Moe Lane

Interesting what people can take from a picture. Case in point:

When Glenn put up a post using it, he focused on the brutal elegance of that sign message:”You vote for Obamacare, we vote for your opponent.“  Which, by the way: we will.  But what I took away from it was primarily the guy with the camera.

I’ve written this before, and now I’ll write it again: never go to a protest or political event without video recording equipment.  I usually recommend a Flip, but I discovered at CPAC that my Canon PowerShot SD1200IS is actually a perfectly suitable emergency video camera in its own right.  Or you can just use your cell phone.  Whatever it is, have something that you can use when circumstances warrant. Our opponents have not yet internalized the idea that every action and every word that they utter for the rest of their lives can be saved for posterity: be sure to take advantage of that.

And remember: if it wasn’t recorded, it didn’t happen.  That’s the drawback of having video recorders everywhere; it’s much harder to convince people that something occurred when there’s no footage available.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Well, well, well. Short version? All three Republican national committees raised more than their Democratic counterparts for the first time in… well, a while.

A while.

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Look, I am sure that he means well.

That’s a reference to Ms. Streisand’s classic mistake of using a cool-sounding Shakespeare ‘quote’ that she apparently found on the Internet without checking it to see whether it was, in fact, correct. Which it wasn’t; and that particular example is probably a major reason why Ms. Streisand has done us all the favor of not airing out her political opinions lately. Personally, I’m grateful.

But I digress.

At any rate, President Obama, while making what was apparently a rather lackluster rally speech* for his health care debacle, used this ‘Lincoln’ quote:

I have the great pleasure of having a really nice library at the White House. And I was tooling through some of the writings of some previous Presidents and I came upon this quote by Abraham Lincoln: “I am not bound to win, but I’m bound to be true. I’m not bound to succeed, but I’m bound to live up to what light I have.”

…which, as NRO Corner notes, is actually listed here as being incorrect.

Of course, this should be easy to check: all the President has to do is tell us what book he got it out of. Although I should note that Brainy Quote won’t count…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState. (more…)

Because it’s getting intense out there.

Not this one, but a one: Pachelbel’s Canon in D

The President can offer an Executive Order, but the groups that are watching – and scoring – the health care debacle on life issues are going to assume that such an offer is meaningless*.

You know what would be handy for the President right now? A reputation for doing what he said that he was going to do, come Hell, high water, or a recalcitrant Congress*. Shame that the President decided that such a thing was beneath his dignity, huh?

Moe Lane

*You know. Like George W Bush had.

Here, meet one.

“All this talk about rules. When the deal goes down, we make ‘em up as we go along.”

Rep. Alcee Hastings was the sixth federal judge in American history to be impeached from office (bribery and perjury). The voters of FL-23 may have elected him afterward, but it was the Democratic party leadership that let him join the Rules Committee. And it’s the American electorate who gets to decide whether he can stay the Chair of its Legislative/Budget Process sub-committee.

So. Your call.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

I should note for the record that this is from my wife’s almost-final Dragon Age run, not mine.

Let’s just say that the wife and I have different opinions about player-character survival, and leave it at that.

Comes out in 2012.

Director? Andrew Stanton.  Oops, hold on: I meant to say WALL-E and Finding Nemo.
Writer? Michael Chabon.
Studio? Disney/Pixar, effectively.

(pause)

It may not suck.

Smitty over at the Other McCain is covering it; see also Michelle Malkin.  Glenn Reynolds has an unconfirmed report of 30K so far, which if true should frighten Democrats generally, as this is a pickup protest.  Glenn also has pictures of the event, which will no doubt start the usual discussion about how many right-of-center people showed up to protest, in the hopes that it will distract people from the more interesting point that right-of-center people are now increasingly likely to show up to protest…

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, it’d be great if I was there.  It’d also be great if I had a budget.  Not a complaint, just an observation; as Dan noted in his excellent post, it’s the other side that gets the funding.  So it goes.

Crossposted to RedState.

…over what the Hell his party is doing with regard to the health care debacle:

“We’re not going to deem the Senate bill passed.We’re going to pass the Senate bill. We’re going to pass it by a vote in the House.”

I am given to understand that the response was, ah, polite disbelief.

Not a joke: the company has been negotiating the right to use the Commodore name.

Zero footprint, all-in-keyboard, supposedly will run Windows, Linux, and (via user modification) Mac OS. Here are the technical specs: more on this computer here and here.  No word on price, although I don’t expect it to be as cheap as my old C64, even after you adjust for inflation and relative wealth levels then and now.

Bottom line?  Make it beige – real Commodore computers are beige – and I’ll think about it.

I was actually looking for ‘Jeepers Creepers,’ but this works.

‘Body and Soul,’ Mel Torme