On the perils of allowing yourself too much identification with NPCs:
It’s a dangerous game to love that which has stats and therefore can be killed.
Actually, that last panel of FFN has another good line, too. It’s one of the better webcomics out there; a shame that it’s just once a week.
Anonymously, of course. The next Democratic staffer who has the guts to attack a conservative woman to her face will be the first.
The DNC, the political wing of a president who launched his campaign decrying slash-and-burn campaign tactics, is highlighting new stories about a sex scandal rocking a GOP primary.
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“We don’t see a thing wrong pointing out when a politician of the other party lies to voters which the story in question shows here,” the spokesman said.
So, how do you know she’s lying, again, Mr. Anonymous Hero? Or was this just covering up for the fact that your staffers can’t tell an internal email list from a external one?
Moe Lane
PS: Your sabotage of the President’s own soaring rhetoric on the need to transcend petty politics is duly noted.
Crossposted to RedState.
You know, I’ve been putting up videos like these since I started the blog, and I still don’t understand the hair.
On why Alexi Giannoulias (D CAND, IL-SEN) still hasn’t managed to release his income tax statements for 2009:
The Giannoulias camp notes that the candidates finances have become increasingly complex because of the failure of Broadway Bank, owned by his family.
I imagine that they would be. After all: obviously, taking a hit of $20M on bad loans to pimps and bookies would be a loss; but what kind of loss? I’m not a tax attorney, so I’m not up on that kind of arcana.
Moe Lane
PS: Mark Kirk for Senate. Because Republicans aren’t allowed to muck about with their tax returns.
Air conditioning is the bane of my existence.
In context, I believe that it refers to ‘male nudity,’ which is apparently merely one of the things* that one can encounter in Dante’s Inferno
Continue reading Word of the Day: “Dudity.”
…No, that’s not Broadway Bank. Broadway Bank is the Illinois bank that Alexi Giannoulias (D CAND, IL-SEN) used to brag about being involved with, right up to the point that it came out that his family was using it to give $20M loans to bookies and pimps, not to mention driving it into the ground.
No, ShoreBank is the latest Illinois bank on-track for being bailed out:
…Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Sheila Bair has recommended that the Treasury accept ShoreBank’s application for a new life, sources tell FOX Business, which, if approved by Treasury would pair the $140 million with $75 million in taxpayer money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the government program used to bail out the big banks during the 2008 financial meltdown.
The doubts about ShoreBank’s future add a new wrinkle to the controversy surrounding the bank’s bailout. Executives at several of the banks told FOX Business they will not give any additional bailout money, meaning that if the funding falls short the U.S. taxpayer may be asked to make up the difference once again. Meanwhile, officials at several of the banks that joined the consortium have complained that they received some political pressure to come up with the cash from people with ties to the Obama administration, including from Bair herself.
(Via AoSHQ Headlines) How does one top a headline like this?
Answer: through the careful dispersal of details.
OK, it’s that last one that actually gives the original crime a run for its money in the ‘creepy weird’ race. There’s just something about the implication that if the police had only gotten there more quickly this investigation would have ended with an impromptu barbecue…
Amusing Internet fact: once upon a time, many members of the Online Left was actually despondent that the Constitution forbid Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm from running for President (she isn’t a born citizen*). This would be before the breakdown of… well, show me a part of Michigan that hasn’t broken down by now. Latest example comes from the city of Flint (via theblogprof):
Shootings have become so widespread in the city that two former state representatives are talking about calling in the National Guard to help calm violence on Flint’s streets.
Former state representative Vera Rison said Tuesday that help is needed immediately, and during a meeting of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners today, Brenda Clack quizzed Sheriff Robert Pickell about the potential for getting help from guardsmen as well.
Continue reading Gov. Granholm (D, MI) called to call out the National Guard.
He’s finally noticed that the hull’s full of iceberg, so it’s time to get those deckchairs rearranged:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said during a Wednesday morning meeting with committee chairmen that he and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) intended to hold them to a Friday deadline to submit detailed lists of duplicative and wasteful programs that can be eliminated from the $3 trillion budget.
“You need to produce something on this,” Hoyer said, according to a person in the room. “You all need to find some programs to cut.”
Continue reading And now, a little screaming from Steny Hoyer.
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