Crisis in Austrian Thought

Re-Evolutionally the missing link[!]

The crisis in thought is a split ideology regarding who is in charge, by George[!]

Think Washington the figure, not the DC or state. A founding father for sure, but the crisis is in leadership, and perspectives on the founding documents, not to mention Democratic Character.

Alex Witt's topics cross these threads. Including an MD/rX of DC?

{"crisis in leadership" Boehner, Bain or Bane or change. Mitch Daniels, not to mention Harold Ford Jr. }

[Breaking E-Mail: I haven't even read what it means but it might be the missing thought.]

[1-30-12: adding links, crisis,(2)(3)(4)* Ford, leadership**, there is a reason there are three branches of government and one is called the legislative, and it is not the executive's job to legislate, besides they can see the legislative ideas if they bit 'em.]

* not finding the exact link*** really, not yet

**Boehner: “Last Night Was Just Another Campaign Speech.” “He [President Obama] wants to take no responsibility for his policies that have failed and made no reference last night to really stepping into the game and legislating. He has spent every day since last Labor Day campaigning - not legislating, not involved in the process of our government here. And last night was just another – another campaign speech.”

*** this comes closest (sausage grinder?)

[Bottom line: there are two Austrian perspectives that come to mind, the economic and the psychological.]

Will Lard 16:3

Dog so loved...

Calm adore Perry and the FOF Found- ation [!]

(sic)* series.[unspelled asterisks]

* Ctrl F: "(sic)" i.e. irony mark

[unmarked segue between line one and two,

with two bold links actually read this time, but with transliterated** ledes.. ]

** Well, not exactly, maybe transmitterated(sic), ala Costa Concordia.

3rd (sic) > BS*** "trumanesque"

*** i.e. blog search

BTW: those still standing

Romney: moderate/conservative flip-flopper

Gingrich: populist flip-flopper

Santorum: conservative

Paul: libertarian

This about rounds it out.

[But who am I to tell the GOP?]

[1-20-12: What is Governor Perry "talking turkey"?

It is the the pot calling the kettle white.]

Killer Ad from Killer Group

Crossroads GPS employs Killer Rhetoric.

Here is the missing link. Applying even a modicum of similarity one can more reliably say that indeed, Crossroads GPS are taking people down. Not that this is "fair and balanced" rhetoric, nor Lemony* Snicket.

* rats leaving us die looted

Two Points

Please note that just because someone endorses the priciples of a movement, that does not mean they endorse any of their tactics. Obama has been accused of distancing himself from OWS, and the 99%, but I think that is only in terms of some of their behavior and some of their demands.

Who am I to suggest what might work for Occupy Wall Street, but it could be strategic to give them the park back and MoveOn[*] (pardon the Irony)! While I have associated with MoveOn, DFA, and a # of other acronyms and parties(individual and organizational) I think that their message can evolve and be more dimensional.

[Belated Jack Sparrow]

[* 11-4-11 link description added: Ron Suskind on The Rachel Maddow Show, discusses the Financial Transaction Tax And on a related issue, replacing Tim Geitner. The man, any man is not the issue. The policy is the issue. But replacing any individual in the face of Republican obstructionism is problematic.]

[11-4-11 My comment on Left Business Observer is "awaiting moderation". Maybe it is actually awaiting radicalization, but I realize the practical difficulities of moving from Zuccotti Park.(Packing up, needing a place to go, but with the opportunity to return, unless the police occupy Zuccotti Park.) I just mean to take success from the fact that there are so many "Occupy Places" around the country and around the world, not to diminish the value of general assemblies, and the logistical need for occupying some space. Meanwhile here are some other perspectives:
Marc Ash Anarchy v. Non-Violence, The Movement Is Tested
Michael Moore on "Occupy Oakland"
Bill Moyers America Occupies Wall Street Because Wall Street Occupies America
Noam Chomsky Occupy the World
Robert Reich The Occupiers' Responsive Chord

[More Maddow, Cain and Perry and more.]

