The Forth Way

To pun on the third way and forgo the geometricks[!] 


It was about the political spectrum and aiming for the middle.  One could take the left and the right and go for the middle.  My point was that the answers are not necessarily an amalgam or in the middle.  Though there may be the Trump Beck Rapport ala the Overton Window?*



However, vis a vis 4going the numbers, I simply file these:
Center for American Progress
Our Future**






*TBA or DBA (The Platonic Frame)
** aka TPF (The Peripheral File)^






^ email updates (or Curds and Wey?)

Misplaced Postings

Center for American Progress

OurFuture...dot orgs

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Descartes before De Horse-Y ?

G-nos-T-IC!
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12-15-14
We Lost the ‘CRomnibus’ Fight, But at Least Someone’s Fighting
What does Warren want?
Wall Street’s Revenge
How 'Awesome' Is America?
The Democratic Party Debates Its Soul "Very Instructive."

2014 Albatross 2016

In other words.


~ (FN~)




(~)
1.  Roar Shack
2.  Two branches of the middle. , Bad News, Good News.,  I need to go on a diet of humor. , Pare a digM, Pair a docs.
3. Center for American Progress
4. ~ 2a,2b, c. Curve Balls?, d. AM CC


NOT POSTED 11-3-14
Published Revert to Draft Save

POSTED 11-5-14
The awk-word segue ?

Two branches of the middle.

(rough heading / draft) 9-24-14
C-ruff raft.

Meanwhile: is Bush*/Paul a challenge? 

*link insert 9-25-14

Moderate Progressive Triad

New America Foundation [?]
Center for American Progress
OurFuture.org


[Hobby Lobby  ???]

Happy New Year / Special Edition

[Published 1-2-14]
Actually, the only thing special is that this was compiled X-mas Day.

Center for American Progress 12-23
America's Future 12-24
Salon
On The Economy
TomDispatch via RSN
Huffington Post

New Yorker Slash 
A / B

Pulled from draft mid-Rose Bowl / Post* Relavent.
 
* "...one opinion can be better than another one though it is not true." Rune(TOP) on Protagoras (the first Sophist)

To Filter

No Comment or Preemptive Filtering:
(Akin 2 to read)[**]
OK, I will have something.
What did we know and when didn't they know it?

Punchline: You have to break* eggs to fix with sausage.

*not a metaphor for violence or anti-vegan

Note: 3 thru 7 links embedded after-lede threaded.
Frederick Douglass: New Tea Party hero?!                           
America’s imperial decline: Must Dick Cheney always be president?
If They Can Lie About NSA/Snowden, They Can Lie About Syria and Iran
Can the G-20 Rebalance the Global Economy?
A Popular Movement For Higher Taxes? Now That Would Be a Story.

[** 7-8-13 Update: Lede font and bold added with line rearrangement.  Having now read links 3 thru 5 no further comment at this time.  Related To Filter(s), Econ 101 is killing America .]

Not Exactly A...

Wrap Scallion [!] ? ! ?

Bu dum bump !
[psych]

Pandora's Box[!]

Truman's PanTry

Bane or Change ?



Not to muck rake the art, but ...

Also not to be too Greek to too many ! (...)

Braking Emale[!]

Consult* a  Congress ...person?


[!]= (sic) sarcasm / irony
[earlier two read]
Ribble:  What a Lefty Rush might have said about congressional testimony on the subject?
[Talk about a fluke: sorry to mix a ribble with real news.]
* actual most current email

[8-1-12:  Belated ** Fluke or Not ?  My original intent centered on one of two organizations, which I hoped to touch upon.  With irony I let the ribble rest in immodest irreverence.  The answer to my riddle is something I would not have put it past Gore Vidal to answer, but I will go no further than my hint in comment.]

** Nexus of tortured rhetoric : Not to be a Lefty Rush.

Choice v. Referendum

The choice is between looking back or going back.  Between Obama's turnaround and Raw Money's turnaround.   The economy has turned around and Obama can claim his second term.  The economy may turnaround* either way, but it does depend on actions and even inactions, not just words.  Ravi Batra predicts a double dip before the November election but also a recovery next administration.  So talk may be cheap, but it does depend on who you listen to***, and who we follow.

* Ravi Batra(2:06) on Thom Hartmann (also see 2:00 news of 3 hr show)

6-18-12 Mitt Romney health care comments ?
Not to make it a referendum on(awkward segue/lost line**) Obamacares v. Romneycare.
Choice is Greek to too many.

** only partial rethread, with awkwardness regarding the choice/referendum irony, not related to the eventual links here.

*** 6-19-12  Not FOX! Not Really!
A horse is a horse of course of course unless you're a Plato or Romney of course.

6-20-12 Re: De-funding?
"Sad day" for dribble [!]
What's the dribble? Not to be ironic. It's politics on the table, in regard to contempt of process.

6-21-12  The dribble ?
Politics Nation "Fast and Furious" [N BA: not to ribble]
Awkward Segue: **2
Bread and circuses*2 to a whole new level. Duoh!
Now there's the rub.

