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...
Campaigning for Creigh Deeds two summers ago, Chairman Zero made headlines when He said:
“I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking,” he told the crowd. “I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”
Yeah, dictatorship, that’s the way to go. I used to have a co-worker who set his e-mail notify sound effect to President Bush saying “this would be a lot easier if it were a dicatorship, just so long as I’m the dictator, heh heh heh.” He thought that was a riot and a half. Wonder if he updated it with The Anointed One’s sound bite?
Everybody likes to be in charge.
But my goodness, what a difference an election makes.
President Obama, returning to Washington from his Christmas vacation in Hawaii, urged House and Senate GOP leaders to put partisan politics aside in the name of working to boost the economy.
The president said onboard Air Force One he hoped incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) “will realize that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012,” according to a pool report.
“And that our job this year is to make sure that we build on recovery,” he added. “We started making good progress on that in the lame-duck, and I expect to build on that progress when I get back.”
Problem: If our job this year is to make sure we build on the recovery, our job must necessarily be to scrap this left-wing apparatus that was just put together. And it isn’t me saying that, it’s the electorate saying that. It was decided about as clearly as it ever could be.
We’re having something of a crisis of leadership here; we need to better define what the L-word means. Does it mean, doing your bit to produce a conclusion to a matter that is beneficial to all concerned? Or does it mean just making sure you’re in charge? Or could “good leadership” be a reference to a sort of sleight-of-hand, whenever bad stuff is coming down, making sure it sticks to somebody else as if they had been making all the decisions, and then grabbing the wheel again? Sort of, ducking down to miss the flying turds, making sure it all lands on somebody else, but spending an absolute minimum of time out of the driver’s seat. Down and then back up again, in a flash, like a reverse-prairie-dog.
Further proof that Obama supporters don’t work. Everybody who’s been in the job market for awhile has had a boss like this somewhere along the line. It isn’t inspiring and it isn’t fun.
Whatever. It’s hugely snort-worthy that President “I Won” is saying we need to put politics aside now. You know, if it’s just one veto-override after another from here on out, it occurs to me that Congress would be doing exactly as He has asked. The numbers may not be there to make it turn out that way, but hey a guy can dream.
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He should know a bit about “time enough for campaigning” – that’s about all he knows about.
- DirtCrashr | 01/04/2011 @ 09:39will realize that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012
Oh, that’s rich, coming from a guy who never stopped campaigning. I’d like to take a moment to point out to our leftist friends that this is why you want actual experience in a candidate. No, Virginia, “running a political campaign” is not sufficient experience for the big job, since eventually campaigns end.
Honestly, I bet somewhere in his heart of hearts Obama is glad the Republicans took the House. He loves all the trappings of being president but hates the leadership and decision-making parts. Now all he has to do is travel and give speeches and play golf, occasionally flying back to DC to veto stuff.
On which endeavors, I hasten to add, I wish him nothing but the best. That way he can’t do any more damage to the country, and he can inflict his incredible narcissism on the Euros for a while.
- Severian | 01/04/2011 @ 10:46