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, that’s a huge relief.
The Fairness Doctrine is a “ghost that doesn’t exist” and neither Democrats nor Republicans are interested in seeing it restored, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning.
“The Fairness Doctrine – what a ghost that doesn’t exist,” said Reid. “None of us want to go back to the way it was before. It is an issue they brought up to talk about. No one wants to re-establish the Fairness Doctrine – Democrats or Republicans.”
Okay, Senator. I’ll quit worrying about it. Thanks so much for clearing that up.
Article goes on to say…
On Feb. 26 Sen. Jim DeMint (D-Calif.) proposed an amendment to the D.C. Voting Rights Act that would permanently ban reimplementation of the Fairness Doctrine. The amendment passed 87-11. Reid voted for the amendment.
Minutes before the amendment passed the Senate, however, Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed a separate amendment that says “certain affirmative actions” are “required” of the FCC, including “actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest.” This amendment also passed, on a vote of 57-41.
Reid also voted for the Durbin amendment.
Mmmm, hmmmm. Well, it’s the Officer Barbrady rule — move along, folks, there’s nothing to see here.
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“actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership”
Isn’t this basically the same way we got into the mortgage mess?
“and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest.”
I’m pretty sure that most broadcast stations are privately owned business’ that are beholden to nothing but their OWN self interests such as making money.
If these buffoons were so concerned about the “public interests” they would all resign immediately.
- tim | 03/11/2009 @ 13:19Where they get off track is where Congress thinks it can decide what is in the public interest.
When we leave it to the Public decides what it is Interested in, we get more Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Miller, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Laura Ingram. And Air America goes bankrupt.
We the People are the Public, and we decide what is in our interest. You the Congress go to Washington to carry out our wishes.
At least that’s the way it was set up.
- philmon | 03/11/2009 @ 14:56Jim DeMint is from South Carolina (not California) and he isn’t a Democrat.
Geesh…I WISH the guy were from my state. Certainly would love to see him representing me in the House of Lords instead of Box-your-Ears and Fein-Swine. He’s one more name I’d love to see bandied about more for ’12.
- cylarz | 03/17/2009 @ 00:29