Congratulations KPTK! WE GOT ED!

And Randi and Stephanie, and Thom
[4-24-07: loopy link inserted for reconstruction]

- -
[8-2-07: ADJUSTED THIS DATE -
GO LEFT TV
Air America Radio
Progressive Talk Radio KPTK AM1090 Seattle
FILTER OF SORTS]
- -

[adjusted this date 8-11-07: ifilm of Spike TV
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show ]

Five of the Heavy Hundred are on one local station: AM1090

The 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America!

NUMBER 5.
Ed Schultz www.wegoted.com

Number 13.
Randi Rhodes: The Randi Rhodes Show

Number 36.
Stephanie Miller: The Stephanie Miller Show

Number 51 Thom Hartmann: The Thom Hartmann Show

Rounding out the court. Maybe the center.
Number 27. Clark Howard.

OK! My progressive spin almost missed Clark, but the term "important" over "popular" was a factor in the "Heavy Hundred", and his 1 hr time-slot midnight to 1AM may hint at that and the progressive lean of the listeners or hourly demographics. Clark is both important and popular, just not labeled progressive.*

FLIP FLOP THE LIST!
Considering these personalities and their news value, entertainment and progressive intent,Rachel Maddow (while not even found in the top 250) must be on the bench.
What I am saying is that, rounded out to a balance of sort
but with progressive and informative and entertainment value, she may have topped a list with the numbers flipped. It would be hard to say that Thom, Stephanie, Randi and Ed have any particular strengths that would flip-flop the list, other than my feeling that being progressive, informative and entertaining should be considered in that order, rather than the method used for the Heavy Hundred.
On my scale Rachel Maddow plays well off the bench and deserve her own honors, not to mention her on-air teammate Kent Jones.

MY IDEAL PROGRESSIVE LIST[Reality Flip Flopped]
Or from spirited to spiritual. Going up?

[RACHEL MADDOW] A UNIQUE BALANCE OF INFO AND HUMOR
THOM HARTMANN
STEPHANIE MILLER
RANDI RHODES
ED SCHULTZ
MIKE MALLOY: REALITY BASED
[NOT BEST REPRESENTED IN LINEAR FORM]

[Apologies for not noting one of the top 250, Mike Malloy who is a spiritual warrior of sorts.
If there were a FOX NEWS of the left, Mike Malloy would fit the bill as the nightly lead,
but for me he is too much on a Reality Rant to make good bedtime stories.]
Now just to sort my own review, I love all these guys, for different reasons, but would put progress over money and fun, and that is what I wish for all.

* I don't relish labels, but then, it is a sorting. Long Story Short: (or in my usual way: Runting the Rant) Maybe the Heavy Hitter (Oops) Hundred list does reflect the order of "Agressive Progressives", but I would flip flop the list and call it Just Progressive! But the problem always is, coming from a perspective or getting somewhere.

The Undisclosed Bunker Branch of the Government.

Cheney's place as "Angler" has now been disclosed in a four-part series in the Washington Post, where "understanding" is the key word.
[note that there is a lot of hard work here, by others *]

What does the Vice-President's claim that he is not part of the Executive Branch do to earlier claims of executive privilege? I think it would fall under Unitary theory that Cheney and Bush have whatever powers Cheney has decided for them and Bush understands only that, not that it puts Cheney in charge of the whole ball of wax.

A few earlier post of mine on the loop as long as we are into geometry.
The Truth Apparent: A Mobius Lap
Running with Rhetoric
Unreasonable Proof of/or Reality
Original Intent

Sorry for my own little four-part review(much shorter than the WaPo though, of which only three are out yet, and I've only read a few paragraphs), but as opposed to the "Angler" who approaches "the levers of power obliquely, skirting orderly lines of debate he once enforced as chief of staff to President Gerald R. Ford.", I must brink up my ealier tangents that have already visited the subjects but only touch a point on a curve.


From Randi's cite:*
House Democrats to cut funds for VP from Executive Branch. Raw Story
Senate challenge understanding as well. NY Times
Bush thinking (see above) "the law"
Press conference on "non issue" of oversight
On wire-taps by Judge
CIA of the going back to Nixon Era released.
Condemned or chosen to repeat.
GITMO A & B
HALLIBURTON A & B
Prosecutor Purge
Vote Caging: speaking of returns and locked up.

