Not Just

IN PASSING.
Benazir Bhutto

Special thanks to:
GoLeft.TV and Thom Hartmann

Note: New Label WholeE Days

Holiday Wishes Passed and Past

Here's hoping your holidays were meaningful.
Happy WholeE Days!
And may each day be so.

Global Communications

I was just wondering what the Office of Global Communications has been up to. Not to mention where the dialogue has been and where the Global Messenger has been going.

Now there has been a new project to add to the amount of work that we must all do since the three branches of government and the press have done such a heckuva job.

My comment is that the light of day does not necessarily clarify if the source is not trusted. That and the reasonable caution that there will be so much more put out there. In fact if the source is in the dark, who would you trust, and how would we verify, unless we trust someone. I'm sure the answer is somewhere.

Meanwhile my concern is the link to the word propaganda. It is not a bad thing, but it is more likely an unverifiable thing.

Meanwhile 2.0 or <-0.0> meaning preemptively: the Neo-Context
as in excuses to review a recent NIE and that is being reviewed as to the quality of its estimate.

Thank You Senators Dodd and Reid

It is about time.
[between these lines? accountability is long overdue for so many misdeeds]
Thank Dodd as he thanks others. [ * ]
Telecom Immunity Issue Derails Spy Law Overhaul
Reid Pulls Legislation, Citing Insufficient Time Before Recess
By Jonathan Weisman and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers

[ UPDATE 12-20-07: 2007 Democrats were more successful than 1995 Republicans but I must say...
And thanks to Rachel Maddow, and Campaign for America's Future,
a report Block-and-Blame GOP Stymies Progress]

Others:
Spying started well before 9-11
My:
QCON
Fourth Estate Blowing It.
Speake Strongly and Carry Little Stick
Rice Lacuna Planning Update.
[Note--See Comment-- I have pretty much updated the previous related links,
but lost in the mud or rice paddy is the problem,
lack of faith in nation building and the foundations and processes
otherwise updated in the right column as OUR FREEDOM and THE LAW.

[ * ]Disclosure: [I bought a Kucinich T-Shirt for his courage at the NW Progessive Convention but it must be remembered that the House has no filibuster, and the Senate has had many missed opportunities. And both have had untold negotiations and tactics.]

FCC Decision is in. Throw it out.

FCC’s New Media Rules Worse than Advertised
FreePress.net

Take Action Here.

Previous Request
UPDATE: S. 2332

ABA Retracts "Lawyer" of the Years

two posts back I note the "award" by the ABA to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, which has now been renamed Newsmaker of the Year.

Much ado about nothing? [*]
ABA statement
New Headline

[*] Not if you read the full articles or at least review the runners-ups. In particular and Previously noted. And Deeper.

QCON: The "much ado about nothing" is over the idea that we/they are quibbling about definitions or headlines while if one reads full articles, they (the article) might be understood. If one can rely on others to jump to conclusions, one need not even get that far. But this is progress in getting lawyers to improve their reporting. Not to mention their foresight.

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See Help Navigate

Mixed News: colors and letters

Just the point of TheLiaisonReport
Good News Sad News: Which came first the chicken or the sky is falling?

OK maybe I am mixing metophores or stretching the points to find a line, but HorsesAss.Org dropped this and I don't know if it is his scoop on The Scarlet Letter.

Sad news first: Washington State Senator Brian Weinstein will not be seeking a second term. He was a fiesty progressive.

Good news then: there will be an open race on the House side, because Republican Representative Fred Jarrett will run for Brian's Senate seat as a Democrat. He was a progressive Republican.

Kudos to Goldy for the punditry and analysis on this flip-flop, not to characterize any of them here. From my perspective maybe Fred was not a progressive Republican, he was probably D progressive Republican. That is my wisecrack for the night. I better save any personal sense of them for later.

ABA Lawyer of the Year

Alberto Gonzales

I'm not a lawyer and I had to coin a field to be something on these and other pages, but I will save my punditry for later. Here I will just add that not only is Gonzales the Lawyer of the Year and rumor has it that Mukasey is next year's winner, but what else they are is worth figuring out.

