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...
If right now, right this very minute, I were to run a post with the following headline, or a newspaper were to run an article with the following headline, or a television news special were to run on your idjit box with the following promo:
You’d want to see it. Why? Because you’d know someone was off his meds. Someone tripped across a six-year-old story, thought it was brand-new, and goofed. Or, if no mistake had been made, wonder of wonders miracle-of-miracles, someone was making some information known with undeniably pure motives. This is the one single bunch of hours in which there would be absolutely nothing to gain, for anybody, with such an act.
That’s because deep down, persons of all ideological stripes understand that nonsense never had anything to do with pure motives.
Here’s another thing I’ll bet you’ve noticed, but might not have registered with you consciously:
When a Republican wails away about a “stolen election” his complaint has something to do with a directional shift. A change in rules in the middle of the game. Courtroom hijinks. Bug-eyed judges staring at ballots under magnifying glasses to “divine the will and intent of the voter” when such a thing never would have happened under a different scenario. Stacks of ballots “discovered” in someone’s car. Someone in an ivory tower, be it a judge, or a lawyer, or a secretary-of-state, or a governor, intervening to alter the outcome by means other than simply casting a vote.
When a democrat uses those words, it means the democrat candidate lost narrowly. That’s all that has to happen to produce the complaint. The democrat won 49% of the vote, 48% of the vote, maybe even less than that…the election must have been stolen. Bring on the lawyers.
And so we have a new rule in effect. If the democrat comes within a percentage point or two of winning, you have to give it to him.
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Any idea where I can find a photoshop of Obama with the words “We are One. Resistance is futile.” or something to that effect?
- JohnJ | 01/20/2009 @ 16:12Like this?
Or this?
There’s some fodder, anyway.
- philmon | 01/20/2009 @ 19:58No wonder we lost. We don’t have any creativity.
- JohnJ | 01/20/2009 @ 23:28Gah.
Exhibit A – the recount nonsense in the MN Senate race between Al “Rush is a Big Idiot” Franken and Norm Coleman. Notice how the frenzied recounting, the mysterious boxes of ballots appearing out of nowhere….it all stopped the moment that enough ballots were forged in order to allow Franken to finally pull ahead.
But when Coleman was ahead? No. Recount after recount after phony recount, and usually with different standards between county or precinct.
I think the miracle is that people still have any faith in the electoral system at all. It’s getting more and more to where the whole thing is rigged and corrupted to the point of worthlessness, like in many Third World countries.
- cylarz | 01/21/2009 @ 01:12While there’s a whole lot of truth to this, sometimes ya just want something to help you feel better right now. Sometimes, it’s a Big Mac. Doesn’t mean you don’t like prime rib. But right now, you just want a Big Mac.
- philmon | 01/21/2009 @ 09:49