Estrangement and non-partisanship

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 10:10 PM PDT

2005/05/21 · 22:10

[revision note: Well, on second thought, this bore revision. To explain the comments, in any: It was rougher, ago. The 300-min-character limit of Scoop is also, sometimes, rather annoying.]

Two words, there.

Repeated:

Estrangement.

Non-partisanship.

word word word word word word tired of simply volunteering information word word word word word word last word in phrase.

Kuwait, GW 1 ... Iraq, GW 2 ... & what?

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 9:55 PM PDT

2005/05/21 · 21:55

I was reading through the transcript of an interview (respectfully) with the US four-star general (ret) Joseph P. Hoar, when I noticed this thing of mention:

I think there was a basic flaw in the way we did business in Desert Storm, Desert Shield. I never once, in all the conversations that took place between August and February, heard a discussion about war termination. What were the terms of ending the war? What kind of requirements were we going to impose on the Iraqis after we had thrown them out of Kuwait? Because you remember, the military mission was beautifully defined: Liberate Kuwait. That doesn't give you either peace or stability; it just gives you a liberated Kuwait. And I guess I'm as guilty as everybody else. I might have raised my hand in a meeting and said, "What are we going to do after we throw them out?" I never heard anybody talk about this.

Now, doesn't that sound familiar?

Our Pentagon is learning how much?

The full interview is there.

In the text/more: Ref to the documentary that Frontline made the interview about. Read More

"Bridging the Digital Divide"

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 4:37 AM PDT

2005/05/21 · 04:37

Well, there's a whole lot of information that's a matter of software, and a whole lot of software that's a matter of information. Not all of it is bite-sized. Some of it is great for keeping things of information and things of documentation managed.

Ubuntu Linux is a non-commercial, wholly free/open source Linux distribution, which looks like it should be pretty easy to get going with, for a regular desktop setup.

I've used the Debian that it's based on. I trust it like anything.

I'm not ready to run tech-support about Ubuntu. So, I've been wary of mentioning it, here. It's there, though. They also have support forums, there.

Linux is a pretty cooperative sort of thing, generally. It's also immensely useful.

In the text/more: Some related reference things. Read More

Formal record on Iraq and "WMD"

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 12:46 AM PDT

2005/05/21 · 00:46

Well, firstly, this is a work made for juxtaposition.

Says a body of the righty-spun, in real living color, of a kind

WMD:The Murderous Reign of Saddam Hussein is the history/story of the Butcher of Baghdad that Mainstream Media does not show. Why is the blood of Americans worth Iraqi lives? Victor Davis Hanson at his best.

They are still confused. Hussein was not a good-guy, I hear, but where were those WMD, hm?

Now, says the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, regarding their WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications

The report distills a massive amount of data into side-by-side comparisons of pre-war intelligence, the official presentation of that intelligence, and what is now known about Iraq's programs.

I trust the Carnegie group — though I'll admit that I haven't read their report, as yet.

I thought that this bore juxtaposition and reference — and so, here it was. Read More

On "Right Character"

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 12:41 AM PDT

2005/05/21 · 00:41

The Characteristically Aggressive Spectatorship of the Right

Well, no, that's not how they call it.

They call it Right-Wing Stuff Conservative Republican T-Shirts

It's bunk, on any table.

I thought I'd just put it up, to show what that other side of the fence is like, in their own <strike>words</strike> pikshures

and this, would anyone be intimidated with? and/or "baited" by?
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Adv, Rel: Writing, Formal and Evocative

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 8:27 PM PDT

2005/05/20 · 20:27

Introductory Expressions

There are issues of concern, which have been apparent, for a while. Not everyone has spoken up, immediately, about such, or taken action, about such — myself included.

There are matters, newly becoming apparent, newly realized as compelling, and newly becoming obvious as being actionable.

Now, in order to present action, about a thing, one may need to employ a certain manner of normative discourse — enough that people, in any part, would be able to understand the issues of concern, and to understand oneself, about the matters.

To the Point

If one would communicate, such that the communication would be made as text — whether transported, then, over the internet or as printed writing — it may be of some help, to ever read upon some works, about formal, non fictional, and not expressedly poetic writing.

