In "F"n able?

[FOOTNOTE PAGE FOR NOVEMBER 2012]
Posted Tuesday 11-6-12 as Time Stamped.
Most recent at top.

11-30  (fn) this under construction.

11-23-12  Cautious Black Friday!!!! 
Strunk - http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html
(b.s. )^ Charotte + Web
FOOTNOTES: SEPTEMBER 2012
Give us a brake?
^ note yesterday's below correction (b.S.)= spots in this blogSpot

11-22-12 Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!
As for footnotes, all are b.S.(blog Spots) in order:
Transition - Nail Meet F--C---[!]
of* - Post Election
Sorts - Hump Day for Journalism
* - FC "Hammer"
anachronistic - Middle C?
caution - Local Journalism
C-VC(viscous^ cycle of sorts)
^(also 11-23-12) re:correction (these 2) are b.s.(blog searches)

11-10-12 That is the ticket![!] 6 S I G M A (OW!)

11-9-12 Stop that! Oh when the Saints...GM'nI(Annie Oakley?WarBucks)
M - F: (a ... o h ?)  [Bracket-EDS:  U-Tubes ( a, b, c, d ) Speaking of ana chonisms(sic).]

11-6-12 Hump Day for Journalism  I should have journaled links as inserted but here goes...not [!]^
^ paradox? (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i ?)
c c? In F able? e, f, ironic? (i.e. Q u b4^^ a,b, ... ?)
^^ Aftermath (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m )
For Achronism Sake. (Earlier post moved (and edited)to above the fold.)
[Not to bury the lede: R S N ? (spell check done [!])]
Update: Footnotes & here. (not)

11-6-12 Post Election
11-7-12 Pre-math?^  P.M. (not to pun on After Math, but Pincer Movement)
b.s.= blog search
? = b.s.(almond+joy)
day = facebook AM1090 Norman Goldman 88 Keys!
of = ** see "?"
spirit = Infamy?  Not EXACTLY[!]^^
the = b.s.(danger+field)
in = the P.I. Given 2nd term, Obama now facing new urgent task
[and this is only the f'n asterisks]
^after thought (NFRY)
^^ scroll over

Said Relief?

Who said, he Said, they said.

Egypt Update.
Speaking of Journalism** or freedom's intent.
Other Associations and Said Groups...

Note preemptive nature of links, as not all are read fully nor sometimes more than scrolled over.

In that vein, here is another mid-read comment--
--
The Prophet Margin* or "Decartes Bones"(not 2 mention) quote:(p.XIX)

Most people seem to be caught between these tidal currents--the pull to faith and tradition in a dangerous world, the argument that religion is at the core of the world's problems and only a revived commitment to individual freedoms and rights will steer humanity into a better future.

Colin Slee said about England:"You have a triangle with fundamentalist secularists in one corner, fundamentalist faith people in another, and then the intelligent, thinking liberals of Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism, baptism and methodism, other faiths--and, indeed, thinking atheists--in the other corner."

--

* my characterization although I do not necessarily appreciate the characterizations that follow, but it is the Ge Oh Me Try, not to mention who is at the table.

** link lost in editing(still looking) maybe found.
[along the same line, the first link is too embedded in comment on journalism and comment, while the last link on "freedoms"(edit to possessive)is embedded with preemptive history and irony
(ex. Alexander Hamilton against the Bill of Rights, yet for a National Bank.)]
[Journalism link now replaced and here is an un-embedded link from it.]

Speaking of Relief:or spin zones or characterizations. 'nO'Really!

[Said Review: Post an achronism. (Relative to perspectivism)]

Obama Leaks

Some might say he reeks,
but I say that there is more to the issue than liquids or gases.
Pump out the rhyme. This is just a leed into two points which I cannot tell where they came from.
1. the debt does not matter
2. social security does not matter to the debt
3. GE I did not know I was going to stick with the meta4, but of course both matter. And the underlying points I want to make, which I cannot source particularly is that the President's plan when accepted will establish one and two. In other words, the kind of debt matters(tax cuts v. investments) and an opening of the "lock box" that makes congress accountable for social security regardless of debt. Neither are easy to say, leak of the leeds** or reek of the leads, but taxes do matter to everyone, but so do budget calculations and the big picture whether you are a person, corporation, state or fed/global.

