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It took less than seven months to get from five million comments to the milestone we reached early this morning—comment number six million. Woo hoo! Comment #6,000,000 was posted by “Equable,” who broke through the barrier with an appropriate sound effect.
LGF, Comments, 6M, six million
If we continue at the current rate of comment posting, comment #6,000,000 will be posted at LGF some time within the next 10 days. Thought you might like to know.
LGF, Comments, 6M, six million
The tiny door of opportunity has creaked open. Read the fine print, please, and play nice. Monitor lizards are watching, as always. UPDATE at 9/23/08 12:02:47 pm: Now closed, with 267 hatchlings.
Coming up: the second round in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial, in which the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) are both listed as unindicted co-conspirators, despite their repeated attempts to be removed from the list: Terrorism Financing Case Back ...
LGF, Holy Land Foundation, North American Islamic Trust, Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, Legal Jihad, Hamas, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations
Spiegel Online has an interview with former International Monetary Fund chief economist Kenneth Rogoff about the financial crisis: Interview With Ex-IMF Chief Economist: Banks Won’t Be as Profitable in Future. Kenneth Rogoff: It’s the worst financial crisis since World War II — there’s really no hyperbole anymore. At the ...
A grassroots initiative led by a group of concerned scientists has produced an excellent, highly detailed comparison of the presidential candidates’ positions on scientific issues, by asking both of them the same 14 questions and publishing their answers side by side: Sciencedebate 2008. Great stuff that you’ll never see in ...
LGF, Science, Election 2008, John McCain, Barack Obama, Technology
Appalling. BAGHDAD, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Iraq said on Sunday it would prosecute a politician who made a trip to Israel and angry parliamentarians voted to strip him of his legal immunity. Members of parliament said Mithal al-Alusi had committed a crime by “visiting a country that Iraq considers ...
LGF, Iraq, Israel, Antisemitism, Islam
Barack Obama is the second biggest recipient of political money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the last ten years. And he’s only been in Washington for four. (Hat tip: karmic_inquisitor.)
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Finance, fannie mae, freddie mac
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. — Stephen Jay Gould
Huge financial news today; it’s anybody’s guess how the market is going to react tomorrow: Bank of America to buy Merrill for $44 billion. WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) has agreed to acquire Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (MER.N) for $44 billion, according to people ...
Omar Bakri, the radical Islamic cleric expelled from Britain who now resides comfortably in Lebanon, has threatened to kill Paul McCartney if he plays a show in Israel. Omar Bakri, an Islamic preacher, said McCartney’s decision to perform as part of Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations made him the enemy ...
LGF, Omar Bakri, Al Qaeda, Paul McCartney, Israel, Militant Islam
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. — Sigmund Freud
Jeffrey Goldberg wakes up and notices that the leftist craziness The Atlantic has been encouraging has suddenly bitten the magazine on its back side: About that McCain Photo. Like others at the Atlantic, I was appalled to read about the actions of Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who took ...
A new addition: LGF front page articles are now categorized, with a limited set of broad categories brazenly lifted from Yahoo’s Buzz categories as described on this page. Deliberate simplicity is often the best solution, but I can easily add more categories as needed. For example, I’ve added “Open” (for ...
Sharia courts now have the power of law in Britain: Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts. ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ...
LGF, Britain, Militant Islam, Islam, Extremism, Sharia, Shari'a, Islamic Law, Dhimmitude
I’m not the biggest fan of Disneyland, but this seems a little extreme. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following is an excerpt from a religious program featuring Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid, which aired on Al-Majd TV on August 27, 2008: Muhammad Al-Munajid: What is the position of Islamic law ...
Is this racism? The Associated Press certainly seems to think so: Forum sells ‘Obama Waffles’ with racial stereotype. WASHINGTON (AP) — Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Racism, values voters, Media Bias
Gerard Vanderleun posts about some quite amazing perfidy from The Atlantic and photographer Jill Greenberg, whose photo shoot with John McCain was deliberately set up to produce ominous, threatening pictures—by using outright trickery: Out-Takes: Behind The Atlantic’s McCain Cover. At Photo District News, there’s an article with more details, and ...
Darkness washed over the Dude - darker’n a black steer’s tuchus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom. — The Stranger, The Big Lebowski
The director of education at Britain’s Royal Society, Professor Michael Reiss, wants to open up British science classes to discussion of creationism. He says that in his experience it is more effective to include discussion about creationism alongside scientific theories such as the Big Bang and evolution. “An ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Islam, Harun Yahya
The links posted by the LGF community now have their own RSS feed, through Feedburner; here’s the address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LittleGreenL inks. There’s also a link to this feed in the left sidebar’s “Tools/Info” menu. The feed contains the last 50 links posted, in reverse chronological order. The title of each link ...
LGF, Tech Note, RSS, Syndication, XML, Feedburner, Spinoff Links
It isn’t getting much media coverage, but there was a major coordinated terror attack earlier today in the capital city of India: Explosions Kill 18 in Indian Capital. NEW DELHI (AP) — A series of bombs exploded at a park and crowded shopping areas across India’s capital Saturday evening, ...
LGF, India, Terrorism, Militant Islam, Bombings, Mass Murder
Maybe I’m cynical, but I can’t help suspecting that the Obama campaign was set up by John McCain’s self-deprecating statements about not “getting” the Internet. Here’s a Forbes article from 2000, and it’s clear that McCain is nowhere near as clueless as Obama would like to portray him: Forbes.com - ...
All this talk flying around about going into Pakistan to chase down Al Qaeda leaders is getting Pakistan’s attention: Pak army to retaliate if US conducts raids. The Pakistan Army has been ordered to retaliate against any action by foreign troops inside the country, army spokesman Major General Athar ...