Moe Lane

Pleased, Brad Woodhouse?

Well, this is the sort of thing that happens when you scare the mob in order to get money out of them: some of the members of said mob are disinclined to stop being scared once they’ve written the check. And so:

Police are investigating vandalism at the Albemarle County Republican headquarters.

The Daily Progress of Charlottesville reports that someone threw bricks through the headquarter’s windows, breaking three of them. The vandalism was discovered Friday morning.

(Via the Corner) If I were the Albemarle County GOP, I’d send the bill for the windows to the Democratic National Committee.  After all, they adamantly refused to take responsibility for their own rhetoric, so it only seems fair that they at least pay out some monetary compensation for their demagoguery…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

One, U2

I knew that I had seen another version of the video.

Moelane.com – and RedState.com – resident computer guy Neil Stevens has a post up on the audio interview rig he put together as part of a weekend fundraising reaction to this post. Interesting stuff; check it out.

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Down to the incongruous addition of supernatural elements for no real reason.

Anyway, I was looking for the birthday song; I found this.

More of this sort of thing here. It’s an interesting niche.

As seen here, for this.

By the way, would it be unkind of me to note that the poll situation that we’re seeing now, post health-care passage, is starting to look for the Democrats like that scene in Apollo 13 where they tried shutting off the reactant valves for the fuel cells? – I mean, is it kind for me to note it again?  I can’t remember if I mentioned it on this blog, and it’s a startlingly apt reference.  If passing that health care bill wasn’t enough to recoup the President’s steady losses in popularity (their primary strategy to get at-risk Democrats re-elected), then ‘victory’ just got redefined for the Democratic party as ‘survival.’

Just saying.

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I picked up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls as part of the Birthday Bounty; and it’s… pretty good, actually. Quirk Classics seems to have gotten a line on what is actually not a bad sub-genre, here: this particular prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies doesn’t work with Austen’s original books directly, but it manages to have fun with them while also taking them seriously. If Quirk keeps finding authors who can do that, they will have themselves a nice little print run.

And so, farewell to The Hobbit:.

Moe Lane

Said opposition is back to levels of opposition of, say, 2005, when the country was breathing a sigh of relief that we managed not to elect that Kerry guy*.  Not that this will matter, except for the two or three more Democratic Members of Congress who would lose their jobs if the administration decides to charge this particular hill…

(via @allahpundit)

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*Hey, it’s OK.  That election’s been over for over five years, now.  Democrats can come out and admit that they had to get drunk and pound themselves in the head with a hammer** before they felt up to the task of voting for John Kerry.

**As the saying goes: because it felt so good when they stopped.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers. So I am, so I am.

(H/T: Instapundit) Guess how many people CNN reported showed up here:

Go on, guess.

Nope. Lower than that.

Nope. Lower than that.

Nope. Still lower. No, really.

Give up?

“Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people – we haven’t gotten a count of how many people turned out there…“

Video confirmation at link.

Well, now we know why CNN gave my RS colleague Erick Erickson a job: they clearly need at least one person in the lineup who can do math.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

He turns fifty today (I had him pegged as younger than I was). Go read his site and hit his tip jar; he deserves both.

For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield

…not a good idea. Five to seven years for making one is a bit excessive, even by British standards; but I can see where the English might be a bit leery of letting people wander around with flame-based tailgate-prevention devices. We don’t really want Car Wars in real life.

That being said, and as I commented to @eddiebear, if this had happened when Charles II was king the inventor would have gotten an earldom out of it.  Err, assuming that he didn’t get a dukedom for the scooter.

I will not be getting these, alas.

Moe Lane

PS: What?  Oh, I’ll be forty.  I figure I’ll celebrate by going food shopping.