Poetic Justice

Right Face Left Faith

Great minds think alike
But being alike does not make right
Being right may make might
But more important is thinking
Right?

Being right is more likely
Why great minds will think alike
Thinking may not be so likely
In those that just think might
Right.

Faith is nowhere near alike
The truth that others think is might
Faith is might and more like maybe
Unless you only think it's right
Not maybe!

(link to updated commentary)

Fearnauts
There is no good and evil.
There are only goods and needs
and wants, and no freedom
from them.

So work on the good,
not just the goods
and justice will flow,
not evil.

Fear not but face good
and fear will fly.
Fearnauts may fly,
but will is not
just the stuff of dreams.

Fear may be,
but results,
don’t have to be
but will.

(not to mention psychology and physics)

Unified Poem

Everything
is but
a Wave
between
perspectives
in Time
and Space

(Theme: Fear of Disciplines in particular Economics.)
[This falls in the tinkering and filing category, not to mention labels or discipline, let alone hiatus. Hint? In Updated find #6 ]Or Bottom line? Or writing for the right?

[Irony of all ironies or poetic justice, I must admit to an erroneous leap myself. Long story short:"Further evidenced by what runs fourth in this search: "lying in ponds", by William Safire, a study of partisanship I will spare for later. But look to the section he titled Philosophy, a word he equated with "blow(ing) smoke"** when referring to Dean." "Philosophical" was a word he used to lower the boom on Dean, but it was not he but about him(Safire) in which Lying in Ponds had a category of Philosophy. Which does not really shake my perspective, but complicates references to #6 and bumps into #7.]

hiatus or sabbatical

Stop that! Bringing this up!

If Rush and Palin are in play, then can Ed Schultz and Jon Stewart be invited to the table?

If Bush can offer preemptive immunity, can America have a retroactive impeachment?
(I have made even earlier references to the unusual thing about timing.)

And just what does Bi-Partisan mean? The fact that none of the Republicans voted for a bill that had features that need not be included or that some of the Democrats did not march in lockstep? Not exactly what Rachel Maddow said, but... Go deep. And Go Steelers![Not to mention a day when Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather appear on the same network.]

Stop that!

But first a comment (of course) on the blame game of post or preemptive briefings and speculations and scepticism of what will be the results of our efforts, change or stimulus... It will be an ongoing effort, of which I have not looked at what the quantity or quality, let alone timing of the current package entails in comparison to what is needed but it is just the begining. In other words this effort such as it is, will need much more, regardless. (aspects: infrastructure and timing)

Today's Press Briefing is probably addressing the nuances of this right now, but it would be scary if it would or could all be put on the table at once. Scary in terms of international finance and relations and domestic security, all of which much is being handled in my opinion, more professionally.(not to mention negotiating in a bi-cameral way) [Hint: Biden interview/rush MSNBC]

Back from my tangent, I pull out two pieces that should get us on the right page, or course.
TO DIGEST!
Jerry Springer: C-Span coverage of speech at the Clinton School of Public Service.
DNC Chair: Governor Tim Kaine (Take our questions)
(embedded here)
To sort:
The Economy
Partisan or Rhetoric
Investigations and Mediums
Inaugural, invocation
(we are one)
MLK and in context

[Bringing this up? WeGotEd at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and more to digest.]

Tinkering...

and filing(see hiatus)

While I endorse Air America and Progressive Talk Radio, I am sometimes embarrassed by the extent to which they can go.

Even the likes of Jerry Springer *agrees that the likes of Palin should be handled better.

Speaking of better**...

[This will not be my tinkering page, but I did file some things, and I will note that I strongly recommend the Jerry Springer and the new DNC Chair Gov. Tim Kaine (the aster risked***) material, which I hope will stand the test of history or youtube.]

*** [* and ** are the recommended youtubes] While *** is my aster risked play on wordology. Play being spur of the moment tangents later searched. [But I caution and here is a hint (Lionel) that there is both the "zenith and nadir" of talk here, and one of those cases where I have preemptively linked.]

American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act
Who to beleive?
The New York Times?
Or hundreds of economists?

A former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich or Harvard* Economics Professor Greg Mankiw

* more than is needed is provided on Mankiw not to give any more weight to him but note bottom link on Keynes.
[Sceptics* Label, I am sceptical of as noted by *]
[I will again attempt a hiatus or sabbatical and restrict my posts to tinkering and filing for later considerations as this is chock full of (nfry)material]
[Not to mention more.]
[tinkering: economy]
[Not to mention Breaking! bipartisanship and broken rhetoric.]

