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...
Dirty Harry’s Place, which reviews films from a right-wing perspective, has an interesting entry to make on that flick from eight years ago about the uppity female Vice-President. Remember that one?
It was the brainchild of that guy…who has something to say about what’s going on now. It might not be quite what you expect.
This quote will take your breath away, and not in a good way. Remember The Contender (2000), the Joan Allen film about a female vice presidential pick? When faced with the reality of his own idea, here’s what writer/director Rod Lurie had to say about Sarah Palin:
People who understand politics know anything is possible,” he said. “Picking a woman is an absolute strategic idea from McCain’s point of view. He’s not talking about governing right now. The idea of this woman actually facing down [Vladimir] Putin and negotiating with [Dmitry] Medvedev is idiotic.”
This is the same guy who cynically produced that short-lived love letter to Hillary Clinton.
Nope. No Palin Derangement Syndrome going on there. Just another case of not being careful about what you wish for.
The narrative never does change very much, does it? The first female Vice-President might very well be a conservative Republican — and they just can’t handle it. They say it’s about experience, and they fully expect people to take ’em seriously — what the hell? How stupid do they think people are?
They just want liberal politics. Period. Getting a woman in there, that’s just a way to make it happen. It was never anything more than that, to these people.
They wanted women to be put in office…but not to do whatever made sense to those women. They didn’t want the women to use their judgment. They just wanted them as figureheads. To…well, to do what they were told. That was the real vision all along.
Now the Republicans are running with a strong, smart, capable woman in the Veep slot. And she’s no moderate. Nor should she be. Like I keep telling people…you got one guy who says humans breathe air, another guy says humans breathe water, you don’t go sticking your face in the toilet half the time to achieve compromise. But there’s a real possibility here that the first woman in the White House in that capacity, will be a stalwart Republican. And the hysteria it’s creating is like one of the Ten Plagues of Egypt. It is palpable.
These people never had any respect for women from the get-go or for whatever authority those women could justify for themselves. It’s like this: The Hollywood crowd wants powerful women to decide things in whatever way seems fitting to those powerful women…the same way Henry Ford allowed his customers to pick out whatever color of car they wanted. Exactly like that.
Just figureheads. Figureheads for hardcore left-wing politics. With pretty china-doll faces.
But unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last eight days, you already knew that.
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Indeed.
- CaptDMO | 09/07/2008 @ 10:21And by GOD, it better be a woman known to bring a six shooter to a bitch fight.