Jumping the Shark?

FOX so you don't have to...
Newshounds.us
Comic con:
so you* might have to.


Not to dock you mock ...** but Obama will be speaking on Education today.
Not that it was where I was going, but I did google*** the lede.

* put your hand in the hand
** not to skirt the tangent
*** see 2nd "have to" maybe.

GPS of sorts, (not to cross the road but Alex Wagner NOW(p.f. ) mentions the Sissy Fee 'n Task.)
scroll up 'n over, above the art:
Daily Kos, Medicare(so you don't) paraphrase.
youtube, Put your hand...
Robot 6 (art)
Robot 6 (heading)
Newshounds: Akin Redemption
Rationalwiki: FOX

[later: heading NFRY]
[AM: congressional under water]

Footnote:  the Hinge Pin(Not!)...to pun but to point out that it is about having it your way and if the beef (Ctrl F) is on the table, and if the Republicans have been at the table or under the table.
Tip a canoe or K-dense you? 
Mitt 'n Raw Money and Lyin' too.

(p.f.) [post footnote: panel pledge plan pols parsing or seg way ... to this AM?(or off target?) not including News Nation or more on Re-Cycle nor to pun nor pre-empt?]
MBakin to Anti(p.p.f) -Thetical.]
(p.p.f.: Martin Bashir "politics ain't bean ball" ) Martin Bingo!

[8-22-12: Speaking of* cultural metaphors.(Rachel Maddow) ]
R,R,R, or ouch, ouch, ouch.**




*b.s."privitization" Ctrl F order lost mo
** what is truly remarkable about this cartoon( or as Romney would say: Marvelous) is that it just arrived by email with link for Pete sake.

9-4-12 No dis. IsIs?  For rob sake?



Protest Mitt-Flop Conference!

The Iron Knee of Budget Bandits!*

*rates Charts label
[Any Democratic representation should be touting the insanity of austerity**, the cuts that have been made, the revenue that has been lost and the investments in infrastructure that have not been made.  Not to mention the Mitt-Flop of the USPS in contrast to lost pensions nationwide.]

** If I don't hear that it won't be because of the Tea-Party media.

Getting past the lede: (see *rates)

5-16-12 update / tweet 

Martin Bashir (AM) (Bain or ... the alternative ?)

Thom Hartmann, Bernie Sanders
The View Obama "states Right" congress drones on.
Rachel*** Major General Predecessor Maddow.
The Last Word...and Hoagies?

***5-17-12 A battle of caricatures.
[Better Triangulate Than Never]
[Mitt the Zipper, Twighlight Drawers:  Vulture capitalism gives a bad name to vultures.  Mitt gives a bad name to Forks.]
5-18-12
[Note: image (& sarcasm) related to *rates, lede & Getting]
[Footnote]

Update: Fight On!

Fight On!
Pun on Thom!

Meanwhile, Updates are not logged in:
Corporate Profiling?
Is it the Lorenz Lens?

4-11-12 SCOTUS update.

Develop(ed) image to include:

Physics, Psychology, Philosophy, and with Politics at the center, or top, depending on how***you spin it.

Preemptive Veep? MoJo. (Ouch) No I don't think that the host of Morning Joe may be a Republican Veep Candidate, but it might be a good suggestion. What I mean by MoJo is that they may pick a Joe Biden like* candidate. Of course that might be too broad a generalization, I mean someone with legislative experience, of which Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, or Newt Gingrich might fit, but I mean an other-than-Romney type. But who am I to endorse** a Republican?

* not that I believe in ideological contrast.

** with a lemon twist

*** Righteous Tangent [!]

P.S. (Pre-Selection: Romney/Ryan 2012)

Strike the Right...

Balance[!] <-[Meet the Press]*
Rough Notes:*

Meet the Press (w/) Gingrich /Cantor***,

Rush and Pills.

The Economy not contraception.

It is about religious freedom.**

Energy Policy.

"The Catholic Church is about charity and philanthopy for everybody." NOT!

There is an exception to the rule for those "of the faith". But not if they are dealing with everybody, or the Catholic Church will be violating "religious freedom".

Access is not the ability to receive. The argument (is that) insurance companies must not descriminate. Religious institutions have their exemptions.

SEGUE

Then Wasserman-Schultz ^ and then the panel.^^

"...re-framing the debate on (the) Democrat(s)ic terms"

* "SEGUE" added, brackets being removed, and (^'s) aside, adding links.

