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...
One more time I have to ask: Why do we keep pretending? Why do we persist in this belief that modern liberalism is something we all know darn good and well it isn’t? The meanest woman in Congress is a hardcore extreme-leftist democrat…as if it could ever be any other way.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s former legislative director is suing the Democratic congresswoman, claiming she made “humiliating” comments about her vision disability while refusing to do anything to accommodate her.
At one point, the lawsuit claims, the congresswoman told her: “I don’t care anything about your disability.”
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The suit states that Floyd suffers from “monocular vision,” causing eye fatigue and reducing reading speed — symptoms that worsen without adequate rest during the day.Floyd claims that after she came to work for Jackson Lee as legislative director and chief counsel in early 2010, the congresswoman did not follow through on a pledge from her office to “accommodate her disability.”
She specifically claimed the congresswoman piled her with reading assignments, often forcing her to work from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. without breaks to get it all done. Floyd claimed she was rebuffed when she asked for more time to rest her eyes. In April 2010, the suit claims, Jackson Lee told her, “It should not take 10 years to get them done,” in reference to a reading assignment.
This isn’t an isolated incident, we see it over and over. They’re good; anybody who is ever in conflict with them, for any reason at all, or is merely in the way, is bad. It’s a peculiar behavior to witness from ideologues determined to re-make society into a level playing field, on which all players are the same.
That’s because this isn’t what they want. They want differences. They want a land of Eloi and Morlochs. They want social stratification, they want elite clubs. They want to have someone of much lower status give them whatever they’re demanding right now. And they want a special pass so they can pop right up to the front of the line, while everyone who isn’t quite as special as they are, waits.
They are precisely what they tell us conservatives are.
All the posturing about non-discrimination and equal-rights and standing-up-for-the-less-fortunate, is nothing more than a gimmick. A cheap gimmick, used to display something about a false inner decency; which, if it were genuine, would eliminate the need for any such gimmick. That’s why it isn’t quite so reckless to generalize. If you really believed in all men, women and children being equal, a modern liberal is not what you’d be.
Hat tip to Jammie Wearing Fool, by way of Instapundit.
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“And they want a special pass so they can pop right up to the front of the line”
Oh this is so timley, Morgan.
As you probably know we here in the Peoples Republic of New York just passed same sex marriage. So this past Sunday, when the county clearks office is usally closed, they opened them so gay couples could apply for a license.
One couldn’t go and do other business, oh no, and let’s just look past the amount of money this cash strapped city/state had to pay so gay couples could get their license a day ealier than normal business days/hours. Damn it, we’re tolerant and all about diversity and don’t forget equality. Yup, we ‘re so into equality we made special accomidations for people who complain constantly how unequal they are treated.
And nobody of any importance or authority evidentially realized the hypocrisy involved in all this. That the very first thing we do for gays to marry is to treat them as better than the rest of us. The exact same thing they complained about, unequal treatment.
But I’m positive this will be the last time something like this happens, absolutely. Yup.
- tim | 07/12/2011 @ 08:20Out here in California, we passed a law requiring the teaching of “gay history” whatever that is, in our childrens’ textbooks, with any negative references to homosexuality scrubbed, and of course no “opt out” of parents allowed.
Because in addition to facing all the same dire financial problems that the state of New York does, we also routinely jostle with Arkansas for dead-last on the list of nationwide standardized test scores.
I won’t even get started on the *five* gun control bills in the pipeline, out here in La La Land.
- cylarz | 07/16/2011 @ 22:17