I mean, how are they going to explain the differences between this and the previous X-Men
Oh, well, I’m sure that I’ll find out when I see it.
What the ban on Yucca Mountain reminds us.
[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.
I do like what Francis wrote, but I want to really drive it home to my people – which is to say, science fiction geeks. Let me strip this down for you. There was a quote that Jerry Pournelle
Well, did you vote for Obama? – because if you did, you voted for the guy who takes people like that idiot seriously.
And, do you know something? I told you so.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Well, the prequel trilogy, at least.
Considerably messier, but then the prequel trilogy could have stood some extra messiness. Heck, this would have been an improvement
Michael Jackson will be touring this year.
No, I’m not going to link to it. Because maybe, just maybe, if you see this you will turn off the computer RIGHT NOW and get off of the grid before the End Times arrive.
It’s too late for me: save yourself.
President Obama gives PM Brown… DVDs.
25 Classic American DVDs.
Mr Brown’s gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President.
Mr Obama was so delighted he has already put it in pride of place in the Oval Office on the Resolute desk which was carved from timbers of Gannet’s sister ship, HMS Resolute.
Another treasure given to the U.S. President was the framed commission for HMS Resolute, a vessel that came to symbolise Anglo-US peace when it was saved from ice packs by Americans and given to Queen Victoria.
Finally, Mr Brown gave a first edition set of the seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.
I’ll be honest: I held off on this story (Via AoSHQ) because I was hoping that it was going to be debunked, preferably at high volume. Apparently not. This happened. So, two thoughts:
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More on the Durbin Child Expulsion Amendment.
No sense pretending that it’s anything else but that.
Senator Durbin, why do you want to throw these kids out of their schools?
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Fear and Vampirism at CPAC, by Hunter S Thompson.
Trapped. Trapped in the elevators with the CPAC vampires. I cursed my own foolishness and lack of wooden stakes as they sidled closer to me, cold eyes and hot breath and sharp, sharp teeth. And it was all my own damn fault in the first place. Continue reading Fear and Vampirism at CPAC, by Hunter S Thompson.
James Delingpole: It’s all Michelle’s fault.
Ah, British journalists: doing the jobs that American journalists won’t do. Via RedState reader tricks:
What was the guy thinking? In researching my new book Welcome to Obamaland, I discovered that Obama’s judgment is pretty dreadful – but this? My favourite theory so far – suggested by presenter Greg Garrison – was that it was a move calculated to please his Lady Macbeth. At the moment in Britain, we’re still in the “Doesn’t she look fabulous in a designer frock” stage of understanding of Michelle Obama. Gradually, though, we’ll begin to realise that she is every bit the terrifying executive’s wife that Hillary Clinton was. Or, shudder, Cherie Blair.
We may just LURVE Michelle’s fashion sense. But Michelle doesn’t reciprocate our affection, one bit. Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade. Never mind that a white, Tory Englishman – William Wilberforce – brought the slave trade to an end. Judging by her record, Michelle does not make room for such subtle nuance.
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Another roundup of IL-05 primary results.
From Chicago News Bench, and I think that this local blogger will be covering the actual race pretty closely. He doesn’t like Quigley much already, partially because the guy’s apparently a trained seal for John Stroger (video autoloads at link) and partially because Quigley treats Twitter as yet another opportunity for campaign spam, so you may enjoy following this race via that portal.
Moving along, from the other side check out this and this post by Feigenholtz supporter Jesse Greenberg, which raises the interesting question of how somebody can run “against” a typically corrupt Democratic machine politician after endorsing the guy’s son in 2006 (including lending him staff), and voting for a budget that aided the politician’s cronies at the expense of regular workers’ jobs. Well, we all know the reason: it’s Chicago. Still, it’s an interesting question, albeit now one that won’t be addressed by the Online Left.
Ever.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, yes, Rosanna Pulido’s running in a district that went 3 to 1 for Obama. And?
Crossposted at RedState.
‘Perfect acquaintances:’ readjusting the Special Relationship.
Or, the fundamental gracelessness of the Obama administration.
They updated the original story that Glenn Reynolds linked to, but the raised eyebrow remains:
The Prime Minister’s first official meeting with the new President fell short of the lavish welcomes laid on in recent years.
After intense negotiations with the new administration, Mr Brown got some warm words on the historic links between the U.S. and UK.
[snip]
Within minutes of landing in a snowbound Washington on Monday night, Mr Brown’s aides had been made aware that their high expectations for the trip were in danger of exceeding the low-key welcome the Obama administration was prepared to offer.
Suggestions that the new President’s crowded diary made it impossible to give more time to Mr Brown rang hollow after it emerged that his other engagements included a routine speech to the Department for Interior and a meeting with the Boy Scouts of America.
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