Moe Lane

As I recall, Monsters, Inc. was the first Pixar film that had me going “You know, they seem to have a knack for this. When are they actually going to make a mediocre flick?”

Still wondering.

And so, farewell to Kung Fu Panda – which I briefly misremembered as being a Pixar flick. Which is, of course, a massive compliment to its makers.

I forget why I picked up The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression – but I’m in the middle of it now, and it’s pretty good. It’s odd: I know that the Left in 2008 thought that they were electing a combination of FDR & JFK; and I know that I’ve said several times that who they actually voted for was a Spock-has-a-beard version of George W Bush. But I’m starting to suspect that what actually happened is that we finally reelected Herbert Hoover… who didn’t learn a thing from the experience, tanjit.

And so, farewell to The Affinity Bridge.

Moe Lane

Well, that’s what Jim Marshall (D, GA-08) wants, according to this August 5th town hall footage. I highlighted the relevant bit here:

See also Liberty Central.

Now, if you’re wondering whether it might be possible to indeed honorably split off moderate Taliban elements… well, probably, yes. If you’ve got the party that actually takes foreign policy seriously running things; in other words, not Jim Marshall’s. Harsh of me? No, not really. Jim Marshall’s a Blue Dog: which is to say, a hypocrite on spending who voted for the stimulus with nary a qualm. If he’s going to betray his supposed fiscal conservatism, what’s to stop him from betraying his supposed national security bona fides, too?

Moe Lane

PS: Austin Scott is the GOP challenger for that district.

I was thinking about the illegal immigration thing, and I suddenly had a thought: if I was the President, I would build a damn fence along the southern border and partially pay for it by trading a green card to any qualified illegal immigrant who was willing to commit to work at least ten hours a week to help build it. With extra green cards to family members for extra hours of work and/or completing the project ahead of schedule.

Yeah. It’d be a shorter list if I wrote down all the groups that this proposal wouldn’t piss off.

We actually talked yesterday, but Ben’s campaign came out with an online ad that they want to showcase. I was happy to oblige; it’s a good ad (and can be seen after the fold). The interview itself is below:

Ben’s site is here: he’s up against Bruce Braley, so every little bit helps. (more…)

OK, I was asking myself whether I needed to pick up anything except another Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster for the bachelor party, and then I saw this video.

So, yeah. Maybe a couple of Nerf N-Strike Mavericks, too. Or maybe the Nerf N-Strike Longstrike CS-6 Dart Blaster…

…if the Democrats want to keep the R from the seat. If Meek gets the nomination, Marco Rubio wins; if Greene gets it, Crist picks up enough votes to make the race competitive. And, of course, if Crist wins he’ll then finish the project of becoming a Democrat. That was Arlen Specter’s mistake, you see: openly turning your coat will strike too many people as being too raw. Better by far to lie until after the election, and not give them the chance to complain for six years.

The latest numbers from Rasmussen support this:

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Florida shows Rubio with 38% of the vote and Crist at 33% if Congressman Kendrick Meek is the nominee. Meek earns 21%. Only one percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.

If billionaire Jeff Greene is the Democratic candidate, Crist gets 37% support to Rubio’s 36%, with Greene trailing at 20%. two percent (2%) like another candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

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Drift Away, Dobie Gray

This is a good song for an August night.

Long story about the above – do yourself a favor and never let any email list get infected with an argument over which side would actually win this fight, because said argument will never, ever end – but I personally think that it’s an absolutely killer title.

I just don’t know what it would be about.

(Via Hot Air Headlines) Hey, let’s play When do you tase the customer?

Personally, I would have said somewhere around :31. When the customer attempts to climb through the drive through window, it is safe to assume that the fundamental assumptions that you have made about this particular customer service issue are in point of fact invalid. So go ahead, think of the customer as just being a midget polar bear, and fire up Mr. Volty.

It seems that one of their campaign’s guys (Kansas City Councilman Bill Skaggs) got a little grabby and profane with a Republican video tracker.  By that I mean that Skaggs apparently laid hands on the video tracker, threatened him, swore at him (not bleeped out on the video below, so keep that in mind), and called him ‘boy’*.  Funny how these people hate being on the receiving end of the exact same observation tactics that they so exhaustively used in years past, isn’t it?

Skaggs didn’t apologize for anything except the profanity, thus requiring the Robin Carnahan campaign to take time out from their sinking Senatorial campaign to issue this statement:

“Robin does not condone this type of unacceptable behavior and it is a distraction from the real issues that matter in this campaign.”

So, I guess that means that Councilman Bill Skaggs has been asked to disassociate himself from the campaign, right? Seeing as they don’t condone this, and everything. No? Well, I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense: at this point, Robin Carnahan can’t exactly afford to alienate any of the people still planning to vote for her in November…

Moe Lane

PS: Roy Blunt for Senate. Not getting grabby with your person or your wallet. (more…)

A funny thing happened in Connecticut lately: the Senate race started tightening.

This Reuters article about the likely McMahon/Blumenthal match-up contains at least one major howler – to the best of my knowledge, Linda McMahon has never been an actual professional wrestler* – but the major point seems valid: McMahon has made up considerable ground in the last few months.  Of particular note is the latest Quinnipiac poll, which shows Blumenthal/McMahon at 50/40, and with McMahon actually edging out Blumenthal among independents.  Reuters suggests that this may be due to McMahon’s targeting of female voters:

[Sacred Heart University Professor Gary] Rose said McMahon’s commercials have effectively targeted middle- and upper middle-class women. Her current TV ads depict two well-dressed women driving in a black SUV and debating the merits of McMahon vs Blumenthal, noting she has not taken any money from special interest groups while Blumenthal went back on a vow not to accept such cash.

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