The Most Dangerous Game

Maybe We Should Take the North Koreans at Their Word Tikkun.org
Yet Republicans?

(Bring the moral ground back to earth, Senator Graham)
(Quibbling over meanings: Making over interpreting law and policy. *
The issue is the use of words and the foundation of our nation on the constitution for the purpose of justice for the people. After that it takes a village idiot and a dictionary. There are only three branches of government. None supreme, but they have their separations in the constitution after that "it is not a location" but it is out there. There is no department of interpretation, but the courts do decide and the rest must interpret. That all three branches make law is a valid charge in their following it or not and the process keeping up.)

* punctuation neutral but bold links have been fully read and recommended if not bluntly. It must be remembered that any justice, executive or legislator can say anything, but it is the court that answers the question of law whether it is 5-4 or 8-1 and understood or followed or not.

[ 6-2-09: Not what I meant, exactly. ]
[ 6-9-09: No. Newt ]

Countervailing Opinion

A counter from OurFuture.org (not as opposed to irony)
A vailing from the NewYorkTimes
An opinion from Politico
Yet bluntly from HuffingtonPost
Reports are all over the map, but the difference between opinion makers and principles make for lost parsing.
(Defining principles)

Litmus Test?

Supreme Court Pick: Sotomayor The best reason I heard so far, to oppose Obama's nominee, is that he nominated her. The reasoning was a litmus test for irony, in reference to judicial philosophy.[**]
[With this MSNBC Breaking News cracked a smile with the Right guest's premise.]

ThinkProgress earlier.
USAToday today.
AllSpinZone humor.
ThinkProgress pre-IQ.
TheHill pre-record.
Fair[*] and Balanced.
[These all need sorting and careful attention.]

[*] Several hours later: Great Clip!
Emphasis on the clip. ZERO CONTEXT.(See irony)
[**] CNN link inserted even later
[Hint for debate: is the law living or enshrined?]
Footnote: Shame on Chris Matthews on misquoting or unparsing *** the difference between law and policy. His mouth does not keep up with his material.
[5-27-09: HuffingtonPost assortment.]
*** @ 5:10 thruugh 7:47 of clip

If silence is

ever golden.

The wake is not over.

Not to pun on celebrations on a solemn Memorial Day weekend, but the error of the Honeymoon is still ringing.

Side Tracks

Note to self at a forum last night.
There are right decisions not to vote for right legislation because the right exists.
This could be obtuse but it could be the nature of progress. It is at least how our government works.

I wish I could paraphrase my contribution to the dialogue, or even recapture the sentiment, but I will add that sometimes progress is a result of mistakes, and Boy George have we learned. And in context add that all politics is local, but it takes a... well at least four. Thanks Hillary.

And now an allusive leap:
I don't believe in if anymore by Roger Wittaker
If by Rudyard Kipling
(inadvertent proof of...) by David Sirota
Our plight?

[Back to local fireworks and our side of the pond, there as a bit of good cop, bad humor dynamics that is not all about spatial or heirarchical orientation but potentially an ingredient in our evolution. Note the * irony Graham at the 15:40 of *]

What's good for the goose...

is good for the gander.

Re: Honeymoon and Herding The marriage metaphor could be useful longterm, while some may be more heirarchical and focused on the passion.
No Bear v. Bull or the high way.
Way!

The point is that progress takes precedence. If we don't get what we want, we don't leave the table. Yet maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder? Since congress is not a marriage and nor are the relationships with the executive and the judiciary, just keep in mind in any sinking ship we must bail while we heave ho.

The honeymoon is over?

When was it consummated?

I mean...
the error of apologizing?

Well I hate to riddle a sinking ship,
but the rats should stay out of the galley.
Meow.

So much for safe harbor...

or the silent running of sabbatical.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. Herodotus
Analysis: Obama moving to center on some issues.

Semantics a tack a tact.
"I mean, this was a presidential-level decision. And the decision went to the president. He signed off on it."

Rhetoric: Smoking Craft
I am trying to find an earlier reference to Bush using the administration in the third person. Anyway it seems that is what Cheney has done, when "the decision went to the president." Of course it is semantics, and so is any word, like obfuscation.

What's so funny...

about journalism?
Comedy Central? The Take Down.

[5-18-09: about Flip-flop, and intelligence.]
[I believe it was Hillary Clinton that said that leading the Democrats was like herding cats. Well then what is herding Republicans? That is a good ship riddle.]
[I think I will take this time to harbor my Swift boating. There is still a riddle to be caught but...]

New On the Radar!

The Daily Beast
See Dick Run
Wrestler Mania
The Twilight Zone
Interdimensional Therapy

This headline refers to The Daily Beast and The Examiner as sources, not necessarily their links nor potential for what is under the radar.

UNDER
[Scape - run - from - straw - running - expletive - heading]
OVER
[Old on the Radar and bottom of the box.]

Taking the Bear by the Horns!

Obama Team Moves to Regulate Complex Financial Instruments
by Kevin G. Hall - McClatchy TruthOut

Reform Movement:
Rachel Maddow at commondreams.org
Philip Zelikow on His Testimony tortured memos
www.TomPaine.com
The Progressive
OurFuture.org
Center for American Progress
Think Progress
The Huffington Post
The Pelosi Brief
The Noble Stunt Meme*
and The Ticking Time Bomb Scenario.
Blame the counsel, the comedian and the computer.

* Sen. Linsey Graham[update] (Bush Administration saw law as "nicety we could not afford")
"there is a purpose for everything, there is a reason people do what they do...hierarchy of needs..."(14:50-15:24)
the levin report(15:30)
Brian Beutler TPMMuckraker
Jane Mayer The New Yorker
"the moral high ground in this war is the high ground, it is not a location..."(15:40)
common article 3?(16:35-17:00)
the Geneva Convention did not apply? an argument
"what we do in looking back, may determine how we move forward..." (17:30-19:00)
(all times for Noble Stunt Meme[video])
[The Golden Rule(in Progress) is no joke. Nor are the fine points of law or politics just stunts.]

