and Political Maneuvering:
[Posted* elsewhere under construction.]
* I had an earlier comment [found it: SEE (scroll to)"To Heck with the Political..." 2010-07-08 12:04] not at the above elsewhere link
[My point is that Republicans are too often for something before they are against it. Some people believe there are absolutes, and do not see the gray** in their words. Present company included. Then there are people that follow leaders or misleaders. In regards to Immigration Reform, Ronald Reagan was not so demonized for his amnesty for illegal or undocumented workers. And Senator McCain was for comprehensive reform before he was against it. But the big issue is who is responsible and that is the federal government.[***] There is an optional federal E-verify program, and there are two AZ laws that are at issue. The problem is Republicans making it an issue for state political calculations, and not addressing it at the federal level for the federal political calculations.]
** or is it purple or constitutional/political separations
[*** post post links added]
[The current policy is that hiring of undocumented workers is the crime without punishment. Comprehensive Immigration Reform would be documentation with punishment but at least a process. My theory is that you cannot just enforce laws at will without interpretation and implimentation consideration, unless you are Republican. The Federal Goverment is not just the Obama Administration, it is also congress. Congress is not just the House but also the Senate. While the House is solidly in Democratic control, the Senate is in minority control, Republican 41, even though there is a bi-partisan majority. 56-D/2-I]
[Mini-Meta- Meme? I just mean a heckuva job filtering, when there is so much out there. Keep in mind: A. what a job it would be to check MSNBC & FOX and B. the fact that Politifact began only during the 2008 campaign.]
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Showing posts sorted by relevance for query immigration. Sort by date Show all posts
Friday, July 09, 2010
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Immigration Debate
While my earlier post reflected the irony (1) of the juxtaposition or strange (2) bedfellows that may have had meaning as a compromise as well as the endorsement of People For the American Way as another indicator that it was balanced, I must highlight my retraction of the sparse indication of meaning which I had in mind if not in print. Here is a more reasoned if not unusual combo(3) which has similarity (4) in at least bucking the tide, not only of immigration but the troubles we find ourselves.
Hint 1. McCain-Feingold partners in campaign finance reform and possible opponents in 2008. [HINT 1B: (4-3-06) More of a comment on Feingold's principled approach on censure vs. McCain's political tact or flip-flop toward the fold.]
Hint 2. Comprehensive Immigration Reform (Kennedy-McCain) as well as the PFAW.
Hint 3. Unusual Combo: Hartmann-Carlson in order of my stumbling on the pieces, not the order referenced.
Hint 4.People for the American Way
Hint 1. McCain-Feingold partners in campaign finance reform and possible opponents in 2008. [HINT 1B: (4-3-06) More of a comment on Feingold's principled approach on censure vs. McCain's political tact or flip-flop toward the fold.]
Hint 2. Comprehensive Immigration Reform (Kennedy-McCain) as well as the PFAW.
Hint 3. Unusual Combo: Hartmann-Carlson in order of my stumbling on the pieces, not the order referenced.
Hint 4.People for the American Way
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Loose Dots(or inconvenient facts)
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Enough Smirking!
The Sport of Stairs!
Well
... a bit of a Tan gent.
Not [!]
[This is a bit of a Mitt-Flop from a long story short. But you learn something everyday. In my case it is very embarassing, having constucted a home, that yes it is proper to use a stair for a step, as long as you don't trip. Not to mention where I may have gone if I had had more sports. But if it is not too late, don't miss the Stairs link. It covers one of several topics covered at a weekend get together with friends. Taxes that is. Not to mention dressage*. Little did I know that I actually know someone who participates in that sport.]
* well not in the same link, don't forget the sport.
6-25-12 ["a" / "gent" brackets the meta 4, not to mention hard ware or punchline.]
Not my original intent [!][?][?]
[But certainly part of the puzzle, is immigration and citizens united and who cares! Nail? Emigration is as important as immigration, no new taxes does not mean old taxes aren't fine and public option is not a man date or woe man.]
[RM Nix On MR /on M B]
[I of Needle ? ... One legged** coffee table! "Papers Please Ruling." Take 3/4?]
** This originated in a pun on Brewer and the SCOTUS in their two rulings today. Three of the four key ingredients of 1070 were over-turned and the only one standing duplicates federal law. So basically it was overturned and leaves the state with existing law. In the Citizens United/Montana ruling federal law was upheld as well, or rather state law was over-turned as well. To keep this from getting messy, I will simply insert a few Ed Schultz links.
6-26-12 Robert Reich on the same page.
LA Times "reality check".
G P S Cross Rhodes ?
Nav Grid ? / Ambiguous De- sign. (ouch ?)
