Stock Market Up

...on State of Union. 

Down for the day on Emoti-Cons!*

The market did openly very slightly up, but fell only slightly down.

* A buddy told me he'd judge the SOTU by the stock market opening.  I told him they might be judging on the emoticons of the Republican obstructionist.  Since their smiles are upside down[**], be happy, but the market registered their staying the frown.

Pop Yogurt[!]

What would Thomas Jefferson Bee?*[!]

* sorry to so M-bed 'N Pun Re:Labels & books.

Uncross Rhodes GPS

Tetra* Heed Run of Progress.

[But something is fishy.]

* Not in particular order**.

** But emphasis on Norman Goldman's plea: "Am I all alone?"
There are one or two & a half others.  Which makes "Three and a Half-Pundits"!

This was noted before he put his exclamation point on it(clip not available), in regard to a reference to the Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly Debate and the "fog of capitalism" (my paraphrase), not to mention AP-Paul-ING-Susan and End of Interview.(Fee, fi(dough), foe, King) 

And just to file Hartmann and Rhodes under Heed and Run,(another 3&1/2 including me) the latter wonderfully read former Republican Senator Pressler's endorsement of President Obama for a second term.

[Endorsing spit-takes... or convenient cup.***]
***or fish bowl? C-Not.  Bush Leagues under the C.

Smirking Gun[!]

OK, I won't overuse the term smoking gun, but when I heard Senator McCain's leak theory, I knew something was up.  "The only conceivable" reason that McCain knows the "motive for such damaging and compromising leaks" is that it is something he could conceive of doing.  The Issa cover-up committee is along the same track.  Worse than Watergate, less than WMD***.

September 11th occurred because the Bush administration had contempt for the Clinton administration and refused to carry on in the case against terrorism.  Fast and Furious is still under investigation, but it seems that the political case is of the opposite extreme.  The Obama administration not changing more from the previous administration.

I have a feeling that the Issa Committee investigation is actually an attempt to interfere with the Obama administration* of justice and foreign policy.  Or retribution for Watergate, Iran Contra and Plame combined, or Republican power** as usual.
 
* Ctrl F "obstructionism"
** now that is the ticket or subpoena(Thom Hartmann)

*** 6-22-12 Pre-Post-or-us?
(I was reticent to use 9/11, especially with the smoking[!] gun lede-in. While Representative Mica is really stretching things, two things are certain. September 11th or even a dead ATF agent are nothing to smirk about, and Representative Issa hides his smirk with a snear.)  
[Related posts:  Re:investigation, Re:dribble, Re-course, Re:turn(Ctrl F "sabotage" "pate")]
[GPS for MSNBC labels?]

[!] really sic, i.e. no typo, nor disrespect for the departed intended
[A caller to the Ed Schultz show noted a similar theme.  Republicans are more about obstruction politics than finding the facts.  They must have something to hide.  Obama's success and their incompetence.  But then there followed**2 on Thom Hartmann the PE/FDR/BS [!]]

[It is on !]
[A friend asked my opinion on the wikileaks deal. Well more specifically the personalities involved.  Bottomline, I don't feel that military personel should take it on themselve to leak top secret information without considering the consequences, nor should they have been distributed without the same considerations.  Unfortunately there may not be enough law on the books to prosecute the latter although there certainly is for the former.  Who do we have to blame for the laws on the books?  Congress.  Who do we have for not enough laws on the books?  Republicans.  Well, it is not the quantity but the quality.  But the answer is the same.  Talk is cheap, but actions*2 cost.]

*2 accidental link
[Weird link of the day.]
**2 with all due respect for B.S. it was the PE crack by FDR (Privileged Enterprise)
[Not so weird link of day.]
 

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.  

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]

Budget Bandits?

Thanks to YouTube I became aware of the Budget Bandits in an ad by Ending Spending Inc.
Speaking of Strings and Leaps or Knot.

Yesterday President Obama evolved his personal position on marriage equality.
[Speaking ***^ of Flip Flop? QED! 
And I don't mean cue Ed, nor buy George or Bill-E-Club !
But D E^^ Vo ! ?]


On Monday I tied the knot of sorts.
[Not such a large leap?!] Knot! Really it is.


The above YouTube is Thom Hartmann* discussing President Obama's position with a caller.
[update of sorts][That's Rich!]
It is more than ironic that there is such a string related** ad associated with his YouTube.

* first link is segment of this link
** speaking of debt
*** originally asterisked here

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[Martin Bashir ... digs in!]