OK, I could not stay off my punditry that far or long, but my line of thinking is that unless the law is violated, it cannot get a hearing, and it is patriotic to violate the law for just that purpose, unless it has been preemptive in its scope. In that case, sometimes the law has been interpreted to not apply to some and others interpret not to look, while the real patriots cannot even be found.

Hmmm. Maybe trying to stay off a line, gets us somewhere, but it will be for who knows who to figure out. Congress?

[Original usage: "I'm not a doctor...".]

Unity '08

UPDATE:
Third party entering presidential raceNovember 6th, 2007
Build a new political platform - from the people on up September 30, 2007.
Uniting for 2008 November 12, 2007.

Ahead of the Curve?
Not Exactly.

Partisan Disclosure:
Unity '08 Poll Participant
Democratic Party Activist

Op-Ed Background:
the "uniter"
Back and Forth
"between the lines"
See Far Right Column "Help Navigate"

FIXING NEWS!!!!

as opposed to BREAKING NEWS!!!!
and counter to "Fair and Balanced"
and replacing [*] the MSM
(Main Stream Media)
the AKA or so-called "liberal media"

A project worth what?
The Air We Breathe?

Earlier projections: Media Filter
Congratulations KPTK! WE GOT ED!

[*] minutemanmedia.org

Rehash or Just Hash.

Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002
In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say
By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 9, 2007; A01

Or Sour Mash?
Washington Post: Democrats Including Pelosi Told of Waterboarding in 2002
jonathanturley.org

The implications are that there could be something wrong with the pressure that Democrats are under, either from the actual facts of the situation or the interpretation from some perspectives. But it better be cleared up before the lid blows off the principles of this nation or the party, let alone our hopes for progress. This is my take on this, the implications also being that this may not be breaking news but a matter that I have already filtered and others are just getting to the party. I think the simplest explanation is that full disclosure was not done and then even more disclosure was not allowed, but the use of that information in leadership roles is going to be eventually explained if not utilized for the common good. But that is just what is so hard to count on, and meanwhile the "hard work" of our troops and our grassroots, let alone any base is being squandered, or should I say, about to go down the drain.

I must note that I had heard Jonathan Turley speak on this issue on the Randi Rhodes show yesterday, but I have yet to more than barely start to read either of these articles.

[Correction: I did read four paragraphs of Jonathan Turley's piece and just thought there was more, and I must give a lot of credit to his fourth paragraph:

This also explains the failure of the Democrats to block votes that seemed to legitimate waterboarding and unlawful surveillance. If true, the knowledge of Democratic leaders shows a deep disconnect and possible dishonesty between our representatives and the voters. In many ways, this will be the test of our political system. If the public returns to its prior slumber after this story, there is little hope for a system that seems to replicate this type of conduct.

I don't really know what the public can do, but the Democrats better do more than wonder and not wander through any course that does not correct their staggering work.

Local Content

See Labels: Local(at bottom of this post)
or LABELS
INDEX
TO DIGEST
HELP NAVIGATE
Or THE GAME(I have consolidated from the right collumn.)

HERE IS THE LOCAL CONTENT INDEX (Incomplete).
King County Executive Race

Local Radio
Thank you Dave Ross
Lefty Blog
"Thank you Veterans" Day
NW Progressive Convention
Northwest Perspective Update
Home Economics
Eastside Democratic Dinner
Attorney General Gonzales Retreats
Perfect Presidents or Perfect Politicians?
Happy Subpoenas Day
Happy Earth Day
Presidential Profiles
Fare Market Ideas
Face The Music!
Legislative District Townhall Meeting
What's going on?
SJM 8016 / US Attorney Scandal
All Politics Is Local?

This may be a lame local link as it only references a local reporter, but it is also at issue that local papers may be bought out by conglomerations. Far from lame though I almost missed (in this update) the other link thereSpecial to the Times by someone I know and is even more local. Thank You, Donald Smith.

