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...
Two issues are involved here, they’re both important and one of them doesn’t even have to do with abortion. The first one — abortion-related — is all these nihilists, eugenicists and other assorted crackpots walking around claiming to champion a woman’s “right to choose to abort or to carry to term,” either which way so long as the decision is hers. And in reality, that is absolutely, positively not what they want. They like abortions. They want more of them.
The second issue is just as invasive and insidious. For over forty years now, it has been a tactic of the world communist movement to infiltrate our government and our society through this sneaky tactic of “oh I’m for free speech, but I’m also against misleading speech, and I don’t want to restrict your speech but if you’re going to say this thing over here you also have to say that thing over there.”
What Allred is arguing is the essence of the Red Lion vs. FCC decision of 1969 which says exactly this. Americans need to start rejecting this because we really have no excuse not to. We’ve seen a few rounds of this; we know how the game is played. It is exactly as Ms. Kelly has described it. You want to say A, A happens to be completely true but here comes this arbitrary authority to say you can say A only if you include B. Saying B happens to be costly and unworkable, but it’s an unfunded mandate and it’s all your problem. If you choose to pay the costs of saying B, there will be a C, D, E, F and G…because we wouldn’t want to “mislead” anybody.
Finally you throw in the towel, and the arbitrary authority says “Oh well. Just remember, we didn’t restrict your free speech!”
Smile. Wink.
Just disgusting.
You know what our problem is? We’re way too cynical in some ways, and not nearly cynical enough in others.
Gloria All<<RED>>. Somethin’ else. You know, if she was a character in a work of fiction, I’d say the author should have put a little more work into choosing her name. The metaphor is too obvious. And her tactics are, too.
Yeah, it’s just crazy old white guys in the late stages of dementia who babble away about “the commies are taking over!” Maybe I’m turning into one, I dunno. One thing is making me crazy like a fox over this stuff, faster than any other: facts. The more I learn about what really went down, the clearer it is that communism is not a hard, tangible organization from a dead empire, like the KGB. It’s a way of looking at the world, a jaundiced spirit. It is invasive; it did invade; it’s still invading. It’s an ideological prybar, with a great wealth of proven techniques and tactics behind it for sticking its nose where it isn’t welcome. It is recognizable by these tactics.
It is the enemy of human dignity itself. Keep saying no.
Thanks to Danny Glover at Hot Air, who blogs at The Enlightened Redneck.
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Yeah. Pretty much nailed it.
I was sitting there thinking … wait, so what you’re saying is that if they want to run an ad telling their true story they need to run an ad for your position as well? Has nothing to do with how much it costs to run an ad. Gloria wants to run an ad, she’s welcomed to run her own ad.
Pattern?
Bristol Palin says she’s not going to have sex again until she’s married, and Oprah, The View, and the rest of the left goes ballistic. It is more shut uppery.
And what’s this about “religiously inspired”? Is there now a ban on all “religiously inspired” speech? Or just when the left doesn’t want to hear it, which would be during the Superbowl, during Prime Time, the Oscars, or come to think of it … ever?
Really, it’s a long way from:
to — you can’t show a TV ad promoting a point of view if it might be ‘religously inspired’ and somebody else might not like the message.
“Well … ahh … I’m not saying they’re not telling the truth…”
And of course there was the talking points rapidfire about “mandatory motherhood”, “compulsory motherhood” for women and repeated keeping abortions safe legal and available in the United States.
Also loved this: If in fact the ad airs as it is … and none of us have seen it yet…
“I haven’t read the bill, but it won’t cost anything and it won’t allow anything to become between you and your doctor … and definitely there’s no ‘death panels’. You’re just ‘scare mongering’. I know. I haven’t read it. Because it doesn’t exist. Even though we’re voting on it tonight. And I know it won’t do those things.”
Incidentally, such trivial lawsuit threats are right out of Alinsky.
The backlash is a’comin’.
