Moe Lane

Awwwwww, crap, I’m old.  I knew the relationship between the two items on sight.

Via AoSHQ.

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…or, more accurately, the issue of voter registration fraud so comprehensively.  Not that he meant to, of course.  While whining about voter ID laws in Texas (and other states), Dionne wrote this sentence:

In Texas, for example, the law allows concealed handgun licenses to work as identification, but not student IDs.

Here, real quick: go find your old student ID.  Is there an address on it?  The answer is probably “no:” colleges don’t like to put anything on those things that would require them to be reissued every year.  College students – particularly ones that live on-campus – simply move around too much over the course of their time in school; and keeping track of a student’s current address is frankly not the school’s problem*. So you can expect name, picture, signature, and a bar code; some schools include date of birth, and other schools care more about cutting down on students drinking.  And that level of ‘identification’ is useless for verifying identity and establishing residency.  So, until there’s an established standard for student IDs that is actually useful for Voter ID purposes, get used to student IDs not being accepted. (more…)

RIP, Clarence Clemons.

Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen

I wanted ‘Blinded By The Light,’ but all the YT album versions sucked.

You know, I think that I want Chris Wallace to be in charge of the 2012 debates. He deserves a reward for giving Jon Stewart the business in this one:

The fun really starts at about 5 minutes in: Stewart tried what Ace calls the “Clown Nose On / Clown Nose Off” (after stating, more or less, that conservatives are incapable of understanding liberals’ motivations) and Chris Wallace demonstrated that he was expecting precisely that answer. Because, really, nobody is as smart as they think that they are. As Jon Stewart demonstrates, over and over and over again; his repeated insisting that he wasn’t being ruled by his biases kind of lost power with every counter-example that Wallace put up on the screen. But then, it’s rare on television that people are actually grilled on things.

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…feel free to let me know whether it sucked or not.

Hey, no cable, remember?

Note that I’m not using the term ‘Glitter Harpies’ because this one just looks like a garden-variety… not very self-actualized and independent-thinking person. She’s just somebody who thought that throwing glitter at a Presidential candidate (in this case, Michele Bachmann) is a great way to promote the message ‘Same-sex marriage advocates aren’t fringe!’  Given the amount of private ribbing that I’ve gotten about this as a same-sex marriage advocate over this, I’d like people to stop doing this, OK?  Also, I’m not embedding the YouTube video of Ed Frank interviewing her because I could feel at least a hundred of my brain cells develop sympathetic anoxia from listening to her.  Feel free to watch it for yourself, but: You Have Been Warned.

Anyway, I can’t wait to see what happens when somebody tries this against a candidate with actual Secret Service protection*.  Also: obviously none of the Glitter Harpies/Patrol will ever, ever dare do this against Barack Obama, even though when it comes to same-sex marriage he’s easily the worst hypocrite of the bunch…

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*Sarcasm, there.  Please do not do this against a candidate with actual Secret Service protection.  Please, please, please, please do not do this against a candidate with actual Secret Service protection.

Update your links.  Good site; very useful during the Wisconsin thing.

OBAMABUS HUNGERS!!!!!

Word is out that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms acting head Kenneth Melson is going to be sacrificed some time this week over Operation Fast & Furious:

The shakeup shows the extent of the political damage caused by the gun-trafficking operation called Fast and Furious, which used tactics that allowed suspected smugglers to buy large numbers of firearms. Growing controversy over the program has paralyzed a long-beleaguered agency buffeted by partisan battles. The ATF has been without a Senate-confirmed director since 2006, with both the Bush and Obama administrations unable to overcome opposition from gun-rights groups to win approval of nominees[*].

The Wall Street Journal sort of gets it wrong, there: the problem was not that smugglers were allowed to buy guns.  It was that they were allowed to then smuggle them.  The evidence is pretty damning that higher-ups in both BATF and the Department of Justice were looking to trace drug-trafficking networks in Mexico by seeing which gangs ended up with federally-supplied firearms… and if you think that that strategy looks incredibly pernicious when just written out that way, well, I used the word ‘damning’ for a reason.  Particularly since the federal strategy in this case led to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry being murdered by someone using one of the tracked firearms.

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Screaming banshees on the way down (and back), youngest decided that naptime is in fact a plot of Satan, eldest decided that dinner is in fact a plot of Satan, both children decided that 5:45 AM is a good time to start the day, grey slime*, the plaster in the ceiling in my mom’s dining room fell in, and my sister was briefly admitted to the hospital this morning.  And, almost forgot: my wife lost her temper in the car.

So yes, in fact, I would love it if you bought me a goram beer the next time you see me.

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*If you have kids, you already know what this is: if you don’t, you do not want to know.

Father’s Day.  Traveling.  The usual drill.

Matty Groves, Fairport Convention

I suspect that I am going to go on an extended folk music jag before too much longer.

John Aravois of AmericaBlog Gay is incensed, incensed! that the President’s people - prepare to be shocked at this revelation – lied about President Obama’s past support for same-sex marriage.  Apparently, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia Obama had never… well, the title says it all:

“Senior White House aide: 1996 Obama gay marriage questionnaire is a fake, even though Obama signed it”

Via Glenn Reynolds, who probably is as contemptuous of this as I am.  And I support same-sex marriage; the only difference between me and the President is, I’m not afraid to say so.  But it’s amazing how outraged Aravois can still get over what is pretty much a routine betrayal of him by the President (perfectly safe one, too*).  I mean, come on.  For the love of God, how many times do we have to have this conversation?  THIS IS WHY THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: (more…)