Romney takes leap

of faith with religion speech
CNN Politics.com -/- Power Line

"I'm not going to be giving a JFK speech,"

-/-

"Freedom requires religion..."
"A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States."

"public domain"
"the religion of secularism"
"tHEy are wrong"

"trust"
"the equality of human kind"
"to serve"
"liberty"
"public square"
"under God"

"these convictions will indeed inform "

"constitutional order"
"free exercise"

"I'm not sure that we fully appreciate..."

Enough?

In John Adams’ words: 'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.'

I return to the quote he used. And note that the preceding words are all parsed from his speech. If you don't "trust" that, use control find (Ctrl "F") on your keyboard and screen for the words you choose to "verify". Rather than read between the lines, I will let you leap between the segments above and now I will do the same with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

You will find "under God" in neither but you will find "God" is in the first paragraph of our Declaration of Independence.
Once and only there.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, 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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed...

I could "of course" cherry pick or parse more words, but it is all in the putting together. You might want to search other words like "creator" or "power" and you will find no more of the former and much of the latter and where, but this...

I will leave to you.

[Note: I have taken the liberty to italicize some words and some bold, and here note that a -/- (dash slash dash) gives separation between the sources and parsed words at the top of this post, while in the blockquote -- (two dashes) actually are each one long dash and are for emphasis it seems or high light.]
[It is not that it was a bad speech, but he is "no Kennedy" and may be a better "Reagan". But that is a double-edged comment. ]

Brief Analysis and Whose Is Full of It.

"Neocon Job"
By Keith Olbermann
MSNBC Countdown
Marionette, moron or mud in the hole. What a pile.
And who gets it in the shorts.
Speaking of the "snake oil salesman" and Olbermann was, I literally had to go out and rent a "snake" for my other responsibilities(definition 3) . So the metaphors fly and let us wish it were only mud down the drain.
Oh, and I recently bought a few strainers, go filter.

[12-16-07: See commentS (2) believed link related to original Neo-Con report from Olbermann. At present.]

Remember Pearl Harbor!

And learn from it.
But just what was learned?

Historical Mountain Missing

21st Century Coverup
CNN's Jack Cafferty on CREW's discovery that 10,000,000 White House e-mails are missing.
CREW Team * a "Government Watchdog Group"

*sorry for the visual
But more rowing in the mud and it may be a photo finish.

Speaking of Cracking the Code (and How to Win Hearts, Change Minds and Restore America's Original Vision, I am slightly more than midway through my autographed edition, but it is what I have been doing / for years. Reading between the lines (if not not finishing books or links) [speaking of finishing 12-19-07 ] here is the most powerful dig at their world view.

The shovel they keep piling on mud and B_S_ with, so the trickle down flows, and the plumbers can plug and leak, and the flatearthers can have their boats and their rising tide. From missing tapes [*]segments, to missing emails, from violated FISA to the Presidential Records Act. The Trickle Down is right in the middle of the two Plumbers problem which congress needs to flush. From the Nixon administration plugging leaks to the Bush administration using leaks, it is all about the flow and control of information, and holding government and the press accountable. It is not just in the constitution, it is on the people.

[*] [12-11-07: I was not even thinking of or cognisant of the just broken news about the CIA interrogation videos being destroyed. Here are just three quick links which I will read later-- The Blotter ABC News -- Washingtonpost.com -- MSNBC -- ]

Second?

[Dug out from previous post.]
Three strikes you're out or third times a charm?
You've heard of Whitewater.
You've heard of Blackwater.
You've heard of Clearwater,
as in CCR. Creedence Clearwater Revival
Now you must hear of the latest CCR.
Center for Constitutional Rights or
Credence Clearwater Revival

[From the last post, the preemptive links refer to earlier comments regarding the link to Watergate, (Hmmm, I forgot, more water), actually a phrase from that era:

"What did the president know, and when did he know it?

Since the Neo-cons are not that dumb, but are preemptive, the questions should be:

"What did the president not know and when did he not want to know it?"

