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SYSOP    11/11/2008 7:39:57 PM
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ker    Debreifing Bill   8/19/2009 5:51:05 PM
Bill Clintons debreifing following his dinner with Kim Ill was done by Bill Richerson.  Richerson swiched hources from Clintons to O at a very helpful time for O in the primary againsst Hill.  
Richerson is aparently holding talks with N. Korean representitives in the US soon.
 
This is all fine.  I do wonder who Richerson is breifing/reporting to. That institutional body langauge is interesting.
 
Is Bill Richerson auditioning for the State job?   With Soto on maybe his La Raza sceletons in the closet are dispelled.
 
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Wouldn't it be nice if we could get Kim Ill a reality show and a huge mansion in the Hollywood Hills.  Let him bring the kids.
 
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ker    Mis-debreifing Bill   8/20/2009 4:46:30 PM
I was wrong.  I need to correct my statement.  To Oficial debreifing of Bills unofficial contact was done by O with Biden in the room. 
 
Richersons got a day job as govonor and previous experience at the cabinet level.
 
I got over cafinated and single source.  Forgive me.
 
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ker       8/21/2009 6:00:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...  Lunitic fringe music video
 
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Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you're after
We're wise to you this time
We won't let you kill the laughter.

Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution

We can hear you coming (We can hear you coming)
No you're not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps (We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic fringe
We know you're out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light

An eye for an eye;
Well before you go under...
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?
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O noticed that his bully to pulpit ratio was going the wrong way so he called up some pastors.  Now he belives that if he is talking to both wight social justic pastors and black social justice pastors then he is being by partison.  He evan talked to a conservative talk radio host who was so concervative that he endorsed O for the oval.  What reach? 
 
(Judise said that expencive perfume could have been sold and given to the poor because he was stealing out of the purse.  Jesus repllied "you will always have the poor with you."  The Christain messsage is much more about inviting specific sick or poor people into your home to live with you than it is about building a empathic insurance industry.  The bible is to radical for most people to read it.)
 
He borowed some buzz words.  Repeated the "bugets are moral documents" bit.  And hoped it would stop the bleeding with seniors, suburban women and independents.  Much of the hotest resistance is comming from retired church attenders.  Moms who do the health planning for the family wouldn't mind a free lunch if they thought it was comming. Mostly they just want to know what will happen to their faimlys.  The air of centrism O was abble to generate is being displaced by his actions.
 
O was able to make powerful attacks against Mc.  O has had much less success in doing thing broad segments of the nation like.  That could become a formual for goverment shut down.  Expect inhanced securety as the confrence committee meets.
 
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ker       8/24/2009 6:10:27 PM
"Bugets are moral documents!"
The denotation is so true as to make the statment unesary.  The conotation is that Progressive bugets are moral and persons who oposie them are imoral.  That is not true.  Progressives accuse corporations w/ are not own by Al Gore of internalizing profits and externalizing cost to the goverment or the envirment.  They even confuse the goverment and the envirment w/ each other.  They can point to specific problems and would do well to attach specific solutions.  Narrow or focused solutions don't inhance your rep with progressives. 
 
Corporations were the enemy but they have found that the power of the corporation can be enlisted in their cause.  It is much easyer to microtarget a hand full of CEOs than to engage the minds of the voting population.  Small busnes is a enemy will big corporations can be resorces (some times).  They have a localism wing as well which lilkes small busness as long as they own them.
 
The big problem is that the unwilling ness to turn the same critical analisi against the goverment programs they want to replace private sector activety.  They rail against the profits of insurance companys because those profits became the war chest to protect the statuse quo.  First constrain the profits and then move the politics wile the enemys hands are tied.  They present the idea to the world that public sector activety is with out profit.  This is intentional selective blindness.  The moeny is in the ice box to prove that public sector works generate off book profits.  They also pay some big sallarys to the wives of important polls.  Michel O got a big raise when her husband move up to the 100 club.  Then when she resined to be first lady they didn't feel the need to replace her.  I'm not saying it was a no work job.  I'm saying it wsa a union steward job where the private sector pays the cost of a worker who really dose polotics rather than private sector work.  In exchange the private sector employer gets some favor from the party/goverment.  Informal regulatory relife, more timly payment of goverment funds, absence of labor action, you get the picture.  We will not get that "profit" moeny into the care for paitents but will see it moved toward political dividens rather than taxable ones.  Never for get that blogo shoke down a childrens hospital for campaine donations in exchange for relising goverment funds the hospital was other wise entitaled to. 
 
Goverment is going to bring efficency to the system.   ???
 
