Farewell to Knees[!]

I Ron Knees?

Church
State
Community
Individual ~
World

[Rough Tan~gent.]

Only the [inserts] are belated.(1/19/16)

FC Ham or

Re:labels
RFDaily Beck Jumps the Shark?
Fiscal Compassion?  OW[!]*








*not original link(s)
("Let her rip!")
(MC Out!)




7-14-14
read:

The East Room Speech

Speaking* of Columns.
Remarks on Syria and U.N. developments.
*video (text)

Leveling the World Stage?

And restoring some floors @ the U.N. 
Ultimately it is not about [No Bama O Drama.] (*) 
[David Gregory "he wants the debate".]

(*) NBOD coined 8-30-13 as QCON(re-links)
[Quick Comment on News, or might be QuipCON?]
[Foibles of punctuation and excuse m-beds.]
(Spoiler alert: Try Lemmings, Kidding Goats, and  Votes)

9-2-13 
Proposed resolution to congress.

9-3-13
Congress World Reaction(ABC)

It is not just about Obama's "Red Line", it is about the world having Red Lines or not.  It is truly about the use of WMD, as well as a nation that is falling apart (Syrian civil war) needing to have an urgency of the negotiating table. 

Alternatively or simultaneously, Syria's partners on the U.N. Security council as well as other opposition partners (Arab League, Pakistan, Iran,)should have a stake in getting things to the table or world court.

[Pre-Post-Or-US ?  The Leverage of NOW**?]

** anachronism of opinion (by Ghosh)
(*)segue[be-date?/timing]
[9-4-13 inserted NOW link]

9-27-13 M-bedded in the FP (freak n' pounding) i.e. capitol ization of font. Note situation of September's FP and their headings. And the 5th of sorts. / A. Inconvenient , B. , C. The Real B. S. of the F. C. , D. Nail Meet F--C---[!] , E. Irony versus Hypocrisy [!]

Commemorating the March

Obama Speech Washington Post.
MSNBC / CNN
The Boat We Are In.

The Cycle: a, b*, (A, B, C)
Martin Bashir{ :[!] a, b, c, (Syria)(A,B)
... (TBA)[?]
The Ed Show:
Politics Nation:
Hardball (Chris Matthews,)
All In (?)
Rachel Maddow: b, c,  d, e, (Syria)

Pre-Cycle.
NOW (,,,) w/
AM (...)
NewsNation

Pre-Java[!]
WTE
Mo Java
Daily Rundown
Jansing & Co
Thomas Roberts

Weekends
UP w/
Melissa Harris-Perry
Weekends w/ Alex Witt
Disrupt ?
Documentaries




*some inserted redundantly(earlier) [{]later

Every War Ends!

President Obama: Text Video.
U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy

"buying a stairway"

to progress. 
Newtown Speech ?
"but in the long run"

Apologies for the awkward segue.
I have been to La La land and Phoenix and
it is good to be home, but not back to normal.

 ***

(fn*) tba 2nd line: figures of speech
[Bold emphasis, italics de-emphasis.]

* [12-18-12:  I temporarily withdrew this post, due to concerns it contained unintended material or illusions.  I return the post without further consideration.  i.e. having confidence in the bold and NFRY the rest.  More or less so.]
[Quantum Leap ?!? **]  
** A.-B.  
*** my photo inserted last

88 Keys

Catch 44?
P. M.(post math?)
{ tan gents ! }
[woo hoo?]

11-8-12 [Follow-up of sorts.]

Total eclipse of the

gut?
FuN[?]

9-26-12
President Obama mentioned a time warp.
Clinton mentioned arithmatic.
Not to leave it on a try angle, but...
UN Speech,*** 
filed to read*.

The Cycle** was particularly good yesterday.

* more with the apology mitt-flop
** not exactly

 [***There is no violence that justifies mindless speech. The only thing to fear is understanding itself. To Romney they are not bumps in the road, but that is what they are when you aren't kicking a can down the road.]