*2 Unless you're Mr. Ed!
**2 This line was insert after getting to the rub, not to mention the bread line or leveled links.  

Bring It On!

Speaking of preemptive...it was only a thought.  But one missed by this author who takes President Obama to task in The End of the Post-9/11 World.  That being, with the obstructionism (update 6-4) the Republicans bring to the economy, what could they bring to national defense or foreign policy?  Actually the missing thought is the NDAA and how hard it is to change laws given the success he had on Gitmo and his budget and jobs act, and it seems the author missed it too. The only question should be who will be in the legislature to change our laws, and who will be the executive until they do. 

IT IS ON....
the table.

[ Speaking of "speaking of"... hanging* in the balance. ]

* in his own words(WH?)

[Speaking of War on Characterizations.(NewsNation) Deval Bane.]

[UPDATE on forks ?  ? ? ]

[Speaking of share 'n angle, Martin Bashir w/Alter 'n Christie on two Americas.

If Bain=Solyndra then Edwards=Wisconsin.  Not! DR out.(Not to mention Pap on Thom Hartmann.)

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, MRS W. Woe Wae! War Against Ethics.]

[6-1-12 Long Story Short? Du'oh!(?)!]

6-3-12  Calm Post Or Tan Gent ?

Punch Line !

6-4-12 Related Carbon Cycle ?

[Hanging Update ! Not to mention S**B C ?]

**acronym anomoly (for pun sake)

(crossing threshold not sterling qualification)

[Two Bills against the Mitt-L?]

Pit Charts

Investment?
Revenues?
Spending?
Debt Charts?

Rob Johnsons?
Rob Johnsons!
Really.
Bowles Simpson.*
Rob Johnson.
(special thanks to Stephanie Miller and Jared Bernstein.)

*(huh?)(Speaking of M.B.eh?)

Double Down on Blue Print!
Double Down !
(Bumper Snicker ! )
[NOT!]

Speaking of charts.

Congress is Like Herding Death Panels!

Who do you want the Ring Leader?

The Vision Thing

Statistics are people too[!]

No, I don't mean that, but they are a communication of something, from the Center for American Progress* If corporations are people, what are the charts saying, in these graphs. Maybe that Obama or the Democratic congress were the savior. Not that unnatural selection(Cherry Pickinghatchet jobs, by George[no Ben]) may be able to tell a different** story.

Some have said the market has some form of intelligence, Adam Smith aside, if that is the case the Obama was the cure for what Ailes the economy. Or it could just be a cycle, NOT!***

* choice of format

** accidental find

(I might suggest closing your eyes for this clip, and a ear of caution on the next.)

*** not to risk being expelled, but is there room for dia-logue?(un-Try-Knitty)

[Speaking of I - D, I / M, there is the V. C. of dominoes.]

[ad hoc chart or In"F"a table?]

Neo-Perspectivism

It is hard to say which niche this arises from.**
Neo-Nuanced is one trigger.***
Even if retro actively.
No silver bullet.
(Or Lone Ranger)
(I, II, III, IV, Not nor note.)
(Far From It)

Less embedded:
It is not just to Pop Culture but social engineering.
If that is an aphorism, you have one hint.(ouch)
But Freud and Hitler were both Austrian,
but the latter-day Austrians are economic transcendentalists.*
(Emerson, Niche& Rand?)
Some credit may be due to "Plato Not Prozac."

[Just in.]

***

Notes to Asterisk Readers:
It may help the flow if one reads the asterisks in order and after a full read of this piece, but scrolling over links as one goes will be useful.
* no Emerson
** last link inserted: Maybe way too much of a D'Ribble or G'Ribble?
[Apologies for Neo-Euphemism.]

[Breaking News:  Herman Cain will give an "unconventional Endorsement just prior to the South Carolina Primary. (Ctrl F "best" under vent) I hope it is not another one of his tours or projects, but if it is not a third party run or candidate it might be someone from out of the blue if not a write-in.  Huntsman or Bachmann also come to mind.]

***  The irony of taxes, GDP and debt. Is it in the charts?

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SIX SIGMA

SUMS IT UP.
No pun on Zero Sum***, or Raj Patal.
[posted 11-17-11]
Or Sigma(n) Freu d.*

On the other hand, it may depend on whose hand[!]

* not exactly sticking to new 4 mat

** game
Gingrich may be the card.

Zero #Roman#(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l, em,nop a d o p e.)

Sic Sigma? Revisited. And how(the heck) I got here.
It is not about points on a curve, but where (the bleep R we) the heck we are going.
[update labels]
[A Ginrich Typo originally appeared in this piece.]

Dimentionalism(sic)

[sic] is another tangent or dimensionalism [!]
Dimentions?
Two* Points.

*fore, six, eight

[Charts and Images]
Uncoining (sp!), will utilized (sic) or [sic] or [!]
Speaking of blocks, inside or outside...


