As a sort of companion piece to yesterday’s post on the Buffalo beheading, Mark Steyn: Among that growing population of Yorkshire Pakistanis is a fellow called Lord Ahmed, a Muslim member of Parliament. He was in the news the other day for threatening (as the columnist Melanie Phillips put it) “to bring a force of 10,000 Muslims to lay siege to the House of Lords” if it went ahead with

Pixy’s got the explanation here: The server blew up. :( Dan reported that the site was down, and I took a look, and the server was reporting 6 bad sectors on the drive. 6 bad sectors isn’t a disaster, but it could well be causing problems, so the first thing I did was start a full backup. At that point, the entire server melted. Currently we’re running on an old

If someone started picking the scabs off of the racial wounds: The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Barack Obama. Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called on the tabloid to remove editor-in-chief Col Allan, as well as longtime cartoonist Sean Delonas.

There’s no such thing as an open thread here, but happyfeet seems to want to talk about the difference between extra virgin fish sauce and not-as-extra-virgin. And since I don’t really have anything, I thought I’d oblige. In other words, what do you all want to fight about? Related: Event: Washington Tea Party “Because the power of the purse is granted by the people.” What: Rally Host: Washington Tea Party

Scott and Liz track down the guy who doctored the video. TV Newser & Huffington appear to have stripped the annotation stating that it wasn’t what he actually said. Boo hoo. Self-esteem now a fungible commodity at law.

Mary was going to head out of town tomorrow afternoon to do some consulting work, but it’s going to have to be tonight. I’m taking her to the rental place. See ya later. … WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM SUNDAY TO 7 AM EST MONDAY… THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND THE CHAMPLAIN

I am almost certainly not watching, but if you plan to, and you’re looking for a way to make them at all interesting or relevant, you can go to Big Hollywood, where they’ll be liveblogging this radical, avant garde, anti-establishment event. Unless, of course, Jeff is going to supply commentary, in which case I recommend you stay here, where I can read your comments.

Countrywide Chris Dodd. And incompetence, generally. Let me expand on this: Energy Czar Chu says that oil’s not in his purview. Dodd talks about nationalizing banks, which Gibbs later has to refute. Transportation Secretary LaHood floats the idea of a mileage tax on personal vehicles, monitored by GPS devices, which the Administration has to squelch later. Everyone got to put their little bit into the poorly formed “piece of legislation”

I mentioned this in comments last night, but here’s an amazingly awful NPR interview with an AP reporter from Buffalo, where the CEO of Bridges TV (allegedly) hacked off his wife’s head for filing for divorce. “Irony” is apparently the new word for terror, so I guess we’re now engaged in a General Struggle Against Irony. Related— Gruesome Killing Poses Another Test for Murdered Woman: The crime was so brutal,

by governors telling climatologists to STFU.