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...
William A. Jacobson has had enough. The Obama administration, through the actions of those who seek to defend it and apologize for it, has done more to aggravate racial tension in our nation than any force of national politics in the last twenty years or so. And Obama Himself is not innocent.
If you have followed this series, you have seen the absurd depths to which liberal pundits and political operatives will go to inject race into non-racial situations, and to explain almost all opposition to Obama as implicitly if not explicitly racist.
This stereotyped view of opposition to Obama derives not only from liberal dogma, but from Obama himself.
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Remember, Obama made his bitter clinger comments before there was a Tea Party movement, before there was opposition to what would become Obamacare, before Sarah Palin was a national figure, and before Obama had even won the nomination.
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While Obama says he wants a post-racial American, in fact Obama bitterly clings to bitter clinger stereotypes.
Leftist ambitions have a balkanizing effect on people by their very nature. And leftist politics do not, and can not, unify people.
Go through the entire list of leftist positions on things…one by one. Put together as big a list as you can possibly manage — now, take out the ones that have to do with giving the state new powers over its citizens. So take out ObamaCare, take out the First Lady’s anti-obesity initiative, take out gun control…
There’s still an awful lot left there, isn’t there? But out of what remains, you’ll notice something interesting: Every single agenda item can be summed up with the statement “Group X should have Right Y.” And, more disturbingly, you’ll see the leftists are saying anyone outside of Group X should be deprived of Right Y. So they spend a lot of time and energy saying certain people don’t count in some way. You don’t count as a person if you’re still in your mother’s womb. You aren’t really being double-taxed if your parents’ estate is subject to the Death Tax. You don’t have a right to work if you don’t belong to the union — at least, not a right so sacrosanct as the right enjoyed by people in that union. It isn’t logically possible to discriminate against you if you’re white (you kind of have it coming anyway). Girls are entitled to set-asides in higher education, even when they outnumber boys in the student body, are performing better academically, have always been the focus of our society’s efforts to make people safer and more secure, and on average have much brighter futures than their male counterparts.
Everyone inside some perimeter is to receive some entitlement — and anybody outside of it, doesn’t count in the same way. You’ve got to join our club in order to get the perks.
This doesn’t unify people, doesn’t bring people together. It fragments them, drives them apart. It’s been true of leftist politics for generations, Obama is just the latest demonstration of this truth.
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That “Laurie” poster is a real kick in the head. I couldn’t seem to leave a comment on the blog you linked to, so I’ll sound-off here instead:
The accomplishments Laurie cites are dubious at best, and not a one of them seems to have anything whatever to do with being President of the United States. “Community Organizer” is nothing but Chicago-ese for rabble-rouser. I had never even heard of that title until Obama came along. During the 2008 campaign, I found it particularly amusing that anyone backing Obama would dare mention “executive experience,” when Palin alone had more of it than the two halves of their ticket….combined.
I’d also add that Palin didn’t resign the governorship to “do a talk show.” As I recall, the poor woman was literally hounded out of office, amidst watching her state being bankrupted by ceaseless, pointless FOIA requests and baseless accusations of gubernatorial misconduct.
If Laurie here had bothered to read Palin’s book, she’d know this. (The other posters are far kinder to this misguided soul than I am inclined to be.)
- cylarz | 03/07/2011 @ 03:10