Kill the Bill rally in Washington.

Smitty over at the Other McCain is covering it; see also Michelle Malkin.  Glenn Reynolds has an unconfirmed report of 30K so far, which if true should frighten Democrats generally, as this is a pickup protest.  Glenn also has pictures of the event, which will no doubt start the usual discussion about how many right-of-center people showed up to protest, in the hopes that it will distract people from the more interesting point that right-of-center people are now increasingly likely to show up to protest…

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, it’d be great if I was there.  It’d also be great if I had a budget.  Not a complaint, just an observation; as Dan noted in his excellent post, it’s the other side that gets the funding.  So it goes.

Crossposted to RedState.

#rsrh The Phoenix PC. The COMMODORE Phoenix.

Not a joke: the company has been negotiating the right to use the Commodore name.

Zero footprint, all-in-keyboard, supposedly will run Windows, Linux, and (via user modification) Mac OS. Here are the technical specs: more on this computer here and here.  No word on price, although I don’t expect it to be as cheap as my old C64, even after you adjust for inflation and relative wealth levels then and now.

Bottom line?  Make it beige – real Commodore computers are beige – and I’ll think about it.

#rsrh Seven-to-five and pick ’em at this point…

…if you’re following the health care debacle, you don’t need a link to know that the pro-choice wing-and-three-quarters of the Democratic party is screaming bloody murder about Pelosi’s latest reversal; and if you’re not, you want me to SHUT UP ABOUT HEALTH CARE.

Fine. Here’s a video of what was possibly the only pet hippo in existence.


If the hippo ended up eating its human owners, don’t tell me.

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, I know that hippos are herbivores.

Democrats told to evade details of CBO scoring.

[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers.

Explicitly.  From a Thursday memo on the subject:

We cannot emphasize enough: do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative.  Instead, focus only on the deficit reductions and number of Americans covered.

Emphasis theirs, not mine.  Also:

The inclusion of a full SGR [‘sustainable growth rate’ – ML] repeal would undermine reform’s budget neutrality.  So, again, do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative.  Instead, focus only on the deficit reductions and number of Americans covered.

As most health staff knows, Leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians support for a full SGR repeal later this spring.  However, both health and communications staff should understand we do not want that policy discussion discussed at this time…

I’d ask what they were so afraid of, but I already know the answer – and so do you.

Moe Lane

PS: Obviously, there’s no need to accommodate them in their desire to avoid this issue.

Crossposted to RedState.

#rsrh Q & A time with Peggy Noonan.

(Who is, by the way, about halfway through the process of Learning Her Lesson):

Q. “I wonder at what point the administration will realize it wasn’t worth it—worth the discord, worth the diminution in popularity and prestige, worth the deepening of the great divide.“

A. Election Night, 2012.

Assuming that the President even runs for re-election.  I know, I know, that sounds silly: after all, the Democrats still think that they can pull out the votes on health care rationing.  But the job situation sucks, frankly; and it’s not going to stop sucking any time soon; and jobs creation is not even the next thing on the legislative horizon.  And I don’t think that the man even likes being President.  And not in that good way, either.

Well, we’ll see.

Moe Lane

The ‘Pulp Bard’ project seems to have not lasted…

…alas, many hopeful Internet projects fail of their promise.  While it lived, though, it produced this:

Julius: Your pardon; did I break thy concentration?
        Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
        Allow me, then, to offer a retort.
        Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.
Brett:  What?
Julius: What country dost thou hail from?
Brett:  What?
Julius: Thou sayest thou dost hail from distant What!
        I know but naught of thy strange country What.
        What language speak they in the land of What?
Brett:  What?
Julius: English, base knave, dost thou speak it?
Brett:  Aye!
Julius: Then hearken to my words and answer them!
        Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!
Brett:  What?
(JULIUS presses his knife to BRETT's throat)
Julius: Speak 'What' again! Thou cur, cry 'What' again!
        I dare thee utter 'What' again but once!
        I dare thee twice and spit upon thy name!
        Now, paint for me a portraiture in words,
        If thou hast any in thy head but 'What',
        Of Marsellus Wallace!
...

…so it did not utterly fail. Continue reading The ‘Pulp Bard’ project seems to have not lasted…