Moe Lane

Consider the three-letter acronym that can be formed by that.

Background: our adventure in Libya is apparently the War That Dare Not Speak Its Name.  At least, the White House seems absolutely, completely determined to avoid the ‘war’ word, to the point where administration officials actually used the laugh-out-loud weasel term ‘kinetic military action‘ to describe the situation.  ‘Kinetic’ is definitely the buzzword in play, here: Defense Secretary Gates himself said that if our ad hoc cobbling together of largely unrelated objectives and media-friendly visuals plan works then “the level of kinetic activity should decline.”

You are about to see why Rush Limbaugh has a multimillion dollar talk radio empire that dominates its particular market, and I am an admittedly-amiable and reasonably creative guy blogging from home. Because this is prime stuff here (via Hot Air) coming from Rush:

RUSH: I swear, this is surreal. KMA, kinetic military activity has replaced WTF, (laughing) which is winning the future. I’m sure you thought it was something else. (laughing) Kick my — has replaced what the — Okay, so I guess we’re to assume it’s not a protest anymore. It’s a kinetic assembling action. It’s not a riot. It’s kinetic thuggery action. It’s not a vacation. It’s kinetic leisure action. It’s not golf. It’s kinetic ball striking action. It’s not dancing. It’s kinetic foot action. It’s not sex. It’s kinetic Lewinsky. (laughing) I’m not drunk. I’ve been engaging in kinetic adult beverage action. It’s not an election. It’s kinetic voting action. It’s not radio. It’s kinetic Limbaugh action. Whatever. Kinetic means motion. Military means armed forces. Action means motion. Kinetic action, moving motion. And these are the smartest people in the world.

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Well. It appears that I have readers who (mostly*) don’t care if kittens cry because I might not get an iPad2 to do guerrilla video editing with**.

Fair enough. Fair enough. We’ll just have to kick things up a notch… nah, I’m sorry, I can’t keep a straight face for that, even in the privacy of my own home. The initial idea was fairly over-the-top; so let me just…

…just…

…just Maximise breakthrough by leveraging influencers!

Yeah, that works.

Moe Lane

*Not all of them, and bless the fellow who did care.  Just most of them.

**At some point, I will probably slip and write that as “Gorilla editing.” Which might be cool to do on its own.

It actually looks pretty spiffy:

It’s based on The Dylan Dog Case Files
(a graphic novel by Mike Mignola [Kenneth Hite kindly corrected me: it was Tiziano Sclavi]), and it doesn’t look half bad.

I got to “50 My Little Pony Mod for Geeks“… somehow.  Not sure how.  But I got there, and we’re all just going to have to deal with it.

(Credit)

Somehow.

Moe Lane

PS: There’s a couple in there that will hurt your head.

It was going to be about the “The Latest Leftist Nonsense…” but, you know? To heck with it. You don’t care what has the Left up in arms this week. You’re indifferent, and you should be, because as usual it’s pretty dumb.

You know what I think that you care about?

The Captain America trailer.  I bet you care about that.

Considerably less sucky-looking than first reports.

Jack Davis is, of course, the former Democrat trying to run in NY-26, which is up for a special election this spring (the Republican/Conservative Party candidate, equally of course, is Jane Corwin).  Davis, having been completely unable to get any traction in getting elected thus far, has decided to go one step further than such Democratic party luminaries such as Michael McGuinness and Alan Grayson; instead of putting up a phony Tea Party candidate, Davis is running as a phony Tea Party candidate himself.  Fortunately, Davis is apparently not particularly bright, because his campaign manager (one Curtis Ellis) is on the record as writing things like this:

The [Tea Partiers] are essentially replaying the ’60s protest paradigm. (We’re aging boomers ourselves, so we know it when we see it.) They fancy themselves the vanguard of a revolution, when in fact they are typical self-absorbed, privileged children used to having their way — now – and uninhibited about complaining loudly when they don’t. It’s the same demographic Spiro Agnew called “an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Spiro. Agnew. (more…)

They wound up Cindy Sheehan, put her on a path to intercept George W Bush… and when she didn’t intersect her target and just kept going, they didn’t have the elementary decency to bring her in for – I don’t know.  Reeducation, rehabilitation, a frontal lobotomy: anything would have been more merciful than her current delusional state (safe link):

…the oligarchy of this country is clever, they knew that it would take a person of color with an Islamic name who sold his soul many years ago–to fulfill the neocon agenda of planetary dominance (see: Project for a New American Century). So if one criticizes Obama, then we are attacked by War Loving Democrats for being: “divisive fanatics,” “racist,” “Tea B[*]ggers,” “crazy,” etcetera. Could McCain be getting away with bombing North Africa? Or does that take an African-American to give political cover to the war jackals?

