Moe Lane

Well, that’s going to be my guess:

Last week, Bloomberg implied it was only a matter of time before the city tried to put an end to the protests, but offered no hints on when that would be.

“The one thing I can tell you for sure,” he said, “is if anybody in the city breaks the law we will arrest them and turn them over the district attorneys.”

He said people charged the police a few nights ago, adding, “that is just not something we’re going to tolerate, period.”

You may have missed said police-charging – it happened the same night as Sarah Palin announcing that she wasn’t running for President, and Steve Jobs passing away – but the Occupy Wall Street people certainly didn’t, and they were not really what you’d call happy about the fact that the cops un-apologetically used pepper spray and police batons on the would-be Jacobins. Or that the rest of the world more or less shrugged at the news, once the meda got around to reporting it. Or that the entire thing is largely – and accurately – seen as a Democratic party establishment stalking horse. (more…)

Except: Florida.

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Oh, you lucky so-and-sos: the GIF is too big for me to upload in all of it SAN-destroying glory.  So your fragile human minds are all spared… unless you click the link.

The shiny link.

Click it.

CLLLLLLLLIIIIIIICCCCCKKKKKK IIIIIIITTTTTTTTT…..

137K new jobs in September, half of which are Verizon strikers going back to work. As one of my colleagues pointed out privately: well, we counted them as lost jobs when they went on strike; we should count them the other way now that they’re back to their jobs. Also, they adjusted up August’s job growth! …to 57K jobs gained.

Huzzah.

As another one of my (former) colleagues pointed out privately: it’s a measure of this administration that all of this qualifies as good news.

The Daily Caller has some entertaining video up of a ‘Occupy DC organizer’ admitting that some of the spontaneous voluntary protesters that he has in tow – ones, not even incidentally, that are more, ah, diverse than the baseline of ‘pasty-faced white twenty-something hipster who’s seriously underwater in his/her liberal arts degree student debt’ – are actually being paid to show up and wave signs in a language that is perhaps not the mother tongue of the country of their birth*.

Let’s go over a few of the things suggested by this video. Kudos for the Daily Caller for sending in a reporter who could speak Spanish, by the way: that was just entertainingly nasty, and probably what forced the admission in the first place. (more…)

(Via @kennethhite) Unfortunately, I already spent my gaming allowance for this month, or I’d be helping to fund this one now: the Miskatonic School for Girls Deck-Building Game.

I don’t know what I’d do with it, except go through the cards and laugh at the jokes, but it’s the sort of thing that ends up on my gaming shelves.

Maybe:

Several influential New York state lawmakers have received threatening mails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t renew the state’s tax surcharge on millionaires, according to reports.

[snip]

The email references terminology that has been used in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement — that the1 percent, the super rich, are exploiting the remaining 99 percent of Americans. The angry message demanded that Albany politicians “stop shoveling wealth from the lower 99 percent into the top 1 percent” and “set aside your ‘no new taxes on anybody’ pledge.”

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Before you watch this clip (via Jim Geraghty), I want you to understand something: this is Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States of America. This is the guy hand-picked by then-Senator Barack Obama to be his wingman. This is the guy that was to have Obama’s back; the person that Obama would trust with the keys; the man who the President could rely on, no matter what. And not just from the point of view of the Presidency: with this pick Barack Obama made it clear that, in his judgment, Joe Biden was the best, most reliable choice out there for the Democratic party.

Got that?

Good. Now watch: (more…)

…as they are to ‘love:’

I got this via email, but I will happily credit whoever noticed this originally.

Moe Lane

PS: Damn, but the Phelps clan do tempt me to advocate very unchristian behaviors, sometimes.

Not that, if they did, they intended to do that, mind you: they were probably just intending to scare their donors into giving them money (link via @MattCover) by screaming about how us awful, awful Republicans are so insistent that you should show have to show a picture ID when you vote. Well, they’re Democrats. Screaming about Republicans is what they do – besides, these days they don’t precisely have a plethora of other options that are what you’d call viable when it comes to winning elections.

But that’s not what interests me. No, what interests me is this sentence:

More than 5 million voters could be affected in states including Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Nevada, Virginia and California…

Hmm. Let’s look at those states. Assessments of each one is based on the latest Cook ratings for the Electoral College and the Senate. (more…)

…must be at sky-high levels right now: here they are in the aftermath of some potentially-useful direct action confrontations* (that’s Commie-speak for “the hippies tried to rush the barricades and got smacked back”) with NYC cops, and nobody’s paying attention because of Steve Jobs.  And if they weren’t focusing on that, they’d be focusing on Sarah Palin confirming that she isn’t running for President (which everybody knew already, frankly).  Coming in second to either story would be bad enough: dropping down to third must be a humiliation for the ages.

Oh, well, I should go make breakfast.

Moe Lane

*I notice with some amusement that the protests turned violent as soon as the union goons showed up. Well, they call groups like SEIU “The Purple People Beaters” for a reason.

I call it a “Heisenberg press conference” because since we know where it’s going to be with some certainty, it then follows that we will not be able to determine when it’s actually going to start.

Supposedly this is all going to be about yet another attempt by President Obama to give the impression that he cares about any job besides his own.  Tell it to Harry Reid, Mr. President: tell it to Reid.

“Everybody Hurts” doesn’t embed.

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