Preemptive Happy New Year!

We Got Ed
Nor Man Gold Man
Rachell Mad*dow
Keith Olbermann
Thom Hartmann
Ron Reagan
Not the least of the lesser lights,**
but in particular order,
Pardon me not the least, Chris Matthews.

Links to be added later, might be. Or maybe.
[Locker Room Snap, Within Limits, Rather Miffication, or Retrogressing in reserve.]

** 12-31-09 upper links and asterisk added: an awkward way of saying I was probably forgetting some

* 1-2-10 slipped in 2nd link and worse (excuse the asteriskal anachronism: not/anachronistic )

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas to the Democrats
and Happy Boxing Day to the Republicans,
not to be PC or leave any others out.
Or other coping havens of hope.

[President Obama Hails Reform/Salon]
[Here they are! The Bills side by side. Detroit Free Press]

[Note that the above two links were read and inserted after the rest of this post, except ** and ***, not to mention David Sirota ]
My comment:

It would seem to me that Congress should be able to "get 'er done" without the 60 votes. Either as some suggest by "going nuclear" (I am against Nuclear Power but) by blowing up the filibuster or somehow utilizing a reconciliation or conference process to do it. Failing that, there are probably enough progressives to kill the bill, but that may not be necessary[or advised**]. Removing the mandate, just might put this in the category of a budget issue under reconciliation, but failing to remove the mandate, might just put this on the track for constitutional review and modification, where it is imagined that a public option just might be the only option. It just might be wise for the Republicans not to push the constitutional issue and settle for a public option now, possibly with a 10-15% buyin margin on Medicare. In the alternative, giving states an option to have a public* plan, and freeing those to sell out of state, might be another crack in the (just say no)[***] armor.

[TruthOut/McClatchy -- Steve Clemons/Huffington}

* one Representative mentioned that the option would have a name other than public, and that could just be non-profit or within the caps imposed.

[In a bit of Re-Mythication, I might say: From hurding cats to a real cat fight, this is no sausage or hot diggity dog eat dog world. Or from Real Mythication to Real Miffication in regards to others, it is better than FAUX News.]

[** semantics are more than a quibble between liberals and progressives, but between principles and progress (side note: some claim that "progressive" is just a label to avoid the "liberal" charge but both are needed, while labels should not give cover for inaction or misconceptions.]
[***(late insert) also: or just say now]

RETRO NOTE: The Ed Show. Not to mention Miff Maddow.
[1-7-09 Hit Ping Pong (see Shhhh!) on the table.]

Buy In?

[[UPDATE 12-23-09:
Salon v. Huffington*
Throwing in the towel of bipartisanship and/or getting it together?
Who needs Republicans when the Democrats have two wings?
(On the other hand: High Stakes Poker [**] anyone?)

* Wonk Room actually, but the sentiment counts and change happens. ]]
[**Thanks to Thom Hartmann ]

[Resume original post]
The Senate Hurdle? The Federal Option.
[OurFuture.org]

Optimistic Sense?
Real Mythication
UPDATES
Saving the spot *
Get 'er done
Hiatus of Thought
Rubric's Cube...
[12-22-09: Think Progress Hopenhagen, (FT, WaPo, NYTimes) OurFuture.org Bumbling Economy?]

A Fifth

Sense.
Four,
Three,
Two,
One,
Blast !

...Off* from the Base
and Rocking the Table **.

[*] 12-17-09 Dean on Hardball
[**] 12-17-09 AKA(no such thing as bad press ***) It bleeds we lead an unwinding of irony. i.e. Keep Up the Pres$ure for Progress. The president's low polling should acknowledge more that the left is not approving, than independents or his base being lost, or that there are more that think Republican's or Tea Partiers have the solutions. While Dean's pressure cannot be acknowledged or minimized without losing the animus for progress. He said kill the Senate Bill, not the process or reform.
*** Thank you Senators Cantwell and McCain!!?!!

[12-19-09 Sometimes Polls Matter.

Real Mythication

Senator Franken on Republican entitlement.
Nicole Sanders on Lieberman Bill
Charge of the Dense Brigade
Speaking of Tools...
Seeking shelter, does not a tool make.*
I mean, why not credit it with conservationist or materialist ideology?(the octopus)(recycled or supply side economics)
(UP - date)

(Get err done, or is it ARRR?)

(Pulled from draft:
A portion of making a point? as inspired sources...
John Podesta
Doctrine airy
Hopenhagen?
What a drag.)**

REAL MYTHICATION (title finally added above).
Hmmm.

