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A sweet, ethereal, sad, soft, and slow song.

From “10,000 Shots“, Real McKenzies

Ten days to go until The Fuller Memorandum, which is the latest in the spy-meet-Cthulhu-meets-mathematics genre that Charlie Stross makes look absurdly easy.

Ten. Freaking. Whole. Days.

And so, back into the shadows with Out of the Dark.

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As usual.

Black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful demonstrators protesting a global economic summit in Toronto, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers.

Translation: violent goon squads detached themselves from the protective covering of their fellow-travelers in the radical anti-globalization movement and proceeded to go about their usual program of property damage, attempted intimidation, and plausibly-deniable domestic terrorism.  Business as usual, and it’s always fascinating to watch the media fall all over itself to not report that these guys are hardcore Lefties.

You know: South Korea is going to be hosting the G-20 in November.  That’s going to be… messy; the South Korean riot police are not exactly known for being sweetness and light with regard to people throwing things at them, and if the people doing the throwing aren’t actually South Koreans?  Well.  They probably won’t actually shoot anybody.

Probably.

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There’s no article up on them yet, but the raw numbers are available here.

Short version: 9 out of 10, and public trust in the Democrats to craft a proper immigration policy went through the floor. (more…)

…almost vexed me, what with the casual racism, even more casual anti-Southern bigotry, generally condescending attitude and deep ignorance of elementary economics found within; but then I realized what Milbank’s true message was (H/T: Hot Air Headlines).

A black man will be in federal office next year.  A BLACK MAN THAT I, DANA MILBANK, WILL HAVE NO POWER OVER.  As a liberal Democratic pundit, this alarms me.

Once I realized that, my vexation vanished.  Yup, Milbank.  Look at the scary Republican.  The scary Republican who you can’t control…

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PS: Tim Scott does have a general election race to win, mind you.  Same for Allen West.

So, you know that microwave ‘pain ray’ thing that Raytheon invented, and that journalists keep insisting on trying out for some bizarre reason*?  It turns out that using microwaves to heat an area can be used… to heat an area.  Specifically, an area filled with crops that need to be protected from sudden frosts.

Tempwave sits atop a 25 feet pole and is powered by the grid. When its sensors detect weather conditions that may result in frost, its low-level microwave delivers energy directly to the crop without wasting energy on heating the intervening air. As long as the Tempwave system has enough power delivered to it, frost protection is guaranteed.

(Via Fark Geek) The article uses grapes as an example, but oranges and other citrus crops are also vulnerable to sudden frosts, too; these gadgets could expand the range of some fairly profitable agricultural products.  Plus, of course, you can still use them to disperse blackshirt anarchists, assuming they start spreading out from their natural habitat (pretentious urban enclaves).  Which they probably won’t; the poor things are a bit of an evolutionary dead end…

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While it’s pleasant to have the people that we’ve been trying to tell this finally get this:

Mr. Seidenberg, officially Verizon’s CEO, moonlights as chairman of the influential Business Roundtable, the “association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies.” That would be the same Business Roundtable that woke up this past month to discover the White House has been playing it for a patsy. It turns out that actively supporting a pro-tax, pro-regulation Democratic majority on issues like health care doesn’t really get you anything save more taxes and more regulation.

This has clearly come as a shock to the Business Roundtable, as Mr. Seidenberg made clear this week with his newsy and newfound criticism of the White House. The chairman revealed in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington that he’d become “somewhat troubled” by a “disconnect between Washington and the business community.” Here he and his fellow CEOs had “worked closely with policy makers”—they’d even pushed ObamaCare. And yet! “We see a host of laws, regulations and policies being enacted that impose a government prescription” on private actors. Truth was, Washington had created a downright “hostile environment” for job creation!

…there’s the problem that it’s not enough to come to your senses; you have to do something about it. I have a humble suggestion for Mr. Seidenberg and his colleagues. (more…)

In 2008, I (and most of the rest of the Online Right) engaged in a long and unsuccessful fight against the notorious group ACORN.  It was, honestly, a frustrating one: although you could show, time after time after time again, that ACORN was routinely involved in election fraud (including election registration fraud, which was its usual apologists’ prime excuse/primary distraction) we never could get any traction from that.  And ACORN knew this, and was insufferably smug about it as they went on their merry way urinating on the election process for the eventual benefit of the Democratic party.

In 2009, I watched Andrew Breitbart and his band of Merry Pranksters casually swat ACORN out of the air like the annoying fly that it was – and they did it by destroying the group’s primary reputation as a community group.  Once people associated ACORN with ‘adviser to pimps of underage El Salvadorean brothels,’ the money dried up, the name got radioactive, and the group fell prey to vicious internal backbiting.  At this moment, it becomes a story if the successors/fragments of ACORN are found to be involved in any political race in 2010 – which is why any involvement by the remnants will be hidden very, very deeply.  In other words, gutting ACORN was a heavy win for conservatives, Republicans, Right-activists, and pretty much anybody who doesn’t like election fraud. (more…)

As you can see, it’s a somewhat popular song.

I was reminded by Glenn Reynolds that Jeff Goldstein’s father has died suddenly, and that Jeff is having a bit of a financial strain accordingly.  Jeff is an old-school blogger who has been doing this longer than I have, and he’s a good guy.

Just saying.

Question: Clinton or Obama: Who’s the bigger asset on midterm campaign trail?

Answer: Ask Jon Corzine, Creigh Deeds, Martha Coakley, Jim Martin, and/or Arlen Specter.

Second Answer: And, in November, ask (at least) Robin Carnahan, Harry Reid, and Michael Bennett.  I don’t suppose that we can encourage Obama to show up for Lee Fisher in Ohio?

I suppose that it’s for the best that Joe Biden never considered a medical career.

Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy Friday, telling an audience of supporters, “there’s no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession.”

Appearing at a fundraiser with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) in Milwaukee…

(Via The Daily Caller) If he had, Delaware would have the highest patient suicide rate on the Eastern Seaboard. As it stands, the only thing that took the system shock is Feingold’s re-election chances: I suspect that Feingold never thought that he’d be in this kind of mess at this point in the cycle…