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...
The Holy One’s thin-skinned-ness, or lack of class, or ignorant and unrepentant chauvinism — whatever it is — is a personal quirk. But four decades and change after He became a person, He also became the anointed spiritual leader of a nation that never before needed one, as well as our 44th President.
And so the wisdom or lack thereof regarding His decision deserves some inspection. Charles Krauthammer brings it.
[I]f the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty…the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”
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This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets (a) hanged or (b) 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
I note, with great interest, that it seems to be a staple idea of the democrat party that foreign policy needs to be managed this way. We should rely on the Picard vs. Tazmanian Devil paradigm, which states that when a conflict occurs between a civilized force and a savage one, the savage mindset will be influenced by the civilized one rather than the other way ’round. They will learn from our superior example.
I struggle to recall any episode in human history in which this has been demonstrated to work.
I also struggle to recall any election campaign, in which a democrat contender behaved this way toward his Republican opponent. I pledge to limit my firepower; because being the less aggressive force is more important to me than winning.
Republicans and democrats do seem to behave toward each other with more-or-less equal servings of hostility.
Except the Republicans, on average, are even more hostile to terrorists than they are to the opposing political party. I’m just wishing my current President would show half as much hostility toward those who seek to kill my fellow countrymen, as He and His people show toward Republicans, conservatives and tea party activists. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Krauthammer has it right. This new policy is so bollywonkers and fubar’d, Janet Napolitano must think it’ll work perfectly.
Update: Buck found the perfect cartoon.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 04/10/2010 @ 08:28Except the Republicans, on average, are even more hostile to terrorists than they are to the opposing political party. I’m just wishing my current President would show half as much hostility toward those who seek to kill my fellow countrymen, as He and His people show toward Republicans, conservatives and tea party activists.
This really is the core issue for me. I see more aggression, hatred, and exclusion directed at conservatives than I do foreign enemies of the United States.
Did you ever notice it seems to be Chavez, Putin, and Dinnerjacket (not to mention, illegal immigrants) who get “the benefit of the doubt,” while the president’s domestic critics are assumed to be racist, stupid, ill-informed, or worse?
Now, I do associate this despicable behavior more with liberal elites – left-wing politicians, union leaders, left-wing special interest, college professors, Hollywood actors – more than I do with rank-and-file liberals and Democrats. While many of them didn’t support the war in Iraq, they sure as hell wanted the Taliban punished after what the latter did to us. The problem is that so many of them aren’t paying attention, and so they buy into all this crap about what horrid people the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Tea Partiers are supposed to be. It dovetails nicely with the minorities among them who’ve been brainwashed to feel like perpetual victims of racism.
Still and all, it makes you long for the old days of the Truman Democrats, when politics stopped at the water’s edge. This kind of intra-societal infighting would have been unthinkable before the Vietnam era, really.
- cylarz | 04/10/2010 @ 14:48So, are you saying, vis a vis the analogy, that our mission to democratize the cesspool compromising the Afpak war front is a wasted effort?
- Daphne | 04/10/2010 @ 20:48I think the point is that Obama’s policy will make it a wasted effort….
- KG | 04/10/2010 @ 23:16I know KG, I was poking at him a little bit.
- Daphne | 04/11/2010 @ 05:37Thanks for the link, Morgan.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 04/30/2010 @ 05:16