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...
You kinda have to wonder when you see postings like this. You have to wonder if, a year or two down the road, the Obama supporter look back at such items and say to himself, in the privacy of his own cranium, “that, right there, was my warning.”
The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who’ve been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama’s past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.
Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he’s just said. It’s made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.
Had I been aware of my surroundings continuously all the way back to 1776, I suspect — strongly — that I’d have the knowledge base necessary to substantiate the following: Our hunger for American royalty, thoroughly inexplicable in every way, is sustained moment by moment since the day we broke off from, and fought to be rid of, a British one. We seem to have an instinctive yearning to live our lives beholden to, and with a declared allegiance to, some spoiled brat.
Gerard has a different take on the situation, and sums it up in five words. Don’t miss.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
I too have noticed this need for royalty.
I attribute it to the fact that our explorers that came here first would be equivalent to our republicans of today.
Our ancestors that came later when America was deemed safer would be the democrats of today and they brought all the trappings of their former home lands.
Now our explorers need a new breed of scientist, adventurer and politician to step up to the plate and make space travel by our people that want to colonize outer space possible.
The sad thing is that one of these days when we have colonized space and made it possible for them, the democrats that want somebody to take care of them will follow in our footsteps and still want somebody to take care of them.
Its sad,
Virgil
- vbierschwale | 10/11/2008 @ 08:50http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com
I think mentioning the Obama plane is stinky could be racist.
- vanderleun | 10/11/2008 @ 09:50