Look the the New York Stock Exchange dose any things that can and should be questioned.  They are still no where near as crocked as the Social Securety Administration.  S bills which the S.S. Admin. "sells" to wage earners are infact counterfit T-bills.  People think they are getting the same thing we sell to China Inc. but it anin't so.  The interest rate is arbitrairly lower and the terms of redemtion are well, unkown because no one has ever redeamed a S-Bill.  The fedutairy responcibility of any one selling investments in the United States requires people be put into "apropriat to the investor" investments.  S-Bills are never apropriate to anyone.  The T-Bill may not be best but it is always clearly beter to the investor than the S-Bill.  The purpuse of S.S. is not to generate wealth for people but to fund projects that congress members can name after themselves.
 
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ker       8/25/2009 5:24:35 PM
So much ax to grind and so little time.
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Strong armies and good laws.  Related concepts include, laws not deals and rule of law not rule of men.  I think that laws should be writon for postarity and not just for the curant foul up.  Talk about reactionairy goverment.  Lets try solving the problems with in the laws we had before the problem happened rather than wrighting an important new law every time we have a problem.  If the ink never dries on your laws you havent really got laws now do you.
 
Picking nit here but this is the tip of the problem that give evedence with how comfortable our leaders are with their own grandure.  The constitutional powers of the govonor of M.A. flucuate with the opinion that Ted Kennedy has of the man or his party.  American royalty in deed.  Goverment by, of and for the people who can afford publisists. 
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Wile arguing that he had lots of good reasons for reapointing Bernake besides the fact he couldn't handle another round of congresional hearing on anything let alone the stim, O said, "I have said that we can not go back to an ecconomy based on over leveraged banks, inflated profits and maxed out credit cards."  What we need is an ecconomie based on over leveraged goverment bugets, an inflated dollor and maxed out regulation of the tax base.  Re-apointing Bernake was not a violation of his "i will make no news on vacation" pledge.  It was a way to talk down debet fear with out making news by admitting debt was scairy.  We will grow out of it and taxing eletricity will help us grow. 
 
Blomberg sued and court said that just because the records make a company look uncompetitive dosn't make the records legaly privalaged (secret) even if the goverment owns the company.  Well the goverment is lending moeny to some companys with colateral no one else would touch and then buying a few other companys. 
 
Too much hot moeny chasing to little product.  Take two bail outs and call me when inflation hits 10%.  Then we will wright a brand new snazzy law that will fix it all and still not require any dicipline from anyone.  Thats what we didn't ever sence half the people in congrass have been in congress- kick the can down the road. 
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But if it's only a one day story then it dosn't count.  In some places you ask how far you need to drive to the next town and they say it's three beers.  In the belt way you say how big is $2000 billion and they say it's about two press cycals if you keep smiling.
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Blogo's book deal talks became the talk of the people he governed w/ who are still in goverment.  They passed what is frankly a bill of attainder (the uncostitutional practice of passing a law with one targeted person in mind) which give goverment power to grab moeny a former crook/ politician makes by telling the public about his crook/ politician cronies in a book.  The finacel incentive to tell all in his tell all is therefore deminished and they can bribe him to keep them out of the book with much less moeny.  Again, couldn't we settle this problem with the laws that were on the books when the problem happened. 
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FBI is feeding on the CIA's crown jewles.  No surprise there.  The DIA might even get another turn snaching CIA taskes.  State will pretend to pick the bones but Hills heart isn't really in it.  She isn't a spy.  She wants two thirds of the defence buget to go to state but not in a hurry to take the work that goes with it.
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Maybe there was some blow back from blowing off the U.K.  I'm just saying a little love might have been a good idea. 
The wold have let the bomber go anyway.  Just enjoyed it less.
 
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ker    The Fry   8/27/2009 1:46:40 AM
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He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through                                          The Fray             How to Save a Life
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And would I've stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
Pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And would I've stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And would I've stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend,
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And would I've stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend,
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And would I've stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend,
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And would I've stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life
How to save a life
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In a town that turns out self serving moral outrage the way the Hover Dam turns out eletricity, it is a wise may who takes his colleagues more siriously than he takes his own theatrics... or their direct mail. 
 
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ker       9/2/2009 1:00:41 PM
 
How many rent controled apartments dose it take to hold a milainaires ego?  Four.
 
What did Rangel think the poor people who needed those apartments were going to do?  Has he ever made statments calling for more suport for homeless people?  Has he ever suported rent control because he cared so much for the homeless?  Blassed Republicans for not caring about the homless? 
 
Rent control is an attempt by libs to give away other peoples stuff.  Look at me mommy, I made apartments for people! 
 
