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...
From a blog post at Time by Joe Klein, hat tip to Boortz.
[Vintner Barry Sterling] said he was deeply worried about the country. “I was born on the day of the 1929 stock market crash, so I’ve lived from the Great Depression to the Great Recession,” he said, “and I must say I’m amazed by how little progress we’ve made. We stopped regulating. We dropped taxes to unsustainable levels. I spent a good part of my life in the 70% tax bracket. It didn’t discourage me from working,” he said, referring to the supply-side argument that lower tax rates spur enterprise. “It made me work harder. My father lived with 90% rates during World War II. I’m actually mystified by the greed now. I don’t understand families like Koch brothers,” he said referring to the Republican Tea Party bankrollers. “They have so much money. Why do they need more?”
First of all: Nobody gets to decide how much somebody else “needs.”
Second of all: Greed is not wanting to hang on to the money you earned. If it is anything meaningful, it is wanting to grab onto the money someone else has earned.
Third of all: You can drop half-truths all day long about how you were motivated to work harder by the tax man coming and taking away all or most of your profits…but at the end of the day, people don’t do more of something when it becomes less profitable to do it, especially when it involves risk.
I got a letter yesterday from the Vice President, who had something interesting to say. It was very surprising. I thought Vice President Biden was trying to save our economy, but look what he had to say to me:
Morgan —
I’ll tell you one thing that worries me about this election: There’s a small group of billionaires and corporate special interests that are trying to buy their way back into power. They’re spending their fortunes to defeat our folks and elect some of the most right-wing Republicans this country has ever seen.
We’ve launched the By the People Fund to fight back, with the goal of reaching 3 million grassroots donations to power the most ambitious on-the-ground effort ever waged in an election like this.
I jotted down a brief reply and hit Send:
Do my eyes deceive me?
You and Barack are supposed to be doing what you can to revive our economy…and instead, you’ve put together a “People Fund” to orchestrate a fight against the people who are trying to earn money and create jobs for others?
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
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The richest members of the Senate are and have always been Democrats. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are not Republicans. Wall Street is and has never been Republican. These kinds of people understand how not to pay taxes when the rate is 30%, or it is 90%. Good for them, but not good for us.
Teddy Kennedy, BTW, led rich Senators in least taxes paid, at a 6% rate, even with his yachts moored in Massachusetts.
- jamzw | 09/28/2010 @ 08:36Now if Glenn Beck said something like that, it would be “The Politics of Fear™” and “Scaremongering™”.
But, it’s a Democrat. So it’s not.
- philmon | 09/28/2010 @ 11:14Dang. I forgot Crazy Conspiracy Theory™.
- philmon | 09/28/2010 @ 11:18Almost sounds like Stewart/Colbert type material.
“I’ll tell you one thing that worries me about this election. There’s a small group of businesses that are trying to make it okay to run a business for profit again.” Or “I’ll tell you one thing that worries me about this election. While Barack and I pretend to be helping businesses when we’re really breaking them, there’s a small group of people trying to buy their way back into power, so they can really help the businesses out. If their plan succeeds, before you know it private citizen just might start hiring each other again without the government being involved in any way.”
- mkfreeberg | 09/28/2010 @ 12:09Right you are! Because Rich People are Evil™. Unless they’re Democrats. Then they’re not. The money they make does not come from exploiting others. It’s’exempt from the Leftist Pie Rule.
- philmon | 09/28/2010 @ 12:12Actually, the Tea Party folks are asking that same question…about the government.
- Rich Fader | 09/29/2010 @ 10:35I think this Sterling fellow has been drinking a little too much of his own wine down at the vineyard. He’s either a liar or completely “drunk” on progressive rhetoric.
Are you kidding me? Seriously? Who the hell works harder to overcome the increased tax burden and is actually happy to do his part or whatever rotgut he’s spewing? Did this guy grow up brainwashed with Soviet propaganda or something?
And why does that old Patrick Henry quote come to mind? You know, this one:
“If you prefer the tranquility of servitude to the animating contest of freedom, then go from us in peace. We ask neither your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
- cylarz | 09/30/2010 @ 00:04