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...
He put together a nice list for everyone. Thought I would share it.
1: fool
2: gullible
3: ignorant
4: prone to hysteria
5: prone to conspiracy thinking
6: bad
7: immoral
8: silly
9: selling out your own economic self interests
Nick really doesn’t want anyone learning both sides of an issue; only the one side they can find, replicated over and over again, in the other news sources.
I found an example of what Nick must not want people to know. It concerns a private citizen’s group that has been finding rampant incidents of voter registration fraud.
“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them” [Catherine] Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. “Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic…
“But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking.”
It was Houston’s poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, “It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.”
The task was overwhelming. With 1.9 million voters and 886 voting precincts, Houston’s Harris County is the second largest county in the country — and the key to Texas elections.
The group called for help and quickly got 30 donated computers and “tens of thousands of hours” of volunteer work. And then the questions started to arise.
“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters.”
Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state’s office and the Harris County district attorney.
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.
Caddle told local newspapers that there “had been mistakes made,” and he said he had fired 30 workers for filing defective voter registration applications. He could not be reached for this article.
Is it possible to embarrass and stigmatize all of the American people into becoming, and staying, ignorant of one selected side of each issue that comes along?
Only time will tell. At least, thanks to Nick’s openness and candor, we know that effort is out there. And thanks to the shenanigans of “Houston Votes,” we know how advisable it is — or isn’t — to stop reading & listening where complete strangers tell you you shouldn’t be reading & listening.
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I’d like to once again correct this perception on the Left that Fox News is conservative. It isn’t. It has very little (if any) bias either direction. Think of it as a stick straight up and down.
The problem is that all the other major media outlets lean to the left – their sticks are at a 45-degree angle or worse. They report stories hostile to the Democrats only when forced to do so. The issue at hand is that you have millions of news viewers who are so used to this leftward tilt…that when they look at something that is actually straight up-and-down, they think it is leaning to the right!
They’re often the same ones who get at least part of their “news” from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert – shysters and charlatans who use humor and sarcasm to make their point – usually by quoting someone from FOX News out of context or otherwise misrepresenting something that was said there. Stewart recently tried to explain away the coming sweep in November as being of like-mind with “pick up seats” predictions that the GOP issued back in 2006. Keep dreaming.
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