And off of AM1090 Seattle cite:
Democracy Now has Rocky Anderson as guest on the impeachment process.

Thanks to Randi Rhodes for the real "hard work", which I have not done yet by reading these, but getting them together is a start, and for you to continue the "hard work" as well. Of which, the first post indicates that Bush does not read much of what he signs from Cheney.

* This stems from a few days ago when this broke(the first link) and I was probably listening to Randi Rhodes and I thought, that if there is an EO (executive order)that Bush has signed and given their pattern of behavior, it does probably not apply to the President or whomever he choose not to appy it to, and probably didn't need to include a signing statement on his own EO as his privileges include that only he knows what he means. If that. And that is another imagined out or bunker of their mind. (I believe David Bender or Ring of Fire or a guest deserves note for the last reference.)

Logical Conclusion?

THE STARTING POINTS...
May be found in The Shock Doctrine.
by Naomi Klein (About her book)
Thanks to Randi Rhodes
Not to mention Milton Freidman.

But a mysterious post of mine was just found (as I was listening to Randi Rhodes) in my Blogspot Draft File which seems to add a dot that may be in this book which "connects the dots".

Hard Work!

I will try to let you do it.

HELP! Score one for diplomacy! [**]

And re: cleaning it up... in my case it is not choice of words but other editing, so on that matter I am disappointed with the events * (the departure of Randi Rhodes on her terms?) that have transpired at AAR. [04-14-08 Welcome Home Randi!]
* this live link may change (AAR statement) and I only have this (CC),-(considated comment)-:
AAR and Randi Rhodes will survive and I reserve the right to question their motives without defending their methods. If that is hypocrisy, we should dig both deeper and across the aisle and in the mirror. But as far as word what is the difference between warmonger and fearmonger or whoremonger? see JAG or V4?

[**] FEATURED ARTICLE:
and please get to it and work it above all other links here.
HERE is what I attempted to add to the dialogue:
TO CONGRESS:
I was going to send this just based on my previous trust of this group...
But I did review it briefly and want to highlight the following:
See 4Ai & 4Aii
I would also like to add: China and the Sudan and the economy play into this big time, as far as what needs to be on the table. If corporations are people they must be held accountable as people or people must have freedoms from them or somehow have nations put in their place for how they treat them.

If this does not register with you, then it is probably just about the bucks. Passing them and you will see where they go and where the people end up.

Uncross Rhodes GPS

Tetra* Heed Run of Progress.

[But something is fishy.]

* Not in particular order**.

** But emphasis on Norman Goldman's plea: "Am I all alone?"
There are one or two & a half others.  Which makes "Three and a Half-Pundits"!

This was noted before he put his exclamation point on it(clip not available), in regard to a reference to the Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly Debate and the "fog of capitalism" (my paraphrase), not to mention AP-Paul-ING-Susan and End of Interview.(Fee, fi(dough), foe, King) 

And just to file Hartmann and Rhodes under Heed and Run,(another 3&1/2 including me) the latter wonderfully read former Republican Senator Pressler's endorsement of President Obama for a second term.

[Endorsing spit-takes... or convenient cup.***]
***or fish bowl? C-Not.  Bush Leagues under the C.

Bleep 'n Compromise (Dept Ceiling) Review**

Not to be prophetic, but "I told you so."

In particular in The Jig is Up? and Bleep 'n Compromise,
but more importantly under Respected Sources.

IMHO: Randi Rhodes and Lawrence O'Donnell are radio and TV's number one(respectively) explainers* of the Obama Administration. Here are two Debt Ceiling recaps from Randi Rhodes which are nothing compared to hearing her.(AM 1090 Forum )

*respectfully
** which is not the same as bleepin'
(See Bleep & Compromise)

[Related Links and Nets or Roots & branches.]
[I wish I could unembed a little more plain language from this post, but maybe a counter example might do. With a do nothing congress***, the best thing to do is to kick the can down the road for political purposes.

