Confusion is Right

But it does not mean the left is cleared.

above links in order:
(1) Iran and Leftist Confusion by Reese Erlich
(2) Iran: The World Is Watching by Steve Weissman
(3) A Response to Steve Weissman's "Nonviolence 101" by Stephen Zunes
truthout / Perspective(s)

It should be clear that nuclear weapons proliferation (little did I know it was so little mentioned**) is the underlying concern.

"Some demonstrators wanted a more moderate Islamic government. Others advocated a separation of mosque and state, and a return to parliamentary democracy they had before the 1953 coup. But virtually everyone believes that Iran has the right to develop nuclear power, including enriching uranium. Iranians support the Palestinians in their fight against Israeli occupation, and they want to see the US get out of Iraq."(1)

"...criticizing US policy on Iran, including Bush administration efforts to overthrow the Islamic government. The US raises a series of phony issues, or exaggerates problems, in an effort to impose its domination on Iran. (Examples include Iran's nuclear power program, support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and support for Shiite groups in Iraq.)"(1)

(4) Iran: Nonviolence 101
"the Iranian activists want to win. At least some in the America government might prefer to provoke a brutal defeat, a Tiananmen Square, to further isolate Iran and bring pressure within the Obama administration for a military response to the Iranian nuclear program."(4)

"Washington's promotion of non-violent resistance in other countries is already casting suspicion on a number of activists and thinkers who, wittingly or not, have allowed themselves to become pawns in open and covert programs to "promote democracy." Non-violent activists everywhere need to draw a clear line against cooperating with governments of any stripe in this foreign meddling."(4)

"The leftist critics must answer the question: Whose side are you on?"(1)

President Obama's or proliferationists? The world's or being right? These are my cherry branches or olive pits.* Just as it is unclear who the leader of Iran is, aside from the election, so is it a more muddled group than coalition of the willing, that must be part of the solution.

*rhetorical answers and the muddled willing
** hence the fourth link

Buy In or Sell Out

Red Lines and Towing the Line(on Syria). 
The President is not putting America's credibility at stake, he is staking out the credibility of International Law and Globalization. This is a far cry from the Bush Era "war" president and unifier.** 
Pre-title or heading: Rogers' Soap Box, might read "Pit Lip Schtick ".

Related: The Vatican, Steve Clemons, Steve Benen, Maddow Blog, [Boehner let her.]

8-30-13
From Thomas* Roberts, on Crisis in Syria: Re-Bolt On / Bring Em On [!]
(scroll click) Bay of Pit Bulls or Bay of Lip Schtick?
Wiping the Floors @ the UN[!]
* Italics reminder re:(un-bolds too)
** ibid[!]

(FP!)
(b.s.) read Make it so.

Bolt On: A. Toning Down the Lines. , B. Waiting for [Calm Cast] , C., D. Trick Question of the Day? , E.
Bring
Em On: a., b., c., {}D. Congress- - to boldly go... , E. Everything is on the Table! {Why not Hagel?}
{Will Obama declare the end of a war?/ Fix of war powers?}

*** (b.s.) 
[(NOW) SOS Kerry]{..."standing on ceremony"}, }by Ghosh{, ^ un-telegraph/playbook

Clear segue: Secretary of State Kerry begins w/ my running notation
["read", un-Rumsfeld "know", smoking "social media", ^ }pinnacle of our perdicament{, "risk"/"do nothing","matters"..."know what we know", "respect" ...  }general body/China-Russia-Arab signators/jury{ "ultimately".] close. [SOS]

Note: Quotation "marks" =Kerry comments, ^ marks= tangent to NOW,  }{ = marks/highlites my comment/{urgency of now} AM "telegraphing"

[Juxta Position? ... AM numbers?/Clemons/Congressional Bane or?(letter) }I cannot say there should not be a debate, or a vote, or that it won't matter, but it is very important how the resolution is worded and if we can imagine congress krafting it?]

Bin(un)Jun'Go

2 links
in progress.
Steve Smith (watching)in progress. [('n Strauss)!]

Previous reference and reL8ted viewings.

i.p. Fukuyama/Kaplan...

