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...
This absolutely fascinates me. If you imagine liberals thinking about their goals the way normal people do about theirs, beginning with the end in mind and persevering through setbacks large and small — if you imagine them that way — you would have to credit them with optimism beyond the perimeter of sanity, plucky resolve that is just off-the-charts, inhuman. You would have to see them as bursting at the seams with exactly what they do not encourage in others. The attitude of: Don’t worry, you’ll win in the end. This is 180 degrees contrary to their message to everybody else, which essentially is one of: If you’re making $45k a year now, we can guarantee you will never make more than $55k in your whole life. You need social programs. Don’t try. Give up. The rich people have rigged the game. Go on “foostamps.”
Do liberals think about the end game? They have such enthusiasm, in those low trenches following their most disappointing setbacks, I know I’m not capable of matching it in mine. And so I don’t think of them that way, I think of them more like the dog chasing the car. Not a thought in the world about where this is all going, the possible scenarios, the victory, the defeat. There is only the pursuit. That’s why they pound the pavement just as hard when things aren’t going their way, as they do when they are. Just like the dog. I think.
And I’m more sure of it when I read things like this (via Ed Driscoll, via EBD at Small Dead Animals):
Which brings us to America in 2015. It’s becoming a nation where an elite that is certain of its power and its moral rightness is waging a cultural war on a despised minority. Except it’s not actually a minority – it only seems that way because it is marginalized by the coastal elitist liberals who run the mainstream media.
Today in America, we have a liberal president refuses to recognize the majority sent to Congress as a reaction to his progressive failures, and who uses extra-Constitutional means like executive orders to stifle the voice of his opponents. We have a liberal establishment on a secular jihad against people who dare place their conscience ahead of progressive dogma. And we have two different sets of laws, one for the little people and one for liberals like Lois Lerner, Al Sharpton and Hillary Clinton, who can blatantly commit federal crimes and walk away scot free and smirking.
Today in America, a despised minority that is really no minority is the target of an establishment that considers this minority unworthy of respect, unworthy of rights, and unworthy of having a say in the direction of this country. It’s an establishment that has one law for itself, and another for its enemies. It’s an establishment that inflicts an ever-increasing series of petty humiliations on its opponents and considers this all hilarious.
That’s a recipe for disaster…
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Liberals imagine that their president can simply take whatever actions he pleases — including ones he previously admitted were unconstitutional — and that the next Republican president won’t do the same. Except then it will be to negate their cherished policies.
Maybe they just don’t give a rip about the “cherished policies.” Maybe they just enjoy the fight, and the feelings that go with it. The feeling of standing in a park watching a black President-Elect in November of 2008, crying their tears of joy. Watching Bill Clinton lie and get away with it, watching his alleged “wife” all-but-dismiss the Senate panel that was supposed to be grilling her for her incompetence, by hollering “what difference does it make?”
Normal people keep watching them, and making the mistake of anticipating where this is all going, trying to figure out what the liberals are planning. Trying to get in their heads, like this is some sort of a chess game.
It’s not chess. It’s more like break-dancing. Really stupid, pointless, clumsy break-dancing.
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Oswald Spengler nailed this 100 years ago. He called it “Caesarism.” So long as the bare minimum sham of representative government is maintained, elites can do whatever they want, because the mob simply enjoys being in the mob.
There was a Roman Senate right down to the very end, you’ll recall; they were “debating” and “voting on” policies even as barbarians were rampaging through the streets. Not only that — I’d wager good money that the “political” debates were much fiercer, and factional loyalty much, much higher, when the barbarians were literally at the gates. The one thing that could stop the barbarians — the legions — were gone; bringing them back was well beyond the realm of politics, because politics had destroyed their cultural underpinnings centuries before. All that was left for the mob was frantic displacement activity — vote for this! Vote against that! Barackius Obamius is the Jupiter-blessed hero who will save us all!
That’s why I have to laugh at “feminism,” gay wedding cakes, etc. The only real problems in this country are the debt and the borders. But those are impossible to fix; the culture is too far gone. So we’ll all agree to pretend that two dudes getting their court-ordered nuptial cake at gunpoint is a real victory.
- Severian | 04/09/2015 @ 07:07I STILL have a hair across my butt with calling Progressive New World Order useful idiots “Liberals”
Despite the willful disingenuous ignorance in appropriating the name, and usurping the “minimal authoritarian gub’mint….when it suits, from…I guess ….1930s-40s in the US. Of course Communists were “popular” amongst the easily duped “kids” desperate to “belong” to something…ANYTHING, where
“important people” will tell them variations of “you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and Doggone It, people like you”, or “you’re a strong, intelligent, independent, leader”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome#Description
Lest we forget:
Officially, Munchausen syndrome has been renamed (by someone important I suppose) “Factitious Disorder”, with specificity either as “Imposed on Self” or “Imposed on Another” (formerly “by Proxy)
It’s getting so bad that I’ve started hearing “No, I will NOT go online and look it up!”, and “No, I will NOT
- CaptDMO | 04/10/2015 @ 23:27look it up in the dictionary!”, despite a “puter, AND a dead tree, unabridged dictionary, within 30 feet.
Understandably, as I have a history of results with such requests.
NOT that “the narrative” changes, three days later, or in the next ” new “captured audience” venue
“and that the next Republican president won’t do the same. Except then it will be to negate their cherished policies.” Unfortunately, I personally don’t believe they will ever think about that for two reasons:
- P_Ang | 04/14/2015 @ 17:55One, they believe in Obama, they are fully aware of their vote-rigging capabilities, their media propaganda machine and are also fully aware and have full faith in the mass import of illegal democrat voters. They silence any opposition by both screaming “racism” and claiming that it’s the moral “Christian” thing to do. (While ignoring the fact that by stealing from taxpayers to pay for lawbreakers they are not “Giving to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God’s,” among the many arguments.)
Two, they believe they will just be able to pull off the “filibuster bait-and-switch” again if worse comes to worse. Remember when they changed Congressional law to prevent Republicans from impeding terrible Democrat ideas from being passed willy nilly? You know, those laws that they didn’t have time to read, sure that voting along party lines would never get them in trouble? Remember when they realized they were going to lose Congress, suddenly that law went back on the books? Better be darn sure if they realize they are going to lose power there will be a metric buttload of “executive orders” allowing Dems to do anything they prevented Republicans from doing.