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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...
It’s midnight EDT, and Politico has something.
After a long day of trading offers, the White House and House Republicans reached agreement Friday night on a budget framework that would cap 2011 appropriations near or below $1.050 trillion while cutting domestic and foreign aid by more than $40 billion from the rate of spending at the beginning of this Congress.
Behind the closed doors of special meeting of the Republican Conference, Speaker John Boehner presented the package to his party as at least an agreement in principle and said at one point: “We have a deal.” The Senate should now feel confident enough to move ahead with a stop gap spending bill to avert—or at least shorten—any shutdown beginning at midnight.
I’d sure like to know the mentality at work with people who think this is an okay way for our country to function. I know they must be lacking in any useful long-term memory since, as I’ve written before, the newspaper headlines never really seem to change. “[Program/agency] in trouble! Budget shortfall! Wah!” And then there’s a tearjerker story of some sad sack who’s utterly, completely dependent on the government program who just doesn’t know what he or she is gonna do. Crack that paper open again a couple months later, or a couple years later, and it hasn’t changed any. The program is different, the agency is different, but the rest of it is the same. Budget shortfall! What’re we gonna do??
See, this has always intrigued and befuddled me. Clearly, what separates them from everyone else is the fact that they don’t value independence…I mean, personal independence. Wouldn’t this kind of experience sort of, y’know, motivate them to value it more highly?
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Too easy. The same ones who think you can pick up a t-rd from the clean end.
Shut down government? Good. Do it. Who frakkin’ cares? Not me.
The Institutional GoP campaigned on reducing $100bn in the out-go for this year. Not $31bn. Not $61bn. $100bn. Anything less and they lied. Hold the buzzards accountable.
Remember that we were told the 2009 spending levels were one time only? Do you? Well, they do not. All of them are “they”. Demonrats. GoP. The whole bunch think we are stupid.
Daphne posted what should be the theme song for all freedom lovers from Ray Wylie Hubbard – “Screw you, We’re from Texas”
- Robohobo | 04/09/2011 @ 10:08This is what comes from living for “compromise”.
Compromising with evil over and over again will only lead you further and further toward evil.
If we don’t wake up a big majority of the electorate, we’re doomed. DOOMED I say!
- philmon | 04/09/2011 @ 20:21You know, it further occurs to me … you go for $100 bn and you get $31 bn … who won that battle?
Seems like $50 bn would be a “compromise”. $31 bn is an a** kickin’, and in the wrong direction.
- philmon | 04/10/2011 @ 06:41even a reduction of 100B is just a rounding error.
- pdwalker | 04/10/2011 @ 22:17Excellent point.
- philmon | 04/11/2011 @ 06:26I notice whenever a battle is engaged between a side that captures turf in baby steps, and another side that insists on big swaths of victory, the baby-step side always seems to win.
That is, after all, how we got into this fix gentlemen. Layers built upon layers built upon layers…
How far off the beaten path are we in 2011? Heard one of the radio guys ask a great question about the shutdown, and how “all non-essential personnel would not report to work.” His question was…waitaminnit…why are “non-essential” people working for the government at all??
Never underestimate the power of baby-steps. They can screw things up, and maybe they can fix things again too.
- mkfreeberg | 04/11/2011 @ 08:20Point taken.
Just remember that the other side has the micro-baby-step of “Earth Hour”, where they save the world for an hour each year, and then go right back to, ahem, “destroying” it.
- philmon | 04/11/2011 @ 08:23