The Real Rubric's Cube? Or from the mouth of Rubes or other caricatures?

*sequentially eventually I beg to differ: a punderstanding of evolution
** or scroll over links
[Nightmare before Mainstreet?]

UPDATES

First Comment Added.(1)12-15-09
UPDATE(2) Con Text ADDED 12-15-09
Needs attention(4):go figure
Note Several items saved in draft
(there should be only one with this label)*
[blank, making the point?, updates]
Recent Index beyond (1-4)**
Hiatus of Thought (3)
[Under Construction]
12-16-09
* note asterisk moved from previous line and irony of example as saved in draft are not accessible but following line notes 3 of several (punderstanding of grammar and puctuation)
** index aka archive you search
Real Mythication (title added) also from and in draft adjusted

[12-17-09]
[12-19-09]
[12-21-09]
[12-22-09]
[12-23-09 also a link added]


[12-31-09: links at particular order added at *
[1-2-10: Dow and Dylan and bold added to particular order and asterisks flipped.]
[1-2-09(oops OH-TEN): Raw Story Ribble (P.S. undated square bracketed material will normally not be linked to updates if added same day as post. Curved brackets are more immediate asides (or edits).]
[1-5-10:
[1-6-10: Also a Sixth Sense.
[1-7-10: Can it. Or Book it...Rusho(Enough! I must find my post later [1-6-10 see down] but in regards to the Health Care in Hawaii and Colorado here are some updates.]

Saving the spot *

Hypatia
Joe Brewer
Cognitive Policy Works
What about the patriarchal trap**?

* AKA: under construction or on Sabbatical FNA: saved in draft

** sounds like?

[Also... go figure...]

Noble, No Bell, Nobel

It was no dynomite for some, nor Hopenhagen.

[Comment above posting on 12-14-09..Originally held in draft 12-11-09 continue as AMENDED here:
Obama's Nobel Lecture; MSNBC, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Jon Stewart , If Only[**]. ]

[Rounding it out: Obama Doctrine*, If Only, Great Debates, Values: to boldly go wagering "hard work" ]
[EarlierWest PointSpeech: just in case]

* "If Only" this link were followed by...(ribble?)following the Obama Doctrine and wagering Peace. "If Only" duplicity hints at Asterisk Trek, or the star power of words. Do not confuse the just with the jest.

[For future and path, consideration.]

[See 1st comment: PEACE! Get 'er done! Not pieces, get err done. On the other hand...]

[** 12-15-09 UPDATE: Arianna Huffington aggrees with Sarah Palin? Only in Con Text which is out of context, meaning what opinion makers so easily do by selecting their snippets. Neither Palin nor Bush would have been able give this speech and put war in context, but taking it out of context, there could be no difference.]

Hiatus of Thought

I was going to use the word with the intent to replace "Sabbatical" and figure out if was maybe be going to "third times a charm"** but maybe it is the "exception that proves the rule". Seldom do I actually fully read a piece before keying a few strokes and I may hit the rough but never take Mulligans.* It may be a none too subtle lie, but the irony is in the wedge, that John Fund hit. True, Southern Democrats played their part in the 1964 Civil Rights Bill filibuster, and so are they playing it now. But...things change.
* I think I will keep that punderstanding in my golf bag or locker...Hint: Cheetah's Club.

footnote: Nixonland...drop...Goldwater.

** hiatus confirmed, typo corrected: charm not charge

Rubric's Cube and Rhetorical Realmifications.

you google*
Caution...The Goose for the Gander.(6-13-12)

[Kant We All Get Along Without Going To Hegel?]

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. [**]
Steven Clemons: On Olbermann
Palin and the Pashtun and the Dickens it is.
Lawrence Wilkerson: on ibid. [6-22-12 Link Corrected]
A Christmas Carol meets A Wonderful Life.

Credit Olbermann, Clemons and Dick Cheney, not to mention Charles Dickens; the tales aside. It seems that we are broaching the American Dream from the nightmare of history.

footnote: Hegel Can't
Not to mention, D'Cart before Newton.[***]

[*] e for go figure; i.e. oops, ironically coined a word - NOT - how's 'bout realmystication? (Perhaps Realmythication?) But the question is, by the goose or the gander? More disambiguated, google may have adjusted as it no longer pops up "ramifications", but it could be my lack of foundation between the geek and the street. You might ask, what about google? Maybe a ribble, search me.

