Heads should roll...

in an administrative and executive sense. This is to light a "Ring of Fire" around the update of my last post, as Robert Kennedy Jr. is now guest on the Thom Hartmann Show. Not to mention a corporate death penalty.

Where in the world is Carmen...

Miranda?
Could it be...Real Mythication? Or a mixed fruit salad of bureaucracy.

Labels hint.

We have a heckuva'n updating to do.
[Sea Wall].Oh...really?

Real hint: Sometimes headings have meaning and sometimes they are just links that go deeper. Technical advances in formatting have complicated* literary(communications) styles, while sometimes we are caught in a web.

*not

Note to self:
no Navigation label below
see hint: recycle- ouch!)
[or links in Wall label]

[1-7-10:Shhhh! It is in the Senate Plan! Granted, not "single payer" or "public option" but... "national plans overseen by the same office that manages health coverage for federal employees and members of Congress."]

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 good is hard to find...

in the UN Human Rights Council resolution: U.N. body adopts resolution on religious defamation - Reuters
But is it in the close call 23-11-13 or the new member at the table?

Here is analysis from the Council on Foreign Relations.

My comment (not finding the draft or text): It seems that promotion of tolerance is hard to achieve by some sort of intolerance. Yet tolerance of intolerance is so difficult. I feel that the discussion is about a renogiation of terms and well as fields or spheres of influence.

Political Calculus

Or Real Economics?More Trickle Down for New Orleans?
Or just what the doctor ordered.
Just say no economics>

Trickle Down Employment or Intelligent Design?
Or is the tripartite design of the stimulus the design that gives an alternative to bipartisanship or return to partisanship?

I'm guessing recalculations might be in order.
P.S. Has Louisiana's economy really not been hit as hard a most or is it like the global warming scam? It would seem that following Katrina and with the slow trickle down of aide, the needs and opportunities could be the reason or is it season. I am inserting irony here, others can insert the facts or economics of comparative recovery from disasters. Does this translate to hope or luck in Louisianna and for whom?

[Did we include apoplectic in the Four Eh?*]

* or montage

Monkey Business

I had a better punchline but a call intersected my thought process, regarding the media cacophony regarding a recent tragedy.

Get Over It! Was the cry that I lost and we may be better for it, but local reaction as well, is overblown. That line may return to me or be better lost, but the carton* and the shock are part of freedom of the press, and the surprise should be moderated by this intersection:
The New York Post and The Washington Times- No Shock!
The Washington Post and The New York Times- No Awe!
Not to mention the bottom line of shock and awe.
Duh-Oh! Thanks Homer** or is it But-Head?

[* I can't recall this choice of word, but was somehow multi-tasking. Carton is a word for package, but I still feel a blank. Carton is also a place where the missing are hoped to be linked with their loved ones. I was already into the packaging of the next lines, so it may have been fortunate to have skipped a clue. I knew I would return but not for this difficulty.

** The comedy is sometimes a tragedy as in Greek and that is probably the root of many problems if not the media.]

[Duoh! Cartoon. Now...That's the ticket. Hmmmm?

[I separate the tragedy of the dangerous monkey and the disgusting cartoon.]

Conservative Foray (4A)

The right wing rhetoric suffers
from four faults or defaults:
Anecdotal
Apocryphal
Anachronistic
Academic[*]

In particular:
Lew Rockwell
Anne Wortham
Betsy McGaughey
Floy Lilley **

I did not select these, they were being spread by a victim of the victim hoods.

[* This 4A was held in draft, and pondered till I arrived at the right Initialism. Speaking of design and initialism the origin was:
often A$$ Backward Oops!! - Pardon my Cheney , I meant acronym-ism.]

