Moe Lane

…game; does anybody know where I can find a saved game editor for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed II?  I need to get past this [expletive deleted] stupid intro race quest that I don’t know how I got past during my first run-through and, you know, it’d be great if I could just start up again after this point, only Ubisoft apparently doesn’t want to give me access to old save points, and let’s not even get started on the lack of a Hi, I’m a middle aged guy that sucks at video games so take it easy on me, OK? setting.  Megaraccoon suit?  Give me the goram megaraccoon suit. Or a goram save editor.

…Sorry.  Four freaking days.  I’m going to break out Deus Ex: Human Revolution until I feel better.

A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to speak with Gary Glenn, who is president of the American Family Association of Michigan and one of the primary candidates in next year’s Senate race in Michigan against sitting Senator Debbie Stabenow.  Gary is actively seeking the Tea Party vote and has been endorsed by Mike Huckabee: we spoke with him for a bit on the race.

Gary Glenn’s site is here.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

 

Hey, it’s me at the Blogcon 11 panel on Bloggers and Activism!  I’m the… stout… guy in the… redshirt… oops.

[UPDATE]: There.  Should work now.

 

Yeah, I talked too much.

This should give you an idea of precisely how messed up in the head the Occupy movement is:

Mary Kay Henry, the president of the nationwide Service Employees International Union, was among the 200 protesters arrested Thursday in New York.

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“We are the 99 percent,” Henry laughably chanted as she was being arrested.

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Some unsolicited, un-paid for, and probably unwelcome advice to the Democrats: if it is true – again, if, if, if, if, if, if – that Dale Kildee is in fact guilty of the sexual molestation charges made against him, it will be in the Democratic party’s best interests to force Kildee to resign now.  Consider the following Representatives:

• Mark Foley (R, FL-16).  Resigned due to sex scandal. Seat kept vacant until general election.  Result: seat flipped.
• Eric Massa (D, NY-29).  Resigned due to sex scandal.  Seat kept vacant until general election.  Result: seat flipped.
• Mark Souder (R, IN-03).  Resigned due to sex scandal. Seat kept vacant until general election.  Result: seat retained.
• Christopher Lee (R, NY-26). Resigned due to sex scandal. Special election held.  Result: seat flipped.
• Anthony Weiner (D, NY-09). Resigned due to sex scandal. Special election held.  Result: seat flipped.
• David Wu (D, OR-01). Resigned due to sex scandal. Special election to be held. Seat considered in jeopardy.

Do you see the theme, here?  Of the last six Representatives who resigned because of a sex scandal, four saw their seats change party at the next opportunity and one will very possibly see that happen next year. Now let’s look at a list of Representatives from the last decade that didn’t resign*: (more…)

Sorry, folks: I did have one to go over - Branch Point by Mona Clee (alt-history written by somebody who was perhaps a little too upset over what happened to Bill Clinton)... but then I realized that the 'why it's relevant' would have been 'because it made Moe waste two bucks at the used book store over a decade ago.' That probably isn't enough.  So let me just cheat and note something (SPOILERS): (more...)

This is going to be one of the messy ones.

The basic details: Rep. Kildee – who is in his eighties, and who announced earlier this year that he is not running for re-election – is being accused by family members of sexually molesting his second cousin fifty years ago. The alleged victim was twelve at the time; Kildee would have been in his thirties at the time of the alleged molestation. Additional wrinkles: Rep. Kildee happened to chair (from 2007 to 2011) the House’s old Page Program – which was unexpectedly (and determinedly) shut down this year. And it’s alleged that both Kildee’s retirement, and the termination of the House Page program, are in response to an ethics complaint based on the charges and made against Rep. Kildee by Michigan Christian radio station president Jon Yinger.

Rep. Kildee is vehemently, and I mean vehemently, disputing the charges and accusing his accusers (and the GOP, of course) of cooking this scheme up to both blackmail and go after him. Why the Republican party would target a retiring Democratic Congressman like this simply to pick up a vacant seat was not really explained. I’d also like to note for the record that Rep. Kildee’s suggestion that these allegations were made in the last election does not jibe with either my memory (I believe that I would have remembered it if a Democratic Congressman was accused of raping a twelve year old boy) or, apparently, that of local Michigan reporters. Contrast this with the fact that these allegations are a half century old, and we have a very tangled problem. (more…)

Dirty Laundry, Don Henley

This isn’t the greatest gig in the world, sometimes.

Shocking.  Well, not really: it’s not like the Socialists were doing all that great a job over there.  Still, good news.  Mind you, the equivalent in American terms would be if the Communist party lost an election to the Democrats…

With 84 percent of the votes counted, the center-right Popular Party went from 154 seats in the last legislature to 187, while the Socialists plummeted from 169 to 110, their worst performance ever.

Looks like it’ll be an actual majority, too: difficult to manage in these parliamentary systems, so that should be interesting.  Good luck, guys: God knows that you’re going to need it…

(Via the PJ Tatler)

It’s interesting: I decided to get back to Assassin’s Creed 2  after all, which meant grabbing a Logitech Gamepad F310 (that gamepad seemed to be the most cost-effective choice, overall), and now I’ve realized something: I’ve never actually used the latest generation of video game controllers before.  Or, probably, the last few generations before them.  Only, the video game people (fairly reasonably) expect that their users have are in fact used to contemporary game controllers.  I’m now starting to understand why a lot of console gamers hate PCs as a game platform: there’s a completely different set of muscle memories involved.

That’s it.  Just wanted to note this.

…to actually believe this nonsense about how the supercommittee was supposed to save us from fiscal apocalypse:

The concept of the supercommittee, as POLITICO’s Jake Sherman articulated in an email: “[I]f you put 12 serious members in a room, no distractions, easy way through the Senate [direct path for bill], they’d be able to get something.”

To quote a physicist friend of mine, that’s not even WRONG.  Robert Heinlein, thou have lived in vain!

“A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. “

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