[Ambiguous Muddle: Andrea Mitchell*** NoPR]
*** Ctrl F "inconvenient" "follow-up" of No Labels BS
Hell***N?
AM AG Definition Gap! Atlantic Pacific / Oceans Don't Protect Us.
[Issa attacks Obama Weakness: C-NewsNation (not looking back @ B*S*)
Hunch Left on the Table. "Court of Public Opinion" Bin/go!
Cause Ma*l Oh Ge!]
[Note: last four uses of asterisks are simply place holders, as in the last case for "u" or "l" or even no place holder. Not to mention ! Spin Cycle ?
Alternate Legs ?]
[Newt Romney Business Man (Green Economy)(Read Levi a thon)?]
[Victory VictiMothy: '68 yada yada]
Well
... a bit of a Tan gent.
Not [!]
[This is a bit of a Mitt-Flop from a long story short. But you learn something everyday. In my case it is very embarassing, having constucted a home, that yes it is proper to use a stair for a step, as long as you don't trip. Not to mention where I may have gone if I had had more sports. But if it is not too late, don't miss the Stairs link. It covers one of several topics covered at a weekend get together with friends. Taxes that is. Not to mention dressage*. Little did I know that I actually know someone who participates in that sport.]
* well not in the same link, don't forget the sport.
6-25-12 ["a" / "gent" brackets the meta 4, not to mention hard ware or punchline.]
Not my original intent [!][?][?]
[But certainly part of the puzzle, is immigration and citizens united and who cares! Nail? Emigration is as important as immigration, no new taxes does not mean old taxes aren't fine and public option is not a man date or woe man.]
[RM Nix On MR /on M B]
[I of Needle ? ... One legged** coffee table! "Papers Please Ruling." Take 3/4?]
** This originated in a pun on Brewer and the SCOTUS in their two rulings today. Three of the four key ingredients of 1070 were over-turned and the only one standing duplicates federal law. So basically it was overturned and leaves the state with existing law. In the Citizens United/Montana ruling federal law was upheld as well, or rather state law was over-turned as well. To keep this from getting messy, I will simply insert a few Ed Schultz links.
6-26-12 Robert Reich on the same page.
LA Times "reality check".
G P S Cross Rhodes ?
Nav Grid ? / Ambiguous De- sign. (ouch ?)
[Ambiguous Muddle: Andrea Mitchell*** NoPR]
*** Ctrl F "inconvenient" "follow-up" of No Labels BS
Hell***N?
AM AG Definition Gap! Atlantic Pacific / Oceans Don't Protect Us.
[Issa attacks Obama Weakness: C-NewsNation (not looking back @ B*S*)
Hunch Left on the Table. "Court of Public Opinion" Bin/go!
Cause Ma*l Oh Ge!]
[Note: last four uses of asterisks are simply place holders, as in the last case for "u" or "l" or even no place holder. Not to mention ! Spin Cycle ?
Alternate Legs ?]
[Newt Romney Business Man (Green Economy)(Read Levi a thon)?]
[Victory VictiMothy: '68 yada yada]
Friday, May 19, 2006
Comprehensive English or Reform Immigration?
If English as a national language is enforced, what are the penalties and can we begin with George Bush. Is this not ironic that the Declaration of Independence was about King George III and we may now require English as a common unifying language from the same George that is the decider.
Note that there seems a parting of the waters as to the usage itself: Republicans "national" :63-34 and Democrats "common and unifying" 58-39
OR IS IT? Pronoun vs. Verb?
Or is it? Symbolism vs. Meaning?
Which is more meaningful and which is less government? Which one will be the end of it, and which will mean more government?
I must caution that I have not fully read the articles I link here, but as noted by many Bush is not read to well either. Note: like Bush it may seem that my grammar is in error but the joke actually means something in the "too" vs. "to" sense. Hence I am allowed to "cherry-pick" and leave you the same opportunity.
To paraphrase a pick, it doesn't seem to do much.
But what will be next?
Not so clear is that this is only part of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform, feeding the frenzy that may mean nothing.
Going back to my earlier post brought forth to today on Lou Dobbs Tonight, three concur that it will not be this year.
Note that there seems a parting of the waters as to the usage itself: Republicans "national" :63-34 and Democrats "common and unifying" 58-39
OR IS IT? Pronoun vs. Verb?
Or is it? Symbolism vs. Meaning?
Which is more meaningful and which is less government? Which one will be the end of it, and which will mean more government?
I must caution that I have not fully read the articles I link here, but as noted by many Bush is not read to well either. Note: like Bush it may seem that my grammar is in error but the joke actually means something in the "too" vs. "to" sense. Hence I am allowed to "cherry-pick" and leave you the same opportunity.
