Yes-Butt Head in the Wrong Direction?

[Sent to KC Journal, 2-21-03 in reply to upcoming column that had been in the NY Times.] [Link and bold added 8-2-10]

The Yes-But Parade, by William Safire was very good. He made the administration’s case as best it can be made. However if turned inside out, the argument is useful in demonstrating the reverse. It is better to be in the "Yes-but parade" than be following the Butt Head in the wrong direction leader who sees the choice as acting now or doing nothing. Sorry, it was just too tempting to put it in Bush diplomatic terms. It is easier to focus on what we label people than what they may mean. Safire takes the "yes but fellows" label that Franklin Roosevelt used for those who agreed with his goals but had reservations about moving forward in the manner he prescribed. Somehow this is equated with the multitude of questions that arise about the war with Iraq. One could easily turn his argument inside out if not for the need to answer these questions and more.

True, making up words does not deserve the ill repute Bushisms have attracted. However "yes-but fellow" does not really contain anything new. It is tempting, not to mention childish to resort to name calling. It is not a question of acting now or doing nothing, as possibly the strongest argument the administration has, suggests. It does alleviate me of the need to address the serious if not slightly distorted questions that Safire relies on heavily in his case since he simultaneously minimizes the need to answer them. He even simultaneously concludes that the same "yes but fellows" who supposedly share these common goals of the administration would be better off challenging those same goals.

The most important question is why can’t we do something, without ignoring all the questions? Just to point out the emptiness of such labeling for purposes of thinking, is there really any constituency, or consensus, or poll numbers for doing nothing? Is there really a do nothing group we can label? Only in the minds of the schizophrenic Butt Heads, (childish, patriarchal if not abusive parents) who maintain it is my way or the highway, or I want things my way or I’m taking my toys and going home. If only it were so simple.

I am no psychiatrist but this may be an analogy that can be followed, that is more similar than divergent. Both parent and child have their way. They want to get it. They may not be going in the same directions. Being on the path may be better than not going somewhere, but you better know where you are going and how you are going to get there. And making a move is not in and of itself better than not. One fault in the analogy, is that Nations and their leaders or diplomats are neither parent nor child. However it is further useful that they may want to be, and often behave like both.

It may be reasonable to see how carrying a big stick and being on a bully pulpit can be confusing, not to mention from a different Roosevelt. For the plain spoken, it is easy to see the case they make for violence as a means, if they don’t have to answer the questions on the end or the means.

The cost, not to mention the courage, it takes to answer these questions may indeed be high, but we can’t even begin to compare it to not answering them, let alone acting before we do. Safire may be right that there are "yes but fellows", but it can go both ways. He just sides with the yes but head in the wrong direction (away from questions) crowd. Sure "acting now" has not exactly been rushing it, but where has the delay come from in answering more of the questions?

Maybe alternate analogies are more useful. Progress may be in their mind too. But are we really moving in a new direction? Are we really using any new means? Only more questions are arising to confront, confound or run with.

FOOTNOTES: SEPTEMBER 2012

SEE: SEGUE OF INTENIONS...(below)

9-28-12 [un(fn) since 9-21]
Butt bottoms up!
but: Yes-Butt Head in the Wrong Direction?
to:  http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-are-they-calling-elitist.html*
not:  http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2009/06/cap-and-trade.html
one: (b.s.) trickle + down
do:  (b.s.) voodoo + economics
538:  (scroll
compare: over)*
what Think Progress 96%
math (trouble with the curve)
d (w'rithmatic)
(*) satire + mockery
(b.s.): pun + (sic)
(**) total eclipse of the

*under construction

9-21-12 REFRAIN is a Heckuva Paradocs[!]

9-21-12 Ding, Ding, Ding (rough RE-draft)
[see Devo Mitt's BO*Son below]

9-21-12 Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding!
[Pulled from Circulation(Reverted to Draft) for Re-frame]
It is a hecuva job to footnote this.  The Dings are about the fight and the perspectives.
4 Now I will just begin UC(under construction)
!  Punderous Ponderings
? The Choice (4mat anomoly? )
C not but Al Gore Rhythms (retro ^)
[talk about (fn) nightmare of GPS]
[retro ^ = anachronism/time wrap/warp?]
etc  Theology
Re Trinity
Material Off-Cuff
edited Charlotte 2012! [^ C ?]
track (label charts[PAGES])
to (blog search E.B.)
The Hope
darn knit(C ? Rythms ^)
Why OWS is Bigger than Left Vs. Right!
Only Economists Need Apply
hard (b.s Charlotte's Web)
---
risked (INET)
un (obtusity)  
prophetic (dimentionalism)
---
Oh Obama Revives Social Security Idea: Raise Payroll Tax Cap To Replenish Fund
Point Professor Warren's Lesson
3 (prophetic/refrain) (NOT)
Ding: A return to economic sanity.

