Wild pigs enter NY state ecosystem.

Alternate title: gun control now officially doomed in NY State.

No, I’m not being facetious: wild pigs are dangerous (something that the above article doesn’t really address).  They’re an aggressive, prolific, and intelligent species of omnivore that has no love for humanity (as many people have noted, pigs are smart enough to know why we keep them); states infested with them generally adopt a no-tolerance attitude towards the species.  It doesn’t help that domestic swine can breed back to wild boar in only a couple of generations, and anybody who knows anything about medieval European history can tell you how nasty wild boar can be.  The species is also hell on local ecosystems*.

So: if you’re big on the idea of gun control, keep wild pigs out of your state.  Because they’re  potentially worse than wolves, coyotes, bobcats, bears, and (theoretically) lions for being a trotting, snorting PR disaster for gun-grabbers.

Moe Lane

*Not as bad as goats are – but then, what is? And yes, that includes human beings.

#rsrh Springtime with Castro.

It’s spring, so it’s time for another article on how Communism in Cuba is surely on its last legs.  These hopeful articles spring up on a regular basis; the only problem is, it’s false hope.  Like it or not, the brain-drain of Cubans who are well aware that the United States – a country that will almost gleefully take them in and allow their talents to blossom – is a mere jury-rigged boat ride away means that the long-term prospects for reform are low. So we get the smart people who might have otherwise become actual reformers; they keep the idiots* who think that Marxism can be made to work, somehow.

In other words: great for us, bad for Cuba.  Don’t have an answer for that one, except maybe recognize the darn government and ease travel restrictions.  Not that I can really blame Barack Obama for not wanting to be the President who Castro finally beat; it’s not like every President before him hadn’t come to the same decision…

Moe Lane

*Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people.

Petitions stolen from Recall Dave Hansen (D) office?

This is not what democracy looks like.

Allegedly, the burglars were after the petitions gathered to recall Dave Hansen, who was one of the Wisconsin Democratic senators who fled the state rather than participate in the democratic process. Which – if this was in fact done by Democratic party operatives or sympathizers – would merely demonstrate that Hansen is in fact fairly representative of his party, at that.

The good news is that the recall folks say that they still have enough signatures, so it should have no insurmountable effect on the recall process, but you can expect that local Democrats will try to wring as much advantage out of any disruption as possible. Whether or not the Democrats were actually involved – and if this story checks out, the Wisconsin Democratic party leadership will heartily regret it if any member traceable back to their party was actually involved; this is felony territory. Serious felony territory.

H/T: @diggrbiii.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Please note that in fact this is still an ‘alleged’ crime (although the news that the recall folks have enough signatures anyway argues that it in fact happened).

#rsrh ‘Utahn.’

This is apparently the word for “person from Utah.”  Which is actually pretty cool, although not as cool as “Utonian” (which is the one that my wife came up with).  Then again, Utonian suggests ray guns, which we don’t really have.

Yet.

(pause)

What?  Surely you don’t expect me to take the rest of this article about Jon Huntsman seriously.  Free hint, folks: Republicans wishing to be my party’s nominee in 2012 would be well-advised not to take a job with this administration.  As they say in Ann Arbor, Michigan: that dog won’t hunt.

Moe Lane

PS: Ann Arbor has a population of over a hundred thousand.  Surely two people in that sample have uttered that saying in recent memory…

Book of the Week: The Meowmorphosis.

The Meowmorphosis (Quirk Classics) … because you knew that the king of the mash-ups would go there, eventually.  Well, maybe not specifically there there – but honestly, are you surprised?  This one won’t be out until next month, so you’ll have plenty of time to recover from the SAN loss.

And now, we are after After Dachau.  As noted before; a good book, and an uncomfortable one.

#rsrh QotD, Charming Naivete Edition.

Jim Geraghty’s usually more clear-headed than this (background here and here: essentially, the Democrats are apparently recruiting retired General Ricardo Sanchez for TX-SEN, which is kind of awkward, given how they kept accusing him of war crimes and everything):

it seems unlikely that Republicans would try to use the Abu Ghraib issue against Sanchez in a Senate election.

Um.  It’s Texas.  The place that came up with the Pigf*cker Gambit*.  Bringing up the inconvenient fact that the same people boosting Sanchez now are the same people braying for his blood during the Bush administration is a trivial exercise in comparison…

Moe Lane

*Supposedly, LBJ in a Congressional race one told his campaign manager to spread around the rumor that his opponent was a known, well, pigf*cker.  His campaign manager protested that LBJ himself knew that this rumor was blatantly untrue.  LBJ happily acknowledged that – but he wanted it done anyway, simply to get his opponent to publicly deny the charge.

#rsrh The New Civility on parade. (Bueller… Bueller… Bueller…)

Don’t watch this if you have a problem with bad language, rude gestures, and Commies engaging in hate speech towards homosexuals (which is, of course, an old tradition among Commies):

On the other hand:

Now we know what Cameron’s been doing with himself since Ferris Bueller’s Day Off*.  Sorry about the cropping, but this guy had a real fetish for the Hawaiian good-luck symbol.

Via @DLoesch.

Moe Lane

*Yeah, that’s right: I’m using Commies to try to sell consumer goods for a corporation, in order to make some money for myself.  That’s because this is America, baby, and Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people.