[i.e. Rough Notes are basically "as is".]

** original single asterisks unknown reference

[In search of links, "Footnotes". M-H Perry: ]

*** correction (also links being added "with difficulty" / "red lines"?

SEGUE 2.0

[It was with specific intent that I delayed a reading of "diplomacy" here.(to reread Kroenig in Foreign Affairs). It was not necessarily necessary. But having now read the Chomsky, I agree.]

[This seems a three pronged attack on the Economy by the Republicans. Prevent the President from succeeding economically, diplomatically and energy wise. Opposing Jobs measures other than their own which have been used to compromise Progressive successes(i.e what might work better), war monger[*] on Iran and other efforts in the Mid-East, dove-tail (Ironic Albatross/pun) into higher gas prices to ensure regime change at home. Politically, do we want to return to where we were going 4 years ago? That is what a change of course would bring. Where is the pun you might ask? C-gull able. Hmmm, I just may have struck gold in this here heading.]

[*] 3-5-12 or "loose talk"

Political Calculus and the Political 4 Cast

Rachel Maddow presents an interesting perspective, which I stumbled* on mid-comment. I will call it the His-Story-Ann who stole X-Mass.

Well, not exactly. But it does have to do with political calculus and the 4 horseman of the 1%. AKA: Raw Money*** Class

[Where there is smoke** there is fire. Where there is friction, there becomes light. Three ends against the American middle, one for all against what's left.


* actually I walked into the room with MSNBC on.

[and by George]

**(Raw Money link added) not exactly

*** [3-19-13 update, Raw Money link:  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46550300
smoke: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46550359 ]

Saint Or Um Alert!

This is nothing to make light of[!]

Except for the (sic) con text[!]

[!] = irony mark

[Saint or um... calm pend e um]

[Special thanks to David Bender and his callers.]

*** follow-up (later)

Rick Santorum and the Lost Ark*

or Temple [!]
(Republicans 2012)

H.Q.
The "irony mark" [!] is not symbolic of anything but a link to the label, while the H.Q. locates a link to the debates.

The term "culture war" has been batted around for longer than I thought. The term itself almost deserves some resistence, but avoidance of its use would not change the battle, or would it?

* original heading: ... and the Lost Skull.

"It's my turn"[!]

...is what came to mind as I saw Romney frame the race as a decision between the three winners of the last three contests. That's what Ron Paul(8:45) should say. Or maybe Herman Cain or Stephen Colbert should say it**. I am in the process of watching last night's debate on CNN and Rick Santorum (9:10)kicked off the debate with a thread that crosses another thought I had during the introductions, "We are a country of laws".* Actually Ron Paul had already started a few threads in his introduction, we are not nation builders. Romney(15:58) stands up to a Gingrich charge or rather a question on rhetoric and deals with it in legal terms. My original thought had to do with the irony of the conservative nature, but Gingrich is almost a false flag of rhetoric.

* quoting Santorum, not my thought or thread which I may have lost, but laws are the thread of building our nation

BTW- Not necessarily the missing thought: but in regards to Romney's financial reporting, does it bode well for his credit as a business leader, let alone maker of laws? I mean the mis-reporting, and his math regarding taxes and charitable contributions adding up at times to 40 to 45%?

[related irony (slash) update: what I thought was a churned media book event, may turn out to be good for the debate. What can we learn from Arizona? Will we take her up on it? Will the NAACP take Newt up on his charge? Just how do we demand paychecks*** over food stamps? Is it as easy as rhetoric?]

[1-28-12 In defense of PolitiFact... c4*]

[** 1-28-12 link added, Keep Paul Alive! (Courtesy of Buddy Roemer via Bill Maher.)

*** link added]

[c4* I have used as many asterisks as I intend but I would like to connect two pieces(or 3) which relate to the PolitiFact wordplay. Facts are facts and economics and politics everything else. (i.e. context and con text.) But more specifically The Economist has a perspective.]

Pre-South Carolina

Another debate, and the state of victim-hood.

[Update 1-23-12: Cain beats out Perry, Huntsman, Bachmann for fifth. ]

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Format Change

Just as I was about to rearrange my blog a format change has been triggered. As you might note, the link to the title or lede will get you there*, as well as Home under PAGES.

Item 1 as originally intended

Item 2 as previously top of posts and other sources

BLOG ARCHIVE is the most expedient navigation section.