*** or more accurately an undo-everything-House
edited (bold and spacing only)

[On the other hand: No Labels(slash)New Party
More musing: architect, archetype / archespectral, archiflightese]
[Speaking of hooks or hoofs? Read Herring?]


John Deering

Weak End Update: Fun'n Edifying

(No, I actually intended to spell it that way.)
A post or so ago, my flip-flop ofor satire to sarcasm, merited a correction or at least clarification.
(Again spelling checked and intended)
Mis-Infotainment Tonight segued into...

Actual Fun'n Edifying (as corrected)

*** A TRIBUTE TO ***
Miller, Rhodes, Stewart and Colbert
*** FOR ACTUAL
Fun'n Edifying: ***
The Stephanie Miller Show
The Randi Rhodes Show
LOCAL RADIO
and Real Infotainment *.
(And National Fun'n Edifying:
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report

As opposed to Enternewsmeant

* forgive the self-reference and tribute to Secretary Rumsfled
(again spelling...check!) And ofor Miller time?
Not to mention Miss-"Frame of Reference" Goldwater/Buzz Killer
[Actual *footnote: Secretary of Infotainment was my pet name for Rumsfeld.(no pun on departure)]

Anachronism

1-21-14 (no text) (saved in doc)
1-22-14 * added
1-23-14 scroll down for edit(**) comments
1-24-14

Pop Four?

Randi Rhodes:  Defender and Explainer of Obamanomics?
Norman Goldman:  Radical Middle?
Ed Schultz: Ed Head of the People?
Mike Malloy: Contrary Brin

The Poverty of Popperism, **

The Less Than Pentagonal File

A mature Log [.]

4 word [.]
 

Meta More Phosis?
Not Exactly!
 

==============================================

Randi Rhodes

No apologies (*) to Mike Malloy, nor insult to Contrary Brin*, but maybe the mechanics(or dimanics) of the parallel points. Akin to Newton’s orbit(**). i.e. 3-body problem. And even deeper Hegelian remarks to Terral, in regard to not getting there yet.  i.e. accidental reference under Post-Doc Terral nature of the point. Parallels do not tangent.

Further ow[!]

parallels-meet-religion-and-nationalism-in-the-early
when-the-parallels-meet-and-talk
where-parallels-meet.html

1-22-14

 * Nor less regard for Thom(:) Hartmann or Rachel(:) Maddow:

Time is a funny thing.  The fourth dimension?  What about perpendicular to the 3?  But then there is the parallel of not having time to follow every tangent let alone parallels. 

**1-23-14   links titled and morphed, lines 4 and 6 added. Link(or line)5 actually read or rubric's fit ?

 

IGOPOGO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[.] = lame punctuashuns[!]
i.e. prologue / foreword (^)
 

(:) more to insert and POGO [!] ~[foot note]
 

(*) the sequal? WaPo Slate?

(^)1-24-14  i.e. prologue / foreword
Also 4 links added for 4 original personalities.(Andrea Mitchell /

Over Helming.

[6-24-11 The lack of pomp and need for circumstance*(or circumdecision?)
President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan(video)
Just an aftergoogle. But I will add that Randi Rhodes gave an impressive perspective on the President's remarks, not necessarily here, but it is reflected a bit in the video of the Democrats bringing it home.]

Please note the navigational metaphor in Professor John Kay's interview in the context of Professor Ha-Joon Chang's interview and the Bib Leo File of Republic Cons.
Inter-Dimentionalism and Ge Oh Metricks not so aside: The 6Sigma of Newt needs a pinnacle of purpose. i.e. there truly needs to be a navigational approach. Not akin to "rocket science"**, but having an aim and the model to chart it. My point is that 6 Sigma does not have a point, or rather a point is needed a priori for it to work. Actually it is not about the 6 edges of a tetrahedron, but the break down of the bell curve. If it were only about the bell curve it might have a point. My point is that politics has a point of balancing power and processing the point. But from a freedom perspective is that a goal? But from a navigational perspective there is a need for a 3D grid plus time and processing. The six edges of a tetradedron reflect the 4D dynamics of the process, that is not the goal. The goal is out there, the dream or unrealized principles if you will. The balance or base is the Try Angle*** and dynamics of Physics, Psychology and Philosophy(also processes as well as subjects) for realizing our balance of powers and dreams.

