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...
On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy, former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with the Taliban if they think the United States is heading for the exits.
In a 90-minute interview at his suburban Washington house, Cheney said the president’s “agonizing” about Afghanistan strategy “has consequences for your forces in the field.”
“I begin to get nervous when I see the commander in chief making decisions apparently for what I would describe as small ‘p’ political reasons, where he’s trying to balance off different competing groups in society,” Cheney said.
“Every time he delays, defers, debates, changes his position, it begins to raise questions: Is the commander in chief really behind what they’ve been asked to do?”
A-men. Of course Obama’s fans will characterize it as being extremely thoughtful, courageous, daring to delay, precisely what we’ve been missing all these years, blah blah blah. Nevermind the fact that if you take Obama’s decision, strip the ritual “Best Speech Evar!” off of it, and take the dithering, dissembling delaying out of it…you’re left with exactly what the Obama movement was supposed to be against. Michael Moore is none too happy about it. So the delay ends up being the symbol of our hopenchange, because the hopenchange brought us nothing else on this issue. The leftists who now run everything, however supportive they may be of the way the decision was made, they don’t support the outcome.
It’s funny isn’t it. With regard to foreign relations, with every issue that comes up the leftist answer makes it more expensive for other nations to be our friends. And cheaper for them to be our enemy. It’s exactly like Ann Coulter said: Play Yahtzee, Twister, Monopoly or Scrabble with a post-modern liberal and you’ll find your opponent immediately leaping to the anti-American position. Since the end of World War II, that trend has remained locked in place, mostly undisturbed.
Related: Newsweek had a piece — if you trust them to make the decision — offering all the reasons why Dick Cheney should run, and some of them I found to be pretty sound. It comes down to: Of course he’d get creamed, but at least the message from the GOP, and to a lesser but significant extent from their opposition as well, would be better crystalized and better defined. I gotta admit, that has certainly been missing.
…I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country….
…Because Cheney is a man of conviction, has a record on which he can be judged, and whatever the result, there could be no ambiguity about the will of the people. The best way to settle arguments is by having what we used to call full and frank exchanges about the issues, and then voting. A contest between Dick Cheney and Barack Obama would offer us a bracing referendum on competing visions. One of the problems with governance since the election of Bill Clinton has been the resolute refusal of the opposition party (the GOP from 1993 to 2001, the Democrats from 2001 to 2009, and now the GOP again in the Obama years) to concede that the president, by virtue of his victory, has a mandate to take the country in a given direction. A Cheney victory would mean that America preferred a vigorous unilateralism to President Obama’s unapologetic multilateralism, and vice versa.
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