Dubious is the word...

NOT PRINTED [a reply to Ari Fleisher's letter to the editor in the Washington Post]
Dubious is the word of all words.
Or Facts needs quotation marks.

At first it was hard to believe that "Solid Facts From the President" on Oct.24th was really Ari Fleisher and that his reply to the Oct. 22nd front-page story "For Bush, Facts are Malleable" emanated from The White House. But then again, it further demonstrated the shallow if not dubious and wrong thinking there.

In his charge that it "was both substantially flawed and a distortion of what the president said", he attempted rebuttal on two issues. The first on Iraq’s "growing fleet" of unmanned aircraft "targeting the United States", Fleisher focused on the targeting aspect to sidestep the "fact" that other intelligence called the "fleet" an "attempt" or "experiment". The article went much further than the reply in explaining this confusion. The second attempted rebuttal was where the "the president stated that the International Atomic Energy Commission said Iraq could possess weapons in as few as six months" which was actually from a different source; the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The article did give the administration's excuses but the reply sidestepped the "fact" that the quoted source reached a contrary conclusion in 1998.

Now granted that the sources and time frames do complicate the distinctions. But not enough to excuse the president for quoting an Iraqi "nuclear" defector speaking in 1998, who had retired in 1991 and not been in Iraq since 1995, as a source on Iraq’s nuclear threat. Nor for drawing other conclusions regarding Iraqi or terrorist use of chemical or biological weapons "at odds with congressional testimony by the CIA.'

In the Press Secretary’s case these two rebuttals do nothing to support his claim that the front-page article was "substantially flawed and a distortion of what the president said." Nor does it excuse him from reading and addressing the many other "malleable" issues in the piece, not to mention the only "In fact" statement in the article, on education.

On education the article claims the president took credit for "the biggest increase in education spending in a long, long time" when it was (1) not even bigger than the previous increase under Clinton. It also claimed (2) that the smaller "Bush" increase was Congress’ and (3) larger than Bush had wanted. Then when moderate Republicans complained to the administration that even that was not even being spent, the same contact in the administration "decried" the (4)"explosively large education bill." Left unrebutted these not only prove dubiousness but in fact three wrongs, and one dubious and wrong.

In the case of this writer(me), leaving aside what was left unrebutted still allows me to demonstrate that his conclusions that "Each point in The Post’s story is refuted by the facts" and "It is The Post’s reporting that is dubious, if not wrong", is pure “expletive deleted *". Hence, confirmed to be emanating from the Dubious administration.

[*] 9-13-08 unknown if this is my "expletive deleted" or actually from the article, note that McCain actually uses his fingers when he says the word quote, I sometimes uses the marks to indicate borrowing or replacement (italics added for emphasis).

Caution: Expletive...

Journalism: Doesn't add up.

Maybe the Exit Strategy does not add up, but I mean that it may have been McChrystal's and Obama's as far as an Afghan Exit Strategy.

UPDATE TO THE SIDEBAR:
Obama = Getter R Done
Understanding the Obama Doctrine*
Counter Evolutionary (R,R,R)
Open Source Intelligence
Navigation: Ctrl F[**]
[Bold links are the side bar links, the unbold are unembedded links, comments or labels. These include: Rachel Maddow on Obama's Successes, Brzezinski on Morning Joe, Social Security Works on the Deficit Commission, Stockman on Taxing, and Navigation* Search.]
* yet to label and add MSNBC: The Ed Show, Olbermann and Ratigan/Matthews
[**] Huzzah!

On the Other Plan(s)

[Originally I was amending or running on the last link.]
...on the other hand: while I am not advocating Independents or Single Payer, they just might be the way things need to go. As the Reverend Al Sharpton said this morning, it would be unseemly for the President to be an advocate for any separate interests, as I paraphrase him, and as others would call it leadership in reference to the parade. This was linked anachronistically. Note the tetra of DRIP, (now that was manipulated: Democratic Republican Independent Progress), not to mention the Bloomin' ** Fringe. And an earlier thought about this field, Creationist Recreation Applied Properly, no CRAP. Speaking of anachronism, if someone turned water into wine, who turned whine*** into trickle down? Answer? Just a Laffer. No disrespect to the good nature and good deeds of Reagan and Nixon or vice verse us, but they have certainly been proved to be relative.]

** EPA = Expletive Properly Applied.
*** Needlessly(sic)

Underlying this thinking is a reaction to those that think we think we know better, and those that think they are we. I directly refer to the rhetoric of the Right and the fact that they are the minority for a reason, continually evidenced by their behavior as well as the fact that polls change and they had better.* Wow, I think that was anti-sic or at least freely punctuated, but who the Fringe knows or is it the Shadow or Charlie McCarthy(**)ism?
* Bold summary and link(correction: reference) to other asterisk not to mention runonwordplay.
[belated ** talk about prophetic gathering of moss I am not sure I know yet.]
[Well...not exactly, but close enough for Hurts work or Wads-worth.]

