It’s a collection of up to four books about heroes and whatnot:
Month: July 2012
QotD, Mick Brown Lives The Dream edition.
Well, somebody’s dream. MickBrown is Ted Nugent’s drummer, and he… well, read:
According to the police department, Brown, 55, reportedly stole a golf cart after a Bangor concert featuring Nugent, Styx and REO Speedwagon at Bangor’s waterfront pavilion.
Brown, who was reportedly intoxicated, evaded several people who tried to stop him and somehow picked up two women along the way, the department says on its Facebook page.
#rsrh Answering @JVLast’s question about why there’s been no liberal repudiation of Obama.
I don’t normally do follow-ups to posts so quickly, but there seems to have been some reaction (generally favorable, which is gratifying) to my written fist-to-the-nose to Tom Junod. The triggering for my response is from Jonathan Last, who (accurately) called what I did to Junod both ‘flat-out brutal’ and ‘pretty fair.’ Jonathan then asks a question: why haven’t more of our supposedly principled liberal altruists taken the next step from disapproving of what Barack Obama does, to breaking with him permanently?
As Lane points out, if you’re a liberal and you fell a-over-t for Obama and now you realize that he’s elevated cold-blooded murder to the level of routine executive prerogative, why haven’t you clapped your hands together, stepped away from the table, and said, “I’m out”?
#rsrh Hey, quick reminder to those Occupy LA dolts: remember this?
This being their ‘promise’ to clean up the park that they destroyed, once they had ‘fixed’ the world?
(credit: Ringo, of ringospictures.com)
Just a quick note: turns out that the Occupiers ‘fixed’ neither the park, nor the world. On the bright side, a call to LA City Hall* confirmed that the park is, indeed, in the process of being fixed: they’re hoping to have it opened again in a couple of weeks. Pretty easy, really – once they pried all the fetid hippie wannabe squatters off of it, of course.
Moe Lane
Continue reading #rsrh Hey, quick reminder to those Occupy LA dolts: remember this?
Shelley Berkley (D, NV-01) under ethics investigation for medical crony capitalism.
OK, here’s the background: back in 2011 it came out that in 2008 Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D, NV-01) intervened to prevent the shutdown of a Nevadan kidney transplant program that was killing patients. It’s important at this point to distinguish between proper and improper responses: for example, it is proper to be concerned about what was reported as being “the only transplant center in Nevada” at the time, which is why a number of Nevadan Members of Congress (including Rep. Dean Heller – this will be important later) joined Rep. Berkley in intervening with the program. Is this clear? Good. Because the problem here – the possibly improper problem – is that the method of intervention involved just happened to involve hiring more medical personnel from a company that just happens to be owned by Berkely’s physician husband (kidney specialist) who also just happens to be a co-owner of one of Berkley’s major corporate campaign contributors.
Funny how it always seems to work out that way, huh? Continue reading Shelley Berkley (D, NV-01) under ethics investigation for medical crony capitalism.
“Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Cfrl7hMoQ
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
I know that I’ve already done this one this year, but funny story here (yeah, prepared to be bored, I know): my wife doesn’t listen to a lot of the music that I do, and she’s a few years younger than me, so we don’t have all that much overlap in pop music. So we’re driving back home from visiting her dad, I put on some music to pass the time, she can only hear it 75% anyway because of the air conditioning. So she listens, and after a minute goes “What is this? It sounds like Simon and Garfunkel, only happy.”
So of course I laugh.
Tom Junod’s cowardly attack on Barack Obama’s cowardly drone strikes.
[UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers.]
You know what’s missing from this Tom Junod piece on drone strikes?(Via Instapundit)
Oh, sorry, quick background: a US drone strike recently killed a sixteen year old American called Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was the son of notorious traitor Anwar al-Alwaki. There’s no immediate reason to explain why the younger al-Awlaki was killed; it could be anything from an accident to a recognition of the old rule of thumb that ‘nits make lice.’ Anyway, Mr. Junod here is very, very upset that this death happened. He is very, very sternly lecturing the Obama administration about not revealing its reasoning for the death, assuming that the Obama administration even has one. Mr. Junod is very, very much the model of principled opposition to this “Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama,” as he so pithily put it. But, again: do you know what’s missing from this piece of Junod’s?
Any repudiation of this piece Junod wrote in response to Election Night 2008:
I wasn’t looking for hope, that’s for sure; I was looking for evidence that Obama couldn’t win in the face of an evil as potent as the Republican party. As my mother got weaker and the light began to be blanched from her eyes, I would go to the blogs right after my daughter went to school, and then just before I went to visit my mom, and then as soon as I came home, and then for a few minutes while my daughter took her bath, and then, after I kissed my wife and she went to bed, in the dark hour past midnight. I hated Joe the Plumber more than I hated anyone on earth. He was my comfort, because he was death itself, and he allowed me to hate not just him but it.
I’d told myself on the plane that I wasn’t going to look at any of the dozens of inescapable televisions that line the terminal in Atlanta. I’d told myself that I was going to wait till we got home and Nia got to bed before I started to check any of the returns. My vow lasted until I saw the hovering face of Campbell Brown reporting on Kentucky. Campbell, she of the gorgeous hair, was calling Kentucky for John McCain — and suddenly I felt something I hadn’t felt since my mother died. I felt nauseous. I was doubled over, not by the news of McCain’s win but by the prospect that Obama might lose.
Continue reading Tom Junod’s cowardly attack on Barack Obama’s cowardly drone strikes.
#rsrh QotD, Rick Perry’s Medicaid Response Lacks Only One Word edition.
And the word is, of course…
Dear Secretary Sebelius :
In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by – in the words of the Supreme Court – putting a gun to their heads. Now that the “gun to the head” has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose both the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called “state” insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.
…”Mofo.”
God bless Texas.
(Via @bendomenech.)
Moe Lane
#rsrh Obama/DNC come up short to Romney/RNC in fundraising AGAIN.
Well, I guess that this week is going to suck for Barack Obama, too. $71 million to Romney/RNC’s $106 million, apparently:
For the second month in a row, President Barack Obama’s vaunted fundraising operation fell to Mitt Romney’s, as the president was outraised by about $35 million in June.
Obama’s been having a lot of bad weeks lately. Of course, we don’t know the Cash On Hand numbers, yet. And we’re not going to know them for a while yet, because President Burn Rate probably doesn’t really feel like bringing that particular bit of embarrassing campaign detail front and center…
Via @RyanGOP.
Moe Lane
#rsrh …”The Little Blue Book?” This title isn’t just a framing FAIL, George Lakoff.
This is a framing critical fumble with double zeros on the Critical Fumble Results chart. Zombie rips apart this book with his(?) usual aplomb, but let me be more minimalist about it: if I was going to mock a book written by George Lakoff (who is, of course, the head gold-Rolls-Royce-owner of the progressive ‘framing’ cult) then I would have snottily suggested to him that “The Little Blue Book” – with all of its resonance with Chairman Mao* – would have been a much better and accurate title than whatever Lakoff had come up with. And yet… he picked it. Reality defeats me, yet again.
And these people wonder why framing doesn’t work.
Moe Lane
Continue reading #rsrh …”The Little Blue Book?” This title isn’t just a framing FAIL, George Lakoff.