Moe Lane

Starring Deborah Gibson*, damn your eyes. And Lorenzo Lamas**.

I’d like to think that at a certain point at the storyboard meeting, somebody looked at the picture of a giant shark in the act of doing something that was, frankly, an absolutely inappropriate example of shark-like behavior (you’ll know it when you see it in the trailer below), and making an objection. And then there was a pause, and then one of the other people would break that pause by saying, “Bob. The movie is called Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.”

And so it is.  It comes out direct-to-video on the 19th; the Tribulation is scheduled to begin precisely six hours later.  Please schedule your End Times accordingly.

Moe Lane

*Shame? What’s that?

**I spared you the Playgirl link. Be grateful for my forbearance.
I SAID BE GRATEFUL!

Wanted Dead Or Alive, Bon Jovi

Yes, yes, I was lame to listen to this band growing up. Dude, I was just lame, period.

:pause:

Ahem. “Dude, I was just lame, period.”

:expectant look:

Never blog angry.

Well, not quite true: never blog too angry.  A little anger can help.  Too much, though, and you end up wanting to pound on the wall; this pleases a certain demographic, and you may define ‘pleases’ any way that you like. So, now that I’ve calmed down – some – about Obama crony David Axelrod crassly equating Carrie Prejean with a dog:

When Axelrod was asked if he had weighed in on the Obama family’s dog choice, he answered, “I was only called in for the final three, and one was Miss California.”

…I’ll say this: after an event like the above I’d be embarrassed about me being on the same side of the same-sex marriage debate as Axelrod, except that there’s actually no evidence whatsoever that I am (I already know that I’m well to the left of his boss on this issue). As it is, I’d much prefer to have Carrie Prejean as my spokesperson than the people that have decided to publicly attack her; unlike them, she’s shown no indication that she personally hates her opponents.

I really should stop being surprised at this sort of thing, though. It’s not like it’s going to stop for the next 3.5 years.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

How did that third-party thing work out for you, Mr. Golisano?

Apparently, $1 million more a year was $1 million too much:

BILLIONAIRE GOLISANO FLEES NY OVER TAX

ALBANY — New York billionaire Tom Golisano is taking his big bucks elsewhere.

Furious over a new “millionaire’s tax” that could cost him an extra $1 million this year, the Rochester-area resident and three-time gubernatorial candidate says he’s fleeing the state for Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Golisano called it a “quick decision” to switch his legal address to his $13 million waterfront mansion in Naples, Fla., after Gov. Paterson and lawmakers agreed to a record-breaking $4 billion income-tax hike last month.

[snip]

The millionaire’s tax — which hiked the income tax rate to 8.97 percent from 6.85 percent on those making over $500,000 a year — would force Golisano to pay $13,000 a day in state income taxes. That’s $4.7 million a year, up from $3.6 million.

Via Say Anything, which helpfully notes that Golisano is one of the founding members of the Independence Party of New York, which apparently exists more or less to remind the rest of the country why having multiple meaningful political parties is such a massive headache.  I’m sure that Florida will welcome the attention and philanthropic zeal of Mr. Golisano, just as long as he controls his political enthusiasms properly.  After all, there’s a reason why he felt the need to flee from a Democratic-controlled state to a Republican-controlled one…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

You should subscribe to it, because I like getting money.

For that matter, you should buy a Kindle 1 or a Kindle 2, because that way I can be sickly envious of you.

How awesome is it?

I cheerfully did Hulu‘s bidding, didn’t I? And I don’t even have cable. I only saw it because my kid was playing with the TV, and after I finished whooping with laughter, I knew that I must help it go viral…

Moe Lane

PS: How is Rescue Me, by the way? I hear that it isn’t bad.

Come out to play.

Pelosi turns down Sunday show invitations

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) turned down invitations to be on several Sunday morning talk shows and is instead spending the weekend with her family.

The Speaker was invited to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” “Fox News Sunday” and CNN’s “State of the Union,” according to sources at the networks.

The Warriors, because I like AofSHQ.

