I’m a little late in thinking about this – new kid, and everything – but there’s always Child’s Play. This is Penny Arcade’s signature charity: it provides games and toys for sick kids while they’re in the hospital. Details are here.
And there’s not much else to say besides that, really. Except that there’s always somebody less fortunate, alas.
“Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Zelaya.” He’s not decamping to Mexico after all. A great pity: the sooner he fades away, the sooner we can all start trying to forget that with regard to Honduras this administration not only first stepped in it, but dropped and rolled for good measure.
So what’s Spanish for “Get on with it, Zelaya?”
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
How did I miss this… oh, right, new baby.
Yeah, I should get back to more roleplaying geekery. Heck, between the new kid and the slightly older one it’s been hard to even throw dice down recently.
Moe Lane
*For those wondering: In Nomine
It’s called Xanthohumol, they get it from hops, and it apparently does things to keep testosterone and estrogen from contributing to prostate and breast cancer, respectively. My wife the engineer is mocking the science reporting in this, by the way: to which I give a hearty ‘Bah’ as I uncap an anti-carcinogen. Dammit, this is science.
Via Instapundit.
Apparently we’re now taking sides in the Great Circle of Life:
Should we kill barred owls to save the northern spotted owl, and can it work?
The U.S. government, facing ongoing decline in protected spotted owl numbers, wants to try ridding the woods of some of its bigger and more aggressive cousins, the barred owl.
That might mean shooting them, trapping them and moving them out, or some other technique. And if the experiment works, it could be expanded across the Pacific Northwest for years to come.
Via Jules Crittenden. Do spotted owl tears cure cancer, or something? – because it’s darn certain that neither species vote or pay taxes, and it’s for darn certain that human loggers do both. And, frankly, I’m not exactly clear on why we need to pick an arbitrary point in time and say that There Shalt Be No Change In The Ecosystem From This Point On.
Besides: if you really want to save the spotted owl, spread the rumor that it’s tasty and/or a tricky game bird. Nobody preserves critters like hunters’ advocacy groups do.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
As per Simon Scowl of Deceiver.com, who uses it with malice aforethought against Cubslayer Gore. The context: Gore claimed that the Climategate emails were ten years old, and the CNN guy called him on it right away, and Gore… said nothing further about it. Simon Scowl:
His financial and psychological investment in this crap is way too deep for him to acknowledge such, ahem, inconvenient truths. The only way to deal with such a massive blow to his ego is to just bull through it. Pretend it’s not happening. He is, to borrow a phrase, a Climategate denier.
Perfect.
Moe Lane
PS: Having listened to Gore, I’m reminded: dag. Triple-digit IQ people believe in this guy? And how long will the CNN guy last at his job?
Crossposted to RedState.
Well, it’s not like the state voted for the current President anyway. Hell, the often-strained history between West Virginians and national Democrats stretches back to 1863. Still, this is a little… petty… of the Democratic party, isn’t it?
A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss.
But CONSOL Energy’s political problems are not unique to the mining industry, which has suffered under the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant “enhanced” review. And, agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.
Via Dana Loesch (via Instapundit) which also has video of the President casually talking about strangling future coal power generation: I’d also like to note that this should come as no surprise to anybody. You Were Warned. Repeatedly. I Told You So. Finally, I’m sure that local Democrats Congressmen Alan Mollohan* and Nick Rahall**, Senator Jay Rockefeller, and Senator Robert Byrd’s staff are all quiveringly eager to explain to their constituents why their own political party is using the federal government to promote a Crusade against the state of West Virginia.
Or perhaps they’re just quivering.
Moe Lane
*Challenger: State Senator Clark Barnes.
**Challenger: Lee Bias.
Crossposted to RedState.
Suggested by an old friend – congratulate him; he’s getting married soon – and while it isn’t actually bad:
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
…the band has not aged well.
The band has not aged well at all.
Mpoe Lane
Ah, this glorious new world where we’re no longer casually offending other nations with our actions. From noted British right-wing rag The Guardian:
Barack Obama’s trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel peace award is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over the cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prizewinner.
Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.
The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children’s event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre.
I personally didn’t want him to accept the thing in the first place, but if you’re going to take the Nobel Peace Prize, you go and you do the whole experience. Even if parts of it are boring. Even if parts of it are not fun. Even if parts of it are impositions on your time.
I was about to suggest that the President apparently just wants to be a constitutional monarch, instead – except that the European royal families typically are better at enduring dull ceremonial with good grace than this guy is. So I’ll just note that we’re stuck with a POTUS that seems to just not want to work for a living.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
If it had sufficient pyrotechnics, of course. Maybe an exploding Mercury. And ninja!
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