Moe Lane

Well… shed builders, at least.  Seriously, that’s not even close to being a barn.

Moving along: as the link above notes, some of the people ‘occupying’ DC tried to put up a wooden structure today… and, apparently, was not able to get the blessed thing even half-done before the cops finally decided to put this exercise in sustained disdain for property rights out of its misery.  As I understand it, before the end public urination was featured… which is how you know that it was an official Occupation, apparently.  I swear, these people have absolutely no control over their bowels… (more…)

For real?

Um.  NO.  You can’t do that.  We have this thing called “property rights” – yes, yes, I know, Marxists consider that to be a swear phrase.  But then, Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people.  Anyway.  STOP this, Occupiers.  There are RULES.

Learn them.

Moe Lane

Not home-brewing: I never did it.  I don’t have the equipment and I don’t have the basement.  Heck, I probably don’t have the patience.

But I truly do miss drinking the stuff.

…just because they’re ostensibly ‘backing’ the Richmond Tea Party in the RTP’s dispute with the City of Richmond. For those who don’t remember: the RTP pointed out that the city of Richmond allowed the Occupiers much more leeway in terms of permitting and fee paying than they did the Tea Partiers, and the city of Richmond responded by auditing the Richmond Tea Party.  Now Occupy Richmond has weighed in on the matter, on RTP’s side – but I personally wouldn’t trust them on this, frankly.

Why?  Well, this is the important sentence in the Reuters article:

The statement ultimately called on the city to drop the Tea Party audit and refund any money the group has paid to secure “free speech and assembly privileges.”

Translation: Occupy Richmond doesn’t want to have to start paying its fair share, and following the law, when it does its protests.  And they know darn well that the RTP will continue to do both of its own free will, because a fundamental respect for the law and other citizens is as integral to the Tea Party movement as defecating in public is to the Occupiers.  So there’s no real downside for Occupy Richmond to weigh in like this.

Just saying – and if you don’t believe me, hey, it’s easy to check.  Ask an Occupier when they’re going to pay the proper fees in Richmond, and see what happens.

Moe Lane

…quick: which legendary figure from American history is Obama planning to ‘channel’ there? (more…)

…not that I’d know, given that my primitive ancestors ate them to death, the greedy SOBs.  Not be all cranktastic or anything, but the folks who want to go on and on about how modern man is so much less in tune with the rhythms of Gaea than his forefathers were should go look up what happened to the North American ecological system once humanity colonized the continent (spoiler warning: we ate it).  Anyway, they’re bringing back the woolly mammoth!  I’ll have mine medium-well, with a nice lingonberry wine reduction sauce.  Unless there’s going to be ribs…

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Walk This Way, RUN-DMC Featuring Aerosmith

It really did work surprisingly well.

To give a quick background: Operation Fast & Furious, of course, was an incredibly botched government program where federal law enforcement agencies handed over firearms willy-nilly to Mexican narco-terrorists and then lost track of the weapons… no, really, that’s what they did, and the next person who comes up with a legitimate and/or sane reason for them doing that will be the first.  As you might imagine, Congressional watchdogs – Republican ones; the Democrats are largely hiding from this one  – are a bit perturbed about this, not least because it turns out that the Justice Department gave out patently false information when asked about it the first time.  Which is to say, DoJ denied that it handed over firearms willy-nilly to Mexican narco-terrorists and then lost track of the weapons.

At any rate, I think that the paragraph quoted below from the AP piece tells you everything that you need to know about why the official Obama administration’s response to inquiries about Fast & Furious is widely considered to have been insufficient, inexcusable, inappropriate, and just plain insolent: (more…)

Even these super-lice that we’re hearing about now?

DDT.  And before you tell me that you can’t keep potentially toxic substances out of the groundwater, my response is going to be: you mean, like the mercury from florescent light bulbs?  Or do the Greenies not want to have that particular conversation?

(Via Instapundit)

John Podhoretz sums it up perfectly:

Watching [Mitt Romney] try to figure out how to talk about the fact that his health-care plan forced everyone in Massachusetts to buy an insurance policy, just as Obama’s health-care plan will force everyone in America to do so, makes it clear what a relatively easy time he has had of it so far.

Such questions should have been the focus of the campaign in the summer, given Romney’s front-runner status, but there were a series of weird distractions. The debates compelled media types to spread the questions around to eight or nine people, thus allowing Romney to stay conveniently on the sidelines when he wanted to be. Meanwhile, other candidates feuded, rose and fell in the bid to be the not-Romney.

Romney did well in the debates because he couldn’t be pinned down, and knew how to escape the noose when it was dangling over him. Sitting across from Bret Baier in a Florida warehouse, he couldn’t dance around his own ideological contradictions. He was trapped, and he acted that way.

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…if I didn’t expect the repair of Steve Jobs’ upraised middle-finger-from-the-grave Siri’s abortion clinic locator ‘glitch’ to look more like this than not.  Still, this HappyPlace parody is pretty funny: not least because it (consciously or unconsciously) gets letter-perfect the profound personal insecurity of the people who were actually freaking out that their latest techno-toy couldn’t tell them where they could get an abortion on the fly.  I’d make a comment or two about the intelligence levels of people who need a fake AI to give them that information, only I’m trying to be nice this afternoon.

No, not a clue why.

Moe Lane

Via @Yousefzadeh.

This is just a giant cricket eating a carrot.

Given that I am not a mobile, sentient Daucus carota sativus, I am not particularly sure why there’s all this screaming and running around and “RESCUE THE CHILDREN!” going on here.  Yes, it’s a big giant cricket; and yes, if it showed up on my pillow I would freak.  But, you know, it’s not a face-hugger or anything.

Via @iowahawk.