vote #2 (SHB2590 - keep tank safety fee)

  • King County Prop. #1 (renew fingerprint ID funding)

  • Mercer Island Fire Station Bond
NO

  • Initiative 1185 (Tim Eyman's 1/3 rule)

  • Initiative 1240 (defund public schools)

  • SJR 8221 (clamp debt limit; stick it to local govt.)

  • SJR 8223 (allow UW/WSU speculative

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

[POST DATE: October 29th, 2012 10:47 AM ]

[Table of Con Tent ?]




...where the dogs of society howl?



D'Ribble Up !

[Or Slippery Slope of Progress? C-*** !

Monday, October 22, 2012

Romney Seal Team Six Sigma'd Himself.

In the third and final Presidential debate * , Romney flipped his Seal Team Six Sigma on his own Rhetorical Been Laden

* (continued 10-23-12)

























For some (retro) reason...

10-24-12
Lean Manage Mean't? [!]
Kudos to in-eff-able!
It takes three points to make a plane
Three dimentions to make a field[!].   


Sunday, October 21, 2012

Association is Not Free!

Unless given con text

Original intent ?  A Mitt-Flop on ** "free association"* or snooze in peace?

Put up or shut up? 
Yeah, that's the ticket!  NOT!

* anachonism of the ... N'th kind [!]
** ribble this

[Ouch!  A tribute to Specter and McGovern?]

10-22-12:  The point?  Bold added above, not really the point. Put up, don't shut up! That is the point.  So-called "un-decideds" may just be hesitate to settle on a pick for fear of ending up being responsible for being on the wrong side of history.  Like Herman Cain, "I don't have facts to back this up" but along with the potential that being undecided has for getting attention, there may be something to not being associated with a loser.  So... Put up, don't shut up!  VOTE!   BTW:  Obama may be the one, but is Romney the other one?  The other point?  There is less point in the effort to Restore Our Future(grammatically pointless), than to have Priorities USA !  


Friday, October 19, 2012

Clear Eyes,

Full Hearts, Can't Use?

It is unclear what the Romney ticket is going with, Mo'better Bush or Mo'better Obama, but certainly not No Drama Either or is it ether?  Somewhere the Romney/Ryan/RNC use of the term quarterback escapes me.  Even if it was just me, I think that Monday morning or anyday other day than game day is their style

* was going to go with caffeinated but that was too Mormoney. 

(Tagg we are it ?)
Replacement Refs or Not...  (Bu' dump 'ump [!] ... ** )

===============
10-18-12
RETRO_SEG_WAY?
UNCLE SAM KNOT?
Or Fair and Balanced, not ? !
Or Just US!
=========

** updated, Thom Hartmann(Bu'), Norman Goldman(Dump), Randi Rhodes ('ump) (Bu' dump 'ump)/Re:tale.
Re:R,R,R A - R(not exactly) (j, kl, m, n, o, p, q, r )

Not to Dump on Norman Goldman(nor Republicans), he is describing RepubliCONS as smart and fighting like cats and dogs over congress, while compromise is only for the president as candidate.  He makes further cracks about the difficulties of Bozo John Boehner as House Speaker in hurding*** them. (my paraphrasing & rhetorical metamorphing.)

*** circular firing rhetorical metaphors(cats and dogs)
(Obama has a better record given his opposition, Romney had to cooperated with a 78% Democratic legislature which has the power.***) Yeah that asterisk is redundant... who needs Republicans when ...  democracy is all over the map?)

[Bin Go ! Who let  the names out? Con $(c)ent Ration ? (C S c R !) ]








Thursday, October 18, 2012

I'm not saying...

what ? [!] # *

Bane or** Tan Gents?(& gals)***

* un-embed ? ! ? :-)

** pr0-gress
*** not an endorsement of anything
[also... the opposite of congress is digress]

[DUC! i.e. CHECK "DRAFTS Under Construction", ouch.(GPS) Tick'd TOC?]

Mini-Plank ?


CAUTION:  R,R,R... No Texting while...