To paraphrase a pick, it doesn't seem to do much.
But what will be next?
Not so clear is that this is only part of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform, feeding the frenzy that may mean nothing.
Going back to my earlier post brought forth to today on Lou Dobbs Tonight, three concur that it will not be this year.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Political Football
What is worse than jumping to the conclusion that a bill has merit because both sides win some and lose some, is jumping to the conclusion that it is worth passing just because both sides compromised a little bit more. I am referring to the three separate paths of legitimate citizenship offered and the inclusion of guest worker programs. The path to legitimacy was sacrificed for some while the path to exploitation of others was left open. It is tempting to call it progress, but is it really, when the door is still open to guests that may require the same rights and needs that our citizens deserve while having little teeth in making sure that employers will not be exploiting workers rights and programs everywhere?
It just seems a shame that there is so much attention to something that is still so fluid and is actually taking a lot of their time and may get little done. Let us hope it is more than pandering and more than politics but it may be all we can get. I am embarrassed to point out that the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and we can only hope that there is a lesson here to squawk about.
"An immigration system that forces people into the shadows of our society, or leaves them prey to criminals is a system that needs to be changed," Bush said at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday. "I’m confident that we can change our immigration system in ways that secures our border, respects the rule of law, and, as importantly, upholds the decency of our country."
These are well chosen words, but the actual bill and bringing them to reality are another matter for debate.
It just seems a shame that there is so much attention to something that is still so fluid and is actually taking a lot of their time and may get little done. Let us hope it is more than pandering and more than politics but it may be all we can get. I am embarrassed to point out that the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and we can only hope that there is a lesson here to squawk about.
"An immigration system that forces people into the shadows of our society, or leaves them prey to criminals is a system that needs to be changed," Bush said at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday. "I’m confident that we can change our immigration system in ways that secures our border, respects the rule of law, and, as importantly, upholds the decency of our country."
These are well chosen words, but the actual bill and bringing them to reality are another matter for debate.
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Ian Bremmer
Format TBA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlJ80wMRhwU&t=637s
washingtonnote.com/ian_bremer_mikh/
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2513647175
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5781634930001/?#sp=show-clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaZznwvDil0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq1fT9R7vnc
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-immigration-push-a-window-into-his-follow-through/ar-AAz5Zv2?ocid=spartanntp
https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=us+vs+them+ian+bremmer&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=77653060188821&hvqmt=b&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_288ek5w6tf_b
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlJ80wMRhwU&t=637s
washingtonnote.com/ian_bremer_mikh/
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2513647175
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5781634930001/?#sp=show-clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaZznwvDil0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq1fT9R7vnc
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-immigration-push-a-window-into-his-follow-through/ar-AAz5Zv2?ocid=spartanntp
https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=us+vs+them+ian+bremmer&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=77653060188821&hvqmt=b&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_288ek5w6tf_b
Saturday, May 19, 2007
"intolerable truths"
are what Pat Buchanan called Ron Paul's "extraordinary statement" which is what Rudy Giuliani called them.
I will also note that Ed Schultz claims the possibility of more than a third party. Earlier I had noted the contrast between Ron Paul and Lyndon LaRouche in their coming to a party with a different approach, but Ed finds the immigration bill as a potential for break outs. Meanwhile I forgot to mention the "break ins" of Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich. Not to mention Mr. Inconvenient Truth himself.
But I would suggest that some of the candidates talk about merging their tickets. Now that would present it's own difficulties but no more than Democrats and Republicans splitting off from their "party" for a Unity08.
Maybe the debates could be shuffled to facilitate some mixing up. Bloomberg/Sanders Hagel/Liebermann
Now I know I'm mixed up, but just in the break down. It was mainly a combination of some independents thrown in with some Unity08 potentials.
FOR ME TO READ LATER MAYBE:
The Year of the Third Force by Howard Fineman
A Third Way? by Elenor Clift
MY EARLIER TAKES
ONE (see Fourth Way)
and TWO "the voodoo that y$$ do"
I will also note that Ed Schultz claims the possibility of more than a third party. Earlier I had noted the contrast between Ron Paul and Lyndon LaRouche in their coming to a party with a different approach, but Ed finds the immigration bill as a potential for break outs. Meanwhile I forgot to mention the "break ins" of Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich. Not to mention Mr. Inconvenient Truth himself.
But I would suggest that some of the candidates talk about merging their tickets. Now that would present it's own difficulties but no more than Democrats and Republicans splitting off from their "party" for a Unity08.
Maybe the debates could be shuffled to facilitate some mixing up. Bloomberg/Sanders Hagel/Liebermann
Now I know I'm mixed up, but just in the break down. It was mainly a combination of some independents thrown in with some Unity08 potentials.
