Fooled and fooled again?

Or stolen and stolen again.
'00! -- '04 -- No More!
No news is good news.
Good news is bad news.
Bad news is not news.

LIBERAL MEDIA: A BOGEYMAN

Do the media have a liberal bias?

My contribution: [Sent to the Seattle Times, not printed, 08-02-06]

LIBERAL MEDIA A BOGEYMAN

Is there a liberal media bias? That depends on what your definition of bias is. Ring any bells? Maybe enough said. My view is that there is an anti-reality bias and maybe even conservatives could agree. We just don’t agree on presenting reality. Defined in Encarta as: an unfair preference or dislike for something. That leaves us with the disagreement over what is fair. I guess it is fair that both syndicated columnists blamed the people.

The odd thing is that the conservative believes for all people that "newsworthy events" are seen through their own belief systems but that she does not shape the news. By expecting that news reporters must balance the news; that reality is balanced, is itself a bias. Her belief and that of other conservatives creates a bias that the media is supposed to be balanced, when reality is not. Not any more than that two columnists from Harvard represents balance or Harvard, would more good news represent reality.

With just a little less bias from conservatives and less fear of bias from the media, we probably "couldn’t handle the truth." Just because there is so much bad news, does not mean it is liberal bias. The unfairness in that Clinton was impeached and that headlines don’t hold congress and the administration more accountable, may be my bias. But that does not mean that the media facing more reality and doing their jobs would not feed the myth that they are too liberal. A myth that keeps reality from changing our course. A culture of fear needs a bogeyman.

Arrow of Time

or Symmetry of Inheritance?
Thanks to Keith Olbermann and
FOX News for the
Trifecta of Bad Times.
An end to an error, and the flip-flop of freedom as not a force but a purpose that requires work. There will be no end to humor or force for humility, as it is no longer funny that Comedy Central has more News and more balance. With inspiration I acknowledge the difficulty in laying down the tools of sarcasm and satire, but I will try to remember more than just the hope in this day of transition.

And maybe Biden can even aspire with a nod to Sarah Palin
and even Dick Cheney, to work with congress.
As far as leadership, and OBAMA
the time has come for change.

[Approximate closing of this post: 10:20 BG (before google)]
[update: 10:45 no end to humor or force for humility (links added and seemingly proof of some sense or other)]
[Please note that I DID NOT find it funny that Chief Justice Roberts could not get the oath straight.]
[I originally misreported it as Trifecta of Bad News]

[Update 1-21-09] to be sure see above: There will be no end to humor or force for humility...links to video of original Obama oath and actual oath.
[Update 1-26-09: Colbert catches it.]

Vietnam Flip-Flop

It is bad enough that Bush has not used the original lessons he learned about Vietnam, but now has rewritten them.

Bush's selective lessons of Vietnam. Guardian Unlimited

Even worse is any comparison to Korea. Has anyone heard of "Exit Strategy"?

There is so much to google on this, but I will risk it and list the commonly heard three lessons. 1. a defined mission 2. overwhelming force 3. having an exit strategy. So now Bush not only wants to teach US how to win Vietnam, but apparently will fix [or work on] Korea? What next, China or Saudi Arabia? [politically]

(Having consulted an expert, some doubt is cast on these lessons and any parallel, but then to him, having an exit strategy was to win the war, and in Korea [it still is to] sign a peace treaty. So I guess Bush may be working on Korea and China. [economically] I don't know if that is good news or bad news, but there may be no parallel to either or Saudi Arabia. [Note: italics bracketed provide clarity from this consultation.])

Later Reading: (no comments)

Bush draws Vietnam parallel in warning over Iraq withdrawal
Bush told he has drawn wrong lesson
Lesson of the Vietnam War
Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam

Historians Question Bush's Reading of Lessons of Vietnam War for Iraq

"Lessons of Vietnam" by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,

[8:46 AM Out of all these links, I have read only a few pages into the last one*. In it, Kissinger himself gives a nuanced lesson which flip flops a bit in passing credit and blame. A few comments came to mind which I hope to revisit, but one note that it "prevented Indonesia from falling to the Communism and probably preserved American presence in Asia." Oh the irony, that Indonesia is now a leading Muslim nation and there is possibly more to parallel or learn.]

* [ 9:06 Further note that the piece was only a few pages.]

2014 Albatross 2016

In other words.


