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...
This pays off part of his negative balance for Grahamnesty. I can’t ignore Grahamnesty, but I can’t ignore this either. Even with his hand in his pocket the whole time (and what’s up with that??)…it’s pretty daham good.
Of course the only time it was great was that “my time” comment. YEAH. Way to leave a mark!
Brilliant points on your part too, Babs. Because democrats are never theatrical. We all know that…
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Update 2-7-09: Added the second clip, for sake of perspective. Also I don’t think that gem of a “my time” smack-down was in the first clip. Maybe I should watch it a fourth time to make sure…
Also, something that hadn’t caught my attention before. Sen. Boxer makes reference to one or several occasions on which former President George W. Bush sent down a bill twice as big.
I’m going to have to reach out to the nobodies who never stop by to not read The Blog That Nobody Reads, for help on this one. When did Bush/#43 ask Congress for $1.7 trillion in one bill??
Also, I’ve run into this on occasion with the “little” dems…the ones who don’t get elected, don’t make the rules, just get punch-drunk on the “Bush and the Jooz Caused 911 as a Pretext to Go Into Iraq” kool-aid. And then argue all day & night with good Americans like you & me over whether Sarah Palin is a dumbshit or not.
The cute little tactic is “If you aren’t on record saying bad things about Republicans, then you aren’t allowed to say anything against me and my beloved democrat party.”
Nothing like it would be permitted in any debate engaged for the purpose of finding logic and truth, and it certainly wouldn’t even pop up in debate engaged for the purpose of seeking “bipartisan” compromises. This tactic labels the opposition as exactly what it, itself, is. Only centrists may speak; you’re not a centrist if you say bad things about my team, and haven’t said anything bad about those other guys; if you’ve said bad things about the other guys, but not about my team — you’re a centrist and you may speak.
None of which is a terribly exciting revelation in the context immediately under observation. Anyone who’s been watching this, with something working at the top-end of the brain stem, knows this pig-in-a-poke doesn’t have a damn thing to do with saving jobs, it’s just a reward for whoever made it possible for democrats to win the election. But I find it interesting when democrats who don’t know what’s going on, deploy the same tactics as the democrats like Boxer, who do.
Maybe it’s printed up in those newsletters they mail out. Or maybe their neurons are all telepathically connected to some central “mother ship” somewhere.
Update 2/8/09: Oh jeez leweez…I figured out what my distinguished hippie-moonbat Senator was babbling away about. George Bush wanted to “spend” $1.4 trillion with his tax cuts back in 2001.
This puts Barbara Boxer’s statement (purely by coincidence, since at the time, I had no idea where she was going with this) on the list of things you do & say that reveal you’re a moron — Item #7.
I’m struggling to figure out how anyone, no matter how ideologically moonbat-ish, no matter how deranged, could truly, within their heart-of-hearts, think of these as the same thing vis a vis “spending.” Forcing us to spend money on a laundry list of Keynesian crap, is the antithesis of a tax cut in every possible way, is it not? One puts money into a burgeoning public sector spending spree, the other one takes it out. One allows us to keep the money we earned, the other one does not.
I can see how you call one “spending” and I can see how you call the other one “spending.” But to characterize the two of them as the same thing, so you can say “you can’t wave a big stack of paper around now if you didn’t do exactly the same thing back then”…which is what she’s trying to say, as I understand it…I don’t see how that argument resonates even with people who would be friendly to it.
If you run for President, but you’ve consumed hallucinogenic drugs, there’s going to be a scandal. I’m noticing the same is not true of our Congress. That is something that needs to change. And we certainly shouldn’t be allowing them to chase the dragon while they’re at work. Now, is that the case? Things like this give me serious cause to wonder.
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