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...
Because he’s on Obama’s team, and if you’ve been paying attention, you know that‘s what they do…
This has been a constant. If the question is not convenient, there is something wrong with the person who asked it; something superlatively wrong. And then a sermon has to be delivered on the spot about how this is the worst person in the entire country or something…lots of halting sentences and theatrical exasperation, lots of play-acting like the situation is somehow multifaceted and nuanced and complicated when it really isn’t.
Catch an Obama administration member with his hand in the cookie jar, and you’re a terrible person for seeing it.
This business about you-must-respect-the-office-I-hold is like a perfect campaign theme for why this crowd has to get sent home. Respect the office…meaning, as long as I’m in it, don’t subject me to any scrutiny or criticism even if it’s reasonable. The correct answer would be, yes Attorney General we respect your office, if we didn’t we wouldn’t have these hearings. We respect your office and that’s why we’re so concerned that the wrong person may be occupying it.
This is a separate and distinct criticism from Holder actually being guilty. Which I believe he is — but logically, it’s quite possible for him to be innocent, and still doing something else entirely wrong by engaging in this sort of behavior, and if he were guilty, he wouldn’t necessarily have to be doing this. It’s a completely separate transgression. And what really rankles me about it is not him doing it, but the reliability of it. Jay Carney does it pretty much constantly. Question comes out, the person to whom it’s directed doesn’t appreciate it, and you get this phony-baloney Omigaw! This is the WORST QUESTION EVAR! In human history! I’m just…I can’t BELIEVE you said that!
See it for what it is. It’s a crutch.
And Peurto Rico is a real place. What was that about respecting offices?
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Holder is doing the old trial lawyers trick. As the old saying goes; “If the facts are on your side, you pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, you pound on the law. When you have neither, you pound on the table.”
- Duffy | 02/03/2012 @ 07:06Maybe I’m a little slow but could someone please explain to me how this ‘Fast & Furious’ debacle ISN’T worse, far worse, than Watergate…or ‘Iran Contra’…or the ‘No WMD’s were found in Iraq’ (fantasy)???
You can leave out the part about how this is Democrat administration, how it was “just” a border patrol agent who was murdered and weapons are still in the hands of Mexican narcotics traffickers, I got all that.
Nobody’s been fired, nobody’s been even reprimanded, hell I understand some have actually been fucking PROMOTED!
Now our AG, (Yeah, you work for us Bitch) doesn’t like a particular line of questioning so he’s going all super model diva. Well eat a freaking’ Snickers, answer the damn questions and tell us why you should still have a job (and not in jail), ya’ little pissant.
- tim | 02/03/2012 @ 07:45They made it through childhood never having to answer for anything, and see no reason why they should start now.
If the problem applies to any one definable set of the over-privileged, it’s based on generation not race. These kids were able to duck ANY line of questioning that wasn’t comfortable, by means of simple distraction. Nothing was ever their fault. And I’m afraid we’ve got another 20 years or so of baby boomers running things…
- mkfreeberg | 02/03/2012 @ 07:51Maybe I’m a little slow but could someone please explain to me how this ‘Fast & Furious’ debacle ISN’T worse, far worse, than Watergate…or ‘Iran Contra’…or the ‘No WMD’s were found in Iraq’ (fantasy)??
I’ve been wondering the same thing for some time now.
We impeached a president over the methodology and procedures of Reconstruction after the Civil War, or something like that.
We impeached another one over a botched burglary on the offices of some political opponents.
We impeached a third over lying under oath about an extramarital affair.
In none of those cases did anyone die as a result of presidential misconduct. This time, however, a Border Patrol agent has been killed (and the federal government has been slapped with a lawsuit over it) and hundreds of innocent people in Mexico are also dead…all because our government did something which was not only ill-advised (allowing guns to walk into the hands of violent gangs) but actually sinister (allow same in order to pin the blame for it onto US gun dealers, in order to turn around and justify a crackdown on the 2nd amendment rights of innocent people in America).
If Mister Wonderful manages to get re-elected and the GOP simultaneously captures a handful more seats in the Senate…I think our party needs to take a look about impeaching this weasel, especially if he refuses to fire Holder and/or put *that* SOB on trial. Holder belongs in jail, along with the acting head of the ATF that presided over this mess. The unemployment line is too good for either of them.
- cylarz | 02/04/2012 @ 04:09I wonder if the time is coming when the false civility and bonhomie will cease to exist. How can you respect and work with people who constantly belittle your existence?
Perhaps we should give them canes.
- chunt31854 | 02/05/2012 @ 04:22