**[Hopefully I have these in descending order.]
[(CTTC)Cutting through the Cr@p:
I would love for economists to cut through some of this.]
[Academic is a word like politician and lawyer that have developed a poor reputation, not to mention rhetoric and Swift Boaters. Or Bottom Line? ]

[(CTTC2.0)I have two bold links above that I would like economists to examine, in particular in light of the bad rap Keynesian economics keeps taking. In that regard, on a lighter and less silly or harsh note; Greenspan seems to be learning, or has he, and in regards to the Floy piece and the bottom line;
is there not some synergy that needs to be worked out? Meaning current efforts cannot be compared to past efforts directly, while problems that are missed will be the devil in the detail. The Carbon Market may be a solution, but not if the Market period is the problem. In other words, I have not looked too deeply into the hot air side (climate matters) of the equation, but feel that the thin air problem (financial matters)is deeper. To re-embed in aphorism, there is bang for your buck and there is the value of your bang. And there is likely more that matters.

"a royal huff"

"Our Addiction to Fake Outrage": Could it be self-righteousness or open markets?* Information should be free flowing but...needs a filter not a Drudge. That is the dilemma: who?

Certainly not trickle down; talk about "bucket shops".

Progressive Strategies: Social Darwinism? Forgetting nature and God.

People forget to credit their environment, and take for granted what they got and expect others in different environments to do as well and take the blame for theirs. Shoe is on the other foot, or foot in mouth, shoot it. Grass is greener, blah, blah, blah, dot, dot, dot,** etc.

* the nature of information is that what shocks, gets attention (and awe), and feeds the market, rather than information that puts things together which is more complicated, much like the difference between war and nation building. On top of that to expect government not to have harder work to create laws and execute them(laws not people) and then the difficulty of the fourth branch has certainly not evolved in a straight line.

** another word for fertilizer is making the rounds

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

Deja Voodoo?

Fuzzy Math + Fuzzy English = 1 Heckuva Job
[This is an old quip of mine updated** with new links embedded.]

A COROLLARY:
Litigated Math + Mitigated Language = the inverse of the slippery slope.

Just what does that mean? Well it means that it is a lot harder to make progress than to run things down. It means we must be as careful backing out of the ditch, as we were careless getting the driver that got us there. (Sorry to mix rhetoric and metaphor here, but it is an uphill battle *that will take all hands on deck.0

*this is a Laffer speaking of hills, I suggest that you search for the boat in Reagan's words not to mention Lincoln's stroke of labor.

[And where do I get the voodoo? Well is just isn't magic. But the key as Bill Frist said is "when done right". It also seems to depend on the side of the curve one is on before changes are made, not to mention the application of the terms incentive and work when it comes to capital.]

[Update: 12-8-08 King County Re-Org and the inspiration from the Tax Reform debacle there.

** I attempt to represent this as a formula or parody of math, but the links I have inserted were not necessarily known to me at the time I formulated an earlier version, just the history as we lived it, in the form of Reaganomics and early Bushisms.]

Same old, same old?

me...
Meaning my old temptation to comment primarily before fully reading a source.
Who are the Taliban?

Although I have actually started to read, I must note in digesting it, my thoughts.
Preemptively? My thoughts were that the Taliban are the new al Queda. Well...
at this point they are at least "the insurgents" but my new take is that they are the new coalition of the willing.

Willing to do anything to get foreigners out. Just showing that Bush is a uniter not a divider. The Taliban have gone from being willing to give up bin Laden to an international court or third party to being the loyal opposition or radical unifiers where the unifying force is our forces. I have long harbored if not sunk certain phrases that would imply that Bush would be true to some sort of his words.

SO THERE... now I will get back to about the fifth paragraph, reading the link above, subtitled: The Afghan War Deciphered. I hope it is the legacy flip-flopped.

[12-5-08: Having finished the full article, there is only hope that some change in course will make the legacy more than just more of the same. But more than just change in course are the actual participants in the navigation.]

Following results.

Having finally read, Democracy in Transition, I find the error in the missing gap. Maybe under the cushions of the SOFA -
- Having Now Fully Read (NFR) as opposed to earlier (nfr) - not fully read -

[My original tangent (or somewhat subsequent) was based on a true convergence error, by actually melding two links that I did not later see (but have now fixed) as two. It may have been my original convergence that there was some link between Thanksgiving and Xmas of native form and anacronism if not shopping or fitting the bill.]

The SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) is a possible transition piece that also leaves a flexible and democratic if not constitutional way forward. It may be just a piece that is expected to assure a legacy of passing the buck, but that is just what is needed until there is a leader who is willing to follow...

As far as time tables go- (I make up for the muddle by pulling only two segments together from the SOFA.)
"Should the Iraqi government decide to cancel the pact after the referendum it would have to give Washington one year's notice, meaning that troops would be allowed to remain in the country only until the summer of 2010."

"The international agreement will be binding on US president-elect Barack Obama when he assumes office next year, but he could also unilaterally cancel the pact with a year's notice or withdraw all US troops at any time."

Given the room for democracy otherwise known as process, there is also room for interpretation with oversight.

As far as Democracy in Transition: Congress should reclaim their power in the United States with a "signing statement resolution" as Iraq is still forming their constitutional process.
"Such a resolution, which would still allow Congress to fund the agreement if they feel compelled by the Obama administration to do so, could be passed by both the House and the Senate the week of December 8," Fox said. "If congressional leaders cannot bring themselves to take that one minor step, then the damage to their institution may be irreversible."

In conclusion, it may be that this is the best thing that the current administration has ever done. Not that it was their intent, but the best they could hope for, and would not have been possible without the pressure of some form of daylight, albeit not here yet.- diplomacy - ]

More than psychologicaL...

but part of it for now.
Obama begins treatment of the economy.
Previous claims of mental depression.
McCain/Gramm syndrome dealt with.

[On the other hand: Trickle-Down Bailout Continues.]

[There is only one psychologist at a time. But Obama must be semi-engaged and Bush must acknowledge his part, not that this means that the Citigroup move was crazy. Until the transition is complete there is a good reason for this cross between a tug-a-war and teeter-totter. Can we say legacy? Bailout is a misnomer except as a metaphor for a rising tide that doesn't lift all boats and just who is the bailer or bailee of the trickle-down [*].]

[11-25-08: Obama Stressing Recovery [**] ]

[11-26-08: [*] bold and link update and [**] steady but tiered course of change.]

[11-10-09: I must note that I correct the dates above from somehow August to must be November.{?}]

Forensics Matter

In the case of the Reichert/Burner matter of degrees, forensics matter. They are a matter of evidence and debate. It may not be a coincidence that it took 20 years to catch a killer. In fact, it could probably be stated. In fact, it is not.

One point that should be evident, is that it is not really clear what I have said here. Nonetheless, it does not mean that nothing can be taken from it.[Let that sink in.*]

[10-28-08: It is not a coincidence**... Now it's been stated. The point is that catching a killer and real debate take proper forensics, apparently not Reichert's bailiwick. And for those that need a clue, forensics refers to either legal evidence or the skill of debating, in his case they are nearly criminal.]

* as a joker might say: "I resemble that remark". But rhetorically I have not made a charge but an inference might be taken ...then call Joe the Plumber.
**Both forensics problems and advances were key in the Green River Killer case.

Major Deal of Minor Gotchas

A matter of direction and degree.[a matter of reading and trust]

Not to mention media. My QCON (Quick Comment On the News) relates to the matter of how campaigns can spin and while it seems tit-for-tat or pass the buck to staff, sometimes there are reasons that matter. It is clear that while Burner does not have the degree in Economics, it is not clear*that she did not say anything other than a "degree in it". (Note my QCON has no Capital T for "the", and she may never have used a capital E in Econ.) Now this may just seem like a funny aside but recall I have noted a bearing on the difference in humor for them and us**.

But just the facts ma'am, Reichert's bio has now been corrected to reflect the AA rather than the BA which nonetheless would have been acquired in two years from '68 to '70, while it has been clarified that Darcy Burner does have a four year degree (meaning a BA) described as "a computer science degree from Harvard with a "special field," or emphasis, in economics."

