And on that note…

…I need to get ready for a SCA event.

In the meantime, I saw the words ‘G-Force trailer’ and prepared the snark… until I watched the trailer.

We call that ‘cognitive dissonance.’ And ‘well, at least it’s a Jerry Bruckheimer film.’ Yes, that’s a selling point: Jerry knows what I want to see in a film, and he makes sure that I see it.

A probably trite observation on ‘stimulus’ jobs.

It was, nonetheless, an alarming thought to wake up to:  even if you accept the concept that the ‘stimulus’ bill that Congress saddled on us is creating jobs –

And that’s subject to debate:

…we’re shifting any jobs generated away from useful ones, like manufacturing, and towards useless ones, like government.

Have a nice morning!

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Two random cable-binging movie observations.

This isn’t exactly a stunning revelation or anything, but seeing the Michael Keaton Batman after you’ve seen The Dark Knight is… interesting. The first isn’t bad, but it’s definitely nothing like the second.

Also, Con Air is living proof that a movie doesn’t actually have to make any coherent sense in order to be great. Or at least worth watching again.

Read this for the ‘blood simple’ concept alone.

The rest of it is worth reading, too – but this part is really important:

Furthermore, it seems that many Republicans have become blood simple. A phrase, I’m told, which refers to the stupid robotic state that people sometimes fall into when they’ve seen blood shed or have shed blood themselves.

Some Republicans are so shell-shocked the jump at any moderately-loud noise. They’re spooked. Their nerves are shot. They are no longer capable of distinguishing between outgoing fire and incoming fire. They hear fire of any kind, and they jump to the ground and extend their hands over their heads in prone surrender.

These people need to realize their nerves are shot and that they are no longer suitable for political combat and shut the hell up.

By the way, there is no shame in having had this happen to you. It is not a sign of personal weakness. Sometimes people just get overwhelmed, that’s all.

Crossposted to RedState.

Elections have consequences, Indiana Jones.

I (like Hot Air) fully agree with Harrison Ford: this is not the time to drop a whole new round of potentially job-destroying fees on any struggling business. Particularly when it comes to a struggling business that’s as struggling as the aviation business:

THAT’S WHY I VOTED FOR THE OTHER GUY, DUMBASS.

Moe Lane

PS: “I like Ike,” remember? Ever wonder why that line got cheered? Sheesh.

Crossposted to RedState.

No longer traveling.

But, apparently, my mom’s cable modem refuses to admit that my laptop exists, let alone is worthy of an Ethernet connection.  This is simply going to limit my presence for the next couple of days.

In the meantime, I got this from Lorie Byrd.  I promise to give full attribution as soon as I can get Adode Flash Player up and running on my mom’s new laptop, I swear. Done.

Nice deal on Flip video cameras.

(H/T: Glenn Reynolds).  I ‘m not normally this unsubtle in pointing this stuff out.  Then again, they’re not normally offering Flip camcorders at two-thirds off, so what the heck. Seriously, a camcorder is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool in blogging, particularly if you’re doing anything like local journalism. The difference is like night and day in what you can do: the one that I have now has seriously improved both my access and my reach.

In fact, I’m even thinking of an upgrade; so hit the tip jar, or something.





Moe Lane

Barney Frank intervenes in keeping district GM plant open.

(Via Protein Wisdom) How fortunate the subjects* of MA-04 are to have as their overlord someone who can make certain that the collective pain of an automotive company bailout ends up collectively pains everybody else but them:

Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.) won a stay of execution on Thursday for a General Motors plant in his district that the automaker had announced it would close.

No other lawmaker has managed to halt the GM ax. As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Frank oversees the government’s bailout program, known as TARP. Frank’s staff said the lawmaker spokes with GM CEO Fritz Henderson on Wednesday and convinced him to keep the Norton, Mass. plant open for at least 14 months.

GM announced Monday in its bankruptcy and restructuring plans it would close of nine of its plants and idle three others. The automaker said it would also shutter three service and parts operations by the end of the year — one of which is in Frank’s district.

Bad luck for the folks in the yet-to-be-determined plant that thought that their jobs were safe, and now have to lose them because MA-04’s subjects are special – more accurately, because their overlord is special – but I’m sure that the Democrats will find a suitably Republican district to punish.  After all, once you’ve decided that some animals are more equal than others, why not go whole hog, as it were?

Moe Lane

PS: This would be the time where I would suggest that the subjects of MA-04 should make the decision that they want to be citizens, again: only, I can’t quite make myself believe that there’s any chance that the suggestion would work.

*That should be an insult that would start fights in bars in this country; but it’s not.  Alas.

Crossposted to RedState.