Moe Lane

Alarmingly, House Kennedy lacks a suitable heir to the vacant Senate seat!  The last real possibility declined to be elevated to the position:

BOSTON – Joseph P. Kennedy II’s decision not to seek the U.S. Senate seat long held by his late uncle, Edward M. Kennedy, has touched off a succession scramble.

(H/T: Hot Air) For those keeping track: this is the Kennedy that makes six figures running a nonprofit organization and who cozies up to Hugo Chavez.  He’s not the anti-science Kennedy with the crazy beliefs on autism; and he’s not the Kennedy with the drunk driving problem… to be more specific, he’s not the Kennedy currently in Congress with the drunk driving problem.  He’s not even the Kennedy that had the song “Sweet Caroline” written for her; which is a shame, because as near as I can tell that’s the most useful thing that any of the younger generations of Kennedy aristos have been associated with in my lifetime.

At any rate, the people of Massachusetts are giving serious consideration to having something called an ‘election’ for the Senate seat: no word yet whether the eventual winner will have to change his or her name to Kennedy afterward.

Moe Lane

PS: Today, John Kerry woke up, went to the bathroom mirror, and murmured “Senior Senator from Massachusetts” to his reflection.  This has become part of the little ritual of the morning for him, and helps counter the mental vertigo that comes from going through one’s days without never quite being certain what one should be doing next.

Crossposted to RedState.

More accurately, it was a source from the White House Counsel’s office:

The counsel’s office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. Jones’s “czar” job was created by the OIAPE, and Jarrett interviewed Jones for the position. In speeches before far-left groups over the past five months, Jarrett touted Jones’s hiring, in part, because the groups, many of which count 9/11 truthers and radical environmentalists and anti-capitalists as members, were familiar with Jones’s brand of anti-Americanism and economic radicalism.

(via Jim Treacher) Well, most accurately of all this was an anonymous shot from one faction of the White House against another faction of the White House. Welcome to Washington, DC. (more…)

He’s tanned (not really), toupee’d, and ready to… why, he’s ready to do anything at all for OH-17, really.

Anything.

BOARDMAN, Ohio — Seven years in prison doesn’t appear to have changed former U.S. Rep. James Traficant’s style whatsoever, and the 1,200 supporters who gathered at a Boardman banquet hall Sunday afternoon loved him for it.

“I was a quarterback. I was a congressman. Now I’m a convict,” Traficant said, his signature toupee firmly back atop his head. “I wouldn’t change one single thing. And to the powerful enemies that I have, I’ll just say this to you: They had to cheat to convict me.”

The crowd roared. After 15 minutes of remarks, hundreds swarmed the make-shift stage to shake his hand or ask for an autograph.

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I heard it today in, God help us all, a Wendy’s.

Tainted Love, Soft Cell

Double God help us..ses? The Marilyn Manson video makes more coherent sense (after the fold, for those of you with refined sensibilities): (more…)

A day late, but what are you going to do? – backhoe, remember?

Anyway, we say good-bye to A Song for Arbonne and hello to The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, which may not have been the best choice for light weekend reading. On the other hand, as Anglo-Saxon goes it’s prime stuff.

The woman in question was at Norm Dicks‘ (D, WA-06, D+5) town hall, and dared the Congressman to take her money. As in, she brandished a twenty dollar bill and told Dicks to come and get it, if he wanted her money so badly.

(See also Hot Air and Ace of Spades HQ.)

Which Dicks of course did not, being a Democratic career politician whose instincts have rusted over the years. What the woman meant by all of this is addressed below. (more…)

Contra Tom Maguire, I don’t want to categorize le affaire Jones as being a case where the Right got a ‘scalp.’ Scalping has the connotation of being something that gets done in a war; and there was nothing warlike in the way that Van Jones was abandoned and cast aside.  It was in fact almost criminal, the way that this administration set him up for what was going to be a natural and inevitable fall.  The White House didn’t even try.

No, the proper metaphor here is clubbing a baby harp seal.  I’d feel bad about that metaphor: but, well, 9/11 Troofer.

Moe Lane

PS: I wonder how many more baby harp seals work for the executive branch?

Crossposted to RedState.

Beartooth was a movie that my grandmother-in-law wanted to watch Saturday night. This was actually acceptable, as none of us had seen it and this was what was on the cover:

So. Snarling bears. Winter storms. A conflict. This sounded promising, or at least tolerable.

It was a lie. A cruel, cruel lie. Below the fold is a reconstruction of the greatest single conflict in the movie: (more…)

I regret that a general Internet blackout across the Poconos prevented me from being able to post on this at the time; still, I’m home now, and while it’s been well-covered on RedState I feel the need to make my own comment on the subject.

Which is: Hey, remember this clip?

Well, if you didn’t, don’t worry: I’m expecting that I’ll be using it a lot.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Which meant no Verizon for the Poconos.

Which meant no Internet.

Odd that this used to be the default option for vacations until quite recently.

If Moe will pardon the intrusion on his front page, be aware that I will begin doing some maintenance on the site. There may be brief interruptions of service.

Update: All done.

I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner

I actually already know what love is; it’s just that when I finally got around to getting the mail some woman was in her (parked) car loudly singing along to this particular song.

I suspect that ethyl alcohol may have been involved.

Moe Lane