[** 12:08 PST 12-6-09: OK, I am not going to rhyme or jiggle but should I be glad I've maybe been read or mad I my might have been borrowed. Now that I have read the body of the work, the pop quiz it concludes with is rhetorical or at least left open, but least it had 4 options plus all of above; while a Republican Survey misdirected to me, was a push poll of yes, no and no opinion, which does not have as much wiggle room as their questions.] Along these lines, giving the "locked in" a "what for", as in not exactly any contradictions there.]
[Also 12-6-09 note that I was trying to determine if there is such a thing as Rubric's Cube, it was not a mispell as my previous post did refer to Rubic's cube.]
[12-16-09 Update made "go figure"(also 12-14 Realmythication apparently coined.]
[*** 12-23-09 link inserted ]

1-9-14 Kant we all  ... ? Roots / Branches / axe knot*? Is it not that some are so lost from their roots they cut off branches?  No.  Or create limbs that leap? Ask if there are more primary fields than four mats: Physics, Psychology, Philosoply, Politics?  Aphorism or fact: Truth is a determinant.  Math is next to godliness, and religion parting from Platonics.  Speaking of fields they are more than planes, knot too categorical lee.  (G'Ribble Label?)

Value Posted.

Pro Log:

I must preface, that I caught a lot of the reaction along with snippets of the speech on MSNBC(which was no bed of roses) before I finally listened to the whole speech while writing (interspersed) the second[*] blog post. Somewhere embedded is the video of Mathews with Ron Reagan Jr. where he is bating Karen Finney. So if you run into it, let me know, but I have an index of priority links, the first being the speech[**], which I think is the most important in history. Yet. OK, maybe not so melodramatically but solemnly considered to be in the balance. Meaning: if these pragmatic and incremental tactics are not strategically implemented, there will be a much harder and dangerous, Rube Goldberg, if not broken with a peace busted, Rubic's Cube. Any opposition must address all the concerns of our puzzle, not that some pressure will not be welcomed to tweak the navigator and the crew.]

(the preceding was actual preface in an email)

Who let the dogs out!
Not exactly three part harmony *** on Capitol Hill.

[* reference to an email including ]

[**] {Index of priority links: "Speech", "no vapid" (General Eaton), Pakistan, Maddow (1:15-1:52)}

[Last reference: Center for American Progress ]
[*** actual lyrics are in a different Three Dog Night song, speaking of the Radio, I must find the second hour of the Norman Goldman Show to get Ray McGovern's take on things.]
*** Rubic's Cube in this piece(smashed or missing), but Rubric's Cube in this realm mythication.

Value Added?

Chris Matthews is Value Taxed.

Mid-Speech (13:35 in video):

[quote]To meet that goal, we will pursue the following objectives within Afghanistan. We must deny al Qaeda a safe-haven. We must reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow the government. And we must strengthen the capacity of Afghanistan's Security Forces and government, so that they can take lead responsibility for Afghanistan's future

It is not so much was is said, but what is not[***] said or heard elsewhere.[**] Number one threat to national security now? Economic Crisis Second or was number one before the last administration: Nuclear Proliferation.

I don't know if I can find the point where a Republican critic complains that we can't address some of the concerns at home, how can we address them in Afghanistan? That is a great point. It should have been considered before we shifted from getting Bin Laden and to regime change in Iraq. But the important difference is that Afghanistan needs to build their governmental processes amidst turmoil, while we have got one already in turmoil thanks to the Chicken Hawks*, and Afghanistan does not have the stumbling blocks which are our foundations and which the previous administration and current Republicans continue to trample.

* I think we can safely say Chris Matthews is one now, but I don't really know he did not serve. The only wiki connection is other MSNBC military analysts. Not to mention Rube Goldberg. He did serve: "in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970 as a trade development advisor."
[**] added link
[***] similarly Pakistan has a government that must be dealt with with all our influence. (27:03) Values Sir CHARGE![Sometimes I can't believe Matthews was ever in politics or heard any of the Bush speechs- but that is maybe good for an interviewer, because we must listen to his guests.]
[Having now finished hearing the speech, after spending too much time on the reactions, I must say that the speech was a solemn thrill and no vapid rhetoric. I think I detected that in the faces and response from "the Corps" and one would not expect them to act like groupies at a rock concert or talk show hosts.
[And 1:15 to 1:52 with Rachel Maddow. Lastly I have sorted the bold links{see below index} and I hope you have "found my thrill". Maybe we should have a thrill added tax, but there "he goes" again.]
{Index of priority links: "Speech", "no vapid" (General Eaton), Pakistan, Maddow (1:15-1:52)}

