Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The title is taken from the post previous.
Blogger friend Buck was admiring a cartoon about the democrat party being ready to commit suicide to get their cowpie of a health care bill through. I consider the situation to be a tad bit more complicated; to bottom-line it into a single sentence, I ask the reader to think on an America with a “public” health care plan installed — what kind of conservative movement thrives therein? Is it something we’d recognize today? Something closer to colonial times, right before the Revolution? Or something rather like “Conservatives” and “Labour” over in the UK?
Rules affect the mindset of a people who live under them. Dependency-based rules foster a dependency-based mindset. We are currently witnessing the slow death of independent spirit — within the world, for this is its last stand — and it is a homicide. Architects do not care how many other Architects there are, but a Medicator wants everyone else to be a Medicator.
And then the lefty-leaning George-Bush-hating anti-war Canuck with the dark curly bangs, KC, makes my point for me. On purpose. From Mark Steyn, via here:
So there was President Obama giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.
Why is he doing this? Why let “health” “care” “reform” stagger on like the rotting husk in a low-grade creature feature who refuses to stay dead no matter how many stakes you pound through his chest?
Because it’s worth it. Big time. I’ve been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture.
It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible.
I could be wrong, but I have the impression this point went sailing over the head of our friend in New Mexico. Yes, come next year the democrat party might very well be whittled down to a representation of a hundred seats, or fewer still, in the lower chamber of our Congress. Could very well be.
But the party labels are but a means to an end. The representation in Congress is but a means to an end.
They want to transform this society. They have not hidden this intent, ever, not one single time. They have been out-and-proud about this.
When they talk about how much they love this country, they’re saying not a single word about what the country is today or what she has been in the past. They are speaking of the love a sculptor has for a blob of clay, or a painter has for a blank canvas. They want to turn the country into something the country presently is not…and then they will love that. That is what they mean when they say that.
They are controlling people. And yet, paradoxically, the kindest thing you can do for them is to deprive them of this control. With control comes responsibility, and they do not have any affinity for that at all. They just don’t look down the road very far. It is their nature; they are impulsive, addictive types.
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I could be wrong, but I have the impression this point went sailing over the head of our friend in New Mexico.
Not could be wrong. ARE wrong.
- bpenni | 03/17/2010 @ 10:56Glad I allowed for that. I had faith.
Yes, they will get their asses kicked…and YES, we will become a nation of veal calves anyway.
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