Moe Lane

Some points of interest, for various campaigns:

• AR-01: Rick Crawford – who is running against Marion Berry, AKA The Guy Who Can’t Remember That He’s Not Supposed to Be Taken Farm Subsidies – has a revamped website. It’s a definite improvement over the old version, and should allow for more and better networking. AR-01 is a R+8 district, and long overdue for a Congressman not as ready to ‘forget’ about his income (both agricultural and residential) as Berry is. Check Rick out.

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[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.

Which is… interesting.  After all, FL-19 is a D+16 district.  On the other hand, his district includes parts of Boca Raton, which is another way of saying that there’s a lot of old people in his district.  Certainly his fellow-Democrat Ron Klein is facing a race next district over with Allen West.  But we’re not doing that well in the 2010 expectations game, surely?

Moving along, speculation is that Wexler’s up for the ambassadorship to Israel.  If true, this should infuriate progressives: while liberal, Wexler is also very strongly pro-Israel, not to mention involved with AIPAC.  Which might explain why the President would pick him for the slot – after all, the last thing that the USA needs right now is another foreign policy blunder.  That it’d be an affront to the netroots may be merely more lagniappe…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

The problem with this argument is that you cannot quite just not take it seriously:

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

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“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

Or, rather, that the reasons why you shouldn’t take this theory seriously involve physics that is beyond… well, I’m sure that my readers all understand them, but I remember being told that there was going to be no math involved, so I cheerfully take it on faith that there’s a reason why Niven’s Law (“If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe”) doesn’t apply here.  Although I was very pleased to see that I had independently come to the same conclusion as Hans Moravec on the inevitable impossibility of time travel.  It seems… logical.

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

This being the one where he wants Rush Limbaugh to, well, die:

So. Is it…

1. The aforementioned wants-Limbaugh-to-die bit?
2. That the only reason that Chris Matthews is trying this is in the hope that going after Limbaugh will boost his ratings?
3. Or that Chris Matthews thinks that Live and Let Die is a great film?

I’m actually going to go with 3). Chris Matthews will undoubtedly coward up and claim the usual ‘it-was-just-a-joke’ defense; and as for getting eyeballs, well, Matthews needs to get them somehow.  But Live and Let Die wasn’t even Roger Moore’s best Bond film; I’ll also be marginally nice and merely note that Matthews’ pick of it may say some very interesting things about how the pundit views African-Americans…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

When the Nation - the Nation! – calls him the Whiner-in-Chief. Instapundit has more, including links to the front line of the administration’s War Against Fox. And along those lines, this bit (via Hot Air) of Glenn Beck is pretty much an instant classic:

It’s a marvelous day when you can use toy tanks and helicopters on national television to demonstrate just how silly your opponents are being.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

It’s not like he got actually mugged, or anything.  Just robbed while taking mass transit.

I mean, sure, the incident suggests that San Francisco is a crime-ridden disaster, but what Democratic-controlled urban area isn’t, these days? Shoot, the current unemployment rate of Mayor Johnson’s Sacramento itself was 12.3% in August. That’s almost double what it was a year ago; when did you get elected, again?

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Got this off of Facebook. Mind the language: somebody got fired, sued, and possibly punched over this one.

Remember:

Amazon.com

The one with Springsteen in it.

“One Headlight,” The Wallflowers/ Bruce Springsteen

It’s somewhere around 2:30 that you can see Springsteen go, Hey.  Didn’t I used to do… something… what was that called?  …Right, ‘rock.’  How did I do that, again?  Oh, of course… Huh.  I wonder why I stopped doing this.  Weird.

Waitasecond.  You’re not Van Zandt!  Who’s the bald guy?  There’s no SAXOPHONE!

Where’s my band?  Where’s my goddamned band?

It was a relief, really.

Didn’t this happen during the Great Depression?

Or am I thinking chupacabras? No, wait, that’s goats….

(Above via Little Miss Attila)

Hold on: there’s a new Hitchhiker’s book out? And Another Thing…, written by Eoin Colfer? How did I miss this?

Oh, right, because I never forgave Douglas Adams for what he did to his characters with Mostly Harmless. It was nasty, petty, and even cruel – and it was final, because Adams passed away so suddenly.  It’d be nice to be able to get past that.

I’m linking to it instead of reproducing it here because… well.  Manolo for the Big Girl made the sacrifice of putting it up; who am I to decide that that sacrifice should be done in vain?

Moe Lane

PS: “Evil giraffe” produces some… odd results on Google Image search.  Perhaps I will not replace my background quite yet, after all.

I understand why Glenn Reynolds is suspicious, but I think this primary challenge of Charlie Rangel by former campaign director Vincent Morgan is legitimate.  To begin with, the possibility was first reported about a month and a half ago, and that article notes an important detail about NY-15:

Someday, whether it be 2010 or 2012 or 3012, Charlie Rangel will not be the congressman from Harlem. There may not in fact be another African-American congressman from Manhattan, since a huge influx of white and Hispanic residents have moved into the borough in recent years.

Redistricting is set for the 2012 elections, and if Rangel is still around, political observers say, how his district’s lines move will give a clear message about the seat’s future. If the district moves northward into the Bronx, it will, first of all, no longer be the only district to be entirely in Manhattan, and, secondly, show that Rangel and his allies intend for the seat to remain African-American. If the district moves to the south, it would favor a white candidate and mean that black political power has effectively switched to the outer boroughs. If the district stays the same, then New York will likely send the first Dominican-American to Congress.

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…because that’s mostly what I’ve been doing today.  On the other hand, now I have a chair that doesn’t creak alarmingly if you look at it oddly.

To completely change the subject*, there’s this:

n September, a judge in Stuart, Fla., was about to sentence pastor Rodney McGill for real estate fraud, but McGill was undaunted, addressing a courtroom prayer for his enemies: “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, for every witness called against me, I pray cancer in their lives, lupus, brain tumor, pancreatic cancer.” The judge then sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

(Background here) Yeah. Ask the Guy who made His reputation by raising people from the dead to go around revenge-Smiting people. That’s going to go over really well at the Pearly Gates.

Moe Lane

*It wasn’t a complete subject change, originally – but this was more interesting than the people living in the Las Vegas flood tunnels.