~ (FN~)




(~)
1.  Roar Shack
2.  Two branches of the middle. , Bad News, Good News.,  I need to go on a diet of humor. , Pare a digM, Pair a docs.
3. Center for American Progress
4. ~ 2a,2b, c. Curve Balls?, d. AM CC


NOT POSTED 11-3-14
Published Revert to Draft Save

POSTED 11-5-14
The awk-word segue ?

Light Speed

I was going to quip, a week or few ago, that things are happening faster than I can read.  Well, that has always been the case.  But in particular, things change faster than I could comment on, while others share faster than I could ever keep up with.  Then there are things that I feel have maybe jumped the shark(1) .  Well...that is not exactly the ticket(2) .  But there are issues that I did not even want to get deeper into because the sources^ are too skeptical*.      

*for lack of a better word

Lede or ship?  i.e. L.S. heading[!]
^ Change in the Age of Schism[!], (...), escapement?, Good News Bad News, To Filter [(...)]
  
[Yet to link previous comments.^^]

^^(inserts and cont. 3-12-14)
TIP (Tie-in Process)
TIP (Tome in Progress), NQSNL(Not Quite SNL)
(1) (b.s.)blog search: Tacky, tact, tack..., Jumping the Shark?, (f) An Inconvenient Platonics? , Book by it's cover, memo by it's title: historical?
(2) not exactley the ticket: The Battle of Milieu.

NOTE: * not exaclty ( WATERBOARDING THE LAW )/(  Why OWS is bigger than Left vs. Right. )

MY POINT or aversion: Was touched on by Rachel^^^ Maddow.  GOTO lede** or ship, there is a point.
Then there is context: at this point I want to put 3-9-14 in context bracketed*** by The Battle of Milieu. and the TIP of the ice - berg [!]

**opening paragraph
*** facebook
[anachronism]
^^^(3-13-14) spying is done in secret: to paraphrase RM
If truth is the first casualty of war, the first tool is dissemblance."[!]"
{not the original intent}  

Bad News, Good News.

For America.

Hint*: Reference** to 2014 being potential loss of Senate for dems, then Republicans must get something done in Congress in face of potential Obama veto if not Democratic filibuster, will bode well for 2016.  

* need update
** need b.s.

[EW, TC, Now]
To reads.

Good News Bad News

Not to reference a joke or peripheral* vision.

* The enlightened gift.
(FP1)

[On the other hand (dot)(dot)dot. . .***]







Nassim Nicholas Taleb **

** a caveat ?
*** inconvenient dub-you-beds. Also Note: Major Segweigh





Taleb Image

Life Imitates Chart (knot)

 

 

Bottom Line or D'Ribble:  On the Bane or Scale ?

Alternate Crossfires: Taleb v. Greenspan. 

 

[[Snowden / NSA ? !]]

 

dem Brains

Bush's Brain has left the building...
Well not yet, but make sure he does not leave the country.

Think Progress
U.S. Attorney Iglesias filed complaint in April. TP
Political briefings disclosed the same month. WaPo
Mother Jones / Waxman follow up. MJ
Associated Content reports AC

THIS MONTH
McClatchy/Truth to Power Bush V. Hatch ACT!
Thanks to clipmarks CM
Rove departure GovExec
Thanks ToDay White Collar Crime Prof WCCPB
WaPo Follow Up

OTHER FRONTS
Iraq - Iran Not Pressed "informed speculation - useful for readers to know." (control F, pg.2 pressed ) NYT
More Informed Sources from the front NYT

CONNECTING THE DOTS
"who sent you there..." ?
"the George Bush empire". DigitalJournal DJ

Who got us here? (I ask)
"you forget", so says Former Republican Chair Ken Mehlman DJ
[Note the taken liberty with words.]

[Post continues, wanted to post it before I lost it.]
connecting the dots . . .
Speaking of New Fronts: all from DJ
Rove's (Evil) Twin.
(Note: Evil and Twin are redundant.)
"Rove's Good Twin" would be oxymoronic or is it Bush?
Old Front
New Front

Good News/Bad News - No Front WaPo

More links:
href="http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=%22open+source%22">Open Source
Earliest Dots
ReP Brains
Bi-Cameral Brain

[Now who's gone too far? 10:18 closing post]
[10:27 AM- Just a hint... of remorse at a poor pun imbedded above.]

{11:30 This pause was to dig deeper and update some archives: In all this cutting and posting, my search was for a meme or talking point or some counter to Rove, the irony is that I may have found it in my own search under "ironic". Something to get the choir on the same page. Note the tent shape and who may not be in it, but the people are the base not just dots.]

Republicans can't run against congress anymore.

