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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

PC of Mini-Me

Press conference, that is!(*)
Presidential press conference on Syria Us and Con Gress.
Not to Maddow(2) or that's the ticket, but a diplomacy of preemption and word wars, not a red line of nuance.

* * * Labels PC(pre-conference) * * *
Foreign Policy
Diplomacy
Globalization
Obama Doctrine

(*) heading triggered by Hardball's Chris Matthews
No Grand Bargain nor Mini-Morph but Share 'n Angle

      ( *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *)      
First Question: Syria / Game Changer
2nd?Q: Bengazi B.S. Headline Generator
Self-Radicalizing?  Old Hats Diehard?
Mark (twain) Paul Jones?
           *   *   *   *   *   *   *
Guantanamo Dilemma and the Taliban Party.
Domestic Justice Exceptionalism and Community Divergence.
Chicken Little   State Rights
               *        *        *
(asterisk bracketed to sequester other asterisks as genre shifts)
(9*'s): press conference begins
(7*'s): genre or nuance shift [?] ! [(**)]

                  *          *(1)
[Self Radicalization and Boot Straps(3)]
(1) label added inserted "and" 
(2) Maddow
(1): anachronistically (2 too)
(2): a, B(b),C(c)
(b.s.): A, B(b), C(c)
(3) A, B(b), C(c), D!
[In time for Now!(Ann-Marie Slaughter/Tango) THE THIN RED LINE! Self Radicalization links inserted]
[PCR? Published Chemical Reaction? See Now with Alex Wagner.]
[(B S) Boot Straps (FP1) ]

[(**) all links this line inserted post-4Fp's]
[Update: Top-line links inserted and font change 5-3-13]

Monday, June 18, 2007

Notes from Al-Qaeda

"The Base" a translation: "Al-Qaeda"
Actually these are just notes from June 1, 2007


The Base: Al-Qaeda
The Bottom Line: The people.
Fundamentalists: Neo-Cons

Connections? People need to be the bottom line not money. The point needs to be progress not money. Money is a tool that is needed for survival. It is not the point of it all. The same goes for power. The point of the base which Bush brought together is their view from the top, to heck with the people getting there. The same goes for their thinking, starting at the end and expecting to get somewhere else.

Note: that now I have just found a post from someone with the same title. The Base

NOTES FROM TODAY:
People Matter

A paradigm is a worldview. This is a base world view that covers everything. First there is Physics which covers the reality as we know it, and don’t know it. Then there is Psychology which is the reality as we don’t know it, unless we think about it and then we still don’t know but feel something. Then there is Philosophy which covers the reality as we know it and would be nothing without us. [8-6-07: The Physics, Psychology, and Philosophy seem to be in evolutionary order, and in existence, feeling and thinking seemed to be the order of interactions. Society or Reality as these three interact seem to be embodied in the culture that is created, which can be for or against... Justice.]

These are the primary fields which form the fourth field which depends on time and the dynamics of the other three which each depend on the other three. The only other dimension in my mind is the direction these vectors can take which are either progress or back again which is a quality of the forces on each vector. But we cannot go home again. Even the second two vectors require our presence, so the direction seems to be aimed by and for us. Which puts people and progress as the primary matters of concern, or the alternative is only the return.

Now if this is a little over your head or seems loopy, you get a little more than you know. If this seems obvious you know a little more than you think. But if you could care less, that matters too.

Now for the less obvious. Just because I read, The Base , does not mean I read all of Asimov's The Foundation Series but there are connections: numbers and Psycho-History. Numbers matter and he's got them wrong; the writer of The Base, not The Foundation Series.

Condescending note: the difference between the president and congress and their polling numbers is that congress has more than one view point, and the president has only one. He may have it on many matters, but if things are black and white, all you have to do is flip flop and choose, between the the 32% (now 29%) who support Bush and the many Candidates who will run from him but not his policies are the balance of power the 68% who if they were united would probably go down in history. The miserable ratings of congress are because there are so many alternatives to Bush's stay the course, and that numbers are divided and low because they are not resisting him enough let alone sort out their options. alternatives.

And another earlier note revisited.
David Horsey wrote a piece in May of 2002, on Red and Blue America: my reply was apparently over someones head as a main point was blurred. The green was removed for color in the bottom line. In other words, the editor replaced one word (green) with another (color).

