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...
What, you didn’t know they could be beyond the pale sometimes, too?
This is like…a “worst ever” list. But only penciled-in. In very light pencil. I know I’ll recall other examples, later on, richly deserving of being added in.
1. President (at the time) William Jefferson Clinton, May 1, 1993: “Did you like the way [Rush Limbaugh] took up for Janet Reno the other night on his program? He only did it because she was attacked by a black guy.”
2. Joe Biden:
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. I’m not joking.”
No, nobody really is too sure what he was trying to say there. But it couldn’t have been anything good.
3. I’m not entirely sure what the intended point is here, either.
4. Colbert…
5. Maher, who yeah I know, is probably not a democrat…whatever. He’s a left-wing dipwad. And I know he was trying to be poignant, not necessarily funny, but it makes the cut. It showed off what filth and ugliness was between his ears back then — and is still there now as far as I’m concerned.
The world needs to be reminded.
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.
6. Via Rick, we learn of this innovative way some guy named “Smooshie” has of letting us know he (or she) is not a Palin fan:
7. That Bush assassination film…
Just trying to get a clear idea here where the boundaries are. I keep hearing about how McCain, Palin, and some of the folks who appear at McCain’s rallies are “over the line.” So there’s a line somewhere. You figure out where it is, you let me know. M’kay?
Also, as you can infer from the footage in a previous post, it is near-undeniable that Obama’s getting some votes from people who don’t give a rat’s ass what he’s going to do once he’s our next President. They just, as the cliche goes, “want to be a part of this thing.” I guess if you vote for The Chosen One it just goes to prove you’re a Good PersonTM.
Well you know, it’s a funny thing about people.
They have a pressing, urgent need to “prove” things that they know aren’t really true. Really. If you’re strong, confident, sure of your own good character, and you see that donating to a worthy cause will support some principles in which you really believe and help out people you think are deserving of it…you aren’t going to be talking about it too much. You’ll start bragging about it when you don’t really believe in your own little gimmick — and its value to you exists in the capability it has to fool people into perceiving altruistic motives within you that you don’t really have.
Some democrats, it should be noted, are really decent people.
They just don’t understand that much what our country’s history is with enacting certain policies, and getting results from them that fall short of — or directly contradict — what was intended.
But there’s a lot of democrats that aren’t decent people at all. They’re hideous monsters. They need their gimmicks, to fool people into perceiving altruistic motives about ’em that they don’t really have. And when they go grasping for “humor” to show off what good people they are, sometimes that ugliness comes out.
That explains why they do it. Why the rest of us let ’em get away with it, is something I’m going to have to have explained to me by someone who understands better.
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Sure, Democrats are bad people and the media is biased against Republicans and we’re saddled with a candidate who seems unable to tell people the difference between liberty and socialism.
Sure, Democrats are perfectly happy that America is not having a debate on the issues. That may not even be possible for two presidential candidates to do. But if America votes away her freedom this November, it will have a lot to do with the fact that conservatives did not explain to the undecided middle why that would be a bad idea.
I do my best to explain to people I know why Obama’s health care plan is a bad idea. I explain why judges should abide by the Constitution instead of making stuff up. And I explain that America’s prosperity has been a result of her freedom, and that’s not something for which we should apologize; it’s something which we should try to encourage others to emulate.
Less than three weeks to go, Freeburg. It’s the undecided middle who needs to hear that Obama is wrong on the issues. And if McCain won’t or can’t tell them why, it’s up to us to do it.
We individualists need to work together on this.
- JohnJ | 10/15/2008 @ 08:21I think you might be looking at the most potent message that can be circulated, right here, John.
“Just because you vote for Obama, doesn’t necessarily make you a good person.”
You can see from the Howard Stern clip that in a lot of cases, casting that magic vote that will reel in that good-person-ness, like it was some kind of a fish, is the only thing that matters to a lot of these people. Maybe if word got out about what kind of bedfellows they were making, California or New York might go red this year. Who knows? It’s quite difficult to assert that voting for Obama has much to do, or anything to do, with the “real issues” they like to talk about.
- mkfreeberg | 10/15/2008 @ 09:04I agree with LauraW at Ace: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/275633.php
- JohnJ | 10/15/2008 @ 09:56I don’t think we let them get away with it. That might be one of the Democrats strengths. When I encounter someone with that kind of ugliness in their soul, I avoid them. I think that’s a normal reaction. But there are enough of them out there that instead of being pariahs, they have formed a community that supports each others delusions, and hates the country that tried to socially exile them…..
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 10/15/2008 @ 10:35