Moe Lane

We’ll start out with Larissa, who wants to know where her check is:

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My buddy Cam (who went with me to the DC Tax Party thing to act as general hanger-outer-with and backup, in case the counter-demonstrators got stroppy*) mentioned to me that Blackfive had picked up all rights to use Military Motivator from the guy who originally did it.

I liked this one:

The tag is here.

Moe Lane

PS: Also, do Marines have indelible ink on their foreheads or something that only another Marine can see? Cam kept finding other Marines all day.

*They didn’t. Heck, they stayed as invisible as possible.

I assume, at least.  There’s no indication that their marriage is in trouble.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers. No, I don’t think that we’re very squashable, either.

I agree with Glenn Reynolds that Rep Schakowsky’s comments about the Tea Parties (‘despicable’ and ‘shameful’) were ‘pathetic.’ I also agree that the fact that she’s married to a convicted tax fraud (not to mention, Huffington Post writer) to be ‘ironic.’  But I’d like to add one:

Utterly Typical: “The husband of an Illinois congresswoman was sentenced to five months in prison Wednesday. Robert Creamer is married to US Representative Jan Schakowsky. He was convicted on charges of writing bad checks and tax evasion.”

Why do people like Creamer think that they can get away with tax evasion? Because when you’re married to a Democratic Congresswoman, very often you can. That’s because people like Schakowsky don’t think that the rules apply to them. Which is her problem with the Tea Parties, really: the people involved with them have a distinctly different opinion, and they aren’t the sort that get amused with the argument that social justice sometimes requires bank fraud. Best to try to squash them quick.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

For real?

Huh. Missed him completely, then. Then again, I was kind of busy all day taking pictures, doing interviews, being rained on; I wasn’t really looking for reporters.

Yeah. No doubt that was it.

Crossposted to RedState.

Keep hope alive!

Via Hot Air (and I love the name Ed came up with for this one), the AP does everything it can to keep the dream from dying, but they’re up against some tough objective reality, here:

Spanish AG says no torture probe of US officials

MADRID – Spanish prosecutors will recommend against opening an investigation into whether six Bush administration officials sanctioned torture against terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the country’s attorney-general said Thursday.

Candido Conde-Pumpido said the case against the high-ranking U.S. officials — including former U.S. Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales — was without merit because the men were not present when the alleged torture took place.

“If one is dealing with a crime of mistreatment of prisoners of war, the complaint should go against those who physically carried it out,” Conde-Pumpido said in a breakfast meeting with journalists. He said a trial of the men would have turned Spain’s National Court “into a plaything” to be used for political ends.

Prosecutors at Spain’s National Court have not formally announced their decision in the case, but Conde-Pumpido is the country’s top law-enforcement official and has the ultimate say.

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If you watch the whole thing, you’ll be forced to come to only one conclusion: the government really has been lying to us.

Cucumbers can’t melt steel.

Moe Lane

PS: Of course bacon can melt steel. Dude. It’s bacon.

The first photo there at Point of a Gun there says it all, really:

Although she did a better job at coloring the horse than I would have been able to manage.

Some more round-ups/local coverage here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Crossposted to RedState.

You probably remember Susan Roesgen from yesterday: she was the one who got so peeved when the person that she interviewed turned out to be not on-script. Voluntary propagandists often aren’t, when dealing with messy reality.

Anyway, she’ll probably be lionized by CNN for her “bravery” to standing up to people yelling back at somebody with a video crew trying to browbeat them, so watch this clip while you still can:

See also AoSHQ and The Other McCain.

…because I bet you that Jon Stewart isn’t going to think that this example of hysterical “reporting” is going to be nearly as funny as her reporting of the Fargo flood was. Or overwrought. Or even as silly journalism, although that depends largely on whether he forgot to take the clown nose off. After all, floods are one thing, but at the end of the day voluntary propagandists have only got each other to cling to.

Possibly even ‘bitterly.’

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

…but this video was a better choice.

Star Wars.

Much better.

Via @BrianFaughnan

There’s maybe fifty, sixty people in the USA responsible for 53% of the drinking in my country, and I personally know most of them.

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OK, that’s a lie. Now.

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Dammit.

Also via Fark.

(Via Fark) Well all right, then. Let’s take a look.

OK.
OK.
OK.
OK.
Actually had that one.
OK.
OK.
OK.
OK.
OK*.
O…H MY GOD:

That’ll do.

Moe Lane

*It apparently jams.

…and send that fucker right into the sun*. The only thing** stopping me is that I don’t know which subscription will pollute my Twitter feed less.

Hell, Brittney Spears would be a step up.

Via @HannibalsPet

Moe Lane

*Dennis Miller reference.
**Aside from the fact that I was walking all day in the rain and my brain is sufficiently shut down from that and video editing (hah!) to make my brain cells rebel at, well, just about everything.