Preemptive Comment

Only slightly: Pardon Cheney, he doesn't know what the "legal definition" of anything is. Pardon me, Chris Matthews, we need a new word for "beyond hypothetical". He asked a guest what they would be saying if Bush has just given the same speech. Since Ron Reagan was one the guests, it might have made sense if the other guest had been a Republican but maybe not. My point? This is not a speech that Bush could have given or ever would have given, no matter how similar one thinks it sounds. At least not on Cheney's watch.[**]

Speech - TEXT
CNN video
Biden support
Republicans agree. (OK this is a tangent, but I earlier thought that Cheney is getting too much coverage. If his comments would be filtered to what was really news and reasonably accurate, he would get none.)

MSNBC - General Eaton - Steve Clemons - Cenk Uygur * - Howard Fineman - Hardball - Rachel Maddow - also - Olbermann - Maxine Waters - Kucinich - Ed Schultz - Pragmatic
* I am in Karen Finney's corner
[**] 12-1-09 update: which gives short shrift to Bush's natural proclivities.

Preemptive Reading

The National Debt and Cultural Figures.

My earlier post which might be reaching is that Obama and his approach is more than about numbers and x's and o's, either in terms of a playbook or hugs and kisses. Both the domestic (Health Reform) and international fronts(Military/Financial) are multi-tiered and are not just a matter of vote or run or get out of the way.

[See comment here and update there]

[Back to the Future Links": Yet to be read or go nuclear as in the next gravy train.

To Be Clear...

this is not Real Clear unless clearly Political.

Climategate is no trickledown* and no Climatequiddick unless it is about what trickles or goes off the bridge. (or Climatequidick) An actual hysterical historical divergence.
[Accountablity is hard work, so I reiterate: Climate quid ick? ]

* actually they are metaphorically related in their errors
[stay tuned for the not so fair e tale.

Vy Not? I'll Tell You Vy!

Climate quid ick? Ironic context? Not to mention historic misread. The real issue and the foe. These are just some core samples for later processing. But for now, I think that critics from all sides should consider that Obama's Tuesday speech is really a change. Just because he has "x" numbers of "troops" does not mean there is the same mission and that chain of command is not respected. (By the way this is quite a 4A here as in anachronistic and a bit anecdotal.)

Now That's What I'm Talking About

State Dinner
and Separation of Church and State.
Obama Highjacks Thanksgiving and Snubs Republicans.
Actually Republicans were the snubbers *** of State Dinner and marriage.
But really, Obama will "get 'er done" with mission statement.

*** see that link's asterisks and the comment there
[Happy WholeEdays]

[Or rather fair and balanced google.]

Regulating Wall Street

Sen. Maria Cantwell: Takes on the Bubble.

Welcome To Seattle

NorMan GoldMan
It's not about Right and Left, it's about Right and Wrong.
Not Exactly...TheLiaisonReport.com* but it is about Justice.
[Post Dated: 11-26-09 What we have to be thankful for.]

* see comment here

Digging Up and Digging In.

Or Digging Out...

As I paused to reflect on the appropriateness of the connections above, the third popped into place. But it is a grave matter, this journalism*.

The field of meta4; one, two, three, strikes yer out. The Metaphysical Meta-for.

[Further digs to read or Dickens of a future, past and present. ]
[And one more shovel or scoop of apathy.**

*Health Care
** intended link
*** (future link: see comment) Nuance of polls and evolution of the word
[Update: the word]

The Bermuda Triangle

or whatever their shorts.
(Scroll Over) It is surpising that there is not a charge of Death Panel in this wild shot by the media, but there does seem to be a lot of hot air about a task force that has been around awhile.
[Odd segue? Consider the populist problem of Geitner (shorts) and whether the right replacement would even be approved by the Right, over the question (their) of the task force even being related to health reform let alone (whatever) the administration. (see Paradigms/Huff Po/Yale]

[UPDATE: 11-21-09 Point...man? Laying it on thick, Geitner is not the pointman...He has been commended but there are the Sec. of Labor and Commerce that should also weigh in. Geitner might just be the forward or center.]

Progress is Global

...and incremental, pragmatic, and needs to reflect diverse views and dynamics. It also should put the health care progress in proper perspective, as there are both employment and international consequences to changes, which congress must be in on addressing. Despite the fears of some, this is not a dictatorship or even a one party system but a triumvirate for the tetrahedron of the people.

[Reference Base *...]