SEG WAY APOLLO GEE [!] 
[The layout of these images may depend on your own desktop choices(Re:dimentionalism.)  I was shooting for Romney(located) at the point of the cornicopia, and Obama at the harvest end.(until I bailed with an edit).  With a tip of the hat-trick and arithmatic or lip stick to navigation and the web we weave. ]



















[NOT EXACTLY]
(f..n...irony [!]  3, 2, 1...blast )
[Buy (X) George !]

P.S.  I only heard recently that The Stanger was brought to Seattle by the producers of The Onion.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

It turns out...

that "turn around" has been a familiar refrain* for generations.  This^ issue has been the standard rhetoric^^ bearer for every administration:  the debt is a problem only when running.

* Rove, Koch, Cain
[Parsin' Local-ships ? ! ]

As it so happens...
I only saw part of the townhall style debate, and heard part of it, and missed part of it.  But from what I did get, it seems that the President had the upper hand, and the Governor*** the upper fACE.  OK, I could only do this so straight, without a Bane or Tan Gent.**

** hmmm  

10-17-12***(Second debate link):  I just did not want to characterize the in"f"able expression(a smile, I guess), the Governor often has.
CBS: Fact Check, combative, edge, contentious, Romney/Bush, outsourcing, assault, Libya, Libya.
Libya Follow-Up

^ Republican debt.
^^ Not running well local.
Economicslocal / global ^^^
Globalization is not as daunting as the haunting of the illusion of democracy and economics.(note: exception to b.s.)

Monday, October 15, 2012

Flip-Flop, Nuance, Mitt-Flop

Kerry, Obama, RawMoney...
Etch-a-sketch [!]

Pressler, Foreign Policy !
American Exceptionalism:
Exception to the rule, or rule without exceptionalism?

Mitt-Flop On !

Update Charts !
Images ?
NOT 

Nor Foul nor Foot Bowl.




















10-16-12  Sometimes I feel like a...
 Tea-Partier, sometimes a We Gee Bored[!]
Butt 4 the perspective* !
* not the link, I am still looking for one shared on other thread w/ comment.
[The word comprehensive and dimentionalism are key.  Apologies for Obtuseness, or vice verse us ? ]

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Un-Privatizing Ryan's/RawMoney.

OK, so $3.8 trillion ain't $4 trillion, but it's close enough for government work, and a Heckuva Better Job than Privatizing Ryan's/Raw Money.



Re:sources[!] [NFRY]
]...[
NPR / VC  [ ... ] /

10-15-12 M. R.

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Other Debates

Substance over*** Style
Here I go again,
preemptive overreading**. 

* preceding two links are top embeds in prior two links
** links all inserted before reading ** or any others(including last insert ***)
*** retro GPS of sorts(C-lede/heading)

[Ouch! Mid^ -PI solar^^ flare... ***]

^ scroll over(not exactly^^^)
^^ having read ***...
Inslee is no Biden or Obama, McKenna is no Romney or Ryan. ^^(Re...)
But on the issue of conflict of interest, the conflict is ironic.



^^^ F'n notes:  Show me the money, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ? !

^^(Re...) Don't call me..(Re...cycling^^)
...except for the Congressional connection(Biden/Inslee/Ryan and party differences).  Note that it is quite different to be a Republican governor in a Democratic controlled state(Romney), than a bipartisan Democratic president in a more evenly controlled but partisanly divided congress.  Republicans have been against what they might have been for if they had been in control(less so maybe locally given this context).  The debt being the Toll Keen under the bridge.   C-Mythmatic. Not to mention the road we hoe or Rove. The irony is even more dimentional in the local situation in that, Inslee as governor (re:legislative branch) would be more Obama(re:leg.br.) than McKenna as governor would be either Romney as executive.(re:either state or national leg.br.)  See Romney touting his term in Massachusettes with an 86% Democratic legislature. (It doesn't take much to sit down and cooperate.)  This is no excuse for thinking that divided government means more partisanship rather than cooperation and compromising as Democratic principles. (Further editing if NOT *,^'s may be needed[!]#$%)

[Re: Cycling notations (*,^,#'s) F'n Apologies Tour, not there yet. (quid pre**quo?) Stop that ? Ouch. ]

[ WeGotEd: Sherrod Brown / Uncle Joe/ Uncle Sam/ G.I. Joe / Gastro-Intestinal Joe! Roger Out! ]
[ Alter Net ... Substance/Style, Objective/Subjective, Reality/Matters(slash)dimentionalism what the heck is the point? ]

[Editors Note:(me that is)...the entirety of this post was finished before this. Bolded above from "The debt"...to..."Rove". They can't handle the Biden.  The key crack @little troll friends.  So...(I will have to review to see reference to Rove, but here is a rant or ramble(NOT) his nickname is "Turd Blossom"!]
[Randi Rhodes
[Paul Ryan Told 24 Myths in 40 Minutes]

10-16-12 Biden/Ryan Debate added.


