Who the heck...

took the W off of wholistic?

Must have seem him coming. Can we have it back? W?

Odd works in strange and myterious ways, or I made a mistake. Or someone has a sense of humor. Note the odd G oh d another {o}ops! Ok, its me. I was avoiding the G word. By George or Rather letter. See Dan or CBS.

But back to the way this worked, I thought it would be funny to post this on wholism or was it wholistic, since my first search came out with 36,300,000 and I wanted to tweak that by one, but when I refreshed the search engine instead of 36 million 300 thousand and one, it dropped to 57,000 for wholistic and if that is not better, there are still 21,100 for wholism.

But I digress, or progress, it remains why wholism is a variant on holism. It turns out that it may be a long battle at least at this point over Words. Suffice to say for now that for our health we bridge the gap between the whole and the hole.

[Non sequitur - or might it? *]

* akin to footnotes?

[The best I can wiki-google is that 1929 was when holism was spelled first, while some may believe in the power of spells, it seems that words have always been a field that yields.]
[not such]
[Happy End of Year and Hope for a New Air-or]

Capital Quotes

Lincoln on labor's superiority.

Without control of capital there can be no free labor. While some feel that free labor is a right to a free market.(:44-8:10) "...the economy is based on job creation" O'really? Very creationist. And has Friedman been freed?

The Legacy: by George

"...for goodness sake"

Speaking of Cherry trees or just a pit .

Happy Holidays!

And best wishes for all!

Tolerance at the table?

People for the American Way presents a basic argument against the tolerance of intolerance.
Just what was Obama's purpose? ? [*] I hope there is some here.
I think I found it, and to shine the light on ...

[Maybe tabling the metaphor of the table as the well as the use of metaphor?
It also should not be a case of "reaching out" to the other side.]

[[No Dis-Respect but it is "fair and balanced".]]

[*][Update: link inserted for purpose driven foe-be-ah? And apples and oranges. I was originally focused on the lack of attention given to the benediction speaker but it is not a matter that balances the issue. Except if is balanced on the separation of church and state. It is my belief that there should be no government regulation to force the associations made in one's church and it may be said that the word marriage should be given to that category, with the caviat that states give equal rights to churches to determine their definition of marriage and the states provide for civil unions to those who choose. But no!!!! It seems that some people will not be happy with re-parsing of words, like freedom or rights..]

(WMD) Wisdom's Mass Deployment

Matthews finally gets there.

Previous Chatter.

Sophistry aside?*

Alexander Hamilton's Advice To The Obama Administration. by Thom Hartmann CommonDreams.org

* Matthew's and Hamilton's bad rap in their respective fields (Journalism and Finance)

Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep.

A lot of water is under the bridge over the last few days. What was a bridge to nowhere has become the bridge-loan to nowhere.
FROM THAT WATER:(reply to an email from an Existentialist) I am not saying Rush is wrong about Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep, but absolutely about the (Democrats)circling the wagons. Otherwise the administration would be cleaned up by now. Absolutely no argument. P.S. you gotta luv this argument (wink) - Has "no argument" taken a spin?

But seriously the media has.(wink) I can see how you can see that Obama is just as Teflon as Bush. But given the Republicans have had the Justice Department and still do... it is more than a matter of statistics. Somehow even Illinois had reason to be displeased with their governor, but... Oops! I slipped into my bleepin blog.
(there I go again)
So, there is still hope for us.

RATHER THAN...clutter this with links and footnotes I will just put this in con text by describing my friend the apparent existentialist. He knows he exists and also knows others exist based on the non-existence of evidence they don't exist. Think**: WMD and corrupt politicians. Also think: Rush to Judgement vs. Voodoo Justice (and Economics)

** 1-15-09 spell check done but note the preceding sentence was double-checked and is as intended.

4-24-13 (spoiler alert?) update Not Exactly: I cannot explain the link or leap, but in blog searching (b.s.) spell+check(2) here(3) there is the (sc) anomaly (Blog-Oi-Ya-Bleep.) and to a dead link at that.

OH, THE IRONY!!!

Is it just me
or is it just ice.

It certainly seems ironic that terrorists are confessing while politicians are pleading their case on the tortured field of justice. Irony may be in the eye of the beholder, yet the competition for finding the logic in both cases is staggering, and maybe stronger in the case of martyrdom. Maybe after mentioning the irony, I have ironed this out, for was not Nixon a martyr of sorts? To what I don't know. But justice is the irony, in that both cases short circuit it. One from the top, the other from the bottom, the irony may be cut by the idea that they are getting their orders top down, while justice it seems is bottoms up and down the drain.
[Speaking of hot air and bubbles: OK it was hydrogen.]

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There is enough irony in the pardon situation, the confession situation may be more clear, as making martyrs will continue the war on terror. The irony is not in the terrorists, it is in the war, where justice would at least take away one recruitment tool. Not to mention if you are not with us, you are against us. If terrorists are for the death penalty, where are we? It is not irony that terrorist don't want justice, because in this case the process has been violated, which gets in the way of their martyrdom. By forgoing any change in the process, they risk progress being made, and one more recruitment tool lost. That may be the exception that proves the irony, in that the administration used exceptional logic.

