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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Happy Birthday Friends!

Darwin
Lincoln
Harvey
Thrasymachus

Now the background on two: Harvey is not a rabbit but a real friend and today is his birthday. It is probably not Thrasymachuses birthday, but his namesake's was yesterday and he preemptively stomped off "in a royal huff". Possibly because I gave him that nickname. That, after he had earlier complimented me with a reference to Jabberwocky. Hence this looking glass.

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Happy Birthday President Obama!

Best Wishes!

Is this a present from Alan Simpson?

Super Committee in balance.

[update to 8-1-11 original -
Final Notes: Hall and Bashir 2B updated (alter or Bane).]
Hall TDR
Bashir
2B
[update to 8-3-11 original -
8-3-11 Obama/Simpson/Bowles follow-up: and interesting Tangent. NFRY files or fries.]
Not Yet. Or Dylan but Alter or Altar*.



See the Graphic Launch.
Putting America Back to Work.

*Cillizza
Fineman/Walsh
Finney/Heye
[Rhodes/O'Donnell and real lures.]
[And a suggested birthday present from leaders Pelosi and Reid, their nomination of strong leaders for the super committee.]

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Belated Calls and Commemoration?

NEVER!
HJM 8016
SJM 4027
Wexler wants hearings.
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

What brings these links together? The first three are about investigations into recent history, while the last, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is timely. I say this, no tongue-in-cheek, in that it is the subject (timing) that links these pursuits of justice.

Is there a better time to stand for justice or is there ever a time it is too late?
And if we are not standing for justice, just where will we sit? This may be rhetorical, but what is the alternative? At a recent progressive event, with a progressive crowd and a progressive speaker, the speaker replied to some issue, "The people will not stand for that." Does that mean the time for not standing has come? I humbly suggest that anyone with doubts about starting a process that is about justice, read "Letters from a Birmingham Jail" and wonder what is the alternative?

I am not comparing the courage of those that wish to begin this process with those of the past, but the lack of courage to proceed to bring light to the process is as harmful to justice and is a neglect of each branch of government's job and their oaths for which they stand. And the press is doing a 'heckuva job" as well.

Even Martin Luther King Jr. comments on the time he takes from his reader with his letter, but he says earlier: "We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability." He says a lot more if you have the time, but it is never too late, or is it? Apparently some argue so, but we must not just move on.

For those who miss the point, violations of law must face consequences and too few have even the courage to shine a light. [In describing this article, if it reaches that level, I point out: The Dream is Justice! Sent by author, To Whom It May Concern. Checks and Balances. Civil Disobedience. Letting our representatives know that the law must be enforced so that it can not be preempted at will, let alone enforced preemptively. Breaking a bad law is the only way to place it before the process of enforcement and review, but it might even be understood by this administration that it is just a matter of time.] [Updated with slight corrections 1-18-09]

[footnote: Inspiration for the timing thing? Postman on Politics and my belated links following 1-15-08 a day which I missed commemorating but was reminded of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and a day on which I missed another good speech (text of above video) which was not too noted, nor connected. But speaking of timing. ]

[1-17-08: Yikes! Deleted Whitehouse E-Mails; Another Bush Criminal; Another Reason To Impeach by Rob Kall That is not the "Yikes!" part. But this:
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said he has no reason to believe any e-mails were deliberately destroyed.

From 2001 to October 2003, the White House's practice was to use the same backup tape each day to copy new as well as old e-mails, he said, making it possible that some of those e-mails could still be recovered even from a tape that was repeatedly overwritten. "We are continuing to analyze our systems," Fratto said last night.
(my bold added)
It is the gap in the logic here that points to the disconnect between intention and cause and effect. Yet these guys had the intelligence to decide to review a National Intelligence Estimate? One thing they are expert on is gaps, and I guess they are good at filling them or leaping them.]

Monday, February 16, 2009

Happy President's Day

Speaking of Shout Out:
Just where did George Washington say:
"Government is brute force." ?
Really! Not to mention where does the question mark go?
So even though it is neither president's actual birthday
and not our first president's till next Sunday,
I do him the reference here:Better context
At his inauguration, Washington stated, "This Constitution is really in its formation a government of the people . . . in which all power is derived from and, at stated periods, reverts to them. . . . It is purely a government of laws, made and executed by the fair substitutes of the people alone. . . [The American form of government is] a new phenomenon in the political and moral world, and an astonishing victory gained by enlightened reason over brute force."
[UPDATE:ARARA not... ]
In this regard for wondering:
From LewRockwell.com
and Where thin air meets hot air,
there is More Scrutiny Needed.

