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...
Stossel – I like it all, but especially the title.
The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers
As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries.
I’m embarrassed that my representatives think that government can subsidize the consumption of medical care without increasing the budget deficit or interfering with free choice.
It’s a triumph of mindless wishful thinking over logic and experience.
RTWT.
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We’ve now heard from staffers of TWO of these “representatives” who insist that the plan doesn’t do any violence whatever to the Constitution. One of them thinks that “promote the general welfare” means that the government PROVIDES welfare.
James Madison, principal author of the Constitution:
“With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as limited by the specific powers enumerated to the federal government, by the Constitution.” He also said, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution, which permits the spending of constituents money on objects of benevolence.” In other words, the general-welfare phrase is more-or-less redundant. It’s not a catchall that lets Congress simply do any old thing it pleases in the name of social good.
And THAT’S assuming the plan wouldn’t be a complete, utter, and total train-wreck. Which of course, it would be.
I always have one question for those who are ready to get behind this shenanigan, “Have you spent FIVE MINUTES at the DMV or Post Office recently? No? Then shut the hell up; you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
- cylarz | 11/12/2009 @ 03:09You might want to show them this.
- mkfreeberg | 11/12/2009 @ 05:59