Loyalty To The Truth on Thanksgiving

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Hugh Hewitt inspired me to write this post today. Read this it's brilliant.

The loyalty and integrity we should have as bloggers is to the Truth and liberation of that Truth, and not to the Truth we assign to the political denominations we belong to. And above all to the good old fashioned family values of integrity and loyalty to that Truth which we celebrate at Thanksgiving. Respect for each other as bloggers no matter what we believe in is paramount, and no amount of self gratifying echo chamber rhetoric should come in the way of a good upbringing, and manners, above all being grateful today that we have a voice.

Thanksgiving is a day for giving, and what I would like to express today is my gratitude for the ever fiery American spirit enshrined in The Atlantic Charter drawn up between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, in which they deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world:

"They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them."

There are a few Bloggers that I would like to single out on this Thanksgiving Day who stand out as the True Ladies and Gentlemen of the Blogosphere, holding their diplomatic heads up high above all others showing us all that politics and opinion despite loosing your head at times does not have to mean also losing one's manners.

The first of those is Hugh Hewitt, who I call 'The Ultimate Gentleman' of the Blogosphere. Gentleman because he encompasses all the qualities that the word originally meant and more.

Ed Morrissey @ Captain's Quarters, 'The Gentle Giant', because he has the biggest heart which he proudly wears on his sleeve.

The Anchoress is 'The Angel' because she simply is one.

The California Conservative is 'California Cool' because he just is. Speaking of which he has a brilliant post on the history of Thanksgiving, linking to a great video. Don't miss it.

Bill Quick @ The Daily Pundit I have named the 'Fiery Persistence', because no matter how difficult a 
story presents itself he will conquer the challenge, and bring it to conclusion.

Matt Margolis @ Blogs for Bush 'The Organizer', because there is simply no one better.

Jeff Goldstein @ Protein Wisdom is my 'Thomas Mann' of the Blogosphere, for his eloquent thought provoking posts that  we either agree with  or  they manage to entice a strong reaction.

Michelle Malkin is 'The Brave',  simply for putting up with the daily abuse from the  fascist racists who don't appreciate her worth.

Kenny Pierce @ Redneck Peril 'The Genius' simply for being one.

John Hinderaker @ Powerline 'The Straight Arrow' for always telling it like it is.

Kevin Aylward @ Wizbang I call 'The Visionary', for simply having all the divine qualities of one.

Paul @ Political Spectrum and Confirm Them is 'The Conservative Since Birth' just because he is.

Ed Driscoll is "The Diplomat', for always being the one to bridge the divide.

Roger Simon @ his own site which I like to call a 'Touch of Hollywood'

Ann Althouse is 'The Goddess of Law' fighting the MSM bias with an iron clad will that has them shaking in their boots.

Alex @ Sigmund Carl @ Alfred is 'The Warrior' for having the courage to always fight for lasting convictions. Great Thanksgiving tales, don't miss them.

Fausta @ The Bad Hair Blog I call 'The Touch', because as a blogger she simply has it.

Glenn Reynolds @ Instapundit is 'The Aggregator' for getting all of our posts together and  giving the readers choice.

Roger Simon and Charles Johnson @ Pajamas Media  are  'The  Revolutionaries', because they stood fast  with a brilliant idea and had the guts and courage to go back to pick up a piece they had left behind.

Truth Laid Bear could not have a better name, because they have given the smaller blogs the chance to flourish and grow.

Gabe Rivera @ Memeorandum is ''Up To The Minute Memory Guide' for successfully guiding us through the maize of blogg articles and latest news.

Jeff Stiles @ The Noize, is The Roaring Lamb of The Blogosphere, where would the world be without music.

Judith Weiss @ Kesher Talk is 'Our Hawkish Conscience', and  my daily thought provoking  challenger.

Jo Gandelman@ The Moderate Voice I call 'The Round Up', because he gives us the best of all.

Tom Maguire @ Just One Minute is 'The Warrior' because he tirelessly fights for Liberty.

Eugene Volokh is 'I am so Busy', because whenever I email him he always is just that when he responds.

Huan @ Neomodernism is my 'Feisty One', forever fighting for his strong beliefs.

Brad De Long is 'Our Liberal Conscience'.

Dantes @ Chateau d'If is simply 'The Count of Monte Cristo', and of course is the leading character in my favorite Alexander Dumas classic.

Jay @ Stop The ACLU is 'The Reactionary', because he has brought new meaning to the word.

The Political Teen is 'Our Young Visual' for being our young eyes in the Blogosphere.

Kim Weinstein @ I am Pretty NYC is  'My Fashionista', and reminds me of my roots.

Kristen @ Beauty Addict is 'The Beauty' because she really is beautiful inside and out.