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Ghost of X-mas Passed.

The Dickens*** you say?
Or Heckuva Charlie horse race?
Two Mitt or Not Two R's or 4F's. 
Republicans tooLucy the politics of us.  

*If Romney does one more speech** he will be a Democrat, we will just have to guess which one.
** Haidt of sarcasm and parody.
*** kNOT!  For image sake only, it is easier to drink a heading than lede a congress to water.
(Avast ye mixed Presidents Re:Reimagined [!])


Uncross Rhodes GPS

Tetra* Heed Run of Progress.

[But something is fishy.]

* Not in particular order**.

** But emphasis on Norman Goldman's plea: "Am I all alone?"
There are one or two & a half others.  Which makes "Three and a Half-Pundits"!

This was noted before he put his exclamation point on it(clip not available), in regard to a reference to the Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly Debate and the "fog of capitalism" (my paraphrase), not to mention AP-Paul-ING-Susan and End of Interview.(Fee, fi(dough), foe, King) 

And just to file Hartmann and Rhodes under Heed and Run,(another 3&1/2 including me) the latter wonderfully read former Republican Senator Pressler's endorsement of President Obama for a second term.

[Endorsing spit-takes... or convenient cup.***]
***or fish bowl? C-Not.  Bush Leagues under the C.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

The other ground game...

<*>

I am for some reason unable to put my usual* into this lately.
Not to quote Martha Stewart but it might be a good thing, or I just have other things.

I have two submissions saved in draft:
IMHO ^
Turn Around(F'N 3.0)
Time Stamp: 8:19 10-9-12

 Don't you mean refreshingly in accord with "your perception" of reality?  OUCH.  I did not mean to hit so close to the bone of reality or nuance, just making a preemptive comment based on a reading of the first few sentences, where the logic seems... interestingly framed to say the least.  And while I might read more, I might not have more to say.  It just seems to fit a playbook of sorts that may or not be written but is my "perception" of familiar tactics.  BTW:  Sorry "F" "bailed"^^^ so-to-speak,but I will not feel the need to fill his loss.  

OCCUPY FACT-CHECKERS**
Yeah... that's the ticket.*** 

** well... the anachronism of my asterisks is my usual (as well as links inserted)
***  To the Obama campaign: an unembedding of diplomacy and humor, stay the course (Ctrl "F" 'n zingers.)   Far be it from me^^ to tell people not to be them, but I don't think Joe Biden will go overboard with humor, I think he will be taking things serious.  Make it about congress, and bi-partisanship, and the dynamics of cooperation and compromise, without being too patronizing.  Substance seems to be the football that the Republicans Lucy to our Charlie Brown.  
    
^ posted(and links added) post-time-stamp
^^ latest M'bed (The irony is steep.)
^^^ FB link removed @*

Friday, October 05, 2012

Replacement Refs or Not...

If it were a debate* we would have stopped it
Not to pun on Xfinity, but while the Comcast links*** will expire.**,
it's the congress John!  Bring it on, Joe!  The President needs to hold a Sit Down.

Before I get down to the task of preserving<*> those links whether read or not, I will explain the Rogue John and Wax Leak of the asterisks.  Although the lesson learned from "Simon says"^^ might be to actually read links more thoroughly, the lesson from the Debate may be more complex but parallel of sorts.  By "rogue",<*> I mean that former Presidential Candidate McCain(first link) confesses an expectation for him lowering the expectations of Paul Ryan, while  disrespecting the Vice President and framing an expectation for gaffs.  Then in regard to the " ball of wax " that Palin leaks, it connects the "boys" to the other "race" speech.^^^  (There, that's the GPS-uncross-Rhodes.)

