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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.
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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.
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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...
Is there such a thing as a Sarah Palin hater who has redeeming personal qualities? I’m sure there are a few, but I don’t think they have any overlap with the hyper-zealot whack-jobs. The ones who work Palin’s name into discussions that have nothing to do with her. The ones who would wish harm on her for some unspecified slight. The true haters.
There’s something going on here, going unexplored, some problem that’s much bigger and much older than Sarah Palin. Of course, some of these people are actually older than Palin. That might be the problem. They haven’t accomplished as much. They have a problem with Palin and it isn’t her position on any one issue.
But then again, the people on this list are mostly about the same age and some of them are younger. They, too, do not appear to to be upset with Palin about issues. It seems they have, contrary to their ravings and their non-humorous “jokes,” picked up that the course of America’s history may be altered because of Palin’s existence, in one direction or another, on a level of magnitude great or small. And they’re none too pleased about it. They labor with a bevy of punchlines about Palin’s insignificance…not because she is insignificant…but because they want her to be. This, I think, has something to do with why they detest her. They come from a world in which things are, or might become, other things just because you wish it and you speak the wish. Palin does not come from such a world.
For this, they should not be jealous of her. And yet they are. They’re mad at themselves for wishing they were more like her, when they live out their lives in situations that should be more privileged. Or something…I think.
There are quite a few “comediennes” among Palin haters — females who are supposed to look hot, or who are supposed to have once looked hot, who make jokes that are not funny and the jokes usually have something to do with a vagina. I cannot help but think that their problem with Palin might have something to do with her dignity. Not even with the dignity she has…but simply that she values it as a positive thing to have, always has, and perhaps they perceive that it’s simply too late for them. You might say they have uncrossed their legs and they cannot cross them again.
There is a lot of “sour grapes” in Palin hatred, in both the women and the men.
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I was at work a couple of days ago, and the TV was on.
Two other guys who were there, who rarely watch anything other than BET and Comedy Central (snort on both counts) were talking about the cable lineup. They sat there agreeing with each other than they had to make absolutely sure and avoid Sarah Palin’s show about Alaska, even for tuning in for a minute. They said they wanted to make absolutely sure they didn’t accidentally boost her ratings by tuning in.
I doubt they’ve seen five minutes of it. What I’ve seen so far isn’t even remotely political. I have no idea why any decent person would object to it. The gal shoots at a caribou and takes a sniveling, self-centered drama queen camping down along the river on a rainy day.
They’d have a hissy fit if I tuned into their show while we were all at work, but they think nothing of forcing me to sit through Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert…not to mention all the “comedy” (snort once again) we absolutely must watch.
On a side note, I was browsing Netflix this evening, and I decided to watch Jeff Dunham’s Christmas special from a couple years back. You know, the ventriloquist. I must say, it is refreshing to hear someone other than Christians/conservatives as the butt of the joke for a change, mild good-natured humor that it is.
- cylarz | 12/22/2010 @ 03:47Thing I Know #324. Truly good-natured humor selects a truly random target.
You can probably form your own theories about what sequence of events might have inspired that one. Choose randomly, and you won’t be too far off the mark.
- mkfreeberg | 12/22/2010 @ 06:58I can’t decide if liberalism is more like a religion or more like an adolescent hissy fit. Maybe it’s both — liberalism is a religion designed by petulant children. Whatever. Whenever Palin is mentioned, the religious aspect of leftism really comes to the fore. Her popularity – her very existence – proves that their beliefs are not the Way, the Truth, and the Light, and they despise her for it.
This happens whenever a conservative meets liberals’ otherwise ultra-stringent entry requirements into the ranks of Good People. Academic credentials are of course a must, since anyone who went to both Yale and Harvard has to be a genius… ummmm, except for that retarded rhesus monkey, George W. Bush. And of course an African-American who graduated at the top of his Yale law class and has a resume of academic credentials longer than my arm must be just our sort…. errrr, except for Clarence Thomas, who, uh, isn’t really black. Or something. And surely an African-American woman with a bunch of big fancy degrees in international relations from Stanford and who speaks multiple languages…. oh, wait: Condi Rice. Etc. etc.
Leftism is like that village in that one movie about a village… I think it was called The Village. In their hermetically sealed little world there is no such thing as a pretty, popular girl who also has real-world accomplishments; therefore, such things do not exist. If one seemingly does exist, it must be exposed or destroyed immediately, lest the villagers find out that it’s really 2005 and they’re stuck in a crappy M. Night Shyamalan movie.
- Severian | 12/22/2010 @ 07:21I can’t decide if liberalism is more like a religion or more like an adolescent hissy fit.
It’s a religion where you’re a demi-god constantly working to maintain and/or increase your worshiper base.
🙂
This weeks SPA was much better than last week’s. I was much happier.
- philmon | 12/22/2010 @ 09:23SPA?
- Severian | 12/22/2010 @ 09:35SPA is my new, cool, “in” term for “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”.
- philmon | 12/22/2010 @ 11:02People just have no idea how hip and cutting edge I am 😉
- philmon | 12/22/2010 @ 11:05I can’t decide if liberalism is more like a religion or more like an adolescent hissy fit.
That’s perfect.
It’s an adolescent snit, which only becomes a “religion” to give itself airs. Every liberal I’ve ever met (I’m 65) has been still engaged in trying to make High School come out right. Without exception.
Btw, I assume that pic is of Sandra Bernhardt, possessor of the ugliest mouth on planet Earth. If ever I’ve seen a human embodiment of herpes, she’s it.
- rob | 12/22/2010 @ 22:22I see remarkable parallels between a Great President, Ronald Reagen, and a potential President, Sarah Palin. A President by itself creates the administration and sets the agenda. Accountability and execution is performed by the cabinet members. That’s not to say the President’s direction is not accountable, but the performance of their administration is measured in either success or failures.
When I say remarkable parallels, I mean the way Ronald Regan was mocked, ridiculed, and demonized by those on the left and right. The vitriol this slew of Celebutards slings at Palin is nothing more than pure hatred. These are the same people that lecture us on hate. Hypocrisy in motion.
When I look at the performance of the Obama administration. I see the erosion of both individual freedoms and national liberty, for socialist collectivism and government central planning. While this may be measured in success by passing socialist legislation, it is not a benchmark of successful government. One only need to look at Europe experimentation with socialism, multiculturalism, and government central planning. It’s failing miserably.
It eventually leads to either a totalitarian dictatorship, or worse, the violence we are seeing today.
But it does fail in the end.
234 Years of the Greatest Experiment proved that a free market, capitalistic, unregulated society, makes for the absolute promise of individual success and prosperity. A Republic, if we should choose to keep it.
- Kini | 12/24/2010 @ 00:31I needs civics to teach and remind why this Republic works, and why other so called democracies, fail.