Moe Lane

On the looming incandescent bulb ban.

In a conference call with reporters, Mr. Chu said the more-efficient bulbs required would save consumers money over the life of the product, even if the up-front price is higher.

“We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money,” he said.

It’s their money to ‘waste,’ you fucking elitist political appointee*.  Swear to God – and God help us all – we’re probably better off with former lawyers in that particular policy position, after all.  At least that demographic has the mother-wit to not gratuitously insult American consumers…

Via For What It’s Worth, via Instapundit.

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That’s pretty much the most important thing that you should take from neo-Puritan* Susan Feinberg’s decision to make a scene in a restaurant by accosting (drunkenly?) Rep. Paul Ryan’s choice in alcoholic beverages (which he paid for on his personal card**): the man subscribes to the “20% is the new 15%” rule of tipping in this wonderful new economy that Reid, Pelosi, and (after 2008) Obama has wished upon us.  Which I do myself.  After all, aside from the aforementioned bad economy waitstaff don’t really have that great a job.  I mean, at any point they may be called upon to… I don’t know, handle low rent, belligerent drunks who are accosting folks who are just trying to peacefully enjoy their dinners.  You know.  Trash behavior. (more…)

[Sittin' On] The Dock Of The Bay, Otis Redding

…Kind of a depressing song, huh?

Back-talking the Chair of the House Oversight Committee and the Ranking Member (for now) of the Senate Judiciary Committee is not a viable long-term survival strategy.  Particularly when you’re intimately involved in a burgeoning government scandal involving permitting and encouraging guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorist organizations.  Doubly so when the people that you’re back-talking have top-level government officials who are already pointing fingers and naming names.

Triply so when you yourself, Ronald Weich, can in fact be best described as part of the firewall between your boss (Attorney General Eric Holder) and one heck of a political scandal.  Or possibly ‘cannon fodder.’

Moe Lane

No, of course not – although I seem to recall something from my misspent teenaged years about people confidently declaring that God was a Republican.  Can’t remember for the life of me whether or not they were being sarcastic – or how they were being sarcastic, either. 

One thing’s for certain, though: Senate President Steve Sweeney ain’t going to be saying “May God strike me down dead if I lie…” anytime soon:

Lightning Almost Hits Christie Foe On TV: MyFoxPHILLY.com

Gotta wonder how close the strike was, though.  That kind of looked like a two-for-flinching moment for Sweeney, there (yeah, like I wouldn’t have dived for cover)…

Obvious, really:

Polar bear origins: Polar bears have Irish ancestry, suggests DNA study

No whiskey in the Arctic Circle.

Moe Lane

PS: …Hey, I’m 15/16th Boston Irish Catholic, buddy.  I’m allowed to make stereotypical jokes about drunken Irishmen. :shrug: Besides, it’s God’s own truth that the Irish do get cranky without their whiskey.  And beer.  And… well, what do you have handy, anyway?

Hopefully, Andrew Breitbart is there.

[UPDATE] Jaw-dropper of the he-ran-in, then he-ran-out press conference itself: the President actually – and shamelessly – embraced the so-called “Bush tax cuts” that he campaigned against in 2008, and (extremely reluctantly) went along with in 2010.

I really should add some commentary to this, but what can I say that this picture does not?

The President’s eventual remarks on the job report will be available here.  Real Soon Now.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

Wow.  7.4 percent unemployment.  I remember those far-off days* when seeing that number would have made me wince and worry; now I whistle at how well the economy’s doing.  7.4 unemployment, these days?  That’s great!

A shame that it’s also Canada.

Canada added more jobs than economists forecast in June, led by part-time staff and transportation workers, keeping the country’s unemployment rate at a 2-1/2 year low.

Employment rose by 28,400, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa, exceeding the 15,000 median estimate in a Bloomberg News economist survey. The jobless rate was unchanged at 7.4 percent, the lowest since January 2009.

Note that the Canadians never got above 8.7% unemployment, either.  Then again, they also didn’t have the American Democratic party do a stimulus program for them.

Moe Lane

PS: Job report out at 8:30 AM.  Word is, higher than expected job growth, economy/unemployment still stagnant.  Personally, I’m hoping that it’s better than that, and that the announced remarks from the President later this morning aren’t just more bravado on his part.

PPS: This… is bad. 18K jobs added, 9.2 unemployment, the White House is scheduled to quietly panic later today.

*May 2009, to precise.

Via Mike of Cold Fury comes these extremely common sense observations on proper and pragmatic political bumper sticker use by Paul A. Ibbetson.  Mike likes #3 the best – and it’s good – but I have long mused myself on the truth that is #2:

Second, one political sticker on your car states your case; twenty stickers says you’re imbalanced. Also, the nature of your sticker says more about you, the vehicle owner, than your political affiliation. As a former police officer who made hundreds of car stops, I’ve seen that bumper stickers often say a lot about the character of the individual behind the wheel. Just like bumper stickers that say, “I love weed,” and “Got Magic Mushrooms?” might not enhance the quality of an interaction with the police, overly vulgar, aggressive and stupid political stickers say something about you. Remember, your mom might have to borrow that car.

Personally, I still have to put one particular bumper sticker on my car for 2012.  Mostly because I keep putting off washing the blessed thing.

Moe Lane

No… no: I wouldn’t think of spoiling the surprise. The Daily Caller found it; they can keep it.

Truly.

Via AoSHQ Headlines.

Either that, or my mood is not amenable towards being anything except being annoyed and ever-so-slightly tooth-grinding. Talk amongst yourselves, I guess.

[UPDATE: Great. This didn't load when it was supposed to. Lemme go see what else hasn't gone properly this evening on the site.]

I have been waiting for Cliffourd the Big Red God (Mini Mythos) for months.

Months. So, it makes both the Book of the week and the wish list.

Hey, you read me… so if I’m weird, what does that make you?

Now let us pause for a moment in respect while The Year at Maple Hill Farm flees to the safety of a new Dark Age.