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 White House does not think President Obama will have to veto legislation repealing his signature legislative accomplishments.
Though Republicans are rattling their sabers with threats to repeal the new healthcare and financial regulatory laws, the White House feels safe with its buffer in the Democratic Senate.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday he does not think repeal legislation would make it out of both houses of Congress.
“I honestly don’t think it will come to that,” Gibbs said at his daily briefing on Thursday in response to a question about whether Obama would veto any attempts at repeal.
Republican leaders like Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Reps. John Boehner (Ohio) and Eric Cantor have said several times since Tuesday’s elections that they still plan to repeal the healthcare and financial reform laws.
Obama said Wednesday in a postmortem press conference on the midterms, which saw Democrats lose the House, that Americans do not want Congress to “re-litigate” the battles of the last two years.
Professor Reynolds has a comment:
That’s okay. Make ‘em vote for it again….
Exactly. There’s one guy in Washington who isn’t squeamish about being associated with ObamaCare by name, and that’s the guy who’s name is already on it.
People in the democrat party are not terribly fond of say those words the rest of us have to say all the time, before we can do anything that requires independent thought — something as simple as driving a car to a destination through unfamiliar backroads: “I think if I take this option, it will get me closer to where I want to go.” They very rarely seem to have thoughts like this.
Instead, it’s the legislation worked. It created or saved this-many-millions of jobs, even though there was a net job loss. If we did not pass fill-in-the-blank, the bad thing that happened right afterward would actually have been even worse. We need to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.
And the bill is good, not because of the effect it will have on things, but because it is such a sure thing for passage. You cannot block it. Or in this case, now that we’ve passed it you’ll never repeal it.
I don’t think they’re all that way; I think the ones from whom we hear over and over again, are the most powerful ones, the ones with the greatest authority within their circle. And those are the ones most entrenched in their way of thinking.
This way of thinking is liberated from cause-and-effect. I mean, by this, every plan they have is atomically simple — the plan itself defines the goal. In other words, when they propose a more progressive tax structure to fix the economy, so that 50% of us end up owing nothing, their goal is not to fix the economy. Their goal is to make the tax structure more progressive so that 50% of us end up owing nothing. I think all their plans are like this, so they never have to think about if-this-then-that.
And I mean EVER. “If I sleep with this intern my wife will leave me”; they don’t have to think that either, since if they’re caught, they’ll just have to appear on camera and talk about how nobody’s perfect, with the good little wifey standing by her man. No consequences, not for anybody, anywhere, never ever ever. Being conservative is the only thing that ever meets with an undesirable consequence; that’s the world in which they live, I think. All the evidence I’ve watched seems to lead back to this.
And so, when we discuss whether their plans should be defeated, or repealed, the discussion seems to continually go back to the eventual outcome — you shouldn’t try, because it’s an exercise in futility. What a sucky-ass defense; it might even work if there was a cost involved in trying to repeal ObamaCare. But imagine living your life this way. If you perceive the outcome is likely to go a certain way, you shouldn’t even get started on any effort to alter it because that would be Against The Rules.
I’m not sure the average progressive can define for me what the word “progressive” is really supposed to mean, but I’ve got a feeling it’s supposed to be the exact opposite of that kind of thinking.
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Ever notice that Progressives are, in many ways, the ultimate conservatives?
Conservative, I mean, in the old-school, “no change is a good change” sense. For instance: if there really were “social justice” in the way Our Betters seem to envision it, everyone would have his or her place… forever. The social hierarchy would perhaps be inverted, with “the dispossessed” at the top and white males (the embodiment of all that is evil) at the bottom, but nothing would ever, ever change, since one’s group membership — i.e. the one thing that the individual has absolutely no control over — would be the sole determinant of one’s social station.
There is no such thing as “cause and effect” in Progressiveland, because for them there are no causes, and no effects. Everything is based on having the right skin tone, sexual orientation, and mindset, which is of course genetically determined.
Progressivism is the ultimate stasis.
Whoa……
- Severian | 11/05/2010 @ 13:34