(ReLabelism)
[/] 1. (FP!) , 2. Proof of Life... 3. The Hope
i.p.  1.  ★Re-initialism★ , 2. Mises... , 3. Cultural Threads are Fine. 4.  Neo-Context

March Forth ?  [Lost in the Phrey?]

3-5-15: 1st things (above 'n labels!). 
Lede or Ship? [C-font!] (intro/content/) (heading/goal?)
Bin- parsing of bingo and un-circular file / (un)~Jung or circular / Go~Hegelian [!]
Line 3 some articles and links re: Steve Smith (Straussian?)
L4: PR& Strauss Lectures.

Note: It may not be obvious, but I don't always get back to read everything labeled NFRY or NFR.
While NFR may mean not necessarily needing to, NFRY indicates a hope to.  Then
fortuitus $hits happen.  Like the opening of the last link(LM frying pan), and the parsing of 4-2-it-us?  Not to men shun(A2~?)   [ahhhh! ???] Let alone one liners.*

Now to the^^ point at the mo'ment.  Acon Ference? **

*(FPip)(???)~ The Un-Revolved(~) Thread / (ahhh)~ commercial goat scream / (?)~Jenga / (A2)~et tu / (shun) USCroll click / (men)~[lost or redone'dented] / (to)~Jung& / GnotS

** a file of sorts un red[!]or yetT for 2? (Or tent4text) /~gno-M~BA
Loose unMbeds? O'w[!]? ^
^D'Ribble saved in draft
^^ 2B read and viewed
[ final note !: that's the ticket ? ] ( fp: Still in draft? ) [knot necessarily gunuh]
fur cation?




Saux?(~\~) ow~/~ew what?



That's what!

Nobel Oblige

Prize and Prejudice Countdown with Steve Clemons [#4 The Nobel Savage]
The Myth of "America" truthout.com
Hope and Change
A New Climate
Training for Choice

Update: 8 Most Outrageous Attacks on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
Borax Prize ***
[Embedded in my nomination* (Prize; which was a shot in the dark) was an "either or" diatribe by Charles Krauthammer. Decline is a Choice appropriately concluding with the words of Demosthenes:
...when asked what was to be done about the decline of Athens. His reply? "I will give what I believe is the fairest and truest answer: Don't do what you are doing now."
Given the hegemony or decline choice there must be no denial that Obama is not doing what we have been doing. But that is not the choice.]

* I have rendered in bold, read links. And nominated the Borax Prize as the Un-Nobel Prize {comment pending review, or hit a snag}

[Update: Put in con text. Obama lambasts major faiths.**
And surmize. Our Reagan. ]

** a pun on con_text
*** 10-14-09 Renamed: Borax Award

Navigation 3.0

Looking Back
and the path forward.

Yesterday was a rough day,[final straw?] sometimes you had to be there, other times things get in the way and I missed both and not in the normal way. Personally(really! however Really?) it was demand side* activities that ruled the day.

OBAMA 2012!

[Under Construction]TO BE EVOLVED:
Seattle AM 1090 (sidetrack)
NPR .org KUOW

Stephanie Miller
Thom Hartmann WOW => OpEd **
WeGotEd We Need Ed The Ed Show

Norman Goldman Plan
Randi Rhodes No Hair is Good Hair In con text?

Rachel Maddow [*] NOW
Center for American Progress
OurFuture.org
Just Foreign Policy
Progressive Policy Etc.
Steve Clemons
David Sirota[**]
Lawrence O'Donnell The Last Word***
FOKS News Bleeped and Frackin' and saved for later folks.
* no really, not Keynesian, but personally just real work, real demands

** two for one [Bernie Sanders and MoveOn]

*** yeah right moore left/

[Tom Yesterday? And Beyond. ]
[Note Labels(sic?), Lucky Three?]
[Go jump in the Lakoff, and this will be a the start of a project itself.
[*] BOLD ADDED 4-6-2011 and THE TEST.
[PopQuiz.]
[** bold added and update]

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.

Awkward Segue: Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.

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Are you talking about me?
..or the Republicans (tongue in cheek).
[This potential post including the title evolved in my head yesterday.** ]
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[Original title: Winding Down / Cracking Up.]

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[THE DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE *]
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AWKWARD SEGUE:
May Senator Ted Kennedy "Rest in Peace" with the potential success of health care reform. He now has the potential to role in his grave at the Republican comments in my first link.

