Raven awarded me with a ‘thinking blogger’ award for the post with Evan Sayet’s speech at the Heritage Foundation on March 5th called “Regurgitating the Apple; How the modern liberal thinks”.

The idea behind this meme is to think of and then tag five bloggers who make you think, and point out an example of their incomparable and daunting mental aptitude and prowess.

One of my new blog buddies, Gary Aminoff, at Bear to the Right, also linked to the Evan Sayet Heritage Foundation talk youtube flick, but he just said

Evan Sayet, speaking to the Heritage Foundation on March 5th, tells us how liberals think. No commenting is necessary. Just watch the video. It is 47 minutes, but well worth the time.

As I was listening, I became very excited, and loosely transcribed some of it.

Actually, I became so excited over that narrative that I’ve watched that video on youtube and re-watched it probably at least 20 times over the last week, and just a part of the 47 minutes was loosely transcribed from the speech itself in my post, so I hardly think it’s okay to take any credit for it. It’s Evan Sayet’s research for the last five plus years which is going to end up as a book, “Regurgitating the Apple”, and I will be one of the first in line to preorder it.

But as is the case with these tagging memes, I’m going to tag some other bloggers as thinking bloggers.

There’s Kender at Kender’s Musings, who put up a post on March 27th talking about the WAR project, and illegal immigration. Notice the way he so easily and artfully crafts his words:

What I want to say today I want to direct to the moronic cretins that claim that the protests against ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is a matter of racism.

I am sick and tired of you idiots trying to claim that when citizens demand that our government do their job, you know, enforce the laws and security of this country that we are doing so because of racism.

Let me tell you dumbass piles of protoplasm something. If I broke into your home and demanded that you take care of me in exchange for cleaning your toilet and cutting your lawn and doing your dishes you would call the cops faster than Anna Nicole Smith downing a new bottle of pills.

Xformed at Chaotic Synaptic Activity has a Sunday trackback party he calls “Ropeyarn Sunday”…go read it. He doesn’t have any trackbacks there, so send some his way, will ya.

It was a dark and stormy night (no, really!) and I had very recently been graced with the much toiled after “OOD(F)” (Officer of the Deck, Fleet Operations) letter, which was the “upgrade” from the prior check point in career development of the “OOD(I)” qualification. Now, I was placed in the watch rotation with the officers who were allowed to manage the moment to moment movements of the ship with other ships in formation. A big moment in a young surface warfare officer’s career. With the authority also came the responsibility of that duty as well….

Read the rest; but strap on your thinking cap, this fella is cerebral.

Dangerously Subversive Dad is one of our British bloggers that recently joined the Wide Awakes, read this post Bread and Circuses and absorb the magnitude of the brain cells.

A very deep conversation took place last night with Mrs Right-Wing Zionist Conspirator, who is currently in wailing and gnashing of teeth mode after she began to truly contemplate what our benighted country has allowed to be done to itself.

How have we let our politicians do this to us, she wanted to know? How is it that we have sleepwalked into a situation where the only Parties most people feel can win anything have already magnanimously decided the outcome of the big issues for us so we dont have to trouble ourselves - Mass Immigration, Crime, EU Membership, Taxation, Welfare and Benefits, the Environment. The cracks between those Parties policies are now so minute you could barely drive a UKIP by-election vote through them.

Yes, all of us rightwingers are seeing the same trend; where the democrats were 20 years ago, the ‘conservative’ is today. There isn’t much of a difference between our laments, wherever we are in the world; we share the same problems and complaints about our elected representatives and the ideals they’ve abandoned. I saw the other day that Mitt Romney is a big government conservative. I was appalled at that language; since WHEN is “big government” used in the same sentence as the word CONSERVATIVE unless it’s THIS CONSERVATIVE HATES BIG GOVERNMENT!

Then, there is my great loyal friend, the Rottweiler Puppy, the author of the Free Jack Idema blogburst.

It’s now been eight very long weeks since anyone heard from illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema. While we continue the anxious wait for any developments, this past week has brought two pieces of good news in the case.

First, there was the news that a US Judge, Emmet G. Sullivan, had taken an interest in Jack, and, in particular, the involvement of the FBI and US State Department in Idema’s arrest and torture:

While this Court is keenly aware of case law suggesting that it does not have jurisdiction over a habeas petition stemming from a foreign conviction and sentence, petitioners’ claim does more than simply challenge a foreign conviction. Petitioners allege that United States officials ordered their arrest, ordered their torture, stole exculpatory evidence during their trial and appeal, exerted undue influence over Afghan judges, and either directly or indirectly ordered judges who found petitioners innocent not to release petitioners from prison.
[…]
The Court cannot simply ignore petitioners’ alleged facts and find that it lacks jurisdiction without any response to these troubling facts by respondents.

Judge Sullivan goes on to demand a response by April 10th.

I can’t wait to see what happens in the coming weeks, although the silence has been deafening and troubling. At least we know with this legal activity that he’s probably still at Pulacharke. Some time ago - eight weeks or so ago - the word was that he was all right, but we haven’t heard anything definitive since.

At any rate, that’s my line up of brilliant brainy thinking bloggers…there are a lot more, but I wanted to limited it to a few. The first few have no trackbacks, the only one that has working trackbacks is the Rotty and Xformed at Chaotic Synaptic Activity.

So those are the ones I summed up: Gary Aminoff, Kender, Xformed, Dangerously Subversive Dad and the Rotty Pup. Although it’s not all. I want to give a special mention to Maggie from Maggie’s notebook, Faultline USA, Jcrue, Mike’s America, Van Helsing, and the rest of the Wide Awakes.