FOR ME TO READ LATER MAYBE:
The Year of the Third Force by Howard Fineman
A Third Way? by Elenor Clift
MY EARLIER TAKES
ONE (see Fourth Way)
and TWO "the voodoo that y$$ do"
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, January 19, 2015
MLK Day
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert Parry on Neo-Cons*
Matt Taibbi the Pope and Charlie
Chomski on Obama's Historic Move
NFRY: No context provided.
1-20-15
Robert Reich on Compassionate Conservativism
Jeb and Mitt's change of tune belied by reference to Obama.
Juan Cole on French Diversity and Immigration
*Syria Shift
Robert Parry on Neo-Cons*
Matt Taibbi the Pope and Charlie
Chomski on Obama's Historic Move
NFRY: No context provided.
1-20-15
Robert Reich on Compassionate Conservativism
Jeb and Mitt's change of tune belied by reference to Obama.
Juan Cole on French Diversity and Immigration
*Syria Shift
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The Real Deal?
Obama Climate Change w/China*
w/Power*
VA/Ebola, *
Howard Dean,
Obama suit , *
Wisconsin,
Obama Survey Wreckage
Lunch Bucket Dean
New Faces in Congress
America's not Broken, but Washington is.
Private sector must lead recovery Starbucks CEO
2014/2016 Battleground Map
Stephanie Cutter: bench problem
MTP panel: Future of both parties
Walker: Governors better presidents**
que sera
Transcript Meet the Press,
Walker /Future
Previous Week Transcript,
Cantor Immigration incendiary,
uneven Recovery,
Howard Schultz ,
Urban Rural Divide,
Obama care down,
Obama/GOP breaking bread,
*not Meet the Press but First Reads ?
** italics Politicfact
11-13-14 nothing
w/Power*
VA/Ebola, *
Howard Dean,
Obama suit , *
Wisconsin,
Obama Survey Wreckage
Lunch Bucket Dean
New Faces in Congress
America's not Broken, but Washington is.
Private sector must lead recovery Starbucks CEO
2014/2016 Battleground Map
Stephanie Cutter: bench problem
MTP panel: Future of both parties
Walker: Governors better presidents**
que sera
Transcript Meet the Press,
Walker /Future
Previous Week Transcript,
Cantor Immigration incendiary,
uneven Recovery,
Howard Schultz ,
Urban Rural Divide,
Obama care down,
Obama/GOP breaking bread,
*not Meet the Press but First Reads ?
** italics Politicfact
11-13-14 nothing
Thursday, July 19, 2012
"you people..."?
Skirting the dignity.
Ann Romney claims it is below* the dignity of the President for his campaign to follow the money.
"beneath his dignity..."!?!?
We can't get beneath your dignity !
You can't handle the dignity.
Show me the dignity...
not the face of the down troddin'!
Ann Romney claims it is below* the dignity of the President for his campaign to follow the money.
"beneath his dignity..."!?!?
We can't get beneath your dignity !
You can't handle the dignity.
Show me the dignity...
not the face of the down troddin'!
Know the difference between cause and affect, between foundational and founding, between digging and building.
[Lean Forward]
[MB Jonathan Capeheart Romney editing, which I would call Rumsfeldian die-a-log.]
[Hardball: Braking bad? "Bachmann-Beck Overdrive." "It's not about the ad...": Flackery on Flackery.]
Enough puns on why they break their English. It seems that the Romney's(or Republican's) cannot afford be honest about how the economy works, let alone the immigration and emmigration of their beliefs**.
[MB Jonathan Capeheart Romney editing, which I would call Rumsfeldian die-a-log.]
[Hardball: Braking bad? "Bachmann-Beck Overdrive." "It's not about the ad...": Flackery on Flackery.]
Enough puns on why they break their English. It seems that the Romney's(or Republican's) cannot afford be honest about how the economy works, let alone the immigration and emmigration of their beliefs**.
* more awkward English?
** "trickle down anyone"?
Monday, March 15, 2010
Politics Local and National
Find your local party organization.
DEMOCRATS
Republicans- not so easy
Liberals- at your own risk*
Conservatives
Green Party
Independents (you are on your own)
Libertarian or Ron Paul
Actually this was just a quick search which evolved from "find your(specified)organization" to find your specified "party", and my comments are more about the ease with which they are found.
As a local example: 41st LD Democrats **
Puget Sound Liberals
Northwest Progressive Institute
Progressive Radio
Organizing for America
Democracy for America
King County Democrats
Washington State Democrats
This may seem condescending, but what the Beck!
MoveOn
Think Progress The Final Act for Health Reform
Media Matters
not to mention Democrats.com Save our Democracy!