Don't Go Into The Light is the best name of all, so why change it? Ahem to Pajamas Media.

Gina Cobb is 'The Bright Star' because I think she'll go far in the Blogosphere, we need more girls.

The Right Nation I always call affectionately 'Ciao Italia', and that won't ever change.

Doug @ Below The Beltway is 'The Intellectual' for bringing us the thought provoking posts that stimulate all our senses.

Paul @ Media Lies is 'The Integrity' for simply having it in abundance.

Frank Di Salle @ CondiPundit is 'The Freedom Fighter', and bless him for having endless faith in achieving it.

Susan and Marvin Olasky @ The World Mag Blog are always 'Our Shining Light', for bringing the faith to our every day political discussions.

Michael Stickings @ The Reaction is 'The Eternal Optimist' for having the vision of civility between the political spectrums

Patrick Belton @ Oxblog is simply 'The Incredible Hunk', I am not quite sure why but I have a feeling he is one.

Juliette Ochieng @ Baldilocks is 'The Promising Apprentice'

George Berryman @ Alamo Nation is my 'Knight', as he is always defending me against trolls who get lost on their way to Atrios.

Omar @ Iraq The Model is our 'Avenger', who keeps our backs covered in troubled times.

Banagor Paladin @ Nerra, 'The Great Perfectionist' whose sense of style is evident.

Professor Larry Lessig is 'The Hero' for simply being mine.

Professor Bainbridge whom I still haven't forgiven for attacking Harriet Miers and Hugh Hewitt so  viscously, but I still affectionately name him 'The Devil's Advocate'. I don't mean to sentence him to all those years in purgatory, after all Alito will do just fine.

This is a list of people I know personally and respect in The Blogosphere. I have not listed the bloggers whom I don't know and therefore cannot possibly give an affectionate nick name to, so forgive me if I have missed anyone out. You will no doubt tell me. LOL!

I would just like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, including our soldiers out there who are fighting together with the Brits for our Freedom and Liberty. Hopefully we can show them that we as bloggers are loyal to ‘The Truth’ and not channeling the spin of the corrupt MSM.

I will make every single one of the above links live, and will link to everyone's Thanksgiving post if you have one,  but please give me some time to do it, as it has to be done manually. (DONE) Obviously I'll TrackBack as well.....no turkey for me today then, well perhaps about midnight...LOL.

"IT'S LIKE MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, only with giant inflatable Underdog blimps: Jeff Goldstein and Hillary Johnson will be liveblogging the Macy's parade at the Pajamas Media site starting in about half an hour." from our 'Aggregator' Glenn Reynolds.

Linked to EB @ The Cranky PCV and his thoughtful story 'The Blog New World' which gave me inspiration this morning when I felt down, in true democratic style of old, an extinct species I fear.....

THE PRESIDENT'S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

PAUL @ RED STATE GIVES THANKS TO THE LORD AND WRITES A GREAT POST.

Linked to Wizbang's Carnival. The Right Nation

Comments

[Alexandra]

Sorry guys I was out.

I cooked NOTHING and ate NOTHING, because as Pinko quite rightly realized I spent the entire time doing the 50 odd links and 50 trackbacks. Thanks Pinko, you say the nicest things, and btw I could have done with that dinner. LOL!
Enjoyed every minute of it though. Thanksgiving is all about giving and I wanted to give something back to the people I respect that have been so kind to me.
I just got an email from Time Magazine, the blog watch section, which is probably the best compliment of all. I admit I am really chuffed! All is all right with the world again....

[Huan]

i think roman has a minor point. it is good to have diversity, but that does not trump respect.
I have been searching for a while now for a reasonable (right of center) blog from the far east but have been unable to do so. I have one from latin america, one from the middle east, two from western europe, one from australia-phillipines, and 5 from the US. would trim a western europe for an eastern europe (Poland?) and add a far east blog if i can find one i respect.
Alexandra's blog i added because i love the art and respected the voice.

[Pinko Punko]

First, this post is an awesome amount of work, as are all the posts put into this blog (totally sincere).

Second, it clearly is the most sphisticated and subtle satire I have ever had the pleasure to lay my eyes upon. It is just absolutely cunning in its hidden facetiousness (equally sincere?).

I salute our leader for kicking against the pricks (sincere).

Huzzah, my friend, huzzah!

[jeff stiles]

I ended up cooking nothing, but STILL ate everything -- and helped do the dishes. :)

[fd10801]

Thank you, your Excellency!

And I hope your Thanksgiving was as good as mine.

I cooked everything, and I ate everything.

[Alexandra]

Jeff,
Always the Gentleman. Thank you.

[Alexandra]

Jo,
Thank you for taking the trouble to write your comment, wow some great pearls of wisdom and insights there, and yes that's a deal! I will however synchronize the genders in your redhead comment, shall I...LOL? Happy Thanksgiving!