Horsey's cartoon goes overboard on voters

At the risk of being obvious, I would like to comment on David Horsey's "Red & Blue America" (May 19). For the sake of humor, it went overboard in its characterizations of those who voted for George W. Bush or Al Gore. I hope it is a good thing if people realize, like I did, how we can see one side funnier or less overboard than the other.

I hope the humor can be less dividing than the colors pinned on Gore and Bush. It also made me realize that there may be value in using more colors, but somehow without color being a factor in making us see red.


So at the risk of being obvious again, I will give you my original bottom line.
"It also made me realize that there may be value in using more colors, but somehow without green being a factor in making us see red.

Bold added, and at the risk of further condescension, green means money and third parties in general, not that they should not unite rather than divide. OK, I could not even keep the condescension up.

OK, I am not sure about that last double negative or even if it is, but...
The point is the difficulty in uniting, when we insist on black and white, or even red, white and blue, not to mention what we neglect, but the consequences are the result.

We have met the enemy and he is us. Well we should check the roots of this, but it seems we are the solution as well.

Monday, May 06, 2013

Red Line?

Non-Sense:  It never was that clear a red line

Diplomatic Nuance and Change Theory ? 
Having read the "Non-Sense" links, there seems* intentional wiggle room**.

*note dates and actually read/redux
**revisited

[To read later. Actually red sooner.]

5-7-13:  THE LAST WORD?

Friday, June 14, 2013

No Sarcasm Font!

Not Exactly.*


But I mean I should be careful. **
A red line does not mean a read line. 



* Well there are limited fonts for bs(blogspot). 
** not exactly being careful, see next line.

So to sort my bottom line:
A thumbs up for the constitution and hope and change for America.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Kobayashi Maru

The Thick Blue Line.*

USS Enterprise [!]

[This is about the complexities of progress, metaphor not parody{*}, and boldly going where it is needed to make it so. The "Thick Blue" reference is not to admire the latter's insert but contrast the Thin Red Line with the admonitions of irony in being policeman to the world, not to mention "no win" or re-boots of history.]

* N O W (FP1)
[FP Re-boot and more.]
[Syria Resolution]**
{*} The Final Insert
** update [It is my view that measured actions are within the President's post-9-11 powers Not that I agree with their evolution, but imagine the difficulty in devolving them.[**]  Also Maru translates as "circle", as well as being indicative of a "ship".  It is not so much about the no-win, but more about the course.]
[** 8-30-13 re:bolds and italics here.[?]] [SOS]

Sunday, September 01, 2013

Leveling the World Stage?

And restoring some floors @ the U.N. 
Ultimately it is not about [No Bama O Drama.] (*) 
[David Gregory "he wants the debate".]

(*) NBOD coined 8-30-13 as QCON(re-links)
[Quick Comment on News, or might be QuipCON?]
[Foibles of punctuation and excuse m-beds.]
(Spoiler alert: Try Lemmings, Kidding Goats, and  Votes)

9-2-13 
Proposed resolution to congress.

9-3-13
Congress World Reaction(ABC)

It is not just about Obama's "Red Line", it is about the world having Red Lines or not.  It is truly about the use of WMD, as well as a nation that is falling apart (Syrian civil war) needing to have an urgency of the negotiating table. 

Alternatively or simultaneously, Syria's partners on the U.N. Security council as well as other opposition partners (Arab League, Pakistan, Iran,)should have a stake in getting things to the table or world court.

[Pre-Post-Or-US ?  The Leverage of NOW**?]

** anachronism of opinion (by Ghosh)
(*)segue[be-date?/timing]
[9-4-13 inserted NOW link]

9-27-13 M-bedded in the FP (freak n' pounding) i.e. capitol ization of font. Note situation of September's FP and their headings. And the 5th of sorts. / AInconvenient , B. , C. The Real B. S. of the F. C. , D. Nail Meet F--C---[!] , E. Irony versus Hypocrisy [!]

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Sept. (*)/?

[Saved in Draft 9-3-13]
Ctrl F time+machine
Not so relevant (b.s.):
Marco... , TBA, Triumph of the process (breaking), Moment of Truth...
Sept. 3rd. AM

[segue]
The Time-Machine reference points to the irony of comparisons with earlier could/a, should/a, heckuva jobs. Also in lieu of ongoing diplomacy as to Syria.  Secretary Kerry, Hagel and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dempsey are testifying at this time.

