Moe Lane

I got no major opinion on the entire “Roger Ebert’s reaction to Jackass star Ryan Dunn’s death” thing – aside from noting that, whether it was insensitive or not to note at the time, drinking and driving is in fact a bad idea – but I hear that the lunatics at the Westboro Baptist Church are planning to show up at Dunn’s funeral.

:pause:

No, I can’t imagine how that could possibly end badly.

For reasons which are probably not important right now, it was necessary for me to post this video in comments at RedState.

Carrot Juice Is Murder,  The Arrogant Worms

Starts slow, but pretty good.

Hard to say which is the better line in this Mona Charen article about an increasingly-nervous Obama re-election team, and their planned one-note symphony:

For the record, there has never been a time in the past 50 years that the Democrats have not claimed to detect a frightening rightward tilt in the GOP — even as the party has nominated such wild-eyed radicals as George H.W. Bush, John McCain and George W. (“compassionate conservative”) Bush.

or

The economy today is in some respects worse than it was in 1980. Barring a catastrophe, little else will matter in 2012. Any credible Republican can defeat Obama — which is why Axelrod is already smearing as “extremist” a person whose name he does not know.

This should be fun.

Into ‘the peace and safety of a new dark age,’ no doubt.

Let me note, by the way, that I’ve never actually been to Right Online – nothing against it; I just haven’t been able to justify that and the RS Gathering and CPAC (and the GOP convention next year) – and so I have no idea how downright awful it was for Netroots Nation folks to be faced with real, live conservatives who are Oh my god there’s one RIGHT THERE and I called him a nasty name last week and my nametag says who I am and everything and he’s going to know me and I can’t get to the elevator in time and thank god he didn’t make eye contact and that’s good because I would have laid into him and Oh my god there’s one RIGHT THERE…

Ahem.

Anyway, I suspect that there’s some mental trauma going on, there.  Which is their privilege, of course: far be it from me to criticize somebody else’s neuroses, if only because my own are quite stellar, really.  But still, I have to say that this: (more…)

The Conservatory is being run by Joy McCann (Little Miss Attila) and Dan Collins (POWIP): good folks and good Right-bloggers. I figure that they won’t mind if I just copy from their About page:

At the end of the day, most of us would rather do business with people who share our values. And we all know plenty of people in creative fields who won’t use their real names for any activity or event that’s considered too “free markety.” The potential impact on their professional lives would be too dire. This is a shame; our site aims to connect people who have useful new media talents with the folks who can use their services, while providing news and commentary, and pointing the “lay reader” to some of the best memes and information out there.

Which is something that we could use: so, check it out.

Bob Owens over at Pajamas Media has done a good job walking through the utter disaster that was Operation Fast & Furious (short version: the US government deliberately let Mexican narco-terrorist groups get their hands on illegally-purchased firearms).  But note this paragraph:

The eventual — perhaps inevitable — death of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent killed by criminals armed with at least two “walked” AK-pattern semi-automatic rifles finally shut the program down in December of 2010. The shooting death of an American cop was the final straw for the ATF whistleblower who exposed the program, which may also have contributed to an estimated 150 or more Mexican police and soldier shootings, and many of civilians. Had a whistleblower come forward earlier, all might have been alive today.

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To heck with it: if I wanna play Springsteen songs all week, I blipping well will.

No Surrender, Bruce Springsteen

…just out of the blue, for no particular reason.  Honest to God. So I went over to take a look, and lo! – Eric A Burns has a new home for it.  Announced today.  After a hiatus of over a year.

Absolutely.  Freaking.  Bizarre.

Moe Lane

PS: Guess that’s a hint that I need to get back to some of the geekstuff.  Which is, of course, what Websnark was and is a shrine to.

After all, it’s not Skype’s fault that I acquired an iPad2.  Or that I am still stubbornly trying to actually get some use out of the damned thing besides a p0rtable Netflix terminal.  Still…

OK, let me explain.  I have an iPad2; I have Skype for the iPad2; I do not have Powergramo, which is what I use to record Skype calls on my real computer*.  I would like the equivalent of Powergramo.  Apple tech support, of course, has no idea about what software I should purchase that would allow me to record Skype calls on the iPad; so I contact Skype to ask them, specifically, about what software I should be getting on the iPad that will allow me to record Skype calls.

Here’s their response:

While Skype does not include any in-built recording feature at this time, it is possible to use separate, external software to record your calls. One example of this software is Pamela. Pamela is a free, downloadable program that is fully compatible with Skype. It not only allows you to record your voice calls, but also your videos and your Instant Message chats.

This is, of course, a Windows product.  Way to read the emails of your customers fully before you respond there, Skype. (more…)

Meanwhile, in other election fraud news: the Supreme Court has refused to give the notorious group ACORN one last opportunity to challenge its loss of federal funding.  ACORN, of course, was the corrupt and multiply-indicted organization with a multi-year rap sheet for election registration fraud; it was finally stripped of its federal patronage after a series of sting videos involving its membership providing legal and economic assistance to two people posing as a prostitute and pimp for underage, illegal immigrant prostitutes.

And if you think that the previous sentence bugs ACORN’s erstwhile defenders, here’s another provocation: this entire exercise, of course, was merely the first scalp that can be claimed by Andrew Breitbart and his krew.  The Left has been trying to kill them off ever since; if you’re wondering how well they did, well, go ask Antony Weiner.

…is hilarious.  I see that the author is a DC devotee, too.

This article from an alternative universe – one where President Obama “was decisive and communicated what it was all about” during the 2008 election cycle – is interesting, but I missed why I have to be concerned about the travails of alternate-dimension Americas.  The one that I live in* is having enough troubles on its own.

That’s pretty much what I wanted to say about that, except of course to note that delaying deficit reduction until 2013 is not, as the article suggests, going to be a ‘bipartisan’ solution.  I really, really suggest that no Republican legislator make that mistake.

Moe Lane

PS: Wow, I’m cranky this morning.

*I live in the America where the current President got elected by deliberately not communicating as much as possible.  Transmitting, sure: a day did not go by where we didn’t get a gauzy message or three.  But interactivity was nil, and every attempt to tie Obama down to specifics back then got a breezy “Oh, it’s on his website” from his acolytes.  Expect them to try that last bit again this cycle, by the way.