LGF Archives: January 2009
The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Science | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:33:40 pm PST
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register. Commit them to memory. Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice. And then everything will be groovy. UPDATE at 1/31/09 8:32:00 ...
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Chomsky: Israel Should 'Leave'
Middle East | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:34:37 pm PST
Noam Chomsky outdoes himself in this interview for the “progressive” radio show Democracy Now: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis ‘Approximately the Bush Position’. I can only stomach so much of this stuff, but here’s Chomsky’s solution to the Arab-Israel conflict: Israel should “leave.” AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have ...
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Holocaust-Denying Bishop 'Apologizes' to Pope
Religion | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:19:57 pm PST
Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson has apologized to Pope Benedict for causing him “distress.” Williamson’s apology came in the form of a letter, dated Jan. 28, to Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, head of the Vatican office that deals with the Society of St. Pius X and other traditionalist groups disaffected ...
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Fuzzy Green Logic
Images | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:21:04 pm PST
(Taken with a Canon Powershot G10 in macro mode, sharpness adjusted (+26) in iPhoto ‘09.)
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Congress Gives Itself a $93,000 Raise
Business | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:32:19 pm PST
Banks closing, millions of homes in foreclosure, a major recession; so what does the Democrat-controlled Congress do? They give every member an extra $93,000 in petty cash. [Video]
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PJ Media Ad Network Closing
Blogosphere | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:10:12 am PST
You’ve probably heard by now that Pajamas Media is shutting down their advertising network, for a simple reason: it’s losing money. Roger Simon explains that the company is now planning to focus on the PJTV side of the business. There’s a lot of reaction to this announcement among bloggers in the ...
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Iran to Obama: Your Offer Shows Weakness
World | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:15:28 am PST
Iran has responded to President Obama’s outreach: Iran says Obama’s offer to talk shows US failure. US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. “This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and ...
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Iraqi Election Day
Middle East | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:42:55 am PST
Iraq has truly come a long way from its nightmarish days of dictatorship: Iraq wraps up election with no major violence. BAGHDAD – Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation’s stability as U.S. officials ...
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Google (Briefly) Labels Every Site on the Web As 'Dangerous'
Science | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:11:08 am PST
Early this morning, for about a half hour, Google’s search engine was issuing the warning, “This Site May Harm Your Computer”—for every site on the web. It’s fixed now, and here’s the explanation from the official Google blog: ‘This site may harm your computer’ on every search result?!?! What happened? Very ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:51:51 pm PST
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
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Pastors Celebrate Charles Darwin
Religion | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:36:25 pm PST
Laurie Lebo (author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America) has a piece at Religion Dispatches on a biologist’s effort to get clergy on board in the fight against fundamentalist creationism: Evolution Sunday: Pastors Celebrate Darwin. It’s been 150 years since Charles ...
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Living Fossil Finds Love (Or Something Like It)
Weird | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:56:10 pm PST
A lizard is never too old for love. (CNN) — It took about 110 years and some delicate surgery on his most private parts, but Henry — a lizard-like creature from New Zealand — is now a dad. Henry, a tuatara who, as far as curators at Southland Museum in New ...
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Guantanamo Judge Denies Obama's Request
US News | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:11:27 pm PST
The top judge of the Guantanamo military tribunals has denied Barack Obama’s request to freeze the military commissions. “On its face, the request to delay the arraignment is not reasonable,” the judge, Army Col. James Pohl, wrote in his three-page ruling denying a prosecution request to delay Nashiri’s first court ...
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Feds Foil Plot to Destroy All Fannie Mae Data
Science | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:02:47 pm PST
Authorities have foiled a plot by a fired contract worker who planted a virus that would have wiped out all of Fannie Mae’s records. URBANA, Md. (AP) — The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the data ...
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Breaking: Michael Steele New Chair of RNC
Politics | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:08:29 pm PST
Just coming over the news: Michael Steele will be the new head of the RNC...
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Discovery Institute in JPost: Darwin Led to Hitler
Opinion | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:51:21 am PST
David Klinghoffer of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute has an opinion column in the Jerusalem Post, attacking Jewish groups like the ADL for protesting against Pope Benedict’s reinstatement of Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson. Klinghoffer calls it “whining:” The wages of whining. But the real purpose of Klinghoffer’s column is to attempt to ...
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Turkish PM Gets Hero's Welcome in Istanbul for Jew-Hatred
World | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:13:20 am PST
For his hateful outburst at Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Istanbul. Turkey is slipping back into the pre-Ataturk Dark Ages, with an Islamist prime minister at the helm. UPDATE at 1/30/09 10:34:43 am: Meanwhile, Shimon Peres and ...
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Another Holocaust-Denying Priest
Religion | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:31:23 am PST
It looks like Pope Benedict’s initiative to bring the Society of St. Pius X back into the Catholic Church was ill-advised. ROME - A priest in an ultraconservative society recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI has defended a bishop in the group and joined him in expressing doubts about the ...
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Krauthammer: Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims
Opinion | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:53:14 am PST
Charles Krauthammer gets it exactly right in today’s column, on Barack Obama’s embarrassing interview with Al Arabiya: Obama Distorts America’s Stance on Muslims. Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:00:08 pm PST
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? — Richard Feynman
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When Scientists Debate Theology
Science | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:30:50 pm PST
Yesterday I wrote, “I’d like to see Ken Miller and Karl Giberson respond to Coyne’s critique,” commenting on an article by Jerry Coyne that concludes there’s no way to reconcile science and religion, and harshly criticizes Miller and Giberson for suggesting otherwise. Here are those responses, from Ken Miller and Karl ...
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Video: Turkish PM Lashes Out at Israeli President Shimon Peres, Walks Off Stage
Video | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:11:43 pm PST
At about 39:20 into this video from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Shimon Peres launches into an impassioned defense of Israel’s actions against Hamas—provoking an angry outburst from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who then stalks off stage as Washington Post moderator David Ignatius sputters and the ...
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Fired Obama Adviser Hired by Obama
Politics | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:06:32 pm PST
Anti-Israel “progressive” academic Samantha Power, who was forced to resign from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign last spring after calling Hillary Clinton “a monster,” is back out from under the bus. Campaign’s over, nobody’s left to fool with phony resignations and dismissals.
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Iranian Fist Thoroughly Clenched
World | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:36:43 pm PST
Today Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an award to a baby-killing terrorist: Iran honors murderer Samir Kuntar. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad awarded murderer Samir Kuntar an honorary statuette Thursday during a ceremony in honor of former political prisoners from Iran and the world. The state-owned IRNA reported that Kuntar arrived in ...
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Blagojevich Ousted
US News | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31:28 pm PST
To no one’s surprise, the Illinois State Senate has voted 59-0 to throw Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich out of office...
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Thursday Afternoon Hopin'
Open | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:43:20 pm PST
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. — Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Connections
US News | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:29:02 am PST
At long last, the FBI has finally cut off contacts with the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations. Since LGF has been targeted by CAIR in “hate speech” complaints to the FBI, this is very welcome news. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council ...
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Ledeen: We've Already Done That
World | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:42:01 am PST
Michael Ledeen is spot on: But, but . . . We’ve DONE All That. There are two “stories” about Iran/U.S. relations bubbling around. One has to do with direct talks, the other with Ahmadinejad’s demand that we apologize for our many past sins. I know this is spitting into the wind, ...
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'Innocent' Gitmo Detainee Suddenly Becomes Jihadi Warrior
US News | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:29:25 am PST
When Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, he loudly, continually protested his innocence. He claimed he was on his way to Pakistan to help refugees, out of the kindness of his heart. Now that he’s resurfaced in Yemen as an Al Qaeda fighter, suddenly his story has changed: ...
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Blago Bloviates
Politics | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:25:33 am PST
Here’s an open thread to discuss Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s rambling speech at his impeachment hearing...
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What Barack Hussein Obama Told the Muslim World
US News | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:55:13 am PST
Here’s the full transcript of what Barack Hussein Obama told the Muslim world. He’s asked a direct question: whether the US will allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. And he avoids answering. Q: Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:18:02 pm PST
Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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Tech Note: The Article Icons
Science | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:27:20 pm PST
Occasionally LGF readers ask about the purposes of the icons at the bottom right of each front page article. “What do those things do? If I click them, will they hurt me?” they ask, plaintively. Nope, they’re not gonna hurt you. Here’s a quick reference card: (Some of the icons may ...
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Seeing and Believing
Opinion | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:16:03 pm PST
In a review of two recent books on “intelligent design,” Professor Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago (a frequent opponent of creationists) tackles one of the most challenging philosophical problems driving the conflict between creationism and evolutionary science, and concludes that there is no way to reconcile science and ...
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A Biologist's Review of the New 'Intelligent Design' Textbook
Science | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17:24 pm PST
One of the prime objectives of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute is to influence what’s taught in public schools, and this involves influencing the textbooks used in biology classes. For years, one of the successes of the creationist movement was that some school districts selected an infamous book titled Of Pandas ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Change Locus
Open | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:42:57 pm PST
Q: Could you explain the significance of your personal trademark, which is the letter Q with an arrow through it pointing to the right? Theodore Sturgeon: It means “Ask the next question.” Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It’s the symbol ...
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Totten: The Mother of All Quagmires
Opinion | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:37:16 am PST
Michael J. Totten points out some simple realities about the intractable Arab-Israel conflict that most of the world spends an enormous amount of energy ignoring: The Mother of All Quagmires. The problem here isn’t just with the worst of the violent rejectionists. Even the moderates on each side remain too ...
