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...
Mmmm…I like the proposal. Not sure this is going to net a political win for them though.
House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) said that cutting funds to the publicly subsidized news organization was the winner of the conference’s weekly “YouCut” contest, in which the public votes online on spending items they want eliminated.
“When NPR executives made the decision to unfairly terminate Juan Williams and to then disparage him afterwards, the bias of their organization was exposed,” the two Republicans said in a statement. “Make no mistake, it is not the role of government to tell news organizations how to operate. What is avoidable, however, is providing taxpayer funds to news organizations that promote a partisan point of view. Eliminating taxpayer funding for NPR is precisely the kind of commonsense cut that we have to begin making if we want to fundamentally alter the way business is conducted in Washington.”
Oh great, another beltway trope is born…now, for the rest of my life, whenever I read a statement from a politician about something important, “make no mistake” is going to be sprinkled in there like pepper flakes. Thanks loads, Barack.
But you’ve got me thinking like a politician now, and the timing is not right. If this reaches the floor, and then passes, it will make me a happy guy…but then, looking at it realistically, I see this as the last significant win of the House GOP. And you can forget all about de-funding or repealing the health care law. If something is done about Obama’s health care turd first, and then this is done sort of as frosting-on-the-cake, that would be much more agreeable.
But doing it this way, presents a picture of a House of Representatives that governs from passion and that there is a need for us to place it in some kind of check. I can see it now: Juan Williams said something dumb, got himself fired, and now we have to live with this cranky old “Juan Williams’ Revenge” Republican Congress. And your Social Security payments are in danger!!
This will play in Peoria. The enemy is being handed live ammunition.
Like the proposal. Not sure about the plan.
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Annnd….. right on cue, the GOP blows it in the most predictable fashion imaginable. There’s a Romanian proverb that goes “a change of leaders is the joy of fools.” (As a people whose leadership has included Dracula and Nicolae Ceaucescu, they should know). The GOP is determined to prove them right.
Thanks to our totally objective, completely nonpartisan media, the only thing that the electorally-vital middle knows about the Republicans is that they’re anti-intellectual. Given that the sole reason NPR exists is to let room-temperature IQs pretend they’re smart*, there simply isn’t a better way to cement that image for all time than to attack NPR. Smooth move, dipshits. I’d bet the family farm and several major organs that the GOP’s next brilliant move will be an attempt to shore up DADT, followed by some kind of restrictions on abortion. Because they’re just…that…fucking…stoopid.
- Severian | 11/18/2010 @ 12:48.
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*seriously: have you ever heard a liberal say “I heard on the radio,” or simply “I heard?” No, it’s always “I heard on NPR the other day….” It’s the leftard’s version of “peace be unto him.” I could probably persuade the brain-dead liberals in my college town to render orphans down for axle grease if I introduced it with “I heard on NPR, and Rachel Maddow agrees…”