[ SatIre of a Mockery: Simone Says (?)]

*** 9-27-12  Just to be clear, there are no quotation marks in the 1st  bracketed['s]  while the satire in the 2nd broke later.  I am putting a spin on President Obama's point about free speech verses[!]
"terror".  While Roger Simone puts a spin on "free speech" and the Romney/Ryan campaign.  Not to mention Dansing Bernstein. 

[!]= (sic) or pun on versus or verse us cycle.(OK... it evolved.)

FN(Footnotes) not (fn): from the top
FB: Turn Around Bright Eyes
(YouTube): unembedded from FB
(Bloomberg unembedded)
try: The Fed’s Best Rationale for QE3
angle: Be Smart, Not Just Tough, in the Middle East
but: did Obama stand up?(under construction)

Romney Mumbles Economy

"It's coming back."  Cincinatti
verse us
Obama turns it around...in Cleveland.

[Comments filed yesterday:  Norman Goldman  President had congress**?  Mitt Robney,
If it is possible to be wrong in two dimensions, Raw Money might be able.  At least he is wrong twice in one claim in regards to Obama and the economic turn around.  But while two wrongs don’t make a right. Two rights do make a turn around, but not two lefts.  Well it is a matter of degrees.  (‘scuse me Mitt RobbedMe*) 

Anyway, back to the two wrongs, A.) the President can’t turn the economy around, congress passes all legislation.  B.) the economy has turned around.  C.) turning it around again will be the wrong direction.  D.) There is plenty of turn left.

There is plenty of dispute about how and how much to turn.  There is even plenty of dispute as to how much it was turned.  But there is no disputing that the economy has been turned around and it is still being turned.]

As for "Talk is cheap"? ** Just ask Wisconsin and the V.A., not to mention the middle-class and home equity.  Bubble-up is more economical than trickle-down.   

* Wed. & Thurs. openings
** not frackin' really

[Of course it was mumbled(aka nuanced), it was anachronistic, dependent on looking back.]
http://www.electmitt2012.org/ Quote: "Mitt Romney is focused on implementing a set of conservative principles to reinforce the America we once knew."

Mitt might just be me, but I find it hard to find the Cincinnati speech in full text or video.
Romney Pac Charlie Brown ads running on or from Congressional Budget acts.  Choice or Referendum?  Compare or Retreat.
Martin Bashir
Lawrence O'Donnell

No Teddy[!]

BULL!



* LANDMARK SPEECH!

* Martin Bashir
unrelated?
No pun.
FIXED NEWS... meaning not here yet.
But this** is what I have been talking about.

** to be up dated (oops) HERE!

[BULLY PULPIT!!!!]

[Follow-up: Ratigan, Matthews, Sharpton]
The president talks the talk, congress must walk the walk. Propose/Dispose
MC Hammer: Middle Class Schtick is the Leverage.
Channeling Warren and Pokemon
(Boot straps anyone?).

[I rest my case. Bridge anyone?]
[Ed Schultz,(Defining moment) Rachel Maddow]

Ten Years After

9-11-2001

AMERICA UNDER ATTACK. BUT DEMOCRACY MUST BE PROTECTED.
The tragedy that has come to this nation on Sept. 11th, 2001 is nearly
unspeakable. It is an attack on our country but not on our democracy. While
the tone of previous pieces may seem flippant, it would be a form of attack
on our democracy to feel the hesitancy to criticize our government. To find
and prosecute the people who are responsible would be justice. But if
retaliation is justified in the name of a war on terrorism then we must wake
up. War is already ongoing (freedom and lives are lost daily around the
world) and we must be wary of visiting the same atrocities on others. Since
collateral damage has been justified in war (wrongly or not), retaliation
that includes hasty justice may be guilty of, if not also justifying the
same terrible deeds.