Previous post may take unwinding.

Things may change, but the real story in the previous post, had a link where Bush was claiming that "They hate our freedoms". Ironically in a separate search of those words, the link at the top of the search was for the current administration's briefing room. Conspiracy or prank? Not likely, but just the way the Internet and maybe change works.
[No previous posts or links updated here -
- only the mental links or lack thereof.]

[This could be an overuse of irony or irony of my own embedding as in(also from previous post): "I guess it is the way the tube* crumbles." While the rest of the article apparently expired at www.CapitolHillBlue.com, in re-searching that I just unembed this one, on The Jon Stewart Solution. No Kidding! But here is another unembedded irony. That someone would still pit Jeffersonian Democracy against Hamiltonian Finance.]
* tube again is a reference to Stevensownian technology or government.

"They" hate our freedoms!

The strange saga* of search engines drove me here:
President Declares: "Freedom at War with Fear"
That is a hiccup in the process that needs change.

Bush's departure doesn't mean automatic restoration of civil liberties
is the real story

* see the real story above

[the point: there is no hate or Bush in The White House.]
[ironically: I guess it is the way the tube crumbles.
[tube = Internet: meaning links get old and fade away]

Shell Game

How much did Congress know? Conyers' Committee and H.R. 104

Threat to the Fourth Estate.
You don't have to win a shell game to know it is a shell game.

[Update]
[** link now recommended as linked to asterisks]

New York Pick

New* Media Link

Paterson picks Gillibrand. I think it was obviously a very calculated pick and leaves it wide open for competition.

* New to me(The National Journal is not) but if you want to sort the other side**, it is a lot of hard work (below link).

** in my view there really is no other side, there is only spin or unspin if you only have polarity
[update to link below]

INDEX

AM1090Seattle.com
LOCAL
AirAmerica.com/ronreagan

ENTERNEWSMEANT
FUN'N EDIFYING

Later Embedding
Air America Media
www.GoLeft.tv
Local Liberals
Local Progressives

TRICKLE DOWN [Progressive Organizations]
STRAIGHT SCOOP
TBD:

[under construction]
[right column being remodeled]

[don't forget to use scrollover when reading, not always needing to go there, but sometimes they act as footnotes]
[I will retire the use of navigation and index [LABELS] to keep them retro-active in this update.]
[at the present time only INDEX has been moved over]
[Labels - in draft -]

[[3-25-09]][Still: Under Construction]
[update 2-5-09(at some time TO DIGEST was moved to right column and I have been tinkering and filing since]
[Update 2-12-09: LABELS ADDED to Right Column.]

Just

to be sure!

Justice Roberts makes it good.
Obama retakes oath, flubbed by Chief Justice.

[My original intent at the time of my chosen words was to extend my expectations, to which I later put the oath links. So it is heartening that there is an end being put to the speculation that he was not really president.]
[As Keith Olbermann said: "Is this going to be a daily thing ?]

Preemptive

and belated Tag! - You're it.

Palin reference: VP duties not energy "plans"

Hartmann reference: Day Two flip-flop of tag We Are One.

STOP THE IRONY!
But it is in context that Obama is now the leader to tag our direction.
And ironic that oil welfare state Alaska leads the way in tagging resources not investment.

Haagenson acknowledged that was a different approach, but said they actually "avoided" developing a plan, and instead tried to develop something that would work.

Isn't that like technodusting off the bureaucrats shelf? I nevertheless do feel it should come to the table.

[Tag video 38:45 to 56:46]

Who's counting?

Not Me, but Day Two?

Looking back..."before a crowd of more than a million people" speaking of correct order. I have pulled this from ThinkProgress.org.

But I would like to propose that given a comment that there was no counting the crowd on Inauguration day, that there never will be a way to definitely exceed but only as reference to future crowds. In that regard let us hope that there never is a more historic crowd, for it might mean we have revisited more troubled times. Yet that in effect might itself be less than optimistic for we must hope to meet and exceed that moment in time.

[Update significantly later: And Fear Knot for fear not. K(not)directly juxtapositioned.]

[Update 1:20 PM - cross s(words) - or translation Unknot fear for fear not.]

