Forward (Ironically)

Original Heading: (FP!) Footnotes Page #? January 2014

1-15-14: Epicyclic Popperism, (b.s.*)Wittgenstein
(b.s.) Cultural Threads are Fine., ( b.s. pS.) A Tale of Two Manicheans.

Is politics the philosophy of action? 
Everyone has a philosophy, not everyone has a politics. And where does this come from?
[["Life is the content in context **."]]
[["** Is this line the Hitch or Hedge hiker?"]]

*(blog search)
** Epicyclical Poet Tree It may turn out, that I am demonstrating and practicing P'.(although like a lot of material I have yet to finish reading, that may be P^.)

P^ ~ found under "hiker" Knot 2B Phun Knee^, nor Phields ofor Phootballs. Nor to be a PhD.
^ Ctrl F: chef

P' ~ found under con' of "content"= The Vital Usefulness of Popperism
P^ = Philosophy Now: "Philosophy, it seems, currently has three main avenues, which, though clogged, it tries to flow through. One is academic philosophy, which is, one gathers, largely mired in esoteric analysis or self-referential in-house debates. Another might collectively be called ‘street philosophy’. It wants to be some modern version of ancient Greek marketplace philosophy, but the correspondence doesn’t stick. The third realm is ‘hidden philosophy’, held non-publicly by individuals whose intellect and values funnel out into practice and postures seen and unseen, burbling out in things like voting, how a person feels he or she has been educated, and what the zeitgeist in the public square is like."
Knot 2 mention ADD. POP Art. Schopenhauer, Young, Dantos, Dent.<>

<> GPS  Coin-age of the day. Over Helming. (USC), Rubric's Cube and Rhetorical Realmifications. (sea)

Hiker pun on Chris-to-pher hoods, Hitchens and Hedges.
Oar actually hitch / hedge / Hood?

[Note: Facetious Time Stamp 2014]

NOTE: (sc) original heading = date of post  / UPD8: Save for study.

Notes from Al-Qaeda

"The Base" a translation: "Al-Qaeda"
Actually these are just notes from June 1, 2007

The Base: Al-Qaeda
The Bottom Line: The people.
Fundamentalists: Neo-Cons

Connections? People need to be the bottom line not money. The point needs to be progress not money. Money is a tool that is needed for survival. It is not the point of it all. The same goes for power. The point of the base which Bush brought together is their view from the top, to heck with the people getting there. The same goes for their thinking, starting at the end and expecting to get somewhere else.

Note: that now I have just found a post from someone with the same title. The Base

NOTES FROM TODAY:
People Matter

A paradigm is a worldview. This is a base world view that covers everything. First there is Physics which covers the reality as we know it, and don’t know it. Then there is Psychology which is the reality as we don’t know it, unless we think about it and then we still don’t know but feel something. Then there is Philosophy which covers the reality as we know it and would be nothing without us. [8-6-07: The Physics, Psychology, and Philosophy seem to be in evolutionary order, and in existence, feeling and thinking seemed to be the order of interactions. Society or Reality as these three interact seem to be embodied in the culture that is created, which can be for or against... Justice.]

These are the primary fields which form the fourth field which depends on time and the dynamics of the other three which each depend on the other three. The only other dimension in my mind is the direction these vectors can take which are either progress or back again which is a quality of the forces on each vector. But we cannot go home again. Even the second two vectors require our presence, so the direction seems to be aimed by and for us. Which puts people and progress as the primary matters of concern, or the alternative is only the return.

Now if this is a little over your head or seems loopy, you get a little more than you know. If this seems obvious you know a little more than you think. But if you could care less, that matters too.

Now for the less obvious. Just because I read, The Base , does not mean I read all of Asimov's The Foundation Series but there are connections: numbers and Psycho-History. Numbers matter and he's got them wrong; the writer of The Base, not The Foundation Series.

Condescending note: the difference between the president and congress and their polling numbers is that congress has more than one view point, and the president has only one. He may have it on many matters, but if things are black and white, all you have to do is flip flop and choose, between the the 32% (now 29%) who support Bush and the many Candidates who will run from him but not his policies are the balance of power the 68% who if they were united would probably go down in history. The miserable ratings of congress are because there are so many alternatives to Bush's stay the course, and that numbers are divided and low because they are not resisting him enough let alone sort out their options. alternatives.

