Well, *I’m* tired of hearing him talk about it… #rsrh

…so I guess that we’re even.

“The time for talk is over. It’s time to vote. It’s time to vote. Tired of talking about it,” [Obama] told the crowd.

Note that the AP cut the comment later, as per their new Why even pretend to objective journalism? program.  James Lileks once suggested – not seriously, I’m sure – that most design magazines and trade journals have had a lot of convenient fires ravage the portion of their archives that dealt with the Seventies; I wonder what excuse surviving news organizations will offer for the lack of certain types of data from 2007-2013.  Asteroid strikes, probably.  Very precise asteroid strikes.

Moe Lane

PS: If you’re tired of talking about this, Mr. President, you could always, you know, shut up or something.

PPS: Sorry, Mr. President.  I haven’t had my coffee yet, and I get cranky when I haven’t had my coffee yet and I encounter people who want to blame everybody but themselves for a problem.

Oh, BTW, real quick: we’re being nice to Honduras again. #rsrh

Quietly, and with none of the fanfare that we dedicated to originally interfering with their counter-coup operations:

Six months after the US cut aid to Honduras following its refusal to reinstate ousted leader Manuel Zelaya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a first step toward normalizing relations with Honduras this week when she announced the United States would be restoring $37 million in aid.

(Via Legal Insurrection) So, no harm done… what’s that? When do we apologize? HA! Never. This administration doesn’t go in for apologizing for things that they’ve done; that would imply that they were wrong about something, and this administration would rather contract rabies en masse than do that. And there’s no way to blame this mess on George W Bush, thus depriving them of their usual out.

Hey, I didn’t vote for them.

Moe Lane

Meet Charles Djou (R CAND, HI-01).

Not a CPAC video, but Councilman Djou was within video range yesterday for just enough time for me to stop by and have a quick talk with him about the HI-01 election. Executive summary: he’s got a good shot at it. He’s the only Republican in a field of three (the other two are Democrats sniping at each other); his district performed pretty strongly for Bush and Lingle (and his Councilman’s District is inside HI-01, too); and his fundraising has been good. Djou’s site is here: check him out.

In person? Smart guy, strong on fiscal conservatism, in it to win it. And endlessly patient when it comes to explaining the local intricacies of Hawaiian elections.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

‘Why then, this is Hell’ Watch: March 10, 2010.

I know that generally runway fashion models are expected to wear, well, very stupid articles of what might have been clothing once, in more innocent times… OK, let me stop there before I shoehorn a mad scientist into that metaphor.  Anyway:

Again, I know that they’re expected to wear… things.  But this is just somebody being mean.  And not artistic mean, either.

Durbin to Obama: ‘YOU LIE!’ #rsrh

[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit & Hot Air readers.

…well, as much as a Democratic party career politician can manage it, at least:

Which is to say, it’s even money that Dick Durbin (D, IL) isn’t sufficiently aware of the political battlespace to know that he had called the head of his political party a liar.

Moe Lane

[UPDATE]: Ed Morrissey is collecting reactions. And The New Ledger beat me out on using my own video…

My first thought was ‘Death panels,’ too…

…as per the first comment in this Hot Air post about Kent Pankow.  But that’s absurd: we’ve been told by all sorts of people that such things could never, ever, ever happen under a government-run universal health care regime.

Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy.

Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer.

Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place.

And why would it never happen?  Because the Master loves us and would never hurt us… look!  A squirrel!

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Cynthia Yockey forwards* a question for the ages.

“Is incense not a sin?”

I believe that in some Protestant sects it would be, on the grounds of it being crypto-Popery.  Hmm.  ‘Popepourri?’

Moe Lane

PS: I leave the question of where the children of Adam and Eve – particularly Cain – got their spouses to actual Bible literalists, as it is a question relevant to their worldview, not mine.  Besides, one gets the impression that the primary motivation for many people of asking said question is more or less “I feel like being a schmuck today.”

*She’s not asking it.  Merely passing along the chuckle.