And a far as my Tan Gents(Dr. Trumps), being a Seahawk fan has nothing to do with my take on the moderator.  Well, who knows?  But Mr. Lerrer has been critcized for not moderating or having a good performance, but I think that given the style over substance versus substance with style, these are not legitimate debates.  And within the political system (such as it is) it was not his job to interfere with the players being themselves in order to let them make the proper contrast.  Again having only heard most of the debate on the radio, I thought that the President walked away with it, but that was under the condition that facts matter.  Neither he nor Lehrer could have done a better job in the case that they don't. 

BTW^: Speaking of "boys", we have heard cracks about the Harvard "professor" and I suspect he has had to deal with a few wise-guys or gulls[!]

*if the link were fact checked...ditto.
(McCain goes rogue.)(Palin leaks ball of wax .)
** not that I have read them yet or the recommend them.
***The point of this lede and the heading...

^ apologies to literary geeks for my style over elements.(But that was Core Knell.) 
^^ added in edit mode
^^^ to be expanded later(but see lede and stupid...I mean congress and John, Joe & Ryan. i.e. the context of the politics of "relief' legislation.)
[In the spirit of medium...? ]
[Not to parse too acutely, but it is the medium and the mess age.]
(Bu' dump 'ump [!] ... )
Re:Ouch?(see FLASHNOTE)
Post-Subjectivism?  Might it be, rational subjectivism?

<*> 10-7-12(See FLASHNOTE: under construction)
<*> 10-9-12  slight edit ( "r.... ",)

Thursday, October 04, 2012

First Debate: Zinger Score 2 to -1

Although I did not take an official scoring of the First Debate (Transcript) , two zingers the President came up with regarded Trump and SNL.  For Romney it was his "five boys" under the bus or at the President's lies.  "Never mind".

OK, so it really wasn't a debate for zingers. I happen to have heard the debate on the radio**, with only a few interruptions and don't wish to give them a grade, but only remind that it was only first of three, and try to find a commentary(Thom Hartmann?) that what matters is the post-debate spin.  Not that I will follow-up on the links here, but will suggest that Obama* will probably ramp up his urgency but remain steady in the next debates.

* Is it too late to score the Big Bird as a zinger?
[Re:FLASHNOTE (*there)]

**10-5-12  If it were a debate they would have stopped it[!].

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

OCTOBER NO SUPRISE!

It concludes 6 days before the first Tuesday in November.
Reading for processing. Done.
The word on the math of the Right can be some'd up in one word:  con text[!]

[!] = spell check approved for sarcasm 

[Pre-FLASHNOTE]

Monday, October 01, 2012

Simon says 2 point or...?

2 the N'th of infinity.




Simulphile:
A: The Hill on Benghazi-gate.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f .
g .*
h .
i .

j .

...

Z:  Stench to the N'th.

* preemptive asterisk speaking of ...
(Work in progress A-G-Z, not to Simonize but to file for later.)

To pre-paraphrase or Simon-eyes.  Will Romney have a debate winning joke? 
Will the Republicans in congress do to foreign policy what they have to the economy? 
Choose partisanship uber politics?**

[Footnotes under construction, meanwhile rolling blog search:  Bully Pour-Mitt, or ...  (7-4 to 6-6 )]

**[10-2-12] Thanks to my Bane or Tan Gents, I almost forgot the punchline. Will an attempt at humor have us laughing with Romney or at Romney?  Of course might be directed at Obama but will it be with us or against us?  I can't rule out self-depricating humor but I don't think that will really help him given his etch-a-sketch leaks.  But Walking like an Egyptian Bush will not really do any of us any good. 

NOW: Exception to the Rule?  Fox / Hedge-hog metaphor? (Nate Silver) Not to parse(hyphenate) a pun on hedgehog, nor out FOX the chicken-hawks.  

[I'm not sure I would suggest to the President pinning the V(for victim) on the Robbin'Hoods, but pinning the C (for compromise) on the Dawn Keys might work with almost anything regarding economics.  So try to nail the tale on the pool cue or magic 8 ball.] 
(fn)  [post footnote: Andrea Mitchell Reports Robert Gibbs on the math.]