[A gestalt? Jon Stewart asks about OWS, North Dakota and Syria.
Walk like an...Obama?(up/date plank**)]

** See **B here with follow up.
[And Buffet sages. Note that this is likely the root of Obamanomics(Robert Reich) as I found it, and the root of our problems as Obama and Buffet found it.
More followup. [See deter/mined and Sat Ire.(Buffet v. Trump)]
[Three Points: A. B. C.]

Thumbs/GOP and OWS

Thumbs:Still to insert Para-model links. *

GOP:Marco Rubio: still going

and OWS:I mean,I HEART_JOBS!
Occupy Wall Street
UPDATE: BY Marc Ash(A witness to the violence in Oakland)

CHART WARS
and IMAGES

* not exactly the right hand

TRY POD:
Actually it might be hazardous to click on Newton's Fourth Law of Motion under uncyclopedia. But it states: "When people get mad, they move faster." But that is apparently from a Donald World.(Hence I might not try to insert it.) No more buts, but you just may get the triangle, not that I pod. (Hint: F=ma not freedom + the press is not it.) {and I haven't even touched the Current or Fig Newton.)

Speaking of Apples and Oranges, Cherries* and UN-ions[!]
*No Will I Am, but a pit.(And Beef, Cheese & Sausage Buffet or TaleGates**.)
(No Jobs, but Tale of Two Gates?)
** speaking of sports or road rage?

The Politics of the Table.

The Message is the Model.
Everything* is on the Table.

See Apples and Oranges and Cherry pitting.
Salad anyone?
Really...anyone [?]




* see 10-20 update there
[per-spec-tivism: over view?]

Why OWS is bigger than Left vs. Right.

Stuck in the game frame?
Bright Bart and Big Government?

Why OWS is bigger...

Tactically, what we'll see here will be a) people firmly on the traditional Democratic side claiming to speak for OWS, and b) people on the right-Republican side attempting to portray OWS as a puppet of well-known liberals and other Democratic interests.

Whine and G's?

On the Democratic side, we've already seen a lot of this behavior, particularly in the last week or so. Glenn Greenwald wrote about this a lot last week, talking about how Obama has already made it clear that he is "on the same side as the Wall Street protesters" and that the Democratic Party, through the DCCC (its House fundraising arm), has jumped into the fray by circulating a petition seeking 100,000 party supporters to affirm that "I stand with the Occupy Wall Street protests". (I wonder how firmly the DCCC was standing with OWS sentiment back when it was pushing for the bailouts and the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act).

Really?

What nobody is comfortable with is a movement in which virtually the entire spectrum of middle class and poor Americans is on the same page, railing against incestuous political and financial corruption on Wall Street and in Washington. The reality is that Occupy Wall Street and the millions of middle Americans who make up the Tea Party are natural allies and should be on the same page about most of the key issues, and that's a story our media won't want to or know how to handle.

Not your grandfather's "traditional".

This is an issue for the traditional "left" because it's a classic instance of overweening corporate power - but it's an issue for the traditional "right" because these same institutions are also the biggest welfare bums of all time, de facto wards of the state who sucked trillions of dollars of public treasure from the pockets of patriotic taxpayers from coast to coast

Really?

Both traditional constituencies want these companies off the public teat and back swimming on their own in the cruel seas of the free market, where they will inevitably be drowned in their corruption and greed, if they don't reform immediately. This is a major implicit complaint of the OWS protests and it should absolutely strike a nerve with Tea Partiers, many of whom were talking about some of the same things when they burst onto the scene a few years ago.

I have read Matt Taibbi's piece three times now over the course of parsing this, and I will let you read your own conclusions.

[Then I signed the petition at DCCC (see bold) "I stand..." with the following amendments.(see 3 links)]

[Each of the above blockquotes are directly from Matt Taibbi's piece, with the bold segues my comments. But the final Really?, "Both traditional constituencies want these companies off the public teat and back swimming on their own in the cruel seas of the free market, where they will inevitably be drowned in their corruption and greed, if they don't reform immediately." sounds a bit naive if not libertarian. Companies and Wall Street will not reform themselves any more than they will let themselves fail or let the market do its magic. But it is a matter of who's on board or overboard as well as some sort of tents.]
[Speaking of ironies, or Bright Bart and Big Government, just whose side is who on?]
[Meanwhile I have four posts to further parse. Starting with the big bite. @ 7 minutes 15 seconds in: Over two thirds of New Yorkers support Occupy Wall Street.]

