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...
A couple days ago I said, regarding Senator Clinton’s fumble…
I don’t know for a fact that a President Hillary Clinton would certainly end the United States as we know it. But let’s face facts: She’d certainly be able to. She could erode “civil liberties” a hundred times more than President Bush has ever dreamed of doing, and afterward, face one-hundredth as much scrutiny and inspection from the media or from anyone else.
A woman of real courage would just leave that “don’t pick on the girl” card unplayed. You’d get answers out of her, which would have real meaning, that you’d be able to understand.
Now, I don’t know if Hillary’s rival and colleague Barrack Obama reads my blog. I have long operated under the premise that hardly anybody does. But how then do you explain this gem, which appeared in the online edition of the L.A. Times earlier this morning?
“I am assuming and I hope that Sen. Clinton wants to be treated like everybody else,” Obama said on the “Today” show.
Referring to debates where he has come under attack, Obama said, “I didn’t come out and say, ‘Look, I’m being hit on because I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage.’ “
I’ve been robbed, but I’m not calling the police. I’m quite flattered.
It’s easily the most sensible thing I’ve heard of Sen. Obama saying, since…well, since a few short months ago when he dished out his first not-really-positive comment about something, whatever that comment was, after some advisor got hold of him and correctly convinced him he couldn’t win the White House on a bunch of empty bromides and platitudes. He was probably reacting to the Clinton campaign’s YouTube clip, which in my opinion is about as clever as any other, but nevertheless amounts to a whole lot of whining.
One of the things that makes America a great country is we get bitchy about whiners…other countries get bitchy about people who gloat, and end up nurturing cultures opposed to success, eventually festering into unabashed jealousy. But we get particularly bitchy about powerful politicians snivelling away about having to answer tough questions when seeking high office.
In the first 150 years or so of this nation’s history, Hillary Clinton’s boo-hoo-hoo don’t pick on me schtick would have gotten her disqualified. Well, of course, being a woman she wouldn’t have been a likely candidate in the first place. Now things are different. A woman can run for President, and in the mind of Hillary Clinton, that apparently means it has become distasteful to inspect what a perceived front-runner would do about even highly-controversial issues. Now that someone with fallopian tubes is running we’re supposed to stop asking questions and just hope for the best.
I don’t think the man’s been born who’s a worse chauvinist pig, than this one candidate who is arguably more likely than any other to be our next President and happens to female herself. I’ve torn up the sheets with some whiny, weepy women in my time, but I doubt I’ve met anyone with a lower tolerance for confrontation or a lower vision for what a woman can handle than Hillary. Obama nailed it: Sen. Clinton’s tactic is useful only to a candidate hiding something. As if we needed a further demonstration of that after her waffling answer.
But of course, I called it out first, and while it’s a stretch to think he was inspired reading the same pages you’re reading now, I have no hard evidence to prove or even to suggest he did not.
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