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...
There’s no buzz about “OMGWTF It’s The Best Speech EVAR!!1!” this time. Not happenin’.
What are we doing? We’re holding meetings with people, spending money, and handing out power to people and commissions.
William Jacobson bottom-lines it in one sentence:
I don’t know where I’m going, but follow me anyway.
I see on Sean Hannity’s show Karl Rove came up with an interesting point: This is like what, Day 57 or something, and you just met with BP and told them to use all available technology? Huh. How inspiring. So what was our government doing during the first 56 days?
The President is drawing a lot of flak over this comment about convening a commission to tell Him whose ass to kick. There are three major reasons why He should consider kicking His own ass:
Aw c’mon, say the 46 percent who still support His Eminence — what else do you want from Him? He’s doing all He can! Can’t swim to the bottom of the ocean and suck it up with a straw, after all.
Well, Human Events editors have put together a list of ten good ideas He could have engaged by now…
1. Accepted help from the Netherlands when they offered it shortly after the accident. The Dutch, experienced in the oil business, offered prompt help for oil skimming booms and plans to create barriers to stop the oil from infiltrating into wetland areas.
2. Suspended the Jones Act, as President Bush did after Katrina, to allow foreign vessels into American waters to assist with recovery without having to swap ships and transfer equipment onto American flagged vessels.
3. Suspended the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws, as President Bush did after Katrina, to allow rapid deployment of new workers to help with containment efforts.
There are several miles of boom available in Maine, ready for shipment down to the gulf at any time.
Packgen’s boom not only passes every independent ASTM assessment, it’s apparently superior to the material currently being used in the Gulf. According to John Lapoint, it’s priced only slightly higher than oil boom that BP apparently normally purchases from places like China. And according to Packgen, boom manufactured in Auburn, Maine, on Monday can be onsite at the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. Boom from China normally has a lead time in months.
Packgen still has the 13 miles of ASTM certified floating oil containment boom, packed and palletized and ready to ship at a moment’s notice to the Gulf Coast.
It’s crisis management; basic communication. The same sort of stuff you’d want to see happening if it was the roof of your house with six-foot tongues of flame leaping out of it at 2:30 in the morning.
That we haven’t seen much of it by now, makes it unlikely we’ll see much of it from this point on. It’s a culture of opportunity-from-crisis, glorious speechifying, commissions, czars, anti-capitalist bullshit, photo-ops, symbolism over substance, talking over doing, strutting and posturing.
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