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WSJ: Obama's Gitmo Gamble
Opinion | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:53:06 am PST
Peter Brown says that by closing Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama is gambling none of the released detainees will come back to haunt him in 2012. By ordering the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and taking the fate its detainees out of his own hands, President Barack Obama is gambling ...
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Video: Questions About America's Role in a Palestinian State
Middle East | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:16:30 am PST
This is the latest video from Michael Fenenbock, whose group “The 18” is adamantly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s border. [Video]
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Suddenly Obama Has Muslim Roots
Politics | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:40:33 am PST
In the National Post, Steven Edwards notes that suddenly it’s fine for Barack Obama to mention his Muslim roots—when he talks to Al Arabiya. During the U.S presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s handlers vigourously pointed out his Christian faith whenever the misconception arose he may be Muslim (even though the politically ...
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Sarah Palin Forms a PAC
Politics | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:06:13 am PST
Andrew Malcolm notes that Sarah Palin has formed a Political Action Committee, in preparation for a Presidential run in 2012. The surest sign yet that Alaska’s Republican Gov. Sarah Palin intends at least to be in position for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination contest. Like others presumed to have their eye ...
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Overnight Hopin'
Open | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:17:13 pm PST
Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris. — Isaac Asimov
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Hope, Change, and the Egg of Power
Weird | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:24:58 pm PST
Yes, it’s true. Barack Obama has an ‘Egg of Power’ in the Oval Office.
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Holocaust-Denying Bishop Gagged
Religion | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:37:10 pm PST
The Holocaust-denying British bishop recently “un-excommunicated” by Pope Benedict is now under a gag order from his superiors in the Fraternity of St. Pius X. Statement of His Excellency Bernard Fellay, Superior of the Fraternity of St. Pius X We have become aware of an interview released by Bishop Richard Williamson, ...
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Video: Picture Kill
Video | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:19:10 pm PST
Ed Driscoll’s latest Silicon Graffiti video is a good one, titled: Picture Kill. [Video]
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AP Slips, Publishes Truth About UN Schools in Gaza
Middle East | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:42:39 pm PST
An Associated Press article extolling the wonderfulness of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) makes a surprising admission about the hatred routinely taught in their schools: UN’s role in Gaza rises among the rubble. In one classroom Saturday, when UNRWA schools reopened, a Palestinian teacher was filmed asking ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Hopenchange Open
Open | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:05:31 pm PST
Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? — Jules Verne, Journey ...
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Egyptian TV: Cleric Wishes for Another Holocaust
Video | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:21:39 am PST
For Holocaust Remembrance Day, Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari shows Holocaust footage and proclaims, “This is what we hope will happen but, Allah willing, at the hands of the Muslims.” Warning: this is horrific beyond belief, and includes graphic Holocaust images. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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Hamas Murders Human Rights Worker
Middle East | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:00:52 am PST
The goons of Hamas have murdered a Palestinian human rights activist for “collaborating” with Israel—and he’s just one of dozens of people they’ve slaughtered since Operation Cast Lead: Hamas executes former B’tselem field worker. A Palestinian human rights activist and journalist who used to work for the Israeli human rights ...
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Video: Obama on JihadTV
Video | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:49:25 am PST
Barack Obama’s first interview since his inauguration went to Al Arabiya, the virulently antisemitic Arab satellite network that regularly broadcasts support for jihad and militant Islam. This is an absolutely horrible precedent, and the implied weakness will surely encourage jihadists worldwide—no matter what Obama thinks he’s “communicating” to them. [Video] This is ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:11:36 pm PST
“To hell with the handkerchief,” said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last. — ...
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Palestinians Booby Trap Zoo, Blame Israel
Video | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:13:40 pm PST
Hamas is trying to wring some sympathy out of the world’s animal lovers, with a propaganda video accusing the Israelis of targeting the Gaza Zoo for a heinous massacre: [Video] It might be more believable if the IDF hadn’t already taken their own video, showing the same zoo wired up with explosives ...
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Photos: The Cockatoo Island Project
Images | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:08:27 pm PST
Recommended: Australian photographer Patrick Boland’s Cockatoo Island Project, pictures from a former imperial prison/reform school that became one of Australia’s biggest shipyards, now lying in ruins. Cockatoo Island is like Peter Pan’s Never Never Land for a photographer who likes industrial and historical decay. (Hat tip: Boing Boing.)
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9/11 Family Member Appalled at Obama's Gitmo Closing
US News | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:30:00 pm PST
A 9/11 family member chides the new President for closing Guantanamo terror camp. With his shameful order to close Guantanamo Bay, President Obama has perfectly filled the stereotype of the classic clueless ultra-Liberal - the one who can generate great passion for the rights of the guilty defendant and none ...
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US Embassy in Yemen Attacked
World | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:45:07 pm PST
There was a shooting attack today at a checkpoint near the US embassy in Yemen: Yemen: Gunshots fired near US embassy. SAN’A, Yemen – Gunmen in a car exchanged fire Monday with police at a checkpoint near the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, an Interior Ministry official said, hours after ...
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Monday Afternoon Hope-a-Dope
Open | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:30:14 pm PST
With a thousand points of light illuminating the way toward a dazzling future of hope, change, and chewy nougat centers, we set foot on the path to another open thread...
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Video: Carter Says 'Trust Hamas'
Video | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:32:31 pm PST
America’s most disgraceful thug-hugging former President is at it again, telling the Today Show’s Meredith Viera that Hamas can be trusted, and hinting around that he doesn’t consider them a terrorist group. [Video]
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Hamas Getting Real?
Middle East | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:00:20 pm PST
The thugs of Hamas are trying to create the impression that they’re a real army, with a “probe” that’s supposed to ‘unveil military failings over Gaza’. LONDON (AFP) – Hamas has launched a probe which is expected to be extremely critical of the failures of its military wing during the ...
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Atlas Shrugs' Pamela Geller Suddenly Outraged About Flogging
Blogosphere | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:14:30 am PST
Pat Condell’s videos always get a good response at LGF, and since the so-called “anti-jihad movement” is currently melting down into a stinky puddle of white supremacism as leading writers and bloggers—including Geert Wilders, apparently—make alliances with European fascist groups, here’s a reminder that Condell’s position on this kind of ...
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Condell: Shame on the Netherlands
Video | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:45:39 am PST
Here’s Pat Condell on the shameful “hate speech” prosecution of Dutch MP Geert Wilders. [Video] (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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Cat Stevens Records Song for Hamas
Middle East | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:58:40 am PST
Here’s Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, with another new song supporting Hamas. JERUSALEM (AFP) – Singer-songwriter Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, released on Sunday a charity song whose proceeds will go towards assisting Palestinians in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. The new recording of the song ‘The day the world ...
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Overnight Hopen Thread
Open | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:11:03 pm PST
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. — H. L. Mencken
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'Who Has Enough Faith to Believe We Came from a Monkey?'
Science | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:31:15 pm PST
This isn’t a “We Got Mail!” post, but we’ve received dozens of emails just like this one published in Louisiana’s News-Star, defending Gov. Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill: Law creates pride in La. (These are the same people who insist their agenda isn’t religious.) I thank our legislators and governor for ...
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And Now for Some Tommy
Video | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:28:40 pm PST
Another smokin’ hot version of Tommy Emmanuel’s Beatles medley... [Video]
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Open | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:03:33 pm PST
Shall we then, as our day proceeds forth on a course no man can say, open a thread and laugh in the face of destiny?
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Video: Reinstated Bishop a Holocaust Denier - Update: Also a Truther
Religion | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:56:48 am PST
This is a disgrace. Pope Benedict should rescind the reinstatement of Bishop Richard Williamson. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on Sunday slammed a Holocaust-denying English bishop whose ex-communication has been cancelled by Pope Benedict XVI. “It is scandalous that someone of this stature ...
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Tech Note: JQuery Reversion Syndrome
Science | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:05:13 am PST
It’s back to jQuery 1.2.6 again; the new version needs just a bit more tweaking and tuning and bug eradication to be all it can be. We discovered a couple of spots in our code where version 1.3.1 was executing some DOM lookups much more slowly than the older version, ...
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Europe Considers Welcoming 60 Gitmo Detainees
World | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:45:18 am PST
Europe has been overwhelmingly sympathetic to the terror suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, so this seems like a very good idea. France is pushing for European Union countries to take 60 of the detainees deemed innocent but at risk of torture in their home country, according to a report by ...
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Some Christians Angry at Obama's 'Nonbelievers' Statement
Religion | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:52:40 am PST
When Barack Obama said, “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers” in his inaugural speech, he ran afoul of many fundamentalist Christians, who reject this kind of inclusiveness and think atheists are Satanic imps from hell: Obama’s Nonbeliever Nod Unsettles Some. With that one ...
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Overnight Hope-a-Dope
Open | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:20:01 pm PST
Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swoln parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in ...
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Experts Agree: The White House Needs an Exorcism
Weird | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:55:06 pm PST
The only way to purge those negative Bush energies is with a good smudging.
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Some Gaza Residents Blaming Hamas, Quietly
Middle East | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:31:40 pm PST
Apparently, this is what it takes. “I used to support Hamas because they fought for our country, for Palestine,” says Sadala. Hamas stood for a new start, for an end of corruption, which had spread like cancer under the moderate Fatah. In the 2006 elections Hamas won the majority with ...
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Baby Elephant Plays with Blue Ball, Cuteness Warps Fabric of Space and Time
Video | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:05:45 pm PST
[Video] (Hat tip: Killgore, via the Oregon Zoo channel.)
