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...
If you’re well-informed, or even moderately-informed, you know where this is going already. We’ll start off with that particular monstrosity:
In March 2010, Congress passed President Obama’s health care reform legislation. The bill had appeared in serious jeopardy, and after the upset special election victory of Senator Scott Brown (R–MA), many analysts expected the bill to fail. Instead, it became law.
The law discourages employers from hiring in several ways:
• Businesses with fewer than 50 workers have a strong incentive to maintain this size, which allows them to avoid the mandate to provide government-approved health coverage or face a penalty;
• Businesses with more than 50 workers will see their costs for health coverage rise—they must purchase more expensive government-approved insurance or pay a penalty; and
• Employers face considerable uncertainty about what constitutes qualifying health coverage and what it will cost. They also do not know what the health care market or their health care costs will look like in four years. This makes planning for the future difficult.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: There is something about the modern progressive that everlastingly, stridently, viciously if necessary, opposes the concept of a sandbox. You can’t ever put one of their plans in some isolated area where its effect on people will be limited and controlled. For some reason, that’s a complete non-starter. The plan has to be implemented immediately, universally, unconditionally, involuntarily and inescapably. There can’t be any getting away from it.
I’m not in a position to opine on their concerns or their priorities — since they’re so seldom challenged on any of it.
Progressives have no response to that particular critique, by the way. Present it to them and they’ll just change the subject. More likely than not, tell you the person who came up with it is a moron and an idiot, and then say the same about you if you show any signs of receptiveness to it. But they won’t respond logically to it because there is no response. They won’t tolerate any loopholes or escape hatches or opt-in strategies or containment strategies or test-beds or anything of the like.
And here we are. Thank God I found a job before Obama was elected.
Hat tip to Boortz.
What do businesses think about the Obama administration? It’s easy to speculate on it — start with the three bullet points in the excerpt from the report, above — but you have to wait awhile to get actual confirmation on it. Recently, that has happened and it’s become something of an “Everyone else is blogging it, I might as well put ‘er up too” thing.
And yes, as you’ve heard already and it has become an obligatory statement to put in: This particular entrepreneur leans democrat.
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You can’t ever put one of their plans in some isolated area where its effect on people will be limited and controlled. For some reason, that’s a complete non-starter. The plan has to be implemented immediately, universally, unconditionally, involuntarily and inescapably. There can’t be any getting away from it.
I know I keep banging on this ad nauseam (and if y’all are sick of it, let me know), but this is because they’re capital-S Socialists. The only way Communism — actual honest-to-betsy, dictatorship-of-the-proletariat Communism — could ever work would be if it were implemented everywhere, all at once. There were, in fact, several moments where the Paris Communards, Lenin, et al were shocked into immobility because the whole proletariat of the entire world didn’t spontaneously rise with them. After all, Theory says that’s what has to happen. If it doesn’t happen, then it must be due to counterrevolutionary sabotage.
Nobody talks that way anymore, but after 90+ years of leftist control of the school system the attitude has internalized. You don’t “try things out” because sandboxing involves the acknowledgment, at least theoretically, that counterrevolutionaries and subversives might have a point. But they can’t — the Theory says so, and the Theory is always right, because the Theory is one and the same with the inevitable progression of capital-H History.
Or, to put it in modern terms: the only ones who aren’t metaphysically certain that liberal ideas are 100% pure goodness are conservatives, and conservatives are evil. If they want to test it out, if they want empirical data, then both empirical data and the testing process itself are therefore objectively bad.
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