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...
Says Ed Darrell, based on this clip:
Hmmm…
devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty.
1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
3. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
This Van Jones character can’t even survive a chance encounter with a freakin’ dictionary. His Orwellian use of words to describe things that are the opposite of what the words are classically intended to describe, becomes crystal-clear with a couple of quick virtual-page-flips.
Much like his former boss, come to think of it:
And how did America’s First Holy Pharoah, He Who Argues With The Dictionaries, come to be Van Jones’ former boss?
It came about as a result of Jones’ own idiotic comments:
White House officials offered tepid support Friday for Van Jones, the administration’s embattled energy efficiency guru, who has issued two public apologies this week, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”
He believes in “liberty and justice for all”; apparently that means, making up a bunch of stuff and acting outraged. Go back and watch the clip again, that’s exactly what he does — tell you what the conservatives really mean, just take Van Jones’ word for it, then he acts all Hawkeye-Pierce-NPR-male outraged.
Just like any other penny-ante left-wingers…right before they lose.
So I don’t know. We get to read about Jones because of his connections, not because he actually won an election anywhere. Which is not to say he cannot win one. But let’s see that happen before we hold him aloft as the conservatives’ worst nightmare…on the other hand…if he does win an election, it’s clear to me he would be winning it on the basis of the constituents’ resentments, as opposed to any kind of emboldening and encouraging vision, which is an entirely different thing. He doesn’t seem to have built much of anything based on what I’m reading here. Just some “lawyer-referral service” to make a bunch of legal trouble for cops, that’s the only thing that jumps out…everything else in his entire biography is just making the right friends.
Thanks to America’s First Holy Pharoah, I’ve got a feeling that’s going to go out of style for an extended period of time — politicians elected on the basis of resentments. Vision-free politicians, smooth-talking, using words for the opposite of their intended meaning. Van Jones, running at the ballot box, would be buying a commodity high and setting up to sell it low.
Conservatives fear Van Jones? Please, please, do allow our progressive friends to go on thinking so. Just like libs to bring a knife to a gun fight. Sarah Palin would clean this guy’s clock.
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What Obamaesque “qualifications” brought Mr. Jones to consideration for such lofty “consultant” consideration?
Did he set in motion the recent “shovel ready” money pit of “green energy investments” with forced redistribution of (50% of ) OPP?
- CaptDMO | 07/13/2012 @ 06:20