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.
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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.
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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...
It’s from one lefty to a bunch of other lefties who’ve abandoned President Obama for not being lefty enough. Yeah I know, you were thinking “Oh good, mystery finally solved”…so was I.
The bullet points are interesting. And very well written, as far as implementing the lessons from, uh, “How to cover up your BS and make it look like something that isn’t BS.”
– Obama abolished the United States’ use of torture and the CIA’s secret prisons.
– He restored the liberal internationalist approach to foreign policy and made an historic outreach to the Muslim world.
– He stabilized an economy that was spiraling into a depression.
– He expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit and made major investments in job training, education, infrastructure, clean energy, housing, and scientific research.
– He saved the automobile industry by saving General Motors and Chrysler.
– He forced the health insurance companies to stop excluding people with pre-existing conditions and to stop dropping people when they got sick.
Rather unsettling how many bullet points on this list are simply efforts, with no matching achievement and therefore no mention of the results that ensued. “Made an historic outreach to the Muslim world,” for example. Would the Obama administration want to be graded on the results? I suppose the country owes the President a debt for proving once and for all that it doesn’t work…now we can quit arguing about it. That’s something.
“Stabilizing the economy” corresponds nicely to an analogy involving a sheepherd whose flock is plagued by a wolf that snacks on two or three heads in the herd every day. At some point, the sheep depletion rate will taper off — when there aren’t any more sheep left. While the shepherd does nothing…the snack rate still reaches zero. And that, boys and girls, is how President Obama stabilized our economy.
One question remains, and it is a reasonable one: So what would it take?
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So much to slam, so little time…
First, it reads as if a high school student wrote it. Certainly not a professor at a leading college. “…electing a more compelling human being to the White House is probably impossible in this country.” Golly gee, how can anyone argue with that?
“President Gore would not have invaded Iraq, showered the rich with tax cuts, doubled the federal debt, or let corporate lobbyists devise America’s energy policies.”
Gore isn’t on record saying Saddam was a threat to this country?
What is so hard to figure out about tax cuts = more revenue. Damn history and logic, I know, stuff we need to ignore.
Love the shot about the debt, has he seen it lately…Obama isn’t responsible?…put the pipe down professor.
“He ended the war in Iraq exactly as he promised.”
“He relieved the world of Usama bin Laden …”
He inherited that from the “failed policies of the last administration”. The surge…enhanced interrogation techniques…hello…Bueller…?
“He stood up to the oil lobby on the Keystone Pipeline.”
Liberal’s cars don’t use gas? He didn’t reject it, he simply put it off till…wait for it professor…after the election. What a stand up guy.
“He has represented the United States with consummate dignity.”
Oh that one is precious. So much to say about that one, but what’s the point. Liberal dignity obviously means something entirely different than conservatives. Like the opposite.
I guess “Social ethics” means never having to substitute one’s argument with assertions, a basis, facts…Just simply say it and…tada…it’s true!
Rather sad actually.
- tim | 03/08/2012 @ 10:44Leftist “logic” in a nutshell — full credit is given for the unproven/unprovable (what doesn’t count as “represent[ing] the United States with consummate dignity” if Dear Leader does it? What does count if George W. Bush did?) while no points are subtracted for the failed and/or blatantly false (remember when 5% unemployment was the Worst! Economy! Evar!!!!1!!1!!eleventy?)
What would it take? Nothing. It can’t be done. That ship sailed with Bill Clinton. Remember when he whined “Ah’ve been tryin’ so hard” when confronted with his many manifest faults and failings? Anyone with a functioning pair of testicles and/or three brain cells to rub together threw up a bit in their mouths at that… but as it turns out, that’s about 46-51% of us, tops. As tim notes, it’s as clear as pimples on the prom queen that when taxes go down, gov’t revenues go up — there’s reams of data on this — but lefties don’t care; “social justice” trumps petty things like facts and logic every time.
Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter. Opinion pieces like this are — like all liberal manifestos — just blasts of puerile self-righteousness. The professor doesn’t have to convince errant liberals to come back to the Dem fold; pointing out that Obama’s opponent is a Republican will take care of that. Liberals are such pathetic, petty, vindictive people that they’ll come out to vote just to spite the other guy — let the world burn, so long as we can bray our self-proclaimed virtue to the stars while the flames rise…..
- Severian | 03/08/2012 @ 15:27Even if one were generous enough to credit Obama’s *efforts* (note, as others have pointed out, not actual accomplishments) and rate all of the changes of the last three years as overwhelmingly positive…(I beg to differ on all of them – I happen to think, for instance, that withdrawing from Iraq too early will ultimately bite us in the ass)….
…the fact remains that all of these items (““He has represented the United States with consummate dignity”) are HIGHLY subjective. There’s no way to count them, measure them, prove or disprove any of them. It all amounts to someone’s opinion.
And on that note, I happen to think that Obama’s “diplomatic strategy,” such as it is, has served to undermine our position and standing among other nations – alienating our friends, emboldening our enemies, and showing the fence sitters that there is no reason to either fear or respect the United States of America. A stronger leader would stood shoulder to shoulder with the UK and Israel, while telling Iran that it has about five minutes to abandon its nuclear program…or long-range heavy bombers are going to be sent in their direction. A stronger leader would have understood that wanting to be “loved” by other countries is a waste of time.
Instead, we have this fool trotting around the globe, bowing and scraping and apologizing for existing. It’s as disgusting as it is counter productive.
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