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Sorry?

…that Glenn Reynolds has come up with: “…if you expect to be raptured away tomorrow, how about hitting my PayPal button today? You can’t take it with you!”

In fact: hit mine.

It’ll probably end up being a help either way.

Moe Lane

PS: No, I am not making fun of premillennialist Christian theology, or the people who believe in it. Who I am making fun of is the people who apparently haven’t internalized Matthew 24:36-44. Nowhere in there, in any translation, is there an extra clause after “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” that goes “…Oh, yeah: and Bob too, of course.” There just isn’t; and a little thought about the theological implications will tell you why.

WHAT KIND OF SWORD WAS IT?

Seriously, how am I supposed to marvel at the mental image involved if I don’t even know what the mental image is? Was it a great sword (over the shoulder), broadsword (belted), bastard sword (either)? Was it really just a machete (scabbard probably carried loose)? Single-edged, double-edged, reproduction, grandfather’s cherished WWII trophy, hammered out from a car’s leaf spring?

Tsk, tsk.

Via Ace of Spades Headlines.

…attention-demanding hate mail.

Unless I feel like it; which is usually when I also have an opportunity to correct the spelling, grammar, and/or punctuation mistakes of the sender.  Of which there are several, rather subtle, examples in this winner reprinted by Ace of Spades HQ.  I particularly enjoy the folks writing screeds that can almost write competently.  I like to think of them staring at the monitor, and angrily wondering why it is that they can never, ever seem to get the respect and notoriety that they clearly deserve…

Gimme a break: it’s Friday and I’ve been vaguely below optimal all week.

Via Nodwick.

That culture has time travel, and they’re wasting it on a scenario where they’re possibly starting a temporal paradox that will wipe out their entire timeline?

Dudes.  A working time machine is also effectively a faster-than-light drive.  Send probes out until you find a planet…

No, it doesn’t effing matter how long that would take.  You have a time machine.

…that’s not developed past the Cambrian era.  Terraform that.

Again.  Time constraints do not matter.  You have a time machine.

Then, once it’s open for business, move everyone to that, secure in the knowledge that there isn’t anything in the ecology there that you didn’t put there in the first place.

In fact, do this ten times.  Give people some room.

Remember: you have a time machine.

Sheesh.

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The only problem that I have (and share with Hot Air) about this excellent, official Center for Disease Control blog post about how the CDC would handle a zombie apocalypse is in the designation of Resident Evil as Best. Zombie Flick. EVAR.  And that’s not even a fair problem, as I’ve never seen the film: I avoid movies made from video games, because in my experience they generally suck*.  Besides, I am a Shaun of the Dead / 28 Days Later guy anyway.

Seriously, it’s a creative way to get a general disaster scenario checklist out there – so if you’re the sort to ask the question “Was this an appropriate use of taxpayer money?” on everything that the government does, right down to the molecular level, I’m going to say that the answer is ‘yes.’  Mind you, I’d say it even if the CDC just decided to riff off of a genre that has them taking a prominent (if ultimately futile) role in virtually every example of same.  These people can have a little fun, surely.

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*THE MASS EFFECT MOVIE IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING ENTIRELY AND IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE THEN YOU SHOULD MAYBE NOT BE SUCH A HATER ABOUT IT.

And to his team of four (Ott, Lisa Scheller, Vic Mazziotti, & David Najarian) running for four open Lehigh Valley County Commissioner (PA) slots: all four beat out incumbent Republican Dean Browning in Tuesday’s Republican primary, and at least three of them will be on the ticket in the general.  The fourth may or may not be; they’re recounting that right now.

We covered this race last month: Scott Ott, of course, is the well-known (and on the Right, well-liked) Scrappleface and PJTV blogger who got involved in local politics because, well, somebody has to.  His team of four reform-minded individuals are running pretty explicitly to put the brakes on spending on the county level; there’s more information about them and the election here. Congratulations on their success, and I hope that I can write that again in November.

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Oh, you bad liberal media for not buying any of Ted Rall’s egregious, hate-smeared, badly-drawn garbage since Obama took office.

Bad liberal media.

Bad.

No biscuit.

Moe Lane

PS: No, actually, I don’t in fact give points for consistency.  Rall was vile when Bush was President; he’s equally vile now that Obama is President; and he’ll be vile when the next President (who will be a Republican, by the way) gets sworn in.  All that changes are the names. God knows that the ‘art’ won’t.

…for our stunningly brilliant President’s that pre-1967 borders in Israel means bringing back East Jerusalem.

Oopsie?

The president, however, told the BBC that he wasn’t discussing Jerusalem, saying “our argument is let’s get started on a conversation about territory and about security, that doesn’t resolve all the issues, you still end up having the problem of Jerusalem and you still end up having the problem of refugees, but if we make progress on what two states would look like, and a reality sets in among the parties, that this is how it is going to end up, then it becomes easier for both sides to make difficult concessions to resolve those two other issues.”

Two things about this:

1. To build on what I told Jake Tapper, this is like advocating that Germany be split back into East and West Germany and then look surprised when somebody brings up Berlin.
2. Dear God, but even the summaries of what the President says are tedious.

Almost a pity, in its way: the Ninth Circus has a certain reputation of being where we put the more… awkward… liberal judges.  You know: the ones who might as well write their decisions in crayon and/or Comic Sans, because they’re just going to get overruled on appeal anyway.

Background here: suffice it to say that Liu had issues with both his judicial philosophy and, frankly, his experience.  The final score was: 52 for cloture, 43 against, 1 present, 4 not voting.  The vote split along party lines, with Murkowski voting for cloture, Hatch voting present, and Vitter/Moran/Hutchinson not voting on our side; I don’t know if the last three have a legitimate excuse for not being there.  Note, though, that of that list only one (Hatch) is actually up for re-election in the near future…

Good job to everybody that called on this one.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

You did not speak for me when you said this today:

The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.

Do not pretend that you do.  One side (Israel) is a functional, prosperous, and legitimate democratic republic which also happened to be (prior to you) an ally; the other (the PA) is run by terrorists who cheer when their supporters sneak into people’s homes and murder babies.  I can tell the difference: I am disgusted, yet, unsurprised, that you cannot.

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PS: I only rarely regret RedState’s profanity policy.  Absent said policy, there would be a front-page post there consisting of two words: the second word would be “you.”

Not much to say about this one, except: yup, this is exactly how all those duckspeakers freaking out over the Koch Brothers sound.  And look.  And act, except that the people in the video are at least happy.

Tells you a lot of about 1970s-era Soviet society, huh?  Disco looked good to those poor people.

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