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Journalism: Doesn't add up.

Maybe the Exit Strategy does not add up, but I mean that it may have been McChrystal's and Obama's as far as an Afghan Exit Strategy.

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Who are they calling

Economists? Or what the bleap-
do we know? (or they? Post-Laughing Stockman.)

And speaking of who's calling it? Whose thumbing it?

[Speaking of append-ages.]
[anachron(plug)istas]
[Yesterday Norman Goldman sat in for Ed Schultz and today it was Jack Rice, so I plug the former into anacron()ista which I had to see if I had coined. Meanwhile, to Jack: Afganistan, corruption and incompetence, capitalism and diplomacy*, naivete and too cunning by half, what's new, and what's knew, and won can ponder.]
* morphed(well, not exactly**) cover word: governance, governing, bottom line, the people, think globally, act locally.(OK, this is less than circumspect, but the key words R "warlords" and "tribal" culture. See the drift?
** bait and switch(now that's the ticket)
[Get R Out= (R)Evolution]

Getting...

R Done.

Reprising The Exit Strategy?

A serious loss, RIP, Senator Robert Byrd.
Lessons, Corrections.
But importantly, a warning, from Paul Krugman. It's the jobs, stupid? Robert Kutner G20? Naomi Klein.

Deep Water Drilling Permits

A moratorium might not be necessary if one just reviews all the permits and find any cases whose assurances of safety or other requirements can be shown to be erroneous. I would suggest that be undertake post haste and under executive order, to heck with court rulings. Although it should be no great shakes to find errors that would place almost any endeavor under jeopardy.

[Update 6-25-10...also 6-26 ]
[6-26-10 update] Dates are insert dates not MSNBC dates.

Betrays Management Style

and that there were not two Petraeus's.

Or Peres's?
[I have read the former and only scanned the latter but the topic is tangential* to understanding the Obama Doctrine.]
(Source: Just Foreign Policy/ embedded Jon Stewart)

* link contains typo or unintended pun which works I wager if not waged.
[I must also note no earlier disprespect for Petraeus, only those that linked criticism with not supporting our troops.]

Flash Words

and Holey Math!
The words are not as bad* as the math or the understanding of the checks and balances and full faith in budgets or IOU's.

* Picking up from the last link(or 2) in the last post I must note the biased(although that is relative)source(mediaite) and dig out the Paul Krugman and Peter G. Peterson sources above. And I have to say that there is no comparison to the "gotcha journalism" of recent controversy. Commissioner Simpson was the aggressor who stood his ground in error or at least two worlds, confusing the IOU's with the Lock Box. i.e. the double hit is not, except for the interest that is robbing Paul to not pay Peter. No pun on sources, but I must note that we have a strange convergence of agreement, Simpson must go or actually be used to school the debate. But I will unthread these sources to D-Day(the Derivatives article) in Progressive Breakfast with a side of Simpson a link to Krugman, and from him to The Fiscal Times(of Peter G. Peterson). Has one ever seen such bipartisan agreement that Simpson should go for several reasons?[bold added 1-31-11] But does it not boil down to this? The double hit is really a double pick pocket or some such farther from faith and credit to government.

[Post-comment updates] [and more]

A common thread

No Truman, No McArthur.
Rose Garden
Announcement
The Exit* Strategy?

* somewhere it is suggested that this was McChrystals exit strategy, and I would say one that furthers the President's Afghanistan Exit Strategy.

The Truman Crack? There are limits to what a President can do...legally, but too often politically as well.
[6-24-10 update ** Chain of Command and McChrystal(Military/**MSNBC/Grist)labels added and thread of BP or D-Day? or deeper Ctrl F ?]

Not that I'm saying...

Steve Clemons on The Exit Strategy.
Nor was the Ribble of Ctrl F preemptive.

But I did say something close.
[Or Circumspective(sp?!)]
[Breaking news 10:40 AM PST: McCrystal replaced by Petraeus.]