9-4-13 (*) is ultimately about timing of "No Bama O Drama" and his toss to Congress and the world.
We are all in the same box...NOW[!](Jeremy Bash)
TheLiaisonReport Timeline:
Leveling the World Stage? (9-1-13)
Buy In or Sell Out (8-29,30-13)
Kobayashi Maru (8-27-13)
Lemon Ship (8-25,26-13)
No Sarcasm Font! (6-14-13)
Red Line? (5-9-13)
PC of Mini-Me (4-30-13)
Truth Tellers (5-16-07)

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

...and Russia, and China, the U.N....eeeeeyeahhhh!

Howard Dean on the credibility of U.S.
Proof is in the putin?

[Later, on The Cycle.]

9-5-13 Not to get ahead of the game*, but with the popularity of congress ... **
(NOW w/nuance- The Thin Red Line & The Arab Spring.- Mess Aging.)

* (All In)Not so diplomatic experts [!]  (Thomas Roberts)
** Rachel Maddow (emphasis: dot, dot, dot !)

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Lemon Ship

Friday evening I used the sinking ship metaphor in a conversation[*].  It is more accurately the lemon (twist) ship, definitely in need of work. 

[*]8-26-13 Or lemonade plank metaphor ? Talking about mixed metaphors. (FP1)
Walking the plank plays into the dynamic evolution.  As a party wanes out of power, less partisan or more pragmatic(some may read opportunistic) members leave to dilute the partisanship of the new ship and leave a more concentrated sunken ship.  As I have now expanded the sort here are more to (un-b.s.) or blog search:
 mangled mixed meta for  ... or 3M.
1.  A. The honeymoon is over?, B. Ditto Heads Unite!
2.  A. Obtusity? , B.The Read C? C. Oh Sasha!  D. Independent comment
3**.  A. The Read C?  B., C., D., E., F. The History of B.S. , G. What the Beck?
M-bed Ed Pun
**oar 4M(see meta for)

[NOW and AM : The Thin Red Line and Chris*** Hill ?]
***
[UN-Common $ense or $Cents? Breaking Email: Frank Rich]
{pre-The Cycle-seg way}{*}
[In order too... parody wrap ... sounds familiar.]
{*}links added 8-27-13

Monday, April 01, 2013

FOOTNOTE PAGE APRIL 2013

4-1-13 April * 1st. Big Bagel Theory: Springs from labels. (the * 1st are tangent shall references to April.) Not to be shell games for grown ups.

4-2-13: Sorting by order read(ge me oh) or inserted(heck tricks) followed by lines 3, 1 and 4. [** follow up?]

4-3-13 Charlotte's Web: Original search(Share) Ctrl F two "montage"('n Angle) / Not to[FP2] dimention.

4-4-13  (b.s. ) funny+thing: A. A Funny Thing Happened... (sc)[!] B... (Kantinued...?)
 [FP2.(oh) [Re:asterisk or FP (too.oh) Re:A & (sc) i.e. Not to create an MU puzzle, but please scroll over and click on (sc)]

4-5-13 TGIF *NFR  Not Fully Read.

4-9-13 Re:Figure & FC: Speaking of bread crumbs ...

Filibuster Bluster* 4-11-13 original title 68-31 to insert Maddow Link. (b.s.) jinx: A. I feel like a Tea Partier!(sc), BGo Purple!(sc)

4-12-13 : Tan Gents from MottosBottom line is funny.  Not !  X, Y, ... [_] <- a=""> the solution is in the tax structure, the problem is in the Norquist. Francis Perkins and the Fiscal Party.

4-15-13:  insert Read (footnote tweak). Lost Thatcher reference(to be exhumed)? And OW/bubblenomics ?

4-16-13 Emphasis must be laid on parsing and timing, if not iron knee of profits.  Not to further M-bed or spec U late. (b.s.) tail+: A, B, C Tact and Tack

4-17-13: Now fully read. Ctrl F "not read".  Irony of threats and political dynamics as undiplomatic and unjust.[ Ctrl F "na•ve": set theory and justice.]