They are still going *, and we are still waiting.

* "words fly" NPR
hawking threat
"still going"

And still dancing in briefs. or thru Smoke and mirrors.
President not briefed on details he briefs Olmert on.

The point is, the administration is promoting offensive behavior and misrepresetation of intelligence before the intelligence has been fully studied, and it is really probably the case that the administration does not have the intelligence (in evidence or thinking) until someone reads it to them the way they want to hear it, and the president might not hear it until it is what someone wants him to hear or they know it is what he wants to hear. But the case is that he is operating on principles and facts that he expects other to support him on, while they do not get it either. BINGO! Maybe I can get to a point. Until he is forced to come clean we will have more water works of trickle down, and I have a hunch the alernative or delay tactic will be that Cheney will be the dam or water fallguy. Boy, don't these metaphors flow like d'Nile.

Wake Up Congress! This is the intelligence the administration has. It is the National Intelligence Estimate. Bush gets the last word. "Estimate". He is the decider and he is not done having the estimate analyzed so he can decide and then it will be an estimate he will decide to act on. END OF STORY, End of His Story.

Not Exactly Breaking News

Howard Dean Action Figure (item)
GO TO HOPE NOT FEAR and sign the petition.

Second?
I will have to dig that up later,
but here are some preemptive links.
Search "not want to know"
April 7th, 2006
Day old note too late April 25th, 2006
Clearwater Muddy September 26th, 2006

Whistle Blowing in the Dark?

or the Neo-Plumbers plugging the leaks.

The Turd Blossom's Free Pass

Speaking of...
cover ups or is it dumps.Speaking of effluent or is it affluent, is the flow of information in the same nature? I recently made such a dump (email) and while some work in think tanks, others create septic tanks.

Well some of the sludge was dredged up in the last post.
Now to uncover or filter this:

Waxman, Mukasey and Ten Million Missing Emails
By Matt Renner
t r u t h o u t | Report

Or do we have fertilizer for greener pastures,
Democrats Seeking Answers About Report on Iran
By Roxana Tiron
The Hill
Senate Judiciary Democrats Push Contempt Motion
By Susan Crabtree
The Hill

New Approaches?

New Intelligence Estimate New York Times
New Approach to Terrorism Associated Press
CUT FUNDS means RAISED TAXES
Unless we consider the war won,
state and local taxes must cover the cuts.
[There is still something to be said
about the [Act to]PVRHT
and Pre-Empting Crimes] *

Much may be due about nothing.
But it is the grey areas or
"in the shadows" where they operate.

Another benign bill, but in conjunction with The Patriot Act, and failure to follow FISA or II and over 750 Presidential signing statements, do we really need more bills that will be followed at the whim of the administration? But it really is in the definitions and the intentions which are pre-emptive and likely pre-empted by intentions.

* LINK RECAP:
11-10-07 Alicia Mundy Seattle Times Washington Bureau
11-1-07 Chip Berlet quoted in this piece. In These Times
The long and the short of it?
Slate 11-27-07 ThruthOut 11-29-07

FURTHER COMMENT: Senate Bill 1959 has made strides in one area only since the House version, H.R. 1955 and that is the balance of the committee appointments, but what about the fields that will be covered, and the collections of material and the following of laws. The following is a crack at a critique of this attempt (S. 1959) to make up for the poor performance of the administration and congress in the areas of accountability:

While many disciplines and departments are involved there are three primary fields that make up the dynamics of individuals in society, and those are the Physical, Psychological, and Philosophical, and the fourth is represented by the dynamics which is about the people and their goals and that is Politics. These are the areas that need work in society before we can hope to prevent let alone predict people who will take thoughts and feelings into actions. But some of the circumstances that one guest listed as contributors to radicalization are the lack of issues being addressed by society, issues that could be said to cause violent radicalization. Issues which are just the ones that Republicans refuse to address, and Democrats just barely stand up for. Those being basic needs and government accountability

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Others may look at the fourth dimension of this world view and think economics, religion or spirituality, but what are these all but the power of working with others.