Clarity and Correction:
Doing politics and your jobs.
[Hold the line on habeas corpus, warrant-less wiretapping and torture. ] No on Sen. Resolution 3930
We owe it to our leaders and Bush and the country to provide not just courage but clarity and correction where needed.
We must give them the backbone that President Clinton showed this weekend in the below context, to face the truth and fight the propaganda, to do politics and their jobs, to uphold what should be uniting principles for the Democrats and are our founding principles.
Who will face the fudging point?
Democrats must do their job while running,
not avoid it to run like Republicans.
One can tell when one is right,
when you don't hear it on the Right.
One does not hear Thom Hartmann
or Keith Olbermann addressed by the Right.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The Final Judgement?
Of the National Intelligence Estimate
[THIS IS THE LAST PARAGRAPH AND BULLET POINT:
and if I may say an interesting point to end on.]
Anti-US and anti-globalization sentiment is on the rise and fueling other radical
ideologies. This could prompt some leftist, nationalist, or separatist groups to adopt terrorist methods to attack US interests. The radicalization process is occurring more quickly, more widely, and more anonymously in the Internet age, raising the likelihood of surprise attacks by unknown groups whose members and supporters may be difficult to pinpoint.
-- We judge that groups of all stripes will increasingly use the Internet to
communicate, propagandize, recruit, train, and obtain logistical and financial
support.
[Do we still have the right to question what our interests are, let alone what is meant by globalization or is that too sentimental?]
[THIS IS THE LAST PARAGRAPH AND BULLET POINT:
and if I may say an interesting point to end on.]
Anti-US and anti-globalization sentiment is on the rise and fueling other radical
ideologies. This could prompt some leftist, nationalist, or separatist groups to adopt terrorist methods to attack US interests. The radicalization process is occurring more quickly, more widely, and more anonymously in the Internet age, raising the likelihood of surprise attacks by unknown groups whose members and supporters may be difficult to pinpoint.
-- We judge that groups of all stripes will increasingly use the Internet to
communicate, propagandize, recruit, train, and obtain logistical and financial
support.
[Do we still have the right to question what our interests are, let alone what is meant by globalization or is that too sentimental?]
Time for us to go
TO WORKThe new Un-Frame for Them?
Republicans would actually want to lose so that they can blame the Democrats so that they can return to fight at a later date? Now that is courage. NOT!
But this is the unspin. Would they really risk possible impeachment of Bush for the sake of their own power? Not that Democrats or the people would have the guts. Maybe they want the Dog to wag. But this puts a spin on politics that I have been trying to halt. My point is that governing is hard work, which Republicans do not believe in, and would rather let Democrats carry the load, while they run away to fight another day. How is that good for the country?
Is this just more to talk about, to keep us from the "hard work"? It also distracts from and should raise questions of which came first, the strategy or the words of regret (or coming to their senses) which some conservatives express. Another question: do they put themselves before facing the issues?
AND MORE: it will be TIME FOR US TO GO TO WORK.
Will they work with Democrats for those two years?
Will the Democrats be finished even reviewing let alone correcting the last six?
Will the Democrats even play "the game" that it has been for Republicans? If they play it as well, they would cut them out of it all. Demostrate that we can handle debate and division and bring issues to the fore for the coming two years not just for the next four, but for the people, our country and the world.
I must thank The Thom Hartmann Show for sending me on this tangent, or search: "Time for us to Go". We should agree, it is time for Republicans to go, and for any that survive, not to go back to the politics of either nine words or sixteen. Thanks to Garrison Keillor as well. But I would say (to Reagan's nine)
Let them not be in the government for they are there to help themselves.
And I must make reference to my earlier posts.
A Pre-emptive Comment 11-15-05
Politics 11-24-05
Speaking of Running 3-18-06
Hold of Course 3-17-06
[Tangents are the nature of how things connect,
when every point is in context of the whole.] Not incidentally, quantummatter.com
Republicans would actually want to lose so that they can blame the Democrats so that they can return to fight at a later date? Now that is courage. NOT!
But this is the unspin. Would they really risk possible impeachment of Bush for the sake of their own power? Not that Democrats or the people would have the guts. Maybe they want the Dog to wag. But this puts a spin on politics that I have been trying to halt. My point is that governing is hard work, which Republicans do not believe in, and would rather let Democrats carry the load, while they run away to fight another day. How is that good for the country?
