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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...
I have a prediction: After George W. Bush, the most “polarizing” President of the United States in recent memory, goes home and someone else takes his place, this country is still going to be deeply divided. In fact, you’ll still see his name tossed around rather frequently, as people argue about who’s doing the crappiest job rolling back his “disastrous” policies and who’s secretly in league with the oil cartels that already received such unfairly favorable treatment from you-know-who.
I don’t think George Bush has anything to do with the division. He was President for eight months before the September 11 attacks, and squeaker-election-victory aside, all the criticism I heard heaped on him during those eight months was fairly mundane. You’d hear it about any Republican candidate for high office in this era. Oh, he won’t fund stem cell research. Him and his oil buddies. Sunday school church boy. Oppressing women and gays, blah blah blah blah blah.
We’re divided because we’ve been living in an ivory tower, quibbling about trivial crap like whether to go Betamax or VHS, and the dark-age world came knocking on our ivory doors with its medieval death & destruction and we don’t know what to do. Half of us understand that when you jettison yourself into a future Jean-Luc Picard utopian universe wherein everyone just gets along, there’ll be other folks who aren’t along for the ride and will kill and kill until they themselves are killed. We get it. The other half doesn’t get it. The other half thinks more Picard-style monologues must be the answer; eventually the Romulans, or whoever, will see the error of their ways. That is the cause of the conflict. And before 9/11/01, there was little reason to engage in it, compared with what came afterward.
President Bush is simply a figurehead in that conflict.
And as Exhibit A, I would offer the harmonious, unifying shindig among Illinois democrats, in their attempt to solidify behind the most peaceful, Picard-like candidate that can be found for the upcoming elections anywhere:
Warring factions of Illinois’ Democratic Party turned unity day Wednesday at the Illinois State Fair into a display of name-calling, booing and apologizing for a feud that almost shut down state government.
Organizers tried to focus on their common goal of electing Sen. Barack Obama president, but the diversion couldn’t paper over deep cracks within the party, fissures caused by the caustic 10-week budget stalemate between Democratic leaders.
“It’s embarrassing — it’s not the way people envision their leaders acting,” Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias said. “I think the public is getting sick and tired of this.”
In an oblique reference to the House speaker, the governor slammed “some even in our own party who cynically sit in the shadows and are working to prevent us from getting health care for all the people of our state.”
And the speaker fired back at the governor, saying his latest budget move violates the state Constitution.
State Comptroller Dan Hynes and Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who have waged public feuds with the governor, skipped the State Fair, where they would have had to share the stage with Blagojevich.
Crowds at the Democratic pep rally appeared smaller than at past Governor’s Days. But it was unclear whether the infighting or the humid 97-degree weather was the cause.
I think that treasurer guy is a hundred percent wrong. People, and democrats in particular, want their leaders to act exactly like this. The back-and-forth sniping is undignified, sure, but people love it when their guy, who shares their values, launches an attack fit for the schoolyard on someone else who doesn’t share their values quite so well. They eat it up and they can’t get enough of it. “There, take THAT!”
In fact, it’s rather ironic isn’t it? If you hate war and want to end war, the democrats are here to represent you. And yet they hardly look like a band of merry ambassadors who are equipped and prepared to end any fighting overnight, do they?
They talk about issues that have no “bad guy,” like natural disasters or diseases, and they have to insert one. There seem to be a lot of folks who think this is what an anti-fighting political party looks like. I wonder if they know something I don’t, because it doesn’t look that way to me.
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