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Monday, February 13, 2012

Catch-22?

Or welcome to the Rat Race?
The actual trap.
Liberal reticence an oxymoron?
The new Rat Trap?

The real catch?
(And some missed.)

*sp![Ctrl F(sic) if not SB ?]
[Bold fully read. Rat Trap in the "balanced". The "real catch" is the timing.]

[No mas, no pun, no gain]

[To say the least.]

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Other tracks.

Business Week and Russert and the Media.
My comment there:
Not being a regular consumer of his work, I did not have him on a pedestal, but given the nature of the business he was probably the best they could afford. And given the nature of the world, even harder to find one without more of an edge. Maybe as the comments on Kiley have shown.
My suggestion to MSNBC is to fill several pairs of shoes in memory of Russert's work. Not as in trying to fill his shoes, but to uphold his several jobs. It will still be difficult. [Maybe David Bender if not Rachel Maddow could fill one or more of those pairs, but not necessarily that they or GE* would want them to fit.]
[[[Ed Schultz would be a fit for some shoes here, but I think he enjoys the job he's got too much and could actually be in the running for the whole show. And of course Keith Olbermann would be great, if he was not so great at his present job.]]]

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Meanwhile I have been writing in other formats, message board and email. And will get to the following (nfry), later.
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When McCain Drops by Steve Rosenbaum
US General Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes
Broken Laws, Broken LivesPhysicians for Human Rights
Michael Reagan Should be charged for terrorism
or they are right, our freedoms are what gives us terrorists.
How could a wrong be so right? NOT!

She talks about the real America. Will she be heard?
In no particular order:
Kucinich: Impeachment Not "Off the Table"

I hope to be back to these links, but wish that they did not tie in so well, that more will be following. But I will summarize my feeling that McCain may be just a place holder in a strategy where there is too much to loose not to give it more than he's got, and that plays into the way I see them always playing it.

Meanwhile Obama has "flip-flopped"[**] on the Public Campaign Finance System but faces it in a more honest a principled manner than the media can follow or wishes to follow. While McCain may just be a distraction for a sleeper candidate, they cannot come up with one that should not be asked what he or she would do about holding history accountable.

* GE profits are a picture that may not fit full disclosure journalism, economics or environment, but then I acknowledge I don't fit or have the full picture either. Meaning I have taken digs at them, and it does not mean that profits are above principles or question, but that it is another story.

** The Catch-22 for them not us, but we*** can't help it. "Flip-flop" is a charge that was created by those that fear nuance or the work required to do their jobs or an attempt to do too many jobs or diminish those that see your own flip-flops, which maybe is all they can see, since this has created a loop. [[I did not intend to throw the book at a term, but then we are all about the Catch-44. And then there is the actual records. Not that I want to go there, but that may be one of the reasons we are here, with McCain a candidate, not his record, but the difficulty in facing it all, and the actions/reactions that brings.]]

*** "we" does depend on a job sometimes and who "them" is, not to mention the word.(While there may be some typo's or gramatical sloppiness in this post, this line have been double and triple checked mentally, not technologically.)

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Cherry paraphrasing.

The Seattle Times editorial today titled: Kerry's right to slam the president on Iraq.(see link) I agree when they say his Iraq vote and recent claim was "... not a 'flip-flop.' It is sensible and consistent."

However I might feel like a flip-flopper if I disagree with a Kerry statement. It takes too much nuance to separate from Bush.
Kerry: "The terrorists are beyond reason. We must destroy them. As president, I will do whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat our enemies."

Then Domke and Coe had their column, Bush's fundamentalism: the president as prophet.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002043481_domke23.html
They conclude "To the great detriment of American democracy and the global public, the president's view looks remarkably similar to that of the terrorist we are fighting."

The "beyond reason" part of Kerry now clicks. It does not mean that reason will be part of the nothing* that Bush claims to be above. Terrorists or anyone beyond reason cannot negate the consideration of what got them there. The words chosen are important to some. For some there is cause and effect, for some it seems out of the blue. Being above or beyond reason does not mean it does not still work in some reality. To some there may be no space between the two candidates, but for one thing Kerry will be no Bush.