Is this just more to talk about, to keep us from the "hard work"? It also distracts from and should raise questions of which came first, the strategy or the words of regret (or coming to their senses) which some conservatives express. Another question: do they put themselves before facing the issues?
AND MORE: it will be TIME FOR US TO GO TO WORK.
Will they work with Democrats for those two years?
Will the Democrats be finished even reviewing let alone correcting the last six?
Will the Democrats even play "the game" that it has been for Republicans? If they play it as well, they would cut them out of it all. Demostrate that we can handle debate and division and bring issues to the fore for the coming two years not just for the next four, but for the people, our country and the world.
I must thank The Thom Hartmann Show for sending me on this tangent, or search: "Time for us to Go". We should agree, it is time for Republicans to go, and for any that survive, not to go back to the politics of either nine words or sixteen. Thanks to Garrison Keillor as well. But I would say (to Reagan's nine)
Let them not be in the government for they are there to help themselves.
And I must make reference to my earlier posts.
A Pre-emptive Comment 11-15-05
Politics 11-24-05
Speaking of Running 3-18-06
Hold of Course 3-17-06
[Tangents are the nature of how things connect,
when every point is in context of the whole.] Not incidentally, quantummatter.com
Who started it?
Bill Bennett asks why would the Democrats attack Bush on his strength,[update 10-31-11 *] his war on terrorism?
Release of the NIE was bad for everybody, he claims. That is the point. Intelligence is on the Democrats side, and they want it locked up.
Matt Lauer did a surprisingly good job countering most points that Bennett made including pointing out that Bush has been on the offensive, and Bennett served his cake and ate it too, by excusing that as becuase it is Bush's strength.
Well, if it is their strength, just who is Bennett waving the white flag to (maybe a semafore, when he persists that "he brought it up" meaning Clinton started it? Is he talking to those he claims didn't blaim Clinton, didn't blame Bush or did blame the CIA? And who is he sending the message to, when he brings the war on terrorism back to Iraq, but he hopes that "chasing after Clinton on the world stage... is over"?
We must keep the truth out there, on the media stage. They will continue to misread it. Who will keep it up?
Who will be fearless? [Segue in closing] Special thanks to Stephanie Miller for waking me up (and my snooze alarm) and for having Arianna Huffington on, not that the latter is what got me started, but we are finally on the same page and in a growing choir.
In contrast or no thanks to Tucker Carlson or Matt Drudge.
[* also labels and link added]
Release of the NIE was bad for everybody, he claims. That is the point. Intelligence is on the Democrats side, and they want it locked up.
Matt Lauer did a surprisingly good job countering most points that Bennett made including pointing out that Bush has been on the offensive, and Bennett served his cake and ate it too, by excusing that as becuase it is Bush's strength.
Well, if it is their strength, just who is Bennett waving the white flag to (maybe a semafore, when he persists that "he brought it up" meaning Clinton started it? Is he talking to those he claims didn't blaim Clinton, didn't blame Bush or did blame the CIA? And who is he sending the message to, when he brings the war on terrorism back to Iraq, but he hopes that "chasing after Clinton on the world stage... is over"?
We must keep the truth out there, on the media stage. They will continue to misread it. Who will keep it up?
Who will be fearless? [Segue in closing] Special thanks to Stephanie Miller for waking me up (and my snooze alarm) and for having Arianna Huffington on, not that the latter is what got me started, but we are finally on the same page and in a growing choir.
In contrast or no thanks to Tucker Carlson or Matt Drudge.
[* also labels and link added]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Caution Merited?
Beware The NIE
by Robert Dreyfuss Would Intelligence agencies conspire to mislead the New York Times and the Washington Post in their interpretation of the National Intelligence Assessment? Or would Bush chose to release the NIE or rather parts of it that suit him?
Showdown Over Habeas
by Sen. Patrick Leahy is the other side of the coin.
The Terrorism Index by The Center for American Progress, however begs to differ on the former.
And on the mainstream "trickle down", shame on Newsweek if this is the case.
Speaking of articulation. of what the fudge is going on.
by Robert Dreyfuss Would Intelligence agencies conspire to mislead the New York Times and the Washington Post in their interpretation of the National Intelligence Assessment? Or would Bush chose to release the NIE or rather parts of it that suit him?
Showdown Over Habeas
by Sen. Patrick Leahy is the other side of the coin.
The Terrorism Index by The Center for American Progress, however begs to differ on the former.