[BTW: two proposals(rhetorically)
a. If corporations have individual rights, where do they come off as being able to own other individuals?
b. And where does an individual share come in? I mean there is the equal protection clause but an individual gets one vote per share of stock?
c. It seems that congress should tighten up immigration when it comes to such commerce let alone labor.
Actually these could be substantive considerations.]
*if I can't offend my own, who can I offend, well maybe everyone, but I am being ironic with a keen political calculus. Actually my own is "progressive", and we must stop running with(or at or from) words like scissors.
** attendance at District Nominationg Convention and Caucus was surprisingly low, but could be attributed to the forgone conclusion that there would be no opposition to our incumbents, satisfaction with work being done, anticipation of the work to come, and the nature of the top two primary holding some surprises if not a field for competition from the wings of hope and cynicism.
DEMOCRATS
Republicans- not so easy
Liberals- at your own risk*
Conservatives
Green Party
Independents (you are on your own)
Libertarian or Ron Paul
Actually this was just a quick search which evolved from "find your(specified)organization" to find your specified "party", and my comments are more about the ease with which they are found.
As a local example: 41st LD Democrats **
Puget Sound Liberals
Northwest Progressive Institute
Progressive Radio
Organizing for America
Democracy for America
King County Democrats
Washington State Democrats
This may seem condescending, but what the Beck!
MoveOn
Think Progress The Final Act for Health Reform
Media Matters
not to mention Democrats.com Save our Democracy!
[BTW: two proposals(rhetorically)
a. If corporations have individual rights, where do they come off as being able to own other individuals?
b. And where does an individual share come in? I mean there is the equal protection clause but an individual gets one vote per share of stock?
c. It seems that congress should tighten up immigration when it comes to such commerce let alone labor.
Actually these could be substantive considerations.]
*if I can't offend my own, who can I offend, well maybe everyone, but I am being ironic with a keen political calculus. Actually my own is "progressive", and we must stop running with(or at or from) words like scissors.
** attendance at District Nominationg Convention and Caucus was surprisingly low, but could be attributed to the forgone conclusion that there would be no opposition to our incumbents, satisfaction with work being done, anticipation of the work to come, and the nature of the top two primary holding some surprises if not a field for competition from the wings of hope and cynicism.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
FOOTNOTES (Janurary 2013) PAGE ONE
THIS IS THE FOOTNOTE PAGE ONE !!!
...FOR JANUARY 2013!
Begun 1-3-13(appropriately)
[!] punctuation = irony/sarcasm/pun
(now to scroll up or down...that is the question) (fn2)
(fn3) anachronistic (b.s.) blog search 1-3-13 "me me"(sc)
"but seriously" Killer Ad from Killer Group(sc)
Out Foxed? ...knot!(fn4)
--- --- ---
1-3-13 [^] Clog Alert! For later parsing the (b.s.) of Clog and Clogs, but now for the "Rodney".
Stay the Comity of Course (sc*) , P.M. , Spare the Rodney! , #1 Discipline - Philosophy , Give an inch, Take a mile.
*ouch : Stay the Comity of Course / Ctrl F (SC) (spare me: fn2)
1-4-13: [p.s. on (fn) (b.s.)] Pop Yogurt[!], Now this is the ticket., A Revolution?, A wonder..., Where everyone needs to read...
1-4-13 (fn) date noted Pre-Capitalization i.e. posted Friday for Sat.
1-5-13 Try-Mentionalism ?[!] Normal post/time stamp.
" You know ": by Stiob?!?, I'm not saying..., Flip-Flop, Nuance, Mitt-Flop, The Other Debates, FOOTNOTES: SEPTEMBER 2012, Dimentionalism(sic)(sc), Frackin' Trickle Down(sc), Bridging the English Channel(sc)?
(sc) scroll click anomoly (swift creak?)
I Ron Knee (Iron ne) of Progress.
1-7-13 Punchline? Level Three. Last Resorts?
1-8-13 (1) Change of Tune? See this heading! (fn)HAPPY NEW YEAR[!]
RE:TITLED THIS PAGE
(1) Fearnauts , Pre-Capitalization , December FOOTNOTES 2.0 , December 3G FOOTNOTES, BlogSpot Has A New "Blogger" , Rubric's Cube and Rhetorical Realmifications. , Turning the Page (2.0) , Turning the page (On Humor)? , THE COUNCIL OF NICE , ROW MAN #Sign [Numeral (i)]
1-11-13 CapTenseLog (English+only)? Not found under Ctrl F "as is", i.e. interesting Al Gore Rhythm
1-14-13 UnTense? (*) before I go all footnutty... [2] {un in ten did undid but 90 =uncap brackets (qwerty CAP'd or De-bubba upped?}
1-16-13 Ouch. Grid Irony and Tour de'F(LA)? Or should I say Off Law?[1]
= = =
1-18-13 SoDo Amalgam /Post-PAGES: FC, TBA/\ (bs): The Real B. S. of the F. C., FC "Hammer", In "F"n able?, QCON* - JERRY FALWELL OPENS LAW SCHOOL (may he ... live strong and prosper)
...FOR JANUARY 2013!
