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...
The Dagney with the misspelled name speaks for me on this one…and God only knows how many others.
I actually heard Cal Thomas, a reliable conservative voice, say on Fox News tonight say he thought Sarah Palin needed to reinvent herself? CAL, WE LOVE SARAH AS SHE IS!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IN HEAVEN’S NAME WOULD MAKE YOU THINK SHE NEEDS TO BE ANYONE ELSE?
Imagine the following in your very best slow, loud, Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction voice…
Nobody needs to reinvent a Goddamned thing.
It’s the people voting. One ticket had lawyers on it, the other ticket had none. The electorate was in the mood to vote for lawyers. Focus-group tested buzzwords, a bunch of nonsense that “Everybody” knows…that’s what the ballots were made of this year.
We’ve gotten sick and tired of lawyers and canned catchphrases before. We will be tired of ’em again. And when we are, “Smug ‘n Plugs” won’t have a single other thing to sell anybody. The hunger for real solutions, with substance, that actually work, will set in.
It’s a hunger that always arrives quickly. Quickly and painfully. The desire to see good guys treated like bad guys, and bad guys treated like good, dissipates the minute the bad guys start running around doing their damage. In other words, we’re all a bunch of Paul Kerseys…we believe in fluff and hope and change and things that sound good, “root cause of crime is poverty,” second chances, rehabilitation, right up until our wives and daughters are violated and murdered. Then we’re ready for some reality and some justice.
Let the electorate try their childish experiment. They won’t be enamored of it for long, I promise you. May the lesson arrive quickly, may the tuition be affordable, may the damage be slight.
Drill baby drill.
Update: You know, at first it strikes me as a fair argument that I ought to be doing some research into whether Mr. Thomas said what’s attributed to him, before I work up my passions. Ordinarily, I’d agree.
But not here. I’ve heard this tired trope many times before, that Ms. Palin “needs to change,” and at this point I don’t give a rat’s rear end whether Cal Thomas said it or not, nevermind in what context. I don’t care. The talking point is out there, and it’s a load of hogwash.
The electorate will be learning soon enough what a dreadful mistake they made. Sarah Palin doesn’t need to change a thing. Not in what she does, not in what she is, not in what she says. She’s smart, and she’s right.
And so this inspires some more (semi-stolen from DC Comics) artwork. As if we haven’t indulged in that enough already. I’ve always liked George Perez’ work…and the Supergirl/Wonder Woman ratio has been tilted a bit too strongly toward the Amazon Princess lately so the time’s come to even it out.
Go Sarah Go.
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Feh…nothing new here…
The more things “change”…….
“Crouch down and lick the hand that feed you.May your chains rest lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
- CaptDMO | 11/16/2008 @ 13:32It’d be nice if they didn’t have to take us all down with them. As it is, the only way out would be to convince enough Americans that individual liberty isn’t something of which to be afraid, and is in fact far better than the pursuit of entitlement.
I’m not gonna hold my breath for that.
- JohnJ | 11/16/2008 @ 15:14I disagree.
She needs to change her listening habits. Instead of listening to handlers imposed on her, she should liten to her heart, her soul, and what ever she was listening to to get her where she is.
- lsheldon | 11/16/2008 @ 19:43There is nothing wrong with this pretty lil lady.
The problem can best be described here.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/967284
The elite feel threatened by people not of their status.
They cannot understand how a good ole country boy can rise to their level, or in this case a good ole country girl.
So they feel threatened, as they should.
Because the people, just as they did in merry old england are getting tired of the aristocrats and our time is coming, once again.
Virgil
- vbierschwale | 11/16/2008 @ 21:09http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com
Virgil,
I’m luvin’ the way you link her up with Crockett, back in the olden days when the democrat party was in its first decade of existence and the Republican party was a good thirty years away. I think if you could travel back in time hundreds or thousands of years before those labels, you’d find the same situation enduring: Aristocrats versus hunters. The former droning on about how much better suited they are for the political realm, but entirely unable to say why.
Sheldon,
You and I are of like mind on this. Where we disagree is the slack with which I am prepared to cut the Caribou Barbie. Every single flaw I can see in the McCain/Palin platform, small-to-large, as far as I can determine was of her implementation but not of her design.
That’s the drawback of running on the #2 slot. I’m optimistic as far as how she will cure those ails running as #1. Not only optimistic, but eager to see it. Perfection she isn’t; but still, she is far, far better than anything else we could’ve demanded. FAR better.What bugs you, bugs me too, and she’ll fix it. I’ll bet serious money on that.
- mkfreeberg | 11/16/2008 @ 21:52