--\-- 4UC (line #3)
[devo]: Mitt's BO*Son (i.e. flip-flop of
--/--

A  A return to economic sanity ?[*]
B  Self  Bernanke Myth (Fed Speak)
C   Deflation Jon Stewart (Satire nor Economics)
D  (60 Minutes) context
Lede^^: Tacky, tact, tack
Crack: Economy or Economics
"I don't want to be subjective...(but)^^^

^^ 47% Myth
^^^ Fight of the Century (Good Wrap: Bad Econ)

[*] This footnote segues between Ding and A. leaving out the middle and emblematic of Mitt and his flip-flop of economics.(@A)  It is  Keynesian not Supply or Demand.  The Fight of the Century(@but) is a mockery of a satire on economics and the Deflation of Bernanke by Jon Stewart(@C) is a satire of a mockery of economics.  .

9-19-12 Re:Focus
TIME Romney Refocuses as Obama Decries ‘Victim’ Claim
NFRY=(not fully read yet)
Is Klein on anyones side?[!]
[!]= ;-)  If you don't know, scroll(and go click)yourself!
Hint: Goat Mountain ?

9-18-12 ...promote the general... 
9-18-12
MB: No Apologies Tour?  [UNDER (DE?)CONSTRUCTION]
Correction Leding Entitlement Group?
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49065421 Ryan
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49076540
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49076662  full leder
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49076662

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49076663 the cycle
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49076582
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49073645  the place
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49074910  Andrea http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065421/#49074064 NOW
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/middle-east-&-n.-africa/49075550/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/south-&-central-asia/49075904/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/decision-2012/49075790/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/49077139/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/49076662/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49065518/#49065518
Hardball and math death.
Bottom line update top lines and MB.
and who home runs?

9-18-12 Trouble with the Curve?
...promote the general...

9-17-12  One Heckuva Day. The Dickens...(peace meal [!])
  Obama the Uniter!

9-14-12 Politics is local?
sausage:  Ground
Romney/Ryan/Rand:  Game
beef : ? *

footnotes:  Not
out foxed  the
Seattle PI  usual
global text  MO.**

** "well"
not:  Rhetorical Been Laden In-Chief?!
exactly:  Fed/Bernanke/Seattle PI
 
9-13-12 Rhetorical Been Laden[*] In-Chief [asterisk added (9-14) for English emphasis]
This [fn] under-construction and challenging. [comment embedded here (see English emphasis) as well]

SEGUE OF INTENTIONS GOING FORWARD:
FOOTNOTES (see label) BY MONTH. (under construction)
SCROLLING DOWN DATE OF INSERT WILL NOT BE INCLUDED UNLESS THERE IS AN UPDATE TO NOTE.

9-13-12   Links [update change]
Having instituted new footnote process here.[*]dupe applicable

9-13-12 Refrain post frain?[*]
satire: Mitt + BO*son
mockery: Fall-Awful on Mitt's Face!
later: frain

4 huff posts
Dangerous Narratives
Whose Maker
Obama Role
The Bounce?
NFRY

* BaneOr
Out Foxed?
Rubric's Peek
"Feel the Love"?
Not to Follow-Up...
String Cheese Theory?
First Downgrade in US History!
Ideology

anachronism foray
Un-State of the Union
Conservative Foray (4A)

intended CAD
CAD (2 out of 3 be bad)
CAD (Culturally Aided Design)
CAD (To be or not 3d)
State of Politics

[Edits occurring post footnote @ some*** are not included in this footnote process as hinted at: *** exception to the rule(bottom line) [Footnotes** Change] appropriately
i.e. yet to footnote but what the google[anachronism unintended] or is it? ]
*** also not included here
[*]asterisks will appear bracketed by date, but unbracketed are from original post: * anachronism intended will appear in bold, followed by the contents of the b.s. [**]
[**] the exception to the rule [***]
[***] i.e. what the google you scroll over or click for link

ALSO post asterisk *** bracketeds not included here.