Begun 1-3-13(appropriately)
[!] punctuation = irony/sarcasm/pun
(now to scroll up or down...that is the question) (fn2)
(fn3) anachronistic (b.s.) blog search 1-3-13 "me me"(sc)
"but seriously" Killer Ad from Killer Group(sc)
Out Foxed? ...knot!(fn4)
--- --- ---
1-3-13 [^] Clog Alert! For later parsing the (b.s.) of Clog and Clogs, but now for the "Rodney".
Stay the Comity of Course (sc*) , P.M. , Spare the Rodney! , #1 Discipline - Philosophy , Give an inch, Take a mile.
*ouch : Stay the Comity of Course / Ctrl F (SC) (spare me: fn2)
1-4-13: [p.s. on (fn) (b.s.)] Pop Yogurt[!], Now this is the ticket., A Revolution?, A wonder..., Where everyone needs to read...
1-4-13 (fn) date noted Pre-Capitalization i.e. posted Friday for Sat.
1-5-13 Try-Mentionalism ?[!] Normal post/time stamp.
" You know ": by Stiob?!?, I'm not saying..., Flip-Flop, Nuance, Mitt-Flop, The Other Debates, FOOTNOTES: SEPTEMBER 2012, Dimentionalism(sic)(sc), Frackin' Trickle Down(sc), Bridging the English Channel(sc)?
(sc) scroll click anomoly (swift creak?)
I Ron Knee (Iron ne) of Progress.
1-7-13 Punchline? Level Three. Last Resorts?
1-8-13 (1) Change of Tune? See this heading! (fn)HAPPY NEW YEAR[!]
RE:TITLED THIS PAGE
(1) Fearnauts , Pre-Capitalization , December FOOTNOTES 2.0 , December 3G FOOTNOTES, BlogSpot Has A New "Blogger" , Rubric's Cube and Rhetorical Realmifications. , Turning the Page (2.0) , Turning the page (On Humor)? , THE COUNCIL OF NICE , ROW MAN #Sign [Numeral (i)]
1-11-13 CapTenseLog (English+only)? Not found under Ctrl F "as is", i.e. interesting Al Gore Rhythm
http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2003/02/exercise-lie-or-confusion-original-of.html
, UPDATE
ONLY? ,
Democracy
Upheld! (5-4) (R/x)** , Comprehensive
English or Reform Immigration? , Axe
not what you can ,
FOOTNOTES:
SEPTEMBER 2012 ***INTENIONS SNAP , Fear
and Running , V
for Victim , Parallel
(Or Not So Pair o' Lax) Channels , QCON
and Flip-Flop: AN IRAN OUT , Flip-Flopper-Crafting
1-14-13 UnTense? (*) before I go all footnutty... [2] {un in ten did undid but 90 =uncap brackets (qwerty CAP'd or De-bubba upped?}
1-16-13 Ouch. Grid Irony and Tour de'F(LA)? Or should I say Off Law?[1]
= = =
1-18-13 SoDo Amalgam /Post-PAGES: FC, TBA/\ (bs): The Real B. S. of the F. C., FC "Hammer", In "F"n able?, QCON* - JERRY FALWELL OPENS LAW SCHOOL (may he ... live strong and prosper)
Monday, August 09, 2010
In Balance
In a recent conversation with a rather critical* or independent Democrat(i.e. moderate or typical American) the issue of why the Democrats might lose in the mid-term elections came up. I don't think he used the word populism, but he did note that something should be done about jobs, or rather outsourcing/imports and addressing it dramatically with some sort of tariff. The discussion revolved around doing something, even if it was not the effective thing; it would be what the people want and it would show that the Democrats were doing something. One of the tangents took off on the Arizona immigration laws, as an example of the states doing something because the federal government wasn't. And fighting them in court was wrong, because it went against what the people wanted. i.e. do something about China and imports because it looked right, not necessarily that it would be most effective.
Needless to say the conversation did not go exactly like this, but this is possibly clearer than my usual meandering.**
*bordering on cynical
** this is not mine, nor meandering
(The American Prospect*** magazine: "Forget Populism")
(The New Yorker Online: "Risk and Robustness")
[With proper perspectivism, pragmatism and incrementalism, we could balance nature with our values, or make our values work.]
