Moe Lane

I would be remiss if I did not note that today is D-Day; when American, Australian, British, Canadian, and New Zealander forces* began the long, difficult process of delivering occupied Europe from evil.  We were fortunate to have men this brave:

Would that we will never need such bravery again.

Moe Lane

*With the help of Dutch, French, Norwegian, and Polish ones.

I’ve never been, but I find that I like the cut of their jib.  You’re doing something right if you’re pissing people like the below off.

Main site here.

DOOM.  And a 4 PM press conference!

[FURTHER UPDATE] If you missed that, then you have missed the most epic Wait, What? in recent political history.

[UPDATE]: Here’s the live feed for the press conference… which has been apparently taken over by Andrew Breitbart.  Wait, what?  Did Weiner run?

This would be where the deep hurting starts: Big Journalism released another photo from now-officially-beleaguered! Rep. Anthony Weiner to a second, as-yet-unnamed* woman.  Not only is said photo as explicit as the one that sunk Chris Lee’s career (essentially, naked male torso a go-go), there’s also this gem:

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, Rep. Weiner sent an email to the young woman from that same Yahoo! email address that included the now-infamous grey underwear photograph (attached to the email as “package.JPG”):

And apparently there’s at least one more picture, which Big Journalism will apparently not be publishing, as it is too graphic for a family internet. Rep. Weiner’s going to have a 4 PM press conference: it should be a sockdolager of a show, not to mention riveting television.  Check it out.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Note: ‘as-yet.’  Greg Sargent (in full teeth-grinding mode) heard that ABC News has the name of the woman in question; let us just say that there may be more than a name involved, there.

Coming soon to a government conspiracy thread near you:

It’s supposedly on Mars… well, I think that it’s just pixel noise in Google Earth: Mars, or whatever the technical term is. I just use the Magic Thinky Box; I don’t pretend to be a toolmaker.  On the other hand, Google Earth looks interesting, so there’s that.  Anyway, I figure that it’s not real, and that NASA can either release high-resolution photos of the area that won’t show it (thus proving that there’s a cover-up going on), or not have any high-resolution photos of the area (thus proving that there’s a cover-up going on).   Note that there’s no actual way for NASA to prove that there’s not a cover-up going on; there never is.

Moe Lane

PS: If it was real NASA would have broadcast this to every corner of the world, coupled with an unsubtle request for some money, please*.  Because we didn’t put it there – people are aware that getting payloads to orbit is not exactly a subtle exercise at our current level of technology, yes? – and even a government bureaucracy can recognize a hand-wrapped PR gift from God when it sees one.
*’Some’ being defined as ‘quite a lot of money, really.’

Never mind on that Part 2 of the Weinergate endgame that I promised quite yet: via Ace comes this report from Big Journalism on Rep. Anthony Weiner that “suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs.” They’ll be dribbling out their evidence for this suggestion over the day, and any hope by the Left that this will not be covered by the media will probably be neatly scuppered by this promise: “we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature.”

Yup. Statements like that are catnip for journalists – and, admittedly, for bloggers. (more…)

Apparently, the election of Stephen Harper indicates that the USA is at war with Canada.  I don’t want to research this one, for three reasons:

1. I kind of like the aesthetic of this particular Teh Crazy on its own terms. Having it explained might spoil things;
2. I’m also pretty sure that the author will probably conclude that it’s All Because Of The Jooooo0oooooos anyway;
3. And, lastly, the idea is absurd on its face.  Trust me: when the USA is at war with somebody, people know.

The underlying article is much less interesting, alas.  Apparently, some girl* held up a sign and got fired during a speech, and the Canadian Left is using the opportunity to complain and whine about how badly they did in the last election.  Glenn Reynolds is rolling his eyes over this almost as much as I am…

Moe Lane

*Hey, what would you call an immature human female?  A rutabaga?

