Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

Can't wait to see K-Lo's hysterics about this.

Clinton & Cheney [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I can totally appreciate that the Obama administration doesn't find Dick Cheney talking to Sean Hannity particularly helpful. But Hillary Clinton was testifying before the House of Representatives today, not a moveon meeting; she didn't need to say that she doesn't consider the former vice president "a particularly reliable source." Even with his criticisms—cautions from a concerned and well-informed citizen—I think he's giving them more respect than that.

new frontiers in crybabyism

back in the lab, with a pen and a pad:

An Epithet, Anyone? [Jay Nordlinger]

Responding to a posting about school choice, a reader has a very interesting idea. He knows that “liberals and their allies in the MSM get a lot of mileage out of the ‘chicken hawk’ taunt” — “chicken hawk” is what they call people who support military action who never served in the U.S. military. (That would be most people who support military action, of course.) Our reader wonders why there can’t be a similar term for politicians who oppose school choice whose children have never been to public school.

I sense the traction for that unbuilding as I type.

In my day "chicken hawk" had a more colorful definition.

^^ this

teabagging chickenhawks

was gonna say, the only milage i know of re: "chickenhawk" is the distance to the nearest highway rest area

Our reader wonders why there can’t be a similar term for politicians who oppose school choice whose children have never been to public school.

I think we call that indie-guilt on ilm

lol, I like how, out of context, that quote makes it sound like The Corner has one reader

About That White House Photo-Op . . . [Mark Hemingway]

Honestly, has no one at the White House heard of Photoshop? If they wanted a photo of Air Force One near the Statue of Liberty, they could have easily gotten one through a $500 piece of software without scaring the stuffing out of lower Manhattan, let alone blowing through the thousands of taxpayer dollars in jet fuel required to fly a 747 and F-16 around.

As the Specter news settles in I expect to read more batshit posts.

As the Specter news settles the sun continues to rise I expect to read more batshit posts.

Oh hey:

http://imagec14.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/NatlRev/nr_cruise_001/poseidon_mono_300_4.gif/1238159879

And all the details you could want.

Actually why isn't Hanson on this particular version, it would give him a chance to talk about noble Spartans and all.

http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/images/content_2/crew_of_Ukrainian_MV-faina_hijacked_by_Somali_pirates.jpg

If only.

Joy!

Totally Stray Thoughts from LAX (Kathryn Jean Lopez)

This is Arlen Specter.

I had MSNBC on the plane. Joy emanated from the screen.

Pat Toomey is not the enemy.

Franken gets the last laugh though. (A first, too?)

Is there ever smog here.

04/28 06:35 PM

Ned, why do you do this to me?

If only she could perfect the art of haiku.

what on earth does "Is there ever smog here." mean?

It's some sort of speech impediment that happens to some people when they arrive in So. California. Also makes people say "Heavens! ;-)" a lot.

funny-ish story, i know someone who was on the nation cruise a little while ago, and apparently the NR cruise was in the ship right behind them! the joke was that anyone who misbehaved got tossed off to be picked up by the NRers.

xpost - ya bastid!

the joke was that anyone who misbehaved got tossed off to be picked up by the NRers.

And if they really misbehaved, KLo would toss them off.

Pictures, please.

the nation people had no control over what the NRs would do - two separate publications

x-post -- Albert, why do you do this to me?

seriously, albert

Oh so I'm Albert now, am I?

no self-respecting Alfred would talk about KLo hand jobs

Hahahah. Just trying to spare you from yourself.

Albert's been hanging out too long at the NRO cruise ship gift shop.

I like the idea of evil alternate twin Albert S.

he's my Peter Hitchens.

what does the Mediterranean offer that the greatest country on earth doesn't?

also I wanna make k-lo + poseidon w/ trident joek

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv1/titanclash/clash6.png

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/ursula-2.jpg

More on Specter's Switch [Robert Alt]

I, too, was disappointed to see that Arlen Specter took a very public step to announce his allegiance to the Democratic party. For those who forget, this happened on October 23, 1987, the day that he voted against Robert H. Bork.

lol "bork"

i went to NRO for some specter-related schadenfreude and stumbled on a coherent and ethical post about waterboarding by jim manzi. i feel let down.

how long til he's blacklisted from nro?

how long til he's suggest banned from nro

Life's a Beach [Mark Steyn]

Alex Massie of the British Spectator (where I spent many happy years) thinks I misinterpreted President Obama's remarks in Strasbourg:

We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be okay.

As Mr. Massie sees it, this is not arrogance but the opposite:

But itsn't it obvious that, on this occasion at least, Obama is being traduced in much the same manner as poor old King Canute has been done in by a wilfull misunderstanding of his actions. When Canute ordered the incoming tide to recede he was not expecting it do actually stop and retreat whence it came, rather he was demonstrating to his courtiers the limitations of Kingly power.-

That would be a more plausible interpretation if the Canute de nos jours hadn't already declared that his mere nomination (never mind election, never mind inauguration) marked "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow."

Consider the sentence immediately before the "everything's okay" line:

I think that it is important for Europe to understand that even though I’m now president and George Bush is no longer president, al-Qaeda is still a threat.

I'd say this is false self-deprecation — taking every opportunity to deny your spectacularity in order to promote it. (See Kathryn's post immediately below.)

04/29 12:09 PMShare

probably tl;dr but nicely demonstrates why i voted for steyn.

Yeah, wtf that Manzi post. Has he been tossed from the mast of the NRO cruise ship?

You guys beat me to the punch re the Manzi post. Mindboggling.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/black-white-divide-in-obama-popularity-43923897.html

Hey did you guys hear that Obama's only really popular cuz polls are incorrectly counting black people as like actual people?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042903132_2.html

The Supreme Court has an idea about fixing that for 2012...