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...
After donating tens of thousands dollars to area schools, Chick-fil-A was banned from donating hundreds of meals to a booster club by a public high school in Southern California’s Ventura County because some parents might take offense to the franchise.
Ventura High School principal Val Wyatt voiced her objection to Chick-fil-A and her reasoning for the ban, which she announced just hours before the school’s football team fundraiser at a back-to-school event on Wednesday, September 10.
“With their political stance on gay rights and because the students of Ventura High School and their parents would be at the event, I didn’t want them on campus,” Wyatt told the Ventura County Star.
I’ve noticed when you make some sort of observation about dirty tricks used by the left-wing, you haven’t got long to wait before some ostensibly “middle of the road” guy manages to come up with some isolated anecdote of something similar done or used by a Republican, or noted conservative. It’s an effective strategy because there always is one. If they can’t find one, they just do what the left always does, and revise definitions, in this case the definition of “similar.” Congressman Hyde’s affair with a married woman over thirty years before the Clinton impeachment hearings, for example, that’s supposed to have something to do with a sitting President getting a blow job from an intern young enough to be his daughter, lying about it repeatedly, suborning perjury, obstructing justice and abusing power.
So, the moderate level of difficulty you and I have thinking back on history and answering questions that begin with “have we ever” or “has there ever been…” It isn’t even that much work for them. Reality is like warm, soft putty in their hands. They can always find a right-winger who did “the same” thing.
However, I wonder about this public relations maneuver they use, this “sensitive proxy for made-up offended person” move.
It’s pure cowardice, and I associate it purely with The Left; not just because I want to. So lacking is it in form, shape and substance, you could use it to ban, bar, neutralize or obliterate just about anything — and make it look good. God, Mom, Dad, the American Flag, Apple Pie, even helping the poor.
It’s just like “I’ve received death threats in the e-mail,” it doesn’t say anything at all, there’s no way to potentially falsify it so there’s no way to test it.
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That someone “might be offended” by the banning of forthrightly expressed opinions never seems to occur to them.
Funny, that….
- Severian | 09/21/2014 @ 06:54This just shows how inferior our current “press” is, because the natural question was not asked : “Muslim culture is offended by women in positions of power. Will you be resigning to avoid giving them offense?”. If the press was interested in doing their job (not electing democrats, which they obviously thing trumps what they get paid for….), they would be finding out what, exactly, the boundaries of offense are. Alas……
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 09/21/2014 @ 16:55