* an after link: NY Times from Randi Rhodes Blog
(also TPM)
** after bolds(4) in original post
*** pun on 3 points determine a plane(and tripod) but a 4th point determines 3 dimensions. Not to mention the Geo of Risk and Robustness of Nassim Taleb. He must not be taken out of context. Reducing debt does not mean reducing spending and economics is not the most efficient determinant. "(nature) it seems very inefficient for an economist but it is robust"(...)"I want society...to be more robust and more open to up side." My only point is that society(politics see "science" bold following "rocket") has a place in determining the rules that provide the circumstances.]

Welcome Home Randi!

Randi Rhodes returns to her Florida home, (and mine) after a contract dispute that got nastier than the Democratic nominating race. I will not get into the details, but provide this outlet for update.

* this live link may change (AAR statement) and I only have this (CC),-(consolidated comment)-:
AAR and Randi Rhodes will survive and I reserve the right to question their motives without defending their methods. If that is hypocrisy, we should dig both deeper and across the aisle and in the mirror. But as far as word -(,)- what is the difference between warmonger and fearmonger or whoremonger? see JAG or V4?

*This block is from Hard Work! The - comma - is the only change in this cut and paste, except for the bold line I will hold to...
for now.

Randi Rhodes

Pre-Post ERism?

Post-Doc Terral?*

Randi Rhodes: Bin go!

*non sec quital[!] i.e. accidental?

[Note: Facetious Time Stamp 2014]

6-25-14  OW There was Rachell, there was Ed, but I we ge... where is Randi?

Mission Accomplished

(AP photo see link)
A case of colors.
The Wall Street Journal is not necessarily the first source for Obama flag waving, but the lede is this: Obama Lauds Troops as Iraq War Winds Up. But under my ledership*, I must note that "Mr. Obama was careful not to declare victory." But Colonel Wilkerson and Rachel Maddow rally** my reasons for the lede here. "Hooah!"

* yes "ledership"(sic)
[link is leadership]
** link yet to be embedded (here)

[Speaking of battles and drafts, yet to be. (Ground Troops***)]

*** i.e. foot noted
[PEA CE OUT]


12-15-11 [*] "Hooha!" Not Exactly,
but close enough[!] (for gov'meant work)
[Nor black and white, but here are four perspectives. This is a deeply embedded line. It is about working together and leadership, not without ledership. The gist of it is in regards to the process of crafting good documents(let alone with imperfect people). As in what the heck is Obama doing, let alone Ron Wyden, or Rand Paul.(or Keynes/Hayek) The most important ingredient in these threads is the people, their understanding, and elections that matter. Issues bring the people to the table, and the ballot box.]
[No Horsing around.]
[*]Well maybe a little horsing around. But with respect to follow-up to Awkward Segue, and "four perspectives"(text today) I note that Norman Goldman addresses the NDAA, and was looking forward to Randy Rhodes giving her perspective, but David Sirota was sitting in.]

Navigation 3.0

Looking Back
and the path forward.

Yesterday was a rough day,[final straw?] sometimes you had to be there, other times things get in the way and I missed both and not in the normal way. Personally(really! however Really?) it was demand side* activities that ruled the day.

OBAMA 2012!

[Under Construction]TO BE EVOLVED:
Seattle AM 1090 (sidetrack)
NPR .org KUOW

Stephanie Miller
Thom Hartmann WOW => OpEd **
WeGotEd We Need Ed The Ed Show

Norman Goldman Plan
Randi Rhodes No Hair is Good Hair In con text?

Rachel Maddow [*] NOW
Center for American Progress
OurFuture.org
Just Foreign Policy
Progressive Policy Etc.
Steve Clemons
David Sirota[**]
Lawrence O'Donnell The Last Word***
FOKS News Bleeped and Frackin' and saved for later folks.
* no really, not Keynesian, but personally just real work, real demands

** two for one [Bernie Sanders and MoveOn]

*** yeah right moore left/

[Tom Yesterday? And Beyond. ]
[Note Labels(sic?), Lucky Three?]
[Go jump in the Lakoff, and this will be a the start of a project itself.
[*] BOLD ADDED 4-6-2011 and THE TEST.
[PopQuiz.]
[** bold added and update]

HiTetra!