Arrow of Time

or Symmetry of Inheritance?
Thanks to Keith Olbermann and
FOX News for the
Trifecta of Bad Times.
An end to an error, and the flip-flop of freedom as not a force but a purpose that requires work. There will be no end to humor or force for humility, as it is no longer funny that Comedy Central has more News and more balance. With inspiration I acknowledge the difficulty in laying down the tools of sarcasm and satire, but I will try to remember more than just the hope in this day of transition.

And maybe Biden can even aspire with a nod to Sarah Palin
and even Dick Cheney, to work with congress.
As far as leadership, and OBAMA
the time has come for change.

[Approximate closing of this post: 10:20 BG (before google)]
[update: 10:45 no end to humor or force for humility (links added and seemingly proof of some sense or other)]
[Please note that I DID NOT find it funny that Chief Justice Roberts could not get the oath straight.]
[I originally misreported it as Trifecta of Bad News]

[Update 1-21-09] to be sure see above: There will be no end to humor or force for humility...links to video of original Obama oath and actual oath.
[Update 1-26-09: Colbert catches it.]

Invocation Coverage?

Huge Box Office or

Concerted Effort?

I would certainly be interested in finding out how the concert was presented, but maybe there is the legal opportunity that the Invocation is now public right rather than HBO property properly. But I don't know if that is justified.
Nevertheless: We Are One !

In fact: Perhaps epitomizing the separation of church and state and the unity our founding documents aspire to in forming the foundation for checks and balances "in order to form a more perfect union".

Namely: "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 the people of the United States..."

In the prophetic words of Mellencamp "...ain't that America..."

The Dream is Justice!

Ever moot?
The most honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Not Nostradamus?

I cannot say I am Nostradamus, but I did say I was nostraBUSHus or some such words. At this time my search evades me.

Here though: I cannot say that I definitely did not hear any reference to Paul Krugman's suggestions,(I am pretty sure I didn't) but I take it a bit further. However, I do know it did not reach my inbox till yesterday*.

* truthout.org link a redundancy of Rollingstone's Paul Krugman's above(Reference being to Truth and Reconciliation. Not to mention cycle

[Update: a different moment and an alternative to forget: not*** (back to frame of reference or satire?) The point is the table. And bring it on the...]
[Translation to update and my way: I strongly suggest reading the Krugman Letter to Obama embedded in the above redundancy and no dis to these last two links, but they do reflect alternative theories to the economy and justice. But rather than "harbor a suspicion" I'll suspect not.]
[Put another way? I rather endorse a Rumsfeld** attitude of healthy debate, but with an open mind and eyes and ears, there is no point in a table if the heat of light is not brought there. Where there is smoke, there is fire, but that does not mean visibility will improve or that some of the information is not going up in smoke.]

** I won't footnote this but just explain it as his heated attitude he thought was healthy, yet predetermined.

*** seemingly the only alternative to Truth and Reconciliation or to Forgive and Forget and a very good bibliography

HINT: for those unfamiliar with my style I wish everyone to read Paul Krugman's Letter to Obama found twice at the first asterisk above , however the bottom "Link" below, takes us back to the epitome of chastened as well as my style of unweaving our Hamlet and sometimes maybe just scrolling over or CUTTING through THIS.

ENTERNEWSMEANT TODAY (and tomorrow)

Or the Spinning of the Spinners.
Entertainers that bring us the news and reality hosting.
There is always a spectrum of mixing the humor with information, and some of these are just plain great sources, not necessarily humorous or finding air time.

[I will fix the labels below. Ofor not! Run together they honor the link above. Speaking of RunOnLabels.]

Weak End Update: Fun'n Edifying

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

Actual Fun'n Edifying (as corrected)

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

As opposed to Enternewsmeant

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

A fortunate day!

Textbook Crash & Textbook CYA

Was it luck?
Was it fate?
Or was it a higher being?

Or was it preparation,
Was it practice,
Was it community,
Or having a textbook?

Is this only a rhetorical change?

[A day with a heroic landing and a fantasy flight.]
[Clipping the Gipper and the inside clipper]

Less than Swift?

Waterboarding is torture, or maybe it isn’t. But at least some say it only gets people to say what you want to hear. So waterboarding may be more like running for office, while others say it is more like trying to get into a fraternity.

So who thinks, politics is like being in a fraternity?
Oh,
yeah.

