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...
Instapundit, by way of Maggie’s Farm:
Under a regulation proposed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, any homeowner – regardless of income – who falls 90 days behind on their mortgage will automatically become eligible for reduced interest rates, extended time for payment, or other relief. The Post reports:
Some analysts worried that the new program could encourage borrowers to deliberately miss payments in order to become eligible for the program.
“The primary issue is whether this will encourage borrowers to strategically default on their mortgage in order to get the modification. This risk exists because the new program does not require the borrower to demonstrate financial hardship,” Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with Gugenheim Partners, wrote Wednesday. “
FHFA said Fannie and Freddie would use existing “screening measures to prevent strategic defaulters.”
Yeah, I’m sure that will work. Does doing the “right thing” even matter anymore, or does it just make you a doofus?
From the article:
In the past, to be eligible for a mortgage modification, borrowers had to provide documentation they had a financial hardship. They will no longer be required to do so — though providing such documentation will make borrowers eligible for more substantial monthly savings.
“This new option gives delinquent borrowers another path to avoid foreclosure,” said Edward DeMarco, the acting director of FHFA. “We will still encourage such borrowers to provide documentation to support other modification options that would likely result in additional borrower savings.”
Predictable. Tragically so. And a mighty but weakening nation becomes weaker still.
Monday, someone steps in a puddle; Tuesday, a nation mourns the tragedy. Wednesday, our government announces a program to provide clean, new, dry shoes to anyone who steps in a puddle and by Thursday, everybody’s looking for a puddle in which to do their stepping.
By Friday, there is government-provided training on how to find puddles.
Come the weekend, the liberals are mocking the intelligence of conservatives who have had the audacity to notice & point out what’s going on. It becomes comedy fodder for The Daily Show, Colbert Report and Saturday Night Live…after the weekend, the cycle is repeated as someone gets a paper cut…
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Stuff like this makes me want to get my tinfoil hat out. I’m not a conspiracy nutter, but…..
The Marxist left learned fairly early on that the bourgoisie is bourgeois not because of income or structural economic advantages, but largely because of culture. The fastest way to destroy the bourgeoisie, and thus hasten the Revolution, is thus to destroy bourgeois culture.
They started with religion — already under attack by the Enlightenment — with effects it’s hardly necessary to state. The default cultural presumption now is that sincere religious believers are a little slow, a little dumb, a little dunderheaded. And, of course, all hypocrites, since it’s impossible to love thy neighbor as thyself, so why even try? That’s just stupid.*
Next, routine social pleasantries. “Better a false ‘good morning’ than a sincere ‘go to hell,’ the old saying goes, but of course that too is hypocrisy. Feminism did a pretty good job on that one – holding the door open is a sign not of respect, but of patriarchial oppression.
And now we’re to the point where you’re a fool for even trying to be a decent person. Acceptable behavior is whatever you can get away with. Anyone who appears to be acting out of the goodness of his heart must be concealing a hidden agenda. Nothing is wrong unless it’s illegal — a specific line item in a specific law aimed at that specific action under those exact circumstances.
The Revolution requires proletarian class solidarity, you see. And that requires the complete atomization of the workers. Only when all affective ties to the old order are removed will the workers realize that the only struggle is class struggle, and unite, and revolt.
Economics alone won’t achieve that. Gotta blow up culture, too.
*needless to say these are not my personal views.
- Severian | 03/31/2013 @ 08:15