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...
I’m late to the party on this one; it’s become another “Everyone Else Is Blogging It, I Might As Well Do It Too” thing.
But this is exactly what I’ve been talking about. This is why I will (or should) win a steak dinner and $100 come 2012. Pretend you’re a British taxpayer, listen to what this guy’s saying, and tell me with a straight face that even the laziest cortex in your noggin has a single synapse to spare for: How he dresses, how much hair he’s missing, whether the other guy has hopey-changey charisma, whether some cute sluts have fainted at his speeches, whether their wives are wearing acceptable fashion, whether they give you tingle in your legs, arugula, waffles, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
You catch wind of some asshole spending all your money and all your kids’ money, that all goes flying out the window.
Update: To all those who question whether the prey is a good match for the hunting gear, there is this:
President Barack Obama took many on-point questions at his press conference this week. But for our money, the most important came from Chip Reid of CBS News.
“At both of your town hall meetings in California last week, you said, quote, ‘I didn’t run for president to pass on our problems to the next generation.’ But under your budget, the debt will increase $7 trillion over the next 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office says $9.3 trillion. And today on Capitol Hill, some Republicans called your budget, with all the spending on health care, education and environment, the most irresponsible budget in American history.
“Isn’t that kind of debt exactly what you were talking about when you said ‘passing on our problems to the next generation’?” Reid asked.
This is a profoundly important issue. Even without the hugely costly stimulus and bailout measures believed necessary to deal with the economic crisis, even without the highly costly Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the United States faces staggering annual deficits in coming years as 78 million baby boomers retire and the tab for Social Security and Medicare explodes. In 20 years, the average age of the nation will be what it now is in retirement haven Florida. A decade after that, the ratio of workers paying taxes to retirees receiving federal checks will drop to 2-to-1.
Something needs to be done to prepare for this coming entitlement tidal wave – a point Obama made repeatedly on the campaign trail, to his credit.
Now, to his discredit, Obama is simply ignoring these grim fiscal realities. The president argues that to put America on track for a better future, he has no choice but to pursue enormously costly expansions of government health coverage and government regulation of energy use and production. But he must acknowledge that his ambitions have a jaw-dropping price tag. This is what Chip Reid’s question was meant to do.
He is exactly what Daniel Hannan was talking about; He says one thing, now & then, here & there…and does something else. To be fair about it, Republicans have been guilty of the same thing.
But my intuition tells me that at the beginning of ’11, there will be more than a few new faces there. Asking for, and worthy of, a chance to demonstrate that their deeds match their fiscal-conservatism rhetoric.
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“To be fair about it, Republicans have been guilty of the same thing.”
To be fair, has it EVER been to the magnitude of THIS?!
- tim | 03/26/2009 @ 10:26No, it has not.
And to be fair, the levels of popular patience for this type of double-talking deceit, have never been so staggeringly high.
It’s like finding your home burglarized one evening, so you get ahold of a picture of the guy who burgled it, put it in a shrine, and pray to it every night.
- mkfreeberg | 03/26/2009 @ 11:23Where is the TelePrompter?
- Larry Sheldon | 03/26/2009 @ 12:05“…the levels of popular patience for this type of double-talking deceit, have never been so staggeringly high.”
The patience, for the most part, is by the uninformed people who voted in this burglar.
With no evidence to the contrary I can’t expect them to suddenly know the difference between right and wrong; double talk; lies; unsavory associates, friends and associates; platitudes versus accomplishments; socialism versus democracy…
One only has to look at the man who lost, forgetting for one moment his faults which we all categorized, to realize what I’m talking about. One is hard pressed to come up with another more deserving to be our president, ESPECIALLY considering who he was running against.
Then it ALL makes a little more sense. Certainly not comforting but it does shed light on the deafening silence amongst certain crowds.
- tim | 03/26/2009 @ 13:35The patience, for the most part, is by the uninformed people who voted in this burglar. With no evidence to the contrary I can’t expect them to suddenly know the difference between right and wrong; double talk; lies; unsavory associates, friends and associates; platitudes versus accomplishments; socialism versus democracy…
True, but one can always hold out some hope that they get tired of participating.
To me, the more I look at this, the more it looks like 1976-1977. The Republicans, mired in scandal, confused, tired, confronted by an economic malaise they’ve done very little to effectively combat, are voted out in favor of some Nice Guy who’s comparatively youthful, energetic, pleasing to the eye. Nobody understands what the Nice Guy’s policies are, exactly, but nobody understands what the outgoing Republican leadership’s policies were either. Fiat currency, EPA, “Whip Inflation Now” buttons.
Four years later, they regroup behind a strong figure with some new, appealing, logical ideas. Back then it was a former democrat B-list movie actor named Ronald Reagan. In ’12, it could be Palin…or Petraeus…or someone very much like this guy. The idea to be communicated is such a simple one: Spending money is not the thing to do, when the problem is that you’ve exhausted it. Once people hunger for solutions that are real, rather than the ones that just sound good and are represented by some smooth-talker with a flashy teleprompter and nice “gallows humor” punch-drunk smile, they’ll be ready to hear. Or stay home and watch re-runs of Seinfeld.
- mkfreeberg | 03/26/2009 @ 14:51Ya gotta love someone who can speak English. Hannan’s extended analogy of the leaking Ship of State is brilliant.
- rob | 03/26/2009 @ 17:28