Obama 2012

The appropriate follow up for Economics 2011
Netting it big with Bridge Poker.

Week old Last Word: It is not Republican checkers against Obama and N-dimensional chess, it is whatever you call the Republican bored games against Obama*** and his Bridge Poker*. That is my take, not Lawernce O'Donnell's.

[My guess is that whatever is voted on will be politically beneficial**, win or lose.]

*more than just the table games
** for Democrats
*** not much of a chess player myself, I think it is a bad metaphor. A bit more of a poker player and less of a bridge player, I did not know there was actually the game of Bridge Poker. But negotiations are one thing and politics is more the thing, so a bit of Go Fish might be thrown in. And if wishes were fishes we'd be fed up.
[Belated Happy Birthday to MSNBC!]

[Later in the day, apparently Speaker Boehner bails out or has taken the bait: Remarks by the President:

So they will come down here at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. I expect them to have an answer in terms of how they intend to get this thing done over the course of the next week. The American people expect action. I continue to believe that a package that is balanced and actually has serious debt and deficit reduction is the right way to go. And the American people I think are fed up with political posturing and an inability for politicians to take responsible action as opposed to dodge their responsibilities.

[Earlier Obama Town Hall]

[7-24-11: The Deadliest Catch]

Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep.

A lot of water is under the bridge over the last few days. What was a bridge to nowhere has become the bridge-loan to nowhere.
FROM THAT WATER:(reply to an email from an Existentialist) I am not saying Rush is wrong about Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep, but absolutely about the (Democrats)circling the wagons. Otherwise the administration would be cleaned up by now. Absolutely no argument. P.S. you gotta luv this argument (wink) - Has "no argument" taken a spin?

But seriously the media has.(wink) I can see how you can see that Obama is just as Teflon as Bush. But given the Republicans have had the Justice Department and still do... it is more than a matter of statistics. Somehow even Illinois had reason to be displeased with their governor, but... Oops! I slipped into my bleepin blog.
(there I go again)
So, there is still hope for us.

RATHER THAN...clutter this with links and footnotes I will just put this in con text by describing my friend the apparent existentialist. He knows he exists and also knows others exist based on the non-existence of evidence they don't exist. Think**: WMD and corrupt politicians. Also think: Rush to Judgement vs. Voodoo Justice (and Economics)

** 1-15-09 spell check done but note the preceding sentence was double-checked and is as intended.

4-24-13 (spoiler alert?) update Not Exactly: I cannot explain the link or leap, but in blog searching (b.s.) spell+check(2) here(3) there is the (sc) anomaly (Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep.) and to a dead link at that.

Neo-toll-keen.

Trolling[?]

There was something that inspired this, and there is a tangential creation that I have in process elsewhere. I believe it was the word "bridge", hence the Lord of the Rings reference.
Now for another leap or we've[!]

The "Perception Bridge".  Evonomics.
Capitalization* of Design. Daniel Dennett
Fuller's Manifesto? (R. Buckminster) Maria Popova**


* my take
** cartographer of [?]
"use"

Two No Huckabee

Mike Huckabee is another no trump.

NOTE: update of sorts (meaning I had not considered Huckabee for a long while)
Meanwhile: back to bridge.(Bold "bridge" is recommended link to watch.)
[Still to updated some links here or there.]
Note: unbolds may be only to read later or of slight reference use or scroll over

Update: GOP @)!@(2012) Missed Raising Cain.

Bridge to the Future

[Posted 10-24-11]
Occupy People!
Not so random bumperstickers.

This is an update of sorts, although the random reference is still to be found, but it regards the first amendment and media policy.

For now I will simply link earlier posts.
Bridge to the future.
Occupy People!

Not so...random9[!]

Neo-toll-keen.

Trolling[?]

There was something that inspired this, and there is a tangential creation that I have in process elsewhere. I believe it was the word "bridge", hence the Lord of the Rings reference.
Now for another leap or we've[!]

The "Perception Bridge".  Evonomics.
Capitalization* of Design. Daniel Dennett
Fuller's Manifesto? (R. Buckminster) Maria Popova**


* my take
** cartographer of [?]
"use"

New Jersey Bridge Scandals

Is the "New Jersey Bridge Scandal" Governor Chris Christie's Benghazi or Snowden Scandal?

In other words, one hand not knowing what the other is doing?  Or the fog or politics?  In this I am prospecting* that they are much ado about the other branches or parties.

* Crtl F "plumb"

Neo-toll-keen.

Trolling[?]

There was something that inspired this, and there is a tangential creation that I have in process elsewhere. I believe it was the word "bridge", hence the Lord of the Rings reference.
Now for another leap or we've[!]

The "Perception Bridge".  Evonomics.
Capitalization* of Design. Daniel Dennett
Fuller's Manifesto? (R. Buckminster) Maria Popova**


* my take
** cartographer of [?]

Who the heck...

took the W off of wholistic?

Must have seem him coming. Can we have it back? W?

Odd works in strange and myterious ways, or I made a mistake. Or someone has a sense of humor. Note the odd G oh d another {o}ops! Ok, its me. I was avoiding the G word. By George or Rather letter. See Dan or CBS.

But back to the way this worked, I thought it would be funny to post this on wholism or was it wholistic, since my first search came out with 36,300,000 and I wanted to tweak that by one, but when I refreshed the search engine instead of 36 million 300 thousand and one, it dropped to 57,000 for wholistic and if that is not better, there are still 21,100 for wholism.

But I digress, or progress, it remains why wholism is a variant on holism. It turns out that it may be a long battle at least at this point over Words. Suffice to say for now that for our health we bridge the gap between the whole and the hole.