I think that means that maybe we should waterboard them. At least it may merit getting them kicked off campus, in this case the globe.

Amnesty for Cowboys and Bulls

Might me most chastened yet.*
But for the satire or obtuse impaired:
I suggest amnesty for war criminals and terrorists, and journalists and pundits.
The one catch? Truth and Reconciliation... anyone?
No more death penalty or Oilygarchy, only a last resort.

* I am uncertain todate, but not of the spelling here.

Mis-Infotainment Tonight

Well, last night.

Since it is likely that the above link will be pulled* from the internet, this proves there is a conspiracy of the liberal media.

Nevertheless, I will comment on Bill O'Reilly's interview of Dennis Miller, comedian.
Dennis Miller makes Bill O'Reilly look...like a "fair and balanced" interviewer. Dennis Miller makes Jonathan Swift look...like a satirist.
I could go on, but it was all about Dennis Miller and... hate and... lame at that. Except for one laugh: "I don't know why people say things out loud sometimes. I think maybe..."

Speaking of lame: Rachel Maddow is spoofed on SNL. I don't know if it is just me, the characters or the writers, but it was not so funny. Maybe it is hard to spoof someone who is funny and doing a good job, without needing to do an even better job. Burris may even fall into that category, but it could be just in comparison toBlog-oy-ya-bleep.

For more fun'n edifying:
*** ***
[CORRECTION: Poor transition!]
*** ***

FOR ACTUAL Fun'n Edifying:
The Stephanie Miller Show
The Randi Rhodes Show

* this link was emailed with the urgency that it was going to be pulled from the internet because Democrats did not want the truth out there. It is not.
[For the irony challenged, I flip-flop between facts and "frame of reference"** rather than straight satire. So I will con descend to flip the con text: It is not at this point pulled or the truth.]

** apparently the genre of the right, not to mention the Miller's...

LOCAL RADIO and Real Infotainment.(Time Stamp 9:10 AM)
And National Fun'n Edifying:
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report(TS 9:40 AM)

And for real "fair and balanced" see Huffington Post though not really radio or TV. But something must be "read into" that by Bill Kristol: The reason conservatives had food is that they provided it, which was nice for Will to host Obama, while the "liberals" were invited by Obama and he was just being conservative or not letting you read something into that also.

Unpaid Endorsements.

www.Truthout.org
Please contribute!

Countdown by Keith Olbermann
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Ed Schultz Show
The Thom Hartmann Show

Northwest Progressive Institute

Funny how I have had an email exchange similar to the NWPI post which produced some of my last few comments. Of which I have yet to finish, either in reading or imagining.

[Speaking of Pre-Emption and Cos' and Effect I was tickled by the honor Bill Cosby indicated by appearing on Rachel Maddow.]

Breaking on Countdown

Now the Real Underestimator - Cheney!
Mr. Low Bar himself, or...

Hitting the Nail on the Head

Not on the thumbnail.
And the chart on the wall, not the tale on the donkey.

Update 1-14-09: [The above thumbnail is a suggestion by Dean Baker that other's may improve on, while the chart is a pull of the elephant tale of 52 weaks of Positive Job Growth and who to pin it on. Here is another chart that some think of flipping for their Moody Blues. A shocking revelation to those that want to spin or unspin. This is the all spin zone, as how can one without nailing something down. Seriously, the Blues is the chart that others would like to nail and the spin or unspin are very reflective.

The Mis-Underestimator

In-Chief.
"the universality of freedom"[update link]

[Update: 1-13-09 ...as whiney flip-flopper alone: "He is so not the caricature we have been fed for
so long."
Speaking of rhetoric, no dis but... could just anyone right this stuff? or unembed? d' oh, but no duh!?]
[A tribute to press conferences: Are Bushisms really Bushisms?]
[Bottom Line: Bush is hard to misunderestimate, let alone understand, yet they definitely did, misunderestimate him, and that is no lie. In fact probably a self-fulfilled prophecy, as he continually shot for lowering the bar, otherwise known as preemptive victimhood.]
[I should note that one thing that should not and cannot be overestimated is my ability to footnote or tangent as my links are inserted at the slightest whim or reference, and not always read more than slightly...by me let alone others.]
[I need to time stamp my updates to demonstrate preemption, but I just opened my Progress Report email "The Ultimate Exit Interview".]
[in finding a link found The Guardian of Freedom on the Wane- Off Course .