[And please note that I have not really made much of the Wikileaks controversy, as I do not support the methods and reasons for its existence. While we do need to have better journalism and government, I am not sure it will help in the scheme of things. Rupert Murdock as a source of inspiration, now supports my feelings in this area, as well as the reference or links of reasoning to scientific journalism.* While my crack at GE hints at the $marminess of some journalism, I will cover that with this mud. The mud in this case is the subjective skills that are responsibly noted which makes raw leaks only facts not truth. Raw data(information) is not just objective but subjective itself.]

*12-9-10(comma added)Rupert Murdock does not support my feelings, him as an inspiration supports my feelings to the contrary, as well as an erroneous scientific take. And last link brackets (information is not just in the form of numbers, but even they are subject to context and formulas).

** [1-17-12 C-(sic): ledes is the intended spelling in this typo]

hmmm?

New Thinking on the Economy
by Dean Baker,
co-Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

also Beat the Press

[This points to an interesting problem or ROR:
(see labels for explaination)

The government is not getting its money's worth when buying bad assets. Anyone who understands how the economy works and the market works should not wonder. That is how it works. That is the point of buying bad assets, whether one wonders whether it should be done or not. If someone else would buy them the same would apply. The housing bubble* is a similar mechanism within the greater mechanism that is the financial problem.

How the economy works is different than how economics works. The economy is the thing. Economics is an equation. They both need tweaking and can work the way they are designed, but will tweak someone. Unfortunately an equation in economics will work only to the extent that everything (that is needed or wanted) is included in it. The economy works regardless but almost everything is included, except they are tweaking when they do the economics. And speaking of bubbles, they leak.

It might be easier to agree what not to do, than what to do, as long as failure is an option. But failure is not an option; it is a choice. This may seem like lost words, but failure is a potential outcome. And it can no more be simply allowed**, than freedom. Maybe this is Philosophy 701, but the Washington Post is not up to Journalism 201, let alone the economy.]

* housing equals assets except for the financial blowing of the economics.

** meaning failure should be prevented, and freedom promoted(are these not good points to work on?)

[Speaking of link(and equations): the stimulating if not shaky journalism below.(nfry)]

[only glanced at but likely recommended read: and see comments and embedded Krugman. For now: They'll be back.]

[That was Shwartznegger but later Ron Reagan covers similar territory with a guest who earlier slammed the stimulus. That was in December, so it was not the current plan. Which should be called what is: ARARA for Jobs! or just the begining or what is a quick and practical start. But does have a good chart on "Bang for the Buck", which depending on the math(see comments), could make a 1 trillion dollar difference in effectiveness.] [Post comment comment: of course this is as ridiculous a hypothesis as Plato's Republic, but for the sake of dialogue, a totally bipartisan package, could be seen to have potential for zero stimulus, as dollar for dollar is not really a bang.]

escapement?

While thinking about the type of people who can take a watch apart and put it back together again, I thought... I've never done that.  But in thinking about the mechanics of it, I may have recalled
something in regards to the nature of pendulums, springs and gears.  The term "escapement" came up in regard to clocks on the History Channel. That aside I may not get around to taking a clock apart, let alone following up* on the particulars of what I will now put together, but it feels** similar. 

How Many Ways Can Maureen Dowd Embarrass Journalism? by Charles Pierce Esquire**
Tea Party hatches quiet-but-insane plot against democracy: Meet the “12 Percent Solution” by Paul Rosenberg ***

P versus NP problem wikipedia with credit to Elementary
The Secular Coalition and Religious Freedom Day. 

* 1-17-13 added 2 inserts based on heading alone, and added labels
** (indicating read) Journal** about Journalism and Humor (Manichean Duelity) (Hegel tine Identity?)
*** only begun to fight(I mean read)(OW)^

Note: there are 3(**) but only one Mani[!] (buh dump ump)(ow)

^ 1-19-14: Before I go further. (bdu)
to reads: Personally I do not think Edward Snowden is a whistle-blower, nor is the debate over. Nor is the last read yet connected to the second to last, but maybe to the further and the branching problem.