But note E(blogger) box(magnifying glass) < search this blog > box in top left corner, as well as Labels below.

* at this point the default lede link is itself,

if viewed from Home PAGES (anomaly this post)

(image, charts, cartoons and photos to follow)

[Not to mention try angles.]

At this time I would like to archive two Republican Debates to be viewed later.

Meet the Press Video 1-8-12 (factc checks)

And FoxNews. 1-16-12

At some point I may move this page, but for now this will suffice.

There will also be a quibble about whether "Free Enterprise" is on trial, or whether it is Science Friction.**

** see George Will.

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To Be Arranged

(Re-modeling) Right Column:*
postings and other sources**
Navigation 1st use
Navigation II 1st use
Navigation 3.0 1st use
See those labels below, as they may evolve.
Labels 1st use

IMAGE INSERTED (see bottom line)

[Post-image insert, note ledes under leeds must be edited.
i.e. typo sometimes let go, sometimes intended, but who knows, or vise verse us[!]]


For the time being I will leave item 2 "as is."
But to note ledes:
Primary Boogeyman
Pay Dirt / Tax Mud
Calm Pend E Um
Table of Contents
Churned Media
Navigation 3.0
Making New Rounds
Right To Life
Leaking Intelligence
Odyssey Dawn
There was nothing...
Think Blue
I Told You So
The Tetrahedron
The one thing?
Segue/Sabbatical
2-20-11 Under Construction
The Maze of Mace
The Answering Machine
Bridging the English Channel
Note: this is the content at the link Navigation II(see label) as of 1-17-12

*this will be item 1
** see comment (1 below) regarding template upgrade
[template upgrade has evolved my need for change]

IT MAY HAVE NOW BECOME UNNECESSARY FOR ME TO INSERT PREVIOUS POST.***
THE BLOG ARCHIVE IS NOW WHERE I WAS GOING TO LOCATE ITEMS 1, 2 etc.
[This condition may evolve as I play with formats/templates.]
Labels label added.

*** apologies for anachronistic asterisks (No TrippleA [I. e!])
NFRY = not fully read yet: AKA not necessarily to be read soon.
Also not necessarily a valuable label, as it applies so frequently.
Today's Alex Wagner and Andrea Mitchell, especially the latter with Chris Matthews review a lot of the haggling of the Republican Race(slash debate), context and hyperbole.(see 1-17-12 scroll down here) Speaking of LBO[!] See AM and Leveraged Buy Outs and links lost(I thought I had embedded it somewhere today).(not to mention up tight[a,b,c] or out of sight asides.)(see lost here and found there, under fanciful economics, but not nfry.)[Meet the Press/FOXnews]
[Not pun/link TrippleA a D'Ribble: A ribble is a ribbing and a riddle. Not always labeled. First uses: Ribble, further parsing of first uses may be problematic. But here is a shot at D'Ribble and G'Ribble. A D'Ribble is a De-Ribble with few permutations, while a Grand Ribble may be close to an Obama Ribble which was probably an accident.]
[Not to go on and on, but related to the pre-bracketed regarding NFRY and AM(slash)race "the nation"...]
[Speaking of anachronisms (See Image/inserts)]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

For the first time his memorial will be open on his day.
Today I am refraining from ledership or word play.
But nature or nurture, it is also a snow day.
Not to rhyme or reason*, but not a bad segue.

[Word play & links* are more Google than nature or nurture.]

* i.e. results** are more Google than intent
** links are NFRY***


[Now with Alex Wagner or earlier.]
[Andrea Mitchell documents]

*** 1-17-12 see Navigation/Labels
(NFRY to be explained.)
[NOTE: To Be Arranged. i.e. next post
At the present time the BLOG ARCHIVE is the right column mentioned there.
I am having format/template issues, see Under Construction.(labels and scroll over or down)
Older Posts is a new feature.(1st uses noted in preceding links)]
I have been lax in following the Republican debates, not that they were worth anything till recently. It may now be different with the caucus and primaries begun. Ron Paul may have fanciful economics but the golden rule is key to our differences.]
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Freedom is not a tool.

Not that it is not a force.
Nor is it a farce.
But here is the source:

Freedom is not a tool*.
What is economic freedom?**

* "but an end that doesn't justify economics."
** what is "clear and unapologetic"
*** C-rhetoric


[C-schtick ] ***


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Primary Boogeyman

Rule to the Exception.
Freedom / Hardball
Mitt Romney wins, Paul 2nd, Huntsman 3rd.
Gingrich and South Carolina next.
Huntsman ticket to ride or flavor of moment?

