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...
Daphne forwards on (via off-line) the brilliant prose of some overly-emotionally-invested pro-ObamaCare blogger who’s getting incensed about all the protests…and has decided to start calling people names. Real mature.
AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A CONSERVATIVE TEA PARTY BECAUSE A CONSERVATIVE TEA PARTY DON’T STOP!
Seriously. You might have thought that the tea partiers had packed up their homemade often misspelled signs and their bejeweled flag t-shirts so they could get back home to their miserable lives but think again. They’re like a band of traveling gypsies who dress poorly and keep showing up uninvited. On Thursday thousands of activists who aren’t really sure what they’re protesting camped out at the Capitol for what was referred to as the “Super Bowl of Freedom,” sponsored by Republican members of Congress.
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Naturally our own Rep. Jeb Hensarling was out there rallying the troops and, according to WP, standing in front of the tastefully done Dachau banner. Rep. John Carter pointed to the House office buildings and, apparently forgetting for a minute that he’s a House member, encouraged the protesters, “Go get ‘em!” No. Really. I have no idea why Texas gets a bad name.The ubiquitous Jon Voight brought the D-list star power to the event, standing with the lawmakers and saying of Obama, “Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Reverend Wright to damn America?” I’m pretty sure the only people who’ve been programmed are the feeble-minded and easily brainwashed protesters. Go get ‘em.
Well, perhaps it stings just a little bit being compared to Nazis because there are quite a few things that make the analogy work. Like the human-experimenting…the ultra-charismatic personality up at the tippy-top of the org chart…wonderful speechifying…the population-at-large claiming, perhaps truthfully in many cases, that they had no idea what horrors were being practiced by their own government…
Wasn’t so long ago the shoe was on the other foot, because our House Speaker was claiming she saw the protesters with swastikas and tried to spin it like the protesters were neo-Nazis. That didn’t work so well. Know why? Because if you can find a Nazi, and you figure out the Nazi is opposed to ObamaCare…the Nazi would be right about that one thing.
Anyway. Like I said in the comments. What is it about desiring control over your own life? Or what is it about not desiring control over your own life? Everything’s wonderful and you’re all happy, until someone else comes along and demands the freedom and responsibility you know you should be demanding, and that one event just sets people off. It’s like, if we were all just handed secret ballots on whether we want ObamaCare or not, the simpletons could vote yes, people who love liberty could vote no, and the simpletons would stay happy and content because they could labor on under the delusion that “everyone” agrees with them.
Maybe that’s the way we should be doing it. Just bypass Congress altogether. See if this is something The People want.
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Name-calling is all they have beyond “the chillllllllllllldren”.
It’s the old “ridicule and disparage” argument. You know, the argument substitute favored most by people who really don’t have an actual argument.
If I can’t be right, I’ll just spout cathartic insults in the hope that others will see me doing it and keep their own mouths shut.
Shut Uppery in action.
- philmon | 11/09/2009 @ 12:56Yeah, I’m struggling to recall where exactly I saw that before…hmmm…
— Ah, that’s it. The cafeteria. In fifth grade. Kinda tapered off during the middle-school years. That’s normal, I think. Some folks live in that zone forever.
- mkfreeberg | 11/09/2009 @ 13:00It’s the old “ridicule and disparage” argument. You know, the argument substitute favored most by people who really don’t have an actual argument.
Are you kidding me, Philmon? It’s the only tool Jon Stewart has in his toolbelt. He’ll play a clip of someone on Fox News, deploy the tactic described above, and his audience claps and cheers like a bunch of trained seals. And my left-wing co-workers chuckle, say “Yeah!” and otherwise eat up that crap with a spoon.
On blogs, I’ve noticed that it’s gotten to the point where a lot of people seem to think this is what “making your case” for or against something, actually consists of. They don’t realize that this is a dishonorable tactic, as well as ineffective at winning converts to one’s side.
- cylarz | 11/12/2009 @ 01:47And speaking of left-wing bloggers, I’ve noticed lately that a lot of them “encourage” us to keep loving on Sarah Palin. As if that’s supposed to make us stop and say, “Hey, waitdaminnit. What’s he really trying to say? Is he trying to trick me? Maybe I’d better STOP lovin’ on Sarah Palin.” When in reality that’s what they want us to do – stop talking about her so that she’ll go away, and the dire, mortal threat she poses to their agenda can be averted.
- cylarz | 11/12/2009 @ 01:52