Rest in Peace: Andrew Breitbart

It is with no schadenfreude that

I note the "passing" of Andrew Breitbart.

Nor to stay the course.

News Feed:

CNN,

NPR,

New York Times.

He probably did change the face of journalism.

I am not sure how that works, but the above image*** was linked to the "face" link.

Yesterday, David Bender interviewed former Senator Alan Simpson, who really tore into Rick Santorum and the Stephenie Miller Show. I hope** that was not what put the "Journalist"* over the top. I regret putting any meaning into what were hopefully "natural causes", not that they are any better than the best intentions sometimes. His dreams or nightmares will live on.

*3-2-12 BS added...(i.e. blog search)

** and asterisks: I hope "hope" is not a humor. "I'm just" reporting. (A wisecrack on sayings.)

*** apparently it may be how "Google" can work for some.(note image replaced below)

4A: not to pun on a death but there are categories of writing and communicating. Why do you think they have wakes?^^

3-2-12(continued): In fact I think I will take it back a notch.

See "face" change. The original "Google"^.

Note: Face moved and replaced.

(see "image"*** switch)

RIP: Respect in Place (Face adjustment)

^ unembedded from Big Journalism today

^^ link added post post

[3-8-12 Update: It certainly was my first reaction that Breitbart died of Righteous Indignation, but not in so many words. I did not even know he wrote the book, that I know of. But it could have slipped through my safety net.]

SHOCK and AWE(UPDATE)

Martin Bashir on Aid to Pakistan [To the President:]

So before he is tempted to cut all forms of funding, I would like to remind him of the wise words that he wrote back in 2006 in his book "The Audacity of Hope." Speaking about the circumstances in which terrorism can flourish, he highlighted failed states and poverty as the two most important factors.

Not to raise any suspicions** but the mission has not been so clearly defined in original reports.

CIA Chief Leon Panetta, later Tuesday told NBC News, "The authorities(sic*) we have on Bin Laden are to kill him. And that was made clear. But it was also, as part of their rules of engagement, if he suddenly put up his hands and offered to be captured, then they would have the opportunity, obviously, to capture him. But that opportunity never developed."

But back to the issue of aid. See raise link.

Using stringent language, a statement by the Pakistani Foreign Office said, "Such an event shall not serve as a future precedent for any state, including the United States."

This is clearly a nuanced not "stringent language". But if,(and I mean A BIG IF) Osama bin Laden has been hiding in this compound for six years, it is difficult for the Bush administration to take much credit for the success of this mission, (let alone waterboarding). And while President Obama has been clear on the issues of failed states and poverty being part of the security equation, it is hard to expect Pakistan to be totally free of corruption or political and intelligence intrigue, let alone competence***. It is much easier to speculate and develop tin foil conspiracies that may actually be based on some evidence, and to use them to destabilize, than it is to change things at home let alone for another country. As the right seems to paint themselves into the corner of hypocrisy, the President has the responsibility of being the cherry picker and decider-in-chief. And in connecting the dots of the likes of the latest Right, (remember A BIG IF) then there must be some logic that the Bush administration must be further scrutinized for their part in a $1.4 trillion escapade of terror. How can we hold other countries responsible for competentencies when ours (and often rightly so) are so political?

* my (sic)inserted maybe "authorizations"?
** it is not the "fog of war" it is the fog of understanding and journalism
*** there is some irony in this linkage given prior asterisks
[Apologies for the nuance and dynamics of this threading, it is tricky to deal with the likes of some thinking, let alone journalism. And it was not my intent to necessarily minimize incitefulness or skirt a tin-foil issue or weave Teflon administrations.]

[While I may have great peripheral vision, I link the link weave last, but it was embedded in any above(3rd link).]
[Breaking news (which might be broken), apparently they will not release the photo of bin Laden, the argument is that there may be no pleasing some.]

[Further Embed Meant: Pakistan and speaking of timing. The death of A BIG IF?]
[Back to My TetraHeDron? Not Exactly!]
[Post Post In-put]
[Pre-Post er us in - put?]