Yeah that's the ticket, but here is even more.

There is the old adage "divide and conquer",
but then there is the exception that proves the rule.
If Republican political calculus is anything, it is attack strength.
Economic Freedom is the key.
What it means, is the meme.
Absolutism may be the red flag of the Teddy Bull,
but the cape* of the progressive.

*Ctrl F "Nietzsche"

[Romney indeed made history as the first non-incumbent Republican to win both Iowa and New Hampshire, but given recent history, Fukuyama and the Neo-cons, it seems to fit the Primary Boogeyman frame, not to mention unprecedented Bush the Uniter.]

[1-11-12 CBS Christie Does Cynical Well, "Jersey-Style" **
CBS Poll Romney beats Obama,
Michelle Beats Anger.]
[My original intent here yesterday, was a Primary Colors reference, and a pun on Exception to Rule, not The Rule, but don't step on my blue suede shoes. (Reference post-**)]

[** I mean the Governor of New Jersey does "lame" well, if as Romney's "hit man" he is accusing Obama of not doing anger well.  Is that Neo-Boogeyman?  A flip-flop of the Doom and Gloom, and more of the Fear and Smear.  Governor Christie is the Sarah Palin with Lip Schtick.  Ouch, that was not to imply that he is a VP choice, but given the frame maybe.  When I use Hyperlink, I use Hyperlink. ]

[4a continued:  Freedom is not a tool***, but an end that doesn't justify economics.  This is my riff off of only the 1st paragraph of The Economist, on Economic blogs and "A less dismal debate." After reading it more fully(see ***) a funny thing happened on the way to the for 'em.  Actually it only hinges on the "tool" concept and the nature of "innovation" and the nature of economic debates.  Not that I have more than glanced at the debate example, but it also hinges on the nature of people as well as material or ideological forms.]
*** again note anacronism of 4m (see asterisks and bracketeds) as I evolved the post comma segment.[being in magazine 4m another one of the 4a.] (Note technical difficulties, uncertain if any threads or hyperlinks are lost, but I close in the middle of reading Marginal Revolutionaries in hard copy.)]


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In the Beginning

is Rhetoric*.
Paraphrased:  Everything begins with rhetoric.
i.e. there were many nice Iowa speeches
It seems very parallel to "all religions begin as cults."
Also very Platonic in relation to form.
In terms of the idea and the ideal,
not necessarily in kind.

Not to run with caricatures, but what is that look on Romney's face?
A hard to be humble when I'm lying look?  Or a devil may care but I don't look?  Or is that his do, or due?***


* I wish I could remember who said something close yesterday. Either a candidate or a commentator.**
BTW:  ledeRship is often provocative [sic/pun]
Bring it On! The Table[!]  
Footnote: [!] / Irony.

[** who else is there?]
[Related later comments Thom Hartmann Show.
Rough notes on Romney/Bachmann: He fears us being European.  She touts China as example.
Sanders on Colbert, Citizens United.]
*** NPR & NYTimes ( retrack, field narrowed, what it means, Republican Strategist, Foreign Affairs, Romney, Obama v. Congress. Bachmann out, Dionne/Continetti, End Run Recess Appt., good riddance)

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Wrong Track Romney

Mixed Metaphor Mangler Mitt *: Debt Picture 101

The Big Dig or Jig [?]

The Track? (not exactly ... [!])

* Facebook comment:  
     See Clip, Romney: "I'm here to collect." That sounds like an entitlement that is on the wrong track. The economy has turned around**, and that is not to say that it has been Obama's economy. How can Republicans complain about the budget operating on continuing resolutions while giving Obama the credit for the economy.
     Speaking of tracks, the government can not be operated like a business. Where is the profit? Not to mention the cost of some of the outrageous expectations that previous administrations have burdened the future with in the unfunded mandates, Terror/Afghan/Iraq war, and Bush tax cuts.

[who cares !  Some do. . . ]***

** misc. economic metrics

*** could not locate The Place for Politics that had a chart outlining what it takes in the primaries and caucuses for a Republican to win, not necessarily what determines who the nominee will actually be.  

[Facebook tangent.]