4-18-13: As to two "too"[!]  Not to Re-Knot the bottom line, but I thought that gun-control legislation would have a political solution to the obstruction of fear mongers. I had thought that Rebublicans could sign their letter promising a filibuster that would fail.  Four Democrats joined them for their political survival, but their votes alone would not have tipped the cloture.

4-22-13 Math is next 2...?

4-23-13 [Ctrl F] is not the pun but the practical. "F" = [find] but also "filter" and "fervor".  Nor to pun  on 4F or broaden the base.

4-24-13 First change? To read "?" markSecond line lede or ship!

4-25-13  Two Reads OW... (font is next to #$cape italicism)
4-26-13Labelism(on the QT),  Social Media, Boston Strong, A^ peas meant or Green Genes?[!(o w)?] ^ found by blog search^^ of (red+blue+green) ^^(not the ticket)freedom from dickens?
4-29-13:  ***(insert) 4-29-13 Earlier Q.T.[but seriously! (O-W)] Rachel Maddow(2) , Steve Benen(1) & (8)... of Con Fluence or curve
balls?

4-30-13 Lose, Lose Ben Labolt on NOW /
4-30-13 to pun on ING ? (AP?, B, C(c), D, E(e), Fg, )

Sunday, December 03, 2017

Nixon to China?*

*see blogsearch box

It was a foreign policy trope.  Hmm.  I guess I was right...at least in the word "trope".   In double checking my use of the word, I addressed my project* in one way.  I have yet tor read the link under the "word", but it was found within a google of "Nixon to China" and suggests "Trump to North Korea" which is one answer to my slightly facetious** search.

Now that I have expanded the geometry or loopiness of the subject, another one just may be "Trump to tropes."  In an earlier pondering of this project, I thought of "Trump to the red line."  Today I really was recognizing the difficulty in this effort, as in the Trump will set you free.

Here is another project.

*Note the 3(now4) locations of my asterisks

** This word is attempting to take the edge off a very serious matter; finding a parallel trope for Trump.  (Ironically it just might be "Trump to Trump.")

List of Trump to tropes[!]
Trump to Nixon?


[!]= sic punctuation

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Truth Tellers

Thom Hartmann notes that the truth teller of the Democrats is Kucinich and for the Republicans it is Ron Paul, who notes the history of the Republican party as against wars. And thanks to a quick google, the first few paragraphs hits it out of the park **. "Way out", as it is put there. Or a slam dunk if you will.

That was still the situation when Clinton was president and even when the current Bush was campaigning against being nation builders and policeman to the world. Another point in this regard is that old Bush in a China Shop metaphor where:
when we broke it, we don't own it, but we might pay for it.

Final note: On Unity08 plans for a bipartisan ticket, I think it is crazy or at minimum won't work. Now, not that it won't succeed. But not necessarily for the country. It really is hard to take a negative attitude with something that seems so middle of the road, but then if we put the people in the middle of the road, they may just get run down. OK! So metaphors may not work, but the may make a point, and getting somewhere that has a point is the "hard work". There! Does that make any progress on the point. Well it may just be going round and round, but that may be another result, not that I am trying to get the geometry covered. But now that I have run that into the ground, I will take a tangent and note that there may be room for dialogue on the third party or third or fourth way. Dialogue and debate is happening within each party. If there are any outliers. Those hanging back; LaRouche (may get the point); Nader (I am not so sure); Bloomberg or Hagel; or not lastly Wesley Clark. But above we have noted, and I believe I recall now that my comparison (if not noted earlier) was between Ron Paul and LaRouche rather than Kucinich, that there are certain mavericks but at least they are participating now. I would harken back to my point about Red and Blue America and the threat to the green. It must be noted that "at the risk of being obvious" must have been too deep and the PI editors* changed my word "green" to "color" which put a completely different tint on my letter. My point is that Unity08 may be more about the green and may not get us out of seeing red.

*(In the last line of "the threat to the green" link, which may have been a threat to someone's green, if not not black and white enough to fit their grey matter.)

**11:35 AM amended [six paragraphs to be precise, I had not read much beyond "To many people, however..." and that is where we must remember the words of Rudy Guliani, on or shortly after September 11th, something like: Aren't you glad George Bush is president? Case closed. These guys cannot fight or debate without misconstruing the point or the enemy, period. Black and white enough?]

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Fair and Balanced News?

