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...
…or, to be more precise about it, the Meghan McCains. You know the type. The BUT type. “I really, really want to see the Republicans win…BUT…” And then there comes a “I wish Republicans would,” followed by something you wouldn’t say unless you wanted the democrats to win. Sensible “gun safety” laws, homosexuals getting married and adopting kids, global warming, helping people who just want to make a higher minimum wage, Wall Street greed has to be checked — or it’s high time that dimwit Sarah Palin got her ass home to take care of all these retarded kids she keeps squirting out.
There is another type that’s been itching for Sarah Palin to go home. These are the democrats who say they are not itching for Sarah Palin to go home. “Please, please, oh please, run her and make sure she debates Obama.” If & when Palin comes rebounding back into the national scene, they’ll sneer, and squint, and chortle, and exclaim “you’re digging HER up again??” And start peddling like crazy the talking point that Palin’s an idiot but she’s the best the GOP can do. Always make desperation look like the other guy’s problem.
They want her to debate the Teleprompter genius Obama. Want to be there for it. Want to see the Holy Man squish her like a bug. This is a meme that was repeated over and over again. I wonder how they think the Palin/Biden debate went? They must not think Biden won, after all, because if Biden drank her milkshake at that one then they’re lusting after seeing something for the first time that they’ve already seen before. That doesn’t make any sense at all. So this is a confession that Palin won the debate, or at least, it was a draw…or it’s certainly reasonable for someone else to see that debate as a draw. You’d have to be hoping Obama can do something in a debate that Biden can’t do.
Joe Biden. Even now, he remains the best rebuke against liberal talking points against Palin. Just mutter “oh yeah it’s just swell we got that super genius Biden in the job instead of her, huh?” Roll your eyes and walk away.
But what of the John McCain type Republicans, the ones that are so anxious to assume a left-wing position on things to show how reasonable and moderate they are? If Palin tries this Monty-Python-run-away approach now, and comes back on the scene in a year or two, couldn’t they take on the “Oh I wish she’d just go away for good” thing? That would look very silly. That, in my mind, is the big difference between then and now. That has a very good chance at being the reason she did what she did yesterday.
In fact, if it turns out this really is some kind of a reckless political gamble, I offer that it isn’t really that reckless and it really isn’t even a gamble. Palin retires for three months, or six, or an entire year, into a life of a private citizen…in 2010 she stumps for this Senator or that one, for this Congressman or that one. Fade from view again, and then she’s interested in becoming President. She’s wearing some albatross around her neck then? I’m having trouble seeing it. If there really is a scandal here, of course, that would change everything.
But if there is no scandal, then at that time she’ll just look like she left ’em wanting more. Because that’s exactly what will have happened.
We’re about to head out of town and I don’t know about innerwebtubes access at our hotel, so presuming this is the last update for awhile — To Scandal, Or Not To Scandal, That Is The Question. If something hasn’t blown up by Monday, it’s not going to blow up for a long time or there’s nothing to blow up. Certainly if things stay clean by the time she leaves on the 25th, it’ll be highly unlikely for her to ever be tainted. Just look at all the attempts made already.
So for the immediate duration, the sidebar graphic remains unchanged…especially the “don’t change a thing” part of it. She’s the last, best hope for the country to regain some lost common-sense bearings, and as far as hopes go, she’s pretty far from a ramshackle, half-assed one. She has been, and remains today, quite a decent one.
You can tell this from the left-winger comments. They’ve been a lot more anxious, a lot more desperate, to get their talking points out there…certainly compared to Palin-backers like us. Examine the typical mixed-company (conservatives and libs) thread about Palin’s announcement; by the time things quiet down again, for every comment from a reasonable person there’s ninety-nine more comments from some weasely liberal ankle-biters. And not 99 ankle-biters either. Something like a dozen of ’em, typing in crap and hitting “Post” over and over again. It’s the same story different day: They have to get the first word, they have to have the last word, they have to have all other words in between. Nothing less will make their wrong-headed policies look appealing to anyone, and they know it.
Of course, some of this is trickery on my part, since I’ve been pretending not to know things I know. Got a call from Palin’s press secretary yesterday evening, in response to a private e-mail I sent the Governor. It was about yet another theory, one not yet explored by anyone. Bulls-eye, first try! And since this is The Blog That Nobody Reads, there is no damage involved in spilling the beans here.
I was right. Sarah Palin never was the Governor of Alaska in the first place.
It was Bristol. It’s true. And the entire Palin family, from what was relayed to me last night, is quite mystified it’s taken this long for anyone to figure it out.
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Fantastic punchline. I gave you a cliff-hanger link here.
- smitty1e | 07/04/2009 @ 08:43I hope there’s not a scandal hiding here anywhere. I like her so much and I don’t think I could take it after Sanford’s disgusting meltdown.
- Daphne | 07/04/2009 @ 09:34Time will tell, Daphne. There may very well be a scandal, but I think it’s guaranteed you’ll not be in suspense long on this one.
Smitty — that’s an interesting technique. Thought you screwed up the HTML edits somehow. Your “cliffhanger” is turbocharging the traffic nicely, thanks for that.
- mkfreeberg | 07/04/2009 @ 09:44MK, can you please be more specific? In Firefox, I have a perfectly good round trip from here to there and back.
- smitty1e | 07/04/2009 @ 09:49You lopped off the end of my punchline to make it a REAL cliffhanger. So they’d be forced to click. I’d never seen anyone do that before.
What, that wasn’t deliberate after all? I viewed-source-code, and the last few words are still missing. Sitemeter is spinning away, catching fire, as people click over to find out what the punchline is.
- mkfreeberg | 07/04/2009 @ 09:52BTW, I think your focus on that one point makes a good FARK submission. I let my TOTALFARK subscription lapse, though, and it seems I would need that in order to even obtain, let alone read, the thread that opens up under it. So unless your post is green-lit there, we can both forget about ever seeing what they have to say about it.
Ah well. There are reasons why the subscription was allowed to lapse. Not quite intellectually stimulating, not quite unpredictable, not quite helpful. Just a bunch of dimwit liberal college kids. I’ve often compared FARK to having an aquarium in the living room for purely entertainment purposes, but in the last year it’s become more like an ant farm. A boring ant farm. Filled with tiny unthinking creatures that work hard at being mean and vicious, but not entertaining. So no great loss.
- mkfreeberg | 07/04/2009 @ 09:59Truncating after “never” was indeed deliberate. Your entire post is worthwhile, and builds nicely to that punch line. ‘Twould seem an outrage to thug your milkshake, as opposed to increasing the hit value thereof.
- smitty1e | 07/04/2009 @ 10:06You’ve got that right about the useless Fark. Same thought here when I let mine go after a few months. Less than Zero value for money.
- vanderleun | 07/04/2009 @ 11:38If Palin tries this Monty-Python-run-away approach now, and comes back on the scene in a year or two, couldn’t they take on the “Oh I wish she’d just go away for good” thing?
I don’t know if it looks silly or not, but I can tell you that I have been saying exactly this about Hillary. For years. I’ve been tired of her since sometime in 1993.
- cylarz | 07/05/2009 @ 02:04[…] Palin left with good reason, to get rid of the John McCains! Michael Steele needs to exit stage left too, because with friends like Steele, we may stop […]
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