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...
David Boaz writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Let the government run the schools, and it may end up teaching your children values that offend you. Let the government have new powers to fight terrorism, and it may use those extraordinary powers in the pursuit of ordinary crimes. Let the federal government give the states money for highways, and it may eventually use its money to impose its own rules on the states.
In the Obama era, the slippery slope has gone vertical. Instead of “eventually,” the feared extensions of government power come immediately.
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Love the last line of the artricle.
I think about that in many circumstances lately, people seem to forget that Obama won’t be there forever (Well, hopefully). Someday, somebody else, most likely somebody “you” don’t like, and THEN how will you like it?
- tim | 11/11/2009 @ 12:17Tim, Rush Limbaugh had a bit about that on the radio some months ago. He was talking about the Fairness Doctrine and some of the other heavy-handed crap the federal government is trying to revive. He was saying, “You know, liberals, one of these days your entire bunch is going to get tossed out of power, and our side is going to get back in, and then we’re going to turn around and use all this crap you enacted, against you.” (Paraphrasing, of course.) He was trying to say that a powerful central government could be used to punish liberals as well as conservatives, depending on who is in power.
He then added that that would never actually happen, since conservatives are too decent to stifle dissent the way the Left is always trying to do. All we want is an open debate – on federal funding of stem cell research, on manmade global warming, on health care reform, on gun control, etc etc etc. In each case we’re convinced that we have the facts on our side and can win by presenting our case to the American people, with our arguments prevailing on their merits.
- cylarz | 11/12/2009 @ 01:40Open debate…hmmmm…yea, Dem’s know they lose right of the bat with that concept. It’s why we see what’s going on currently, marginalize, demonize, turn people in who look “fishy”, don’t allow people to “jump to conclusions”, ignore any evidence that makes your position wrong while telling America how righteous and noble your side is, spend money while telling us that is the way to save money, lie, cheat and steal and tell everyone it’s the other guy who is doing that…and a good majority or at least close to it buy the whole bag of crap.
At what point do we realize we can’t get an open, honest debate, at what point do we stop banging our heads against the wall, at what point do we just start pushing back, go Alansky, put the rules aside, the rules we’ve been trying to live by that are failing us.
We’ve got THIS guy in the WH!!! I know don’t need to run down the list of what THIS guy is doing to our country. This desire, no matter how noble and just, of wanting an open debate, at what point do we finally realize we are not gonn’a get it.
We’ve got Communist, (Communists!!!) on the WH staff, we’ve got a Socialist president who wants to,“redistribute the wealth”, “transform the fundamental fabric of our country” and is doing a hell of a job doing it so far.
Our forefathers started a revolution against many of the same things we are experiencing now. They had nothing but a concept, a theory, a piece of paper not 235 years to point to for proof it would work. They were up against the greatest military in the world at that time with little more than a bunch of farmers and peasants. They risked their fortunes, families and their very lives. What are we doing, what are we risking?
So what are we to do, I dunn’o, maybe start realizing the days of an open debate are over.
- tim | 11/12/2009 @ 10:40