Not deep cinema by any stretch of the imagination: but Daybreakers
And thus, no more The War of the Worlds
Author: Moe_Lane
Carly Fiorina vs. the Sainted Delta Smelt.
Newly-chosen candidate Carly Fiorina (R CAND, CA-SEN) had a conference call today, and spoke somewhat about an issue of some interest to both myself and the California agricultural community: the delta smelt.
For those who are unaware: the delta smelt is, to quote Rep George Radanovich (R, CA-19), “a worthless little worm that needs to go the way of the dinosaur” – mostly because it’s a two-inch fish whose protection under the Endangered Species Act caused the government to turn off the water in the San Joaquin Valley. That cost the state of California almost a billion dollars in lost revenue… and it turns out that the stupid fish aren’t even in (alleged) danger from agricultural needs; they’re in (alleged) danger from Sacramento sewage.
We will now pause while our Californian readers murmur, “Not surprised at all.” Continue reading Carly Fiorina vs. the Sainted Delta Smelt.
SEIU to GOP: please target the following races…
…because they’re going to be written off:
- Larry Kissell (NC-08)
- Mike McMahon (NY-13)
- Michael Arcuri (NY-24)
- Zach Space (OH-18)
At least, that’s my impression from this petulant whine from the SEIU about the way that they were forced to spend ten million dollars to lose the Lincoln/Halter race, and how they’re not going to support the Senator anyway, so there. She can just go down in defeat, the mean woman anti-union Democrat. Continue reading SEIU to GOP: please target the following races…
Alvin Greene (D CAND, SC-SEN) up on felony charge.
You know, South Carolinian political shenanigans are ever so much more fun when they’re not aimed at anybody on your side:
South Carolina’s surprise Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is facing a pending felony charge.
Court records show 32-year-old Alvin Greene was arrested in November and charged with showing obscene Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student. The felony charge carries up to five years in prison.
No, I don’t know why anybody would bother further ensuring DeMint’s re-election: this goes far beyond ‘belt-and-suspenders’ and well into ‘plate armor’ territory. But, seriously: where did this guy come from, where did he get the money to run… and why has all of this been done for this race? Is this some form of bizarre political performance art? Continue reading Alvin Greene (D CAND, SC-SEN) up on felony charge.
#rsrh Shorter Barney Frank: Work harder, suckers.
I’m impressed: I couldn’t have kept that going with a straight face for the three minutes that Frank maintained.
I mean, let’s establish a few things: Continue reading #rsrh Shorter Barney Frank: Work harder, suckers.
Yes, alive.
Just also busy.
[UPDATE] Here. Otters playing basketball.
#rsrh Thank God Mickey Kaus lost the DEM CA-SEN primary…
…we dodged a bullet there. Forty grand = 100K votes; he was always one heck of a long shot, but if he had been properly funded he would have been able to more directly confront Sen. Boxer. There was always that frightening possibility that he could have goaded the Senator into being… well, Barbara Boxer… and this is a year for primary upsets. If that had happened, we would have been facing a Democrat in the general election who couldn’t be tied to his party’s positions on illegal immigration and public sector unions. I’m not the only Republican out there who found that prospect unappealing.
Fortunately, it’s no longer even a remote possibility – and I can now go back to linking to Kaus safely.
Moe Lane
‘I Want Candy.’
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I was going to write something snarky, but it’s too fun a song to mock.
The factory, the government, and the boom.
Let me tell you a story (via Instapundit).
Once upon a time there was a owner of a packaging material factory in Maine who found out one day that there was a major oil leak disaster going on in the Gulf of Mexico. It turns out that a useful item for oil leak containment – known as ‘floating oil containment boom,’ or just ‘boom’ – was something that the owner’s factory could make; and since business was horrible anyway the owner decided to bring in extra workers and make all the boom that he could. The Governor of Louisiana was yelling for lots and lots of boom, and surely both British Petroleum and the federal government would be downright eager to buy up the boom as fast as the factory could make it.
Surely. Continue reading The factory, the government, and the boom.
As ye sow, Nancy, so shall ye reap.
Ace of Spades HQ gives bravery props to the Speaker for snapping back at the Code Pinkers; I don’t. A mad scientist who can’t face her own creations is no mad scientist at all.
And ‘created’ is meant deliberately. Code Pink was carefully nurtured and developed to spew hatred on command towards the Republican party in general, and George W Bush in particular, the better to elect Democrats who would turn around and not end the war, but would loot the treasury blind. And so it was done; but since we don’t have an euthanasia program in this country, the Democrats instead fairly callously threw them and the rest of the antiwar movement aside like a used prophylactic once they were no longer needed*.
And now they howl and throw things at Democratic functions. I wonder what the next step’s going to be? And I wonder whether Nancy Pelosi will ever accept responsibility for anything… untoward… that happens accordingly?
*The fact that I despise the antiwar movement myself, and am currently enjoying watching flail around literally howling their betrayal (listen to the audio on that YouTube video again), doesn’t actually excuse the Democrats’ behavior. It merely adds to the antiwar movement’s humiliation.