Unless you’re one of these people – which is to say, probably not an American – who know what the trophies represented, of course. Doesn’t matter: it’s still pretty cutting.
Via Jules Crittenden.
Author: Moe_Lane
So… recent comments box?
Now that we’ve had a couple of weeks? Or should I just increase the number of posts visible on the front page?
I’m actually kind of pumped about the Ron Sims pick.
“Deputy HUD Secretary testifies in election fraud case” makes for a much sexier headline than “County executive testifies in election fraud case.”
And before people start arguing that the Master loves us, and would never betray us that this is a nonsense lawsuit, please note that as King County Executive Ron Sims is already directly responsible for “blatant violations of the state Public Records Act” – so blatant, in fact, that the courts keep sending the case back in order to keep upping the fines. So it’s not as if Stefan’s own case (which is likewise based around FOIA requests, and the allegation that Sims had delayed fulfilling them in order to help the Democrats win the 2004 Gregoire/Rossi race) is exactly sui generis, is it?
Ed Morrissey doesn’t ask the question, so I will: what was Obama’s vetting team doing for the last few months? Playing World of Warcraft
Crossposted at RedState
CBC preparing to oppose Obama over Gregg?
Probably not, but maybe some day the progressives will find their spines again.
Glenn Thrush has a statement from CBC Chair Rep. Barbara Lee that certainly sounds like they’re reserving the option:
“In this light, Sen. Gregg’s record of previously voting to abolish the Commerce Department and his attempts to block President Bill Clinton’s efforts to secure adequate funding for the 2000 census raise troubling concerns regarding his commitment to the department’s core missions.
We may know more when they get around to putting the press release on their own site. Continue reading CBC preparing to oppose Obama over Gregg?
Having chewed off the currently-available meat of Obama’s new rendition policy…
…and having accomplished my primary mission of ensuring that as much of the Online Left as possible is now incapable of saying “I was never told that what I did was wrong” about themselves – I suggest Dissenting Justice for your future reading along these lines. It should be fascinating to watch: I think that this is Professor Darren Hutchinson’s first real experience dealing with progressives who have had their status as the most moral people in the room questioned, and it should be a quite illuminating experience for the guy. Hopefully not too traumatic, though. It’s always… weird… the first time that you encounter somebody who has visibly decided to put you in the Not-person box for your opinions. Fortunately, you get used to it.
(pause)
What a depressing sentence.
Dudes. If Mario Kart is such the thing…
…then, you know, order it online. Like this:
or this:
Or maybe you can get the Wii Wheel
Sheesh.
Moe Lane
PS: Long story, and I’m grinning as I write this, so don’t take it seriously.
This adaptation of Edelweiss is not actually an abomination.
No, really.
…even if you liked the song and the movie (by the way, in case nobody ever told you: it’s OK to like The Sound of Music
This, on the other hand: Continue reading This adaptation of Edelweiss is not actually an abomination.
Carrie Fisher hath a blog.
It’s… not bad.
Via Robin D Laws, who is on LiveJournal, but do not hold that against him. Particularly if you are into roleplaying games, of which he is an recognized demigod of the genre. On the off chance that you GM and Robin’s Laws
Murray (D) fattener to Obama-Reid-Pelosi debt bill blocked.
The final vote on the amendment – which would give 25 billion for supposed infrastructure renovations, while not defunding, say, a $30 million public parking garage in Auburn WA that’s going to benefit private transport providers – got shot down 58-39-02. This was a party-line vote: we picked up Landrieu, they got Bond and Specter, and Kennedy and Gregg sat it out (Kennedy is of course gravely ill these days, and Gregg’s the logical choice to sit out the vote in response). They needed 60.
Please note that Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), John McCain (R-AZ), and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) all voted with the rest of the Republican caucus. This is no guarantee that they will continue to do so, of course, although the bill is highly unpopular as-is. But it should be noted that so far they have been voting against spending more of your money.
They also voted to strip out the provision giving Hollywood some of your money, too. Although that one was bipartisan… which is to say, something like 14 Democrats scrambled to vote with us on that one and Vitter unaccountably voted for it. Maybe his finger slipped.
Crossposted at RedState.
178 + 50 > 218.
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Dems warn leaders to resume regular order
A group of more than 50 House Democrats has penned a letter to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) imploring him to “restore this institution” and see that the House returns to a “regular order” process of legislating.
The letter, signed by a large number of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition and the centrist New Democratic Coalition, has not yet been sent. Members are still gathering signatures in an effort to send the strongest signal possible to all top House Democrats that the caucus is up in arms over the top-down method of legislating employed by Democrats since late last year.
Hoyer, and not Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was chosen as the recipient not because he is viewed as the prime enemy, but “because this group has no better friend in this fight” than the majority leader — who is widely respected across the ideological spectrum for his adherence to rules and procedures — an aide said.