Moe Lane

Wouldn’t you know it: I decide not to do anything consequential and the fundraising numbers become available. Short version: the GOP out-raised the Democrats for the first time since April; the NRSC beat out the DSCC for the second month; the NRCC continues to stay essentially tied with the DCCC; and the Democrats aren’t paying their debt down.

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I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I’m pretty happy to let anything consequential today happen today without my input. Not that I’m like these guys:

…seeing as I’m feeling quite cheerful about it.

Via the Anchoress.

I promise.

Via PopSci, via Instapundit.

My wife let me buy one at the Maryland Renaissance Fair.

Arrrr.

Or, as we in the nautical entrepreneurship business like to call him, Navigating Hugo Dagger.

I do not dare hope that this represents the opening salvo in a full-fledged gutter war between the White House and a major news network.

Crossposted to RedState.

(Via Drudge) They run a respectable establishment, you understand.

The New York Helmsley Hotel last night abruptly canceled a long-planned banquet for next week after finding out that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to attend and speak, The Post has learned.

Helmsley representatives told Ahmadinejad to beat it after being informed by the security group United Against Nuclear Iran that the Israel-hating, Holocaust-denying America basher was going to be in the house next Thursday.

I understand that the United States government felt the need at the time to keep the United Nations HQ somewhere where we could keep an eye on them – but there’s still something that grates every time we have to let someone like Ahmadinejad use the facilities at Manhattan. People like Ahmadinejad don’t deserve Manhattan.

Then again, neither does the UN, really.

Crossposted to RedState.

Aye, by the Powers! This be the Nineteenth of September, when ye strap on yer eyepatch, dust off the parrot, and spend the day talkin’ piratical, buccaneery, and even buckle the swash, by my oath.  If you be wonderin’ after what all this be about, the details can be found at this fine site; ye can get yer piratical name here or here. Seize and sink me otherwise.

Found likewise in sommat different form here.  With a curse.

It’s going to be a Mad Men Evening, so here’s something from 1960:

Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Elvis Presley

Although it all depends on whether or not Lego does a tollbooth set.

Apparently not.

That being Woodrow Wilson, who almost certainly should have been resigned after he had that stroke.  With that caveat noted, I’ll not contest Senator McCain’s assertion that Carter was the worst President of the 20th Century.  20th and 19th?  I dunno: besides Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan left the bar on that very low.  Or high.  Or something.

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Although Carter does get one morsel of credit for the home-brewing thing.  Doesn’t make up for the rest of it, but it’s there.

Said interview was put up as part of an open thread over at RedState; it was fun to do.  Not to mention snarky, more than slightly egotistical, and even geekier.  And we’re talking old school geeky, mind you.  None of this video game geekery that you get nowadays.

‘Rain of hellfire.’ If I had told people six months ago that this was going to be the level of the rhetoric coming from the Democrats I would have been soundly mocked for it.

Suffice it to say that Senator Alexander (R, TN) is amused at the DNC’s decision to play Teh GREAT Internetz Defenderz!!!11!1ONE!1!!!!11!:

(Via @nicklaus)

Hard not to be amused: it’s not every day that you see a major party organization threaten to unleash a “rain of hellfire” on health care rationing opponents.  Or, as we here in Reality Non-Unicorn like to call them, “56% of the population.”

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, Lamar! was theoretically on to talk about the difference between positions that require Senate confirmation and postions that don’t (free hint: the Obama administration likes the latter.  A lot).  But why should I pretend that the DNC is anything except the White House’s sockpuppet?  Nobody else is.

Crossposted to RedState.