New On the Radar!

The Daily Beast
See Dick Run
Wrestler Mania
The Twilight Zone
Interdimensional Therapy

This headline refers to The Daily Beast and The Examiner as sources, not necessarily their links nor potential for what is under the radar.

UNDER
[Scape - run - from - straw - running - expletive - heading]
OVER
[Old on the Radar and bottom of the box.]

Snooki?

With the comments of Republicans recently, like Senator Jim DeMint, and Senator Jim Bunning, it was tempting just to call their offices to ask if they are getting many expletive deleted calls. That is a serious inquiry, because I wonder just how many sensible people would even think their call mattered, considering their behavior * which is frequently rude and more commonly childish, and forget having any relationship to facts. Really, it might make more sense to quote Peewee Herman. "I know you are but what am I.(...)Infinity." Especially with the employment of Snooki. Peewee may be on the road to reform, but at least he knows he is childish. "Kids, these days." Speaking of cultural cracks: "Mr. Wilson!"(R)

*in the halls of Congress? Not to mention other whining.(SEE BTW)

BTW: Glenn Beck is a PC figure, standing for Pop Culture as in destroy civilization.
Oh and I have employed a new label, except it would too frequently be applied as it is the Republican Agenda.

(R) a ribble on a recent app

[On the other hand(American Exceptionalism) and foot in mouth, I can't remember who said... what?... but in regards to the fall of the Soviet Union, either before or after, in the thinking of Reagan or the latest Bush, just because a president will not put his actions into words, does not mean they cannot be justified, nor not be changed.]

Not Exactly

Random (not so) links:
Beck Ed:
Bachman Palin Express How's that new normal working for ya?
the Apostle Paul in letters
Cognitive Policy Works?
Obsolescence?

Of hate or humor?
Media Matters?

As a personal recipient of the Palin humor or bumper sticker advice, I have a suggestion: advice does not fit on a bumper sticker and apparently not even in your rallies.

I was at a metered on ramp and a white SUV was aside me, with the character driving smiling and speaking through my slightly open window on a beautiful day. As I smiled and rolled down my window, he said: "How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya?" (To be honest I am not sure that he or I now have it correctly spelled or quoted.) I flashed an even bigger smile and a vigorous thumbs up, and he continuted: "Are you a commmunist or do ya just vote for them?" To which I replied: "Are you kidding or(?)" ...we moved on. But that guy did not know who he was messing with (someone who knows better*)... someone with a sense of humor and a sense that righteousness is a lack of faith. (I just came up with that, as I really had some wise cracks, some even appropriately expletive(Tea "partier")adjusted. Speaking of what's in the bag. I have mysteriously completed a loop as to who or what is working? I will call that my Ribble of Intelligent Design at which I will give the links by number.

{It might take a while to sort out the serious, but I do emphasize the jest or just nature, rather than any unintended vitriol(wiki google branch: ethereal.) or Con Sequences. See Comment.]

Less than raw links:
catharsis
RE:Schadenfreude
Gloom at other's successes.

Raw links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Thessalonians
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+3&version=NIV
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_Paul_in_the_Bible
http://www.gotquestions.org/twelve-apostles-disciples-12.html
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/is-the-apostle-paul-one-of-the-12-disciples/

* in the particular case I am a minority (OK, I did not take the poll, but it is hard to believe it is representative of the truth. That would mean a thumbs up for the media, and I don't know what for congress.) But that is really cherry picking.

[Speaking of Bridge or post lonesome roads or sections of a train?.]

Econ #$% ? (^)

Peter Paul and Pocket?
Red and Black and Grey all over.

Fiscal Krugman ? [!]




[Lede or * Ship?]


* bottoms up?
Later , V for Victim , A little knowledge is dangerous


a. The Bully..., c. Cost of Course, d. Lessons of War, EH? H. Post Newtonian Economics, j.It turns out... , k. The Be All and End All? , l. Hi Ate Us , m. Presidential SOTU , n. Coin-age of the day. o. Simon says 2 point or...? , p. Politics is local?


