Month: August 2012

Finished Mass Effect 3: Leviathan this morning.

Somebody – I forget who – noted that Leviathan’s major strength was getting back to the creepy Lovecraftian insidious corruption feel of the major villains, and that’s true.  The combat is there, but it’s not a violence-heavy scenario.  It’s a couple of good hours of let’s-unnerve-people-a-little, though.  Spooky, in other words; worth the ten bucks, and you get some nice War Assets out of it, too. You can pick it up without dishonor.

Plus, there’s the… well, you’ll know it when you see it.  And you’ll keep activating it, too, because it’s kind of fascinating.

#rsrh The NOT-surprising American Crossroads Obama poster ad.

Some folks are mildly surprised that this Crossroads Generation ad is out so quickly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6yD43OrcjDI

They should not be: as I noted on Twitter just now, WE are the change that we have been waiting for.  Since 2009, to be precise, when it became clear that President Obama had no intention of ruling as he had campaigned.

Use of ‘ruling’ deliberate : the man has a taste for kinging it.  Which would be a good deal less offensive, if only Obama knew how.

#rsrh Either John Kerry developed a sense of humor…

…or else his new email writer wasn’t eligible to vote in 2004, and thus doesn’t know why this is funny:

I have one message burned into my memory for everyone who cares about the outcome of this year’s presidential election:

Ann Althouse gets it – hint: it has to do with things being SEARED, SEARED! into John Kerry’s memories – so the question is, did John Kerry?

:pause:

…Naah.

"Twitter tells us that the act described in the third panel of today’s strip is called a “Key West…"

“Twitter tells us that the act described in the third panel of today’s strip is called a “Key West Boomerang,” but I’m afraid to prove this assertion with a keyword search because then I might see what looks like.”

- Penny Arcade.  I would suggest that you not click the comic itself if you’re the sort of person who might be squeamish about a little rough language.  Hysterical rough language.

#rsrh QotD, It Was Obvious In 2003 edition.

Via Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt:

…but then, you knew that already. The GOP is, after all, the political party where a President who was the governor of a Southern state can casually say “We looked like a normal couple” when explaining how he and his (African-American) National Security Advisor managed to avoid being detected on their way to a surprise visit to the troops in Iraq*.  Yet one more way that former President Bush continues to be a large, indigestible lump in the Left’s narrative… but I digress.

Moe Lane

*That, by the way, is what an actual dog whistle ‘sounds’ like: and the message that it gave to racists was You’re not welcome around here.

Why the Left freaked out about Paul Ryan telling the truth about the Janesville closing.

Such an innocent looking passage, to spark such panic from the Left. 

From Paul Ryan’s convention speech yesterday:

President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two.  Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account.  My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.

A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: “I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years.”  That’s what he said in 2008.

Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year.  It is locked up and empty to this day.  And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.

This is, by the way, a perfectly accurate statement.  There was a GM plant in Janesville.  Barack Obama did make a speech there in 2008.  He did, in that speech, make those comments*.  And the plant did not “last another year” – despite, I should note, the Obama administration’s bailout of GM that the administration is kind-of, sort-of touting as an ‘achievement.’  These are all true things; which has not kept the Left from screaming otherwise, to the point where the Obama campaign has officially (and in my opinion, unwisely) called Paul Ryan a liar. Continue reading Why the Left freaked out about Paul Ryan telling the truth about the Janesville closing.