Link Mess

April 15th, 2009 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:

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Here is your daily link mess. Don’t know what ‘link mess’ is? Well, scroll down:

RedState’s Erick Erickson isn’t pleased with President Obama’s latest “The House Upon a Rock” speech. In this speech, Obama cited the famous ‘house on a rock’ parable from the Bible – clearly arguing that he plans to build a system in which the economy (/ homes) is built on a rock. Erickson isn’t impressed and gives Obama a wonderful lesson in theology.

Meanwhile, JammmieWearingFool celebrated the news that Eliot Spitzer plans a comeback as attorney general for the state of New York. Writes JWF: “He’s never been held accountable for that egregious abuse of power and the notion of him again being attorney general is absurd beyond belief. Just imagine him actually being elected and other shoes dropping. Does he expect people to have any confidence in him? (Don’t answer that. Like I said, this is New York we’re talking about.)”

So what do billionaires (you know, those insanely rich people) have in common? Forbes has the answer. Summarized: they’re all college drop-outs who joined Skull & Bones and who worked for Goldman Sachs for a few years at least.

StopTheAclu has great news about North Korea: first “President Neophyte announces he will take them off the terrorist list,” then ” the U.N. sends them a smack on the wrist letter for the missile launch,” after which “North Korea tells the inspectors to get out, meaning they can no longer make sure the Norks aren’t producing weapons grade nuclear material at the plant.” Uhm. Diplomacy rocks?

Matthew Yglesias doesn’t like Senator Richard Burr very much anymore. Why not, you ask? Well, because Burr told reporters that he ordered his wife to run to the ATM machine ASAP and withdraw as much cash as it would let her in order to make sure they would have their money at hand if their bank would go bankrupt. That’s a great way to instill confidence in voters. Well done Senator Burr.

I did not check No Quarter USA for a while, but I cannot help but notice that it has drifted to the right… a tiny bit. To put it mildly. They are now – rightfully of course – defending the (in)famous tea parties against attacks from liberal bloggers. Doesn’t Larry Johnson know that his homie Hillary Clinton is part of the Obama administration?

LaShawnBarber admits she is a “rightwing extremist.” Well, I’d like to make a (rather obvious) confession as well: I’m deeply in love with a beautiful girl from Turkey. I know, shocking.http://www.poligazette.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

Liberal blog FireDogLake takes a swipe at… conservatives and Rush Limbaugh. Nothing new under the sun there, but it’s fun to read an angry rant from an ideologicaly lefty every now and then.

It has been ten years since the Columbine shooting. Balloon Juice commemmorates the victims of this horrific slaughter.

File this under “believe it or not”: When Somali pirates wanted to hijack a Chineseboat, they were stopped by thousands of courageous dolphins. Neo-neocon has more.

Pakistan suffers from a “trust deficit.”The Moderate Voice reports: ‘The shell game over Islamist extremists that began after 9/11 is looking even worse. In proposing increased aid, President Obama said he expected Pakistan security forces to crack down on terrorists in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Read the whole thing.

Bad news for our very own Joshua Livestro: Governor Sarah Palin is in trouble. Her pick for attorney general has a less than stellar record. “Sarah Palin’s choice for attorney general once wrote a column defending the statue of a KKK figure as an expression of free speech and mocked the psychology of a college student who protested the display.” Nice.

Rick Moran takes on “the Beckian wing of conservatism.” That sure sounds scary, doesn’t it? It’s not that bad, though. Be sure to read his extremely high-quality essay.

And lastly, Bruce McQuain explains for QandO that tea parties aren’t as much about present taxes as they are about future ones.

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