Author: Moe_Lane

Alas, not an update to the squirrel detonation story.

Let me just repeat the title again: Spokane parks to detonate squirrels using propane-fueled explosions. To paraphrase Bloom County, that title just sings.

Anyway, Stop the ACLU (via Hot Air’s Green Room’s Laura) takes this opportunity to kick PETA a little for equating military medical trauma exercises using animals (I’m sanitizing what happens there) with torture of humans. I’d be a lot more impressed with that argument if PETA was willing to put up volunteers ready to get deliberately and seriously injured in order to give the doctors somebody to practice on. Or if I thought that PETA was recruiting from the percentage of the population that thinks that having less dead or permanently crippled American troops was a good thing.

Hey, the next neocon you see in PETA’s ranks will be the first, you know what I mean?

Crossposted to RedState.

Oh, so that miserable SOB is in Escape from Hell?

And being handled properly*?  I always knew there was a reason why I liked Niven & Pournelle.

We will be the ones who decide who to remember from that day. We will remember people like this man:

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Professor Liviu Librescu
1930-2007

…and not his murderer.

Two days until the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Moe Lane

*I know this murderer’s name, but I will not repeat it.

A most excellent series of posts about the Breeze of Spithead…

…may be found at Age of Sail.  This is an account of a rather significant mutiny among the British fleet during the period just before the Napoleonic Wars: I am not that familiar with the events in question, which only makes this more interesting to me.

I probably should pick up Floating Republic… unless Age of Sail has another suggestion?

I’d just like to note for the record…

…that some of us squishy-soft, pro-‘amnesty,’ pro-SSM, don’t-give-a-flying-leap about medical marijuana, apostate former-Democrat neocon chickenhawk moderate RiNOs might find the scheduled explosion of our deficit and national debt just a bit provocative enough to justify going to a Tea Party on Wednesday, too.

Arrr.

Moe Lane

PS: Still haven’t seen any of that sweet, sweet Right-wing shill money since this morning, ya, you betcha.  Maybe they sent it to my old address?

Crossposted to Redstate.

A public service announcement for any pirates reading this.

Should you ever find yourself surrounded by the United States Navy, holding an American hostage, and (supposedly) out of ammunition, follow these three simple steps:

  1. Carefully put down your now-useless weapons.
  2. Carefully place your hands on your heads and kneel.
  3. Yell out, as loudly as you can, “DON’T SHOOT!  WE SURRENDER! DON’T SHOOT!”

That might keep you from getting shot by the United States Navy.  I say “might” – like Ed Morrissey, I’m a firm believer in the need to make it clear that it’s inadvisable to take Americans prisoner in the first place – but, believe me: it’s better odds than the alternative.

Because actions have consequences.

Crossposted to RedState.

Glenn Greenwald still pro-torture.

Free hint, Greenwald: until you write the magic sentence “I regret supporting Barack Obama in the last election,” you aren’t getting out of that designation. It’s not enough to disapprove: you have to admit that you were wrong.

Link via Protein Wisdom, because I try not to link to pro-torture Obama supporters if I can help it.

Crossposted to RedState.

Democrats finally kill DC minority school program.

The Hell of it is, Dick Durbin’s probably proud of himself right now.

[UPDATE]: I am, of course, remiss in not pointing this story out from last week.

(Via AoSHQ) I got some critical – and instantly sent to spam – commentary after I posted this and this on the pending death of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program.  While I’m sure that the writers of said spam were of course very incensed at my posts, I am forced to admit that I was wrong about something about them: I was working under the assumption that publicity would at least keep this program alive. Particularly since the private school that the Obamas themselves send their kids to has students that would be affected by this program.

Silly me.  What’s a bunch of African-American kids, versus the teachers’ union?  Especially in this administration? Continue reading Democrats finally kill DC minority school program.

Star Trek premieres… in Kuwait.

I meant to post on this story about the Star Trek movie and crew over the weekend, but never got around to it until AoSHQ reminded me:

I am in the Army and currently deployed to Kuwait. We have a movie theater on post that shows “second run” movies, meaning that we get the movie about a week or two after they are released in the states. At times, a special effort is made to show the movie here on the same date it is released in the states. With that being said, I was shocked to see the movie schedule that was published for the first half of April. According to this schedule the new Star Trek movie will have a “special premier” on April 11th. I found it very hard to believe that we would be able to view a big “summer time blockbuster” movie that won’t premiere in the States for another 27 days.

Sure enough, the movie actually did get played today and I was able to get in to see it not just once, but twice. Not only did the movie arrive in Kuwait, but J.J. Abrams and most of the “bridge crew” cast (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Eric Bana and Karl Urban) were here as well.

Continue reading Star Trek premieres… in Kuwait.

Pirate located in Eyl, Somalia threatens America.

How do you say “punitive expedition” in Somali?

Eyl’s location: 7° 58′ 0″ N, 49° 49′ 0″ E.  Not that either the United States Navy or the Air Force particularly needs my help in pointing out the coordinates, but it will hopefully clarify matters. Anyway, here’s the comment:

Jamac Habeb, a 30-year-old self-proclaimed pirate, told The Associated Press that the three pirates’ deaths were “a painful experience.” Speaking from the pirate hub, Eyl, he added: “this will be a good lesson for us.”

“From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them,” Habeb said. “Now they became our number one enemy,” he said of U.S. forces.

Continue reading Pirate located in Eyl, Somalia threatens America.