9-12-12  Fall-Awful on Mitt's Face!
Footnoes under construction...
September 11th

heading*[^^]

[latest]

9-11-12 Forward?
the only link to outside source: (9-12) Politics

9-7-12 Other Mysterious Ways...
Heavy (GWB) on Huffington Post and b.s. (vous due[sic])
[selected links are footnoted]
There (HP) Climate Change not a Hoax
is (HP) Artists Against Fracking (Ono/Lennon)
W*(b.s.) Google Works
rithmatic (TLR)Four More Years 
and  (ibid) Mitts BO*son
After Math. (HP) BP/Isaac .

Un-bolded Under-construction, peace meal [!].
9-7-12 Google Works...
9-5-12 Four More Years!
9-4-12 Charlotte 2012!
Out Foxed?
9-2-12 For Pete Sake!

New Hampshire Defeat?

Or Win for progressives?[or change *]
This is my flash analysis prefaced by the note that I have only had a quick glance to go on. I have not even opened the link but looking at only the top three in each race. Literally:
Results at a glance The Seattle Times
Hillary Clinton (D)39%
Barack Obama (D)36%
John Edwards (D)17%
96% reporting

John McCain (R)37%
Mitt Romney (R)32%
Mike Huckabee (R)11%
96% reporting

My point is that without getting into the technicality that New Hampshire is a primary compared to the Iowa caucuses and the game metaphor that this is like a World Series, not like the NFL championships where they play "loser out"; for a second there I thought I almost lost it in paraphrasing, in that neither of these cases are one on one, (dot, dot, dot... pause) anyway -- the point: I guess I got to the point in my second line, and you can do the math.

And if you can't I will be glad to continue in that, I am presuming that it is not winner take all in New Hampshire and that Obama and Edwards voters add up to 53% of the assigned delegates. If I am wrong, well you know what they say about what happens if you presume. Just like assume, you make a pres out of u and me. OK that goes over better on the screen than it does aloud, but you get the gist. Or Rather, we get to be the butt of the joke.

[Updated References:
a.) the data which I removed from an OpEdNews posting was in the teaser portion of the Seattle Times which I did not grab a hotlink from, because I felt it would continue to be updated.
b.) the following morning I did open the link I provided and found the entire results and followed up on my punditry but doing a Google on [New Hampshire delegates determined] and found
The New York Times Election Guide "Delegates determined after all votes are in."
c.) my intention for those that need hints, was to make a pun on the process not the candidates or the parties, given that it is more of a horse race. *
d.) not that metaphors or data are copyrighted, but I did want a shot at following OpEdNews.com
guidelines, so dropping the actual data and links was convenient. Although the bottom link is now added, but as yet unread.
e.)finally The Stephanie Miller Show played Barack using a basketball metaphor but I do not know if an earlier article had made it to my filter or head space, I do recall using "post-up" in my stand-up work...out. ]

[ * 1-10-08: two changes - - "progressives" to "change" meaning Obama appears to be progressive, but Edwards seems to be the leader in that area and "horse race" to NASCAR "Title Chase Challenge" as it has more contests than the Triple Crown.]

OW

update to ?
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O W [!]

Epicyclic Popperism, Vital Usefulness(under con(tent)), Present and Future of Philosphy(under hiker) // Wittgenstein's Poker: Ctrl ePH & T R Y ! ... O W / o w / ? ! ? Ctr F B ? / !

kNot 2 Pho(R)sF8, butt ... ? ! ...  PhD ? ?

OW scale this ? ?

pH Scale

OK, not to bust a Popperism, but the leap here was* in search of "Litmus Test Colors"!

*knot ?2? pan or pre-FRY ! ? !
  [Note: Facetious Time Stamp 2014]

Spare the Rodney!

"I get no respect"
That is what the troops can say.
But who also gets no respect?

To put it plainly, lawyers and politicians have been the butt of jokes for quite some time, but it should be noted that "we the people" are the real bottom line.

What does this have to do with the issue of supporting troops? Talk is cheap, lives are dear. Law and politics should have the highest priority because of this connection. And that was not even where I started out on this course. My intention was to show that when all is said and done it matters who is in charge. So even behind what some say, what they do will be different. Context is always important, who says what is also important, but who is leading and who can follow it is the key.

