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In noting my lack of comment on the Fort Hood tragedy [last Thursday*], a commemoration of the Berlin Wall coming down [today], as well as the upcoming Veteran's Day [this Wednesday], I did not want to just make gratuitous/obligatory commentary or cracks, but must note their passing.

The word *** "animus" tripped me up in a recent essay. Just how does this tie in? Maybe between the geek and the week, or the will and the weak.

[* my thoughts as the news broke: It seemed that the snippets of detail that are still coming out, told a story of failure of process if not un-intentional derilection of duty, in putting together the potential triggers for a disturbed personality. They include: the stress of his duties dealing with stressed soldiers, his being a psychiatrist who did want to be deployed, a recent poor performance rating, not to mention his(I don't want to say "so-called")faith**. ]

** this is not to diminish faith nor emphasize the Islamic connection, but ideology might be a better word or the irony of the word associations.

[Belated links: encyclicals, stress and cracks.]

[11-10-09: update on Fort Hood investigation. There is an interesting loopiness in the lack of connecting the dots, and that is between the talk and the action. It is also reflected in the difficult aspects that determine whether this will be a military or terrorism prosecution. It is more deeply embedded in the insanity of a defense for an offensive act, unjustified if there were not such a loopiness. This is not to justify the act, nor ridicule crazy talk. But I am connecting the act of justifying preemption with violence, over preemption with caution, to a failure to talk about justice preemptively.]

[11-11-09 update Obama at Fort Hood ]

*** 11-11-09 bold added as a hint in this paragraph

Who gets it?

Not the helium but the humor.
Rep. Grayson has a sense of humor and deals with serious issues on Bill Maher's RealTime.

[Back in the Box:(my comment forestalled by login difficulties)

I believe (Jiu Jitsu in Afghanistan) does fit into his "despise"(d) "left-right boxes"(metaphor) more than the writer understands. And also less into the martial arts metaphor than he also understands. To me, there is difficulty equating(or rather comparing) war with diplomacy and yet there is also an intelligence factor that differs. To mix boxes (or analogies might be better), you have Rumsfeldian intelligence and then there is what is really out there * . War obviously relies more on secrecy, while diplomacy relies more on openness, however you will still have those that play a war game, whether in or out of the box or whether they are with us or against us.

This is more than self-fulfilling loopiness.]

* potential inconcatenation** of intelligence and fear mongering or not being as out of the box or martial artistic as thought

** or is it deconcatenation***, but math and logic aside?

*** or unstrung Tao of Zen (in google we coin... a new word and failed)
[Third times a charm? Unconcatenation not.

Ideology

The perspective one has of society's creation and one's role in it.***

Not* Exactly[!]

[Ideology and Iowa are a lot like the eye of the needle or camel.(no pun)]

[Perspective: to be processed later more or less...[!]
Speaking of ant or fable TV. Democrats cannot afford to have distractions or liars, just because "the Right" does it. Speaking of irrelative**: ant:Anthony, Ed:Rush,(or Beck Or Reck) Whiner:BaneOr, silver lining:golden rule, objective/subjective ]

* iOWa, iRreleFont? Rachel Maddow discusses the "small i" people. But then, eye had not seen her comments.

** something about relative in regards to the differences in ideologies and personalities on spectrum ofor loopiness on the left or right.

***[Media(sources) a side: wMD: I may go on or take hiatus but the bottomline is the top line is mine. i.e. I have only begun the Mike Cormack book, and I am not quoting it. Ibid this bracket.(Thanks to truthout.org for this last crack, not the book]

[!]Hi Ate Us, interesting Try Angle or Segue(way)[]. Or Tr(eye)i Pod?
A.B.C.D...

Lib...Ya[!] is not Free!

There is enough loopiness in Lib...Ya! and
The Politics of the Table, posts.
but HERE is no October Surprise.

See heading: The Lib...Ya[!] pun is free, but freedom is not only not free, it is not a farce.
"no illusions" quoting the president.
Or Iron Knee?

[Local Tangent?]
[Metrics of Coherence: Martin Bashir]
[Metrics of Comprehensiveness:(Dylan Ratigan) Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Thumbs off the scale, Thumbs all around. Not to mock a squad, or cheer lede, but sometimes there is a mess in the message. By this I am pinning a tale on the media, not to mention occu-pied pipers. No Don Qui intended.]
[BTW: these last two bracketeds* are pre-and post vision things**. i.e. the coherence was post Martin Bashir, the comprehensiveness(original comprehension) was pre-emptive of viewing Dylan Ratigan, a transition comment of sorts***, but the perspective was coming from sorted strengths and dynamics, as in areas of politics, economics and foreign policy, not to wholistically thumb up or down individuals or fields.]

* re: Martin and Dylan
** segue
*** for proper chronology I closed the bracket and will insert here the intended Bashir and Ratigan, leaving the rest as is.
[10-22-11: inserting links in asterisk(3) and also insert the two Bashir and one Ratigan within the bracketeds, plus interesting segue- difficult transition]

Calm Pend E Um

[slight word corrections on 9-28-11 but there was a coincidence that it is about lede or ship.]

