Seeking to enjoy a stress-free and peaceful holiday, I minimized the time I usually spend reading the lefty blogs this past week. I did, however, promise myself that I would monitor and mouth-off about said blogs with some frequency so...here's a quickie weekend glance at what the
Honestly, I was a little curious to see what such a large collection of inveterate bashers of the United States would have to be thankful for so I did peek at what Kos had to say on Thanksgiving. His imagination and wit have an inversely proportionate relationship to his growing acclaim. He used to be good for a few zingers that were, at the very least, fun to dissect and respond to. In his Thanksgiving post he merely proceeds from boring to bitchy.
A guy named Duke1676 attempts to air quote his way out of the left position on illegal immigration in this post. The immigrants are no longer undocumented in this "There are no illegal people..." story, they've become unauthorized. Perhaps the right should develop a fetish for the "un" prefix as well and begin referring to illegals as unstoppable. It's full of pedestrian left wing, um, logic that claims that there is no crisis and that real concerns are nothing more than talking points. He babbles on for what seems like days to come to his point that we simply don't approve enough visas for unskilled laborers.
Just one of the elephants in the room that Duke dances around is the question of whether we need to approve many at all since, by most counts, there are 12 million of the unwhateveryouwantocallthems already living here and handling a lot of the unskilled labor. The problem isn't our immigration policy. It is, and always has been, the fact that Mexico doesn't have anything resembling a middle class. The rest of the world does absolutely nothing to pressure it while the leftnuts here want an insane redistribution of wealth to accommodate the steady flow of impoverished Mexicans into the U.S. We're not supposed to be the world's cop but the left wants us to be the world's sugar daddy.
Duke1676 does provide some humor if you check out the other blog he posts to. The posts rail against the right wing and it's got a blog roll that would make Hugo Chavez look right of center yet its "About" section claims that the site is "nonpartisan". They probably meant "non-Parisian" since very little French appears on the site. Easy mistake.
There's a big philosophical post at TDK today titled "Why Are We Here?" It proceeds from the "evolution as fact" point of view so the first thing you have to do is get a huge grain of salt to take with the rest of it. Claiming that Darwinian theory, as yet not backed by the fossil record, reasonable computer models or even four out of five dentists, has "wrung the Genesis out of human origins..."
I'm not exactly an either/or guy on this so I would ask that any lefties who happen to be reading spare me the religious zealot epithets.
As usual, whenever a discussion about how precise everything had to be seconds after the Big Bang for us to get to this point one is left with a few ways to consider how it all fell into place. Ironically, proponents of evolution like to take a leap of faith. They do worship a god over there, it's called "Coincidence". Or you can believe that something may have been directing the whole thing. They're asking you to believe that, if you take a bunch of actors with no script or director and sit them in a room, "The Godfather" will eventually happen.
I believe in coincidence like I believe in the lottery as a retirement plan.
Despite its condescension ("...if you failed to make it to the back cover of A Brief History of Time, think twice about diving in here..."), the post is worth plowing through. It is one of those rare TDK postings that at least tries to discuss something rather than simply type out a temper tantrum.
Naturally, they're happy about the Labor win in Australia but unhappy about the French rail workers having to do their jobs. Pro labor as long as nobody has to work too hard.
That's how the nutroots roll.
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