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Texas Creationists Had a Plan B
Science | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:51:04 pm PST
As we noted yesterday, the creationists on the Texas State Board of Education may have been defeated in one part of their anti-science agenda, but they had a Plan B—they introduced ludicrous new last-minute amendments that question the “Big Bang” theory and the biological theory of common descent: Scientists: Board ...
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Saturday Afternoon Hope-a-Dope
Open | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:10:52 pm PST
Lo, it is the traditional Saturday open thread...
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Marching for Hamas
Middle East | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:53:26 am PST
Denis Maceoin makes some powerful points in this column for the Jerusalem Post: Marching for Hamas. In a bizarre reversal of all their commitment to human rights and the struggle of men and women for independence and self-determination, the European Left has chosen again and again to side with the ...
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Holocaust Denier Mark Weber: 'We've Failed'
US News | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:27:58 am PST
Holocaust-denying pinhead Mark Weber, director of the “Institute for Historical Review,” is admitting that their revisionist fight is a lost cause: Revisionist: It’s Time To Quit Shoah Fight. Americans are a little too sane for this garbage, and Europe has laws against it. But Weber and his goons did have some ...
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Overnight Hopen Thread
Open | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:09:30 pm PST
O most pernicious woman! O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables, — meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Nashville Rejects 'English First' Proposal
US News | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:52:32 pm PST
Voters in Nashville have decisively rejected an ‘English First’ proposal sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR): NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville voters rejected a proposal to make English the mandatory language for all government business, easing fears that the measure could damage the city’s reputation and cost agencies ...
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Saudi Arabia Moves In
World | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:44:27 pm PST
Our friends the Saudis wasted no time putting the thumbscrews on our new hopenchange President: Obama discusses Gaza with Saudi ruler. WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday asked Saudi King Abdullah for support in halting weapons smuggling into Gaza and underscored the importance of U.S.-Saudi ties ...
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Friday Night Plumbing Thread
Open | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:38:48 pm PST
Had a little plumbing emergency here at Lizard HQ, so here’s an open thread while Stinky and I mop up the lake formerly known as a bathroom...
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Onion: Bratz Dolls May Give Girls Unrealistic Expectations
Video | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:47:41 pm PST
And now for some pure silliness... [Video]
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Obama Absent from Medal of Honor Ball - Update: Confirmed
Politics | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:59:41 pm PST
Many commenters challenged the story about Barack Obama not attending the American Legion’s “Salute to Heroes” ball; here’s an email from the American Legion confirming that the story was accurate. In answer to your inquiry: The American Legion, as it has on every inauguration evening since 1953, hosted the Salute to ...
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Friday After-Blago Hopen
Open | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:50:44 pm PST
At the risk of becoming almost incomprehensibly self-referential, it’s the Friday after-Blago hopen thread...
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Texas Creationists Lose Vote on Anti-Evolution Mandate
Science | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:58:11 am PST
Creationists on the Texas State Board of Education (including Discovery Institute fellow Stephen Meyer) were defeated (by only one vote) in their effort to retain an atavistic anti-evolution curriculum requirement: Board sides with evolution in curriculum debate. AUSTIN — The State Board of Education tentatively decided to amend school science ...
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Back to September 10th
US News | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:12:25 am PST
In the shiny happy land of Hopenchange, we have no need for these antiquated measures of “security:” Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End. Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away: The military’s Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas ...
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Straight Outta Gitmo
World | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:25:00 am PST
According to some estimates, at least 10 percent of the Al Qaeda terrorists released from Guantanamo Bay immediately return to the jihad, and here’s the latest example: Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee joins al-Qaida in Yemen. CAIRO, Egypt – A Saudi man released from Guantanamo after spending nearly six years inside the ...
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Overnight Hopen Thread
Open | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:20:43 pm PST
Do as adversaries do in law, — Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. — William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
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The Door Opens
Open | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:48:25 pm PST
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register. Commit them to memory. Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice. And then everything will be groovy. UPDATE at 1/22/09 7:42:30 ...
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And Now for Some Finger Style
Video | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:05:15 pm PST
Some powerfully rhythmic fingerpicking from Antoine Dufour: “30 Minutes in London,” from Existence. [Video]
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Hope, Rainbows, and Muammar Gadafi
Opinion | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:31:19 pm PST
Another quality op-ed brought to you by the New York Times, as creepy crazy Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafi plays peacemaker, kind of: The One-State Solution. And if you’ve ever wondered whether there are really people who will read stuff like this and enthusastically cheer on the aging tyrant, check out the ...
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Chirac Poodle Mauling Horrifies France
Weird | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:40:53 pm PST
Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being viciously mauled by his clinically depressed poodle named Sumo. Nothing more need be said. Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a ...
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Scientists Overcome by Hopenchange
Science | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:03:10 pm PST
What does it take to get a science geek misty-eyed? Staff members throughout the government’s scientific agencies held inaugural parties on Tuesday, and many reported being teary-eyed with joy. “If you look at the science world, you see a lot of happy faces,” said Frank Press, a former president of the National ...
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The President Has a Blackberry
Science | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:29:18 am PST
The big news from today’s presser: President Obama has a Blackberry. But don’t worry, it has “enhanced security.” Hackers worldwide just began salivating.
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IDF Denies Italian Newspaper Casualty Report
Middle East | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:52:01 am PST
Despite the report from Italian newspaper Corriere della sera, Israeli officials are standing by their estimate of 1300 Palestinian casualties in Operation Cast Lead, mostly Hamas fighters. Despite a report by Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy’s Corriere della sera, that the number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead ...
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Tech Note: JQuery 1.3.1
Science | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:12:48 am PST
We’re giving the bug-fix release of jQuery (v1.3.1) a try, to see how it behaves in the LGF jungle. With the first 1.3 release, as noted earlier, we received complaints from more than a few readers of various sorts of problems. We’ve tested this version in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, ...
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Hopenchange at the CIA
Politics | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:52:30 am PST
It’s all about hope, and reaching out... WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies should seek ways of working with Islamic leaders and countries such as Iran on issues of mutual interest, President Barack Obama’s choice for spy chief said on Thursday. Retired Adm. Dennis Blair also urged a break with the ...
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Palestinian Journalists: Death Toll Exaggerated
Middle East | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:14:22 am PST
The casualty numbers pushed out by Hamas—and reported uncritically by the mainstream media—are beginning to deflate: Gazan doctor says death toll inflated. Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported Thursday that a doctor working in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital claimed that Hamas has intentionally inflated the number of casualties resulting from Israel’s ...
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Overnight Hopen Thread
Open | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:25:00 pm PST
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere. — William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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Age of Hooper at the Inauguration
US News | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:00:19 pm PST
Age of Hooper (The) has lots of interesting photos and video from the inauguration that you won’t see in the mainstream media.
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Another Creationist Bill in Mississippi
Science | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:32:09 pm PST
Possibly emboldened by the success of the stealth creationist bill signed into law in Louisiana by Gov. Bobby Jindal, Republican Rep. Gary Chism has introduced a bill to require an anti-evolution disclaimer in Mississippi textbooks: Mississippi’s Proposed Evolution Disclaimer. The proposal, if enacted, would require the State Board of Education ...
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Libyan Wacko Hopes for Al Qaeda Change
World | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:22:30 pm PST
Wacky Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafi is also caught up in the wave of hope sweeping across the universe, and is suggesting that the US should open a dialog with Osama bin Laden. (That might be hard to do, since he’s almost certainly dead.) WASHINGTON: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has an ...
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Obama Snubs Medal of Honor Ball
Politics | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:51:01 pm PST
Another milestone for our new President: he’s the first President in 56 years to snub the American Legion’s “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball.” The American Legion sponsors the ball, which recognizes recipients of Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. It started in 1953 for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Hopen
Open | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:00:39 pm PST
Just another Wednesday in the Marvelous Land of Hopenchange, so here’s a midday hopen thread...
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Geert Wilders to Be Charged with Hate Speech in Netherlands
World | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:27:31 am PST
Dutch MP Geert Wilders is going to be charged under the Netherlands’ absurd anti-free speech laws: Islam film Dutch MP to be charged. A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements. Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year ...
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Obama Prepares to Close Gitmo
US News | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:53:36 am PST
On his first day in office, Barack Obama is preparing to keep one of his promises to the international left: Draft order calls for closing Guantanamo Bay. WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday that calls for closing the controversial detention center at Guantanamo ...
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Palestinian Smuggling Tunnels Back in Operation
Middle East | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:17:13 am PST
It’s business as usual for Palestinian smugglers (but with fewer tunnels) now that the IDF has left Gaza: Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels operating despite IDF offensive Smuggling into Gaza from Egypt is underway again, only days after the end of the IDF operation against Hamas. AP Television News footage showed Palestinian ...
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Overnight Hopen Thread
Open | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:03:54 pm PST
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare, ...
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IPT: ISNA's Mattson to Speak at Inaugural Prayer Service
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:15:34 pm PST
Another tradition from the Bush administration that apparently will be continued by Barack Obama: pandering to radical Islam’s US front groups. As part of the inaugural festivities for President Barack Obama, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) President Ingrid Mattson is scheduled to participate Wednesday in a prayer service at ...
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A Cheap Shot at the New Whitehouse.gov
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:33:15 pm PST
Is this a cheap shot? I think so. President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency ...
