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...
There had never been a case of Ebola in the U.S. until a few months ago. Since then, thousands of people have died of the disease in Africa, and millions upon millions of dollars have been spent treating Ebola patients in the U.S. who acquired it there, one of whom has died.
But the Obama administration refuses to impose a travel ban.
This summer, the U.S. government imposed a travel ban on Israel simply to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu into accepting a ceasefire agreement. But we can’t put a travel restriction on countries where a contagious disease is raging.
It’s becoming increasingly clear this is just another platform for Obama to demonstrate that we are citizens of the world. The entire Ebola issue is being discussed — by our government, not the United Nations — as if Liberians are indistinguishable from Americans, and U.S. taxpayers should be willing to pay whatever it takes to save them.
Maybe we should give them the vote, too! If Ebola was concentrated in Finland and Norway — certainly Israel! — we’d have had a travel ban on Day One.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, justifies Obama’s refusal to prohibit flights originating in Ebola-plagued countries, saying, “A travel ban is not the right answer. It’s simply not feasible to build a wall — virtual or real — around a community, city or country.”
What is it with liberals living in gated communities always telling us that fences don’t work? THAT’S WHAT A QUARANTINE IS.
There’s something peculiar going on here with the modern American left, and separating people. They take their sharpest and quickest departures off the plane of reality, when common sense says there is a partition in place, or if there isn’t one then there ought to be one. In these situations, they pretend all kinds of things even when they’re repeatedly reminded that pretending is all they’re doing.
Coulter continues:
At the congressional hearing on Ebola last week, Republicans repeatedly pressed the CDC representative, Dr. Toby Merlin, to explain why Obama refuses to impose a travel ban.
In about 17 tries, Merlin came up with no plausible answer. Like Frieden, Merlin kept insisting that “the only way to protect Americans” is to end the epidemic in Africa.
Why, precisely, must we attack Ebola in Africa? Research on a cure doesn’t require cuddling victims in their huts. Scientists who discovered the AIDS cocktail didn’t spend their nights at Studio 54 in order to “fight the disease at its source.”
Until there’s a treatment, we can’t put out the disease there, or here. The only thing Americans will be doing in Liberia is changing the bedpans of victims, getting infected and bringing Ebola back to America. When there’s a vaccine, we can mail it.
I am most impressed by the news-cycle around this Ebola thing. As recently as Tuesday morning, the experts looked almost competent. They even almost had me sucked in to the “I’m sure one way or another they’ve got it under control” thing. Hope can be a powerful hallucinogen, when there’s only one hope.
But what a downslide. By the time Emperor Obama appointed the Ebola Czar yesterday, the whole thing was a complete laughing stock already. Uh by the way, what’s that do? I mean even politically, what’s it do? Was there anyone, anywhere — outside of the nation’s capitol, I mean — clinging desperately to the hope that the government, in order to save us all, would invent a new piggy-at-the-public-trough position and give it to a party insider & lawyer? Frankly, it comes off as an apt illustration of Washington’s complete inability to solve problems, almost like parody.
The crisis won’t go away, so: Day 1, think about maybe interrupting golf game. Day 2, give a speech blaming Republicans. Day 3, in response to the simplest and most sensible solution, murmur a bunch of nonsensical homilies about why it’s completely out of the question. Day 4, invent a fancy title and give it to a lawyer. It doesn’t even matter what the problem is, that’s the Obama road map for all of it.
Had a lefty-leaning Facebook friend explain to me “dude someone has to do it… andidont care about your tea party”. My response to which was, simply:
Do what?
Never got an answer back on that. Hey, how do czars get paid, anyway?
Back to the walls, though. Liberals do believe in them. The “ninety-nine percent” are in the right, and the one-percenters are wrong. But of course, if someone in Obama’s inner circle says something and someone outside the ring of power says the opposite, we need to go with the elitist position and that other guy should become more and more of a pariah, the longer it takes him to reverse course. Got that? Having power means you’re always right, having money means you’re always wrong. It takes nothing more to upset this apple cart, than to notice that power tends to follow money and money tends to follow power. They’ll reconcile that the way they reconcile everything else, by elevating theory above practice. Reality, sheesh, what does IT know, pffft. Stupid right-wing redneck reality. It probably agrees with Sarah Palin!
It has long puzzled me that the feudalism-libs never seem to get into any sort of conflict with the one-worlder libs. I really don’t know why that is; if I take all of what they say seriously, I have to expect them to start mixing it up like two cats in a bag. It’s just not happening. Why? The only explanation I have is that the two camps are advancing a common agenda, which is helped along sometimes with a people-sorted-into-shoe-bins viewpoint and at other times with a no-such-thing-as-borders viewpoint. It makes sense to presume they’re all being dishonest about their true goals, so many of them have been nailed on exactly this and so many times. But, others among them are not known for being dishonest, just misinformed and under-informed. And they all seem so passionate. But liberals don’t get into conflicts with other liberals about this. They get into conflicts with each other over whether “the time has come” for a woman or a black guy to be our next President. And identity politics, when you get right down to the heart of the matter, are really nothing more than yet another way of separating people. To win elections.
Could it be that the shoe-bin types are the ones who’ve thought through the consequences better, and the one-worlders simply haven’t gone through the exercise? I cannot fathom what it must be like, thinking in that crooked of a line. What if every little item you had within a vast and rich repository of factual information, was verified, and beyond doubt? It wouldn’t very much matter if you’re thinking like a loon, would it? I made this point before: You’d be much better off knowing nothing at all, or even relying on a trove of pure nonsense — as long as you can think like a sane person. How do those people get up and get dressed in the morning?
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It has long puzzled me that the feudalism-libs never seem to get into any sort of conflict with the one-worlder libs.
It makes sense if you remember Kip’s Law: “Every advocate of central planning always — always — envisions himself as the central planner.”
On the feudal pyramid, liberals — whether stay-at-homes or one-worlders — are the clergy.
Because, of course, the feudal “pyramid” wasn’t a pyramid at all. The nobles had all the secular power, but in theory, any priest could check any king, no matter how powerful — all he had to do was refuse the king absolution. And a priest is always a priest — he’s ordained everywhere, while the king’s writ ends at the borders of his fief.
- Severian | 10/18/2014 @ 14:45So travel bans “don’t work”?.Yet, and I’ve heard nobody mention this hypocrisy, the first thing they did after the nurse who contradicted Ebola and who had flown to Cleveland was to institute a travel ban for healthcare workers who where possibly exposed.
So travel bans do work? But only for Americans in America but not Africans, where the disease is, traveling to America? Got it.
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