Return to normal programming? My apologies for making light or political calculus(or physics) of the passing of an icon. It seems the Republicans lifted a preemptive glass of whine, and it is time for the Democrats get the bread out. I did not want to break or cast it...metaphorically.

[Post post mourning Steve Clemons: my heart goes out to those closer to him.]

*last update/edit
** timing clarified 8-28-09 (italics here and there)

I'm a PC.

Not to be PC,
but a Jobs loss is everybody's loss.

Not to compare apples and oranges,
but to be Buddhist and Billionaire?
Not to pun completely or cherry pick,
I mean pop culture.




[I guess it is in reaction to someone* who used the death of Steve Jobs to demean those who occupy wallstreet, I take a different path. Not to give a RIP in vain.]

* that someone is not linked on this post, but they used the Slate link under "pop culture".

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.]]]

- - - - -

Meanwhile I have been writing in other formats, message board and email. And will get to the following (nfry), later.
- - - - -
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.)

ether note

Labelism*
A.
B.
C.

D-homericization.

{^} Weak Ends with Alex Witt: Nuclear Fallout^ / do it now ?  Cave to Republicans, no compromise.  No Filibuster.

* inspiration V. conspiration
[endless v. priceless**]
[4mRunes; Mach, Mach., Maz...low ! ? ]
** post-4mR...  ^*^ You are under a spell you think I suffer.  There may be some issue with the method... of counting ... because ... before ....bring... up for votes.   The court ... you call it is actually court ... as they had no problem with previous ... and it is funny to think ...district*** would not be busy enough ^*^  (Re-clipsis). D'Ribble Re-quilting.

 

*** Marvel (no it's Mani)

 {^} Reference to Leap /Difficulty in  finding link.
^ anachronistic insert (Steve Benen/Rachell Maddow)
[alleged in draft]

Not that I'm saying...

Steve Clemons on The Exit Strategy.
Nor was the Ribble of Ctrl F preemptive.

But I did say something close.
[Or Circumspective(sp?!)]
[Breaking news 10:40 AM PST: McCrystal replaced by Petraeus.]

Frackin', Fudgin', Freakin', In-"F"-able[!]

Frackin'
Fudgin'
Freakin'
In-F-Able! -

Mitt,
Newt,
Ron,
Rick.

Not exactly a cross word, ribble or ineffable...
But by George, close enough for G work.

http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=close+enough+for

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/04/24/93492/steve-king-repeal-uncertainty/

[Speaking of ineffable...($F=G works) see previous post, Re:mouse and image/edit problems, not to 4close the word or scroll, over.]
[Please note that an anamoly has been cured. Which I hope to mention later...or knot[!]]

http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2012/02/saint-or-um.html

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=311251275598904&id=100000176362685#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=371162076234764&id=100000176362685

Speculative Intelligence

Spoiler alert: I have no access to other than open sources.
I have been very skeptical of Edward Snowden's behavior.*

The following is only speculative. 
BTW: What is the opposite of B.S.? ... S B (Steve Benen)
How to put it very carefully?  The separation of powers is one thing, but intelligence is not just for the executive branch.  The issue coming to logger heads, may show that Edward Snowden had no alternative, when oversight is such as it has become**.  It is hard to believe his actions merit rebuke, if congress's oversight is an oversite[!]  

*Note: (b.s.) =blog searches @2,3&5 / un-Mbeds @1,4&6+(5f)
** or always has been

Tacktick[!] (s.c.) = USC: one of my alma maters & (You Sroll or Click.)
[!]=sarcasm/pun although oversight may be justifiably a pun itself.
Alt B.S. = balanced solutions, Bowles Simpson (see"*"4m@)
[tan gent: to reads]

Time Stanp AM 3-13-14

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas to the Democrats
and Happy Boxing Day to the Republicans,
not to be PC or leave any others out.
Or other coping havens of hope.