Don't forget to

Ctrl F and scroll theory.

Lost and Found (scroll Santas)
[& top left search blog box]

Get CLEAR!
[Not to mention labels, can't well?]

An Exit Strategy?
[search update: PC - Preemptive Comment, Preemptive Change, Preemptive Culture. (McChrystal Ball)]

Theory

Two Santas?

Taxes
Vacation: Already Worked Out.
Focus Locally/Liberally. Let'er Roll. Ouch. Too Reeds* ?

* (sp!)
Up/date: Cap and Trade

Serious Progress?

Many Key an ism?

The Key is the J-street news.
The Blockade* has had an ironic effect? [No disrespect to the ism or True Torah Jews or Zionism.*]

* there is a place for all people but there is a difference between having sovereignty and being it. I am only explaining the difference between perspectives and within Zionism the difference in recognizing a place at the table and apparently not. True Torah Jews do not believe in a Jewish State, that does not mean they don't believe in Israel. Zionism believes in the need for a Jewish State, while some don't recognize the need for a Palestinian State. As I understand the True Torah Jews, it seems close to Manicheanism, a separation of church and state, the spiritual and material, and a relationship to all. The commonality at least is in the support for the American Isreali relationship by both J-Street and True Torah Jews.

* correction (Flotilla)(no longer ironic)

Off the Cuff?

A review of recent Obama takes:
[My perspective that is; not taking as the GOP might.]
GO Biden.
Go* Obama
GO BUSH!(on US- we the people!)
(Suggestion to President Obama: Stay the Course and Congress Make it So! )

* Niger data See question** and investment R&D.
[Sequence of ideas, TED R&D funding presentation, question about Oil Spill Research Institute(where has it gone?), progress in the area of prevention and recovery lacking yet there is a global experiment and experience being wasted?]
a. there may be not enough money invested in R&D
b. what is may be being wasted on profits not preventions and recovery research
c. meanwhile there is plenty of evidence or an experiment that is being done on the globe
d. previous and current devastation is being buried by corporations and currents(geographical, political, social, economic and oceanographical)

** White House YouTube Press Conferece w/ Robert Gibbs On Oval Address

GOP says

I'm Sorry; Good Old Petroleum.
We are Grand Old Pollution.
How did Alaska steal Texan Oil? Simple Question or...

[Update: 6-18-20 Biden replies to Barton shakedown comment]

GO OBAMA!

GO US! As in "We" .
Go Ed!
Rachel? (Stopping the tape...)
I guess I took Randi Rhodes' advice, not to watch the talking heads or whatshe calls 'em. Now I am behind the curve as to the reaction that seems a bit off.
I have yet to hear much about his Gulf Restoration Project. Maybe because we need a media restoration project. Meanwhile...
Robert Reich
Marc Ambinder
Think Progress
Center for American Progress
NPR
Politico
The White House
[Good question?]*
I think the president was very fair and balanced. A bit of Get'r done, and a bit of stay the course.

* Whitehouse YouTube raised interesting question regarding the Oil Spill Recovery Institute. Re: R&D (TED) [UPDATE 6-18-10 links corrected(in *) and added]

Obama is Obama!

Not an FDR, nor a Truman,
and most definely* not a Bush,
burning or not, but a man of faith.
Faith in our Founding Fathers,
and team leaders not just cheer leaders.

[Bold is speech link, like it or not.]
* definitely also

[6-16-10: Ironically I think I nailed it: Obama stayed his course. He can't exactly "Go Bush on us", but he intends to get it done, with our help.]

Use Dispersants On BP!

Not the chemical kind, the market kind.

The Answer to BP is Dispersants

Chapter 11 or Receivership? NO! Let the market work. As their stock goes down, someone will by it. Let them be taken over, but don't let them escape their responsibility. This idea started as a joke, what is the solution? Dispersants. Use them on BP, on the executives as well, might not be bad. As they are dispersed hold their new affiliations accountable.

