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...
Lynda Carter, the former TV Wonder Woman, is the latest celeb nitwit to confirm for us that this whole thing about empowering women had very little to do with the women.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, you see, even though she’s doing exactly what the womens’ libbists told us women should be able to do…is the anti-Wonder-Woman.
Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?
No one has the right to dictate, particularly in this country, to force your own personal views upon the populace — religious views. I think that is suppressive, oppressive, and anti-American. We are the loyal opposition. That’s the whole point of this country: freedom of speech, personal rights, personal freedom. Nor would Wonder Woman be the person to tell people how to live their lives. Worry about your own life! Worry about your own family! Don’t be telling me what I want to do with mine.
I like John McCain. But this woman — it’s anathema to me what she stands for. I think America should be very afraid. Very afraid. Separation of church and state is the one thing the creators of the Constitution did agree on — that it wasn’t to be a religious government. People should feel free to speak their minds about religion but not dictate it or put it into law.
What I don’t understand, honestly, is how anyone can even begin to say they know the mind of God. Who do they think they are? I think that’s ridiculous. I know what God is in my life. Now I am sure that she’s not all just that. But it’s enough to me. It’s enough for me to have a visceral reaction. And it makes me mad.
People need to speak up. Doesn’t mean that I’m godless. Doesn’t mean that I am a murderer. What I hate is this demonization of everybody but one position. You’re un-American because you’re against the war. It’s such bullshit. Fear. It’s really such a finite way of thinking about God to think that your measley little mind can know the mind of God. It’s a very little God that way. I think that God’s bigger. I don’t presume to know his mind. Or her mind.
Let’s review. Gov. Palin is “judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how to live their lives.” She’s all about a “superior religious self-righteousness.” She hasn’t done it all, like Hillary has. She forces her personal religious views on the populace. She’s opposed to separation of church and state. She wants to put religion into law. She thinks she knows the mind of God.
Sources, please, Lynda?
One wonders how Ms. Carter feels about the cheesehead doc who lashed out at Gov. Palin, in that cute way media-connected docs do, by expressing “concern” over her decision to carry Trig to term.
As a vocal opponent of abortion, Ms. Palin’s widely discussed decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who may lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same, according to André Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
Dr. Lalonde said that above all else, women must be free to choose, and that popular messages to the contrary could have detrimental effects on women and their families.
“The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada,” he said. [emphasis Sister Toldjah’s]
I would suggest that anyone who fails to see the bullying and bludgeoning in that little news-bit, doesn’t know enough to recognize controlling behavior when it’s right in front of ’em. So that’s my piece of evidence to bring to the table — people are trying to control Gov. Palin, whether or not she’s trying to control other people. That’s my hand. What’s Lynda Carter’s?
I mean, her whole argument is based on this image she has of Palin. So where’s the proof?
A 1970’s feminist icon has run into a real flesh-and-blood functional feminist in 2008…and doesn’t know what to make of ‘er. Can’t see real feminism when it’s staring her right in the face. How sad. It never was about rights, opportunities, responsibilities or power for women. That never had anything to do with it. It’s about a political agenda, to which Real Feminist Sarah Palin is less than friendly. She’s shattering a ceiling alright. It’s like a giant Cone of Dumb that has encased us all these decades, pretending to be something it isn’t. It never was about the chicks. It was just a cynical tool to promote liberalism.
I think the comment I left in the Philly News sums up the balance of my thoughts on it…
We have a need here to turn WW’s golden truth-lasso around on her. Central to her argument is that Gov. Palin wants to control how other people live. Source, please?
Take the Obama/Biden position on any issue…any issue at all…and within that position, there is a desire to define a class of person (usually rich people) and destroy everyone in that class, or at least hurt them. It may be veiled. But it’s always there. There’s always a Snidely Whiplash due for a come-uppins’. Always. I can’t even say the same thing about every old WW episode.
So who’s really more controlling?
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