[Bingo: Republicans oppose state's rights!]

[Tic Tac Toe!]@

@speaking of game changer

5-11-12 for later ?

5-15-12 Update. 

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)

Fight On!

For New SC?

Social Contract?

Actually it was a simpler context:

Trojan Horse and Hide and Seek, see MR**PR. (Marvelous v. DC Comics)

[MR**PR The Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan plan for a MR. PResident is Marvelous! ]

[Tag you're Thommy*]

*Thom to be updated.


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

Supreme Court Jest Ice?

Where is the ice going? Well here is where it is coming from:

The New Yorker*: Rational Irrationality.

Well, not exactly: Obamacare Supreme Court Case is a Bad Joke.

Actually I will be intentionally preemptive**.

Is it some form of martial arts political calculus?

Maybe I have too much hope for Obama or too much faith in The New Yorker.

Bottom line, I have yet to read the article, but wanted to jump*** on the band wagon.(NOT!)

Not to make a federal case out of it, but I do intend to read more on this later.

* not that I have read it yet, but I like the heading.

** Jujitsu before reading.

*** case study[!] Reid sarcastic[!] Me...not read[!]

(also see "federal": not to mention Romney on Russia and Leno.)

[Seattle Times ]

[3-29-12 ALEC: Stand your Ground, Supreme Court Activism/ both sans comment.]

[Follow-up:

Seattle Excerpts, interesting hodge-podge of exchanges. If the constitution is not a living document, what is federalism? Killing two ironies in one comment?

Justice Antonin Scalia: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And do you really expect the court to do that? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we're going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?

Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler: Well ...

Times "seemingly split over ideology"/

But Roberts and Kennedy also asked enough pointed questions of the law's challengers to give the overhaul's supporters some hope. In any event, justices' questions at arguments do not always foretell their positions.

Activism: "Justices Split".

Intentionally: Read Healthcare Jujitsu, Political Jujitsu, what's the difference? The party and the people. It would seem to me that Obama is the master, even without single payer as a goal. It might be called "free market" jujitsu where that is what could be flipped by even an option. The "free market" economic fantasy is under threat of being flipped as the fraud it is, under even the offer of competition. Maybe there is the jest ice.

Tangent of the day.^

[See original lede: Bingo on Faith, in paragraph two. Almost Bingo cubed !^^]

^ now that is an irony

^^ see bold "two" link re:cubed, but apologies for last four links.^^^

^^^ or penta coastal or cost us [!]

[Fixing News: as opposed to breaking, I must update the Fixing . But what kind of market is it when if you don't participate you die? Ask Raw Money. On the other hand, he is correct: "We can't play the game like that." Let alone are banking and insurance really commerce? I they aren't, maybe they aren't people, maybe they are Leviathan? i.e. governments bailiwick or not!][Ed on Hannity: the journalist calling the journalist read, or the con calling the convict con(pot meet kettle/camel meet domino) ]

[3-30-12 Justices Meet...

Book Review De...viewed... not to put a spin or pun on it. But I will depun a bit on the self-fulfilling profits. ]

Breitbart Lives!

Not exactly the Starting Point, but Soledad O'Brien "clashes" with Big Journalism** Editor-in-Chief over "critical race theory" and a with-held video.

It almost seems that CNN* is a wannabe FOX or MSNBC.

It is more than swift iron knee that FOX has any concern for material being with-held.

* not to single out or be overly critical of CNN or Soledad O'Brien, but they do seem to be competing for "fair and balanced" between the other two "news" networks. FOX is the veritable "you started it" network. The media was too liberal so they had to have a "fair and balanced" take on their reality. Making room for MSNBC as a counter force. CNN has the real challenge trying not to be either, but still news or journalism in a market environment.

**[aka Raw Money Dot Com or Culture War in context and con text !]

[More perspective or not ? OOPS!]

[It's Alive !]

[in balance here is more]

[3-9-12 Tocqueville lives?*** And so does Calvin and Hobbes?

*** promo(not found) for "Up" balances de Tocqueville's intent.

[BTW: if corporations are people, should they also have...reproductive rights? Please note that I self-edited the last(see cartoon) health reference. (i.e. founding mother of all probes or ultra-sounds?)]

[3-14-12: The Ed Show, The Last Word. Who needs Spin? ]

A Shot in the Arm?