And on the mainstream "trickle down", shame on Newsweek if this is the case.
Speaking of articulation. of what the fudge is going on.
Clearwater muddy.
I do not know if this is the tipping point, but the gloves are certainly off, and it has only just begun.
One thing that must be kept in mind is that not only must the political fight be carried forward but the job still must be done by those already there.
The "fudging" or lack of clarity that Bush needs is the point, and the "fudging" that the country is getting must be stopped. Pardon my "Cheney", meaning the "French" they use, but not the "heckuva job" that has been done.
But to the point, see CCR-NY.org or as I like to think:
Credence Clearwater Revolution- No Yoke Dot Org.
The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York is concerned that: now this is my spin but like the legislators in Germany held responsible for war crimes, that Congress should be careful in the clarity it provides.
Above and beyond the far fetched possibility that we would face any justice on the world stage, or rather below and deeper is the Constitution itself: Habeus corpus, warrantless spying and torture must be prevented or the terrorists will be the least of our problems.
One thing that must be kept in mind is that not only must the political fight be carried forward but the job still must be done by those already there.
The "fudging" or lack of clarity that Bush needs is the point, and the "fudging" that the country is getting must be stopped. Pardon my "Cheney", meaning the "French" they use, but not the "heckuva job" that has been done.
But to the point, see CCR-NY.org or as I like to think:
Credence Clearwater Revolution- No Yoke Dot Org.
The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York is concerned that: now this is my spin but like the legislators in Germany held responsible for war crimes, that Congress should be careful in the clarity it provides.
Above and beyond the far fetched possibility that we would face any justice on the world stage, or rather below and deeper is the Constitution itself: Habeus corpus, warrantless spying and torture must be prevented or the terrorists will be the least of our problems.
Textbook on Courage!
You know when one is right,
when you don't hear it from the Right.
COURAGE FILEDOWN: Dubya On Down:
W: Feeling morally, intellectually confused?
X: "Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?"
Y: Bush owes us an apology
Z: A textbook definition of cowardice
when you don't hear it from the Right.
COURAGE FILEDOWN: Dubya On Down:
W: Feeling morally, intellectually confused?
X: "Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?"
Y: Bush owes us an apology
Z: A textbook definition of cowardice
Definition of Courage!
Which came first? Clinton flare rallies Democrats, but does it outshine NIE?
Interview was taped, then came NIE "leak" before the broadcast. According to Jonathan Alter on Countdown with Keith Olbermann: "...that Clinton in responding had the merits on his side. Most of the points that he made were factually accurate."
Who to blame? [
Should be crazed.
They are linked. Bush to blame, before and after.
Republicans responsible and Democrats not responsible enough and media even more irresponsible, until this week.
This is The Fudging Point!
EEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAHHH!
Interview was taped, then came NIE "leak" before the broadcast. According to Jonathan Alter on Countdown with Keith Olbermann: "...that Clinton in responding had the merits on his side. Most of the points that he made were factually accurate."
Who to blame? [
Should be crazed.
They are linked. Bush to blame, before and after.
Republicans responsible and Democrats not responsible enough and media even more irresponsible, until this week.
This is The Fudging Point!
EEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAHHH!
"...not a very fruitful discussion"
Rice is right, it is not very fruitful to catapult the same propaganda, especially when you cannot be direct. "We've been through it. The 9/11 commission has turned over every rock and we know exactly what they said."
Missing link?
No really. A headline two posts ago is what was missing or what started me on Wag the Dog...
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat a New York Times piece by Mark Mazetti was on the front page of my Sunday local paper. Not exactly an October Surprise, but then there was the Fox appearance of Bill Clinton that topped the cake.
Democracts are stuck in pre-9/11 thinking and Republicans are thinking post-9/11. We must run with that. Pre-9/11 thinking by the Democrats may have gotten Bin Laden if the Republicans had used it. Post-9/11 thinking by Republicans, is actually no different than their pre-9/11 thinking.
This is where I think I was going, when I left off, Sunday.
This whole Liaison Report is where we have been.
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat a New York Times piece by Mark Mazetti was on the front page of my Sunday local paper. Not exactly an October Surprise, but then there was the Fox appearance of Bill Clinton that topped the cake.
Democracts are stuck in pre-9/11 thinking and Republicans are thinking post-9/11. We must run with that. Pre-9/11 thinking by the Democrats may have gotten Bin Laden if the Republicans had used it. Post-9/11 thinking by Republicans, is actually no different than their pre-9/11 thinking.