[9-13-01 REFLECTING ON A CHOICE OF WORDS]
I have read and re-read my words and have read or heard those of others and
have come to find the importance in having a perspective on the choice of
words. A response to this horrific act is of course needed, but
encouragement comes from the first steps taken to get the support of others
in the world. To act alone would cause consequences that would prolong this
process. There is hope for us if this unity that results truly allows good to prevail. But voices must not hesitate to point out where goodness is
needed in the world and it must begin at home. Expressing our feeling of
sadness and fear at these outrageous acts must be encouraged and not
translated into anger toward any groups in this or other countries that are
not the perpetrators or actual supporters of terrorism or we will feed the
spiral of hate.
(Ten Years After, Five for Fighting]



[President Obama, Kennedy Center Commemoration]

[Index of Links, 9-11-2001 excerpt, Ten Years After, Nichole Sandler(5 years before), Superman, Obama's Commemoration]

American Jobs Act

President Obama before a Joint Session of Congress.

This is an act of leadership, not ledership. Meaning that I make no pun with the American Jobs Act as a lede to the President before Congress. He took it to the people, in Trumanesque form. [*]
It may not have been what Congresswoman Maxine Waters wanted in scope. It may not have been calling for everything(more of the same) that was opposed by Republicans in the last two congresses. But it was a pitch that puts the ball in the kitchen or is it the bread basket?

9-9-11 Not even you can bind future congresses. But you can hold their feet to the kitchen. The president hit it out of the park, it is now on the people court. I had already used the Grand Slam metaphor(Eugene Robinson), but this is no competition. Pass the act or rev up the circus.

[*] 9-10-11 Lakoff agrees.

Underwhelmed?

[Updated 6-23-11 on two fronts: below and here.]
Fairly Helmed(text)

Underwhelmed* is the lede some might choose for their take on
President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan(video)

Yet tonight, we take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm’s way. We’ve ended our combat mission in Iraq, with 100,000 American troops already out of that country. And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance. These long wars will come to a responsible end.

As they do, we must learn their lessons. Already this decade of war has caused many to question the nature of America’s engagement around the world. Some would have America retreat from our responsibility as an anchor of global security, and embrace an isolation that ignores the very real threats that we face. Others would have America over-extended, confronting every evil that can be found abroad.

We must chart a more centered course. Like generations before, we must embrace America’s singular role in the course of human events. But we must be as pragmatic as we are passionate; as strategic as we are resolute. When threatened, we must respond with force -- but when that force can be targeted, we need not deploy large armies overseas. When innocents are being slaughtered and global security endangered, we don’t have to choose between standing idly by or acting on our own. Instead, we must rally international action, which we’re doing in Libya, where we do not have a single soldier on the ground, but are supporting allies in protecting the Libyan people and giving them the chance to determine their own destiny.

In all that we do, we must remember that what sets America apart is not solely our power -- it is the principles upon which our union was founded.

* Norman Goldman and Mike Malloy

[6-23-11 Selected quotes from remarks extended.]

America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.

(...)

That’s a lesson worth remembering -- that we are all a part of one American family. Though we have known disagreement and division, we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents, and a conviction that the United States of America is a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. Now, let us finish the work at hand. Let us responsibly end these wars, and reclaim the American Dream that is at the center of our story. With confidence in our cause, with faith in our fellow citizens, and with hope in our hearts, let us go about the work of extending the promise of America -- for this generation, and the next.

May God bless our troops. And may God bless the United States of America.

Bully for Obama, no Bully, no Teddy,more pulpit.

No Teddy

No Bully* Pulpit.
Disagreement and innovations.

Main Stream Perspectives:
CBS
ABC
PBS
Huffington Post
Salon
Washington Post
YouTube
Boston Globe
"Contensions?"(sic**)
More Follow Up.

[Mean-while up date*** No Rapture.]

* Mika 1 Joe 0 Are you serious, Joe?