And more on Thrasymachus:
Or the Mealymouth Debates.*
The Nature of Justice. The question which opens this immense dialogue is: what is justice? Several inadequate definitions are put forward, but the most emphatically presented definition is given by a young Sophist, Thrasymachus. He defines justice as whatever the strongest decide it is, and that the strong decide that whatever is in their best interest is just (review again the Athenian position in Melian Debate). Socrates dismisses this argument by proving that the strong rarely figure out what is in their best interest, and this can't be just since justice is a good thing.
*No disrespect for the Athenian position but a play on the media or maybe the right. (Actually I did just review it, and then the history that Athenians were defeated by the Spartans or Typhoid. ) Story aside I wish to note my leap based on the words that preceded and how one leaps. To this: Some expect their thinking or success to not be based on others. While they may be right in parts, together they cannot stand without facing the wrong. Freedom in particular does not stand or fall alone. And in view of some wrongs, must not. Yet arguments on economics and the environment are a case of not even being able to survive without some outside force. Or a case of the case for a free market, not being able to survive without the workings of the market as it actually exists, while anachronism and stories run through it. [Bumper stickers and name calling aside, there is a tendency to oversimplify, but here goes. It may be a case of the bubbleheaded elite and who blows it for whom.]But I guess that is just disrespect for the Athenian position and respect for the review.

Myths for review:
Ruin your health with the Obama Stimulus...
Thin air meets hot air...

Monday, February 21, 2011

Happy President's Day

by George or state or other.

Washington's Birthday by Fed.



Belly Up to the Bill Boys or Girls.

Somewhere[**] I must locate certain economic links.* The point? Debt is a mis-management issue, indicating that business types have no business running government as a business.(see "certain" six). Two particulars: Wisconsin is not even one of the top 25 states likely to go bankrupt. "Benefits" are not "entitlements", they are owed by contract and negotiated so as bargained away wages. Debt is a red herring that is very fishy.

* this paragraph may suffice but it is "hard work"
[**] just found, and had seen this, but more may follow

Friday, July 22, 2011

Obama 2012

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

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

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

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

[Later in the day, apparently Speaker Boehner bails out or has taken the bait: Remarks by the President:
So they will come down here at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. I expect them to have an answer in terms of how they intend to get this thing done over the course of the next week. The American people expect action. I continue to believe that a package that is balanced and actually has serious debt and deficit reduction is the right way to go. And the American people I think are fed up with political posturing and an inability for politicians to take responsible action as opposed to dodge their responsibilities.
[Earlier Obama Town Hall]

[7-24-11: The Deadliest Catch]

Monday, March 12, 2012

Can you feel this working?

Or even follow this thinking?* Is George Lakoff practicing the same reinforcment and fine print? On the feeling front ? **

Does the market Lord over Republicans?
Does logic Lord over facts?
Is it really the slippery slope Lakoff sees?

The bold indicates the suggested read. Links are often footnotes or tangents(see [**] ), not primary sources that need a full read. I am commenting here on different results that reading this article may have on those from different parts of the political spectrum, and the impact of having read it on their perspective of their perspective.[*]
(You will have to read the Lakoff article, and then will you be prepared to answer the questions?) The focus on the metaphorical may have an underlying greater impact. The President is pounding on the pragmatics of values and that may be an over arching message.

*The Santorum Strategy by George Lakoff
** unembedded mixed front and other
*** (temp tech difficulties w/links: see footnotes)

Footnotes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper
Point: Metaphors evolve or are hijacked. (flip-flop over the centuries)
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=snob
Point: Pop Culture? Pontifical Santorum?
Concepts:
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Republican+table
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=divide+to+table
too http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=conquer

These last links found on Footnotes PAGE. (A, B, C)
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/p/footnotes.html

[*] last asterisk to note that these two "perspective" links are tangential[**] perspectives on perspectives.
[**] speaking of dump ties? (see *** ttdl See placement of link/asterisk inconvenience. )
[Related Breaking Toure on KONY 2012 (3-18-12 update)]
[Related Background: http://fora.tv/2007/06/28/Francis_Fukuyama_End_Of_History_Revisited ]
[And Martin Bashir: "but what am I?" Romney childishness.]
[Citizens United: http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Citizens+United,
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Strategy+of+right,
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Koch+Brothers,
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Roger+Ailes, purpose of these inconvenient (see *** & ttld) links, is to archive and find later reference to the divide further the table for their conversation. http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Koch+Table,
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2011/10/karl-rove-vs-wa-hyperbole.html,
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2011/10/politics-of-table.html, More Bashir: http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Pee+Wee , http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=Herman ,
Happy Birthday Romney http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2010/03/snooki.html, Infinity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOGWbzUM-y8 ]

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Belated...(HAPPY BIRTHDAY RMS!)