To Be Arranged , b.  hmmm? , c. Loose Lips and Sinking Metaphors , d. Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep., eh? , F. Rat Races Van Mices? , G. The LESS THAN pentagonal file: , h. No0000![!]? (/\/) , i, , J? K!CAD (2 out of 3 be bad)


a. Fair and Balanced..., b. Genre Clash


Econ 101, 10, 1, L


Titanic Berg ?
QCON: TruthOut  (x)
Trick Question of the Day? (y)
FORGOTTEN HUMANITY!   (~)


(^) naut expletive
nor necessarily de-cap aster risks.
Econ 345?(6) or (lb. buck per cent?up)
OW: Chart ? ... math, English, Platonics~ Art
Grubergate: the knows under the elephants hump?(nose camel straw broke)
G O P : Governing Our Problem
 WON: War on Nuance

The Best of Intentions...

Are No Joke!
Not to pick on April Fools, but I had no intention of marking yesterday (the first.)

[Comments On Yesterday's Case Study.] [**]
[Please note that my third link (there) was inserted after the call for "All on deck"... And know(I mean, NO!) I did not start it. Maybe the Bee Gees started it... But I will reiterate a word of caution on the "punc" link, while endorsing the "irony" message. "He ain't heavy..." and in closing note that the "truthout" under "Headlines" questions the Newsweek cover claim which is worth a read, which I am still amidst.]

[I am trying to unribble[*] this. I am still amidst reading the Newsweek article embedded in the first link, and look forward to the Nation project, but reiterate caution on "Master of Puppets" head banging, but soundly endorse The Hollies, "He ain't heavy..." Also the Bee Gees was a last minute insert.]

[*] in this case unwind some meaning or links

** maybe the law of unintended consequences kept me from adding comments for the time being, on my previous post.
[On the other hand. Here is to popping*** culture.]

*** Jon Stewart takes a whack at CNN and other AprilFools, which I cannot be certain the date of and needs an "expletive deleted warning".

Gatekeeper on a High Horse?

George F.* Will?rides on.
Gatekeepers are us?
George "Fiat" Will?
______________________________________________________________________
Speaking of the high road, the above may be rather high brow, and the following might be considered in the gutter or the trenches where we need to fight too.
______________________________________________________________________
[Re: the above (first two) links provide contrast and balance as well as rating (G.F.W.-P.G./R.W.F), but the bottom link(see warning as to "expletive deleteds" being unbeeped), and does not reflect my views but do provide more than adequate contrast in their own right. Harriet Christian manufactured? I don't know, but natural reactions? Maybe.]
[Update: And imagine the Gaul, Will had to write from Pearl Harbor not to mention bladder or the sheen]

*WARNING! Fowl language embedded in bottom link, not necessarily connected to the "F" between George and Will. But maybe Fear, Fiat, Foe, fumes?

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)

TRY-ANGLE NATION

Disclosure:  Just elected Hillary Clinton Delegate for my precinct. 

It was a gut decision for a truce between my head and my heart, not that I can triangulate that. 
Well... maybe it was gut-Clinton, head-Undecided, and heart-Sanders. 

With this in mind to be potentially sorted later:

Make It So[!]

To better BORG*: 
(third link below NFRY: not fully read yet)

A World War Has Begun: Break the Silence  ***

Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton
Trump and Clinton Match-up?

*"BS~FD/make me" (0)
"BS~Borg" (A., B. Culture War , C., D.  Obama With Drama , E., F., G., H.)
(BS)=blog search (scroll over any hyper-links)

3-27-16

War and Peace is a false dichotomy**.

That was my heading(sub-heading for this addition) before technical difficulties wiped it out. 
I had woken up to that thought after reading only part way through a Philosophy Now article last night. [The "Ugliest of Things"?]

** or are all dichotomies false? 

*** the punch line
"You can't _ _ _ _ _ your way out of problems with the same parties that got you into them."
to paraphrase the Obama problem and the nature of our government.  Here "parties" is used in general terms, but with due respect for the three branches of government and the GOP, let alone the spirit of progress or hope to Trump nature.  I am talking about the first article on War, and the Bush campaign that was a bull in a pottery barn.(~)  (Speaking of policemen, nation builders and break it)

(~)(<) Lessons of War , Cost of Course [(~)]
Cost of Course [!], Hail to the Troops! [!]
Owe what a muddle we web. i.e. these (F'n) need review.

3-31-16
Expletive not intended, Foot Notes is the italic intent. 
Mean While... (M'w,huh,ha) 
Medved(msnbc)  (~) the last conservative president was H. W. Bush (i.e. don't count Neo-cons)
Kasich  (msnbc)  Trump puts the con in conservative. (^) Also speaks of policing and intelligence, I was waiting for nation building.
Kinder Gardener:  Do I have buyers remorse?
Well, I haven't bought anything.  And we aren't a pottery barn.  (oops unsegue)^
(return) Is the caucus system broken?  Not for Bernie.  Is the primary better? Only for Hillary?