Moe Lane

I got tipped off to this by a fellow In Nomine enthusiast:

For those who speak In Nomine, it’s a Low-Contrast, Low-Brightness Backwards heresy where Gabriel is a blackwing and Michael’s Outcast. If none of that made any sense to you: angels with Old Testament attitudes and automatic weapons liberally apply both to the landscape.

Yes, of course I’m going to go watch that.  I may even get a group together.

…Zelayista terrorists attacked a newspaper critical of the ousted, would-be dictator.

Again.

Firebombs hurled at Honduran newspaper office

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A Honduran editor says assailants threw molotov cocktails at the offices of his newspaper, setting fire to the entrance.

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The attack early Saturday was the sixth against media outlets and other institutions critical of Zelaya.

Besides Fausta, see also La Gringa’s Blogicito for more Honduran updates.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

I saw this trailer while watching Coraline last night…

…and yeah. Tim Burton knows what we like; yes, he does.

(Via Instapundit) A surprisingly clear statement, given the source. Perhaps he’s been yelled at?

There has been no increase in the number of security threats to President Barack Obama despite the contentious town hall meetings taking place around the country, according to the White House.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs also said Friday there has been no change in the security precautions.

“We haven’t viewed any increase in threats, and there’s been no change in any of that,” Gibbs said.

Or perhaps it’s just that the administration just realizes that while it may be in the best interests of Mark Potok and the SPLC to push their political fetish porn about how there’s a scary right-wing mob out there THAT COULD SNAP AT ANY MINUTE! – it’s not really in the best interests of the administration itself, to say nothing of the country. Particularly with the administration’s popularity currently hovering around 47%.  Turns out calling people names makes them less likely to love you.

Who knew?

Moe Lane

See also Trogdopundit, Sweetness & Light, & The Smallest Minority for more justified scorn.

Crossposted to RedState.

The Leaving Of Liverpool, Dubliners

Not really changing the subject, but the age of twenty-five is… well, it’s not precisely wasted on twenty-five year-olds. But they really should do more in the way of getting feedback on the best way to exploit that state.

Which is fine by me.

Just to note for the record: while this is very true, I’d also like to note that the man being quoted here voluntarily participated in a naval war against the USA, which was frankly just about as stupid.

Via theblogprof, who is actually talking about something else entirely (H/T: Instapundit).

Shatner being serious about the Vic-20.

Shatner being Shatner about World of Warcraft.

You have to wonder if he ever wonders how it is that he ended up with a career where his success depends on how well he can imitate himself.  Not that I judge him for that: it’s a living, and at least he’s not selling anything illegal, immoral, or likely to explode.

I didn’t have the 3-D glasses, so I watched it in 2-D – and I noticed some slowdowns in it from time to time, which I assume was where the 3-D originally was. Still: Coraline was excellent. Rent it, if you haven’t seen it yet.

Moe Lane

PS: I am starting to suspect that cats are Neil Gaiman’s spirit animals.

It’s a fascinating topic, and a very important one – but it can wait a day or two. I sincerely doubt that anything really essential’s going to take place on Sunday and I’m tired of having to concentrate on it. Because I don’t have to.

So: District 9. Anybody see that yet? I was going to, then not going to based on the first reviews, but the reviews are coming in and they seem to indicate that the first reviews were all written by people smoking crack. Opinions?

(Via Hot Air Headlines) I could be cruel about this, but if it turns out that the title here (“Party leaders prepare liberals to accept a health care reform deal“) is accurate then I see no particular reason to gloat over the fact that the quote-unquote ‘public option’ will be sacrificed for the sake of ‘conservative’ Democrat, Republican, and popular opinion.  We’re all one country and we’re all Americans, after all, so I’d just be glad that we’ll be able to move on from having health care hung up on this particular controversy.  That being said, once we remove the public option from consideration we will have to move on to discussing why on earth we’re talking about revising health care without first discussing the blatantly obvious need for tort reform.

This is not really negotiable, I’m sorry to say.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

At least, that’s the Senate version of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions committee bill on health care rationing: the House version has the elementary decency to call it a ‘tax.’

Legal Insurrection walks through the procedure: the short version is that both versions of the bill require that employers give the IRS information on who they’re insuring, during what periods, and… some-things-to-be-determined later. If that last clause doesn’t worry you, then why they want that information should:

The House bill provides for a tax on people who do not have acceptable coverage at “any time” during the tax year. House bill section 401 provides for a new section 59B (at pp. 167-168) of the Internal Revenue Code:

(a) TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of—
(1) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over
(2) the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer.

The Senate version is similar, although the tax is called a “shared responsibility payment” not a tax.

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Via RS Reader izoneguy comes this heartwarming story of lowered expectations in the health care rationing wars. Yesterday, it was a nascent national movement dedicated to bringing The Audacity Of Hope And Change That You Can Believe In to the huddle masses; today, they’re trying to get enough people together for a decent potluck. And how is it working out for them?

“We had 10 people. Not a huge number, but good,” said Ms. Adkins, 55, who has been an Obama volunteer since the first day she saw him during a stop here on March 11, 2007.

Not that there’s anything wrong with potlucks; in fact, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for the Tea Party folks to start planning to have them after the town halls. Save some money on takeout that way.  Of course, given the number of people who show up to the town halls it’d probably make sense to split them up into multiple potlucks, but that’s a logistical issue. (more…)