Arguments can be made that rent control makes people stop building or maintaining housing because of the political risk of this slighly wattered down emenet domain taking of property.  Land lords who stay in busness focuse much more time and moeny on propertys that are to lugurious to be consitered for rent control and that drives up average rents.  Which intern generates more rent protests and more votes for the city leaders who want to do something for the people being squeased by greeedy land lords.
 
The important point here is that rent control was putting resources into the hands of the congrassmen.  He had to live in his own district.  So some friends in city goverment helped him get a block of four rent controled apartments and build a stealth McMansion.  What favors they had to do for the landlord to keep this out of the New York press is a good question.  Treating this manipulation of the system as a reporting eror is ..... yet another manipulation of the system. 
 
But like any good dictator Rangel has bobytraped his kingdom so that disator will result if he is removed.  Look at the number two Dem. on way and means.
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Blue dogs gona be the first to die for O's sins.  53% is what O got at the polls and it is the inflection point for just how baddly the congessmembers get thrashed for having a presedent from their party learning the ropes.  If the aproval number is below 53 the turnover in congress is greater.  The throw the bumbs out voters who gave O the oval and Pelosi her big magority are not being converted into movement librals.  Quite to the contrarian. 
 
Hot off his North Korean mystry tour Bill Clinton is doing photo ops with Gore again and giving unity advice to the party.  Those Republlicans don't want you to serve your leader bill says to the bluedogs.  Like they didn't know.  If they can't keep O well above 53 and they can't run against their own party then they start looking for the next line on their resumays.  K street is always hiring. 
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Some day O is going to need something from the CIA.  His friends in Honduras may need help. (Or Rangels is Porto Rico.)
No if Penata and Justice can sussefuly mut and Jeff the agency Penata will be the one to make the request.  If not it will be Biden.  Biden really wants Penata to succeed.  I would feel more comfortable if I could have my lawyers present during these meetings.
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I love this talk about a "third catigory of prisoners."   People who wave the Geneva Conventions like a bloody shirt but never seam to read it.  What are the careteristics of a "lawfull combatant?"  If they can answer that question walk away because their talking point to intelegence ration is in the useless range.
 
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ker    Obama Youth Gone Wiled   9/8/2009 5:34:44 PM
All I need to know about the Como Czars I learned in kindergarden.
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National Health has become the "SAVE THE DONKEYS ASS BILL OF 2009." Come hell or high school O is going to get a bill. Old conventional wisdom: GOP wants to obstruct to win seats.  New conventional wisdom: Dems want illusion of success to avoid colapse.  Problem for them is that they still need to chose an illusion.
 
If the coverment is going to jail or fine people for not buying health insurance (which is the only way to get past the pre-existing condition loophole) then your preamioms become a tax.  Tax bills must origenate in the House.  The fig leaf O is praying for from the Senot is unconstitutional.  Never stoped anyone before.
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Hot education trend of the future.  Tell state you are home schooling and use voice over internet proticals to conect your kids with a private school in India.  Other parents will keep kids in publics for daycare and sports wile hiring telacomuting tutors for math, english and American history.  The stuff we don't do well in America.  Were still working on hand washing and self esteam.  Also, texted books are so last centuary. 
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Horowitz
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Wow, dose that O have a tin ear or what?  He haddn't noticed that public schools were a culture war tinder box.  Funny how this nation continues to surprise him.  Reed says it just the "evil" people at town halls.  Now the school boards are getting tacky.  I sure am glade that O is such a good communicator so he can smoth all this out for us.  His domestic deplomacy skilz prove so helpfull in putting out these fire that his own communication stratigy start.  He wasn't ever really going to tell kids that they had a patriotic duty to suport his party.  That's what teachers unions are for.
 
O should have done a joint presentation w/ a Republican and kept all the surounding lesson plans to a transparent minumum.  That would have been more bi-partison than any other president.  It also would have been exactly what o promised to do in the campain.  Maybe he should have sent his campain promises of in a letter to himself so he wouldn't forget.  How is he doing at nitting the red and blue states back together?
 
W had the sence to stop doing this or I should say to continue the Clinton patern of not doing this.  Clinton who argued for school uniforms in public schools to look like he was doing something didn't do this.  Didn't anyone in team O ask why? 
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Standered line in TV faimly comides is the kids calling dad stupid.  Then the laugh track.  Maybe O should have out sourced this little talk to Bill Cosby.  O says hellow and then introduces Bill who gives his own speach.  That would have had a much more powerfull postive effect. 
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When you attempt to change the communications envirment one presentation of a message is never enough.  You need many presentations of corwodenated messages.  The pre-protest version of the back to school speach was a cowardenated part of the O communication strategy.  He was flighting, that is putting a lot of messages together so they don't get lost in the clutter. 
 