We have come a long way from the George who chopped down the cherry tree to George the cherry picker of realities. From the one that turned down a crown, to the one that joked that things would be easier if he were dictator, we now have the comment by the Iraqi leader we should not be having a debate at this time. It does not say much for our recent exporting of democracy. The earlier dismissal of old Europe as our allies says more about our listening to others and now we have new friends telling us about democracy. Who elected them by George?

It seems that there is a Catch 22 here. Times two equals Catch 44. It seems inside out of sorts but the President put it best roughly on intelligence. You got this over here and that over there and more and then you got reality. It should be easy to see why being in charge he must just say, make it so.

* see previous "nothing" post (also I acknowledge this difficult sentence but what about Bush's here. http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/betweenthelines/archives/2004_09_23.html#005342
(A rare case of him meaning what he said, but he did miss the question. Ironically also the topic inserted with in this piece, and he never checks polls, what about votes?)

Then we have an acknowledgement by Rumsfeld that some areas may not vote in Iraq. Sounds familiar. The media is not presenting the good news, because it is unsafe for them to be there, but imagine not being able to hold elections in the capital. Oh. Good model. Times two. It's just getting too much.

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

CPS

Not to make light of science or speculation, but I don't mean Child Protective Services.
I mean Crypto Political Science.  OW !
This is a spin off* of a case study, spectrum** politics and a table of progress.

*place holder 4
**knot exactly(SC)***

#1 Discipline - Philosophy, The Bully..., The Pinnacle? , Update: Fight On! , The Hit and Run Gang, Catch-44 , ( G. ) Over Helming., The Tetrahedron Ramble*, Apples and Oranges and Cherry Picking., The Be All and End All?, CAD (2 out of 3 be bad) !

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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

FOOTNOTES PAGE ONE SEPTEMBER 2014

Footnotes Page
in draft*
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*(b.s.)=blog search
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Re:labels & other blog spots.

A K A / August missing Footnotes Page
Categorical Empiricists ?**
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** CAD (To be or not 3d) ?






9-9-14 Original Intent or in tent
(AM IT: [tan gent(~)] Andrea Mitchell ISIS Threat /-/ Witt Gen Stein/Jihadist  Defeating IS IS?
This is not to pun or purge, but to more carefully review later, the word.)


{Stop.} At this point, I will change the heading of this link from #(9-3-14) to "FOOTNOTES PAGE ONE SEPTEMBER 2014"\
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9-9-14{nexus}
PIT Spot? 1.  T= A. PIT Schtick, B. Clause Wits (3.0)?, C. There is no Savior, :D, E: Three Clauses for ...  [any body love Rice?  Ronan Farrow Daily?]
2. Spoiler Alert? Not yet M-bed ed.
3. C-O.I.? = A.Original Intent?, B. GOP Plan to Hurt Economy, C. The Exit Strategy, D~?.  vOO due: vCR, E. Where everyone needs to read..., F. Table of Contents, G. Health Care Summit, H. Progressive Poll  I. What are the Frackin' Odds..., J.Happy Earth Day!, K.Try Angle,  L. Mess Age Monger,  M. Post-Turkey Day,  N. Nadir, O. Clause Wits, P. Romer Resigns,  Q. Go Purple!,   R. Give an inch..., S. Temporal, T. Back to "The One Thing?". @  {(~)} Future Bubble?


~: OH REALLY FOG / Catch-44
4loreMat[?]: labels 3~ NFRY, meta/slash, P.C.? [/]4Ribble! 
TRP/RBTL: 

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

We Can't Wait

...for Republicans to come to their senses or be good for anyone but the 1%.*

Well that is not exactly what President Obama has said, but it should be pretty clear. But it is not.(Michael Lind) We can't wait till the American people understand.

While Mitch McConnell and John Boehner provide the non-sense, Michael Lind provides some relief with Morning Joe a bit more consideration, with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. Note that Morning Joe follows up with a panel on Rick Perry. More message on the mess age, later. While I agree that the Perry birther talk is silly, but it may be a convenient distraction from his tax plan. Convenient for the media but not the country. And convenient for the blame the "gotcha liberal media" strategy that seems very much a part of the Republican story. There is a catch-44.**

* one per-cent
** I Ron Knee of all it is clear.(last link inserted see 4th link/I mean fifth.
*** and understanding: that is another column
[Speaking of the fifth.***]
[Yes, there is an anacronism in my asterisk 3. I have yet to link another column. Not it.]
[See comments.]

