…demonstrates that the replacement computer is up and running – and that the Internet connection works, although I don’t know why. Frankly, it should not. It didn’t work for hours and hours last time I had to upgrade my computer system.
Hey, English major. I just tap on the keys and let the magic box do its thing.
You know, at first I was probably just a touch annoyed that the White House has spent billions – this is not an exaggeration; billions – on encouraging ‘green jobs’ without knowing what the heck a green job is:
Buried deep inside a federal newsletter on March 16 was something called a “notice of solicitation of comments” from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor.
“BLS is responsible for developing and implementing the collection of new data on green jobs,” said the note in the Federal Register, which is widely read by government bureaucrats and almost never seen by the general public. But the notice said there is “no widely accepted standard definition of ‘green jobs.'”
But then I saw this:
To help find that definition, the Labor Department asked that readers send in suggestions.
Suggestions? Oh, I have suggestions: Continue reading My Green Jobs suggestions.
People do Renn Faires all the time. Mind you, in terms of finding good homemade booze and attractive women who read science fiction it’s nothing on an SCA event* – but then, Gabe’s married with a kid anyway, so I guess that the point is moot.
Moe Lane
*I’m not sure how it works as compared to science fiction conventions: I made it a point never to attend one unless I was accompanied by a date.
Yes, the title is meant to be subtly mocking.
This article in the New York Times on the awkward disconnect between the President of the United States and the political party that he’s presumably in charge of is actually… not too bad, really. This, for example, is pretty clear-headed:
In 2006 and 2008, Democrats did something that had not been done in American politics since the Great Depression, which is to string together two consecutive “wave” elections — roughly defined as a gain of at least 20 seats in the House of Representatives. They gained a total of 55 House seats and 12 seats in the Senate; the tide came in twice and with unusual strength. That means that some significant number of the Democrats elected in the last two cycles, to put it bluntly, really don’t have much business holding their seats in the first place. Either their districts normally trend Republican — 49 Democratic House members were elected from districts that voted for John McCain — or they themselves probably wouldn’t have cleared the threshold for a successful candidacy in a more conventional election year.
…where it breaks down is in considering some of the implications. Well, that’s why we’re here. Continue reading PotUS November strategy: fighting where they REALLY ain’t.
(via @davidhauptmann) Contrary to first impressions, this is not an example of the popular definition of insanity*:
Democrats will keep blaming George W. Bush until the problems from his administration end, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In an interview with MSNBC, Pelosi said congressional Democrats feel justified in blaming the Bush administration because of the problems it left behind for President Barack Obama.
…after all, it worked in 2006 and 2008, right? Push the button marked ‘Blame Bush,’ get the food pellet named ‘win elections.’ Classic Skinnerite operant conditioning… and if Pelosi and her Democrats needed less time to be conditioned than Skinner needed to train rats and pigeons, well, I will not be unkind and voice my opinion about what that says about the mother-wit of the Speaker of the House.
The only question is, what are the Democrats going to do when they notice that the button is no longer wired up to the food pellet dispenser? Do they even realize that this could be a possibility?
Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh Good news: Pelosi commits to Democratic cliff-diving.
Is it outside the realm of possibility that… this might not actually suck?
Supposedly played by Scott Joplin himself.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: there is a part of me that enjoys the baffled outrage. These people apparently didn’t expect this sort of thing from this administration:
A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap photographs of the oil slicks blackening the water. The response from a BP contractor who answered the phone late last month at the command center was swift and absolute: Permission denied.
“We were questioned extensively. Who was on the aircraft? Who did they work for?” recalled Rhonda Panepinto, who owns Southern Seaplane with her husband, Lyle. “The minute we mentioned media, the answer was: ‘Not allowed.’ ”
Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.
Continue reading #rsrh Media chafing under Gulf spill restrictions.
It’s pronounced ‘Michael:’ he’s running in Charlie Rangel’s seat, assuming of course that Charlie Rangel doesn’t get ousted in the primary itself.
I like our chances on this one. Rangel’s got a serious primary challenger, he’s got a very poor ethical reputation right now, and Faulkner’s the sort of candidate that you want to have on hand for a general election challenge when in a situation like this.
But you have to speculate to accumulate, as a wise man once said. Donation page for Rev. Faulkner here. His main sites are here and here.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
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