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...
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities… [emphasis mine]
— Sarah Palin, during her acceptance speech last summer.
After all that hubbub, and all the chatter since then about community-organizing, you might very well be wondering what exactly a “community organizer” is. You might also rightfully wonder what it is that community organizers do to/for the communities they organize.
Read and learn. Gene Schwimmer, writing in the American Thinker:
Imagine a large city, such as my home town, Detroit used to be, before liberalism destroyed it. Imagine that, in this city, a developer offers to buy a plot of land on which to build a multi-story office building. The upper floors will provide space for visionary entrepreneurs to start new businesses and to expand existing ones, create new products, new services and above all, new jobs. The ground floor will be retail space, providing much-needed products and services to the people who work in the offices above and to the rest of the city, too. And of course, for the people who work in them, the new stores will provide jobs.
Now imagine that someone else has a different idea. This person views people who buy land, put buildings on them, facilitate the creation of new products, services and jobs, but who have the gall to enrich themselves in the process, as evil, bloodsucking capitalists. This person believes that “the community” would be better served by turning the plot into a children’s playground. Or he may believe, grudgingly, that an office building might be okay — but only if the construction workers come from “the community.” (The many jobs that would be created for the people who would work in the building is, of course, irrelevant.)
Imagine further that this person has a lot of friends and associates in “the community.” When he talks, they listen, even when he tries to create an issue where no issue has existed before. (If “the community” needed a children’s playground on this particular patch of vacant land so badly, why did no one demand one before?)
Ever been to Detroit, during or after the Coleman Young days? Then you will join me in shuddering at the thought of Detroit being held aloft, with no shortage of legitimacy, as a harbinger for where the country’s headed. Not good at all, dear reader. We can only hope the country as a whole shows some “bounce,” some determination to head out of the lint-trap of liberalism-created blight once it’s been ensconced there…some bounce that so many of our localities have failed over the generations to show.
How do we get from building childrens’ playgrounds, to a cesspool of blight? It has to do with manufacturing an incendiary regional passion, where one did not necessarily exist before. Schwimmer continues…
The community organizer’s job is to speak to groups within “the community;” write letters to sympathetic newspaper editors; bring in outside experts and professional rabble-rousers (who often come with their own professional rabble) and, most important, get the media to cover the demonstrations — all with the object of assembling the critical mass of humanity needed to embarrass and/or pressure the private parties and/or government into doing what “the community” wants. Or, sometimes more accurately, what the community organizer has told them they want.
That’s the community organizer’s job. That’s all he does and it’s not rocket science. Any anti-Semitic, loudmouthed racial demagogue can do it (and, incidentally, become as rich as a real estate developer in the process). Community organizers are a dime a dozen.
Need a shot of optimism? Then head on over here.
Hat tip, for both links, to Maggie’s Farm.
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