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

The Fourth Dimention of Twain

Objectivists (or more nuanced*?)

* wackamoles

Unreflective Objectivism or(^) ... ? oar {1}[!]

(^) 3d shadow ? {!}(\\m) (y/m)

Reality is a figment of our perspectives, while actuality is a product[!] of our euphemisms.


[!]
A.  Un-Exceptionalism
The Fourth Dimention of Twain
The Physics of the DOW
Brook No Truck ?[!]
e.
PC of Mini-Me
Reading List(UC)
h.
Fiddle Sticks^
j.
REFRAIN is a Heckuva Paradocs[!]
Tacky, tact, tack...
Off the Cuff
Re:Focus
HiTetra!
Catch-44

7th heave n ?(!)(3\10)
{a. Coin-age of the day., b. Place Holder?}
7 FS 7 not including 2 This is not just to play a pro/fit, but the reality of nature.  Every ship has a fiddle and a crock.  A picture is worth n-words. i.e. 3 languages (t)
1. FOOTNOTES PAGE January 2014, 2. Knot Even, 3. Over Helming.


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Monday, February 13, 2012

Catch-44

President Obama seems to have doubled down on the culture war.

2-15-12 Politics and the Table.



Politics is the pinnacle of the power play.
Physics, Psychology and Philosophy are the base.
Culture is the result and the field of play.
Economics, values and pragmatism the material.

The Irony Leviathan.*

[I have a hecuva lot in draft as well as embedded in previous posts that need sorting, and this may be a crack at that. And to un-Ribble it is in the social Darwinism and the yo gurt! If this is too fantastical, well just ask Raw Money, "Corporations are people too, my friend." See Leviathan, and intestinal Darwinism or rather the cultural state of progress.]
[Andrea Mitchell** and Ginzu Alice: Santorum and Romney slash the economy, with GM and the big dig but we need a big deal.]

** two segments Santorum spokesperson Alice, and reference to slashing the budgets in Michigan and Massachusett, under the light of federal projects.

***[Just caught this Thom Hartmann.]

[Common Ground the Enemy? Recent enlightenment on "The end justifies the means." At the moment I can't locate the link.*^^ But it might be Twain "The Prince"*^ and the Pauper. Martin Bashir segments enlighten, especially the Bane Or Change. Also on the Clint Eastwood Filmography, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, not to mention the Three Little Pigs. Not Bashir, that was elsewhere. Doom and Gloom Snobbery?]
*^ The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, not exactly ugly but three pigs in a blanket of rhetoric. Freedom is not a force, but the government is our creation.
*^^ Somewhere there may be embedded some links on the evolution of the 3 founding documents through the likes of Madison and George Washington.

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Irony versus Hypocrisy

Smackdown: Shuster Nails Ari Fleischer over GOP Hypocrisy
Shuster gives as good as he takes, but the irony is that Fleischer is there arguing over the childishness of Obama when Rush is not elected by the people, and neither is he. So the Catch 44 is that if Obama is wrong for painting the Republicans with a Rush Brush, then MSNBC is wrong for presenting unelected spokespeople for the Republicans, however it is the nature of the media to try to present both sides, and the nature of the Republicans to use Joe the Plumbers.
Speaking of plumbers and whose job it is...
Several links having filtered through my email box unprofessionally*
bridge the spectrum and filling the bill.

I will not unembed the threads but leap to the next field so to speak.

A more selective approach browsing the TED forum, a spin on the technology of politics and religion by Noah Feldman presents a preemptive perspective on hope. Having viewed less than two minutes, I noted before logging out, the following:(Unmodified but for one dash)
The third leg if not noted here is Economics and the Point is Justice or the fulcrum the Law. Values and their management is the key. Balancing the tetrahedron of flip-flop so to speak. The hour glass of consumption or conservation. Economics Politics Religion Law for the People - Executive, Legislative, Judiciary for the people and the point of balance.

I had my own preemptive concerns which need to be upgraded [3-6-09]and revisited, but how does this connect to the above?(a pun on hierarchy?) Facing choices and nemeses, not to mention the connection to things being in their place, whether fields or technologies and who uses what or whom and for what. Further search may dig up a reference to direct cause ofor[***] systems.

