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Saturday, February 05, 2005
Link roundup
Ah, the good 'ol link roundup - the laziest form of blogging. But hey, that's me!
- Crank points to an article in the Daily Standard by Dean Barnett (appropriately under the title "Krazy"), about the celebrity of Markos Moulitsas. Apparently Kos has been advocating a primary challenge against moderate Democrat Joseph Lieberman. "Burn all the moderates! That'll save our party." Whatever Kos - pick your horse. Maybe you'll have better luck this time around.
- Former president supports private accounts:
"[Social Security plans should include] voluntary contributory annuities, by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age."
The president? Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Of course it's entirely possible that he was simply lying through his teeth in order to placate his adversaries (as history has shown he was prone to do) and get the country to go along with a bit of "small-s" socialism. Still, he said it.
- Michael Moore on Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ (via Tim Blair):
On the subject of Gibson's biblical opus, Moore tells Vanity Fair, "If I were to make a movie, it would be about turning the other cheek... And the meek shall inherit the earth." Moore added he was disturbed at, "How easily the vulnerable can be manipulated, twisted by images on the screen."
"Disturbed?" Of all people, the last man who should be disturbed by film propaganda is Michael Moore - a man who has made his living off the genre for the last decade. Besides, what was the ideology being pushed by Mel Gibson other than a whole-hearted belief in the new testament of the Bible (something you presumably had before you walked into the theater)?
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