[[Setting the tea table? Huffington Post, Ron Paul and Kucinich on Auditing the Federal Reserve. And a placemat for Ed Schultz in Seattle November 15th. ]]

[update: 11-17-09 Just Foreign Policy - Progressive Caucus ]

* link added [update: 11-20-09 The Pacific President (CAP-TP)]

All Politics is Local

Between the League,
and the Base ***
the ivy and the grass roots.[**]
Not to mention* between Lincoln, FDR and two Teddys.

* One should wonder if Lincoln could be elected as a Repulican, let alone how to carry a schtick.

[Puget Sound Liberals]
[Northwest Progress Institute]
[**] 11-13-09 Not to be con descending by noting the links, but I was speaking to the Base and the League in reading into it the problems that I try to work out in this blog. So please, speak up to power, and let's get down to business. An aside: Russ Baker needs a look, uppity or not.

*** this link is a hit

Political Capital

If I heard it right, I hazzard a guess that Obama's decision on Afgahnistan will shoot him up about 10% in the polls. I must find the appropriate link, but this is hopefully not it. I may have heard it wrong or others have.

[Maybe this? And my "original" source. Or this.]

[Not to mention death panel intelligence.]

Three Strikes You're Out.

Chris Matthews Pops up with Surprise, Forest, Strategy on Hardball, which he will have to think about it.

First he asks if the abortion issue was surprise, and proceeds to make several points, fouling off with a Balloonhead comment, then mistreats the lumber by swinging the wrong branch at the metaphor of the forest and then proceeds to splinter off the bat of strategy and wonders if his guest is upset.
[The Bull Pen, The Closer.*]
[The swing or the diamond.(see "four corners of the law")]

* OBAMA: You know, I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill. And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions. (My point is that the law is the language and Matthews is not reading the signals.)

Thank You Veterans

And All Who Serve.

[update]
[update]
[Update]

Breaking Local News

Former Republican, Current Democratic State Senator Fred Jarrett tapped for Deputy by King County Executive Dow Constantine creating opening. [Update].
[NPI earlier]

[11-21-09 Link below adjusted: was ]

Compromise Aborted

If the Stupack amendment[**] kills Health Reform then there should be a rebirth of the single payer and a striking * of the Hyde amendment. After all, we do not want the government between doctors and patients, or the people and their money.

* I did not want to use the death penalty at least in rhetoric

[**] link inserted 11-11-09 with these too.
[11-21-09 link below added]

What is TheLiaisonReport?

In noting my lack of comment on the Fort Hood tragedy [last Thursday*], a commemoration of the Berlin Wall coming down [today], as well as the upcoming Veteran's Day [this Wednesday], I did not want to just make gratuitous/obligatory commentary or cracks, but must note their passing.

The word *** "animus" tripped me up in a recent essay. Just how does this tie in? Maybe between the geek and the week, or the will and the weak.

[* my thoughts as the news broke: It seemed that the snippets of detail that are still coming out, told a story of failure of process if not un-intentional derilection of duty, in putting together the potential triggers for a disturbed personality. They include: the stress of his duties dealing with stressed soldiers, his being a psychiatrist who did want to be deployed, a recent poor performance rating, not to mention his(I don't want to say "so-called")faith**. ]

** this is not to diminish faith nor emphasize the Islamic connection, but ideology might be a better word or the irony of the word associations.

[Belated links: encyclicals, stress and cracks.]

[11-10-09: update on Fort Hood investigation. There is an interesting loopiness in the lack of connecting the dots, and that is between the talk and the action. It is also reflected in the difficult aspects that determine whether this will be a military or terrorism prosecution. It is more deeply embedded in the insanity of a defense for an offensive act, unjustified if there were not such a loopiness. This is not to justify the act, nor ridicule crazy talk. But I am connecting the act of justifying preemption with violence, over preemption with caution, to a failure to talk about justice preemptively.]

[11-11-09 update Obama at Fort Hood ]

*** 11-11-09 bold added as a hint in this paragraph

Three Reads

Krugman
Friedman
Rich

[Huckabee Serious? ]

Two thinks...

1. explains Lieberman
2. explains "he who shall not be named".

a. Lieberman's constituent.
b. Interviewing a comedian...is seriously not bad.
Except as comedy.
C. the conspiracy

Hint: Lieberman is chair of Homeland Security Committe which chose to investigate the plethora of Czars.

Breaking News!

Health Care ReformHuffington Post
MSNBC
CNN
The Hill
The New Republic

Read the Bill .
[Cheers? It almost seems laughable to call this a bi-partisan bill, with one Republican vote. It is less so, with the bi-partisan opposition, including Dennis Kuccinich*.]

