Moe Lane

The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel

About as warm as this duo got, really.

I’m reminded by this Jim Geraghty post that it’s getting to be time to start having to look at who’s raising cash this cycle, and how much, and what that means in the larger context.  I had personally hoped that I wouldn’t actually have to, but that was before the President started airily talking about raising a billion dollars for the 2012 election cycle.  True, his handlers have since retracted that one (with variable degrees of cold sweat attached), but what’s the fun in your ego writing checks that your body can’t cash if nobody can forever hold those checks over your head afterward?

Besides, it keeps my spreadsheet skills sharp.

Sparked by this report that apparently George Soros is pushing against electing non-federal judges: aside from the general rule of thumb of ‘George Soros does not generally act in what he what he would consider America’s best interests,’ are judicial elections a good thing, or not?

Discuss.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t know.

Via Ann Althouse comes this video of a mini-stampede by Wisconsin Democrats, upon hearing that Governor Scott Walker was supposedly leaving the Capitol after signing legislation balancing the budget without raising taxes:

…Oops. Well. Natural mistake. Try this: (more…)

Apparently, it’s good.

It’s really, really good, in ways that push all of my buttons when it comes to RPGs, plus the buttons that I presume would get pushed by a MMO, thus putting it absolutely, totally, dangerously into DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU WISH TO REMAIN A FUNCTIONAL MEMBER OF SOCIETY territory.

But I knew that after I saw the trailer last year:

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I (and Legal Insurrection) AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.  It all has to do with that flotilla that antiwar activists are putting together to help notorious terrorist group Hamas out in the Gaza strip via a little blockade-running; turns out the Greeks have impounded a number of the boats, so 0ur favorite Useful Idiots are calling for antiwar activists to call up the State Department Monday morning and sing “Let My People Go” at them*.

Lyrics were provided.

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Normally, I’d now suggest that the Antiwar Left’s next tactic would be to flood the White House switchboard to ask if they had Prince Albert in a can – only, given that old rumor that the man was really  the illegitimate son of a Jewish German baron, it’s entirely possible that nobody in the Antiwar Left would actually want to let him out. (more…)

…to their position*:

I feel the same way about Jerry Bruckheimer.  Jerry knows what I want to see, and he uses the big ladle to dish it out.  And that’s how it should be.

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Eve Of Destruction, Barry McGuire

They had a pretty good cover of this in The Stand miniseries.

Yes.  Shocking.

You know, if the New York Times is going to write a piece on Andrew Breitbart that features a largely unfavorable set of quotes from one James B McPherson, they should at least have the elementary politeness to mention that:

• McPherson wrote a book with Sid Blumenthal (The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media’s Role in the Rise of the Right (Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press));
• Sidney Blumenthal’s been an enemy of Breitbart’s for the last decade;
• A perusal of McPherson’s blog indicates that, for somebody supposedly interested in objective journalism, he likes to call people names and babble about conspiracy theories;
• And that Sid’s kid Max has got his own issues (read: ‘spanking’) from Breitbart’s organization.

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It’s kind of obscure, as it references my theory of the Left Blogosphere’s Hierarchy. Which, in case you were wondering, goes like this: there are three levels to the Left-side of the ‘sphere.

• A-List.  About three to seven blogs and sites.  Ostensibly (and ostentatiously) progressive; very, very whitebread; not… precisely in it for the advertising, but they think three times before they burn a bridge with a major revenue source.  Effectively house organs for the Democratic party.
• B-List.  About twenty to forty blogs and sites.  Radically progressive; invariably specialized in one particular type.  Survives by being reliable source of non-whitebread material for the A-List.  Most likely to whine about advertising.
• C-List.  Everybody else.  Rabidly progressive; desperate to join the upper Lists; apparently laboring under the delusion that the best way to do that is to pick fights with the Right.  Most likely to be bitterly resentful at the lack of advertising.

…at least, that’s how it looks from my (admittedly, outsider’s) point of view.  Personally, I don’t know what’s more pathetic: sucking up to the Democratic party elite, or sucking up to the people who suck up to the Democratic party elite* – but nobody asked me, right?  Anyway, that’s the rationale behind the sneer… and it’s not very nice, is it?  It’s not very nice.

OK, so I won’t use it.  Fine.  Be like that.

Moe Lane

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And yes, before we go any further: the article does in fact think that golden eagles are just over 34 feet tall*.  Which would be absolutely awesome - you could, like, ride one and it wouldn’t matter how fast the bird was, because you’d have a bird of prey for your riding mount and so you wouldn’t care what people were saying because, you know, if they were as cool as you they’d be riding a golden eagle… where was I?

Oh, yes.  Wind turbines.  Pure death on birds, as everybody knows and nobody wants to say (unless you’re trying to keep them out of sight of the Kennedy compound) – and it turns out that golden eagles are not exactly blessed with brains, so they have incredible difficulty getting out of the way of giant stationary rotating blades of DOOM:

The death count along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamount Pass Wind Resource Area has averaged 67 a year for three decades.

The 200ft high turbines[**], which have been operating since the 1980s, lie in the heart of the grassy canyons that are home to one of the highest densities of nesting golden eagles in the US.

‘It would take 167 pairs of local nesting golden eagles to produce enough young to compensate for their mortality rate related to wind energy production,’ field biologist Doug Bell, manager of East Bay Regional Park District’s wildlife programme, told the Los Angeles Times. ‘We only have 60 pairs,’ he added.

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