[Non sequitur - or might it? *]

* akin to footnotes?

[The best I can wiki-google is that 1929 was when holism was spelled first, while some may believe in the power of spells, it seems that words have always been a field that yields.]
[not such]
[Happy End of Year and Hope for a New Air-or]

Bridge 'n

the third way[!] *

* not exactly

The Other Debates

Substance over*** Style? 
Here I go again,
preemptive over* reading**. 

* 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.

INET

Institute for New Economic Thinking

[Location -- Link]
[Under construction.]

economics or aft -- Raghuram Rajan: Delineating the Role of Government

bridge -- Raghuram Rajan: Ibid.

Here -- John Kay: Obliquity and the Indirect Way to Success

but -- John Kay (Ibid.)

the hammer -- Ha-Joon Chang: Economics Upside Down

free market -- Ha-Joon Chang (Ibid.)

Obliquity -- John Kay (Ibid.)

Interviews -- John Kay (Ibid.) / Ha-Joon Chang (Ibid.)

Andrew Sheng (INET) -- Andrew Sheng - Sustainability Requires Caging Godzillas

stock car -- Deficits and Money / Mario Seccareccia - Why Governments Should Run Deficits Now

there there -- John Kay Ibid. / Ha-Joon Chang (Ibid.)

QE2 Pun and Hayek/Keynes -- Robert Skidelsky: What Would Keynes Do?

G'Ribble: boot straps verses trickle-down

Water under the Bridge!

Not Exactly!


Meanwhile: Questions for Trump!

Will you provide all citizens a silver-spoon in their mouth at birth? 


How is your marriage and bankruptcy record an asset in your transition from business to governing?
We know it was not personal bankruptcy, but neither is the government budget operated like a family budget.  How would you navigate these discrepancies?


7-30-15
[Seg(~)Way?]  Buchanan / Chomski

Throwing this out.

Cut tax breaks for advertising. That would probably make them more efficient, but it would certainly not help Palin's crusade.

As long as I am tossing out nuggets, how about:
One stockholder: One vote!
If you want more than your share? Buy it. *
Now that is tergiversation.(Changing one's opinion.)
Actually a ludicrous leap, but which demonstrated tendencies to let the market fix it. But maybe a tax break for investors up to a limit, per company, to distribute the vote. If you want more than one vote, buy shares in more than one company. Maybe corporations need a new hierarchy **. They are not in the constitution, but the word "welfare" is.(Pre-amble) There are three branches of the government, and the separation of press and business is as important as church and state, though not directly a corollary or balanced. (First Amendment) The point is (well) there is a lot of water under the bridge or rubric of precedence, which may be undermining our fundamentals, AKA "the people".

* update: The irony or unsatire slipped in here. I was going to clarify the Buy It crack, but I had already explained the ludicrous leap: Tax incentives or regulations which would revalue the voice of people and money.
** corporations are not in the constitution, they are and have been constituted by government and people. With all the irony of the moral hypocrisy over the death penaly and cloning, just how have we allowed the creation of such Leviathans.

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?.]

High Road or Low Road?

and then there is the Bridge to Nowhere.
Family matters! But country first?
Enough! I will have to look back to see if I am off track.
The Family Values Party seems to have vetted family as an issue.
But have they vetted freedom? Freedom of information? Not to mention freedom of speech? The media plays a huge part in this, but which side are they on?
Does freedom have a side? Does information?

Of course these are just threads. That does not make them just.
But it does not mean they don't need to be followed a bit more.
Backgrounds matter. Or do they?

"Maverick" was a TV show and McCain admits being addicted to "24" * unless someone was joshing. "24" is the modern version of "Mission Impossible". A fantasy based too closely on reality. I have not followed Jack Bauer for some time, but just which Maverick is McCain. The gambler or the ladies man?

Both McCain and Palin have the far right lifting their spirits with their own bootstraps. Will the media vet the facts? Or does vet mean, being vetted of facts.

[* Bold added with this link 9-3-08 along with "gambler" link]

From Bingo to...

Tic-Tack-TOW[!]*

Kind of like: As I Mov(e) over Ayn^!

^ pronounced -ein as in Frankenstein. 
(or could be -ane as in-ane or un-frank'nane[?])

*[C] Labels
(FP #!)
[italics and 4 links added]
[or course ? !]

[...]
From Godwin to Dogwink? or wiping the bridge/floor to a stalemate?   



 

Geometry

Maslow / Finkelstein

^ <...> ^ 

No Teddy[!]

BULL!



* LANDMARK SPEECH!

* Martin Bashir
unrelated?
No pun.
FIXED NEWS... meaning not here yet.
But this** is what I have been talking about.

** to be up dated (oops) HERE!

[BULLY PULPIT!!!!]

[Follow-up: Ratigan, Matthews, Sharpton]
The president talks the talk, congress must walk the walk. Propose/Dispose
MC Hammer: Middle Class Schtick is the Leverage.
Channeling Warren and Pokemon
(Boot straps anyone?).

[I rest my case. Bridge anyone?]
[Ed Schultz,(Defining moment) Rachel Maddow]

Bridge

No Trump?

The Donald doesn't get his own bump.

Is that Freedoms preemption?

BTW: I had better freeze some stem cells for this thread.

(not exactly or Adam Smith [?] [!])

(parsing the game)

We are at the table.

"All politics is local." Thanks for the "Tip." Ms. Speaker.

Actually I was reminded of the source for this quote this evening and I bridge the irony of Ms-Representation in reflecting on the interpretations which R so academic.

[update: 10-5-09 Tool Shed posted, also references earlier updates [10:16 & 11:44 PM] at On War / Politics [under con...]