And another earlier note revisited.
David Horsey wrote a piece in May of 2002, on Red and Blue America: my reply was apparently over someones head as a main point was blurred. The green was removed for color in the bottom line. In other words, the editor replaced one word (green) with another (color).

Horsey's cartoon goes overboard on voters

At the risk of being obvious, I would like to comment on David Horsey's "Red & Blue America" (May 19). For the sake of humor, it went overboard in its characterizations of those who voted for George W. Bush or Al Gore. I hope it is a good thing if people realize, like I did, how we can see one side funnier or less overboard than the other.

I hope the humor can be less dividing than the colors pinned on Gore and Bush. It also made me realize that there may be value in using more colors, but somehow without color being a factor in making us see red.

So at the risk of being obvious again, I will give you my original bottom line.
"It also made me realize that there may be value in using more colors, but somehow without green being a factor in making us see red.

Bold added, and at the risk of further condescension, green means money and third parties in general, not that they should not unite rather than divide. OK, I could not even keep the condescension up.

OK, I am not sure about that last double negative or even if it is, but...
The point is the difficulty in uniting, when we insist on black and white, or even red, white and blue, not to mention what we neglect, but the consequences are the result.

We have met the enemy and he is us. Well we should check the roots of this, but it seems we are the solution as well.

Philosophy, still in the game?

Two points need making on judicial philosophy. First a question: what happened to the judicial philosophy question? A good question would be, is it trickle down or bottoms up?

These are two points of departure here and almost a pun in that there is not really a difference with the slip of a key, but now that there is a new nominee there is still a question surrounding the philosophy or is it in the original intent of the nomination which should hinge on one question? Is a corporation a person?

Further: Is there equal protection under the law, in particular how does citizenship and homeland security come into play and more originally how do these promote the general welfare as noted in the preamble of the constitution?

Philosophy or politics? Neither are bad, neither are games. Play them. Do the hard work that will always be needed to keep the solutions from being a flip or a flop.

Going back to some other word games, I think of the forum, a battle, a debate, and 4 "M"s; money, mechanics, media and message(not in any particular order) is not just for ’em.

Coordinary

What^ is life? 

An *un-coordinary* chemical relationship with the environment with potential to replicate itself and adapt to change or find a niche but not without risk of changing it[!]

* "It's alive." ... actually this asterisk expresses a nature(RNA)^^ of sorts[?] to the evolution of purpose. In the original intent two asterisks bracket (to be continued)...  the word.  The missing link revolves around the magazine Philosophy Now and a Philosophy of History con text.

^  1-13-14 apologies for not noticing subscription requirement.
^^ related news to be updated


*no* not that it came from Mars, but that it is not fully read yet or linked.

Phosphat-Ion.svg

Phosphate-3D-balls.png

 

Space filling?

Speaking of not fully red.
OW !

 

OW!!  ^^^ Frau Neitzsche **

** There is no ^^^ !!
O W ? !  c-red?

Hint: *asymmetrical underlining?* ... knot to insult or dis-pare(or re-pair)age. {?}
Alternate aphorism? Art is Litter Ally chemical.

Looking Back, and Moving On.

Thanks for Thom Hartmann reference to Naomi Klein Year Zero

A few years later,something I just googled up on the Unified Model of Reality which Bush violates. [America's Darwin Awards and a Philosophy Assignment
by Martin Schönfeld / Commondreams.org]

Which fits my PBMP "Power Broker Mountain Project" which is about how things work and it is not just "trickle down". The three branches of government are just one example of how things should work and what it is about. The point is progress and the people. You can't "trickle down" till you get there and try getting there without the system (structure, environment, culture) and other people.

The points of my "Tetrahedron Model of Reality" is basically the fields of physics, philosophy, and psychology which represent forces, thoughts and feelings but the point is the big project.

And now John Nichols: "Bush may have been wrong about war presidents being popular." On "The Genius of Impeachment".

Enough for now, I have my own reality to work on, for the time being.

Censorship or just Business?

A belated comment on the firing of Mike Malloy:

Dear Mike:

Here is a comment I sent Air America Radio.

