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...
The last several posts have been about The Holy One at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It looks like I have an obsession, until you stop to ponder all the driftwood I’ve been allowing to float on by…and there’s been a lot. Can’t pronounce Orion. Thinks Chiraq is still President of France. That’s today’s bumper crop, there was another one yesterday, another one the day before…
To the other end of the boulevard. The Senate is delaying action on this magical wonderful House bill, the one that taxes away those evil awful bonuses…
Jarred by a cool reception from the White House and fears of unintended consequences across the financial world, Senate leaders are likely to delay until late next month legislation to punitively tax bonuses at banks and investment firms that receive federal aid.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced last week that the Senate would move ahead with the legislation as soon as possible, and he attempted to bring the bill to the floor Thursday night. But he revised that timetable yesterday, saying that the chamber will spend this week debating a national-service bill before turning to a long-scheduled showdown over the budget for fiscal 2010. With just two weeks to go until Congress departs for a spring recess, action on the tax measure would be unlikely before late April.
For those who still think this is the right way to go…let’s just cut out all the delays and other crap, okay? Let’s see what message we have left.
The economy’s in the dumper because of FaPoBuAd (Failed Policies of the Bush Administration!)…and we’ve elected this hopey-changey-guy with a friendly Congress to fix it for us. We all desperately hope He succeeds at this, except for Rush Limbaugh who’s just a big fat stinker.
The economy is stopped and we all want it to go.
If anyone makes money doing that, we’re going to take it away from them because that’s just wrong. Oh sure, today it’s about AIG execs and AIG is receiving bailout money, so we’re just acting today as guardians of the taxpayer’s purse. B-u-u-t…that’s today. In fact, we’re already getting some plans together to do the same thing to non-bailout-subsidized corporations. Add to that the fact that, in AIG’s case, the bonuses amount to less than a tenth of a percent of this bailout money…so the idea that we’re trying to recoup “our” taxpayer money from those greedy executives looks a little silly.
So no. We’re not looking out for the taxpayer. We’re trying to make sure nobody makes a personal profit from this noble, noble effort of getting an economy revived.
We want the economy revived.
Nobody’s supposed to make any money. No quantity of it that “everyone” is going to find obscene, anyway…and that can only mean…nobody can make any more than anybody else. Just ordinary amounts. Nobody’s supposed to work to improve their personal livelihood too much.
What in the (expletive deleted) do you think an economy is, exactly?
Seriously.
The Senate is right to delay. It needs time for the rest of us to get our thoughts together on this one.
While we’re trying to figure out what we’re all about, may I submit a humble suggestion of what’s going on here? We want to get together and make this thing work. Each of us wants our personal standard of living to improve as much as possible. Our individual standard of living.
The other guy isn’t allowed to improve his.
Folks…my world is different from yours. You pretend to have a definition for “greed” but, as I’ve pointed out before, you don’t really have one. Planet Morgan has a definition of greed; and that is it right there. You are allowed to realize the benefits of a free market, and the guy to the left of you, and to the right of you, and all around you, are not. They’re just supposed to clock in, clock out, grab a paycheck and spend it, saving nothing, achieving nothing long-term. He buys a house you can’t buy, you’ve got a beef with it. So yeah, “greed caused all our problems,” but not quite in the way people think they mean when they toss this phrase around.
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I need cheering up. I think the jig is up. Nobody will buy our debt, so we’re buying it ourselves. Which means that we’re literally printing money with zero backing, not even a bond. And while we’re doing this (plus it’s largely the cause), we’re tripling the size of the deficit.
Hyperinflation is around the corner, and with Gold at $1000 an oz, I really can’t afford to buy much.
The House just passed an act designed to start Obama’s version of the Hitler youth. I can’t find any 9mm ammo at a decent price. Congress wants to take over the financial industry, and I’m starting to think they will by the end of the year. Taxes on the job-creating sector are going up, and my step-son is out of a job. My other step-son is a struggling small-business owner being squeezed by the credit crunch.
Obama appears to be out to turn America into something else entirely as quickly as possible. And the population seems to be easily diverted to manufactured outrages by the right hand while the left hand does all this behind it’s back. Government is growing three times faster than it did under Bush, and I didn’t like that either so I like this even less.
I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be waiting in line for flour in a few years, and be lucky enough to be able to stay in my house I still have a modest mortgage on, while trapping and hunting squirrels and rabbits for meat. People are concerned about Free Health Care and Teh Environment… I’m starting to wonder if we’ll have far more basic primitive worries and those things will seem superfluous.
Somebody tell me I’m wrong!!!!!! Please!!!
- philmon | 03/24/2009 @ 21:55Oh, and I didn’t even mention the vindictive and probably unconstitutional ex post facto punitive taxes aimed at evil AIG people — which is bad enough before you consider that certain members of Congress with (D)’s after their names made plenty in bonus money from this and other financial entities. But we’re supposed to just be outraged at a few people at AIG (and of course, the Republicans… we’re always supposed to be outraged at those greedy meanies) so we don’t see what’s going on.
I’m mad as hell…..
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