A collegue recently commented on the difficulty or the desire to be objective.  This nails perspectivism on the head, or is it the cross?  From neo-perspectivism through neo-nuanced and neo-platonic we do have a dynamic*** of global balance.  More sorting later*.    Thus spoke Niche?

* 1-9-12  correction (not two Chinas: two perspectives.)
BTW:  Thus spoke Adam Smith.
D'Ribble[!] Which came first the crossroad or the chicken?**
Henwood/More?  More's the Pity?

[On the other arm, a nemesis may have stubbed a tow(sic) on the plank the nail sticks out of.]

[Speaking of Ice, Thom Hartmann is in Iceland and provides some of the neo-perspectivism.]

** 1-10-12 link added (plural)
*** also maybe plural(see Hartmann/neo-relativism?) dynamics?
[edit notes: Ctrl F "the cart"]
[Also Ctrl F "Descartes" and the four horsemen?]

[Note: I have been lax in my boldness of links as an aid to navigation or sense of the thread.  In that regard I finally bolded two.< now 3(!) >  Also my asterisks and [brackets] are time relative or sensitive. i.e. to flow of the read. Now I will also note the relative flow of neo-platonic, neo-perspectivism, neo-liberal, neo-con, neo-nuanced and neo-relativism, not to end with six, name names or Ctrl F.  BTW:  Excuse me if I don't go to the trouble of flip-flopping the tetrahedron, that is the point.(Ctrl F "the people" and "the constitution".)]
[Speaking of a4 or timing, my 4a brought me another F, if not CF.(Note grammar, numbers, shapes, timing, etc.) F is TBA. Not to mention ? Nor Kidding. In closing (?)(!) Or too close to the 4close or Bane?]
[Third Bane's a charm? i.e. convention, congress, cain ? ]
[Speaking of Bane and Try Angles or Flip Romney and flopping it.
BTW: Under the Flip link there is an accounting or statistical trick that is not unknown to the debate.  I won't play upon it, but it involves the "average tax cut" versus "the middle-income American."  It is mathematical hyperbole as well as reasonable, where reality is even more confusing.  It is more accurate to say that the richest are paying a lesser per cent of their gross (actual tax rate) than any other income category after the  standard deductions and other taxes are accounted for.]

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I Ron Knee Chef

Ctrl F Kitchen

Obama Takes it to the Kitchen.
OK, Lawrence O'Donnell is not there yet.[*]
True Man Label: Bring it On.

* 1-5-11 Lawrence O'Donnell: McCain Courage, Mormon Cult(ure) and perfect family. (Mitt Romney)
Recess appointment is perfect politics.  Make our** day. (not to get Harry) i.e. take it to court or the people
Is Obama the 75% man?  Mitt may be politically perfect, or the least of how many evils?
Trump wanted some enthusiasm, but who am I to be enthused by the choice of an even weaker candidate to face Obama?  I hope the Republicans give us their best.  It is a process that just might do that.  Unfortunately their best for some Republicans, Libertarians, and farther wrongs would be worse for the country. A flip-flopping un-nuanced Romney is their best shot.  Someone more extreme*** would be better for the race and the country by allowing Obama to carry the middle left.

** dirty Truman and his spatula
[Later The Daily Caller and Neo-Nuanced R's. ]
*** link added (**also & Neo)
[Neo-Bush, Frank/Dodd and Obamanomics.]
[Rachel Maddow, Star Chamber]
[Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Lawrence O'Donnell]

1-6-11 Paul Harvey, The Rest of the Story. "not really".
Jobs-check, Cuts-check, debt next, but that means revenue also. As for certainty?
Note: use of punctuation, (sic)/pun, "air quotes" or lack of... c-BTW/irony.
(Ctrl F: "best" link inserted above)
[Rachel Maddow follow up or vise verse us ? Steele and Obama!]
[Santorum: Civil ad cert'em, a lesson in logic and taking the 9th.]
[Lawrence O'Donnell follow-up and tetra heed run ! (c-1-5 "courage":It was noted that it would be a lack of courage for McCain not to endorse a Republican candidate at this late date.  So he endorses after the first delegates have been selected?  Typical fear of fear monger.)]
BTW:  China Or Germany? Which Economy Stupid? This proves you can learn from others, but it doesn't say what.

Awkward Breaking(BTW/Less Embedded)News(Ein, Ein, Ayn?)
i.e. next post/segue!
Speaking of Newt Eyed Peas, what he said to the NAACP.
Just demand jobs instead of food stamps?  Not to be snarky.

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