The Daily Show Jon Stewart: 'Wisconsin Union Protest Is The Bizarro Tea Party' (VIDEO) *

Debt is a red herring.
Fair & balanced?
Hook, Line and Sinker?
Here is the bait:
Belly Up to the Bill Boys or Girls.

Not so sure about fake doctor's excuses though. The irony is in the getting between the patient and their health care, not to mention a perspective on government licences.(some work in draft may connect later)

* a bit Ayn Randian to note the dates
(And "bait" refers to some heavy links]

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Great Segue!

After Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention,
my first comments are:
So far, so good!
"No way! No how! No McCain!" Now that is a flip-flop.

Seriously...
From "Faint Praise/Criticism" to Progressive Narratives.
Not to mention pragmatism...

but I would like to note belated congratulations
to Rachel Maddow (nfry*) on getting her new show on MSNBC. Rachel refers to herself as a liberal not a partisan. Righteously so.[*] It is really hard to criticize Rachel, but she is the perfect flip-flop of Pat Buchanan. He is sometimes valid in his criticism of Republicans and praise or suggestions for Democrats, only the better to eat you my dear. Said the wolf to Little Red Riding Hood. While Rachel may be the same for Democrats, only the better for the country.** (Embedded in these asterisks are references to their work. Earlier encounters with Howard Kurtz, long time agitation by Pat Buchanan and recent enthusiasm tempered with caution for Rachel. Let me just say that her liberal enthusiasm and hopes may be cast as negative shadows on the pragmatism needed for progress.*** But criticism of Democrats and our process, taken in the right light, can be good for all.)

*The segue is filled with the likes of Howard Kurtz, and Patrick Buchanan.
** not a perfect flip-flop, the Democrats not the country.
*** it might have helped, yet it might not have, to remember the particular comment that I had a problem with, but it was only a comment on the progress of the convention or one of the speakers that caused me to wonder about her perspective as she makes progress. Had it changed or is it what got her where she is?

[A regressive update, meaning only a thought that I had when Biden was announced: That he should well vet humor and plagiarism. Now that is a well contained line. Of attack, for us, and by us, not necessarily of us. And depending upon McCain's VP a wonder of the Republican vetting process.]
[John McCain: An Experience We Don't Need! Thanks to Thom Hartmann.]{Not to mention: Breaking the Yalta Conspiracy}

[* 9-3-08 Update link]

Monday, April 01, 2013

FOOTNOTES PAGE THREE ARPIL 2013

4-1-13 C-shells! T-shalls? Oar tangent shall = blog(sc) search

4-2-13 Re: cull pas knaught? [?]   (b.s.)Swift: The Irony of the Message (sc),Fiddle Sticks^ , c, Recent Letters., Red Labeling!, Swift Reading! (sc), g, H, I, JK, l, MMoos Room, O, P, Q, R, A PEAS meant... , T(sc).  /  (b.s.) anacronism: Fiddle Sticks^, b, Primary Boogeyman, D(sc), E(sc),

4-3-13 to too two dimen(t)sionalism [!] ?

4-4-13  to boldly borg by G ?

4-16-13 follow upnot to link meaning nor emphasize leadership, history, dedication, debtedness. (but Ctrl F)

4-22-13 : Speaking of 4 mats ! (GW)
Or the Q T? "math later"
Q = arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy
T= grammar, logic, and rhetoric
Alternate Q = No Borg [!]

4-23-13 Ctrl F ? Faith, Filter and Fervor ? Frack 'n Fudge ?[!]?
4-24-13 third line : "pun on"  P.C. (b.s.)Rhythm /  Con Fluence..., Iron Knee of Inflation  (see fore)
4-25-13 Capitalizing on fonts(1) or elements(2) of #$ines (3). (R/R) (1) Clause Wits (sc), Give us a brake?, WTF?, (g), Charlotte 2012! , Why OWS is bigger than Left vs. Right.(sc), GPS , K, L, M, N?   (2) The %th EleFont  (3) (APost "don't ask, don't tell"^ ?  Bby Stiob?!?   (4) (a)Punderous Ponderings, B, C(c), (D)Un-Exceptionalism,(e)  
4-30-13 My intent was 'twain footnote and liveblog. Note the list of labels and missing reference to Checks and Balances to bring it to six.  Ctrl F [!]