Although I don’t know if Randall intended to, this time:
Continue reading #rsrh xkcd gets the political blogosphere again.
Month: July 2012
#rsrh A PSA for any and all members of the Kennedy clan.
Your family has the alcoholism gene, and it isn’t skipping generations like it (and the substance abuse gene, which your family also has) sometimes does.
So stop drinking and doing drugs.
(Via @SissyWillis)
Moe Lane
PS: Seriously.
#rsrh Hey, (ostensible) reminder: Mitt Romney comes from a civil rights activist background.
There are days when I feel sorry for the African-American blogging sub-demographic of the Online Left. No, really, there are days that I do. It’s a hell of a life that they’ve got for themselves: they’re trapped by their ideology into supporting a political movement that has been an unmitigated disaster for African-Americans; and they’re trapped by their skin color into toiling away for a political party that has a strict and fairly cruel internal racial quota system. To put it more simply: this speech*?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT1jLY20tLo
“An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314.”
An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 – The Blue Danube (Instrumental), George Szell;The Cleveland Orchestra
…It is just a little bit surreal to not see spaceships flying around with this, huh?
#rsrh Speaking of things not made in America, Sen. Reid: where’s the budget?
That’s a rhetorical question: but since Senate Majority Leader apparently has enough free time to advocate this kind of trivial legislation then I think that it’s long past time that Harry Reid started doing his job. Which is not ‘ignoring the Constitution.’
No, honest to God, it’s not. I understand that the Democratic leadership act like it is, but that’s because they’re all yutzes far over their depth. If we were in their shoes, the Democratic leadership would have been shown the door in 2011.
DCCC covering up stalking videos?
People may recall that Politico published a story several days ago cataloging what appears to be a somewhat alarming trend: to wit, videos showing ostensible ‘tracking’ of Republican candidates by individuals. I say ostensible because the way that the videos come across are as rather obsessive stalking of said candidates. For example: while it is understood that a candidate will be followed around, casing a candidates’s house from several different angles (account name: WI08RawFootage) or deliberately putting another candidate’s address (account name: AR01RawFootage) online, is generally considered to be, well, creepy. And that’s what is happening.
Now here’s the thing. As Politico noted, the DCCC itself is apparently “unapologetic” about these activities, and ready to justify this practice:
House Republicans have spent this entire Congress trying to hide that they’re protecting benefits for millionaires and perks for themselves instead of protecting the middle class, but we won’t let them keep it secret any longer,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Jesse Ferguson wrote in an email. Democratic officials said placing the videos on the DCCC’s website and YouTube serve a useful purpose, most notably making the footage available to friendly outside groups for use in TV commercials. That way, they don’t violate laws against coordinating with those groups.
Which is a very interesting statement, and one which will be revisited in a little bit… because there’s something that Politico didn’t catch: the accounts that Politico found have been sanitized.
Just not well enough. Continue reading DCCC covering up stalking videos?
Panhandling, PayPal, Kickstarter and breast implants.
Well, it got you to click through.
Been thinking about this story – the title (“Bikini-clad Ohio woman is begging for boobs on Akron street corner“) says it all – and it’s interesting to see what the line is. Because panhandling for breast implants (which you apparently need a license for*) is obviously a bit weird. But isn’t this the same principle as Kickstarter? Or, ahem…
…a PayPal button?
Continue reading Panhandling, PayPal, Kickstarter and breast implants.
RS Interview: Wes Riddle (R CAND, TX-25 PRI RUNOFF)
TX-25 is a new district, thanks largely to Texas’s phenomenal population growth over the last ten years; and it’s got a late primary, thanks largely to the Left’s quite bitter (and largely futile) attempts to force the state to do things that… actually, it doesn’t really matter what you try to force Texas to do. The populace tends to take the position that if they wanted to do it in the first place, they’d have done it. Anyway: there’s a runoff in TX-25, on July 31st and we talked to Lt. Col. Wes Riddle (who is one of the candidates in it).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5VP3LMUNU
Wes Riddle’s site is here.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
RS Interview: Martin Baker (R CAND, MO-01 PRI).
While the showdown between rival Democratic incumbents Russ Carnahan and Lacy Clay – in what promises to be one of the most vicious internecine battles of the 2012 primary season – may be the most public news coming out of Missouri’s First District, it remains true that the seat will be contested in November by the Republicans. We spoke a couple of days ago with Martin Baker, who is running in the August primary: and he wants to take this district away from the Democratic party.
Martin’s site is here.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Book of the Week: Redshirts.
I was able to pick up Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas – all hail scrounged change jars, not to mention change counting machines that will issue you full-credit slips for Amazon – on the Kindle, and let me tell you: damn, that was a good read. Intensely meta, and maybe the codas were the best part – but Scalzi hit this one out of the park. Pick it up.
And that will replace Tigana
Moe Lane