Not directly, at least. You can see the latest Jew-hating filth from Pat Oliphant for yourself here, if you’re the morbid sort.
I know that this sort of hate speech is an unavoidable consequence of having a First Amendment, and I have no intention of ever trying to put an end to it. But I still feel like I just stepped in something vile with my bare feet.
Crossposted to RedState.
[UPDATE]: Ed Morrissey has a stronger stomach than I do. Also, a poll with which you can show your displeasure.
Where the working class has to pay for the good intentions of others.
Literally, in this case: Jesus & Maria Barajas, a Seattle working class couple (janitor, maid) have to shell out fifteen grand for a sidewalk that might not even last until the city gets around to putting one in themselves. They have to do this because they’re planning to put a new house on their property – one that they’ve been saving up to afford for over a decade – but because of a) the letter of a law designed to regulate developers and b) some bad luck in the zoning area* they’re on the hook for putting up the only sidewalk on their block. What makes this really obnoxious is that Seattle officials admit that the law was not intended to affect people like the Barajas, but they’re going to have to construct the sidewalk anyway.
But the city government of Seattle meant well, to be sure.
(H/T: Ace of Spades HQ)
Moe Lane
*This wouldn’t be an issue if they lived on the other side of the street. Literally: the zoning runs down the middle of the road.
Crossposted to RedState.
Battle Pope
I bring this up here because a recent conversation brought it to mind and I try to be unapologetic here about who I am and what I like. That works both ways. Besides, if Cynthia Yockey can get away with egging on conservative jello wrestling matches I figure that the tone’s not going to get any lower.
Moe Lane
Thanks to Tom Maguire over at Just One Minute we see this interview with Allen Barra, author of Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
I remember you told me a couple of years ago that you were starting this book and you were saying that it was amazing that there’s never been a serious biography of Yogi Berra. And after having read yours — don’t take this the wrong way — but I kind of get why. There’s no big flamboyant conflict and drama in his life. Did you find that that was something you had to overcome, that lack?
Well, let’s put it this way: There are certain eras in sports and baseball when that’s a plus. And it struck me a couple years ago, even then, that this would be one of those times. It might be nice to read about a guy that there are no big dramatic issues concerning. That’s why I liked the idea of writing about Yogi.
I wanted to write about a life in baseball and keep it apart from huge contracts, drug issues, everything that’s been plaguing the game over the last couple of years. And, happily, he’s also one of the greatest players in baseball history, and maybe the most underrated. Which seems funny when you think about it, because he’s probably the best-known former ballplayer around and yet he’s underrated. He’s underrated as a player.
My dad hated the Yankees in that special way reserved for Mets fans. To the day he died, in fact. But he loved Yogi Berra.
Moe Lane
*My favorite Yogi story. See, he came home one day and told his wife that the game that day had been interrupted by streakers. So Yogi’s wife asked him whether they were men or women streakers…
Rooting for injuries.
The conflict between two major Democratic candidates (mentioned in yesterday’s RedHot) for the nomination for Governor continues to escalate. For the benefit of those catching the story late, the two individuals are as follows:
Brian Moran: former Virginia state legislator. Brother of notorious anti-AIPAC conspiracy theorist Rep. Jim Moran (D, VA-08).
Pros: Is not Terry McAuliffe.
Cons: Is probably best known for being brother of notorious anti-AIPAC conspiracy theorist Rep Jim Moran (D, VA-08).
Terry McAuliffe: former chairman of the DNC (2001-2005) and Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
Pros: very good at raising money.
Cons: Is Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the DNC (2001-2005) and Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential campaign. Continue reading Moran, McAuliffe entering full contested-primary mode in VA.
…to write about the fairly predictable way that his comments about liberalism and the paranoid style were brushed off. Actually, I do know why. He wanted to write this last paragraph:
The point is that when liberals and leftists spout conspiracy theories and paranoid delusions — as they have for generations now — it’s written off by the liberal establishment as either an isolated incident, or an understandable exaggeration or, simply, the truth and therefore not a conspiracy theory. And: It Is Annoying.