[President Obama Hails Reform/Salon]
[Here they are! The Bills side by side. Detroit Free Press]

[Note that the above two links were read and inserted after the rest of this post, except ** and ***, not to mention David Sirota ]
My comment:

It would seem to me that Congress should be able to "get 'er done" without the 60 votes. Either as some suggest by "going nuclear" (I am against Nuclear Power but) by blowing up the filibuster or somehow utilizing a reconciliation or conference process to do it. Failing that, there are probably enough progressives to kill the bill, but that may not be necessary[or advised**]. Removing the mandate, just might put this in the category of a budget issue under reconciliation, but failing to remove the mandate, might just put this on the track for constitutional review and modification, where it is imagined that a public option just might be the only option. It just might be wise for the Republicans not to push the constitutional issue and settle for a public option now, possibly with a 10-15% buyin margin on Medicare. In the alternative, giving states an option to have a public* plan, and freeing those to sell out of state, might be another crack in the (just say no)[***] armor.

[TruthOut/McClatchy -- Steve Clemons/Huffington}

* one Representative mentioned that the option would have a name other than public, and that could just be non-profit or within the caps imposed.

[In a bit of Re-Mythication, I might say: From hurding cats to a real cat fight, this is no sausage or hot diggity dog eat dog world. Or from Real Mythication to Real Miffication in regards to others, it is better than FAUX News.]

[** semantics are more than a quibble between liberals and progressives, but between principles and progress (side note: some claim that "progressive" is just a label to avoid the "liberal" charge but both are needed, while labels should not give cover for inaction or misconceptions.]
[***(late insert) also: or just say now]

RETRO NOTE: The Ed Show. Not to mention Miff Maddow.
[1-7-09 Hit Ping Pong (see Shhhh!) on the table.]

Trying Harder...

"this week in Cairo"
Steve Weissman, TruthOut / Perspective
and National Health Plan.
Chris Frates, Politico

[Health Care for America Now -
Physicians for a National Health Program ]
[Update: 6-2-09- exactly, 6-2-09 - The Two Faces of Opposition ]
[Preemptive Sessions: Sotomayor faces her first contact with those responsible for her confirmation. Needless to say, her "poor choice of words" will be the focus of the debate on judicial philosophy. And it is a small matter to stick with that story but also expand upon our principles without taking it to the level of a lecture series. See dynamics]
[And Pawlenty please] is not running for re-election but...]

*A thing and not that thing*~

~to paraphrase Rachel Maddow


IM-594  IM-591
IM-1351
Divide to concur ? !
to the moon?~ to quote Ralph Kramden


[~ 11-19-14 : thumb in the eye of logic]



[[[ Pent-up policy..., Draper: what honeymoon?, Dodge City Indian?,
Steve Benin, NRA...[!] ]]]

Hear, Hear!

Working all the angles.
There is only one president, but there is still a Senator Biden and a bi-partisan effort to smooth the transition with a CODEL to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Here, here, to Steve Clemons, quote:

So to my friends at Heritage and AEI, criticism is part of Washington's healthy back and forth debates - but suggesting that Joe Biden and this group of Senators would confuse[*] foreign leaders on who is boss until 20 January and thus muck up the Bush administration's waning days in control is wrong-headed and neglects the vital importance of facilitating contact between our bipartisan national leadership with political leaders in big stakes nations whose convulsions and internal strife have huge consequences for America.

[*] Dash Politico - I note that I take the liberty of inserting Clemon's link to Politico in an alternate location from where he chose.

These two could have something(in A chord)

(This material is now being posted on 1-20-2010 from a 1-18-10 email to a spot held in Save Now & bracketed by Remembering(s))
These two
Steve Clemons
David Sirota
could have something(in A chord):
at least it is not this,
Ayn Rand
Who knows? Oh, Brown?;
or this,
Mythification
George F. Will.

Oh No! Uh?
We sink?
Not again?
Non Sense
Move On
Warning for above:
do not get stuck on the ladder two.

Harmony?
Three Dog Night
Tenatious D *
No Whit Holmes! ***
Sixth Chord?

* search for yourself find holmes in lyrics

and ** sixth chord

WTShhhhh...
What(or where) the ** is the missing asterisk(no ribble?)

(The incongruous nature of this ** is due to minimal adaptations from email 4mat to blog, and the ribble for open ended reconstruction.)

Note: any future alterations will be [bracketed] and there is a bit of a ribble of error(and asterisks) in the last stanza after the ladder[sic] crack.