It is too much to ask that those that disagree just shut up, but that seems what some are doing, without having the guts to even stay the course of saying it.

The point I can't put too plainly is that whatever is said, the context of who said it is important but that even different players taking the same course could do a better job, but it could be more important avoiding them.
[update beating around the job]

Republicans Cuts and Runs

"Distract and Conquer" (Maddow's links) but Ed's Heading!
Not to mention skirting issues.*

*scroll up
(i.e. links from bottom up)
9 The Ed Show: Dissecting the details of "Romney-care".
8 ibid.: Ann Romney talks tax returns.
7 TLR: b.s. (or more mention) skirts
6 TLR: b.s. WOE
5 The Ed Show: They're literally running to their mommies.
4 Lean Forward: Dean on Soviet Propaganda
(ibid.: Really / Running to Mommies )
3 The Ed Show: Distract and Conquer
3b ibid.: The Great Medicare LIE
2 Rachel Maddow: Romney takes on Ryan Social Security baggage
1 ibid.:  Americans not eager to gamble on Social Security, Medicare privatization   

[ Butt Heading Re: Fuse shUn ]

[8-17-12 Not to pun on Trilogies or Tetrahedronogies, but there is some ironic order ! ]
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Flip-Flop, Nuance, Mitt-Flop

Kerry, Obama, RawMoney...
Etch-a-sketch [!]

Pressler, Foreign Policy !
American Exceptionalism:
Exception to the rule, or rule without exceptionalism?

Mitt-Flop On !

Update Charts !
Images ?
NOT 

Nor Foul nor Foot Bowl.




















10-16-12  Sometimes I feel like a...
 Tea-Partier, sometimes a We Gee Bored[!]
Butt 4 the perspective* !
* not the link, I am still looking for one shared on other thread w/ comment.
[The word comprehensive and dimentionalism are key.  Apologies for Obtuseness, or vice verse us ? ]

Dancing &Co

Dancing and Bernstein*** and Simon Says.
Is Roger Simon concidering a genre change?
Or has he always been so sharp? 
Unlike?(Wall Street Joe?)[Or is it Mourning Joe?]


9-28-12  Follow-up :  Sharp Unlike.
Roger Simon's parody of a mockery on the campaign trail **.  (Or cam pain?*)
Wall Street Journal agrees it is the stupid congress. 

*Tommy Christopher digs deeper. 'zzzzzzzz'
(Iron knee of sat ire read it completely.) 

**  (b.s. ). satire mockery
*** can Ohioans do math or what [!] ?
(I know percentage does not equal vote but I am employing mythmatic.  Chances of Romney win in Ohio below 4%. Yet to compare maps or 538.)   

[Bottomline:  It is not the prophets or Simon says corporate capitalizers, but it may be the Peter Paul and Mary principle.  No, just the Peter principle and robbing Paul to pay Peter.  A bird in the hand is worth not having two bushes or an etch-a-sketch Bush is more dangerous when they think they will do one^ better.] 

^ not to (fn) butt... 

"Trust but Verify"

Not Iran "That's what they say".
but the Left. (Psycho Talk)
No diplomacy or patriots left behind.
The end is near. Butt not to humor.

Re: Do you know what "shovel ready" even means?
[It struck me that the title is just part of the set up and works well at that. I mean it was typical of me to assume that each Cc: was an indication that the sender did not know what "shovel ready" even means. (Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but it fits into my spin as I fell for it.)]
FYI: Most projects start from the ground up. I can't really think of any that don't. There is also the term in projects called "breaking ground", which takes a shovel or other heavy equipment. So really I guess I have made even more sense of the cartoon, since stimulus is a lot like fertilizer. I wonder where the blank think it comes from?

I use the term "blank", because I did not want to pin it on just the Republicans, Conservatives or the rich since that would be too much of a PC.(Political Cartoon)* But I wonder just what they are thinking.

*originally thinking of Proper Characterization

(Answer to awkward riddle here: For some stimulus comes from above, and for others it is all in their heads.)

[Maybe for most (or at least too many) it is not even wondered about.]

P.S. Oh and I actually have a compost pile, I just need to work it.
[The above was concocted between the "left behind" and the "shovel ready" links being embedded, not that I dig burro wing anyone, but we do all end up worm food. Not to mention hot air.]