Now is this much ado about nothing? Well it is ironic that the Sheriff was exaggerating what would seemingly have distanced himself from Joe the Plumber, while Darcy Burner was trying not to emphasize the degree of complication in her background. In reality she is the one with the business experience while he the life in government.

A Democrat of similar mind to whomever comes up with this mud, could wonder if there is not some exaggeration of the Sheriff's honorable record. I however will be honest and say that I have not verified a lot of it. Like his 20 year quest for the Green River Killer, while only being sheriff 8 of his over 30 years in law enforcement. I won't cast doubt on that record, but really is it something to brag about, that it took 20 years that is? It is at least stick-to-it-iveness, but nevertheless, still not the mud that matters.

[Bottom line: like punchline? NOT! But to serve the people. They both have records that can be admired but is there any irony in this matter of degree? It is a matter for forensics that it has taken so long for one and the other so little to go so far. It would seem that it is not debatable that the devil is in the details and how they are handled matters. While these seem minor details, they should be a clue to success.***]

*a frequent refrain from the likes of McCain/Palin when their reading material is lagging or their sources are unfound(ed).
** not necessarily in those exact words
*** Instead of apologies forthcoming, the Republicans still lie, see bottom link.

ACORN: Seeds of Destruction

A squirrely claim is just nuts!

McCain perpetrator of collusion?

Voter Fraud Myth covers wholesale theft of voter rights.

On the lighter side:
The Powell Endorsement is more than cage* liner. No disrespect for the sources only some of the content**. Rush Limbaugh claimed that it was purely an issue of race. The connection to Ted is tennuous, but Ed?

* no slight but reference to both squirrel and voter caging***
** CNN is not really "fair and balanced" on some issues but the CSM referred to Rush's claim of race being the issue.

*** a new wrinkle: voter Re-registration fraud?

"hair of the dog"

Alan Shrugged
by Marty Kaplan The Huffington Post

Slang for Morning Joe** or not* your cup of tea. OK, I mixed metaphors or drinks, implying a wake-up. Actually I may have something here, as the bailout, or rescue has not yet reached a full intervention, and will it?

*On a lark I looked up Morning Read which you need not, nor dig up Slang Note: bold link is the read for the day.
** I don't catch the show but would recommend Rachel Maddow getting another 2 hours.

[Evening update: the way this comment weaves I might refer to the navigation link. Meanwhile another link: I need to unembed or consider the table.
In particular:
a list of economists I had intended to sort as progressives, Noted in the article - Joseph Stiglitz, Dean Baker, Jared Bernstein. Not noted - Paul Krugman, Ravi Batra: Meanwhile: Kudos to Krugman. Speaking of Laffer and Elixirs ]

Breaking News!

Not exactly.
Bush had no plan to capture Bin Laden
But did plan to capture Iraqi oil fields in May of 2001.
BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11th!
Iraq plans prevented post-9-11 success in Afghanistan.

[Not to mention: Investigations of U.S. Attorney Scandal]

And Bailout...

McCain it seems, is heading for the debate,
but it seems that he does not even know what plan is on the table.

And I am not sure too many do. And that was the day he suspended his campaign.

As usual the Democrats will get something done, while the Republicans hold onto their agenda of politics and business over people. [*]

Meanwhile progress at the UN Security Council on Iran is at risk of being more business as usual. I only heard a brief news item about a Russia calling something legally binding but without santions.

[* Bold only with this updated: Senator Bernie Sanders on The Thom Hartmann Show** has just now framed this. And last week mentioned the October Surprise as the bailouts arrived. Some people have said that the economy could not wait till October, but really politics could not wait, since congress was scheduled to go home to campaign.]

** must link this show "hit and run" aspect: Bush hits, Dems fix, Republicans Run. (see Domke)
Not to mention that this is a distraction that keeps politicians from being able to run.