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...
It’s time to regroup, rethink, re-assess. Not that it’ll happen in this case…
The previous post examined the unfortunate dilemma that rears its ugly head whenever our liberals want to produce more of something: They, in their state of enlightenment, can see the thing that is to be produced is A Good Thing. The logic seems to be that if there is more of it, more people will be convinced of its goodness. Of course, Economics 101 says it cannot work that way.
This one deals with what happens when conservatives want more of something to be produced. The trend we see, overall, is that this makes much more sense because the plan has something to do with affordability. The price is supposed to go down if there is more of the whatever-it-is available. We are not inspecting the phenomenon very closely at all, yet — we have yet to even select which commodity it is we’re talking about — but already we can see the conservative viewpoint makes much more sense. It isn’t even alienating the “working families” of limited means, which we’re continually told conservatives deplore and despise. When your means are limited, affordability is a good thing, right?
But my point breaks down here: It isn’t all conservatives. Our former chief executive, the one who associated with Oval Office with Oral, had some words to say:
I think I’m beginning to really miss The Big Me:
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that delays in offshore oil and gas drilling permits are “ridiculous” at a time when the economy is still rebuilding, according to attendees at the IHS CERAWeek conference.
Clinton spoke on a panel with former President George W. Bush that was closed to the media. Video of their moderated talk with IHS CERA Chairman Daniel Yergin was also prohibited. …
Clinton said there are “ridiculous delays in permitting when our economy doesn’t need it,” according to Noe and others.
Our next President wrote about this in some length. And eloquently too:
Taken altogether, it’s hard to deny that the Obama Administration is anti-drilling. The President may try to suggest that the rise in oil prices has nothing to do with him, but the American people won’t be fooled. Before we saw any protests in the Middle East, increased global demand led to a significant rise in oil prices; but the White House stood idly by watching the prices go up and allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports from foreign regimes in dangerously unstable parts of the world.
This was no accident. Through a process of what candidate Obama once called “gradual adjustment,” American consumers have seen prices at the pump rise 67 percent since he took office. Let’s not forget that in September 2008, candidate Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting said: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” That’s one campaign promise they’re working hard to fulfill! Last week, the British Telegraph reported that the price of petrol in the UK hit £6 a gallon – which comes to about $9.70. If you think $4 a gallon is bad now, just wait till the next crisis causes oil prices to “necessarily” skyrocket. Meanwhile, the vast undeveloped reserves that could help to keep prices at the pump affordable remain locked up because of President Obama’s deliberate unwillingness to drill here and drill now.
For about a year and a half now, the polls have consistently said people continue to like President Obama for His personality, but find His policies to be absolutely wretched. There seems to be no drive or ambition, none whatsoever, to turn that unfortunate last part around.
Let’s review: Lots and lots and lots of college graduates; that’s the “number one priority” or something? And each graduate will find out, upon graduation, that 1) there are lots and lots of other graduates, 2) gas is up to six to eight dollars a gallon, and 3) his or her share of the public debt is $200k or more. Sweet! Future’s lookin’ so bright, ya gotta wear shades…
And, step by step, the current administration is making it happen.
Question for the American electorate: Are our elections still all about choosing the most popular, charming guy? That’s what it was all about clear back in high school, I remember…you know what they said about change, it can be scary but sometimes ya gotta embrace it? Are we ready to vote on policies yet, like the grown-ups are supposed to do?
Because if not…if it really is about personality…give Obama His due. We’ve already got the right guy. Might as well repeal term limits, cancel all the elections, and just put up with the deplorable policies. Expensive oil, cheap college graduates, and if you don’t think that’s wonderful then you must be the problem. If you do think that’s wonderful, you must know something that has escaped both Sarah Palin and Bill Clinton.
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Our next President…
Eye-roll. BIG-ass eye-roll. We need an emoticon for that.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 03/17/2011 @ 20:27Yeah, correlation and causation and all that. It works exactly the other way around.
If more people are convinced of its goodness, there will be more of it. At least that’s the way it works in the free market.
- philmon | 03/18/2011 @ 13:12It’s like anti-matter. The wrinkled retired celebrities must live in the same universe, the ones who have these endless “farewell” tours over & over again. If I retire a dozen times, people will like me twice as much as they would if I retired six times…as long as I’m in their face every time, so they can maintain their love of me.
Works in reverse too. People don’t hate George Bush & Sarah Palin as much as we want them to, so what we need those two to do is go away and never be heard from again. Then everyone will help us hate them. But reality comes along…George Bush does go away, and inside of a year’s time you see these “Miss Me Yet?” billboards.
It seems to be completely lost on our left-wing friends that people tend to miss what is gone, and develop an aching fatigue toward whatever it is they see all the time. Liberals seem to expect and demand that people show the exact opposite set of reactions. It’s like “Stockholm Syndrome” is the only human response they can understand.
- mkfreeberg | 03/18/2011 @ 13:19After reading Gagdad Bob’s book … one of the things I was finally able to do as a result was to wrap my brain about what “projection” is.
Well, not exactly.
It helped me wrap my mind around why projection is. I could easily see what it was once I was schooled on the definition. But I never got just what it was the projector was actually doing.
And what they are doing is attempting to cast their demons outside of “self” so that it can be attacked without attacking the “self”, or what they perceive to be the “self”. “See that there? I am not that! That (that person who is not me) is evil! I shall fight it, and be seen fighting it!”
What you really have to do, of course, to get rid of a mind parasite is recognize the parasite within you and isolate it and cut it out with a scalpel.
But that hurts.
It’s much easier to fight it in everyone else, even when it doesn’t exist in a lot of those people … than it is to admit you have a problem that you need to address.
- philmon | 03/18/2011 @ 13:55Hm, that explains a lot…
- mkfreeberg | 03/18/2011 @ 13:58Heh. I had to go out there and comment:
- philmon | 03/18/2011 @ 14:07