Congratulation on making it to your terrible two's.[updated link] I feel like a "birther" in having pushed your name and Ed's for MSNBC to match Faux News, although you match Comity* Central as well. In fact I almost admonished you for your "crossing the line", but I on second review of the rhetoric, it was not.** Here is to Bane or Change? You walk the line.
*SIC (spelling in Con/text)

** the Second Amendment Angle
[Third times a charm but not 'l's.(as in L's or spells)]
Chant... Bane(or)Change! Bane(or)Change! Bane(or)Change!

Friday, June 08, 2012

It's Obama's Turn

[Keep the Change(scroll down)]

Of course.
Stay the course.
The private* sector is fine
verse US economic turn around.
[Hardball Metaphor.  Making the case.***]

* E. G. Private Equity Government
(The nuts and bolts?  If Romney cannot understand that the economy has turned around, then what will happen when he turns it around.)
[Ouch ! ]
[Politics Nation ? ]
[Whip Republicans with Reagan and Clinton!]
Thom Hartmann?
Word of tomorrow?  Pernicious.**
[Coffee Table This! The Fifth Element.]

6-10-12 Keep the Change!
Yes this is a bumper sticker for Obama!  Though the links may be a bumper sticker for Clinton or nuance.  Not that I have fully read them yet, I will try to stay the course, not to mention other threads.

6-11-12
Inconvenient Try-Angle !
NOW w/ Corny Copy Ah. "Mind the Gaffe(added 6-13)": "food fight"



Verse us Tony TruthyahKnow.

** anachronism approved:  "Perspective" was Norman Goldman's word of the day(Thursday). "Scale" was my suggestion(for Friday), and "pernicious" was my word for Monday.

6-12-12
Curb Your Enthusiasm !
[Duct TapeGoose Pate!]
[(Middle - Name / N SC ?)]
[ Bubble Up]

6-13-12
Jeb Bush: Walk Back ?
(Hardball)
*** link(s) added
McCain sabotage.
NOW "Picking up the Tab".

6-14-12
Keep the Change!
"Different Visions" NOW!
Past is prologue or (unpassed)Middle - Name.(Scroll-up)



Happy Birthday to us!
The Dickens We Say!
Better to look back than go back!
Preemptive Comment this AM:  Obama battles for Fiscal Reality!
Geitner is speaking on Andrea Mitchell Reports.
Andrea Mitchell pulls Geitner's leg on Romney, but he doesn't bite.

Romney wants to get it done.  He doesn't want to look back, he wants to Re-Right!  If we look back we will see his Re-Write. 
Overhang of Obamacare? 
It's coming back?
[Not to mention "No New Taxes"!  Old taxes will do fine.]
Segue: Presidents Speech to be inserted later.
[Thom Hartmann Couples Counseling/Next President will take credit for "breaking up" better economy.] Talk is cheap?

Monday, September 17, 2012

One Heckuva Day.

I take this opportunity to note belatedly the 225th birthday of the Constitution, and the 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wallstreet, but Mitt still takes the day hands down. 

9-18-12
http://billmoyers.com/2012/09/14/what-the-founding-fathers-wanted/
The Dickens you say ?[!]








Friday, February 01, 2013

FOOTNOTES FEBRUARY 2013

2-1-13 Trilemmas and Cultural Calculus :
Fishkin's http://www.philosophy-of-education.org/uploads/papers2011/Bamfield.pdf, Trilemma http://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/410-pol/pojman-outline.htm, 4M Try Lemmings,
in tent  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma, Mean  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma#Trilemmas_in_economics,
...   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/economy/11view.html?_r=0,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma#Trilemmas_in_economics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_paradox,
easy  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralemma, at  http://www.thelogician.net/3b_buddhist_illogic/3b_chapter_01.htm,
least  http://forum.wolframscience.com/showthread.php?s=16f6647f676b31bf8e738901daabc68a&threadid=1927,
loosely  http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=tetrahedron+of+will,
drafting  http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=math+is+next+,
un- http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=math+is+next,
http://www.facebook.com/roger.larson.58/timeline/2013/1,
bedding  http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=godliness,
tan http://www.facebook.com/roger.larson.58/timeline/2013/1#!/JohnHenryLG/posts/484801448229006?comment_id=5254201&offset=0&total_comments=13,
gent  http://www.facebook.com/roger.larson.58/timeline/2013/1#!/suzette.sommer.9/posts/4281975535675?comment_id=57783597&offset=0&total_comments=29 *,
shall  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/07/david-and-goliath.html,
2-4-13 *source or 4moolah 4  the platonic 4M.

