Moe Lane

Not a CPAC video, but Councilman Djou was within video range yesterday for just enough time for me to stop by and have a quick talk with him about the HI-01 election. Executive summary: he’s got a good shot at it. He’s the only Republican in a field of three (the other two are Democrats sniping at each other); his district performed pretty strongly for Bush and Lingle (and his Councilman’s District is inside HI-01, too); and his fundraising has been good. Djou’s site is here: check him out.

In person? Smart guy, strong on fiscal conservatism, in it to win it. And endlessly patient when it comes to explaining the local intricacies of Hawaiian elections.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

I know that generally runway fashion models are expected to wear, well, very stupid articles of what might have been clothing once, in more innocent times… OK, let me stop there before I shoehorn a mad scientist into that metaphor.  Anyway:

Again, I know that they’re expected to wear… things.  But this is just somebody being mean.  And not artistic mean, either.

[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit & Hot Air readers.

…well, as much as a Democratic party career politician can manage it, at least:

Which is to say, it’s even money that Dick Durbin (D, IL) isn’t sufficiently aware of the political battlespace to know that he had called the head of his political party a liar.

Moe Lane

[UPDATE]: Ed Morrissey is collecting reactions. And The New Ledger beat me out on using my own video…

Or born to be wild.  Like giraffes!

Long story. And to switch back: yeah, the giraffes in that video aren’t precisely being left to be wild on their own.

Moe Lane

PS: Joanna Lumley is kinda weird about giraffes, isn’t she?

…as per the first comment in this Hot Air post about Kent Pankow.  But that’s absurd: we’ve been told by all sorts of people that such things could never, ever, ever happen under a government-run universal health care regime.

Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy.

Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer.

Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place.

And why would it never happen?  Because the Master loves us and would never hurt us… look!  A squirrel!

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

“Is incense not a sin?”

I believe that in some Protestant sects it would be, on the grounds of it being crypto-Popery.  Hmm.  ‘Popepourri?’

Moe Lane

PS: I leave the question of where the children of Adam and Eve – particularly Cain – got their spouses to actual Bible literalists, as it is a question relevant to their worldview, not mine.  Besides, one gets the impression that the primary motivation for many people of asking said question is more or less “I feel like being a schmuck today.”

*She’s not asking it.  Merely passing along the chuckle.

Surely they can at least manage that.

The time has come for somebody in the Democratic party to show moral courage.

Consider the situation. Despite a seventy vote majority in the House of Representatives and a then-twenty majority in the Senate, the Democratic party was only able to barely pass health care legislation in both Houses of Congress; and the two versions that were passed do not agree with each other. To get that far, Congressional Democrats made a series of ad hoc deals and temporary understandings, with no clear plan on how to reconcile them all; this, coupled with more or less every legislative and procedural trick on the books, have allowed them to get almost to their goal. Unfortunately, they don’t actually know what their goal even is at this point, but they’re almost there.

But also at this point they are, to use a cliche, grinding metal. The Democrats had made a choice last year to shut out the Republicans from any sort of meaningful discussion, interaction, or independent contribution in the process of health care legislation; and followed that with a healthy dose of attempting to demonizing the GOP when the GOP had the temerity to object. As a result, the Republican party has adamantly refused to provide any sort of a fig leaf to this steadily more unpopular legislation, and has been punished for that behavior by the American public by being more and more favored to win back at least the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, the House members who voted ‘no’ on the bill the first time are growing more and more terrified of voting ‘yes:’ and some of the ones who voted ‘yes’ are trying to decide whether or not doom is less likely if they switch their votes or not. And every Democrat in Congress is aware that keeping their individual seats are considered to be less important than passing the bill. (more…)

Remember when you thought that this album was the Most Significant Thing Ever?

Mother, Pink Floyd

Yeah. Suuuuuuure you didn’t.

Having just pointed out a worthy MoeLane.com-related cause to throw money at, allow me to suggest a more or less unworthy one: to wit, making it possible for me to acquire Dragon Age: Origins Awakening with all indecent speed. It’s now on the Wish List, and the button below will go to my own (unworthy) bank account.

Hey, what do you want me to do? Lie?

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I’m not sure that I heard this right…

But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Well. I guess that I did.  Anyone else get the impression that the Democrats are kind of punch-drunk right now? – Because there’s no way that this particular sentence should have been let outside without a keeper.

Via JammieWearingFool, via AoSHQ.

Aftermath from the rather vicious cold/flu/Venusian Death Crud that blew through Chez Lane this weekend. So here’s the Onion video that everybody else in the blogosphere is posting, too:

Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

Language warning. Depressingly accurate language warning, too. How depressingly accurate? This depressingly accurate.