Steve Cohen (D, TN-09) called racist by Democrats, returns the favor to Tea Partiers.

[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers.  Do I regret?  Certainly the specifics, although you can argue that the principle – standing up against bigotry – was sound.

You know, back in the day, I had a certain sympathy for Democrat Steve Cohen (TN-09): back in 2008 he had been targeted for being a Jew by primary challenger Nikki Tinker, with nary a word of objection made by then Senator and now-President Barack Obama, who Cohen enthusiastically supported. It was obvious, even as early as last year, that this theme would probably be revisited in 2010 by former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, if a bit more skillfully. At the time, I was disappointed.

My reaction now, given that he likes to call us all Klansmen and Nazis?


(Via Hot Air & Ed Driscoll)

You go and have yourself a nice, karma-laden primary there, Rep. Cohen. I hope it’s the political version of a knife fight in an alley. Just Blue-on-Blue, and it’s no skin off of my nose who wins.

Enjoy.

Moe Lane

PS: (Republican) Charlotte Bergmann for Congress. She doesn’t hate people.

Crossposted to RedState.

I’ve heard this about Clash of the Titans.

Well, not this, specifically:

Scott and Dan from the “Geek in the City” podcast were sitting next to me [‘me’ being Bobby ‘Fatboy’ Roberts – ed.]  at the screening of Clash of the Titans I caught conducting a brilliant experiment. Scott watched the film normally with the rest of us, while Dan drowned out the soundtrack using an iPod loaded with his favorite metal play-list. Scott saw what the rest of us did: a passionless, pointless exercise in lazy, spoon fed bullshit. However, according to Dan, if you arm yourself with headphones and enough Iron Maiden to make your ears want to fight each other, you get the most epic metal video ever put on film.

…but stuff like it.  Which is annoying.  I didn’t expect anything but crap; but I thought that it’d be reasonable to expect entertainingly stupid crap.  I mean, look at this:

Did they think that we would have been disappointed if it was as goofy as the original? We wanted goofy. Ray Harryhausen’s still alive, you know. Hell, Harryhausen’s still working. And he’s 90.

Moe Lane

PS: That Harryhausen flick? VIKINGS ON EAGLES THAT FIGHT NAZIS.

The Birdemic trailer.

Before you watch the BIRDEMIC – Shock and Terror, we should establish the… parameters of what you’re going to watch. Let me put it this way: you know this wonderful new world of desktop video editing and democratization of the creative process? This marvelous land of possibilities, where artistic visionaries finally have the tools to present their flights of fantasy? This audio-visual Utopia?

Behold its dark side.

And then there’s the HD Trailer, below the fold.
Continue reading The Birdemic trailer.

The March Rasmussen Trust Numbers.

Short version: nine out of ten, and the word ‘Pyrrhic’ seems ever-more appropriate when discussing the Democrats’ health care monstrosity.

Mar-10 Feb-10
Issue Dem GOP Diff Dem GOP Diff Shift
Health Care 37% 53% (16) 42% 45% (3) (13)
Education 40% 43% (3) 41% 38% 3 (6)
Social Security 36% 48% (12) 39% 42% (3) (9)
Abortion 32% 47% (15) 38% 42% (4) (11)
Economy 37% 49% (12) 41% 46% (5) (7)
Taxes 34% 52% (18) 37% 48% (11) (7)
Iraq 39% 47% (8) 38% 42% (4) (4)
Nat’l Security 36% 51% (15) 37% 47% (10) (5)
Gov’t Ethics 35% 33% 2 35% 28% 7 (5)
Immigration 34% 47% (13) 34% 39% (5) (8)

Continue reading The March Rasmussen Trust Numbers.

Charlie Rangel (D, NY-15) is a Gnostic Cainite!

And he reveals this on Holy Thursday, too.