An uncross rhodes of:
High Ate Us*
&
Tetra Heed Ron?**

Not to mention European[!]
And American Exceptionalism.


*speaking of Al Gore (v. doll) Rhythms
** my original intent ? 
X***
Y
Z
dt?

[!] = cubed?

*** not 2 we gee!
[actually not too kill two birds, but:
A. the "not" Thom Hartmann video s/b updated to 8-30
B.  so 2 the "too".]

[Plainly: Drifter *(my B.P. was originally 8-30)
Lastly: C-Level  See sarcasm of lifting boats also 8-30.]

[Twain ** & *** is a trippy 4a,
 but I must footnote 2d, or we've 2 ideas.  A.  bailouts  B.  bushes and birds  Not to be three B Nor are R R. BTW: literally but I will QL that...]

Index 9-21-11 (B)

Note Anachronism:
(B-time=8:07)for flip flop of vision thing,
or perspective on index and archive sequence.
Link below indicates mo'real time.

The Team? or[!] [DBA]
Randi Rhodes
Lawrence[*] O'Donnell
Stephanie Miller
Thom Hartmann
Ed Schultz[Update 9-23-11]
Norman Gold-Man
Thom Hartmann

The Music?
ACTUALLY THE G'Ribble?(a test of search/index slash references)***
G'Ribble
Back to The "One Thing".
Place Holder?
Who needs Brackets?
The Honeymoon is Over?
What's so funny...
The Straw Bear
"Trust but Verify"
QCON:Truthout
Proof of Process
MOORE TRUTH IN MEDIA
The G'Ribble?
Actually I end in pun(Or rather Satire), but this was a text* of sorts(literally), of "G'Ribble" in the (Blogspot)Search Box in the upper left corner of this blog.

It was a test in two ways. To see if there is any reliability of the search engine over time. Of course editing would influence that accuracy. But also to see if there was any mess age above and beyond the search, in the calm pend I um**.

*(sp!) typo/ra test [?]ra=read as[!]
** see test/text/time/tangent not to mention T(t)ruth.
*** Grand Ribble: Whereas D'Ribble might be obvious, it is not so simple. It might be a de-ribble or an un-ribble, or a Democratic Ribble, which seems like hard work, now that I think about it, but never(that I can tell) just trickle-down.

[*]bingo "that's not smart, it's not right"

GPS Cross Rhodes

Not to be unkind, but certainly inkind.
Global Partisan Shifting.  Or Graphic Pundit Sorting. 
Not exactly a vision thing, but more nearly a ge-oh-metric.

Speaking of "Perspective" the NG word of the day(yesterday), I suggest "scales" for today. 
The scale that determines rulers, waits and balances, not to mention fish and eye impairments.
Speak of the hockey puck.
[Segue "War on Soda"  The un-COLA and Bubble-up?]
Not to mention Martin Bashir, Fight Club yet to rant.  Romney mocks jobs list.  If the private sector has turned around what will Raw Money do about it.  Ouch Super Bowl metaphor.  

McCain Believes in Evolution

The Master of His Flip-Flopping Domain (nfry)*

"I’m glad to have his endorsement." But condemns Pastor Hagee's "...remarks that are, in any way, viewed as anti-anything. And thanks for asking."

How to Talk about McCain's Age What about the GOP?
The Grand Old Party or Good Old Pandering?

Maybe Old-Irony-Clad is ready for battle?

Or maybe flip-flopping has gone the way of the pterodactyl.

[Speaking of dinosaurs and the "middle class" and flip-flopping terminology ..."working families we appeal to you to bear with us. Thank you very much." Speaking of blame game. and pandering and digs.]

[Speaking of code and passing the buck, or charges of elitism (see pandering) : the so-called cross-over vote is really more than Project Chaos. Randi Rhodes points to it as a cover for the disgruntled Independents and Republicans departing the party. Meanwhile even McCain has some competition left in his party or are they Mis-Chief-dooers.]