Wanna bet ? 
That's sarcasm, not a wager.
It will have to be a do something congress. 

(FN?) not ready to footnote:
1.  Republicans Gain Four Governorships, Bucking Anti-Incumbency Fever
2.  A. The Jig is Up?, B. The Real B. S. of the F. C.
3.  Former Republican senator sees potential doom in Cantor loss
4. Bad News, Good News. (~)Trick Question of the Day?, (~)Inconvenient, What President Obama should say tomorrow., Debate: Take One  
(~)  QCON: TruthOut, Trick Question of the Day?, FORGOTTEN HUMANITY! (A, B, C)
(^)  Tea Party Down Grade, Bleep 'n Compromise (Dept Ceiling) Review**, Hoof and Mouth. (A, B, C)

(~) (usc)~ you scroll click re:anomaly

[AM Rep Cong leader makes good points about Harry Reid, but ignores original obstructionists and power of purse*.  Rance Priebus and top down selection.] 
Ron an Daily Obama and the leaders.
[RFD, RFD2 , ]
* posted pre-Mitch McConnell address.
[Washington Post: Obama Transcript]


11-6-14
Divide to concur[!]
Yeah, that's the gay divorce[!] aka ticket ala Nietzsche.  No more kickin' the "kickin' the can game" down the road.  What doesn't kill ya may make you vote.
AKA States Right, People Left
[Manchin]
{RM, RM2, RM3,}
Point counterpoint?

 

2MoveOn

Sterling Silver Drama,
UV Calm Cast*
Bad News Bares

*tangent/comcats REV(schtick/wrap)

[Josh Earnest ?]

No. Newt

is good news. So is Old Newt.

A bad pun on, no news, but good news for Democrats.
Under meanings?

QCON: TruthOut

Quick Comment On the News or Question Context:

The following pieces deserve a more careful read, but for me, not yet.[*] TruthOut does a filtering of sorts, and I notice rather heavy reliance on the NY Times. Not that that is a bad thing, just not necessarily a liberal thing. The left, right and the middle can characterize a source as from a different perspective, but that should be the mark of good journalism. Again, not that they have hit the right mark, from our own perspectives.

While Super Delegates are an example of a problem that voters wish they could fix without being a part of the process, so are the choices of primary, or caucus, and financing and electoral college procedures. These are all complicated by the nature of our goverment, its three branches, a bi-cameral legislature, and the individual composition of state governments and their rights in relation to the federal government. And have I thrown in partisanship? This is not a civics lesson, but it would be nice if it were in schools.

For me this is the first time in 24 years I have not come out of my precinct caucus a delegate for some candidate. This year it was by design or rather lack of design. I was for Edwards. I ran the caucus as a PCO and was a decimal point or voter or two shy of ending up an uncommitted delegate. This is more than I intended to say today, but I guess it ties in. Because even if civics were in schools, the media and the voters would still have a very big job to understand what mechanisms are operating in each state. Did I mention partisanship? Not to mention the constitution? I won't go there, but too many feel that there is a conspiracy, and there is, only if you are not part of it.

What is represented in the following articles may very well be best efforts to represent reliable pictures, but that is not to say that other perspectives and sources do so well. [*] While some of the tactics candidates use are not appreciated by many, they are apparently working on some. And it must be remembered that we filter as well or poorly as the media or format we use.

I would like to close this comment with the feeling that it is hard to unite when the leader is still unknown, but it is better than being party to having a leader who will unite without knowing who the enemy is. If there is any obtuseness in this, maybe it is a riddle to solve.

In Two Battlegrounds, Voters Say, Not Yet
By Patrick Healy
The New York Times

Ballot Shortages Plague Ohio Election Amid Unusually Heavy Primary Turnout By Ian Urbina
The New York Times
A Clean, Fair Fight
The New York Times | Editorial

McCain Clinches GOP Presidential Nomination By Michael D. Shear and Peter Slevin
The Washington Post

[Update: Just as I put the finishing links on this post, breaking news on Thom Hartmann Show, about the Texas crossovers that Rush Limbaugh encouraged. (Guest David Sirota) Where in the primary, voters got their ballots, and if they were Republican and wanted to vote for Hillary, found that there were no Rebulicans on their ballot. Hmm. Who needs a civics lesson? Well, of course it seems wrong, but parties should be able to decide their candidate not a talk show host who wants a circus. Republicans were disenfranchised, by trying to vote for Hillary while not intending to support her in the general election. They could not vote for Hillary, and hope to influence their own party on local elections too. This "monkey business" is why the parties and the process is so complicated. It is further complicated by the electoral college process not to mention the winner take all nature of that delivery system. Independents and third parties are so hard to fit into this picture without major changes that themselves are so hard to bring about, but I really don't want to go there.(the link not the idea). Oh and that ploy by Rush Limbaugh may have hurt some local candidates and I won't hurt our heads by figuring that out, but it is a way to sort out some math.]

