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...
Weeks, not months. True, it was not at all an issue in the 2008 elections, not by a damn sight…especially when you compare it to the rhetoric that was being flung around in the ’04 elections. It’s the data. They aren’t there to prop up this albatross anymore.
Too late. The globular-wormening activists have been voted in. Let that be a lesson to y’all: It’s not enough simply to withhold support from a shitty idea. You have to do what you can to defeat it, as well. Kick it when it’s down.
We didn’t do that. Now we’re going to pay the piper.
The Senate’s top environmental lawmaker offered a preview on Wednesday of major component of climate change legislation she said could be introduced “in weeks, not months.”
“We are not sitting back and waiting for some magic moment,” Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told reporters. “We’re ready to go.”
Boxer shepherded carbon-capping legislation to the Senate floor last year, the most progress any climate change bill has made in the U.S. Congress. That bill won 48 votes, with 36 opposed, but died after a procedural maneuver by opponents.
Any new legislation to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide — such as those from coal-fired power plants and fossil-fueled vehicles — would build on that earlier measure, but would not follow it exactly, Boxer said.
“We may move in three weeks, we may move in six weeks, we could move in 10 weeks,” she said. “We could get a bill out of committee tomorrow … I want to get a bill out of there that every member has a stake in, every member understands every word of it, and so it will take a while …
“It could be weeks, not months, but it will be before the end of this year,” she said.
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We emit carbon dioxide, what’s she gonna do with us, I’m afraid to ask. You know Morgan, this flu, you were talking about earlier
- narciso | 02/04/2009 @ 12:35is feeling more like Plague or Ebola. Didn’t these people take introductory Science at all.
Pardon my French, but… We’re fucked. Plain and simple. Inflationary stimulus on the one hand, industry-killing carbon caps on the other. God Save Us.
- Buck | 02/04/2009 @ 15:41Man, they’re tearing this economy apart at the speed of light – and as you pointed out yesterday, producing relentless propaganda to scare the hoi polloi at the same time. This mess is gonna make FDR look like a piker, and his policies (like the creation of special interest groups and farm subsidies) are still screwing things up 75 years later.
The next thing is going to be the public rehabilitation of Billy Ayers, just watch. He’ll be 0’s Karl Rove before the end of the year.
- rob | 02/04/2009 @ 16:46Still reading Amity Shlaes’ “The Forgotten Man”. I know. I’m a slow reader. My wife says it’s because I absorb what I’m reading. Hmmm. I don’t know. When I read, I remember what happened and in what order it happened, but when it comes to details about excactly who and excactly when — outside of the main characters it all gets fuzzy.
Still — reading this book and looking at our governments’ reactions today is like Deja Vu all over again. I had no idea that several of the major players in FDR’s administration had actually chartered a boat over to the Soviet Union to study it and meet with Stalin in the 20’s. Then look what they did in the name of stimulating the economy.
It also mentioned a book that was written in 1935 or so…. “Hell Bent for Election”. (available online in text form here). It was written about FDR. Eerie, the similarities between the 1932 socialist party platform and what FDR’s administration implemented, and eerie the similarities between the campaign rhetoric of FDR and that of Obama. And it doesn’t bode well at all.
He may have been a decent war president (not sure — always thought he was, thanks to the History books) but of course he did have to protect his Progressive experiment. Incentive, I guess, to do well.
- philmon | 02/04/2009 @ 17:10