Moe Lane

The race card? Sure.

But, more importantly, Obama played the GOTV Card here. The political junkies on both sides are now nodding: everybody else, watch this video and it’ll be discussed in just a bit.

Said discussion after the fold:
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Sorry that the title isn’t snappy, but it happens.

High Court Will Rule On Violent Video Game Ban

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children.

The court will review a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban.

The court in question is the 9th, which has a long and in/glorious (depending on who you ask) history of having its rulings smacked down by the USSC.  Preliminary assumption is that they’ll sustain it, given that there was a roughly similar case last week involving animal cruelty that got struck down – but it’s the Supreme Court.  You never know what those wacky guys and gals over there are going to do.

Moe Lane

PS: My opinion is that I don’t need the legislature to help me decide whether or not I should let my kids have access to violent video games.  And that I don’t need the courts to validate my decision, either; that door swings in both directions.

(H/T Hot Air and Instapundit) I hate to disagree with P.J. O’Rourke on anything, but I have to, here:

The secret to the Obama annoyance is snotty lecturing. His tone of voice sends us back to the worst place in college. We sit once more packed into the vast, dreary confines of a freshman survey course—“Rocks for Jocks,” “Nuts and Sluts,” “Darkness at Noon.” At the lectern is a twerp of a grad student—the prototypical A student—insecure, overbearing, full of himself and contempt for his students. All we want is an easy three credits to fulfill a curriculum requirement in science, social science, or fine arts. We’ve got a mimeographed copy of last year’s final with multiple choice answers already written on our wrists. The grad student could skip his classes, the way we intend to, but there the s.o.b. is, taking attendance. (How else to explain this year’s census?)

America has made the mistake of letting the A student run things. It was A students who briefly took over the business world during the period of derivatives, credit swaps, and collateralized debt obligations. We’re still reeling from the effects. This is why good businessmen have always adhered to the maxim: “A students work for B students.” Or, as a businessman friend of mine put it, “B students work for C students—A students teach.”

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Gee, where did we see this before?

“He got elected education commissioner and spent the entire time running for attorney general. He got to be attorney general and spent the entire time running for governor. When he got to be governor, he spent the first two years running for vice president and the last two running for the United States Senate,” said Slade, the former state GOP chairman.

(Via Hot Air Headlines) It’ll come to me in a second, I’m sure.

Moe Lane

PS:
RU-BI-O.
RU-BI-O.
RU-BI-O.

Caribbean Blue, Enya

Again: while it’s just the same song over and over, it’s a pretty song and nobody’s making you buy all the albums. So there.

Originally, this was going to be Mission of Honor – but I did it already. So… hey, Cryoburn!  New Miles Vorkosigan!  Also coming out… eventually. Well, maybe Baen will make the digital copy available for this one early.

So, farewell to The Gods Themselves.

Not for me; for Neil. It costs him to host this site. The button below (and the one on the site bar) goes directly to the account that pays site fees.

Honestly, if it’s a choice between clicking on my PayPal button and clicking on the one above I’d prefer that you clicked the one above.

(Via AoSHQ) Even if Stephen Hawking is.

Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.

He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.

Why?  Two words, boychik:

Macintosh. Compatible.

Is there a cultural referent here that I’m missing?

‘Gay dog’ refused entry to Adelaide restaurant

An Adelaide restaurant that refused a blind man entry because a waiter thought his guide dog was “gay” has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation.

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“The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog,” the owners said in a statement to South Australia’s Equal Opportunity Tribunal.

NTTAWWT… except for Australian service dogs, apparently.

Via the Corner.

Which is to say, Obama’s locking Alexi Giannoulias* (D CAND, IL-SEN) in the attic and pretending that he doesn’t exist:

Giannoulias will not make trip to Quincy to see Obama

From chicagotribune.com: Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Giannoulias’ campaign chairman, expressed concerns over a lack of White House commitment to the candidate to Washington-based Politico after a recent meeting with President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. Durbin quickly tempered his comments, and the White House offered a tepid statement that “the president intends to help Democratic candidates in Illinois up and down the ballot.”

Full story here – as for the Rochester treatment: well. Those familiar with Jane Eyre will no doubt remember how wonderfully that particular strategy worked.

Moe Lane

PS: Mark Kirk for Senate. He can go outside.

*Noun. Verb. Broadway Bank.

Crossposted to RedState.

Because of the Democrats’ decision to make immigration a priority.

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) decision to walk away from Senate talks on climate change and energy legislation – at least for now – has prompted the measure’s remaining architects to scuttle Monday’s planned unveiling of the bill.

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Graham is upset over Democratic plans to take up immigration legislation this year – he accuses Democratic leaders of pushing forward immigration “haphazardly” and calls it an election-year political gambit.

Of course, it’s an open question about how broken up Senate Democrats really are to not have to take up that particular piece of pandering to religious fanaticism just quite yet. It will be also interesting to see how this will affect the immigration bill debate: considering that even John McCain is sounding like he’s had a Road to Damascus (or road to the Arizona primary) moment, it is going to be very weird if Graham ends up supporting the immigration bill. (more…)

It’s very exciting to see.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

1. The I’ll bet I can find 1,000,000 people who think music education is important party;
2. The Addicted to Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn party;
3. And the Jeremy Clarkson should be Prime Minister party*.

What?  That’s legitimate… by Newsweek standards, at least.  Sure, they’re Facebook groups, but so is the Coffee Party, frankly – and all three of said groups have memberships between 2x and 3x that of the Coffee Party Facegroup’s of 200K, so if it’s legitimate for the one’s Facebook strength to be taken seriously than I insist that we – and more importantly, Newsweek - do the same for the above movements, too.

Or we could maybe, I don’t know, possibly not pretend that a group’s Facebook strength is necessarily indicative of anything useful? – and I cannot believe that I have to point this out to a print magazine.

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