"Listening to Mike Malloy's last broadcast (August 25th) on Air America Radio, I am trying to determine if it was anything he said that lost him his job, assuming that maybe he crossed a line: However having listened up to the point that he came up with the bumper sticker WWYD?, [What would you do?] I feel that he actually was mellower than I had expected not being a regular, just due to the time slot.

I don't know if he foresaw his fate, or it is just financial, but I can accept that you are not necessarily in this for anything more than financial reasons. I just hope that that is the case and not some sort of displeasure with his message. His most extreme words cannot compare to the reality of this world, that must be challenged with reason or it will only be for force."

Having finished listening your (hopefully not) last program, there may be many places where you crossed a line, but as I said above and to a friend, compared to reality "there is no line". Well that is not exactly what I said, but I progress (as opposed to digress).

Now I can send you my improved well wishes.

Roger Out.

P.S. the above format is such as I had already shared this issue with a friend from Canada. In the overall lineup of Air America, you were not (necessarily) my favorite, but it may have just been your time slot (or being too similar in "sentiment"). After all the fine talents, it was usually just too much, to get jacked up all over again so late in the day, not wanting to cross any lines myself. But I must say, I really enjoyed your "last program" and look forward to wherever you end up.[italic words added now]

P.P.S. Listening again I get to the point where Bush says "there is no point in having a philosophical discussion" ? Appointing justices it was all about philosophy. Did anyone ask what was the philosophy? Not the media or the politicians. But we have leapt to the answers.

Coin-age of the day.

Veriabling.

Origin*: Prior coin-age on our coin age. 
Pre-coin-age:  prior posts that coin new words, although not necessarily sovereigns***

Structural Speculation

* already evolved from variabling to veriabling, not to emphasize bling. 
Not to be confused or separated from** coin age, or should I Say knot.
** line is reference to labels, inserted links are geometricks
*** timing is everything?

Note:  Everything may be a pun on the word or dimention, but it is the last inserted link at this time.  It spins off of the sovereigns reference and humorism(or Lincoln Logs) where I will refrain from more quantum leaps[!]  Now to proceed from the double asterisked line's determinant[?] ... regarding the knot Say: 
12/12  Power Point on Philosophy of Science and Economics: Positivism, Popper, and After

11/12 Fideism: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

10/12 PDF Russell On Denoting.

9/12 Wittgenstein's Poker Lost and Found

8/12 Jiggery Pokery

7/12 Philosophy Stories

#6 See (FP below) 4moolah

5/12 Realmiffications ?

4/12 (b.s.) ofor

3. relavent

2. segweigh

1. veriabling 

FP[!]) insert #6 a. Pre-Pan FRY. b. Clinton(Bill) is full of B.S.

[!] exception to the rule? i.e. anachronical links
[?] matrix pun dropped

[Closed Cap shun ? ] (FP1)

Ctrl F "anachronistic"

blog search (b.s.) anachronistic*

(search: 4th dunn)
(b.s.) a. Anachronistic Reasoning?, b. Faux Campaign, c. FAUX NEWS!, (e.), f. Clause Wits (3.0)?, (g)host Busters, h. Roar Shack, i. A Tail of Caution, ( j. ), k. ether note, l. F'n P[!]  m. War'n Buffet Rule , n. By Polar , o. From 17A to 37B, p. Killing Fields of Dreams,  q. Future Bubble? , (r.).

*anomaly knot
(_) Rat Races Van Mices?, The LESS THAN pentagonal file:, Bury the lede?, Too Random...,

[ Picture Theory: 1. The Curve or Nuance Thing, 2. For Words!, (3.), 4. GOP Plan to Hurt Economy
Speaking of timing [!] Philosophy Now links may be free for limited time. Democracy is not.
On meaning. / War On/Or Terrorism ? , MoveOn , Decider Stays Course., FAST REVERSE or BACKTRACK BEFORE FAST TRACK , ]

Para~graph Three!

Endo-terror~cism?

aka Academics ?

The point?  The esoterics of Strauss maybe the Socratics of Plato, or exoterics of Neitzsche.