This is where I think I was going, when I left off, Sunday.
This whole Liaison Report is where we have been.
We're as mad as Heck and...
Sunday, September 24, 2006
WAG THE DOG? Who started it?
OCTOBER SUPRISE? Not really.
Two thoughts occurred to me, or I concurred with something I had heard, that if there were an October Surprise, that finding Bin Laden or hitting Pakistan may be the likely examples. Not yet October, but the French leak that maybe Bin Laden has died and Pakistan leaks that they were threatened earlier.
At this point I will pause to reflect on further links, having included more than I have read yet and lost one.
Two thoughts occurred to me, or I concurred with something I had heard, that if there were an October Surprise, that finding Bin Laden or hitting Pakistan may be the likely examples. Not yet October, but the French leak that maybe Bin Laden has died and Pakistan leaks that they were threatened earlier.
At this point I will pause to reflect on further links, having included more than I have read yet and lost one.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
On "Duty"
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”
Those incendiary thoughts came, of course, from a prior holder of your job, Mr. Bush.
They were the words of Thomas Jefferson.
He put them in the Declaration of Independence.
For those that did not get to the link in the previous post, above is one section that goes to the heart of it, but his main point was on our freedoms to think and make comparisons and to disagree:
We must know that, to you,(Mr. President) thought with which you disagree -- and even voice with which you disagree and even action with which you disagree -- are still sacrosanct to you.
Those incendiary thoughts came, of course, from a prior holder of your job, Mr. Bush.
They were the words of Thomas Jefferson.
He put them in the Declaration of Independence.
For those that did not get to the link in the previous post, above is one section that goes to the heart of it, but his main point was on our freedoms to think and make comparisons and to disagree:
We must know that, to you,(Mr. President) thought with which you disagree -- and even voice with which you disagree and even action with which you disagree -- are still sacrosanct to you.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Our Patriotic "Duty"
One may wonder if I have prescience, but it is more likely what may need to become more common sense. Common sense is really only a sense of what is more common. It may take a more radical sense to detect what is real. If that is hard to follow, at least it makes sense to me why it is.
Anyway, the connection from point to point is the word "loyalty" and to who or what.
Keith Olbermann has done it again! Bush owes us an apology.
[find in link: Ctrl F "duty"]
Of course an apology is only part of the solution, the rest is a change of course. Let us hope that he is not completely around the bend.
LASTLY AND TO START WITH: Why the heck are we exporting "democracy" when too many are pounding the table about it here and others worrying about whose ground they are standing upon when they are expressing it?
P.S. Of course the link in the previous post is expired. My apologies, and for how many, I do not know. But that only means that this point has moved forward, in case I do not make it back to add links to the past references. At least these are tied closely.
Anyway, the connection from point to point is the word "loyalty" and to who or what.
Keith Olbermann has done it again! Bush owes us an apology.
[find in link: Ctrl F "duty"]
Of course an apology is only part of the solution, the rest is a change of course. Let us hope that he is not completely around the bend.
LASTLY AND TO START WITH: Why the heck are we exporting "democracy" when too many are pounding the table about it here and others worrying about whose ground they are standing upon when they are expressing it?
P.S. Of course the link in the previous post is expired. My apologies, and for how many, I do not know. But that only means that this point has moved forward, in case I do not make it back to add links to the past references. At least these are tied closely.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
The 1st thing that went wrong.
LOYALTY
Ties to GOP trumped skill on Iraq team
In rebuilding effort, loyalty to Bush administration was paramount
This is probably the most important piece of the failed course that will not change. It not only rules out opposing views but limits the number of available skilled staff for an administration with little faith in the government serving the people. Then it also penalizes even those in the same party with open minds that see things differently. It should be no wonder that failure is so frequent and change is so difficult. Even those with merit that chose to keep giving their input will have no effect without the administration being willing to change and risk further exposure of their failures.
As George Lakoff, points out in the book, Don't think of an Elephant Know your values, Frame the debate there are a pair of parental metaphors Strict Father vs. Nurturing Parent and I earlier joked it was about the "Golden Rule", or rather the rule vs. the joke,(Those with...etc.). However there is a much simpler and more familiar way of putting it that explains the philosophy which is behind this all. "Do as I say, not as I do." Sadly the reaction to the reality that is in the results is also familiar to the strict father metaphor. "I'll give you something to cry about."