- philmon | 02/02/2010 @ 08:09Another excellent argument eloquently framed, young fella. Like philmon pithily puts it, the local chapters of Acolytes For Alinsky® have been busily blurring the brilliance/bullshit boundary at every opportunity, and it behooves us all indeed to “Keep Saying No.”
Every time the “Keep it safe and legal” lie surfaces, the object of this brilliance needs to cite the fact that the vast majority of abortions over the last 40 years have been purchased by middle- and upper-middle-class white women out of their pin money as a means of retroactive birth control. Some estimates put it as high as 80 percent. And then tell ’em to get off yer goddam lawn.
Regards
A Crazy Old White Guy
- rob | 02/02/2010 @ 08:48Communism. You know, I have really only one good thing to say about it, and then only about the Soviet’s brand of it.
It gave the world some fine small arms.
That’s the only thing I can say. The Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle from World War II, the SKS of the late 40s and 50s, and the Kalishnikov / AK-47, the world’s most popular assault rifle. The Tokarev automatic pistol. All four use a 7.62 mm round, though the cartridge length varies. All four are sturdy, reliable, easy-to-use, relatively accurate, and are cheap to shoot even today if one uses military surplus ammunition left over from the Cold War.
Many individual units of all four types (literally millions, in fact) are in the United States today, in gun stores and in the hands of private collectors such as me. (I don’t have an AK-47, but if I move to a state where they’re legal, it will be my first purchase.) In their day, these guns were originally designed and manufactured with one purpose in mind: first to retain communism as the dominant form of government in central and eastern Europe against the onslaught of the Nazis. Later, these weapons were carried by Red Army troops, or shipped to their proxies and supporters, in the hopes of expanding the reach and presence of Soviet communism.
Today, the ones that have landed in the USA would be used to shoot at any communist forces daring to set foot on US soil. In other words, today they’d be used to defend freedom, not oppression.
Guns. The one thing communists were good at making.
- cylarz | 02/03/2010 @ 01:00cylarz –
Milsurp, huh? I like that stuff too, and I’ve got a terrible itch for a K31 and no means to scratch it.
Speaking of which, my littermates over at the WashReb recently had a loooong colloquy offline on this topic, which inspired the following:
http://washingtonrebel.typepad.com/washington_rebel/2010/01/that-toddlin-town.html
Regards
- rob | 02/03/2010 @ 07:08Rob:
I’m in the market for a K31 myself. I assume you mean a Swiss Schmidt-Rubin.
http://www.jgsales.com/product_info.php/c/c-r-guns/p/swiss-k-31-schmidt-rubin,-walnut-stock,-7-5-swiss-caliber-g-vg-condition/cPath/290/products_id/3439
It has to ship to an FFL which will charge you a handling fee (often around $130, perhaps less in your state).
For ammo for this rifle:
http://www.jgsales.com/index.php/ammo-for-rifles/7-5-swiss/cPath/12_256
also
http://www.samcoglobal.com/index.html
(scroll down just a bit)
The K31 was the battle rifle fielded by Switzerland’s army at one time. And so finally, I recommend surplusrifle.com for all your ex-military-gun discussion and advice needs.
- cylarz | 02/03/2010 @ 12:53Cylarz,
Yep, that’s her, all right. Thanks for the time spent. All those links are already in my bookmarks, and thence cometh the drool over this elegant machine. FiringLine forums
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/index.php?s=ffab8b7a441b3ca5dea79a0f039e0eea
are another great place to hear the experts workin’ it out, too.
You’ve probably already heard that the cognoscenti have extreme reservations (and oceans of evidence) about referring to the K31 as a Schmidt-Rubin due to design differences which escape me at the moment. I think it’s about the lockup on the bolt, but I can’t remember.
Anyhow, those beauties impress me as the epitome of Want One, but I’m living in a place where Playing Nice is mandatory and such things are disallowed. I’m getting younger, though, so maybe someday.
- rob | 02/03/2010 @ 16:13