Here are two significant handbooks, also references, for such, which I know of:

The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing
The KCI Reader-Based Writing Style Guide

In the text/more: Some commentary, about emotive, evocative writing, and then more discussion. Read More

So, I heard of IRI - republican, international

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 8:28 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 08:28

This hit my wires, today: International Republican Institute

Senator McCain is the chariman of their board of directors

There are two Reprsentatives (Jim Kolbe and David Drier) and two Senators (John McCain and Chuck Hagel) on their board of directors, all four of whom are US party Republican. Other members of their board, I won't look for records on.

Funny, it is expressed on their front page that they are a non-partisan body.

I hadn't heard of them; I'm not sure if you had.

(I am beyond my range of interpretation, here.)

US, Bush Team, Bolton, nee UN

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 2:01 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 02:01

Well, this didn't bear letting-slip, I think, even if it would be thought "old hat", by now:

Excerpt from H.R.260
Thanking John R. Bolton, President George W. Bush's nominee [...], slandering the UN.

Thanking John R. Bolton , President George W. Bush's nominee to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, for his long-standing history of confronting corruption at the United Nations and urging him to continue his hard work and dedication to the implementation of measures that will restore credibility of this international organization.
Whereas the United States is the host country and the largest financial contributor to the United Nations;
Whereas there has been widespread mismanagement by the United Nations of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program and the former Saddam Hussein regime manipulated the program for billions of dollars

The entire text of it is available, from the LoC.

Additionally: NY Times: Democrats: Committee was misled by Bolton Read More

Snapshot of the UN Foundation's Homepage

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 1:47 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 01:47

I noticed the homepage of the United Nations Foundation, today. I noticed how pretty it is, today, in particular.

I won't try to represent it, here, save for some short reference, of the three major items on their page, today:

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Sure, it's not any of: Stifling Bolton's proposed (!) nomination; Reviewing the World Bank; Preventing that the Bush team would be allowed to stifle NPR, in more; Pointing out that even General Electric disagrees with Bush's views on climate; Asking a slim majority of the entire US, "Now why did you vote for him, again?"; but it's something — something multi-part, even.

? : Internet Broadcasting Sysetms, Inc

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 · 2:15 AM PDT

2005/05/17 · 02:15

Well, this isn't a glaring item. [update: actually, this could be pretty weak, unless you want to visit sites for about 65 individual television broadcasters. IBS just provides "web-presence", apparently]

If you've wondered, also, of how commercial television broadcasters are making any use of the web, then it looks like IBS might be pertinent.

From a press release that marks them in with CNN, a general excerpt:

IBS is the first and largest network of local Web Channels-Web sites that combine "must-know" local news and information of major TV stations with a broad range of Web services, backed by extensive promotion from the stations. IBS has launched or will shortly debut local channels across a total of 53 markets, including 31 of the top 50 U.S. cities, in partnership with Hearst-Argyle Television (NYSE: HTV); Post-Newsweek Stations, a division of The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO); McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Group, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP); Capitol Broadcasting Co.; and across Canada with the CanWest Global (NYSE: CWG) network.

More: Turner Broadcasting is owned by AOL Time Warner. Nyesh. Read More

Bush team in CPB? NPR gets hit?!

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 · 12:20 AM PDT

2005/05/17 · 00:20

"Mr. Orwell, how on earth did you know this was coming?"

NY Times: A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio

Excerpt:

Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with the Bush appointees who lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In one of several points of conflict in recent months, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which allocates federal funds for public radio and television, is considering a plan to monitor Middle East coverage on NPR news programs for evidence of bias, a corporation spokesman said on Friday.

This would be beyond the pale, in any other era?

In the text/more: More of the rest of the story. Read More

It echoes, now?

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Monday May 16, 2005 · 2:12 PM PDT

2005/05/16 · 14:12

From Senator Kerry, in the 2004 Presidential Debates, one more notable expression:

What I want to find, if I am privileged to have the opportunity to do it -- and the Supreme Court of the United States is at stake in this race, ladies and gentlemen -- the future of things that matter to you in terms of civil rights; what kind of Justice Department you'll have; whether we'll enforce the law; will we have equal opportunity; will women's rights be protected; will we have equal pay for women, which is going backwards; will a woman's right to choose be protected? These are constitutional rights, and I want to make sure we have judges who interpret the Constitution of the United States according to the law.

That was from the Senator, the Candiate, the former US military officer -- respected by whom was of his crew, as I saw the account to have been (in a very well done documentary, aired of PBS, I recall not the name of it, though may it have been this ) -- Mr. John Kerry.

In the more: Some discussion. Read More

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