[*] I have yet to fully digest the four links above, but apparently the press have nibbled on some ribs. (Links, sausage, democracy: get it?) But I did scarf this down and indeed have had my own beach party.

Media Whores*

Media wars was my first thought for this post. My intended sabbatical, a break from my customary work for other matters, was to be one week. I indicated the difficulty it may be, to not post, and in fact not even work on related stuff, but here is one I noted and saved as a draft:

[* *]
To whom it may concern:(THE FCC?)
Regarding a seemingly meaningless spat between Rosie O’Donnell and Bill O’Reilly:

Bill O’Reilly is of the opinion that she should not be free to give her opinions as a "broadcast professional" and I think that it falls into your auspices to determine that. It seems to me that the term either applies to the broadcasting engineers or the terms of an FCC licensee. If there are any standards, as I would have them, Bill O’Reilly and Fox News should lose their licenses. This is no joking matter. While the O'Donnell and The Donald spat may be about ratings and while Rosie may choose to not renew her contract and let the market determine she has an even greater value, again it is hard to stomach the excuses for the airtime wasted by O’Reilly or Fox News if there are any standards. Further, no joking matter, while Rosie’s opinions may be fringe, and O’Reilly truly unreliable, if there is any such ruling that could shut down Rosie and not O‘Reilly, she has demonstrated that she knows what she is talking about in her claim that he is worse than a character from 1984, and that there is a "big brother".

[The best I can tell the above was written, April 3rd]

Now we have the Don Imus issue. It is too bad that he is the more moderate of a list of disagreeable personalities, who if there were standards may not have the airtime they enjoy. Yet the very idea of standards is also a problem while the idea of the market alone may not be the solution. It is unfortunate that he may end up the scapegoat and a distraction if not a martyr to the cause of those that do not have the guts to face the consequences of their words.

It seems that he has faced his error, yet still seems to be putting it in context. Of course everything is needed to be looked at in context and taking it elsewhere may be unfair, but if Imus is determined to be the problem, broader problems may not be faced.

* whores:
A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

Considerations are twice removed from personal gain: first by the person, then by the principle.

* * [4-17-07: for clarification I must reitterate that "To whom it may concern" was written and saved on April 3rd, 2007]

[4-18-07: Stereotype Threat the cultural impact ignored. Just look at lawyers and politicians and what you expect from them. Not to mention...

Short Cuts

Maybe the previous post could use a hint. Democracy is a choice that relies on truth. Bush’s reasons for attacking Iraq have changed, though being policeman to the world and nation building are admittedly given short shrift or are trying to be skipped, they are where we are bogged down and where we should turn it over and where if Republicans had not been chosen may have resulted from a Democrat without the long bad trip we have taken. But given that truth is for sale, we must pay* the price. It’s not been a bad ride for some.

Some will argue that the administration could not have prevented 9-11. That is easy to assume, given that many would still do nothing different. It is assuming that nothing would have been done different by Democrats, which they certainly would not claim.

*The links are interesting tangents. "Republican"-[Bubble Boy], "they"- [News Weak] and this "we must pay"-[Pentagon roles out stealth PR] revolve around the press. We would not be on this trip if the press were truly independent, not independent of truth and dependent on buyers.

Meta PI

Meta Preemptive Inclinations:**

1.Tea Party shocker: Even right-wingers become liberals when they turn off Fox News
2. The Thought Catalog revolution: How trolling took over the Internet
3. Libertarians are very confused about capitalism
More to read links from Salon.
GOP’s intolerance trap: How ENDA fight explains all of U.S. politics
Paul Krugman on America’s “mutilated” economy (a)*
Albert Camus anticipated the Arab Spring
Michigan mayor: We’re not under Shariah law!
Must-see morning clip: Patrick Stewart slams Rand Paul and others as comedians with “bad script writers”
Salon exclusive: More Rand Paul plagiarism

*bold indicative of order read

[Where is the department of that?]
Veterans Day is a prayer for peace

[NOW with Alex Wagner GOP/Grand Old Problem/Deal With It (Akin to three way chess)] .
**Mangled Pythagorean Interests (Force Fear Fancy Futures) 

Supreme Court Jest Ice?