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Bush at Welcome Home Rally
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:42:25 pm PST
Here’s an open thread to talk about President Bush’s speech to his welcome home rally in Midland, Texas... UPDATE at 1/20/09 5:04:02 pm: A clip from CNN: [Video]
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Say Thanks to President Bush
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03:20 pm PST
Say thank you to President Bush for keeping the United States safe, at Mission 1 Accomplished. The folks who built the site are planning to present the comments and logs to George W. Bush’s Presidential Library on September 11, 2011.
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Video: Carter Snubs Clinton at Inauguration
Video | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:59:23 pm PST
In the new land of hope, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton still aren’t getting along. As they stood in the foyer preparing to go out on stage, Carter totally snubbed Clinton. Watch the look that passes between Hillary and Bill after Jimmy gives the Clenis the Big Ig. [Video] UPDATE at 1/20/09 ...
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Ted Kennedy Rushed to Hospital
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:07:34 pm PST
Senator Ted Kennedy collapsed and went into seizures at the inaugural luncheon. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who is battling a brain tumor, was taken away from the congressional luncheon in convulsions. Kennedy was at a table with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Vice President Mondale and Mrs. Mondale, and others. While at ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Hopenchange Open
Open | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:56:28 am PST
We have arrived at a moment of extraordinary hope, a moment of great change but also great hope, a challenging moment in which we can all finally come together in a land of hope and change. And unicorns. OK, I’ll stop.
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Video: Who Stumbled on the Oath?
Video | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:56:06 am PST
We’ve been hearing people bashing Barack Obama for “flubbing” his oath of office, but here’s the video—and you can see that it was Justice Roberts who messed it up, not Obama. [Video] ROBERTS: Are you prepared to take the oath, Senator? OBAMA: I am. ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama... OBAMA: I, Barack... ROBERTS: ... do ...
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The Inauguration Speech
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:27:36 am PST
Drudge has posted the full text of Obama’s inaugural speech. Reuters has already focused on the part that’s important to them: Obama promises new start with Muslims. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised a new start with the Muslim world in his inauguration address on Tuesday. “To the Muslim world, we ...
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Inauguration Day 2
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:42:17 am PST
Here’s another thread for the inauguration of our new President, Barack Obama, since the first one is already approaching 1,000 comments...
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Inauguration Day 1
US News | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:51:59 am PST
As “new age fundamentalist” Rick Warren gives the invocation, here’s the MSNBC live streaming video. [Video removed...]
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:15:32 pm PST
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! — William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Texas Creationists Now Attacking Earth and Space Sciences
Science | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:54:54 pm PST
We’ve had several posts about the creationist fanatics in Texas who are trying to push creationism/intelligent design/whatever into public school biology classes, but biology isn’t the only field they’re attacking. Earth and Space Science (ESS) courses are now a target as well, because they deal with scientific concepts like radiometric ...
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Anti-Israel Protest in Union Square
US News | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:19:35 pm PST
It may have been cold and rainy, and Israel may already be pulling out of Gaza, but the show must go on.
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North Korea Wakeup Call
World | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:09:36 pm PST
Barack Obama may have a very big problem on his first day as President: North Korea threatens South with war. On Saturday, a dour man in military uniform appeared on North Korean television, flanked by army flags, and read a statement saying the country was now on a war-footing. He ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:30:34 pm PST
It’s our everyday low priced open thread...
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PJTV: Joe the Plumber and the Hamas Charter
Middle East | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:36:49 pm PST
We’ve written many times about the genocidal, insane Hamas Charter, which includes references to antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; today at PJTV Joe Wurzelbacher, Roger Simon, and Bill Whittle call on Barack Obama to read this appalling document and have Hamas revise it: Joe the Plumber ...
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Video: Al Arabiya Studio Used As Rocket Launching Site
Middle East | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:48:27 am PST
Al Arabiya reporter Hannan al-Masri is live on the air in Gaza when she is told that Hamas has just fired rockets from inside the Al Arabiya studio building, news which apparently strikes her as quite humorous. (Turn on closed captions for English subtitles.) [Video] (Hat tip: Mere Rhetoric.)
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BBC Flying Pig Watch
Middle East | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:40:30 am PST
Possibly flying pig-worthy, a former British Army Colonel is interviewed by the BBC and doesn’t blame Israel for civilian casualties in Gaza: [Video] (Hat tip: Israellycool.)
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Breaking: Bush Commutes Sentences of Border Agents
US News | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:00:20 am PST
Just in: President Bush has commuted the sentences of border patrol agents Ramos and Compean...
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2008 Fiskie Winner: The Year of the Mainstream Media
Blogosphere | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:52:51 am PST
For their non-stop, unseemly, worshipful, overwhelmingly biased coverage in favor of Barack Obama, the readers of LGF have chosen the winner of the 2008 Idiotarian Award: our self-appointed guardian of information, the Mainstream Media and its mask of phony impartiality. Special thanks to John Cox and Allen Forkum for their customary ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:51:09 pm PST
The object of art is to give life a shape. — William Shakespeare
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Watching Evolution in Real Time
Science | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:37:07 pm PST
At Texas A&M University, new research into yeast cells has resulted in the first direct experimental observations of evolution occurring in real time: Evolutionary process – new evidence emerges. New evidence from a study of yeast cells has resulted in the most detailed picture of an organism’s evolutionary process to ...
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Sunday Night Open
Open | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:44:50 pm PST
I’m doing my best not to watch the freakishly giddy Obamarama mass hysteria, so here’s a Sunday open thread as the country camps out and stands in line to check in to the Hotel Hopenchange...
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Onion: UN Acquires Nuclear Weapon
Humor | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:04:16 pm PST
Our worst fears have come true: U.N. Acquires Nuclear Weapon. NEW YORK—The United Nations, a highly organized governing body bent on world peace, has obtained a nuclear warhead and intends to use the dangerous device to pursue its radical human rights agenda, sources reported Monday. The U.N. Headquarters in New York ...
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Yon: Taliban Hunting in Zabul Province
Images | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:16:52 pm PST
Thanks to Michael Yon for another LGF exclusive photo from Afghanistan. Small groups of American soldiers are fighting alongside Afghan counterparts deep in Taliban country. We drove all day searching for Taliban, but on this day had only very light contact when someone fired on an Afghan scout. ...
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Video: The Final Moments of a Giant Jew-Eating Rabbit
Video | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:44:14 pm PST
Here’s a video with clips from Hamas TV, featuring children singing a song of praise for Qassam rockets, followed by a visit with creepy child host Saraa and Assud the giant Jew-eating rabbit in his hospital room, shortly before the whiny carnivorous bunny died from his IDF-inflicted injuries. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.) ...
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Indyk: 'Europeans Will Have a Role in Everything America Does Under Obama'
Politics | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:07:25 am PST
Clinton administration ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, a top adviser to Barack Obama, is interviewed by Germany’s Spiegel Online: ‘We Americans Have a Wonderful but Frightening Innocence’. SPIEGEL: Is he a second Bill Clinton, who tried to mediate between the conflict parties in the Middle East — but ultimately failed? Indyk: ...
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Iowahawk: A Message from Waxulon-6
Humor | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:18:49 am PST
Lord High Admiral Waxulon-6, inhabiting the body of Congressman Henry Waxman, has a message for all Earth creatures: Mark Your Time, Hu-Mans! Attention Hu-Mans: Mark your time! Behold the current heat readings of your atmosphere, which have now reached less than negative 40 in your Earth-degrees. Phase I of the Kremulakian ...
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The Sensitive Schnozz of Hugo Chavez
World | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:47:43 am PST
According to Reuters, Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez is one of the few world leaders not bedazzled by the aura of President Hopenchange: Venezuela’s Chavez says Obama has stench of Bush. CAMPO CARABOBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the “stench” of his predecessor ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:19:24 pm PST
The animal I wanted Couldn’t get into the world... I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life. — Kenneth Patchen
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Video: Hudson Crash from NYC Harbor
Video | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:43:35 pm PST
Surveillance video released by the New York City Harbor shows US Airways 1549 crash landing in the Hudson River: [Video]
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Video: Hamas Uses Children As Spotters
Middle East | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:54:35 pm PST
More pro-Hamas videos are appearing on YouTube; this one was posted by VoiceOfJihaD and it shows very clearly how Hamas uses children as human shields. At about 1:20, the terrorists appear to be shooting at a helicopter overhead—and they send children into the streets, in the open, to point out ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:08:50 pm PST
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. — Charles Darwin ...
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Onion: Congress Debates Addition to Obama Inauguration Ceremony
Video | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:05:27 pm PST
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Take a Ride on the Hudna-Go-Round
Middle East | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:57:35 am PST
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may be about to announce a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza; there’s liveblogging going on at Israellycool, Israel Matzav, The Muqata, Mere Rhetoric, and Soccer Dad.
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Video: Hudson Crash from Coast Guard Camera
Video | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:29:13 am PST
Posted last night in our spinoff links by “freedomplow,” here’s a Coast Guard video that shows the US Airways Hudson River crash and the immediate rescue efforts; the plane appears at the left side of the image at about 2:00. The passengers really got out fast; by the time the ...
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Tech Note: Back to JQuery 1.2.6
Science | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:23:40 am PST
We’ve had too many reports of problems with AOL browsers, Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox versions earlier than 3, etc., so we’ve reached the reluctant conclusion that we must revert back to jQuery 1.2.6. We haven’t been able to duplicate most of the reported problems, but our development systems are ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:28:14 pm PST
Lt. Harper: What’re you gonna do? Clay: Look around a little. Lt. Harper: Once you get beyond those lights you won’t be able to see your hand in front of your face. Clay: I will get one of the flashlights from the patrol car. Lt. Harper: You be careful Clay. Clay: I’m a big boy ...
