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...
Throughout the 2004 and 2006 campaign seasons, I’ve been trying in vain to find out what the Democrats would do about the Islamo-fascist weird-beards around the world who want to kill us. In all that time, the best I’ve been able to achieve, is to come up with the individual hopes of each Democrat I’ve been asking. “George Bush doesn’t have a plan [either]”; “regime change begins at home”; “support the troops by getting them out of there”; “what about ecological terrorism?” Some of them are so famous, I can’t ask them anything, but nevertheless I get to hear what they think. Those with the highest name-recognition, seem to think America is unworthy of winning this thing or anything else. I haven’t been able to find any hard evidence that these, or any others, are official party positions.
This is understandable. Millions of people voted for Democrats, and their feelings on the War on Terror, while mostly negative, nevertheless flail out in all kinds of directions. Democrats can’t afford to alienate any of them. I’ve been figuring, now that they’ve won, maybe it would be a little easier to get an answer to my question.
Well, guest what. Now that they’ve won, their position has become even more cloudy. Oh, it’s a lot less confused, alright, but things are far less clear. Last month, the order of the day was confusion, and this month it seems to be all about secrecy. The plan to deal with murderous goat-molesting crazy-men who want to crash planes into our buildings has been reduced down to five words, as I understand it:
The YouTube entry for this clip is accompanied by the following description:
After hearing lots of teeth gnashing from right wing voters over the results of the ’06 election I decided they needed a reminder about how democracy works. You lost, GET OVER IT. The republicans in this video found out just how voters felt about them. Sure this video is gloating, but hey to turn Bush’s words back on him, The Dems won political capital, and now they should spend it.
Mmmmkay. Now, I’m not sure what that has to do with bringing me the bodies of more dead terrorists, so my question stands. But almost without exception, I’ve been handed these five words by someone-or-other, who doesn’t seem to appreciate me asking the questions, whenever I want to know what the new plan is for fighting terrorism.
It doesn’t help me to get “over it,” it has an opposite effect. I want to know more. I was told, growing up, that “QUESTION AUTHORITY” was a favorite liberal catch-phrase. Okay…I’m questioning it. Why the terse dismissal? Shouldn’t power be transparent? Don’t the liberals want to stick to their knitting?
Well, I’ve been learning this over and over again about left-wingers through the years. A lefty doesn’t tell you what he thinks; when you hear him tell you something, you’re hearing what he feels. When you hear the same thing from two lefties, you’re hearing what they told each other to feel. When you hear the same thing from three or more, you’re hearing what a powerful lefty told a bunch of other lefties they feel. I’ve heard “get over it” from three or more, so I’m gathering some kind of post-campaign campaign must be underway. Maybe a “Fahrenheit 912” sequel just started showing at the box office, or something of the like.
Perhaps it’s tit-for-tat. I remember back in late 2000 the liberals were told “you lost; get over it” by several tighty-righties. Maybe I was one of the tighty-righties who said that. Maybe the chickens have come home to roost. That ought to show me.
…if only it applied now, though. Democrats were told they lost, and that they should get over it, after the umpth-frazillionth time they wanted a recount. You know what? I’m not going to pretend to be unbiased here…my name isn’t “Dan Rather” after all…but in the scenario from 2000, it just seems to fit. I demand a recount, I demand a recount, I demand a recount, I demand a recount — you lost, get over it.
Gee, here it is 2006, I just want to know where we’re going. I’m sitting in the passenger seat, wondering why we just drove past the most obvious exit, do we know how far we have to go to reach the next one? What’s the plan to get gas and sandwiches, maybe a potty break? And all I get back, is a reminder that I’m not driving. Well no shit, Sherlock. Back to my question: What’s the plan?
Some of the folks within America’s borders, it seems, want her to lose the war. Many others say this is the only way outstanding affairs can be shepherded to a harmonious closure, and we need to just face up to it. Others claim to be dogged by a persistent uncertainty about what they want to have happen. Clearly, we’re about to get a new course for how to deal with this thing, something taking a hairpin-turn from the status quo; to whose preferences will that new charting be best suited? Theirs? I mean, at the very least, it seems like a fair question to ask.
Can’t make a plan, if you don’t define the goal. Nothing Republican or Democrat about that rule; it’s something that is simply true. What’s the goal?
Yeah, I’ve gotten over it. That’s the question that popped in my head as I was getting over it. Does anyone have an answer?
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