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...
Via Ace:
Biden’s 14 Lies
Fresh from the McCain people.
JOE BIDEN’S 14 LIES TONIGHT
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
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The forgot global warming being caused by humans.
Yeah, I categorize that as a “lie” because he was so damn certain:
Well, I think it is manmade. I think it’s clearly manmade…We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That’s the cause.
You can be that sure about something after evaluating the evidence and coming to the conclusion that it all points that way — in which case, you’re saying anyone who’s still entertaining some uncertainty, simply isn’t in command of all the relevant facts.
Or, you can be that sure about something because you want to build an identity for yourself. To approach those whose minds are similarly made up, and say to them “I am one of you.”
Biden was trying to make it look like he was doing the first of those; he was really engaged in the second. This is exactly why politicians have a reputation for lying constantly. And that’s why I call this a lie. But…it’s the McCain campaign putting this together. They’re engaged in the same lie. Very sad.
But getting back to those other fourteen. What in the world was Joe Biden thinking? Some of these things about votes, have no relationship to reality at all. It was quite impossible for him to have thought they were true OR that he wouldn’t get nailed on ’em. How’s this happen? And what about the “ten years for one drop of oil to come out of any of the wells” remark? That one doesn’t reflect quite so badly on Biden as it does on the people listening to him.
President Bush lifted the executive moratorium on offshore drilling. We didn’t get “one drop of oil” when he did this. And yet, down the oil prices came. That’s the way it works. It’s a speculative market. Nobody should even be entertaining the question, and truth be told I feel a little silly having to jot this down.
Biden sent me an e-mail this morning, reminding me that Sarah Palin was challenged to define one difference between the policies of a McCain/Palin administration, and “Bush’s.” He forgets quite often that this Bush person has an approval rating that is still light years ahead of the Congress in which Obama and Biden currently serve. But I do like this tactic of his. I think the McCain/Palin campaign would be well-served by challenging Biden to come up with one opportunity that Obama, Biden and friends have had, to bring oil prices down. Kindly refrain from droning on one more time about alternative fuels. What have you done to make things easier, possibly, for people to gas up their cars and work and play and live life?
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This is a very juvenille approach the Dems are taking … but I repeat myself.
Basically, they want to say “Bush is bad. So anything Bush does is wrong. Therefore anyone who agrees with Bush is just as bad. McCain agreed with Bush a lot. Ergo, McCain is bad.”
This way they get to do a couple of things. They get to not talk, specifically, about which issues they believe Bush was wrong about. They get to avoid issues altogether. The issue is Bush. That’s their argument.
It conveniently sweeps under the rug the fact that Bush’s low popularity numbers have just as much to do with his lack of followthrough on many conservative principles as it does with pissing off the left by refusing to back down from them and their adopted allies in the Middle East. The left believes that Bush’s low approval ratings means all those people are in agreement with them on their issues. It couldn’t be further from the truth. It also conveniently sweeps under the rug that in the major cases where McCain disagreed with Bush — it was often on the side of left’s issues.
The second thing they get to do is — now they get to run against Bush, who isn’t running, instead of McCain/Palin — who would be much more difficult to defeat.
I liked the way Palin brought up, a couple of times, that for a campaign running on “Hope” for the “Future” … they spend an awful lot of time pointing back at the Bush administration.
This is what the Republicans really need to start doing. Call the press and the rest of the left on their bullshit. And not subltly, either.
- philmon | 10/03/2008 @ 12:13