A second point, (not necessarily in order in the article)and I have not read beyond a few words in a few paragraphs, is probably the goal of privatization of government. It sounds good, but in reality it is a double edged sword that is not even half good. The two sides are either, you are on your own, and corporations will take care of what matters. It should simply be remembered that "privatization" is really "corporatization". Not that corporations are a bad thing, only that too much freedom is as much a concern for corporations as to individuals, for none of us would fair well on our own, even the ones that are trickling down.
[I will try to add links to my earlier references.]
Ties to GOP trumped skill on Iraq team
In rebuilding effort, loyalty to Bush administration was paramount
This is probably the most important piece of the failed course that will not change. It not only rules out opposing views but limits the number of available skilled staff for an administration with little faith in the government serving the people. Then it also penalizes even those in the same party with open minds that see things differently. It should be no wonder that failure is so frequent and change is so difficult. Even those with merit that chose to keep giving their input will have no effect without the administration being willing to change and risk further exposure of their failures.
As George Lakoff, points out in the book, Don't think of an Elephant Know your values, Frame the debate there are a pair of parental metaphors Strict Father vs. Nurturing Parent and I earlier joked it was about the "Golden Rule", or rather the rule vs. the joke,(Those with...etc.). However there is a much simpler and more familiar way of putting it that explains the philosophy which is behind this all. "Do as I say, not as I do." Sadly the reaction to the reality that is in the results is also familiar to the strict father metaphor. "I'll give you something to cry about."
A second point, (not necessarily in order in the article)and I have not read beyond a few words in a few paragraphs, is probably the goal of privatization of government. It sounds good, but in reality it is a double edged sword that is not even half good. The two sides are either, you are on your own, and corporations will take care of what matters. It should simply be remembered that "privatization" is really "corporatization". Not that corporations are a bad thing, only that too much freedom is as much a concern for corporations as to individuals, for none of us would fair well on our own, even the ones that are trickling down.
[I will try to add links to my earlier references.]
Monday, September 11, 2006
9-11-01. Will we wake up?
AMERICA UNDER ATTACK. BUT DEMOCRACY MUST BE PROTECTED.
The tragedy that has come to this nation on Sept. 11th, 2001 is nearly
unspeakable. It is an attack on our country but not on our democracy. While
the tone of previous pieces may seem flippant, it would be a form of attack
on our democracy to feel the hesitancy to criticize our government. To find
and prosecute the people who are responsible would be justice. But if
retaliation is justified in the name of a war on terrorism then we must wake
up. War is already ongoing (freedom and lives are lost daily around the
world) and we must be wary of visiting the same atrocities on others. Since
collateral damage has been justified in war (wrongly or not), retaliation
that includes hasty justice may be guilty of, if not also justifying the
same terrible deeds.
[written in the hour or so after the tragedy]
The tragedy that has come to this nation on Sept. 11th, 2001 is nearly
unspeakable. It is an attack on our country but not on our democracy. While
the tone of previous pieces may seem flippant, it would be a form of attack
on our democracy to feel the hesitancy to criticize our government. To find
and prosecute the people who are responsible would be justice. But if
retaliation is justified in the name of a war on terrorism then we must wake
up. War is already ongoing (freedom and lives are lost daily around the
world) and we must be wary of visiting the same atrocities on others. Since
collateral damage has been justified in war (wrongly or not), retaliation
that includes hasty justice may be guilty of, if not also justifying the
same terrible deeds.
[written in the hour or so after the tragedy]
Sunday, September 10, 2006
NEXT POINT!
To comment on negative campaign and point to inaccuracies and insufficiencies in actual records of the incumbents. The media should be responsible for monitoring both last minute campaign ads for putting them in context with actual problems and the record of the incumbent.
And what has happened to the $20 billion contract to "monitor the tone" of the media coming out of Iraq? That would seem an incursion on "freedom of the press" while at home they could be doing a better job as well. They should be looking at the "tone" of the administration and what has a better chance of changing even if it was monitored better.
And what has happened to the $20 billion contract to "monitor the tone" of the media coming out of Iraq? That would seem an incursion on "freedom of the press" while at home they could be doing a better job as well. They should be looking at the "tone" of the administration and what has a better chance of changing even if it was monitored better.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
The Point?
