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...
Wow, did you see how Congressman Barney Frank, the guy who bears more individual responsibility for the financial mess than any living human, handled those House Republicans? Huffington Post is just all leg-tingly about it.
“This is really extraordinary,” he said. “What you have just heard is a denunciation of something the Congress did a few weeks ago and a refusal to undo it. I’ve never seen people, Mr. Chairman, so attached to something they hate. This is presumably a psychological disorder which I am not equipped to diagnose. The objection of the gentleman from Texas was that when the recovery bill was passed, it was passed too quickly [and it] included a provision that shouldn’t have been in there. This bill takes it out.”
“It is undone by this. And speaking of being undone, my Republican colleagues are being undone by the loss of their whipping boy,” Frank said, arguing that Republicans enjoyed scoring political points over the AIG bonuses but didn’t want to cap executive compensation generally.
“Truly, all I ask is transparency and for the taxpayers and the people of America to have time to read the bill,” responded [Texas Republican Congressman John] Culberson.
“The bill under consideration is five-and-a-half pages,” Frank said. “I believe even the gentleman from Texas could have read it by now. And if the gentleman from Texas has not been able to read this five-and-a-half page bill, I’ll talk long and even if he reads slow, he’ll get it done. The point is that this bill undoes what he is complaining about. Note the refusal to address the subject.”
Frank then offered some free psychoanalysis. “My colleagues on the other side, it’s kind of like kids who have had a toy bear or a blanket and this security blanket means a lot to them. Their security blanket is being able to complain about something that happened before the break,” he said.
The Huffington Post crowd is much more interested in the delivery of an idea than the idea itself, but for me, it’s not the idea itself that captures my fascination, so much as the other ideas that must support it.
House Republicans had criticism for the democrat leadership when the bailout legislation allowed the bonuses to take place. They aren’t obediently following along as the democrat leadership tries to close this loophole. That, on Planet Frank, deserves all kinds of commentary…and an offer of “free psychoanalysis.”
On the about-face the democrat leadership did…this Homer Simpson slap-own-forehead-and-yell-“D’Oh!” move…there is no occasion for comment whatsoever.
No allowance made for the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Republicans are opposed on principle to the government dictating bonuses — and spoke out a few weeks ago because hey, they still know incompetence when they see it.
Hey. Did ya hear the one about the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the democrat that was able to accept responsibility and the democrat that was not…walking down the sidewalk and seeing $850 billion lying there? Which one picked it up?
The democrat incapable of accepting responsibility, of course. The other three don’t exist!
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Where is Preston Brooks when you need him?
- chunt31854 | 04/03/2009 @ 07:07