[***8-12-10 revised only to note magazine(also corrected) was in my mailbox after our discussion, New Yorker Online, was view prior to, but discussed and Meet the Press was found later.]
[update Taleb Label and The New Yorker link.]
Needless to say the conversation did not go exactly like this, but this is possibly clearer than my usual meandering.**
*bordering on cynical
** this is not mine, nor meandering
(The American Prospect*** magazine: "Forget Populism")
(The New Yorker Online: "Risk and Robustness")
[With proper perspectivism, pragmatism and incrementalism, we could balance nature with our values, or make our values work.]
[***8-12-10 revised only to note magazine(also corrected) was in my mailbox after our discussion, New Yorker Online, was view prior to, but discussed and Meet the Press was found later.]
[update Taleb Label and The New Yorker link.]
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Culture 10 Files
From the Ship of Foils[!]
Rhetorical lede or ship?The daily dot[?] http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/donald-trump-drags-mark-zuckerberg-into-immigration-fight/ar-CCLMb?ocid=OIE9HP
Frank ‘n Stein?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/trending/tt-BBlSteL?q=rene%20anand%20brain&form=PTTWNE&ocid=OIE9HP
Amazon dot culture?
Bridging the Law of Un-intended Consequences.
Pay more, search local[?]
...
Corporations are not evil.
What is evil? Lack of or misuse of goods. The lack of nexus between Adam Smith’s two tomes. People as goods. Lack of Maslow’s Mitt Flop! (Heirarchy of Needs.) Or TE HE…
Friday, October 20, 2006
Voting Right/Equal Treatment
California Coalition for Immigration Reform sent "Spanish-language letter that was circulated to Latino voters in Orange County" to make sure they are voting right.
America's PAC encourages African American voters to Vote Our Values with the assistance of school voucher advocate J. Patrick Rooney with "Abortion ads".
My sarcasm must be noted in that these are just more of the "fear and smear" tactics which are common to the Republican camp to outright disenfranchise and lie.
For more on recent equal treatment of local Congressional and Senate races click back on the two here.
Lastly a concern about a report on voter fraud and the lack thereof which is itself being suppressed so as not to interfere with the fear that spurs the concern that feeds the suppression.
Act now to insist that the Elections Assistance Commission release the report now.
America's PAC encourages African American voters to Vote Our Values with the assistance of school voucher advocate J. Patrick Rooney with "Abortion ads".
My sarcasm must be noted in that these are just more of the "fear and smear" tactics which are common to the Republican camp to outright disenfranchise and lie.
For more on recent equal treatment of local Congressional and Senate races click back on the two here.
Lastly a concern about a report on voter fraud and the lack thereof which is itself being suppressed so as not to interfere with the fear that spurs the concern that feeds the suppression.
Act now to insist that the Elections Assistance Commission release the report now.
Friday, April 07, 2006
More Heroes Needed.
Words I saved in file yesterday:
From George Washington who could not lie about cutting down the cherry tree to George Bush the cherry picking intelligence leak that is above the law. From Nixon’s "I am not a crook" to Bush’s "nerve". From checks and balances to "outing" the intelligence and killing the debate, and blaming the messenger.
Apparently not only when war comes truth is the first casualty, but a preemptive war must apparently preempt truth.
WHILE I ALREADY POSTED A RELATED COMMENT, THE FOLLOWING NEEDS NOTING:
Dear Senator Harkin:
[Italics are from link]
We, the undersigned, support your principled stand with Senators Russ Feingold and Barbara Boxer in favor of holding President Bush accountable, and we urge you to bring the Resolution of Censure to the floor of the Senate for a vote. The President has brazenly, arrogantly and unapologetically broken the law - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which prohibits warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. Despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.
Government must protect Americans' security, and that's why the FISA law allows intelligence services to listen to terrorists' conversations legally - by going to the secret espionage and terrorism court to get a warrant AFTER listening.
We are a nation of laws, not of men. No American is above the law. That most certainly includes the President. If Congress fails to hold him to account through censure, then he will believe that he can continue breaking laws with impunity. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.
We admire your courage in standing up to President Bush and saying enough! Now, we urge you to take the next step. We - ordinary Americans deeply concerned for the country we love - ask you to work with your colleagues to support and pass the Resolution of Censure in the Senate.
This is barely a start [AS I FURTHER NOTED]. Investigation into pre-war use of intelligence as demonstrated by the cherry-picking and leaking of intelligence must be debated as well. It is not a matter of what did the president know and when did he know it, but when did he know what he didn't want us to know, or not want to know himself?
How far back does it go that intelligence sources have been treatened with exposure for the type of intelligence they provide? How much intelligence has been lost by the declassification of intelligence for political gain? When the president and his supporters blame the media for the success of terrorism, how much does his own misuse of intelligence increase their strength?
