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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.
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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.
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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...
Jeffrey Lord is writing in the American Spectator…
President Obama will not be re-elected. Period.
…very, very boldly, as you can see. Why’s he being so bold? What prompts him? Why does he think such heresy let alone scribble it down?
Let us read further:
Obamaflation has arrived, and this is what it looks like.
Milk. A gallon of skim. At the local Giant in Central Pennsylvania:
January 11, 2011: $3.20
February 28, 2011: $3.24
March 6, 2011: $3.34
April 23. 2011: $3.48That would be a 28 cent rise in a mere 102 days, from January to April of this year. The third year of the Obama misadventure.
Then there’s the celery. Same sized bag. Same store.
January 11, 2011: $1.99 a bag.
March 6, 2011: $2.49 a bag.A rise of 50 cents in 54 days.
You can stand on your soapbox and loftily intone “I don’t care Obama is awesome!” until you’re blue in the face. You can throw out all the platitudes you care to…Can’t Explain It There’s Just Something About Him…The Real Deal…Breath of Fresh Air.
But when you climb off that soapbox you need to go home, and to get home you need to buy gas. Economic realities set in.
WHAT SEEMS TO HAVE LEFT Obama strategists clueless is the fundamental historical fact that inflation comes slowly. Milk today, celery tomorrow, and gas almost every day. Then, too late, there’s a collective gasp of recognition by Americans walking around the grocery store that it’s no longer just the milk and the celery but the soup, the chicken, the hamburger and perhaps now critically — the Excedrin. Don’t forget the rent, either. The shock of realization dawns that somehow the patient — America — is suddenly in dire economic health and the only way out is a brutally painful form of political surgery.
But what about the swaggering and the smirking, the bigotry and the xenophobia, the — what did they call it? Jingoism, hyper-nationalism, extremist patriotism and exceptionalism. The Won was going to fix all that with a dose of much-needed humility and then we were going to be fashionable, followed by popular, around the world.
Popular hasn’t materialized. Fashionable seems to be fleeting. Humble is here, for sure…hard not to be humble when your President is bowing to everybody.
But you know what they say about humility. It’s expensive. How much humility can you afford?
Ah, but then there is the media. The media will keep Holy Man all propped up, net Him His 270 electoral votes just barely. It’s their job to tell everybody what to think after all!
Problem: After they’re done doing that — they need to buy gas too.
Obama’s a one-termer, because He hasn’t done anything that makes a second term worthy of consideration. Just give awesome speeches and make things cost more. I don’t need to double my budget for gas, to listen to awesome speeches, and neither do you. Just hit “record” and “play.”
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Obama’s a one-termer, because He hasn’t done anything that makes a second term worthy of consideration.>
You assume that the likely GOP candidate exists who is worthy of consideration. I submit that the powers that be will not that candidate win. We shall see, though; I’d like to be wrong this time.
- Physics Geek | 05/01/2011 @ 19:16Oops. Looks like I failed to close my italics tag. Sorry.
- Physics Geek | 05/01/2011 @ 19:19Obama 2012: He occupied the White House when Bin Laden reached ambient temperature.
- Jason | 05/01/2011 @ 20:41The powers-that-be have not liked any Republican, at least in my lifetime.
And yet democrats have only held the White House forty percent of the time. How is that to be explained? I see only one way: Their policies are cockeyed, and the public doesn’t need too much time to catch on.
Of course the public doesn’t need much time to forget either. But that last part doesn’t pertain to 2012.
- mkfreeberg | 05/01/2011 @ 21:10Now everyone is saying he’s got it in the bag anyway because OBL has been killed.
I said, bullsh*t. OBL being dead doesn’t change $5/gallon gas, double digit unemployment & inflation, a housing market in shambles, an unpopular healthcare law, or the Tea Party nipping at his heels.
It’s going to take more than a single dead terrorist to change all of that. Not to mention that you’ve got plenty of people pointing out that terrorism is hardly over just because OBL has been dealt with.
I realize you wrote this post before the big news broke, but I couldn’t help wondering if this bombshell did anything to change your perspective.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 05/02/2011 @ 07:31That always makes me laugh.
Takuan Seiyo said something like this when Obumbler bowed to Emperor Akihito:
‘He bowed as if he were a broken backed toilet attendant bowing to his ultimate master.’
The ‘Short Attention Span Theater’ of US politics will be past the death OBL before the month is out.
- Robohobo | 05/03/2011 @ 21:13