* 11-11-09 link inserted and update

Caricatures

Wanted.
Paul Krugman explains Keynesians for the right, who characterize most thinks in black and white.

[update: 11-6-09 see Paradigm link Yale.]

[11-30-09 see second comment yet to be placed]

Hatching Humpty

Senator Orin Hatch explains reasons for opposing Democrats, in particular Health Reform.

Meanwhile: Democrats are "alive".(or plant sitters)

Through the Looking Glass.

Rush was right. "New York-23, the race is more about the demise of the Republican Party and anger on the right than Obama or his policies."
And Awakening from the Tea Party or Rabbit Hole*.
Also(Wink)...
LOCAL POLITICS
King County Executive Dow Constantine?
I-1033 Eyman's TABOR goes down
R-71 Domestic Partners hang on
Seattle Up in the Air.

*Meanwhile:
Recovering a Paradigm **

[search...bubble
re: humpty
re: wall
(p-re:ply to tea partier's bashing of bailouts, and what not...taxes & government)]

[But back to Wonderland: is Steele taking on FOX?]

[** 11-6-09: Yale (Neo-Keynesian or Krugman?)]

Give 'em Heck Harry

I just heard on the Thom Hartmann show that Senator Lieberman has second thoughts* about a filibuster. I called Senator Reid,(the Majority Leader's office) to commend him for whatever influence he may have had in correcting the matter. I also noted my support for a strong public option, even though I side with the administration's position that it not be a sticking point for progress.

i.e. there are three particulars that sort out the choices which I will not go into great detail: medicare like, exchange like, what Congress has. Not to mention state options, single payers or opt-outs

[*(All links anachronisically inserted**) the reports of second thoughts may have been greatly exaggerated: does that make them third thoughts or just under reported?]

** the proper disorder is TPM, The Hill and National Review. Oh, now I get it.

Deja Voodoo

The Republican Party sues Monty Python for their copyright infringement of their policy. [Anachronyism] C3
[Not to mention "hard work *" ]

*(like not read yet reading of link, but a connection to the spirit of hard work.)

D'over Again

The Ed Show s The Nation over the world.

[In Surge we trust. How's about amnesty? (For previous terrorists and previous administrations.) Going forward..."with liberty and justice for all."]

[Never more option. ]

Administration: FOX Dunn

Just a google: Not Exactly*
FOX Hunt. Not Exactly?

It seems that FOX was not excluded, but that the administration made an offer that was not to the White House press pool. Which calls into question the second link and what justifies the pool?

* Pool reports.(Now that's what I am talking about: not exactly.)

[UPDATE 10-28-09 Fair and Balanced attack. If the balance of unfairness is on FOX, it would be unbalanced to give equal shots at other networks. On the other hand MSNBC host is maybe trying out for the other network. Not so random...link**...here. ]

** Rand um? The Right might want to check out what the definition of "was" is. (C3 4 Anachronistic)(not to mention Apropos WMD)

[Now this is fair and balanced: ironically]
[Now that is "Fair and Balanced". NOT! - Ironically I must note (and explain) that this is not ironic. CNN was less so, MSNBC is[***] more or less. There is a difference between a personality having a perspective and programming having a bias. It cannot be said MSNBC or its hosts are not critical of the administration. There is also a difference in tone and humor, and who is the punchline or bottomline.]
[***] & last 2 links update 10-30-09: "fair and balanced", not ironic. (Except the Hope for America link as a source.)

King County Executive

Vote Dow Constantine
Give a wink* to Susan Hutchison.
King County Democrats Endorsements
41st Legislative District Democrats Endorsements
Local Voters Guide

*[Queen of Irony] Philanthropic experience = executive for change? The irony is in the Times endorsement to operate the county as a business with a candidate that has worked for philanthropies.]
[update: This is not exactly the update but I am uncertain this* will fly. *(The pdf does read,Ok.)]

Looking Back

management style...of dialogue (this is not it)

Who gets it?

Not the helium but the humor.
Rep. Grayson has a sense of humor and deals with serious issues on Bill Maher's RealTime.

[Back in the Box:(my comment forestalled by login difficulties)

I believe (Jiu Jitsu in Afghanistan) does fit into his "despise"(d) "left-right boxes"(metaphor) more than the writer understands. And also less into the martial arts metaphor than he also understands. To me, there is difficulty equating(or rather comparing) war with diplomacy and yet there is also an intelligence factor that differs. To mix boxes (or analogies might be better), you have Rumsfeldian intelligence and then there is what is really out there * . War obviously relies more on secrecy, while diplomacy relies more on openness, however you will still have those that play a war game, whether in or out of the box or whether they are with us or against us.