Thursday, May 05, 2011
No Photos
"cathartic moment"
Now* to America's Future

*actually see not so Pre-Post er us reference to in-put(above). Also on Rumsfeld. On Stiglitz. Doing Justice?
[Important flip-flop or fair and balanced rearrangement regards the perspectives of Samuel P. Huntington and Francis Fukuyama. From Clash of Civilizations I may have cherry picked or perspectivized my analysis via tangential influences. While Francis Fukuyama has corrected his alignment from The New American Century, from renouncing the Bush administration to supporting and influencing the Obama Doctrine, it is not just ironic that the tag line for the issue of release of the bin Laden photos is, "It is not who we are" nor that the likes of the right see almost everything as a culture war. Or that both Bush and I were opti-mystic,(yeah right, he was) and why we now have hope.

Death of a Journalist?

His career that is.
Compassionate to the end.
Michael Gerson that is.
Actually I wonder about his journalism creds
past or present, that is.
Here is a little ramble on that note.
Sort of a talking points memo or
just rambling notes:

Death of a Journalist [*]
AUC!
Besides...
Overshadowed not eliminated?
Pie or Cake? [**]
It is the size that matters.
Balanced understanding or fuzzy math and English.

Summary: Bush is not all bad, and not all conservative, but on balance?
Math and English and logic for that matter, don't matter much.

Or better, things could be worse, he could have been like Cheney.
[UPDATE: WHERE THE BUTTONS?]
[Even later but earlier comparisons: Bush is no Lincoln but good points to watch out for in the could do worse category: "600,000 dead. The country essentially hated him when he was leaving office." and speaking of competition or legacies, "a charge to keep" accurate or not. And dyslexia of mythical proportions.

* I'm not exactly happy with where ever this term came from as it popped into my head, but maybe the concept that journalism is so dead. So far from fair and balanced. So far from a job being done, which means including who, what, when, where, why, and how, or at least getting some facts right, not that I ever include everthing.

** reference is to pie charts and growing it, and having your piece and eating it too.

[The State of the Union and
Further numbers? 1-31-08 ]

Breitbart Lives!

Not exactly the Starting Point, but Soledad O'Brien "clashes" with Big Journalism** Editor-in-Chief over "critical race theory" and a with-held video.

It almost seems that CNN* is a wannabe FOX or MSNBC.

It is more than swift iron knee that FOX has any concern for material being with-held.

* not to single out or be overly critical of CNN or Soledad O'Brien, but they do seem to be competing for "fair and balanced" between the other two "news" networks. FOX is the veritable "you started it" network. The media was too liberal so they had to have a "fair and balanced" take on their reality. Making room for MSNBC as a counter force. CNN has the real challenge trying not to be either, but still news or journalism in a market environment.

**[aka Raw Money Dot Com or Culture War in context and con text !]

[More perspective or not ? OOPS!]

[It's Alive !]

[in balance here is more]

[3-9-12 Tocqueville lives?*** And so does Calvin and Hobbes?

*** promo(not found) for "Up" balances de Tocqueville's intent.

[BTW: if corporations are people, should they also have...reproductive rights? Please note that I self-edited the last(see cartoon) health reference. (i.e. founding mother of all probes or ultra-sounds?)]

[3-14-12: The Ed Show, The Last Word. Who needs Spin? ]

"More Scrutiny Needed!"

Bloomberg Commentary by Betsy McCaughey
Not necessarily the one to do it.

Update: 2-13-09 [Shout Out: Media Matters]

[Update 2-12-09 "Conservative Media Echo Chamber..."
Also more on Misinformation... ]

[from dialogue with Thrasymachus * ]
...the last paragraph was an eye opener if you believe it. Well not really; it confirms my world view or rather your world view. Health care should be a growth industry and cost is no object.

But second: health-care reform is made up of more than just government programs, and will not replace the healthcare industry or the insurance industry, so it is very easy to cherry pick and hits the nail on the head with my last post:

It might be easier to agree what not to do, than what to do, as long as failure is an option. But failure is not an option; it is a choice. This may seem like lost words, but failure is a potential outcome. And it can no more be simply allowed**, than freedom. Maybe this is Philosophy 701, but the Washington Post is not up to Journalism 201, let alone the economy.