In no particular order:

• So yes, Zuckerberg [you know: the guy who invented the Mafia Wars platform Facebook] was wasting his parents’ money and his own time. Why pay to be at Harvard if that’s what you’re going to do? Why not take a class on Dostoyevsky or the history of Christianity or astronomy or ancient history? You are surrounded by some of the most learned people in the world, and you are holed up in your dorm room typing code. - Frankly, if my kids end up at Harvard I’d rather that they stayed in their rooms, wrote code, and avoid as much as possible the actual ‘intellectual’ life there, given that said life mostly consists of finding new and exciting ways to blame the ills of the world on Dead White Guys.  And America.
• In the college transaction, most parents think they’re buying their kids a credential, a better job and a ticket, economically speaking at least, to the American dream. Most college professors and administrators (the good ones, anyway) see their role as producing liberally educated, well-rounded individuals with an appreciation for certain kinds of knowledge. – So, basically, neither side is accomplishing its goal.
• Employers may decide that there are better ways to get high school students ready for careers. What if they returned to the idea of apprenticeship, not just for shoemakers and plumbers but for white-collar jobs? – Heh.  What if we returned to the idea of not making a white-collar job an ideal?  Let me put it this way: I have some grad school.  My wife has a PhD (in something useful; which is to say, not in liberal arts).  We’re, false modesty be darned, intelligent, educated people.  And I plan to talk up the joys of being an electrician or a plumber to my kids.  You know why?  Because somebody will always be willing to pay for a smart, competent electrician or plumber.  And when I say ‘always’ I explicitly mean ‘even in post-apocalyptic scenarios.’  Not that I expect things to get that bad.

I think that covers it.

Moe Lane

Via Instapundit.

‘…outside the Tastee Freez…‘

When his wife unveiled the USDA’s new nutritional plate yesterday, there definitely wasn’t a space for chili dogs.

But that didn’t stop Barack Obama wolfing down two in Toledo today – with fries and an extra bowl of chili on the side.

Oh, who am I kidding? The President’s entire life goal has been to gain enough socioeconomic status so that he would never have to voluntarily patronize a Tastee Freez.  What, this?  HAH!  That’s Obama hard at work there, neighbor; and the next seventeen months are going to be the first time this guy’s ever had to do anything like work since… before he went to college, actually.

Should be fun to watch.

Moe Lane (more…)

Three lessons to take away from it.

1. The AK-47, while an excellent automatic rifle, is perhaps not best-suited for keeping up the high standards of marksmanship and fire discipline that used to be ubiquitous in countries like, say, Afghanistan.  In fact, there is much to be said about the venerable Lee-Enfield in that regard.
2. Do not fuck with the British Army, because they will drop a laser-guided Hellfire missile on you if you annoy them enough.
3. Do not fuck with the British Army, because they will drop a laser-guided Hellfire missile on you if you annoy them enough.

To paraphrase Kryten from Red Dwarf: Now I realize that, technically speaking, those last two were only one lesson; but I thought it was such a big one, it was worth mentioning twice.

Via AoSHQ Headlines.

Moe Lane

PS: We will now pause to give everyone inclined to wage war over the statement “the AK-47 is an excellent automatic rifle” – pro and con – time to prepare.

The picture found here (via Instapundit) says it all, really: it’s of Anthony Weiner, sitting in his gas-guzzling truck (which he can’t even justify as being for his kids, as he doesn’t have any) and visibly wondering how everything could have gone so badly in the space of a week.  Because all the other people who got caught sending pictures of your genitals to women half their age didn’t get in trouble for it, apparently.  Especially the ones that later fell out of the Stupid Damage Control Mistakes Tree and hit every branch on the way down.  Note for researchers: this was supposed to be one of the Democrats’ smart ones.  Truth be told, he just benefited from a media that takes it easy on its ideological friendlies, up to a point.  Cross it, and it’s chum-in-the-water time and the media get to be the sharks.

But I digress.  The question is, what happens now? (more…)

In all of its sinister glory.

No, seriously, they have standard equipment, which means that people are regularly racing weiner dogs.  They must be.

Moe Lane

Because I love it so, which was probably a mistake on George Lucas’ part.

The Imperial March, John Williams