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…and it’s surprisingly sweet music, too:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has rightly argued that painful spending cuts will be needed to close New York’s projected $10 billion deficit. The hard truth is that it is impossible to cut spending deeply without cutting the state’s huge outlays for education and health care. That means that New York’s most vulnerable citizens — schoolchildren, the elderly, the poor, the sick — will feel a disproportionate amount of the pain.

Governor Cuomo has vowed to make the tough decisions and not to be swayed by special-interest pleadings. But he is refusing to impose any new taxes or even continue a current surcharge on New York’s wealthiest and least vulnerable citizens.

And you wondered where the “Somebody does something: women, minorities hardest hit” cliche headline of the Old Grey Lady came from.

Anyway, I was going to bore my readers at this point with yet another tedious explanation of why it’s a bad idea to encourage small businesses and wealthy individuals to continue to bail out of a high-tax, high-regulation state – but, hell, if you haven’t figured that out already then you probably won’t, ever.  Unfortunately for the NY GOP, Governor Cuomo has: obviously, I’d rather that it was a Republican initiating fiscal sanity in NY, but I’ll take what I can get…

Take a good look at which groups and individuals ostensibly on the Left are yelling about Libya today.  The ones that are, may not be trained seals for the Democratic establishment; but the ones that are not are almost either being paid off in exchange for being reliable shills for the party, or else they’re auditioning for the role.

Have a nice day!

Moe Lane

Which makes it more or less spring.

Therefore…

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, Tom Lehrer

Tradition!

[Welcome, Instapundit readers.]

People like Andrew Sullivan were dumb rubes to actually believe that any functional candidate for President would actually believe in the progressive anti-war strategy (let alone implement it, once they were in office), and you told them so.  Heck, I told them so – admittedly, when I wrote that it was before the financial meltdown turned what had been a moderately tough election campaign cycle for the GOP into an impossible one, thus making it unnecessary at the time for the then-Senator to actually address his mendacious pandering to the anti-war movement with regard to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  But the Right blogosphere knew that “All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them” right from the start, and we were not shy about saying so.  If the rubes over on the anti-war Left are now upset about that, well, they should try voting sober next time.

And since we’re bringing up uncomfortable truths, let me add this one: we were right on the war, rubes, and you were not.

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PS: Lest this turn into a lovefest for the President, let me remind you of something else: Barack Obama is bad at this, mostly because it takes him far too long to come up with a response in a crisis.

…how do you do that, again?

Crucify, Tori Amos

Ah, Tori.  I don’t have the slightest idea what you’re singing about roughly half the time, but you’re always singing it so nicely.

…to form VOLTRON*!

Epic VFX Time (EpicMealTime + Freddie Wong = Mr. T-levels of cool):

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*Lions, of course.

If I understand this story correctly, the Amtrak station in Wilmington renamed for the Vice President (and Stimulus Czar) was not only an over-budget stimulus project; its dedication ceremony was complicated by the CEO’s inability to get to the soiree via Amtrak.  His train broke down, you understand, so the poor man had to arrange for a car to take him the rest of the way.

See what I mean?  Actually, reality has not only defeated me; it’s now looming over my prone form and taunting me about my mom.

Post-apocalypse, vampires, and paladins with actual Divine powers.  And motorcycles.

Heck, it might not suck.

Short version is: I liked it.

Much longer version hidden as a somewhat shorter version: what Bill Whittle said.

Now, I am not saying that anybody who hates this movie is a Godless Commie: shaky-cam bugs some people on a physiological, psychological, and/or cinematographic level. Some of the science is indeed wonky*.  You knew by about halfway through the film where our heroes were ending up.  All of these are legitimate criticisms.  But if you hate the heroes of the film (note: not ‘protagonists’) for who they are, then you probably hate America and I would appreciate it if you moved out like you keep threatening to do every time we elect a Republican President.

My only real complaint was that going to see this one means that it’ll probably be a while before I see Rango.  Which is an acceptable consequence to face.

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PS: Also: stupid theaters, not cleaning out their HVAC units regularly.  Dust always make my allergies act up.

Spoilers beneath fold.

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CQ, on Eagles and Phillies fans being tied for being the worst sports fans in America:

The truth is this: All told, Philadelphia stadiums house the most monstrous collection of humanity outside of the federal penal system. “Some of these people would boo the crack in the Liberty Bell,” baseball legend Pete Rose once said. More likely, these savages would have thrown the battery that cracked it.

As one of my colleagues said, “The Flyers fans got off easy.” Indeed.

Indeed.

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That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Varmint Grenade®.

If you’re wondering if this video (via Ace of Spades HQ Headlines) is for a real product, don’t: it’s real.