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...
“This crap is disgraceful,” thunders blogsister Cas. “There is no other way to put it.”
She may very well be right about that. I thought Michael Corleone might have done a better job when he said “Don’t ever take sides against the family again, Fredo.” But the analogy breaks down because our country has yet to leave a horse head in anyone’s bed…not nearly as much as I’d like us to anyway. And Fredo was born into the Corleone family, he didn’t swear an oath to defend it.
Like these clowns did with our nation and with our Constitution.
Two thirds of us think states like Arizona have a perfect right to do this…
…and one hundred percent of me thinks the old dictum about politics stopping at the water’s edge, was a darn good idea. Agree with that or not, you have to agree something is plenty well hosed here. Can President Obama fly on down to Mexico and give a lecture to their government, whatever remains of it…and lecture them that they’re “acting stupidly” with their laws? He seems to get away with an awful lot, and I know He’s got that phrase in His cliche dictionary somewhere. Trouble is, He won’t stop apologizing to foreign leaders long enough to put that to the test; the finger-waggling is only aimed at His own country. You live somewhere else, you get a bow.
Compare and contrast: The two highest authorities representing our legislative branch, react after President Calderon gets done bashing one of our own United States:
And then they react after he says something positive about the country they purport to represent:
Can you say loyalty issue?
Perhaps this is the kind of thing FrankJ had in mind when he came up with the democrat party slogan of:
We don’t like America and we won’t rest until you don’t like it either.
Although I’m also kind of partial to this other gem that appears further down on the same list: “The Founding Fathers shot British people for less than what we’re doing.”
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Well, actually, since Fredo was a made member of the family as well as a blood member…he sort of did swear to defend it. Your main point still stands.
- Rich Fader | 05/23/2010 @ 08:17Yeah, Fredo was a punk-weasel. I know it’s an insignificant point, but to what event in particular are you referring? The three boys were born and raised in the Corleone household, they reached manhood, Vito got shot and then everyone had to sorta step in there. The early scene with Sonny opening his big fat mouth illustrated, for me anyway, that this wasn’t quite so much a sworn oath, it was more like a smart way to run the “family business.”
Taboos, especially ones that arrived with the family from the “old world,” didn’t require consent from those who labored under their obligations. They were just kinda there. “We don’t discuss business at the table,” “give him a living but he has no part in the family business,” ad infinitum.
What I was really trying to point out is that the buffoons in the pictures & video take part in formal ceremonies, placing their hands on a Bible, intoning sacred words that are supposed to mean something. And like the Corleones, we rely upon them to live up to it, although for more benevolent and ethical reasons. I’m not going to suggest taking anyone on a fishing trip that involves saying a Hail Mary, but there should be some fear, or trepidation, involved in breaking the oath. Clearly that, uh, horse has left the barn. That’s a problem.
- mkfreeberg | 05/23/2010 @ 08:38