It is one thing to be calling someone's bluff, but another to think that they don't know their own cards. Congress must recall the deck and reshuffle their oversight of the whole Bush administration.
While I thank Ed Schultz for supporting this issue, and I had already been contacting my Senators, I would also like to note three issues Thom Hartmann has listed as important to our economy: Labor Law, Trade Policy and Immigration. I would add that overarching or underlying these are the issues of social security and health coverage that government and corporations need to fit into the picture.
From George Washington who could not lie about cutting down the cherry tree to George Bush the cherry picking intelligence leak that is above the law. From Nixon’s "I am not a crook" to Bush’s "nerve". From checks and balances to "outing" the intelligence and killing the debate, and blaming the messenger.
Apparently not only when war comes truth is the first casualty, but a preemptive war must apparently preempt truth.
WHILE I ALREADY POSTED A RELATED COMMENT, THE FOLLOWING NEEDS NOTING:
Dear Senator Harkin:
[Italics are from link]
We, the undersigned, support your principled stand with Senators Russ Feingold and Barbara Boxer in favor of holding President Bush accountable, and we urge you to bring the Resolution of Censure to the floor of the Senate for a vote. The President has brazenly, arrogantly and unapologetically broken the law - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which prohibits warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. Despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.
Government must protect Americans' security, and that's why the FISA law allows intelligence services to listen to terrorists' conversations legally - by going to the secret espionage and terrorism court to get a warrant AFTER listening.
We are a nation of laws, not of men. No American is above the law. That most certainly includes the President. If Congress fails to hold him to account through censure, then he will believe that he can continue breaking laws with impunity. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.
We admire your courage in standing up to President Bush and saying enough! Now, we urge you to take the next step. We - ordinary Americans deeply concerned for the country we love - ask you to work with your colleagues to support and pass the Resolution of Censure in the Senate.
This is barely a start [AS I FURTHER NOTED]. Investigation into pre-war use of intelligence as demonstrated by the cherry-picking and leaking of intelligence must be debated as well. It is not a matter of what did the president know and when did he know it, but when did he know what he didn't want us to know, or not want to know himself?
How far back does it go that intelligence sources have been treatened with exposure for the type of intelligence they provide? How much intelligence has been lost by the declassification of intelligence for political gain? When the president and his supporters blame the media for the success of terrorism, how much does his own misuse of intelligence increase their strength?
It is one thing to be calling someone's bluff, but another to think that they don't know their own cards. Congress must recall the deck and reshuffle their oversight of the whole Bush administration.
While I thank Ed Schultz for supporting this issue, and I had already been contacting my Senators, I would also like to note three issues Thom Hartmann has listed as important to our economy: Labor Law, Trade Policy and Immigration. I would add that overarching or underlying these are the issues of social security and health coverage that government and corporations need to fit into the picture.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
WHAT NERVE!
We know he has nerve, but does he have a conscience. When he was running the first time, his conscience not the law was his guide, and he is still on the same course. The Einstein and King George III juxtaposition about following one’s conscience no matter the state is another interesting twist on uncurious George being worried about his own nerve. He is the state and he has only nerve. While he serves others I might add.
On the immigration tangent, if labor is only a substance to be used by those with the power to do so, then it is a drug where the users and abusers should be reigned in. This may mean a new perspective on the health of individuals and the community as well. Retrogressing to my earlier less footnoted or linked style of commentary, I will try to catch up on these later.
Before closing this post I was going to provide only one link, but ran across a news item where only the title sent me on a tangent to a comment:
What the heck is wrong with having a locally adjusted tax credit for the cost of living, by state. That would involve a deduction for the basic costs of living and then a flat rate based on the cost of doing business and government. More details may be the devil, but not necessarily any worse than requiring health care or pushing healthcare savings plans.
NOTE: The "more details" were not that bad in this case as they were more or less just a I imagined and went off on.
On the immigration tangent, if labor is only a substance to be used by those with the power to do so, then it is a drug where the users and abusers should be reigned in. This may mean a new perspective on the health of individuals and the community as well. Retrogressing to my earlier less footnoted or linked style of commentary, I will try to catch up on these later.
Before closing this post I was going to provide only one link, but ran across a news item where only the title sent me on a tangent to a comment:
What the heck is wrong with having a locally adjusted tax credit for the cost of living, by state. That would involve a deduction for the basic costs of living and then a flat rate based on the cost of doing business and government. More details may be the devil, but not necessarily any worse than requiring health care or pushing healthcare savings plans.
NOTE: The "more details" were not that bad in this case as they were more or less just a I imagined and went off on.
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