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...
Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook:
‘It is not a sensible way to run a country to have this magnitude of tax issues left to annual uncertainty,” said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner earlier this month, and he’s certainly right about that. But at the current moment the single biggest obstacle to more certainty is his boss, President Obama, who still refuses to compromise on the tax increase set to whack the economy in a mere 30 days.
After meeting with Congressional leaders yesterday, Mr. Obama dispatched Mr. Geithner and budget director Jacob Lew to negotiate a deal. Yet the President is still holding out against even a temporary extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax rates. Republicans won 63 House seats running against those tax increases, but Mr. Obama still seems under the spell of the dead enders led by soon-to-be-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The magnitude of the looming tax increase ought to snap him out of this hypnosis. If the Democrats who still run Capitol Hill for another month fail to act, tens of millions of American households will see their paychecks shrink immediately in the New Year.
One of many reasons why the donkey party lost me, years and years ago. Whenever you talk about some kind of subsistence that relies on loot involuntarily collected from the taxpayers — welfare, food stamps, unemployment insurance extensions, social security, medicare — it seems they get it: The economy can’t do well unless people have money to spend. Heck, they’re the the ones selling this idea; they use it to justify everything they have to say.
And then when you start talking about earning paychecks this entire principle just sails out the freakin’ window.
Well, unless you’re talking about paychecks earned by unionized employees.
It’s not free enterprise they hate. It’s that F-word, free. They like that other F-word, “forced,” so much better. Rules, rules, rules deciding where every single nickel is supposed to go, how long it’s supposed to stay there, how fast it’s supposed to come back, and under what conditions.
In the things that separate the political parties, this is one of the very few constants, the “free” in free enterprise. They’re against it, everlastingly.
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I believe the last time I heard the term “dead enders,” it was 2003-04, and was applied to the Ba’athists, al-Qaeda operatives, and others who were still fighting against coalition forces in Iraq after the fall of Baghdad & complete overthrow of Saddam’s government. The term was intended to convey the hopelessness of the terrorists’ cause and the utter futility of their efforts to drive American & allied forces out of Iraq. Not happening, Bush said. He was right.
Interesting now that the term has found its way over to the lame-duck Congressmen whom the voters fired a few weeks ago. And it’s rather apt in their case as well.
If I could have five minutes with Ms Pelosi and her liberal friends, I’d ask them, “Has it occurred to you people that if you pass legislation during your lame-duck session that thwarts the voters’ will, it will be a VERY long time before your allies find themselves in the majority again? Doing the same things that got you fired on Nov 2, will not exactly make the electorate regret its decision.”
- cylarz | 12/02/2010 @ 02:55