Starts off as a mention of Larry Summers’ mucking up Harvard’s financial position; ends up with one talking about the other’s knowledge of show-tunes. So the other forgets the one’s first name, so guess what that means? Continue reading The Other McCain vs. Instapundit.
Author: Moe_Lane
ACORN: We have a right to take over foreclosed houses.
Your tax money is paying for this.
Several billion dollars’ worth, if I recall?
(Via Technomancy for Fun and Profit.)
Continue reading ACORN: We have a right to take over foreclosed houses.
I cannot take this worst-movie list of Ed Morrissey’s seriously.
It completely lacks Batman & Robin.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Hot Air readers: for the record, while I agree with Ed’s “no sequel” rule in principle, in practice B&R is simply too transcedently bad to withstand any attempts to remove it from consideration. Constant Reader Matt in comments also suggests Dracula – Dead and Loving It
Racism watch: Recall petition against Cao (R, LA-02)
Fortunately, it won’t go anywhere, so the Democrats will have to try to win this seat back on their own, with no shenanigans. Note that even the AP isn’t buying the ‘ostensible’ reason for this:
NEW ORLEANS — Legal roadblocks will likely doom an effort launched this week to recall U.S. Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, the Vietnamese Republican who scored a surprise December victory in a predominantly black, mostly Democratic New Orleans congressional district.
Still, the petition drive, started by two black ministers only weeks after Cao took office, demonstrates the challenges he’ll face if he seeks a second term in 2010.
“At this point it’s going to be more symbolic than substantive,” pollster and political consultant Silas Lee said Friday of the recall effort, ostensibly launched to protest Cao’s vote against the federal stimulus package. “But symbolism carries a powerful message.”
Via Libertarian Republican, via The Other McCain. Continue reading Racism watch: Recall petition against Cao (R, LA-02)
Books of the week changes.
First off, thanks to Constant Reader Matt we have our replacement for Momfidence!
Also, there’s Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen
Danger Pudding. For the cook who has something to *prove*.
Via Plumcake of Manolo for the Big Girl. And the name means it. You do this recipe wrong, the pudding explodes.
This is not an exaggeration. The. Pudding. Explodes. There are, like, physics involved, and stuff. There will be metal bits flying around the kitchen, at reasonably high velocity. There will be a large amount of boiling, sticky, sugary liquid right behind it. The only way to avoid that is to monitor the pudding for several hours, in order to make sure that it doesn’t explode. So there’s a bit of a challenge to one’s fortitude, there.
Of course people say that Danger Pudding is delicious. Would you risk third-degree burns and facial scarring for something that was disgusting?
Moe Lane
PS: DANGER PUDDING!
…OK, I’ll stop now.
What were Rahm Emanuel’s (D) links to Tim Mahoney (D), anyway?
[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.
No, I don’t have any updates to the FBI investigation of former Congressman Mahoney (D, FL-16) and whether he used campaign funds to pay off one of his mistresses, sorry. That’s going to be a quiet kind of story until the FBI finishes said investigation; after all, Mahoney was brutally sacrificed to the media gods by the Democratic Party desperate to have that story not derail their 2008 Congressional campaign. People who may find themselves accused of anything similar, please note: don’t count on a payback for your loyalty – even if you happen to be innocent, which Mahoney was almost certainly not.
Which brings me to my next point. Rahm Emanuel. Name was linked to Mahoney’s back then – something about sanitizing the record – but nobody in the media was interested in pushing on that for very long. But now that Rep. Emanuel is COS Emanuel, and now that we’re reminded that Emanuel’s a Freddie Mac guy who entered into lucrative contracts on the DCCC’s behalf with his landlord’s polling firm (it’s claimed that it was a complete coincidence that he wasn’t paying rent), one does have to ask: what, exactly, did Rahm Emanuel have to do with Tim Mahoney’s little payoff problem?
And can we get an answer under oath? I only ask because there’s been an awful lot of Democrats Behaving Badly stories in the news lately.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Reminder: March 15th is International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day.
Mark your calendars, and start haunting the meat aisle.
EATAPETA is a traditional holiday started by Meryl Yourish, and much beloved by those who get annoyed by the group (quite bipartisan, by the way: I’ve seen vegans go off on PETA). The Anchoress recommends that you go with seafood for this year’s festivities, what with the entire “sea kitten” thing: Musing Minds is taking recipes. But that might be because of the Lent thing.
As always, remember: if you happen to be someone who does not eat meat – and there are a variety of valid reasons why people personally choose not to do so – but you despise PETA anyway, just throw BBQ sauce on whatever it is that you’re eating in order to symbolically reject the group.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Department of Justice: Bagram detainees lack constitutional rights.
“Having considered the matter, the government adheres to its previously articulated position…”
Dear hardcore antiwar movement:
Love,
The neoconservative movement.
PS: We won. You lost. Again.
PPS: We’ll be sleeping like babies tonight, by the way. It’s one of the perks of being the good guys.
PPPS: Now go back to work! President Obama requires your labor and money on his behalf.
(H/T Hot Air)
Crossposted at RedState.
Gov. Rendell (D): ‘skeptical’ about the stimulus.
Gov. Rendell (D): Would like to run for Senator in 2010.
So no harm in hedging his bets, right? Via PA Watercooler:
Gov. Rendell skeptical about stimulus potential
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) backed the $787 billion stimulus but said Saturday that he isn’t sure whether it will actually fix the economy.
Rendell, at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, said Saturday that all governors are committed to making sure that the stimulus is used for measures that can boost their states out of the recession. But he said that most governors will be watching to see what kind of effect it has on the economy.
Continue reading Gov. Rendell (D): ‘skeptical’ about the stimulus.