Course Change 2009

Navigation Labels: Leaks
In the midst of the previous post, I pause to post a navigation refresher. A bookmark, if you will. I don't know about leaks, but a hint of the game may be more on target as to help with this blog.
[At this point I have only one link above and returned for more in previous post and HELP NAVIGATION Link below, and may not need to return but just refurbish the right column and cross thread embeds.]

Imaginings...(GAZA)

Here we go again. Of course reading the full story may make a difference, but I will pre-empt that.

What happened to "the principle of one president at a time"?

There is no talk of Obama approving direct diplomatic negotiations with Hamas early on, but he is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, and there is growing recognition in Washington that the policy of ostracising Hamas is counter-productive.

The President-elect is rarely mum.

[At this point I pause to read the full story and post a leak(tangent). The contradictions may be of the nature of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" stay mum, which is impossible. Combined with the hope for a free society and progress. Epitomized by the irony of the discussion about secret talks.]

Hear, Hear!

Working all the angles.
There is only one president, but there is still a Senator Biden and a bi-partisan effort to smooth the transition with a CODEL to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Here, here, to Steve Clemons, quote:

So to my friends at Heritage and AEI, criticism is part of Washington's healthy back and forth debates - but suggesting that Joe Biden and this group of Senators would confuse[*] foreign leaders on who is boss until 20 January and thus muck up the Bush administration's waning days in control is wrong-headed and neglects the vital importance of facilitating contact between our bipartisan national leadership with political leaders in big stakes nations whose convulsions and internal strife have huge consequences for America.

[*] Dash Politico - I note that I take the liberty of inserting Clemon's link to Politico in an alternate location from where he chose.

Triumph of the process (breaking)

Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks. Failure of context. Saying something and acting on it are two different things. The senate has not seated Burris, while the "whys" are still wavering in the media. Race, politics, and media are undeniable factors; putting them together and forming questions and "Y"s are infinite.
[Definitively ** by Harry Reid: And apparently may "be damned"(Mike Vicara)*]

Bottom line: the senate is following its rules and making sure Illinois is following its rules and no one person is the decider, though many can have their say, and others can twist in the wind.

As for the other twisting senator; which hangs on the process as well.

Minnesota Post: 1-3-09
ABCNews: 1-4-09
Huffington Post (above): 1-5-09
TPM ***: 1-6-09
Time today

The latest?
Coleman sues!MSNBC
Minneaplis Star Tribune
The catch is that duplicate ballots are counted, but the orginals are not. That is the reason they are duplicated, in order to count them(presumably to get the count into a machine)and by every right the orginals are not counted because they cannot be counted. Speaking as one who has been a(legal)counter and duplicator of votes in Washington State.

[* this is what's breaking live on MSNBC: as my own imaginings and search for missing links, the mention of U.S. Senate rules requiring two signatures is yet to be found, meanwhile the process is being tainted by the media incompetence. Hence the reason the rules committe will be looking at this. I could imagine this going to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it would be likely that the process the senate will take will be within their rights. Rules are not laws, but processes, that must submit to the people involved. Out of this fog, my prediction is that the vote by the full senate will rule. The fact that it may be flexible is the matter. i.e. hinges on the idea that Illinois has a space for and the U.S. senate has required two signatures. That the U.S. Senate determines its rules is the rule and voting on it may be another hinge.]

** the link that hinges on my imagination and rulings, meaning what I hung my comments on,[the missing link(*)] while the Mike Vicara note refers to the taint the media insists on painting with their imaginings rather than footwork. OK, they are keeping us on our toes, by stepping on some.

*** "But you shouldn't confuse the fact that the courts should remain open to hear those claims, with the question of whether or not those claims have any merit," Elias said. "And in this case, former Senator Coleman's claims don't have any merit."

If you don't have anything good to say...

does not mean Obama was mum on Gaza.

"I will continue to insist that when it comes to foreign affairs, it is particularly important to adhere to the principle of one president at a time, because there are delicate negotiations taking place right now, and we can't have two voices coming out of the United States when you have so much at stake."

Not that I can follow that policy. Speaking of The Gutter. (Video)

Update:
On the other hand: Brzezinski "schools" Scarborough on Gaza
and Dean Baker to Obama on the "Anti-Stimulus crowd".

What the hec?

As in, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It was a hecuva year!

Correction: 1-6-09