Someone suggested that I start doing these, along with Book of the Week. I’ll probably update this one on Wednesdays.
Anyway, we’ll start off with Taken
Month: April 2009
Swine Flu Biden.
[UPDATE x2] And welcome, AoSHQ readers.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers. Oh, why not? – vampirism post here, for no particular reason except that it beat watching the press conference.
Brother Pejman expands on this report that Vice President Biden is telling people to avoid public transportation and yank their kids out of schools.
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If President Obama wishes to handle this crisis by sending Vice President Biden to an undisclosed location until it’s over, well, sacrifices must be made.
Moe Lane
PS: Watch the video that Pej found above: it’s not every day where you see what is effectively a pet media organ of the Democratic party call for closing the border. And watch for the gaffe at about 5:15. Freudian slip there, Joe?
Crossposted to RedState.
Gov. Palin to appear on American Chopper April 30th.
It’s like the antiwar movement: 90% of the people who reflexively oppose her overlap with the category of People That You Never Want To Get Stuck In An Elevator With (if for no other reason than the smell), and the people who apparently spend their lives waiting for a chance to tell the world how eager they are to have their candidate run against such a non-entity are almost as funny*. But I digress:
Sarah Palin to Appear on American Chopper
Turns out the hockey mom is also a motorcycle maven.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently welcomed the crew from Orange County Choppers – whose custom motorcycle business is featured on TLC’s American Chopper – to Anchorage where show star Paul Teutul Sr. researched building a bike to honor Alaska’s 50-year anniversary of being a state.
“It means so much to the state of Alaska that these guys are building this bike that will honor statehood here,” Palin says in the episode, airing April 30 at 9 p.m.
Via Hot Air Headlines. I don’t watch the show myself – no cable** – but I understand that American Chopper
Keep that in mind when the unhinged screaming / reflexively smug sneering starts. Which it will. If Pavlov was alive today, he would have dropped using dogs in a heartbeat and used the Left-sphere exclusively for his experiments…
Moe Lane
Continue reading Gov. Palin to appear on American Chopper April 30th.
1/10th scale Saturn V rocket launched.
Very cool.
Rocket Record: The Largest, Heaviest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched
Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 1/10th scale model of the historic rocket—built in his garage near Akron, Ohio—lifted off from a field on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The 36-ft.-tall rocket was the largest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully—and at 1648 pounds, also the heaviest. Eves’ single-stage behemoth was powered by nine motors—eight 13,000 Newton-second N-Class motors and a 77,000 Newton-second P-Class motor. (Five Newton-seconds is equivalent to about a pound of thrust.) All told, the array generated enough force to chuck a Volkswagen more than a half-mile—and sent the Saturn V more than 4440 feet straight up. It was arguably the most audacious display of raw power ever generated by an amateur rocket.
Via Wombat Rampant.
Crossposted to RedState.
Obligatory Ukelele post.
Have I done this one already?
Via Jonah Goldberg.
When we were in Hawaii last year, my wife (who accumulates musical instruments… somehow) came this close to acquiring a new ukulele to be lost with the rest of her luggage on the flight back. Those suckers are surprisingly expensive. As is just about everything else in Hawaii that isn’t a pineapple, of course, but I suspect that they’d have been expensive in Topeka, too.
My random musings on vampires.
So, Underworld
Moving along: why don’t vampires ever snack on people that seem, you know, healthy? As in “my breakfast was more than three olives and a picture of a celery stalk” healthy. Either they’ve got this weird thing going about cholesterol, or the side effect of vampirism is apparently going down to three percent body fat and a perpetually sullen, yet stylish, expression. If the latter is true, that means (as has been noted elsewhere) the legions of the Undead are probably missing out on a great long-term financial opportunity.
Lastly: if I ever use Abraham Lincoln as a character in a roleplaying game, he is so totally going to look like this.
Moe Lane
PS: Hey, at least this way I didn’t have to watch the press conference. How many questions did he manage this time? Six?
Frankly, I’m going to watch Underworld tonight instead.
Why that, and not the ‘press conference?’
Because I haven’t actually seen the series, yet; it was cheap at the price that I got for it (cheaper than this, actually
Besides, I’m merely doing what Fox is doing – and other networks wish that they could.
(Crass commercialism alert) OK, the laptop replacement drive will be over Friday…
…for good or for ill; so we’ll end it on a capitalist note. Donate at least $20 bucks, get a sonnet (Elizabethan or Petrarchan, whatever). Just let me know the theme when you donate: nothing political unless I agree with you anyway.
I don’t claim to be another Gilbert Keith Chesterton
, and I flatter myself that I’m not bad at it.
But, hey, we’ll let the market decide that one. The cruel, blessed market.
Moe Lane
I guess Obama knows about the Tea Parties *now*.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” – M. Gandhi
[UPDATE] “Say what you will about George W. Bush, he had a skin whose thickness wasn’t measured in Planck lengths.” I really wish that I had written that.
Because he’s sounding just a little bit self-conscious on the subject:
Obama targets tea bags at town hall
At his 100th-day town hall meeting in St. Louis Wednesday, President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax “tea party” demonstrations that have cropped up over the last month and took a veiled shot at the Fox News Channel, the cable news network closely associated with the protests.
[snip]
“Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”
See also (originally noted via FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog) the video below the fold: Continue reading I guess Obama knows about the Tea Parties *now*.
GI Joe Resolute: Awesomeness on toast.
On TOAST. Via Nodwick, and it’s tasty: