I would like to thank both the President of the United States of America, and the liberal Democratic group Americans United for Change, for their plans to remind three critical swing states that the Democratic Party is pushing a debt package that only 42% – and dropping – of the country believes in, and that a majority of independent voters oppose. But there’s something even odder about this strategy: Continue reading Yes, Mr. President. You won. How’s your debt bill coming along?
Month: January 2009
Your equation of fun for the evening.
This recession isn’t *all* bad.
Because I think that I can say with some certainty that, on the Great List of People and Groups Whose Economic Status I’m Worrying About*, the wives, girlfriends, and mistresses of suddenly-anxious Wall Street financial types is somewhere on the part of the sheet still left in the printer when I ripped out the list in a hurry on my way out the door. Extra credit for the blog, which I cannot make myself link to. I’ve tried. It just ain’t happening.
I suggest that they start dating electricians. If the electricians are interested, of course. Although Allahpundit’s apparently willing to take the hit for the team…
Moe Lane
Truly, the End Times are upon us.
Not just the evidence of the second and third photos, which are subtly wrong in that freaky Lovecraftian cosmic-terror sort of way. Not just the way that “rourke” is now a verb.
That that there may actually be a “Book of Bai” in the future… Continue reading Truly, the End Times are upon us.
Blagojevich stripped of office, any reason to keep his mouth shut.
They threw him out 59-0:
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been convicted at his impeachment trial and thrown out of office.
His removal comes nearly two months after his arrest on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat. He becomes the first U.S. governor in more than 20 years to be removed by impeachment.
…and AoSHQ reports that they’re apparently setting it up so that he’ll never hold office in Illinois again.
In light of that: Blagojevich likes literary references. I’m making one under the fold. Continue reading Blagojevich stripped of office, any reason to keep his mouth shut.
Animated “John Carter of Mars” movie scheduled for 2012.
You probably already knew about it. Thanks to skipping around Ain’t It Cool News, now I do to. The movie is going to be directed by Andrew Stanton – click on the name to see why the animation fanboy behind you is cooing, or just contemplate the mystical and wondrous Power Word: “Pixar” – but apparently it’s not going to be animated:
Discussing the move from fully 3-D animated movies to live-action, Stanton added: “I think that’s the only way. I mean, there are so many creatures and characters that half of it’s going to be CG whether you want it to be [or not], just to realise some of these images that are in the book. But it will feel real. The whole thing will feel very, very believable.” Continue reading Animated “John Carter of Mars” movie scheduled for 2012.
You know, I have nothing against Poland…
…but when it comes to movie poster design, they’re kind of nuts.
This is a movie poster for Weekend at Bernie’s
No, really.
I predict the Democrats will “revise” their debt bill.
You heard it here first.
Why am I predicting this? Well, to start off with, it’s not like getting it wrong is going to embarrass me or anything – I’m just this guy on the Internet, remember – so why not? Anyway, I’m figuring that the revision is going to happen, based on two factors.
Continue reading I predict the Democrats will “revise” their debt bill.
Kelo’s Little Pink House is still a bulldozed lot.
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
I got the tip from fellow RedState gonzo blogger absentee that Susette Kelo’s house – the one that the Supreme Court ratified the City of New London;s taking away from her, in what was frankly not liberalism’s finest hour – still hadn’t been replaced by anything. If that post by This Woman’s Weblog is accurate, it sure looks like it:
As you know, Susette’s little pink house and the homes of her neighbors were seized through eminent domain in a landgrab sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court. New London promised to put a glitzy new private development project on the land, but now, nearly four years after the ruling and $78 million in taxpayer money spent, literally nothing has been built on the land; it remains vacant, the neighborhood bulldozed.
Continue reading Kelo’s Little Pink House is still a bulldozed lot.
I have heard rumblings about the new background.
Which I like, even if it is designed to be a wallpaper and not a blog background. I mean, I liked the old one, too; but I found out that it wasn’t actually public domain after all and the artist never got back to me.
Still, if somebody has a good one that is public domain – or that the artist doesn’t mind me using – by all means, feel free to present it.