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...
Few pieces of political “wisdom” are more tediously recycled than a well-retailed bon mot of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Asked what he feared most in the months ahead, he gave an amused Edwardian response: “Events, dear boy, events.” In other words, you can plan all you want, but next month, next year some guy off the radar screen will launch a war, or there’ll be an earthquake, or … something. Governments get thrown off course by “events.”
It requires a perverse kind of genius for the 44th president not to have waited for a single “event” to throw him off course. Instead, he threw himself off…the monthly magazines still gazing out from their newsstands with their glossy inaugural covers of a smiling Barack and Michelle waltzing on the audacity of hope seem like musty historical artifacts from a lost age. The ship didn’t need to hit an iceberg; it stalled halfway down the slipway. This is still the phase before “events” come into play, when an incoming president has nothing to get in the way of his judgment and executive competence.
Hat tip to Maggie’s Farm for the article, link, more links not shown here, and image from The People’s Cube (via Moonbattery).
Get help, Obamatons. Get help now.
Update: You know, I think what follows just about sums it up in a way even the “Obama’s gonna put gas in my car” lady could get it. If I can grind away at it, reduce it to bumper-sticker size while still keeping the analogy intact, maybe I’ll put it on something.
Sheriff #43 took down a bad guy. He shot ‘im dead, and when they picked up the bad guy’s gun we found out there weren’t any bullets in it.
Sheriff #44 says he can’t do any sheriff-ing until we move the bank to the sheriff’s office…but it seems he doesn’t know how to ride a horse.
Seems a peculiar brand of change to be requesting, let alone demanding; but what do I know, I got outvoted.
Update: Perhaps a certain green Jedi Master of advanced age and diminutive size can provide the elegance, brevity and wit that eludes me…
Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.
Things went bad under Hoover, then FDR took over and made them much worse, while blaming things on his predecessor…
Things went bad under Nixon/Ford, then Carter took over and made them much worse, while blaming things on his predecessor…
Things went bad under George W. Bush, then Obama took over. He’s blaming anything & everything bad, on FaPoBuAd, the Failed Policies of the Bush Administration.
The collection of outspoken folks who think things are about to get better — or will simply stay the same, not getting any worse — is limited to paid spokesmen, punch-drunk newspaper editors, democrat-party hucksters, drunks and druggies who haven’t woken up from January 20 just yet, and nameless-faceless speechwriters. Everyone else is in agreement with Yoda…including history herself.
Not always so difficult to see, the future is.
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But, like FDR, Obama will be able to make people believe things are better. The bad people are the ones who are fighting against Obama’s job of making people feel better.
- JohnJ | 02/15/2009 @ 15:31I’m trying to figure out how printing the above fake money and using it to buy something is any different than what this country will be doing per the stimulus bill.
Besides I won’t owe the Chinese and I’d end up in jail of course. Mere technicalities.
- tim | 02/16/2009 @ 13:22Here’s a way for people to not support the bailout.
- JohnJ | 02/16/2009 @ 20:15