David,
Thanks for the compliment, I have had the same experience of generosity of spririt from Hugh, he truly is the Gentleman of The Blogosphere.
I'll check out Carol Platt and of course Third World County (wink). Happy Thanksgiving!

Asher,

Thanks, I love your latest post it brought tears and memories flooding in. The Other World

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Asher Abrams]

Beautiful post, beautiful blog. Happy Thanksgiving.

[David]

Well, you certainly didn't "miss" me, because I don't belong on that list. One I feel you would enjoy meeting that I also believe would be a grace to that list is Carol Platt Liebau. She's not only a clear thinker and an insightful observer, she's a very gracious, kind and helpful lady who did in fact serve as the impetus for me to begin blogging (so, yes, I admit my bias). I was led to her site by Hugh Heewitt (and I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of him—his generous link of a post of mine last June was a high point for a guy just fumbling around trying to figure out what his voice was, let alone how to blog).

I've read, commented on and recieved feedback from a number of the folks on your list and to a one you have pretty accurately characterized them.

I'm going to clip and keep your post as a treasure--another example of fine blogging in its own right.

Thank you.

[jeff stiles]

Wonderful response to Roman, Alexandra. (The first idea that popped in my mind would have been to explain that your A-list has an "inordinate number of american-mainland weblogs" because America is the #1 country in the world, but it was nice how you took the time to explain things to Roman.)

I feel very honored to have made your list this morning, and privileged to know someone like you who has learned her convictions through personal experience. I too learned what I believe the correct way (in my case, the hard way -- through screwing up). But as a result, I now know both WHAT I believe and WHY I have those principles, and now no one on earth could ever take my beliefs away.

[Joseph Marshall]

Well, Alexandra, thanks for inviting me over. Your post does not disappoint. I know some, but not all of the bloggers, and, since my blogging hiatus of four months has left my blogroll in massive disrepair, such a cogent list of the "pursuers of Truth" is very welcome.

As you probably have guessed, I like to hang out with the people who disagree with me. You get your knife sharpest on the hardest stone. And I like posts such as this best, where I get to see in a little more detail what makes them tick.

Partisanship gets everybody a little shrill and ragged, and I like to see my adversaries more relaxed and reflective because I am less interested in "winning the battle" than I am in savoring the differences. Not that I'm uninterested in winning the battle, of course, just less.

The differences are fascinating, like slowly rolling the kalietescope. If I were to summarize them in a non-partisan way, I would say that my adversaries, as Americans, have in the back of their mind the image of America you get from the Declaration of Independence: self-evident Truths in the absolute, Liberty in the absolute, Sovreignty of the People in the absolute. All in capital letters. And all with the memory of people under the yoke of tyranny.

When I look into my own mind what I see is the Preamble to the Constitution: liberty balanced by justice, sovreignty controlled by law, and truth evaluated by skeptical reason. All of these in lower case.

And all of these summarized by the two greatest phrases of philosophical politics which have proved to be two of the greatest and most durable pieces of practical politics: Due Process of Law, Equal Protection of the Laws. And these most definitely in capital letters. All with due consideration of the history of vigilance committees, public tar-and-featherings, lynching, strikebreaking, and Jim Crow.

So I will strive to keep firmly fixed in my mind that behind all disputation in you is that fiery young redhead, scratching the parchment with his quill pen dipped in iron ink, outlining his vision of the Death of Tyranny. How could one not be generous to a vision like that?

And perhaps you can keep in mind that behind all disputation in me is that committee of grave and mature men, striving to speak for the People as a whole, trying to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, and desiring to form a more perfect union.

Is that deal, or what?

[Alexandra]

Roman,

I don't think you understood what the list I gave is about. These are people who I know and whose work I know very well, and most importantly who I respect as behaving in a certain manner I described.

As time goes on I am sure that list will change, but don't mistake it for some sort of a Blogroll where a variety of opinions is my goal. True Ladies and Gentlemen of the Blogosphere is the name of the list, and included are only blogs that I know personally.

When I research or otherwise blog, I use and reference many others, and like many others too, but that is not the point of the list today. I would not have been able to give the bloggers their respective nicknames if I did not know them, or was very familiar with their work. This is why many others are not included.

But thank you for the link and I shall check it out.

[They Can't Quit_It Is All They Know_]

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[roman eos]

Hello,

And with regards..

As far as I got in the reading I found a well-utilised 'loosed' and an interesting though I suspect mistaken 'maize'.

A nice change to read you, but I would like to add that there seem to be an inordinate number of american-mainland weblogs. Given that I read many of them, too, may I suggest that a broader perspective would be possible by adding elsewhere.

One to try for the maturity is wotspot.typepad.com

Best wishes,