Re: Friday the 13th.
Ally Gory of the Bubble.

On Friday after my posts, or it could have been Thursday, I was reflecting on the apparent synchronicity or was it anachronicity? Gotcha. Actually, I was reflecting more on my writing style or flow(hyperbole/hyperbola). Suffice to say, I was curious about the convenience of some of my searches when I would be in need of embedding some meaning. In particular, at some point I searched my blogspot for "blue" and was amazed to find only five prior uses, which is not correct**. (See Bold Bubble above) But there is a point that our own meaning is involved in our style which I will not reconstruct. While somewhere in this loopiness there is an AL GORE rythm, here is one segment unembedded from other work:

Fight of the Century may be the TOE in the door. (Theory of Everythink (sic)) No pun on C-sic. Not to bug you...
[Third times a charm or cut to the chase, I juxtaposition 5 links above.*
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Why I am not an Austrian Economist
A new powerhouse for ridiculous GOP economics
Raghuram Rajan: Delineating the Role of Governmentand
Risk and Robustness

and you might scroll over (or not click) to get a sixth sense under Economix.]

* is lost con text

The main point is that there is an old acronym from IBM, about computers, GIGO ("Garbage In, Garbage Out") and the user is not the only one that puts garbage in, yet sometimes you just might get "Good Out".

** see "scientific aside" there along with updated link

Speaking of Fudging?

or dot, dot, dot!
This is a bit fringe!
And a bit of a bloomin' concern and not to mention more grown up*attention.

* updated this link today

[Miscellaneous links hotlinked 3-31-10]
Rhetorical
Charges?
Reported
links?
loopiness?

MSNBC guilty of fair and balanced, Radigan guilty of equivalence.

Bricks and stones

no bones about it?

Too many threads.*
Still in the process of reading the links embedded and woven aknew[!]***

*2-24-13 

[a different Handy**]
[not to get a degree in Bacon but sometimes shelves are handy]
** found on one of my shelves.

***  Rhee-Marshall-Handy
In Charles Handy's The Age of Paradox,(**) there are two chapters I navigated to, but first I would say that every age is a paradox, as that is the nature of nature. Anyway, they are The Federal Idea p. 109) under Practicing the Preaching, which referenced back to the Sigmoid Curve(p. 49) under Finding the Balance.  I would like to weave in the Paradox of Choice by Bob Schwartz to determine if management of information and business is what education should be based on. 

Forbes Thought Of The Day
“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.”
— William J. Cameron

[See under degree / on, (b.s.)finds "tetra+heed+run" / "Platonic+plank" = Education/Business/Government loopiness. Not to suggest nonsense or SixSigma, but a Six Edged 4Mat of dynamics and what matters and is the point, balancing change and individual freedoms.  (Platonic Platforming and Planks Constant?)]

Not to suggest a tipping of the tetrahedron, or BEG the work of N-title meants but which comes first? Business/Education/Government slash results or causes and affects of design?

GOLEFT TV

Finally: Real News Featuring video from progressive hosts. (Some from Air America Radio)
The choir grows. (The local affiliate)

[subtitled: STOP THE LOOPINESS! ]
But hold on to your seat, following these links can be challenging to your sense of peace.
Example: and this is a moderate one
Air America (select program)
The Randi Rhodes Show
Senate Democrats introduce Habeus Corpus Restoration Act of 2007
The vicious cycle completed
"as long as..."
NSPD51
But I don't have time for the ride.

An even worse ride:Plan Ready for Iran
On watch list for some time
Science Fiction or...

It might be one thing for Empire to win, but who will be the loser, even if it could? Not China or other powers, no matter what they choose. Failure is too scary to imagine, but progress is even scarier work. And with preemption on the table?
"Help me Obi-Wan///"
There is no secret message there or suggested solution, but it may not be just about "the force", but every player has a part and countries and corporations seem to play for keeps.
"As long as" who is the dictator?

"Failure is not on option..." is the most true oxymoron *. Failure is a result we must live or die with. In the case of the NSPD51, if failure is not preempted, or caused, it is at least incentivised and to some rewarded.

[apologies for a linky piece, all of which I have not read, and for any excessively creative wording *]

[It is funny how I seem to form a rather loopy cycle myself, as I had intended to insert somewhere a Huffington Post link. Not that particular one, but just the site in general. Speaking of Generals: Wesley Clark. Speaking of failures. Putin's eyes, which Bush looked into. (see paragraph before last "other powers") Our only hope.]

THANK YOU: Progressives Everywhere, in particular Huffington Post and Common Dreams
Speaking of forutituous links. The Telegraph and mine
with a search of "telegraph" and search "blows" it. Speaking of dreams. It is about the nightmare.

Democrats are about the American dream, Republicans are about keeping it that. And even the dream is a nightmare for the world.

* there is probably a better word for it, but then look at what we are dealing with.