The Activist Left: where they let you play with living, breathing toys!  And then you can pack them away when they break, and never mind all that screaming from inside the box!  Because no-one will ever, ever know.  It’ll be just their little secret with you.

Scumbags.

Moe Lane (more…)

My bolding at the end: it’s from The American Interest’s (via Jim Geraghty) unhappy assessment of the mess in Libya that we seem to have stumbled into.

As I have said, a Qaddafi left armed and dangerous when the dust settles is an unacceptable outcome. Civilian planes will likely start failing out the sky, as did the one over Lockerbie; assassination attempts will multiply, like the attempted Libyan-backed murder of the Saudi king in 2003; al-Qaeda and affiliates might be aided and abetted to do Lord-knows-what to the Italians, the French, the British and, of course, to us. With nothing to lose, and way beyond the threshold of worrying about sanctions and such, Qaddafi could well become more dangerous than ever. If I were Silvio Berlusconi, in particular, I’d pick my future whorehouses with extreme care.

President Obama, by the way, should be thanking God every night that the Right is still largely willing to say “we seem to have stumbled into,” and not “he seems.”  But fair warning: we’re not the Activist Left.  If the Democrats try to use the belt on us in the same way that the Democrats routinely use the belt on them… well, they won’t try that trick twice.

Moe Lane

Day Three of the pledge drive for an iPad2 for on-the-fly video editing went not quite as well as Day Two; but it went better than Day One, so we’re still on track.  We’re on track.  Before I go further, first let me make an administrative note to folks who send hate mail.  Get on your game, people.  I just don’t give out valuable front page mockery-space to every dumb bunny who can string along enough words in English to create a semi-coherent whine.  You have to be creatively awful.  If you’re not making your mother go to your room and quietly cry in shame for raising you that way, then don’t bother getting suited up and on the courts, ‘kay?  To misquote Screwtape, I wouldn’t deign to throw any of Wednesday’s haters to the hellhounds.

Sorry.  I need to do this sort of outreach, from time to time.

Anyway, Day Four.  Time to do a change-up: we’ve talked about hate, so let’s talk about sadness.

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Armageddon.

Fox Nation reports that Jamie Gorelick is on the Obama administration’s short list for new FBI Director.  Gorelick’s political rap sheet is a thing of wonder: it includes Fannie Mae, Countrywide Loans, defending Duke University after the lacrosse case, (most infamously) the Gorelick Wall – and these days she’s the defense lawyer for British Petroleum.  Which basically means that Gorelick brackets the entire political spectrum in terms of offensiveness, from conservative to progressive.  Not a full bracket, of course.  There are no reports that the woman is also involved in piracy, human trafficking, the international drug trade, and/or arms smuggling, after all… but then, there are only twenty-fours in the day, and seven days in the week.

Bitter humor aside, let me be blunt.  Nominate Jamie Gorelick for any position in this administration and the resulting confirmation hearing will make the Harriet Miers debacle look like a Sunday School picnic.  Republicans will get off of their deathbeds in order to fight this nomination – because while Democrats have managed to make themselves forget that Gorelick penned an order that helped to cripple our internal counter-terrorism protocols before 9/11, REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT.  As to legislators… the question is not whether Republican Senators will sign off on this.  They will not.  The question is how many Democratic Senators running for re-election next year will be willing to take yet another metaphorical bullet for this administration by supporting Gorelick’s nomination.  I suggest that the number is less than the administration thinks.

But surely this is merely a rumor: nobody in the administration is really stupid enough to nominate a woman who is this notorious.

Right?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

The Weight, the band

The YouTube video and the Amazon link.

I refused to believe this when I first read it, but yeah: it’s the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, embarked on his new and exciting career of ranting from the privacy of his own home.  Which is what *I* do, sure, but… it’s what *I* do, and while it doesn’t bug me I imagine that it bugs Keith Olbermann, at least a little.  Anyway, to quote my wife – who is, by the way, a ninja when it comes to rhetorical assassinations – “Was he doing it in his pajamas?”

Thankfully, no.  The guy’s even shaving.  But there’s something about that tie that is not quite, well, on…

Moe Lane