This is more than self-fulfilling loopiness.]

* potential inconcatenation** of intelligence and fear mongering or not being as out of the box or martial artistic as thought

** or is it deconcatenation***, but math and logic aside?

*** or unstrung Tao of Zen (in google we coin... a new word and failed)
[Third times a charm? Unconcatenation not.

Save Our Helium.

It was helium, not "hot air", but it was a distraction that should put the media on notice if not in a basket.
I was truly concerned when Thom Hartmann mentioned the boy who took flight in a balloon and soon found it on Huffington Post and MSNBC. Long story short? It seems there is a longer story here, but thankfully not involving a missing or injured boy. At the time, one suspicion that was as of this morning still hanging out there: Was there a basket or could they not know that the child would have not been able to lift off with a basket or without structural damage to the balloon? I won't belabor the motive for coverage, but the accuracy and reliability and speculation?

Meanwhile: I do not agree with Arianna Huffington except for her displeasure with the media. Meanwhile Truthdig's Joe Conason and Real Journalism.
(Not to mention.)

Keep America Safe

"Cheney 2.0" (yesterday) The Ed Show **
Keep America Safe
[Above links to be arranged*.]
[In the meantime:
Ideology & Evolution]

*including Kristol/Krauthammer: Borax Award***

[Progress Today: Passes panel
Afghanistan Health Reform]

** all links have been added
[To cut through the irony:Think Fear Monger 2.0]

*** lone category: Fear Soapbox
[Originally the Borax Prize, changed but not for this reason]

Nobel Oblige

Prize and Prejudice Countdown with Steve Clemons [#4 The Nobel Savage]
The Myth of "America" truthout.com
Hope and Change
A New Climate
Training for Choice

Update: 8 Most Outrageous Attacks on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
Borax Prize ***
[Embedded in my nomination* (Prize; which was a shot in the dark) was an "either or" diatribe by Charles Krauthammer. Decline is a Choice appropriately concluding with the words of Demosthenes:
...when asked what was to be done about the decline of Athens. His reply? "I will give what I believe is the fairest and truest answer: Don't do what you are doing now."
Given the hegemony or decline choice there must be no denial that Obama is not doing what we have been doing. But that is not the choice.]

* I have rendered in bold, read links. And nominated the Borax Prize as the Un-Nobel Prize {comment pending review, or hit a snag}

[Update: Put in con text. Obama lambasts major faiths.**
And surmize. Our Reagan. ]

** a pun on con_text
*** 10-14-09 Renamed: Borax Award

Common Dreams

Columbus Day

and Retro.

We got it!

We got the Nobel Prize!
Having been startled by the announcement, I thought oh no!
But that is only in terms of where the likes of "just a guy"* might take it.

ANACHRONISTIC SEGUE [***]
"Some are guilty by association and some are innocent by no association, with thinking." I had employed this phrase in reply to a buddy who is "just a guy"**, and victim of the Rand Illusion.

But seriously, the Nobel committee recognizes the power of hope and more importantly, people being at the table, let alone who gets it in the end.

* Dennis Miller and Bill O'Reilly agree: Glenn Beck is "just a guy"
** ironically a veteran and anesthesiologist

[Teddy, Woodrow, Jimmy, and Barack : Just Guys! ]

***there is a bit of preemption in the links and context but on the other hand it does just flow as read.

[Just a digg, the Barack link was originally RealClearPolitics.com which did not present [Correction:no longer presents] Obama's comments but was live.]

[10-13-09 8 Most Outrageous Attacks on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize ]

[update: 10-21-09 Joan got it and anachronisitically I clarify the segue at *** where I had just listed the [Just Guys]just before Obama held his press conference.]

Rep. Alan Grayson

If Glenn Beck could be elected, and make sense, he would be in Congress. Scratch that, it only takes one of these two, but I am on about the new Democratic congressman who fills both shoes. Strong progressive rhetoric that almost satirizes some of the radicals on the right, and adjusts the Republican parties prescription to some of their own medicine.

Allegory (4A)

Or gory][alley.

Subset [*]: anecdotal
anomoly? (not of the subset) Misuse of statistics or just plain not capable of using...

[Saved for Wilbur(C.Web)& from Alice** or the Tea Cup?]