Ctrl F (academic:~:academics)
:::  aka [a. FOOTNOTE JUNE 2013 PAGE TWO, b. The Daily Counter Balance , c.(J) In the begining... , (D)BoC, e. Belated Breaking News! , f. THE COUNCIL OF NICE , h. Back-Log August 19th, ("religious ghetto") , i.(G).]
:::   ? [a. Looking Back , b. "if I were dictator" , c. What's good for the goose? Goose the gander! , d. Bane(Or) Change , e. Conservative Foray (4A) ,  f. Blame to go around? , g. Will Safire Replaced by Will I ams., h. Academic Freedom , i. Framing Narratives , j. In the begining... , k. Technical Difficulties , l. The Thorn and the Lyin' , m. Running Joke , n. Let me finish? , o. We are at the table. , p.Forward (Ironically)  ]
(what the fudge?  f-j,p?)
:::   Endo-suffix?

The project  ?   The dance? 
"Esotericism is the practice, widely employed by a variety of thinkers prior to and up through the early Enlightenment, of disguising their real meaning through ellipsis, surface contradiction, dispersal of their real arguments, and the like (indeed—they were misleading casual readers about their true intentions!). The understanding that philosophers like Plato and Aristotle made use of esotericism was central to Strauss’s own project of returning to their thought as an antidote to what he called the “crisis of modernity”, since it pointed to deeper truths hidden behind the evident meaning extracted by superficial readers. It was probably also one of the sources of distrust of Strauss and his followers by other academics, since it implied that initiates into the art of esoteric interpretation had access to meanings unavailable to others." Francis Fukuyama.
Or Ecto~tonics of Aristotle?  Less than Ionic that paranormal came up in  English [?]
P.4,The Prince misquote? P.5 "undermine dogmatism" bingo~? P.6 Nietzsche Recurrance
"That latter struggle was ultimately won, and led to the triumph of the “harmonist” view, now almost universally accepted, that philosophical truth could be made compatible with and indeed supportive of modern politics. Transparency is today the name of that venerable game. Classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle had a different view; namely, that philosophical skepticism undermined the irrational beliefs necessary to the maintenance of a political community and therefore needed to be kept under wraps. As Melzer points out, there is a large body of contemporary scholarship that actively contends that virtually no one other than a few cranks ever wrote esoterically; he performs a great service by, first, showing that the claim is empirically wrong, and second, that it is itself an historically contingent interpretation." (ibid.)
 
2-25-15 2 ~ B Kantinued ;-) R I P ? [!]
(1) a. Who Let the Dogs Out?, b. The Undisclosed Bunker Branch of the Government., c. ...what about the damage to your Presidency?, (d.) The Curve or Nuance Thing, e. Doxology.
(2)~
(3)  The Be All and End All?

Pen~ta-gone? i.e. P5
"This section of the book is wonderfully erudite and leaves no uncertainty that esotericism was indeed a major art that is now all but lost. Melzer points to four reasons for past uses of esotericism. First, it served as protection from prosecution; he notes its widespread use in totalitarian countries like the former Soviet Union and contemporary China. Second, it served to protect the political community from dangerous truths, such as philosophical skepticism about the city’s gods and traditions; third, it served a pedagogical purpose by forcing readers to engage on a deeper level; and fourth, it was used as a transitional strategy for modern writers seeking to undermine dogmatism." (ibid)
P6?  At this Platonic # I will note Aristotle's place in the Nietzschean struggle.  
Hence Fukuyama is a difficult read of Strauss and Plato who are difficult reads.

P7? "If Philosophy Between the Lines were simply a book..." (where P = par.) I might plow on[!]
@9   "Strauss’s central concern was what he called the 'crisis of modernity', where the project of using philosophical reason for practical purposes was in danger of collapse."
@12 "The recovery of the rationalist project was central to Strauss’s life work—"
Having now fully read it, I will let you decide.

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

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)

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?   

Apples and Oranges and Cherry Picking.

