Month: January 2013

The obligatory Pulled Taco Bell Veggie-Hating Super Bowl ad.

Well, I’m kind of torn, here.

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

On the one hand, it’s a little silly to get bent out of shape because your taste in snack food is being casually mocked in a fifteen second commercial. On the one hand, the commercial is not actually correct: people eat veggie platters at parties and get-togethers all the time, especially when it’s offered in contrast to sugar-based snacks. People don’t mind as long as there’s onion dip. And on the gripping hand: people will probably hate you a little if you bring Taco Bell. If you’re going to go grease, bring some wings.

*Actually* appalling: @DKElections’ racist position on Virginia redistricting.

I guess that increased minority representation is only supposed to shove Republicans out of the way, not white Democrats:

Tsk, tsk, tsk. One hundred fifty years after Lincoln and sixty after Eisenhower, and we still have Democrats standing in the way of increased minority representation in Congress. Personally, I blame our educational system; the whole damn thing seems to reek of barely-suppressed fear and rage towards blacks and other minorities, sometimes…

Moe Lane

PS: Hey, it’s not my fault if progressive white Democrats seem to think that the Voter Rights Act is something that’s only supposed to happen to other people.

PS: Hey, remember: the Online Left has been wrestling with the demons of their own racism for years.

Bob Menendez’s foreign underage prostitution story stubbornly not going away.

Background: just before the election a story broke alleging that Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey had taken advantage of the hospitality of one of his campaign contributors to go down to the Dominican Republic (via the aforementioned contributor’s private plane) and use the services of at least two prostitutes (one of whom may or may not have been underage).  Worse, he allegedly refused to pay said foreign partially-underaged hookers the full amount that Menendez allegedly promised to pay – and, let me note again this in passing: to patronize a prostitute is hardly a moral act.  But if you must do this, pay what you said that you were going to pay.  There is a difference between being uncouth, and being a cad. Continue reading Bob Menendez’s foreign underage prostitution story stubbornly not going away.

My wife thanks you for her new coffee mug.

This one:

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…which I purchased for her out of the funds available to me from the Tip Jar.  She was very happy to get this, and I was happy to purchase it for her.

That’s pretty much it.  Thanks for supporting the site to the point where I can occasionally buy my wife random science-fiction themed coffee mugs.

Moe Lane

US Senate kicks off Scott Brown’s special election run.

Oh, am I anticipating?  My bad.

The United States Senate voted today to confirm Sen. John Kerry as the next secretary of state.

Just five days ago, Kerry, a democratic senator from Massachusetts, testified before the committee he chaired. As NPR’s Michele Kelemen reported at the time, the hearing was a love fest.

94-3; Twitter says that Cornyn, Cruz, & Inhofe all voted no.  Gonna be a humdinger of a campaign, there; the Democrats are right now kind of hoping that Brown maybe wants to run for Governor, instead, largely because Brown’s polling numbers are wicked good, to quote the regional patois of my extended family.  Guess we’ll see, huh?

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, Kerry’s a putz.  On the bright side, I still have strong hopes that his wife will start a diplomatic incident with somebody I don’t like anyway.

QotD, A Reminder To #p2 That The Neocons Won And Made It Look Easy edition.

Allahpundit, while discussing this week’s knife fight in an alleyway among the caucus, caustically comments:

Maybe each side’s ideological principles are basically only as sturdy as the support they get from charismatic leaders at the top. Ask an anti-war Obama voter about that, if you can still find one.

…Ouch.  I keep forgetting just how comprehensively the antiwar movement lost the argument. They lost so badly, in fact, that it’s hard to remember there was ever a point where there was a faint possibility that they could win.

Rick Snyder mousetraps Michigan Right To Work opponents.

Hey, do you want to see what it looks like to have your planned judicial delaying tactics trip, fall, and face-plant before it even clears the door?

…Yeah, sorry about the metaphor, but sometimes the convoluted ones are really the only ones that fit.  Case in point:

Opponents of the state’s new right-to-work law promised a challenge of the controversial bill that passed the lame-duck Legislature in December.

But those challenges may become a moot point since Gov. Rick Snyder asked the Michigan Supreme Court on Monday to review the bill and determine whether it passes constitutional muster.

Continue reading Rick Snyder mousetraps Michigan Right To Work opponents.