This is EXCITING! I needn’t remind any of you that the Cainites were fourth century Gnostics who honored both Cain (as the first human to rebel against the Demiurge*) and Judas Iscariot (as the agent who – with Christ’s permission – acted as the agent of Christ’s sacrifice, and was thus rewarded with secret esoteric knowledge**). This particular heresy was long thought to have died out with most other contemporary Gnostic sects; but it must have gone underground, and survived. And now Charlie Rangel, of all people (I assume that he’s a high-level initiate), has given their presence away with his claim that Judas Iscariot later became a saint! The things that we can learn!

Of course, there’s always the alternative: Charlie Rangel’s knowledge of Christianity approaches that of a battered parakeet’s.

Moe Lane

PS: It’s 2010, people: the GOP has been doing its recruiting. I gather that Rev. Michel Faulkner (Baptist minister, community leader, former NY Jet) is looking like he’ll be the eventual Republican candidate.

*As you know, the Demiurge was believed by Gnostics to be the true creator of the physical universe; as the Gnostics were of course mystics who hated the material world, that meant that they equate the Demiurge with both the Old Testament God and Satan. The early Church went to some trouble to, ah, dissuade that interpretation of Scripture…

**Which they just happened to have, in the ‘Gospel of Judas.’

Crossposted to RedState.

Phil Hare (D, IL-17) does not know the first Rule of Holes.

[UPDATE] This is the guy who shot the original video, apparently. It never hurts to put your contact info in the end credits…

Think of this as a teachable moment, Congressman Hare.

Background here: and check Hot Air for more.

Moe Lane

PS: He read the bill, mind you. Three times.

PPS: Bobby Schilling for Congress.

Crossposted to RedState.

Actually, I don’t think Druids were *agricultural*.

Well, in an agrarian society like the Gauls’ they were probably involved somehow. But not to the point suggested by AoSHQ’s quote of the day, kid-friendly earth fertility ritual (with corroborating photo) edition:

Now many of you probably think I am going to bust on the First Lady for indoctrinating little school children in Druidic cultural norms. But I’m not. It would be hypocritical, after all. I have a lvl 80 Druid in Warcraft.

Also, strictly speaking (and contra AoSHQ) it isn’t a harvest ritual. It’s a sowing ritual. Freaking urbanites.

Moe Lane

PS: I should note that World of Warcraft does not have the most inaccurate depiction of druids and druidism in modern Western society. Oh, my, no.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D, MO) disavows any role in spitting smear.

[UPDATE] Weasel Zipper’s update (via Instapundit) is both accurate and succinct.

(via @allahpundit) You know: if I was a mindless drone who had been duckspeaking for the last week on the DNC-spawned narrative of racial slurs/spitting… well, I probably wouldn’t have the mother-wit to be offended at how clumsily this walkback by Cleaver was presented*:

So now Rep. Cleaver doesn’t people talking about it; and now he wants to act like he was never involved in this issue in the first place.  Can’t say I’m surprised.  Can’t say that I’m surprised that he doesn’t want to lay any blame at the feet of the DNC’s would-be race-hate demagogues, either…

Moe Lane

*On the other hand, the slightly less mindless drones who encouraged said duckspeaking in others probably should feel a little pique at the way that they wasted a week on something that will be disavowed by the Democratic party anyway. At least, one hopes that they will.

PS: I cannot say this too often: GET A CAMERA. Video recording equipment in the hands of the populace kept this story contained. GET A CAMERA. A video record will be an invaluable offensive and defensive tool for your activism. GET A CAMERA. This will be true for the rest of your activist career. GET A CAMERA.

One million hits.

I was going to pretend that it wasn’t at least slightly important to me, but honestly: hitcount is one of the three ways that I know that I’m making a difference*. And, by the time that you see this, we’ll have ticked over into over 1 million visits. I was hoping to hit that number in the first year, but it was not to be.

I’m pleased that people have enjoyed MoeLane.com, and I hope to continue providing content that pleases; now, hit the tip jar on the sidebar. It goes towards paying for the monthly fees Neil incurs for hosting this million-hit blog.

Moe Lane

*The other two ways, of course, are donations and hate mail.