Moe Lane

Seriously.

Dude.

Moe Lane

PS: Dude.

(Via Memeorandum.  Also: DUDE.)

Yeah, it was a trap.

Governor and new Presidential candidate Rick Perry (R, TX), on his priority levels:

…if I hurt the president’s feelings, well, with all due respect, I love my country and I love future generations more than I care about his feelings.

To give the context: the White House has been taking the opportunity offered by Perry’s entrance to the race to take slaps at the candidate. As Glenn Reynolds noted at the time, this was not a particularly smart strategy… which is something that I’ve come to agree with, and I’ll tell you why. (more…)

It’s a U2 kind of night.

One, U2

…and suggest that alcohol may have been involved:

I’d want to blame it on booze, at least.

Moe Lane

PS: Read The Conservatory.  Good people.

It’s quite the honor; I’m not entirely sure that RedState has been singled out by name ourselves, in fact.  But we’re on the list, too – particularly after last weekend – and I think that Jane will find that being on it is… liberating.  At least it is for us Right-Wing Death Beast Christianist fascist Republikkkan wingnuts; I imagine that it’s even more so for liberal moonbats like Jane and the rest of those left-deviationists over at FDL.

I think that she’s letting Obama off too easily, though.  Seriously: if this administration doesn’t hate and fear (generic) your blog with the passion of a million burning suns then (generic) you’re not doing it right.

Via The Other McCain.

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PS: Actually, no, I’m not being sarcastic.  I mean, yeah, there’s not a chance in hell that there will ever be peace between her faction and mine.  But Jane’s clearly gotten under OfA’s collective skin here, and I am allowing myself to appreciate the aesthetics of it all.

PPS: My wife suggests that I actually add something actually complementary, in addition to the mere ‘watch them eat their own.’  Point taken: FDL does in fact go after this administration for violating FDL’s standards of acceptable behavior.  That is respectable.

…or risk ‘strained ties with Washington.’* (Via AoSHQ Headlines)

Israel to Obama: No.

Executive summary: last year, Israeli blockade enforcers stopped the so-called Gaza ‘peace flotilla’ (which is what ordinary, decent people call ‘a pro-terrorist blockade running fleet’). In the process of said stopping, the peaceful members of the peace flotilla did their level best to peacefully murder the blockade enforcers; to give you some idea of the double standards involved here, Israeli forces felt forced by international pressure to try to secure the blockade-runner using nothing more lethal than paintball guns. Fourteen attackers died; nine were apparently Turks, which has the current Turkish government – led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who hates Israel anyway – to demand an apology. The Obama administration, using Secretary of State Clinton as a proxy, has duly ‘backed up’ this demand; and the Israelis have politely told both the Obama administration and Turkey where they can head in. (more…)

Via Ace.

I love how they made sure that everybody in that video had kind of crazy eyes, by the way.  It’s the little things that make the art.

My general rule of thumb is that any position in a democratic system that is filled via election is pretty much by definition important: if there wasn’t some benefit to holding it then it would just be filled via appointment by an elected official. In this particular case: the Fairfax County school district is one of the largest in the country, has quite a lot of money associated with it – and has been embroiled in a year over transparency, school closing, and a variety of other disputes.

Which is one reason why I was happy to talk to Springfield District candidate Elizabeth Schultz about it:

The school board race is officially non-partisan, but that just means that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are going to be identified as such on the ballots. As the above Washington Post article makes clear, this is as contested a race as any other out there, and it promises to be an interesting one. Elizabeth’s main site is here; she’s also using Facebook and Twitter to drive her campaign. Check them all out.

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Andrew Malcolm – who was at the RedState Gathering, by the way* – comes up with a title that makes reading the article itself almost irrelevant:

On Day 938 of his presidency, Obama says he’ll have a jobs plan in a month or so

But read it anyway.

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*Good guy.  We at RedState like him; he’s about the only reason most of us have for reading what I think Patterico calls the LA Daily Fishwrap.

I do the food shopping for the family, and I can attest to this personally: prices have been increasing for about a year now.  More accurately, the per-unit prices have increased; the actual vendor’s product typically either has a higher sales price for the same amount of product as a year ago, or else offers less product in order to avoid ‘raising prices.’  I’m seeing more ‘price freeze’ promotions from supermarkets – which means that the supermarkets are just eating the increased costs themselves in order to keep their customer base.

This should not surprise anybody.  We’re deliberately restricting energy production in this country, which inevitably leads to higher fuel prices, which inevitably leads to higher retail prices for everything that relies on fuel for transport*.  We’re also subsidizing the conversion of perfectly good foodstock into a relatively inefficient fuel in order to placate Leftist religious fanatics, and never mind the implications for food prices at home and geopolitical stability abroad.  Right now the major thing keeping this from being a major political headache is because our old – which is to say, pre-2007** – economic model was very, very good at keeping even our poor adequately fed by historical*** standards; we’re still coasting on that.

We might even be able to coast on it until the grown-ups get control back.

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Via Zero Hedge, via Instapundit.

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Minstrel Boy, Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros

Interesting take.  Still, below the fold is the version that made me go find the sheet music in the first place.

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…Wait.  What?

A coalition of groups that advocate for the elderly and poor are urging California online shoppers to boycott Amazon.com because of its refusal to collect state sales tax on purchases made through the website.

…Entertaining, isn’t it?  After all, actual elderly and poor people (as opposed to the parasitical organizations that ‘organize’ on their behalf)  will continue buy stuff on Amazon.com largely for the deals… and to effectively avoid paying sales tax.  Sure, you still have to, anyway – technically.  But no politician with a measurable IQ wants to start arresting people for evading sales tax on online purchases, because that’s a quick way to become a former politician.  And if the Democrats – it’s typically the Democrats who can’t seem to instinctively understand the cold logic involved here – could convince a sufficient number of people that they want to voluntarily pay their sales tax then they wouldn’t be trying to get Amazon.com to do it for them.

So I guess that the boycotters are kind of, well, stuck there.

Via Instapundit, who has… suspicions 0n who’s paying for all of this.

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Full disclosure: I am an Amazon.com Affiliate in Maryland.