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...
Palin haters’ comments follow…
Sarah palins password was 1234, thats easy to hax.
Be funny if he had locked her out.
palin sends a 22 year college nerd to prison – nice one palin…
This sentence is a crime in itself. Palin is a piece of shit.
Hacker? WTF? He guessed the security question, and the question was: where did we get married? Now any one who is a huge Pailin’s supporter would have guessed it, IF they would have any sign of intelligence! Give a guy a break, it’s not he’s fault she is that STUPID!
goddamn jewish lawyers.
So there are still a whole bunch of people out there laboring under the mistaken assumption that Palin used a lame password like “Sarah123” and the kid guessed it. In reality, he reset the password using Yahoo’s flaky security-question scheme. But never let the truth get in the way of a good rant, especially when you’re calling someone stupid.
He sought to change history by derailing the campaign. That was his purpose. By itself that was okay — but when it involved breaking the law, he didn’t even slow down to a gallop. What he was doing was so righteous. In that sense, he deserves a harsh sentence…although, IMO, 20-25 is a bit stiff. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s the very picture of someone who should be sent to jail. Yes, I’d say exactly the same thing if he hacked into Obama’s e-mail.
Hmm…that’s an interesting hypothetical. I wonder what the Palin-bashers would say if the shoe was on the other foot? There’s been an incredible amount of news and speculation about Holy Man’s birthplace, and it’s not at all uncommon for an e-mail system to set up “Where Were You Born?” as a security question. Is Barry such a luminescent deity-like off-this-world intellect that He’d pass on that one, or would He go for it? And then someone figures it out…what do you say then? Stupid Obama, can’t believe he’s got the nuclear codes? Yeah. Sure. Sure ya would.
I hate to say it, but the severe sentence was needed. The whole “I Want To Be Part of This Thing And Change The World” has, over the last two years, just gotten way out of hand. From the comments I’m seeing, I’m doubting that this guy was just a lone voice in the wilderness — I think he was acting on a desire felt by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of mistaken young people. Yeah, just hack into this e-mail account! And then I’ll find something incriminating of Sarah Palin’s, and keep her out of anything because she’s so stupid…and then the decisions will be made by super duper smart people and life will be perfect! Yeah! All right…so e-mail hacking isn’t serious enough a crime to stop them, what else would they do?
They’re too young and dumb to understand that soopersmart people are capable of making boneheaded decisions and screwing things up. Which, in my book, means really, really young and inexperienced…the needle on the stupid-meter is pegging the post. People like this just making up their own code of morality as they go along, that’s a situation we don’t need. They do plenty enough damage just by voting.
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My generation definitely needs to be shown that there are limits, otherwise they will keep pulling stunts like this and that time Berkeley students marched on a freeway to protest budget cuts. Starry-eyed fools, the lot. Like primitives, the only thing they understand is force, which is why they do things that they feel project their power, instead of acting like civilized people. As long as they feel they have the power, they won’t stop.
That’s why stuff like that building takeover in that NY university a couple years back should be subject to overwhelming force, ie. the police should get in there asap and break it up. Don’t indulge them. I daresay this is why the boomers became what they are, because the adults in the 60’s and 70’s indulged them, instead of cracking down.
- KG | 05/02/2010 @ 10:28Hmm…that’s an interesting hypothetical. I wonder what the Palin-bashers would say if the shoe was on the other foot?
You don’t have to “wonder,” Morgan. Just pick up the newspaper.
What am I talking about? The hacked Climate-Gate emails, of course. Phil Jones and his buddies at East Anglia being revealed as bunch of fraudulent “scientists” trying to cook the books for financial gain and the sake of more government control over the global economy. Notice the difference here – nobody on the Left was the least bit concerned about what the emails actually SAID, mind you. No, all they care about was “Who leaked this? What’s his name? Who did this? What’s his home address? Tell me right now real quick hurry up so we can go beat the tobacco juice out of him!”
They wanted to crucify the hacker in that case, but this one? They want him let off with a slap on the wrist, or more likely, given a tickertape parade in his honor. And what’s really interesting is that the Palin emails didn’t contain anything particularly damning, like, say, correspondence proving that years of climate research was faked, cherry-picked, and skewed. No, the big bomb on the Palin emails was….hmm, I don’t even remember. (She talks about the incident in her book, and frankly I’d believe her side of the story over the media’s, every day of the week and twice on Sunday.)
The Left. Without double-standards, they’d have none at all.
- cylarz | 05/03/2010 @ 00:15I daresay this is why the boomers became what they are, because the adults in the 60’s and 70’s indulged them, instead of cracking down.
Well, there was that incident in 1970 at Kent State. I don’t think they’ve ever stopped talking about THAT one.
But hey, you’re right. I got so tired of those ceaseless antiwar protests that kept breaking out about the time the Iraq War got rolling. Personally I’ve have sent in the riot police to break up the “demonstrations” as soon as they got rolling. The charge? Aiding and abetting enemies of the United States in a time of war. Oh, we can’t charge people with that? Hmm, well, the Supremes upheld McCain-Feingold, and someone is going to turn around and tell me we can’t forcibly disperse antiwar protests?
- cylarz | 05/03/2010 @ 00:19Well, there was that incident in 1970 at Kent State. I don’t think they’ve ever stopped talking about THAT one.
This may seem cold and heartless to some, but I believe those students brought it upon themselves, behaving as they did. I’m pissed about what Obama is doing, yet you don’t see me going out and causing enough trouble to warrant calling in freaking military troops. That those students were neglecting their duty as students would be an understatement.
- KG | 05/03/2010 @ 19:47