[Oh what a web. No E.B. White:
SCroll up! Tol Keen? Rubric, Elements, what "October", Mis-attribute? Justice and/or sand witchbracket.]
[Alternative Reich? Not to pun on the furor, but is there an alternative?]
[A Democratic* strategist touched on something(on Martin Bashir) that has been embedded in my thoughts, and even more embedded in my writings. The Republican candidate will not come from the activist wing. And indeed the current leader often trails "anybody else". Well, they are not really polling that candidate, but the leaders are still struggling for less than a third of the Republican's votes(current Gallup Romney 20%). My point is that there just might be a compromise or coalition candidate. On the other hand... who am I to say democracy will prevail over the Republic?]
* 10-19-11 I have yet to find the proper link but place some others under Democratic Strategist and Martin Bashir.

Bite of the Big Apple?

Rachel Maddow points out that almost 70% of New Yorkers support Occupy Wall Street(7 min 15 sec into video).*
And they are the ones that have to put up with the so-called PU.
People United.

Place holder?**
Meanwhile Herman Cain Sim City or Un-Koch or champagne?
[No...pre-emptive Palin.]

[10-18-11 Asteroids, I mean asterisks added.]
*link added
** I'm no Sim City but Brown and Cain are pirating lines and planks or vice verse us, but actually more American than Apple Pie(Beetles? Or bugs.)Why can't Republican admit, they aren't bootstrap makers?

Statue

Of Limitations.
The Dream was honored this weekend,
in more ways than one.
May it never run out.


Please note the pun on "statute".
It seems appropriate in light of the
Small-"d" democracy verse US the capital "R" Republic-can'ts.
[OW Schmow: almost 200 Occupy Chicago protesters peacefully arrested, that's the ticket! No Co-opT Wall Street and cheese heads.]

WHERE DO YOU FALL...OWS!

[see asterisk for eventual date of post]
or rather on Wall Street!
I mean the L-Curve.
No not, the Liberal Curve, "L" is its shape.
Although....
that would depend on the value of people.

No, not that guy, but individuals & en masse. Now speaking of the value of individuals, I won't go that far. But speaking of the value of money and happiness, since the latter is in the constitution. Strike that, I have been reading the Tea leaves*. Happiness is in the Declaration of Independence. So I am on to something greater than just the L-Curve and the value of people, but the value of happiness. Since some say that money does not buy happiness, and others disagree. Let's not tax happiness. But it takes about $75 K before happiness has a steeper price, and then it is another L-Curve... Why not make that the lowest tax bracket of zero. And then L-curve it up!**

* 10-17-11 (post still in draft) can't find the Alex Pareene Tea People's History which triggered this comment (bottom link will correct anachronism)
** last two links post *(asterisk)

IMAGINE!

That is what John Lennon wrote...
and he's not the only one.
This is what democracy looks like!
And Jim Hightower is not the only one.

FYI: Hightower was at Petrovitsky Park Rolling Thunder 2002.
Ambassador Joe Wilson was at the Inslee Iraq Forum.

I realize this is a bit of a ramble. But I will leave it for now. The sentiment is in the Label: Civil Disobedience. Thank you for paying the price. Peace On, not out!

[10-13-11 Here is the inspiration for this post: [And my reply (yesterday).] Wouldn't it be cool.
If the OWS could follow the rules? Now I am not mocking the right or left, but "imagine" as John Lennon said: People occupying the park and actually standing for something? I mean literally to not mock Faux News. But I just mean that the more that stand, the more could fit, and they could even go home or to other encampments or facilities. I'm just saying. [Update] GONGA[*] (against the gravy train)
Yes! I am serious. The park clean-up has been postponed and the private owners of the publicly accessible park have come to an agreement with the OWS organizers. But when some protesters chose to march on wall street, they chose not to use the sidewalks. Which is their right not to follow the rules for the sake of getting the attention through civil disobedience. While I have yet to read the details of the agreement, but I can still imagine. I am imagining a conga line of sorts. Imagine the length of any procession moving from one venue to another. [This is reminiscent of a MoveOn rally that presented the anti-Iraq War Resolution petitions signatures to every congressional office in 2002. Well, we didn't do the conga**. Wish I had thought of it.]