SEGUE, my points here for further consideration:
The future of Occupy: Four key questions
Super Committee/Progressive Breakfast
Leaning Forward?

Weak in Review[!](Morning Joe)

IN PROGRESS:
Star Chanber
Para-Model
Martin Bashir and GUESTS.

Jonathan Alter and David Corn share their perspectivism of the 2012 GOP crop. What caught me was the "process of elimination" crack by the former.

Yet to insert or finish.
SEGUE TWO: The Platonic Cultural Model of the Tetrahedron given quantum form. Politics is about power and culture, but the latter may be the point. Politics may be the 4th dimensions of the phsyical, mental and emotional realities. What is the point" Who decides? And back again. I am not yet ready to overlay a tetrahedron, but it seems that the military represents an element like math, or a structure like religion and economics. It is a tool, and a force, not that religion, economics and goverment aren't. It may be seen that government is a hinge point, where there may be more politics in anarchy than tyranny. Part of this new connection(military) is thanks to the service of a soldier to which I give thanks again. His service was also in the slippery slope of rhetoric where the issue was who guards the "gates of American Democracy", which ironically spun out of control over the Obama/Jobs issue. There seemed a lack of appreciation or understanding of the jobs of the three branches of goverment and the relationship to defending it. The military certainly defends our security, but as for our rights, if they(our rights) were not used, they would be lost, and then what would they be fighting for? And if they were not used freely, they might be fighting for nothing more than what other countries are fighting for. But who am I to say who might understand that?

Brackets and the Debt Clock

[9-26-11 UPDATE: Tax Plan and "Fiscal Terrorism" A slight rearrangement and edit for clarity below. ]

[In might be easier if the links and asterisks are referenced later.***]

The whole issue of cuts over revenues * _ must be sorted out on two fronts. There is the issue of the so-called "progressive" tax code. Then there is the issue of the history of the tax code(see* pun), and how it impacts the debt clock.

The first regards the "Buffet Rule". There are the actual tax bracket rates(10% to 35%), and then there is the effective tax rate, which is further complicated(reduced) by captial gains tax rates(15%). Let us also be reminded that even the richest pay the same rates for their first brackets worth of income,(ZERO), let alone each bracket's worth of income. But since the capital gains tax is most of the income of the bulk of the rich, the effective tax rate will not be the actual sum of each bracket's worth. I will not bother to do some math here, but I hope it is clear. Basically the effective tax rate for the rich are not effective as "progressive" by a look at their brackets. They effectively get a lower tax rate, because capital gains are taxed less than the middle to top income brackets.

Second, there is the matter of the "Debt Clock", which should have its own brackets of sorts. The Bush wars, as well as his Medicare(fix), not to mention his tax cuts are off the clock so-to-speak. Not to mention the economic down turn which should probably reset the clock. If I was able to clarify the first issue, I don't mean to make up for it by complicating the second. But the "spending under borrowing" is more than a pun, it is an economic effect. For now I just mean to address the clock issue. Where I imagine that there could be some way to show previous administration's as well as the current administration's** debt clocks.

Now, I hope that I can get away with not providing more detail. But it is not so simple, as I almost closed the issue. It would not be simply an historical replay of their debt clocks, but a sorting of the debt from their budgets. So we would have several clocks at different brackets in time. This is the matter, where the devil is in the details. This almost becomes a matter for mathematical physicists in regard to the dynamics of budgets and time, in that each bracket in time has potential future impact where political economists would sit in for the mathematical physicists.

But, I hope that it can be imagined that each bracket in time, have two clocks. Their own budget and the debt that was not theirs. I will leave it for real economists or accountants to sort out whether there needs to be more than two, as I don't know if it is just my imagination, or the reality of the difficulty in sorting this out. In this regard, I mean the difficulty of sorting a budget's impact over time. But maybe it can be imagined from the effective impact that war and medicare can have on people and how dynamic that is over time, let alone the setting of tax rates. In fact, that is addressed by one or two instances alone. The Bush tax cuts were temporary. The Bush wars and the Medicare fix were not paid for.



[Please note that the links and image were inserted after completion of this blog post. They include, in order: The New York Times, FOX NEWS, No-Labels, and the Center for American Progress [9-26-11: OurFuture.org], where it was not my intent to lower the level of discourse nor bring more nuanced metaphor to light. But please note my No-Labels comment, in regard to the referees and what is on the table. Not to pun on a game buffet, but the neither the cuts sandwich nor the sand wedged in links were referenced for the writing of this post. But it may be suitable that brackets and clocks are used in games. This is a not so nuanced reference to the sports analogy of politics.]

*which alone needs some economic sorting: I mean "spending under borrowing", to pun a bit.
** oops, a whole new clock issue, why not bracket it by congresses?
*** not to mention by myself

[9-23-11 Update 'nuff s' Ed?] Iron Chef!

[9-29-11 update on timing, see comment 2. Speaking of timing,(darn) lost it for a moment.]