2-4-13 Quoth the...
Brackets and the Debt Clock under the "birds"(sc)
not : (b.s  pen+dull+em) a Pluto, Plato, and the Pen Dull'em (sc), b Failure is always (sc), c Go Left Young Man! , d  Slippery Slope (sc).
else: (b.s. poe) Fair and Balanced... (sc)

2-5-13 Flack...Oh
and blame : War on Tea Party?
  gaming. (b.s. share+n+angle) Mitt's BO*Son, BlogSpot Has A New "Blogger", Try Lemmings, Bring It On!, Cautious Black Friday!!!!, Jeb Bush is full of Cow Pie!, "FACT: References To Al Qaeda Were Removed To Protect National Security ...", War of the Skirts, The Hope'd4 Campaign, Who Let the Dogs Out?, Clinton(Bill) is full of B.S. .

2-11-13 Owe(b.s)= Post-Pyth, Post-Pyth, Post "don't ask, don't tell"^ ? (d'oh=sc),Post "don't ask, don't tell"^ ?  / OW=?(under al gore rhythm of pyth)4 later search or earlier brackets ! (Ctrl F "hood")

2-12-13 update, *FP4*, *FP3*, LEGEND PAGE, Format Change , Updates
2-12-13 Carpe Diem! Seize the Day? Latin 4...

2-13-13  D-Day *seams* = pun on *sowing* seems to thread in Lincoln and Darwin's birthday.  Further, I should let you work it "into the grand picture of how things work".(FP2)

2-14-13 SOTU label/[**] & subheading edit after Tea Kettle Sports[!]
TKS[!]: Fry/Pan{L} pun on gaming politics.(OW) you(sc) Hint: NCAA/Olypics/CAPitalization[!]
(b.s.)"PBMP" A.,  B.What the Beck? (sc), C. Follow-up and Flip-Flop (sc)  D. Follow-up and Flip-Flop  E. Proof of Process? F. Looking Back, and Moving On. (sc) G. Geometry of Purpose (sc) N F L [!] (F P too?)

2-15-13  HAPPY V-DAY!  Note the anachronism of con sciousness & science.

2-18-13 Technical Difficulties!   "Where": A. Follow-up (sc) , B. What Obama can't say. (sc), C. What the Beck? (sc /   "inter": Score Won...  / "tubes": A. As the Inner Tubes (sc) , B. Table of Contents  (Senator)
** "Rush"(pun) / "ah!": A. WTF?, B. The Hope, C. Why OWS is bigger than Left vs. Right. (sc)
"foundations": A. Science Fiction Writers, B. Four More Years!, C. Slash Segue (sc), D. Notes from Al-Qaeda .

2-19-13 Splitting Rails... to
"Share": Technical Difficulties! 
"'n": HAPPY V-DAY! 
"Angles.": Garry Wills "(c)atholicism" The Cycle
"Not ": (b.s.)"yogurt" C. Pop Yogurt[!]
"just": Harvard class on Tarantino.
"President's": ladders of opportunity
"pastime": Three Shed Monte 

2-23-13: OW?  Unspinning Charlotte! 6., 5.(Wills), 4.Future Bubble?, 3.(b.s.), 2., 1. Gnaught ?  [FP2]

2-26-13 under(stands?) or PEG legs?
Preface to FOOTNOTES OCTOBER 2012, Simon says... , The History of B.S.,
What the Beck?  BS-Table?

2-28-12 ...SCrolls: Lap Top?  No Tab Let's. Krauthammer / Walsh (Breaking Bread?)(FP3)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

CAD (Culturally Aided Design)

That was not my original insult.  I mean intent.
Nor the original CAD or (under)mine,
speaking of Cause Affect Deficiency: (updated Cause Affect Disorder)

I feel like Ann Romney, with an early Birthday present.(ala CNN and the Hilary Rosen War) Yesterday someone tossed an expletive at my Obama bumper sticker. Speaking of CAD, Ted Nugent is a Raw Money reincarnation of the Swift Boaters. Only he needs a vet for his Cat Scratch Fever. More on CAD, it is not computer-aided design, it is cause and affect deficiency. 


BTW: it is still our turn,(thanks Ann) if Bush could get a second one in the middle of a war, no matter who started it.


CAD-2.0: more or less
[Not to demonize or capitalize on catholic and deficiencies*, but if government is a business and corporations are people, what is bankruptcy, let alone where is the death penalty?]

*not to decapitalize

[Clue to the G'Ribble.]
[update decapitalize: Huffington Post throws journalism in the pit.]

UPDATE 4-24-12 (images)