[*] 11-22-11 follow up spell check[!]: My original GONGA is noted as a potential typo or pun that I am now missing, or maybe the voodoo that some do.
** like added 11-22-11

Walking the Plank[!]

A caller to a talk show expressed well my sentiment on the death penalty.
Paraphrased: I will support the death penalty when the first corporation is executed in Texas. Well, being a Jolly Roger, (i.e. No Will Rogers) I might not go that far mattie.(ar R something privatization.)

[!]= sarcasm/irony punctuation (See lede 'r ship)

The real leadership is not in a party or a position but in ideas. My pun is purely about the platform over the process, not to mention parties. But in particular a few planks that Bernie Sanders has suggested in the form of: Six Demands to Make of Wall Street.
If Republicans want to walk the talk, of Where are the Jobs?* Then vote on every last one of these, as well as the American Jobs Act, and see who will be left on the ship of fools.

[Speaking of R's Bruce Bartlett anyone? (or A B Sea?)

* The American Jobs Act.

Speaking of three R's.
Four P's.
Five Minutes.
Six Demands.
Seven Lies.(2.5 minutes)
Too Cubed.
Three Three Squared.

Never the Twain

shall meet ***.

This is about the message* getting through the mess age.

Maybe if Diane Sawyer had not blundered, MEDIAite may not have covered her take on OWS.

* Obama gets it, Cain? Not so much. Lind? Too much. Sirota? So?**

** who said "so?" Cheney to polls. Lawrence O'Donnell, or Chris Matthews to Obama.

*** meet is key link(see 1% analysis).
[also see shall, speaking of headings]

Network Paradox-

ymoron.

AlanGrayson nails it.
Well, not exactly.

One party "Occupies Wall Street[!]"(OWS), the other is "Fair and Balanced".

Mad as HBO and not going to take it?

[My "parodoxymoron" is not aimed at a person, but the perspectivism of parties, and anti-relativism. My use refers to my one liner of contrast. My apologies to the WWW, I thought I coined something.]

I HEART OWS!

I HEART Occupy Wall Street

I HEART OWS!
Sounds like a bandage commercial.
I'm not sure it would be a good button in the face of a badge,
nor poster that a badge might take for his motto.

DECLARATION OF THE OCCUPATION!
Press Conference Obama
Lessig/Dylan
Pre-#OWS!

[10-7-11 Hiatus: John Kay, Ha-Joon Chang, I Heart JOBS!, The Toss?, The Gipper, The Dream, The Gate, The M?. Calm Pend I um. Not to be cryptic, but...delta dawn, what's that ...]
[#OWS: Apples and Oranges?]

I'm a PC.

Not to be PC,
but a Jobs loss is everybody's loss.

Not to compare apples and oranges,
but to be Buddhist and Billionaire?
Not to pun completely or cherry pick,
I mean pop culture.




[I guess it is in reaction to someone* who used the death of Steve Jobs to demean those who occupy wallstreet, I take a different path. Not to give a RIP in vain.]

* that someone is not linked on this post, but they used the Slate link under "pop culture".

Civil Disobedience...

I am not calling for it, but googled it, and found no mention of the current case, not that it might be called something else.

My one and only point(well...2 or three)is(R) that 1) those that partake actually have a line to cross, 2) they have consequences for crossing any lines, and 3) that government is also bound by such clarity.

Speaking of whatchamacallit...what is the flip flop of Civil Disobedience? Criminal Pathology(I mean following)?

[9-20-11 Update: Note Pathology Pun ]
[Not to mention ge oh me trick segue. BTW: It is a vision thing. No Burning Bush, but... "bad faith" v. good math Speaking of Highways: I originally mis-heard the president. I thought he said "It's MAD! Which is Bane or...see di-mentionism.]