Moe Lane

…and I’m sure that Morris Panner is very upset that his political party – the Democrats – are so determined to make life a living Hell for people starting up new businesses.  So much so that if things don’t shape up then he wants to, quote-unquote, “create an entrepreneurs party” – but there’s a phrase conspicuously absent from Morris Panner’s complaint:

“…and that’s why I voted for and contributed to Republicans this cycle.”

…which of course, Morris Panner did not.  Nothing personal, but I have difficulty taking seriously the deregulation bona fides of somebody who habitually donates to John Sarbanes.  Wait, I take that back: it is personal.  I dislike it when somebody assumes that conservatives are too stupid to look things up.

Moe Lane

PS: You would think that Democratic operatives would have learned from the midterms that using third-party spoilers to defeat Republican candidates is at best a highly limited tactic.  Ach, well, gotta love an enemy that keeps trying the same thing over and over and over again.

I got nothing much to say.  Here: have a video of a cat riding a Roomba.

Whistles The Wind, Flogging Molly

Why not?

And I had a nice, snarky comment all lined about the Left’s bizarre mass-stalking of Bristol Palin, too.  Little did I realize that somebody actually is stalking the woman.

Law enforcement sources tell us a powder substance was discovered by a member of the “Dancing” staff … and sources connected to the show tell us a section of the studio containing “Dancing” offices was evacuated.

Multiple sources connected to the situation tell us the powder was contained in a piece of fan mail addressed to Bristol Palin.

Marvelous.  And you realize, of course, that the instigators of whoever did that will refuse to accept that they may be just a little too publicly unhinged about their objections to THAT WOMAN and her family.

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, yes, yes, Bristol might not have been the target.  And some random person or persons just HAPPENED to try to burn down Sarah Palin’s old church back in 2008 (with women and children inside).  In other words, pull the other one; it has bells on.

I don’t want to come across as criticizing this; it has a nicely Gaimanesque feel to it* and it’s a good adaptation of the story.  But it’s damned hard to draw pictures of Cosmic Horror and keep it Cosmic Horror.  I don’t know if there’s an answer to that.

Moe Lane

*I wrote that before I looked up Murder Mysteries, which is what the layout and style reminded me of.  Duh: same artist (P. Craig Russell).

Oh, did we steal his thunder? Did he want to admit to his loss on his own terms?

Yeah, I’m really broke up about that.

Congratulations, Rep.-elect Renee Elmers. Serve well.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Remember, folks: two cameras. Always have two cameras.

‘…without an exit strategy.’

Yeah: like @BrianFaughnan, I miss him, too.

OK.  Here you go: something from a couple of years ago.

You’re welcome.

Pew surveyed Latino voters on illegal immigration issues: the report isn’t available yet at the site, but this article reports that Latino attitudes towards illegal immigration has taken a seriously negative turn.  The most important finding? 31% consider illegal immigration a net negative for the Latino community, with 29% considering it positive, and 20% considering it neither.  In 2007, 50% considered illegal immigration to be a net positive.

Oddly, I sort of agree with both sets of spin from the article on why this would be so: the right’s argument that this reflects heightened public awareness on the issue makes a good deal of sense.  After all, people are more than a set of survey questions: having a last name like Herrera or Sandoval or Martinez does not automatically require you to take a hardcore liberal line on immigration policy.  But this means that I also sort of take the left’s argument that much of this new attitude comes from our miserable economy.  Indeed, it does: the economy’s bad, thanks largely to the inability of the Democratic party to focus on job creation.  Instead, they do things like waste valuable legislative time pandering to the ultra-far left splinter of the Latino community…

Via Mickey Kaus (who is watching in horror as his Democratic party acts like, well, the Democratic party on the DREAM Act*), via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

*:shrug: Elections have consequences.

‘Pornoscanners’ is what Boing Boing (courtesy of AoSHQ Headlines) calls them, and that name works for me.   Anyway, it would seem that Michael Chertoff had his hand in the cookie jar on this one: while Secretary of Homeland Security he ordered the pornoscanners from Rapiscan (a company that was one of his clients), and he’s been a busy little advocate bee on that company’s behalf ever since. When asked about it on the Anderson Cooper show, the response (skip ahead to about 4:55) was largely content-free on spokesflack TSA John Pistole’s part, and by ‘content-free’ I mean ‘Pistole claims to know nothing on the subject’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4lyQFwCzTI

Credit where credit is due: Jane Hamsher has a good timeline of this ongoing mess over at Firedoglake, once you compensate for Lieberman*.  Any other year, this would have been a scandal eight months ago; but this was a midterm election coupled with a horrible economy, so we’re only getting to it now.

Moe Lane (crosspost) (more…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSreWOssY0

The Boys Of Summer, Don Henley

The older I get, the more sense this song makes.

Crap.

…Destroyer of Worlds.

Via Drudge, which unaccountably fails to point out that Newsweek has casually declared the President to be in the process of destroying the universe itself.  This is undoubtedly the harshest criticism of Obama that I have seen all year, even inadvertently*.

Meanwhile, while looking for more on this topic, I came across this:

Wow.  I’m going to have to start reading The Cat in the Hat to my kid, again.  Who knew that it was an allegory for Nataraja?… and if the rest of the world did already know that, please make sure that I get those memos in the future, OK?

Moe Lane

*Judging from the cover, the article associated with it will apparently try to argue that the job of the Presidency is too big for one man; which is of course the standard excuse that Democrats use when one of its Presidents has come down with a case of raging incompetence.