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...
Left-Wing Lunatics Lose Again
The extremist plank of the Democratic party got a wedgie up the ass cheeks of its “let’s find a way to make it America’s fault that America got attacked” platform. The International Freedom Center, a museum custom-stocked by America-hating, goat-fornicating weird-beards, and spoiled-rotten trust-fund hippies who smell like ass, grass and cheetos, has come under attack, or at least under some pretty harsh questions, by some heavyweights who are supposed to be good little liberals — but, for better or for worse, have to worry about upcoming elections & junk.
The solidly extreme-left-wing-Democrat contingent that represents New York State in the Senate, took a look at the prospect of supporting IFC’s blame-America-first theme of memorializing the attacks, and both senators decided they didn’t have sufficient political capital to go this far. Unless support for the IFC can be found somewhere else, using the September 11 attacks as a springboard into teary lectures about raping indians, liberating Iraqis, and refusing to sign the Kyoto Treaty, will have to be done somewhere else.
The New York Post (link requires registration), strangely, presented this backpedaling as evidence against the idea that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a shrill, extreme left-wing, socialized-medicine-practitioning, anti-parents’-rights, baby-killing, male-bashing bigot, which has actually been firmly established for quite some time now.
“I cannot support the IFC,” Clinton declared last night in a strongly worded statement in response to an inquiry from The Post.
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“While I want to ensure that development and rebuilding in lower Manhattan move forward expeditiously, I am troubled by the serious concerns family members and first responders have expressed to me,” Clinton said.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) also voiced concern yesterday and called for a compromise � although he didn’t state flat-out opposition to the Freedom Center. “There’s got to be a way to meet the families’ sincere and real needs and build a center that honors the freedom that the victims died for. We hope that the LMDC will find some common ground quickly,” Schumer said.
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Clinton’s opposition means that the anti-IFC push is now a bipartisan cause. Three New York Republicans � Reps. John Sweeney (Saratoga), Peter King (L.I.) and Vito Fossella (S.I.) � are already challenging it as a “blame America first” project.
We’re not out of the woods yet. It would be good if Congress can launch an investigation to determine how the memorialization project was “hijacked,” in the words of Congressman John Sweeney (R-Saratoga). “If you asked people on the street what they wanted at Ground Zero, this would be the last thing that they wanted,” he said. I recommend, for this investigation, they start with Sarwar Ali, Chairman of something called the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, who has been running around “quietly” telling the IFC how to put on exhibits. Find out if he can be extradited from wherever he is, brought to New York and tried for espionage. Isn’t it a war crime to use your political clout to try to talk a foreign country into committing slow suicide? It should be.
Will the centrists regain control of the Democratic Party, before that party goes the way of the Whigs? Can they go so far as to get the Democratic Party to support the idea of killing bad guys and defending good guys? Or is that too much of a stretch?
I got a gut feel all Sen. Clinton cares about here, is fooling people into thinking she’s some middle-of-the-road kind of presidential candi– I mean, senator. But whatever motivates her conniving little heart, if her shift in position is due to letters, faxes and e-mails received from her constituents, the rest of us owe those constituents a debt we can scarcely repay. Whoever they are, they deserve the same adulation, celebration and gratitude that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth deserve. Well, almost.
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