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...
So says He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Used.
The criticism over Obama’s alleged elitism started with some remarks he made during a San Francisco fund raiser. Obama said that the working class people are “bitter” about the economic situation they are dealing with right now and their “cling to guns and religion”-reaction is not a surprising result.
The 46-year-old senator said he regrets some of his comments, but underlined that they had been twisted and mischaracterized by his rivals.
“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he explained.
It’s that new donk formula…an ounce of what might be called genuine contrition, followed by a half-ton or more of righteous, fiery condemnation in the mold of accuse-the-accuser.
“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her,” were Obama’s most striking words about the New York Senator who attacked him over some remarks about the citizens of the small town of Pennsylvania.
During the union rally speech in the Harrisburg suburb of Steelton, Obama said he was very surprised to hear Clinton attack him over the fact that he is elitist and argued that she has no right to make such remarks considering her past.
“This is the same person who took money from financial folks on Wall Street and then voted for a bankruptcy bill that makes it harder for folks right here in Pennsylvania to get a fair shake,” Obama said.
“Who do you think is out of touch?” he added.
You know, it occurs to me: A character deficit resulting in repeated failure to admit that one has pissed in one’s own boot, is exactly the stereotype Hussein Obama’s party has been leveling at President George W. Bush…for oh, six or seven years now…without much of a break.
If a Republican tried this ounce-of-contrition, truckload-of-condemnation stuff after having genuinely mucked things up — if he did that at high noon, you know by 12:01 the news would come out that Republican X Can’t Admit He Made a Mistake.
One has to wonder how desperately the donk ship would list in the water after been rocked by the broadside assault of the media handling this the same way. Can you imagine Hussein Obama being treated like a Republican here. Can you just imagine…
…why, it would have to involve a panel of psychologists appearing on one of those Sunday afternoon newsmag programs on cable. Uh, well, it is my professional opinion, that, uh…Senator Obama shows the classic symptoms of…
You know what it would look like. It would look like a re-hash of this:
It was when I started noticing the extreme language that colored President Bush’s speeches that I began to wonder. First there were the terms– “crusade” and “infinite justice” that were later withdrawn. Next came “evil doers,” “axis of evil,” and “regime change”, terms that have almost become clichés in the mass media. Something about the polarized thinking and the obsessive repetition reminded me of many of the recovering alcoholics/addicts I had treated. (A point worth noting is that because of the connection between addiction and “stinking thinking,” relapse prevention usually consists of work in the cognitive area). Having worked with recovering alcoholics for years, I flinched at the single-mindedness and ego- and ethnocentricity in the President’s speeches.
The donks “fight back.” Republicans “can’t admit they made a mistake.”
Makes perfect sense…to those who think we can solve the terrorist problem with universal healthcare and solar power.
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