* pardon the tongue-in-cheek and wherever-else is buried here, replete with (nfry) not fully read yet, but also thanks to the likes of Stephanie Miller for the Mis-Chief-Dooers link, and Thom Hartmann (evolutionist) for the dinosaurs link.

A Funny Thing Happened...

On the Way to the Republic.

This thread was triggered by something Mike Papantonio said, sitting in for Ed Schultz on the Ed Schultz(radio) Show. The trigger is now lost, but it may have been the follow-up to the Class War or as some say, Culture War.

Randi Rhodes is not the funny thing. But I hope to find the serious thing she read on tonights show. But it might better play out on The Last Word with Sam Stein about triggers. [Guy Faux?]
[Allow me to recap: week before last, the president held his joint session on the American Jobs Act, followed last week by his method of payment, followed this week by his long term plans. To sum it up, basically he said, there are 14 months left before the election, let's get something done. The Republicans basically said no way. So instead of bring it on, IT IS ON! BTW: I missed this, but that is for the afore mentioned editing(which I edited).]

Clear Eyes,

Full Hearts, Can't Use* ?

It is unclear what the Romney ticket is going with, Mo'better Bush or Mo'better Obama, but certainly not No Drama Either or is it ether?  Somewhere the Romney/Ryan/RNC use of the term quarterback escapes me.  Even if it was just me, I think that Monday morning or anyday other day than game day is their style. 

* was going to go with caffeinated but that was too Mormoney. 

(Tagg we are it ?)
Replacement Refs or Not...  (Bu' dump 'ump [!] ... ** )

===============
10-18-12
RETRO_SEG_WAY?
UNCLE SAM KNOT?
Or Fair and Balanced, not ? !
Or Just US!
=========

** updated, Thom Hartmann(Bu'), Norman Goldman(Dump), Randi Rhodes ('ump) (Bu' dump 'ump)/Re:tale.
Re:R,R,R A - R(not exactly) (j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r )

Not to Dump on Norman Goldman(nor Republicans), he is describing RepubliCONS as smart and fighting like cats and dogs over congress, while compromise is only for the president as candidate.  He makes further cracks about the difficulties of Bozo John Boehner as House Speaker in hurding*** them. (my paraphrasing & rhetorical metamorphing.)

*** circular firing rhetorical metaphors(cats and dogs)
(Obama has a better record given his opposition, Romney had to cooperated with a 78% Democratic legislature which has the power.***) Yeah that asterisk is redundant... who needs Republicans when ...  democracy is all over the map?)

[Bin Go ! Who let  the names out? Con $(c)ent Ration ? (C S c R !) ]

Out Foxed?

Obtuseness Redux.
Why does Social Security Need 174,000 bullets?
Dems open convention playing defense of Obama.
Get the lede out?

Not to bury any ironies or unintended puns...
The first two links are referenced in the next two lines.
The third line and two links are in regard to the heading, and to the sources.
The "Obtuseness Redux" were from Comcast/AP. 
But I first went local then tan gent or BaneOr BainOr... 
the punchline has to do with they nature of Infowars(the site), a bit more journalistic and fair and balanced than FOX, not that they do not require very careful reads.   The four links seem to represent a sort of unsorting and GPS un-crossroads dynamic. And for my part, the first aspect has to do with the irony of any whining about Social Security having an Inspector General division that hunts down fraud, in this age of second amendment fruit salad or T-parties. And for the sake of any intelligence briefs or geeks, "lede" is a journalistic term not a bullet point.  The last two links are a good un-cross Rhodes* of the left.  Not quite Tin-Foil Hats, not quite Coffee Party, but maybe close enough. (4 hard work?)

* not exactly
** ibid?
(See Labels, but I note here the original four:
DNC Convention, Infowars, Seattle PI, Social Security
(I know, [...] there is a local irony...)

[and global...]***

*** Re-verse asterisk of sorts. Emphasis on not read yet and irony. Heavy on the latter.
[For Rob Sake!]
[M-bed-ed?  Actually...]