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}