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...
Michael Barone writing in RealClearPolitics with some edifying thoughts on the international scene…specifically, contrasting Great Britain with the United States. We, here, are rushing headlong into a direction from which we see our birth mother running away back the other direction, arms flailing over her head, screaming. Perhaps this should be telling us something.
Barack Obama is trying to move America considerably to the left, while David Cameron, whose Conservative Party is leading Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labor Party by wide margins in the polls, may be aiming to move Britain some distance to the right.
It’s not clear now whether Obama will succeed or what precisely a Prime Minister Cameron would do. On Capitol Hill, the labor unions’ card check bill looks to be dead, the House cap-and-trade bill seems to be foundering in the Senate, and the Democrats’ health-care bills are in some trouble.
One reason is that American voters are wary of the prospects of vast deficit spending. Britain faces an even bigger budget deficit, about 14 percent of gross domestic product. The Blair and Brown governments in good macroeconomic times slowly raised government’s share of gross domestic product from 37 percent to 47 percent by enlarging the public payroll with teachers, nurses, diversity counselors and the like. Yet Britain’s financial sector suffered a collapse worse than ours, and in a country where it is a significantly larger part of the total economy.
Up to this year, Cameron and his team have pledged not to cut public spending significantly, while opposing tax increases. The current fiscal situation makes those pledges inoperative — Cameron has even accepted Labor’s 50 percent tax on the rich. So while Democrats struggle to make American government larger, Conservatives are pondering whether they can make British government smaller.
The lesson that seems to emerge consistently, is that socialism is strongly appealing to those who haven’t tried it yet, or haven’t tried it in awhile. It’s a little like that freaky girlfriend with the incredible long legs who just rocks your world under the sheets — but keeps losing her cool, yelling at you in the middle of the night, calling you at work to yell at you some more, throwing your clothes on the lawn, setting them on fire, running up your credit cards, shaving your dog’s ass and keying your car.
It just has a way of wearing out its welcome, but by then it’s too late.
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Shaving your dog’s ass! Now that’s just over the line!
Wait. How long were those legs? I think I need new clothes anyway. And Fido HAS been chaffing….
- philmon | 07/21/2009 @ 15:45