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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.
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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.
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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...
CAIR’s Feelings Are Hurt
CAIR is upset at President Bush. CAIR got it’s widdle feewings hurt. President Bush used the term “Islamic Fascists” in a speech, and they want him to take it back.
Unusual for this to be the case, but it would appear — not that I have a lot of talent in discerning this — an informal vote would produce a vast majority that agrees with me. We don’t care; or, we care a lot, and are very passionately happy President Bush used the term. Hope he keeps on doing it.
We, here at The Blog Nobody Reads, will even go a step further. CAIR is proving President Bush’s point. That’s because fascism is supposed to mean “a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government” and on this page, we regard things like authority, and all of its attached tentacles — liberty, freedom, responsibility, power — to blossom forward into the realm of the physical, after they have originated in the realm of thought. In other words, it’s really hard to grant people the freedom to behave as they will, without also granting them the freedom to think how they will. Similarly, you can’t centralize the authority to tell them what to do & what not to do, without deciding for people what to think & what not to think. Freedom of action, and freedom of thought, are inextricably intertwined.
And here comes CAIR, to tell people what not to think.
This is about the First Three Pillars of Persuasion. I don’t really need to define what those are and I don’t need to lecture people about following them. They are The Fact, The Opinion, and The Thing To Do…everybody knows them and everybody uses them. When something you care about is at risk, people go ahead and follow them. A nest of wasps may be under the jungle gym your kids play on, or not…a black widow may have made a nest under the beds, or not…your wife may have felt a lump in her left breast, or not…your heart may have skipped a beat, or not…people do what only free men can do. They exercise the first liberty that fascists rescind. They infer, forming the Second Pillar from the First Pillar; and they plan, forming the Third from the Second.
This blog is named after a guy who traversed those first three pillars. He peeked into a water well or two, and figured out the size of the earth. It’s what President Bush just did. It is what you need to do, to protect yourself and those you love.
And everybody has an instinct, and a drive, to do it. Even fascists. Fascists, though, deny the right and the privilege to others, just because they can.
Thank you for proving the President’s point, CAIR. Next time a liberal uses PVR, persuasion-via-ridicule, to make fun of President Bush for believing “they hate us for our freedom,” I’ll remember this. Because “they” actually do hate us for that. We aren’t supposed to think the way free people think. We’re supposed to stand by and take orders about whom to love, whom to hate, what to believe, when not to profile.
Well, the trouble is, we don’t get to live another day because we thought like that; we’re not all big and rich and easy-to-hate, because we thought like that; God didn’t build us to think like that. As humans, we have big-ass brains, and we have them for a reason. And anybody using their God-given brain, is going to see there are Islamic Fascists out there who are trying to kill us. And anybody who takes such a thing seriously, is going to act on it. Those who don’t take it seriously, hey, I hear there’s a great American Idol re-run on Election Day. Why don’t you stay home and watch it.
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I think you’re missing the elephant in the room. CAIR is always telling us the Islam is the Religion of Peace and Muslims are moderates and such. Now they’re tacitly defending men who were intent on mass murder. Is there any more clear way to show which side they’re on?
- Duffy | 08/11/2006 @ 12:23