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...
Sidebar Update VI
The sidebar has been updated so that this blog, which nobody actually reads anyway, can support the 2,996 Bloggers tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks that occurred five years ago. This blog honors Joseph Holland, cheated out of everything in his natural life beyond his 33rd year, for the innocuous act of showing up for work in the World Trade Center before 8:46 a.m., just days after the birth of his first child. And, of course, we honor the memory of the 2,995 others.
The words above are lent in support of the non-partisan 2,996 Bloggers project.
What follows, are my own, not to be associated with them.
Those whose lives were cut short, cry out for us to avenge their memories. On this, all depends. Toward that end, I’m glad President Bush has achieved what he has, and I wish his administration was capable of achieving much more.
Anti-war folks who’ve been watching way too many episodes of M*A*S*H and Star Trek, are going to say this is “raw blood-lust” on my part, and it’s the wrong way to go. I recommend they educate themselves on the subtle distinction between “avenge” and “revenge”:
Avenge, revenge both imply to inflict pain or harm in return for pain or harm inflicted on oneself or those persons or causes to which one feels loyalty. The two words were formerly interchangeable, but have been differentiated until they now convey widely diverse ideas. Avenge is now restricted to inflicting punishment as an act of retributive justice or as a vindication of propriety: to avenge a murder by bringing the criminal to trial. Revenge implies inflicting pain or harm to retaliate for real or fancied wrongs; a reflexive pronoun is often used with this verb: Iago wished to revenge himself upon Othello.
Like Martin Luther King, I have a dream. I have a dream that, when & if Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants start recruiting for the next suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, or the next attack on a United States embassy, approaching men, women, children, old, young, sick, well, rich, poor…they find no takers.
Isn’t that what we all want?
Good. Then let’s just set up the scenario; make it a reality. Speak whatever language we need to speak, to make things understood. To target civilians in whatever conflict exists between Islamo-fascists and the west, whether it’s part of a suicide mission or not…is like, borrowing money from a loan shark. Running through a burr patch in Grandma’s sweater. Pissing up a rope. Tuggin’ on Superman’s cape, spittin’ into the wind, pullin’ the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger.
You don’t want to be doing it. PERIOD.
President Bush has failed to send that message. Now, that could be because of something that applies to all Presidents, due to political and economic forces that are difficult for laymen to understand. But I’m sure of one thing: Where the enemy that we’re currently fighting, is concerned…and it’s a wholly new breed of enemy, the likes of which we’ve seldom seen before…victory depends on that. Sending that message. Call it Reverse-Nike: JUST DON’T DO IT. Without that message sent, the enemy will succeed at whatever the enemy sets out to do — save for whatever the enemy resolves to do at a later time.
Osama bin Laden has put the word out that he is not to be fucked with. The United States…has not put that word out. There’s a price to be paid for fucking with bin Laden, there isn’t one to be paid for fucking with us. I’m afraid that’s as complicated as it gets. This is what has to be changed. Will a new President get that done for us? It’s doubtful. Will a new Congress? Almost certainly not.
Also, I’ve added three excellent resources. Two of them are blogs, and one of them is a satire website much better than most.
Caerdroia;
Cold Fury;
The Nose On Your Face.
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