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...
Ah….finally some good news.
Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.
Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.
“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead.
The watershed issue is, of course, that rancid carbuncle of a health care bill.
And the watershed issue of that, of course, is about the majority party completely marginalizing the opposition. Absolutely gelding them. If only for a moment…so they can pass this legislation a whole lot of people don’t want, and stick us with it. Forever.
That’s not Republican propaganda, it’s things the way they really are. And yet it doesn’t really sound “democratic” when it’s described that way, does it?
Update: The democrat party braces for impact:
Here in Massachusetts, as well as in Washington, a growing sense of gloom is setting in among Democrats about the fortunes of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. “I have heard that in the last two days the bottom has fallen out of her poll numbers,” says one well-connected Democratic strategist. In her own polling, Coakley is said to be around five points behind Republican Scott Brown. “If she’s not six or eight ahead going into the election, all the intensity is on the other side in terms of turnout,” the Democrat says. “So right now, she is destined to lose.”
Intensifying the gloom, the Democrat says, is the fact that the same polls showing Coakley falling behind also show President Obama with a healthy approval rating in the state. “With Obama at 60 percent in Massachusetts, this shouldn’t be happening, but it is,” the Democrat says.
Yeah, take that.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The way democrats choose their contenders during their off-elections — that is to say, during presidential election seasons, when the White House is occupied by their opposition — ought to arouse deep, festering skepticism in any true American who is thinking of supporting them. Since JFK, although the fanfare and the hubbub has changed in cosmetic content, the one consistent desire/fulfillment that is given unswerving priority in the nomination contest is this: Something about the individual that makes it likely he can sell product contrary to the interests of the buyer.
Usually it’s “charisma.” They call it by a lot of other names too. “Moral authority” was something John Kerry stole from Maureen Dowd, or Dowd stole from Kerry. Bill Clinton was someone who would be a hell of a lot of fun as a drinking buddy if you were a guy, and if you were a gal, you could sleep with him and later on watch Hillary beat the shit out of him. One way or another, Bill could sell you some crap that wasn’t good for you. Carter? He was a decent guy who didn’t have anything to do with Watergate. So he, too, had a gimmick for plying us with crap. And did. For a little while.
To say suspicion is what this should arouse, is an understatement and a disservice to suspicion. If selling is a test of sound policy, then the sale should be just as likely when it’s sold by an every-man. You shouldn’t need some extra-special, once-in-a-lifetime silver-tongue-demon to get it sold. This is the philosophical basis of Thing I Know #271. So after a year of watching the crap get sold, it just makes sense to say “yeah I like your guy a whole lot because He’s really likable…and your product still sucks.” Now, if Massachusetts can figure this out, what’s everybody else’s excuse?
I shouldn’t make cracks about them, I guess. They’re about to decide if the Declaration of Independence still has meaning for the other forty-nine states…and besides, I’m here in California.
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When is this election again?
This would be more than huge.
On the other hand, it has to be huge enough to overcome absentee ballott fraud.
Yeah. I just ordered John Fund’s book.
- philmon | 01/15/2010 @ 19:37Incidentally, last week I saw footage of Clinton, during the Clinton years, in a welcoming White House greeting …. to Cloward and Piven, among others.
Need I say more?
- philmon | 01/15/2010 @ 19:40Some time ago, Ann Coulter said something like (paraphrasing) if a Republican beats a democrat but by less than a thousand points, the election ultimately has to go to the democrat. I think the occasion was Franken’s Gore-like recounting shenanigans. Say what you will about Annie, but she’s got that one right.
You’re right that this is huge. I’m thinking the number is more like 2,500. That’s Brown’s waterline; if he doesn’t win by that much, he can just forget it. We’ll witness a bizarre spectacle of “divining the will and intent of the voter” and three months later ObamaCare will be the law of the land.
- mkfreeberg | 01/15/2010 @ 19:49I love Ann. I’d say I’m 95% with her, which is a lot more than I can say about most people.
- philmon | 01/15/2010 @ 20:49I like Ann, too. A lot. The acerbic tone and rapier wit just irritates the hell out of left-wingers, which is part of the reason I like her!
Morgan, have you read Palin’s new book, and do you have any thoughts on her move to FOX?
- cylarz | 01/15/2010 @ 21:14