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...
Oh, Good Lord…The View loudmouth Joy Behar discusses her new childrens’ book, about a dog that is supposed to be President Obama.
BEHAR: The kids love to say SheetzuCacaPoopoo. Well, that was the key. But, the book is really about Barack Obama. Okay? Let me explain.
ROBERTS: Everyone is looking around.
BEHAR: The dog- Max is in trouble. They send him to obedience school, okay? When he’s in obedience school is when he becomes Barack. He becomes a community organizer. And he organizes the big dogs around the little dogs. ‘Cause at first, the big dogs, also known as the Republicans, don’t like him. See? And so, he finds ways, pragmatically, to help the big dogs.
ROBERTS: Uh-huh.
BEHAR: They can reach itches for them. They can go underneath to get to spots. They can scare the cats away. And so, he becomes popular. And everybody loves each other.
ROBERTS: It’s all about change.
BEHAR: It’s all about pragmatism and change, and trying to find a solution in your situation, which is Barack Obama. Isn’t that- How did I jump to that? Pretty good? That’s- All because of SheetzuCacaPoopoo.
Video behind the link.
I think the most surreal part of this is the thing about “and everybody loves each other.” Barack Obama is all about making everybody love each other? How’s that working out lately?
I’ve been wondering this about liberals since long, long before Barack Obama ever hit the scene. The vision is that everybody is supposed to love each other — and to get there, we’re going to demonize people! Dick Cheney, Dick Nixon, Sarah Palin, Israel, coal fired plants, men who teach their sons how to be real men, men who eat meat, men who own and fire guns, fathers who care about their families, executives who receive bonuses, oil and gas companies, people who wear fur (who aren’t Hollywood actresses), EY-VIL COR-POR-RAY-SHUNS (that don’t make movies), people who fly in jet planes (who aren’t actors), Christians, mothers who teach their children to respect their husbands, mothers who decide not to abort, mothers who decide to stay at home and raise the children, mothers who home-school…
There’s always a hit-list. More like a hate-list. It’s a means to an end of getting everybody to love each other.
In what way is this really the goal of liberals? Joy Behar is not the first one to pay this vision some kind of lip service, and she won’t be the last. I think down to some level, the average liberal really does believe in it. But it takes so little to end up in their cross-hairs. Just living your own life the way you want to, is enough to do it. Leaving your coffee pot plugged in when you aren’t using it! That’s a misdemeanor on Planet Liberal now.
In the long history of people who’ve nurtured that dream of everyone else learning to love each other…liberals have a longer list of pet peeves, than any of ’em. Especially liberals like Joy. I think she has a profile of criteria for people being acceptable, that she doesn’t want to admit she has. She wants to live in a tiny, tiny world filled with people who are exactly like her, and she doesn’t want to admit to herself that this is what she really wants. I think that’s what’s going on with her, and with people like her. I think. Figuring this out, is a real work-in-progress for me. And I don’t think I’m ever going to get there.
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SheetzuCacaPoopoo. What an excellently descriptive word to describe everything that’s happened since January 20th.
- The Watcher | 03/20/2009 @ 10:44Exactly. The big missed boat by the “let’s all love each other” crowd is that the very first results of their efforts in that direction are that about half the people that are supposed to start loving, start resenting instead.
Funny how one of the biggest gripes you’ll ever hear from these folks, when it comes to war, is how horrible collateral damage is. All the while, that is exactly what their next door neighbor amounts to in their eyes if he doesn’t agree with them. Acceptable losses in some moral war of attrition. But they have no plan for what to do with these losses should their plans ever work. No plan other than a sort of two-tiered directive that says either 1. Agree with us and everything we do, or 2. Act like you do and shut up in the mean time. At least in war the collateral damage just results in a bunch of corpses that need to be disposed of. The collateral damage from the left’s big social engineering impulse is half a world full of living people who actively hate them.
- Andy | 03/20/2009 @ 10:46