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And Now, Meerkats Practice Security
Images | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:21:12 pm PST
Meerkat pups practicing for guard duty, from ZooBorns.
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Creationist Hearings Scheduled in Texas
Science | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:15:05 pm PST
With Louisiana breaking their way (for the moment) the Discovery Institute’s next playground is in Texas, where they’re gearing up to promote their new “intelligent design” book (Explore Evolution) with the help of the State Board of Education: The Evolution Vs. God Debate Is Being Renewed In Texas. Just in ...
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Louisiana BOE Adopts New Policy Favoring Creationism
Science | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:32:03 pm PST
The next creationist shoe has dropped in Louisiana, where the State Board of Education adopted a policy aimed at introducing “intelligent design” creationism into science classes this week, taking advantage of the Discovery Institute-sponsored “academic freedom” bill signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal: Louisiana Creates: New Pro-Intelligent Design Rules ...
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Zombie: The Intifada is Globalized
World | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:32:21 pm PST
Zombie has a great post on the worldwide intifada eruption of January 10, 2009: The Intifada is globalized as the Gaza War becomes a world war.
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Dubious Bluebird
Images | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:02:56 pm PST
(Taken with a Canon Powershot G10, 5x optical zoom.)
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We Have a Winner
Blogosphere | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:06:43 pm PST
Yes, the votes are in, more than 26,000 of them, and we have a clear winner. You might even call it a landslide, with 39.2% of the vote. For their leg-tingling coverage of the Obama campaign, and other misbehaviors too numerous to mention, the 2008 Idiotarian Award will go to ...
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Hamas Propaganda at YouTube
World | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:49:26 am PST
Terrorist propaganda at YouTube: an interview in Arabic with a member of “Al Qassam” in Gaza, a masked goon who poses holding an RPG with children standing around. This video may disappear. Embedding was turned off shortly after it was posted in our comments. A Gazan Brother. Here’s the page of the ...
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WSJ: Iran's Manhattan Project Rushing Ahead
World | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:23:17 am PST
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Iran’s increasing efforts to obtain the materials needed to manufacture nuclear weapons and long range missiles: Fresh Clues of Iranian Nuclear Intrigue. The United Arab Emirates has informed the U.S. that in September it intercepted a Chinese shipment headed to Iran of ...
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Report from Gaza
Middle East | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:51:12 am PST
LGF reader Michael Fenenbock emailed this interesting report from Israel; he was able to get access to the battle zone in Gaza and interview IDF soldiers, unlike the mainstream media. January 15, 2009 Jerusalem, Israel Michael Fenenbock, veteran political consultant and founder of the18, made a lightning visit to the Gaza war zone ...
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Top US Communication Studies Mailing List Publishes David Duke Article
US News | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:16:12 am PST
Posted yesterday at the moderated listserv of the National Communication Association, one of the two top organizations for scholars in the field of Communication: an antisemitic diatribe by David Duke. And unless someone is using his name, this disgusting article was posted by “racialist” writer Lawrence Auster—who has viciously attacked ...
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Another Ride on the Ceasefire Merry-Go-Round
Middle East | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:34:11 am PST
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, safely hiding from Israel in Syria, is talking tough with absolutely nothing to back it up. DOHA, Qatar – Hamas’ political chief rejected Israeli conditions for a Gaza cease-fire Friday and demanded an immediate opening of the besieged territory’s borders, taking a tough line as he ...
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2008 Fiskie Voting 3
Blogosphere | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:06:59 am PST
There are four hours left to vote for the 2008 Idiotarian of the Year, so here’s the poll again, one last time. The Mainstream Media seem to have the prize in the bag this year, unless there’s a sudden flood of votes for another candidate. [Poll moved to this post.]
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:14:20 pm PST
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. — Molière
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Gazacam Watch
Video | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:13:00 pm PST
Here’s your live video from Gaza; may or may not work with your browser. [Video]
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Your MSM Moment of Zen
Media | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:09:03 pm PST
A classic mainstream media moment, brought to you by UPI: Boy’s death on video is a fake, blog says - UPI.com. But IsraelINN.com said Charles Johnson’s U.S. blog Little Green Fields uncovered several alleged discrepancies... Layers upon layers of fact-checking!
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President Bush Farewell Speech
Politics | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:48:45 pm PST
George W. says farewell in his last address to the nation as President, beginning at 8 pm Eastern time. Here’s a thread to discuss it...
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A Wing and a Prayer
US News | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:55:00 pm PST
LGF reader “Leonidas Hoplite” forwarded a picture taken this afternoon with a cell phone camera by a passenger on the NYC-NJ ferry:
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:33:13 pm PST
Spider rolled in from Hollister burn With a one-eyed stolen mare Donned himself with chicken fat Sawin on a jaw bone violin there Kathleen was sittin down In Little Red’s recovery room In her criminal underwear bra I was naked to the waist With my fierce black hound And I’m cookin up a filipino box spring hog Cookin up a filipino ...
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US Airways Plane Crashes into Hudson River
US News | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:27:28 pm PST
The media are reporting that everyone made it out alive... the plane was only in the air for about three minutes...
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Got a Big Hamas Fish
Middle East | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:19:55 am PST
An airstrike in Gaza has taken out the interior minister of Hamas, who oversaw the training of Hamas’ paramilitary terrorist gangs. The Associated Press calls these gangs “security agents,” which I suppose they are, if you don’t consider the security of Israelis important. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas officials ...
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Tech Note: JQuery 1.3 Released
Science | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:48:17 am PST
Gifts for geeks! A major update for the indispensable Javascript library jQuery has been released into the wild: jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation. They’re claiming some big speed improvements and other nice enhancements; full details are in the release notes. And they’ve also unveiled a great Ajax-based API browser, ...
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Yon: A Mortar at Night
Images | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:31:33 am PST
Michael Yon (who may soon be filing a lawsuit against Michael Moore) forwarded this striking photograph from Afghanistan as an LGF exclusive: I thought you might want to see our folks in action. This nighttime shot is from my days with a tiny unit of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. ...
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ICRC: Israel's Use of White Phosphorus Not Illegal
Middle East | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:52:30 am PST
The International Committe of the Red Cross has issued a statement that Israel’s use of white phosphorus is not illegal. This, of course, has not stopped the international left from making accusations. GENEVA – The international Red Cross said Tuesday that Israel has fired white phosphorus shells in its offensive ...
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Shelled UN Building Used by Hamas
Middle East | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:39:54 am PST
The media and the United Nations are screaming again today about an IDF attack on a UN compound; Ehud Olmert apparently apologized to the UN immediately after the incident, but now the IDF says Hamas was using the compound as a firing station. Gunshots and an anti-tank missile were fired ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:17:19 pm PST
It’s very difficult to have a call to jihad, with a mouthful of peanut butter. — Robin Williams
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Video: IDF Strikes Aborted to Protect Civilians
Video | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:45:40 pm PST
Here’s an IDF video showing Israel Air Force pilots diverting missiles already en route to their targets, to avoid striking civilians. [Video]
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CNN's Staged Video Updates
Middle East | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:32:52 pm PST
Israel National News has a pretty fair and complete account of the controversy over that staged hospital room video from Gaza: Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud. Most of the mainstream media are ignoring the story, of course, because it leads to issues they’d rather not explore—e.g., the ethics of media’s ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Open | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:03:55 pm PST
Here’s a midday open thread, a good enough place to mention that if you’re logged in to an LGF account, the ratings for articles on the front page are now live — they automatically refresh every 10 seconds.
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Our Friends the Saudis
World | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:54:04 am PST
The highest Islamic authority in Saudi Arabia comes out strongly in favor of child molestation. Saudi Arabia’s most senior Muslim cleric has been quoted as saying it is ‘okay’ for 10-year-old girls to marry. Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh was quoted as saying those who think such girls are too young to ...
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2008 Fiskie Voting 2
Blogosphere | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:29:07 am PST
More than 13,000 votes already, and the Mainstream Media is the clear leader for the 2008 Idiotarian Award. Here’s the poll again; you have until this Friday at noon Pacific to vote, and you get three votes per IP address. [The poll has been moved to this post.]
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Ringo's Pix: Bad Craziness in Los Angeles
Images | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:22:21 am PST
LGF operative “Ringo the Gringo” was at the Anti-Israel Demonstration in West LA on Jan. 10, 2009, and has dozens of photos and video clips of this eruption of insanity. This video shows protesters chanting “Allahu Akbar,” then attacking a car whose driver was flying an Israeli flag. Really bad craziness. [Video] ...
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Dead Man Hating
Middle East | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:15:45 am PST
The dead guy is back again, with another non-specific audiotape message hastily put together by Al Qaeda’s media group: Bin Laden urges jihad against Israel over Gaza. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies ...
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Army War College: Hamas Isn't So Bad?
US News | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:04:22 am PST
Here’s a disturbing article at PJ Media by Patrick Poole on the Strategic Collapse at the Army War College. Two weeks ago, Ricks reported on a new publication by Army War College research professor Sherifa Zuhur on Hamas and Israel that informs readers that Hamas has been misunderstood due to ...
