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...
Well let’s see…President Obama is particularly interested in telling us all the things His wonderful initiatives do for women throughout their lives, and so He’d like to tell us how they benefit from His wise tutelage womb to tomb. From this, since America’s First Holy Emperor is infinitely wise, of course, we get a good solid definition of women. We get a fairly complete picture of who they are, what they do, their contributions to society…although I can’t shake the feeling that this last item was not the primary focus of the presentation…but that could be because they’re more about taking than giving, or something?
They design web pages. That seems to be the big take-away insofar as why we bother to keep chicks around. Mothering isn’t a big deal, since it consists of standing in front of the house while the school bus picks us up and takes us to Kindergarten. They design web pages their whole lives — twenty-first-century version of embroidering and sewing, if you will — and somewhere along the line they have kids. No need to mention any dad anywhere. So they soak up these really nice pricey educations, and use those educations to design web pages, get knocked up, drop little aspiring web page designers, get old and collect Social Security.
And vote for the right party, we can safely presume that is part of the vision as well.
Ed Morrissey (hat tip to Terri):
At least they picked the right name for their fantasy woman trapped in an all-encompassing government; Julia was the name of the lead female character in George Orwell’s 1984, after all.
One point jumps out at me from Obama’s “Julia.” Not once in this timeline does Team Obama mention anything about a second Obama term. There isn’t one new policy or proposal in it. For a campaign with the slogan “Forward,” that seems a little odd. Just when does Obama plan on discussing his vision of a second term…December?
Morrissey links to David Harsanyi, from whom he excerpts capably, and so I shall not repeat the exercise. But I’m just lovin’ Harsanyi’s headline:
Who the hell is “Julia,” and why am I paying for her whole life?
Quite right. Politician gets voted in — usually, but by no means always, a left-winger — and politician pushes for some new program that confiscates money from people who probably won’t vote for the politician, to provide benefits to people who are more likely to. Politician runs for re-election and says “look at all the wonderful programs that I provided…” Which is a deception, oh let’s call it what it is, a lie. Nobody who is acquainted with what’s going on, is suffering from any delusions that anything was provided. Except by the taxpayers, against their will.
Some people vote for the politician based on this lie, others do not fall for it. Note that this is an objective measurement, it is not right-wing spin, it just happens to come to the same conclusion as right-wing spin because the spin happens to be correct. There is the suckered, there is the un-suckered, and it’s no more complicated than that. Somehow, the ones who are suckered…by this very, very plain and very, very unsophisticated slight-of-hand…are supposed to be smarter than the people who aren’t fooled.
I mean, very much smarter. Just complete rocket scientist geniuses. Ever argue with one of them? But here’s the paradox: According to their own vision, the most productive among them are going to leave this plane of existence at a prosperous and wrinkly old age…probably with a green burial involved so their rotting carcasses don’t pollute Mother Gaia too much…with absolutely nothing left in their wake to say that they were here, save for oodles of web pages. And an adorable little fatherless consumer the government helped them raise. That, according to the progressive narrative, is the cream of the crop. Meh. With all due respect to the web page design industry, that doesn’t look like a genius to me. And the static nature of the technology, I have to say, leaves me concerned. How old is Julia when she kicks it? A hundred? A hundred and ten? Nobody comes up with anything innovative or new in all that time, we all just sit around reading web pages Julia built?
Well, of course not. If someone invented something, Obama would have to share the credit. We saw well He does that, when Seal Team 6 made bin Laden into fish food.
Terri sez…
I am, as a woman, offended. But worse than that…creeped out.
T-Rex’s “Life of Julianne” is a work of art because it illustrates the cultural divide in the country, something Obama’s slide show seeks to avoid. One thing that immediately sticks out is that this life has more a sense of purpose…through community, and family. Some parts of it, minus the web page designing, look like this other life over here.
Which I suppose some people find off-putting, it must be said. Well, hey…things that recall one of George Orwell’s most tragic and sinister novels, can be a little off-putting as well.
We do have a cultural divide in this country. Half of us read things like 1984, Logan’s Run, Atlas Shrugged, Brave New World, Anthem and We…and we see warnings. The other half seems to think of these as instructions manuals.
Question: If this is the Obama vision of a woman’s place in society…what is there for the men to do with their lives?
Update: Oh, well here’s one answer to that question: Cease to exist?
Thanks to Dean Esmay for linking this.
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I am, as a woman, offended. But worse than that…creeped out.
This, I hope and pray, is what finally does the left in. I thought the very obvious contempt in which the left holds most everybody would turn voters off them, but it turns out that snobbery is at least sorta popular (if you can’t actually be the coolest kid in school, you can wear what they wear and listen to what they listen to, I guess).
The “ick factor,” though… that just might do it.
We saw it clearly with those little digital brownshirts the Zachriel. At first they were just frustrating, but after a while it started getting creepy. Really creepy — the constant repetition of phrases and citations, dozens on dozens of them, the same phrases invoked in every conceivable context (germane or not), always looping back to the same .gif…. to the point where they pretty much have to have macros programmed for all of them. It’s the kind of glassy-eyed chanting you see in documentaries about cults.
If I were the GOP’s ad guy, I’d start cutting a bunch of spots that were nothing but shots of 2008 Obama campaign rallies — all those lemmings droning “yes we can, yes we can,” Nuremberg-style. Hit ’em where they live — this is what intelligence looks and sounds like?
- Severian | 05/04/2012 @ 10:18My post on this is on my website: notsothoreau.com . And that’s what I would run, if I were in charge of the Romney campaign, image after image of strong women standing on their own two feet.
My boyfriend (who was a very strong Obama supporter last time, now likely voting Repub) said that what Romney needed was a woman VP. I about took his head off. I remember all the charges about how Sarah Palin was somehow not a woman because she wasn’t a Democrat. There is a reason why feminism fell out of favor with women, even though many women supported things like equal pay.
Let them see the difference in how these folks in power live their lives. Remind them of how all these rules are for the “little people” and don’t apply to them. Put the focus back on what women can expect for their children’s lives, with a crippling deficit to pay for. Women don’t vote in a block any more than Hispanics do. And since most women handle the family budgets, they can see what inflation has done.
- teripittman | 05/04/2012 @ 18:34Welcome Teri! And you’re absolutely right. Americans still love freedom and they admire people who make the most of it. They’re just having a little trouble recognizing the many attacks on it, that’s all.
- mkfreeberg | 05/05/2012 @ 05:34