Do you know who else started as a joke? Ayn Rand, at least as a fiction. But her ideas were soon dispersed, from Objectivism, to Libertarianism, Reaganomics. She was anti-collectivism, so she would rolling in her grave over the corporate personhood, but it is hard to tell, given how her ideas were dispersed, and never dispersed the foundational errors of government expansion. Or she could be just a misunderstood tea partier. But back to our problem, the BIG PROBLEM OF BIG PROFITS AND BIG POLLUTION. Too big to fail? Too big to bail... out that is.

If Obama does not quite meet the level of FDR, I might just say...GO BUSH! That is right GO BUSH ON US,GO BUSH ON BP, GO BUSH on the Bush Problems.**

Of course I am being facitious in part. But if he would at least GO TRUMAN on us, or even Milton Friedman. Few probably know (if wiki is right*) that Milton Friedman, proposed a negative income tax. And he was a Reagan economic advisor. Take what you will from this, but it better be a lesson that the government is not the problem, but it is part of it, and so are corporations.

* others call it left
** how about those quaint laws like commerce: Article One of the constitution, and congress

[Big Patriot Act: if I may disperse or chemically adjust a Thom Hartmann/ Ellen Ratner exchange. (Can we see their papers?)]

[Sub-section II,(Heck I dunno what #/article or Hyperlink), but BP should evolve from Bad Practices to Better Purposes, not Beck-headed Prophets. BTW: the BP on this my(Bulk Perspective) is the comment in the first link at OpEdNews.]

The truth is not so irrational.

Paul Krugman austerity and the market
Robert Reich the market is not so rational.
Nor is it all that inspiring.
[Speaking or Stimulus Meet the Press edited ?, pressing congress forward nothing new]
[Or messing communications around the 14 to 17:22 minutes of Meet the Press. Progress is in the pipeline(congress) and the question of new stimulus is a question that would have a market impact if not distinguished from what is already suggested. Does that explain Axelrod awkwardly pressing Gregory?]

Mass Characterization

Matt's Characterization [*]... Oh.
In regards "you have the President ramping up his own rhetoric"...(around 9:45 or 12 minute mark?)
(i.e. Press characters) Label (BP Spill)
(BP not a spill, nor leak, but a really Bad Puncture.)

[*] Meet the Press (Label added, quote and time adjusted)

Speaking of jobs...

in editing, reading or writing...I must note:

A few years ago I read Democracies Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, by Michael J. Sandel. While I did read it (and finish it*), I did only scan several of the chapters after getting bogged down in the legal briefs and what seems like a perspective that was incomplete or leaning a bit.

Meanwhile this just in... to my email inbox.[Michael J. Sandel} I don't know if this calls my conclusions into question or he may have evolved.

Just to clarify...

Have they filled Helen's seat yet?

Just to clarify: I do not believe all Jews should go back home*, and I hope (and feel confident) Helen Thomas did not either.(**) She seems to recognize that there are two states, Israel and Palestine from her answer to the original question. Which is more than one might be able to conclude of the questioner[***], given the way it was (mis?)understood, and misrepresented. If Helen Thomas (age aside) can be given such a hard time for her opinion and poor decision to engage in a sidewalk interview, my point is that there would be a whole lot more job openings in journalism, especially in the media.

* which home and what is a Jew?(not that I am answering that, but that does go to the modus operandi of a lot of the questioners{so called journalists] with their "what if"s or "it is as if"s. By the Golden Rule, they would not have been in the position to have created this "gotcha moment", be they Wire Staff, Newsroom or Press Secretaries.)

(**) and belief and saying it are two different things which some confound.

[***] 6-10-10:update others worse than Thomas

Head Hunters?

Actually I am looking for a new job.

Rabbilive.com interviewed Helen Thomas.