What some people call talking points are to others real points. But if ABC comes to their senses and scraps "The Path to 9/11", we have made a point or more. They will have talking points about "liberal control" of the media but the point must be that 9/11 should not be used for profit or propaganda and there is a difference between talking and reality.
Entertainment should have some freedom, but the 9/11 tragedy and it's investigation should not be used in that regard on "public" airwaves, especially on the anniversary and without comparing contrasting with work such as Orwell's "1984" and Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" both of which would be more entertaining and related to our reality, and which "Path", even with alterations would fit more as the character and subject in these works.
Entertainment should have some freedom, but the 9/11 tragedy and it's investigation should not be used in that regard on "public" airwaves, especially on the anniversary and without comparing contrasting with work such as Orwell's "1984" and Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" both of which would be more entertaining and related to our reality, and which "Path", even with alterations would fit more as the character and subject in these works.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Phase II, finally!
WWW.WeGotEd.com
with Ed Shultz was kind enough to provide the link to a podcast of Senator Jay Rockefellor on the Senate floor.
Back to the issue of ABC and "Path to 9/11"
Thanks to People for the American Way an Open Letter to ABC: Don't Airbrush 9/11 led me to Firedog Lake weblog which provided an easy tool to reach the media
with Ed Shultz was kind enough to provide the link to a podcast of Senator Jay Rockefellor on the Senate floor.
Back to the issue of ABC and "Path to 9/11"
Thanks to People for the American Way an Open Letter to ABC: Don't Airbrush 9/11 led me to Firedog Lake weblog which provided an easy tool to reach the media
Who is the No. 2 terrorist organization in the U.S.?
I'm not sure of the network ratings,
but I think ABC is just trailing Fox news.
MSNBC is in line for the awards in the fight against terrorism,
despite Scarborough possibly being an insurgent.
Broadcasting is the field where new laws should be enacted in the fight against terrorism, and it would maybe only take bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, but an investment in journalism and a divestment from other corporate entities could also be necessary to win the war on terrorism.
but I think ABC is just trailing Fox news.
MSNBC is in line for the awards in the fight against terrorism,
despite Scarborough possibly being an insurgent.
Broadcasting is the field where new laws should be enacted in the fight against terrorism, and it would maybe only take bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, but an investment in journalism and a divestment from other corporate entities could also be necessary to win the war on terrorism.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
How many "B" will fall?
In the weeks following September 11th, 2001 I had to make a decision whether to travel and with the help of a courageous speech by President Bush decided that terrorism was worth standing up to by living life as close to usual as possible. That decision put my wife and myself weeks later walking down a street in Rome which we had passed only hours earlier, but now barricades were up. It was the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. had just struck Afghanistan.
Being in another country at a time that the U. S. was beginning a war was a disconcerting experience yet still an attempt was made to enjoy the trip and also afforded the access to European journalism. With this introduction, one thing I recall reading gave me the impression that Tony Blair's future seemed to be bright or at least believeable as it focused on leadership of the European Union. Now 5 years later, Blair’s fortunes not to mention Berlusconi's have dimmed.
Being in another country at a time that the U. S. was beginning a war was a disconcerting experience yet still an attempt was made to enjoy the trip and also afforded the access to European journalism. With this introduction, one thing I recall reading gave me the impression that Tony Blair's future seemed to be bright or at least believeable as it focused on leadership of the European Union. Now 5 years later, Blair’s fortunes not to mention Berlusconi's have dimmed.
Bloggerman may repeat history anytime.
Keith Olbermann has hit another one out of the journalistic park.
"Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir? Mr. Olbermann has a keen sense in asking this of Bush and should be followed not just by the public but by his peers in the field and any politicians who care about progress.
"Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir? Mr. Olbermann has a keen sense in asking this of Bush and should be followed not just by the public but by his peers in the field and any politicians who care about progress.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
MemoGate
Bush catches critics off guard
Weakened president still can set terms of debate
ANALYSIS: The Washington Post
Read- OPINION. TheLiaisonReport.com
Memogate has dual meaning: The weakened president could not accurately read memo headings.
The media cannot write accurate heading titles. While the former does not bother reading the full memos, this reader has at this point not finished reading the article. My point is that The Washington Post is more likely not off guard and is setting the terms of the debate for a weakened president. Even the term debate is very shaky, implying that there is: 1. an argument and 2. they will actually face a debate. The point is that we would not be in much of this mess if the media had not been his cheerleader and the administration had been able to read memos. While headings do get attention, we would not have this course or the terms of the debate without the media still blowing it.
