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...
Those CNN fact-checkers who you trust oh so well, last year, about The Chosen One’s tax cuts:
Obama, on his Web site, promises to “cut taxes for 95 percent of working families.” He and his campaign officials have, at times, inaccurately described his plan as a tax cut for “95 percent of Americans.” His economic policy adviser Jason Furman told CNN that the figure applies to working people and leaves out retirees.
Ah, but it wasn’t just on His web site — although it certainly was there. This is the dishonest politician’s twenty-first century flim-flam. How many times were you called a stupid idiot for noticing Kerry, Kucinich, Dean, Obama, Clinton, et al lacked a coherent policy about this-or-that thing…and the ardent supporter snottingly and sneeringly recommended you “go to their web site”? The problem with that is obvious: There’s absolutely nothing save for Google caching to offer that tomorrow’s web site will bear any resemblance to today’s. It’s a weighty issue in this modern age when a democrat can look all big and tough and bad and hawkish, screaming Let’s Go After Saddam Hussein, and then suddenly it’s the fashionable thing to become all peace-and-dovish and yammer away about how George W. Bush fooled you.
Being a democrat has a lot to do with lacking any concept of the passage of time. So with regard to that particular party — and really, in general — “Go To His Website” is complete bullshit.
But the 95 percent thing is bullshit too. Look what’s going on up above. Click on that CNN link and read it all. Barack Obama can’t get His own campaign pledge straight…not some tangential, decorative campaign pledge, but the primary centerpiece one…and McCain is called out by the fact checkers for not repeating Obama’s pledge the way Obama meant to say it. I would add here that, as we’ve pointed out before, “ninety-five percent” is a popular figurative expression as well as a literal one. This is a point CNN seems to have missed. When you say 95%, you could be talking nineteen-measured-out-of-twenty…OR…you could be using this popular backwoods idiom to say “not quite all, but as a practical matter might as well be all.”
Ninety-five percent of the time when a politician tells me to go to his website, his website is different the next day.
Ninety-five percent of the time when someone says “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you,” he may be from there, but he’s certainly not here to help you.
Ninety-five percent of lawyers are crooks.
Ninety-five percent of the time when a child is being put on medication, it’s a male child, and it’s his mother putting him on the meds because she can’t relate to men.
See? Like that. When Obama & crew were running all over the country jibber-jabbering about this “tax cut for 95% of Americans” someone should have at least asked the question: Literal, or figurative? If it’s all about what He meant to say, it could plausibly be suggested that He could’ve meant either one.
Too late now. Not that it matters though (hat tip: Ace).
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”
Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn’t do it.
“We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” Geithner told me. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”
“We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we convince the American people that we are going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established,” he said.
You Obama zealots are really something else.
They didn’t even kiss ya first.
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