Which It Is: and I recognize full well that it’s necessary and proper to keep pointing out that the major difference between their nuts and our nuts is that our nuts spout off their conspiracy theories on the Internet and local media outlets, not Congressional committees*. None the less, it’s a particularly thankless task, even if it is necessary. It’s not even the hostile responses that grate (those are, in fact, kind of fun to witness)…
Moe Lane
PS: At some point, I guess I should read Liberal Fascism
*Yeah. Waters was probably talking about the Jews, there. Hey, don’t look at me: it’s not my fault. When my party chose its legislative leaders unwisely we just picked people who bellied up to the trough right next to the Democrats. Besides, at least we kept gas prices down and the Dow up.
Crossposted to RedState.
Possibly not to this extreme, but it must be remembered: nothing brings the cameras – or the young men – like making sure that there’s plenty of attractive women in the front. PJ O’Rourke called this the Babe Theory in his indispensable Parliament of Whores
Hopefully these folks have already had that thought.
Moe Lane
PS: Washington, DC. Easiest to get to and I’ve taken the kid into the city before.
Crossposted to RedState.
Via Glenn Reynolds, a person (Jon Cannon) that you probably never heard of has just withdrawn from the Deputy EPA position over his links to a group (America’s Clean Water Foundation) that you probably never heard of.
“It has come to my attention that America’s Clean Water Foundation, where I once served on the board of directors, has become the subject of scrutiny. While my service on the board of that now-dissolved organization is not the subject of the scrutiny, I believe the energy and environmental challenges facing our nation are too great to delay confirmation for this position, and I do not wish to present any distraction to the agency.”
Interestingly, said group is currently being investigated by the EPA for seriously mismanaging roughly 25 million dollars in funds. Even more interestingly, Sen James Inhofe (R-OK) (the top Republican on Environment & Public Works) staffer Matt Dempsey reported that while Cannon had been questioned on Monday on his links to ACWF, nothing came up that would have derailed the nomination. In fact, Inhofe was planning to support the nomination (H/T: Track-a-‘Crat) at the confirmation hearings on Thursday. And nobody – and I mean, nobody – is talking about it on the administration’s end.
There’s something going on here. Something more than a overreaction leading to a nomination withdrawal and a cruel joke played by a Teleprompter.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Remember the good old days, when five trillion sounded like a lot?
Good ol’ Schoolhouse Rock
No, you’re not misremembering. Bayh’s a Democrat.
Fresh from their general campaign last Saturday of utterly failing to convincing Congress to do anything, Organizing for America is now engaged in regional spamming of their email lists to go after of individual legislators considered either hostile or insufficiently favorable to the President’s plan to saddle the next three generations with even more crushing, unnecessary debt. This is primarily targeting Republicans: in fact, based on admittedly extremely limited communications with other people who might get spammed, I’m concluding OFA is not generically targeting Democrats. But they did go after Evan Bayh:
OFA sent an email to Indiana residents on Wednesday asking them to phone Republican Rep. Steve Buyer, Republican Sen. Richard Lugar and Democratic Sen. Bayh to let them “know where you stand on President Obama’s budget.”
Bayh has been one of the Democratic party’s most outspoken members against President Obama’s spending, penning recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to outline his opposition to the $410 billion omnibus bill the Obama signed. He also announced he leading a 15-member working group of moderate Senate Democrats last week. Bayh said the group was informally called “the practical caucus.”
Bayh, of course, is hated by progressives – it’s one of his more endearing traits, really – and he’s certainly been on the administration’s radar since he announced his so-called “Gang of Fifteen.” While supposedly there were no public problems between the White House and the centrist Democrats over this unwillingness of the latter to blindly follow the former over the cliff*, it’s not really a secret that President Obama likes to have deniable proxies do his dirty work for him**. Which is probably why Bayh is scheduled to be personally targeted by Moveon.org, Campaign for America’s Future, USAction, and the rest of the usual suspects: apostasy is always the worst of sins to the True Believer.
Speaking as a Republican, I wholeheartedly support this activity, and think that it should be encouraged. Although I think that there are limits.
Moe Lane
*Note that they might still do it anyway.
**Eric Flint, in writing of Henry Clay in 1824: The Arkansas War:
Granted, Clay had always been a rough political fighter, even if he wore gloves. Porter had admired that trait in times past, and he wouldn’t have objected if the gloves came off. The problem was that Henry was doing the opposite as time went on. He was adding more gloves at the same time his blows were getting lower.
Crossposted to RedState.