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Canadians Win Internet Poll Award
Blogosphere | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:34:59 am PST
Congratulations to Canadian blog Small Dead Animals for edging out Ace of Spades to win Best Conservative Blog in the internet poll called the Weblog Awards.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:58:17 pm PST
Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse. — Wilfrid Sheed
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Gazacam Watch
Video | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:28:59 pm PST
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2008 Fiskie Voting Now Open
Blogosphere | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:22:19 pm PST
Here’s the list of nominees, boiled down to 16 in no particular order. You get three votes per IP address. If the race is really close, we’ll hold a runoff vote for the top two or three contenders. The poll closes at noon Pacific time, Friday January 16th. May the worst ...
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When Norwegian Doctors Lash Out
Middle East | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:43:24 pm PST
In a video interview at Norway’s Channel 2 wesbite, radical Marxist pro-Hamas doctor Mads Gilbert says to his critics, “Bring it on!” Also see: CAMERA Snapshots: Norwegian Doctors Return from Gaza to Attack their Critics LGF: Norwegian Doctor in Gaza Supported 9/11 Attacks LGF: A Staged Scene in a Gaza Hospital? LGF: CNN Says the ...
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A Cannon in a Hamas Mosque
Video | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:02:13 am PST
Here’s an IDF video showing the weapons, ammunition, and hate propaganda discovered in a Gaza mosque—including an anti-aircraft cannon. [Video]
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More from Joe Wurzelbacher in Israel
Middle East | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:32:54 am PST
Another extended report by “Joe the Plumber” focuses on the impact of Hamas rocket attacks on the people of southern Israel: Pajamas TV - Middle East Upate - Joe the Plumber - Video.
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Hamas Supporters Scream for Destruction of Israel - in London
Video | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:23:17 am PST
Here’s a chiller of a video, as radical Islamic mouthpiece Azzam Tamimi joins with British MP George Galloway in a profoundly hateful speech to a large crowd that screams its support for Hamas. [Video]
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Hamas Leaders Cowering in Hospital Built by Israel
Middle East | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:15:27 am PST
Two weeks into the Gaza conflict, the brave jihadi warriors of Hamas are cowering like rats in the basement of a hospital rebuilt by Israel. Senior Hamas officials in Gaza are hiding out in a “bunker” built by Israel, intelligence officials suspect: Many are believed to be in the basements ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:30 pm PST
Ruler: What plan will you follow now? Eros: Plan 9. It’s been absolutely impossible to work through these Earth creatures. Their soul is too controlled. Ruler: Plan 9...ah yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Long-distance electrodes shot into the pinion pituitary glands of recent dead. Have you attempted ...
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Gazacam Reprise
Middle East | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:01:00 pm PST
Here’s the latest live video stream from Gaza (no guarantees on whether it will work with your browser): [Video] UPDATE at 1/12/09 6:08:47 pm: A few minutes ago there was a very loud explosion, and the video stream went blank... UPDATE at 1/12/09 6:20:46 pm: It’s back, but intermittent.
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Joe the Plumber Makes Waves
Media | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:47:52 pm PST
Not everyone is impressed with Joe Wurzelbacher’s debut as a correspondent, and Pajamas Media deserves credit for posting a view from a critic: Pajamas Media » No-Joe: Wurzelbacher Is Not Edward R. Murrow. Ed Morrissey is also unenthusiastic. [Poll]
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Hamas Ready for a Deal?
Middle East | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:21:58 pm PST
Is Hamas starting to get cold feet for their jihad? Haniyeh: We’ll deal positively with any cease-fire initiative. As diplomats scrambled across the Middle East trying to put together a Gaza cease-fire, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh indicated Monday night that he was willing to discuss a truce. In a televised ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:08:09 pm PST
Appearing by popular demand, this afternoon only, the professional repertory Open Thread...
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Zombie: Anti-Israel Rally in San Francisco
US News | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:15:56 pm PST
Zombie was at this weekend’s anti-Israel (actually... openly antisemitic) protest in San Francisco: Gaza War Protest. Featuring the “boneheaded hatred” photo of the day:
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Video: Hamas Rockets Fired from Schoolyard During 'Humanitarian Cease Fire'
Video | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:47:53 am PST
During the January 8th “cease fire” to allow humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza: [Video]
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Strange Bedfellows: New York Times and Creationist Museum
Media | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:22:42 am PST
Irony alert: on the page for the New York Times Art and Leisure Week “Special Cultural Offerings” promotion, choose “Kentucky” (KY) and “Museum” from the dropdown menus and click Submit, and you’ll discover that last weekend the Times was pushing a package deal that included a visit to Ken Ham’s ...
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New York Times Claims Credit for LGF Story
Media | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:32:30 am PST
In his latest excuse for the New York Times’ biased coverage, “public editor” Clark Hoyt casually claims that a Times reporter unmasked a fake Iranian missile photo. Witty and his colleagues are frustrated because Israel has barred journalists from entering Gaza, and although The Times has two photographers in the ...
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Joe the Plumber Witnesses Rocket Attack in Israel
Middle East | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:41:07 am PST
Joe Wurzelbacher is in Israel; in this extended report he visits a house destroyed by a Hamas rocket, confronts a group of Reuters journalists, then comes under rocket attack while doing an interview and has to go into a shelter: Pajamas TV - Joe Wurzelbacher Comes Under Attack in Southern ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:23:17 pm PST
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. — Mark Twain
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Backlit Saturn
Science | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:54:05 pm PST
A glorious photograph from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn, via APOD. (Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA.) Explanation: In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours and looked back ...
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The Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man
Science | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:27:37 pm PST
Here’s an interesting list of the Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man. 10. Goose Bumps (Cutis Anserina) Humans get goose bumps when they are cold, frightened, angry, or in awe. Many other creatures get goose bumps for the same reason, for example this is why a cat or dog’s ...
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Video: School and Zoo Booby-Trapped by Hamas
Video | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:03:34 pm PST
IDF forces in Gaza show the extensive booby-traps laid by Hamas in a dismal little zoo and a school. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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Pat Buchanan Accuses Israel of 'Blitzkrieg'
Middle East | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:34:17 am PST
Here’s Pat Buchanan on MSNBC, using Nazi terminology to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. [Video] Speaking of Buchanan, when he isn’t flirting with Holocaust revisionism or appearing on neo-Nazi radio shows, he makes plans and alliances with Eurofascists like Filip DeWinter and Frank Vanhecke of the Belgian Vlaams Belang. Just like some deluded ...
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Gaza Video Supplier Responds
Middle East | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:12:11 am PST
This is an email sent to us by Paul Martin, who supplied Western media with that Gaza hospital video. Martin demands an apology from bloggers, and insists that we have no reason to be suspicious of video footage that comes from a Hamas-linked photographer and a radical Marxist doctor. We ...
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Five More Questions for Troofers
Moonbats | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:32:47 am PST
In a follow-up to his excellent 15 Questions 9/11 ‘Truthers’ Need to Answer, Joseph Welch has Five more questions.
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Atlas Shrugs' Pamela Geller Calls for Me to Be 'Publicly Flogged'
Blogosphere | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:08:22 am PST
In yet another post praising the European neofascist group Vlaams Belang, Pamela Geller reveals that she wants me publicly flogged, and I’m fairly sure she’s serious. Since this is coming from the shrieking lunatic who thinks Barack Obama is the love child of Malcolm X, I guess I should take it ...
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CNN's Staged Video Update: Norwegian Doctor Works with Hezbollah
Media | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:46:52 am PST
At Erik Svansbo’s Swedish blog, more information about the pro-terrorist agenda of Mads Gilbert, the doctor seen in that staged video from a Gaza hospital: Doctor in CNN video outspoken communist and pro-terror. The doctor’s colleague actually told the Aftonbladet newspaper that spreading pro-Hamas propaganda is more important to them than ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:46:21 pm PST
Col. Edwards: You speak of solarbonite, but just what is it? Eros: Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the Earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we ...
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Gazacam
Science | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:15:28 pm PST
This is a live webcam from Gaza — we’re testing some new embedding code to see if the streaming works. (The video may take a while to start up...) [Video]
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CNN's Staged Video Update: Let's See the Uncut Footage
Middle East | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:59:52 pm PST
A good point about the disputed CNN Gaza hospital video, from Richard Landes: Let’s See Mr. Mashharawi’s Rushes.
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Video: All the Things You Are
Video | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:13:40 pm PST
Some Saturday music: the Keith Jarrett Trio with a stellar version of “All the Things You Are.” [Video]
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:01:39 pm PST
The traditional midday thread is now open for folderol and lollygagging...
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CNN's Staged Video Updates: The Norwegian Connection
Media | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:09:37 am PST
European LGF reader “morning star” points out another interesting connection between the Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, and “freelance photographer” Ashraf Mashharawi: Please note that Mads Gilbert knows or is part of a group in his home town Tromsoe in Norway, who long have planned to make a film together with ...
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CNN's Staged Video Updates
Media | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:17:11 am PST
Here’s an interesting update to the story of the obviously staged video from Gaza promoted and vouched for by CNN. The company that provided this video story to CNN and several other news outlets is World News & Features, as we pointed out yesterday after CNN published their defense of the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:17:28 pm PST
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. — Oscar Wilde
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CNN Says the Video is Genuine
Middle East | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:04:03 pm PST
CNN insists that the Gaza video is genuine, and they’ve reposted it. This is their only response to the criticism that the “CPR” shown in the video is an obvious pantomime: Responding to accusations that the resuscitation efforts of Mashharawi’s brother appeared inauthentic, Martin said that, based on his years ...
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Silly Internet Poll: Which Path Will CNN Choose?
Opinion | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:26:45 pm PST
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Is CNN Going to Ignore a Staged Video?