Where is the ice going? Well here is where it is coming from:

The New Yorker*: Rational Irrationality.

Well, not exactly: Obamacare Supreme Court Case is a Bad Joke.

Actually I will be intentionally preemptive**.

Is it some form of martial arts political calculus?

Maybe I have too much hope for Obama or too much faith in The New Yorker.

Bottom line, I have yet to read the article, but wanted to jump*** on the band wagon.(NOT!)

Not to make a federal case out of it, but I do intend to read more on this later.

* not that I have read it yet, but I like the heading.

** Jujitsu before reading.

*** case study[!] Reid sarcastic[!] Me...not read[!]

(also see "federal": not to mention Romney on Russia and Leno.)

[Seattle Times ]

[3-29-12 ALEC: Stand your Ground, Supreme Court Activism/ both sans comment.]

[Follow-up:

Seattle Excerpts, interesting hodge-podge of exchanges. If the constitution is not a living document, what is federalism? Killing two ironies in one comment?

Justice Antonin Scalia: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And do you really expect the court to do that? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we're going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?

Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler: Well ...

Times "seemingly split over ideology"/

But Roberts and Kennedy also asked enough pointed questions of the law's challengers to give the overhaul's supporters some hope. In any event, justices' questions at arguments do not always foretell their positions.

Activism: "Justices Split".

Intentionally: Read Healthcare Jujitsu, Political Jujitsu, what's the difference? The party and the people. It would seem to me that Obama is the master, even without single payer as a goal. It might be called "free market" jujitsu where that is what could be flipped by even an option. The "free market" economic fantasy is under threat of being flipped as the fraud it is, under even the offer of competition. Maybe there is the jest ice.

Tangent of the day.^

[See original lede: Bingo on Faith, in paragraph two. Almost Bingo cubed !^^]

^ now that is an irony

^^ see bold "two" link re:cubed, but apologies for last four links.^^^

^^^ or penta coastal or cost us [!]

[Fixing News: as opposed to breaking, I must update the Fixing . But what kind of market is it when if you don't participate you die? Ask Raw Money. On the other hand, he is correct: "We can't play the game like that." Let alone are banking and insurance really commerce? I they aren't, maybe they aren't people, maybe they are Leviathan? i.e. governments bailiwick or not!][Ed on Hannity: the journalist calling the journalist read, or the con calling the convict con(pot meet kettle/camel meet domino) ]

[3-30-12 Justices Meet...

Book Review De...viewed... not to put a spin or pun on it. But I will depun a bit on the self-fulfilling profits. ]

MAY 2013 FOOTNOTE PAGE ONE

5-1-13 Happy May Day!: Bad Footnote Day. If you can scroll over while reading you MIGHT have a better shot at my gist [!] [Poetic Justice, Justice? (s.c. ), Technical Difficulties!, Pass the Trillion.]  [FP2]
Note: (s.c.) = scroll click flip-flop resulting from blog search algorithm(May B?)
Brook No Truck ?[!] : I think I have been clear enough but here are blog searched(b.s.) references under 'twain.[(A, B, c, d, E, f, G, H, I, J, K, L, M(m), N(n), O(o), P(p), Q (q).]

5-6-13: Having read the Non-Sense links, there seems intentional wiggle room. Ctrl F "telegraph+blows":  Rebublican Obstruction? / GOLEFT TV (sc), Rope a dope. (sc), BIG TENT v. MESS TENT, FAST REVERSE or BACKTRACK BEFORE FAST TRACK.

5-7-13: (b.s.) Fear and Running, Out Foxed?, Who Are They Calling Elitist?, Is Tea Party Beck?
[(b.s.)  THE COUNCIL OF NICE(s.c.), DOEE (Dept. of Everything Else)(s.c.), (c), Fearnauts(s.c.), The Mess Age is the Message!(s.c.).] [[(b.s. ) USE THE PROCESS OR LOSE IT*.( s.c. ), Try Lemmings , Kidding Goats ?]] *

5-8-13: David Sirota's piece is the focus of the caution or heading.

5-10-13 (Spoiler alert under Penzance here.). Spinning off on the ad-HOC Chair.  The Issa's committee hearings seem purely partisan politics and a mockery of checks and balances and any comparison to Watergate, except from a parodical hysterical perspective: the modern inquisitional.   [Not to Al Gore Rythm.]

