Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
But so far, everything’s fine. Just fine.
Author: Moe_Lane
Turnout low in IL-05.
This has been noticed by both Ace and Geraghty (and again, here): turnout’s low in IL-05. How low? Rahm Emanuel forgot to vote. I am not writing this to offer false hope: it’s an incredibly tough district for us to win, and Rosanna Pulido hasn’t exactly gotten her party behind her. But, oddly enough, neither has Mike Quigley. He’s heavily favored to win, but he’s gotten virtually no support – which is odd; you’d think that the Democrats wouldn’t turn their nose up at hyping an easy win, particularly since they’re either 0-for-3 or 0-for-4, depending on how you think NY-20’s going right now. But this one is being pretty much left up to the candidates.
If I had to guess, I don’t think that establishment Democrats want to lose the seat, per se: they just don’t think that making sure that they don’t lose it is worth the effort. After all, Emanuel’s going to want to go back to the House some day. Quigley in that seat will be harder to dislodge than a GOP interloper.
I guess that we’ll see tonight. In the meantime, if you live in IL-05, go vote. Either way, you’re probably going to tick off the Illinois Democratic party.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
The Laptop Replacement Fund Drive Update.
[UPDATE] The links should work now. Sorry. Use this: Please click on the Donate button on the right until I figure out what went wrong.
As you know, my laptop computer died; the good news is that I’m about halfway to my goal to get enough money together to replace it. The bad news is that I got that money through one exceptionally generous donor, which is why I’m shaking the tip jar in a shameless fashion again.
Folks, I ain’t going to lie to you: this isn’t a situation where it’s give me money or I lose my house. But as Brother Erick Erickson noted here, me and the rest of the Right-sphere are pretty much doing this stuff on our own dime. A laptop doesn’t improve the quality of life for me here at home and it doesn’t make it easier to do my primary job (which is raising my kid); it merely makes it easier for me to cover public events of interest to my readers. I only had my original one in the first place because I was able to get it to work on the cheap. So if you’ve liked the political stuff that I’ve done in the past, please: hit the tip jar, because I don’t have an equipment budget.
Moe Lane
PS: And if you’re not interested in helping me specifically, hey, I’m sure that you have a favorite blogger who could just as easily use a sawbuck or two dropped in his or her tip jar.
Elections have consequences, Megan.
I agree with you that there are legitimate reasons why the market doesn’t create more ‘green’ products – aside from everything else, clearly superior products don’t need the ‘green’ label to sell better – but when it comes to the specific example of banning phosphates in dish detergent we’re dealing with a situation where the market was overruled by the politicians. And, oddly enough, the politicians in question all come from the same political party. Stereotypically so, in fact. Justifiably stereotypically, in double fact.
Hey, don’t look at me. I voted for the other guys. And while they may be not quite libertarian enough to suit, at least they’re not constitutionally ready to make you wash your dishes three times so that they can feel better…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Senator Inhofe’s video response to DoD budget cuts.
On-scene in Afghanistan.
Senator Jim Inhofe (R, OK) had some harsh words about proposed DoD cuts:
The text version of these comments may be found here. Continue reading Senator Inhofe’s video response to DoD budget cuts.
God help me, I’ve seen most of these films.
Cracked Topics: Vampires. Generally spot-on, except that the author left out Innocent Blood
Also: I haven’t actually seen any of the Otherworld films, on the grounds that there’s some suggestion that White Wolf
I think that Bill Whittle is being a little apocalyptic, here.
I don’t debate the sentiment: dependency on others is a strongly addictive mental and moral habit, and one that isn’t all that easy to shake. And it does do weird, and not very good things, to your head. So watching people like Joel Berg demand that they be allowed to take from the Rich what’s not being freely offered by them is indeed disturbing. Especially since it’s clear that Berg doesn’t actually recognize the right of a person to have the final say over his or her own labor. All that being said, I think that we’re not yet at the point where we have to have the Rich leave before the rest of the population gets it through their heads that redistributing the wealth doesn’t actually, you know, work.
Nope. I think that an election cycle or two where Rich people start voting their class interests will actually do the job nicely. Let’s see how pumped the Democrats are about taking away people’s money when the funding dries up…
(H/T: Instapundit)
Crossposted to RedState.
XtraNormal Beta.
I’m probably going to have to yell at Ace (that video that was done for him ain’t safe for work, by the way) for pointing this XtraNormal site out, the next time that I see him. Or at least make him buy the first beer. It’s distressingly fascinating: the site lets you generate 3D movies using text. There’s just enough choices to demonstrate that I’m not that great at blocking out movies.
Anyway, the first verse of Lepanto
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-NE) betrays Netroots on Card Check.
One hopes that not too many progressives spent their vacation money on grassroots support:
I mean, it’s not their kids’ fault.
Via @seanhackbarth.
Crossposted at RedState.
The sputtering of the Obama machine.
That’s the word that the Washington Post used, so don’t blame me (H/T: Glenn Reynolds):
Obama’s Machine Sputters in Effort to Push Budget
Grass-Roots Campaign Has Little EffectWhen his post-campaign organization was unveiled in January, Barack Obama vowed that the 13 million-strong grass-roots network built during his presidential campaign would play a “crucial role” in enacting his agenda from the White House.
But in its first big test, the group dubbed Organizing for America (OFA) had little obvious impact on the debate over President Obama’s budget, which passed Congress on Thursday with no Republican support and a splintering of votes among conservative Democrats. The capstone of the campaign was the delivery of 214,000 signatures to Capitol Hill, which swayed few, if any, members of Congress, according to legislative aides from both parties.