Meanwhile: It might be wise to keep or promote Patrick Fitzgerald. Speaking of Nixon, there is irony in the Nixon to China concept. And hope in the Obama from Chicago process. And justice may be around the corner, but economics is the bigger picture.

Not so guru...

but cool.

and as long as I quip, Right On!

Capital needs a passport!

The Auto Industry Bailout or loan could have a reasonable solution. Call it a loan, and make sure that offshore divisions back it up. The problem is much deeper but the solution no less. But on the other hand, if offshoring is the answer, then are they not their own solution?

Democratic Re-Org Continued

The deja voodoo refers to the update that links to the inspiration that rose from the Tax Reform resolution forwarded to the platform committee. Other than a contested race for State Committee Woman there were little fireworks. Oh, there is a fine field of candidates for Elections Director. The one damper I am sure was that PCO's that felt the issue should have been addressed while they were at the table was not, but taken into the republican form of representation that is our democracy. Not that some of the legislative district bodies or their KCDCC reps would not feel similar, I look forward to more details. (More later)

Deja Voodoo?

Fuzzy Math + Fuzzy English = 1 Heckuva Job
[This is an old quip of mine updated** with new links embedded.]

A COROLLARY:
Litigated Math + Mitigated Language = the inverse of the slippery slope.

Just what does that mean? Well it means that it is a lot harder to make progress than to run things down. It means we must be as careful backing out of the ditch, as we were careless getting the driver that got us there. (Sorry to mix rhetoric and metaphor here, but it is an uphill battle *that will take all hands on deck.0

*this is a Laffer speaking of hills, I suggest that you search for the boat in Reagan's words not to mention Lincoln's stroke of labor.

[And where do I get the voodoo? Well is just isn't magic. But the key as Bill Frist said is "when done right". It also seems to depend on the side of the curve one is on before changes are made, not to mention the application of the terms incentive and work when it comes to capital.]

[Update: 12-8-08 King County Re-Org and the inspiration from the Tax Reform debacle there.

** I attempt to represent this as a formula or parody of math, but the links I have inserted were not necessarily known to me at the time I formulated an earlier version, just the history as we lived it, in the form of Reaganomics and early Bushisms.]

Same old, same old?

me...
Meaning my old temptation to comment primarily before fully reading a source.
Who are the Taliban?

Although I have actually started to read, I must note in digesting it, my thoughts.
Preemptively? My thoughts were that the Taliban are the new al Queda. Well...
at this point they are at least "the insurgents" but my new take is that they are the new coalition of the willing.

Willing to do anything to get foreigners out. Just showing that Bush is a uniter not a divider. The Taliban have gone from being willing to give up bin Laden to an international court or third party to being the loyal opposition or radical unifiers where the unifying force is our forces. I have long harbored if not sunk certain phrases that would imply that Bush would be true to some sort of his words.

SO THERE... now I will get back to about the fifth paragraph, reading the link above, subtitled: The Afghan War Deciphered. I hope it is the legacy flip-flopped.

[12-5-08: Having finished the full article, there is only hope that some change in course will make the legacy more than just more of the same. But more than just change in course are the actual participants in the navigation.]

Following results.

Having finally read, Democracy in Transition, I find the error in the missing gap. Maybe under the cushions of the SOFA -
- Having Now Fully Read (NFR) as opposed to earlier (nfr) - not fully read -

[My original tangent (or somewhat subsequent) was based on a true convergence error, by actually melding two links that I did not later see (but have now fixed) as two. It may have been my original convergence that there was some link between Thanksgiving and Xmas of native form and anacronism if not shopping or fitting the bill.]

The SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) is a possible transition piece that also leaves a flexible and democratic if not constitutional way forward. It may be just a piece that is expected to assure a legacy of passing the buck, but that is just what is needed until there is a leader who is willing to follow...

As far as time tables go- (I make up for the muddle by pulling only two segments together from the SOFA.)
"Should the Iraqi government decide to cancel the pact after the referendum it would have to give Washington one year's notice, meaning that troops would be allowed to remain in the country only until the summer of 2010."

"The international agreement will be binding on US president-elect Barack Obama when he assumes office next year, but he could also unilaterally cancel the pact with a year's notice or withdraw all US troops at any time."

Given the room for democracy otherwise known as process, there is also room for interpretation with oversight.

As far as Democracy in Transition: Congress should reclaim their power in the United States with a "signing statement resolution" as Iraq is still forming their constitutional process.
"Such a resolution, which would still allow Congress to fund the agreement if they feel compelled by the Obama administration to do so, could be passed by both the House and the Senate the week of December 8," Fox said. "If congressional leaders cannot bring themselves to take that one minor step, then the damage to their institution may be irreversible."

In conclusion, it may be that this is the best thing that the current administration has ever done. Not that it was their intent, but the best they could hope for, and would not have been possible without the pressure of some form of daylight, albeit not here yet.- diplomacy - ]