Media | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:00:30 pm PST
I just did a spot for PJTV on that staged video from a Gaza hospital, and some questions that came up: Why hasn’t CNN made any kind of statement about this? They yanked the video from the page where it was posted, so obviously they know there’s a problem. Are they ...
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Blagojevich Speaks
Politics | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:31:05 pm PST
Here’s a thread to discuss the bizarre press conference being given right now by impeached Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich...
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Rank Antisemitism at MPACUK Site
World | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:36:13 am PST
At the website of Britain’s supposedly “mainstream” Muslim advocacy group MPACUK, the Gaza conflict brings on a deluge of hate speech and rank antisemitism: Zionist Lies Exposed - MPACUK :: Muslim Discussion Forum. This one recycles the ravings of infamous self-hating Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, Benjamin H. Freedman. As a ...
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Blagojevich Impeached
Politics | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:53:33 am PST
It’s Friday morning; do you know what your Democratic governor is up to?The Illinois House has voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:18:40 pm PST
There is no sin except stupidity. — Oscar Wilde
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Tech Note: New Sharing Tool
Science | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:25:42 pm PST
We’re trying out a new tool that lets you easily share LGF articles at a whole passel of social networking sites; Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit, Propeller, Newsvine, Facebook, MySpace, etc. etc. The tool is AddThis. I removed ShareThis for testing purposes; we were having occasional connection problems with ShareThis that slowed ...
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Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair
Politics | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:36:21 pm PST
Roland Burris, appointed by scandal-beset governor Rod Blagojevich, is turning out to be—not to put too fine a point on it—a nut. CHICAGO (AP) — Roland Burris has erected a grand mausoleum for himself, carved with the words “TRAIL BLAZER” and a long list of his accomplishments, with a space ...
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Video: Hamas In Their Own Voices
Video | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:21:32 pm PST
Here’s a new presentation from MEMRI TV: Hamas in Their Own Voices. In case anyone had any doubt what Hamas wants and stands for. [Video]
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:22:12 pm PST
Let’s just get this whole traditional afternoon open thread thing out in the open and deal with it...
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A Staged Scene in a Gaza Hospital? - Update: CNN Yanks Video
Middle East | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:46:05 am PST
Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, a radical Marxist who openly supports Hamas and the 9/11 hijackers, is seen once again in this CNN video about the death of a “freelance cameraman’s” brother in Gaza — and the footage in the hospital room was very likely staged for propaganda effect. [Video] A closer view ...
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Video: Keith Ellison on JihadTV
Video | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:40:14 am PST
Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison gives a very pro-Palestinian interview to JihadTV, and takes a step into “Jewish lobby” conspiracy territory. [Video] “The people who have a strong sympathy for the Israeli position are ... dominate the conversation. And it’s really not politically safe to say, look, there are two sides to ...
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Jimmy Carter: 'Defensive Tunnels'
Middle East | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:46:41 am PST
Today the Washington Post gives column space to yet another anti-Israel Hamas supporter: Jimmy Carter. Featuring our insane line of the day: ...this fragile truce was partially broken on Nov. 4, when Israel launched an attack in Gaza to destroy a defensive tunnel being dug by Hamas...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:34:56 pm PST
Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke ...
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Onion: Apple's Revolutionary New Laptop
Humor | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:15:34 pm PST
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Wednesday Night Link Pile
Blogosphere | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:53:14 pm PST
I have a bunch of windows open with interesting links, so here they are, all in a pile. Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent As laptops dominate, desktop PCs face obsolescence | Technology | Reuters Pajamas Media » Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV Still more reasons to boot Rick ...
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The Fauxto That Wasn't
Media | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:00:45 pm PST
In the midst of a liveblogging session on the conflict in Gaza, the Muqata raised the alarm about a possible fauxtograph: The Muqata: Day 12 of the War, Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The picture he noticed was filed by AP photographer Adel Hana in Gaza: An explosion is seen after an ...
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Say No to Juan Cole
Blogosphere | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:13:36 pm PST
The “Best Middle East or Africa Blog” category in the 2008 Weblog Awards is currently being dominated by execrable terror apologist professor Juan Cole (“Informed Comment”), after he posted a whiny conspiratorial rant about “neocons” (his favorite demon, aka “Jews”) and begged his audience of leftist drones to vote for ...
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Leaf
Images | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:39:44 pm PST
(Taken with a Canon Powershot G10 in macro mode, direct sunlight, no color adjustments, right out of the camera.)
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IDF Kills Giant Jew-Eating Rabbit
Middle East | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:03:23 am PST
Last Friday on Hamas TV, Gaza’s children learned that the IDF had killed Assud, the giant Jew-eating rabbit. Very sad, but at least the bunny didn’t have to undergo amputation.
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LGF on Dennis Prager
Blogosphere | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:25:36 am PST
I’ll be calling in to the Dennis Prager radio show at 9:30 this morning; you can listen over the web at the KRLA 870 website.
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A Soldier's Mother on the UN School Incident
Middle East | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:12:29 am PST
A heartfelt and insightful post on the Gaza UN school incident, at A Soldier’s Mother: The Images they Show... This is the point none of the media will make: Yesterday, mortars were fired FROM the school In Jebalya. This was a direct and intentional attack on Israel, on Israel’s soldiers and ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:22:08 pm PST
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. — Niccolo Machiavelli
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A Pro-Hamas Demonstration in Columbus, Ohio
US News | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:18:15 pm PST
LGF reader ciaospirit has video clips from the pro-Hamas, pro-genocide demonstration in Columbus, Ohio, featuring an Ohio State professor who refuses to condemn Hamas, at hourglass1941. Here’s an astoundingly moronic representative of the “Middle East Peace Forum,” who says Hamas is “a social service organization just like the Jewish Community Federation.” [Video] ...
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Deported Hamas Terrorist Now an LA Times Columnist
Media | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:05:22 pm PST
Leading Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook, deported from the United States in 1997, gets back into the US via a column in the Los Angeles Times: Hamas speaks. Vile. Evil. Disgusting. Foul. Take your pick. There is something deeply wrong with our mainstream media. Contact the Los Angeles Times and tell them ...
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PJTV: Gaza Updates
Video | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:48:37 pm PST
Interesting video reports from the US and Israel at Pajamas TV’s Gaza Updates, featuring Caroline Glick, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Richard Landes, and other names you may recognize.
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Toronto: Hamas Supporter Assaults Reporter
Video | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:34:51 pm PST
In Toronto, a Hamas supporter smacks a citizen journalist who asks, “Why do you say Hitler didn’t do a good job?” [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:19:07 pm PST
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register. Commit them to memory. Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice. And then everything will be groovy. UPDATE at 1/6/09 6:50:35 ...
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Hamas Steals Humanitarian Supplies, Then Sells Them for Profit
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:45:39 pm PST
Report: Hamas stealing aid supplies to sell to residents. A number of reports from the Strip paint a picture of very difficult humanitarian conditions, not least because of Hamas itself. The suspicion is that the group’s operatives have seized control of any supplies passing through the crossings – including those ...
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France 2 Apologizes for Using Phony Gaza Attack Video
Media | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:15:39 pm PST
France’s public TV station France 2 (perpetrator of the Mohammed Al-Dura hoax) was taken in by that footage from an accidental explosion of a truck full of rockets at a Hamas rally, and yesterday they retracted their report and apologized: French TV apologises over footage mix-up. PARIS: France’s public broadcaster ...
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Norwegian Doctor in Gaza Supported 9/11 Attacks
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:58:57 pm PST
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, is all over the mainstream media, claiming that Israel is indiscriminately and purposely murdering civilians. He’s given interviews to the BBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, the Independent, Sky News, and the New York Times, among others. And in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terror ...
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Darwin Missed the Pink Lizards
Science | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:04:37 pm PST
Biologists have discovered that a rare pink iguana found only on a single volcano in the Galapagos Islands is a surprising example of ancient evolutionary diversification—and Charles Darwin never even saw it. Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos islands in 1835 but didn’t make it to the northernmost volcano, Volcan Wolf, ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:28:06 pm PST
And there, emerging from its lair, we see the green-spotted warbling open thread...
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We Got Mail!
Weird | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:12:41 am PST
The conflict in Gaza has really stirred up the wackos, and they’re pouring their fury into illiterate emails sent to little old me. Here are the latest two messages sent through our contact form by Hamas supporters and Jew-haters; first, from St. Louis, Missouri, with the descriptive title “Assholes...” and ...
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UN Schools Notorious for Shielding Terrorists
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:55:46 am PST
As the world screams about the UN school incident in Gaza, here’s a reminder of what goes on at these places: EXCLUSIVE-Gaza headmaster was Islamic Jihad ‘rocket-maker’. RAFAH, Gaza Strip, May 5 (Reuters) - By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school ...
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UN School Used by Terrorists As a Weapons Dump
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:52:12 am PST
The UN and the mainstream media are wailing and accusing Israel of war crimes (yes, again) after the IDF returned fire at a UN school from which Palestinians were firing mortars. The explosives and booby traps installed in the school by Hamas then blew up, killing dozens of people. And the world ...
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Emerson: Why Does The New York Times Love Hamas?
Media | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35:23 am PST
Steve Emerson asks: Why Does The New York Times Love Hamas? In the past week, the Fourth Estate’s Hamas cheerleaders have stripped away any pretense of being honest or neutral, with the New York Times continuing to take the side of the terrorist group in one of the most shameful ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:49:50 pm PST
My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn’t happen? Perhaps on your way home, you will pass someone in the dark, and you will never know it, for they will be from outer space. Many scientists believe that another world is ...
