Deer.
Turkey.
I’m glad to see that nature is doing so well. No, really. It’s quite heartening. Whatever it’s doing, it should keep on doing that.
Moe Lane
Month: July 2010
#rsrh Don Surber is a bad, bad man.
I don’t know whether he did this or just found this…
…but the last three words resonate: Remember In November.
Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh Don Surber is a bad, bad man.
Crazed Sex Poodle update.
This week was the calm before the storm: they’ve reopened the case, possibly because there may be DNA evidence on a pair of pants, and possibly because it looks bad when there’s even a suggestion that the rich and powerful can count on sexual assault allegations… going away. Meanwhile, via Instapundit, Politico is reporting that the story is going mainstream in the national media. Hillbuzz notes that, more importantly, it’s hitting entertainment sources like EW and People. Why is that more important? Let them explain:
Here’s something we keep telling just about every conservative we ever meet, but none of them seem to listen: the entertainment industry matters because more people read People, Entertainment Weekly, Perez Hilton, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Aint It Cool News, Dark Horizons, and other entertainment sites than read many of the political sites combined.
#rsrh QotD, Maggie Thatcher edition.
From Hillbuzz, on the news that HEY THEY’RE GOING TO MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT MAGGIE THATCHER!
Hollywood’s reporting Meryl Streep’s next project will be portraying Baroness Thatcher in a new film called “Iron Lady”, which will depict her time as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Someone at the Academy should probably just start carving her name onto the Oscar already, because Meryl Streep + portraying a historical figure = Oscar nomination at the least. Considering the fact Helen Mirren and Forest Whitacker both won recently for playing Queen Elizabeth II and Idi Amin (respectively, as if that wasn’t already clear), and Dame Judi Dench has won for playing the OTHER Queen Elizabeth, this looks like a lock for Best Actress. And, of course, by this logic, Will Smith will win an Oscar for depicting America’s current queen, “Miss Thang”, whenever they get around to filming the Obama movie, which was at first rumored to be called “Hope and Change” but is now in development under the new working title “Chaos and Ineptitude”.
Does it count if I’m just quoting it? Continue reading #rsrh QotD, Maggie Thatcher edition.
Battle of Gettysburg Memorial Open Thread.
Strictly speaking, neither the speech below – or Charles Loughton’s pitch-perfect recitation of it
Open thread.
“No More Kings.”
Sent to me by a colleague, and damn straight.
“No More Kings,” Schoolhouse Rock!
Charlie Cook: DOOM.
He sets the scene thusly:
Imagine sitting in Washington’s Verizon Center, listening blissfully to Carole King and James Taylor, thanks to a fast-thinking friend who managed to score four floor seats. For 50-somethings, it’s a nice place to be. Then, as the concert is winding down, four pages of poll tables of a just-released survey pop up in your BlackBerry. They are jaw-dropping numbers, not inconsistent with what you had been thinking — if anything more a confirmation of it. But the dramatic nature of the numbers brings the real world of politics crashing through what had been a most mellow evening.
…although I’m not entirely certain why the evening should be spoiled in the first place. It’s excellent news. Continue reading Charlie Cook: DOOM.
…Well, *that* was a not-fun ride.
That’s usually a four and a half, five hour drive.
It was not a five hour drive.
I expect that I will have a drink, once the kids have sufficiently unwound enough to sleep.
Off to the weekend…
…I’d have signed off already, under the steadily-increasing in intensity gaze of my wife, but the BLS report was up and I wanted to hit on it briefly before I started packing the car. Posting is going to be… darned if I know.
Happy Fourth of July, everyone. Unless you hate the holiday on a philosophical level; in which case, póg mo thóin, Commie.
June BLS: Job recovery stalled out.
Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June, and the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The decline in payroll employment reflected a decrease (-225,000) in the number of temporary employees working on Census 2010. Private-sector payroll employment edged up by 83,000.
Note, of course, that May’s job report was equally stalled-out; the 431,000 jobs that were ‘gained’ that month were also Census workers. We’re just at the end of that particular necessary, but strictly limited, exercise in government spending.
So, how is that Keynesian economics thing working out for people, anyway? – Because where I’m sitting it seems to be roughly equivalent right now to revving the engine when the car’s set to neutral.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.