And this gal is not not up to Journalism 101. WWWWWH? (that too...or also)

BTW: I really did some ridiculous math (further amendment to my blog) that went on in the comment section. If the $800 billion (jobs bill) were purely partisan or completely extremist (utopian?) and the choice were between more Bush tax cuts, and all food stamps (which I can't imagine anyone proposing) (but probably some on the right might) the Bang for the Buck would be negative .71 / dollar or positive .73 / dollar. But that is only if some would have it only their way. HOWEVER it seems even a balanced partisan bill would result in closer to zero effectiveness. This is extreme rhetoric(and math), but seems to demolish the moderate approach as well. It does however prove the importance of new thinking rather than more of the same.

* a nickname for an emailer
** see previous post for these asterisks and below link for Bloomberg

Wise Crack

That's the heading,
here is the lede. 
Then there is the crack.*

Grand Funk"s (Into The Sun)[6] is a crack at the journalism(or perspective) of The $un[1,5].  An alternative being considered in the Senate is found under "heading"(Sam Stein)[2].  A reference to the Dean "Scream" brings us to some resolution[3,4]. 

*Format note: M-bedded links[1-6]
(FP1)

[NOW \ AM...  Senator Manchin is on Andrea Mitchell(earlier** NOW references needed***) but here is an un-opened email in this regard.]
** I Ron Knee(Verification Regime) or Thomas Roberts
*** today(re:initialism)
[Not to mention: Mess Aging ?  Obama met with 6 networks. Segue: journalism and party dimentionalism. See bold.]

Hump Day for Journalism

Well*... it is usually a Wednesday** but let's be preemptive !

*not a deep subject
** said relief ?


(** [!] d ? ! )



{HD}/ Iron Knee [?]?[!]
[Update: Footnotes]

11-22-12 [C-VC]

Clog Alert!

Not to Ribble, but regarding two points here:
The tenor of Bane Or. 
Rather than footnote, I will say Ctrl F "anachronism..." and scroll over "speaking of speakers"
Note to Editor(i.e. me): review dating 4mat. Chuck Todd, Today Show (R)

A. Norman Goldman comments on Boner.(I say Bane Or...)
B. The political parsing of wills and divided government, not to joke about punchlines or politicians and lawyers or bitter pills.

Further parse N later ...  [^]

^ not [exactly]
Review Saved in^^ Draft and Tangents.
^^ 12-31-12 [!] ?  w h ?

[C-The Cyle: "Stuck on Repeat"  RE/A+B "Amen Gov" (...) or E-Moat-Iconn?  i.e. "Boehner in a Bind?" /// F B D (S.E. Drift)^^^ or working with hope? and case studies!(patton lee adsurd?)/(Re:N-dell) (M.C.Time**) Not my comity of journalism]*

^^^ live drafting
*[1-4-13 e-N-f  / Re:Turn to C? i.e. inserting links now.(& later*)
** must review re:hope? & *

Who got the memo?

Who reads the script?
LO and behold, I am See Sic again.
The memo, the apology,
and The View?
Apparently FOX has acknowledged some mistakes in the Shirley Sherrod ordeal, while Beck apparently is not too up with FOX*, and Lawrence O'Donnell of Countdown still can't see**. At least when it comes to why Obama appeared on the view.

* the Dean disconnect
[links in progress***]
** link added 7-30-10 Don't get me wrong, no one on MSNBC is anywhere near, a Beck, O'Reilly or any FOX character. Even with stand ins for vacationing hosts, they have more character. But LO in particular was using a rhetorical ploy in his question to why the President would go on The View, while FOX still is on the hook for the Breitbart backtrack. It is my opinion, no one on FOX which includes Sarah Palin has any cred in wondering why, let alone criticizing, from their "gotcha journalism" perspective. And just how should Palin supporters react to her celebrating Shakespeare, who was English, and a living language, in view of the original intenders of the constitution? To be fair, making up new words, American or not, is not the same, as not being able to use or let old ones live. It is however a knew cents of stringing too words to gather.