Now she has been forced to retire in an ironic atmosphere. Of course she is a journalist and she should have been more careful with her words, or not even held an opinion or at least not mentioned it or done an interview.** Ironically it is hard to extend that consistency to the likes of the Right where journalism and opinion are so connected there would be a whole lot of job openings if it were to be applied across the board. It would also be hard for her to be turned down by some speakers boards*. But then we are back to the irony.
(or Try Un Ism)

* of course given market forces it would still be a risk

** even this may be to harsh an analysis: one would think that she said that Jews should get out of Israel. That is a flat out error by CNN.***
[There is no defending the conclusion that has been reached by those that have listened to Helen Thomas, yet that is a double-edged sword. The conclusion is unjustified that all Jews should get out of Israel, it is also not necessarily what she implied. The challenge is to find a true transcript of her answers to the questions and then not ask "what if's" that are equally off base, especially behind her back.]

*** ["Thomas was then asked where the Jews in Israel should go? Thomas responded, "They should go home," which the White House reporter identified as "Poland, Germany ... and America and everywhere else."] The bold is not confirmed by the original on Rabbilive.com]

Freakin'

Couched In Spin.
Pardon my Cheney * and I restrict the freak reference to the emotive not physically different(though mentally challenged). In all gravity there is some sense to the slippery slope when communications is involved, and it could be that we continually appropriate words and others fly or run them down**, depending on whether the basket has a balloon or a wheel.]

* (continued from) [Going to)Heck in a Hand Basket? Sofa(couched)King in Freakin' Cultural Spin.]

** earlier usage is heaven in a handbasket or head in a handbasket, or is it to keep up with the Jones? Note: I did not actually read all these sources completely, but enough to see that is seems that "heaven in a handbasket" is not yet really sourced, and possibly enough to note that a handbasket carried donations presumably to get one to heaven, while a wheelbarrow implies taking it with one. It also implies that a basket is swifter than a wheelbarrow and something about directions and works.

Hiatus / Review

under construction/vacation/sabbatical
Yeah Right...
[spot filled]
[Anachronism"another perspective" ]
[Andrea Mitchell *: Obama "NO Jimmy Carter?" (my air quotes of my previous unstated assessment)]

* update/scroll to Alter/Halperin[**] clip

[** 6-6-10 unable to locate Andrea Mitchell's exchange with Alter and Halperin ]
[Still trying for the full context, but my unwritten analysis referred to above was that Carter had too much of a hands on approach to details, NOT that he was a disasterous president. He was a president with much to deal with.]

[Is there a conspiracy here? Why am I only able to get this in con_text? i.e. spin?

[Maybe my earlier misplaced theory was located above, in the Two Santa's and the perpetual grinch. Running to the people or from the clubs?]

[6-7-10 (Going to)Heck in a Hand Basket? Sofa(couched)King in Freakin' Cultural Spin (continued...).]

On the One...

hand, on the other...
then there's the market.

Anachronism

[10:05 AM posting]
Not to join the debate, but another perspective of the Gaza Flotilla.

Not to be glib...

but I think the honeymoon may really be over. Yes, the Irony. And oh, the preemption.

Perception is reality.

posting dated: 6-4-10
Rootnotes: Libertarian?

post hiatus

GAZA FLOTILLA

Not to be definitive nor endorsing aside(sp!),
that in itself may draw a conclusion**,
there is much too* understand
it seems.

* that & also(sp!) which
** not even within the following aside[Although this is no trivial pursuit, there is much "hard work".]
[Politics is harder work.]

Pluto, Plato, and the Pen Dull'em

On Competition, Cooperation, and Coordination, in Context.*

* the thread here is not PC, but Progressive Culture or Pop('in) Culture

Rootnote: Conservative Theme?

Obama's 911

An Emergency Call to Save the Planet

Leaks and Bubbles

What BP and the Bankers have in common?

A Pump Primer? Or teachable / moment?