“Happy Switch Day to you;”
“Happy Switch Day, Snarlin’ Arlen…”
”Well, I probably shouldn’t say this,” he said over lunch last month. ”But I have thought from time to time that I might have helped the country more if I’d stayed a Republican.”
“…’cuz we Do. Not. Miss. You.”
Thanks, I’m here all week! Try the veal!
Moe Lane
PS: And Pat Toomey’s moneybomb is today, so be sure to tip your Republican candidate for PA-SEN! Continue reading ‘Happy Switch Day to you…’
Interstate commerce strikes again!
There is no such thing as a libertarian Democrat.
“They came in the dark, shining bright flashlights while my family was asleep, keeping me from milking my cows, from my family, from breakfast with my family and from our morning devotions, and alarming my children enough so that the first question they asked my wife was, ‘Is Daddy going to jail?’”
That’s how Amish farmer Dan Allgyer described an early morning visit last week from two FDA agents, two U.S. Marshals, and a Pennsylvania state trooper. Apparently, investigating a single farmer for possibly trafficking raw milk across state lines requires a show of force.
(via The DC Trawler) Pretty much by definition. You can have libertarian Republicans – and, as libertarians are no doubt eager to point out, you can certainly have hypocritical ‘libertarian’ Republicans – but the Democrats are a liberal-run political party these days, and liberals like to expand the state. That’s what liberals do. This can be disconcerting to counter-culture types that are not on the Left’s list of protected lifestyle choices. Continue reading FDA hassling Amish over raw milk.
I am a bad, bad person.
Livin’ La Vida Loca
That was just mean, on several different levels.
Awww:
The famous Hollywood sign has been saved from being spoiled by property development by a last-minute donation from Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner.
The soft-porn magnate gave $900,000 (£580,000) to the fund which was set up to stop the site being developed.
[snip]
It never faced demolition, but campaigners were worried the famous vista would be ruined by the sight of properties towering over the four-storey high letters.
Of course, all three O’s now have to pose in the September issue and the consonants will all be made Editors.
Moe Lane
PS: Personally, I think that they should have stuck a nice, big Baptist church there. And a military base. Maybe add a nuclear power plant; that way you’d get a symbolic trifecta of everything Hollywood hates.
Yup, philistine. It was a freaking real estate ad, people.
Clearly, the world is dedicated to amuso-annoying me today (yeah, I just made up that word), so here’s the TV Tropes page on Flame Wars. Honestly, just because it made me laugh for five minutes.
Eugene Robinson is very aggrieved about the new Arizona law:
Legal immigrants will be required to carry papers proving that they have a right to be in the United States.
So aggrieved, in fact, that he’s apparently mixing up his tenses. It is already federal law for legal immigrants / visitors to carry their green cards and/or other relevant immigration information with them at all times. It’s been that way for years. [UPDATE: See also here.]
Mr. Robinson, if you don’t even know the basics of what is legally required and what is not, please keep out of the conversation until you’ve caught up with the rest of us. I ask this as somebody who favors immigration reform: you’re making my life more difficult.
So stop that.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
So, let us review the sequence of events leading up to this confirmation: Continue reading Congressional inquiry confirms: Waxman is an idiot*.
What I’m about to say is not really directed towards Glenn Reynolds, Matt Welch, and/or Stacy McCain, as I’m guessing that they already know this. But for anybody who’s missed this particular memo: what the SPLC produces is not political science, or policy positions. It’s pornography.
And while I don’t quite mean that literally, I am uncomfortably aware that by doing so I might have been just a little too charitable to the people that consume what the SPLC produces.
What I tell you three times is true: get a camera. Get a camera. GET A CAMERA:
For those without video, the above (courtesy of Andrew Breitbart) shows an alternate view of Rep. Andre Carson and Rep. John Lewis’ infamous walk out of the Cannon Building, on the day that the two Congressmen claimed to have been taunted with racial slurs. As Andrew put it: Continue reading More video of the Carson/Lewis affair.
And they should have done this, too.
Gallup just published a poll on voter enthusiasm, broken down by age. The main point – younger voters are showing fairly typical enthusiasm levels towards the 2010 elections (i.e., low ones) – is interesting (and entertaining), but there’s another important bit that did not get particularly addressed. And it’s an even more entertaining point. Continue reading What Gallup *didn’t* do with their enthusiasm poll.