5-15-13: Not too Mitt Flop [!].  Journalists fume over DOJ raid on AP, Stewart Slams Obama Again: You Can’t Keep Saying You Found Out About News At The Same Time As Us!,  Connecting the Cheese Heads. Hint: hyperlinks Too Fudgin' Ridiculous & (s.c.)(b.s.)

5-17-13: another a maizing field trip ?!

5-29-13: move from to read ( ?/10 [!]) [11?]

5-30-13:  (hard work)= Ambivalence on Syria? ,  (without going)= Transparent Reactionaries ,  (heading or mangling )  "Hotheads" and Frank on Banks :  Par don e moi ?

FAUX NEWS!

I'm not in the mood to play with words today.
But it is nice to see the condemnations of violence from some Republicans, while even those that have, don't recognize their part in lighting the fire by their childish complaints and rhetorical run around with the process. Their complaints [***] of not being included and their complaints of unprecedented partisanship should ring hollow, especially in light of the comprehensive compromises and early sacrifices by Democrats for the sake of pragmatism.

The media plays a big part in not better informing the people. FOX is bad enough, but there is so much reactionary programming, that might be valid yet not really enlighten us on the actual basis in fact and correcting rather than repeating. It seems that there is a political ingredient in this as well as a childish back and forth, but also a misunderstanding of the actual difference in taking responsibility* for one's words and blaming others for politicizing their misuse.

My original thoughts were in support of independent filters, or earlier links, and other sources.

Republican Whip Cantor has complaints about the DNC and the D(triple)C using the threats for political gain.** [Boehner see my comment section]

* Andrea Mitchell(MSNBC): today's link to follow (here): now can we not condone whining?(to Cantor not Pelosi)
** The DCCC have now addressed the difference as well as you (the reader) being able to see and decide in the several links, not necessarily in my rhetoric.
Anachronistic bracketed and segue.
[If one could raise the level of "sophistication" and be able to cherry pick the rhetoric, one could see that politics is only method in resolving things even if you do not feel "responsible" for being in positions of leadership: see Ratigan reference and Hardball below.]

[*** see my call to Boehner's office not to mention what is on their "clean sheet of paper" now.]

[Earlier references to the way media works not to mention this last minute source. And Later Ratigan is a bit of a mix of "targets": see link (here)soon, from which I have pulled the term "sophistication" (above) from a Tea Party guest, even though the host, Dylan might not understand community organizing perspectives or "responsibilities" in other matters, while Hardball might raise it too well.]
Anachronistic segue.
[I will finish with two issues that could easily be too political, but would love the exact words in law, to explain the "abortion funding" and "mandate" issues relationships to reality versus the rhetoric. But I believe it is a fungible economics issue or state options and commerce clauses relationship to the foot in the door and opening the door to get the TOW out in the form of there being room for improvement from both sides.]
[Hardall, "the reality is" in the "stirring up trouble"(segment) that media focuses more on raising the rhetoric and controversy gets more attention and distracts from issues(my take not guests)] and then covering it is called "whipping it up" when to naught is only more to blame.]
[OK, I can't say I didn't "play with words" especially in the last few bracketed's]
[On the other hand, I would like to reflect the reality that Republicans will not run against reform, just more reform, and note that they must now reverse Valentine, not as in massacre but in sending messages and bills that will get attention, hopefully not from their "clean sheet of paper"(meaning not rerun or failed ideas), but incrementals that will get responded to, run on, and even occasionally get up or down votes, only not necessarily with the kind of bipartisanship and change they hope for.]

No Frackin' Way

Nuclear power is one thing*, but Frackin' with our water?

* not green(except for trickle up)
[What the frack is the connection to Newt Gingrich, well the paradox of green and being able to be a paradox period. His frackin' campaign seems to be burning the candle on both ends. But this is too complex for me to explain, except for the idea that he commits to Lean Six Sigma,*** but not to the concepts his staff thinks it will take to win. Is this a bringing it to the table moment ala the silver lining of the churned media cloud? It is bad enough that Republicans have enough money to run their lies in ads and Faux News, but they have enough to add cloud to the process.]
[Not to** mention lame stream media.]

** way
*** last frackin' link

[Post comments footnote(see my two comments): There is nothing wrong with Six Sigma as a tool, but it may be besides the point, but not aside from the point of whose hands it is in, and for what purpose it is wielded(people or profit). In fact, I believe that "Lean Six Sigma" violates "Six Sigma" principles by having a target of 25% spending reduction, which demonstrates my point on purposes and whose hands should wield it for what. Aside from the point: what the frack is the point of government?]