Axe not what you can

do to your country, but what your hatchet can do for you.
Cindi Lauper is like who?
Original: In Your End Oh?*
Butt up boom...

But seriously folks. God is mentioned once, in each/(either) of the two founding documents. Con text aside...( a big aside) A search of each document did not find Judeo-Christian, Christ, Jesus or Jews in either. This points directly to the mind play that is not based on the word.

* an alternative subtitle was lost, by Jove.

George had a hatchet and only nicked the tree in the likely fable. Lop her Oh Really? Wierd word play.

Again I found these links, after my Franklin and Adams references.[**]

[Original Emailed 5-7-10 sans opening line: Only slightly recrafted today with Post-Weak-End comments and link.]

[**] refers to earlier yet to be incorporated emails. Well actually there is a pre-Lob her Palin Franklin reference here last paragraph under security. [In a search for our freedoms as taken advantage of by terrorists, the proper link was hard to find. But it was lost and found under our freedoms.]

[Update: the first two links have expired. Found proxies.(Current Stand-Ins) Following them I also edit "each" to "either", for math and English sake. ]

Speculative Physics

Math is next to Godliness? ^
Or sixth sense?

Not just^ another Sunday ! ?

(Not that Socrates is alive[!])

[eff'notes: As of this time there are four lines above. Links inserted line 3, then 4, then 2.  Not to force or farce the model, but there is an event horizon.]

[ seg weigh ? ... is tough to track down ... ? ]

1-27-14  Not that I had any* mocumentary intent. But there was the Pro Bowl with intent to do something different and I had run across a YouTube on a different singularity.  Note that** my "sixth sense" is reference to the six edges of a tetrahedron which has four points.^^  My point of departure or parsing is that we may have a chicken and egg, not to mention crossing the road and sky dilemma.  While the singularities of Chomski and Hawking are different, that does not mean that we dismiss clause wits [!][?] ***

 

* Caging Godzillas 
^ or amer mots? French for "bitter words"
** further tangents?  (math and intelligence)
^^ at this point I will note that I have still to read three:
It's About Blackmail, Not National Security
Get Ready for Rand Paul
Stephen Hawking: Black Holes May Not Have 'Event Horizons' After All
Related ?




*** Our Hierarchy of Needs

[OW ? ! ? ? ]
And the past four ?
Foot notes ?
Not that there is anything in HeyDigger[!] butt ... ? [!] ?

^quote is my creation (recent search and non-related googles).

Bermuda

Try Angle ? 

Before I tan gent:  It is a clear choice. 
It might B 2 late, butt...  'twain GWB and DC*, pre and post selection. 
Not to jump in the Lakoff, but it about Clause Wits** and spectral orders.

[Translation / D'Ribble?: 'tween Bush and world order, or between what Bush ran on(not being policeman to the world), and what America runs on(speaking of spectral orders), the three branches of government and who the heck they work for.  Do we want a second shot at getting democracy right or just war left?  OW!]

* (sc) later: Bush(43)/vP-resident Cheney
**to parse Clausewitz later(or higher archy)

FP(k)not: A. / B. c. D. E. F. trope? ***

*** not to Footnote but NFRY. (Not to bury Neo-Cons, but to place in the mix, nor Peter, Paul or Merry.

NSA: No Saviors Associated

Tin-Foil Teapot:

Beck's "Libertarian" Hero *(as he supposedly tweeted): "I think I have just read about the man for which I have waited. Earmarks of a real hero."

 

Ironically something that might bring the most extreme together, an agent of transparency who may just end the war on terrorism. Did I say ironic?

 

Is that not a "uniter" and a "hope and change", or bane or change?

(Belated Norm: Still Ticking ?)

*When are air quotes air quotes? 
[Not to be flu id butt...]
[Yikes ! ]

A E iou

and sometimes Y?

Rev Sharpton...

To pun on left behinds and the other cheek? 
Butt I mean hyperbola before hyperbole or tangents over people. 
i.e. u. o. ... a ?  [!] [y]

Google Search or vise verse us ...

Clay Bennett

 



Peace Talks

 



Wait for it

 

But to be less abstruse ... 

Sew what immitates life ?

cut[!]

 

A. numbers, B. words, C. art,  D. matters ? 

 

x, y, z ?