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...
Let’s borrow one of Cassy Fiano‘s ideas. I find, in general, if you plagiarize the brilliant ones…crime does pay. We need a payout.
I am Joe the Plumber. His story is my story.
I don’t have my quarter-mill-a-year quite yet, Sen. Obama; but I will someday, and if you’ve got a problem with my pal Joe you’ve got a problem with me.
Yeah. Like that.
Do you understand how tender and soft Obama’s armor is in this one spot? He doesn’t have any armor there at all. It is a gaping, yawning chasm in the hull of his battleship. Every single response he’s offered on this issue, in the debates as well as on the campaign trail, has had something to do with taking this 95% who’d get a tax cut…and pretending as if that’s 100%. Every single response has been a variation of that theme.
Tell you what — you prove to me that 95 and 100 is the same, I’ll agree the math is on Obama’s side, and if you can’t, then we have to agree it isn’t.
He’s raising taxes on the people who create jobs, and he does not want to talk about it. The situation is no more complicated than that. What’s complicated, is getting that message out to the people who haven’t been paying attention.
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- CaptDMO | 10/16/2008 @ 12:29It’s an empty pack CaptDMO, Obama bummed ‘em all off him to “share the wealth” with the newly, multiple registered voters per ACORN.
- tim | 10/16/2008 @ 13:48What’s complicated, is getting that message out to the people who haven’t been paying attention.
It’s beyond complicated… it’s a freakin’ tragedy. Coz nearly ALL of those not paying attention are gonna vote for The One. {sigh} Perhaps this falls into the “be careful what you ask for” category, aka “Universal Suffrage.” I personally feel there should be SOME form of means testing for voters… as in “Uninformed? See ya NEXT election, Doofus!”
- Buck | 10/16/2008 @ 15:32The US government has created a $480bn deficit. Social programs amount for a small percentage of the overall budget. So, the only way to pay for our huge military, our wars, and our bank bailouts is through taxes. Who do you propose should pay those taxes?
By the way, I like the GOP 2.0 program; the sad thing is that McCain delivers none of that. McCain would just keep spending and spending, just like his predecessors, and keep pretending that we never have to pay for what we borrow.
- ats0j8 | 10/16/2008 @ 18:51Ooooo, tim, good one!
Soooo…. let me get this straight. 95% of the taxpayers…….which I ASSUME means 95% of
the 60% of folks that actually contribute net taxes…..would get a “net” tax break, and
the rest of the country that has figured out how to gleen more than US$250,000 annually will be passing on their new found “Cost of doing business” to who…..
Legislators previously in charge of legislating “new loop holes”, and granting “not for profit” organizations into the tax code that are gonna get coal in their stockings?
If he means 95% of “the people”, he’s gonna have to cut State taxes on tobacco, booze, gas, electricity, telephony, food, Starbucks, and of course- the hemp tax stamp.
Right now, today, who has the most solicited cash on hand, designated for “political” use?
I hope SOMEBODY is keeping track of the totals on those repetitive E-pleas, made every few days, for $5-$50 by “donors” to Democrat candidates. (In New Hampshire anyway)
- CaptDMO | 10/16/2008 @ 20:59Well … it depends on what you call “social programs”. You know, kind of like Obama’s “tax cuts” to 95% of Americans when only about 50% actually pay taxes at all (income tax we’re talking about here — he’s basically giving welfare to these non-tax-payees and calling it a “tax cut”). Or what you can interpret “the health of the mother” to be on Obama’s “answer” to the abortion question (which McCain tried to point out but I’m not sure how many people “got it”).
Fact of the matter is, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are all “social programs” in my book. Take a gander at the chart on the lower right in this post. You might be surprised.
See, they play tricks with budget figures, too, by talking about discretionary spending or non-discretionary spending out of context. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are all “Non Discretionary” — they’re excluded from figures when people want to show you how much we spend on defense and how little we spend on “social programs”. But it’s verbal sleight of hand.
- philmon | 10/16/2008 @ 22:03I spent last night at work talking to a co-worker whose only reason for voting for Obama was “He sounded really good when he spoke.”
She thought the whole situation with William Ayers was when Obama was 8 years old, and knew nothing about his ACORN connections, his Fannie Mae connections, or his other radical friends and associates.
Two hours later I had her caught up on all the things the press didn’t tell her while she kept saying “Well, how come I never heard about all this on the news?”
She’s voting for McCain now.
- Instinct | 10/18/2008 @ 13:30