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 just clarify a few things here.
• I am not in favor of anyone losing, or being jeopardized in, their position of employment because of their political beliefs. To clarify further, I wish there were a few more Obamatons who felt so protective of me and people like me. In my experience, that has not been the case.
• If His Holiness and His Holy Supporters and Minions come up with an idea that will be good for the country, I will sacrifice things to help get it implemented, should such a necessity or opportunity arise. If they come up with some knuckleheaded ideas but at least intend to help the country, I will sacrifice things to help get them educated.
• I cannot recall seeing evidence of the two scenarios in the previous bullet, having come to pass…not too often. I haven’t seen positive ideas out of them, and I haven’t seen positive intent out of them.
• This is the House of Eratosthenes, named after a library administrator who paid off some nameless walkin’ dude to pace out the distance between Alexandria and Syene, to figure out the circumference of the earth. In this place, we think what we know; we think what we’ve seen; we think what we’ve computed; we think what we’ve concluded from process-of-elimination. We do not think what we are told to think here! Go to Huffington Post if that’s what you want to see. And so far, all we’ve seen out of Obama and people backing Him, is a lot of dizzy nonsense, a few servings of America-loathing bile, and a great abundance of bullying-around that I should perceive patriotic sentiment in those who’ve shown no evidence at all of any such thing.
• Thomas Jefferson said if a nation desires to be ignorant and free, it wants what never was and never can be. I say, if you’ve figured out Obama’s the guy for the job and you happen to be well-educated on the facts involved, but you haven’t given any thought at all to how a reasonable mindset could draw different conclusions from seeing the same evidence you’ve seen — you’re still ignorant. By that definition, nearly all Obama supporters are ignorant. I’m calling that out based on what I’ve seen. They’ve digested a nugget of news about WMDs and Iraq, about Hurricane Katrina, about Enron, and from these things they’ve come to a conclusion they should vote for The Chosen One. I don’t begrudge that, quite so much, but too many of them never once considered that some of the things they’ve seen might possibly mean something else. They haven’t pondered it; it never entered their minds. That’s ignorant. You can’t be ignorant and free. Not for long.
• Just for the record, it is my personal wish this woman gets a good talking to, maybe a written warning, but then is allowed to keep her job. I’m as disturbed about it as the next guy when someone falls into a momentary lapse of judgment, and suffers career-death over it. I don’t think she deserves it.
• Also for the record, I’m willing to bet a large amount of money that if she was commenting on me, and I was in the situation she’s in now, she would not have the same attitude about me and my job. I think she’d want me to lose my job even if I had not been guilty of exercising horrible judgment about anything. I think she’d want it to happen to me just because. Since I dared to oppose her Messiah.
• Furthermore, there are a lot of Obamatons just like her who have that same problem. That one, you need not consider to be a “large wager” from me. It is a testament to empirical observation and a chronicling of personal experience.
Obamatons are dangerous. To themselves and to those around them. To many of them are thinking, and behaving, like religious fundamentalists. In fact, in too many cases, that’s exactly what they are.
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Her attitude is far too cocksure and arrogant for me to take this episode as a momentary lapse of judgment. This strutting sow should be fired.
- Morenuancedthanyou | 11/08/2008 @ 04:32She’ll do fine; she’ll be warming up crowds for Ward Churchill in a few months.
I’m more than a little bit conflicted about it. Fired — to teach her a lesson? I’m inclined to lean toward blogger friend Buck’s direction on that. That’s what the left-wing does to people on the right…obliterate them, stop them from earning a living, to teach those knuckle-dragging red-state rubes a lesson. Buck sez, let the left keep ugly traits like those, let us not borrow those, and I have to agree that makes good sense.
Fired — to stop her from doing damage? To make room for another teacher who might lean the same direction politically, but possess a more, er, *nuanced* way of looking at the issues? I’d have a much harder time opposing that. The kids would benefit, probably a great deal.
It’s an important distinction to make, one that is rarely made. The one part of the video in which I’m the least conflicted? Where she leans on that little girl whose father is in Iraq, telling her McCain would keep your daddy there for a hundred years. Just WOW. Who has the balls to say crap like that with a camera running? Made me wonder if I wasn’t being punk’d.
- mkfreeberg | 11/08/2008 @ 09:39That was my reason, to remove her from her position of power *as an officially approved representative of adult society* to corrupt children.
- Morenuancedthanyou | 11/08/2008 @ 13:05Well, it certainly is clear that, to quote Edward VIII, “something must be done.”
What it is, and for what reasons, is an interesting debate to have.
The party that just won the election, would not be havin’ it. Not in a million years…not on any lefty blog you care to find, I daresay. The slick phony-moderates like Obama would talk a good game about letting the system work its course. But behind closed doors, if they found a tighty-righty teacher making fun of her students whose parents supported the Obama/Biden ticket, they’d be all…let’s bring back the guillotine.
- mkfreeberg | 11/08/2008 @ 13:13Thanks for the shout-out, Morgan. Personally… I’d give the bitch a written reprimand, place it in her personnel file, and warn her that a repeat occurrence will result in termination… no ifs, ands, or buts.
- Buck | 11/08/2008 @ 21:28