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...
And they’re both local issues:
On health care, Massachusetts is in a unique position. It already has near-universal coverage, enacted in 2006 by Republican governor Mitt Romney and the Democratic legislature, so a national measure designed to extend coverage to millions of currently-uncovered Americans means little to Bay State residents. But the Democrats’ national health care plan would force Massachusetts residents to pay higher taxes to expand coverage elsewhere in the country — with relatively little new benefits at home.
“In this state, we basically have universal health care,” says Joey Buceta, a Boston independent who attended a Scott Brown rally in the North End Friday. “Why should we pay more money for it? We already have it.”
It’s an opinion heard often in this race, and it unites conservative voters who don’t like the Democratic national health care plan because it is too intrusive, expensive and coercive with independent voters who don’t like the plan because it seems redundant for Massachusetts.
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On the second issue, one-party government, Massachusetts is also in an unusual position. Often called the bluest of blue states, it is certainly dominated by Democrats. But over the years Massachusetts voters have shown an inclination to elect a Republican to the occasional state office.That balance has usually meant a GOP governor; four of the last five Massachusetts governors have been Republicans. At the same time, the rest of the state government, as well as the state’s delegations in the House and Senate, have been dominated by Democrats. But even with that lopsided situation, the presence of a GOP governor gave voters a certain sense of balance.
Now, even that is gone. Not only are all other significant state offices occupied by Democrats, the governorship is in the hands of the very Democratic, very liberal, and very unpopular Deval Patrick.
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“This country was built on debate,” says Diane Anderson, a Brown voter from Swampscott, Massachusetts. “And with the Democrats having 60 senators…just for that fact alone, if for no other reason, we should continue to have debate, and Brown will bring debate, being the 41st Republican.”
Here’s the challenge that confronts Republicans…hopefully: How to properly celebrate if Brown should win. Lots of realistic types are out there urging caution — he might very well lose. They’re right. But the wise Republican also thinks ahead to the other prospect, because careful planning is needed there. With defeat, the only thing that can really ambush them is an emotional letdown, and emotional letdowns become part of history very quickly.
Think ahead. Brown wins — then what? If these two pivotal factors that pushed Brown over the top are both local to the Bay state, how does that get spread all across the fruited plain, sea to shining sea, later in the year? This is the real challenge. Failing that, the attitude in November will be “well now that they’re being checked by the 41st vote in the Senate…democrats are alright. Hopenchange.” And we’ll be right back to letting the kids run the show.
The treachery in which the democrats have engaged for this last year, is the deceit ritually practiced by bad salesmen. They knew exactly what they wanted to sell, and when the dispassionate observer compares that product to what the public really needed and desired, it is charitable to call the resulting mathematical overlap “skimpy.” The overlap was not there at all. In the case of solving our rising public debt problem, it was oppositional — the prescription exacerbated the sickness.
Superpower nations in serious financial trouble don’t need womb-to-tomb government health plans. That’s just plain common sense.
And you go right on down the list of things Obama has promised and delivered…which means, the list of things He has promised. It’s all like this. Problem: The world doesn’t like us, supposedly. Solution: Try Kalidh Shiek Mohammed in a civilian court in New York City. Okay, now how’s that work exactly?
That’s what needs to be pointed out, should things go okay tomorrow night. Martha Coakley lost in Massachusetts for a reason, and the reason was that the democrat party has its agenda, and it bears precious little resemblance to the country’s. When the democrat party “loves America,” they love America the way a man loves his raven-haired wife he didn’t really want to marry in the first place, fantasizing about his buxom blond girlfriend in high school every time he makes love to her. They love the country the way a prospective buyer loves your car…when he’s planning to rip the stereo out of it, put it in something else, and send the balance of what’s left to the wrecking yard. They love our country for the vision of this otherworldly utopia they can make from it, after they’re done changing it, dismantling it. They love everything about it except its spirit, the spirit of 1776.
That’s why we just finished out our first year listening to them make as many speeches as they want to make, for as long as they want to make them — and the word “freedom” was never uttered a single time. Did I miss it somewhere?
That is the third issue that can be nationalized, and the time is right for it.
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