*** I think I have capped things with "The memo" link, while "the script" link was a crack at Beck's interpretation of himself, let alone biblical error. The context or con text being everything in my View. Speaking of which, there was no memo.

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!

Digging Up and Digging In.

Or Digging Out...

As I paused to reflect on the appropriateness of the connections above, the third popped into place. But it is a grave matter, this journalism*.

The field of meta4; one, two, three, strikes yer out. The Metaphysical Meta-for.

[Further digs to read or Dickens of a future, past and present. ]
[And one more shovel or scoop of apathy.**

*Health Care
** intended link
*** (future link: see comment) Nuance of polls and evolution of the word
[Update: the word]

(WMD) Wisdom's Mass Deployment

Matthews finally gets there.

Previous Chatter.

Sophistry aside?*

Alexander Hamilton's Advice To The Obama Administration. by Thom Hartmann CommonDreams.org

* Matthew's and Hamilton's bad rap in their respective fields (Journalism and Finance)

The Real Scoop?

The Whichgate?
The Yellow Leaks from Canada?
["NAFTAgate" Began With Remark From Harper's Chief of Staff]

It reminds me of the "yellow cake" from Africa
but they are on the trail,
and ready to send in the Mounties.

It was a very difficult read, [added 3-7-08]

["He said someone from (Hillary) Clinton's campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. . . That someone called us and told us not to worry."

Government officials did not deny the conversation took place.

They said that Mr. Brodie sought to allay concerns about the impact of Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton's assertion that they would re-negotiate NAFTA if elected. But they did say that Mr. Brodie had no recollection of discussing any specific candidate - either Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama.

CTV News President Robert Hurst said he would not discuss his journalists' sources.

But others said the content of Mr. Brodie's remarks was passed on to CTV's Washington bureau and their White House correspondent set out the next day to pursue the story on Ms. Clinton's apparent hypocrisy on the North American Free Trade Agreement.]

but will it soon drop from the radar?

If this does not shine some light on the candidates,
maybe Canada can shine some light on the journalism. [the story continued]

[Although CTV correspondent Tom Clark mentioned Ms. Clinton in passing, the focus of his story was on assurances from the Obama camp.

He went to air on Feb. 27 with a report that the Democratic front-runner had given advance notice to Canadian diplomats that he was about to engage in some anti-NAFTA rhetoric, but not to take it too seriously.

The report wound up on YouTube and caused an uproar in the U.S. race - influencing the final days of the critical Ohio primary, with every indication it will also play a role in the upcoming Pennsylvania vote.]

Is this part of someones campaign or strategy?
Maybe the best we can hope is that it vets us,
even if they do not get to the bottom of it.
Of course they could sound sincere now,
but still leave someone at the bottom of it.

Canada could be shining a light on our own congress
to have the backbone to investigate our own media
and the madness of our own accountability. [more * YouTube 3-7-08 Barack Obama NAFTA Scandal: A Smear Says Canada PM 3/3]

*[3-7-08] I did not post an original YouTube that depicted CBC in this or others that ran on from it.

[3-6-08: see bottom link and is someone vetting us? and should the FEC or the FCC or both investigate YouTube? For it can spread without linking or correcting, oh what a web they weave and just who do they really peeve?]

[3-8-08 Label: NAFTAgate added]
[3-9-08: UPDATE see bottom link there ]

Green Walled Parallel

Not exactly the lesson. 

The LA Times piece was much more fair and balanced* than The Intercept "editorial".  Snowden was not the author of the legislation, congress was.  Glenn Greenwald's journalism(or logic) on this matter might lead me to give the Republican Party credit for the recovery**. 

*I've decapitalized and un-quotation marked for sake of irony
[Rumsfeld/Korb All In for American Progress]
** if it wasn't the LA Times that made the claim on authorship

Recent Reichert Ad

Sound* Politics?
Sound Journalism? I mean...

* puppet chamber or tent?
(anachronistic post)
*a,b,c,d
(chamber)/(foreign legion)