[11:08 AM - - As I have noted, I have not read or reread all of the above links, and there are even some that I had intended to, but I must add this one,{Illiberal Moderates: The Global Swing Vote} by Amitai Etzioni - - a piece which I did just read and suggest caution in reading and sorting it out, but I do agree with it's approach. I have been familiar with his work prior to 1995, and that may have been important in my seeing the "grand misconception" even before I knew who was promoting it. Re: the misconceptions of Huntington and Fukuyama.]

Follow-up and Flip-Flop

(THIS MATERIAL has been lifted (cut and pasted)from my previous post, to clean it up a bit.)

QCON: Apparently there is no big thing about holding to one's words. But I will try to work harder and consider this a memo to self or is it another tangent?

Speaking of tangents: what about the tetrahedron? [**] -
PBMP

[**] ALSO UPDATED: "to be added phoney or funny to political points" as in
[1. Physical
2. Psychological
3. Philosophical
4. Political
(power loop of phony and funny or what will happen) ]

[And a final update to date: embedded loopiness and links]
Hence the battle over not just temper but meant and there4 humor's another battle field, not counting Dangerfield.]

Lawyers and Politicians...

and Journalists Oh My!

The general loopiness is nothing new in my blog. Stepehen* Colbert piled on the sandwich metaphor "to infinity" recently, and I am in the midst of Through the Looking Glass(yes, on paper)and I do believe Dorothy's escapade was possibly ripped off from Alice's trips. Hence the lyin' and politics and bull market redux.
Ribble or theme?
[Nonetheless to reads. i.e. I won't count]
P.S. no pun on the Steve or Stephen

*[7-10-12 Type Oh! A-thru?(R) The Point: Colbert, Clemons, Benen, Kornacki, Oh my?]

Debate: Take One

Iraq Question
[The Debate]
Rated

Gravel / Kucinich / Richardson

Obama / Dodd / Edwards

Clinton / Biden
These are pretty much the order of my impression on this question as to how they should be listened to on this matter. The three tiers present a bit of a gap on the issue as to their history and their suggestions now.

Other QCON: McCain on Gonzalez And somewhere (WeGotEd) Senator Leahy GO SENATOR! said he is after the puppet master not the puppets, where he places the U.S. Attorney issue above the concern for the disaster which is the Iraq war. That is the proper level of concern.

QCON RETREAD:
GO SENATOR REID: (Follow up comment on Senator Reid on The Ed Schultz Show: On the Supplemental Bill, I would suggest that this was a compromise and that any new bills (DEMO PLAN B) represent more restrictions on the president, but one last compromise that would truly address one of the president's concerns and the only half way legitimate one, is on the domestic "pork". To compromise, simply split the supplemental so that the president may choose to veto them separately.(Military and Domestic) Congress would also have a choice to override them separately or follow up with plan B. That would be the most political thing to do. Politics is not wrong, it is the choice between tyranny and anarchy. It is what happens in a democracy.

My apologies for the loopiness of the last post. It will be the only one that is truly evolving if I return to it. QCON is short for Quick Comment On the News, and/or Questioning the Con. The Retread refers to the GO SENATORS and the WE GOT ED materials and comments.

Self Fulfilling

Loopiness.
Hard Lesson for Journalism* or Economics?

[On other matters of relative intent... On the other hand.]

* I do not believe Kartik Athreya urged a ban of economics on the blogosphere.

Nixon to China?*

*see blogsearch box

It was a foreign policy trope.  Hmm.  I guess I was right...at least in the word "trope".   In double checking my use of the word, I addressed my project* in one way.  I have yet tor read the link under the "word", but it was found within a google of "Nixon to China" and suggests "Trump to North Korea" which is one answer to my slightly facetious** search.

Now that I have expanded the geometry or loopiness of the subject, another one just may be "Trump to tropes."  In an earlier pondering of this project, I thought of "Trump to the red line."  Today I really was recognizing the difficulty in this effort, as in the Trump will set you free.

Here is another project.

*Note the 3(now4) locations of my asterisks

** This word is attempting to take the edge off a very serious matter; finding a parallel trope for Trump.  (Ironically it just might be "Trump to Trump.")

List of Trump to tropes[!]
Trump to Nixon?


[!]= sic punctuation

In Background to Posts

Testimony on "the surge":
QCON - Pause.

Meanwhile the McCain LEGACY [*] : OFF COURSE -(update) (nfry). [**]

[BTW: I did pick up, in today's testimony, something from Petraeus on "military geometry" and "political calculus"; should we call in the mathematicians?]

[*] [4-9-08: Ed Schultz, not part of Obama campaign, calls McCain, "warmonger" - I suggest "fear monger" or "FlipFlopperKrafting".
Plus: "warmonger" defined,
not to mention: "Defeat" [***]defined...By George

[**] (not fully read yet)-:[4-9-08: Now fully read! (McCain record against veterans and the troops.)

[***]pardon the loopiness but "Defeat" must be noted as almost a Featured Article in this update.
[lastly: bonus link and labels added - QCON,JAG, Navigation,ROR: rant or ramble...GAME - (Watching the Watchers)... GoLeft.TV (hint)]