But prepost I read: Staving Off a Great Depression by Dean Baker The Guardian UK and where does this fit? In the fear or faith options; or fight or flight, excuse or blame sections. But I propose that the numbers game be given international scope[Update **].
[UPDATE 3-20-09: The following section remains in its original form but for bold. See BINGO which follows to where it relates to the nature of preemption.]
The honesty of the new budget and accounting now includes the war on terror which was not on the books. So rather than the declare a win or lose the economy bifurcation, the new accounting must include the soft power ingredients that do not come free. I have not seen where this is said, but it should and probably has been or will be.
[BINGO! or rather none other than Warren Buffet gets it.]

*i.e. by friendly nemesies however undivinely.

** Update International Scope and a new link at revisited: "Panarin insisted he didn't wish for a U.S. collapse, but he predicted Russia and China would emerge from the economic turmoil stronger and said the two nations should work together, even to create a new currency to replace the U.S. dollar." This guy may be the Rush of Russia but he could be on the same page as Putin, while I feel that economics may be the bailiwick of the Rumpole. "She who must be obeyed" and changed.

*** ofor: metaphysical synergistic concatenation

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Bury the lede?

Or bury the hatchet?(1)

To be cautious, I am speaking of journalism and myth.  To be clear, I have not finished viewing the latter, but the former is certainly an example of Popperism and both contain quilting.**  


Facebook Being Liberal










FYI wars?

(1) YouTubes: [Social Darwinism 1] counterexample? [Bill Gates...Alex Jones]
c. Too Random... / A Tale of Two Manicheans.
d. The Hegel Myth and Its Method
e.^ Proxymoron? / Social Darwinism? / Social Darwinism 2.0[!] / Catch-44 / Pink Floyd / (FP) / Di-Spencer With... /  (FP)  / Battle of Amendments? /  Now the Un-Voodoo Math / Un-Social Darwinism. / The Daily Counter Balance / Where everyone needs to read... / "a royal huff" / Mocumentary: Expelled (Exposed?)

[Label check*, with all the irony of the History Channel.]

* Social Darwinism label as of this date: Bury the lede? / Kant we get along... / 2 Reid's later? / Di-Spencer With...
^ the un-quilting of Social Darwinism
un-related?
** quilting: Ctrl F "quilt"
[Re:genre?] HA !

Thursday, June 05, 2008

"The irony..."

(in turning pages)

...is that Americans have been experiencing a lot of change in their lives attributable to these historic events, and some of those changes have distressed many American families-- job loss, failing schools, prohibitively expensive health care, pensions at risk, entitlement programs approaching bankruptcy, rising gas and food prices, to name a few. But your government often acts as if it is completely unaware of the changes and hardships in your lives. And when government does take notice, often it only makes matters worse. For too long, we have let history outrun our government's ability to keep up with it. * The right change will stop impeding Americans from doing what they have always done: overcome every obstacle to our progress, turn challenges into opportunities, and by our own industry, imagination and courage make a better country and a safer world than we inherited.
(in three paragraphs ...we... can agree) but he continues.
The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed us before and will surely fail us again. I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas. Like others before him, he seems to think government is the answer to every problem; that government should take our resources and make our decisions for us. That type of change doesn't trust Americans to know what is right or what is in their own best interests. It's the attitude of politicians who are sure of themselves but have little faith in the wisdom, decency and common sense of free people. That attitude created the unresponsive bureaucracies of big government in the first place. And that's not change we can believe in.

It is not fair of me to pick on "a few" words that bring up age, since it is valid as well, that Obama is young, but not that he has bought in to what is old, but maybe what works. And McCain has bought in to change, but who has bought in to him? It is good that attitude is brought up as well as faith, not to mention the people. But it is not these words that must be brought up, but the forces of history that must be held up to scrutiny and evaluation.

* "for too long" we have let Bushisms outrun our media filters(them and us). Have they been vetted enough to not get used to this? [...this run around? and I just caught a mis-embedded link, bottom lined**, that fits. The Bush exit strategy may be a good example of a Catch-44. Where is McCain? [Let me make perfectly clear,*** the above block quotes are direct from McCain's speech and three paragraphs in the gap are commendable] Where will the Democrats be? And where have they and Republicans been in "your government". I was going to say the bold was on me, but it also on you and on them (?).

** previous post bottom link
*** bonus hint

[final comment: "The irony" is that McCain's words start a paragraph here as well as a serious tone, while it is ironic that I saw any humor (not) in age earlier.]