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...
Over and over and over again, we keep on seeing it. Scandals are devices that are used to get conservatives out and put liberals in. We are continually reminded of this and most of us just plain can’t see it.
How many liberal donkeys have actually been driven out of their positions because of scandals? I can think of Wright and Torricelli. Anybody else?
We keep seeing this played out, and overall, we remain blind…and if anyone wants to step forward and correct me on what a political scandal is for, let them think again.
Hillary Clinton’s money man is on the run again.
Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu was a no-show in a California court yesterday – thanks to authorities who didn’t think an ex-fugitive would jump $2 million bail.
After he surrendered on a 15-year-old fraud rap last week, the rich Hong Kong-born businessman was freed on bail and told to return yesterday.
Surprise, surprise – he didn’t.
And here’s another shocker: His passport is missing, too.
“We do not know where he is as of this moment,” Hsu’s lawyer James Brosnahan admitted to a judge in San Mateo, Calif.
He revealed Hsu even hoodwinked his office, sending them on a wild-goose chase for his passport at his Manhattan condo.
And very little is going to be made out of this. It doesn’t have to do with getting right-wingers out or putting left-wingers in, so it’s going to be played down.
We’re being played. I’ve said so before…it is Thing That Makes Me Barf #2…very little is going to occur over the next year to pose any problems for my theory, and deep down everyone knows it. Scandals have a purpose, and that purpose is to drive Republicans out of power. They have very little to do with fact, or letting “little” people make up their own minds about things. They are about the few exerting control over the many, and installing a more leftist government.
Go ahead. Prove me wrong.
Update 9/11/07: Found the excellent cartoon after a few minutes of frustrated Google-searching which ended here and began over at Malkin’s site here.
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I think you’re missing something here: a scandal is usually a scandal in American politics when someone is acting in a hypocritical manner. Republicans are rarely felled by money scandals because, rightly or wrongly, they’re seen as the party of business and money so it’s unsurprising that they’re on the take in some form or fashion. They’re the party of crusading moralism so they’re not allowed to have any non-marital sex. Democrats are the party of licentiousness so anything goes. There are no “family value” that matter because “it takes a village” to raise a child. No judgment on personal, sexual relationships is permitted for Democrats. Oral sex is not sex even if it’s in the Oval Office and lying about it under oath is fine because it’s ok to lie about sex.
- Duffy | 09/06/2007 @ 14:14Actually, I addressed the hypocrisy angle the last time I was bellyaching about this, http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/jackasses-ride-it-out-pachyderms-fall-and-stay-down/. In sum, the hypocrisy argument does work for a little while, but when you inspect other issues you find all these instances — invariably benefitting the left — where we, as in the big “we,” don’t have any problems with hypocrisy whatsoever.
It’s not as if I can rattle of a huge list of such issues, hundreds of items long, but I can certainly list…oh, maybe half a dozen. Enough to create a problem for the argument.
Speaking of which, I’m just in awe and admiration over that picture of Greenie Leonardo in front of the Cessna jet. Congrats to you on finding it…and Motor Trend as well…to say nothing of Vogue for dropping it in their article and remaining clueless about the irony. I’ve been using it over the last couple days to illustrate the point. I think it needs to go right under the H word, in the dictionary.