[*] update 10-7-09 to McGaughey being taken to the Tool Shed and more apocrypha and astroturf

[** 10-7-09] note: this is Rep. Alan Grayson questioning the Federal Reserve Inspector General(this literary reference is to the meeting of the minds of the left and libertarian.) And here is Melanie Sloan of CREW a swifter of astroturf.]

Hardball

Follow-up to the Tool Shed 10 AM (PST)today:

Military style: Rumsfeld v. Gates
I don't know if I will find the quote but Rumsfeld noted his style of management as heated or open to heated dialogue. I will only contrast this with what I feel is a more healthy debate. Of course there is no debate as to whom is in charge. (Yeah right!) But I feel that reading between the lines is not so much the problem as actually reading some lines. The short answer? Not. I feel that the actual strategy may be not as much a push back to the administration but a pulling forward (see "shared responsibility) in support of a more robust change. It should also be realized just who are rationals actor and who are less so. I won't characterize any groups by even saying "them" or "us" but I mean those that see violence as the primary tool. And what is military strategy is no longer just in the shadows.
[footnote: chain of command ]

THIS AFTERNOON:
Maj. General Eaton: "healthy debate"[*]
White House Leaving Afghanistan not an option.

Not to mention:
the leak last month.
[*][6-24-10: McChrystal(Chain of Command) labels added]

We are at the table.

"All politics is local." Thanks for the "Tip." Ms. Speaker.

Actually I was reminded of the source for this quote this evening and I bridge the irony of Ms-Representation in reflecting on the interpretations which R so academic.

[update: 10-5-09 Tool Shed posted, also references earlier updates [10:16 & 11:44 PM] at On War / Politics [under con...]

On War / Politics [under con...]

[...struction]

Who are "the deciders"? see David Sirota here
Pre-emptive footnotes*...On War / On interpretation / On politics (policy)

[Short answer? It depends if we are a Democratic Republic, or under tyranny, anarchy or some meld or other mold. Also subject to whom is at the table of "we".]

* subject to cherry picking of course "...by other means"

[pre sent con text under the dialectical

[10-4-09 10:16 PM Note: Military label added post-"We are at the table"- post, constitutionally the military is not a branch of government, however the executive and the legislative have a shared responsibility.]

[11:44 PM If John Perry was involved in the Carter Administration it is no wonder it suffered. See Banana Republican.]

Update

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
[ Seattle P.I. ]
[ Seatlle Examiner ]
[ The Reporter ]
[ Seattle Times ]
[ The Big Blog ]
[ Hmmmmmm. ] [*]
[ --membmer? Re : -) ]
TODAY
Who are "the deciders"? David Sirota
Iran: More accomplished in one day of negotiations than in 8 years of threats Glenn Greenwald
The top 10 things you did not know about Iran Juan Cole

Tool Shed 10-2-09
the case we are in 10-2-09
{under glass} 10-2-09
Turning 10-2-09
10-1-09 Teeter Totter Ribble (a river and a cycle)
Under Over 9-30-09 [*] Hmmmm?
In Balance 9-30-09

Tool Shed

[held in draft posted 10 AM: 10-5-09 ]
[Banana Republic] Open Salon
Me: If John Perry was a involved in the Carter administration, it is no wonder it suffered.

Military style: Rumsfeld v. Gates
I don't know if I will find the quote but Rumsfeld noted his style of management as heated or open to heated dialogue. I will only contrast this with what I feel is a more healthy debate. Of course there is no debate as to whom is in charge. (Yeah right!) But I feel that reading between the lines is not so much the problem as actually reading some lines. The short answer? Not. I feel that the actual strategy may be not as much a push back to the administration but a pulling forward (see "shared responsibility) in support of a more robust change. It should also be realized just who are rationals actor and who are less so. I won't characterize any groups by even saying "them" or "us" but I mean those that see violence as the primary tool. And what is military strategy is no longer just in the shadows.
[footnote: chain of command ]

{under glass}

I am saving a spot here for some pieces I have framed in another format which might be relevant to a take on history. {under construction}

[or destruction a reference to the case we are in]

{At this point I will note that I have reserved another room in this museum or fix we are in, akin to being held in draft as in a placeholder for my tools}

Turning

a page...
I am two frequently flipping them but this might be worth bookmarking (the page). Not to mention framing a new leaf.

{under glass}

Under Over

David Brooks
Richard Kim
Embedded Tergiversation.
Enlightened Full Crumb.

[link play and Ribbles]