[Post Iowa Caucus it is a battle between Romney and Santorum @25%, with Ron Paul 21%, Newt Gingrich 13%, and Perry with 10%, not to mention Bachman 5%, and Huntsman 1%.  Note that Ron Paul gave a spirited "we are all Austrian", on to New Hampshire speech, while Newt had his "ticket punched".]

> charts <
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Who are you going to call?

Ghost Busters!
Actually these are not the most current** or accurate links. I believe it was Halloween when the question arose. Just who are these guys trying to be? Or not to be [!] Nor Hamlet, nie* 2016.
Actually, that is one point. For Republicans it is all about 2016. Not that what happens in 2011 stays in 2011[!] But the question I beg, is who are the flavors of the month trying be? Romney is the supposed shoe in. Cain and Perry seem to be going for broke***.

* mystery googleor just(sic?) typo?
** GOP CNBC debate
*** I Ron Knee Chef [!]
[*] no there is no [bracketed asterisk] above
[the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind, not to mention what Perry forgot.]
[I mean, is it really believable that Perry could not remember the Department of Energy? After Education and Commerce(note update)]
[Actually I should remember that making light of some, may be giving them too much cred it. (speaking of credit)]

Apples and Oranges?

National Hyperbole?
Herman Cain is trying to explain his 9-9-9 or Sim City tax code, while Perry(or Romney) is trying to make the point that people don't want another tax, without pointing out the regressive nature of it. It really is apples and oranges, both of which will impact the 99% more than the 1%.
(tough segue)
(all+politics.)
[Cherry Picking the L word?]
[Local? Laffer? the Curve? Liberal?]

[My original intent was to note the rhetoric* in the hyperbole link, and get to my compromise-D point via "apples and oranges". i.e. who am I to recommend a Republican candidate? But suggesting that it go all the way, to the convention. Which itself is un-conventional, but do I have the facts to back that up? However...after last nights debate and a Rovian theory I have been scrolling over in my mind, could it be? Romney/Perry 2012?** In my opinion the best thing for the country is a more moderate Republican that will still be too right, that would allow Obama to hold the 99'ers. But that is not the way Republicans work, and it is even difficult sometimes for democracy to work. It is fine to attack an opponents strengths in a game or a battle and that works in politics, but that is not what works in governing.]
[Lions, and Tigers and Bears(please excuse the Wizard of OWS* analogy) is an apples and oranges and cherry picking procedure. For Republicans it is Tea or Koch and Rove, for democracy it is apples and oranges and cherry pitting. Pitting is a good thing, with apologies to Martha Stewart, not to mention George Washington, with his supposed hatchet.]

* not to disassemble in either sense, it is a great not so calm-pendium. Note that I did say "tough segue". And CAUTION please note that I do not always review the complete links that I insert, in particular the code of Rachel Maddow. And I cannot be responsible for links expiring or changing.

** Note that a more "realistic" combo(pardon the pun) may be Romney/Cain. And no pardon for the quotation marks, but the ticket would be more debate worthy. [OK, I pun on the pardon, but not the debate, with CAUTION.]

Karl Rove vs. WA Hyperbole

Toll Keen anyone?

Ambassador Joe Wilson attended a Reject Rove Rally across from the Bellevue Hilton this evening. I will have some of his words later. I held a sign that read Unholy Trinity: Rob McKenna, Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers. For now Joel Connelley's words are enough.

Note: Ledership(journalist pun for headlines)
No apologies to the hyperbole. We don't mean to demonize, but we just can't forget.
Namely, Karl Rove brought*us George W. Bush.

*I use "brought" loosely and no Koch Cain. Note hyperbole.

The Big Dig

Ron Paul not so much.
Mitt Romney not so much.
Newt Gingrich, deeper.

Re-Group?

NOW, was that what I was talking about? Just teasing. Or "tough surrogate"?

Not having reviewed each of the links, nevertheless here are hints to my G'Ribble.
Under "Mitt Romney" there was a hint that the debate was "on a topic that he should dominate: the economy". Hence the "ledership" of The Big Dig? Investment in infrastructure anyone?

[Then there is the Laffer Curve of Regulation Job Growth. Which is my twist on not just the misuse of the curve, but the avoidance of* regulation. Regulation could be increasing jobs, if they were not avoiding the regulations.]

*the real laugher is in the "willing to report" and the needless "math genious".

[Coffee Party / Organizing Wall Street: De Calf anyone?]