[UNITY MODEL? Or Filtering Will?]
One of the comments after the ISGR (Iraq Study Group Report) release was that it is not a fruit salad. Well, what could be said for the presidents speech? Going beyond the metaphor that he is still mixing apples and oranges when it comes to what got us into Iraq, congress must be the taster that stirs the juices from the bottom of the mix and even adds a fruit or more to the mix. I don’t know if this is just another way of straddling the fence of will and hope, but it means that while the president has a habit of cherry picking that has not changed, the fence may have tumbled under the weight of the fruit trees. Congress must call apples, apples, and oranges, oranges, and any other fruit, just what they are. The cherry here is that while it is not called a time table, there is a time frame that he is aware of. (November?) Congress much verify all the fruit in this salad, and add some that the ISGR have recommended.

Fruit salad metaphor aside, I have earlier made reference to the old adage "the proof is in the pudding", but that the hard work of the mix was not done before we got in this fix, we have seen something that is a just desert. While Bush’s admission that "Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me" is not an accounting of what his will has wrought, the following sentence "It is clear that we need to change our strategy in Iraq" is a sign of hope. Congress must verify all the ingredients in any recipes, add their own and toss the nuts. They have complete control of the pantry.

Metaphor aside, and it was not easy to stay away from the salad for the pudding, I would like to clarify more hope than just the two lines. This may tread more into cynicism as I fight the urge to indulge in it, it should be noted that the president seemed more subdued, and paced and did not resort to the patronizing act of speaking slowly. It was a very well delivered speech, delivered in a more realistic tone. Now it is our job to check that reality and work on it together. It should not be too much to ask that after six years he has made some progress, but that must not be only in the ability to more humbly deliver a speech or to conceal his recognition that someone else is in charge and that his will has a part in who soon will be.

Falling fruit trees and fence crushing aside, I will address a more subtle irony and a more specific branch. It has been said that we will fight them over there so that we won’t have to fight them over here. Now it is being said that we must clear and hold, and today the president implied that the enemy is likely to move on. That contradiction should be a big concern in the world of rhetoric but in the world of reality, it is a very big world that already has battles unmentioned, or unrealistically referred to; Afghanistan and Somalia, just two. Diplomacy was only referenced in where "We will use America's full diplomatic resources to rally support for Iraq from nations throughout the Middle East." Diplomacy is not a pep rally held by cheerleaders. I think that as General Pace, (I believe) today called this a pivot point, a focal point must be considered. The irony is that it does not fit into a world of metaphors. It only fits in a world of balance that is much more hard work, rather than a world of spin and counter-balance. I really don’t know if it is too contradictory but just the idea that the Department of Defense such as it is, is rather ironically labeled, you can see where this takes us. Maybe a Department of Peace is little out of focus as a counter balance, but that is a matter that Politics should look at. Every time Politics is noted as a matter that must be avoided, it must be looked at as a form of denial of reality, as much as the denial of Physics, Philosophy and Psychology are. Now where does this fit into our picture of what a society or civilization should be? Politics is about the balance of power, and the balance of nature that Will is a part if we picture it.

CON TEXT / CON SCIENCE ABOUT THE PROCESS!

Filibuster Alito for Constitution's Sake

An Open Letter to SENATORS(in particular moderates who bargained away their duties for the sake of protecting Senate traditions and rules regarding the filibuster)

(Slightly edited from fax sent 1-18-06 to)
Honorable Senator Nelson:

A "unitary philosophy" puts you out of a job, and the people out of the picture. This philosophy has existed prior to the unprecedented selection of Bush over the people. The (constitutional)design of three branches of government requires each to do it's job, and the process (in you) are the arbiters. If you do not stand for the people and the constitution’s principles, do you know what you are standing for?

I feel that it is crucial that you oppose Mr. Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.

If that is not possible due to the political dangers of your area, it is at least crucial that you stand for the terms of your judicial compromise that prevented the busting of the filibuster in earlier nominations to the judiciary. UNLESS of course that you feel that the Democrats had the opportunity for "advice and consent" as explained in said document.

Politics and the law are more than games, they make the rules for the games that are our lives. Please do not gamble that things cannot get worse or that you can know what is in the conscience* of one that seems to be above the law. That is their philosophy as stated by Bush and demonstrated by his actions. Their conscience is above the law, is yours?

Failing to persuade you on your vote on Alito, at least stand up for your compromise, do not vote for cloture.

* During Bush's 2000 campaign, I noted when he pointed out that his conscience was above any campaign laws. That may have been the Rubicon, now we may only have politics, tyranny or anarchy.