Moe Lane

Having watched Soylent Green again recently*: sometimes it seems that the people most exercised over the entire ‘greenhouse gas’ thing seem to have completely forgotten what it is that we use greenhouses for.

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*A shaping-up-to-be-quite-comprehensively-wrong film which was based on Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! – a novel that was equally (and equally hysterically) wrong in its predictions.  I mention this largely because it is apparently required that we take seriously the predictions of 2010 for 2050… and ignore the pesky detail that the equally-dire predictions in 1970 or 1985 for 2010 (and increasingly-likely, 2020, or 2025) turned out to be, frankly, crap.  Not to mention the other pesky detail that in 2030 I’ll probably be able to write the same damn post about all those people out there fear-mongering 2070…

Remember, Rachel Maddow is supposed to be one of the smart ones over at MSNBC.

Maddow, on the Hoover Dam:

This is a project of national significance. We’ve got those projects on the menu right now. And we’ve got to figure out whether or not we are still a country that can think this big.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior Deanna Archuleta:

You will never see another federal dam.

So… that would be a ‘no,’ then.  At least, not under Democratic administrations.  Thanks for clarifying the problem for us, Rachel!

Moe Lane (crosspost) (more…)

Let us set the scenario.

• On March 8, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed for the Boston Herald.  Title: “Obama Misery Index hits a record high:” it’s about jobs, unemployment, and how this is lousy at encouraging the former and good at encouraging the latter.
• The Boston Herald decides to put said op-ed on the front page.  Again: former governor.  The Boston Herald doesn’t hate Republicans: after all, it endorsed McCain in 2008 (primary, too, so it’s not like they’re in the tank for Romney).
• As it happens, the President visited Boston at about that time for a fundraiser for the DCCC (note that this was before his official announcement that he was running for re-election.
• The White House was not happy about how the Boston Herald covered that particular event.  Which is to say, the President’s appearance at a fairly generic DCCC meet-and-greet did not get front-page coverage, apparently.
• You know where this is going, don’t you?

(more…)

Well, now.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have more to worry about than a possible prison sentence.

The IMF chief’s alleged sex-assault victim lives in a Bronx apartment rented exclusively for adults with HIV or AIDS, The Post has learned.

It is, in fact, a shame – for the woman, of course.  But if DSK actually did commit rape (read the article for why I’m calling it that now) then I am forced to note that my sympathy is muted.  Particularly since even though it’s unlikely that he’ll catch the disease himself (or so I’m told) AND even if he gets off of the charges somehow the man’s ‘love’ life just took a nosedive anyway.

I freely admit it: I believed this parody article about WND dumping the print run of Corsi’s Birther book.  Mostly because I damn well think that WND should.  It’s over, guys.  Obama is a natural-born citizen. I know that the true believers won’t let it go; but we’re not really planning to humor any of them on this.

Look on the bright side; the President wanted to release this stuff next year, probably – but he had to accelerate the process.  So all y’all got that, at least.

Moe Lane

PS: Hi, this is me “suppressing your free speech” on this site, on this topic.  I ain’t interested, sorry.

What the hell is this?

Boom Shack-A-Lak

No, seriously.  It sounds like somebody took “Lime in the Coconut,” “Wipeout,” and “Damned if I know what that third melody line is” and treated them to a hashish weekend.

Unless people actually wanted to hear me complain about my Amazon.com links – or more accurately, lack of same; which I assume that they do not.

And now, one of the better motivational speeches in recent cinematic history.

Hillary Clinton, on Jimmy Carter:

“‘Do you want to meet with Carter?’ Clinton is looking at papers, and just says ‘No.’ Then she pauses, looks up and adds, ‘HELL no!!!’”

Madame Speaker: I find your ideas intriguing, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Via Hot Air.

Moe Lane

Because somebody in the Wisconsin Democratic party needs to be the adult in the David Prosser/JoAnne Kloppenburg state Supreme Court recount, here.  This nonsense has gone on long enough: three weeks and a quarter-million taxpayer dollars later, it has – not ‘become’ obvious that Prosser has won.  It’s been obvious since they certified the results.  What’s more properly ‘become’ obvious is that the Kloppenburg camp has decided to simply wait until the recount is over, then challenge the results in court on the grounds of a Democrat lost/ they don’t like the results/democracy.  Which is why the Democrats are doing things like disenfranchising nuns; it’s all about the narrative that they hope to present, at this point.

As to why the Democrats need to find some adults, fast… it’s for their own self-preservation, really.  Shark & Shepherd gives the reason: even postulating that a successful challenge to and overthrow of legitimate election* results occurs (which neither he or I think is likely), the consequences to the Democratic party of Wisconsin would be disastrous. (more…)

You know, when you can’t even get Talking Points Memo – look at the name, people – to sign off on your own side’s bill, you have a problem.  In this particular case: in his haste to throw up (use of term deliberate, of course) some sort of pseudo-clever agitprop on ending oil subsidies, the Transcendent Benevolent Cosmic Space Teacher currently manifesting in our dimension as Senator Harry Reid has forgotten one small, minor, technical detail.  To wit: as written the bill raises revenue, and all bills that raise revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.

Article I.  Section VII.

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

And this is why the new House leadership insisted – insisted - that the new session start with the Constitution being read.  It’s because you can never assume that any Democratic politician has read the blessed thing.

As they keep demonstrating.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

William McGurn would like you to grasp it firmly, please:

[NRO's Reihan Salam], a policy adviser at the pro-market think tank Economics 21, observes that the revenues Mr. Obama needs to pay for his agenda fall in the rung just below the super-rich—that is, Americans earning between $100,000 and $200,000. The political problem is that this is a block that went Republican by 56% to 43% in 2010.

[snip]

[TNR/Brooking Institute's William Galston] cheerfully supports raising taxes on those with incomes between $100,000 and $250,000 to support progressive policies and help tame the deficit. He is simply honest enough to know that Mr. Obama cannot get the top 2% of income earners to pay for everything he has promised to do.

Stupidly promised to do, by the way.  Just to make that clear: insanely increasing spending to the point where you’ll have to explicitly break an explicit promise:

…is, well, insane.  And stupid.  And naive.  And kind of ignorant.  I can keep this going for a while, but you get the drift. (more…)

Hey, remember when we were bummed that this guy couldn’t run for President*?

Schwarzenegger fathered a child with longtime member of household staff

His wife, Maria Shriver, moved out of their Brentwood mansion earlier this year after the former governor acknowledged the child was his. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January.

Yeah, well: dodged a bullet, there (this happened a decade ago). And I’m not going to come up with better snark on this than the first comment to this Hot Air Headlines post, so I’m not even going to try.

Moe Lane

*I will remind the snickering Left that they thought the same thing about Jennifer Granholm.  Hey, have I thanked the Democrats lately for outright giving us Michigan?  Much obliged, although you folks really did run the poor place into the ground and everything.