Kissing Babbys.   Other things wre going on.  O wanted to set up some warm mood lighting for his address to congress.  We will run your doctor as well as we run your schools wasn't quite the intended point.  By taking it to the schools he could get another bio-pic angle on the coverage of him self, i.e. O's a better father than he had himself, he studdyed real hard and educated others,  he loves puppys and children and they are over awded by him.  Space in the media wall gets taken up with something other than a tick tock of his campain for national health.  He wants to put the past behind and begin again with out the burden of history.  At least he wants a system interupt that will allow a new message in w/o lableing it.  Flip flop, cave in, back peddle, a suprising discovery of what he REALLY belives several mounths after he though the discusion should have been over...all that stuff needed to be minimized and kids make great props.  ---Bill Cosby comes to mind again-----   I'm not saying O was using school children as retorical human sheilds.  He was using them as retorical smoke granades.  He wanted a little time out
 
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ker       9/9/2009 3:57:55 PM
Other than that how was the play misses Lincon?
 
Obama has driven a wedge down the middle of his own party because he wanted to grade the healthcare issue from Hill and then just kept yacking faster than anyone was planning for him.  So now he cuts the bottom out of his own ship to motivate his crew to attack the ship he wants them to board more agressivly.  The inside message to Dems is that they will get butured more if O fails.  The out side message is that O is tan rested and readdy.  Yes and he is also quite proud of his healthcare bill.
 
Expect O to steal some GOP ideas so he can say somthing we haven't heard before. 
 
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ker    No more mister nice guy.    9/14/2009 5:38:15 PM
Couldn't post after speach.  Was rolling on floor laughing.  That my friends is what you call real contempt.  And I'm refering to O's remarks.
 
No more mister nice guy.    http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/a...
 
The day of Tip Oneal and Ronald Regan when they could turn it off and socilize is over.  They falling all over each other to blaim the other guy for the blaim game louder and faster than he blaims them.  O attempts to be by-partison-curious have amounted to little more than blaiming the GOP for not calling him by-partison. Come to the Whitehouse and have a beer before I [    ] you.  Call it a date. Their failure to be politicly distroyed by him shows him great disrespect.
 
W's tried to reform social security.  How did the dems respound?  Did they say, "lets give people choice but limet it to American state and municapal bonds?"  No.
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Member of Congress "What good is reading the bill when it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two laywers?"  With the Patriot did it again.  Then with the stimulaus act they did it again.  Then with Obamacare they are not even pretending to mind much.  In one example a 16 Billion dollor bill would have required reading 208 pages an hour for 16 hours over night between the final committee products release and the floor vote.  Only staffers read bills and they team read them looking for gatcha lines they can hand their boss.  The people who write the bills know how to make the bill as intelegable as compialed computer code so that they only allow the gacha llines they serve their purpuse.  Policy is formed at the apelit court level!  Executive branch funtionairys who write adminisstrative rules for the implementation of the bill have more policy impact than members do in mark up/committee work.  Members real power is the ability to look over the sholders of executive funtionairys and tell them what the bills ment ... in a room alone, off the record and long after the final passage.  The power to harase executive branch fununaires under the guise of consticuancy service or the investegation of misconduct or just oversite is much more important to members than the mondain and suprisingly irelevant work of crafting law.  Policy is formed at the apelit court level! I know Soto was born in an eco femininist colective log cabin that she built with her own wise hands. 
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O sandwhiched the aniversairy of Sept. 11 between an adress to congress on national health and a speach on banking regs.  He named it a day of service and rememberance but the service to remeberance ratio wasn't something he wanted to balance.  Service didn't apear to conected much to militairy service.  Dose he mean law enforcement, fire fighters and EMT's?  He calls for a domestic service that is as well funded and respected as the DoD.  What type of service dose he have in mind?
 
The war formaly know as the GWOT continues but O apears dedicated to keeping it on the second or third page.  He can get away with fighting just as long as he apears a little bit ashamed of it.  W's crime may not have been killing but expressing pride in the sevise personel who carried out the orders.  Allowing American's pride in the members of the armed servises constitues unilateral disarmerment on the part of the Dems.  Marginalizing W as a war crimes freak was no suficent to defeat him but it was very nessary to disrupting his domestic agenda.  Allowing Americans to feel fermilar w/ the practical realitys of the world out side their domestic peace buble undercuts Dem comunication stratigy.  People out there suffer greatly and American must be compelled to belive that suffering is caused by their goverments Republican habits.  American do want to save the world.  Alowing Republicans any success distroys Dems political prospects.  O can't abandon AG because he must be stong like the republicans but ashamed of that strenght.  Expect more confusion.
 
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