…from General Chang:
Skip ahead to 0:13.
Better suits my mood than a music video, anyway.
Mind you, the track record for my predictions for 2010 were…”eh” is probably the best word for it. Then again, I’m glad I was wrong on a couple of them.
So, here goes:
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page despises the current leadership of the Democratic party as only a group of people with an iconic link to free-market capitalism can be, and said despising shines through every word of this piece sneering at the ‘accomplishments’ of the 111th Congress. Scare quotes deliberate: the WSJ opines (and I agree) that the Democrats are guessing and gambling that they can get their hideously unpopular agenda functional for long enough that people will simply start treating it as part of the landscape. I think that that is wishful thinking on the Democrats’ part, and so does the WSJ:
The difference between the work of the 111th Congress and that of either the Great Society or New Deal is that the latter were bipartisan and in the main popular. This Congress’s handiwork is profoundly unpopular and should become more so as its effects become manifest. In 2010, Americans saw liberalism in the raw and rejected it. The challenge for Republicans is to repair the damage before it becomes permanent.
So get your game faces on. 2011 is going to make 2009 look like the first Woodstock.
Moe Lane (crosspost) Continue reading Quote (and Thought) of the Day, WSJ edition.
…is kind of goofball, right? I mean, I got no quarrel with Randy’s take on the French Muslim Batman of Paris (sounds like a modern art painting title), but the idea of franchising the Caped Crusader seems a bit… weird.
Mind you, I don’t currently buy Batman comics, so I can probably be safely ignored anyway. Continue reading I can still think that “Batman, Incorporated…”
The [cough] is because a gentleman does not refer to a lady’s age without the lady’s prior consent. Or so my parents (Democrats) taught me, at least. Suffice it to say that Geraldine Hoff Doyle (the inspiration for the “We Can Do It!” poster) had a full life, and by accounts a happy one.
Via Hillbuzz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrIiYSdEe4E
Wait, what?
Mostly ‘bind.‘
Elections.
Have.
Consequences.
And here’s one coming up, now: the incoming House majority will be establishing a rule that will give the House Budget chair the ability to set the spending ceiling for any 2011 budget. This rule is currently causing House Democrats to freak out like koalas deprived of their eucalyptus leaves/junkies deprived of their heroin/hipsters deprived of their iPhones, for two reasons:
And when I say “freak out,” I mean freak out: the Democrats are so upset about this that they’ve lost all control of their higher brain functions and have reverted to babbling about Social Security privatization. And unilateralism! We haven’t heard that one in a while. Continue reading Paul Ryan given power to bind and to loose.
Via Instapundit, it’s time for another game of…
NAME!
THAT!
PARTY!
Two high-level state officials have frozen nearly $150,000 in campaign contributions raised for them by a low-income housing developer now accused of bilking government agencies.
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and state Controller John Chiang said they have put the money into separate accounts while they await the outcome of a federal probe into Advanced Development and Investment Inc [ADI]. The company has built dozens of subsidized apartment complexes up and down the state with taxpayer money.
Continue reading #rsrh Democrats involved in LA housing payola?
Speaking of Iowahawk, he is why I may now salute Jeff Bobo of Timesnews.net, who has brightened my day by writing the perfect intro to a news article.
The Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office is well trained and experienced in a variety of meth lab scenarios, but they entered uncharted waters Friday afternoon with the added element of four live monkeys.
Tell me that you don’t want to read the whole thing, now. Go ahead. Make me believe you.
Moe Lane
PS: No, you probably shouldn’t have hoped for more monkey-related carnage. First, because that’s not very nice; second… dude. You expect a lot from monkey minions mentored by a man who makes meth.
…I mean, really, what’s the point of being snarky, in a world that has Iowahawk in it?
Yeah, yeah, go read the whole blipping thing. I’ll be in the corner, whimpering like a whipped dog.