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...
Let’s start with the first problem: The guy’s a freakin’ broken record…
Another problem, which I posted to my Hello Kitty of Blogging account:
What I’m learning from SOTU #8: We’ve got a lot of harebrained politicians out there who think financial solvency can be gauged *solely* by annual income. All throughout the fifty states. This is quite bizarre…we really let these people make decisions about things??
No distinction made between personal income and household income. No distinction made between gross and AGI. And forget all about whether you’re living in an urban mecca, or whether you’re out in the middle of ugly brown hills with dead grass all around with your nearest neighbor a third of a mile away. Barack Obama thinks, if He knows you’re making $200k a year, He knows what your standard of living is…and if He knows you’re making a million, He knows something else about how you live.
Dare I say it — He just isn’t very sophisticated. It’s like He never has had to live in the real world.
Then I noted,
What I’m learning from SOTU #15: Liberals think the most wonderful lesson to be learned from the American experiment, is about working together and laboring toward a common purpose. How sickeningly insulting…
Really, that’s all it was ever about? Patrick Henry said “Give me togetherness or give me death,” is that how that speech went?
After His Holiness relinquished the podium and The House adjourned, with another couple bottles of brew percolating in my system I had another thought…
Sometimes, when you’re exposed to something repeatedly, you notice new things about it even if the repeated-exposure has been going on awhile and the thing you’re being exposed to is very simple.
I noticed something about President Obama’s (>=400 times a year) speeches tonight, and it’s disturbing. This leitmotif of “should” and “should not.” From way early on, we’ve been doing something abysmally stupid, bumbling around like Keystone Cops, until the blessed day that Barack The Magnificent walked into line-of-sight and said “this should not be that way” and now we’re all supposed to look at each other and go duh, hey, He’s right, why are we doing this.
Like it’s really that simple, Pres. Obama? ALL of the time?? There couldn’t possibly have been some rational reason why well-intentioned people have been doing it this way, regardless of how little sense it makes to You? Isn’t this how You got in trouble with that promise to shut down Guantanamo? Isn’t this exactly how You got in trouble with that dumbass remark about the Cambridge police and how they “acted stupidly”?
I’ve personally met people like this, carrying around all the arrogance to think everyone else was being completely nonsensical until they came on the scene, channelling the long-awaited voice of reason. Just very few people like this I’ve met…very, very few. Thank God.
Actually, I had some other thoughts. They mostly dealt with some things noticed by many other people…not a new thing by any means…since this calendar year is divisible by 4, which means it’s an election year, Barack Obama is sliding a lot of sentences past His lips which might as well have found their way into the speeches of a shrill, strident, uncompromising conservative Republican president. Not just the words, but the thoughts as well. What a wonderful place America is, how worthy the country is of an unremitting and terrible defense.
One of my Facebook friends, former work colleague, actually said “…this is a rehash of his campaign promises and he didn’t deliver. I agree there is no money for most of it. I like what he said about offshored jobs though.” This, I think, captures the essence of President Obama’s speeches, as well as the thought process within the audience He is trying to reach: “I know He has no credibility and He doesn’t mean any of it, but I liked His words when He said…”
So there are your three problems.
1. I know everything, so if I see people doing something I don’t understand, it can’t possibly be that they’ve been working in their specialty for awhile and know something I don’t know — they are starved from the benefit of my common sense and I shall distribute it to them…
2. I can promise you someone living on $201k a year in Beverly Hills is livin’ large, swimming in cash, whereas someone living in Eastern Montana on $199k a year doesn’t have a pot to piss in, or a window to throw it out of…
3. I know Barack Obama is writing me rubber checks, but His signature is SOOOOO pretty!
Now solve those three problems, and have the government spend less money every year than it’s taking in — we’ll be on much better footing, and all of our significant problems will become temporary.
Leave them as they are, and we will continue on the course that we’re on. The embedded video up top is testament to that.
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