Crossposted to RedState.

[UPDATE]: Here are couple more links for you:
Rebuilding the GOP: The Committeeman Project
Get Your STORC On

I am not ordering anybody to follow this checklist. I’m not even going to nag about it. I am merely suggesting that you consider answering the questions on them before you go off on how the party isn’t listening to you.

• What is the name of your local GOP group, on the county / district level?
• Who is the chair?
• When do they meet?
• What was discussed at the last meeting?
• What happened at that meeting that you disagreed with the most?
• How did they address your concerns?
• When does the group or sub-group that would best resolve your concerns meet?
• Who else in that group or sub-group would you say is your best ally in resolving that concern?
• Who in your area is running for state, county, and local office?
• What did they say that they needed the most help with?
• Who is the greatest obstructionist in your group, and how do you get around him or her?

I’ll keep saying it until it sinks in: there’s no cavalry coming to save us, ladies and gentlemen. That’s because we’re the cavalry.

And we are perfectly capable of saving ourselves.

Crossposted to RedState.

Especially when it’s temptingly empty.

Legs, ZZ Top

I’ll spare you the ZZ Top / Carmen Electra mashup, which was pretty much what you’d expect, right down to the pole dancing. It’s not that I have anything against pole dancing, per se: it’s just that I’m still trying to figure out how being able to spin around one is supposed to convey the message I am skilled in and eager to demonstrate advanced sexual techniques, which one assumes is the point of the exercise.

And I will point and laugh at anybody who tries to fake decadent amusement at my naivite.  I’m wise to all of your tricks, I am.

I can’t believe that this isn’t up on Fark yet: this is why they invented the Florida tag.

43 stun-gunned at prisons’ Take Your Kids to Work Day

TALLAHASSEE — A total of 43 children were directly and indirectly shocked by electric stun guns during simultaneous ”Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day” events gone wrong at three state prisons, according to new information provided Friday by the Florida Department of Corrections.

Via Instapundit and AoSHQ: this also reminded me of this Onion video, which is sufficiently lacking in good taste that I’ll just link to it.

Other than that, I got nothing.

[UPDATE]: And welcome, Protein Wisdom readers.  You may be amused by Morgan Freeman doing a Barenaked Ladies cover.

…because now they have an acceptable devil figure to blame it all on. Via @vermontaigne (and Protein Wisdom):

Cheney’s torture trap for Democrats

[Note: Salon defines 'waterboarding' as 'torture' throughout this article. Please calibrate your semantic filters accordingly. - ML]

You might have thought getting torture back in the news would be a bad move for any Republican; after all, it was the Bush administration that authorized the torturing. But the last few days have shown Dick Cheney knew exactly what he was doing when he went on TV last week and started talking about “enhanced interrogation”: It was a masterstroke of bureaucratic warfare.

[snip multiple paragraphs that dance around the fact that Pelosi Knew All Along.]

Cheney, safely ensconced in his McLean, Va., mansion, must be chortling all the way to his cave every night. After three decades in the top levels of U.S. government, he knows better than most how to set his opponents against themselves.

You have to understand that this sort of thing is the product of a certain kind of mindset. Let’s say that you’re a person who has adopted a particular set of beliefs – for whatever reason – that you have come to depend on as being an integral part of why you consider yourself to be a good person. And let’s say that these beliefs have been reinforced and validated by certain outside individuals, through a series of deliberately provocative statements and actions. And let’s finally say that it becomes clear that those people have been lying to you with those statements and actions – and without them, the set of beliefs that you’re relying on now come into serious question. You have two options at this point. The first is to critically examine your beliefs, and be prepared to change them; the second is to find something else that would validate them.
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On the one hand, I only recognize only five people on this list, which might prove Shot in the Dark’s point. On the other hand, it could just as easily demonstrate that he’s over-estimating their influence. On the gripping hand*, I don’t have cable**.

Because my wife is cheap and I don’t miss it enough to push the issue, that’s why.

Moe Lane

*Classical reference.

**Heck, I don’t have a converter box.