** counter intuitive: Bully Pulpit is a good thing, like American Exceptionalism, unlike the link or the namesake.
*** and I did not see the Herman Cain link before my Teddy reference and there is no relation between my pen name LeRoy-Rogers and the therogersinsitute, nor Newt's middle name (Leroy).
[See ** "Are" yes I may be. Apologies for the multi-dimentionalism again, but in regards to Newt and Libertarianism, I think that it could be called Tea Party Nuance, and Ginrich is attempting to be the Obama of the Right(or the No Labels of the Right), while I am somewhere not between Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz.]
[Profits verses Prophets(Chris Hedges) and more.

[The square of the esoteric.

Strauss on reading In 1952 Strauss published Persecution and the Art of Writing, commonly understood to advance the argument that some philosophers write esoterically in order to avoid persecution by political or religious authorities. A few readers of Strauss suggest esoteric writing may also seek to protect politics from political philosophy -- the explosive reasoning of which might well shatter fragile opinions undergirding the political order. Stemming from his study of Maimonides and Al Farabi, and then extended to his reading of Plato (he mentions particularly the discussion of writing in the Phaedrus), Strauss proposed that an esoteric text was the proper type for philosophic learning. Rather than simply outlining the philosopher's thoughts, the esoteric text forces readers to do their own thinking and learning. As Socrates says in the Phaedrus, writing does not respond when questioned, but invites a dialogue with the reader, thereby reducing the problems of the written word. One political danger Strauss pointed to was the acceptance of dangerous ideas too quickly by students. This was perhaps also relevant in the trial of Socrates, where his relationship with Alcibiades was used against him.

Ultimately, Strauss believed that philosophers offered both an "exoteric" or salutary teaching and an "esoteric" or true teaching, which was concealed from the general reader. For maintaining this distinction, Strauss is often accused of having written esoterically himself. Moreover he also emphasized that writers often left contradictions and other excuses to encourage the more careful examination of the writing. Leo Strauss's favourite novelist was Jane Austen.[5]

This spin off is from actually reading the previous bold "and more" but is relevant to the Gingrich "Exceptionalism" and Obama practical and incremental. And Platonic Dialogue.(sic)]
[Spell Check Gingrich: left Ginrich for link & search purposes: but note Strauss to Chomsky philosophical dynamism(Wittgenstein) via esoteric Tea Party Gingrich attempt at nuance.]

Justice?

It is more about narrative than justice.

Many will agree killing bin Laden is justice, some will call it an execution. Some say President Obama did not give President Bush enough credit. Some will say that he bin Laden deserves more. I think the poor ridge is just right. And to summit up:

As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.

This is more than a mixed metaphor or mountain out of a moldy nursery tale*.

* link updated
[I have been meaning to focus on labels, updates and other project improvements. Here is a New Label**, The Golden Rule(also my photos) Also I should note my evolution from a lack of links to way too much linking. Hence the not so middle ground of this piece.]

** Now Labels label needs to be edited and updated to only New Label references. Now that is Poetic Justice or is it? It is another need to update or scroll over, to see the difference between search and labels.
[needed footnotes?]

[QED: Movement in one data point does not correlate with movement in another data point, especially when they are not in context or adjusted. Math is not a narrative, it is a process. Equations are more of a narrative but require enough data points and sufficient interpretation. There can be more jobless claims and more jobs added, which are independent of each other. OK, I have not QED'd anything but a hunch I just described and which apparently the data shows.]
[Semi-related? Calling it a gutsy call is not spiking a football. Let alone an improper linkage.]
[...not to mention right column navigations, scroll overs, see comments, labels and bold.]

Darned if you do, darned if you don't...

bring things(and people) to the table. There is a dynamics of griping in this piece(Sam Steins HuffPo), but one in particular I must note:

For one, various areas of policy disagreement within the White House remained unresolved. In particular, officials familiar with the discussions say, Obama's economic advisers warned against calling for a final balance of three dollars in spending reductions for every dollar generated in additional tax revenue, arguing the ratio was too explicit.

From his (President Obama's) Fiscal Speech:

I believe reform should protect the middle class, promote economic growth, and build on the fiscal commission’s model of reducing tax expenditures so that there’s enough savings to both lower rates and lower the deficit. And as I called for in the State of the Union, we should reform our corporate tax code as well, to make our businesses and our economy more competitive.

So it seems the realization could be made that the ratio is much more balanced, recognizing loopholes as spending not additional tax revenues. While this may seem like semantics it is actually a valid accounting of rhetoric. And in some ways it is similar to the gripe that the President as leader is either "the one" or is supposed to leak his strategy to followers. By this I refer to the complaints that he kept some in the dark, yet allowed the Republicans to go first on the fiscal plan. There are many fronts in the process called government, but it is different than partisan politics or military strategy.

[Future pacing? i.e. thanks to Thom Hartmann for reference to "previous pacing" in regards to: Why don't we call it the Republican Debt and Deficits?

But after Democrats and Republicans committed to fiscal discipline during the 1990s, we lost our way in the decade that followed. We increased spending dramatically for two wars and an expensive prescription drug program -- but we didn’t pay for any of this new spending. Instead, we made the problem worse with trillions of dollars in unpaid-for tax cuts -- tax cuts that went to every millionaire and billionaire in the country; tax cuts that will force us to borrow an average of $500 billion every year over the next decade.

To give you an idea of how much damage this caused to our nation’s checkbook, consider this: In the last decade, if we had simply found a way to pay for the tax cuts and the prescription drug benefit, our deficit would currently be at low historical levels in the coming years.

That is not all...(later referred to as "hanging chad" .]

[The above presaged the Facebook Townhall with President Obama (video).(ABC? Real Clear or Misc?)]
[Then there is bold or miss-taking taxes.]

[Italics mark - editing - and I note here additional gripe from Sam Stein:

Several members of Congress also expressed agitation with the timing...(cont.) ]

Go at it!

That will be the challenge.
Close enough to Bring 'Em On?

Read it and Weep.

President Obama's Speech(Video)
To quote* myself: I believe that this is the President I voted for and believed was the broker not brake pad for change.

[Or Scroll over]
Reuters (on using the Tax Code)
Lawrence O'Donnell
Thom Hartmann
NPR
Daily Kos
Tea Party Huffington Post Brookings Huffington Post
Grapes of Wrath?

* #not intended but paraphrased or edited
[I believe I may have understood instead, but then I recall the question: what did Jon Kyle intend? Did he not believe it or understand it was not a fact? And this was not to condescend or make lite of my lede, but it is about showing one's hand.

[In all fairness: Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity (random google) and more perspectives NTBFD*.(Not to be fully digested.)]

Friday, Arpil 15th, 2011
Bold Progressives
Thank you Thom Hartmann: Reuters TVNEWSER/CBS
"Go at it!"

Budget Brew Ha Ha

Bill Maher on Rachel Maddow
Earlier context.
And regarding the need for a new (De Calf) party for the fiercely independent, note that this is not an endorsement of a new party, only more people at the table. Norman Goldman in contrast to Harry Reid represents the problem with too much Calf in Nation or the nature of being heard-ed.

[The closest thing* to a "Bring 'em on!"
Partisan** Afterwords.]

*President Obama's Fiscal Policy Speech
** Demagogue is as demagogue doesn't know.

[I am wondering why Martin Bashir and Cenk Uygur are missing on the MSNBCTV page, but Dylan Ratigan had the latter on, and the former took Beck to the woodshed on being a Christian fraud.

[More Ratigan, Bashir. But where(4-14-11) isUygur]

Assessments: Rachel Maddow- A Victory for Math
Ed Schultz- A Day of Reckoning
Lawrence O'Donnell-

Thursday April 14, 2011
More on the Martin Bashir reaction to Beck.
More on President Obama's speech.
Joan Walsh- What it means to be a Democrat.