Moe Lane

Link here: it’s a page for directly contributing to eight GOP challengers who are currently in the middle of a recount (six ahead, two behind). Note that while this page is off of the main NRCC site, any contributions made to a specific candidate will go directly to that candidate, not the national committee.  The NRCC is in fact somewhat limited in what support it can provide; they can offer advice and about five grand in funds, but that’s about it.  Which means that if you want to help Blake Farenthold (TX-27), Randy Altschuler (NY-01), Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25), Renee Ellmers (NC-02), David Harmer (CA-11), Andy Vidak (CA-20), Joe Walsh (IL-08), and/or Andy Barr (KY-06), going over to Still Counting and clicking through to the candidate’s campaign site is the best way to do it.

And they all kind of need the help right now.

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It’s twenty minutes long, and well worth watching.  The Left is going to hate it, of course; Bush comes across very well.  Worse, Oprah treats him with the civility and respect that you would expect a civilized human being to provide to a former President of the United States*.  Such a betrayal!  Such an outrage!  The heavens will fall!

Seriously, watch the interview.  I was on the fence about whether to buy Decision Points, but now I may have to.  It sounds like fascinating reading.

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*In fact, she even comes across as liking the man.  Extra acid on the soul to a certain sort of person, there.

Seriously, if this were the Victorian era they’d be having the guy try to vomit ectoplasm, or something.  For those too lazy clicking the link, it’s a Cracked.com article where they list some real-world events predicted by comic books, for a given value of ‘predicted.’  Byrne’s record (he has three of the six entries in that particular article) is thus clearly evidence of power over Space and Time itself, no matter how he tries to hide it by pointing out that when your day job is to draw pictures of somewhat-picturesque disaster in the (sorta) contemporary world, every so often the real world and your fake one will probably happen to match up…

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Regrettably, it turns out that Jon Stewart’s call for a second rally to address all of the concerns that have arisen from the first rally was, in fact, a joke… OK, OK.  You either already knew that, or you didn’t know that he had called for a second rally in the first place (and would have tagged it on the spot as a joke even if you had).  Still, that rally probably sucked up valuable Democratic oxygen for the Right the veritable weekend before the elections, so we want to encourage the practice.  I can think of no better addiction for the Left to have than for them to acquire a taste for impractical smug.

:pause:

Well, more of a taste.

It’s that time of year again.

Right Here Right Now, Jesus Jones

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PS: DIAF, CCCP. Oh. Wait. It did.

…that I went and saw RED.  It was worth it: the cast was solid, the explosions were many and varied, and there were a surprising number of sweet moments in the film.  Fortunately, said sweet moments were the only time that the film took itself seriously, which is also a plus.

The trailer gives a good description, for once:

Check it out.

…severability*.

:pause:

I need to know these things, people.  Contrary to persistent rumor and all available evidence, I am not in point of fact an expert on everything.

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Meet Dylan Ratigan. If you’ve never heard of him, that’s because he’s a (hardcore liberal) host on MSNBC. He’s also a seditionist… oh, sorry. For the benefit of our readers with public school educations, a ‘seditionist’ is somebody who incites armed rebellion against his or her country. Here he is, talking with fellow seditionist Ted Rall about how armed revolt against the government now apparently is now on the table when it comes to solutions:

Via Newsbusters we have a transcript. Here’s the beginning of it: (more…)

I would like to revisit a post that I wrote on January 19th of this year, upon hearing the news that Scott Brown had won the Massachusetts Senate race:

This message goes out to every vulnerable Democratic Congressman representing a Republican or even centrist district – and after tonight, who among you is not vulnerable? It is a simple message: we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way. The easy way is, you suddenly decide that you have a burning desire to spend more time with your families. So you don’t run for re-election, you walk off stage technically undefeated, and you go join a lobbying firm. The hard way is, you do run for re-election, and we pry you out of your seats.

We want to do this the hard way. We will enjoy doing it.

Well. I guess that we went with the hard way, then.   And, yup, it was as fun as I thought that it would be.

In the House, at least.  Well, the House and the state legislatures.  And the governorships, I guess.  Shoot, let’s just stretch the point and make it cover the entire blessed thing.

But remember! This time, the Democrats were forewarned and ready to avoid another 1994.

…yeah, not so much.

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PS: Via theblogprof.

Bizarrely, the spam lately has gotten even more in-your-face when it comes to politics – both for stuff that’s ostensibly my side, and and for stuff that’s ostensibly against.  It’s bizarre to see, really: how does fulminating about the India trip – either way – get people to click on real estate websites?

The executive summary:

• Former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin has an upcoming speech in which she criticizes a plan to institute ‘[quantitative] easing,’ which is in this case basically the practice of creating money via buying our own debt (this particular example of the practice is usually called ‘QE2′ by the papers, apparently because the term is more confusing to people than simply calling it ‘[quantitative] easing’).  Palin makes the fairly obvious point that this encourages inflation, and in the process mentions that food prices have significantly gone up recently.
• “A-ha!” shouts Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal.  “The CPI says that they have not!  Silly Sarah Palin!” (I summarize.)
• Sarah Palin raises an eyebrow, as her source for that claim was apparently… the Wall Street Journal, which reported last week that food prices had significantly gone up recently.  It also derives that conclusion from an examination of the CPI, which suggests that if Reddy has an issue with the methodology, then Reddy should probably take it up with his own newspaper.
• As Palin put it: “Now I realize I’m just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I’m surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn’t.”

Agreed, but I’d go one step further: it’s fascinating to see what an editor for the media will let pass through.  Statement that food prices are rising?  Smart! Sarah Palin agreeing with your statement that food prices are rising?  Dumb!

And they wonder why even their own reporters don’t read the papers anymore.

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