WWOS

"What would Olbermann say?" Thank you, Stephanie Miller.
"Tone matters", thank you Vice President Biden.
Influencing it...priceless.
Not to be ironic...
Thank you Steve Weber for the "introspection"
and "reflect(ing) the difference" Mitch Bard and the "globalgrind" of Russell Simmons not to mention coco who? And even David Schuster and back to Steph...anopolis*.
[Note: Bookending Bold Read. Meaning I may have only glanced at some the rest but will update the font later.]
* I'll let the spelling stand(although the name is Stephanopoulos) in a nod to the poison Ivy of the FOX league.

The Billy Club...

needs some explaining.

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[INSERT UPDATE 2-18-11: << SERIOUSLY these are a serious sortings of views.] >> Note sortings link is important to the explaining of The Billy Club lost in the scuffle.]
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(original post continued)
It was a reference to the Bill Maher-Elizabeth Hasselbeck feud over humor and politics. aka: rhetoric and intelligence

It also pertains to the King of Rhetoric and the Genre Clash. But in regard to the "Billy Club" it was based on the "Billy Boy" name Elizabeth used, (which I use) to indicate that Beck(Glenn, nor HasselB) is not in the league of Bill Maher let alone the likes of other Bills. Now I have realized that the Billy Club could be easily mistaken as including O'Reilly. It does, but in the likes of not being in the same league as any on the so-called "left". Indeed Bill O'Reilly does make FOX look respectable, considering the field(Comedy News Network). So to be sure, the Billy Club is a fan club not a weapon, but is about the Genre Clash which is more of an evolution(note mutation) than a revolution (actualy Spin Zone).

I will pause to review the above and maybe find more to explain, and in that vain, well actually on a new path(vein or vane) I might not have more to explain, if I am more careful.

But back to the original forum of explaining(The View) and my not always having viewed sources completely (we all cherry pick-but some don't know apples from oranges, and I may be a fruit salad maker by not wanting to clean my kitchen of the tools or fruits* and nuts of the right) here is a countertop** I don't use. But my embedded point of the first asterrisk is my own suggested answer to Bill O'Reilly for why President Obama is hated. "Because of the likes of you, Bill O'Reilly". It even has a sense of balance.

* as often happens the right link is an aftersearch(pun on my link not the Right)
(It is counter intuitive or not a dis of the likes of Lawrence O'Donnell)

** in reference to link or lede into "so you don't have to" sometimes we must. And I am sure that Beth Beck(aka Elizabeth HasselB) would turn up her nose if I segue from Kings(Tut) to Queen Tit for Tat, "that perhaps others would want to call" her.

[Speaking of salads and segues(see comment 1)or vain(vein or vane) attempts:Current TV (any relation to Shock Jocks or anti-Pop Culture)
CNN Comedy News Network
ABC Anti-Billy Club ***
And what about that Calm Cast or America on Hypocrisy?]
*** maybe more later
[Well actually I was thinking about the organizational structure of the ABC: the Anti-Billy Club. Bill Maher would be the what? Only the original Billy maybe. Heck this is metaphorical anyway. Maybe ASZ would work. Anti-Spin Zone? Too court jestery but maybe a hint at the structure. So structure aside it is the thought that counts.(Though some are free to flow down D'Nile or the slippery slope.) The Try Angle of ABC's aside, it might be too fruitless. But recognizing some of the negativity in the words adn sybolism is a bit like the expectations of Representative Steve King. Thankfully he is a Represenative that may obviate the label of leadership. The pulling back he expects of our President, is the other end of this candle burning on both ends. I won't drag philosphies or ideologies in at this point, only the word play or lack of efficiency in its utilizations. The Anti-Billy Club is a sentiment that is not about Bill Maher or Bill O'Reilly(Or a reflection on the Bill of Rights, but justly might be.) It is about the club of association, a tool that some wield as a weapon or simply run with scissors when a spoon may do.]

[Please note my equal opportunity jest you'ring, not to leave CBS out or dis Comcast or Huffington let alone Salon. There will always be critics or those that have opinions on the intentions of people or organizations. But I am hinting at the Calm Cast sentiment of the MSNBC/Comcast merger along with the Olbermann departure and the Huffington some say sell out to AOL. Hence the America On Hyposcisy, I just had to fit in an H for the sake of merger. Not to pull back, or Palin drone.]