Aye, they’ll be sendin’ out the zombies on ye fer this one, Chris-me-lad.

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.

Helmsley Hotels to Ahmadinejad: Scram.

(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.

It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!

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.

I dunno: Wilson could give Carter a run for his money.

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.

Moe Lane

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.

Lamar! Czar! …and that joke will get old fast.

‘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.

Well, it’s official: No Roots HQ for me.

For various reasons (only some of which are financial, but all of which are personal), I’ll be not attending RootsHQ this weekend. ‘Fortunately,’ I’m only out the registration fee.

…this sounds a lot more ominous than it actually is. It’s not really ominous at all, in fact; it was just that getting to the RS Gathering used up too many resources to make this weekend viable. Still, I’m sorry to miss anybody who I might have run into there.