Weakened president still can set terms of debate
ANALYSIS: The Washington Post
Read- OPINION. TheLiaisonReport.com
Memogate has dual meaning: The weakened president could not accurately read memo headings.
The media cannot write accurate heading titles. While the former does not bother reading the full memos, this reader has at this point not finished reading the article. My point is that The Washington Post is more likely not off guard and is setting the terms of the debate for a weakened president. Even the term debate is very shaky, implying that there is: 1. an argument and 2. they will actually face a debate. The point is that we would not be in much of this mess if the media had not been his cheerleader and the administration had been able to read memos. While headings do get attention, we would not have this course or the terms of the debate without the media still blowing it.
Monday, September 04, 2006
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.
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.
Can things get any better?
Before the 2004 election I warned: Do not bet on things not getting worse.
They can.
But now can things get any better than this?
Thanks to Air America Radio and Raw Story : Friends of Hillary hint she may pull out of presidential race
"I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate," said a leading Democratic party insider. "She believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can’t function as a democracy without it."
I might be surprised but encouraged.
And thanks to truthout.org and The Independent UK "Deluded": Extraordinary Attack on Blair by Cabinet
"His diminishing stock of political authority was laid bare when ministers such as Jack Straw and Douglas Alexander made clear their opposition to his hard-line stance."
And thanks to Peter Werby[Sept 1st broadcast] : worldcantwait.org
YES!
They can.
But now can things get any better than this?
Thanks to Air America Radio and Raw Story : Friends of Hillary hint she may pull out of presidential race
"I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate," said a leading Democratic party insider. "She believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can’t function as a democracy without it."
I might be surprised but encouraged.
And thanks to truthout.org and The Independent UK "Deluded": Extraordinary Attack on Blair by Cabinet
"His diminishing stock of political authority was laid bare when ministers such as Jack Straw and Douglas Alexander made clear their opposition to his hard-line stance."
And thanks to Peter Werby[Sept 1st broadcast] : worldcantwait.org
YES!
Friday, September 01, 2006
Filtering the Filter.
U.S. offers $20 million to monitor Iraq stories
Contract winner would watch tone of U.S. and foreign war coverage
Bush: Iraq a 'decisive ideological struggle'
President predicts victory despite disillusionment
Define "tone": See 27, 28, 29 or twice removed from message, once removed from messanger, as in "killing the". Once removed from perspective, twice removed from reality. As in "filtering the".
Define "ideological": "suggestive of ideas" once removed from ideology, not the enemy or the weapon, a struggle for some, but not decisive.
Before I waste more words, I will cut the to point that it is the tone and ideology of the administration that wastes so much, and will waste even more to continue the "trickle down" while they only tinkle real information, while the tone and ideology is fouled up.
Contract winner would watch tone of U.S. and foreign war coverage
Bush: Iraq a 'decisive ideological struggle'
President predicts victory despite disillusionment
Define "tone": See 27, 28, 29 or twice removed from message, once removed from messanger, as in "killing the". Once removed from perspective, twice removed from reality. As in "filtering the".
Define "ideological": "suggestive of ideas" once removed from ideology, not the enemy or the weapon, a struggle for some, but not decisive.
Before I waste more words, I will cut the to point that it is the tone and ideology of the administration that wastes so much, and will waste even more to continue the "trickle down" while they only tinkle real information, while the tone and ideology is fouled up.
The beginning to start to end.
Compassion is the only way to peace
D'VORAH KOST - Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
GUEST COLUMNIST
"We become fully human when we are aware of another's suffering as if it were our own. When we forget empathy, the peace we are striving for will be unattainable."
This was very well put in a piece that is worth a full read.
My comments:
When we deny the feelings of others,
we deny our own.
When we deny the force of others,
we deny our own.
My two sense worth
or sentiments worth.
Let those without denial
cast the first word.
Acceptance of being
in another's shoes
is the hardest fit.
D'VORAH KOST - Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
GUEST COLUMNIST
"We become fully human when we are aware of another's suffering as if it were our own. When we forget empathy, the peace we are striving for will be unattainable."
This was very well put in a piece that is worth a full read.
My comments:
When we deny the feelings of others,
we deny our own.
When we deny the force of others,
we deny our own.
My two sense worth
or sentiments worth.
Let those without denial
cast the first word.
Acceptance of being
in another's shoes
is the hardest fit.
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