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
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Keep America Safe
"Cheney 2.0" (yesterday) The Ed Show **
Keep America Safe
[Above links to be arranged*.]
[In the meantime:
Ideology & Evolution]
*including Kristol/Krauthammer: Borax Award***
[Progress Today: Passes panel
Afghanistan Health Reform]
** all links have been added
[To cut through the irony:Think Fear Monger 2.0]
*** lone category: Fear Soapbox
[Originally the Borax Prize, changed but not for this reason]
Keep America Safe
[Above links to be arranged*.]
[In the meantime:
Ideology & Evolution]
*including Kristol/Krauthammer: Borax Award***
[Progress Today: Passes panel
Afghanistan Health Reform]
** all links have been added
[To cut through the irony:Think Fear Monger 2.0]
*** lone category: Fear Soapbox
[Originally the Borax Prize, changed but not for this reason]
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Going through Hegel or...
Kant we all get along?
The Try Ad?
Tactics
Strategy
Means
Intent
Hoyle
TruMan
Fairy Tail
Field of Carbon?
Candy Bar?
If you think about the diamond and the pearl. (1,2,3, P C ! )
i.e. the home plate and the crowd
[gov meant don't kill people, people kill gov meant (Ctrl F nine)]
[[ speaking of slippery and plumb ? ! ]]
D'Ribble: Diamond, Graphite, Coal, Life.
(unMbed Straw Elephant from Borax)
The Try Ad?
Tactics
Strategy
Means
Intent
Hoyle
TruMan
Fairy Tail
Field of Carbon?
Candy Bar?
 |
| Chicago Call? |
If you think about the diamond and the pearl. (1,2,3, P C ! )
i.e. the home plate and the crowd
[gov meant don't kill people, people kill gov meant (Ctrl F nine)]
[[ speaking of slippery and plumb ? ! ]]
D'Ribble: Diamond, Graphite, Coal, Life.
(unMbed Straw Elephant from Borax)
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Straw Elephant
Misery Loves Company
Or Day Late and a Dollar Short?
So much has been made of the pre-emptive leak that there will be a troop "surge" that it almost overshadows the rest of his potential plan. But the possibility that there are a "few good" ideas are overshadowed by the increase in "a few good men" and women. My pre-emptive take on the former is dampened by the pre-emptive reaction to the latter. My pre-emptive cynicism has taken the biggest hit, but here is my take nevertheless.
Whatever the reasoning behind the "escalation" there is always hope that it will work. However, there is more likelihood that it is just a form of "cut and run". It is more than the concept that we must "support our troops" which does not entail agreeing with the president, but that there is emotional strength in numbers in that they support each other. But it must be remembered that the president is the commander-in-chief in that he is responsible for the plan. The possibility that he will not be allowed to carry out his plan, lays the responsibility on congress where it also belongs, in their job of holding him accountable. That is the job that the voters have chosen the Democratic Congress to do, based on the president’s record and the rubber stamp his party has given him.
With all the hope for success and support for the troops always there, it is difficult to say that this is probably the ultimate cut-and-run. For if the president does not seem like he has a plan, there can be nothing for Republicans to cut-and-run from to cover their past, not to mention move forward on. The Democrats have the job to correct the past, and make sure it is not repeated, but Republicans will gladly settle for passing the buck, with an appearance that they are not as united as they were. This takes an old saying into a new camp, from "divide and conquer" to divide to run. There is something to be said here in that Democrats are divided to unite.
Where "fair and balanced" means putting up a straw dog, against a straw issue, there is a lot of "hard work" sorting the many positions and potential solutions to any problem. Is there irony or extreme congruity in the image of former Democrat Ronald Reagan and a 20-mule team not to mention the Borax needed to come clean?
Or Day Late and a Dollar Short?
So much has been made of the pre-emptive leak that there will be a troop "surge" that it almost overshadows the rest of his potential plan. But the possibility that there are a "few good" ideas are overshadowed by the increase in "a few good men" and women. My pre-emptive take on the former is dampened by the pre-emptive reaction to the latter. My pre-emptive cynicism has taken the biggest hit, but here is my take nevertheless.
Whatever the reasoning behind the "escalation" there is always hope that it will work. However, there is more likelihood that it is just a form of "cut and run". It is more than the concept that we must "support our troops" which does not entail agreeing with the president, but that there is emotional strength in numbers in that they support each other. But it must be remembered that the president is the commander-in-chief in that he is responsible for the plan. The possibility that he will not be allowed to carry out his plan, lays the responsibility on congress where it also belongs, in their job of holding him accountable. That is the job that the voters have chosen the Democratic Congress to do, based on the president’s record and the rubber stamp his party has given him.
With all the hope for success and support for the troops always there, it is difficult to say that this is probably the ultimate cut-and-run. For if the president does not seem like he has a plan, there can be nothing for Republicans to cut-and-run from to cover their past, not to mention move forward on. The Democrats have the job to correct the past, and make sure it is not repeated, but Republicans will gladly settle for passing the buck, with an appearance that they are not as united as they were. This takes an old saying into a new camp, from "divide and conquer" to divide to run. There is something to be said here in that Democrats are divided to unite.
Where "fair and balanced" means putting up a straw dog, against a straw issue, there is a lot of "hard work" sorting the many positions and potential solutions to any problem. Is there irony or extreme congruity in the image of former Democrat Ronald Reagan and a 20-mule team not to mention the Borax needed to come clean?
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