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...
Well, I’ve been soundly beaten up, and perhaps rightfully so, for my willingness to come out and admit I didn’t know something before this week…which a lot of other folks have known for awhile. I’m a living representation of how susceptible we all are to the “Everybody’s Doin’ It” excuse. I got bit by the political correctness bug. Showed a shortage of skepticism to some things, and an excess of it to others.
Thought I should jot down some things that, for exactly the same reasons, a lot of other people might not know…even though they should.
1. These people we call “radical Islamists”…if one faction among them thinks some stuff and another faction thinks some other stuff…it is possible for the rift to be healed. Even across the Sunni/Shi’ite divde — they can often work together just fine and dandy in spite of that.
2. They really, really do want to kill us.
3. Many amongst them support a goal of replacing the United States government with an Islamic one operating under Shari’a law.
4. They have authorized themselves to lie in order to spread their religion.
5. In some parts of the Western world…in fact, pretty much every part except America…they have a “human right” not to have anything bad said about them.
These are not cynical personal opinions, these are matters of verifiable fact.
And here we sit, on soil underneath which our ancestors buried three or four of their infants at once while battling rattlesnakes and frostbite and wolves and famine to try to settle the land…to survive…bitching about how we didn’t get enough cinnamon in our candified Starbucks drinks this morning. A nation of fatted veal calves if ever there was one. Fruit ripe for the pickin’.
Concerned? Alarmed? To what extent would be appropriate?
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