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The 2008 Weblog Awards
Blogosphere | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:57:53 pm PST
Voting is open for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and LGF is nominated for Best Conservative Blog. Which will undoubtedly infuriate some people who think we aren’t pure enough.
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We Got Mail!
Weird | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:16:32 pm PST
Received this evening from a reader in Kuala Lumpur, who followed a link from the “Most Blogged” section of a Yahoo News article: you are lying thru your teeth if you want to deny those pictures as ”staged".. how is it staged ? just because that shows how cannibal, uncultured, ...
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Tech Note: Comment Ratings
Science | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:20:56 pm PST
One feature readers have requested for our comment ratings is the ability to simply cancel a rating (aka, a “ding”) and remove a vote. The method that we’ve been using only allowed you to reverse your ding — in other words, you could only change your rating from plus to ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15:52 pm PST
It’s a first Monday of 2009 open thread...
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Jihad in Anaheim
US News | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:22:34 am PST
At an anti-Israel protest yesterday in Anaheim, California, open support for jihad from a woman in disguise: “Peaceful inner struggle,” anyone? UPDATE at 1/5/09 12:02:14 pm: Here are more photos of the demonstration, at which protesters carried signs with swastikas, wore T-shirts with pictures of Yasser Arafat, and exhibited a quilt with the ...
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Staged Photos Pouring Out of Gaza
Media | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:54:28 am PST
We should not forget that every television image and every news photograph coming out of Gaza right now is filtered through Hamas. The photographers filing pictures for Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France Presse are all Palestinians, and all propagandists for Hamas—or they wouldn’t be allowed to take pictures in ...
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JihadTV Makes Deal with Sony
Middle East | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:25:31 am PST
Coming to Sony Ericsson mobile phones: JihadTV. The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be pre-installed on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa. This means that owners of these phones ...
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Guardian Hits Bottom, Digs
Middle East | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:00:03 am PST
In Britain’s most disgusting newspaper: an obituary for a genocidal mass murderer. A big, bearded man, usually surrounded by balaclava-clad fighters, he was hated by Israelis. Yet on the streets of Gaza, where economic and social misery has boosted Hamas’s reputation during the past five years, he was something of ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:43:44 pm PST
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. — Philip K. Dick
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Ken Miller Dissects the Creationists' Next Tactic
Science | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:48:02 pm PST
Biologist Ken Miller, the Discovery Institute’s worst enemy, has three terrific guest posts at science writer Carl Zimmer’s blog, destroying the DI’s latest attempts to rewrite the history of the Dover creationism lawsuit: Smoke and Mirrors, Whales and Lampreys: A Guest Post by Ken Miller Ken Miller’s Guest Post, Part Two Ken Miller’s ...
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Australian Hatefest Slideshow
Images | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:18:59 pm PST
Here’s a slideshow of photos emailed by an Australian reader, showing what was happening in Melbourne today, as Hezbollah supporters and genocide advocates took to the streets. With their children.
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Tech Note: Link Ratings Reversible
Science | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:11:35 pm PST
By popular demand (actually by request of two or three people) the ratings for spinoff links can now be reversed, just like the ratings for comments and articles. And the ratings buttons now have those super keen CSS rollover effects as well.
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IDF Video: Background on Gaza Conflict
Middle East | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:38:51 am PST
This is a good presentation by the IDF on the background and history of the current conflict in Gaza. Some people will no doubt label this as “propaganda,” and in the sense that it’s intended to promote Israel’s point of view, that’s correct — but there’s nothing inaccurate or dishonest ...
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Richardson Throws Himself Under the Bus
Politics | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:31:00 am PST
Bill Richardson is bailing out of the Obama administration: Richardson to withdraw as Commerce secretary. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done ...
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Fake Anti-Israel Video Posted at Liveleak
Blogosphere | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:08:45 am PST
This is rich. A gruesome propaganda video uploaded to LiveLeak that purported to show the aftermath of an IDF attack on civilians in Gaza turned out to be a fraud—it actually shows the results of an accidental explosion of a truck full of Hamas rockets at a Palestinian rally. This didn’t ...
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Idiot Leftists Planting Phony Extremist Comments
Blogosphere | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:28:08 am PST
Interesting what you find in your referrals; here’s a thread at the Cesspool of Idiocy (otherwise known as somethingawful.com) in which the denizens brag about their attempts to troll “right wing” sites and plant phony extremist comments to discredit them: Right wing blogosphere goes Troll-crazy, T$ takes the lead. Buried in ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:37:07 pm PST
You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a ...
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Bad Craziness in San Francisco
US News | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:19:39 pm PST
Zombie’s latest includes the following video from KTVU TV of yesterday’s protest in downtown SF, at which pro-Israel demonstrators were attacked by Palestinians wearing peace scarves: ‘I’m a little spooked’: Palestinian protests bring Gaza fighting to San Francisco. [Video]
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Muslim Brotherhood Calls for 'Maximum Jihad'
Middle East | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:22:04 pm PST
The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood says it’s time for jihad to the max. In his weekly sermon, Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Muhammad Mahdi ‘Akef called to launch jihad for the Palestinians in Gaza in any way possible: military warfare, popular resistance groups, donations of blood and money, and comprehensive ...
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Tech Note: Comment Icon Makeover
Science | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:19:07 pm PST
Yes, that image replacement and CSS rollover effect has now been applied to the row of icons at upper right of each comment. You must now reload the page to install the proper Javascript and CSS files.
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Breaking: Gaza Invasion Begins
Middle East | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:46:50 am PST
The IDF is moving in... that’s the official word, now on the cable news networks. This day was inevitable, ever since Israel’s withdrawal. Now the IDF are going to have to retake territory that’s been heavily armed and booby-trapped, in a densely packed urban environment.
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IDF Invasion of Gaza Imminent?
Middle East | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:01:48 am PST
The IDF may be about to launch that ground invasion of Gaza: IDF begins shelling northern Gaza for 1st time since op began. For the first time since the start of Operation Cast Lead, the IDF began firing artillery shells into northern Gaza on Saturday afternoon, IDF officials said. According to ...
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12 Elegant Examples of Evolution
Science | Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:22:44 pm PST
12 Elegant Examples of Evolution, compiled by the editors of Nature to celebrate the upcoming 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. Dinosaurs of a Feather. Archaeopteryx, found in 1861, was long thought to be the first bird. Then it was recognized as something closer to a dinosaur with feathers — but ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:32:42 pm PST
Just another open thread for the first Friday afternoon of the year, with the Dow index up 262 points...
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Video: IAF Bombs Another Mosque Full of Bombs
Video | Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:55:36 pm PST
Watch for the big secondary explosion at about 0:10, indicating the presence of a cache of weapons. [Video]
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Stupid YouTube Tricks, Pro-Hamas Version
Video | Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:39:52 am PST
Here’s a mind-numbingly schtoopid new trick from a Hamas supporter at YouTube, who created a channel in which he’s posting anti-Israel (and antisemitic) videos with the same titles and descriptions as the IDF’s official YouTube videos, under the charming name terroristisrail.
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Another 'Flying While Muslim' Case
US News | Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:43:17 am PST
A group of Muslim passengers was removed from an Airtran flight at Reagan International Airport yesterday, after passengers reported hearing them discussing airport security. Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel by ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:20:36 pm PST
His speech is clumsy, with a toadlike indolence, long winded, pedantic, choppy. The words tumble from his mouth in sentence fragments, which he holds back as much as possible, as if they were earning interest. It takes forever and a day for him to push out a clump of hardened ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:57:15 pm PST
The window of registration opportunity is open for a limited time. Standard admonitions apply: Read all the rules. Commit them to memory. Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice. And then everything will be groovy. UPDATE ...
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Death from the Skies
Science | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:37:16 pm PST
An interesting New York Times science article on new discoveries about a possible catastrophic meteor strike about 13,000 years ago: New Evidence of Meteor Bombardment. At least once in Earth’s history, global warming ended quickly, and scientists have long wondered why. Now researchers are reporting that the abrupt cooling — which ...
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Tech Note: Entry Rating Listification and Image Replacement
Science | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:11:37 pm PST
The image replacement technique about which we pontificated at length yesterday has now been applied to the entry rating buttons (not the comment ratings... yet). If you still haven’t fully recovered from the annual festivities and have no idea what we’re talking about, these are the rating buttons that are at ...
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Grass with Dew
Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:35:09 pm PST
Taken with a Nikon D90, color levels slightly adjusted in iPhoto. Cropped, scaled and uploaded with ImageWell.
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Report on Palestinian Rocket and Mortar Attacks
Middle East | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:15:35 pm PST
The Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center has a report (PDF) on Palestinian rockets and mortar shells fired into Israel for the past 8 years, including this chart showing the rapid increase in attacks since Hamas took power in Gaza. (Hat tip: paparock.)
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Video: IAF Bombs Mosque Full of Bombs
Video | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:41:30 am PST
Video of an Israeli Air Force strike on a Gaza mosque being used as a weapons depot: [Video]
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Got a Big Hamas Fish
Middle East | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:37:44 am PST
A senior Hamas freakazoid cleric considered the successor of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin won’t be sending any more of his children into Israel as suicidal mass murderers. Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, 52, a senior Hamas leader and cleric, was killed along with several others on Thursday when an IAF aircraft dropped a ...
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Happy 2009
Open | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:41:48 am PST
Here’s a Happy New Year, hair of the dog open thread...
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