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...
I’m not sure why there’s so much fuss…Barack Obama is doing the picking, so you knew we weren’t going to get a “Top Doctor” who would be concerned about, you know, doctoring…
The idea that members of the President’s Cabinet work for the Congress, acting as their agents in concert with the President, was briefly popular during the Reconstruction era. It’s been given a fair shot, and it doesn’t work. They’re not reflecting the will of the Senate, certainly not of the House — they work for their boss. He hires them. He fires them.
From IJ Review:
Vivek’s confirmation is the result of the nuclear option, that allowed the Senate to override a rule or precedent by a simple majority vote. This option ruled out any possibility of a GOP filibuster from senators in opposition to Murthy’s confirmation.
If this is an example of why we should have kept the Senate filibuster for confirmations, it isn’t a very good one. Surgeon General? I’m still not following why we have one.
“Guns are a health issue.” So, a silly person with silly ideas got parked in a silly place. Where does the grave damage happen? Now if Murthy is nominated for the Supreme Freakin’ Court, that’s a different conversation. But, again, constitutionality. Can it be reasonably said that “advice and consent” have not been forthcoming, when the Senate can manage 51 out of a 100 votes in favor, but not sixty?
Attack the problem at the source. The electorate has some responsibilities. If we have fifty-one senators in favor, there are much bigger problems that need fixing.
And then there’s this:
However, now that the nuclear option is within control of the GOP, it will certainly be interesting to see their response.
“Their” who? In context, seems like it’s gun control supporters, but it could be the White House. Doesn’t matter much, I guess, it’ll be interesting to see responses all-around.
Especially with a Republican President doing the choosing and a Republican Senate doing the confirmations, with 51 votes.
Back to Murthy: This is an asterisk by his name, is it not? What is there for the Surgeon General to do, other than appear on television and speak with the air of gravitas, as in “Nobody knows medicine better than this guy because he’s the country’s top doc”? Which hasn’t actually been confirmed, is never tested, and ultimately the bureaucrat ends up being just another gasbag, another high profile clown. The gig doesn’t add prestige, it ultimately diminishes what the individual has brought. But when the whole point of the job is, the Senate says this guy is the top doc, that’s about the only way the 51-against-60 thing matters. And it isn’t in a good way.
And there’s another thing: If guns are a health issue, what all else is a health issue? How about public debt and bloated government? We could start quite a list…I might start such a list with, “People affecting the public policies affecting guns, when they don’t know anything about guns.” Followed by the destructive effect the welfare state has on families in America. And then go from there.
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If guns are a health issue, what all else is a health issue?
What else indeed?
If “ignorance of history” is liberalism’s flux capacitor, then the belief that “progress” only happens in one direction is its catalyst. When the rationing comes, and there’s a hard man at the top who got elected on his promise to more “efficiently” administer the bloated social service machinery of government, I can think of a few “alternative lifestyles” that are way more injurious to the health of way more people than guns. On what grounds can we possibly object to banning them? Similarly, I can easily see something like “ghetto disaffective disorder” entering the now-entirely-politicized DSM-VI. It’s “sluggish schizophrenia,” except it makes one not just dissident, but violent. Now take your uber-Prozac, vibrantly diverse proles; it comes free with the EBT cards.
- Severian | 12/17/2014 @ 07:20I guess he could make a label for guns that says “The surgeon general has determined that shooting may be hazardous to someone’s health, especially if they are committing a criminal activity.”
Are there no straight, white, male appointees in this administration?
What are his credentials? Why is he here and not home?
Is he really a surgeon?
Did he serve in the military? (General?)
Does he eat at White Castle?
Did he change his name from Patel?
- Open other end | 12/17/2014 @ 07:25Did he serve in the military? (General?)
That’s the last time “Surgeon General” actually meant something — when that was the title of the Union Army’s chief medical officer.
- Severian | 12/17/2014 @ 08:42