Moe Lane

Jules Crittenden, on John Kerry, and the way he’s been (and will keep being) upstaged by Scott Brown:

It’s like a weird and terrible destiny. Not quite a Kennedy, not much as a senator, not quite president, and now, when his party holds White House, House and Senate, and he’s racked up all the seniority, not quite relevant.

There is something malignant about the way that karma keeps catching up with the now-senior Senator for Massachusetts… or, maybe there’s not.

Crossposted to RedState.

Alive, Pearl Jam

Prime bar drinking music of my youth. Prime.

I put up the Nerf N-Strike Raider Rapid Fire CS-35 Dart Blaster – Blue mostly because… well, the List was looking pretty bare. The problem is, besides the laptop there really isn’t much that I need for the blogging bag right now; and while I can justify the Nerf gun as being needed for the trollish hordes coming over the wall, well, that’s a stretch.

So what else should I be adding? I’ve got new cameras, digital recorder, and microphone already. (more…)

Via Big Government:

Coloradans must pay a $1.50 waste-tire fee every time they dispose of an old tire at a retail outlet. And according to an “FYI Memo” from the state department of revenue, “ Effective August 5, 2009, the waste tire recycling development fee is considered part of the purchase price and is subject to sales tax.”

Based on the revenue of the waste-tire fee from previous years, this means the state and other sub-governments could collect a grand total of anywhere between $300,000 to $500,000…all because they are taxing a fee.

Memo here.  Three guesses which political party controls the executive and legislative branches of the state government of Colorado…

Moe Lane

PS: We will now pause while people complain that it’s technically a sales tax on a government fee, not a tax.  Wait, what?

Crossposted to RedState.

I mean, now that it’d no longer obscure the view of one of the most powerful Senators in the Democratic party, and all that.  I hear that there’s a market for the power.

Although to answer Glenn: for some strange reason, the kind of wind source that he brings up almost never seems to drive any kind of useful work…

To be fair, they apparently hit him first before they went to stage two (local papers). As the latter reports:

In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.

Ace is unsurprised:

As has been endlessly documented, David Axelrod was the “gold standard of astroturf campaigns” for his many PR clients. Astroturf, in case you don’t know, is “artificial grassroots” — a paid consultant attempting to create the illusion of grassroots support.

Readers of this site know we had a lot of “Concerned Christian Conservatives” who showed up in the months before an election to write the same script ten times a week…

…and then Ace goes on to explain what happened on his site, which is pretty much what happened on every right-wing site whose structure would permit it: a blizzard of virtually-identical arguments and missives that wouldn’t fool regular site readers but might persuade casual visitors that there was actually something to whatever it was that the Democrats were trying to push that week.  If RedState didn’t have as many as some, it’s because we weren’t in a mood to let the Online Left take advantage of our hospitality*. (more…)

As Hotline on Call notes here in passing: the RNC reported 6.6 million raised (CoH of 8.4 million*), but nobody else really has yet.

Which is why no post yet on the topic.

Moe Lane

*Hotline points out that the CoH number is down because of the VA & NJ gubernatorial races (and health care).  [pause] Yes.  Yes, it is.  It’ll be down some more because of the MA-SEN race, too.

Fine by me.

Crossposted to RedState.

…at least, based on this otherwise utterly forgettable video from 1984, by a band called Digney Fignus*:

(Via Little Miss Attila & the Daily Caller)

And this was apparently something that the Huffington Post wanted to promote on their site. Judging from my immediate reactions:

• I am happy not to be living in the alternate universe where Digney Fignus became superstar rockers;
• I feel obligated, once again, to apologize for the music industry’s fashion choices of the mid-to-late 1980s (what can I say? Cocaine was apparently being handed out as party favors back then);
• I wish that progressives would stop being so ugly and tangled up inside over sex;

…I’m not exactly sure what their point is. OK, that’s a lie: I know what their point is. I’m just mildly annoyed that they thought that this attack was actually going to work.

Moe Lane

*A band sufficiently obscure as to lack a presence on Amazon.

Crossposted to RedState.

Six months from now, when it becomes clear that your party’s attempt to fuel class warfare among the American citizenry has failed, and you need to assign blame… do consider this? It’s not precisely smart to assume that the same people that you’ve spent the last year targeting with a crude sexual innuendo are going to happily fall into line when you start thundering pseudo-populist rhetoric about all those evil banks. Particularly after your little escapade with the pharmaceutical industry.

Enjoy your morning!

Moe Lane

PS: Try not to sound too much like the Democratic party is buying into an international Jewish conspiracy when you do your program: I understand that it’s a traditional peril for wild-eyed ranters about our financial system, but the USA has an international reputation to protect.

Crossposted to RedState.

Big Yellow Taxi, Counting Crows

Yeah, I know: this guy doesn’t have a clue about DDT and the Third World. I figure that’s why the girl left in the big yellow taxi in the first place.

As in, National Science Foundation.

One of those times where I can’t really improve on the picture:

Hell, I don’t even want to try.

Via Fark Geek.

Moe Lane

I just got sent this:

…and I gather that reproducing this will cost NBC even more money.

You know: NBC. The company that owns MSNBC.

Just saying.

Moe Lane