Author: Moe_Lane

#rsrh NJ State legislator has too much free time…

…which she (name’s Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker, D-Essex) is using to propose a law mandating license plates for bikes.  $10 or face a fine of $100, renew every two years, and I can’t wait for the first news reports of kids being dinged with  this.

No, kids will get dinged with this.  It’s the government: you can always count on somebody in it to do something obliviously damfool in front of a reporter.  It’s practically a natural law, or something.  But, hey: I’m glad that New Jersey has solved all of its real problems already…

Via Drudge.

Coats for Kids fires guy for agreeing with Obama?

Short version: Glen Busch was the Chicago director of the nonprofit Coats for Kids, right up to the point where he (on his own personal Facebook page, and on his own time) made the completely accurate and noncontroversial points that Tucson shooter Jared Loughney was not, in point of fact, a right-wing crazy; and that later evidence that Loughney has left-wing beliefs didn’t prove anything about the situation, either. A day later, Coats for Kids national president Paul Darby (of Virginia: guess where he and his wife Cheryl’s political contributions overwhelmingly went in previous election cycles*?) fired Busch for it.

That’s not the (most) galling part: no, the most galling part is that Darby actually wrote Busch to tell him that “You have every right to make whatever comments that you wish as a citizen” while firing Busch for the comments that Busch made as a citizen. It’s not actually contradictory – this sort of volunteer work is typically ‘at will,’ which means that Darby could have removed Busch for any reason, or none – but it’s incredibly tin-eared to remove a guy for (accurately) saying things on Saturday that the President of the United States essentially repeated the next Wednesday. Honestly: unless there’s something here we’re not being told, my major problem with Ed Morrissey’s take on it is that it’s being too nice. Continue reading Coats for Kids fires guy for agreeing with Obama?

In which I am accused of being unsubtle.

One of my readers asked, in response to this post:

I’m worried that your approach may be overly subtle. Are you sure they will understand your point when they read that highly nuanced, finely crafted post?

You know, I’m not quite (HI, DEL RAY, BAEN BOOKS, TOR, AND NAL/ROC.  I ALSO READ A LOT OF SCIENCE FICTION, PARTICULARLY ALTERNATE HISTORY.  CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THE STUFF, REALLY.  AGAIN, CAN BE REACHED HERE) sure.

The LA Times is *worried* on our behalf!

(Via Patterico) Why, they’re so terribly, terribly concerned that the Republicans’ oft-stated – and reiterated – intention to have a House vote to repeal Obamacare might hurt us that the newspaper is writing articles giving us a friendly head’s-up about how bad an idea such a repeal vote would be right now.  And to back that up they got quotes from such disinterested, Republican-friendly individuals as Rep. Robert Andrews (D, NJ) (who was calling the 112th Congress the ‘Hypocrisy Congress‘ before it even started) , Rep. Chellie Pingree (D, ME) (who called the use of the term ‘job-killing’ “hate speech“), and Rep. John Garamendi (D, CA) (who took up the mantle of now-ousted Alan Grayson to accuse Republicans of wanting to kill people).  It makes me feel all tingly and bipartisan: how about you?

The GOP is not in a “bind” over this, ladies and gentlemen: we are merely showing some delicacy and tact in what are genuinely unique and trying circumstances.  But we are also aware that the Other Side is going to start howling anyway the second Republicans start up regular business again, so don’t expect significant delays along those lines.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Seriously, read that article again.  And note – again – that while there’s a lot of people out there ready to say that the Republicans should slow down or stop the drive to repeal Obamacare, none of those people are actual Republican legislators.

Paging Ken Hite. Paging Ken Hite…

…they’ve recreated the old, thirteen-sign Babylonian astrological system.  If this cannot be turned into fodder for a “secret history” or “modern supernatural esoteric” role-playing game, then nothing can.  Particularly if cross-indexed with the mystical beer subplot from The Drawing of the Dark.

Or something.

(Don’t remember where I saw this first, sorry.)

Moe Lane

PS: No, I don’t believe in astrology.  However, it’s useful stuff in a RPG.

#rsrh A good speech by the President.

Whether or not you think that it cleared the bar raised this morning by former Governor Palin; personally, I suspect that there were additions and revisions based on the first speech.  I certainly do think that the ‘It did not’ add-on was meant as a rebuke to the President’s own party base, far too many of whom have been acting in a manner and using a tone that the President was visibly eager to rise above.

So… I guess we’ll see if that takes.  In the meantime: well done, Mr. President.  And see?  Getting that out of me was easier than pulling teeth.

Moe Lane

Nikki Haley’s Inaugural Speech.

Nikki Haley was sworn in today as South Carolina governor, and of all the annoyances that the Left has been trying to inflict upon us for the last few days over their petulant inability to dictate what can and cannot be said, this one grates most: they made me forget that briefly. We at RedState have been waiting for this moment for quite some time, after all.

Link to video here; text here. Enjoy.

Moe Lane (crosspost)