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...
Too Soon For Who?
Say what you will about Rush Limbaugh, but he’s absolutely correct in his comments broadcast this morning (link to transcript requires membership for an annual fee).
The Democratic Party says we’re going to take back the security issue. They have spent four and a half years deriding, criticizing, ridiculing the entire war on terror and the war in Iraq, which are linked…And yet the very event that has made this a reality for us and our lives today, they don’t have the guts to look at, they don’t have the courage to look at it, too soon, too soon.
Too soon? It’s been too long! People have forgotten what it’s all about…You know, I just think this is just typical of many in the American left. Oh, they can huff and puff, go out and show Fahrenheit 9/11 all day long, they can go watch that. They can go watch garbage and lies that their documentarians and so-called comedians make and it’s never too soon to watch any of that. We can go watch all these movies that try to prove Bush lied and that Bush was in this for oil and that all this is trumped up and fake and phony and unnecessary. Let reality rear its head, “Oh, no, I can’t be confronted with reality, why, that is too soon, too painful.”
What’s he talking about? He’s talking about the Flight 93 movie. It’s too soon to be thinking about the September Eleven attacks. The footage is oh, far too painful to watch. You dirty rotten movie theaters showing the trailer to Flight 93, to captive audiences, how cold and heartless of you. Pull that trailer. So, pull it the theater did. While we are told repeatedly that family members deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq are wasting their time on a silly mission that is pointless, and not only that, but those service members aren’t bright enough to form qualified opinions about that mission (provided those opinions are positive) because people in the armed forces don’t read enough newspapers.
Look, I have no quarrel with you if you have made up your own mind that it’s “too soon” for such a movie, free from influence or coercion from your Democratic party overlords, and for the sake of consistency you also think the repeated stories & cartoons about Abu Ghraib prison are also in bad taste. Those people are simply displaying a heightened but sincere emotional sensitivity, and forming an opinion with which I happen to disagree. That’s the American way.
All the rest of you are an absolute disgrace. You’re what is wrong with America. You. And I’d be saying that if you were helping Republicans and hurting Democrats, instead of trying to do the reverse.
Who the hell do you think you are, receiving instructions from on-high about what you are personally supposed to find vulgar, and passing it on down the food chain? No, scratch that question, here’s the one I really would like to have answered: Why am I supposed to confer any great weight on your opinion, when you have outsourced to a stranger the task of forming it in the first place?
Too soon? Yeah, I’ll bet. The Democratic Party spends a huge chunk of change annually convincing people the War on Terror is a complete waste of time, and this kind of reminder about actual events that really happened is the kind of thing that sets ’em back a million bucks.
The longer I watch this whole saga unfold, the more convinced I am that victory can never be ours if we deny reality, nor can it ever be denied us should we choose to embrace that reality. It’s so ironic: Democrats are supposed to be the “reality” party, although pointedly, they never outwardly claim to be that on a word-for-word basis. They say President Bush is ignoring science by giving his okay to the teaching of Intelligent Design, and that his administration “sexed up the evidence” when it was deliberating an at-the-time-future invasion of Iraq. He’s supposed to be the “Bubble Boy,” and by extension, the Republican Party is supposed to be trapped in that same bubble.
Here, tell you what: Make the Democratic Party into the “we want to talk about what happened in 9/11/01” party — or, even better, into the “we want to talk about the people who attacked us on 9/11/01” party. Do that. Until then, I probably speak for millions when I request that you save your breath about your opponents being anti-science or somehow disengaged from reality.
In fact, you know what? That’s my litmus test from now on. Whenever some liberal-wolf in scientist-sheep clothing approaches me and tries to convince me he’s all about reality, and Bush’s policies must be opposed “because he’s anti-science and anti-reality,” that’s the first question out of my mouth. Do you agree, Mister Reality-Based Scientist guy, that on September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and an empty field in Pennsylvania? And if I get back an “it’s too soon to talk about that” or a “homina homina homina” or, so help me God, anything but a “yes,” anything whatsoever…I’m going to give Mr. Reality a good infusion of science right through my foot onto his reality-based ass. If he passes that test, THEN he can tell me something.
For four years plus, we’ve let these snake-oil salesmen tell us that true things are false and false things are true. Even worse, we’ve let them tell us that matters of historical fact are somehow up for debate, and matters of pure conjecture and speculation are somehow indisputable. We’ve let them get away with far too much, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
We will always be up to our armpits in people like this. We always have been. How we respond to their efforts, is a matter purely within our control.
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