The Golden Rule (in Progress)

When it comes to war, diplomacy
and legal matters, the truth hurts.
But it cuts both ways.
CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
by Jason Leopold / www.truthout.org / Report

"The truth hurts" is one of those aphorisms. Logic requires truth, and it is a method of discerning truth. (A deeper or higher aphorism?) However, it is probably only the lack of truth or hiding it that truly hurts. Yet discerning it is a reversal of fortunes* or the irony of nature or law itself that facing it hurts.

"The first casualty of war is truth.".Or rather see how buried the truth can be.

* a reference to legal matters, diplomacy and war and what one loses first.

[The premise of my logic is not diminished by my misattribution of cross principles, In reversal, Obama seeks to block abuse photos The Guardian/AP...**
OUCH!: In trying to be cross cultural about the references to truth and freedom, I apologize for the pun to the links, but hope that it raises the value of the intersections.] and
[[Construing an INDEX:
The Golden Rule @ "what one loses"
"The Truth will set you free" John 8:32 @ "cross principles"
Selections from the Koran on freedom @ Ouch!]]
[[[To which I cannot vouch but have found some correspondence.]]]

** third link's a charm? or strike out? My original query was "If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pictures are really needed?" Is that a dangerous penumbra?

Ed's Up, Ed Heads!

Alert the troops! There is a missing seat at the table.

Arrested for fighting healthcare reform [May 7: MSNBC Ed Schultz talks with Dr. Margaret Flowers, who was advocating for a single-payer system when she was escorted out of a Senate hearing and put into jail, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who was present when this occurred.]
To be replayed 9PM PST and yesterday the language advisory from the right.

Keith Olbermann Advisory
Rachell Maddow reports
Thom Hartmann interviewed

[5-8-09 and Mourning Transcendence or Transcendental Tour? And Rehashing Matters.]
[Or should be say Transcendental...Bear. Is it a listening tour or a bare hunt?]

King County Executive

It is hard to have any wise cracks other than the one that got me flagged by my provider. May Day! It was maybe too much on the light and the dark side of the plumbing of politics with my source dump. But we do have a problem. Tuesday night's forum moderated by NPI's Andrew Villeneuve brought the four Democratic candidates together. It might be a reminder to all that participated who we are.
An off hand report? If my comments are minimal, it is hard being a cross between Obama and Dean,(pragmatic and fair and balanced: Eyaah!)but we have a big tent and more at the table.

The Straw Bear

If a Republican runs in the woods and can’t see the forest for the trees and the Republican falls, does anyone hear what the bear does in the woods?

A little riddle on the straw bear of propaganda.
Ah, the power of myth.
Maybe this is a mother goose chase but those were the days. Speak softly and carry a big stick. Speaking of Teddy Bear, did you know that Wilson made Pershing the first general since the Civil War? The Palin Romney romp through the woods with a bear is quite humorous. It reminds me of, if a tree falls and what a bear does and if anyone will see the forest for what we hear* fall.

The point is that the use of "some people" makes faulty facts bearable. I do not think there is any information that the U.S. was anywhere near losing its dominance in military spending or economic might. In fact I believe that it was over twice the combined spending of the China and the former Soviet Union at the time it fell. In fact it was them coming to an economic grip with reality that did them in. So now China is a different bear and we need no bull in our cabinets.

So war is a straw bear argument. That just means that you have to keep fighting it; the fear mongering and comedy that goes back to our nations birth. Heck beyond, I will say probably cave paintings. But it is no laughing matter that even if the current 6 to 1 ratio has the profit factored out, we could be in trouble.

* the tree is yet to fall on Countdown re: Congressman Cantor listening tour denial
[5-7-09: I did not hear this coming. Nor see "the tree" fall. At least not in real time.][Not to mention lost in the forest I am trying to dig up a Romney reference to us and them(found 6-3-09), the revolutionists versus the royalists which is more flip-flop.]

MacGiver U.

So I've a typo. The bottom line(& link)
is that our mind is the ultimate weapon.
No special sauce, but a proper beef and grilling.

Cognitive Policy Works truthout.org
Building a Culure of Trust in Politics by Joe Brewer

The tool box is complicated and our closet can be full of hats. A tip of the cap to Steven Colbert and Michael Steele, not to mention the PC.
Should we all be inside out? [last 3 links updated 5-4-09]

Mea culpa

Maybe in the previous post I let my filter down and provided too may sources on candidate number five. It was only with the intent to provide a broad spectrum of perspectives without much comment.

[Update: 5-4-09 Apparently I am out of hot water where my flow of sources triggered a blogspot automated review. I guess I asked for it, with the May Day and all.]

May Day!

King County Executive Race
Update.
Yesterday

MAY 5th, Race Forum
The race is now comprised of 4 Democrats and a "nominal independent".
Characterizations are dangerous
but so are closets.
If not amnesia.

Source Dump or Septic Tank:
SoundPolitics
Examiner
RedCounty
RD.net
SeattleTimes
SeattlePIblog
SeattleWeekly

As characterizations go, it may be fair and balance to list it so:
King County Chair Dow Constantine and former Chair and current Council Member Larry Philips are of Seattle, while State Rep and Microsoft manager Ross Hunter, along with former Republican Rep. now Democratic Senator Fred Jarrett are of the Eastside, with former newscaster and current non-profit executive Susan Hutchison is kind of out of the blue. Speaking of executives and managers, how many would love to be able to just hand out money or hold it back in the name of good?